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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
I'm joined by Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries. Leader Jeffries, I got to ask you, now that we're 100 days into this Trump presidency, how do you grade it?
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
And you see Donald Trump's approval is plummeting across all polls, whether it's Pew, whether it's Ipsos, and whether it's Fox. Donald Trump now attacking the pollsters also, saying they're enemies of the state. Also, consumer confidence is at its lowest since COVID. Even if you go back from that, a lot of these things are the lowest since these polls have been taken.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
So it seems to be registering now, though, amongst the American people. Do you think that's what's happening?
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
or I'm gonna give him an F for complete and total fraud. I mean, do you believe that he's perpetrating a fraud right now on the American people when he says, look, just give me a little more time. Tariffs are working so good. I'm gonna eliminate all of your taxes because we're getting so rich. And by the way, Trump gold cards, everybody.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
Thank you.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
leader jeffries you know i'm not trying to mock donald trump when i say what i'm about to say but i think it's a valid question that just needs to be asked right now after the first 100 days and do you think more needs to be discussed about his cognitive abilities and i mean this sincerely i mean he's saying that he did 200 deals there's not 200 countries he's saying he's having conversations with world leaders and these conversations are not happening he's putting tariffs on penguins
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
And when you see him like you see him in Rome, whether he's sleeping at the ceremony and and just, you know, not following the dress code. You know, there seems to be issues when I watch it just as somebody, you know, known people in their life, whether it's I won't even go there. It's just it's there's concern there. And I just don't think it's being discussed.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
I don't know what you think about that.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
Let's talk about what Democrats are doing. I think the public's responding now positively to seeing Democrats out there fighting. I saw the sitting that you did with Senator Booker over the weekend, 12 hours on the Capitol Hill steps. That was great. Of course, Senator Booker setting the record for the longest speech on the floor in the Senate.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
I mean, when he keeps doing that, doesn't that look like how he ran his businesses into the ground in the 90s?
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
I've seen Democrats being supportive of the peaceful protests taking place. And of course, seeing Democrats go into town halls in red states and This was a strategy that you outlined when I spoke to you a few months ago and you said, this is what we're going to be doing. We're seeing it be executed, the plan now. Can you speak to that more?
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
i'll leave this interview on this note and let you kind of speak to the american people on your message right now to the american people it's been a difficult 100 days whether it's trump violating supreme court orders elon musk and trump's doge hostile takeover destroying things that people really rely on the attack on medicaid disastrous trade wars people seeing their 401ks and um
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
pensions be lost as Donald Trump and his crew, what they celebrated in the Willard Hotel, the announcement of a club they're calling the executive branch for like rich people, they pay $500,000 and you become a member of the executive. It's a lot for people to process. But as we are here, you and I on the 100 days, just what's your message to the American people right now?
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
There you have it. Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, 100-day message to the American people here on the Midas Touch Network. Leader Jeffries, thank you for joining us. Thank you, Ben. Everybody hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
Donald Trump, the bankruptor of Atlantic City, is back for his encore, no pun intended, bankrupting Las Vegas. Donald Trump is causing severe damage to Las Vegas, which relies on tourism dollars. As we've reported before on the Midas Touch Network, Tourism from Canada, from Europe, from Australia, and elsewhere is down significantly, reaching levels that are almost non-existent.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
Employees are getting laid off. And remember, Donald Trump, as part of his scam, his scheme, his fraud on Vegas and elsewhere in Nevada, which voted for Donald Trump this time, talked about no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. Of course, Donald Trump has not enacted that. Trump also said on day one prices would be lower.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
He also said there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. and that there would be housing that would be so plentiful that you wouldn't even know what to do with it. But of course, it is all a lie. I want to talk about what's happening in Vegas now, but I think to properly contextualize it, let's go back to the early 1990s when Donald Trump bankrupted his casinos in Atlantic City.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
About eight, nine years ago, the great investigative team here –
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
from the 90s from abc it resurfaced nine years ago and they reported on donald trump bankrupting these casinos let me show you what went down when they talk about how donald trump started with this heavy promotion and everything was going to be great watch what happened when trump went to atlantic city in the early 1990s when he defrauded atlantic city play this clip
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
Now, there were people in Atlantic City who also had financial acumen, who were aware that Donald Trump's casinos were likely going to cause devastation. Whistleblowers, people who tried to raise the red flag. Donald Trump got those individuals fired, retaliated against them. Let me show you one such story. Play this clip.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
Now, Canada started the boycott of tourism in the United States and a boycott of all products from the United States. That boycott has spread to Europe, to Australia, and elsewhere. In addition to boycotting tourism to the United States, it is also obvious why tourists are not coming into the United States.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
And then finally, this is a contractor who tells the story how Donald Trump destroyed the lives of so many contractors in Atlantic City, screwed them over after defrauding them. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
So that was Donald Trump's excursion into Atlantic City, and doesn't it look a lot like what's going on right now?
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
So let's take a look at right now and we'll compare a lot of the similarities. So before the election, remember what Donald Trump was saying? This was his message to the people in Nevada and elsewhere, where he said that the reason the economy was doing so well before the election under former President Biden was that it was a fake economy, he said.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
They're hearing stories about migrants being thrown in detention centers, not getting due process, and being sent to concentration camps in El Salvador.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
And the reality, he said, is that everything was doing good because of him. This is what he said. Here, play this clip. Economy is not, this is just...
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
That's the only reason the stock market is up. And of course, Donald Trump was lying. He was defrauding Vegas right there because all they had to do in Vegas also and elsewhere is just take a look at Donald Trump's own financial disclosures from the Trump media company that he controls. This is filed, this is by Donald Trump.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
I'm reading you the words of Donald Trump's lawyer in his recent annual SEC filing. A number of companies associated with Donald Trump have filed for bankruptcy. Entities associated with Trump have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past. The Trump Taj Mahal, which was built and owned by Donald Trump, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
The Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle and the Plaza Hotel, all owned by Donald Trump at the time, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992. In the clip I showed you, the guy was like, why would you open up three casinos? It's going to cannibalize themselves. It's very similar to Donald Trump. Like, why are you going to tariff the whole world?
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
And they're hearing about backpackers and tourists who are entering the United States who are being treated like it's the Inquisition, being thrown in detention centers, getting strip searched, cavity searched, and essentially treated like criminals and deported and being held for days and sometimes weeks in detention centers into the United States.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
Like, they're going to retaliate and you're just going to screw Americans and make Americans pay more. Like, don't you see the parallels there? And it goes on to say THCR, which was founded by Trump in 1995, filed for Chapter 11 in 2004. Trump Entertainment Resorts, the new name given to Trump Hotels after its 2004 bankruptcy, declared bankruptcy in 2009, 91, 90, 92, 1995, 2004, 2009.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
Casinos, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. Screwed Atlantic City over so badly. Then you have companies that Donald Trump lent his name to, Trump Shuttle, Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, GoTrump.com, Trump Stakes, all out of business. So horrible, horrible business person in Donald Trump right there.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
So what are the local journalists in Vegas talking about right now? Well, let's take a look right here and let's see what they've been saying recently about what's taking place. This is from NBC3 Las Vegas right here. And here's what they have to say, or News 3 Las Vegas rather. Here's what they have to say at NBC. Play this clip.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
OK, so in addition to the fact that there are massive layoffs in Vegas, revenues decreasing significantly, I think the recent stat is Las Vegas visitor volume down 12 to 15 percent, gambling down hundreds of millions of dollars, down about 15 percent. Room rates are down in the $100 trying to entice people. Things are not going good in Vegas.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
So for that reason, tourism has declined significantly. Las Vegas relies on tourism dollars. Now, if you've traveled to Las Vegas recently, if you've been following the Las Vegas trades, if you've been following what's going on at MGM, the largest employer in Las Vegas, and following what the head of the tourism bureau in Las Vegas is saying, it is reaching a dire situation.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
Now, also, it should be noted that the Las Vegas Review Journal, owned by Miriam Adelson, a major Trump mega-donor also, just came out with an op-ed scathing op-ed criticizing Donald Trump because Donald Trump pardoned someone by the name of Michelle Fiore, who was a former Las Vegas politician. She was referred to as Lady Trump.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
by lots of pundits and she was convicted of funneling money intended to build a statue for a fallen police officer to her own plastic surgery and to her own benefit. Let me just explain to you what went down.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
It talks about how a Nevada newspaper owned by Donald Trump mega-donor Miriam Adelson has savaged Donald Trump's decision to pardon a Republican Las Vegas councilwoman who was convicted of using donations intended to fund a statue of a police officer to pay for her cosmetic surgery.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, owned by billionaire Miriam Adelson, described the decision by Trump as a debasement of presidential pardon power in a scathing editorial published after Trump's Trump granted clemency to Michelle Fiore, a former Las Vegas councilman and Nevada state lawmaker. Fiore was convicted of fraud last year.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
Federal prosecutors said at trial she raised $70,000 for a statue of a Las Vegas police officer who was fatally shot in 2014 in the line of duty, but had instead spent it on cosmetic surgery, rent, and her daughter's wedding.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
The newspaper editorial says the part in which was brief and contained no explanation is an affront to the federal jury that heard her case and sends precisely the wrong message to public officials. That's what's going on in Las Vegas right now. Utter destruction by the Trump regime. Trump's encore, right? They have the hotel encore. Trump's encore after bankrupting Atlantic City.
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Trump Destroys Vegas with Biggest Scam Yet
Shame, shame, shame. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois just brought the House down in New Hampshire in what may have been the most powerful speech so far of the political season. It was a call to action. Let me show you what went down. Governor Pritzker says we need to be done with trying to find optimism in the motivations of these Republicans. They are bad people. They hate America. It's time that we fight.
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
There you have it, folks. Again, I think one of the most powerful. political speeches we have covered thus far on the Midas Touch Network. You tell me what you think about it in the comments below. Thank you for watching and we appreciate you Midas Mighty. Have a good one.
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
Next up, Governor Pritzker talks about how all of these Trump lackeys, these Trump minions, the Trump cabinet, they are failures as human beings. They are failures in life and they are dangerous individuals. Here, play this clip.
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
Watch this right here.
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
I love that portion of the speech. Next up, Governor Pritzker talks about his own background as a Ukrainian-American Jew, he says, who helped build the Holocaust Museum. And he talks about how these MAGA Republicans are trying to weaponize the idea of anti-Semitism in order to enact their policy.
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
authoritarian agenda he goes don't invoke anti-semitism as a way to start snatching migrants off the street and engaging in authoritarian tactics he goes how dare you play this clip
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
And then Governor Pritzker had a message to other Democrats. Let's watch this clip right here.
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
Governor Pritzker then talks about some simple truths, right versus wrong. He goes, it is wrong to snatch human beings off the street and send them to concentration camps in El Salvador. That's not due process. That's not what our constitution says. Play this clip.
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
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Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
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Very Fatigued Trump Loses His Mind in Worst Interview
yeah there was lots of huffing and puffing in this interview terry moran from abc actually delivered an incredible pitch perfect interview of donald trump and trump was fumbling and bubbling and just looked like an absolute idiot this was a 100 day trump interview and uh ABC reporter, I mean, stepped up. I want you to watch what went down.
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Very Fatigued Trump Loses His Mind in Worst Interview
What in the world are we watching? Like, we all have to look at that and go, again, this shouldn't be a political thing like that ain't a normal person. Like that's not behavior. That's not the way adults behave. Like that is somebody who honestly you would expect to see in, I don't even want to go there, but you get it. Hit subscribe.
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Let's get to, I don't want to go there because I don't want to give it an out. And it's someone who needs to be held accountable. And frankly, anyone who aids and abets this thing, in many ways, I feel like is even worse. Tell me what you think in the comments. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Next up, Donald Trump lies and claims that tourism is way up and it's going so good when we all know that tourism is crashing. Again, it's just the most easy thing to prove as a lie, but hear Donald Trump saying that things are great and it's going to get better. Play this clip. And Canadians...
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But do you think, I'm going to ask you, if I may, do you think that you literally have A lot of the world boycotting travel and tourism into the United States. Canada's gone elbows up. They ain't showing up here. We know this. There's actual data reflecting of this. Europeans aren't showing up here. Australians aren't.
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People from across the world, South America, Central America, Mexico, elsewhere, really are not trying to come here because they don't want to be put in detention centers if they're tourists or sent to concentration camps and get cavity searched and just put in detention centers for weeks on end.
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Donald Trump then talks about the suffering that people are feeling right now is what they signed up for. He promised suffering, he says. Here, play this clip. Concern out there. People are worried.
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Donald Trump claimed that Brago Garcia had MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles with the actual letter M, number one, three, letter S. And it was clearly Photoshopped. Like you can literally look at it. And Donald Trump's like, no, it says MS-13. Just watch this, play it.
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Trump then talks about the 145% tariffs on China as a very good thing and that he thinks it's great. So for everyone who keeps saying, oh, we're... We're moving closer to a deal with China. No, we're not. You're just manipulating the markets here. Play this clip.
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Very Fatigued Trump Loses His Mind in Worst Interview
Next up, you have Donald Trump admitting that he weaponizes the DOJ. Let's play this clip. Did Biden know anything about it? Fair enough.
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Very Fatigued Trump Loses His Mind in Worst Interview
Donald Trump then claims that the main message of his campaign was, hang tough, it won't be easy. Do you remember? Was that the message of Donald Trump's campaign? Hang tough, it won't be easy. Do you think that's what he said? Play this clip. A couple of, you said something a couple of weeks ago that, that struck me.
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Very Fatigued Trump Loses His Mind in Worst Interview
And I told you, I mean, this is a good interview. He did a great, good job, this interview. Terry Moran then talks about how, like, what's your message to small businesses? Like, okay, you're giving favors to Apple, like they can negotiate exemptions to tariffs, but like... What's your plan for small businesses? And Trump's like, it doesn't matter. Apple's doing great. Play this clip.
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Very Fatigued Trump Loses His Mind in Worst Interview
When you watch this, doesn't it look like a deranged individual? It literally... Like this is the guy who's controlling the economy who thinks a photoshopped MS-13 is real when it's obviously photoshopped. Who's saying tourism is up when it's down. Like we all see this. Like can we talk about that this is like a demented individual?
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Then Donald Trump tries to throw his lawyers under the bus and says that when it comes to providing due process, he doesn't know anything about that. His lawyers do play this clip here, including terrorists, by the way.
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Then Donald Trump is asked a very simple question if he recommends that parents get their kids vaccinated for measles. And Trump's like, ah, let's leave it to the governors. I don't know. Play this clip.
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I truly believe. that you could ask this guy any question and he'll say something crazy. I think you can say, what color is the sky? I leave it to the governors. What year is it? Do you think it's 2025? What a fake question.
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Like, I truly think that if you asked him anything, like, he is someone who clearly is not, you know, I'm not trying to give him an out by trying to say, oh, cognitive issues, but like, He's a liar. He's dangerous. He's vile. He's a sexual abuser. He's a felon. He's a fraud. And he's also seems to also be cognitively declined. I mean, you see it. It's crazy.
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Here you've got Donald Trump saying that he thinks that Putin wants to stop the war. Here, play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump praises Doge, he says, for saving hundreds of billions of dollars. when they said they were going to save $2 trillion. Actually, federal spending is up now. More federal spending now under Trump than under former President Biden. And Doge has added like $150 billion to our deficit. Here, play this clip.
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And then finally, Donald Trump is asked about the law firms that he's going after, and here's what he says.
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Fox News Humiliates Itself on Live TV as Trump Declines
Wow, wow, wow. What was state regime media known as Fox doing all day yesterday, seeing that Donald Trump's term is collapsing, the presidency is just falling apart? Well, they go, who cares about them stupid polls? Donald Trump's having fun. Who cares about stupid polls? Here, watch this.
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Well, and to the let's pull the audience. In fact, we're going to go out in the office. Dean Baker says, imagine that your job requires you to constantly praise to the sky a demented, vindictive 78-year-old man. I guess everyone has to put food on the table. Going to that next clip I was just talking about.
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You have Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, sitting there with his wife right there. And his wife has a show on Fox as well. And Sean Duffy says, it's been historic. Trump's done so much. He says this, he goes, I pinch myself because he's doing so good and he gets to talk to me. I pinch myself, he says, play this clip.
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And the children are doing well. You can. As Ashley recess, she goes, this is hilarious, honestly. Everything about it, the bullshit he's spewing, the audience smiling and nodding, like incredibly funny stuff.
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Although, Ashley, I'll say it would be incredibly funny if at the end of the day, this was like actually just like an episode of The Apprentice and we weren't non-consensual participants in a dystopian reality show where he destroys all of our lives. But I get the point that you're making. Then Treasury Secretary Scott Besson goes on Fox Business because they're talking about business. OK.
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And Treasury Secretary Scott Besson keeps using the stupid word bespoke. And he's like, Trump's doing bespoke, bespoke deals. That's why they're taking so long.
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Really? I'm glad you think that it's amazing that Donald Trump is having fun. Because may I talk about your sister company, also owned by Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal? Their headline yesterday, Trump's first 100 days were worst for Dow and S&P 500 since Richard Nixon in 1973. JP Morgan says that based on the new data they have, they believe first quarter GDP will be negative 1.8%.
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Fox News Humiliates Itself on Live TV as Trump Declines
And again, I don't even know what he's talking about, but okay, bespoke, individualized deals. That's what you mean? Why would a deal with Mexico be the same deal as a deal with Japan? Or why would a deal with Japan be the same as a deal with Europe? Of course they're going to be bespoke. We had deals already. The deals were done, okay? We had trade deals. America was winning.
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Fox News Humiliates Itself on Live TV as Trump Declines
We were number one, number one, number one in GDP growth. We were number one in every major category, energy production, you name it. We were leading the world under former President Biden. Just the objective facts. Could things have been better? Yes. Was inflation high? Yes. Was former President Biden bringing it under control to 2% of interest rates being cut? Yes.
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Fox News Humiliates Itself on Live TV as Trump Declines
Was former President Biden the cause of recession? No. Who caused recession? Donald Trump adding $8 trillion to the debt and screwing up COVID so badly that supply chains broke down. And then when a new president came in and had to actually deal with it, the fire department was blamed for being the arsonist when Trump was the arsonist. Anyway, I can do a whole rant on that.
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You've heard me go there before. Okay, here, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson takes his turn in the Trump kiss my ass club, as Aaron Rupert says. Let's play it.
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Fox News Humiliates Itself on Live TV as Trump Declines
medical reasons so you know it's enthusiasm and i think what we've really done here uh is deals and then scott bestin says i'm not worried about consumers or even manufacturers paying more money or running out of stuff they've done pre-ordering pre-ordering bespoke Pre-ordering, what did he talk about two days ago?
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Fox News Humiliates Itself on Live TV as Trump Declines
Donald Trump did 200 subdeals. We're not going to tell you what they are. But 200 sub deals. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Humiliates Itself on Live TV as Trump Declines
As Aaron Ruppar says, North Korean TV had a bit of difficulty finding people to praise, dear leader. So yesterday for Trump's disastrous 100 days for them to try to make up for the fact that their pollster has Trump the worst ever in modern presidential history. The Fox poll has Trump at like 41%. I think the Reuters, Washington Post, Ipsos, ABC one is like 39%, the worst polling data ever.
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Fox News Humiliates Itself on Live TV as Trump Declines
So Fox assembles this panel, knowing Donald Trump watches it in the morning. And just I want you just to watch the degree of BS here playing this clip.
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Fox News Humiliates Itself on Live TV as Trump Declines
Similar to what the Atlanta Federal Reserve was saying a few weeks back, negative two, negative 2.5%. Consumer confidence is at its like lowest level ever, but glad Donald Trump is having fun. Folks, the propaganda got more intense from there yesterday because Fox has to create this fantasy world, this Fugazi, Fox Fugazi, Fugazi. Watch this clip as Ainsley Earhart, who's sitting there.
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business. Maria Bartiromo then brings on Senator Hagerty, who goes, this has been the greatest 100 days in my lifetime, the most impactful, the most positive we've ever been. Here, play this clip.
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Seriously? Seriously? May I show you this headline right here? China responds to Trump tariffs with defiant propaganda clip comparing making a deal with Trump to drinking poison to quench your thirst. This is from the China foreign ministry. They say, bowing to a bully is like drinking poison to quench thirst. It only deepens the crisis. Okay. We're nowhere near making a deal with China.
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Let's be very clear here, okay? Trump, Besant, lying about having communications with China and Trump speaking to Xi Jinping. It's not happening. Canada, Europe, Australia, Africa, South America, Central America, other countries in Asia, Mexico, they're looking now and seeing, whoa, looks like Xi Jinping's more reliable than Trump. significantly, like maybe we should just be trading with them.
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That's not good. That's not good. And in terms of Donald Trump making us even less safe internationally, Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours. Oh, I thought Donald Trump was going to stop all that. The issue is when America has ceded its authority as a leader in the world, stuff like that is more likely to happen.
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And who do we have? Pete Hegseth? That's who we have? Rubio? We expect those individuals to deal with it? Yeah, I don't think so. Finally, let me show you this clip right here. Stephen Miller on Fox. Short clip because I can't do long clips of Miller.
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And here Fox and Miller are bragging about intimidating Jeff Bezos of Amazon to remove from the Amazon website where they were going to list the extra cost of your products that are caused by tariffs. Stop the testing, as Donald Trump says, right? Remember what he said during COVID? If we don't show you the tariffs and the costs that are going to you, you'll just think that it doesn't exist.
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You won't even know it exists. Here, play this clip. But I understand there might have been a phone call from the president to Jeff Bezos on this this morning.
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So speaking of products, by the way, can I just give us some simple logic here, Donald? If tariffs are so amazing, if they're making us so rich, you're a marketing guy. Why wouldn't you want to brand everything with your tariffs? If tariffs are amazing, don't you want to put tariffs everywhere, make billboards of tariffs? Trump tariffs, if they're so good.
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By the way, she's Sean Hannity's wife. And then she soon sits there with Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, and his wife, who also works for Fox. But here Ainsley Earhart said, Trump is such a good communicator. He communicates so good. He's so smart. He's so smart. Here, play this clip.
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Also, if the tariffs are working so well, let me ask you this, Donald, then why... Are you trying to negotiate deals to remove the tariffs with countries? Why don't you just want to keep them on because we're getting so, so rich right now? Or is all this deal talk, Donald no deals, just about market manipulation? Is that what this is really about, that you're manipulating the market?
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That's what I think is happening. Talk about a conversation, the market goes up, it goes down, it goes up. Who's buying the dips? Who's buying it when it gets up? I think we know the answer. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more.
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Donald Trump was rage posting at midnight last night. This is what he was posting literally at midnight. The polls from the fake news are like the news itself. Fake puts that in all caps exclamation point. We are doing great and that's in caps better than ever before. Then his next post, the USA lost billions of dollars a day in international trade under sleepy Joe Biden.
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I don't know, how many players did you have here? Maybe less than half the team. And a lot of their superstars didn't show up. Notably, their quarterback, Jalen Hurts, didn't show up. A.J. Brown, Devonta Smith, Jalen Carter and others did not show up.
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And they said there were scheduling conflicts, but they obviously did not want to be used as props and propaganda for an individual who's destroying the United States of America, sending migrants to concentration camps and someone who has a history of being racist and attacking black people. It's Donald Trump's background and past. Let's talk about the Canadian election.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party went on to win the election. As of this recording, and things are evolving quickly, as of the time I recorded this, even though it was called that it would probably be a Liberal minority government election, I don't think the official call has been made yet, but that's the status of where we're at.
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But it was unheard of that the Liberal Party would win this election. That's called the Trump effect right there. So Prime Minister Carney will stay the prime minister at least for.
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uh another period of time i'm not sure when the next elections will be we'll see what type of coalition you know is is formed there depending on the results but the canadian voters seem though universally to hate donald trump we heard a lot of things like this from canadian voters here play this clip
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Yeah, and look, Donald Trump is a wrecking ball to the world order. He's screwing over the United States, worst of all. You see this from freight waves. You know we've been geeking out on the freight and trucking volume data here on the Midas Touch Network. Now for what?
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Ever since Trump declared Liberation Day, which is really Liquidation Day, Great Depression Day, Recession Day, whatever you want to call it, we've been really focused on freight volumes because I wanted to see, are the ships leaving the ports of Shanghai and coming to Long Beach? Are they leaving from other ports in China and heading to the West Coast?
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And when I see that stopping, it means that products aren't going to reach our shelves. That means we're going to be missing products and things that we need here in the United States. That means scarcity is coming. So Donald Trump can say things are great, But the big hit, the way I've described it is like in a tsunami where the shoreline, it goes, pulls back and pulls back and pulls back.
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It recedes. And then the tsunami hits like that's what's happening right now. And when Donald Trump says it's a miracle, things are great.
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I have now stemmed that tide and will be making a fortune very soon. Stay tuned as we make America great again. You just wait. Two more weeks, there'll be peace in Ukraine. Two more weeks, he and Xi Jinping are going to cut a deal. Two more weeks, there's going to be 90 trade deals that are going to be made. Two more weeks, and everything's just going to be better.
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tariffs are both the greatest thing in the world and they're going to make us rich according to donald trump but also he's working on all of these deals to get rid of the tariffs and he's using it as leverage none of it makes sense because it's all a big fraud the same way trump's been a fraud a felon sexual abuser his whole life most of his life That's what he's doing right now.
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The fraud and abusive personality, fraud, and just the lies. Here, this is from Freight Waves. No way we can make up for the 30% to 60% lost volumes from China via other countries due to tariffs, said Miller. Unless the 145% China tariffs are dropped very soon, I don't see a scenario where this could take place. China and Trump aren't even talking as the least of this recording.
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He's no deals Donald. He hasn't been able to make a deal with even places where there were no tariffs, even places where there was trade surpluses, even like he hasn't been able to make a deal with like South Korea. He hasn't announced a deal with Japan yet. He hasn't been able to make a deal with Australia. He hasn't been able to make a deal with Europe.
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He blew up actual trade deals that existed that were benefiting the U.S. Donald Trump can act like we were getting screwed. We were being taken advantage of. No, we weren't. America was leading the world. Capital infusions from the world went into America. America was viewed as the safest, most stable economy. We were winning. We were number one under former President Biden, objectively.
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And now we're losing, objectively. This is from the Wall Street Journal. So Donald Trump to soften the blow of automotive tariffs. Companies paying Trump's car tariffs won't also be charged for other levies based on what Trump's going to be announcing. Ahead of Donald Trump's to Michigan today, he's heading to Michigan for a rally outside Detroit where he's just going to lie about everything.
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He's announcing that he will be softening the automotive tariffs. But you claim that they're working and they're making us rich. So why would you soften something that's making us rich unless you're just a fraud, which is what he is? You see this moment where Speaker of the House, Maga Mike Johnson, was asked by CNN, Why is the American public souring on Trump's policies? Here, play this clip.
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Oh, yes, that's why. Because it's a rollercoaster, Mega Mike. That's the reason. It's a rollercoaster. No, it's because people hate him. Because he's destroying the American dream. He's destroying America's economy. He's destroying our alliances. I know that you know that I had some pretty bad allergies. I'd read them in the comments. And you said, Ben, you got to do something about it. So I did.
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That's why I call this the Ponzi scheme or rug pull presidency, because literally everything he says is a lie and is a fraud. You know, what's interesting, too, is that, you know, Donald Trump was trying to get the support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and they were like kind of fairly supportive of him.
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Thank you to my wonderful friends in Michigan. It's going to be great to be here today. We're doing great. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That was in advance of him showing up to Michigan today for this rally that he's going to do. Who the heck knows what this rally is even going to be about? It's going to be insane. Why? Of course, we'll cover it here. the Midas Touch Network.
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Oh, and by the way, make sure you check out the virtual governor's town hall I'm hosting tonight at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific on our YouTube channel. I'll be hosting it live. We got four Democratic governors. We talk about it on our community page. Check it out. It's going to be an incredible virtual town hall. While all of this is going on too, though, I want to mention this.
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The right-wing influencers like Benny Johnson and others, are saying that all of the polls that show that Donald Trump is underwater, they're all fake polls. They're saying they're all psyops and that they're not real polls. The Fox poll, the Pew Research, the Reuters, Ipsos poll. They're saying, you know, they claim all of them are psyops. All of them are false.
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Every single one they go, which is just utterly ridiculous.
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what were they doing at the white house yesterday well they had new media show up and they were this is like their priorities what they were talking about they were talking about getting rid of truckers who don't speak english and getting rid of uber drivers in florida who don't speak english like here was a class right here here was a question right here that was asked
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you know, well, it wasn't even a question. It was like a weird statement by this right-wing influencer person. They were like, well, I just want to let you know that my Uber drivers in Florida don't only speak English. Thank you, Trump. You did this. Here, play this clip.
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You know, you saw the head of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, the dock workers, acting like he was supportive of Donald Trump. They just put out a policy statement opposing tariffs and saying, you're costing us all our jobs. You're destroying the economy. What the hell are you doing, Donald?
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What in the world are they even talking about? And this is Caroline Levitt bragging about making sure truckers only speak English here at Playlist Club.
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There you have it, folks. We'll keep you posted every step of the way with more news, but very bizarre behavior by Donald Trump.
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You know, I'll tell you one of the things that he was doing is he wanted to stage that propaganda scene in front of the White House with the Eagles. You know, the White House, they invite the winner of the Super Bowl every year and the various sports championships every year. Shout out to most of the Eagles who did not show up. That probably pissed Donald Trump off.
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it just keeps falling and falling donald consumer confidence is plummeting your approval ratings are plummeting the first 100 days in office the worst stock market since richard nixon since 1973 it's the wall street journal headline trump's first 100 days were worse for dow and s p 500 since nixon
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Now, Donald Trump's been posting over and over again the following. Promises made, promises kept. Promises made, promises kept. Post after post after post like that. Donald Trump has the view, and this was a view from major, very dangerous propagandists. If you repeat the same lie, an outrageous lie, over and over again, the bigger the lie, the better. People will believe your big lie.
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35% of our country has magamush brain who believes this stuff. Even if their own pensions are being destroyed, their jobs are being lost, they're losing their health care. Donald Trump wants to be the Pope. He says promises made, promises kept. Donald Trump goes to war in Michigan and he says that he's reduced egg prices by 87%. It's a total lie. It's just false.
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It's not even tethered anywhere near reality. Right. Donald Trump yesterday was in Warren, Michigan, bragging about his accomplishments in the first 100 days. There are none. You destroyed our country. I'm not being hyperbolic. You just literally you and Elon Musk and your billionaires took a wrecking ball to our federal government. You destroyed essential services. You destroyed the VA.
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You're destroying the Department of Education, the Consumer Financial Bureau, our parks. I mean, you have people raiding the African-American Museum in the Smithsonian and destroying and getting rid of artifacts and things at the museum because you say they're woke. But anyway, here's Donald Trump bragging about opening up the toilets. He did it. The toilets, everybody.
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Donald Trump gave us toilet bowls, he says. Play this clip.
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JP Morgan just came out with their findings that they believe first quarter GDP will be negative 1.8%, not too dissimilar from the Atlanta Federal Reserve, which was predicting negative 2.5%. Goldman Sachs is in the negative territory as well. You took a thriving Goldilocks economy that the Wall Street Journal said was the envy of the world under former President Biden, and you destroyed it.
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Again, it's just a lie. Donald Trump sat for an interview with ABC as well that aired yesterday. And Donald Trump says, you know, tourism, he says, is way up. There's never been more tourists coming to the United States right now. It's the biggest easy lie to prove in the world. But Donald Trump says if you tell the big lie, that's all that matters. Here, play this clip.
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tourism right now is plummeting canada's boycotting the united states they've gone elbows up europe ain't coming to the united states australia they ain't coming united states people who are planning trips to visit the united states they ain't coming they don't want to be locked in detention centers or concentration camps and be cavity searched and separated from their families and who knows sent to el salvador and then even when they get here since donald trump's gutted essential services
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Or is the food they're going to eat safe? I mean, people don't want to come to the United States right now. I'm not sure you could put it in the comments if you're from another country so that you can let Americans know foreign countries right now view the United States like North Korea. Like they're not coming like they're like, we don't want to come there right now.
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Why would why would we come there? Right. So let me talk about this as well. United States Trade Representative Greer. So he's now telling this is real. He's telling GOP senators that there are some countries coming to the table for tariff talks. He says, but Europe's not engaging. Europe isn't really want to do a deal right now.
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But one of the things that Trade Representative Greer talked about is how Madagascar knows what we want. Cambodia and Vietnam know what we want. We are clear, but Europe ain't getting it. As Carl Quintanilla says, well, at least Madagascar, according to Greer, is going to kneel before us. I'm glad that that's clear. That that's their priorities.
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You know, when you go and you look at like who Trump thinks is strong and who Trump thinks is weak, shows you what a weak, empathetic person he is, right? He thinks Viktor Orban in Hungary, who basically turned Hungary into like a failed state, he thinks Orban is strong. Massive inflation there in contrast to their neighbor in Poland and Eastern Europe, which is a thriving democracy.
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But Trump thinks Poland is weak and he thinks Hungary is strong. Donald Trump thinks El Salvador is strong. Their GDP is like, what, 4%. $34 billion or $38 billion. It's not a thriving country. It's a poor Latin American country with a poverty rate of 25% and extreme poverty around 10%.
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All they have is Seacott, the concentration camp where they have the highest per capita imprisonment rate of anywhere in the world. And that's why Trump likes that. He thinks that's strong. It's not strong. He thinks Javier Millay of Argentina, the huge poverty right there, he thinks Millay is strong. No, he's not. Canada's strong. European allies were strong. Australia is strong. Japan is strong.
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I mean, but Donald Trump has such a warped view of that. So doesn't this tell you everything you need to know right here? This is real what I'm about to show you. This is not an SNL skit. This is what the press briefing room looks like under Trump right now, where they bring in right-wing media and have special press briefings for right-wing media. I swear this looks just like an SNL skit.
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And this is a real post I'm about to read for you right now. What is Donald Trump and his MAGA cult talking about? Real post I'm reading right now from Lindsey Graham. Here's Donald Trump talking about how he wants to be the next Pope yesterday. Play this clip.
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And the questions are, trolling or truthing? This is how they ask. Trolling or truthing? Taking over Canada, trolling or truthing? Watch this. I was wondering if you'd indulge me in a quick round of Trump trolling or Trump truthing?
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Sure, let's do it. Okay, good.
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Definitely Trump truthing. Trump truthing all the way. And the Canadians would benefit greatly, let me tell you that.
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I think that is an optimistic goal. And the president, so I would say we're on the side of truthing there for sure. And the president, again, wants to see tax cuts and he wants to see this massive revenue that we can gain from tariffs as well, which will create the external revenue service. So that's a definitive goal for sure.
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Trump trolling. Although the hats are flying off the shelves. Yes.
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I mean, I'm just thinking about how China's looking at this. Or just anybody. I mean, like, Canadian Prime Minister Carney, former central banker looking at this, how they're looking. They're like, what the hell is going on there? What in the Kim Jong-un is this? Let me tell you what China is saying right now.
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China is responding to Trump tariffs with defiant propaganda clip comparing making a deal with Trump to drinking poison to quench thirst. This from the China foreign ministry bowing to a bullies like drinking poison to quench thirst. It only deepens the crisis. Speaking about crisis and crises.
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We learned that Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours. That could happen any moment right now. Donald Trump creating more instability in the world right there. UPS announcing 20,000 job cuts at 73 facility closures as Amazon reduces its volume. And what did Donald Trump spend yesterday doing as well?
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He called up Bezos and told Bezos to not put on Amazon the additional costs to consumers because of Trump's tariffs on the Amazon website. On Amazon, they were going to list the prices of what the additions to the prices from tariffs. And Donald Trump and his regime called that a hostile, a political hostile attack, and then said basically Bezos is just aligning with his friends in China.
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And like, I feel like Bezos is like a Chinese agent. That's like what they were saying. And then Trump called up Bezos and made Bezos take it down. So you remember during COVID where Trump was like, Like a miracle, it's all going to go away and don't test. If you slow down the testing, we don't know about the disease spreading. So we don't know. So less cases, less testing. It's a version of that.
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This is Donald Trump. He's a vile piece of trash. He's got a warped sicko pathology. Like that's Donald Trump. Like he's a loser. He's bankrupted companies in the past. He's a big loser. He's not a builder. He's a destroyer. And this is one of the things that he does. Don't deal with the problem. Cover it up. And then it doesn't exist. See, Don, it's not the way the problems work.
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Problems get worse when you don't address them. And why I call your regime a Ponzi scheme presidency or a rug pull presidency is that it's cover up after cover up after cover up. And then eventually, you know what hits the fan and then there's a bankruptcy and there's an explosion. That's where you're heading. This is where this is heading to.
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If you look at our ports right now, you know I cover our ports. Freight volumes down significantly. Trucking volumes down significantly. Port of Seattle, not a lot of ships coming in. Port of Long Beach, not a lot of ships coming in. You go look at Shanghai, you go look at other ports in China. All the ships are there. And by the way, they're just not coming into the US.
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$2 trillion in trading relationship with China is basically an embargo right now. For what? Like for what? And as China strengthens its hand internationally and Trump and these idiots are crushing our economy the way I've described it, and I'll describe it again. In a tsunami, the shore recedes, right? And then the tsunami hits. We're in the shore receding period.
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And with all of that, Trump's stock market, the worst since 1973. Even though the tsunami hasn't hit yet, the tsunami's going to hit. How do we know that? Because we can see that the ships aren't coming into the port. They're not getting the products. That's why we're seeing the market, the lending markets dry up. We're seeing that happen. We're seeing layoffs start and it's going to get worse.
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These things, and you're going to see this week, the GDP report is not going to be good. And then the markets are going to be like, whoa, where did that come from? It's right in front of our freaking faces. If we look at data, read the charts, read the graphs, study the numbers. That's what we do at the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe, help us get to 5 million subscribers.
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By the way, did you like that governor town hall we did last night? I thought it was really good. Let me know what you think about that too. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get 5 million subscribers.
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This is Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network. Welcome to the Democratic Governors Virtual Town Hall live on the Midas Touch Network.
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Next question is for Governor Healey. This question is about democracy and civil rights and the steps you're taking to defend our courts. Let's play this clip.
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Governor Healey.
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The next question is for Governor Hochul. And this question is about Trump's disastrous tariffs and his harming our economy. Let's play this clip.
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Back to Governor Pritzker. This question, Governor, is from April H. She's from Chicago, and her question's about affordable housing and jobs. Let's play the clip.
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Governor Walz, your assessment of Trump's first 100 days, and what are you doing in response?
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Governor Pritzker.
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Next question is for Governor Walz. This question is about mental health and mental health of our troops and veterans as well. Let's play this clip.
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Governor Walz.
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Next question is for Governor Healey. This question's about female veterans and equal employment opportunities for female veterans. And generally speaking, let's play the clip.
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Next question is for Governor Hochul. This question's from John S. from Massapequa, New York. It's about Medicaid and maternal care. Let's play this clip.
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Next question is going to be directed to all four governors who are here with us tonight, and it's about your communication strategy. What are Democrats doing to communicate all of the great policies and ideas that you've talked about so people actually get it and elections are won? Let me play this question from Henry for all of you. Let's play it.
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Great question. Governor Pritzker.
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Same question to you, Governor Walz.
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let's meet the governors we have with us tonight illinois governor j.b pritzker we have minnesota governor tim walls we have massachusetts governor maura healey and we have new york governor kathy hokal the midas touch network viewers and subscribers to our sub stack submitted video questions to the governors we will be showing shortly and asking them to respond but first
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Governor Healey, what is your assessment of Trump's first 100 days and what are you doing in response?
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Governor Healey, same question for you.
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Governor Hochul, same question for you.
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And this town hall live stream is currently number one in the United States on YouTube as we're streaming this live. All right. Time for brief closing remarks right now from the governors. So as we wrap up this town hall, we're going to ask the governors to give their closing remarks on Trump's 100 days and where we go from here. Governor J.B.
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Pritzker, your closing remarks and message to the American people in Trump's first 100 days.
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Governor Walz, your closing remarks and your message to the American people.
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Governor Healey, your closing remarks and your final message to the American people.
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Governor Hochul, your closing remarks and message to the American people.
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Thank you, Governor. And I want to thank all of the governors for joining us on the Midas Touch Network for this virtual town hall. This was an important and necessary conversation. It was also the number one stream on all of YouTube this evening, thanks to your participation. We're also grateful for you recognizing the importance of digital media
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and independent news networks like ours, but most importantly, for your fight for democracy. The stakes could not be higher, and we appreciate you all meeting the moment and sharing this moment this evening with all of us at the Midas Mighty. I'm Ben Mycelis. This has been a presentation of the Midas Touch Network. Shout out to the Midas Mighty, and thank you, governors.
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Governor Hogan, assessment of Trump's first 100 days and what you're doing in response.
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I want to give each governor, starting with Governor Pritzker, the opportunity to make an opening remark to the American people. Governor Pritzker, what is your assessment of Trump's first 100 days in office and what are you doing in response?
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Thank you, governors, for your opening remarks. Now let's move on to the video questions submitted by our audience here at the Midas Touch Network for this town hall. Let's start with Governor Pritzker. This was submitted by Breon. She has a question about protecting protesters and mass mobilization. Let's play this clip.
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Governor Pritzker.
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Tonight, we will speak with four Democratic governors from across the country about Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, a disastrous 100 days, and what these governors are doing in their states to fight back and defend democracy from the clear and present threats that we face.
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Governor Walz, the next question is for you, and it's about Medicaid and Medicare in your state, and it's submitted by Deanna, who lives in your state. Let's play this clip.
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latest attempt to push our experts, federal workers and others out and replace them with political hacks. This is Jerry Connolly's statement from the Oversight Committee. Donald Trump is trying every trick he and his Project 2025 cronies can think of to circumvent established civil service protections so they can purge the civil service of experts and replace them with political loyalists.
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The victims here, as is always the case with Donald Trump, are the American people who will see government services and benefits allocated not by nonpartisan civil servants, but by partisan hacks. But more... over, Donald Trump is also, I think, trying to con and fraud the federal workers. You signed your resignation. You think you're going to get the money from Donald Trump and Elon Musk?
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Or do you think you're going to get the old bait and switch? Democratic Senator Tim Kaine gave a powerful speech earlier where he said the buyout idea is another Trump scam. Quote, he's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept the offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed other contractors.
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Folks, if you have friends, family, or you, or you know people who work at the federal government, make sure they know that this is likely yet another Trump and Musk scam. Don't be fooled. Here is Senator Tim Kaine on the Senate floor making this impassioned case. Let's play it.
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Here, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, she goes, Trump is offering a fake buyout to federal workers with no guarantee he won't screw them the minute they accept and then replace them with unqualified, inexperienced loyalists the second they leave. This is straight from the pages of Project 2025.
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Want to share this with you because Democrats going on the offense and calling Donald Trump out. Here's Governor Tim Walz. This is his interview he gave recently on MSNBC. Here's what he had to say about the Trump roligarch. Play this clip.
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You know, when I watch that clip, I get a little frustrated because that's the governor walls. that Vice President Kamala Harris picked. And he seemed to be holding back or the advisors were holding him back during the campaign. He came out so strong. He was calling Trump and J.D. Vance weird. And then I guess they were saying, don't say that. I thought that was powerful as could be.
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Speaking of powerful as can be, Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman, here he talks about how Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are basically allowing Trump to impound all of legislatively prescribed funds that are out there going to all of these people who need it. All of these federal programs Trump is not allowing to reach.
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its final recipients, people who rely on this for life or death matters here, watch this.
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So Donald Trump and Elon Musk just offered a fake buyout to all federal employees saying that if they resign before February 6th, they are going to get paid all of their salary through September of 2025. Well, Congress hasn't appropriated that money. There's no authority to do it. And it's likely another bait and switch by Donald Trump, which he did to stiff contractors his entire career.
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I think Senator Tim Kaine makes a great point here as well on MSNBC where he says, look, if you want to make cuts to the budget, then pass a law. You control the House, you control the Senate. Don't do it unlawfully via impoundment. If you want to do this, go through the process. That's what laws are for.
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Laws are on the books that allow, that require, that mandate these funds, these government funds go to their destination. You can't just be like, no, that's called being a dictator on day one. Here's what Tim Kaine has to say playing this clip.
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But if you want to know what they're talking about on Fox, the WMD, the weapon of mass distraction, What are they trying to do here? Know their playbook, folks. They're talking about, oh, Trump's going to do an Iron Dome in case Russia nukes us. Iron Dome. I thought Donald Trump had great relations with Putin.
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I thought him and Putin were buddies in that the war in Ukraine was going to end on day one. I thought Trump promised us peace. In 24 hours after the election, oh, that failed. 24 hours after the inauguration, that failed. And now you're saying that we need an iron dome to protect against nuclear weapons in the United States from Putin, who's Trump's buddy?
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What in the world are y'all talking about? You can't even get your WMDs, your weapons of mass distraction, out. consistent at all. And now your WMDs are actual WMDs, weapons of mass destruction. You're running that playbook right now? That's the playbook you're running to try to distract us? Isn't it so obvious, folks?
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That's just what Donald Trump does. Democrats are forcefully calling Donald Trump and Elon Musk out for this scam. You have the Democratic Oversight Committee saying the following, there's a fork in the road, all right, and Trump, Musk, and their Project 2025 cronies are going down the wrong path again. Read Jerry Connolly's statement on the Trump administration's
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Like Lucinda, who goes, you are betraying your followers, Donald Trump. You are betraying us. I'm an elderly woman and you're taking away food stamps. You're taking away all of these programs for children. Who are you? You're letting us down and we put you there. How about this person who goes, A week in and now my Medicaid portal is shut down in my state. I voted for him too, but Jesus.
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This next person goes, the bank just called and told me that my USDA rural development loan that I was approved for is now canceled. Apparently, Trump has frozen all federal loans and grants. We were supposed to start construction on February 1st. I voted for him to bring down grocery prices, not this.
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Well, I guess if you consider that a lot of groceries are no longer even making it to the grocery store, perhaps that's how you could say he's bringing it down the same way. I guess he brought down toilet paper during his first administration because bye-bye, there was no toilet paper and there were mass casualty events. Do y'all remember what happened in Trump administration?
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One with mobile morgues, he said like a miracle. All of this COVID is just going to go away. Just inject yourself with bleach. Do you have collective amnesia, Trump voters? You know that men in black wand that they used to have and they would just erase their memory? Is that what's going on here at all? Okay, let me pull out some receipts, then I'll share more stories.
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So this is Elon Musk right here, who's basically as... top of the food chain of Trump. He's almost a co-president at this point. So during the election, he was saying what his plans were. He said that he needs to inflict temporary hardship. He said, we need to inflict immediate hardship on people, let them suffer, and then we can build after the people are suffering. This is his words.
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Okay, so you have Elon saying that. And now, as we share more F around and find out stories, yesterday, we also learned that Donald, and this one pains me because I stand in solidarity with unions worldwide. with Teamsters brothers and sisters, with other union members. So this one hits me hard.
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I don't take delight in reporting on this, but Teamsters, you know your president, Sean O'Brien, what he did. He ran to Mar-a-Lago with that thumbs up and he spoke at the RNC and he was telling y'all and everybody, Trump's gonna be great for labor. I was like, Trump's going to be great for labor. What are you talking about? His whole life was ripping off labor and screwing people.
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That's literally Trump's entire MO. Screwing labor, hating unions. Well, surprise, surprise. What happened on Tuesday? The National Labor Relations Board's powerful, well-respected general counsel, Abruzzo, she got fired by Trump.
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unlawfully I might add also Donald Trump ousted NLRB member Gwen Wilcox unlawfully they fired her despite the law forbidding firing board members absent neglect or malfeasance and the reason they fired her by the way she was the first black female member of the NLRB Now the NLRB is deadlocked for the entire term, so the unions can't advocate for even the formation of unions.
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The union busters love this and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump's broligarcs, the people who were invited to the inauguration, who sat even in front of the cabinet, they've been trying to destroy the NLRB. So to all of the Teamsters, your president, Sean O'Brien, who was out there palling around with Trump, what's he saying about the fact that Trump just gutted the NLRB? And by the way,
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Here's the audio of Donald Trump and Elon Musk laughing about firing striking union workers. This existed before the election. We were sharing this clip. Play it.
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But, you know, if you look at Arjun... And by the way, Elon Musk, who's basically running the government now, we know that Elon Musk has planted his lawyers and his team to run... OMB's back end, the Office of Management and Budget. And they're out there, you know, I think my opinion is scamming people in the federal government saying, if you resign now, we're gonna pay you X amount of dollars.
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If you resign now, we'll give you a buyout. Trump doesn't do buyouts. Trump is a con artist. He is a felon. He is a adjudicated fraud. He was found liable for fraud. You're gonna trust this guy? Anyway, here's Elon Musk out there saying, that he doesn't even believe in the concepts of unions because he says unions are the lords and the workers who are members of the unions are peasants.
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Think about the gaslighting and the lies, talking about a lord v. peasant dynamic. That's the Broligarchs and the rest of us. The lords are Elon Musk, the Bezoses, the Zuckerbergs, that whole crew, and then the peasants is everybody else, and now they gutted union protection.
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We're hearing from all of these Trump supporters and Trump voters who are now like, Donald, you're betraying us. We depended on federal aid and now you did this federal aid across the board freeze and now we can't get the services that are keeping us alive. How could you do this to us?
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Let's just take a look as well at some of this other data that's out there. This person, I'm a facility director for a collection of churches who supported Trump, currently have about a million dollars in projects between all of the churches through federal grants. We can't pay these bills if the money doesn't come in.
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We were offered this money by the federal government for various safety upgrades and maintenance. Most of the grants are reimbursement loans. Parishioners are already texting and calling scared. I don't feel good. This person goes, my parents are conservative and own a business whose sole purpose is writing federal grants. Their entire income is now completely gone because of Donald Trump.
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This person goes, what the hell? While I agree we need to cut down on federal spending, this will immediately harm food banks, suicide hotlines, farms, and dozens of other things that are essential to this country. There's really no good way to defend Trump's federal government freeze. Even if you say we should cut back on government funding,
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Cutting things cold turkey like this with everything is absolutely ridiculous. Even Louisiana's far, far right. Governor Jeff Landry says we need to have clarity as to the depth. He says he goes that he's concerned that Trump's actions, quote, jeopardize financial stability.
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You think it jeopardizes financial stability when Trump's order looks like it is freezing federal loan and grant programs like SNAP and TANF and WIC and federal student loans and more. But folks, Folks, guess what MAGA's doing? They're doing cosplay. You've got your puppy-killing Homeland Security director, Kristi Noem, dressed up like an ICE officer doing the arrests herself with Dr. Phil.
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Here, watch this. You're in New York City this morning. We are getting the dirt bags off you. Don't worry, also the zero-star general, the zero of a person, Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, he announced his first action will be revoking General Mark Milley, a four-star general security clearance, and investigating Milley to potentially take away one of Milley's stars.
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So Hegseth, who has zero stars, gonna take away a decorated military veteran's stars. and harm his retirement and take away his security detail because that's how Donald Trump treats the troops like absolute crap. And it absolutely crapped on the troops by putting Hegseth there.
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And by the way, the veteran suicide hotline gets funded with these grants that have now resulted in the veteran suicide hotline being taken down and so many programs that fund veterans being cut because of this. And by the way, you think about some, you know, no one's even talking about this.
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I'm going to share some of this F around and find out content, also known as leopards eating my face or your face content. But I come with receipts as well. What I want to share with you is the type of coverage we had warning you about what was going to happen. So let's take out the receipts and let's also share some of these stories. First, let me share some of these stories.
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A lot of our aid, you know, helps like kids with AIDS, kids with HIV, people even abroad that have AIDS and HIV who are going to die. We're gonna die now because of this. It's literally killing people like he did in COVID, just killing people with this stuff. And so, yeah, you're effing around and you find out the leopards are eating your faces. You voted for that. We didn't. You voted for that.
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We didn't. And the people in the rest of the world who are going to be impacted, who are going to freaking die because of this or be seriously injured because of this and suffer because of this is because of all of you. So, yeah, it's an F around and find out you're finding out you're screwed up, but you screwed everybody's life in the process. And we warned you about this stuff. We warned you.
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And you were talking about transgender volleyball players. And that's what was getting you all angry. Your culture war issues. You wanted to bully marginalized communities. Shame on you for doing it. Seriously. Me saying shame on you isn't enough. Horrific. Wake the hell up. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Here, Governor Walz says the following about MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer and the other MAGA Republican Congress members who are ceding their authority as members of Congress as a co-equal branch of government to allow Donald Trump to engage in what's called
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And here's Minnesota Governor Walz one more time talking about how Donald Trump is the worst manager ever. Let's play the clip.
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There were other powerful statements by governors throughout the country as well. This is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. This is how it's done. He looks at the camera and he says, Donald Trump's administration is lying to you. Here are the facts. Here's what happened. Here, play this clip.
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Here's Governor Walz, Governor Pritzker rather, once again slamming the Trump administration for the federal funding crisis. Let's play it.
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While all of that was going on, you had the MAGA Republicans in Donald Trump's cabinet doing cosplay. This is now the Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, puppy killer Kristi Noem. Here she is dressed up in her cosplay gear saying she's going after the bad guys herself after being sworn in. Here, play this clip.
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And folks, it should also be noted that Donald Trump has tasked Dr. Phil. Yes, the washed up television personality, Dr. Phil, who nobody likes anymore, apparently other than MAGA. He's doing a TV show about the bloody mass deportations. Now, when Donald Trump's press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, was asked about
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That's Minnesota Governor Tim Walz laying the smack down to Donald Trump. after Donald Trump issued a federal spending freeze, basically stopping all federal spending to key government programs, sending our country into chaos yesterday. Civil rights groups had to rush into court, federal court in Washington, D.C., to block Donald Trump's spending freeze temporarily.
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And again, it should be noted that what transpired is blatantly illegal. Impoundment, Trump impounding stealing, he knows a lot about stealing Donald Trump, stealing funds for himself and seizing it, entirely unlawful, it is dictatorial. And the fact that MAGA Republicans in Congress are okay with it tells you all you need to know about how weak and pathetic they are.
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I'll show you this one more clip right here of Caroline Leavitt. Here she is when she was asked, so what about Medicaid? Because the Medicaid portals in all of the states were shut down right after the Office of Management and Budget, controlled by Trump, issued the edict to shut it down. So what's going on with that Caroline Leavitt? Here's what she had. She goes, I don't really know.
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I don't really know. Here, play this clip.
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By the way, you have Democratic senators speaking up as well. Here's Senator Patty Murray. Here's what she has to say from the great state of Washington. Play this clip.
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And by the way, these cuts affect all of the departments and agencies, whether it's the Department of Education, whether it's the Department of Agriculture, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Labor, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security.
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The EPA, Department of Veterans Affairs, for example, the Suicide Crisis Line shutdown, Department of Commerce, Department of Interior, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Small Business Administration, National Endowment for the Arts, Department of Health and Human Services, all of these programs, let's think of like our shutdown, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, for example.
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um hiv aids program maternal and child health care services lunches for kids in school defense education outreach national guard and reserve equipment grants creative writing and arts education grants indian housing block grants education and human resource directorate grants veteran housing assistance
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public works, environmental justice small grants program, superfund remedial programs, fire prevention and safety, port security, victims of crime act, juvenile justice and delinquency prevention grants, energy efficiency and conservation block grants, low income energy assistant grants, shut down because of the federal spending freeze by Donald Trump, who wants to torture the people.
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which a judge granted there will be another hearing next Monday. Let's go back to what Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had to say, and he was not holding back. Here, Governor Tim Walz talks about how Trump threw our country into a crisis while he was out golfing. Play the clip.
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Let's just call it what it is. He wants people to feel pain to help the billionaires. That's it. That's the game. We don't have to overcomplicate what this is. He hates Americans, unless you're a billionaire. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Also, we are learning from the French foreign minister that he spoke with other European Union leaders as well, and other European Union leaders And ministers of defense also talked about deploying their troops into Greenland to make sure they have Denmark's back, which is part of the European Union. So Donald Trump threatening our NATO allies, our NATO allies now responding to Donald Trump.
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This follows the prime minister of Denmark, Meta Frederiksen, having a meeting with European leaders this week. Here's an article about that. Danish Prime Minister Meta Fredriksen says the country has received substantial support from fellow European nations as she seeks support to counter the United States President Donald Trump's threats to take control of Russia. Greenland.
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Fredrickson visited three European capitals on Tuesday, meeting French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, she says. I want to play this for you right now. This is the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barotte. Here he is talking about how if the sovereignty of Denmark and Greenland is threatened, France will step up.
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Here, let's play the clip, and I'll just note this is in French, so we did an AI voice to translate what he was saying into English for our English viewers.
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Now let me show you Denmark Prime Minister Meta Fredriksen. Here's what she said after meeting with European leaders. She called for, quote, a stronger and more resolute Europe against the United States, which is now threatening to attack the sovereignty of Europe. Let's play it right now.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Thank you, MiracleMaid, for sponsoring this episode. It should also be noted what a strong ally of Ukraine Denmark has been. Also, Denmark historically has been a powerful ally of the United States. Danish troops fighting side by side in various America excursions and wars. I know we have so many Danish followers here at the Midas Touch Network.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
And so all I can say to you is that we here at the Midas Touch Network stand in solidarity with you. We do not support the actions of Donald Trump and his threats. I want to share with you this video right here. This is of President Zelensky. This was back on November 19th of 2024. So this was after Trump's election.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
And here Zelensky is talking about what a great ally Denmark has been to Ukraine, how grateful Ukraine is to Meta Fredrickson. Let's play the clip right here. Let's play it. And Zelensky says, a thousand days of full-scale war is a very difficult path and we are enduring it because we have friends like Denmark by our side and leaders like Prime Minister Meta Fredriksson.
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Share this with you as well. You can just see how the people of Denmark now absolutely just despise Donald Trump. What a grotesque character he is. He is, I know the people of Denmark, we have a strong connection with the pro-democracy Americans here and so this is so difficult for us, you know, to have someone like Donald Trump doing this here.
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A bakery in Denmark starts selling bright orange Donald Trump
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moron cakes right now quote Denmark should send a box of these cakes to Trump so they're selling moron cakes of Donald Trump in Denmark I think by the way that is a brilliant idea and by the way I agree with you that he's absolutely a a moron but folks things are escalating quick we previously reported again that Denmark had invested another two billion dollars into its military capabilities in
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Greenland, I'll play this for you right now. Again, preparing for a possible American invasion. I mean, that's where we're at right now. And by the way, I'll show you two clips right now. One clip I wanna show you is of this MAGA Republican Congress member. who's out there. And this is how they talk right now in the United States.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
It's crazy for me to see saying that America is an apex predator and we have to conquer others. We need to be predators is what these MAGA Republicans sing. Play the clip.
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Now, let me show you this clip of people in Greenland when Fox showed up and they were, I guess, surprised that the people of Greenland did not want to be attacked by nations that call themselves apex predators like the United States. Surprise, surprise. Here, play this clip.
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Well, that's where we are folks right now. We will keep you posted as we learn more here on the Midas Touch Network. Now hit subscribe, help us get to 4 million subscribers. We're getting there pretty quick. Please subscribe right now. And thank you to all of our international viewers as well. This is an international struggle. And we here at the Midas Touch Network, we're in it with you.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Relations between the United States and Europe are absolutely falling apart and falling apart quick. We are now learning that France is prepared to send troops into Greenland, which is part of the kingdom of Denmark, in order to protect against a possible invasion by the United States, which is what Donald Trump has threatened.
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Deja Foxx on Trump’s attacks on Arizona Voters
Arizona voters seem to be turning against Donald Trump. They are expressing, I would say, to put it mildly, deep reservations, even if they've supported him in the past. And those who are just not even all that political are just saying, what the heck is this guy doing? whether it's his tariffs, his attacking of Medicaid, whether it's his immigration policy.
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Deja Foxx on Trump’s attacks on Arizona Voters
I still don't understand that. I'll give him some time. Why do we treat this guy like a baby? Isn't it just so utterly obvious? I'll show you here. I'm not sure this guy's political affiliation, but he runs a factory in Arizona, and he's explaining how the tariffs are just from a business perspective, just hurting his factories. Here, play this clip.
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Deja Foxx on Trump’s attacks on Arizona Voters
Now, there's a ton of stories like that. I could show you more, but I think you get the point. So what are the MAGA Republicans in Arizona doing? How are they addressing this? Well, the big initiative that they've been focused on is trying to rename all of their highways. after Donald Trump.
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There's a law in Arizona that says you can't name the highways, or especially all of them, after somebody unless they are dead. But they really tried to push this through. It lost with one vote, not because they didn't want to do it, but because it would have been against the existing law because you can't do it. But that's the type of things that they're focused on.
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Deja Foxx on Trump’s attacks on Arizona Voters
So what are Democrats fighting for? What are people who care about people fighting for? Let's bring in Deja Fox, Democrat running in the special election for Arizona's 7th Congressional District. The election's right around the corner, July 15th, just about less than two months away, even at this point. So Deja, you've been traveling your district, but you've traveled Arizona as well.
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I want to show you what people are thinking in Arizona right now. So first, I'm going to show you a lady who was a Trump supporter. She considers herself a devout Christian. She runs a business that hires people with disabilities. She's worried about Trump cutting Medicaid and the MAGA Republicans cutting Medicaid. She says she's more open to voting for Democrats now. Here, play this clip.
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What are you seeing there right now?
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Now, Deja, you graduated with a full scholarship to Columbia University, but you share your story with people. You're 25 years old now. You represent a new generation of leadership, not just for the Democratic Party, but just in general in our country. But you were on SNAP benefits, food stamps. You were Section 8 housing, which is housed under HUD. You were a Medicaid recipient.
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All of those programs... are precisely what republicans are attacking in your district and throughout the rest of the country so there's also your personal story in this as well and you being an example of someone who graduated from columbia who's now a leader and it just seems like republicans see your story And you are who they fear.
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They want to stop the future Deja Foxes because they want more Andy Biggs.
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Deja Foxx on Trump’s attacks on Arizona Voters
You know, as I hear your story, I think about a few of the phone calls I've been getting recently since that New York Times story was out about the left needs a Joe Rogan and we got to find out. And I say to them, I said, look,
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Deja Foxx on Trump’s attacks on Arizona Voters
if you go and you speak to American people at town halls or in the living rooms, I go, there's not a single person other than these narratives that are out there wanting a left version of a Joe Rogan. I'm like, people want housing. They want an education. They want affordable healthcare. They want to allow women to have their own reproductive rights. They want men to get the hell out of it.
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Deja Foxx on Trump’s attacks on Arizona Voters
They want to be able to live an American dream and to not have the psychological torture of living paycheck to paycheck. We need to spend time talking about those things and less time talking about manufacturing a Joe Rogan in a lab, which is incredibly problematic for reasons that would take an hour more for us to get into here. But as we kind of wrap this up, talk to us about your district.
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And it's a competitive race that you have in this special. So why you? Why now? Why should the voters be looking at you?
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Deja Fox running for Arizona's 7th Congressional District. Thanks for joining us.
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MAGA Mike Gets Stabbed in the Back by the GOP
MAGA Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House, is getting clowned on. He just got devastating news as more MAGA Republican senators in the Senate are saying no way, no how are they supporting the big disastrous bill that MAGA Mike and Donald Trump want to push forward.
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Here we've got Elon Musk saying, uh-uh, he's not in support of this. Play this clip.
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This was a speech from Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, saying that this is a bad bill that the Republicans in the House and in Congress in general have betrayed the American people. Play this clip.
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But get this, you know who else is also tag-teaming MAGA Mike and Donald Trump and telling them no way, no how with this budget bill? Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis. By the way, you also have the chair of the Republican National Committee, a guy named Michael Whatley, saying that this thing is no bueno as well. Let me take a look as MAGA Mike gets his worst nightmare smacked down.
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Here's Rick Scott again right here. Play this clip.
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Now we're seeing fractures even among MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives as well who voted for this thing. For example, you've got a MAGA Republican Congress member named Tom Tiffany from Wisconsin's 7th, who says he wants to see more cuts to Medicaid. Play this clip.
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Now I've shared with you before Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, MAGA Republican, saying no way is he supporting this.
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MAGA Mike Gets Stabbed in the Back by the GOP
What the hell are you going to do, MAGA Mike Johnson? So here we have MAGA Republican Senator Rick Scott, who was involved in the biggest Medicaid and Medicare fraud in the history of the United States. That's how he got his money after pleading the fifth dozens and dozens of times in a case against his company. But here he says he ain't voting on the budget bill.
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But you have to do the work, which takes time. MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul saying he ain't supporting this. Spending.
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And here he explains one of the reasons why he says it's going to add trillions to the deficit. And he goes, just look. The budget bill itself calls for raising the debt ceiling by $4 trillion over the next two years. They're going to run $2 trillion deficits per year. I think it's going to be more. Play this clip. Biden's spending levels.
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You know who's also against the budget bill in its current form? MAGA Republican Senator Josh Hawley. Play this clip.
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MAGA Republican Senator Kevin Cramer, play the clip.
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MAGA Mike Gets Stabbed in the Back by the GOP
MAGA Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, play the clip.
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MAGA Mike Gets Stabbed in the Back by the GOP
And one of the things that MAGA Mike Johnson has done here as well is he's highlighted the cruelty of the GOP platform, right? He's showing that they want to cut food assistance, SNAP, supplemental nutrition assistance program, cut rental assistance programs to people.
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If you're making between zero and $50,000 or $51,000, you literally just on day one, $1,000 gets taken from you and gets given to people who make more than $4.3 million, who will be saving an extra $370,000. the billionaires are going to get literally trillions of dollars in tax cuts right here, and Medicaid and Medicare is cut.
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MAGA Mike Gets Stabbed in the Back by the GOP
Watch MAGA Republican Senator Rick Scott play this clip.
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MAGA Mike Gets Stabbed in the Back by the GOP
But here's what MAGA Mike Johnson had to say about cutting SNAP in his own congressional district. Here, play this clip.
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MAGA Mike Gets Stabbed in the Back by the GOP
Well, Senator- There you have it. I've got the receipts. we're going to see, here's my prediction. We had, they're not going to pass anything. We're going to head right up to an issue where they got to raise the debt ceiling. And we're going to have an issue of a potential government shutdown. Everybody's going to scramble and panic. And that's just how the GOP does business.
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MAGA Mike Gets Stabbed in the Back by the GOP
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Now, here is leaked audio from the RNC chair saying that the Republicans voted for the largest tax increase in American history with Trump's budget bill. This came from FactPost that clipped it and Hakimian who noted it. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Donald Trump was stunned into silence this morning. Usually we'll see him posting over and over again on his social media platform or sending emails to his supporters. No such post this morning. The last post was about 14 hours ago. This as more information was released by the Atlantic
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Also, strike drones launch MQ-9s. More F-18s launch at 1410. 1415 will do strike drones on target. This is when the first bombs will definitely drop. pending earlier trigger-based targets. At 1536, the F-18 second strike starts. Also, first sea-based Tomahawks are launched.
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So now that this has been released, because that piece was not released yesterday, so the Trump regime went out and they were like denying, denying, denying, or saying nothing was classified, even though what was already released was classified. And then the Atlantic dropped that. It also just shows that how just reckless and negligent the Trump regime is even at the cover-up itself.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
So now what the Department of Defense is going with is that, look, the Atlantic is backpedaling because the title of the Atlantic article from this morning about those new messages I just shared with you are, Here are the attack plans that Trump advisor shared on Signal. The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to the Atlantic's editor-in-chief.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
So the Department of Defense is going, aha! The Atlantic is now saying that these are attack plans and not war plans. So clearly they're not war plans. Look, the Atlantic is taking it all back. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, goes, this is really the lame ass defense that the Trump regime is going with. that they were attack plans and not war plans.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
And then all these MAGA influencers are doing that as well. They're highlighting the part of the Atlantic headline that says attack plans, like Sean Parnell goes. It's no surprise the hoax peddlers at the Atlantic have already abandoned their war plans claim. These additional signal chat messages confirmed there were no classified materials or war plan shared.
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about the leak of war plans on a Signal group thread where the top Department of Defense officials, top national security officials, top military officials, top Trump officials were sending each other emojis as they put actual war plans in the messages, highly classified information. Yesterday, of course, you had Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, head of the CIA,
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The secretary was merely updating the group on the plan. That's as classified of information as you can get. So then Tulsi Gabbard moments ago, as again, Trump was in silence, Tulsi Gabbard testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, and now she's backpedaling and kind of throwing Hegseth under the bus saying,
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Because yesterday she said there was no classified information, no attack plans. It was just basic communication, which it wasn't what we saw yesterday. So here's what she's going with now. Watch as she throws others under the bus. Play this clip.
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I just want to show you what she said yesterday so you can now compare. After all, so you've seen for yourself, I've read for you the text messages that give an operational plan of when targets are going to be hit and which military assets are going to be used. Here's what she said yesterday to the Senate. So the first one I showed you was today in the House of Representatives.
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Now I'm showing you yesterday in the Senate. Play this clip.
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So please answer the call. So then Tulsi Gabbard claims that while she was traveling, she was on this text message thread, even though she refuses to acknowledge also, I think that she was, she says she now realizes she was on the text message thread at the end. I don't even know what she's saying. But she was in a foreign country when this was taking place.
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And now she refuses to say which foreign country. She says she doesn't remember the country she was in when these messages were sent. Watch her play this clip.
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And others say there was no war plans, no attack plans, nothing classified. The Atlantic released more information.
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Go to selectquote.com slash Midas today to get started. That's selectquote.com slash Midas. So then Congress member Himes, the Democratic ranking member of the committee, we've had him on the Midas Touch Network before. I'm going to have him on the Midas Touch Network this week and ask him questions about this as well for everybody. So I want to get his take on it.
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But he asks Tulsi Gabbard, why are you retweeting Russian propaganda? Your personal accounts are retweeting RT, which is literally the Russian propaganda network, and you repost it over and over again. Do you think that it's responsible for you as the director of national intelligence for the United States of America to be reposting Russian propaganda?
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And you can see right here that Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, put the exact sequencing of the entire operation and the types of aircraft that would be used to conduct these strikes all before the operation took place, putting the lives of our fighter pilots and other assets at risk.
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And then Tulsi Gabbard is like, I have a First Amendment right. What I do on my personal account, I'm going to do. It's my First Amendment right now. to post Russian propaganda. For real, this is what she says. Let's play it.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
So while that was going on today, take a look at some other headlines throughout the nation. From the Wall Street Journal, corporate America's euphoria over Trump's golden age is giving way to distress. Headline from the Wall Street Journal, CEOs and investors are fretting over what they see as whipsaw policy changes and complacency about the risks of recession.
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Now, this follows the Wall Street Journal post on November 6, 2024, after the election when the Wall Street Journal's headline was, Wall Street salivates over a new Trump boom. Wednesday's epic post-election rally augurs big lucrative opportunities. Investors and analysts say, come on, you're the Wall Street Journal. Trump bankrupted almost everything he's touched in his life.
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He's bankrupted more companies than everyone. Like, you have to know the guy's an idiot and he's going to continue to bankrupt things. He is a bankruptor. He is a destroyer. He is a fraud. He is a criminal. He is a felon. Just wake the hell up. This is not complicated analysis. The guy's a sexual predator, felon, disgusting, vile, bankrupt. It's easy. And juries have found that.
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And then in February, the headline was the mood of the American consumer is souring. And now how bad is it? The economic vibes are about as bad as you get right now, as bad as you get. Consumer confidence is falling to almost all time lows at this point. I mean, we haven't seen confidence this low since about what, 2013 ish.
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And the month over month declines are clear signs that not just a recession is but potentially a great recession or a massive depression is coming just based on the consumer confidence drop. What are the MAGA Republicans saying about all of this? Well, you have MAGA Republican Congress member Dan Crenshaw.
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details like this as sabrina singh say are highly classified just take a look at what hexeth posted team update time now 11 44 weather is favorable just confirmed with zencom we are a go for mission launch 12 15 eastern time f-18s launch first strike package 1345 trigger base F-18 first strike window starts. Target terrorist is at his known location, so should be on time.
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By the way, he was a Navy SEAL, but now he has to bend the knee to Trump and MAGAism and behave like a freaking buffoon. And he's like, I just want to say when I kill the terrorists, I always use fire emojis and fist bump emojis. When I kill terrorists, that's what I do. Here, play this clip.
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I want to talk about cartels. I mean, these are parodies of parodies of parodies at this point. Another headline this morning from Reuters. U.S. government can face default risk as soon as August without debt ceiling increase. Congressional budget office estimates. China is expressing solemn concerns on U.S. tariffs and they're now considering reciprocal tariffs. Additional news.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Remember the lawsuit that was filed against China? All of the individuals in that signal group chat for violating the Public Records Act and the Presidential Records Acts and all of the things that say you can't communicate that way. The group American Oversight filed that lawsuit against the Trump administration. You know what judge it was assigned to randomly? Judge Boasberg.
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Yep, the same Judge Boasberg, federal judge, Washington, D.C., who Donald Trump has been consistently attacking over and over again and saying that, oh, that judge, you know, issued an injunction against the Trump regime, kidnapping people and sending them to concentration camps in El Salvador. That judge now got this new case assigned to him regarding the Records Act violations.
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I do want to share with you this, though, is now that I've showed you all of this. Here's what Pete Hegseth said yesterday while he was in Hawaii, that nobody was texting war plans. Play this clip.
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And finally, we're seeing unity like never before amongst Greenlanders to fend off the United States as Trump continues to Say he wants to annex Greenland and he keeps attacking Greenland and making aggressive moves towards Greenland. Remember how yesterday I reported how Usha Vance, J.D. Vance's wife and the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz were going to Greenland? Well, now J.D.
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Vance wants to go to Greenland as well. He's going to be there as part of an effort to try to conquer it and take it over. whatever the hell the Trump regime is doing. This has Europe pissed. Greenland's part of the territory is a territory in Denmark. Denmark's pissed. Greenlanders are pissed. Greenland hates this. And 95, 96% of Greenlanders do not want this. And they say, no means no.
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Get the hell out of here, you freaking abusers. We don't want America here. Get out. That's what's going on today. We'll keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Exclusive: Senator Schiff Calls for Trump Admin Resignations
I'm joined by Senator Adam Schiff. Senator, how big of a deal is this leak of classified information on text threads about war plans now that we've had a day or so to process it all?
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So, Senator, you're calling for those resignations. You may have said it before, but you're calling for those resignations right now, correct?
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Exclusive: Senator Schiff Calls for Trump Admin Resignations
So earlier today in the Senate, there was that hearing with DNI Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel. DNI Tulsi Gabbard was asked about these documents or these messages, and she said, to your point, they're not classified and seemed to suggest that there was nothing wrong with it at the same time.
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She refused to say if she was the TG because she wouldn't say that she was in it. But she also said that it's not classified. Let me share with you what was said so our audience can hear it as well. Then I'll ask you about it.
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So when she's saying under oath there that there was no classified information, you've had the ability to read those messages, as has the public at this point. What do you say to that?
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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was on Fox, Laura Ingraham moments ago, trying to normalize what went down. And he was like, you know what happens when you just like put in like the wrong person's number in your phone and like this happens to all of us, right? Let me show you what they're doing on Fox right now. Let's play it.
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This looks like some like bizarro, awful movie cosplay scene playing out there where she like looks at the camera. That doesn't happen to everybody. And he's such a bad liar. Like just even watching that, he should resign for that appearance.
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But Senator, they did say they're going to get to the bottom of it and they have a plan. And the plan is they're going to put Elon Musk on it. Here, play this clip.
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Elon Musk is going to figure this one all out too. Let's give this to Elon Musk. I mean, it's pathetic. I don't know how else to describe. I'm trying to find the words. It's pathetic.
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What's your final message to the American people who are like, what comes next? What do you say?
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Senator Adam Schiff, thanks for joining us as always. Great to be with you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Sleepy Trump Has Disaster Interview as Pressure Grows
What did I just watch? Look at Donald Trump here throughout this interview on Newsmax with Greg Kelly this evening. He looked like he was going to fall asleep the entire time. Sleepy Donald with his eyes closed as he spent most of the interview whining about the 2020 election and saying the 2020 election was rigged. Here, play this clip. Before
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. That was Donald Trump, sleepy Donald Trump's appearance on Newsmax. Really weird stuff. Dangerous stuff. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Then Donald Trump and this host, Greg Kelly, walk around the Oval Office. And then Greg Kelly looks at portraits of George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Ronald Reagan. And Greg Kelly's like, just look at all of these people. They're like you. They're like you. And then Donald's like, yeah, that's why I like you to interview you.
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Just watch this, play this clip.
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I mean, we're watching the outtakes from idiocracy, not even idiocracy, the outtakes from idiocracy. Donald Trump then talks about why his national security advisor, defense secretary, and others were discussing war plans on a group text message thread and invited a reporter, Jeffrey Goldberg, onto the thread. What he says makes no sense. Play this clip.
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You were on the phone with Donald Trump. He's amazed by the word groceries. He goes, groceries? Groceries, have you heard of this word? All the groceries are going down. No, they're not. What world are you living in? The prices are not going down. You are tanking the economy, though. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump tries to attack Social Security by lying that illegal immigrants get Social Security when they don't. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump, it seems like he praises Russia here for not doing a deal with Ukraine. And he's like, you know, it's like me. Like when I used to do contracts, I didn't want to sign a contract. That's like Putin, a good negotiator.
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Notice he can never say anything negative. He'll attack Ukraine, which has agreed to an unconditional ceasefire when Russia has refused to unconditional ceasefire. And then Donald Trump attacks Ukraine here. Donald Trump then talks about starting a compensation fund for the January 6th insurrectionists, play it.
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And then a very lethargic, a very fatigued and sleepy Donald Trump said that he was saved by God to save the country. A demented man. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump then blames George Soros. for attacks on Tesla.
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Then Greg Kelly tries to get Donald Trump to say that there was going to be a lot of exceptions to the April 2nd tariffs. And Donald Trump's like, no, not too many exceptions. Play this clip.
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That's why we- And do you hear there as well? He's like, yeah, there's going to be disturbances. Disturbance. Why are they disturbing our economy? I don't want disturbances. I just, I want to go about my day with my family. I just want to wake up, maybe read a book, have some breakfast, my wife and my daughter, go for a walk.
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That's what I want to do, not have to deal with disturbances, have economic hardship inflicted upon me. What are you doing? Then Donald Trump lies and says, Biden paid $350 billion to Ukraine. Europe paid $100 billion. So we're $250 billion. All lies. Europe has paid more to Ukraine than the United States.
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And the United States payments to Ukraine came in the form of old weapons that the United States was not even using. And Europe gave more. It's just everything he says is a lie. There's nothing true about this. Play this clip.
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who was the lady who got shot and killed on January 6th. She was leading a group of people trying to break into the area where senators and congress members were to attack them. And the group, the mob, wanted to kill them. And Ashley Babbitt was going through the glass that had been broken to attack police officers. And then Trump, of course, attacks the police officer and praises Ashley Babbitt.
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By the way, here's Donald Trump celebrating the USMCA, his trade deal with Canada and Mexico that he now says is the worst deal. I just want to bring out the receipts. This is during the first Trump administration. The trade deal with Canada and Mexico is literally his deal. Play this clip.
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I said before, demented man, a demented thing. Here, Donald Trump talks about tariffs, and he says the deals that were made by my predecessors on these trade deals were so bad. Donald, the big trade deal with Canada and Mexico, the USMCA, it's your deal. It was your deal. Play this clip.
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Yeah, Donald, so the person who made a stupid deal, stupid, that was you, Don. That was you who did it. I had the opportunity to interview- Former ambassador to the United Nations and former national security advisor Susan Rice. I asked her about the cell phone text message threads by these Trump officials where they were talking about their war plans.
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Steve Witkoff, Trump's envoy to Russia, was in Moscow while all of this was taking place and he was on the thread. So I asked Ambassador Rice, so do the Russians have all our info now? And she's like, yep. If he's on that thread, he's using signal. They have it here. Play this clip. Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat.
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The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, testified today that he wasn't even aware of today that wit cough was in moscow when i knew about it because it was a matter of public attention how dangerous is that do you believe the russians now have all of that information and potentially more what can you give us based on what what would you know about these things well
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Senator Ossoff Calls Out Trump’s Attack on America
I'm joined by Georgia Senator John Ossoff. Senator, welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. Hey, people seemed pretty fired up at your first kickoff speech of the 2026 campaign season in Atlanta. What were you seeing out there? What's the reaction of the people right now?
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And what are people saying about this hostile government takeover by Elon Musk, this unelected billionaire and Doge coming in with a wrecking ball, dismantling the federal government, attacking veterans, taking people's private data, social security data, medical records and saying, trust me, bro, we're billionaires. We ain't going to do anything bad with them. We just want to look at them.
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What are people saying in Georgia?
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take a look at this i think it exactly proves your point howard lutnik the commerce secretary he's a billionaire and he said look if you complain about not getting your social security check one month the fact that you're complaining probably means you're the fraud that we should be going after. He's like, my mother-in-law, she's 94.
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If she missed a social security check for a month, she would be like, whatevs, it's going to come the next month. So people are afraid that they're going to go after social security and they're seeing social security offices shut down. Let me just show you what Lutnik said and let me get your response to it. Let's play it.
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When you hear that, what do you say to it?
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And to your point there, you have the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, posting a meme of Donald Trump at a cemetery in front of a grave, which is just ghoulish in and of itself, kind of mocking the grave. But the grave is for the Department of Education, and it's spelled wrong. Department is spelled without the T at the end of it.
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And they're mocking the fact that they're gutting the Department of Education and Donald Trump's putting out an executive order to get rid of it. I mean, things like this, Senator, it's going to make a horrible impact on your state, right? I mean, the Department of Education getting gutted, that's going to hurt Georgia.
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Look, Georgia... turned red this 2024 election. They voted for Trump this time around. What are you hearing, though, from the people? Are you hearing that there's regret? Are people pissed off? What's going on?
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Senator, what do you make of Donald Trump and his administration, I call regimes, kind of consistent going out of their way to praise Putin? We believe what Putin's saying. But then when it comes to Zelensky, they try to humiliate him in the Oval Office and consistently say, you know, just spread Russian propaganda.
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They had Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to Russia and Ukraine, go on the weekend shows. And here's what he had to say about Putin. He goes, we should trust Putin. Why wouldn't we trust this guy?
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You make of the way Donald Trump's been. He promised that there would be peace in Ukraine on day one. That's obviously another lie. What do you make of all that?
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Senator, what's your reaction to the breaking news on Monday that there was this group chat with all of the top national security, DOD, Vance? They were all there discussing war plans. in a group chat with emojis and text messages and discussing all the sensitive compartment and mental information over text message.
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And now they're attacking the reporter from the Atlantic, who they apparently accidentally invited to this chat. That's how it's been uncovered. You've seen a lot, Senator, but what do you make of this?
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Senator, your message as you kick off this campaign season for 2026. Wow, time flies. I remember when you were running in 2020. What's your message to the voters in Georgia and your message just generally to Americans who are just worried and nervous right now?
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Senator, where can people find out more information about the 2026 campaign?
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Senator John Ossoff's first time on the Midas Touch Network. We hope you come back and keep us updated as you tour Georgia and you hit other districts there and other constituents there.
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Maybe I'll take you up on that. Well, to be continued. Thanks, Senator.
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Trump in Fear as Signs of Disaster Surface
You know, I look at this face right here of a real DEI hire. Didn't earn it. Pete Hegseth, so emblematic of this Trump regime, cacistocracy. So you wake up in 2025, March, with headlines like this from the Trump regime. Consumer expectations plunged to their lowest level in 12 years as recession signals blare from NBC News.
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We'll keep covering it here in the Midas Touch Network. Something is happening in this country. Democracy summer is coming. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging into their online accounts. This headline from the Wall Street Journal is not surprising, and perhaps two months late. Canadians are boycotting American vacations.
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Infuriated by annexation talks, neighbors to the north are keeping their vacations local. Good. We stand in solidarity with the Canadians here at the Midas Touch Network against this Trump regime. We know why you're boycotting. We know it's not against the American people. It's against the regime. You got to do what you got to do. And we're here fighting the regime from within.
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And I can't wait for the day when we're able to celebrate without Donald Trump together again. But we appreciate the strength that you're showing in Canada and elsewhere throughout the world standing up to this despicable bully. I mean, look at this team of misfits. DEI didn't earn it. Trump regime people like Pete Hegsa. What the hell is even going on here? He goes, we destroyed strength.
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I mean, dude, let me play you the clip first and then I'll talk to you about it. Play it.
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All right. Y'all were doing war plans on text threads, on signal chats, while some of the people on those text threads were in Moscow, which means, and I spoke to Former Ambassador Susan Rice, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, go back and watch my video I posted yesterday in my exclusive with her. That means Russia has all of this stuff.
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You placed lives at risk, you fools, you morons, you. And here is Pete Hegseth saying again, oh, I'm not doing war plans. I know what I'm doing, everybody. I know what I'm doing, everybody. Play this clip.
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The conference board's monthly index showed older consumers are especially worried about the fate of their finances. from the Wall Street Journal. Consumer confidence drops further. Key measure flags recession risks, as Heather Bushy says. Yikes. The president may get the economy he wants after all. Consumer confidence has plummeted, falling four months in a row.
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My dad warned me about people like that at the bar. He said, Ben, just look away. Don't engage. Don't talk to those people like that. That's the defense secretary right now. There's something going on in this country right now, folks. There truly is a movement. As I said, a pro-democracy summer is coming. And I've been saying, I see the signs in all of these areas and red districts too.
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We're getting validation of that. In Pennsylvania's 36th district, state Senate district, a Democrat flipped that seat. It was a plus 15 Trump district. This guy, James Malone, flipped a plus 15 Trump district that had not gone Democrat since the late 1800s. And that seat flipped yesterday. We're also seeing massive polling shifts in Canada.
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You know, I've been doing lots of hot takes, lots of videos on what's going on with the Liberal Party, now led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, is pummeling and punishing Maple MAGA, the right-wing conservative party at the federal level, led by Pierre Poliev. to be clear, I think that there are some conservative premiers who have been stepping up. Not all of them.
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I mean, in Ontario, I think Doug Ford has been doing a good job. Alberta, in Alberta, Danielle Smith has been doing a horrific job. She's like... A maple MAGA Vichy spy with Mr. Vichy Doge boy, Pierre Poliev, trying to interfere with the elections and have Trump like help them out. What a horrific, embarrassing thing there.
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But the liberal party led by Prime Minister Carney has been on the right side of this issue, standing up to Donald Trump powerfully as opposed to this maple MAGA mess that is Pierre Poliev. Donald Trump yesterday held this disastrous public meeting of ambassadors. He had his national security advisor, Mike Waltz, there as well.
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And Donald Trump was asked about these war plans that were in the signal chat where they had They invited accidentally a reporter who they're now attacking that reporter and saying that somehow he like nefariously entered the chat, even though he was invited by Mike Waltz. And then he's called sleazy by Donald Trump. Here's what Trump said. Play this clip.
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The six-month outlook hasn't been this bleak in over 12 years and is at a level that tends to indicate recession is coming. You broke it, Donald. You own it, Donald. Meanwhile, as Carl Quintanilla is posting from the Washington Post, long waits, waves of calls, web crashes, Social Security is breaking down.
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The audacity to call the reporter, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic a sleazebag when your idiot team brought him into the chat while they were talking about war plans with emojis. And isn't it so obvious that they were doing that always on signal, how comfortable they are?
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Here's Mike Waltz, by the way, national security advisor at that meeting, again, attacking the journalists and like just sucking up to Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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Also in 2025, Trump America, you wake up to headlines like this. First confirmed case of measles in Washington, D.C., being investigated by health officials. Great measles in Washington, D.C., Out of Florida, Florida's 6th congressional district, a plus 30 Trump area. We're seeing the Democratic candidate, Josh Wheel, running against a guy, Randy Fine, who's like a loathsome individual.
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We're seeing Democrats get momentum in this plus 30 ruby red district, Florida's 6th congressional district. Will there be a massive flip there on April 1st when the election's taking place? We'll find out soon, but... The early voting, at least, indicators are good for the Democratic candidate right there. And what are the Republicans talking about on the Senate?
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Well, they brought in this guy, this guy, Frank Bisconano, who is they want to have run the Social Security Administration and gut it. And here this MAGA Republican Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina, by the way, promises to support Bissingano's recommendations to cut Social Security offices in his state, too. He goes, get rid of him. Get rid of him.
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Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence. The fact that I even have to say that is cringy in and of itself. Yesterday in the Senate, she was saying, oh, you know, the war plans, those weren't actually classified info. There was no classified information, but I'm not going to share them with you, but nothing classified. Play this clip.
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So please answer the question. Then Donald Trump gave an interview with Newsmax where he talked more about the tariffs and he said the people who made the tariff deals in the past, the people who made the trade deals in the past, he said were idiots. Trump made the USMCA deal. Here, play this clip.
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For all of these MAGA Republicans saying, oh, even though Elon Musk calls it a Ponzi scheme, and even though the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says that you're committing crime or fraud, if you whine about not getting your check, we're not going to close Social Security down. Well, you already are doing it.
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Donald, it's your deal. And then you have, like, little MAGA Mike. He goes and he's got to be all like a tough guy right now. And so yesterday, as... A lot of federal judges are ruling against Trump and issuing injunctions against Trump because Trump keeps violating the law, right?
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We're learning more stories about people who Trump kidnapped and sent to concentration camps in El Salvador who were not gang members at all from Tren de Aragua. They had Real Madrid tattoos or was like a gay hairdresser from Venezuela political exile. Women were sent to these concentration camps in El Salvador and turned away because the concentration camps only hold men.
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I mean, these were not Tren de Aragua gang members. Could there have been some? I don't know. But that's why you have to have process, due process to give people an opportunity to say, I'm a gang member, I'm not a gang member. But here, MAGA Mike Johnson says, we're coming after you district courts. We're going to eliminate all of your funding. We can just eliminate the courts.
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We're just going to wreck the courts, too. Here, play this clip.
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I covered this with Harry Littman on an episode that I'm releasing soon as well. The Trump regime yesterday also invoked the state secrets privilege. And they're saying, because we're in a war, they said, against Venezuela, we can't even turn over to the judge. the identities of the people in concentration camps now in El Salvador because it's a war and we're going to jeopardize our war efforts.
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Trump in Fear as Signs of Disaster Surface
That's how dystopian, despicable, disgusting this Trump regime is. But folks, There is a movement taking a hold of the United States of America right now. People are fed up. Republicans, Democrats, independents, people who don't like politics are just fed up. You're coming after our Social Security. You're coming after our Medicaid. You're freaking spreading measles. You're firing veterans.
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Trump in Fear as Signs of Disaster Surface
You've already closed down 47 Social Security Administration offices, making it very difficult for older people to access actual people and services that they need. And you're seeing here that it's already being crashed as you're destroying the call centers, the website, a flood of cuts led by Elon Musk. has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
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Trump in Fear as Signs of Disaster Surface
You're doing hostile takeovers of the federal government. You are destroying people's lives. You're doing it cruelly. cruelly. You seem to be enjoying the cruelty of it. Like F you. That's what Americans are saying. F you Doge. F you Musk. F you Trump. F you Hegsiff. Enough of this crap. People are saying we didn't vote for this crap. The hell is this? Hell is this?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
So are Republican governors just attacking like their own constituents now who are losing their jobs because of Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Let me show you what's going on in Virginia, where their Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, is like celebrating the fact that thousands of Virginians are losing their job as a result of Trump and Musk and Doge. Actually, this is what
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Now, you visited the entire state. You visited Democratic areas, Republican areas, purple areas. What are you hearing? Let's start with in the one. Is it is it similar all around? What are you hearing in the in the red areas when you're traveling there? What's going on in the state?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
And Youngkin said in his own words, he's cheering on these cuts.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Congresswoman, I'm confused because the White House posted this image, victory. They are declaring a massive victory because they've asked Google, which Google did to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, which
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
I'm just going to bet that when you go to all the areas in Virginia right now, when they hear about Medicaid being cut, when they hear that their Social Security may be raided, when they hear about these important agencies and services that they rely on going away, I'm going to bet is the main issue that they're focused on the Gulf of America.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Are they is this a big celebratory time in the Commonwealth?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Before becoming a congresswoman and then running for governor, you were an intelligence officer, and you focused on very serious issues at the CIA. All issues are serious at the CIA, but you also focused on nuclear proliferation. You focused on terrorism.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
So in the past 48 hours or so, the Trump administration sided with the Axis of Evil, Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and a few other nations against our allies. in refusing to, well, actually just opposing the United Nations resolution condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Donald Trump's continued to praise Putin over and over again, cut out Europe from negotiations and cut out Ukraine from negotiations with Putin in Saudi Arabia. But this is what they're saying. Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's former press secretary, who's now a host on Fox. I got it. That's kind of a common theme here. And they become defense secretaries, apparently. Here's what she had to say.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
She said, this is the art of the deal. We're missing the point here. Play this clip.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
What's your response to that?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
I don't know. Is it the whole role of like the governor supposed to be to fight for like your state? I don't know. It's like in a sports team. Could you imagine like the coach rooting against the team? You know, I'm the Lakers coach, but I'm really hoping that the New York Knicks win this game. I think that I'd like to see that it'll be more efficient for us. What is going on?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Now, final question, you're campaigning for governor. You were a member of Congress and you had to give up that seat as part of running for governor. So, you know, you can campaign. You can tell people what your platform is, what you're going to do. And I'm sure people are asking you on the campaign trail. What what can we do?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
And I think people are looking for just like what can we do as people right now? So when they ask you, what can we do? What's your message to the people of the Commonwealth and to just Americans in general who who feel a little bit powerless right now, but but want to take action?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Oh, and then Young can set up this website, which adds insult to injury. Virginia has jobs. And when you go through this, by the way, I'm not even sure if that's an AI image or people in Europe or what this image even is. But then you look at it and it sends you to LinkedIn and Indeed and basically says, good luck.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, thank you so much for joining. We appreciate it.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
All right, I got to bring in Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, Democrat who's running for governor in Virginia. I look at that as like the craziest, like disappointing, crazy. You're running for governor in Virginia. What do you make of it?
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Republicans making complete fools of themselves on the weekend shows like MAGA Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma, who was asked on Meet the Press by Kristen Welker. So tell the people in Oklahoma what your message is when they keep losing their jobs because Donald Trump is laying them off. He's taking away their Medicaid. What do you say to them, Mullen?
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Let me ask you, man, these MAGAs are ultra pathetic, ultra MAGA pathetic. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 5 million subscribers. We appreciate you.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Did you hear what he said? The level of arrogance? Maybe there were some mistakes that were made. And then he goes on to demean federal workers again and say, these jobs are just ridiculous. Who needs someone to be doing this? Who needs someone to be doing that? Who needs someone to be doing this? It's not, by the way, just that they're firing these people, which is reprehensible.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
It's also how they're stripping away people's dignity. And we're not just talking about liberals. I would say that's probably in the minority. I mean, these are red state people. These are federal workers who may not even be political. We're talking about veterans. disabled veterans, spouses of veterans combined.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
They all make up like 30% of the federal workforce who are getting disproportionately laid off and get this as well. These terminations are being done for cause and they're blaming the federal workers for the terminations for poor performance. So then the federal workers can't even get like unemployment because they're just being thrown to the curb and There's a nastiness. There's a cruelty.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
There's an evilness right here in these MAGA Republicans. And as we've always said, when it comes to Elon Musk and Donald Trump, cruelty is the point. These are vicious, horrible people inflicting pain on we, the people and hardworking federal workers. Here is the former Fox News host turned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. He's asked a very simple question on Fox.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Here's what MAGA Republican Mark Wayne Mullen says. Play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
They're like, hey, can you just say that Russia launched the attack on Ukraine unprovoked? Just say that. And Hegseth is like, it's very complicated. Here, play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
So utterly pathetic. Now back to MAGA Republican Congress member Mark Wayne Mullen. Here's what he has to say on Trump's refusal to criticize Putin. He goes, it's up to the Russian people, huh? As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, yeah, Russian people who criticize Putin end up falling out of windows in a gulag or poison. And let's be clear, that's what these magas want to do to us.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
And right now we're rising up. We're standing up. I see people across the country at these town halls taken to the streets.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
streets and people are saying do not turn america into russia we're already in an authoritarian regime here in the united states the issue is is will the authoritarian regime fully trample on all of our rights and we're standing up against it back to uh here let me show you this one scott besant
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
the Treasury Secretary, who downplays Doge, mass government firings, saying that what we're really trying to do here is we're going to reprivatize, what we're really trying to do here is reprivatize the economy like Trump promised.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
I think you would appreciate that impression of Besson. I mean, the most arrogant guy who's like, oh, I mean, this guy's worth like nearly a billion dollars and he's there.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
That's why we're doing all this. It's like ridiculous stuff. Here is Mike Lawler, who tries to pretend that he's a moderate. But let's just say what he is. He's really a MAGA basically, and he's from New York. He ain't moderate at all. Mike Lawler here, soft pedals doge, claiming that what Musk is doing is actually not firing people. This is actually a comprehensive forensic audit.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
That's what's going on. Here, play this clip. All right, let me show you some Democrats right here. Democratic Senator Von Hollen, let's play it.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Democratic Congress member Jim Hines, let's play it.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, let's play it.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, let's play it.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Do you see the difference there? Do you see the difference there? No wonder that in the recent polls, I think that Democrats, even Trump's pollster has Democrats up plus five in a generic. And I've seen other polls from Ipsos and seen in others showing that like Democrats would be up like almost like 15 if there were to be an election. I mean, this Trump train is crashing very, very, very quickly.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Here is Donald Trump's special envoy on with CNN, again, saying that Putin didn't provoke the war in Ukraine. Play the clip.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Here is Secretary of Defense, previously a Fox host, Pete Hegseth, saying that the firing of top military lawyers was making sure there didn't exist roadblocks to everything that's about to happen. Play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Yes. So as this commentator says, he basically told them good night and good luck. Go F yourselves. I'm just going to do what Elon Musk and Donald Trump tell me to do. Then you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Jim Jordan says the following on firing federal workers. Play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
So we're gonna open- And finally, let me share with you this clip of Democratic Senator Cory Booker. Let's play it.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Donald Trump is playing with toy planes in his office, the Oval Office right there. Take a look, though, at that mirror behind you. Zoom in right there. That's real. That's Elon Musk right there watching Donald Trump play with toy planes as Musk is really running the show and just destroying our government.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I want to show you this, Congress member. There was a press conference held earlier in the day with Caroline Leavitt, the press secretary. She was asked a question about who is the Doge administrator? Is it is it Elon Musk? Who's who's running this thing that's inflicting so much pain on the American people? And they just they just gaslight. I want you to watch this.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
We just learned this as well, that Doge quietly has deleted its purported five biggest spending cuts that it was celebrating, or perhaps the headline should be lying about last week. So those are now removed from the site.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I'm not going to reveal it. We've been incredibly transparent. I mean, this is...
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Well, I think you're also seeing independents, Republicans, people who are not political also rising up. I mean, this is touching everybody in some way, whether your 401k is down right now, whether you've lost your job, whether a friend or someone you know.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
has lost their job and is worried about being homeless, whether you're on Medicaid and you're about to lose your Medicaid because of this GOP budget scam that's gonna help the billionaires, whether you have essential services that you rely on, whether the Department of Education was actually providing you services. It's like everyone's been touched, it seems, already in such a destructive way.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
And here's what we're learning about as well, about 20 to 21 people who worked within the United States Digital Service Office, an office established during the Obama era that's supposed to help with all of the technology and the data. and all of that, they're resigning. They're saying the reason for their resignation is because that they're unable to basically perform their functions.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I'm seeing these Republican town halls even where Republican constituents are standing up and saying, what the hell is going on here now? Are you seeing the word vibe shift is the right way, but are we reading too much into these Republican town halls or is something happening now that that feels and looks and is different?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
You know, let's talk about the attack on you by the Department of Justice, which is what now referring to itself as Donald Trump's personal lawyers. I mean, that guy, the United States attorney from the District of Columbia, who had no federal prosecutorial experience ever before getting this position. He represent the January Sixers. He called them heroes.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
That's what he was known for before getting this very distinguished position. I mean, the United States attorney for D.C. is like the The people who are usually the most experienced federal prosecutors of the most elite, and they give it to this guy. But he came after you.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
He wrote a letter saying that he was basically criminally investigating you because you utilized your free speech rights to criticize the Trump administration. And then he's out there saying as president, this is what Martin writes, as Trump's personal lawyers. He goes on and talks about how he's Trump's as Trump's lawyers. We're proud to do this. We're proud to do that.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Talk to us about these attacks on you. You know what that letter was to you, what what your response is going to be. Is there any information that hasn't been reported? I mean, are they are they what's the status of that investigation? Tell us what do we know?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Maybe if you can, we know that a lot of the MAGAs watch this. Musk may be watching this now. Would you direct a message? A lot of the constituents are saying, Why isn't Musk testifying before Congress? Why isn't he showing up before oversight or any of these hearings?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
So if he was watching this now, what would your message be about testifying before the House and letting the American people know what the hell he and Mr. Big Balls and his crew of 19 to 25-year-olds are doing?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the constitution across presidential administrations. And we are basically being asked to violate our oath of office by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. So they resigned. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member, Robert Garcia.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Congressman Garcia, please join us again. At this point, it doesn't feel like, at least amongst the American people, as a Democrat, Republican, independent thing. It really feels like a bunch of tech billionaires are running the show. Literally, you saw that first photo I showed you with Musk in the background, like pulling the strings as Trump's playing with like a toy.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
you know and they're like just screwing the people and people like what that what the hell is this like this isn't what i learned about in government class this isn't checks and balances this is some idiocracy authoritarian crap anyway thanks for thanks if you want to say anything else i'll i'll let you get the final word no just thanks for keep reporting the story we gotta we gotta continue to expose you on musk and uh you know turn this around so thanks everybody hit subscribe let's get to five million subscribers and thanks for watching
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
You know, we saw mass resignations, I think, last week or the week before at the Department of Justice, both at SDNY as well as Maine Justice. We're seeing more mass resignations here. These are important people as well because they kind of hold the infrastructure together across presidential administrations. Just what are you making of all of this, the chaos, the cruelty?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi. Congressman, what do you make of that?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
So Congress member Swazi, you're from New York's third congressional district. That's actually the area where I grew up in. That's in your district. I know that area very well.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
sounds good my my mom will love to uh would love to hear that i think she's still living in the district as well so my question for you though is uh people on long island people in your congressional district and across the country do they like that elon musk and these 19 to 25 year old doge workers who call themselves big balls are going through their tax records and their social security information and their medical records what do
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
you hearing from your constituents, Democrats and Republicans?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
So this budget that's providing massive tax cuts for the billionaires, cutting $880 billion in Medicaid, it's unclear what's going to happen. The MAGA Republicans, some of them are very outspoken even against this. You've got Republican Congressmember Thomas Massey.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Yeah, I think chaotic, irresponsible, and I think to your other point, just cruel, like just treating human beings like trash. And a lot of these people who work in these government departments are veterans, disabled veterans.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Now, Musk is what refusing to testify and or the a lot of the Republicans are blocking every single time oversight tries to issue a subpoena or the Doge subcommittee issues a subpoena. The Republicans are at leadership are blocking even the debate about whether Musk should have to show up. I mean, when I've been following a lot of these town halls and Ruby Redd,
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
moments ago saying that this is going to increase the deficit by at least $328 billion just this year if you take the best case scenario that's part of the Republican talking points. This is what Republican Congressmember Massey just said moments ago on C-SPAN. Play it.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Republican areas, the Republican constituents, they're just also saying, in addition to being pissed that Medicaid's being gutted, their services are being taken away, infrastructure projects are being dismantled. They're just saying, why not just do your job? You're a member of Congress. Oversight. Bring Musk in and ask him the questions, or what are you trying to hide from us?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
You know, I got to ask you as well, 3rd Congressional District, like all the other congressional districts out there, but I know growing up there, how proud, patriotic the 3rd is, supporting our veterans, supporting our armed forces. So yesterday, when we saw the Trump administration side with North Korea, Russia, Belarus, and Hungary, bringing the United States as part of an access available
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
to vote against a United Nations resolution that simply condemned Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine on the third anniversary. To me, it felt like a gut punch. What do you make of it? And what are your constituents feeling?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Congressman Tom Swasey, as always, thanks for making me look good in front of my mom and your congressional district. I appreciate it.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
President Zelensky of Ukraine delivered a rude awakening to Donald Trump yesterday from Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv. Here's what went down yesterday marked the three-year anniversary of Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
Here's President Zelensky again, let's play it.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
So the day began with Donald Trump trying to assert his dominance over Ukraine by announcing that he was bringing the United States into an access of evil that was joined by Russia, Belarus, Hungary, and North Korea.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
Here's another clip of President Zelensky from that meeting. Let's play it.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
Here's another clip of President Zelenskyy.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
Then President Zelensky talked about his support for Canada and Prime Minister Trudeau. Watch this.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
and all of those nations including the united states opposed a united nations resolution condemning russia for its unlawful invasion of ukraine three years ago but president zielinski was prepared president zielinski surrounded himself in kiev with other world leaders who he invited on that three-year anniversary of Russia's unlawful invasion.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
By the way, Canada has the largest population of individuals from Ukraine who migrated out of uh ukraine um so there is this also very special bond between canada and ukraine here's what uh president zielinski said about donald trump though when he was asked about trump play this clip my relationship with president trump it's never was in such best way
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
Now, through all of these clips, you'll see Zelensky standing up to Donald Trump. And as I mentioned before, you then had the French President Emmanuel Macron go to the White House and then kind of fact-check Donald Trump to his face. Here's an example of that. Let's play the clip.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
well we're all we're negotiating everything and everything's on the table and we'll see if we can get some land back and we'll see you've got a lot of different things while that meeting was happening in kiev you had all of these countries in europe and canada and australia elsewhere just announcing these massive aid packages to ukraine and also saying there's not going to be a deal unless you allow europe in these negotiations unless you allow ukraine in these negotiations
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
and we're doubling down and tripling down and quadrupling down whatever it takes europe canada elsewhere they said we're standing with ukraine i want you to watch this as well this is from the floor of the united states house of representatives here's congresswoman ballant saying, I think this was such a powerful speech where she goes, I can't believe what I'm seeing.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
You've got Donald Trump and a United States president trying to form alliances with like, with dictators. What the hell? Here, play this clip.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
And President Zelensky had a plan to checkmate Donald Trump. You see, the European leaders then sent French President Emmanuel Macron to go to Washington, D.C., to basically called Donald Trump out to his face in front of the world media there at the White House.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
I never thought I would see the day when our president would be a puppet for a- And then just so you see like French president Emmanuel Macron like babysitting Donald Trump, here they are sitting together and you've got Donald Trump talking about like robbing Fort Knox for gold, play this clip.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
Because maybe somebody stole the gold. Tons of gold. You know, and the United States propaganda machine was flummoxed. They were perplexed. I mean, here's Kayleigh McEnany, like, not even sure. Like, she's like, what are my talking points supposed to be? Oh, let's just say this is part of a brilliant negotiating strategy. Here, play this clip.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
Yes, I think it's not part of a brilliant negotiation.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
strategy the brilliant negotiating strategy is what europe is doing right now that's you want to know four dimensional or five dimensional chess you send macron to the united states have him just swarm donald trump i used to play basketball you know a ton and what you would do is you'd have your best defender right kind of go next to like their person and just like shadow him wherever he would go so to me that's like macron by donald trump and then you have your rest of your world leaders
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
surrounded by, in Ukraine, surrounding Zelensky, again, showing absolute strength. You know, like when Donald Trump's saying, like, I've spoken to Putin, and Putin says he'll do this. Here's what Putin's told the press. Putin said Monday that he has not discussed resolving the conflict in Ukraine in detail with Trump, and nor did Russian and American negotiating teams talk about
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
really anything like that when they met in Saudi Arabia last last week. That goes tells you a lot right there. So here is here you got Macron and Donald Trump. And here Trump is asked, can you explain your rationale in having the U.S. vote against the U.N. resolution that Ukraine proposed? Here, play this clip.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
French President Emmanuel Macron like shook Donald Trump's hand super hard and then would fact check Donald Trump when Trump would say all of the lies about Putin and say all of the lies about Zelensky. So they flanked Donald Trump by sending Emmanuel Macron to the United States. And then you had Zelensky flanked by the world leaders in Kyiv, in Ukraine,
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
And then finally, you have Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders. Here's what he's got to say. Play this clip.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
The caucuses with the Democrats, I guess, technically an independent, but there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. But you see Zelensky standing up powerful stuff right there. Let me know what you think.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
standing up to Vladimir Putin and sending a strong and powerful message. So here is what Zelensky said during this meeting where he's surrounded by the leaders of all of these world democracies. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Screws Himself as He Tanks Everything
As our economy worsens, Donald Trump yesterday was in the Oval Office talking about replacing our visa system and immigration system with the Trump gold card. And he says he's basically going to sell gold cards to immigrants to get visas and fast track their citizenship. And he says specifically he's going to help I'm not making this up. The Russian oligarchs become American citizens.
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Trump Screws Himself as He Tanks Everything
While all of this was going on, too, or I should say right before that was going on, Donald Trump was in the Oval Office playing with toy toys. airplanes, and he was playing with it while Elon was like, good job. And you can see Donald Trump holding the kind of toy plane, the statute, if you will. Then you can see Elon through the mirror right there.
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Trump Screws Himself as He Tanks Everything
There's some real issues about what's going on there as well. What the heck? At the same time, you had Donald Trump basically coercing and pressuring the MAGA holdouts to support the budget plan, the Trump GOP budget plan, which cuts basically... $880 billion from Medicaid. So say goodbye to Medicaid under this program. It has about $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires.
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It also cuts close to $300 billion to farmers, about $400 billion for education. And Tens of billions of dollars for infrastructure, but don't worry, the billionaires are getting a massive tax cut.
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Ultimately, the budget blueprint passed after Donald Trump reached out to MAGA Republicans like Congresswoman Spars and others and got them to change their votes to flip in favor of the plan, which will add about $19 trillion to the deficit. over the next 10 years, conservatively, about $19 trillion. Remember what I said a few months back?
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I said, Trump's plan, they're saying that it'll add about 10 trillion. I was saying, nope, I think it'll be more like 30 to 50 trillion, which I still think I'm gonna be right. Here is the moment where the MAGA Republicans were cheering the fact that they cut billions from, hundreds of billions, from healthcare and food assistance programs, but delivered $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to billionaires.
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Here, play this clip. Yesterday, Donald Trump also got a number of bad rulings from federal judges. That's why Donald Trump and Elon Musk are basically calling for these federal judges to now be impeached or to force them out.
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One of the rulings was Judge Ali in Washington, DC, who granted a motion to enforce the restraining order against USAID, against the spending freeze that the Trump administration ordered. Judge Ali ordered the Trump administration to pay, quote, all invoices and letter of credit drawdown requests for work done prior to February 15th by tonight at midnight, 36 hours to comply.
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Also, there was a separate scathing ruling from another federal judge extending her block of Trump administration's blanket spending freeze. While all of this is happening, Elon Musk is posting, what is the point of having democratic elections if unelected activist judges can override the clear will of the people? Well, that's no democracy at all.
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Here, play this clip. Go down to nothing.
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As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski writes, they really struggle with the concept of a constitutional republic with judicial review. They also struggle with the concept of decency. Because here's Marjorie Taylor Greene from the hearing yesterday that preceded the vote on the budget bill, where Marjorie Taylor Greene says that the federal workers who are being fired are not really workers.
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They don't have real jobs. They don't deserve their jobs. They don't deserve their paycheck. And that federal workers are lazy. This is what Marjorie Taylor Greene, who leads the Doge subcommittee, has to say. Play this clip.
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And by the way, as Marjorie Taylor Greene leads the Doge subcommittee, again, I don't care what political party you're from, aren't you pissed regardless that she's not calling Elon Musk to testify before oversight committees? that Elon Musk just gets to like make up things.
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And then as the New York Times reported yesterday, Elon Musk then like removed some of the main claims about, or Doge removed some of the main claims about the things they allegedly discovered that were fraud, which were not, they're not calling Elon Musk to testify. In fact, the MAGA Republicans have consistently blocked the subpoenas to Elon Musk when the Democrats have tried to subpoena him.
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Yeah, from that same Oval Office appearance where he was flanked by RFK Jr., Donald Trump was also selling MAGA hats from the Oval Office. Take a look at RFK Jr. 's face also while Trump was selling MAGA hats. Here, play this clip.
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Here, Marjorie Taylor Greene says that everybody loves Doge. Democrats, Republicans, everybody loves Doge. Here, play this clip.
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Also today, Elon Musk will be attending the first cabinet meeting that Donald Trump will be convening. Here is Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's press secretary, talking about that. Let's play the clip.
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And then yesterday, you may recall this instance where the reporter asked Caroline Levitt, so who's running Doge? Like who's the administrator? Play this clip.
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Yes, Caroline Levitt said they were being so transparent that they couldn't tell you who the administrator is. And then they basically named this lady Amy Gleason. I'm not sure she realized that she was the head of Doge. Her LinkedIn said that she was a senior advisor at the U.S. Digital Service. So I'm not sure she realized she was the administrator. So is Gleason going to testify? We will see.
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While all of this was going on, Trump allies circulated a mass deportation plan calling for processing camps, which I call concentration camps, and a private citizen army because the Trump administration has been so incompetent in their attempt to
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at doing the largest deportation exercise on day one, which they've tried to do, and they've tried to do it cruelly, but they're so incompetent, they now want to hire people like Blackwater, like Eric Prince and others, and they're hatching a privatized plan to go after migrants.
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Love what Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett had to say when she was asked by a reporter, Joe Galena, from Call to Activism, what her message to Elon Musk is here. Play this clip right here. If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say?
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Then you had a spineless former speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy. He was asked the following by Jesse Waters. Let's play it.
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And now what is MAGA doing to try to distract? Well, you have Jesse Waters who's saying, well, according to the Washington Times, The new FBI director, Kash Patel, is opening an investigation into James Comey about some honeypot operation to go after Donald Trump. And Waters is like, this is about justice. Okay, it's about retribution. And, you know, these people just make up stuff all the time.
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Should be noted as well, yesterday, 20 individuals who worked at the digital department that essentially became Doge, they resigned from their positions yesterday as more of a mass exodus from the kind of corrupt stuff this Trump administration is doing is underway.
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We'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network, but it sickens me to have these MAGA Republicans out there cheering and supporting the fact that they're taking away Medicaid and taking away SNAP and attacking the most vulnerable Americans, attacking farmers, attacking veterans, attacking people who live in red states too and blue states and all across the country.
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It saddens me that that's what's happening. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Make sure you hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers together. We appreciate you.
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GOP Leaders Freak Out in Public as Support Crashes
It's just so wild to see all of these MAGA Republicans in utter disarray right now as Donald Trump just blows up the federal government and destroys our economy. I mean, look, you now have the right wing podcasters like Joe Rogan say that they're against the oligarchy and that the oligarchy is the danger. Watch Joe. This is the MAGA Republican podcaster Joe Rogan play this clip.
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And look, nobody should be harassing members of Congress. Nobody should be engaged in, you know, behavior that's threatening or intimidating at all. You know, Nancy Mace is someone who harasses and intimidates marginalized communities and discriminates against the LGBTQ community and trans people, in my opinion. You know, but what do you do? Why are you reading this?
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That goes on, by the way, for minutes. I'm showing you eight seconds because she goes on and just spends the whole time reading it her own voice and like. cursing and cursing. Anyway, this is from Associated Press headline. As controversies pile up, Trump allies increasingly are turning on another.
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OK, so yesterday at the White House, they were walking Tim Pool, the kind of MAGA Republican right wing podcaster around and And he was dressed with his like weird beanie that he wears. And he was wearing like a zip up sweatshirt. This whole thing was weird. Then he emailed. Then he interviewed Kristi Noem. I thought this this Brendan Dilley guy, I think, is a is a MAGA podcaster, too.
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And here's what he's mocking. The other MAGA podcaster, Tim Pool, who he thinks is not real MAGA. He goes, Christine Ohm is such a badass that she sat down this morning and come and confronted the homeless man that stole her purse last night at dinner. Right. And then Tim Pool goes into the White House press room yesterday.
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And as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski goes, podcaster Tim Pool got the invite to the White House press briefing in the new media seat. And his question is to ask Caroline Leavitt, the chief propagandist of the White House press, to comment on why everyone is being mean to the people in that seat for asking stupid questions. Here, play this clip.
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Also yesterday, we learned that Vladimir Putin got Donald Trump a gift that Donald Trump and Trump's special envoy to Russia absolutely love. Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, unveiled this incredible painting that he says it was incredible that Putin gave them and said that Donald Trump was touched by this painting. What timeline are we living in?
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You were touched by the painting that a war criminal, genocider, Putin killer, literally an enemy of the United States. I'm glad that you were touched. buy it. So then you had Pete Hegseth make his rounds yesterday. This is wacky zombie stuff though, right? This is some Twilight Zone stuff. Pete Hegseth then went on Fox because Pete Hegseth was a former Fox host. So he goes on Fox morning.
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He was the Fox Sunday morning host. And he's so utterly unhinged And he's talking about how it's not a bad thing that he gave the classified war plans to his wife and they're not really war plans. Here, watch this.
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And at night on CNN, you have Scott Jennings, who's like the Trump propagandist who goes on CNN. He's like, yeah, I think maybe Pete Hegseth should just shut up and just maybe be quiet for a little bit. Here, play this clip.
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MAGA guy, business guy, writes for the New York Post, and here he's on Fox, and he's talking about how Vance is now going to be the major executor in trade negotiations.
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by like double a month um we got like twice as many downloads as him or that the midas touch network thanks to all of you the midas mighty just won the webby podcast of the year these mega republicans are changing their tune joe rogan you laundered the oligarchy and normalized it in the 2024 election you are literally the oligarchy guy oh and then they have uh nancy mace remember yesterday i was showing you nancy mace like going around like grocery stores with her cell phone
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And then finally, to kind of top it all off, The MAGA Republicans then bring on, you know, this Congress member right here. And this MAGA Republican Congress member, you know, he talks about how he wants to gut Medicaid. Austin Scott from Georgia says, And here he talks about like, yeah, what we want to do in our budget is we want to transfer the federal obligations of Medicaid.
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Right now it's 90% feds, 10% state. We want the whole states to handle it. They're telling you their plan is to cut Medicaid. I mean, listen, just listen to what they're saying. Here, play this clip.
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And as American Bridge 21st Century says, if Republicans cut federal funding for Medicaid expansion, millions will lose their health care. There's a number of states with trigger laws that automatically end Medicaid if the federal funding is cut. So everywhere from Arizona to Arkansas to Idaho to Illinois, they have these trigger laws. And so it's effectively destroying Medicaid.
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And that's their plan, right? With Trump's plan is, well, we'll have – We don't need FEMA. The states will do FEMA. No, the federal government needs to do federal emergency relief because the states don't have the resources. The very reason why there's a federal government is to deal with these things. They're like, oh, we don't need a Department of Education.
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Except when it comes to garnishing wages of students who are defaulted on their loans, right? You had McMahon, Linda McMahon, the Department of Education secretary, destroy the Department of Education, but go after students. Here, this is her saying it right here.
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Oh, and then you have Joe Rogan again talking about the importance of due process. Yeah, you got Rogan talking about due process. Here, play this clip. About due process.
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And like picking fights with like random people and saying like, you're in Daisy Duke shorts. Then she'd like record and go, I'm being harassed. I'm being harassed. Well, she just made a video of herself. This is what the MAGA Republicans are doing. She made a video of herself reading these statements, which she say are names that people call her.
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And then Elon Musk on an earnings call whining about tariffs here. Let's play it.
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So anyway, you hear it for yourself right there. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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And it's like, I'll show you just a small portion of it. Here, play this clip.
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Jon Cryer on Trump’s Disaster Presidency
I'm seeing a lot of messages like this from business owners who, for whatever reason, supported Donald Trump in the election. This is from Craig Fuller, who runs something called Freight Affiliated Media. They do market intelligence for freight-related services. He goes, I enthusiastically supported Trump's victory in the November election.
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John Cryer. One of my favorite shows, Two and a Half Men. But great podcast right now, and everybody should check it out. The Man Who Calculated Death. It's beautifully produced as well. You bring in a lot of elements, and it's really great. The Man Who Calculated Death. Check it out, John Cryer. Appreciate you. Thank you so much, Ben.
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Everybody hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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friend of the show, John Cryer, your Midas Touch fan, which is great, the producer of the podcast, The Man Who Calculated Death, which I want to talk about as well because it focuses on the scientist who built the first cruise missile or Adolf Hitler. And these times are not too dissimilar from those times. But first off, welcome to the show. And what do you make of this mess, John?
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John, what's your overall assessment of just what's taken place, just you personally, in the past 100 days? Worse than expected? Is this what you expected that he was going to do? How do you try to, you know, speak about this or come to some understanding of what the hell's going on?
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I thought I was voting for a pro-business policies and small targeted incremental tariffs. I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses 100 days in. Or Azalea Banks, a musician who said, OK, I think it's time everyone who voted for Trump admit that we made an effing mess here. Like, This is an absolute disaster.
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You know, I think you once made a statement saying that Donald Trump is almost like a Charlie Sheen of politics. And you said, look, there's charismatic aspects of Charlie Sheen. I liked working with the guy, but, you know, there was a lot of other things going on.
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We're not going to go into that, but. You know, this malignant narcissistic profile, you know, this personality of somebody who's able to, I think one of the words, the things you said is like just totally full of shit. Like someone who could be totally full of shit but who can convince people of things to just do things against their interests over and over and over again.
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I mean, and you see that he talked about the cult aspect of it. So I don't know, maybe speak to that, because in the entertainment industry, you see these charismatic personalities who are able to, you know, get people to do things against their interests frequently.
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And this was after she bragged about voting for Trump following the election. You know, and then there's just things every day that just makes you, I guess, scratch your head is an understatement like this. Putin gifted Donald Trump a portrait of himself raising his fist after the Butler, Pennsylvania incident.
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John, why do I think the headline coming out of this interview is going to be John Cryer? Charlie Sheen would make a much better president than Donald Trump.
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Let's pivot, though, to talk about your podcast and your podcast in general. The most recent one you produced is The Man Who Calculated Death. You're focused on death. a scientist who built the first cruise missile for Adolf Hitler. It then kind of goes into this murder mystery aspect as well.
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But this is your focus right now, focusing on, you know, I think these historical parallels to this moment, approaching it, you know, from this almost true crime lens to also shed light on the modern moment through these historical experiences. Can you talk about this show?
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And Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, said how touched Donald Trump was by the painting commissioned by Vladimir Putin. But look, I think the business community is getting it right now. The front page of the New York magazine was this cartoon right here, a political cartoon. I did not think for one second he was going to go this crazy as all the Wall Street bankers see the
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We all have decisions to make in these moments. You know, you're seeing universities bend the knee. You're seeing universities stand up. You're seeing law firms bend the knee. You're seeing law firms stand up. You're seeing Hollywood studios bend the knee. You're seeing Hollywood studios stand up.
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How do you process this moment where courage is needed, but as you go into in The Man Who Calculated Death, the fear is real and palpable and people are reacting to it differently. But ultimately, you know, in my view, history is going to judge where you are in these moments and you can't ever bend the knee. You can't obey in advance. But how do you think about that?
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Jon Cryer on Trump’s Disaster Presidency
Finally, you know, do you see signs of hope right now, though? And you talk about how in the Weimar Republic it was short-lived and, you know, ultimately, you know, defeated in the war. And we looked back on that as one of the most atrocious, if not the most atrocious thing in human history. There does seem to be right now at least an understanding of the historical lesson by many.
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market imploding as the U.S. economy is now behaving like that of a developing country. We're seeing op-eds written by conservative economists talking about that. And then just the message boards you look at from the conservative message boards, and it's all people saying, I'm not too proud to admit it, but I feel stupid now. I want to bring in
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We're seeing the protests. We're seeing signs of great opposition. I interviewed earlier the head of the ACLU, for example, who's working with all these groups that have coordinated a 50-state legal strategy. You're seeing federal courts not just giving in right away, although some bad rulings and some really bad rulings for sure, but not – But, you know, there are signs of hope.
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Let's leave on an optimistic note. What do you think about that?
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Trump’s Terrible Secrets from Past Surface in Oval
Donald Trump got stunned yesterday during a press conference in the Oval Office when he was asked this very simple question. Let's play the clip.
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Donald, we also know your statements as well. We know that you've said that you would use your beauty pageants to inspect women naked without their consent. We've heard you talk about and brag about sexually assaulting women, grabbing them by their genitals without their consent. We knew you were never going to release the Epstein files, but y'all continued with this farce.
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Remember when Pam Bondi said that the files were gonna be released? Remember that? Was that a month ago? Pam Bondi said there are truckloads of evidence relating to the Epstein case that has been delivered to the FBI headquarters. And she said that she was going through them. Remember when she went on Hannity a few weeks back and she said this? Play this clip.
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We all did. And the FBI handed over a couple hundred pages of documents. But, you know, Sean, I gave them a deadline of Friday at 8 a.m. to get us everything. And a source had told me where the documents were being kept. Southern District of New York. Shock. So we got them all by hopefully all of them Friday at 8 a.m., thousands of pages of documents.
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I have the FBI going through them and cash is also now that we have cash here, it's a game changer, of course. And cash is going to director Patel is going to get us a detailed report as to why the FBI withheld all of those documents.
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OK, you know, with everything involving Donald Trump, he is a complete and utter fraud. Right. They threw that event at the White House. When was that event at the White House? Now, was that two months ago where they brought in all these right wing influencers? They gave them a binder that said the Epstein files on the binder and then inside the binder were just Epstein's call list files.
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which had previously been released. And by the way, Trump's name was on that too. Not just Trump names, but like all of Donald Trump's contacts were all over there. Have you ever seen this graphic right here, the cycle of Trump and Epstein? Trump was best friends with Epstein, true. Trump does something that helps pedophiles. Trump was best friends with Epstein.
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Trump does something that helps pedophiles. It's a pattern that repeats over and over again. Let me just show you all one of the exhibits, why Donald Trump is not releasing these Epstein files and why he's going to try to distract. Oh, I released these other files that everybody cared about. No, Donald, release the freaking Epstein files now. Here, play this clip.
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It's absolutely ridiculous that people think that Donald Trump is somehow trying to stop Epstein or stop his behavior. It's absurd. Remember when Donald Trump during the campaign went on Fox and he was asked by Fox? Oh, and by the way, he's one of those hosts, Pete Hegseth, who's their secretary of defense. Donald Trump was asked about releasing the Epstein files.
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You can literally see the fear and panic during the campaign when Trump was asked about it. Play this clip.
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Yeah, Donald, the question was not about the other files out there, which, by the way, you didn't even release them. You just released files that were already released. Where are the Epstein files, Donald? Oh, wait a minute. You were very close friends with Epstein. You said he was a great guy who likes women on the younger side. You partied with him in Palm Beach.
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And again, let me just show you the other receipts right here. I mean, I have Donald Trump's. I have the flight log from Epstein. Trump's name is on it seven times. We have Epstein's call log. Trump's on that. Deposition transcripts. Trump's on that. Trump's direct quote was, Epstein, I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. This was a quote in 2002. He's a lot of fun to be with.
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He's even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do. many of them on the younger side. Donald Trump held these beauty pageants, like the look of the year competition in 1991, where we had like little girls, like model in bathing suits in front of him.
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And then the girls went on this boat, this yacht, and Trump was on the yacht and there were men old enough to be these like 13, 14 year old girls grandparents and they'd have the girls grind on the grandparents. Disgusting stuff. There's videos and photos of this thing. How about this? Let me give you this data point. This is Donald Trump from about 18 months ago or so.
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He was speaking at the Young Republican Club in New York young Republicans, so Republican teenagers, high school students, college students. What Donald Trump said was that he was told by a general the most courageous thing he ever did was when he called sexually assaulting women, grabbing women by their genitals.
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When he called it locker room talk, this is Trump's advice to kids, that this was the most courageous thing he did. Play this clip.
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You flew with him on his Lolita Express at least seven times. You're on his flight logs. The documents from the Epstein criminal cases and civil cases that were released, Donald.
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You know, and then there's the clip of Donald Trump saying that he would inspect the girls at the beauty pageant or women at the beauty pageant. Here, play this clip.
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And this is what Donald Trump said about Lindsay Lohan. I think she was 18 years old or just turned 18 years old at this time. Play this clip.
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You know, not to mention that Epstein would recruit victims from Mar-a-Lago, like Virginia Giuffre when she was a minor. Ghislaine Maxwell was at Mar-a-Lago. Virginia Giuffre was one of the victims of Epstein. She was homeless. She was working at Mar-a-Lago as a job after being homeless. Apparently her dad helped her get her job.
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they have your name all over it on the depositions i see your name of victims that epstein traffic saying that epstein said he was on the phone with you and they landed in atlantic city to stop at one of your casinos in the criminal case involving elaine maxwell one of epstein's traffickers a woman who was 14 years old at the time said that she was introduced to you by epstein a 14 year old girl
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Her family member helped her get this job while being on the streets and homeless. Ghislaine Maxwell found her working in Mar-a-Lago, brought her to Epstein. Epstein trafficked her. You know, and so there's all these data points. Epstein was on Trump's jet with a girl. Could have been 15, could have been 20, according to one of the witnesses. It's not clear. So release the files, Donald.
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Release the freaking Epstein files already. You know, I know corporate news doesn't want to talk about it. I mean, I'm glad whoever asked that question. Remember Anna Paulina Luna, the MAGA Republican Congresswoman who created a whole subcommittee on this topic? This is what she said back on February 27, 2025. I nor the task force were given a review of the Epstein documents being released today.
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A New York Post story just revealed that the documents will simply be Epstein's phone book. This is not what we or the American people asked for and a complete disappointment. Give us the information that we asked for. Give us the information. It's that simple. Where are you talking about it now, Anna Paulina Luna? You tell me. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Crumbles Fast and Gives Up in Public
Well, here we go again. Donald Trump is getting mocked by the entire world for caving once again to Xi Jinping in China. Again, showing that, guess what, Donald, you don't hold the cards. Usually someone who's out there saying, I hold the cards, you don't hold the cards. You often can call that a tell.
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Situation is now looking unsustainable. There was a private meeting that was hosted by JPMorgan Chase in Washington yesterday. It was not open to the public or to the media, but Scott Besson was there and all of these hedge funds and private equity companies were there.
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Closed door meeting, an investor summit where Scott Besson said the standoff as it is with China right now is unsustainable and he expects the situation to deescalate. So one of the things we noticed early in the morning, despite all of this bad market data out there, the market was trading up and was doing well. So it was like, what was driving that?
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Well, apparently there was a lot of insider information being exchanged during closed door sessions where Wall Street wins and Main Street gets absolutely screwed as inside information is being exchanged. And then thereafter, you had Donald Trump hold this press conference in the afternoon where
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right as markets had closed, saying, you know, I think that we want to maybe de-escalate this with China once the insiders made a lot of their money after the market crashed. You see that kind of cycle repeat itself over and over again. Here's another meme that I saw. Listen up, President Xi, I'm sorry. You know, there's a lot going on, though, because Trump's
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You see some of these memes right here of Xi Jinping just laughing at Donald Trump and outmaneuvering him. So yesterday, Donald Trump held a press conference where he said the following. He said that the ultimate tariffs on China are going to be nowhere near 145%. Who would ever put 145% tariffs? That's too much. That's what you said, Donald. Trump said it's going to come down substantially.
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Volatility, what Trump's causing to the markets, it's having real world impact. Yesterday, Intel announced that it planned to lay off more than 20% of its staff this week. ConocoPhillips plans major layoffs as part of its broad restructuring. Then you take a look at what was happening with Tesla.
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Elon sounded extremely depressed on the earnings call yesterday after Tesla profits plunged 71% from this Gizmodo article. They explained how Musk's tone was noticeably downbeat. He didn't have the same carnival-style salesmanship that often accompanies the public-facing announcement for Tesla investors. He seemed very, very down.
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And there was a few accounting tricks that they did as well where they sold some of these regulatory credits. But for that, they would have actually lost money this quarter. So Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Let me just share with you. This is the moment where. He talked about how those 145% tariffs were too high. Very, very high, he said. Here, play this clip.
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It won't be zero. It's going to be more than zero, but we will see. And then he goes, I think we're going to be able to make a deal with China. This is after Donald Trump begged Xi Jinping and China to call and do something, but China held firm and didn't do anything at all. Also, Donald Trump, he's seeing the bond market implode.
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He says that he brought egg prices down 93 to 94% since the regime took office. It's the most ridiculous lie in the world. You think eggs were $84 a dozen? I mean, it's this 93 to 94%. It's just some of the most stupid lies that they tell. And again, it's just this over and over again, lie after lie after lie. Here, play this clip.
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Look, the Associated Press reported that U.S. egg prices increased to record highs this past week, dashing hopes of cheap eggs by Easter. I mean, those are just the facts. You know, and the thing with this Trump regime also is, you know, the cruelty is the point.
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You know, there's all these distractions taking place as they're just screwing over, you know, marginalized communities, just screwing over workers, screwing over just regular folks, 401ks and pensions, you know.
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Just to give you an example, so they say they want to abolish the Department of Education to get rid of education, but they still want to use the Department of Education starting May 5th to do a massive wage garnishment of millions of people who defaulted on their student loans. So they're doing a large-scale garnishment operation there.
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but then gutting services like lunch and helping poor kids and helping out kids with disabilities through the Department of Education. And then there's this also. So as RFK Jr., who runs HHS Health and Human Services, Goes on, he's been given all these speeches where he spreads lies about autism and vaccines, just horrific stuff that he's saying.
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HHS is planning to cut the National Suicide Hotlines program for LGBTQ youth. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day. So that's what they want to focus on, too. The federal government plans to eliminate services for the LGBTQ youth who call 988 the National Suicide and Crisis Hotline.
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According to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week, the budget first reported by The Washington Post would go into effect October if approved by Congress. Since the hotlines launch in 2022, callers have been able to speak with counselors trained to work with specific at-risk populations, including LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers.
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He's seeing the 10-year treasury yields move closer to 5%, which is basically... I think, well, technically 4.5%, I think, is Donald Trump's kind of pain point, but it could go higher. And so now he wants to announce all of these fake deals. So one of the things that was announced is that they may have an agreement in principle with Japan on trade. It's an outline that they want to announce.
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The service for LGBTQ youth has received 1.3 million calls, texts, or chats since 2022. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day. It's just pure, unadulterated cruelty. as RFK Jr. goes up and gives a press conference whining that his kids have food allergies and why do his kids have food allergies? Here, play this clip.
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You know, to me, the purpose of government is to help people, to protect people. to uplift people. And for the Trump regime, the purpose of government is to help one group, billionaires and oligarchs, and then to inflict pain and suffering on the rest of us. That's what their goal is.
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And so I think also these billionaire and oligarchs, it's just not enough for them to have one private jet or 10 private jets or 10 yachts. They also, to me, have a sick fetish of watching others suffer.
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you know, to compensate for whatever pathological malignant, narcissistic, whatever, you know, as, as Senator Bernie Sanders says, you know, there's, he's like, there's a, he comes like a mental illness of greed. He almost calls it. But part of that is this, the enjoyment of suffering of other people. We have to recognize that. And we have to talk about housing. We have to talk about education.
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We have to talk about healthcare and, We have to talk about making sure people can earn a living wage and they don't have to live paycheck to paycheck and that they can afford to buy a house, that you can afford to buy a house. You know, talking about health, talking about protecting, you know, your Medicare, your Medicaid, your social security. And we have to talk about those things.
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And, you know, MAGA and Right Wing, they want to distract us from all of those things. We won't be distracted here at the Midas Touch Network and we'll keep fighting for you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more all at store.midastouch.com.
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But when you dig into the details, again, it's just completely BS. And they're just, once again, just making it all up. You know, if you looked at what went down earlier in the day yesterday, I think it was one of the most important things. And it seems like more market manipulation taking place where this is what was reported by Bloomberg. That Scott Besant sees de-escalation with China.
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ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero on Trump Lawsuits
Lawsuits against the Trump regime for disappearing migrants. Lawsuits against the Trump regime and Elon Musk for stealing people's data. Lawsuits against the Trump regime in order to get access to information what Trump and Elon Musk and Doge are doing. Lawsuits against the Trump regime for Discrimination against LGBTQ rights and the targeting of the trans community.
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I just want to, on behalf of the millions of people who follow us here at the Midas Touch Network, and I'm speaking for everybody who loves democracy, thank you for your work at the ACLU, Anthony Romero, executive director.
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Anthony, if people who are watching this want to help or they want to learn more about the cases and what ACLU is up to, where do they go? What can they do?
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Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU. Thanks for joining us. And we hope you come back to share updates on everything the ACLU is doing. Thank you, Ben. I love listening to you. So keep going. Thank you, everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Well, you know, what people don't realize is that the only reason that the district court and the Fifth Circuit ruled against the you all representing the migrants before it got to the Supreme Court was because Trump. And his DOJ was saying, you don't have anything to worry about. We're going to give these migrants a hearing.
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They'll get their habeas corpus based on what the Supreme Court said before. But they were lying. They were lying while they were loading up. That was the issue.
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Look, the ACLU has always met the moment, but you were particularly ready to meet the moment here with these dozens of lawsuits at a high level. Can you, a lot of people after the election, they were saying, I don't know what to do. People were down, but that's when you all were building your team. You were preparing for this.
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Lawsuits against the Trump regime for attacking the Department of Education and book bans. Lawsuits against the Trump regime for revoking student visas and throwing foreign students into detention centers without due process on the front lines of it all. Holding the United States away from dictatorship is the ACLU who filed lawsuits on all of those areas and more.
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Just maybe talk at a high level about the strategy to stop- It's been about a year before the election, right?
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Preparation, preparation, preparation, and fluidity. You mentioned birthrights, the citizenship. So that case is going before the Supreme Court oral arguments on May 15th. You were the first to file. Talk to us about what you expect to happen there. Were you surprised that the Supreme Court granted certiorari on that to hear it? Did you expect it?
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I could probably spend 10 minutes listing all of the areas and topics, but I wanna bring in ACLU's executive director, Anthony Romero, and of course, the big win by the ACLU in the Supreme Court, blocking the deportation of the second group of migrant victims that the Trump regime wanted to send to a concentration camp in El Salvador.
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The ACLU prepared a lot for what was going to happen in Trump 2.0. The fact that Elon Musk and Doge has played such a prominent role as a wrecking ball and a hostile takeover of the federal government. cruelly firing people with with a glee of stripping people's dignity while stripping away essential services.
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The ACLU has been on the front line of many lawsuits there and many lawsuits gathering the information which Musk and Trump want to avoid just turning over what they're even doing and what data they're gathering on people. Can you speak to the Musk factor and the ACLU's battle there? Sure, sure.
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And one of the points I just want to mention about that case that people don't know necessarily is how that ACLU legal team, they were calling the district court judge, they were calling the court of appeals, and the Trump regime was lying. And they were saying, trust us, bro. We're not going to do anything with those migrants while they were loading the buses with the migrants.
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Anthony, do you have hope? Where do we go from here?
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So when there's another group of migrants that the Trump regime wants to send to concentration camps, no matter where they are, 50 state strategy, thousand city strategy, district courts everywhere. The ACLU is there.
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And your team, Anthony Romero, was calling the district court judge like, don't call me, ex parte communication. Your team's like, what are you talking about? This is an emergency. The Supreme Court listened.
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Let me ask you this as well. In addition to all the things that you've said there, what happens, though, if the Trump regime does not follow these orders? I mean, I think you've been asked that before. What if you're doing all the work, you get the orders? I mean, right now there's a 9-0 Supreme Court order that says facilitate the return of Abrego in the Maryland case.
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I know a different group handling that. But what happens if they just say, you know what, we're not following these orders? What do we do?
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Huh? Donald Trump saying that he's now delegating the deal to bring peace to Ukraine to Xi Jinping in China? That's as weak and pathetic as you get. And I guess that's how Donald Trump and MAGA is tough on China. Donald Trump then talks about the spending bill that he wants the House of Representatives to pass.
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And he said before it was going to be difficult, but now we're going to use Los Angeles as a bargaining tool. We will deprive, this is what he says, we're going to deprive Los Angeles of aid unless Democrats agree to everything we want in the spending bill so we can get rid of the debt ceiling and we can push through all of our priorities for the billionaires and the oligarchs.
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So when Trump was asked about the spending bill, he goes, it has now been made much easier much simpler by Los Angeles because they are going to need a lot of money. And you'll find a lot of Democrats are going to be asking for help. So I think maybe that makes it more one-sided.
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Now, if that isn't treasonous, traitorous, pathetic, I don't know what it is because, well, I guess I'll tell you what it is. Perhaps allowing American foreign policy to be led by Xi Jinping. So I want to correct myself right there. But here, Donald Trump's saying, again, this is unprecedented in American history.
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We always would say, okay, natural disasters, catastrophe relief, disaster relief, that's not a political wedge issue. Well, Donald Trump's just saying it out loud. Donald Trump was then asked about tariffing Canada, or annexing Canada and Mexico. And Donald Trump responds regarding the tariffs. Trump responds, I'm going to tariff both of them. He says both Canada and Mexico are very dangerous.
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He positions them as enemies of the United States. He goes, Canada, very much so. They have allowed millions and millions of people to come into our country. They referring to Canada, they've killed 300,000 people last year. My opinion have been destroyed by drugs, by fentanyl. And Donald Trump will say, I didn't mean Canada. I meant fentanyl.
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He's saying they though, as though Canada is shipping fentanyl to kill Americans, which is absolutely false. You want to know where most fentanyl comes from? It comes from China. By the way, Canadian citizens and Mexican citizens, by and large, are not consumers of synthetic drugs. 99% are Americans. And in terms of also who's bringing synthetic drugs into America, it is mostly Americans as well.
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When you hear Donald Trump say things like this, it is very reminiscent. of when Vladimir Putin talked about the pretext for invading Ukraine is denazification, where President Zelensky of Ukraine is Jewish. And you're like, that's just the craziest thing Putin's saying, denazification. And he's saying that the Ukrainians are Nazis. And it sounded like a crazy thing.
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Donald Trump's first press conference in the Oval Office went off the rails very quickly. This was supposed to be a press conference with leaders in artificial intelligence to have them kiss the ring. It quickly devolved into Donald Trump talking about how rich they are and
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Well, Donald Trump's basically doing the same thing and saying that Canada is killing Americans by intentionally sending fentanyl here. Again, that is false. Donald Trump is then asked, do you have TikTok on your phone? Donald Trump says, no, but I think I might put it there.
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To be clear, TikTok is currently not available in the Google Play or App Store, and that's because of the ban that Donald Trump started. And by the way, Donald Trump shortened the deal period from 90 days to 75 days, the extension within which time TikTok will be shut down. And then also Donald Trump talked about
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the United States government, like the actual government buying TikTok or owning 50% of TikTok or TikTok turning over 50% to the United States government. And again, for all of the MAGA Republicans out there who talk about socialism or all this needs to be done by private business, I'm What in the world is he even talking about?
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But then Donald Trump was also asked, would you want Elon in the same press conference? Do you think it would be great or okay if Elon Musk bought TikTok? And Donald Trump said, I'd be okay if Elon Musk bought TikTok.
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how he thinks it's okay for him to continue to sell meme coins because the other billionaires with him in the Oval Office, they're very rich. Donald Trump went on to make a bunch of other attacks on Canada. Let's just go through what went down. Again, I'm not going to show any video or audio of Donald Trump. We don't do that here. But I will describe what went down.
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Then Donald Trump is asked about HB1 visas. And so he's asked about these visas, H1B visas rather. And Donald Trump is asked, well, what's your perspective on H1B? Because you previously said you were going to phase H1B out and you said you were going to give all of these STEM related jobs, science, technology, engineering, and And by the way, Vivek's no longer part of Doge.
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He overstayed his welcome sources close to Elon Musk and Doge said he lasted negative Scaramucci's. But what Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said was that Americans are just dumber than people from India. And that's why we need H-1B visas because Americans can't handle these jobs. Americans can handle STEM jobs. And by the way, wasn't that Donald Trump's promise?
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All these jobs, we're going to get Americans. But now Donald Trump says, oh, I know the H-1B program very well. I use the program. Mater D's, wine experts, even waiters, high quality waiters. You got to get the best people and you get them from H-1B. As we wrote on the Midas Touch account, that's not what H-1B visas are. They're not for waiters. That's a different type of visas.
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Either way, MAGA, Trump thinks that immigrants should take your jobs. Waiters, what's he even talking about right there? Then Donald Trump is asked about pardoning
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all of the January 6th insurrectionists and commuting the sentences of some of the most violent ones, meaning they're all getting released, including the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, people who tried to kill police officers, people convicted of seditious conspiracy with terroristic enhancements, the worst of the worst, violent, despicable people. Trump's asked, he goes, Well, look, J.D.
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Vance, your vice president, had been previously saying that if you committed violence on January 6th, you should not be pardoned. So was your VP wrong? And Donald Trump said, yeah, he was wrong. And here's why.
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He said the January 6th insurrectionists, who he calls hostages, he said they served their time, they've been treated unfairly, unbelievably unwell, and that's why they need to be released right now. Donald Trump then spreads lies about the Los Angeles fires. Again, just so vile to play with our lives here in Los Angeles. He goes, people living in Beverly Hills, a lot of them are wiped out.
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Let me just fact check that the fires didn't reach Beverly Hills. They wiped out the Palisades. They wiped out Altadena. You have the Palisades fire. You had the Eaton fire, which wiped out Altadena, not Beverly Hills. That was not impacted. And then Donald Trump lies and says, Beverly Hills is wiped out. They wanted to restrict you to 38 gallons a day. That's just false.
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Donald Trump then does further lies or makes further lies on the L.A. fires. He goes, there are sprinklers in there like these. None of them had water in them. The sprinklers on the lawns weren't allowed to be used. That's false. And then he says that millions of gallons of water a week and a day even pour into California, goes all through California down to Los Angeles, and they turned it off.
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The valve turns towards the Pacific Ocean. Again, that is false. Donald Trump's asked about, I don't know, giving political positions. to Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and other insurrectionists. He goes, we'll have to see about that. Again, when asked about why he pardoned these violent people, he goes, lots of murderers have not been charged by Joe Biden.
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We'll show some graphics and we'll take you through this disastrous press conference. So Donald Trump was asked, look, you've made all of this money on crypto and selling meme coins. Are you going to stop doing it? And Donald Trump said, no, why would I? How much did I make? To which the reporter then respond, you've made several billion dollars selling these meme coins already.
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And he pardoned them, which is just 100% false right there. And then you can just see the oligarchs there, Sam Altman and others kind of just kissing Donald Trump's ass, Larry Ellison and others. I mean, just so utterly pathetic. And again, We don't show the video clips or the audio.
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If you want to go and see them, I hope I've developed enough trust where you know I'm saying what's in those videos. Again, I don't want to hear his annoying voice or see the videos. That's just the editorial decision I've made. If others want to show it, you can watch it elsewhere. But our producer, Asen, he posts it on Blue Sky and X and our other social media platforms if you want to see it.
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in the event leading up to the inauguration. And then Donald Trump looked at the other oligarch billionaires in the Oval Office and said, that's peanuts for these guys pointing at the tech billionaires. Then Donald Trump was asked, well, you didn't bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours like you promised. What are you going to do? To which Trump said, I've asked President Xi Jinping to get it settled.
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Also, this whole inauguration was like probably the weakest, most pathetic and humiliating inauguration in history, not just from the perspective of these very low, small, teeny tiny ratings, Donald, but also Donald Trump blamed cold weather as the reason why he was bringing the inauguration from outside, inside, into the rotunda. Guess what, Donald?
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When President Obama had millions of people show up for his inauguration after the 2008 election, it was basically the same exact By the way, when John F. Kennedy was inaugurated in 1961, the weather was much colder, significantly colder than it was on Trump's inauguration.
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So Trump had it inside the rotunda where he gave this really bizarre unhinged speech where he talked about attacking Panama and he talked about all of this weird stuff, never mentioned bringing prices down, never mentioned healthcare. And then we saw all of the oligarchs and their spouses because they were allowed to bring their spouses. Others weren't allowed to bring their spouses.
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The billionaire tech broligarchs were all sitting right there and they were making like weird, like tweaking face stuff. It was so bizarre to see Bezos' face and Musk's face. And then Bezos' wife showed up and she was like basically wearing an open blouse and just like exposing her chest with a bra. And then... Zuckerberg was like looking at her chest. The whole thing was so bizarre.
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This is Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Some of the worst inauguration ratings in history. We're getting these numbers now. Not only were his ratings terrible, President Biden's inauguration ratings were terrible.
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It shows that these people may have billions of dollars, but they are classless. They are clearly yearning for attention. And it's just so utterly powerless as they're there as props, as stooges for Donald Trump's utterly pathetic speech. What I want to talk about as well, though, is that a lot is very teeny tiny for Donald Trump.
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I mean, he also had some of the lowest inauguration approval ratings like ever. This is supposed to be the honeymoon period. And for Donald Trump, America already wants a divorce, and a lot of America actually wants a restraining order against Donald already, just based on him being a little bit facetious, or maybe not, based on how he's handled things.
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So this APNORC poll basically said that Donald Trump's favorability leading up to the inauguration was only 41%. In contrast, President Biden's was like 67 to 72. Obama was in the high 70s. Clinton, George W. Bush, the low to mid 70s. This is supposed to be a time where the nation unites if someone's elected to the presidency, regardless of what political party they're from, but not Donald.
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And folks, Put your foot on the gas right now to expose this fool, to expose this corrupt administration. Now's the time to put your foot on the gas and expose him. I mean, take a look at some of these other numbers. When it comes to Donald Trump pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists, the violent insurrectionists
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Those convicted of seditious conspiracy, only about 15 to 20% of Americans from the APNORC poll ever favored that. About 80% to varying degrees did not approve of pardoning violent, seditious individuals who engaged in terroristic behavior and tried to kill cops. Americans hate that. As you go through other polling data, this is a Wall Street Journal poll. I mean, they're right-leaning.
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76% of voters reject Donald Trump's unconstitutional push to seize Congress's power of the purse for himself. Americans actually believe in checks and balances. Also, more than two-thirds of Americans oppose using economic coercion or military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
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Two-thirds of them, all from, this is from the Wall Street Journal poll, two-thirds of Americans oppose annexing Canada and making it a 51st state. More than half of Americans say, what in the world are you doing with this Elon Musk who you're giving an office in the West Wing? Take a look at this.
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Only 17% of Americans approved of Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense's sister-in-law came out with a declaration saying what a horrific human being he is. Here's a guy. who never led any military command before. He's never led a large organization. The nonprofits he was leading, he was pushed out of.
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Working for nonprofits that you were pushed out of for behavioral issues, that doesn't give you the qualifications to lead the Defense Department and have access to the nuclear complex. I mean, I just want you to think about this and then his personal behavior, but this is who Donald Trump is rallying behind.
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Also the Congress, Republican Congress, it's a disapproval rating is over 75% right now. I mean, some really bad statistics and it's only gonna get worse from Donald Trump. I mean, this weird, he had the new village people, not even the original village people, doing the weird dance. You have Melania wearing the Pizza Hut hat and selling meme coins and Donald Trump selling meme coins.
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You got Elon Musk raising his hand and doing this. You've got Trump taking down the Spanish version of the White House webpage. In addition to pardoning the insurrectionists, you also had Donald Trump engage in Other very, very serious pardons as well, pardoning individuals who were convicted of aiding and abetting sex trafficking and engaged in just horrific behavior.
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And he said because the libertarians wanted him to do it. You've got Donald Trump saying that birthright citizenship in the United States should not exist, even though it is ensconced in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Donald Trump
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failing to get peace into ukraine in 24 hours as he promised he promised peace in ukraine in 24 hours and get this this is this is true what donald trump said in his first press conference is he was delegating he said he told xi jinping to negotiate the peace in ukraine Xi Jinping, who's forming an alliance with Putin to destroy America.
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Donald Trump now says he wants Xi Jinping to negotiate peace in Ukraine. How utterly pathetic can you be? But Donald, those ratings, some of the worst ratings ever. And I think Mediaite just did a remarkable story calling it out. And by the way, lots of people weren't even watching corporate media. A puppy inauguration, the kitten inauguration right here on the Midas Touch YouTube channel.
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Thanks to you, we raised $90,000, approximately $90,000 for the Humane Society. And I spent the four hours of the time, the inauguration talking about puppies, kittens, goats in coats, stampedes of guinea pigs, otters wrestling. That's what we were doing. I hope you enjoyed. I thought it was fun to watch the puppy and kitten inauguration, but maybe, I don't know, that's my sense of humor.
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But sorry, Donald, you're off to a pathetic start with the lowest ratings ever. President Biden kicked your you-know-what in the ratings. millions of more views than you, and then you continue to do things that are just gonna make you more and more unpopular as Americans see your chaos, your sicko behavior, all your deranged social media posts. But what about the lower prices?
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You wanna talk about the Gulf of Mexico being the Gulf of America? How about the Gulf of lower prices, lower egg prices? Well, prices are up, egg prices are up, housing's not more affordable. And Donald Trump goes, I don't think Americans really care about inflation. He goes, I think they care about the mental institutions and people coming in from the mental institutions. Get this, Donald.
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Border crossings were down under President Biden to the levels where it was when it was at your lowest in April of 2020 during COVID, which was low for you because of COVID, President Biden brought the border crossings down, but everything Biden did, the MAGA Republicans would blame on him.
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There was not a single crisis, a single natural disaster that they wouldn't blame on Biden when it was Trump's fault. But guess what? Now you're in charge. And the American people hate you. They didn't even tune in for the inauguration. Worst inauguration ever for, I think, the worst term in a presidency ever. Utterly pathetic, Donald. Utterly pathetic. Everybody, hit subscribe here.
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Remember where we had those really small crowd sizes and his press team tried to act like this was the largest inauguration in history. you had lower ratings than that, Donald, and President Biden beat you.
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on our YouTube channel during the hot takes that I do. If you want to take a look at the clip, you can go see it from our executive producer, Aysen, who posted on our various social media platforms like Blue Sky and X. But as Donald Trump is saying that he's delegating to Xi Jinping, it comes as the same time that Xi Jinping and Putin made an announcement that they actually made a deal together.
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So at the same time that Donald Trump's inauguration was going on and Trump had that just bizarre executive order signing session in the Oval Office. Here's what went down. Xi Jinping declared readiness to bring China-Russian ties to a new height in a call with Putin.
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So remember, Donald Trump said on day one, he actually said right after the election, he would get on the phone, he would call Putin, he would call Zelensky, and he would bring them together. And he said, you do this, you do this. And Trump said, because he's such a great dealmaker, that he would resolve everything and there would be peace in Ukraine. Remember, that was his promise.
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And if you want to say that Donald Trump really meant 24 hours after the inauguration, well, remember, the day of the inauguration, Trump was like, just give me half a day more. Give me half a day more. Well, Donald Trump did not call Putin and Zelensky and bring them together. But who called who? Xi Jinping and Putin called each other.
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They held a video conference where they agreed and they made a deal to bring the China-Russian relations to new heights, they said. This was a call that took place
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the same time of the inauguration, while Donald Trump was holding this press conference saying that he was delegating things to Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping and Putin announced on January 21st that they held this video conference and made this deal to help each other and to,
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remain each other's leading source of providers of dual use goods and to be each other's largest consumers of energy resources and products. So that's what was going down. At the same time, you have Russian media just totally mocking Donald Trump. So I want to show you this. Read the subtitles here. What I'm going to show you, to be very clear, I give you the disclaimer.
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This is Russian propaganda, but it is important that you see what they're saying on Russian state-run media and how they are brutally mocking Donald Trump on Russian state-run media. And Putin controls state-run media. So remember what went down, which was right after Trump won the election,
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Putin started having state-run media show nude photographs of Melania and then the hosts would like laugh and mock Melania and they would say, I guess it's her body, her choice, Donald. Remember that was going down. I remember Donald Trump was also like, yeah, I spoke to Putin and then Putin
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leaked to his sources that there was no phone call ever, and that it was pure fantasy to suggest that there was a phone call that took place. And then Putin accelerated things, escalated things, cut deals with North Korea, Donald Trump's buddy, Kim Jong-un, to send North Korean troops into Ukraine. All of that was going down.
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But let me show you what happened in the past 24 hours on Russian state TV. So they're like mocking Donald Trump in this clip. The hosts of this Russian state TV, they're like the Sean Hannity, Jesse Waters, Laura Ingraham, if you will, of Russia. And so here they're like, look, Donald Trump needs Putin. Donald Trump needs to beg Putin.
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Donald Trump can't accomplish anything unless daddy Putin gives Donald Trump permission. Watch this first clip. Let's play it.
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uh and then in this next clip you'll see that uh russian state tv starts saying that uh look maybe we'll just start taking over allies of the united states you know They think that we'll agree. This is what Russian state TV is saying. It's ridiculous that NATO thinks that we'll accept peacekeepers from the UK or France or the Netherlands or some of these other countries.
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They go, why don't we just invade those countries? Again, this is what they're saying on Russian state TV. And none of this stuff goes on without Putin's approval. Here, watch this. Friday, Iran.
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Now in this last clip, this is enlightening stuff, right? To see what's going down and how they're talking about things and how they're viewing Donald Trump as completely and utterly weak. So here you have Russian TV laughing at Donald Trump's promise that he was going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours and just saying how utterly ridiculous it is. And they were also talking about how
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some of the Russians were actually invited to the inauguration and given, you know, VIP treatment while the head of the president of France and other allies were not given kind of anywhere near the distinction of Russians. Here, play this clip.
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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are just laughing in Donald Trump's face right now. They're laughing in the face of the United States of America. So here's what went down, a few things. Number one, Donald Trump held a press conference yesterday where he was asked, hey, you promised to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Now, one of Donald Trump's first executive orders was this one right here, reevaluating and realigning United States foreign aid.
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What this executive order did is it stopped funding of foreign aid for the next 90 days, which would also likely include financial aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel, potentially, although Donald Trump, with respect to Israel, at least Israel, that's not going to happen now.
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One of the things that President Biden did was try to Trump-proof aid to Ukraine by giving as much aid in 2025 as President Biden possibly could, knowing that Donald Trump was not going to secure peace in 24 hours, and this was all BS.
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Donald Trump sent his surrogate, Secretary of State Marco Rubio. It's just always wild that I'm referring to him. I mean, he's the Secretary of State now with this ridiculous new administration, but it is what it is. We got a report on the news. Secretary of State Rubio is asked on CBS, so was there peace in 24 hours? Like, why wasn't there peace? Rubio's like, we actually kept our word.
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We kept our promise. He goes, Donald Trump never said there was going to be peace in 24 hours. Yes, he did, Rubio. But Rubio goes, Donald Trump said that he would say there would be peace in 24 hours, not that it would actually happen. He literally said that he was going to make a deal. And when the election was taking place, as soon as the election was over, there would be peace.
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Here, I want you to watch this.
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What are you specifically doing to negotiate peace in Ukraine from Russia's unlawful invasion? You said you would get it done. Give us some insight into the negotiation. This is real. What Donald Trump said is that he asked Xi Jinping to get the war in Ukraine settled. He says he's delegating that to Xi Jinping. I don't show the audio or videos,
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So there you have it, Donald Trump's negotiating skills is to delegate the negotiation to Xi Jinping to reach a deal in Ukraine when then Russia and Xi Jinping are announcing their broader alliance, which is to check the United States. Y'all see what's going on here, right? Like, This isn't, it's just shocking to me that corporate media is not making these connections.
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well. So you said that there would be peace in 24 hours. So what about that? To which Donald Trump continues to lie and defraud the American people. The ultimate rug puller is Donald Trump. This is what he said yesterday. He goes, well, this has only been a half day. I still have one more half day to do it. Well, the half day has passed now and you have not done it. How utterly pathetic.
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So what does he do? He sends his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to go on CBS, which tries to act like it's just a straight down the line media network. And so then they want to inject disinformation. So watch what Marco Rubio, Secretary of State Rubio, says when he's asked about the promise that there would be peace in 24 hours. Rubio says, oh, no, no. Trump kept the promise.
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What Trump said he was going to do is simply say that it is official U.S. policy to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. And he said he wants that. So therefore, he kept his promise. The ultimate rug down. Polar folks, this is Rubio.
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And folks, you may remember the clip I showed of Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, about a week and a half, two weeks ago, where we were reporting here on the Midas Dutch Network. Look, They are telling you that this promise will be broken.
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Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's special envoy, said that they would need at least 100 days, so not 24 hours, 2400 hours to develop a framework. to discuss potential peace and ceasefire in Ukraine. Well, that's not what Donald Trump said, but watch Donald Trump's special envoy, Keith Kellogg, walk back Donald Trump's promises, or should I say, admit that it was a lie.
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Fortunately, former President Biden was prepared for this. So one of the things that President Biden did before leaving is try to give as much aid to Ukraine as possible so it could be as best funded as it could possibly be in 2025. Also, the United States transferred leadership over Ukraine initiatives away from the United States over to NATO because we realize that if
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Trump and our military was leading it, that would be an absolute disaster. So here is the chairman of the NATO military committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, explaining that NATO is now assuming responsibility for coordinating military aid to Ukraine.
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And some of the mechanisms previously that were being organized by the United States have been transferred over to NATO and Europe because President Biden rightfully knew that Donald Trump would be a complete and utter disaster. And he was trying to proof this, stop this, protect this from happening. So watch what the chairman of the NATO military, Admiral Rob Bauer, has to say.
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Here, play this clip.
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By the way, even a few weeks before that, one of the things President Biden did was transfer control to NATO of air defenses surrounding Russia, where the U.S. was in control of it in places like Poland. made sure that NATO would have control over that, which was an important move to try to trump proof assistance, not just to Ukraine, but to Eastern Europe as well.
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Now, if you want to see how our adversaries are maneuvering right now, Let's take a look at what happened yesterday. So at the exact moment that Donald Trump was inaugurated, President Xi Jinping declared a readiness to bring China and Russia ties to new heights in a call with Putin. So Trump's being inaugurated. Xi Jinping rejects Trump's offer to show up at Trump's inauguration.
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One of Donald Trump's biggest promises has officially been broken. Donald Trump said there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Frankly, he said after the election, there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. But if you want to say 24 hours after the inauguration, well, it's 24 hours after the inauguration. There's no peace in Ukraine.
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Xi Jinping then calls up Putin and here's what goes down. Just think about what's going on geopolitically here and the message that Xi Jinping and Putin are sending to Donald Trump. and other nations as well. Chinese President Xi Jinping declared readiness to lead China-Russian relations to a new height together with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The Kremlin's press service reported on January 21st after a video call between the two leaders. By the way, timed to embarrass Trump. inauguration. The call took place shortly after the inauguration of Donald Trump.
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China has deepened its ties with Russia since the start of Kremlin's full scale war against Ukraine has become Moscow's leading source of dual use goods that feed the Russian defense industry. Beijing has nevertheless denied accusations of supporting Russia's military effort. In the call with Putin, Xi added that China is ready to stand with Russia
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to, quote, face external uncertainties based on maintaining the stability and stress resistance of China-Russia relations for the prosperity of the two countries, international justice, and equality. In other words, F you Donald Trump, but Trump is too stupid to realize the message and the maneuvering going on by our adversaries who smell Donald Trump's stench of weakness.
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The Chinese president stressed that bilateral cooperation between Beijing and Moscow is gradually expanding and that joint trade is trending upward. Putin in turn noted a 7% increase in trade between the two countries, which amounts to more than $220 billion. The Russian president also called China's Russia's leading trading partner. China is the largest consumer of Russian energy resources.
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We hold the first place in terms of oil exports to China. Five years ago, together with you, we launched the power of Siberia gas pipeline. And today, Russia has taken first place in natural gas supplies to China. So while Russia and China
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are making alliances and strengthening alliances across their borders, you have Donald Trump saying that on February 1st, there will be 25% tariffs placed on Canada and Mexico. Now, as I've reported before, during the G20 Summit in November, The Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum was not supposed to meet with Xi Jinping because of what Donald Trump was doing.
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President Claudia Scheinbaum met with President Xi Jinping and took photographs with Xi Jinping. Again, it's subtle or should not be all that subtle, but she was sending a message, perhaps Trump too stupid to recognize it, that if you push us, United States, this is the alliance that we're going to form as China builds out its Silk Road number two program.
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We will form alliances there as China and Russia are expanding the BRICS block while Donald Trump attacks our NATO allies. It should be noted as well that Donald Trump has put a 90-day moratorium on foreign military aid, which would impact Ukraine.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
We did this montage that I'm not going to play because I don't play Trump audio or video clips here on the Midas Touch Network during my videos, but I have about 15 different clips of Donald Trump promising during his campaign that he would bring peace to Ukraine.
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However, President Biden did try to get as much aid to Ukraine as possible to ensure that when Trump would make maneuvers, it wouldn't sting Ukraine right away. It was called the re-evaluating and realigning United States foreign aid executive order right there. But that's what's going on geopolitically, okay?
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So I want you to think, if Trump does impose these tariffs on Canada and China, which I expect he'll do, I want you to think about will, sorry, on Mexico and Canada, but he's also gonna impose tariffs on China and Europe. Think about the alliances that are going to be formed to isolate the United States. There you have it. Hit subscribe.
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Trump DISASTROUSLY Breaks Campaign Promise in 24 HOURS
Let's get to 4 million and let's stay focused on Trump's promises broken. These aren't minor promises. These were central to his campaign. Lies, lies, lies. But what would you expect with a liar in chief?
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In 24 hours, he said he would go to Zelensky and he said, Zelensky, I would say this and I'd go to Putin and I would say this and I'm such a good dealmaker that there would be peace immediately. There would be so much peace. You're not even going to want all of that peace because there'll be so much peace. Well, that is a promise broken. Yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump was asked to
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But Donald Trump did not attack Vladimir Putin at all today. He was notably silent. Also, Donald Trump did not bring peace to Ukraine in the first 24 hours as he promised. He also didn't attack Kim Jong-un. He praised Kim Jong-un and said that North Korea would be a great place. to build condos, is what Donald Trump said.
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As it relates to peace in Ukraine, Donald Trump was like making a joke about his broken promise. And he was like, well, I guess I still have half of tomorrow to do it. So we'll see what happens tomorrow. So utterly pathetic. Donald Trump was asked about Doge when he signed an executive order. that allegedly made Doge a thing.
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It should be noted that the executive order really isn't capable of doing that. This is all kind of a make-believe exercise that Donald Trump is doing, but nonetheless, he's giving Doge an office right by the White House, and Elon Musk will have an office in the old executive office building, which is basically attached to the White House. So in other words, the oligarchs literally have offices
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in the White House right now. And it should be noted, I talked about this in a video I did yesterday, during Donald Trump's awful inauguration, you had one of the oligarchs, Jeff Bezos, there with his wife. His wife was wearing a shirt that her bra was showing and her chest was exposed and Mark Zuckerberg was like looking at her breasts. Like the whole thing was incredibly strange.
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But Donald Trump said, yes, Elon Musk will have that office right by the White House. It should be noted as well that Democracy Forward, this civil rights organization, filed a lawsuit against Doge saying that it violates the Administrative Procedures Act. It violates the Freedom of Information Act.
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And it violates numerous other laws that require that things like Doge that are quasi governmental agencies actually follow a process and that they have to make their records public. Donald Trump then talked about Gaza and he seemed to describe first and foremost, he said, it's not our war. He said it's their war.
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And I'm not confident that there will be a that the ceasefire in Gaza that President Biden worked so hard for. is going to last. Then Donald Trump talked about how Gaza is now rubble and Donald Trump suggested essentially that it would be a great place to build things over because he says it has great weather and it's near the water.
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So for anybody who was saying that you thought that Donald Trump was going to make this a peaceful situation, Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen. And his words today suggest that as well. Donald Trump then signed some executive order called Protecting Women from Radical Transgender Ideology. just a way to bully marginalized communities.
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And what Donald Trump wants is people to, you know, listen to him and get involved in culture wars over penises and vaginas. And while he bullies the transgender community, who, by the way, we will always stick up for here on the Midas Dutch Network. And then Donald Trump wants his base to forget about the fact that he said things like there would be peace in Ukraine in the first 24 hours.
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Donald Trump said that there would be lower prices, voila, magically right away. Housing would all of a sudden become more affordable. and accessible and all of these other more jobs would be created right away. So Donald Trump wants to distract with a culture war, as I've said before, WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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Don't be distracted when Donald Trump does things like say, I'm changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. which is one of the executive orders he signed in one of his proclamations today, say, how about the gulf of lower egg prices, bro? That was one of your promises, but that's another promise broken. Prices are going up, up, up.
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And one of the things that Donald Trump was asked about were tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Now, earlier in the day, The Wall Street Journal had reported that Donald Trump was not going to immediately implement tariffs on Canada and Mexico and seemed to suggest that he was just going to explore and study it. But when asked about it, Donald Trump said February 1st.
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will be the tariffs on Canada and Mexico. He also said horrific things about Canada and Mexico as well, like really demeaned and defamed those nations while praising Kim Jong-un and saying that North Korea is a great place, great place for condominiums. So utterly disgusting.
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Then Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the definition of birthright citizenship, by the way, which is patently unconstitutional. Basically, Donald Trump says in this executive order that it will deny the legitimacy of U.S. citizenship of the child, even of someone who has temporary status. If you were born here, you go on in the executive order.
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I mean, obviously ex post facto retroactive laws are invalid and this doesn't purport to be that, but who knows what they're going to do. But birthright citizenship is within our constitution. But Donald Trump is claiming that no longer exists as part of a broader plan to basically purge our country of whoever it is that Donald Trump doesn't think belongs here.
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Let me show you what Donald Trump did in the Oval Office on day one. May have been the most disastrous day of any president in the history of the United States of America. Just a reminder, I don't show Trump audio or video on this channel during my videos. I describe what happened, but I will spare you that.
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January 6th insurrectionists who were convicted of seditious conspiracy. So the leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, commuted, no longer going to be in jail. As you go look at like Stuart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, people who the Department of Justice said, engaged in terrorism against the United States.
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The worst of the worst, the most violent January 6th insurrectionists all being released, their sentences commuted, and Donald Trump saying that as it relates to some of the most violent ones, they've served enough time. He may even explore a full pardon.
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totally declaring them basically to have committed no wrongdoing at all but they're being released regardless they're getting their sentences are being commuted and they're going to get released forthwith and no more january 6th insurrectionist in jail the worst of the worst will be free now Even the Republican federal judges, the ones that Trump appointed, warned Donald Trump against doing this.
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But one of the first moves Donald Trump did was empower the worst of the worst January 6th insurrectionists. He said, look, regarding the violent ones who beat and tried to kill cops, Trump said they've been in jail for a long time already. And he said that the FBI was involved spreading lies and conspiracies. Donald Trump was then asked about TikTok. and cutting a deal with TikTok.
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And then Donald Trump said, maybe I won't do a deal with TikTok. TikTok is worthless without me, he says. He then describes some kind of bizarre deal that he's conceived or concocted in his mind whereby the United States government would take a 50% interest in TikTok. So you're gonna have the government, you wanna increase the government so the government becomes a shareholder
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of TikTok at a 50-50 JV. And then I would assume, based on the position that Donald Trump gave to Carrie Lake, that this would be something, what, that Carrie Lake would control. So Trump wants to control TikTok through the United States. government and says that he may not cut a deal.
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Also, Donald Trump kind of shortened the potential length of the deal-making period, the extension from 90 days to 75 days as well. And so just a very kind of bizarre plan that Donald Trump has there. I guess a few other things to discuss about what went down over the past 24 hours. As well, Vivek Ramaswamy resigned from Doge. He goes, it was my honor to help support the creation of Doge.
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He's going to be announcing whatever his next plans are soon. You had Kid Rock go on Fox and he talked about how Trump's enemy's heads should be put on a guillotine. word for word. Some people's heads should be put in a guillotine. That's what Hattie and Fox are platforming right now. And then Donald Trump revoked three executive orders that are noteworthy to discuss, a bunch of others.
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If you want to watch that elsewhere, you can do that, but let's just discuss what went down. Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. And when he would get these executive orders and sign them publicly, he would say things like, ooh, going to withdraw us from that one. It was very weird.
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He revoked an executive order establishing the United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime. In other words, he's pro-crime. He rescinded an executive order lowering prescription drug costs for Americans. And he also rescinded an executive order for the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence.
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Oh, and another executive order Trump just signed gives the White House counsel the full authority to give interim top secret security clearance to whoever Donald Trump wants for up to six months. So regardless of if you pass any background checks and Trump wants you to have top secret security clearance, you get it right now. So that's a roundup basically of what went down in the Oval Office.
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As I said, the worst day in the history of the presidency potentially in the United States. I don't play Trump audio. I don't play Trump video, but I give you all the data. Asin, one of our senior producers here, posts the videos on social media.
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So if you just want to see it for yourself, if you don't believe I've accurately narrated everything that happened and you need to hear Trump say it, go follow Asin. You can see the clips. He has them all listed there. I don't show those anymore. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Check out MidasPlus.com.
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Also, he was like kind of like bright orange in the Oval Office as well. Then Donald Trump threatened Spain with 100 percent tariffs. He believed that Spain was part of the BRICS bloc. It is not. Spain is part of the European Union. Donald Trump didn't know that. The BRICS block is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. That's the S, as well as a number of other nations as well.
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Panama President STRIKES BACK HARD against Trump
Those bold statements, those aggressive statements, now verbal but also threatening, of intervention by force, the people of Panamá must have a message for them.
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Oh, Democratic Congresswoman Barragan, I thought, really destroyed Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator for Trump. Play this clip.
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Hier haben wir ein paar gute Fragen von dem demokratischen Senator Wyden. Lass uns es spielen.
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Democratic Senator Warren, let's play it.
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And we're now also learning about the Trump regime sending a Burmese national to South Sudan in violation of a federal judge's order. We'll be covering that more in depth as well. Das ist eine riesige Verletzung eines Gerichts. Dann gibt es den demokratischen Senator Dick Durbin, der RfK-Junior in einigen grundlegenden Fakten schult.
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Und dann, natürlich, denke ich, der Clip des Tages, ich muss es in dieses Video einsetzen, ist der demokratische Senator Hassan aus New Hampshire. Das ist, wie es gemacht wird. Lass uns spielen.
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Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Yeah, that's how it's done. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Und RfK-Junior wird gezwungen, zu sagen, oh, ich glaube, ich lerne das jetzt. Spiel diesen Clip.
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Next up, you have Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Here's her line of questioning, where she talks about how all this Trump crap is a bunch of political theater and not progress. Beautiful line of questioning right here. Play this clip.
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More from Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who brings the fight. Play the clip.
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Democratic Senators are going gloves off, ripping the Trump witnesses to shreds who are testifying before them. Take a look at Democratic Senator Slotkin from Michigan as she looks with disgust at dog killer Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Let's play the clip.
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Jetzt haben wir den demokratischen Bundeskanzler Jamie Raskin, der verletzt ist. Er ist verpisscht. Man hat den Trump-Regime, der der Familie von Ashley Babbitt 5 Millionen Dollar von Steuergeld verdient hat. Sie war eine Insurrectionistin, die nicht zu den Polizisten hörte, wenn sie versucht hat, in die versicherte Gegend zu brechen.
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Und sie und ein Gruppe anderer Insurrectionisten haben die Leben gefährdet. of Republican, Democrat, Independent members of Congress. Watch Raskin go in. Play the clip.
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More from Democratic Congressmember Raskin here. Let's play it.
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in Bonuses to ICE Agents, $42,000 per ICE Agent, and Moskowitz is like, I'm okay, give him a bonus. But like, does that, $42,000 per ICE Agent? What about all the FEMA people were cutting and the NIH people and CDC who were firing and the veterans who were firing? Here, play this clip.
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I think what's going on there, because as you heard, it's not even described what this money is for. I think it's a slush fund to buy more ads on, in my opinion, to buy more ads on FOX. und mehr Trump-Propaganda zu verbreiten. Ich denke, das wird verwendet werden. Und ich denke, sie verwenden die Idee von ICE-Agenten als sympathische Figuren, während das Geld tatsächlich zu Trump-Propaganda geht.
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Panicked MAGA Mike Hides at 1 a.m. Disaster Hearing
more pathetic behavior from maga mike johnson and donald trump so now maga mike johnson is refusing to even take questions from the press about this disastrous budget bill also maga mike set a hearing in the rules committee at a 1am this morning or 1am in the night however you want to characterize it
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And at least 8.6 million people are gonna lose their health insurance on the low end. 7.6 million people will be dropped from Medicaid right away. And 1 million people will lose their Affordable Care Act plans
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i mean this is one of the biggest wealth distributions from not wealthy people from poor people to the richest americans as brendan duke explains the official cbo analysis confirms the obvious the house republican tax and budget bill isn't shared sacrifice it makes poor people poorer and rich people richer it does this by cutting health care and nutrition to help finance tax cuts skewed to the very very very
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wealthy. It's a really horrific, horrific budget. It's just frankly cruel. So let's go through the data points now. First, let me show you MAGA Mike Johnson yesterday refusing to answer any questions at all regarding this budget plan. Here, play this clip.
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hoping that the media would not cover what was taking place at all to try to push through this budget bill through the Rules Committee literally at 1 a.m. while Americans are sleeping. And I previously showed you how MAGA Mike was handing out talking points to his fellow MAGA Republican Congress members.
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So Democratic Congress member Jim McGovern from Massachusetts raised a very simple point. So if this bill is so great, if you all think this is really, really good, why are you debating it at 1 a.m.? Why are you trying to literally hide it while Americans are sleeping? Here, play this clip of Congress member McGovern.
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We all know the answer. So then you have the MAGA Republican Congress members who are against this bill and who have said that they will not vote for it, despite Donald Trump showing up on Capitol Hill and attacking them and threatening them. So here you have MAGA Republican Congress member Thomas Massey.
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and he's asked by Manu Raju from CNN what he thinks about the Trump claim that this is not going to add to the deficit, to which, again, Thomas Massey, MAGA Republican, he says this is going to add $20 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. Play this clip.
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Now, here's what MAGA Republican Chip Roy warns about the discussions that are underway. And specifically, you have a number of kind of factions taking place. Let me just show you Chip Roy, then let's talk about these factions. Let's play it.
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to try to discredit the nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, by calling it a leftist, radical extremist organization that hates Donald Trump, despite the fact that MAGA Mike Johnson and other members of Congress previously cited to the Congressional Budget Office's nonpartisan reports
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of blue states either significantly raising the SALT cap, state and local tax cap, which Donald Trump artificially put at $10,000 state and local tax deduction back in 2017, really punitive against blue states. And some of these other blue state members of Congress either want the cap raised or eliminated. You have MAGA Republican Congress members who want the cap remaining at $10,000.
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You've got other MAGA Republicans who think it's bad optics to take away people's Medicaid. And then you have other MAGA Republicans who say it adds too much to the deficit. Those are the fights taking place right now. This was yesterday on Capitol Hill where you have MAGA Republican Rep Burleson and MAGA Republican Congress member Self and others criticizing this bill. Here, play this clip.
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Don't work for the Freedom Caucus. They just need to get over themselves. So then you have MAGA Republican Congress members like Warren Davis, Warren Davidson, a New York MAGA Republican Congress member, La Lota. And again, La Lota was basically yelled at by Donald Trump yesterday for requesting that the SALT deduction cap either be significantly higher or just removed entirely.
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Let's play this clip right here.
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And here we hear more from MAGA Republican Congress members as well, like Mike Lawler, who says this was all pretty stupid, waiting until the last minute. MAGA Republican Congress member Bacon and another clip here of MAGA Republican Chip Roy play this clip.
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when it suited them to try to attack former President Biden, when what would have been added to the deficit under some of the proposals by Biden are way smaller than what's being caused by this disastrous Trump budget plan, which on the small side would add about $4 to $5 trillion to the deficit. But a MAGA Republican Congress member who is not happy at all with this bill
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Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Ogles and Bacon. Here they are right here.
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And you can see this is all Republicans fighting Republicans right now, right? So you have MAGA Republican Patronus attacking MAGA Republican La Lota over the SALT issue, saying, you know, La Lota, You know, he's losing his constituents to Florida from New York. So why are we trying to help New York in any way raise the state and local tax deduction cap? Play this clip.
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I just wanna say this, okay? Blue states by and large are donor states and red states are taker states. It's such a wild concept to me that these Congress members from the red states whose entire states are subsidized by the blue states, they wouldn't exist without the blue states, are so punitive and attack the blue states the way they do.
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And there are some Congress members who are still Republican from these blue states. Even if this thing gets through in the House of Representatives, the next hurdle is going to be in the Senate.
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And from what we're hearing from all of these senators, whether it's Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley, they're saying they're not going to support this bill in the way that the House of Representatives is trying to push this forward, play this clip.
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Panicked MAGA Mike Hides at 1 a.m. Disaster Hearing
So that's the dynamic on Capitol Hill right now, with MAGA Mike Johnson refusing to take questions. And then I'll just leave you with this fraud that Donald Trump is engaged in, where Donald Trump is saying, I'm not worried about the deficit, he said, because he claims that he brought in $7.1 trillion in his Middle East trip, which in the same sentence he says $5 trillion or $5.1 trillion.
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Panicked MAGA Mike Hides at 1 a.m. Disaster Hearing
Then he says $7 trillion. He adds $2 trillion in the same sentence. He has not brought in $7 trillion. He's not brought in $1 trillion. The entire GDP of Qatar is $200 billion. So Qatar can't give $1.2 trillion. Their entire annual GDP is 200 billion. The entire GDP of the United Arab Emirates is 400 million. The entire GDP of Saudi Arabia is 1.1 trillion.
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Panicked MAGA Mike Hides at 1 a.m. Disaster Hearing
They're not giving their entire annual GDP to the United States, and they're not giving it immediately to the United States. It would take them 20, 30 years if they were going to do that, and they would bankrupt their own countries.
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says it's going to add about $20 trillion. That would be MAGA Republican Congressmember Thomas Massie saying it'll add $20 trillion. So let's just go through what's taking place here. We have the Congressional Budget Office's recent score that just came out yesterday, where they're saying that the GOP bill would hurt the poorest 10% of Americans while benefiting the top 10% of Americans.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think and hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
Trump voters continue to take to social media posting that they are regretting their vote. Let me share with you some of the recent posts and recent headlines that we're seeing. Posts like this one right here, update my MAGA neighbor who worked for USDA and was fired three weeks ago by Trump. His Trump flag just came down. His house is now up for sale. F around and find out at its finest.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
for donald trump now many farmers say they face an uncertain future as the tariffs are kicking in because starting this week american farmers are getting hit with the tariffs on the food they directly sell to china including soybeans corn and wheat as well as pork chicken and beef those levies are in retaliation for what trump's putting on the chinese goods
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
coming into the United States and farm dependent states like North Dakota. All of this has renewed concerns about the trade war. You think I previously reported what's going on in Nebraska, for example, they've got a big budget shortfall there. And also with the gutting of the Department of Education and other services, They are struggling there. And then you hear headlines like this.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. It talks about this guy, Bradley Bartel and Camila Munoz. She's from Peru. They were in an airport. She got picked up and then she got deported. And they are shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Let's bring in to make some sense of all this. But before, let me show this one more I got to show. This is a comment. Tell me this.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
If Trump is doing so good and saving so much money, why is gas still the same as what Biden had it fluctuating at between two ninety nine and three something? And why is every bill that I received going up electric bill, phone bill, water bill, every single bill? You have Trump boasting about how much he's doing. But until he starts doing something for Americans, I'm off the Trump train.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
I know I wouldn't vote for a Democrat, though. Now I want to bring in Neera Nandan, CEO for the Center of American Progress, former senior advisor for domestic policy to former President Biden. Neera, you hear these types of comments, but you also hear people saying, I am pissed at Trump, but I can never vote Democrat. What do you make all of this? First, the regrets and then the Democrats part.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
There are posts like this by the thousands of people reaching out to Donald Trump. President, I voted for you, but since then you've cut many government jobs so fast. OPM has screwed up my wife's retirement money after 30 plus years of faithful service and we haven't gotten her retirement for a month. What the hell is going on?
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
You've recently been quoted as saying that Democrats should not be knee-jerk institution defenders. What do you mean by that? And what's your vision? What are you advocating for at the Center for American Progress in terms of what that vision should be?
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
The business community that was very outspoken in favor of Donald Trump. They don't seem to like the chaotic economy. That's putting it lightly. CEOs say they are losing faith in Donald Trump. Quote, I don't trust that what's said today will be true tomorrow. I mean, someone who was found civilly liable for fraud and convicted of 34 felony counts. You can't trust their word. Oh, that's surprising.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
What do you think about some of these Democrats who are heading into the red and purplish areas and holding these town halls and speaking with voters who may not agree with them in the absence of these Republicans who have canceled all of their town halls? Do you think that's a good strategy? Just go out there and speak?
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
know and i think when you listen a lot of voters i saw that word tree that you had posted um of how people think about democrats and and what they think in general about the way democrats are fighting and you hear the words like like weak um and handling it poorly and you know i just think these past few weeks have been kind of a a wake-up call like listen to the people Get out there.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
As you said, deliver the message. The people, as I've always said, like I firmly believe the people are on your side. They don't want their Medicaid gutted. They don't like billionaires calling their social security Ponzi scheme. They don't like seeing veterans get cruelly fired and treated like crap. Just go out and speak to people on those issues. Hear them. And make the case.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
That was from Fortune, by the way. Also, as the Trump regime guts FEMA and we're seeing horrific storms ravage the country and our hearts go out to.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
Neera Tanden, CEO, Center for American Progress. We appreciate you and please come back. Keep us posted on the work that you are doing and we appreciate all you do.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
Have a great day. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
everybody who's been affected there was over 37 dead this past weekend while donald trump was bragging about winning his own golf tournament the people in these states a lot of them red states or purplish states are saying actually we we need fema yes the states are involved but believe it or not fema's a helpful entity and it should not be abolished the way the trump regime wants it to be you hear stories like this north dakota went big
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, who calls herself a press secretary, is just so sloppy and unprepared. Her press conferences, like the one today, are always just so disastrous. Caroline, I know you don't do your research. I don't know. Maybe just go on Wikipedia for some of these judges before you attack them.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Oh, you don't have answers to that, Caroline? As Greg Sargent, great reporter, says, the White House press secretary was just asked about the termination of this program that tracks Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. Why in the world would Donald Trump terminate that program? She goes, oh, I have no updates about that. Oh, by the way, Caroline, Where are the Epstein files?
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
You think you're going to distract us by releasing the 2023 JFK files and just changing the number to 2025 instead of 2023? You got Joe Rogan saying, has anyone fed the JFK files to Grok? So who killed JFK? There's not a conspiracy that that moron won't chase. Sorry, back to Caroline. I digress. Back to Caroline Leavitt.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
She's asked here by a reporter, can you provide any more details on how authorities investigate have determined if these Venezuelan individuals who you put in concentration camps in El Salvador are gang members or terrorists or whatever? What's your criteria for sending these people? If you're gonna show their faces on these ISIS style videos, what's your evidence that they committed crimes?
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Like here, Caroline Levitz says, oh, this Obama appointed activist DC judge and the judge's wife, they're going after Donald Trump. Caroline, the judge was first appointed by George W. Bush, a Republican. Here, play this clip.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Oh, we're not going to give operational update. Why don't you just list their names? Why don't you say who they are? Why don't you list the crime that they committed? No, you're willing to put their faces on screen in videos where they're kicked and punched by El Salvador military. And you're not going to just say what their name is and what they did. I mean, this is the United States of America.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
I mean, I'm a law and order guy, but we have a constitution in due process here. Next, I want to show you this reporter then attacks the mainstream media and then praises Derek Chauvin. Play this clip.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
praising Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, great idea, Trump regime, for letting all these right-wing nutcases into the briefing room to make speeches and turn this all into an InfoWars episode. So ridiculous. And by the way, here's another clip, though, of a real reporter, Rachel Scott to Levitt, saying...
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Okay, look, if y'all are publishing these images and photos, then of these Venezuelans, you can't say what they did? Here, play this clip.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
So then there's more attacking judges by Caroline Leavitt, who has no clue what she's even talking about and play it.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
And then one more question, Senate Minority Leader. And here she uses her podium from the White House to beg the Supreme Court for help to rein in, quote, activist judges. Activist judges. Chief Judge Boasberg is the chief judge in Washington, D.C., Before being the chief federal judge in Washington, D.C., he was the chief judge of the FISA courts.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
She just doesn't know anything. And by the way, to have a press secretary from the White House attacking the judge's wife after Chief Justice John Roberts also put out a public statement for Donald Trump to stop attacking federal judges if he doesn't like their orders. She's attacking the wife of the judge, but that's very Trumpy here.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
So he knows a little bit about federal intelligence. I mean, and foreign intelligence, rather. And then before that... He was a DC judge, a district court judge, from the district, that is, appointed by George W. Bush. But more attacks on the judge next. I'll show you right here. Caroline Levitz asks, how do you determine if a judge is bad? Watch her response.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
She's then asked about Donald Trump unlawfully terminating the FTC, the Democratic FTC commissioners and more lies from her. She goes, of course she has the authority to do it. He doesn't have the authority. Let's play it. Go ahead.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Rachel. Caroline Levitt is then asked if it was Donald Trump himself that asked for the airplanes that had these Venezuelans to keep going to El Salvador after it was known that there was a court order requiring them to return to the United States. and be given due process, play this clip.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
while the Caroline Leavitt press conference was taking place, there was another press conference taking place by the Federal Reserve Chairman Powell. Here he is right here, and the Fed sharply reduced their 2025 growth projections. They're keeping interest rates the same because they're reducing growth projections, and they believe the tariffs are going to cause more inflation.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Here's what Federal Reserve Chairman Powell had to say. Let's play it.
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And here he talks about how the Fed is now projecting just 1.7% GDP growth. That's the median when it was expected to be much higher had Donald Trump just literally done nothing and just allowed former President Biden's economy to just continue on. Play this clip.
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Here's the headline that comes out of this meeting. Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady as tariffs, inflation blurs the path ahead. Blurs the path ahead. You mean that Trump is crashing the economy. That's another way of saying that. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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Caroline Leavitt is asked another question, which she doesn't know the answer to, about has the White House shut down the program whereby the United States, through this research institute, finds Ukrainian children who are being trafficked by Russia? Here, play this clip.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
One of the most powerful moments, we've been covering these speeches that I see, and we've covered your speech in Warren.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
Oh, it's what people want. People want people like you who are fighting and who are listening. And there's a part in your speech where you ask the people in the crowd, what's it like to live paycheck to paycheck? And people share what they're experiencing with you. Talk to us about that, Senator.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
I heard one person in the crowd even say psychological torture. It feels like we're being tortured by these oligarchs.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
It is an honor to be joined by Senator Bernie Sanders. Senator, tell us about your Fight the Oligarchy tour where you're traveling to reddish and purplish areas and just speaking to the people and speaking to workers.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
No, and Senator, so many people, though, voted against their interest or voted against their unions. And, you know, we were doing our best to try to cover what Trump and Musk were saying. Let me just show you what they were saying during the campaign. This was out there. Yet people who were in unions, workers voted
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
For this, I mean, I think they were deceived what the this is, and I want to get your take on it. But here, let's play this clip where Trump praises Musk during the campaign for firing workers who were striking for better pay and working conditions. Let's play.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
You'd be good. So what's going on here? How come people voted for that and now that happened?
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
And so what does that look like to you once you have the descriptive and you recognize the prescriptive is we have to take on the oligarchy? Look, I think you're leading the way right now, speaking to workers across the country. And so maybe just speak to anybody who's listening right now. We've got a pretty big audience here.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
And to the American people, what does that fight look like now where MAGA controls the executive branch, both houses? in Congress? What does the fight look like?
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
Where does the Fight the Oligarchy tour go next?
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers this month. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
After failing in his negotiations with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump ran straight to American state regime media known as Fox to attack Canada. Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play it.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Canadians are the worst people to negotiate with, he says. Here, play this clip. Things, we rebuilt our military.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
You see even Laura Ingraham is trying to, like, lead him to not attack Canada, but he can't help himself because he's a despicable human being who actually wants to annex and take over Canada the way Putin wants to take over Ukraine. Here, Donald Trump is, again, after attacking Canada, here he is praising Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin. I could go on and on.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
You get the point, though, that this is what is going on in most of this interview. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
So absolutely despicable. I'll just show it to you one more time. Then Donald Trump says, look, Canada wasn't meant to be anything other than the 51st state of America. We don't need their lumber. We don't need anything from them, he says. Here, play this clip.
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Let me just say to our Canadian supporters and the Maple Midas out there, we here at the Midas Touch Network stand in solidarity with you. We understand why you are boycotting all things American and American tourism because of the despicable Trump regime. And we are fighting from within to take back our democracy from an authoritarian regime that has taken over our country right now.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Here in this interview with Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump says that he wasn't able to do the ceasefire deal with Putin because...
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
ceasefires are hard and then he spreads the lie that uh russian troops have encircled the ukrainian troops and that that's one of the reasons why they can't do a ceasefire and that he and putin are trying to save the ukrainian troops from russia killing everybody here play this clip and right now you have a lot of guns pointing at each other and a ceasefire without going a little bit further would have been tough
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
uh russia has the advantage as you know they have encircled about uh 2 500 soldiers they are nicely encircled and that's not good and we want to get it over with look we're doing this let me be clear what donald trump said there is 100 false russia has not encircled the ukrainian troops in the kursk's region that is just straight up russian propaganda from vladimir putin it is absolutely despicable that donald trump is parroting that but
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Everything he's saying here is despicable. Laura Ingraham here talks about how the Kremlin media actually stated that he demanded immediate cessation of aid to Ukraine. And Donald Trump then lies and says, oh, he didn't say that. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
I thought Donald Trump was such a good negotiator that you were going to figure this out, Donald. I thought you had the best negotiating plan that you were going to have peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. You don't even know what was said on the call. I mean, it's like not the art of the deal. It's like the art of the stupid and dangerous right now.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Donald Trump spent most of this interview with Laura Ingraham attacking Canada and then praising Russia and China. Here Donald Trump is saying that he'd like to do more trade with Russia while he attacks our closest ally, Canada. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
The art of Donald Trump's obsequiousness, the art of Donald Trump surrendering. What a pathetic individual he is. Laura Ingraham then goes, are there circumstances you would ever defy a court order like the court order that said you cannot send Americans to concentration camps or you cannot send migrants to concentration camps or people who just you divine and deem?
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
um, to be, uh, uh, train day or Agua gang members. You have to like, give them a process or let's just see where we are in 14 days. And Donald Trump's like, uh, now I think that the number one, I, I think I've been in court more than anybody here. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement today in public. saying he didn't mention Trump by name, but he said that people should not be attacking federal judges who issue injunctions, go through the regular appeals process. But Trump, like a little freaking baby, is like, oh, he didn't say my name. He didn't say my name, so therefore he didn't mean me. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
He was Obama appointed. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski explains, this is the game that every Republican has figured out. You can criticize something Trump has done on virtually anything as long as you don't actually mention his name. I've documented hundreds of examples of this. It's why he's our editor-in-chief. He's the best in the business.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Laura Ingraham then asks Donald Trump if he believes that when people vandalize Teslas, if that's terrorism. And Donald Trump says, yes, it's terrorism. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Meanwhile, it's because... Very weirdly, Donald Trump then brags that Elon Musk loves him and loves him more than Kamala. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
If you took a transcript of this and you said like a little baby, is saying these things, like just his cadence, you like me, you like her, you like me. Like I would believe you that this was like a three-year-old, no offense to three-year-olds. Here, Donald Trump attacks federal employees, play this clip. But for federal judges,
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Here, Donald Trump says that he would have liked to get a piece of the action of the money that's going to come in from the Trump gold card, which is how he says, we're all going to get rich from the Trump gold card. You see, he's going to sell citizenship to Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs. Play this clip. Judge.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
And then finally, Donald Trump lies and says that they found so much fraud in USAID. All this fraud they found. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
So I guess they closed the door. You didn't find fraud. And also, you know how I know you didn't too? Show me. You're sending people to El Salvador concentration camps, right? So where are all your people who have been arrested for fraud, for USAID fraud? Where are the criminals? Oh, wait a minute. Are you telling me that the Republicans passed –
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continuing resolutions where they adopted these priorities and until you, Elon Musk, decided that you were going to just lie about everything USAID was doing, you're telling me that Republicans were actually in favor of USAID and now they're not? Oh, you're telling me they're inconsistent and they're liars? Oh, big shocker when it comes to MAGA. How pathetic is this, though?
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
and on that they have things that we could use frankly and they that other and as i said most of this interview was devoted to donald trump attacking canada saying he wants to conquer it saying he wants to annex it saying that they don't have any resources that are really needed and they need the united states here donald trump is talking about how
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
He spent an entire interview attacking Canada, saying how he wants to conquer it, which is not a trade war. Those are the words of actual war. And it pisses me off. And that's why Canada has united in solidarity against this crap. It's pathetic. It's shameful. It's a stain on the United States of America. It's horrific. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And thank you for watching.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
Well, that didn't take long, folks. Donald Trump's approval continues to plummet, according to Atlas Intel, which was the most correct in the 2024 election in terms of pollsters. They find that 52.4% of Americans now disapprove of Donald Trump's presidency. And when you look at the people who did not vote in the 2024 election, who could have swung the scales, I don't know, say to democracy.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
It's not $3.45. It's ridiculous. And this is what they want to sell us on. And finally, I'll just show you this just so you can see for yourself the clip. First, just take a look at these stock markets since inauguration. Hong Kong crushing it. Europe crushing it. United States being crushed.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
All the other markets are good, but the United States is doing horrible when it was doing fantastic under former President Biden. But here's Donald Trump. Liberation Day, April 2nd. We're all going to be liberated. Stupid. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
So going back to what I shared with you at the outset, no wonder people are pissed. No wonder Trump's approval is plummeting. Frankly, I think it's high. I mean, the fact that it was still 47% approve of this madness of this craziness or something like that, or 54% disapprove. Who could approve of it? It's like a psycho in every aspect of it.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
as donald trump and his regime send the united states of america into a recession or perhaps even into a depression you have donald trump he wakes up in the morning and he just does crap like this and it's so odd and dangerous and pathological it just stop this nonsense and behave normal But look, folks, we know he's incapable of that.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
We got to just keep opening up people's minds, showing them the facts, pulling out the receipts. And just showing what are we even talking about here? You got Trump and Musk cutting Medicaid and calling Social Security Ponzi schemes, firing veterans. Pisses me off. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
Here's the photo that he posted when he posed in front of the empty auditorium at the Kennedy Center with his hands outstretched like he's Mussolini. And he was kind of copying those photos from authoritarians in the past who stand on the balcony. There's literally nobody in that auditorium. And Donald, if you were to show up there People would boo the hell out of you.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
I dare you to show up to a Kennedy Center event, by the way. I doubt there'll even be many more Kennedy Center events since. I think attendance is down 50% since Donald Trump fired everybody on the Kennedy Center board and appointed himself as chairman. Nobody wants to perform there. The Hamilton play canceled and other people are canceling as well. I mean, you wake up in Trump regime America.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
And by the way, it's not a government by the people for the people. It's by the bullies for the billionaires. And you wake up. to headlines like this, whereas with former President Biden, the headlines were like, economy envy of the world, new record highs in the stock market. Now you get headlines like this from the New York Times. Trump says a recession might be worth the cost
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Economists disagree. It's like a stupid headline too, though. I mean, Trump says recession might be worth the cost. Economists disagree.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
How about Trump wants to destroy our economy, which is completely and utterly stupid and dangerous, so he and his oligarch friends could hoard their money and then try to lower the interest rates, then borrow, and then try to scoop up assets for pennies on the dollar when they crash the economy and make people suffer. Ah! I don't know, maybe that's part of their plan.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
You take a look at the NASDAQ yesterday, the Dow yesterday, continues to have awful, awful days. Headlines like this. Trump policies promise an economic downturn, says prominent forecaster and first ever recession watch. The UCLA Anderson forecast citing substantial changes to the economy from the policies of the Trump administration. So yes,
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It's directly linked to Trump issued its first ever recession watch on Tuesday. UCLA Anderson has been issuing forecasts since 1952, said the administration's tariff and immigration policies and plans to reduce the federal workforce could combine to cause the economy to contract. Its analysis was titled Trump policies, if fully enacted, promise a recession. They
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
Could have just titled it Trump's Policies Promise a Recession because he's out there every day. What's his new thing that he's saying? April 2nd is Liberation Day. You know what he's saying that's going to happen on April 2nd? He says on April 2nd, all the countries of the world are going to get a envelope. I'm not making this up. And in the envelope, they're going to get a number.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
Amongst the people who didn't vote in 2024, 83% of people who didn't vote, and I guess who would vote again, say they disapprove of the way Donald Trump is doing. handling things.
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And the number is going to be how much they're going to be tariffed based on how nice or naughty they are to Donald Trump. I'm not making that up. There was a town hall that was held recently in Nebraska by MAGA Republican Mike Flood, where the crowd chanted, tax the rich, tax the rich. And this is in a ruby red area of Nebraska. Play this clip. Tax the rich, tax the rich.
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Well, that was taking place. As I mentioned yesterday, Donald Trump had these. failed negotiations with Putin where Trump says, I'm going to go in and we're going to get a absolute ceasefire. Trump didn't get that at all. What they did talk about, you want to know what Trump and Putin talked about?
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Donald Trump supports Putin's idea of organizing hockey games in the US and Russia between Russian and American players competing in the NHL and the KHL as per Russia's propaganda network. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, yes, Donald Trump still hasn't ended the war in Ukraine in 24 hours like he promised.
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But apparently he's setting up hockey games with the guy who is murdering civilians, torturing prisoners and kidnapping children. Also. Donald Trump and Putin, according to the readout of their negotiations, agreed that a future with improved bilateral relationships between the United States and Russia has huge upside.
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Also, when you take a look at the approval ratings of Zelensky versus Putin, as Donald Trump continues to suck up to Putin and just say a bunch of false and demeaning things about Ukraine, 14% of Americans view Zelensky positively. And Putin has a net negative 80% approval. I guess 80% people disapprove of Putin. It means 20% of Americans in MAGA like Vladimir Putin, which is very bizarre.
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This includes enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has been achieved. as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, explains from the White House readout of Trump's call with Putin, where Putin did not agree to a ceasefire.
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It seems that while Trump is launching a trade war with the EU and North American countries, our closest allies, Trump does expect enormous economic deals with Russia very soon. So Donald Trump had these failed negotiations with Putin, or maybe that's what Trump wanted, like that was the goal. I've told you, right?
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I think from the outset, when Trump was talking about a deal, it was that Trump was going to steal Ukraine's minerals and rare earth minerals, scoop that for himself, put it in his own mind into his sovereign wealth fund, and then build all of these Trump stuff with Ukraine's wealth. and then give the other portion of Ukraine to Putin. And then U.S.
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and Putin would become allies and engage in a bilateral trade relationship and then screw Europe and Canada and Australia and everywhere else. That's what I predicted. And I mean, look, Trump was acting consistent with that plan. But shout out to the European nations and Canada for standing up against Donald Trump and strongly getting Zelensky's back and standing up to him.
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This wannabe fascist Donald Trump. So after Trump's whatever you want to call those discussions with Putin, by the way, Putin made Donald Trump wait for him like a half hour. And Putin was like mocking Donald Trump at a speech he did before. Oh, he could wait for me. He could wait for me.
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Then Donald Trump rushed to Laura Ingraham, state regime media in the US, and he goes, I really wanna do more trade with Putin. We need to do more trade with Russia. Play this clip.
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So you go to stopboxusa.com, use that code MIDUS10. Discover a better way to balance security and readiness with Stopbox. So he's talking about more trade with Russia. And then he keeps saying, I really want to do deals with Xi Jinping. I look up to Xi Jinping and Putin. Here's what he says. Play the clip.
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The next question, do you approve Trump excluding Ukraine from negotiations between Russia and Donald Trump? Trump had those bilateral discussions yesterday that were a complete and utter failure. More on that in a moment. 66% of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump just speaking directly to Putin without Zelensky or Europe.
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bashing Canada. Here's what he has to say about Canada. Let's play it.
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So yes, praising China, praising Putin, but he's very bad and attacking Canada. I mean, it's so utterly pathetic. Shout out, by the way, to Canadian Prime Minister, their new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, who is, I think, pitch perfect right now in standing up to the Trump regime. As I've said, Mark Carney, the banker, Donald Trump, the bankrupter.
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Mark Carney, the banker, Donald Trump, the bankruptcy guy over and over again. You need a real banker to deal with Donald Trump, and Carney's been handling him quite well. But, you know, like there's a pathology to these sicko authoritarians. Like look at Putin when he would like give himself the awards at the hockey, right? You know, he gives himself the hockey awards.
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Donald Trump gave himself over this weekend while America's Midwest faced deadly storms where like 40 people or more died. Trump awarded himself the golf tournament championship at his own golf club. Very Putin-esque. The way Putin has his sycophants go on state regime media. That's what Trump does. He has Witkoff, one of his special envoy to Russia, goes, oh, I would commend President Putin.
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I'm commending Putin on everything, the way he talked to Trump. Oh, and Donald Trump, I can't overstate how compelling he was. Trump was so compelling.
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And by the way, the Trump regime keeps putting out like just fake stuff like this too. Egg prices drop again. I think the USDA is putting out phony wholesale numbers, not retail numbers, wholesale numbers. And they're comparing wholesale to retail and they're acting like egg prices have dropped and eggs are good now. We're all good now because the U.S.
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And then you take a look at the NBC poll from the day before yesterday, Trump job approval amongst independents, 67% disapprove. I mean, look,
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Department of Agriculture tells us there's no issues with eggs. Like a miracle, it's fixed. Mission accomplished. It's like, dude, I go to the grocery store. There's no eggs. At least for me in California, it's like 10 bucks. I know in other areas, it's eight bucks, nine bucks. I don't know. You may find a Trader Joe's where it's three or four bucks. I don't know. But overwhelmingly.
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Now, never normalize this. This is what Donald Trump is doing this afternoon. He made posts like this. Congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan and all of New York is saved. Long live the king. And then the White House official account reposted that with a fake Time magazine cover that says Trump and has a crown on his head. And it says Long Live the King.
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And this refers to the Trump administration trying to stop a New York and New York City programming to stop. to help with the flow of traffic into the city and to raise funds that the city of New York and the state of New York said was going successful. There was a deal made with the federal government under the Biden administration and Donald Trump ordered it unilaterally
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cancel, that the deal should be broken. And New York is not following those orders right now. But Donald Trump is saying that he's now saved New York for doing that. And he's posting photographs of himself as a king with a crown on his head. Yes, folks, it is utterly deranged.
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And this follows Donald Trump posting this morning multiple posts and statements referring to President Zelensky of Ukraine as a dictator and threatening Zelensky that he, quote, better move fast or he is not going to have peace. a country left. Donald Trump then spread other Russia propaganda as well about Ukraine stealing all of this money from the United States.
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I'm reminded of this quote, though, from Game of Thrones, quote, "'Any man who must say, I am the king,' is no true king. Donald Trump's posts both about Ukraine and saying that he's a king, to me, it comes from a place of total and utter weakness. You can see the weakness and desperation in the posts. He thought that President Zelensky of Ukraine was going to be bullied.
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Trump thought that Europe was going to be bullied and that they were just going to back down. And they're not. Europe is standing up. Zelensky is standing up. So now Donald Trump is trying to further bully Zelensky and to pursue other talking points and strategies fed to Donald Trump by Vladimir Putin, which is to say that Zelensky needs to hold an election immediately and
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that he's not a legitimate leader of Ukraine. Now, let me just show you this video that Vladimir Putin released moments ago, where he's basically speaking to Donald Trump in this video, saying that Trump needs to go harder on Europe right now and apply more pressure to attack Europe and to attack Ukraine. You can see how easily Putin is playing Donald Trump here. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, is it? So completely obvious what's going on there. Meanwhile, Donald Trump announced that he will be speaking at an investment conference in Miami sponsored by the Saudi government entities, an address that comes as the Trump organization seeks to expand its real estate empire in Saudi Arabia. And Trump looks to strengthen his ties with the Middle East partner. Remember, Saudi Arabia,
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And he just calls Kristi Noem, Kristi, here, play this clip.
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I guess, purported to host that mediation. I say purported because what the hell was that if you cut Ukraine and Europe out? In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia yesterday, where the United States and Russia negotiated directly with each other, and it seemed that they were trying to ally with each other against Europe. and Ukraine.
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But Donald Trump is, I guess, Saudi first right now, and he's trying to bolster his own business. Donald Trump has also spent the entire day today golfing over and over again and making people clap for him at his golf course while he tees off. And while all of this is happening, it should be noted that there was yet another plane crash.
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This one at a regional airport in Arizona as Donald Trump was golfing. Two planes crashed into each other. Two people were killed in the plane crash. And so to be clear, I think we're talking about the ninth crash now. since the Trump administration took over.
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And as I said, one of the things they're trying to do in the Trump administration, the same way they've normalized school shootings, they want to normalize air crashes and plane crashes as well and say that planes crash, planes crash all the time. which is not true. And then they lie and say planes crashed more under Biden than Trump, which again is totally false.
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But here's Trump's transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who got famous on the real world road rules challenge. Here he says planes crash. It's just what happens here. Play this clip.
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Okay, and then Donald Trump says that he put Elon Musk in charge of Doge, which directly contradicts an affidavit submitted under oath by the Trump administration to say that Elon Musk is not in charge of Doge and that Elon Musk was actually just a special advisor to Donald Trump but was not controlling Doge. Donald Trump just threw Elon Musk under the bus.
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In America, we hold a presidential election every four years, even during wartime. We held an election during the Civil War. We held an election during World War II. Before President Zelensky decides to lecture the Americans again, He should hold an election, too, to which then Elon Musk responded.
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Zelensky cannot claim to represent the will of the people of Ukraine unless he restores freedom of the press and stops canceling elections. That is quite literally verbatim the Russian talking point. That is being spewed by a co-president of the United States and the official accounts of the White House and other American accounts as well.
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While all of this is going on, folks, we're learning that, and this is from our friend Greg Sargent over at New Republic. He's a great writer. The Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers and At NIH's Center for Combating Alzheimer's, they predict big setbacks to fight dementia. This cause was once championed by Republicans, but not anymore.
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President Zelensky just wrote, thank you for your support. reaching out to the world and trying to stay strong. As Dylan Williams writes, though, Trump has not even been in office for a month, and Americans are already legitimately wondering if, one, it is safe to fly. Two, they will be able to buy eggs. Three, we are going to invade a NATO ally. Four, common prescriptions will be banned.
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Five, their Social Security payment will arrive. Will it arrive or not? We're learning from the New York Times, the IRS is beginning laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday. They're looking to further gut the IRS. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, the third day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country.
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He didn't even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Administration resigned and didn't know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA and Department of Defense. And he claimed Medicaid wasn't being cut when it's being cut massively right there. And so this is what continues to go on right in front of us. Now, I'll show you this video right here as well.
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This is from Senator Thune, the Republican leader of the Senate. And Senator Thune is asked, would you call Zelensky a dictator as Donald Trump does? And you'll see how cowardly Thune is refusing to answer the question.
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Further, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the following to Morgan Rimmer after Donald Trump called Zelensky a dictator. Quote, I would like to see that in context because I would certainly never refer to Zelensky as a dictator. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, the context is that Trump is Putin's bitch. Just take a look right here.
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Our friend Brian Tyler Cohen made this graphic right here, which shows Trump got the FAA. Trump disbands the Aviation Security Advisory Committee on January 22nd, declares he has ended DEI and restored excellence in safety and air travel. On January 23rd, plane crash in Columbia, California. January 29th, first commercial plane crash in 16 years over Washington, D.C. 67 people died.
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January 31st, plane crash in Philadelphia. February 1st, plane crashes in Texas. February 5th, Japan Airlines plane strikes Delta flight on runway in Seattle. February 5th, plane crashes in Arkansas. February 6th, Air flight disappears over Alaska with 10 people on board, later all found dead. February 10th, plane crashes in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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A very lethargic-looking, low-energy, cognitively addled Donald Trump just gave a press conference in Florida. He forgot the name of his Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem. He then went on to accidentally throw Elon Musk under the bus. You can see that he was struggling up there. Total disaster. Let me show you first. Again, you'll see how kind of slow he's going right here.
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February 12th, military fighter jet crashes in San Diego Bay. February 15th, Trump fires hundreds of FAA employees. February 15th, plane crashes in Florida. February 15th, Plane crashes in Georgia. February 16th, two planes crash in Texas. February 17th, plane departing from Minnesota crashes in Toronto. February 19th, plane crashes in Arizona today.
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I wonder if the lawyers in that case are going to try to now call Elon Musk in to testify in court. Play this clip.
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We'll keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. That's your update so far. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And thank you for watching.
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Tonight, finally, are you definitively getting rid of the penny?
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All right. Let's go to other not broken promises, outright fraud. Remember Donald Trump's statements during the campaign that he was going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, he said. He said 24 hours. after the election. He said he wouldn't even have to be sworn in. Remember what he said? Here, play this clip. You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, I could.
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It won't even take that. Well, Donald, you now sent your secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to Saudi Arabia to meet with the Russian delegation led by Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, to, what, normalize United States-Russian relations as Russia's trying to destroy the United States of America, you idiot?
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And you were trying to sell out Ukraine and force Ukraine to capitulate without even any plan, without bringing Ukraine to the bargaining table, without bringing Europe to the table. That was your plan. And guess what? It wasn't resolved in 24 hours. When Donald Trump was vacationing in Mar-a-Lago yesterday, as he was playing golf yet again, here's what Donald Trump told the press about Ukraine.
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It's not broken promises. It's outright fraud. All of the things that Donald Trump was saying on the campaign trail were lies. We were trying to warn you. Let me show you the admission that Donald Trump made last night on Hannity, where he said, folks, inflation is back. Here, play this clip.
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Play this clip. Yeah, please.
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You've had a seat at the table for three years? Donald, you told everybody that you were gonna be this great negotiator, you were going to figure it out. Or were you just going to totally capitulate as we told everybody you were going to? So take a look at the spineless Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, with the U.S. delegation.
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And they seemed giddy over the idea of normalizing economic relations with Putin. and empowering Putin. Watch this.
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All right, let me show you more, not broken promises, but outright fraud. Remember what Donald Trump said on the campaign trail? That he said that on day one, he was going to start the largest mass deportation in history. He said it was going to happen on day one, right away. That's what was going to happen. Here, play the clip of what he said.
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Well, do you remember what he said on the campaign trail? As inflation was actually going down based on former President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, the inflation being caused by Donald Trump adding $8 trillion to our national debt in his first administration. Here was the promise Trump made on the campaign trail. I have hundreds of clips like this. I'll just show one short clip here.
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Well, Fox tried to pump it up with propaganda. On January 22nd, 2025, Fox said this. Here, play this clip.
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I'm going to prioritize the criminals first. Well, Donald Trump was asked about that at that press conference as well. Hey, Donald, you've actually been sending a lot of people to concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay who... were not part of gangs, who were not criminals.
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You're deporting your own supporters, Venezuelans whose family members were under TPS, temporary protected status, who were not criminals. You cut deals with the Venezuelan dictator Maduro, who was voted out of power, but like the authoritarian you are, is clinging to power the way you want to. You're sending your Venezuelan supporters back to be killed.
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by Maduro or throwing people who are not criminals into concentration camps. Donald Trump was asked about it and he didn't deny that he sent non-criminals. He was like, oh, well, we'll move them back to their countries of origins. Here, play this clip.
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And as my friend Pablo Monriquez also says, actually, fact check, zero of the transferees to Guantanamo have been confirmed to have criminal records or gang ties. It should also be noted that on day one, there wasn't the largest number. mass deportation in history.
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In fact, the level of deportations are actually less than in the Biden administration significantly, except the Biden administration deported criminals more than innocent people or people who were not engaged in crimes, while more people who Trump is deporting and sending back to countries where they could get tortured and killed are are actually people who were not engaged in crimes.
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But, you know, they are doing their propaganda shtick, their tough guy act, because cruelty is the point. So they're sending their border czar, Tom Homan, this, I don't even want to go where I'm about to go with that. But anyway, he goes on the various news networks where he threatens
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AOC, Democratic Congresswoman AOC repeatedly because that gets to rile up the MAGA base while they lie about all the stuff that they said they were going to do. Let's just attack AOC. Here, play this clip.
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And then they announced what we need to do because they're incompetent and cruel. Let's do a marketing campaign. $200 million, right? Because they claim they care about government waste. $200 million we'll throw behind ads. in English, with Kristi Noem cosplaying the governor who shot her dog. Yeah, Kristi Noem cosplaying. She's now the Secretary of Homeland Security. Say, you go home, illegals.
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You go home, illegals. And then as part of this marketing campaign, the White House. This is from the official White House account. This is how ghoulish and disgusting and monstrous these people are. This is what they posted from our White House account. Shame on on these goons. Here, play this clip.
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But then let's talk about what Donald Trump is trying to do to distract you, folks. He's getting rid of the penny. Ooh, the penny. He wants to get rid of that. That's what you get. No, goodbye, penny. Here, play this clip of Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. And he knows, like, what am I even doing here? Here, play this clip.
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And while all of this is going on, it seems like every day we learn that Doge accidentally fired the people who are stopping the bird flu. Doge accidentally fired the people working in the nuclear plants. Doge is firing FAA workers and critical workers, not accidentally. They're getting rid of tens of thousands of government workers who we rely on.
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It seems like every day there's like another plane crash taking place and it's horrific. And what does Donald Trump do? Oh, While there's devastation in terrible storms in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Donald Trump goes to NASCAR and drives around in circles in his motorcade over and over again. But hey, Donald, let me ask you this question.
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While 12 people or more died in Kentucky from the storms and you said nothing while posting stupid selfies of yourself from a Daytona 500 NASCAR race, hey, Donald, whatever happened to no tax on tips? No tax on overtime. No tax on Social Security. Whatever happened to capping credit card interest rates and capping credit card penalty fees? What happened to all of those promises that you made?
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You are a two-bit snake oil salesman, con artist, pathetic weak fool. An American needs to know that about you because you lied, you betrayed Americans, but that was the purpose. You're a con artist. You are a fraud. You are a criminal. You are an adjudicated felon. You are despicable. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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As Donald Trump becomes more unhinged and his approval plummets, Fox, which is just state-run regime media at this point, gets more desperate. It's so utterly embarrassing. Let me just show you what went down in the past 24 hours. I'll use to show you what they're doing. So they bring in Lara Trump, who now Fox has given a TV show to.
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They are suppressing information. So by the way, didn't he give away the whole game right there? I thought that was a wild moment. And then finally, after doing all of that, then they try to inflict the fear. So then they call the border czar, Tom Homan, to basically once again threaten AOC. that he's urged the DOJ to prosecute her for telling migrants about their rights.
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He goes, when do you cross the line?
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So I wanted to break down the anatomy of the Fox propaganda. You can see how desperate they're getting. And remember that moment there when Jesse Waters, in my view, just gave it all away. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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What? This data is public. I mean, Elon tried to make some posts today to show, look, there are millions of people or tens of millions of people over the age of 110 who are dead and getting Social Security. This stuff is public. It's not hard to find. I think there's only, what, 89,000 people or so. above the age of 99 who are receiving Social Security. These numbers are not hard to find.
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But then again, the purpose of Fox is to lie. And I want to show you this next methodology they use, which is once they're caught in the lie, just to laugh it off and be like, well, that's how we own the libs. Watch what happens when the pro-democracy voice on Fox named Jessica Tarloff calls out Jesse Waters and other disinformationists.
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for lying and saying that USAID was sending condoms to Hamas in Gaza. Here, play this clip and watch what happens. Play it.
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Did you see what Jesse Waters did there? Jesse Waters was like, yeah, I'm the one who made up that lie. I lied about that. I'm the one who spread that one. What they're trying to do is desensitize their audience so that once they're caught lying about something, they've already achieved their agenda. So then they're like, well, we own the libs, so we can lie, right?
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And they want their audience to think that that's normal. That lying is just kind of funny. And at first they try to get the lie through. And then when they're exposed, they try to act like it's just funny here. Jesse waters then goes on this strange rant about, uh, Like Canada's angry at the United States and they shouldn't be.
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So Lara Trump is now going to get paid a huge amount of money by Fox to host Fox shows to run part of the state-run regime media. And here she is introduced by Sean Hannity, who accidentally calls her Laura shit. Here, play this clip.
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And now Canada's booing America and networks are cheering for Canada. Look, Jesse, Donald Trump threatened to annex Canada to conquer it. And you and others have mocked Canada consistently and said it should be a 51st state. Canada just wants to exist with its sovereignty.
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And so of course you're going to piss them off when you say you want to conquer them and then attack them and mock them every day. But play this clip.
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But you see what Jesse Waters is trying to do there? He's trying to convince his audience that, and this is typical abuser behavior. He's trying to convince his audience, look, Canada's the bad guy because they're now booing the United States.
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Well, perhaps the reason they're doing it is because you're talking basically about enslaving them and conquering them and taking over their country and taking over their sovereignty and forcing them to be part of a country that they don't want to be a part of. Maybe we could give some context there, Jesse Waters. In this next clip, I want to show you. Now you have Hannity.
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who basically is, you know, he's trying to vouch for Musk and Trump and say, look, I've seen them together and I know that they know who's the real president here. Like their relationship is so good. It's just, again, this is what the ultimate propagandist does. Like you're masquerading and pretending to be news, but you're like, I know the real deal here and I know that they respect each other.
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Again, it is so utterly pathetic. And by the way, all of this is taking place at a time where yesterday evening, the White House submitted a declaration in one of these cases that's trying to block Elon Musk's access to these agencies. And this is how they described it.
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They said, Elon, this is in the declaration, that Elon Musk is a senior advisor to the president and he is not actually part of Doge. That's what they're trying to play off that happened right there.
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What was that? So then Fox brings in Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's press secretary. And here she just literally makes up fake numbers where she goes, and I think we've already found with Social Security that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are getting Social Security. Elon Musk told us, and we know Elon Musk and Doge never lie, right? Right? Here, play this clip.
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Here, they then have the interior secretary, Doug Burgum. He goes on, and this is just like pure North Korea, Pyongyang stuff right here, where he goes, where Doug Burgum, who's in Trump's cabinet, goes, oh, and when we saw Donald Trump circle around that track over and over again at Daytona 500 in the motorcade, we knew America was back. Here, play this clip.
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Because notice what they're trying to do here. They're trying to distract their audience from the fact that prices are going up. Inflation is going up. Housing is not becoming more affordable. It's becoming less affordable. Trump did not get peace in Ukraine in 24 hours as he promised. Trump promised that prices were going to go down on day one.
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And Trump continues to take actions which are hurting red states, perhaps even more than blue states. But he's getting rid of jobs in all of these locations and causing absolute havoc. So what do they do on Fox? How do they deal with this as well? And how do they try to justify the xenophobia?
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How do they try to justify the fact that one of the Trump policies are also going after hardworking people, hardworking migrants who are doing jobs in agriculture and hospitality and construction? So they go on this tirade in the morning where they're like, look, Elon Musk and all of these technological people who are part of the Trump administration, they're just so smart.
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These are such smart people that we're going to be dealing with quantum computers. So we don't need actual people who are doing the work as laborers because let's use a big word, quantum computers. quantum computers are going to figure this out. So why would we need all of these millions of people who are here doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do and can't do? Quantum, quantum.
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Do you see what they're doing? I'm just trying to cue you in on their propaganda tactics right there. So I guess we should deport everybody's what they're saying, even if they're doing key jobs, because don't worry, Donald Trump and Elon Musk quantum. They'll figure it out with quantum. We'll make big words for you right there.
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And then right here, I love this part where Jessica Tarloff then makes, and you can see that she struck a chord there because a hit dog, a holler. Watch what the panel does when she says, could you imagine for a second if former President Joe Biden was driving around on a race car track while a number of states, including red states, were suffering? Kentucky now we know dramatically.
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12 people died in Kentucky from the horrible storms. West Virginia, Virginia suffering. Donald Trump made no statement at all about that while he was driving around the Daytona 500. Watch this.
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So part of what Fox then does as well is because Donald Trump is suing CBS and Paramount, you have Fox goes after both CBS and Germany at the same time. They attack CBS on Trump's behalf, and they attack Germany because, one, Trump's suing CBS, and two, Germany is being targeted by the Trump administration as they try to get the AFD, the neo-Nazi party, elected.
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But fortunately, I think the people of Germany are seeing what's happening in the United States and saying, Elon Musk trying to support this neo-Nazi party in Germany to cause the exact harm he's inflicting on the US here in Germany. But watch this, let's play it.
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I thought this was a very telling moment right here where Jesse Waters, to me, gives it all the way. Where Jesse Waters basically says, you know what? We're waging a 21st century information warfare campaign against the left. And he spells, this is where he just lets it slip. And he's like, we've got Elon Musk tweets it out. Then Joe Rogan podcasts about it. Then Fox broadcasts it. Watch this.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Congress member Jared Moskowitz, just want to start off by asking you how you holding up there in Washington, D.C. How are things going there?
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Well, we'll have you back on. You got to keep us posted on all the developments in your state. You can see from my shirt how I feel. Show me the shirt.
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You're too cool for me. I just record YouTube videos all day from my living room. So I don't get out of... You don't know about a capybara? Oh, man. Come on.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Thank you for your time, Congressman.
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I want to talk about the 12 individual spending bills that Speaker Johnson claimed that he was going to bring, but he's not. I want to talk about clean CR, clean continuing resolution and what that means. But we know that it's possible Elon Musk is going to be watching this interview. These clips circulate far and wide. So maybe you speak to him right now and make that invitation
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for him to show up in the Doge subcommittee? Why would you tell him to show up if he's watching this right now? And you could speak to him directly.
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You know, I'm sure. You seem to be a-okay, but Congress member, we... We absolutely.
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You know, it's not normal. I think we should let our viewers and listeners know that this constant use of continuing resolutions to keep the government going and funded is Explain to people in layman's terms why that's not how it worked, usually when Democrats were in control and the way the budget process.
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And I'm not asking for our lecture, but break it down in a quick way of how the process is supposed to work. So people see why this CR approach is kind of a cop out. and how it's not really addressing what Congress's main function is, like the most basic function of what it is. And Johnson and the Republicans can't do the most basic stuff. Explain that if you can.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
that we absolutely need you in the fight? So let me start off by asking you this question, though, which is Elon Musk. There was a declaration that was submitted either on his behalf or by the federal, by the Trump White House, basically saying Musk is not running Doge or he's not an employee of Doge, but he's an advisor to the White House. You sit on the Doge subcommittee. What is Elon?
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So if they were to propose a CR, though, and not the individual spending bills, and it was just the status quo, how would you vote on that?
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What's his role if he's saying that he's not actually working for Doge?
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Well, look, your constituents, many of them maybe thought that no tax on tips was going to be the first priority, which it isn't in the budget or no tax on social security. We don't see that in the budget or no tax on overtime. And, you know, the priorities seem to be, how do you help the billionaires and the, you know, deca millionaires and how do you focus on them? But like,
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You know, do you think, though, it is a little bit breaking through to some people that, whoa, even if they're now waiting, whoa, whoa, whoa, what about these things? Do you see at all, you know, people in your district starting to call your office and ask questions like we feel a little bit rug pulled here or not yet? I'll give you the final word.
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I'm joined by Jim Acosta. Hey, Jim, I got to ask you your perspective on these press briefings we've been seeing, the treatment of the press by the Trump administration. Have we reached the point where the press corps needs to boycott, the press room needs to just not show up? What do you think?
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You think the Trump administration's attack on the AP, given their longstanding reputation, their distribution, their use by all of these other outlets, it's really an attack on all the other kind of major outlets out there trying to do reporting. That's why they're picking on the AP.
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You've seen a lot of press secretaries in your day. Let's talk about Caroline Leavitt, the current holder of that position. It seems that every day she goes out there, takes another almost Q drop, I call him at this point is another lie from Elon Musk and then spreads it and just says it matter of factly. She goes on Fox and then spews the propaganda there.
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I think Jesse Waters was bragging yesterday about the propaganda machine they created about how Elon Musk first posted and then the podcast bring it and then Fox brings it. Let me show you this video of Caroline Levitt, the short clip From her last night on Fox, where she lied about tens of millions of deceased people getting Social Security. This was quickly debunked.
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But now all, you know, tens of millions of Americans now believe this the same way they believe there were condoms going to Hamas in Gaza. Here, play this clip.
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And finally, let's talk about the promises that have already been broken. Donald Trump said that he was going to lower prices on day one. He said there was going to be all these jobs right away. We weren't going to know what to do with all of these jobs. He said that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Instead, Trump sends Marco Rubio to meet with Sergey Lavrov in Saudi Arabia and tries to cut out Europe. and Ukraine from that conversation. Nothing really came out of it other than some great photo ops for Russian propaganda. And what's Donald Trump been doing?
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He's been like driving around in a NASCAR racetrack and circles for photo ops and going to the Super Bowl costing taxpayers millions of dollars. You think people are starting to get fed up across the country? And do you think that sentiment's growing?
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Jim, where can people find your reporting right now? Where are you based? I know I've been following your sub stacks have been incredible. Let all the people know out there.
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Well, one of the number one requests I always get is to bring you on here, the Midas Touch Network. And so I know all the Midas Mighty will be happy to see you here. Jim Acosta, thanks for joining us. And everybody, check out his sub stack.
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Thanks, Jim. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Let's get to 5. Let's do it.
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Trump Gets Publicly Shamed by Entire World
The rest of the world is disgusted, revolted at, laughing at, depending on if you're our adversary, the United States. Trump looks like a little pathetic cornered rat right now. No offense to pathetic cornered rats who have more dignity than Donald Trump. So Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, basically Begging. What does Donald Trump say? Begging like a dog, right?
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Well, that's what the world thinks about us now. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thank you so much for watching.
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And great job, Donald, because yesterday Hong Kong announced that it would be suspending all of its postal service to the United States after Trump's tariff hikes. Hong Kong Post, the postal service in the semi-autonomous Chinese city, is going to stop handling packages coming from or going to the U.S. amid an escalating trade war.
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In a statement published Wednesday announcing the decision, the government of Hong Kong said, cited Trump's decision last week to eliminate the so-called de minimis exception for postal items sent from the city to the U.S. Quote, the U.S. is unreasonable bullying and imposing tariffs abusively, the government said in the statement.
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The public in Hong Kong should be prepared to pay exorbitant and unreasonable fees due to the U.S., unreasonable and bullying acts. It goes on to say the postal service will stop accepting packages transported by sea with an immediate effect and stop taking airborne packages. Starting from April 27th, the Hong Kong government said on a, in a statement.
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So all of those products that Americans rely on from some of the, all the websites that are based in Hong Kong, all of those products, you ain't getting them no more. And stuff's about to get way more expensive. Great work, Donald. Real brilliant move, Donald. Let me just give us the facts as well.
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So China has suspended sending rare earth minerals to the United States as well, which is used in everything right now, from computers to phones, you name it, they're not selling it to the United States. Now, the Trump regime thinks that it's being smart by preventing NVIDIA from
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She's begging China, please give Donald Trump a call. Please, can you please call him? The ball's in your court. He's waiting for your call. Watch this pathetic display of weakness by Caroline Leavitt at yesterday's press conference play this clip.
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from selling one of its chips back to China after the Trump regime has raised tariffs on China to 145%, which China just said is absolutely laughable at this point. Well, now Donald Trump is killing an American company and also further tanking the stock market again. Trump has no clue what he is doing, and he is being laughed at and mocked by our adversaries.
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And at this point, our allies or our former allies were like, we're not messing around with the US no more. They're crazy. They're revolted. They're disgusted. For all of Donald Trump's love of Putin and Russia, this is what is on loop right now on Russian propaganda TV. Let me share with you. We've translated this in AI as well, the voice, so you can hear it.
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This is what they're playing on loop right now on Russia TV, which, of course, gets the blessing from Putin to play this over and over again.
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But at the same time, we must understand, in two months, he will be 79 years old, and he differs from Biden in that his dementia manifests differently. That is, through verbal diarrhea and the need to show his internal audience every day that he is a super macho, he needs... Great victories. Spectacular ones. We even created a Trump verbal bingo. Yes, today was a great day.
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I had a brilliant conversation with so-and-so, showed him our coolest weapon that only America has. Thanks to the fact that the president, Trump, I gave him an ultimatum. It's a dire ultimatum. If he doesn't immediately accept my deal terms, things will be very bad for him. Well, most likely it will be good because we'll reach an agreement tomorrow.
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But if we don't agree, it will be even worse for him because we have super weapons. I am a cool president. It feels like his speech. They elected Trump. I'm great.
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I understand who writes his speeches for him. So let me get this straight. So Donald Trump sends his top envoy, Steve Witkoff, who's just like a like a real estate guy from New York, who's now the chief negotiator with Putin. Witkoff puts his hand on his heart and says, Vladimir, Vladimir.
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Two days later, Vladimir Putin sends two ballistic missiles into the city of Sumy in Ukraine, killing 35 innocent Ukrainians, injuring 120 Ukrainians who were out for Palm Sunday, celebrating with their families by a church. Then Donald Trump spends the entire week kissing people.
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Putin's ass you know how Donald Trump uses that term they're kissing my ass no one's kissing your ass Donald you're kissing Putin's ass attacking Zelensky blaming Zelensky for Putin's unlawful invasion of Ukraine and what does he get in return well I guess Donald at least Putin isn't showing the nudes of Melania again
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Remember after Trump won the election, Putin was playing on loop nudes of Melania to mock Trump. But now this is what you're getting on Russia TV. And so that's why I want to show you all what's really going on because corporate news ain't going to show you that. Let me show you what corporate news ain't going to show you either. So a video that was made by Lars Damtschkar, from Greenland.
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And this is going crazy viral right now in Greenland. A message to the people of America from 97% of Greenland. Here, watch this.
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Now, it should also be noted as well that Greenland is and the Greenland's foreign minister is working on deals with China right now. And this at the same time, the European Union expects U.S. tariffs to stay as talks make little progress. The European Union and the U.S. made scant progress bridging trade differences this week.
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as officials from Donald Trump's administration indicated that the bulk of the U.S. tariffs imposed on the European Union will not be removed. European Union negotiators, I was watching what their head of foreign negotiations or their trade minister said from the EU. They're like, we don't understand. The intentions of the Trump administration, like it literally makes no sense to us.
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As Buku Capital Bloke says, the most obvious and simple proof there is no plan. So America is now in a full on trade war, unprecedented in scope with China. So now the U.S. is asking countries to take its side, saying it's our side or China's side. We need you to stand with us. But first they pissed off every other country in the world. The order of operation makes literally no sense.
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It's indefensible. That's what the U.S. is saying. We need your support. Stand by us. Meanwhile, Caroline Levitt today during her propaganda stupid press conference in the Oval Office again attacked Canada and said we want to make Canada the 51st state. Play this clip.
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There's a reason now why when the US is giving the world an ultimatum, US or China, you pick. Why would they pick you? You're a crazy, you're literally a crazy person. I mean, there were multiple trilateral, bilateral trade agreements that former President Obama and Biden entered into with Japan, with South Korea, with countries in Southeast Asia.
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You know, at the same time that was taking place, a top Hong Kong official was saying to the Trump regime, hey, you want to call us peasants? Let me tell you what's really going on here. You're never going to take down China. I mean, didn't the Trump regime say, oh, we're outmaneuvering China here. This is what we're doing. Here, play this clip.
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europe elsewhere to try to address all of these things like like but even donald i'm not trying to give donald credit for anything because he literally just repackaged nafta and called it the united states mexican trade agreement the usmcta the usmta you know so he repackaged that but now what's donald trump doing today no I'm just going after Mexico.
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The U S commerce department on Monday said most tomatoes imported from Mexico to the United States will now face duties of 20.91% from July 14th. As it withdraws from an agreement, it said failed to protect domestic tomato growers. Okay. But did your agreement, these are like a lot of this stuff is dating back to free trade agreements that Trump put in place that was refined under Biden. But again,
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These were some of your agreements there, Donald. So no wonder the United States economy is losing tens of billions of dollars on tourism. Canada led the path. They said to the world, why would we go to the U.S.? Boycott the U.S. Boycott U.S. products. Europe is doing that as well right now. We're seeing that. And by the way, we're seeing China buy Australian beef.
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We're seeing China put its cars, electric vehicle, BYDs into Europe. People not buying Teslas in Europe anymore. This Trump tariff's been an unmitigated disaster. Oh, the Trump banning Nvidia from sending the chips into China, which are kind of reduced effective chips based on what the former Biden administration required. That's gonna cause Nvidia a $5.5 billion write-down right now.
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I mean, Trump's taking a freaking sledgehammer and wrecking everything. Oh, and by the way, talking about mocking the United States, let me share with you these two videos right here. And there's hundreds of videos like this on TikTok, which are basically people in China saying, you're calling us peasants? Watch this.
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And then this one's gone crazy viral as well of someone saying, in China, we call Trump the master builder, Trump the builder, because you are now building China and the world now wants to do deals with China. We can never do this before, but Donald, you did this. So thank you, Donald. You really are a builder. You're making China great. That's what they're saying in China right now.
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Trump Panics in Morning After Terrible News
a very frantic donald trump is trying to post his way out of the disaster he has created for his regime as his plans continue to backfire he was posting last night around midnight attacks against msnbc calling it msdnc today he was posting attacks on former president biden he was making random posts
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Hardworking Americans who deserve to be treated with absolute respect. They deserve to be paid more. frankly. But let's talk about higher paying jobs for people like this. We know that factories are closing right now. We should be giving our American workers the absolute best. It's just an odd image of the Trump regime to continue
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posting images of like coal workers as the pinnacle of what they want to see the American economy look like as the American economy was evolving to have higher paying jobs under former President Biden to bring everybody up. As former President Biden said, a job is about dignity. Yet Donald Trump and Elon Musk continue to attack that.
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Also, when you're going through Donald Trump's posts on his social media platform, this is a real ad. As you're scrolling through Donald Trump's posts, it's Matt Gaetz with an ivermectin tablet. I'm not trying to say if they think he looks like a horse or what the point. They didn't want you to have ivermectin, but you can still get it here.
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That's what they're promoting on Trump's social media platform, which last year, what, lost close to $400 million and only earned, like, what, $3.5, $4 million in revenue? Yeah. So your local boba restaurant or Starbucks restaurant or Starbucks or local restaurant makes more money, earns more revenue, and certainly more profit than Trump media does.
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Then Trump randomly posts, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is great. She's so great. This is the attack on former President Biden. Sleepy Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the United States, has allowed millions and millions of criminals, many of them murderers, drug dealers, and people released from prisons and mental institutions. Wow, wow, wow.
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Hannibal Lecter, this blah, blah, blah.
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know if you want to look at the deportation numbers former president biden this time last year this month deported more people than donald trump and more people actually that had criminal records with donald trump so you may be saying that's odd donald trump says the opposite well donald trump lies about everything and you may go well that's odd i didn't really hear former president biden talk about it that much yeah because they went through the process they had competent people
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They had immigration judges who went about a process, and then there were deportations that were handled pursuant to due process and pursuant to the law, and it just happened. Donald Trump wants to torture people. He wants to do it fascist apprentice style, right? As I've said, this regime, in addition to being the rug pull Ponzi scheme regime,
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make america great again with exclamation points he was lying and saying inflation is down i've solved the problem make america great again everybody is happy there's jobs for everyone people are living their best lives now literally as the data comes in that prices are higher like Try to get a cup of coffee.
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It's like a weird version of The Apprentice meets Kim Jong-un. That's what these cabinet meetings look like. Everything's a show, but they're not actually competent in the underlying execution of what their plans are. Remember, Donald Trump said there were going to be millions of people deported on day one. Well, that's not what happened. But what he did do is he picked people.
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90% like innocent people without criminal records at all. No criminal records here, no criminal records in their home country. And then he sent them to concentration camps in El Salvador so he could feel like a tough guy. And then when the Supreme Court says, what the hell are you doing? Nine to zero return a Brego Garcia. Why are you doing this? Oh, that's not what they said.
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I won and we can't do anything. The leader of El Salvador says, there's nothing we can do. This is a terrorist MS-13 member. Well, Donald, your immigration judge in 2019 created the protected status for Abrego Garcia. 2019, I know you have all these cognitive issues now for a long time, but you were in office in 2019. Oh, then Donald Trump makes this post. You see, it's frantic this morning.
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Post, post, post, post, post, post, post. Starting last night around midnight, he goes, everyone knows that Harvard has lost its way. They hired from New York, Bill D and Chicago, Lori L at ridiculously high salaries, two of the worst and most, and he puts this again, incompetent people, radical left fools, inept women. I mean, just go and read.
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I'm not going to read the whole freaking thing because it's like written by a psycho. Like it's written by a mad man, like a lunatic, a deranged, demented person. Imagine if somebody who you worked with, someone you knew in your life, somebody who was part of a social club wrote like that and sent you messages. You'd be like, yo, this person is a little bit... Um, you know, not a little bit.
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I mean, and this person is dangerous right here. Have you heard about the crime that the FBI calls house stealing? It's a growing real estate scam targeting American homeowners and their equity. And here's how it works. Criminals forge your signature on one document. Use a fake notary stamp, pay a small fee, and file with your county.
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Just like that, your home title has been transferred out of your name. then they take out loans using your equity or even sell your property and you won't even know what's happened until you start getting collections or foreclosure notices so let me ask you when was the last time you checked your home title Now if you're like me, the answer is never.
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I mean, it's projected to be like 59% higher as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs in some places. Take a look at housing right now. Mortgage rates crossing, what, 7%? Could even potentially hit 8% soon. And of course,
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And just think about what he's doing already this morning. attacking America's leading educational institutions, lying about the economy and saying things are great. You know, Donald, people can look at their 401ks and their pensions. People who are living paycheck to paycheck know it's not going great right now. You know that.
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People who are losing their jobs in states like Ohio, as factories are closing, they know you've lied to them. And so you could keep the Ponzi scheme rug pull going, but people are aware of like what is happening. And I understand that you've got state regime media known as Fox and you've got corporate news to do your bidding, but we've got the Midas Touch Network right now, okay?
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And we get more viewers than all of them. And by the way, everybody, go to MidasPlus.com. That's our sub stack. Sign up because we're trying to get to a million subscribers on that sub stack. It's now the fastest growing sub stack in the world. Take a look at this right here.
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They're all, all of the people in Trump's or a lot of the people, I shouldn't say all, a lot of the people in Trump's cabinet and Trump's senior staff are dyeing their hair the way Trump does. They also wear these Trump pins with Trump's face on it. You take a look right here. This is Dr. Oz. As we said on the Midas Touch account, the Trump hair dye job is is deeply, deeply disturbing.
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And just in case you were confused, just to go back to the last slide I showed you about why he's attacking Harvard, because Harvard said, no, we're not going to become a vassal institution of the Trump regime. No, we're not going to let the Trump regime take over our admissions process and force us to get rid of any form of diversity at Harvard.
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No, we're not going to let you tell us who we can hire. The the political views of the faculty and the students at Harvard. And they wanted to look and have everybody's political views laid out. Really, that seems like the most communist central planning fascist authoritarian thing in the world. Oh, by the way, This morning, the Wall Street Journal did this incredible expose on Elon.
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So right, the Republicans, we're the party of family values. Also, we pledge allegiance to Elon Musk. This is from the Wall Street Journal, folks. Rupert Murdoch's paper, the Wall Street Journal. Here's what it says. The tactics Elon Musk uses to manage his legion of babies and their mothers. So this was Ashley St. Claire on the cover. That's her with her baby Romulus, I think is the baby's name.
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most bankers right now and most economists believe we're either already in a recession we're heading for a recession the question is what's the contraction of the economy going to be negative three percent negative two percent is the contraction gonna hit in a quarter later. What's going to happen there? But Donald Trump just keeps on posting over and over again.
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And Elon Musk offered her apparently $15 million and $100,000 a month in support in exchange for her silence about the child who they named Romulus. after a historical figure who murdered his brother. Similar agreements had been negotiated with other mothers of Musk's children because Elon Musk wanted to reach legion level status before the apocalypse. So Elon wanted to have a
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a camp where all of his mothers and his legions, he calls them his legions, the babies. And he finds the woman on Twitter, according to this article, and then has the legions live in a compound. And then there was another story in the Wall Street Journal about a crypto reporter named Tiffany Fong, who was approached by Musk and asked if she could have his baby and she could have a legion.
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family values. These are the people who are engaged in a hostile takeover of our country, who are defaming our veterans, who are lying and saying these people have been fired for cause for not doing a good job. They're stripping away their dignity. And then these creeps are going on Twitter and using their accounts to try to impregnate women and create legions with their oligarchical money.
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These are real sickos. These are real freaking sickos, folks. Moving on, the governor of California, Governor Newsom, just filed a bombshell lawsuit against the Trump regime for the Trump regime's tariffs. This is similar to these other lawsuits that's just based on, but it's being brought by the governor of California in California now, Newsom versus Trump.
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And this lawsuit relates to Trump doesn't have the power to unilaterally impose tariffs as Trump's asserting war authority powers to tariff the world. The power to tariff is in Congress. You have to pass laws on these things. But Trump is saying, I'm a wartime president. We're at war against Venezuela. We're at war.
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This is Trump says he's declaring a national emergency because of war with all of these countries. So with Canada, with Australia, with Europe, with our, with our allies. So that's why, that's why Trump says that he has the ability to go around Congress. Even though if you take, if you look at like Australia, there's, there's a surplus with Australia.
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I mean, none of this makes sense at all other than Trump is deranged, dangerous. He wants to break all of the institutions, break America's prominence as the leader of the world economy. And he wants to suck up to Putin. You can see headlines like this as well. U.S. vehicle supply is falling amid tariff fear. So what's the Trump regime talking about? What's their central message today?
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Ding, ding, ding. You guessed it. They're talking about transgender people in sports. And today there was a big announcement by the Trump Department of Justice that because Maine has two transgender athletes, they are suing Maine. They tried to get rid of all of the funding for Maine's public schools because Maine said, look, we're following the law.
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Stop bullying the two transgender people who are in Maine. There's two. Stop bullying them. And then the Trump regime tried to get rid of all federal funding to public schools. So like 172,000 kids who would get their lunches in the state of Maine would get that taken away because Trump wants to bully two transgender kids in the state of Maine. So the state of Maine got...
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And by the way, the White House posted this image, as one individual noted. I can't believe this is real, but it is. It's a photo of minors with their faces covered after a hard day's work of labor. And this is the type of jobs that Donald Trump is saying he wants to see more jobs like this. And look, a big shout out to minors. Let me be very, very clear.
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the initial attempt by the Trump regime to steal all of the funding away, blocked. So there's an injunction there. So today, the DOJ coming with force and suing the state of Maine. Here's Pam Bondi talking about it this morning in her press conference. Let's play it.
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So there you have it, folks. That's the update for now. I'll keep you posted throughout the day. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
I'm going to show you more of Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall from yesterday. I also want to show you MAGA Republican Congress member Brian Mast from Jupiter, Florida. Now, he got mercilessly booed over and over again. Let me show you one such incident of that. Let's play this clip right now.
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yeah it was pretty much him getting booed the entire time right there um let's go back to the marjorie taylor green clip i showed you at the beginning so you get the full context of the question and ultimately how she answered here let's play the clip
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to try to keep out people with any dissenting views. She wouldn't really even have people ask questions. She was reading the questions live, and you got questions like that. You also got Marjorie Taylor Greene get questions like this about Donald Trump being not physically or mentally well. Watch how she handled it. Play this clip.
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Okay, then a protester was there who referred to Marjorie Taylor Greene as you are a butch body bigot. Here, play this clip.
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Then a protester was there with a sign that said, jail for insider traders. That obviously struck a nerve with day trader or Marjorie Taylor Greene, who made a lot of suspicious trades right before Donald Trump's announcements on tariffs. Play this clip.
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Going to Iowa right now, Chuck Grassley got jeered at a town hall meeting when he was asked about Donald Trump refusing to abide by a Supreme Court's ruling. Play this clip.
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More from that town hall right here. You have MAGA Republican Senator Chuck Grassley seeing very angry Iowa residents who were letting them know about, you know, so Donald Trump is, I'm trying to get this straight. So Donald Trump is doing tax cuts for billionaires, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. But y'all are saying that $70 is too much for food stamps for people who are starving to death?
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More on Senator Chuck Grassley's town hall here. Play this clip.
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And then there was a moment as well in Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall where an individual who was there protesting her or disagreeing with her was actually tased by the police. Here, play this clip. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene lied and said that tariffs are not a massive tax on the American people. Let's play this.
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I want you to see the contrast between a Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall. What are Democrats doing to fight the oligarchy tour? Bernie Sanders, AOC. Yesterday they were in Bakersfield, which voted for Trump. Like 60% of the people voted for Trump beat Kamala Harris in Bakersfield, which is part of Kern County by like 30 points. Like even Senator Adam Schiff didn't win Kern County.
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I think he lost 30%. to the Republican candidate by like 30 points as well. Ruby red area, but they have a MAGA Republican Congress member, Valadao, who's refusing to show up and do town halls. He's scared and vulnerable. And Bernie Sanders and AOC, after going to Idaho, Salt Lake City, they were in Nampa, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah, Los Angeles. They've been traveling the country.
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And then I've been following Bernie's tour when he was in Michigan and Wisconsin and But here he is in Bakersfield, California, which is a ruby red area in California. Play this clip.
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And here is AOC not holding back. Play this clip.
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Chair, this was with you as well, our friend, Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna. Here he was speaking to students and he was saying how J.D. Vance is a stain on the degree of every Yale law student. Play this clip.
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Finally, former President Biden spoke yesterday in Chicago, gave a great speech. And here's a small clip of what he had to say. Play this clip.
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Oh, this was a great moment, too. So Michael Cohen, Jim Acosta, Don Lemon held a town hall in New York and they gave the Midas Touch Network a shout out. That was a pretty cool moment from the town hall by Lemon, Acosta and Cohen on New Media. Let's play this clip. It's going to make a difference in getting the word out.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers. Town halls, everybody. Town halls.
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Trump Has Meltdown as His Plans All Blow Up
all wire services from being in the press corps because a trump appointed judge in dc federal judge mcfadden order that donald trump was to return the associated press to the press corps into the oval office unless there was some non-discriminatory reason for not allowing the associated press because trump didn't allow the ap
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Because they refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico and not the Gulf of America. Donald Trump said, okay, I'll come up with a non-discriminatory reason. I'm banning all wire services. So no more wire services getting their news. You just get pathetic right-wing podcasters now basically leading the conversation.
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Quote unquote Press in the White House and then some other corporate news that is apparently OK with enabling this behavior and asking Donald Trump some of the most pathetic questions that I've seen. Talking about pathetic, Donald Trump is also sending emails like this to his supporters, trying to cling on to support him.
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Remember yesterday I showed you Donald Trump saying the new polls showing that we are surging with MAGA and MAGA is surging. It was like 36% of voters identify as MAGA. Yeah, Donald, that means 64% of America is against you. Your approval is plummeting. It's in the toilet. It's swirling the drain with the rest of the MAGA Republicans. Because it's just pathetic crap like this.
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Die Betriebsrate liegt jetzt bei 7,5%. Der Bond-Markt bleibt chaotisch. Der Stock-Markt bleibt so volatil, wie es schon jemals war. Die Manufacturing New York Fed Survey zeigt, dass die Erwartungen auf die Produktion niedriger sind als seit 9-11. Donald Trump's posting things like this. You just won. Congratulations. Did I spell Ben correctly? Memo from Trump. Today's the tax filing day.
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Then Donald Trump's like, before my mid-month deadline today, can you chip in and accept your Trump card? All you gotta do is give me some money. Accept your award right here. Or here's the other one. I know you hate getting reminders about tax day. He uses tax day to send this email to give him money on tax day.
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I'm fighting to eliminate unfair taxes, like tax on social security, tax on tips, tax on overtime. You two-bit piece of trash scam artist, Donald. Wow. Okay, I haven't seen that in the legislation and already what we're approaching 100 days. Housing is far less affordable. Prices are higher. Goods and products less affordable.
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China is shutting down their entire market right now to the United States. There's no peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. And as Yardini says. The latest batch of soft data is consistent with stagflation.
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So as China's economy seems to be doing pretty good, as Europe's economy is figuring out how to navigate, as Canada, Europe, Australia, China, South Korea, Vietnam, Southeast Asia in general, as they're cutting deals, You have isolated the United States to look like some weirder version of North Korea meets the worst season of The Apprentice.
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Yardini writes, the latest batch of soft data is consistent with stagflation scenarios in the US. The soft data is likely signs of hard data during the second half of this year. Trump tariff turmoil, TTT as they're calling it. We've also learned some additional data from leaks about Musk and Trump and Doge.
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One of the things that Doge has been trying to do is put Doge people to sneak into certain non-profits and to kind of gut it from within and to take Information from within. The Washington Post reports, Doge sought to assign a team to independent non-profit groups to try to take their data.
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In the Oval Office. He's been spending the whole week after spending the weekend golfing on the taxpayer dime, spending the week with sports teams. Like yesterday, he was with the Naval Academy football team. Donald Trump was holding a football. Didn't say United States of America on it in big, bold letters.
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Also a whistleblower is reporting that Musk's Doge stole 10 gigabytes of union data, legal files and corporate secrets, then tried to cover it up. Is this a shocker to you, by the way, that this is going on?
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The ultimate karma that Elon Musk is getting as Donald Trump is imposing all these tariffs on China, it's absolutely destroyed Tesla's plans for expansion, assuming Tesla was ever even going to follow through on those plans and it wasn't just something they were saying to pump the market. Can I show you the difference about what's going on in the ground right now?
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You have Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC going into red states, red cities and counties in blue states, but going into red areas. When she was in Nampa, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah, in California yesterday, she was in Bakersfield. She was in Folsom, California. Here she is in Folsom saying, hey, they said this was Trump country. I don't look like Trump country to me right now.
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Play this clip of AOC yesterday.
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Should also be noted that a lot of the diehard MAGAs are really pissed that Trump's deportation numbers are low, lower than Biden. So I just want to give you some data points. So Trump has deported less people than Biden. Biden konzentrierte sich auf Menschen mit echten Kriminalregeln und machte es in der richtigen Weise.
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Während Donald Trump ist, was ist das Neueste, dass 90 Prozent der Menschen in El Salvador keine Kriminalregeln hatten, von 75 Prozent. Trump macht diese, genau wie Trump in der Leben. Er ist ein Skamartist, er ist ein Fraud, er ist ein Verbrecher, er ist ein sexueller Verbrecher, richtig? Er ist für Fraude verantwortlich. Er ist ein Kriminal. So, the people who he is, he's torturing.
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Es hat Donald J. Trump gesagt, und er postet Videos von sich selbst, der den Fußball hält, als er die Wirtschaft zerstört, als die meisten CEOs denken, wir sind in einer Rezession, als alle die Zeichen der Stagflation zerstören, die GDP zerstört.
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But the numbers are actually lower when it comes to the actual criminals. Also, federal spending is up. With all of the things that Doge did, Elon Musk saying, at most we can do 150 billion in cuts, but it seems closer to 25 or 30 million in cuts. But there's going to be far more government waste now because of all the screw-ups by Doge and Trump.
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So federal spending is significantly higher right now than it was under Biden. So just think about those data points. So no wonder Trump and MAGA is underwater in basically every poll right now and Democrats are polling better. And finally, Democrats are fighting, which is a good thing. All right, let me give you some more data points as well.
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Donald Trump's press secretary, chief propagandist Caroline Leavitt begging, begging China, can you please call Donald? He's waiting for your call. I'm reading this directly from Donald. Can you please call him here? Watch this. Okay.
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And here's Caroline Leavitt once again doing the schtick where she attacks Canada, threatens their sovereignty and says that Trump wants to invade Canada and make it the 51st state. Play this clip.
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surging inflation are taking shape now as the latest new york fed survey on manufacturing shows everything is down other than prices and of course it was announced last night that hong kong was shutting down its postal service to the united states to inflict more pain as they continue to outmaneuver donald trump in the trade war that donald trump started it should also be noted as well
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Ja, genau. Let me get this straight, Donald. You've cut other deals with Bukele to bring people back. Bukele sent 15 people back already. We extradite people to the United States all the time who are actually violent criminals. This individual, Abrego Garcia, no criminal record at all. He's been here since he was 16. He's married to an American woman.
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They have three kids who are American citizens.
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this is the fight that you're picking now even right wing uh writers like rich lowry from the new york post this guy bashed biden over and over again biden's the worst biden's the worst biden's the worst trump character trump character that's what this guy said during the campaign for the national review and he wrote op-eds for like the times also he goes this was his article trump will destroy a world economy that has us at the apex and only getting stronger so let
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Let me get this straight. So if we were at the apex, right, apex means the top, you know who helped get us there? Biden. You know who's destroying it based on your headline? Trump. Think about it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. New Midas Merch Drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts and more.
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dass China in der ersten Quartiere etwa 5,4 Prozent GDP-Growth erhielt, als sie sich für Donald Trumps Aktionen vorbereitet haben. Es sollte auch bemerkt werden, und das wird unterreportiert, dass Donald Trump, als er diese Fotos mit den Fußballspielen nahm, um sich zu machen, wie ein schwieriger Kerl, Donald Trump die Welt verabschiedete.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Yep, not big Donald Trump and MAGA fans there in Greenland. Now, this comes at the same time that these MAGA podcasters went to Greenland. That followed Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk going to Greenland. And it's been the same story over and over again, trying to create this astroturfed support for MAGA. Again, they're trying to distract us. This is from a Greenland digital paper. Here's what it says.
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MAGA, Mystic, and Nuke, YouTube stars hand out dollars and caps. The police have received a report about the incident, writes this magazine, this digital article. According to the Greenlandic media outlet Sermistjak, a number of citizens in Nuuk received a somewhat strange visit on Tuesday.
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Here, people who, according to the media, are believed to be Americans have knocked on doors to private homes where they have handed out American money and merchandise in the form of caps and the like. The media has been in contact with several citizens who have wondered about the visits.
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They say there have been American men wearing clothes with the American flag pattern and that they have carried Donald Trump posters around. The police have been called. They're confirming that Sermstyak has been in contact with police in Greenland who confirm that they have received a report that American dollars and caps are being distributed in the city center.
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Furthermore, one of our patrols saw the incident in connection with a drive on the way to another assignment, says the chief of patrol at the Greenland police. The chief of police cannot answer questions whether there is anything illegal in And what these suspected Americans are doing.
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He points out that the police can advise the Americans to notify the police in advance if they are doing anything resembling a demonstration. And the group that's there is called the Nelk Boys. And at least the leaders of the Nelk Boys are right wing podcasters from Israel. And they were the individuals who were campaigning with Donald Trump. I think Barron likes their podcast.
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And they were the ones talking about how they want Trump to legalize a form of like chewing tobacco, Zin or something that it's called. So that's what's going on there. Meanwhile, the MAGA Republicans in Congress, they've now put forward legislation, make Greenland great again. That's what they're calling their bill. Trump's House GOP unveil a bill to authorize the country's purchase.
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American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat, says Representative Andy Ogles. It goes on to say how Trump's plan to conquer and annex Greenland got a boost by the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives. Representative Andy Ogles from Tennessee, MAGA Republican, he's leading a bill to authorize Trump to enter negotiations with Denmark to purchase Greenland.
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This bill is titled Make Greenland Great Again Act, according to a copy of its text. And Ogles goes on to say, Joe Biden took a blowtorch to our reputation these past years and before even taking office. Trump is telling the world America first is back. American economic and security interests will no longer take a back seat.
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And this bill is backed by 10 fellow House Republicans who are publicly co-sponsoring it. And according to the legislation text, quote, not later than five calendar days after reaching an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark relating to the acquisition of Greenland by the United States,
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
The president shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees the agreement, including all related materials and annexes. And so I want to be very clear here. When I was in high school, I was part of a club called Met Monk.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
mock United Nations, I think Metropolitan Mock United Nations Club, where you would kind of cosplay international diplomacy and you would go into all of these kind of theories. Now, look, I'm not suggesting that this is purely a adult or they don't behave like adults.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Another version of kind of the Met Monk stuff, because again, Donald Trump has the resources of the American military that these threats are actually meaningful threats. But let's take a look at what the MAGA Republicans are trying to distract us from, right? They want to talk about make Greenland great again and turning Canada into the 51st state and invading Panama.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
That's where they want our attention to go. The old bait and switch. Why? Because Americans don't care about changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. What about the Gulf of lower egg prices? Egg prices are going up. Mortgage rates are expected to continue to go up where they were going down under President Biden.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Donald Trump's threats of tariffs are going to have severe economic consequences. The premier of Alberta, a conservative by the name of Daniel Smith, she came to try to cut other provinces out in Canada. And she was basically begging Donald Trump to do a deal with Alberta directly and screw over the other provinces. And there's a lot of big oil companies in Alberta.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
that kind of squirm their way into getting a lot of government benefits in Canada. So you had Daniel Smith in Mar-a-Lago, and then she returned to let people know, not only am I not bringing you anything, but Donald Trump just further threatened us, said on day one there will be 25% tariffs on everything, no exemptions, including on crude oil. And Canada imports a lot of oil.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
a lumber, a lot of other things that we rely on. So Trump's gonna start that trade war on day one.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Donald Trump, MAGA, and Fox just got a rude awakening when a Fox reporter went to Greenland to see how popular Donald Trump was there. And it turns out that the people of Greenland do not like MAGA and do not like Donald Trump. I want you to watch this, but then I want to talk more broadly about what's going on here. Remember what I've been saying, WMD.com. weapon of mass distraction.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
What else is Donald Trump distracting us from? He's distracting us from the fact that he said there would be a peace deal in Ukraine in 24 hours after he was elected. That didn't happen. And there's not going to be a peace deal 24 hours after he's inaugurated. Keith Kellogg, his special envoy to Ukraine, confirmed that they need at least 100 days to build some sort of framework for peace.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
And again, that Donald Trump is lying. Meanwhile, All the Trump propaganda out there, like the New York Post, they are saying, oh, the Don Roe doctrine, the Don Roe doctrine. Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, was saying that he would not rule out invading Greenland and essentially going to war with Denmark. our NATO ally.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Keith Kellogg looked very uncomfortable during his appearance on Fox, where he was talking about Donald Trump's plan to take over Greenland. J.D. Vance was on TV saying the same thing as well. But remember, folks, again, we need to take it seriously. But WMD, weapon of mass distraction. You always got to ask yourself, OK, cool, bro. But what about lower prices? Cool, bro.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
What about affordable housing? Cool bro, what about lower interest rates, mortgage rates? Cool bro, what about the peace deal that you said was going to happen in Ukraine? Cool bro, what about the jobs that you said were miraculously going to appear? Where are they? Don't fall in. We should take seriously the threats, but always bring it back to WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Tell me what you think. I could play you those clips of J.D. Vance and Trump saying things I know you appreciated here on this network when we don't play that stuff. If you want to watch it for yourself, I invite you. You could find those clips and figure it out. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers and have a wonderful day.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
That's exactly what Trump is trying to do when it comes to Greenland. We need to take what he says seriously, though, because the threats are real and they're uniting our allies against us. First, let me just show you this clip and then let's chat about it. Let's play it.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Gentlemen, stop. So go on the offense, Dems. Go on the offense. Be loud about these. The American people are with you on these issues. But you're seeing the deluge of propaganda and lies from MAGA. You got to be able to rebut them. It's a fire hose. Of lies. Over and over and over and over again. That's all they've got. You got to combat it. You got to be ready to debunk it right away.
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But you also have to go on the offense. And going on the offense doesn't mean responding always. It means saying that the MAGA Republicans support the oligarch billionaires who are stealing your jobs, who are giving your jobs to others, who are taking away your money and enriching themselves. You have to go on the offense too here. Can't always be defense. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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Thanks for watching.
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Point of order. Point of order. Order, order, order. Jasmine Crockett is not done. Congresswoman Crockett says that you're here trying to somehow make an argument about transgender people. What are you even doing, MAGA? Here, watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Would you yield back? I'll yield. More from Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. And here she is talking about how MAGA Republicans are creating their Doge subcommittee instead of a subcommittee on civil rights and actually doing things for the American people. And then she mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene. Watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Here's Democratic Congress member Garcia, California, right here in the Long Beach area. Here he says, I don't think we should be listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene on fire safety. I mean, she's the Jewish space laser woman.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Okay, speaking of the Jewish space laser conspiracy theorist who grabs cardboard cutout crotches of Donald Trump and attacks victims of school shootings who survived, Marjorie Taylor Greene. By the way, we sued Marjorie Taylor Greene and she settled with us. Cut us a check, I think, for about $10,000. And then we took that check and donated it to groups that focus on responsible gun ownership.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Just a nice little way to troll her back. You know that story. It's a funny story. Anyway, I digress. Here's MAGA Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, You don't like Elon because you're jealous of him. Here, watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Okay, Marjorie. Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene blaming the Los Angeles fires on no water in the fire hydrants and not cleaning up the forest floors. There's not a conspiracy theory that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not... willing to spread. That's just what she does. Play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
You go from Marjorie Taylor Greene to Marjorie Taylor Greene 2.0 Nancy Mace. Here's MAGA Republican Nancy Mace. Here she is again talking about the only thing that seems to be on her mind. This is how she gets attention to go on Fox.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
By the way, you may know this about me. I'm a professor at USC. One of the courses I teach is a course called sports law. So one of the things I often teach my students Now, you know, this whole attack on transgender people in sports, do you know how many transgender athletes there are in the NCAA? Under 10.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
And in some states where they spend millions of dollars to try to keep transgender athletes out, sometimes there's one transgender athlete in the state. But this is all MAGA talks about. Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene right here talking about bathrooms and pee-pee and vagina. What are these people? They want to distract you with this stuff. Here, play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
All right, folks, it's gloves off for these Democrats. I appreciate these House Democrats going on the offense against the MAGA Republicans. Leading the charge, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Watch her call out Nancy Mace, MAGA Republican, then MAGA Republican. Nancy Mace says that she wants to fight Jasmine Crockett and says, let's take it outside. Here, watch this.
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And you know, one of the things I've been saying, WMD, weapon of mass distraction. They don't want to govern. They can't deliver the things that they claim they're going to. They can't even come close to it. So they want to divide Americans against Americans.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
They want to get the factory workers and the 99% who are getting screwed over by the actual MAGA policies, which go to help the billionaires and the DECA millionaires. And they want to convince the factory worker, the union worker, Blue collar worker. It doesn't have to be workers. I mean, just people who are just working hard, multiple jobs.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
They're trying to convince them that they should be more pissed off about some transgender athlete from San Jose State on the volleyball team than against their own interest in their own family's interest. It's it's ridiculous. Here, MAGA Republican representative Derek Van Orden says we're very close to World War II. Here, play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
There's a bunch of Navy... What do you mean, Van Orden? First off, okay, World War II happened a while ago, the 40s. But a little bit before then. But second off, I thought that your whole thesis... was that Trump was going to get elected and then the world would obey. And then things would be all of a sudden great right away on day one.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
But now Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, says there's not going to be a peace deal in Ukraine for at least 100 days. That's what Keith Kellogg's saying. Also, Donald Trump apparently wants to be the bad guy in World War III. threatening to annex Canada, Panama, Greenland, Mexico, whatever country comes to his mind. But I digress.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Here's Democratic Congresswoman AOC talking about while the fires are burning, the number one priority of MAGA is to prevent 10 transgender athletes from playing in sports. Here, play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Thank you and I yield back. take when nancy mace was threatening jasmine crockett and saying let's take it outside comer's like but it could have been it could have been take it outside for a cup of coffee playing the clip what the gentle lady said was we can take this outside if you want and so that could mean you could go outside and have a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer or
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
I'm going to appeal the ruling of the chair. And finally, we have Congress member, Democratic Congress member, Garamendi, who calls out MAGA Republicans for trying to impose conditions on on aid to California. One of the things that MAGA Republicans are demanding is that there be a increase of the debt ceiling or an elimination of the debt ceiling in order for California to get aid.
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You're tying together the debt ceiling and aid to California in a disaster? Watch what Congress member Garamendi has to say.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
That was Democratic Senator Slotkin grilling Pete Hegseth before the Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing regarding Donald Trump's nomination of Pete Hegseth to be the Secretary of Defense. Pete Hegseth has never commanded any significant group of people. He's never
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
I yield back my... Here's another clip of Senator Kelly right here. Let's play it.
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And finally, we'll close with another clip from Democratic Senator Slotkin. Let's play.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
There you have it, folks. That was the confirmation hearing. Let me know your thoughts in the comments, but I wanted to give you a good summary right there. Thanks for watching.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
led an organization there have been credible accusations against him of a sexual assault in the past where he signed non-disclosure agreements and entered into a settlement agreement there have been credible accusations about him abusing alcohol and doing so in public as well Let's take you into the hearing.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
I want to show you some of the highlights, or I should say the lowlights, as it relates to Hegseth. Here, Democratic Senator Tim Kaine talks about some of the allegations against Pete Hegseth. Let's play it.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
And here, Tim Kaine, Senator Kaine, grills Pete Hegseth, drilling down on the fact that this incident that took place at the hotel for which you signed a nondisclosure agreement, you still admitted that you had sexual relations, did you not? Here, play this clip.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth asks a very simple question. Do you know any of the nations, Mr. Hegseth, that are a part of the ASEAN group? A-S-E-A-N. Do you know any of them? Hegseth gets it wrong. He can't name one country. Play this clip.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
Another question here by Senator Duckworth, let's play it.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
Going back to Senator Kaine, Democrat, let's play it.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
Here, Hegseth does not deny a line of questioning from Senator Blumenthal detailing how Hegseth ran veterans nonprofits into the ground. Let's play it.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
Here we have Senator Hirono from Hawaii asking Hegseth if he would carry out orders to invade our NATO ally, Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. And you'll see he does not deny it. Here, play this clip.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
Another statement question from Senator Hirono here. Let's play it.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
And one of the things that Pete Hegseth would continue to come back on is he would say, all these accusations, everything is part of a coordinated smear against him. But then also Hegseth would say that he found his savior, Jesus Christ, he would say, and then he's redeemed himself for all of his past troubles. So they're smears, but you also had to redeem yourself for past troubles.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
It doesn't really make much sense, but let's play this clip.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
Here, Hegseth says that the dumbest phrase in the military is that unity is our strength. Here, play this clip.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
There's another clip from Tim Kaine right here where Pete Hegseth is saying, I'm an open book. And then Kaine's like, yeah, but with lots of nondisclosure agreements and settlement agreements here, play this clip.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
This was a weird one from MAGA Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who I guess tried to humanize Pete Hegseth. But Mark Wayne Mullen, again, MAGA Republican Senator, says that he would be in prison if it was not for his wife. Really? He would be in prison? Here, play this clip.
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YIKES! Hegseth has DISASTER Confirmation Hearing on LIVE TV
We have Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, again, who served in the armed forces, astronaut, fighter pilot, who was a leader in the military and was a leader of organizations. Here's what he has to say. Let's play it.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Republicans just suffered a stunning, shocking, and decisive defeat in a critical mayor's race showing the unpopularity of Donald Trump and the overall MAGA brand. And of all places, Omaha, Nebraska, the longest serving Republican incumbent mayor
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
He's going to win by about seven points. Again, a 20-point swing from the last race that took place where former Mayor Gene Stothert went on to win the race in 2021. Here is John Ewing Jr. celebrating the victory. Let's play this clip. And here is John Ewing's speech. Here's his victory speech. Let's play it.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Let me show you the concession speech right here by the former mayor, Jean Stothert. Here's her concession speech. Play this clip.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
in the entire country mayor jean stothert just lost her mayor's seat to the democratic candidate john ewing jr that's right omaha nebraska the democratic candidate will go on to win and get this It is now a 20-point swing from the last election where Gene Stothert, the prior mayor who just lost, cruised to an easy victory. Now, again, this shows the unpopularity of the MAGA brand.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Now, let's go through some of the messages right now that are being posted. So this right here from DNC Chair Ken Martin. He says, the longest serving incumbent mayor in the country, a Republican, just got fired by Democrat John Ewing in Omaha, Nebraska. Congratulations, Mayor-elect Ewing. Nebraska Dems and the Dem Mayor got this done. Watch out, GOP.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
We are winning all over the country, up and down. the ballot right now. Matt McDermott wrote when it was official, it's official, Omaha's Republican mayor, Jean Stothert, loses to Democrat John Ewing, flipping the city blue for the first time in 12 years. Stothert ended her campaign pushing anti-trans bathroom bans. Voters rejected it.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
And you had ads like this from the Democratic Party, the Nebraska Democrats, smart ads like this. Gene is focused on potties. John is focused on fixing potholes, actually getting things done for the American people and not focused on all of these MAGA Republican distractions. and bullying of marginalized communities, the Nebraska Democratic Party wrote as part of the campaign.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Economics are at the top of people's minds, including potholes all over Omaha. Ewing will make lives better by focusing on issues that impact all of us. Jean Stothert and her allies are sending hateful mail and pushing creepy bathroom bills. Vote John Ewing on May 13th. And indeed, that's what took place. As we posted on the Midas Touch Network, this is a huge flip, a 20-point swing.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Democrat John Ewing Jr. just turned Omaha blue, defeating the longest-serving GOP mayor in the country and becoming the city's first black mayor in history. An impressive accomplishment indeed. And folks, we've been following here on the Midas Touch Network what has been happening on the ground in Nebraska as well. And PBS did a great piece.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
There have been major, major protests in Nebraska against Donald Trump and Doge. People have been showing up to town halls of MAGA Republican Congress members. Take a look right here as Nebraskans are waking up to the fact that their Social Security and Medicaid is on the chopping block for tax cuts for billionaires. This was at a Nebraska town hall. Play this clip.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
and hear from the Nebraska Town Hall crowds chanting tax the rich in the Ruby Red District of Republican Representative Mike Flood. Let's play this clip right here.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Even Nebraska's GOP representative, Don Bacon, talking about how people are losing trust in the Republican leaders in Nebraska. Here's what he had to say a little bit ago. Play this clip.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Now, why am I saying that? Because... Former Mayor Stothert was running on a platform closely tied to all of the MAGA talking points, anti-trans. She kept on talking about bathrooms. And the people of Omaha, Nebraska are like, talk about what matters to us. Stop bullying marginalized communities. And now Mayor-elect John Ewing Jr., he was talking about issues like poverty.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Now, I talked about how Gene Stothert, the former mayor, was using all of this MAGA messaging. One mailer from a political action group supporting Stothart grabbed attention for bringing up transgender policies. Stothart brings up the issues in her own television ads all the time. Ewing stands with radicals who want to allow boys and girls sports.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
That's one of the things that Stothert was running on. Ewing said, nobody's ever brought that question up. So I believe it's a made up issue by Gene Stothert and the Republican Party that people were not abiding these culture war issues. Let me give you some facts about John Ewing Jr. With over four decades of unwavering commitment, to public service.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
John Ewing's extensive background in law enforcement and community involvement has profoundly impacted Omaha. His leadership as Douglas County treasurer and his deep roots in local community service highlights his readiness to serve as your next mayor. Here are some photos of him right here.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Here's a statement that came out from the Nebraska Democrats before the Stothert campaign was running misleading ads regarding John Ewing's record and agenda.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
While former Mayor Stothert continues to use the same tired Republican playbook to distract voters with culture wars like focusing on bathrooms, John Ewing continues to focus on real issues that impact people's pockets, the endless potholes, new economic development, and housing that will help Omahans. not Jean's big donors.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
Ultimately, Jean would rather focus on potties while John focuses on fixing potholes. Under her leadership, the Omaha Police Department has skewed its numbers on new hires, but the bottom line remains, Omaha has failed to recruit 100 officers. People were commenting on Jean Stothert's ads as such. These Jean Stothert ads are laughable. She must be getting desperate with the bathroom and male and
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
What the F does a mayor of Omaha have to do with this? And then as she was getting closer to Election Day, she tried to backtrack and move away from a lot of these Trump messages. She's like, I'm not with Trump. But the voters of Omaha, Nebraska, were not buying it, folks. They were not buying it at all. So a incredible victory there. You see from
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
He was talking about issues like health care. He was talking about issues like jobs. He was talking about issues like infrastructure.
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Republicans Stunned by Shock Loss…in Nebraska?!
He was talking about issues like how the MAGA Republicans have engaged in a hostile takeover of our government, which has now trickled down to destroy local governments and affect local jobs and strip people of health coverage and access to Social Security offices in places like Omaha. So I want to show you the moment right here where John Ewing Jr., the Democratic candidate, went on to win.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
State regime media known as Fox is at it again. They're getting more and more desperate each and every day. Now, they've been spending all of their time trying to justify why they think it makes sense that their dear leader, Donald Trump, is getting a $400 million gold-plated jet from the Qatari.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
There you have it. I wanted to show you that clip at the end so you see how this ecosystem actually results in people thinking that this stuff, and you'd be like, what the hell, they believe that? Those people vote. Those people vote. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
For these clowns, fascist clowns, no offense to real clowns, this is all one big joke to them. They just try to make this all one big humorous segment when people's lives are on the line. Here's another portion of that segment. Let's play it.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
So then part of that segment as well, you have Jesse Waters and one of the other hosts, Greg Gutfeld. They're talking about how Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's kind of biggest claim to fame on his resume is that he was once on the reality TV show called The Real World, and then he was on the reality show called The Real World Road Rules Challenge.
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So cue in one of their chief propagandists, Sean Hannity, who tries to normalize this all, and he attacks anybody who dare criticize Dear Leader accepting bribes from the Middle East in plain view. Play the clip.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
And they think it's hilarious that this is the guy responsible for air traffic controllers and air safety when he has no qualifications to do it. So they make this like a comedic skit where they just think it's all so funny that our air traffic and our air safety is now in the hands of this guy.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
And that's how they try to utterly destroy just serious discourse by making a total mockery of very serious things. We know what a disaster air traffic safety is right now. And Sean Duffy's been going on TV. each and every day, trying to blame what he calls the Biden Buttigieg administration. It's all their fault.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
Even though none of these issues were happening under Biden Buttigieg, he goes, this has been an issue for 10 years. And then when Sean Duffy was asked, well, Donald Trump was the president 10 years ago also, so why didn't you fix it then? Oh, Biden Buttigieg's fault as well.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
Yes, the first Trump administration not fixing things is because of Biden Buttigieg, or maybe it's just y'all are so incompetent and the fact that Your main qualifications are real world road rules challenge. Maybe that's one of the issues. So then Jesse Waters brings on Christine Noem, dog killer, Homeland Security secretary, cosplayer. She goes out and dresses in the different outfits.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
She goes in front of Seacott, the concentration camp in El Salvador, posing with her $100,000 Rolex with her thumbs up. Basically, by the way, a violation of the Geneva Convention to parade yourself out there in front of prisoners like that. But here she now is saying that the Democratic members of Congress attacked the private security guards in New Jersey and that in Newark.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
And it's actually the Democratic members who were assaulted there to blame. She says they were the ones who assaulted the private security. This is the dystopian move. that all of these Trumpers do.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
Whatever actually took place, in this case, the private security assaulting Democratic Congress members, they just said, nope, Democratic Congress members and the Newark mayor, they assaulted the private security guards. And now the Department of Justice is going to go after them. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
Here's Kristi Noem again, let's play it.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
And now they've been bringing out this other propagandist, Tricia McLaughlin, who's the Department of Homeland Security Public Affairs Assistant Secretary. They have her in Fox all of the time.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
And now she's pushing this line that it was the Democratic members of Congress at this Delaney Hall, at this detention center, this migrant detention center, that they were the ones who ended up attacking Trump. the security guards and maybe the Department of Justice is gonna have to prosecute the Democrats. Now play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
Do you get more utterly pathetic than that? I don't know. But each and every day, the depths of depravity that Fox goes through to justify Donald Trump's criminality seems to know no bounds. Going from Sean Hannity to one of the other propagandists on Fox, Jesse Waters. Here, Jesse Waters devotes a segment to talking about the backlash
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
So then from that Sean Hannity segment that I started out this video with, he then had Donald Trump being interviewed by Hannity on Air Force One, which I guess Trump wants to replace with Qatari Force One or whatever the hell he's going to be flying in. Here, Donald Trump just blatantly admits to the violation of the Constitution. He goes, why would I turn down the gift? They offered me a gift.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
Of course, I'm going to accept it. By the way, it then goes to his presidential library. Why do you need... 747 gold-plated jets for your presidential library. This is a security threat. This, in my opinion, is a bribe. It's a clear violation of the emoluments clause. Here's Donald Trump saying in his own words, play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
and they'll be wonderful when they're finished but that's a long time next donald trump then lies and says that he has personally studied the healthcare industry and he's figured it all out and he goes the democrats are the ones who have raised the price the republicans we've always been trying to lower costs literally as we speak the republicans are trying to get rid of medicaid
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
They're trying to eliminate $880 billion that goes to Medicaid. The MAGA Republicans are the ones who have consistently voted against lowering prescription drug prices. Any effort to lower health care costs, the MAGA Republicans have been against. But this is again, this is their strategy.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
The same way earlier you see the MAGA Republicans attacking Democrats and saying Democrats are the ones who went after the private security guards when it was the opposite. You're seeing them do that again right here and say the Democrats were the ones who want to increase your health care costs, literally as the Republicans are getting rid of your Medicaid right now. Play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
bacteria-infested waters that Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. was swimming in and photographed in, something that would be a clear and present danger to your health that can cause life-threatening injuries swimming in bacteria-infested waters. It could be potentially lethal. And this is what our Health and Human Services Secretary is doing. Here's how Jesse Waters characterizes it.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
And then Donald Trump goes on and then starts talking about what he calls fat shots. And he says he's got a fat friend and that his fat friend gets fat shots. And that's some reason that has to do with an executive order he signed that doesn't have the force of law. That's just a scam. that he says he's going to be able to lower healthcare costs by up to 50 to 90%. It goes 50 to 90%.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
I've lowered healthcare costs. I did it by an executive order because of my fat friend and his fat shots, Donald Trump says. Play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
I pointed this out before and let me point it out again. This is just one of Donald Trump's scams. This way, he says, I'm lowering health care costs, which he's not. While the MAGA Republicans in their tax budget, which Trump calls a big, beautiful bill, is literally taking away, ripping away from you health care. I think the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office believes there's going to be
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
Tens of millions of Americans who will lose health care as a result of this policy lose health care. But Donald Trump signs a fake executive order and says 90 percent health care costs. And then he feeds that to his base. And this has real world impacts. I mean, let me show you what's going out there in America. I mean, this was an event that Charlie Kirk had just hosted.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
And in this event, you'll see that, you know, with all of the crazy stuff that Fox is pushing out, these MAGA people, these really believe this stuff like they believe that children are using litter boxes in schools. And Charlie Kirk just sits up and, oh, yeah, that's what's going on.
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
they like they like they act like kittens and they pee on themselves and we have to stop it that's what the democrats are doing that has not happened anywhere ever they make this stuff up they spread these deranged conspiracies while they pickpocket their own supporters and while they destroy their own supporters life they have them thinking that this stuff is real but this stuff
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Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions
actually permeates. And these people believe this. Here, play this clip.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
So Donald Trump's one big, beautiful bill that they're trying to ram through Congress was exposed today in perfect form as one big, beautiful, massive scam as Democratic members of Congress, led by Democratic Congress member Tom Swasey,
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi. Congress members, some great questioning right there. Talk to us about it. This seems like it's one big scam. What do you make of it?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
pointed out that all of donald trump's promises when you actually read the bill it turns out they are scams so let me show you what congress member swazi was asking uh an individual who's part of the kind of non-partisan uh tax group that like ranks these pieces of legislation here take a look at this okay on tips the president said your tips will be 100 yours
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Let's go through all those things one by one and break it down. So first, there were the promises made, and as you showed, promises not kept, right? So MAGA Republicans are out there, and they're telling people that the tax bill contains the payroll tax on tips. You said, does this tax bill continue, rather, the payroll tax on tips? And the guy goes, it does. So that's not there.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
You talk about payroll tax on overtime. Can you just talk through what Trump was saying on the campaign and what you exposed first as not actually being in this bill?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
So we first talked about promises made, promises not kept, but then let's talk about the threat to health insurance, the threat to Medicaid. How bad is this bill right now for people on Medicaid? It's awful.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
let's talk about salt when you talk about salt it's an acronym for state and local tax deduction what were you told was going to happen and you have a lot of mega republican congress members from new york also you know who said that they wouldn't be supporting it unless certain things were um done with salt tell us about their what
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Finally, what happens next? Because I know we're hitting that debt ceiling soon. Treasury Secretary Scott Bettson put out some statement like the account. He said something even like the accounting games I'm playing right now, by the way, which is like a total red flag. I'm not going to be able to do them. I think he said come July or, you know, or whatever it was. It's coming up pretty soon.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Is this going to get passed, though, or is this going to get this? I mean, I've heard senators say that they're not. What's going to happen?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Well, great questioning today. And please come back and let's talk about what's happening. Keep our audience updated.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
Thank you, Congressman. Congressman Tom Suozzi. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Have a good one. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing
That's how it's done right there. Let's also show you Democratic Congress member Doggett. Here's what he points out. Let's play it.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
We have a major oral argument coming up this week before the United States Supreme Court on Donald Trump's executive order trying to eliminate the constitutional right of birthright citizenship. You see right here from April 17, 2025, when the Supreme Court announced that it would be holding oral argument on May 15th, and sure enough, May 15th is here this week. Just take a look at this order.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
Attorney General Matt Plattkin, thank you for joining us.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
And come back after the oral argument. I want that post-game recap, if you can. I will, and we can talk about a Knicks win then, too. Sounds great. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
Just take a look right here at what Donald Trump just recently said about birthright citizenship.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
in the united states constitution and his belief by executive order he can just eliminate it which he can't he has no clue what birthright citizenship is where it's found in the constitution but watch him just run his mouth for a little bit and then i want to bring in the attorney general from the state of new jersey who is going to be leading the oral argument the solicitor general from his office is going to be the person making the oral argument let's take a look at what trump wrote in his mouth here quickly
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
A short time ago, the Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments in the case about ending birthright citizenship. How confident are you that the court will rule in your favor and allow that order to end birthright citizenship to go forth?
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
Let's bring in New Jersey Attorney General Matt Plotkin. Attorney General Plotkin. So we have something called the United States Constitution. Then Donald Trump, by executive order, not even a law, an executive order, like birthrights, it isn't it. about slavery or whatever he's saying right there. Your state kicked into high gear, filed one of the first lawsuits on this.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
Now you're in front of the Supreme Court. Tell us about the oral argument, what you expect and what this case is all about.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
Consideration of the application for partial stay presented to the chief justice and by him referred to the court is deferred pending oral argument. Consideration of the application for partial stay presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the court is deferred pending oral argument.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
And what do you think, though, about the procedural posture of this? Because The merits of the birthright citizenship issue, at least I think before the Supreme Court, is a little bit secondary to the nationwide injunction issue about whether a federal court sitting in one district can basically issue an overall injunction blocking actions throughout the nation.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
Now, the former President Biden was in office. We see the Trump administration use this over and over and over again. Tell us, though, procedurally, is this case focused on the merits? Is it going to get into the constitutional right of birthright citizenship? Or when we watch the oral argument, is it going to be a little bit, you know, focused on nationwide injunctions
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
Consideration of the other application for partial stay presented to Justice Jackson and by her referred to the court is deferred pending oral argument. The applications are consolidated and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. The applications are set for oral argument at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
I wanna switch topics and talk about these big law firms that have been capitulating. You know, I had Dean Chemerinsky, right now he's the Dean of UC Berkeley on, and he's started UC Irvine, a legend. He said, you know, that the profession in general should be ashamed of itself, I think was the words that he used for how some of these lawyers have been behaving in capitulating for Donald Trump.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
We saw Justice Sotomayor come out and speak publicly, Justice Katonji Brown Jackson saying, look, if you're not... equipped to defend the Constitution and be courageous, then just, like, don't be a lawyer. Like, don't come into this profession. And to see, you know, Supreme Court justices outspoken like that is something, you know, I think worth noting as well. What's going on?
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
What do you see, you know, here? What's your views of it all?
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
You mentioned universities as well. I mean, and you've seen different universities respond differently as well. We've seen some universities step up. We've seen some universities sign these ridiculous contracts in principle, giving the Trump regime who knows what they think they're doing. They're giving them. But, you know, with Trump, if you give him an inch, he takes much more than that.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
You look at the three consolidated cases right there, and one of those cases involves the state of New Jersey in their lawsuit defending the constitutional right of birthright citizenship. Something that we should know about this case, though, is
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
Talk to us about the efforts from your office also, though, just in general with education. Trump's attack on an education, everything from trying to rip school lunches out of the mouths of children, you know, to gutting funding at universities. It's systemic at every level, a dismantling of education.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
for what's happening before the supreme court at this stage the justice department from the trump regime is not asking the court to weigh in on the legality of ending birthright citizenship just yet instead the government wants the court to put an end once and for all to nationwide injunctions by district courts that have the effect of blocking
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
No, I try to focus our audience here. There's so much going on. It's sometimes like whack-a-mole, right? We talked about executive orders on birthright citizenship. We talked about him gutting universities. We talked about him disappearing human beings to, you know, Seacott in El Salvador.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
When I spoke to Attorney General Bonta of California, we talked about Trump attacking things like the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles, two other museums throughout the state, going after, like, funding of museums. I've talked to lawyers about Trump gutting Smithsonian museums and taking artifacts out of the African-American history.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
I mean, the libraries in New Jersey are one of his targets. I mean, he's gone for the libraries, you know. I mean, I just remember growing up The library, not to mention separately, you know, Trump fired the librarian of Congress, which you don't have the ability to do. But but talk to us about that.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
You had to get an injunction for him to stop gutting New Jersey libraries where people just want to read.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
Final question for you. You're the attorney general of New Jersey. We've been hearing a lot about Newark Airport. You posted about this as well. These Doge cuts to the FAA have resulted in kind of massive delays there. And I know a lot of that's federal jurisdiction. You're the state attorney general. But I don't know what it is you can do or what knowledge that you've been given in
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
presidential policies everywhere in the country is what the Trump regime is saying after they would just go to the Northern District of Texas when former President Biden was in office and get injunction after injunction to block things like student loan debt forgiveness and expansions of rights and freedoms that Biden was trying to do.
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
because it seems every time you have the transportation secretary sean duffy on he's lying and claiming oh former president biden did not give any infrastructure money you know for faa safety when you just look at it i mean you go to faa.gov you literally see what money was going for uh for for for the use you know here and he's always just blaming blaming it's like look
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New Jersey Attorney General Platkin Discusses Big SCOTUS Hearing
We're well over 100 days into this administration. You need leaders to be leaders. And I think people are just worried with what they're hearing. So what can you tell us about what's going on in Newark Airport and what should we know?
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
Pathetic, weak, and humiliating. Donald Trump was just broken before the entire world in his disastrous trade war with China as Donald Trump pulled back most of the tariffs imposed on China after Donald Trump said that those tariffs were going to bring so much manufacturing back to the United States and it was going to make the United States so rich
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
So China's effectively taxing its own consumers at a rate of 10%, while the United States is still taxing its consumers at 30%. But the United States pulled back from 145% to 30% after a few days ago, Donald Trump saying, I don't know, maybe we'll do 80%. And then Donald Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, who some call Nutlick, said, I don't know, maybe it'll be 50%.
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Well, now it is 30% right there. And again, this is after Donald Trump said that this is what's gonna make us all rich. The more tariffs, the better, Trump said, right? And he said the fact that ships aren't coming into our ports which we were warning about in the United States, right? We had Governor Gavin Newsom show up and say, the ships aren't coming to Oakland.
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The ships aren't coming to Long Beach, which is in Los Angeles. We also know the ships weren't coming to Seattle. But Trump said that was a great thing. So I guess that's not a great thing. thing after all right there. And the markets seem to think that Trump's tariff war against the world is not a great thing because the markets are reacting very positively to Donald Trump's retreat right now.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
You want to see how it's being reported in financial terms. Barron's, the financial magazine, says the following. Trump blinked big time on China trade, taking the worst case off the table. The Trump administration has blinked big time. And if you're saying, well, what did Donald Trump get in return? Absolutely nothing.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
If you take Donald Trump's own words, he says that China said maybe it's gonna try to maybe stop sending more fentanyl. I take them at their word, he said. I take them at their word that this may stop some of the fentanyl coming into the United States. You take them at their word, that's what you extracted from this. Take a look at how Bloomberg is characterizing this.
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that we wouldn't even need income taxes in the United States anymore because those tariffs would replace it. Donald Trump effectively surrendered as he was broken before the world. If you want to see how China is viewing this, look at how its state regime media is talking about it today.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
Xi Jinping's defiance pays off as Trump meets most Chinese trade demands. After two days of talks in Switzerland, the US and China announced de-escalation, the deal met nearly all of Beijing's core demands, including the suspension of the elevated reciprocal tariff, the establishment of a point person for talks, and agreements on fentanyl and tariffs.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
The reduction in tariffs is seen as a positive development in China. with the potential to boost its economy and make it easier to hit a growth target of about 5% this year, although some caution remains. And it goes and talks about here in this article how China basically got everything it wants.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
And so I ask you, what was the whole point of what Donald Trump's been doing if he was just going to withdraw it anyway? after telling us all how great it was going to be. And America gets what? Nothing in return. There's no actual deal here. So stop calling it a deal. It's a consensus for the United States to retreat and for future discussions to happen in the future. That's what happened.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
And it showed the world how unstable the United States is and frankly made, and this is A horrible thing to say as an American, but I don't know, but I have to be objective in my reporting. It made China look like the adult in the room and the mature one in the room, while Trump looked like a little petulant baby and shows the US market as being not stable. That's not a good thing right now.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
And it also shows you can take Donald Trump, well, we do this before, but it certainly is reflective again of you can take Donald Trump seriously on anything he says. He'll impose something for 30 days. The pressure rises and then he retreats. That's his pattern over and over again. And the rest of the world has taken notice. He's a paper tiger is the nicest thing you could possibly say about him.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
Charles Gasparino, a business reporter for Fox, says the following. Trump raised tariffs on the world, the markets, particularly the bond market, which needs to finance our debt, rebelled. Trump was then forced to back off. End of story. Film at 11, a president trying to spin this as a victory. Okay, sorry, I couldn't help myself.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
But what we have seen is a little lesson in how markets exert their power. How, when you have to depend on them, as we still do, and remember, it's really the budget deficit that's causing the trade deficit, and we need the budget deficit to maintain our standard of living. You can't go to a trade war with the world without bad stuff happening. Now I'll show you right here.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
They are posting cartoon images like this of an Uncle Sam character getting uppercut in the face by a character representing tariffs. More on that in a little bit. What I want you to focus on as well, when you take a look at the joint statement on US-China economic and trade meeting in Geneva released by the United States and China, I want you to notice what's missing about that.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
This is by Donald Trump's own admission, kind of sheepishly, being asked at a press conference earlier, what did you get out of this? So what's the United States getting? Because there was more trade, better trade, before January 20th, so... We're in a slightly worse position now than January 20th. That's supposed to be the victory in terms of the bilateral relationship as a country.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
We're in a far worse situation as we've had a first quarter GDP contraction, many small businesses and medium-sized businesses suffering. American people are suffering. Donald Trump says, yeah, maybe they'll stop the fentanyl, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
As Congress member Eric Swalwell said, just like I told you this would happen, Trump caves on China. Thank you. You went to the town halls and town squares. We did this. And he's also referring to a post he made on April 27th where he says, Trump will cave on tariffs. If we push this with everything we got, we can make this coward cave. It's coming.
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And he was responding there on April 27, 2025, to Trump saying that these tariffs against China were working so well that we were going to eliminate the income tax, that we wouldn't need the income tax anymore. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
So here's what we posted on the Midas Touch Network. U.S.-China agreed to a 90-day pause on new tariffs after shipping to U.S. ports plummeted. U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut from 145% to 30%. Chinese tariffs on U.S. imports will be cut from 125% to 10%. If tariffs are supposed to result in massive job growth and make U.S. rich, then why are we lowering them?
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
Then we showed the cycle of Trump and MAGA people. Trump goes, I'm adding tariffs. MAGA people, this will create jobs. Trump, I'm removing tariffs. Art of the deal, says his MAGA cult. Trump, I'm adding the tariffs again. Trump people, this will create jobs. I'm removing the tariffs. Trump people, art of the deal.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
Do you notice that it doesn't use the word deal joint statement on deal? Why? Because it was not a deal. It was a retreat by Donald Trump after what he imposed on China. China has referred to this as a consensus that was reached. And the consensus basically is for the United States to pull back. what it did and what it said it was going to be so great.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
As Justin Wolfers, economist at University of Michigan, says, there are two ways to frame this news. U.S. trade policy and our macroeconomic prospects are much better today than they were yesterday. And two, U.S. trade policy and our macroeconomic prospects are much worse today than on Inauguration Day. Both are still true.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
This is how they're talking about this in China Daily, the main Chinese state regime media. I just want you to see how they're framing this there. As a major power in the world, the US should act in such a responsible way. However, the frequent backsliding and wanton changes in trade rules of the government have damaged the country's credibility of itself.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
The US has become an unreliable and fickle player in global economic governance, with its strategic credibility and international status being continuously eroded by its short-sighted behavior. The U.S. is trying to curb China's economic development through high tariffs, but the reality is quite the opposite.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
The global supply chain has formed an intricate network, and China has cultivated irreplaceable advantages in basic manufacturing, support industries, and labor. The high tariff policy of the US will not be able to hit China, which in turn will seriously damage its own economic interests.
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China will not succumb to any form of economic coercion and will resolutely defend its legitimate rights and interests and national security through corresponding countermeasures. in accordance with relevant laws and regulations and the basic principles of international law. It goes on to say. So you see what the position of China is right there.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
And then while I'm on the topic, I do want to show you this as well, because you can go through deal by deal here with Donald Trump and we can call this out. I think Justin Wolfers, economist at University of Michigan, does a very good job right here doing that. Here he talks about how
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
really, when you talk about the quote unquote deal between the United States and the United Kingdom, it's just a phony thing. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
Let me characterize the whole deal for you. It's 10%. I want you to write that in big font on a big piece of paper, 10%, and there's a little asterisk next to it. The 10% matters because it basically said Trump walked in and he said, I am imposing a 10% tariff on Americans who buy goods from Britain, no matter what.
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And then he said, there's an asterisk up here which says, now let's start making a deal. And the making a deal was a promise to have further chats about further conversations, which actually gets very close to nothing done.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
It was basically collusion between the British prime minister and the American president to go out and each lie to their respective populations to pretend each had gotten something done with the other. The reality is this deal does nothing except actually cement in place Higher tariffs, to be clear, taxes on Americans who buy goods from the United Kingdom, with a carve out for Rolls Royces.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
And here, Professor Wolfers talks about how the economics of the special tar tariff carve out for British made luxury vehicles really reveals Donald Trump's true intentions here, which is to basically help luxury brands that he likes, I guess, while manipulating the markets. Here, play this clip right here.
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What's amazing is the President actually said, well, we've got to give them a break on the Rolls Royces because they're a beautifully made, handcrafted car. The whole point of the tariffs is to bring production to America. I get British craftsmanship, but if the President doesn't think we're capable of learning how to stretch leather over a car seat, we have tariffs on bananas.
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Trump Gets Broken in Front of Entire World with Retreat
No American worker is ever going to learn how to grow bananas. We have tariffs on vanilla. We can't grow vanilla. We have tariffs on diamonds. We can't mine diamonds. But we did decide that the one thing we definitely can't do is Rolls Royces, so we should have a special carve-out.
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If you take a look at the details of what took place, it effectively means the U.S. will temporarily lower its overall tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%, while China will cut its levies on American imports from 125% to 10%, according to the joint statement. statement. Why? Because China recognized that tariffs are a tax on its own importers that are then passed through to consumers.
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So Donald Trump is still ranting and raving like a lunatic about that $400 million bribe that he wants from Qatar in the form of a gold-plated 747 jet. So here's what he was posting yesterday evening. He writes, "'The Boeing 747 is being given to the United States Air Force Department of Defense,' Not me! It is a gift from a nation, Qatar, that we have successfully defended for many years.
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And you also want to cut Medicaid by $800 billion. This is why I refer to Donald Trump as the Ponzi scheme rug pull presidency right here. He looks at the suffering of the people of the United States, and he sees that vulnerability the way he's always seen it, as a predator. He's a felon. He's a fraud. He is a sexual abuser.
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He is a disgusting and vile piece of trash who has destroyed and not built his entire life, destroying the lives of workers, destroying the lives of contractors, anybody who's come into contact with with him, he's destroyed their lives. He is the snake that people let in and it's too late by the time he ruins your life. But then he moves on to the next Ponzi scheme, right?
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He goes, I'm gonna cut healthcare costs 50 to 90% via an executive order. No, you're not. You're getting rid of Medicaid before our eyes. You're getting rid of SNAP. You're getting rid of other critical programs. You ain't going to cut healthcare via an executive order just because you say so. But that's part of his scam.
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And now we're also seeing that the way he framed no tax on tips and no tax on Social Security and no tax on overtime. I'm going to do a whole other video about this this morning. It is a scam and the carve-outs essentially swallow the underlying promise, promises broken all around. But guys, Donald Trump had a great day in Saudi Arabia, three exclamation points.
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That's how great of a day it was because you see the Saudi sovereign wealth fund gives hundreds of millions and billions of dollars to the Trump family, Trump resorts in Oman, Trump resorts there. So, of course, Donald Trump is going to the Middle East for people who pay him money.
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Why do you think Donald Trump doesn't like Canada, doesn't like Europe, doesn't like places that are rooted in democracy and aren't trying to overtly or even implicitly bribe him who are actually running modern democracies because they ain't paying him off? like the Abu Dhabi crypto fund, or even Syria's getting in the action right now.
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Syria's leader said, oh shit, all we got to do, excuse my language, all we got to do is get, say we want to build a Trump Tower in Damascus. He'll remove the sanctions against us. So Syria said, we want to do Trump Tower. Within 24 hours, Donald Trump announces, all right, the sanctions against Syria are off. Seriously? Seriously.
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Now, it's so odd as well to see Trump and all these MAGA influencers saying, you know, Saudi Arabia loves us. Yeah, Saudis. It's very strange for me as an American to be like, our nation has attacked Canada and our European allies, and we suck up to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and we're begging for the seconds of Qatar's airplanes, right? For dear leader Donald Trump, like, are you kidding me?
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Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, goes, crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after Trump's fantastic speech in Riyadh. This is like sheer pink dress lady crap from North Korea. He clapped for Donald. He clapped for Donald. Mohammed bin Salman clapped for Donald. Americans are suffering right now, seriously.
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It will be used by our government as a temporary Air Force One until such time as our new Boeings, which are very late on delivery, arrive. Why should our military and therefore our taxpayers be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars when they can get it for free from a country that wants to reward us for a job well done? This big savings will be spent instead to make America great again!
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Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, which is a form of psychological torture. Americans can't afford a home right now. Americans need healthcare, good healthcare, and now they're gonna get kicked off the healthcare that they have, which could be better by the MAGA Republicans. Americans need a good education. Student loans right now have the highest delinquency rate
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essentially ever right now, as the only thing the Department of Education's doing is going after student loan delinquency and garnishing wages right now while gutting lunch programs to kids, gutting mental health services, even though MAGA Republicans say it's never the guns, right? What do they say? They say it's always mental health. Well, you just cut mental health services. You cut SNAP.
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You're cutting Medicaid. That's what's in your actual budget right now. Foreign countries are looking at America like a banana republic. That's what they're seeing it.
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Trump Has Deranged Meltdown as Plan Blows Up
As UBS Group has announced, their richest clients are increasingly shifting away from the United States dollar assets and turning instead to gold, crypto, and investments in China, according to the Swiss bank's co-head of wealth management in Asia. Because they don't see the United States brand has been irreparably damaged. I mean, just look at what Donald Trump did with China.
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And somehow our awful corporate news in America tries to act like Trump did a deal. Trump didn't do a deal. Trump engaged in a trade war against the world, recklessly and maliciously created a trade embargo with China, destroying businesses here in the United States, 145% tariffs against China.
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Then as ships stopped coming into our ports in the United States and we were about to have no products on our shelves and scarcity was about to reach a COVID level, Donald Trump sent Jameson Greer, our trade representative, and Scott Besant, our treasury secretary, to Switzerland to beg China, to beg China to make it appear the United States came out with something.
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The United States got not a single concession. Put in the comments what you think the United States got from this at all, other than to look outmaneuvered and look stupid at this point.
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Because all the United States did was reduce its tariffs against China from 145% to 30%, which is still a 30% tax on the American consumer, because a tariff is a levy on the importer who passes that through to the consumer. And China smartly lowered its tariff rates to 10% so it could tax its own citizens less. Meanwhile, China has engaged in
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lots of negotiations with other countries around the world to now appear to be a more stable trading partner than the United States. This is being reflected in the 10 year treasury rate, 4.5%, the 10 year yield is not supposed to be that high. When it is high, that reflects instability, and that's often a sign as well of other things going up, like mortgage rates going up.
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Trump Has Deranged Meltdown as Plan Blows Up
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Trump Has Deranged Meltdown as Plan Blows Up
Now, I'll show you right here what Donald Trump said, though, when he was in Saudi Arabia. The first clip I want to show you, though, is Donald Trump clearly being confused and addled. He was sleeping in his chair. He didn't know where to drooling on himself. They're like Donald Trump. He like wakes up. He walks to the wrong direction.
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A helper has to bring him to where his seat is, then has to help him sit. This happened in plain view. Let me show you this clip first.
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The next clip I want to show you is then Donald Trump describing Saudi Arabia as the hottest country in the world. He goes, you're even hotter than the United States. You're so hot. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Deranged Meltdown as Plan Blows Up
i wouldn't that be a terrible thing if i made that full statement but i will not do it you're hotter at least as long as i'm up here you're hotter the hell are we talking about and all the corporate news not even just talking about fox cnn all the other corporate news networks what have they been talking about right now may 14th what the hell have they been talking about
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Trump Has Deranged Meltdown as Plan Blows Up
Former President Biden, they all are coming out with books. Oh, former President Biden needed a wheelchair. By the way, even if he needed a wheelchair, what are we just we just why why can't you have a wheelchair? Like they act like, oh, my God, he didn't. We saw him walk, but that's like a big scoop that Jake Tapper and all these idiots are talking about.
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Or, oh, you know, he was cognitively whatever. No, he had a stable policy. You want to take a transcript of Biden and compare it to a transcript of Trump? You know how I would answer the stupid question that now corporate news is asking all of these people? When did you know about Biden? I would say shut the F up.
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Trump Has Deranged Meltdown as Plan Blows Up
I would say, first off, Donald Trump is 1000 times worse than anything we saw with Biden right in front of our eyes. Every single day, Donald Trump does 20 to 30 things worse than I ever saw Biden do at all during his presidency. And in any event, why is this year focused right now? Donald Trump is engaging in a hostile takeover of our federal government.
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Trump Has Deranged Meltdown as Plan Blows Up
He's trying to make sure we don't have elections ever again in our future. He's taking bribes in plain sight. He's rejecting and not following and defying clear Supreme Court orders. He's running things via executive order as a dictator. He's doing reckless trade wars against the world. and then capitulating and making the United States look utterly pathetic.
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Trump Has Deranged Meltdown as Plan Blows Up
The rest of the world sees the United States for what it is, and you, on May 14, 2025, are focused on former President Biden? Are you freaking kidding me? That's how I would answer those stupid and pathetic questions. So, by the way, you have that taking place, right? You have corporate news. That's their story, done. Donald Trump's getting bribes. Well, what about did Biden recognize Clooney?
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Biden, Clooney, what are you even talking about? It gives a shit. Right now, Americans are suffering and our democracy is on the line. This is what you this is why people are leaving corporate news and watching the Midas type network. And then on the other side, right, that's like CNN. That's what they're doing. So other than that, you now have people like Hannity.
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trillion dollars the most ever this as doge has not given the united states any savings but has caused a massive massive amount of waste and abuse doge itself oh and by the way you're cutting $290 billion from SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps over 42 million people nationwide purchase fresh produce and other groceries.
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Trump Has Deranged Meltdown as Plan Blows Up
And here, you know, Hannity's like, you know, look, after all of these great deals, now people just want to talk about the cutter jet. How unfair. This is the new scam. We got January 6th. You've got COVID and now you've got Qatari jets. That's the way they're going with this. Here, play this clip.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
As Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, former Trump voters are speaking out right now against his heinous policies. We're seeing his approval on the economy absolutely tank his lowest levels, frankly, ever, including the first Trump administration. And we're getting lots of comments like this. So now Musk and Trump are planning to dissolve Social Security and Medicare. I did not vote for that.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
He's saying George Soros is sending paid protesters and that's why people are upset. What's going on? We got to bring in Democratic leader, Congress member Hakeem Jeffries. Congress member Jeffries, what's going on? Are you seeing shifts in the country right now? And what are the Democrats doing?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Look, staying on that issue also is the fact that the Republicans passed this CR yesterday. That, I mean, is absolutely devastating. I mean, in addition to, I think, not really being a CR in the sense that it ain't clean. I mean, it has, you know, all of these cuts. It kind of doesn't provide anything. I guess a blank reverse check for Elon Musk to just continue to gut everything?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
How devastating is this CR? You know, people hear the word CR, continuing resolution. It's wonky. What does it mean, though, to the American people?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Here are some comments from the Fox News audience post. Trump's chaos is tanking the markets and inflation isn't reversing. Trump's own DJT stock and cryptocurrency are dropping dramatically. When he complains about the current trade relations with Canada and Mexico, keep in mind, it's his deal that he's complaining about. These are post folks from the Fox message board.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Yeah, blank check or blank shredder. I mean, he's put the entire government through a shredder and seems to be targeting the most vulnerable. I mean, you saw one of those comments that I played at the outset of this attack on veterans, right? It seems to be over and over again, disproportionately attacking veterans and other kind of vulnerable groups.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
What are you hearing from the other members of the Democratic caucus? And what are you hearing just in general from your constituents about, you know, attacks on veterans, attack on the Social Security Administration, attack on people on Medicaid?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
hide from their reckless record talk about that plan i showed you that clip of their latest conspiracy is that all of their own constituents even in ruby red areas are actually secret agents of george soros and and deep state actors and that's why They're getting booed at the town halls, so they're shutting down their town halls.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
There's never a conspiracy too idiotic for these MAGA Republicans, at least in my view. So what are Democrats going to do? Are Democrats going to be, you know, are Democratic members of Congress going into those reddish states the same way we're seeing, like, Senator Sanders speak in Kenosha and Warren, Michigan?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
And Altoona, are we going to see Democratic Congress members kind of going in there and speaking to people's angst and meeting that moment?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Someone posts, we're already in a recession. The stock market's dropped like 2000 points in the first month of the Trump presidency. I voted for Trump. I'm a Trump supporter. But what he's doing right now is the wrong time to do it. Here's someone posted the following. Yo, tell me why my neighbor confessed. Confessed.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
You know, when I hear from our viewers and they say, look, we understand that Democrats don't control the House. They don't control the Senate. So there are necessarily limitations. You can't subpoena. You can't dictate what the committees are going to be focused on. But when they talk about fighting, I think that that they mean they want to see.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Democrats, as much as possible, as you mentioned, Democrats have their own constituents. They have to focus also on their own constituents. But they just want to see people as those MAGA Republicans run away and hide. I think they want to see a coordinated effort to see Democrats go into those areas. And I think they want to hear Democrats
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Listen to people's stories to tell us what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck. Explain to us what you're going through with these Medicaid cuts and share those and share those stories. So in addition to the day of kind of focusing on the Medicaid cuts, you know, is that the beginning? And there's kind of a.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
What else are we expecting to see with, you know, that's critical, of course, but is there going to be, you know, other kind of, you know, going into red states or what does that plan look like?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
and said, quote, my dumb ass voted for Trump, but now he's trying to take my job. Her reason, immigrants. I asked her how immigrants affected her. She had no idea, honestly. Typical red state. The good news is, she said, next time she'll vote who I vote for. Here's another Trump voter. WTF, I voted for Trump. This is not okay. You said you would support the VA and help all veterans.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Yeah, people are calling it already the Trump recession or the Trump economic downturn. Just finally, Leader Jeffries, what's your message just in general to the American people, whether they're Democrats, independents, Republicans, people who never paid attention to politics until politics certainly paid attention to them now. They're seeing it in their 401ks.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
What's your message right now where we are March 12th as we're recording this?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, appreciate you. Thank you so much. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
And this individual is responding to Trump's plans to fire over 70,000 employees. at the VA. And as the markets were tanking, what was Donald Trump doing? He was selling Teslas yesterday with Elon Musk, selling Teslas. And then what does the speaker, Mike Johnson, have to say? Here's what Mike Johnson said about all of this. Play this clip.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
I'm joined by New York Attorney General Letitia James. New York Attorney General James, you've successfully prosecuted Donald Trump in a civil fraud case, $486 million judgment. So you understand how at least he operates his businesses. Can you apply that to what he's doing right now with the government? Are you seeing similar patterns in how he's operating things?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
New York Attorney General Letitia James, thank you so much for joining us on the Midas Touch Network.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers this week.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
about their loved ones being deported and separated i want to talk about some of the specific cases that your attorney general's office is involved in but in that case against trump as you mentioned inflating assets there would be certain assets that would be x and he would just say they are y just put kind of a bunch of fraudulent and fake numbers to those assets now
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
You kind of see the same playbook, though, with this administration. I mean, you know, you had Trump and Elon Musk saying that somewhere between 400 billion and 600 billion dollars of Social Security payments are like, quote unquote, they're saying incorrect or fraudulent payments. And then.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
when Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitz, asked about it and said, well, those numbers are inaccurate. Where are you getting these numbers from? Well, that's what they think the numbers are. And we're seeing that in their cuts, in their gutting of the government. They're using made up numbers and fake numbers to justify it.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
It almost seems like a lot of the Doge playbook is the playbook you saw also in your prosecution. Do you see that?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
Let's talk about some of the cases that your office has brought against the Trump administration. You've joined with some of the other Attorney General's offices, as you mentioned. One of the things you talked about earlier today was winning a big court order that's going to temporarily stop Trump's cuts to grant programs that Congress authorized to hire and retain teachers in underserved schools.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
There, Trump going after the most vulnerable You talk about how your office and a group of AGs challenged Trump's unlawful early termination of temporary protected status for Venezuelans. We know a lot of these Venezuelans on TPS were also like family members of people who voted for Trump, Venezuelans for Trump.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
Your office also leading the case on behalf of the probationary federal workers who were illegally fired. Talk to us about those cases. And one of the patterns seems to be Trump and the oligarchs look at some of the most vulnerable people and just punch down at the most vulnerable people.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
are going into court and they're not able to answer these very basic questions by the judges of who's running a specific entity. And then the judge says, you don't know the answer. And then some of these DOJ lawyers are there saying, well, look, we're working as hard as we can. We're understaffed. We don't have the same amount of people that we do.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
I mean, as a lawyer, a former practicing lawyer, I'm thinking to myself, can I ever imagine going in front of a federal judge and saying that I don't have the staff to get the answers or being asked who runs the organization and I go, you know what? It's above my pay grade, I can't answer. What's your perspective when you hear transcripts and you see that? It's like sloppy and company.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
I gotta get your perspective on that.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
Let me ask you a final question. What's the latest on Mahmoud Khalil? I know your office may have been in touch with their lawyers. I saw something about that. What's the latest update on that? What should the people know?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
No, I said finally, but I've got New York Attorney General Letitia James on, so I'm not going to, I got to ask you, I got to ask you one more question. This is the real finally, though. What do you say to the American people out there, though, who are worried and seeing all these democratic institutions under attack? There are a lot of people who are scared. They want to see fighters right now.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
What's your message in general to Americans who are worried? Are there going to be future elections? Is our democracy going to survive? What do you say to them?
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
The Trump regime folds to Canada. Once again, it's like Groundhog's Day, the same day over and over. Trump wakes up in the morning. He threatens Canada with tariffs and annexation. Canada goes elbows up over the boards. They stand up to Donald Trump. They say, we're going to retaliate. The markets start to crash. Donald Trump passes. and then Donald Trump reverses course.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Carried away with your rhetoric? You know, there's this meme that I think is so appropriate right now, right here, where it's like the U.S. shoots Canada and then the U.S. goes, how could Canada do this to us? Look at what Donald Trump posted earlier yesterday. He said the only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished 51st state.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And then Donald Trump said there won't need to be tariffs if we annex you. And then Trump said the artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear and we will have the safest and most beautiful nation anywhere in the world.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
and your brilliant anthem, O Canada, will continue to play, but now representing a great and powerful state within the greatest nation the world has ever seen. I think we should stop using the language that this is merely a trade war. When Donald Trump makes posts like this, threatening conquest and annexation, we're actually talking about declarations of real war.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And so when the Trump regime declares war on Canada and Canada goes elbows up and over the boards and punches back and applies retaliatory tariffs and boycotts all U.S. tourism and takes American booze off the shelves, the Trump regime then sends Peter DeMargou oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so good. Could you tone it down? You're being mean to us.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Do you know how weak and pathetic that makes the Trump regime then look? It's a cycle of taunts, bullying, and then weakness repeated over and over again. Let me just share this with you. Talking about going elbows up, my recent interview with Canadian Member of Parliament, Charlie Angus, he directed this message at Donald Trump before Donald Trump said, sent Peter Navarro to back down.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Now, yesterday, Donald Trump sent out his trade advisor, Peter Navarro, fresh from his recent prison sentence for contempt of Congress, and he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, Canada, Can you tone down that rhetoric?
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Now here's Charlie Angus talking about the boycott. And he says that the statistics he's seeing, it's about a 40 to 50% decline in certain flights to the US and tourism and consumption, which is going to cost the US billions and billions of dollars. Watch Charlie Angus.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And you have the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford. He went on a number of shows in America. And here's what he had to say here. Play this clip on the electricity.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Now, one of the things that Premier Ford said, too, is that he was going to apply his own tariffs on energy, which was above and beyond other retaliatory tariffs, above and beyond the boycott. And then that freaked out the Trump regime.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And so the Trump regime that ended up like negotiating against themselves and then acting like they got some deal or concessions when the Trump regime literally threatened annexation and then once again pulled back their threats. I mean, They do this every single day now, it seems. You wake up, tariffs, no tariffs, tariffs, no tariffs. Ooh, did Donald Trump actually post that? Oh, he did.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Are they actually going to sign the tariffs? Oh, they're not going to sign it. What's actually going on here? Let me show you the new leader of the liberal party, the interim, soon-to-be interim prime minister, Mark Carney. Here was his very pointed message to the Trump regime. Let's play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And by the way, this is what Navarro and the Trump regime was doing all day. making appearances like this, saying, all right, everybody, we just got to tone it down. Canada was getting, you're getting a little carried away there with your rhetoric. Here, watch this.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And so what does Donald Trump continue to do throughout the day? It's just lots of whining. It's social media whining. It's like trolling on his social media platform and exits. It's just weird. They go, why would our country allow another country to supply us with electricity, even for a small area? Who made these decisions and why?
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And can you imagine Canada stooping so low as to use electricity that so affects the life of innocent people as a bargaining chip and a threat? I don't know. Maybe you threaten their existence. Maybe you threaten their sovereignty. Maybe when you do something, sometimes people react.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
You know, the rest of the world are not like these spineless Pyongyang MAGA Republicans who dutifully clap at dear leader. Most of the world looks at you like the pathetic, weak moron that you actually are, who keeps tanking the market. markets.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
But I guess when you tank the markets, that's a great opportunity for your band of grifters like MAGA Republican former Congress member Matt Gaetz, who said, we told you there would be market volatility. You can protect your savings and retirement. I trust at Golden Crest Gold to manage my gold and silver portfolio, and it's growing my wealth.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
So you've got Matt Gaetz selling products over a market crash. Who else would do that? Oh, Donald Trump and Elon Musk selling Teslas, doing product placement ads outside of the White House. as they are unleashing these disorganized and pathetic and dangerous trade wars that are backfiring in their face, as they're tanking the markets, they're selling Teslas.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And Donald Trump's like, oh, I don't know how to drive. I don't know how to drive. And then meanwhile, they're having their regime propaganda like Jesse Waters act all tough to kind of cover it up and be like, okay. Can you believe that Canada tried to shut off our electricity? It's like they want us to invade them. Yeah, we're going to invade them. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
I don't think that y'all are building the case for Canada to be nicer to you when you talk like that. When you speak in language of invasion through American state regime media, it is so utterly, utterly pathetic. One of the things that I enjoyed watching as well, though, is Caroline Leavitt learn what a tariff is in real time. And then she was like, you don't know what a tariff is.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
A tariff is a tax cut. The Americans are getting their tariff tax cuts. That's what we promised, like no tax on Social Security tariffs. What? What are you even talking about? First off, you're not doing no tax on Social Security, no tax on tips and no tax on overtime. And tariffs are quite literally a tax on American consumers. They're not a tax cut. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Oh, and then they go back to their line, though, that while they're folding to Canada, while they are sending Navarro out and showing utter weakness, then she goes back to saying, well, look, we want Canada to be our 51st state. Everybody knows that. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
I guess I should mention as well, finally, that in that Trump social media post, he says that the borders are artificial. Isn't he like Mr. Border? And now he goes, when it comes to Canada, those borders are artificial. It's just a line. People drew it with a ruler. Why would they draw such an artificial line with a ruler? Listen.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
First off, that's exactly the opposite of what Trump said, but who cares when it comes to Donald Trump about consistency to begin with. But it's the language of Putin. He's using verbatim the language of Putin. It's just a border, artificial border. And Canada has taken note. Europe has taken note. The world has taken note.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And could you imagine, though, if Putin sent somebody out and go, oh, they're being mean to us. They're being mean to us. What are we even watching? What are we even watching? Weakness. Weakness. Hit subscribe.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
And if there is a CR, it's going to be clean CRs. This was none of that. But then they tried to spin it, I think, in kind of Pyongyang fashion. This is MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer just saying how great things are. Play this clip.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
Last time I checked, y'all are the ones who control the House and the Senate and the executive branch, and y'all are the ones who are throwing the temper tantrums. This is MAGA Republican Congressmember Steve Scalise. Just take a look at this.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
What was Donald Trump doing today while the markets were crashing? Oh, yeah, he was out there with Elon Musk selling Teslas and doing product placement while their propaganda network as well as Sean Hannity talking about buying Teslas. It must be nice, all these rich people buying Teslas all over the place and helping out their billionaire friends.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
Let's bring in Democratic Congressmember Joe Neguse. Congressmember, you sit on the Rules Committee. You're on the Subcommittee of Budget and Legislation. So you know this CR. What are they cheering for right there? Can you put this into context?
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
You know, I watch you on the Rules Committee, and it's an interesting committee because the members of Congress who are putting forward the legislation appear kind of as witnesses. So you're actually kind of examining or questioning your Republican colleagues.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
I want to talk about that because, I mean, I'm sure you speak to these people not in that setting where they know that, like, our people at the Midas Touch Network are clipping all that stuff and getting it all up. Like, after they're done with that theater, do they admit kind of privately that, like, they know that this is big trouble?
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Or are they fully Pyongyang, North Korea, clap-clap mode, that this is their shtick, this is their jam?
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
So that's the moment the MAGA Republican members of Congress were cheering that they passed their CR, their continuing resolution. That reminds me of something. Where have I seen clapping like that before, where people look terrified by clapping at the same time? Oh, yeah, I think I've seen that before. It looks like that's what these MAGA Republicans have become these days.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
You represent a district in Colorado. I would say on the whole, Colorado as a state is bluer, but there are certainly lots of red dots within Colorado as well and purplish areas in Colorado as well. You know, are
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
what are you hearing from constituents not just democrats but like are you hearing from independents and republicans and are you hearing across the board in colorado that there's kind of a growing frustration would be putting it i think gently to what elon musk and trump is doing do you feel this is still kind of people are in their partisan camps what are you seeing in your state
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
It looks a little bit Kim Jong-un-ish, and I guess there's a reason why Donald Trump
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
And I just don't think anybody's signed up for the chaos. It's every day. Tariffs? No tariffs. Tariffs are great. Tariffs are the worst. What are we going to do? Am I going to invade Greenland today? Am I going to invade Canada today, 51st State Day? Is today a Panama Canal conquest day? What are we talking about? Are we talking about fentanyl in Mexico today? Where are we going with this?
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
looks up to kim jong when you look at this continuing resolution there are about 22 different instances at least although i want to see if there may be even more than that in this bill where the funding for certain programs is set at zero dollars um and if you look at the types of things that are being cut go back to to that last graphic as well there, Salty.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
You know, is he going to send a Shalom Hamas text? Is he going to post images of himself in Trump Gaza City, you know, with bearded people with cleavage? What's the it's it's not. I always say we can't normalize this behavior. And then there's like a like a gaslighting element to it as well. Like, you know, he'll have, you know, Peter Navarro, who, by the way,
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
served jail time for his conduct relating to... Contempt of Congress. Contempt of Congress. He's out there right now asking Canada, can you please just tamp it down? Tamp down the rhetoric. Canada, he goes, tamp down the rhetoric. Watch this.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
There you have it. I'd love to. This is your first time on the Midas Touch Network. We got to have you. We got to have you back. You know, there's a reason that Asen has so many clips of you, because as a former litigator, I love your style. I love your examinations. And I always point it out to him. So it's great to finally have you on the network. And we hope you come back.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
All right, good to have you here. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
I mean, you're looking at things like EPA, healthcare, education, things that are going to also harm red states. So these MAGA Republicans are quite literally cheering on the fact that they're harming their own constituents. By the way, these are the same MAGA Republican Congress members who for years have now been saying, we will never pass a continuing resolution again. The days of CRs are over.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Donald Trump's chief propagandist, his press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, just gave a disastrous press conference in the White House. And she said Americans are getting their tax cuts right now. She says those tariffs are the tax cuts. Watch as the reporter pushes back. They'll play this clip.
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She calls Canada potentially a competitor and goes on to reiterate that Donald Trump wants to annex Canada and make it the 51st state. Here, play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Next, Caroline Levitt is asked about Elon Musk's fraudulent claim that there's over 500 to 700 billion dollars of fraud that is part of the Social Security Administration, to which Caroline Levitt's response is that Elon Musk never actually claimed that there was actual fraud.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
It's just that he thinks he thinks that that may be the case, even though that's like one third of Social Security payments. Play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Go ahead. Then Caroline Leavitt brags that Donald Trump might be driving around a Tesla later today and photographing himself in a new Tesla that he bought to help Elon Musk out play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
By the way, if you saw my coverage earlier in the day as well, Donald Trump had made posts about how he was going to buy a Tesla to help out his billionaire friend, Elon Musk. And then last night on Fox, Sean Hannity said that he was buying a Tesla in order to support Elon Musk, because that's what they got to do. Stand in solidarity with their billionaire buds.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Next up, Caroline Levitt talks about the golden age that exists right now in America. She says this is a golden age in manufacturing. Play this clip.
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Yeah, tell that to people, Caroline, whose pensions are in the gutter right now, whose 401 s have been absolutely destroyed, people whose lives have been ruined in a very short period of time by Donald Trump as America heads into a Trump recession or even potentially a Trump depression.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Next up, Caroline Levitt talks about how the globalist mainstream media is to blame and that the economy is actually fine, but it's the globalists who are doing this. Here, play this clip.
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Then Caroline Leavitt attacks Canada and says that there will be grave consequences if Canada cuts off electricity to the United States, as Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, says he's going to maybe do if Trump keeps this up. Play this clip.
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As for conversation- As Democratic Congress member Jimmy Gomez said- One problem when you start trade wars and you talk about going to actual war and annexing your neighbors is eventually the other side shoots back, even with your allies who the Trump regime is now saying are not allies anymore.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Next up, Caroline Leavitt is asked if the White House can assure Americans there will not be a recession. She cannot make such assurances. And she just reiterates what Trump says when Trump goes, I don't know. Here, play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Even Peter Doocy of Fox asked Caroline Leavitt if she's sure that nobody is shorting the Dow because how bad the markets are doing. Play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Okay. Caroline Levitt then claims that egg prices will be under control in about, I don't know, six months maybe, three to six months. Here, play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
And then after Caroline Levitt's press conference, you heard from others kind of in the Trump regime as well. You have Kayleigh McEnany, who used to be Donald Trump's press secretary. Now she works on Fox as part of the revolving door. Here she says, look, the bottom line is that Trump is sacrificing for the country right now. He could be on a yacht somewhere. Here, play this clip.
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Really, a yacht somewhere with Melania? That's what you're going with? As Americans, 401ks are in the gutter. As our economy is absolutely being destroyed and ravaged, Donald Trump could be on a yacht with Melania? I remember who Donald Trump was once on yachts with, though, little girls, as part of the beauty pageants he used to throw for teenage girls. And it was absolutely disgusting.
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And it was described in an article recently. by The Guardian about these little girls being forced to grind on men old enough to be their grandparents as part of the look of the year competition that was hosted at one of the Trump parties and Trump was on Trump properties and Trump was on that yacht. Maybe that's what you mean instead of Melania. Anyway, I digress.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Then here, Peter Doocy talks about how, you know, it's interesting, even Doocy on Fox is saying this, like they're gutting and destroying these federal workers' jobs, and they're telling federal workers they should retire, but federal workers are now not even able to retire because of the sinking economy. Here, play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
John, this is real. This is what the White House put out in one of their latest press releases. It was another week filled with endless wins for the American people under President Donald J. Trump. As Douglas Boneparth writes, my portfolio's pronouns are was, was. were.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
And another brutal day on the stock market, it began with Donald Trump posting about raising the tariffs on Canada, trying to crush the automobile industry in Canada, and that Canada needs to become the 51st state, he says. The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished 51st state. And then he declares a national emergency on electricity.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
There you have it, a disastrous press conference. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Mary. It was great work by the reporter from the Associated Press. You see why the Trump administration is so or the regime is so afraid of them. Next up, Caroline Leavitt is asked if she and the president still believe that Canada is an ally of the United States. She does not say yes.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
And I show you that because it's just utterly pathetic behavior. And again, to me, this shouldn't be about even like a political party. I'm just watching that behavior and saying, pathetic. Pathetic, this Trump regime. Weak, weird, out of control. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Can't get enough Midas?
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Yeah, zoom in on Donald Trump's notes right there as the market is crashing. Donald Trump was selling Teslas at the White House. But if you zoom in right there, he literally has the Tesla pricing for a full self-driving vehicle, the Model X, the CT.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
He's out there doing product placement for Tesla as people's pensions, retirements, 401ks are getting absolutely destroyed by Donald Trump's erratic decisions. tariff threats and tariff wars that he then pulls back and then threatens again and threatens annexation. Here's what Donald Trump was doing yesterday. He was sitting in a Tesla and he was just shocked at the way a car looked.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
because he hasn't driven a car in a long time and he doesn't know how to drive. Here's what we posted on the Midas Touch social media accounts. Americans, we'd like to afford basic necessities, keep vital programs around, and not lose our retirement savings. Donald Trump, the best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on earth. And we're supposed to feel bad for
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Elon Musk, as he and Donald Trump are firing our veterans, attacking 9-11 first responders, sending groups of 19 to 25 year olds to get our private data, our medical records, our social security information, our tax records. We're supposed to feel bad for the guy who said he wants to inflict suffering on us while he enriches himself to the tune of billions of dollars.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
So when Trump and Musk were outside of the White House, Trump was, I want you to watch this moment. I don't think you've seen this clip before. You may have, but so Trump is talking about Ukraine and he says, Marco Rubio, Steve Wyckoff, Michael Waltz, he's making names and he goes, they want to see two things happen. And then he like loses it. He like freezes. And then he goes, death.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
They want death. Huh? And then he goes, I'm surprised that people who live in the country are people. What's he talking about here?
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
So then he talks about how he doesn't know how to drive and that he's never driven a vehicle in a long time.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
All right, that's Mr. Alpha right there, right? He can't drive a car. You know who was able to drive a car? Former President Biden. Here, take a look at this clip when former President Biden was around. Play this clip. Sorry, I had to be slightly... I don't think it's that petty. I had to show you that clip. So then Donald Trump was asked, do you think that your tariff policies...
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
are causing economic harm and hurting people this week. Trump goes, nah, Biden's fault, Biden.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
And you look at what's happened there. I just want to come with receipts when I do these videos. Because here's what Donald Trump previously promised during the campaign, where he said on day one, he was going to fix everything. Like a miracle, he would get everything done, even though with former President Biden, inflation was going down to 2%. Interest rates were coming down. GDP growth was up.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Unemployment was down to record levels. Job growth was at record levels. Infrastructure Act, Inflation Reduction Act, PACT Act, CHIPS Act. He was actually doing things. But Donald Trump said he was going to fix everything.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
I got to bring receipts like that. And then you contrast that to the kind of propaganda machine that's out there. And so as Trump is crashing our economy, as people crash, Most Americans living paycheck to paycheck don't know where that next paycheck is going to be.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
As Trump and Musk are cruelly ripping apart the lives of veterans and people in the military and spouses of military people and military families, and they're gutting the Department of Education. The recent announcement was they're firing 50% of the people who work at the Department of Education. Right. What are they saying on Fox? They saying Trump is doing this for you.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
He could be on a yacht with Melania. He could be on the Melania yacht.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
All right, fact check. Donald Trump would not be on a yacht with Melania. I can tell you the yachts that Donald Trump was on. He was on yachts with little girls. Yeah, he was on yachts in the early 1990s when he would throw beauty pageants for girls, not women, girls.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
And according to this article from The Guardian that was published many years ago, there would be old men old enough to be the girls' grandparents would grind on the little girls on the yachts. Right before Trump was on the yacht, right before Trump hosted the look of the year competition at his property with girls. Disgusting stuff. That's the yacht that Trump was on.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's propagandist press secretary, she was bragging that Donald Trump was, she's going, the economy may be bad, but Trump will be on a Tesla later today.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Now, as Keith Edwards says, this one stings. According to one of the more recent MIRS polls, former Vice President Kamala Harris would trounce Donald Trump in Michigan if an election was held today. It's why it's important to get out information. It's why it's important to get out the truth. It's why it's important to defeat this propaganda machine, right?
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
I mean, just think about what went down yesterday, right? The MAGA Republicans passed their continuing resolution against that they say is going to fund the government, but it's really to defund the government. I think they're zeroing out like 22 programs. They're stealing money from Veterans Affairs, from schools, from law enforcement. They're like destroying all funds to go to Washington, D.C.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
They're crippling D.C. They hate Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., police and education getting totally taken away. They're stealing from children's health care to give tax cuts to the wealthiest like Elon Musk. They're harming working class families and then selling Teslas in front of the White House. There's such a cruelty component to it, such a cruelty component to it.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
I'll show you this moment yesterday in the House of Representatives at this committee hearing where a MAGA Republican Congress member, MAGA Republican Congress member self, referred to the Congresswoman from Delaware, transgender Congresswoman from Delaware, Congresswoman McBride, and referred to her as Mr. McBride, to which then Congresswoman McBride called the chair Madam Chair.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
And then Democratic Congressmember Keating then stood up for Democratic Congresswoman McBride. Watch this moment.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
And it's just the cruelty of it. It's like the cruelty for the sake of cruelty. Why treat her that way? She's a human being. She's a human being. Why bully somebody like that? Unless you're just an evil, despicable person. And hat tip to Democratic Congress member Keating for standing up to Congresswoman McBride. All this talk about alpha and masculine. I've said this before.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
People who are alpha and masculine don't refer to themselves as alpha and masculine, kind of number one. And also someone like J.D. Vance who's like, masculinity is under attack. Okay. Masculine people don't believe masculinity is under attack, okay, like JD Vance. So let's get that out of the way first and foremost, JD and MAGA. Second off, I'll tell you how I was raised. You don't.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Punch down and bully marginalized communities. As I was always taught by my family, by my parents, they were like, man, you know what a man does? This is what they told me. You stand up for people who are being bullied. You stand up for marginalized communities. You show empathy. That's strength. Not punching down and bullying people who may already be suffering or who are being bullied.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
It's ridiculous stuff. Enough of that crap. You got people like this MAGA Republican Congress member, Brandon Gill, who's like, yeah, things may be really bad right now, but we were handed bankruptcy by Biden, right?
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Wrong, wrong. I'll just show you all again the Wall Street Journal headline. I could show you headlines from a ton of other places. I'll show you Wall Street Journal and Axios. Why? Because Wall Street Journal is right leaning Axios. I really don't know what leaning they are. Sometimes right, sometimes center. I don't know. But here's the Wall Street Journal Murdoch owned April 14, 2024.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Envy of the world. U.S. economy expected to keep powering higher. Economists lift their growth forecast in latest Wall Street Journal survey. Then July 12th, 2024, Axios, just right inflation opens the door to a Goldilocks economy, meaning it was just right.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
By the way, the Atlanta Federal Reserve just last month predicted strong GDP growth until Donald Trump started all of his tariff threats and tariff wars. And then the Atlanta Federal Reserve had to change its course and said because of Trump's policies, that's the impact.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
We now expect negative 2.8 to negative 3% GDP contraction, meaning we're headed towards a great recession and even potentially a depression right now because of what Trump's doing. And while he's doing this, he has his propagandist like this guy, Peter Navarro.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
So after Trump threatens annexation of Canada to conquer Canada, as he says that Canada should be the 51st state and Canada stands up to Donald Trump, then Peter Navarro, Trump's trade advisor, goes on TV and he's like, whoa, Canada, cool it. Canada, you need to chill. Your rhetoric, you're being a little mean to us.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
Next, even Peter Doocy of Fox says, hey, Donald, you know, these optics are really bad. You're out here talking about buying Teslas while Americans are suffering. Do you see how that could be a bad look? Hint, hint. Here, watch this.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
So that even Ducey from Fox is like, what are you doing? Next up, Donald Trump talks about how the borders between the United States and Canada are artificial and the United States needs to immediately annex and conquer Canada. Play this clip.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
I mean, this individual is an utter psychopath, crashing the economies and talking about conquering and annexing Canada and how borders are artificial. By the way, this is Mr. Border Guy, purportedly, who was like, borders matter. But between Canada and the United States is artificial, and he's talked about conquering Greenland as well.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
Here, Donald Trump talks about how he's rebuilding the military, and then he's connecting that with annexing Canada. Watch this clip.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
Well, when you take away that and you look at that beautiful. Here's where Donald Trump talks about spending $35,000 today to buy his granddaughter a Tesla. And he loves the Teslas. Play this clip.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
He goes in the Tesla. He goes, wow, computers. Wow, Elon. Here, watch this.
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By the way, you remember when Donald Trump was saying that he wants to destroy all things electric and how he hates electric vehicles? Who's actually expecting this moron to be consistent about anything? I guess the only thing he's consistent about is bankrupting everything he touches. Here, Donald Trump is again talking about the markets and he's like, so what?
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You'll have drops here, you'll have drops there. It doesn't matter. We're being treated unfairly. Here, play this clip.
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He's like a wind-up Furby. Like, it's just a bunch of word salad, and he has no clue what he's even talking about, except the words that you can kind of figure out what he's saying, crash our economy and destroy our alliances. Here you have Donald Trump and Elon Musk talking about how Tesla owners are being unfairly targeted. These are innocent people who have done nothing wrong.
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As Donald Trump crashed our markets once again today, Donald Trump decided to do a product placement event for Tesla outside the White House. He made a big announcement that he was going to be buying a Tesla for himself and also for his granddaughter as Americans are suffering as their pensions and 401ks are being destroyed. This is what Donald Trump is doing. Just take a look.
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More whining by Donald Trump about being treated unfairly by Canada and Mexico. Let's play it.
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Here Trump again, more whining from him saying, our country's been stripped of everything, everything. I'm tired of seeing where they build apartments, cheap apartments in broken down factories. Here, play this clip.
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So utterly pathetic, Donald Trump and Elon Musk outside the White House selling Teslas. Donald Trump was asked other questions as well, like, do you believe that your tariff policies bear any responsibility for the turmoil we're seeing in the economy? Trump goes, nope, it's all Biden's fault. Play this clip.
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By the way, this disastrous press conference by Trump follows what went down earlier in the White House, the disastrous press conference by Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt. And here, Caroline Leavitt just lies about what tariffs are. And she's like, we are delivering on our promises of tax cuts. The tax cuts to the American people are the tariffs.
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That's what tax cuts are, right? And the reporter's like, no, tariffs are literally tax hikes, not tax cuts. What are you talking about? Watch it. You're welcome.
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Mary. And the White House continued their message of annexation of Canada today when asked if the United States considers Canada an ally. Here was Caroline Levitt's response. Let's play it.
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Oh yeah, and this follows Lara Trump appearing on Sean Hannity last night, where she says that why are people upset at Donald and Elon? They should be kissing their feet. People should be kissing Donald and Elon's feet. Here, play this clip.
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Well, and that's what went down at the White House today. Horrific, horrific stuff. The economy's tanking. Markets are crashing. And this is what Donald Trump is doing. Product placement to try to sell Teslas in front of the White House. Absurd. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them
Clean up on aisle three. Fox is just in a spiral right now. As Donald Trump keeps saying more dangerous and psychotic things, Fox has to be state-run regime media. They got a cover for him, right? So they have to hit their beats every day. So one of the beats they wanted to hit over the past 24 hours is there really shouldn't be any opposition or strong opposition to Donald Trump.
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All right. So then they move on to this issue of impoundment. Right. This is what Donald Trump and his regime is setting up for before the Supreme Court by trying to cut off all government funding to essentially all of the agencies they don't like, which is basically impoundment. All of the agencies. Impoundment. It is what it sounds like.
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Trump wants to impound, take the funds that Congress appropriated and keep it for himself. Rule like a dictator. So he gets to decide where it goes. So Fox is starting to talk about, and by the way, where do you think it goes? Probably to, he said it, a sovereign wealth fund for him and Elon Musk to buy things for him and Elon Musk so Trump could rule over
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like Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong-un or Vladimir Putin or MBS in Saudi Arabia. I mean, that's what they're saying. That's what Donald Trump wants. So Ted Cruz then goes on Fox and he says the quiet part out loud. He goes, well, I think the Trump administration, they're teeing up a challenge to bring back impoundment. OK, first off, what do you mean bring it back? It's unlawful.
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It's a violative of the law here. But play this clip.
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So that was one of the messages that they wanted out today, right? I mean, they have to, message number one, there shouldn't be opposition. Let's all just kind of get along and let him do his thing, right? Because Fox knows that resistance is growing. There's protests that are happening. Corporate media is covering it up. We're addressing it here.
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You just got to live with it, people. Live with it. So this is what Sean Hannity said here. Play this clip.
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The other thing is we got to justify Donald Trump saying he's got to conquer Palestinians. So let's just talk about that they give birth to too many babies, right? So then they do that. Then impoundment, boom. They bring on Russ Vogt, architect of Project 2025, who runs the Office of Management and Budget for Donald Trump. And here he talks about impoundment again. Here, play this clip.
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But then Fox has to pivot to their next message, which is that this is, by the way, all out of the fascist playbook. You see, I'm going through the fascist playbook right now, one by one. So then they have to go to Donald Trump needs to defy court orders because
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Republican courts, Democrat courts, meaning judges who have been appointed by Democratic presidents, judges who have been appointed by Republican presidents, including judges appointed by Donald Trump. They've ruled against Trump over and over and over again. Trump keeps losing in court.
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So as he keeps losing and these judges are issuing nationwide injunctions because what Trump is doing is so unlawful. Now they attack the judges. So now Fox pushes the message, okay, these judges are defying the Constitution and we should start not following what courts do.
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Then as Donald Trump talks about conquering Gaza or just taking Gaza and occupying it and forcing all the Palestinians to go into countries that are not agreeing to accept Palestinians and engage in this horrific ethnic cleansing and Trump's bragging about it and calling it a real estate deal, Fox is trying to get its viewers to be like, yeah, let's do it.
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So then Laura Ingraham in the evening slot, she takes that cue and she and MAGA Republican Congress member Chip Roy, now they start talking about They say we need they trying to justify this. Let's bring back Andrew Jackson's playbook. And Trump should not follow what courts do. He should be like Andrew Jackson.
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So now what they're trying to do is find some historical precedent to justify authoritarianism. And now what they're going to push out is federal judge orders don't matter. So Trump should just rule like a dictator. That's what they're, that's why I'm playing this for you. I want you to see the playbook of what they're saying. Here, play this clip.
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And then they bring in Cruella, I mean, Alina Haba. And Alina Haba goes, there's a separation of powers for a reason. The executive branch is the ultimate authority on federal issues. Of course, you can see the internal contradiction right there. The separation of powers means that there are three coalitions. equal branches of government. Let me repeat that because I know MAGA has gutted civics.
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Three co-equal branches of government. The executive branch, Congress, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, two chambers, and the judiciary. Under the judiciary, there is judicial review, where federal courts, with the highest level of the Supreme Court, rules on the constitutionality of acts, executive branch acts.
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They interpret the constitution and make sure that things are conforming to it. But now what Elena Haba is saying here is that the separation of powers means that the executive branch has ultimate authority. That's literally the opposite of separation of powers. Co-equal, co-equal, equal. Play this clip.
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And then here is Alina Haba again, and here she attacks Democratic Congress member Ted Lieu for saying that court orders should be followed. And Alina Haba's like, ah. Ah, this guy's not a lawyer. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Democratic Congress member Ted Lieu went to the law school that I went to, Georgetown University Law Center. He was the editor of Law Review.
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So they have Jesse Waters, who's like their xenophobe in chief, and he starts saying, look, that what makes Palestinians such a threat is that they have far more babies than the people in Israel. Here, just play this clip. Let's play it.
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He was a lawyer in the military with the JAG. He was a member of JAG. He received lots of distinguished honors for his job as an advocate in the military. He was an accomplished lawyer, unlike Alina Haba, who was no offense to parking lot lawyers, because there may be some good parking lot lawyers out there, but that doesn't qualify them to be doing this at the White House.
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I'm sure parking lot lawyers would agree. Yeah, we'll just stick to the parking lots. She was a parking lot lawyer who basically lost all of Donald Trump's cases. And then Donald Trump elevated her to the top, and now she's his main advisor. Play this clip.
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Number- All right, so you see the different things that Fox is doing, right? Attack the Palestinians, attack the courts. promote impoundment, say there shouldn't be opposition. Now let's add just some spicy propaganda. Let's just start talking about Gulf of America, America, right?
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And now it's the evening hour. So what do you do on Fox after doing all of those things that I just mentioned? Fear. fear. You got to scare your viewer. You got to scare them. So how do you scare them? Bring on Tom Holman, who looks pretty scary in and of itself. But he goes, and again, he's the border czar. It's like a made up position.
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And he goes, I don't sleep well at night because I'm afraid of the people walking the streets. Here, play this clip.
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Let's think about it. He's saying that he doesn't sleep well at night. He's afraid to walk around the country. Because of the people walking the streets that he doesn't want to walk. He's the borders are. So alpha. So alpha. I'm being sarcastic. Hit subscribe. Help us get to four million subscribers. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump Over New Threats
Mexico's president, Claudia Scheinbaum, is bringing the fire. And at a press conference she just held, she's calling out Donald Trump's tariffing the world, including Mexico, 25% on steel and aluminum. She's just saying, do you all realize that based on the current trading posture, this is actually going to hurt the United States of America? far more than it's actually even going to hurt Mexico.
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And I just want to show you how cool and collected Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum is. For example, the day before, when Donald Trump had just stated that he was going to do these tariffs on Air Force One after saying that there would be a 30-day pause on the tariffs before, right? First, he was going to tariff, and then there was a 30-day pause after he made a fake deal.
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The European Union in the US account was just kind of responding with a sad face emoji. And I got to finish up by showing President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico one more time. Look at the strength that she is projecting. Donald Trump wishes that he could take a photograph like this. And she goes, remember the 112th anniversary of the March of Loyalty.
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We are proud of the courage, dedication, and loyalty to the people of the young cadets of the heroic military college. Powerful stuff right there. Let me just share with you this video that she put out as well. Take a look at this.
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And while all of that was happening, in contrast, this is Elon Musk in the White House yesterday with Donald Trump. So utterly pathetic. Play this clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. A powerful response from President Claudia Scheinbaum. A powerful response from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. the leaders in Europe to the leaders in the Middle East, smacking Donald Trump down like the weak, pathetic fool that he is. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe right now. Let's race to 4 million subscribers. We're almost there.
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Then he said, okay, I'm tariffing the world when it comes to aluminum and steel, even though I made deals with Mexico and Canada, whatever. I break deals. My name is Trump. I lie about everything. So Claudia Scheinbaum finds out about it on the media the way everybody else does because Donald Trump is so chaotic. The media asks her about it and watch how President Claudia Scheinbaum handles it.
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She's just like, look, I heard about it the same way y'all heard about it on the news. We're going to get through this together once again. Play this clip.
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And what I love as well is, you know, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico is putting out some of these great videos as well, you know, which I think are videos she may have put out anyway, but in the context of her going on the offense against Donald Trump and projecting a strong, united Mexico,
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Videos like this where she's showing the Air Force in Mexico and showing the diversity of the Air Force in Mexico and the leaders and what a real leader looks like. Here, play this clip.
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Hey, Donald, you may want to use a little logic. Oh, wait, you don't have any. Mexico's powerful president, Claudia Scheinbaum. Let's watch it.
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So as Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum was powerfully responding to Donald Trump, so was Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has essentially become kind of like a wartime prime minister in Canada. Look, Donald Trump's words are powerful. threats against the sovereignty of Canada. They are the same types of words and language that's used by Vladimir Putin.
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I mean, Trump keeps on saying that he wants to conquer Canada and make it the 51st state. And Prime Minister Trudeau has united Pretty much all of the political factions in Canada. I mean, you have, you know, Daniel Smith in Alberta, who's still Maple Maga. You still have some Maple Maga.
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You have Pierre Poliev, who's, you know, now claiming that, oh, I'm standing up for Canada when, you know, we all know where PP really stands on a lot of these issues. But
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You know, most of Canada, whether you're conservative, liberal, NDP, Green Party, nonpolitical, is united, boycotting the United States of American products, buying Canada, refusing to travel to United States if they have, you know, homes or rental properties or, you know, Selling those, ending the rental property lease terms, vacations canceled.
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And you see all these like American, you know, tourism managers elevating it to senior management. We don't stand with Donald Trump. We don't stand with Donald Trump. Well, Canada standing strong. Here's Prime Minister Trudeau responding to the tariffs. Play this clip.
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And here's our friend at the Midas Touch Network, who's become a leader in Canada and internationally. Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus here responding in Angus fashion to Donald Trump. Play this clip.
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And look, you had NDP's parliament leader, Jagmeet Singh. You know, even he's, you know, he's always been strong against Donald Trump. But here is Jagmeet Singh saying, here's what you can do. Buy Canada. Here's how you boycott America. Play this clip.
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And here Jagmeet Singh again explains this isn't about the border for Donald Trump. It's about our water and the critical minerals that Elon Musk needs. Donald Trump has threatened to use economic force to make Canada the 51st state. Canadians will never let that happen. No chance in hell. Here's Jagmeet Singh. Play this clip.
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So from Mexico to Canada... And we go east to our friends in Europe who are sick and tired, of course, of Donald Trump's threats and saber rattling. The people of Denmark started the following petition at denmarkification.com. Let's buy California from Trump. Denmark's next big adventure. And they talk about buying California for $1 trillion.
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Have you ever looked at a map and thought, you know what, Denmark needs more sunshine, palm trees and roller skates? Well, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality. Let's buy California from Donald Trump. Yes, you heard that right. California could be ours and we need your help to make it happen. You sign the petition there.
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Over 200,000 people have signed the Denmarkification position to make California part of Denmark. You know, of course they are. I'm just kind of mocking Donald Trump there. Here's the Jordanian deputy minister explaining that, you know, so, you know, see, we're doing it. We're going to Mexico to Canada. We're going to Europe. Now we go to the Middle East.
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Jordan's deputy prime minister saying no way, no, how will. Donald Trump acquire or just take Palestine and just force Palestinians to move to Jordan or Egypt. And you can see how perturbed he is right here. Here, play this clip.
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Take a look at some of these posts by the leaders in the European Union. This post over here, the EU sees no justification for the imposition of tariffs on our exports, economically counterproductive, a lose-lose scenario. We're assessing the scope of the measures by Donald Trump, and we will be responding in a firm, proportionate way by countermeasures, aka retaliatory tariffs.
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Antonio Costa goes, I fully support the European Union Commission in ensuring a firm and proportionate response to unjustified tariffs. The EU stands united in defending the interests of its businesses, workers and citizens. We are a reliable and predictable partner and we will continue to strive for fair trade. trading relationships.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
The Arab world and Arab leaders are strongly condemning Donald Trump's repeated news conferences, press conferences, statements stating that he wants to conquer Gaza, that he wants to just take it, that he wants to just take all of the Palestinian people and move them to Jordan and Egypt. Egypt and Jordan, by the way, say, no, we don't agree to that. We're not having that happen.
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Maybe Donald Trump's trying to, look, I'm trying to impress Ivanka. I'm going to take it over the way Kushner said that he was going to take it over. I'm going to do it, Ivanka. Who knows? This guy's a psychopath. I mean, he's literally a demented psychopath. Every day threatening to invade and conquer. It's Greenland. It's Canada. It's Gaza. It's Panama. Take that over. Again, take it all over.
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Ridiculous. Ridiculous. We're going to keep on speaking out here at the Midas Touch Network, even though we're here in the United States and we're dealing with this. We'll keep reporting on the truth. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together. I think we'll get there today. Thanks for watching.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk said it. They want us to suffer. Those are their exact words that the people need to suffer to be patriotic and support Donald Trump and Elon Musk. So let me show you this. Look, Margo Martin's Donald Trump's top advisor, one of his top advisors, July 26, 2024. He's hatching the plan there with Netanyahu and they're talking crap about Kamala Harris.
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But what they're doing in private is they're coming up with their plan and at that time to stop the ceasefire from happening, in my view, and to have Donald Trump lay the foundation to take over Gaza. Here, play this clip.
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Now, you could rewind this even more than that. You'll remember our coverage here in the Midas Touch Network about Jared Kushner saying that what he wanted to do was turn Gaza into real estate property. He wanted to see it basically leveled and rebuilt and the Palestinians moved out. This was years ago. Kushner was saying this.
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And we were saying, everybody, hello, are you hearing what they're saying? Here, play this clip.
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All right, I thought it was important to refresh your recollection with those two clips that predate the election, okay? That's why it shocked me that there would be Muslims for Trump or Palestinians for Trump. That and for a variety of other reasons. I don't know, how about a Muslim ban?
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And how about the fact that in contrast to what Trump was saying, Vice President Kamala Harris wanted a two-state solution. She wanted aid to flow into Gaza. I digress. Here's Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister on CNN. And here he's very firm. No, you don't get to conquer Gaza. We in Jordan are not going to take all of the Palestinian people. We could do 2,000 for humanitarian reasons.
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Kids with cancer and kids who have been brutally maimed will bring 2,000 kids. We're not taking the Palestinian people. Their homeland is in Palestine, is what they're saying. They have land right now. There needs to be a two-state solution. Here, play this clip.
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The only thing that we're agreeable to is a two-state solution. Donald Trump, by the way, was talking about conquering Gaza in the Oval Office with King Abdullah of Jordan yesterday. And you can see how visibly uncomfortable King Abdullah was. Let's rewind, though, shall we? And let's take a look first at the origin of where these plans were hatched.
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Here's the Jordanian prime minister again talking about what King Abdullah wants. Notably, King Abdullah, when he was in the Oval Office, did not stand up to Donald Trump. And again, he was like, he looked very uncomfortable being in the Oval Office as Trump was saying all of those things. But King Abdullah left the dirty work to his deputy prime minister. Play this clip.
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You'll remember and recall from our coverage here on the Midas Touch Network that we were trying to warn everybody, and it shouldn't have been just us, but when Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took that trip to Mar-a-Lago multiple times, but during the campaign, July 26th, 2024, go back and look at what we were saying. We're saying clearly what they're doing there is trying to stop
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One of the things we're also learning, of course, is that Egypt has reportedly closed the door to any further discussions with the United States regarding the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, with Egyptian officials having presented several plans for rebuilding Gaza. without any kind of displacement. At least one of these plans has been delivered to the Trump administration.
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Cairo is said to be outraged by statements from both Israel and the United States calling for the total removal of the Palestinian population from Gaza. sending a message to Washington demanding clarification on recent comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, stating that sanctions could be imposed against Egypt if they refuse to accept Palestinian refugees. Egypt is pissed. Jordan is pissed.
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Saudi Arabia is pissed. Donald Trump thinks this is some game, some real estate transaction that everyone's going to go, oh, okay. You are brilliant. How did you think of this, Donald? It's the opposite of what's happening. So here's what the Egyptians have said.
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Quote, Egypt expresses its intention to present a vision for the reconstruction of Gaza that guarantees the survival of the Palestinian people on their land. The Arab Republic of Egypt expresses its aspiration to cooperate with the U.S. administration led by President Trump in order to achieve a comprehensive and just peace in the region by reaching a just settlement of the Palestinian issue.
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that takes into account the rights of the people of the region. The Arab Republic of Egypt expresses its aspiration to cooperate.
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In this context, Egypt affirms its intention to present a comprehensive vision for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip in a manner that guarantees the survival of the Palestinian people on their land and in a manner consistent with the legitimate legal rights of this people.
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The Arab Republic stresses that any vision for resolving the Palestinian issue should take into account avoiding jeopardizing the gains in peace in the region in parallel with seeking to contain and deal with the causes and roots of the conflict by ending the Israeli occupation.
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Of Palestinian land and implementing the two state solution as the only way to achieve stability and coexistence among the people of the region. In other words, go pound sand, Donald. This is the Arab League's Hassam Zaki. Here he is again saying Gaza is not just some piece of property that you buy and sell, idiot Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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the ceasefire that former President Biden was trying to negotiate. The same way Donald Trump killed the border bill and said that it was a winning issue for him to have chaos at the border and he didn't want to hand former President Biden a win on the border, Donald Trump kills things that he believes would be helpful to political opponents, even if it benefits we the people. Why?
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And then Saudi Arabia has reacted. Of course, the chairman of the Gulf Research Center, Dr. Abduzzi Sarkar, reacts to the U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to take over the Gaza Strip. Here he talks about how shocked people were in the Muslim world. Play this clip.
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Again, you see the pain and the grimacing on King Abdullah's face right here as Donald Trump says, we're just going to take it. We're going to take Gaza. Play this clip. I really think we're making some very good progress.
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Donald Trump's asked, okay, but under what authority are you gonna do that? And Trump's like, under US authority. Play this clip.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
Under the U.S. authority. Well, there you have it. Donald Trump being strongly rebuked by the Middle East, by Jordan, by Egypt, by Saudi Arabia. And by the way, they're probably being more diplomatic than what's going on behind the scenes. And so I showed you the plan. The meeting at Mar-a-Lago between Netanyahu and Donald Trump, what Kushner's plan was that became what Donald Trump wants to do.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
These Trump supporters just got very rude awakenings as Donald Trump is attacking them. Quote, I thought they were going to be targeting criminals. No one mentioned that residents, legal residents were going to have to go through this. That's what a Stephanie Pena, 30 years old from Lincoln, California believed when she supported Donald Trump for reelection.
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And he goes, President Trump's proposal to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza and have the U.S. take over is yet another chapter in the ongoing genocide. Deploying U.S. troops and using taxpayer dollars to invade Gaza is morally indefensible. Our commitment to justice remains unshaken no matter who sits in the White House.
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Now, Dearborn, Michigan, which is made up of a large Muslim population that voted for Donald Trump, lots of Palestinians for Trump, which is...
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
One of the strangest things I could ever even fathom at that time, Abdullah Hamoud, who was the mayor and is the mayor of Dearborn, to his credit, although I don't think I should use the word credit, he didn't vote for Donald Trump like many of the Muslims in Dearborn. He didn't vote for anybody. I think perhaps that's... almost just as bad, if not just as bad.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
This is what he said on November 1st, 2024. The architect of the Muslim ban is making a campaign stop in Dearborn. People in this community know what Trump stands for. We suffered through it for years. I refuse to sit down with him, although the requests keep pouring in. Trump will never be my president.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
To the Dems, your unwillingness to stop funding and enabling a genocide created the space for Trump to infiltrate our communities. Remember that. So I guess it's a both sides issue. On the one hand, Vice President Kamala Harris wanted a two-state solution. She wanted to make sure that aid found its way into Gaza. President Biden sanctioned Israeli settlers who prevented aid from getting into Gaza.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
The first time there were powerful sanctions like that ever happened. placed on any Israeli settlers like that. President Biden was very strong and critical of Benjamin Netanyahu and did everything he can to broker a ceasefire.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
But on the other hand, on the other hand, America wasn't able to stop Netanyahu and therefore Donald Trump, who had always been basically threatening ethnic cleansing and building Trump towers there and the architect of the Muslim ban, I guess everybody's just as bad.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
You know, it would be like totally different right now if you had vice president, like objectively, it would be totally different right now if you had vice president Kamala Harris there. Anyway, we go from individuals in California and Florida, Latinos for Trump. We talked about Muslims and Palestinians for Trump. How about the business community for Trump?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
Everything just came crumbling down, she said. When immigration officers entered her home and wouldn't let her husband leave. Hello, we told you this was going to happen. What do you think it meant when they were holding signs that said mass deportations now at the Republican National Convention? Look, here's some of the stats that we know.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
How about some of these billionaires like Citadel, a major private equity firm hedge fund? Ken Griffin's head. This guy is worth like. $50 billion or something crazy, $40 billion, a huge amount of money. So this is what he says yesterday. Ken Griffin says Trump's bombastic, I like when they use a big word, bombastic trade rhetoric is a mistake that's eroding trust in the U.S.
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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin sent a stern warning. I'm wagging my finger. I'm a billionaire, Ken Griffin. I'm sending you a stern warning, Donald Trump, against the negative impact from Donald Trump's combative approach to U.S. trade policy.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
This is what Ken Griffin, who voted for Donald Trump, was a Trump supporter, said, quote, from my vantage point, the bombastic rhetoric, the damage has already been done, Griffin said Tuesday at the UBS Financial Services Conference in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
It's a huge mistake to resort to this form of rhetoric when you're trying to drive a bargain because it tears into the minds of CEOs, policymakers, that we can't depend upon America as our trading partner. The billionaire hedge fund founder's comments came after Trump on Monday evening signed an order that would impose the 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
He's already enacted 10% duty on all Chinese imports. He paused 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, but apparently reinstated as it relates to steel and aluminum. Griffin, who voted for Trump and was a mega donor to Republican politicians, believes the hostile dynamics caused by punitive tariffs could make long-term investments challenging for multinational companies and investors. Quote,
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It makes it difficult for multinationals in particular to think about how to plan for the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years, particularly when it comes to long lead time capital investments that could be adversely impacted by a degradation of the current terms of engagement as amongst the leading Western countries when it comes to terms and trade. Ooh, lots of big words you're using there, Mr. Griffin.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
How about the fact that Donald Trump is a con artist. His whole life was conning people. You just take a look. How do you as a business person, right? You made a lot of money, Mr. Griffin. Wouldn't you want to look at Donald Trump's past and go, wait a minute. You bankrupted all of these casinos. You bankrupted all of these companies. You had to get bankruptcy protection like three to four times.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
All of these companies, when you weren't using the seal of the United States and the trappings of the Oval Office before that, you've been found liable for fraud. fraud for business fraud. You inflate your assets. You hide your tax returns because you're pathetic. And Donald Trump doesn't pay his taxes was what we had to uncover in those tax returns. You run crypto scams. Isn't it?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
You sell Trump guitars and Trump NFTs. How do you, I mean, Ken Griffin, how do you vote? How do you support this guy? What you thought the deregulation, Listen, when Biden was in office, America's GDP was leading the world. Unemployment was at record lows. We created 16.4 million jobs. That was more than any other president in American history. Mr. Griffin, I know you know stock market returns.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
That's kind of what you do, right? So 60% returns, right? A lot of the ways you value your wealth are the markets, right? Under President Biden, people's 401ks skyrocketed. The stock market was up 55 to 60% and President Biden focused on workers. So he did a bottom up, middle out and the stock market was booming.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
But y'all wanted to go for the grifter who now has some like freaking golden freaking goat in Mar-a-Lago with fake hundred dollar bills with his stupid face on it that says in Trump we trust. Oh, my God. You know, these. these billionaire oligarchs, you thought you were what?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune have reported that less than half of the approximately 8,200 people arrested from January 20th through February 2nd so far have criminal convictions, according to the government data they obtained. And Who even knows if this data with Donald Trump is reliable anymore? They basically gutted all the data.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
You thought that you were going to get the Elon Musk treatment and get to raid the treasury department and all the government departments. Is that what y'all oligarchs thought you were going to get that treatment?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
Just look at some of these other headlines. This one from the Wall Street Journal. For CEOs and bankers, the Trump euphoria is fading fast. Who would have predicted this? Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered by president's first week. How it started. Trump's support grew in America's top farming counties despite first-term trade war. How it's going.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
Shuddering of USAID could mean the end of millions in income for Midwest farm operations. Frozen by Elon Musk's Doge personnel, the USAID program purchased 70 million in commodities in 2024 from Minnesota vendors. I just want y'all to think about this for a second, right? What are we talking about here?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
So I started off by talking about Latinos for Trump who have now lost temporary protected status. They're getting deported. When it comes to the Venezuelans, they're getting sent back to Venezuela. Maduro's waiting for them. They fled Maduro. Trump sending you back to Maduro. Trump putting you in concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay, maybe even sending you to El Salvador.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
If you're lucky, maybe you get to go to El Salvador. Latinos for Trump than we're talking about the Muslims and Palestinians for Trump. We're talking about the business community that came out for Trump. We're talking about the farmers for Trump right there who are getting absolutely screwed. How about this one right here too?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
You know, this one factory that prints all of the, you know, it just shows you that Trump and these MAGAs just don't think anything through. So this is what's reporting in the Greenville Sun. This county, Greene County, Tennessee voted 83% for Donald Trump, 83%. It's total MAGA red area. They're all going to go bankrupt now. They're all going to lose their jobs. Why?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
Because this was like the one area that printed those pennies. You know how Donald Trump is getting rid of the penny because he wants to do all this performative stuff to distract us from the fact that prices are not going down anymore. They're going up egg prices up, gas prices up, grocery prices up, mortgage rates going up, housing's less affordable, no peace in Ukraine.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
I can go on and on and on. You get it, right? So Donald Trump, I'm doing the plastic straw executive order. I hereby declare plastic straws something, something, something, okay? That's stupid. Okay, I hereby declare the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America. Okay, I am hereby destroying the penny. Okay, well, guess what? You take a look at this area in Green County.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
You know, and we've seen these videos like in Memphis where plain clothed ICE officers and DHS officials were going into like taco stands and just like grabbing migrants and treating them like trash. So we got a little leopards eating the face there, although I hate to see people suffer. How about this one right here? Abdullah Hammoud. He's the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
That's like the area, it's the one area where they have the material that makes the penny. And so you shut down the penny, all these people lose their jobs. Same way if you freeze a lot of this government funding, it turns out That the red states, yeah, they rely on the government funding. Yeah, they like to rail against it. They like the boogeyman, but that's what keeps them alive.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
So Trump is freezing money for clean energy. Ooh. Clean energy. Magas don't like to be clean. They like to be dirty. Magas. Give us some COVID. We're the magas. Red states have the most to lose. I'm being silly on this video. About 80% of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flown to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
But isn't that what Elon said? Pain. Pain. Donald Trump did say that during election. We're going to cause people pain. We want you to suffer. This is what Elon Musk and Donald Trump said. You must suffer. We need to break you down, then rebuild you. That's what they said. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
I mean, these people who voted against their interest and some of them don't even, you know, some people will admit it, but others like, yeah, Gulf of America is what we wanted. We're better now. This is exactly what we wanted. right? Like he literally is screwing your life, but like, okay, you get, if you go to Google in America, you'll see, it says Gulf of America.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Democrats are fighting back against Donald Trump and Elon Musk's corruption. Leading the way is Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman from New York. He's been outspoken in the halls of Congress, on the floor of Congress, outside of Congress, and on social media. He posted the following. Elon Musk gave Trump $250 million, so Trump handed him control of America's checkbook.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Of course not. It's absurd. There's part of that distraction effort where they try to do the kind of comical trolling, but they're saying very kind of dark and, you know, problematic things is, you know, he changed his name on Twitter or X. Now he calls himself Harry Balls and he goes, you know, he's billionaire oligarch who's going around and has access to all this information.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
His screen name is Harry Balls. That's where we've become
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
as a country apparently under the trump administration and goes democracy in america is being destroyed by a judicial coup an activist judge is not a real judge and we've been seeing musk and trump and jd vance and all of them attacking these judicial rulings even judicial rulings from trump appointed judges republican judges democrat judges as all of these lawsuits have been filed what
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
It seems to be the case, as these judges have ruled against Trump and Musk and others for violating the Constitution, that they're gearing up to defy the orders. And it seems they may be already defying the orders and just ignoring them and ignoring the orders that block their government funding freeze and the freeze on funding to NIH. What are you seeing and what do we do about that?
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
And what's your response to that?
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Musk and his 20-something Doge cadre can now access your social security number, home address, and more.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Elon Musk then tried to attack Congressmember Goldman by saying, corrupt politician says what, to which Congressmember Dan Goldman, a former top federal prosecutor says, actually, former federal prosecutor says, you are breaking the law on a daily basis, so you can use our government's checkbook and Americans personal information
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
What can Democrats do about it? I'm sure you get asked all the time. I mean, Democrats don't control the House. They don't control the Senate. They don't control the executive branch. Since you don't control the House, you can't set the agenda on what happens in the committees. You don't lead the budget.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
You don't really have any role at all, quite frankly, other than potentially withholding your votes when a corrupt budget is passed. You don't have subpoena power. So what can you and the Democrats do to fight back?
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
for your own corrupt grifting he went back and forth with elon musk elon musk then said we don't have any personal data of americans you corrupt moron to which congress member dan goldman says tell it to the judge under oath we've got congress member dan goldman here right now congressman welcome what do you make of all of this
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Finally, talk about national security risks. It was announced yesterday that from Donald Trump that he would be halting all enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by the Justice Department. And he goes on in this executive order to say that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is this horrible thing that has harmed businesses since it was enacted in the late 1970s.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
You're a former federal prosecutor. What did you make of that decision? And apparently the Department of Justice is no longer gonna view violations of the FCPRA as a crime. It's shocking.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Congress member Dan Goldman, any hope that you see right now as we are heading into February, March, April? Any signs of hope?
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Congress member Dan Goldman, thanks for joining us. Please come back. We're about to hit four million subscribers here. This network's growing rapidly. People want to hear the truth. They want to know how they can fight back. And it's great to see you leading in that way as well.
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GOP House Makes MAJOR BLUNDER…Control SLIPPING AWAY?!
Just setting aside the fact that Republicans in the House of Representatives are unable to pass a budget and for years they have not been able to pass a functioning budget, they can't even count. nor can Donald Trump. They can't even count their own numbers. You see, Donald Trump has continued to appoint Republican Congress members to cabinet positions and other senior administration positions.
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Congress races towards fast approaching government shutdown deadline. And this is with the current House of Representatives. So what they're talking about now on the House is, can they pass another continuing resolution to try to buy time until, say, February or March? in order to keep the government open because they have been unable to pass an actual budget.
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That's kind of the most basic constitutional function in Congress, pass a budget. This Congress hasn't done it. So they pass these continuing resolutions. And then MAGA Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, has like split up the continuing resolutions into tiered continuing resolutions.
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GOP House Makes MAJOR BLUNDER…Control SLIPPING AWAY?!
And then before that, remember when it came to the debt ceiling, the MAGA Republicans were saying, we're not gonna raise the debt ceiling. We're gonna try to torpedo the United States of American economy into the abyss, into a great depression in order to help Donald Trump.
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GOP House Makes MAJOR BLUNDER…Control SLIPPING AWAY?!
And then remember, they would say, we're not going to pass the next continuing resolution because we're gonna shut down the government. And here's the thing, with all of these efforts by the MAGA Republicans, it has always been always been the Democrats who have voted to bail the MAGA Republicans out and keep the government alive.
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GOP House Makes MAJOR BLUNDER…Control SLIPPING AWAY?!
Had it not been for the Democratic votes, the MAGA Republicans would have imploded. And look, I understand it's kind of like the F around and find out videos we talk about. On the one hand, the find out stage means We're all going to be experiencing pain and other Americans will feel pain.
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So I don't really like the find out stage when it comes to this continuing resolution crap that MAGA Republicans are doing. Part of me, part of me is, and perhaps maybe the irresponsible part of me, I don't know. It's like Democrats, just let them shut it down. And what would they do in this situation? Just let them shut it down, blame them for it, and show how deeply irresponsible.
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They're the majority. Pass a budget. I understand, though, the instinct for Democrats to want to reach a bipartisan solution and try to figure out how to keep government open. Because if it's shut, that means people are suffering. But the Republicans have the majority, and they can't govern with their own majority. Now that they have the slimmest majority,
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majority going forward in the next congressional session, imagine what's going to happen. So they're all trying to get their act together. So where are the MAGA Republicans going? Well, they're now holding a retreat. It's gotta be at a Donald Trump hotel property, right? Where else would it be?
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They're going to Doral in Miami where they're going to be paying, what, millions of dollars, I'm sure, or hundreds of thousands, probably millions of dollars to rent out the ballroom and to rent out all the hotel rooms. That's where they're putting their money towards. Huge amount of money, whatever the number is. As Aaron Ruppar says, House Republicans are also Trump's paying customers.
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GOP House Makes MAJOR BLUNDER…Control SLIPPING AWAY?!
Good grift if you can get it. So, Maga Mike Johnson was on Fox and he was asked by Brett Baer, so are you worried about the government shutting down? This is what Maga Mike Johnson said.
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GOP House Makes MAJOR BLUNDER…Control SLIPPING AWAY?!
And now the majority in the House of Representatives by Republicans is the smallest it's ever been. You can take a look at a sample of headlines. House Republicans set for the tiniest House majority since the 1930s. Mike Johnson's new headache, the smallest House majority in history. Mike Johnson's newest headache, the smallest House majority in history.
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And then Maga Mike Johnson, more gaslighting, more lies. Maga Mike Johnson claims that we've shown that we're able to govern with a small majority. here playing this clip.
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other than your oversight committee hearings into Hunter Biden or into fake whistleblowers that don't exist, what is it that you've actually done? And when we see the MAGA Republicans laying out their priorities now, here's MAGA Republican Representative Mark Alford. He's saying, look, Number one, number one thing, gotta cut your Social Security and Medicare.
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Listen to what the MAGA Republicans are saying. Play the clip.
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GOP House Makes MAJOR BLUNDER…Control SLIPPING AWAY?!
Analysis, Trump and the GOP will have a historically tiny House majority. What that means, and one of the things that they didn't count or didn't factor in is that Democrats in California were going to flip three additional seats. Three seats that were very close races in California flipped from red to blue in key areas, in the Inland Empire, in Orange County, and in Los Angeles.
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You've got James Comer over here, who's going to be the leader of the House Oversight Committee again. Here he is saying, look, our main focus, Hunter Biden. I'm going to still focus on Hunter. Here, play the clip.
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Or how about MAGA Republican Chip Roy, who refers to rape allegations against Peter Hegseth as just some indiscretions that we've all had in the past. This is MAGA Republican Pete Hegseth here to play this clip.
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Just some indiscretions is how they're describing it. So now, because the MAGA Republicans can't count at all, they don't know how to count their numbers. Now they're in this position where there could be more government shutdowns. And I don't know. I mean, look, I want to keep the government open. I don't want people to suffer. I don't want anyone to feel pain at all.
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But part of me, part of me saying, hey. Good luck, MAGA Republicans. Good luck. Maybe that's the petty side of me. I don't know. Good luck. Try to govern. Try to run this yourselves. Why should we bail you out, MAGA Mike Johnson? Why should we bail you out when you're talking about cutting Social Security? Let people see how bad you are. Let's play hardball. I don't know.
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Is that the petty side of me? Is that? You tell me what you think. But after how they've done Biden, after what they did, why even help these people? I don't know, maybe I'm nihilistic, maybe I'm a realist. You tell me. Hit subscribe, let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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GOP House Makes MAJOR BLUNDER…Control SLIPPING AWAY?!
Some big flips there. We've covered that here on the Midas Touch Network. So what does that mean for MAGA Mike Johnson, who has been unable to even pass a budget? The Republicans under Kevin McCarthy, unable to pass a budget. Well, now we get headlines like this that talk about how are we headed for another government shutdown? This is from The Hill.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 countries have called representatives of the United States, including the departments of commerce, treasury, and the USTR to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to trade, trade barriers, tariffs, currency manipulation, and non-monetary tariffs,
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
and that the countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90-day pause and a substantially lower reciprocal tariff during this period of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So, yes, we are seeing this popular meme play out again in real time.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
Trump makes a stupid decision, something really bad happens, he convinces his followers the problem is now magically solved, and he then reverses his stupid decision, and the cycle repeats and repeats and repeats. It should be noted that Trump this morning encouraged his followers to buy stock, writing just hours before he made the announcement, quote, "...this is a great time to buy DJT."
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
Naturally, once Trump made the announcement, the markets had a massive jump. Market manipulation, anyone? The Trump propagandists kicked right into gear, calling this panicked reversal the art of the deal and pretending that Trump was not reacting to crashing the global economy and US bond markets.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt, was one of those people calling this the art of the deal. Listen to this.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit... We've got some major breaking news. The headline, a panicked and terrified Donald Trump has folded on his tariff plans. In a major policy reversal, Trump announced a 90-day pause on his massive tariffs after he sparked an economic crash globally. My name is Brett Mycelis with the Midas Touch Network.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
Elena, go ahead. It's so embarrassing. She literally did this meme. Trump goes, I'm adding the tariffs. His followers go, this will create jobs. Trump says he's removing tariffs. His followers go, this is the art of the deal. And the cycle repeats. And if you're not feeling the secondhand embarrassment enough just yet, Well, let me show you this clip of Benny Johnson.
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This was put together at Project Liberal, and in the first clip, you'll see Benny Johnson, a MAGA talking head who is literally being paid by Russia to spread pro-Trump propaganda, talking about the economic crash occurring under Donald Trump. He was telling his listeners that these are just numbers. Everyone loses money. It builds character.
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But in 2024, when Joe Biden was president and the stock market was down for a single day, he called it the Kamala crash, and he treated it like the apocalypse. Watch this.
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Trust me, you will never go back to grocery store coffee. If you remember, just yesterday, Donald Trump was calling any Republican who suggested even pausing the tariffs weak and panikins. So I guess this makes Donald Trump weak and a panikin. And by the way, if tariffs were supposed to make us so rich and strong and be the, quote, medicine that we all needed, then why would he pause them?
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Remember to hit subscribe now and add the Midas Touch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Stocks were collapsing. The bond market imploding. The 10-year treasury yield was skyrocketing, indicating that mortgage rates and other loans were about to skyrocket. So naturally, Donald Trump did what he does best. He caved.
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Can a single Trump supporter answer that for me? Huh? Crickets? Thought so. Let's pull up some receipts. Here was Trump on April 7th saying that he was not looking into a pause.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
And just two days ago, Caroline Levitt told the press that the idea that Trump was even considering a pause was, quote, fake news. Watch this.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who said he hasn't been included in like any of these tariff decisions, is now saying that this was all part of the plan and that Trump actually goaded China into a bad position. Watch this.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
This is just typical loser and abuser behavior. You try to punish somebody, they react to protect themselves, and then you try to punish them more and blame them, saying that they were asking for it. Just, it's so disgraceful, this whole thing. Oh, and by the way, speaking of China, Fox is now reporting that any TikTok deal with China is now off the table. Watch this.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
Effective immediately, all of the tariffs will be capped at 10% for the duration of a 90-day period, with those additional higher tariffs being paused. The only exception is China, which will now face a dramatically increased tariff rate of 125%. So I want to be extra clear here just for a second. Trump has still put a 10% tax on virtually everything Americans will buy.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
As Roger Sullenberger of the Daily Beast writes, quote, the volatility of Trump's presidency seem like it may function as its own kind of non-monetary tariff, eroding trade relationships without generating the additional tax revenue. And that really is the issue. I mean, Trump has lost complete control of the tariff narrative.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
He has proven himself to be an erratic and untrustworthy trade partner, an abuser of the global economic system. He offers no stability to businesses or governments. Under his leadership, there is no reason for our allies or our rivals to place any faith in the consistency of US policy. And for American businesses, the uncertainty has to be paralyzing.
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How can a company justify sinking billions into building factories in the United States if those investments could instantly be undercut by a single tweet? Trump could raise tariffs, lower them, scrap them entirely at a whim, obliterating an entire business model overnight. There's no strategy here, no coherence, only chaos, and we all suffer because of it.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
As Midas Touch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski says, quote, the credibility of the U.S. government is completely shot, gone, annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this administration ever. Oh, and here's a photo that the Democrats on the House and Ways Committee posted.
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Trump's trade representative, Ambassador Greer, was in the middle of testifying to Congress. about why Trump's tariffs were so great and should never be paused. And at this very moment in the picture that I'm showing right now, he found out that Trump reversed the policy. For those listening, he's staring down at his phone in disappointment and confusion after hours and hours of testimony.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
The Ways and Means Democrats tweeted the following along with this image. Heartbreaking. Man discovers he has to backpedal on a policy he just spent over four hours defending. Ouch. So there you have it. Trump caved. Again. The propagandists, they're out in full force to try to spin this. Our alliances are shattered, and Americans are worse off because of Donald Trump's erratic behavior.
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Costs for businesses will still be higher. Prices for Americans will still be higher. Trump announced the pause on his Truth Social website, writing the following, quote, Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world's markets, I am hereby raising the tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125% effective immediately.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the USA and other countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable. It's always projection with this guy, right? Let me continue.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plunges Markets
Doesn't this say it all? This is what they were showing on state regime media on Laura Ingraham's show. Stay calm. This isn't 1987. Then it's a photo of the dear leader for state regime media, Donald Trump. And then the text says, saving capitalism. You don't get more pathetic than that. Actually, when it comes to state regime media known as Fox, you actually probably do get more pathetic.
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I mean, but just so you saw before, I mean, at least Brett Baer asked that question. But, you know, the markets are tanking. The futures are tanking. You know, situation here is not good. And then Fox is saying Trump has a plan. This is a great thing. Here are some other facts I want to talk to you about. Number one, federal spending is not down at all. Federal spending is higher.
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Despite all of Elon Musk's doge wrecking ball to our economy, spending is higher right now than it was under former President Biden. So federal spending is off the charts. Donald Trump wants a $1 trillion military budget. $1 trillion, he said. Elon Musk just got awarded another $5.9 billion contract from SpaceX. The FAA awarded him a contract. Bezos got awarded a contract.
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This is the oligarch crap that we see in Russia. crash the economy, make people poor, make people beg, make people and foreign countries dependent on Trump, hoist up oligarchs, give them the kind of contracts, you get a 5.9 billion contract, you get a 2.3 billion contract, and don't care about the people suffering, and then have regime media fill in the gaps. That's what we're seeing.
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I didn't have to keep checking the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P futures each night. Here is from state regime media, Jeanine Pirro. And she goes, dear leadership, Donald Trump is not panicked and neither should we, because this is the golden age. Everybody here. Watch this.
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Golden age. The golden age. Y'all are creating a great depression. You are actually not bringing manufacturing jobs to the United States, but you are manufacturing a great recession. I guess when you said manufacturing boom, you didn't mean it like former President Biden, who actually brought a manufacturing boom. You meant manufacturing A Great Depression. I suppose that's what you meant here.
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Jeanine Pirro says, you know what, we got to remember that actually everything is Biden's fault. And millenniums didn't care about their credit cards because they figured we can never afford it. I don't know what these people are talking about. Here, play this clip.
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So these tariffs are literally- As I told you, state regime media known as Fox, it's off the rails. It is off the rails, this coverage. Then you have Jesse Watters, I got to show you. I'll show you this. I'll show you just like a minute, a minute of this. This goes on for like three minutes. I'll just cut this out a minute or so. He's like, this is a brilliant plan. Let me spell it out for you.
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This is all part of Donald Trump's grand, brilliant plan. Here, let's play it for a little bit. Play the clip.
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There really is no bottom line. So what were they talking about all yesterday as Trump once again continues to crash the markets as Donald Trump says that he's now imposing this 104 percent, maybe more, 117 percent when you actually adjusted tariff on China, just cripple everyone, the entire global economy. Well, Fox was talking about, you guessed it, former President Biden.
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What? I just, this is how they turn the minds of their viewers into magamush. You know, the KGB, the Soviets, did studies on how you can create basically a climate of absolute kind of zombie, like how you can zombify a population with injecting fear and these lies and and how you could basically try to convince them of everything.
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So my opinion, state regime media known as Fox, you know, they would always say, you know, you know, the migrants are coming to kill you. Invasion, invasion, everyone's going to die. You're going to, they would repeat that over and over and over again. And so they literally kind of freak their audience out into having magamush brains where this is, they're now susceptible to this crap.
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And I, cause I watch this, you watch this, you're like, what the hell, what Ben? Wow, come on, how could this be? What are they talking?
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And they brought on MAGA Republican Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna, who was like, We need to hold hearings about former President Biden's mental acuity because maybe all of his executive orders should be voided if he has dementia. Maybe, maybe that. Here, play this clip.
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So of course, state regime media known as Fox, they didn't want to talk about the markets. The fact that we're heading into a great recession or potentially a recession. So Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States, she's like basically a Fox host now. That's what she does. And so she goes on Fox again and she like does breaking news, like as though she's a new host.
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She's like, some breaking news that I'm going to be reporting, everybody. Guess what we're doing? We're pulling all non-essential funding from the main Department of Correction facilities because... We found there to be, she goes, a giant six foot one, 240 pound guy in the woman's prison. And we have to protect women prisoners. So no more of that. I don't know what they're, look.
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What are they talking about? Why are you as the AG holding press conferences about, I mean, saying breaking news? Here, play this clip.
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You know, one of the interesting things that Fox then does is because they know that Donald Trump just obsessively watches Fox. So they then try to like coach him and treat him like a little baby. about what he should do. And they try to like coach him. So like Sean Hannity last night brought on these MAGA Republican senators to try to coach Donald Trump.
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So like MAGA Republican Senator John Kennedy, he's not really a Kennedy, and he has a fake, he does a fake voice. Like if you go back and watch MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy from Louisiana's voice, like before he was a senator, he never liked talking like that. I think he just makes up a voice because they're all a bunch of weirdos, these MAGA Republicans.
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But here he tries to give advice, play this clip.
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Pounce on it like a ninja. Then he describes Donald Trump like a pit bull catching the car. Here, play this clip.
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You know, and just as you hear these MAGA Republicans spend all day on Fox attacking former President Biden, I mean, this is what Trump was talking about. He's like yesterday when Trump was at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner and Trump was like, I just want everybody to kiss my ass. Just kiss my ass, everybody. Here, play this clip.
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You know, and there is something to me also, you know, about the vulgarity of it all. I mean, we know Trump is a sexual predator, right? He's found liable for sexual assault. He's a felon. We know that about him. He's been found liable for fraud. We know that about him. He's a disgusting human being. Like, there's no other way to say it.
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But a vulgarity, you know, it's like, yeah, it's just the worst, like the worst person for leadership positions anyway. Then you have Annapolina Luna who goes, they kind of tell on themselves. They're like, this is what they're, again, this is what they're spending all night talking about on Fox, right? The futures are crashing 104% tariffs on China. You've got Donald Trump attacking Europe.
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Donald Trump said yesterday he was going to put tariffs on all pharmaceuticals, just killing Americans by imposing tariffs on pharmaceuticals. So then they're talking about, let me tell you what's so much worse than January 6th, Biden's mental state.
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You know, look, I'll give Brett Baer some credit for this interview right here. Brett Baer interviewed Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary. Now, Brett Baer asked a good question here. So one of the things that the data is showing, we reported about it on some of our other shows, the way the Trump regime's been trying to reduce the price of eggs is
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They're buying eggs from foreign countries who they're tariffing at high prices, and then they're artificially suppressing the price of eggs so they can say, we brought down the price of eggs. But then because of the Trump tariffs, we now have to pay tariffs on the eggs that we're bringing in from other countries. That we're paying more for than they're being sold for.
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And so all of these eggs are being sold at a massive loss. And taxpayers are going to be footing the bill for all of this stuff. Let me just play this clip of Rick Rollins and let's talk about it here. Play this clip. Take that damage.
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I mean, have you seen or heard Donald Trump speak lately? By the way, when former President Biden was running things, America was expanding its alliances with NATO. Two additional countries joined NATO. Our economy was thriving. It was a Goldilocks economy. 16.2 million new jobs were created. Record growth for our GDP. Record low unemployment. 40,000 infrastructure projects.
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Elbows up Canada, Canada strong, Canada proud, Canada standing up to the Trump regime and his co-opting of the United States of America. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney issued the following statement yesterday, not backing down. He says, At 12.01 tonight, Canada's counter tariffs will come into force. There will be 25% tariffs on all non-CUSMA compliant vehicles from the U.S.
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Vance was saying that we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs called this ignorant and impolite. Here he is saying that. Here's the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs minister. Let's play it.
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And again, you just see how other world leaders are like behaving like with maturity while the Trump regime behaves like literal petulant babies. No offense to petulant babies. No offense to cornered rats. That's how the Trump regime is behaving is cornered rats and petulant babies behave better. The futures are getting crushed as of my recording of this.
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We'll see what happens when the markets actually open. And let me leave you with this right here. This is Prime Minister Carney. Again, here he's talking about how Trump's now trying to attack Canadian lumber. Listen to what Prime Minister Carney has to say. Let's play it.
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I think you see how that leadership looks compared to whatever the heck Donald Trump's doing right there. Donald Trump is an embarrassment, a fool. Donald Trump is a sexual predator. He is a felon. He is a fraud. He is a bankruptor. He is a vile and despicable human being who's doing with the United States economy what he did to all of his bankrupt businesses in the past.
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Now, just contrast Prime Minister Carney like a real leader, a banker who guided Canada through the Great Recession of the early to mid 2000s. Someone who, as a banker, led the UK through Brexit during its most difficult crisis. Cool, calm, composed. Contrast that story. The banker to Trump, the bankruptor, the destroyer. Trump was never a builder.
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He just destroyed and bankrupted the things that he touched in his life, despite being born with a golden spoon in his mouth from his daddy who gave him his money. Here was Donald Trump last night at the National Republican meeting that took place last night in Washington, D.C., congressional campaign meeting that took place. in Washington, D.C.
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Donald Trump's like, all the countries are calling me. They're kissing my ass. They're kissing my ass. So take a look at the first clip I showed you with Prime Minister Carney contrasted to this pathetic loser behavior by Donald Trump. Play this clip.
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I mean, look, when you've lost Rand Paul, Donald, MAGA Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, who no doubt knows Kentucky's economy is getting crushed by the Canadian boycott. Kentucky bourbon, other Kentucky booze getting crushed. When you lost Rand Paul, Donald, you've lost the plot. Here's MAGA Republican Rand Paul saying, we talk about the truth. We have to
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Trump's lying about Canada play this clip.
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and 25% tariffs on the contents of CUSMA compliant vehicles that are not from Canada or Mexico. President Trump caused this trade crisis and Canada is responding with purpose and with force. The boycott by Canada, of all things American, is getting stronger. By some counts, 70, 85% of leisure tourism coming to a screeching halt. from Canadian tourism into the United States.
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Wild that I'm saying. I agree with what MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul is saying there. Let's go back to Prime Minister Carney's powerful speech in Richmond in connection with the campaign for leadership. The current snap election underway. The campaign is underway. April 28th is the day of the election. Prime Minister Carney's liberal party
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I think keeps growing in support over Pierre Poliev's conservative party as Pierre Poliev was previously full maple MAGA. He's trying to pretend that he wasn't Daniel Smith of Alberta, not doing him much favors, trying to engage in riots.
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election interference of the Canadian elections with Donald Trump and Donald Trump posting how Daniel Smith and the Conservative Party are, they love Donald Trump, 51st state crap. So not exactly doing themselves much favors. Anyway, here's Prime Minister Carney in a speech in Richmond. Let's play it.
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Also, the Buy Canada movement in Canada is absolutely crushing it and crushing the United States. They're also setting an example to the rest of the world, to Europe, to Australia, to New Zealand, to Africa. to South America, to Central America, to Mexico, to others, how you stand up to the Trump regime. Look, I gotta hand it to Prime Minister Carney. He's standing up strong to the Trump regime.
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Here's another great line from Prime Minister Carney's speech. Let's play it.
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You know, and here's the thing that I think that Prime Minister Carney recognized and former Prime Minister Trudeau recognized. You can't give Donald Trump an inch. As I've said before from day one, you give Trump an inch. Trump takes your life. He doesn't view concessions as good faith. He views it as weakness. By the way, that's why Xi Jinping is saying, all right, Donald, you're ready to go.
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We'll fight. China will fight until the end. Donald, let's let's go. And Donald Trump's now picking these fights. But Canada was, I think, the initial country to show the way. I mean, so like even like the European Union Commission, they initially proposed to drop tariffs to zero and to do a zero to zero kind of tariff swap with Donald Trump.
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And Donald Trump's like, nope, even if the EU reduces its tariffs to zero against the United States. We need to force them to buy American products. They have to buy all American energy or else, you know, so there's like nothing that you could absolutely do. Here's what Donald Trump said when he was asked if the European Union agreeing to drop tariffs to zero would be enough to get a deal.
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And Trump says, nope, it wouldn't. Here, play this clip.
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Well, I mean, here's Howard Lutnick then going on TV and whining that Europe won't buy our beef, Europe won't buy this. I mean, just whiny. I mean, again, contrast the whininess to like adult leadership from Prime Minister Carney. Here, watch Howard Lutnick. Let's play this clip right here.
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Folks, just turning to Germany for a second. Germany Economy Minister Robert Habeck taking a jab against Trump and Musk with these three key statements yesterday. The U.S. calculations for their tariffs are nonsense. One, the U.S. is now in a position of weakness. Two, we can hurt them in pharma. So he said we can hurt them in pharma. So then what did Donald Trump do?
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He recently spoke in Richmond, British Columbia. I wanna show you some key portions of the speech that he just gave. Let's play this clip first.
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Then Donald Trump said, OK, we're going to impose tariffs on pharma. That's what Trump said last night. We're going to impose tariffs on pharma. Here's Trump saying that. Let's play this clip.
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going to impose tariffs on pharma. Okay, Donald Trump. So now Americans who need pharmaceuticals or else they're going to die are not going to be able to get the medication they need because of your irrational, destructive and outright stupid trade war. Also want to mention this. Here you have the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying, you know, can we be real here for a second? When J.D.
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Fed Up Dems Smack Down Trump for Total Failure
We covered the massive hands-off protests over the weekend. Let's cover some of the Democrats who are now going on TV and fighting back, going gloves off, going, I guess as they would say in Canada, elbows up. Here is Democratic Governor of Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz, talking about Donald Trump. Let's play this clip.
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That's my Scott Besson impression. I'm not sure if that's offensive or not an offensive impression. I think it's accurate of what the most arrogant guy imaginable, you know, it's like, yeah, you know, I don't know anything. No, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't care. I'm rich. I don't care. That's Scott Besson. It's my Scott Besson impression right there.
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Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Bacon here. He's asked about tariffs and how it's going to raise prices and cause a recession or Great Depression. And rather than answer the question, because these MAGA Republicans are so cowardly, here MAGA Republican Congress member Dan Bacon, he's like...
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Let me just give you a history lesson on tariffs, which cause depressions, but I'm too cowardly to actually link it with the current regime. Play this clip.
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Oh, and by the way, have you seen the pins that they're wearing? The lapel pins that they're wearing? These magas, um, like the, uh, head of the federal, uh, communications commission and others. They've got this like Trump pin that they wear with Trump's face on it on their look. They were Trump lapel. It's people. It's, uh,
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If you ever wonder how do you get like Putin and Kim Jong-un and how did you have, you know, how do these humans do this? I don't know how else to describe it. I mean, these weak, frail humans behave this way. Anyway, speaking of weak, frail humans behaving this way, here's the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, being asked by Jake Tapper about tariffing penguins. Play this clip.
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Take a look, by the way, Boston, New York, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Idaho, Utah, Oakland, and cities and hundreds of other cities, thousands of other cities across the country and the world protesting this idiocracy right here. Here's Howard Lutnick saying, what we want to do, we want to bring back the jobs to the U.S.
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where millions of Americans will be doing the little screws in the iPhones, you know, those factories you see in China. We want to bring those to the U.S., play this clip.
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These images right here from Mika Erfan, the dream, Spencer Hakimian, say thank you. Here's Spencer at Kimmy and goes, hey, Fox News boys, now that China called our bluff and said, let's play ball, what should we do? Raise tariffs on China by another 34%, 90% effective tariffs rate with China. What's your game plan here?
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Also, depending on what the S&P does today, the aggregate may be worse than the Great Depression. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Go to store.midastouch.com. Check out the Midas gear. Store.midastouch.com. Patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Check it all out. Thanks. Bye. Hit subscribe.
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Next up, Democratic Senator Adam Schiff. He's been on the Midas Touch Network numerous times. Here he is on Meet the Press talking about this enduring image of Donald Trump golfing over the weekend as the markets were crashing. As Donald Trump told people, he doesn't give an F if people are upset.
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Yeah, Senator Schiff is meeting the moment. He's got a great social media and digital team as well. Let's take a look at what Senator Cantwell, Maria Cantwell of the state of Washington has to say. Play this clip.
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And she's right. I mean, the idea of tariffing the entire world based on a completely fraudulent formula as well, where penguins are being tariffed as well as islands that just... No human inhabitants or islands that house American military bases. And the entire formula is applied wrong as well.
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With a recklessness and a carelessness, as Donald Trump literally says, I don't give an F. She's on point right there. And we should highlight more of her videos and her interviews and her speeches as well. Next up, Democratic Senator Cory Booker, you know.
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senator booker's been meeting the moment here he is saying i've never seen in my life any administration that is intentionally doing the destroying our country my only thing is i would say i call him a regime not an administration play this clip said earlier in the program he said there may be some increase in prices but it's going to be worth it your response
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Also at the protests, Aaron Parnas from the Midas Touch Network. Also, Aaron Parnas has his own independent media network as well. He was on, he was inside embedded in the protests. Here he is speaking to a Democratic Congress member, Jamie Raskin, play this clip.
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Next up, Congress member Eric Swalwell at the protests in Washington, D.C. over this weekend, crushing it. Play this clip.
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Here's a Jamie Raskin speech from the protest. Let's play it.
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Now, as you see these Democratic senators, Congress members, governors shredding these MAGA Republicans, boy, oh boy, do these MAGA Republicans deserve it. Here is the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick.
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Howard Lutnick's the same guy who said, if you complain about not getting your Social Security check, you're probably a criminal and a fraud, he says, because his mama, his mother-in-law, he said, if she misses a Social Security check, even though he's a billionaire, she would never worry. So if you're worried when your checks don't arrive, you are the fraudster. I don't know.
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Maybe they send you to El Salvador. Maybe. Maybe they put you in a nice detention center. Who knows with the Trump regime? Anyway, here's Howard Lutnick, and he's asked on Face the Nation, okay, so this 10% tariff, is it permanent? What's going on? Watch Mr. ShamWow. It's a shammy. It's a wow. You know, this like infomercial, like 1990 style tariff. you know, BS artist. Here's Howard Lutnick.
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I mean, no offense to the ShamWow. Maybe offense to the ShamWow. I don't know. Here's Howard Lutnick on Face the Nation, play the clip.
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As I've said before, I wish we saw more of this side of Governor Walz during the campaign, although I thought he was great during the campaign. I just like when he's a little looser and just Speaking from the heart here, he is again saying, what are they even talking about? Woke policy because we're trying to give people food and we're trying to give people an education. Play this clip.
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Here's Howard Lutnick as well. Oh, and here is the other almost billionaire. This guy's almost a billionaire. Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary. And here Scott Besant is asked on Meet the Press, what do you say, Mr. Besant? Do the Americans who are retired right now or about to retire who are losing their life savings? Scott Besson's like, well, I don't know.
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Look, at the end of the day, you know, I think most people have all the money that they need. So I don't know. I think they'll be OK. Here, play this clip.
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Just take a look at this scene. Last night, the futures markets are crashing as Donald Trump imposes 104% tariffs against China. China doesn't back down. Donald Trump is speaking at this black tie event for the National Republican Congressional Committee. Donald Trump looks like he's on the Titanic that is sinking. He's got his little teeny tiny hands on the podium.
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As I've said before, Donald Trump's Liberation Day, as he calls it, which is actually Annihilation Day, Liquidation Day or Great Depression Day. It's all about his ego. It's all about the authoritarian playbook to make countries have to go to him. to beg him, please, can I get an exemption? Please don't put the tariffs on me, makes businesses runt him. Please, I need help. I need an exemption.
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Can you please help me? I have to do the walk of shame to Washington, D.C. or Mar-a-Lago. And authoritarians like when their people are suffering. Like, do you think Kim Jong-un is upset that people in North Korea suffer? You think Putin cares that he sends Russians into the meat grinder of war in Ukraine? Do you think that he cares that people are suffering economically? No.
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Authoritarians like when their people are suffering because then you can give breadcrumbs. You don't want people to be economically independent or independent at all when you're an authoritarian. And Trump is following that playbook to a T. I mean, just take a look right here as Carl Quintanilla posts. We as the United States went from back to back under former President Biden.
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20 plus percent or 20 percent plus growth in the markets, equity markets, the Goldilocks economy. The Wall Street Journal called the economy under former President Biden the envy of the world to this. America's equity markets, stock markets, the worst in the world right now and tanking the entire world economy with it. As Donald Trump also says, you know, just trust me.
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I'm telling you, I know what to do. I know how to do deals. I'm a good deal maker. Let's just take a look at what's been going on. The Germany economy minister, Robert Habeck, says the U.S. calculations for their tariffs are nonsense. The U.S. is now in a position of weakness, will hurt their pharmaceuticals. The EU Commission proposed 25% counter tariffs on U.S. imports.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced that starting today, there will be 25% tariffs on certain categories based on the Trump regime's behavior. The futures right now are getting absolutely bulldozed. We'll see where the market opens in just a little bit, but Trump tanking the economy. And again, yesterday,
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went from the markets actually doing decent in the day, or as Senator Mark Warner from Virginia put it, it was kind of like a good day at the hospice, making that analogy to Trump's economy. But then Donald Trump said, no, I'm opposing 104% tariffs on China. And then Trump crashed it all.
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And then at his speech last night before the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner, Donald Trump then talked about how he wants to put tariffs on pharmaceuticals, that I'm going to go after the pharmaceuticals now. It's like, can we go one day without this idiot talking about tariffing things? Here he is. Let's play it.
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And Donald Trump speaks to the MAGA Republican Congress members and he says, everybody, what are we going to call Joe Biden? Should we call him crooked or should we call him sleepy? Here, play this clip.
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We did it, JD. We did it, Lonely JD. You see that graphic right there. Also, one of the things that we learned is that Marjorie Taylor Greene, buying lots of treasuries and making a lot of odd stock purchases and sales kind of right before the market started tanking and crashing, doesn't really surprise me, when it comes to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Right now, Apple's taking like emergency flights to try to put planes full of iPhones as they're going to be a run on iPhones right now. And Apple's getting crushed because of the tariffs Donald Trump put on Canada. I mean, on China and China's retaliation.
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Also, one of the things that we learned yesterday is Donald Trump's DHS, Department of Homeland Security, just ordered the migrants who were temporarily allowed to live in the U.S. after using the Biden-era CBP One app, that they're ordered to leave the country immediately immediately. More than 900,000 people were allowed in the country using the CBP One app since January 2023.
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A lot of these people are family members of Trump supporters, Venezuelans for Trump, Cubans for Trump, Latinos for Trump. And now they're being threatened. Self-deport now or else you can end up in concentration camps in El Salvador. Self-deport now or you can end up in ICE detention centers. No due process will throw you with Nayib Bukele's authoritarian regime in El Salvador.
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That's the message from the authoritarian Trump regime. But Donald Trump last night says this is the most successful 100 days yet of any administration in history. Here, play this clip.
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And we're going to do tremendously in midterms. One of the things that I don't want to forget as I report on all of this as well is that federal spending has not gone down at all. In fact, federal spending right now, despite all the wrecking ball that Trump and Musk took to the federal government and the hostile takeover, federal spending is higher.
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Donald Trump wants there to be a $1 trillion military budget. Of course, that's going to add to the debt. It's going to add to our growing deficit. Trump added $8 trillion to the deficit his first term. I predicted $25 to $30 trillion, perhaps more. So government spending is not down, government spending is up. Let's not forget also that Elon Musk was just awarded basically a $6 billion loan.
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contract for SpaceX by the federal government. And this is on top of Elon Musk being awarded lots of money by the FAA as they gut these agencies. Surprise, surprise, Elon Musk's companies are filling the void. Also, Jeff Bezos got, I think, over $2 billion from the federal government as well. Take a look at this headline from Bloomberg. Stagflation is now America's best case scenario.
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Stagflation is crashing GDP and high inflation. That's stagflation. They're saying that this is the best case scenario. Trump's tariffs risk is a brutal combination of recession and inflation. The president's attack on free trade is truly extraordinary in scope. The impact will be devastating over the next six months. Annualized inflation will likely climb to nearly 5%.
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Also, lots of experts predicting about 2 million job losses over the coming months as the effects of these tariffs. start to kick in as well. I think one of the ways I visualize what's going on with these Trump tariffs right now, the fact that it's crashing the markets and the GDP is contracting so soon, I think is shocking in the how fast this hit.
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But basically, from an economist's perspective, you know how when a tsunami hits, the shore basically recedes, recedes, recedes. And most people who understand what that means would tell you, oh, a tsunami is coming. That's what's happening right now. The damage is done. So now it's waiting for this economic tsunami, stagflation, recession, Great Depression to swarm over the country right now.
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But as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, OK, Trump's wrecking the economy, but at least we have RFK Jr. in charge of public health.
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's team of lead poisoning experts remained off the job Tuesday, a week after they were first laid off by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy in sweeping cuts to the nation's public health agencies.
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Cut to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help local health authorities to a virtual standstill. Current and laid off agency officials say, including for lead poisoning responses that could have helped children in Milwaukee and on an American Indian reservation.
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So quite literally, Americans are dying of lead poisoning because we've fired the workers. who are in that field. And we're going to see this in all other aspects of government as well. Oh, and on international foreign policy, many experts internationally say the U.S. is now on course to potentially be at war with Iran coming soon based on the threats that Donald Trump has been making lately.
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As Donald Trump was doing that, we also learned from Usha Vance, who gave her first interview, that her husband's world can be very lonely. The second lady gave her first interview since J.D. Vance assumed the role, and she described it all as very, very lonely. Let him hang out with the couch, Usha. Let him hang out with the couch. Sorry, back to Donald Trump here.
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What is Donald Trump and J.D. Lonely J.D. Van say? Are you happy yet? Are you happy? Say thank you. Say thank you. Say thank you. This is a deranged and demented authoritarian regime led by Donald Trump, a sexual predator, a criminal, a felon, someone found liable for fraud, a bankruptor. The world sees it. The world stands up and resisting.
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Tens of millions of people here in the United States are resisting. Trump's approval is plummeting. MAGA people, Republicans, are pissed off at Donald Trump. There's a mini revolt happening, which I think is growing and gaining steam amongst MAGA Republicans in the Senate. We've seen MAGA Republican Rand Paul speaking out against Donald Trump.
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MAGA Republicans in the House know the disaster Donald Trump is causing, but they're too weak and obsequious to say anything as well. But we see, I think we see a chain shifting and As Donald Trump continues to crash our economy, we'll see what happens with the markets today. But this is a Trump depression or recession or whatever we're heading into. Trump chaos.
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This is one of the first, if not one of the first ever manufactured recessions or great recessions, like actually done, looks intentionally and maliciously. And I think it's for the reasons that I said earlier in the video. It's right out of the authoritarian playbook. Let me know what you think. Go to store.midustouch.com as well. Lots of people say, where can we get the Midas gear?
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Donald Trump speaking to the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner. He's like, aren't these tariffs great? All these countries have to kiss my ass. Here, play this clip.
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But he will be making posts like this, having the American flag over the United States and Canada. You have Trump supporters like Benny Johnson saying, welcome to the Gulf of America. And then it says greater American empire right here. The Northern colonies are Canadian provinces. Then the Greenland protectorate, the United States and Mexico are all controlled by the United States under that map.
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Donald Trump making other posts, relentlessly posting about conquering Canada and again saying, oh, Canada. Let's take a look at what some of these Trump supporters are responding and MAGA supporters like this person over here, Malam Suprati goes, so is this supposed to be cool? Or maybe you're just too young to remember, Benny.
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For years, true conservatives have opposed the CFR's advocacy for globalist North American Union, the NAFTA superhighway, the SPP, and the Amerocurrency. Now, all of a sudden, it looks like it's being rebranded as trendy? And we're supposed to believe it's a good thing. This is straight up CFR and Rockefeller globalist nonsense. This is not America first. Do your research diligently.
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Chris Rossini goes, globalism steps towards one world government. That's what Trump will give us. Wow, America first turned into new world order pretty quickly, huh? Another person responds, it's unreal. And I'm genuinely shocked at how many conservatives don't see what's happening and are loving every bit of it. Ah, there you go. I thought I was the only one seeing it.
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They painted globalism and nationalism and hardly anyone raised a question. Or take a look at this meme that's circulating right now. I have a feeling this meme format is going to get a lot of use over the next four years. Donald Trump's like, we should invade Greenland and Panama and Canada. And the person wearing the MAGA hat's like, hell yeah. than you have below.
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We should help Ukraine defend itself. And then the person wearing the MAGA hat goes, no, that's pro-war. Didn't Donald Trump say that he was going to be stopping World War III? He said World War III is about to happen. He promised he's going to stop World War III. No, it seems like you're going to be the one to start it and you want to be the bad guy in World War III.
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did an interview with Corey Hargraves, who was a United States Army sniper. He did two deployments in Iraq, and he told his story about the horrors of war. He talked about what it really means to be sending American military abroad and to risk their lives and to have American soldiers die abroad. And he told me his experience there. He's a poor kid from a Native American reservation.
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Trump voters and supporters are livid that Donald Trump is proposing a new world order globalist regime where he will have the United States of America purportedly conquer Canada. and Greenland and Mexico and turn it into a United States empire? I mean, Donald Trump is making these statements.
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And he's like, if you're trolling or whatever you're doing, what you're saying is that you want to send American soldiers, young Americans to die fighting our NATO allies while you're not even talking about Russia, North Korea, China, Venezuela. You're out here attacking our allies with these memes and these maps. where you're saying 51st state owe Canada.
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Here's another account that goes, do we really want to start connecting vast land masses together? I feel like it's a slippery slope to a one world government. Other people are MAGA supporters. So this is the new world order? Not sure this is good. Ha ha, Benny Johnson, all in for globalism now? Yeah, let's bring in far left countries to destroy the tiny remaining pieces of our constitution.
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At times like these, I always like to hear from my buddy Charlie Angus from the New Democratic Party. Here's what Angus says. He posts this photo right here. It says, Jim Parks of Winnipeg Rifles was in the very first wave at D-Day. He was blown overboard and attacked the beach without a rifle. He didn't stop.
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75 years later, he was honored by young Dutch and French who never forgot the sacrifice. Unlike Trump, Canadians will always fight for freedom. Angus also says, January 6, the sequel where Donald Trump scores a hat trick for the world's dictators, sending his dumb ass son to Greenland while threatening Canada is a deliberate provocation of NATO. Step forward, Vladimir Putin.
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Then there is validating China's designs on Taiwan. The chaos idiot goes global. Powerful words by Charlie Angus. He also says, so I'm standing in the grocery store parking lot and it's freaking cold. A very classy old woman sees me and walks the entire distance across the lot. Quote, you give that man shit, she says, then walks away. That's Canada. The criminal might buy off porn stars.
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He'll never force Canada to bend. Just take a look here, by the way, of Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk. It looks like Charlie Kirk is wearing, he's cosplaying as like a military guy or whatever the heck he's wearing. I think he's wearing the outfits of the bankrupt or defunct Trump Airlines crew. You see them there.
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Meanwhile, powerful words from the leader of Greenland and others saying, you're not going to buy Greenland. Also strong words from our allies in Denmark pushing back against this ridiculous treatment of them by Donald Trump.
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As I've said on other videos, I believe this is part of Donald Trump's weapon of mass distraction tactic to cover up the fact that prices are not going down, that the war in Ukraine from Russia's unlawful invasion is is not going to end in 24 hours. In fact, that time's elapsed already. And also Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine and Russia has said that he will be canceling his trip in January.
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Now, all of this is happening as well as Senate Democrats have delayed the Tulsi Gabbard nomination and her confirmation hearing because she's not providing the required vetting material. So one of the things that Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, is basically saying is that she's not turned over her FBI background check, her ethics disclosures, or a pre-hearing questionnaire.
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Now MAGA Republicans are blaming it somehow on the snow. I guess you can't send emails when it's snowing according to them. MAGA Republicans are saying that, oh, after terrorist attack on New Year's Eve and New Year's, it's sad to see Democrats playing politics. So you see how they're trying to use these terrorist attacks where it was a domestic terrorist in Texas.
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And then if they want to call the Cybertruck incident that, but that was a MAGA Trump supporter who made a pro-Trump manifesto. But basically Trump is, I mean, just, just look at the idiocracy here. You've got Donald Trump making posts of going like people like this in Greenland are the true people of Greenland and they're super MAGA, ultra MAGA. Greenland wants to go MAGA.
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Okay, the person who Donald Trump posted was a convicted drug trafficker. That's who Donald Trump is making the face of his deal with this deal or this conquest of Greenland. The Danish press reports that Timothy Zeeb served prison time for drug smuggling and violent crime. So there you have it, folks.
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I have a lot more to report on this, but you see how Trump's own supporters are turning against him as a result of this globalist approach. and how he's alienating our allies abroad as well. Hit subscribe, help us get to 4 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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Housing will not be more affordable. The stock market will not be going higher than it was under President Biden. Things look grim, so Donald Trump needs distraction. So it's post after post after post about conquering our allies.
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Mind you, not a single word from Donald Trump about Venezuela, where the actual democratically elected leader's son-in-law was just kidnapped a day after Edmundo Gonzalez, who actually should be the leader... Venezuela was with President Biden in the Oval Office. His son-in-law just got kidnapped, but you won't hear Donald Trump talk about that.
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Hence, we need to increase the H-1B visa program, according to Donald Trump, which he said that he was either going to eliminate or phase out to get Americans those jobs. It's lie after lie. Oh, and then the other lie, that within 24 hours, he was going to negotiate peace in Ukraine.
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Well, now Donald Trump's liaison, his envoy to the Ukraine crisis, the Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine, has now pulled out of any peace negotiations in January. And he did that because Putin and Russians and Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, have been... mocking Donald Trump, mocking the United States.
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And so rather than be forceful with Russia or Xi Jinping or Venezuela, especially as within 24 hours of the actually elected president of Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalez, who's in exile, going to the White House and meeting with President Biden. Edmundo Gonzalez's son-in-law was kidnapped in Venezuela.
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You won't hear a peep from Donald Trump on that, but what you will hear him talking about is invading Greenland and that Denmark shouldn't have a right to Greenland. But folks, I want you to remember WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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And anytime Donald Trump makes these statements and starts threatening this group or that group, I want you to think about what Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar said, like when Donald Trump was like, we're going to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene amplifies that and she goes, This is off to a great start.
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We're renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, Democrat from Texas, goes, cool. but how does this lower costs? I want you to think about that. Cool, but how does that get Americans housing like you promised? Cool, how does that get Americans jobs? Cool, how is that going to lower the price of eggs and lower grocery prices?
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Cool, how is that going to lower mortgage rates? Cool, how are you going to do anything you promised? Oh wait, it was all a lie. So folks, I'm not saying that we shouldn't take Donald Trump's threats seriously when he talks about invading Greenland like he did repeatedly at that Palm Beach press conference.
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I'm not saying that we shouldn't take it seriously when he says he wants to make Canada a 51st state or invade Panama and take over the canal. But what I am saying is we have to be smart in our opposition and recognize that
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Donald Trump is a weapon of mass distraction, a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction. His press conference on Tuesday shows you what his plan is, right? Say you want to invade Greenland, talk about invading Panama. say all of these outlandish things, talk about faucets and water and drip, drip, drip, and the windmills are killing the whales, and try to distract the American people.
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That he wants to create all of these issues and we need to be laser focused on Donald Trump's promises to his base, to the American people, to the 49% of voters who actually voted for this guy. That he is a liar. And why is he lying? Because he represents the oligarchy. It's him and the billionaires who are actually not eating your cats and dogs or geese like he claimed migrants were.
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They are eating your lunch money. They're eating your checks. They are hoarding the wealth. for the, not just the 1%, but the 0.01% who are getting monumentally richer at your expense. Why is there issues with housing supply?
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Because Trump's billionaire friends, his oligarchs who run private equity companies, have bought up all of the homes, reduced the supply of homes, and have made it incredibly expensive just for regular Americans to afford homes. Why are prices so high? Well, number one, Donald Trump added $8 trillion in debt. That's the cause of inflation.
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That's what Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley said during the primary debate. And duh, when you add $8 trillion in debt and then you print money as recklessly as Donald Trump did, that's going to cause inflation. And when you break down supply chains like Donald Trump did, who had no clue what he was doing in his first term at all, That's going to cause inflation.
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President Biden got it under control, but the prices are still high, yes. But where's that being caused from? Also from price gouging from Donald Trump's billionaire friends who collude together and raise up the prices. Biden was trying to stop the price gouging. So what's the source of these things? It's Trump and his billionaire oligarchs. So Democrats need to get smart.
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Don't get distracted by all of these things. Say, okay, all these things are serious, but what are you doing about the prices? What are you doing about homes? What are you doing about health? What are you doing about education?
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Just take a look at the things that Donald Trump has said to try to distract. The reporter asks him, can you assure the world as you try to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, you're not going to use military or economic coercion? Trump's response, no, I can't assure you on either of those two. You're going to send our troops to invade Greenland and Panama.
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By the way, the question normalizes it. As you try to gain control over Greenland and Panama, guess what? Greenland does not want to be owned by the United States. Denmark does not want to sell Greenland to the United States. Canada does not want to become a 51st state. The leader of Panama said, get out. And all this is helping is President Xi Jinping and China and Vladimir Putin
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He's a weapon of mass distraction from the fact that, guess what? He lied during his campaign over and over again. Folks, Egg prices aren't going down, they're going up. Grocery prices aren't going down, they're going up. The stock market is far more volatile as a result of Donald Trump's statements and behavior before he even is inaugurated.
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in their agenda in expanding the BRICS block to become a more powerful block than American alliances. More comments about Donald Trump attacking Greenland. The windmills are driving the whales crazy. Obviously, it's the windmills. Gas heaters are much less expensive than the heat is better. It's much better heat, as the expression goes. You don't itch.
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Does anybody have a heater where you go and you're scratching yourself? It's called rain. It comes down from heaven. And they want to do no water. It comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. You can all have the water you want. It makes no difference. This stuff is stupid. That's why I don't show his videos or audio anymore.
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In addition to other reasons, I don't show his audio or video anymore. Weapon of mass distraction. It's trying to distract you from the fact that he's screwing you and the Republicans are screwing you. How else are they trying to distract you? Trump and MAGA Republicans like
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Nancy Mace oh their attack on transgender people oh my gosh there's a transgender volleyball player in San Jose State we want you to care about that and what and not the fact that these MAGA Republicans are making your lives actually miserable that they're taking away workers protections they're taking away your health care they're preventing you from accessing health care
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They want to abolish the Department of Education because they want to keep you dumb and stupid so they can get cheaper labor from overseas and then say that you're too stupid to work the jobs. I hope that you're just so ignorant that you fall for their stupid propaganda. Do you see what they're doing to you? Do you see what they're doing to you? But yeah, egg prices are up. Mortgage rates are up.
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The New York Post article, it's Joe Biden's fiscal time bomb is set to explode just in time for Trump to take office. Excuse me? Joe Biden's fiscal time bomb? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? President Biden's stock market up 55, 60% over Donald Trump. Unemployment at record lows, 16.2 million jobs created. There was never a month where America lost jobs.
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Your 401k, if you have one, is probably up under President Biden. I mean, 40,000 infrastructure projects, the most pro-union president. And you want to compare what President Biden is doing as well versus what Donald Trump's doing? Well, as Donald Trump's a weapon of mass distraction, this is what Biden was doing yesterday. Did you hear it reported anywhere on the media?
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The Biden administration announced a rule change which requires companies that compile consumer credit data to remove medical debt from their reports.
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More than $49 billion in medical debt from the credit reports of millions of Americans across the country will no longer negatively affect their credit score, and lenders will no longer be able to consider medical debt when evaluating whether or not to give someone a loan.
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As a result of this rule change, Americans could see their credit score skyrocket by an average of 20 points, and more than 20,000 new mortgages can now be approved each year. year. Also, President Biden previously did the same thing when it came to forgiving student loan negative credit reporting. He extinguished a bunch of that if you applied on the right time.
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So while Biden's been doing things, he signed into law the Social Security Fairness Act over the weekend. Donald Trump is talking about threatening our allies. It's a weak little man who talks about threatening our allies, but won't dare talk about Venezuela kidnapping the opposition leader who should be their president, and Mondo Gonzalez's son-in-law.
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Won't talk about that, won't talk about Putin, won't talk about Xi Jinping, but talks about Canada heinously, talks about Denmark heinously, talks about Panama heinously. a weapon of mass distraction. And folks, I think it's important that we cover it. We can talk about this stuff that Trump's saying, but I want to focus more on why he's saying it versus just saying, here's what he's saying.
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Here's what he said. He's an idiot. No, I want to focus on the distraction that he's doing. Why? Because he's playing you. He's trying to screw you. He's the reason why Trump We as Americans, the 99%, have not been able to obtain the economy that the people deserve, the healthcare that people deserve, the education that people deserve, the housing that people deserve.
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So his friends, Jeff Bezos, whose Amazon company just paid Melania $40 million for the rights to her horrible documentary with Brett Ratner, who was someone who has all these accusations of... Sexual misconduct against him during the Me Too movement.
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Donald Trump has completely frightened the bond markets. Donald Trump will not be able to help people get housing. Donald Trump has betrayed his base by saying, with Elon Musk essentially, that white Americans are too dumb. Americans are too dumb to have STEM-related jobs and to do jobs in technology and engineering and mathematics and science. That's what Donald Trump said.
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He's the director of the Melania film and Bezos paid him $40 million so that he could get close to Donald Trump while they're buying their yachts and their private jets, their Bombardier jets, their Gulfstream 600s. Americans are struggling to buy housing. But Trump's like, oh my God, we're going after Greenland. We're going, we're going to name the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.
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Oh, the volleyball player from San Jose. Stop it. Focus, focus. Weapon of mass distraction, focus. And go back to what Veronica Escobar said. Okay, cool. But how is that dealing with my life and the prices? Cool. What does that have to do with me right now? Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Canada NDP Leader STRIKES BACK at Trump’s THREATS
Jagmeet, we've been speaking for about 17 minutes or so. And I want to introduce our audience though, to just who you are. Of course, I would love to have you on more in the future, but I'd love for people just to know your background. I mean, How do you go to lead the NDP? Your background was a very compelling story when I learned about it.
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I'd love for you just very briefly to just share that story with our people here.
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You got a great story that we'll get into a little bit later as well. But one standing up to Trump in the first place, but to your overall reaction to this barrage of threats from the United States, from Trump specifically, not all of us against Canada.
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Finally, Jameet, we know that Donald Trump watches this show. He frequently cites it in his court filings. He blames us for things and it's all meritless, but we know that him and his team watch this. So if you had a message for him today, what would your message be to Donald Trump, the president elect of the United States?
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not we don't need to be bullying each other and we're going to fight facts my message is don't pick a fight with canada it's not a fight that's worth it jagmeet singh leader of the ndp in the house of commons thank you so much for joining us appreciate it thank you everybody hit subscribe let's get to four million subscribers by next month thank you
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Canada NDP Leader STRIKES BACK at Trump’s THREATS
You know, you have this Maple MAGA thing going on in Canada, as it's been referred to, embodied in the Conservative Party there, led by their opposition leader, Pierre Poliev. You know, Pierre Poliev recently went on this far right wing podcast by Jordan Peterson, where he seemed to mock
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I'm joined by Jagmeet Singh, member of the House of Commons and leader of the NDP in the House of Commons. We've got a lot going on in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the Liberal Party just announced his resignation. His government was held together by an alliance, tenuous one, with the NDP. Mr. Singh, you had called for his resignation a few weeks later. He did indeed resign.
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all of the social programs in Canada, from healthcare to dental to pharma, and started saying it's a way that distribution goes from people who don't have a lot of money to the people in power. In other words, that The social programs in Canada are benefiting the wealthiest and not the people. It seems to be the message that he was spewing on Jordan Peterson and before.
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And you've confronted him about this. You know, he seems to be someone who's more supportive. of our failed healthcare system here in the United States. Let me just show this brief portion of that interview from the Jordan Peterson podcast. The fact that he was on that podcast to me says a lot in and of itself, but what he said, I thought was horrifying as an American.
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I wonder what Canadians think about this. Let's play this clip.
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What's your response to him being on that show, what he said on that show, and what's your message to Canadians, especially as we're in this pro-Rogue period? And I assume there'll be elections sometime after March.
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Canada NDP Leader STRIKES BACK at Trump’s THREATS
You know, before Trump won the election and started doing all of these threats against Canada, and frankly, even before Prime Minister Trudeau resigned, if I were to even talk to some of my Canadian buddies, somewhat off the record or just as friends, you know, they would think, though, you know, look, it's likely that this guy is going to win Pierre Poliev.
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Canada NDP Leader STRIKES BACK at Trump’s THREATS
And there seemed to be I don't want to call it defeatist because I don't want to project an Americo centric view of my conversations with Canadians. But there seemed to be a fait accompli that that we were that Canada is just going to be pulled into this Maple Maga thing and that inevitably that's where it's being just drawn into. And I would say
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But I just spoke to Jagmeet Singh, and he's saying this guy is so clearly articulating things that to me would go against foundational principles in Canada. So what am I missing here as an – are people really going to vote for this guy? Do people – I've seen this guy speak on the House floor. He's obnoxious. He gets kicked out. He's –
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First and foremost, I want to welcome you to the Midas Touch Network. We had some other NDP members on, but welcome. Thank you so much. I'm honored and excited to be here. Thanks so much. You know, when Donald Trump was elected and he first started attacking Canada, there was a lot of confusion, I think, within Canada about how to respond. but not from you.
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Canada NDP Leader STRIKES BACK at Trump’s THREATS
He seems to be everything that cuts against my American view of Canada. So, so why, what do you think is going to happen? I mean, can this guy be stopped? Can the conservative party truly, you know, truly be stopped after this pro rogue period ends?
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Canada NDP Leader STRIKES BACK at Trump’s THREATS
You know, one of the things you see with far right wing movements internationally, same thing here in the US, probably Canada, you know, everywhere is this divide and conquer approach, though, because they can use wedge issues to divide people. But sometimes the default ends up being. picking really flawed and harmful people who are actually attacking you.
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So I see you on Canadian media appearances and often you get asked the question, which is basically like, well, what could the NDP be doing here? Is it forming alliances again with the Liberal Party? I mean, you've been asked, well, look,
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you know you've been you called for trudeau's resignation and to and to basically disband the government that led to his resignation does that fall into the hands of the far right does that fall into the hands of pierre poliev and you get asked that a lot so what what's and oftentimes you get cut off when you're trying to give your answer when i've been watching uh canadian media but if you can explain that because some people are saying well look we don't want pierre poliev
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We didn't like Trudeau, but now what do we do? So what do you say to those people?
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You immediately responded right away and said, you will not bully us. And after that, I thought it gave others the confidence because you're seeing it now with a lot of other politicians out there in Canada who are saying that. But Donald Trump has been relentless. Just yesterday, he made the following post as well. Once again, referring to Canada as the 51st state.
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You know, talking about the friends of Pierre Poliev, Elon Musk seems to be amplifying the interview with Jordan Peterson and everything Conservative Party over and over again, you know, to see kind of foreign intervention in your elections so brazenly like this. I want to get your thoughts on that and your message to the Canadian people there. We're seeing this internationally, though, right?
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I mean, we're seeing Elon Musk with the Reform Party in the UK, with the AFD in Germany. There's not a far right wing party that this guy Elon Musk is not propping up. even more far right wing than even Nigel Farage is like, all right, you're getting a little too far there, which tells you a lot.
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But it's that alliance that Musk is trying to create, right, with Poliev, AFD, Reform Party, MAGA, and bring this together to help the billionaires and the oligarchs. Do I have that right? Or what's your response as Canadians are seeing, why is Elon Musk there? coming into Canada? Why is he messing with us?
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And he said that Canadians would love for Canada to be the 51st state and that this is something that they want. What a great nation it would be essentially if the United States conquers Canada. I want to get your response to that for those who don't know you, too. You got a background in jujitsu. You went to law school. You got it.
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He goes... We don't need their lumber. He goes, we don't need their aluminum. He goes, we don't need their oil. He says, we don't need their resources. They just rely on us for military protection. So they need to become the 51st state of the United States. Donald Trump then said,
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People really don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to Greenland, but if they do, they should give it up to America because we need it for our national security. First off, we don't need it for our national security. And number two, Donald Trump is threatening Denmark. Donald Trump is threatening our NATO ally, as Greenland is a territory of Denmark.
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I'm gonna do a whole other video of this, but yesterday Donald Trump reposted a video of someone who purported to be from Greenland who was saying that he wants Greenland to be part of the United States. It was a heavyset man who ended up mocking the United States for having fat people, he said in the video, and he put on a MAGA cap. It turns out that individual was a well-known drug trafficker.
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from the area. But I digress. I'll do a whole other video on that. Great reporting by our team, and they looked at some of the reporting out of Copenhagen to report on that for all of you. Donald Trump then goes, the windmills, the windmills, they're driving the whales crazy. Obviously, the windmills are driving the whales crazy, he says. Then Donald Trump says, what is really important is
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Donald Trump held a press conference on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida that was demented, delusional, and dangerous, but it was particularly very demented and delusional. Look, folks, I don't play Donald Trump audio or video clips anymore, but I want to share with you what went down at this press conference so you can understand how Demented, delusional and dangerous he is.
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is that we will be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Keith Oberman says, Donald Trump then says, they also want to go back. They have already started that too. When you buy a faucet, no water comes out. Even in areas that have so much water, you don't know what to do. It's called rain. It comes down from heaven. It's called rain.
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It's what Donald Trump said at the press conference. Trump goes on to say, they want very little water, very little water to go into your dishwasher, almost none. And you know what people do? They just keep pressing, pressing, pressing, keeping it going. They end up using more water, like washing machines. He then goes on to say, gas heater is much less expensive. The heat is much better.
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It's much better heat. As the expression goes, you don't itch. Does anybody have a heater where you go and you're scratching? That's what they want you to have. They don't want you to have gas. Again, what the heck is he even talking about? Who is they? What's he talking about? Itchy and scratchy. This is bizarre, folks. He goes on to say, the Panama Canal is a disgrace.
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What took place at the Panama Canal, Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to treat us well. He then goes on to say, if those hostages aren't back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break loose.
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And when he finished the press conference, he said, I want to remind everybody all hell is going to break loose. So I'm just trying to get this straight. Wasn't he supposed to be the master negotiator and just be able to solve all of this? Weren't all the MAGA folk telling us, oh, he's going to stop World War III.
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He's threatening to be the bad guy right now in World War III and go after Greenland and attack Canada and Mexico and Panama. And by the way, you know what he's not talking about? Russia. China because he's terrified of Vladimir Putin. He's terrified of President Xi Jinping. I thought Donald Trump was going to bring peace in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Oh, I guess he wants to distract from that now by saying he wants to attack our NATO allies. We don't forget here at the Midas Touch Network. So you're not going to do the thing that you said, bring peace to Ukraine, but you are now threatening military force. against Greenland.
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And as one commentator wrote, and I agree with this, just think about the lack of respect this shows our troops where you are for just utter stupidity and your own ego now threatening to use American troops to attack a NATO ally in Greenland.
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He's talking about windmills, killing whales. He's talking about not ruling out sending our military to conquer Greenland and go to war with Denmark. He's whining about his court cases. He's talking about how heaters make him itchy. He's talking about water dripping from faucets and he's going like drip, drip, drip. It was very strange. Let me explain what went down.
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As this account says, Rotimiadio says, Iran war, also along with the Greenland war and the Panama Canal war, also the war with Mexico when we blow up cartels. Am I keeping up with all the wars this guy wants to start? And also notice what a weak person Donald Trump is. Oh, I need all of this to be done before I get into office.
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Remember what Donald Trump did to President Biden in Afghanistan, where Donald Trump cut a deal to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners who then took over Afghanistan. And then when Donald Trump did not even do a transition and President Biden took over, President Biden had to deal with the crisis that Donald Trump created.
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And now Donald Trump wants President Biden to solve the problems for him before he takes office. Pathetic.
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As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes, Trump ran on a platform as a peace candidate who would stop endless wars and would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, but now concedes that is not going to happen while he threatens Mexico, wants to invade Greenland and Panama, and wants to take over Canada through economic warfare.
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Donald Trump has then asked the following question about Meta or Facebook, because Zuckerberg, Trump announced he will not be doing fact checks and he will be moving a lot of his team that deals with content moderation to Texas because California is too woke. Donald Trump is asked, so Meta announced they will stop doing fact checks. Trump says, I think they've come a long way.
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The reporter goes, do you think he's responding to the threats you've made in the past? Donald Trump responds, probably. Aaron Parnas writes, oh look, meta rolling over for Donald Trump. Color me shocked. Why Donald Trump doesn't want fact checks is because when we fact check his lies, his heinous behavior, his just disgusting being, he looks like a fool.
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When he says stupid things like this, Jack Smith will do a 500 page report and it will be a fake report. Like the investigation was fake. If they're not allowed to issue to the report, that's the way it should be. Why should he be allowed to write a fake report? It's fake. Everything is fake. I mean, all of the witness testimony is fake. The videos are fake. The photographs are fake.
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Your statements are fake. The audio recordings are fake. No, I would like to see the report about you taking classified information and hiding it at Mar-a-Lago. I would like to see that data and that information, especially if it includes nuclear secrets, which it is believed to include. Donald Trump then says he's asked a question about January 6th, 2021.
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And Donald Trump says that it was the FBI who were involved. And he says Hezbollah, we have to look into Hezbollah, that somehow Hezbollah was involved in the January 6th insurrection. Again, now you have Meta, Facebook, too afraid to fact check that. Move their crew to Texas so we have to say Hezbollah caused the insurrection. Are you kidding me?
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Donald Trump was asked by a reporter, can you assure the world that as you try to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, You are not going to use military force. You are not going to use military coercion. Donald Trump says, no, I can't assure you on either of those two that he will not use military or economic coercion.
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I mean, honestly, if there are any Trump supporters watching this, do you realize how stupid this looks? And by the way, go watch the if you think I'm just giving you the tidbits, go back, watch the full press conference. If you go and watch that and you're like, oh, that's my guy. Well, do some deep reflection right there.
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A reporter asks Donald Trump, Elon Musk is drawing criticism for some of his statements about foreign affairs in Europe. Is that appropriate? Trump's response is you mean where he likes people that tended to be conservative? I don't know the people. Well, let me be clear, Donald. Elon Musk is now your top advisor. He's someone who's either pulling your strings or right by your side.
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He's running a fake government agency which has significant power over life and death of Americans and nobody elected that guy. So you're attached at the hip to this guy now. He's not just saying things about conservative people.
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He's saying things that even the far right extremist party, the Reform Party in the UK, is saying Musk is being too extreme for us by supporting people who have essentially been accused of inciting like domestic terrorism, people who are corrupt. criminals, people who have sympathies for white supremacists, people who are white supremacists.
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And even Nigel Farage is like who is a far right wing extremist in UK is like, OK, Musk has gone too far. It's not conservative people. Elon Musk is supporting a party in Germany called the AFD, which basically sympathizes with neonauts. They're basically neo-Nazi sympathizers. So, no, it's not just he likes conservative people. And Trump knows what he's saying right there.
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He knows the gaslighting. Again, he's asked about using military force on Canada. He says probably not military force, but that he will use economic force against Canada to try to annex it and acquire it and make it the 51st state. He goes on to complain about Canada more. He goes after New York Judge Juan Merchan and says that he's a crooked judge. I'm under a gag order while attacking the judge.
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Doesn't... All Donald Trump wants to be able to do, apparently, is to attack the judge's daughter, because that's what a weak little man Donald Trump is. That's the only remaining part of the gag order. Just don't attack the judge's daughter, who's a private citizen. And then Donald Trump praises Judge Eileen Cannon, the judge who he appointed, who...
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made a ruling that no other judge has ever found in the history of America, that special counsels don't exist. So she dismissed the case where Donald Trump took nuclear information on the basis of special counsels don't exist, but apparently they just don't exist for Donald Trump because special counsels exist for everybody else, like Hunter Biden was prosecuted by a special counsel, for example.
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But Judge Cannon ruled on Tuesday that the report that's being prepared by the DOJ about their findings regarding Donald Trump can't be released. She issued an injunction stopping Merrick Garland and Jack Smith from releasing their report. Again, you want to talk about weaponization? Take a look at what Judge Cannon's doing as Donald Trump's praising her from this Palm Beach press conference.
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Donald Trump is then asked about the police officers and other people who were injured on January 6th. And Trump response is basically, look, all I care about is Ashley Babbitt. She's the only person who was killed and he blames the police for killing her. when she was an insurrectionist who tried to break into the secure area with a mob of people who were trying to kill members of Congress.
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He will not rule that out, meaning that he's open to going to war with Greenland. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, says... This is where we are at, folks. The president-elect is not ruling out using military force to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal. Then Donald Trump goes on a rant saying that Canada should be a state. He says we really don't need a lot of stuff from Canada.
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And many of those members of Congress, Republicans are so spineless that they go along with all of this crap. We're not going to normalize this behavior. I'm not showing the audio of him. I'm not showing the video of him, folks. I'm just letting you know what went down.
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And if you want to go watch it, there's lots of places you can find it for yourself to verify that everything I said was accurate. But that was a summary of this, as I said at the outset, delusional, demented, and dangerous press conference. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 4 million subscribers.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
Another day of state regime media known as Fox just in total panic mode, trying to justify Donald Trump's dangerous, destructive, and dastardly behavior.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
I mean, again, it's just a total clown show on Fox. No offense to clowns. These are fascist clowns. Going back to Laura Ingraham right here with Treasury Secretary Scott Besson on, asked about empty ships coming from China. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says, that's not a big deal. All American companies prepared for this. They knew we were going to do this. Here, play this clip.
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So chess, master chessmanship there by Donald Trump.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
Okay. Donald Trump has bankrupted most of his businesses. Casino after casino, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. Business after business that he lent his name to. Bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. Even if you look at his most recent crypto project, only 57 wallets made money on his crypto, while like 770,000 crypto wallets lost money.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
When are you all going to realize that he is a fraud, that he is a felon, that he is a sexual abuser? It's so obvious. Fox knows it too. That's why they're panicking. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant was on the Laura Ingraham show last night, and he addresses what Donald Trump said about why little girls should only have two dolls and five pencils and they should pay more for it, and you should stop complaining if you want more dolls, little girls. Here's what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says.
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What about small and medium-sized businesses that aren't at your secret gatherings where you manipulate the markets? What about the people who employ 80% of Americans who are now just getting absolutely screwed? How about Main Street there, Treasury Secretary Scott Besantower? That's right. You don't give up about us. Jesse Waters talking about a major rule that he says was broken the other day.
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Here, play this clip. What do you notice?
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
We know what he's talking about. What are they even talking about on this godforsaken network? Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says it's all going to plan. Donald Trump is doing strategic uncertainty. That's what this is. Strategic uncertainty. What's he going to do? Is he going to wake up and post AI images of himself as the Pope? Or maybe he'll talk about Alcatraz. Who knows?
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
Maybe he'll tariff movies produced overseas. 145% tariffs. Maybe 500% tariffs. Maybe a bajillion percent tariffs. Strategic uncertainty. That's what intelligent people do. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
By the way, isn't it just very clear to you that Donald Trump doesn't have the most basic understanding of even like what a tariff is? what a trade deficit is. Donald Trump thinks if there's a trade deficit, that means that we're subsidizing another country. Donald Trump thinks it means that if there's a trade deficit, that means that other countries are stealing our money.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
By the way, the trade deficit under Trump's tariff for against the world has gone up significantly. The trade deficit is up massively under Donald Trump. Why? Because there are so many countries that are trying to import stuff because of how unpredictable Donald Trump is. Get the stuff here. And so it's actually adding to the deficit. But I guess they think that's a win.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
So then you have Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who got famous on the real-world reality TV show on MTV. But then he was on the real-world road rules challenge as well. That's how he rode that to fame in the MAGA Republican Party. And here he talks about he's really upset right now at...
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the Trump Department of Defense, because they keep flying helicopters with VIPs over Washington, D.C., and they're making the airspace very dangerous. And Pete Hegseth is refusing to respond to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. And he's like, I'm very frightened. I'm concerned. You're frightened and concerned. You're the freaking Transportation Secretary. Here, play this clip.
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But everybody, it's good to know that Sean Duffy has a hashtag Latina wife. He wants you all to know that he does. OK, hashtag Latina wife, heart women dancing. And he goes, nice to come home on a Friday night to home cook steak tacos after a long week working at the DOT exclamation point. Hashtag Latina wife.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
Oh, before showing you the next clip of what went down at Fox, I wanted to show you this one before, but I'll show it to you now. Earlier in the day yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson testified under oath before Congress. He was asked the most basic question, who pays for tariffs? Who pays for tariffs? The answer is people. We pay for it. The importer pays the tariff. Right.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
They pay the levy and it gets passed on to the consumer in the form of basically a tax. That's how it works. It's not China who pays it. They don't eat it. It's not them eating it. Watch Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's response play.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
Mr. Secretary. The guy couldn't even put a sentence together in one of the most basic of questions right there. Then you have the border czar, Tom Homan. who's a creepy, creepy man. He's obsessed with AOC and, like, arresting AOC.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
So you go from Treasury Secretary Scott Besant talking about how little girls should stop whining about only getting two dolls, government's doing central planning, to Jesse Waters, one of the hosts on state regime media known as Fox, talking about an issue that's very pressing to him, that men should never cross their legs, he says. Play this clip.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
All right, I'm only going to play you two small clips of this next guy, Stephen Miller, because he just goes on Fox and he's like, everybody wants to do business with me in America. Play this clip.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
anymore. You've like literally destroyed the brand of America. Don't take my word for it. I mean, you have the top hedge fund, top private equity people say the brand of America has now been destroyed internationally. Here's Stephen Miller again saying that what Donald Trump did in the Oval with Prime Minister Mark Carney was brilliant. He was a chess master. Trump was a chess master there.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
Okay, let's look at Prime Minister Carney's face. after you call them a chess master, as Donald Trump says that America does not do that much business with Canada. Canada's America's biggest client. We do the most business with Canada. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
In 2024, the U.S. did over $600 billion in trade with Canada. Like, what are you talking about? Prime Minister Carney stands up to Donald Trump and says, not now, not ever, Canada will never be the 51st state, Donald. Here, play this clip.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
I'm not going to waste my time. Next up, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett goes one by one. with the individuals who the MAGA Republicans called to this committee hearing. And she goes and explains, seems pretty easy that Trump's policies are bad. Wouldn't you agree? Don't you think that these are some low IQ policies? She says, here, play this clip.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
The Democrats were ripping into Donald Trump's cabinet members testifying on Capitol Hill with some powerful cross-examination. You saw right there, Democratic Congresswoman Escobar from Texas cross-examining the dog killer, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. More on that cross-exam in a little bit.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
No. I know nothing about unions whatsoever.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
So then the MAGA Republicans were getting so ripped to shreds yesterday and they really have. No ability to even debate anymore because they just basically take whatever Donald Trump posts on social media and then they're like, okay, I guess that's what we believe in now. And they know that they get flustered and that they can't even justify their positions.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
So I showed you this thing that they were doing last week, and they're continuing to do it this week. I'm talking about the members of Congress now, the MAGA Republican Congress members. So they don't even speak or debate with the Democratic Congress members anymore. They stay mute. They go silent. So you have a Democratic Congress member like Congress member Neguse, and he'll say, OK,
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Could we debate this amendment because that's what we're supposed to do in Congress? Who wants to discuss this? I'd love to just debate it so I can see why you oppose it. And we can let's let's discuss our ideas in public as legislators. Let's talk about it. And then the MAGA Republicans just they refuse to respond publicly. I'm going to stop the video after four or five seconds of the silence.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
So you'll get the point, but it goes on for four minutes and Congress member in a goose, the democratic Congress members just like, okay, no one, no one, no one here. Watch this clip right here. Uh,
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
I now want to show you Democratic Congress member Mark Pocan, his cross-examination of Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, where he basically just asks Besant the most basic question, who pays for Trump's tariffs? Watch the response. Let's play this clip.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Then we have Democratic Congress member really grill into Treasury Secretary Besant right here about Scott Besant's employment of this guy, Marco Elez, who made all these doge worker who made racist post. And then Besant tries to play dumb about it. Great cross-exam skills here. Play this clip.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Then we have Democratic Congresswoman Lauren Underwood from Illinois. Here's her exchange with Kristi Noem. Let's play this clip right here.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
Now going back to Mark Pocan. I hope I'm saying his name right. Democratic Congress member, is it Pocan? Democratic Congress member Mark Pocan sparring with Secretary of Treasury Scott Besant here about Scott Besant has what he calls the crazy Ivan theory. And he's like, oh, Trump's being crazy Ivan. That's what that's what this is. It's strategic uncertainty, crazy Ivan.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
And so you just don't know what crazy Ivan is going to do. And here the Democrats are like, OK, for like Americans, like regular folk, like we don't want crazy Ivan. Like we just want our paychecks and we want to be able to afford housing and we want to be able to have housing.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
healthcare and we want to be able to raise children and we want to be able to have a family or we want to be able just to be happy. We don't crazy Ivan. We're not looking for crazy freaking Ivan. This is actually the Republican policy. They call it the crazy Ivan theory and that Trump's crazy Ivan. They've unleashed crazy Ivan on us. You think I'm joking? Here, play this clip right here.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
The crazy Ivan theory, everybody. Here's the clip that I showed you at the beginning of Democratic Congresswoman Escobar grilling Kristi Noem right here. Let's play this clip.
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Dems Unleash Brutal Cross-Exam of GOP Witnesses
And then Congress member Moskowitz had this great rant. This is epic. 10 of 10 rant right here. And he does a really good job here where he goes and talks about, oh, so Trump woke up and he was watching a show about Alcatraz. So now we have to all be for Alcatraz. And then Donald Trump wants to tariff movies. This is actually...
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
Trump voters are getting a rude awakening. It seems every single day, whether it's Donald Trump posting about reopening Alcatraz or AI images of himself as the Pope, as the world is grieving the passing of Pope Francis, whether it's Donald Trump's trade wars against the world,
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
Senator Ruben Gallego, thank you so much for joining us.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
I did not see that one coming, but I'm glad we had you on. We'd love to have you back on as well. And thanks for all you do. Yeah, please do. All right, everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
let's talk about the economy because you know the markets are very volatile it seems one day trump or scott besant his treasury secretary will talk about oh there may be a deal there may be that and so the market has these massive fluctuations but i think systemically when you take a step back and you're looking at the shrinkage in the gdp you're looking at freight volumes and trucking volumes another story's emerging can you speak to what you're seeing senator
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
Or Donald Trump saying he doesn't know if he needs to follow the Constitution and saying that he doesn't believe immigrants should get due process and that they shouldn't get trials at all. When we're looking at the polling data, we're seeing some of the biggest drop off as well among Trump voters. Latino voters for Trump now overwhelmingly disapprove of Donald Trump.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
Well, how could they trust your Republican colleagues when you try to show objective data to them about the economy? What do they say? But have you read The Art of the Deal? Have you read The Art of the Deal? It's a book, everybody.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
You're a veteran. You were in the Marines. I want to ask you your view about how Donald Trump's been handling the military, Pete Hegseth's careless handling of classified information, cutting of the VA. What have you made of all of their moves there?
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
And you remember we were showing you videos like this leading up to the election and even thereafter. Let's play this clip right here.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
Talk about your trip. You're going to Bucks County, I understand, soon. They're calling it, the press is calling it shadow primaries. What are you calling it? Why are you getting there?
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
I want to talk about this crypto bill. It's not getting a lot of attention. You posted about it recently as well. I think this began as a bipartisan effort in theory to put guardrails on these stable coins, build an ethic system around it and saying, hey, this is the wild, wild west. Let's reign it in a little bit. Exactly. So this started with great intentions.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
But what if rounded up in all of that are people who work on a farm? They're doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
But as you just posted the other day, well, Politico wrote Democrats reverse course to oppose the Senate crypto bill. But you wrote this isn't like a reversal out of nowhere by Dems. The fact of the matter is Dems, including me and my team, were trying to negotiate with Republicans for weeks.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
The bill that was introduced for floor consideration backpedaled on a lot of progress we made and did not include other improvements we sought. It seems they want us to suck it up and vote for this bill without our input. That's not what we expected during this negotiation and not how I operate. Our statement makes clear we won't let them jam us.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
Looking forward to continuing to get this bill in a better place. Let's talk about this one first, but then I think it goes to this broader systemic issue where here you are trying to engage people who are difficult to engage with, and then they kind of go sideways on you and kind of change the deal and then make it something that's less palatable. So talk about this bill first. Is it a big deal?
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
that are family oriented. Let's bring in Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego. Senator Gallego, you were warning leading up to the 2024 election about Latino defections. And that was one of the things that we saw. So tell us, what are you seeing now?
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
You know, I read the bill, so I'm a dork like that. And one of the things that I saw in that they were trying to jam through, it seemed to me in my reading of it, was some exemption for the presidency that like Donald Trump is not, he gets to do deals with Abu Dhabi and whoever he wants to do it with. It doesn't apply to him. It applies to every, was that in there or was I reading that right or?
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
Senator, is there any other issues? I always like to ask this when I have senators on here or governors, because there's things that I'm not seeing. And you probably don't get asked some of these questions because the reporters have, you know, they go in with a series of questions.
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Senator Ruben Gallego on Trump’s Failing Presidency
Are there any other areas that you think is not getting enough attention that you want people to know about in front of this, you know, in front of the huge audience that we have here that you think, look, we need to be spending more time on this or that or here's what I'm focused on right now?
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
We've got major news out of North Carolina, folks, where the Supreme Court race back from November was thrown into turmoil, where the MAGA Republican candidate for the Supreme Court seat, Jefferson Griffin, refused to concede after losing in multiple recounts to Justice Allison Riggs, who was on the Supreme Court, the Democratic-backed candidate, Justice Allison Riggs.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
District Court Judge Richard Myers ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify a 734-vote win for the Democratic Supreme Court Justice Alison Riggs and rejected all of the MAGA candidate Jefferson Griffin's election protests. The judge did stay the order for one week so that Jefferson Griffin may appeal.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
And knowing Jefferson Griffin, I'm sure he's going to do what Jefferson Griffin does. But when you take a look at this order by the district court judge, you get a Trump appointed judge. I don't even like saying Trump appointed judge, Obama appointed judge. But I think I think it is still a notable factor here. Here's what the judge wrote. This consolidated action.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
concerns an attempt to change the rules of the game after it had been played. The court cannot countenance that strategy, permitting parties to upend the set rules of an election after the election has taken place. can only produce confusion and turmoil, which threatens to undermine public confidence in federal courts, state agencies, and elections themselves.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
Accordingly, the court finds as follows one retroactive invalidation of absentee ballots cast by overseas military and civilian voters violates those voters' substantive due process rights. That's one of the things Jefferson Griffin wanted to happen. The cure process violates equal protection rights of overseas military and civilian voters.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
And three, the lack of any notice or opportunity for eligible voters to contest their mistaken designation as never residents violates procedural due process and represents an unconstitutional burden. on the right to vote. Therefore, the judge ordered that the win for Justice Allison Riggs be certified. Let's bring in Justice Allison Riggs to respond to this ruling. Where are we at?
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
Where do we go from here? It's great to have you on, and we've been having you on now for a few months following this entire saga with you. So, you know, here we are, May 6th. The order dropped May 5th.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
At every step, the MAGA Republican candidate, Jefferson Griffin, tried to challenge existing votes that were already counted. He tried to disenfranchise people. He tried to literally steal votes from people. This had been a six-month ordeal where the votes of the people were just not being counted.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
Can you remind our viewers what the 65,000 votes were that were being challenged? I know there was one group of 60, then there was another 5,000 that were the military overseas. And maybe you can describe also what Jefferson Griffin and the Republicans were doing to specifically One, just target your race, not the other races, not the Trump race, not the other congressional races.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
Those were apparently fine. And then they micro targeted Democratic areas only to try to change the vote after the fact. Can you go into that?
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
It went through the state court system, from the lower level court to their court of appeals to the Supreme Court. where ultimately a subset of votes was ordered by the North Carolina Supreme Court to be recounted through this process, which was counter to what the will of the people were who actually voted. So after the Supreme Court in North Carolina made that ruling,
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
We've talked about this concept of the laboratories of autocracy, how sometimes you're seeing these MAGA Republicans try out these playbooks and states and say, OK, well, we can do voter suppression here. We could gerrymander here. And now, even if we lose the election after doing all of those things, we can basically just kind of redo it. We can target certain areas, throw out 65,000 votes.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
And it's why I think, you know, to your point, this has national implications here. If this stands, they then kind of roll this out, this test balloon everywhere else. I just want to show the video of your parents because I think it brings it home when they're both like – If you add our ages up together, we've been voting for like 100 years. Of course, we're going to vote for our daughter.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
What are you talking? You're throwing out our votes for our daughter? What do you mean? Here, just watch this video. This is for our viewers.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
Well, I'll tell you, Justice Riggs. So my parents were very proud when I graduated Georgetown Law. They were a little bit curious when I became a podcaster, but I got them back on my team now and they're proud again. But I can only imagine you got proud parents. You're a Supreme Court justice in the state of North Carolina. They go out to vote for you in the election.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
And then they find out that and they're going to be so careful. How could you be more careful than the parents voting for that? I bet you they looked at it. They took photos of it. They mounted it on the wall. I bet you it was one. And their vote was one that was initially going to be thrown out. So if it happened to them, just imagine what's happening overseas and everybody else.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
So I'll let you address that. But just as we wrap up, where do we go from here? What happens next?
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
Separately, Justice Allison Riggs was bringing an action in federal court. And we just got a very important federal court ruling in this entire saga from, of all people, a Trump appointed judge in North Carolina, a judge by the name of Judge Richard Myers. And you got to hand it to the guy. He followed the law. He put politics aside. And U.S.
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Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
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Trump Crashes Out at Evening Presser to Finish Awful Day
Well, folks, I guess Donald Trump was not done embarrassing himself and his entire regime today. He decided to hold one more press conference later in the day. What a complete and utter mess this one was. And it followed utter disastrous press conferences earlier in the day here. Donald Trump brags about going to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. And he goes, this will be a great trip.
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Trump Crashes Out at Evening Presser to Finish Awful Day
Here, play this clip. So it's just one of those things. Yeah, please.
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Trump Crashes Out at Evening Presser to Finish Awful Day
Now, hasn't Donald Trump said everything's going to happen in two weeks? This is going to happen in two weeks. That's going to happen in two weeks. Healthcare plan in two weeks. When are we all just going to realize that this is a rug pull presidency? Donald Trump is a Ponzi schemer. In his life, he's a fraud. He's a felon. He's a bankruptor. He's a sexual abuser. He's a destroyer, not a builder.
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Trump Crashes Out at Evening Presser to Finish Awful Day
And you're seeing now why he bankrupted his casinos in Atlantic City, why he bankrupted so many countries and why or companies and and I suppose countries. And now why Donald Trump is bankrupting our country before our eyes. Next up, a reporter asked Donald Trump if.
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Trump Crashes Out at Evening Presser to Finish Awful Day
He can speak to the concerns that people have regarding the administration cutting mental health programs and take a look at what Donald Trump says. Anybody have any questions on that? Yes, please.
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Trump Crashes Out at Evening Presser to Finish Awful Day
Some of you will be joining me. It should be noted that Donald Trump has personal deals to enrich himself with all of these nations. Let's play the clip.
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What's he even talking about there? May I come with some receipts, folks? May I come with some receipts? It's Carl Quintanilla posted. Qatar ain't no dummy. Qatar and DAR Global developing Trump golf courses and villas in Qatar. Sources with knowledge are talking about the plans.
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So Trump's going to use our taxpayer dollars to visit the development of his own Trump properties in Middle East countries that are buying him off. The New York Times, new mini's project is latest Trump company deal tied to a foreign government. How about this one? A fund backed by Abu Dhabi will be making a $2 billion business deal using a Trump firm's digital coins.
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That transaction would be a major contribution by a foreign government to President Trump's private ventures. Once upon a time, we had a name for that. It was called crime. It was called unlawful. We would make a big deal about it. We still do on the Midas Dutch Network.
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Remember when the media made such a huge deal about some obscure real estate transaction that former President Bill Clinton was involved in? The Whitewater scandal. Will it take down the presidency? Donald Trump just doing all of these personal deals in front of our faces to enrich himself, using the presidency to sell meme coins and to buy, to sell influence, to be bought by foreign countries.
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Yeah. You see it right there. But I guess what? The corporate news just gives him a pass for that. As Ian Sam says, two stories, same day. I'm sure totally unrelated. On the left, the New York Times says UAE pours $2 billion into Trump crypto coins. On the right, Bloomberg reports the Trump White House may ease restrictions on selling AI chips to the United Arab Emirates. Here's another headline.
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Trump's family's cash registers ring as financial meltdown plays out. The party was on at Saudi-backed live golf tournament at the president's Doral Resort in Florida and a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as the markets tumbled. How about this photo right here? After touring the construction site of Trump International Oman this past week, Eric and Don Jr.
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announced a new business deal to develop the Trump Tower in Saudi Arabia. Corruption, corruption, corruption. matched by incompetence as well. We learned today about more Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, using Signal for war plans, more of them, more instances as well. This time he asked his aides to text foreign countries about imminent operations over Signal. There you have that one.
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May I show you what Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett said moments ago on the House floor about Donald Trump cosplaying as the next pope? She goes, maybe, maybe just try to cosplay as the president. That could be a step in the right direction. Here, play this clip.
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but sorry, Congresswoman Crockett, he can't do that. Instead, Donald Trump is making long rambling posts like this right now.
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Ed Martin is going through the approval process to be the United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, according to many, but in particular, RFK Jr., his approval is imperative in terms of doing all that has to be done to save lives and to caps, make America healthy again. This is a passion for Ed, more so than for almost anyone that I have seen.
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One of the reasons that I was so successful in winning the 2024 presidential election is is my commitment to health and helping to make America healthy. The cost of chronic disease epidemic has gotten out of control.
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By the way, go watch the Midas Touch podcast where I make a list of all of the essential health services that are being cut right now, including essential services to 9-11 first responders. And you know when they're cutting health response to 9-11 first responders? They're cutting it for everybody as well, and lots of people are being devastated.
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Donald Trump's posting, we won two world wars, but we never took credit for it. Everyone else does. I think we did take credit for it. All over the world, the allies are celebrating the victory we had in World War II. The only country that doesn't celebrate is the United States of America. What are you even talking about there? Yes, we do.
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And finally, can I just read for you Donald Trump's response earlier today about Alcatraz? I don't want to play the clip. Let me just read it for you. I'll just read it word for word. You judge for yourself if this makes any sense. Here's Trump's full answer transcribed. Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker. We're talking. We started with the movie making and we'll end. I mean it.
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It represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. Alcatraz is, I would say, the ultimate, right? Alcatraz. Sing, sing in Alcatraz. Hey, the movies. But, uh... It's right now a museum, believe it or not. A lot of people go there. It's housed the most violent criminals in the world, and nobody ever escaped.
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One person almost got there, but they, as you know the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up, and it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of problems. Nobody's ever escaped from Alcatraz. just represented something strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country, and so we're going to look at it.
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Now, although no media pointed it out during the press conference, we did. At the Midas Touch Network, our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, wrote the following. Dubai has partnered with Trump Org to build a luxury hotel there. Saudi Arabia is building a residential tower there with him. Qatar is developing a Trump golf resort there with him.
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Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that, and we had a little conversation. I think it's going to be very interesting. We'll see if we can bring it back in large form and a lot, but I think it represents something. Right now, it's a big hunk.
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That's sitting there and rusting and rotting a very, very, you look at it, it's sort of, you know, you saw that picture that was put out. It's sort of amazing, but it sort of represents something that's both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable, weak. It's got a lot of, it's got a lot of qualities that are interesting. And I think they, they, they point. Okay. There you have it, folks.
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There you have it. We're not going to normalize that ever on the Midas Touch Network. You tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and have a great day.
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Eric Trump just flew to the UAE to pitch new deals to them. Also, Abu Dhabi is using Trump crypto as part of their sovereign wealth fund, further enriching the Trumps to the tune of billions of dollars. Next up, Donald Trump is asked about tariffs on pharmaceuticals. And once again, Donald Trump says, I will know more in two weeks. Just give me two weeks. So yes, folks, two weeks strikes again.
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Weak Trump Cracks Under Pressure as War Starts
India and Pakistan are now at war with each other. The United States lost another F-18 jet in the Red Sea. It was the second jet that was lost recently. We've had multiple drones that were downed over Yemen. Ukraine has not seen the peace in 24 hours that Donald Trump promised he was going to negotiate. He's still no deals Donald. He's negotiated zero deals with his trade war against the world.
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Pakistan, the first time that's taken place in several decades. The ceasefire there is now over. And when Donald Trump and his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, finally addressed the war now between India and Pakistan, they said, you know, we just hope that it resolves quickly. We hope that it goes away soon and that it resolves quickly.
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So they spent the past four years attacking former President Biden and everything. But now with them, it's, you know, we just hope maybe the war goes away quickly and you know they'll just deal with it by the way the trump regime is hiding casualty numbers from a real war that's taking place right now between the united states and the houthis in yemen
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The Trump regime is not calling it a real war because they don't want to get congressional approval. But for all purposes, there's a real war and they've decided not to provide any data of what's really going on there. And of course, you know, from all of our prior reporting and the reporting by The Atlantic and others that.
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pete hegseth and mike walls they were having all of these communications about yemen on their text message threads where they invited a reporter we know that there have been dozens of other signal chats that they've engaged in with sensitive classified information uh who knows what
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the China government, Chinese government has, what adversaries have, what the Houthis have on the United States right now. Let me take you right now inside India's NDTV. Here's how they describe Operation Sindoor. Let's play this clip.
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Now, as I mentioned at the outset of this video, another F-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost at the Red Sea after it suffered an arrestment failure while trying to land. Two aviators were ejected with minor injuries. This is the second jet loss from the carrier in just over a week.
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For people familiar with the matter told CNN, the way we get this, by the way, is from like sources inside because the Trump regime is not transparent with any of this data. The Department of Defense, though, was talking about this yesterday. Secretary of Defense, we are leaving wokeness and weakness behind.
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No more pronouns, no more climate change obsessions, no more emergency vaccine mandates, no more dudes in dresses. We are done with that shit. That's from the official Department of Defense account. And as I mentioned in the Intercept report, the U.S. government is keeping American casualty numbers for the undeclared war on Yemen secret. This is not normal, not one bit.
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And now he says he may just unilaterally impose his own deals by making up numbers and calling that a deal, which is not a deal. Donald Trump has caused massive instability around the world. He's caused economic chaos here at home. Main Street is suffering. He's manipulating the markets on an almost daily basis. And what has he been talking about? What has he been focused on?
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As Don Winslow said, boy, don't you just feel safer under Donald Trump? Israel bombing Gaza and now saying that they're going to just take it all over and move every person from Gaza away. Israel bombing Yemen, India bombing Pakistan, U.S. bombing Yemen. And of course, the war rages on between Russia and Ukraine with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine saying, look,
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We're here for an unconditional ceasefire, but Russia just wants to exterminate us. This is the, quote, no wars president. That's what Donald Trump claims he is.
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Also, does it make you feel more comfortable to know that in Newark, the air traffic controllers are now on traumatic stress leave because of the firings that have taken place and the fact that these systems shut down and the radar shut down and air traffic controllers are We're telling CNN, do not fly into Newark. It is dangerous. It is dangerous.
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And there were hours and hours of delays in Newark taking place. You've got the measles cases across the country. There's 935 reported cases. But who the heck knows how many there really are because we're not getting any good data. Oh, by the way, this is the transportation secretary. Sean Duffy talking about how, yeah, it's very scary, scary jobs, scary things, very scary. Here, play this clip.
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across military Reddit forums and on social media. Hegseth is becoming a target of mockery and satire. The military rank and file are calling Hegseth DUI hire, whiskey leaks, and kegseth. According to Military.com, Hegseth works hard to try to portray himself as a man of the troops, but the troops ain't buying it. Mr. Whiskey Leaks is what they are calling him.
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What's the United States doing as well? Well, apparently spying on our NATO allies. A new article by the Wall Street Journal just came out, talks about how the United States has ordered our intelligence agencies to step up the spying on Greenland to underscore the seriousness of Donald Trump annexing it and using military force to seize the island from Denmark, our NATO ally.
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You heard what I just said there. Donald Trump is trying to go to war with Denmark, our NATO ally. NATO may have to invoke its self-defense obligations against the United States.
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Well, he announced that the U.S. is going to start to call the Persian Gulf. The Arabian Gulf. This was a major, major announcement that he wanted to make before he traveled to the Middle East to meet with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and other countries who are doing personal deals with Donald Trump, enriching Donald Trump while we, the people, suffer.
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Classified messages are asking United States intelligence agencies whose tools include surveillance satellites, communication intercepts, and spies on the ground to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island. Front page of The Guardian right now. This should be on the front page of American media, but it's not.
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Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says. Didn't Donald Trump promise the Muslims for Trump or the Palestinians for Trump that he was going to bring peace to Gaza? Didn't Donald Trump say that? But quite the opposite. Donald Trump posts memes of himself and Netanyahu building resorts in Gaza.
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And Donald Trump has said that he wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza and just send them places because it's a great real estate deal for him, is what Donald Trump says. This was Donald Trump responding to the news about the war between India and Pakistan. Let's play it. Any questions for Steve?
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And just as you heard Donald Trump say right there that he hope it ends quickly, this is what Rubio said. I echo President's comments earlier today that this hopefully ends quickly and will continue to engage both Indian and Pakistani leadership towards a peaceful resolution.
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As our Editor-in-Chief Ron Filipkowski says, so we went from everything bad that happened in the world from 2021 to 2024 being Biden's fault to hopefully this ends quickly as our 2025 foreign policy hopefully ends. It ends quickly. Another data point I want to report as well, as I've said to you before, Donald Trump's a fraud, a sexual abuser. Donald Trump is a felon. He's a criminal.
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He's a bankruptor, not a builder. So by the way, seeing Donald Trump sit there next to Prime Minister Carney, an actual successful banker who ran the Bank of Canada, ran the Bank of England and He's a central banker who knows what he's doing. And Donald Trump saying things like, we don't need Canada. We don't trade with Canada. We don't have a trading relationship with Canada.
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Bud, bud, it's our biggest trading partner, you idiot. And you've destroyed that. You've created trade wars against China. But Trump doesn't give a shit. Excuse my language. Trump wants to enrich himself, right? That's why he does the deal with Qatar for himself, builds resorts in Qatar. That's why Donald Trump does the deals with the UAE to use the Trump crypto.
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And then you have the crypto supporters in the Senate building exemptions so Donald Trump can go do deals with his own Trump meme coin stuff. This is the Trump crypto, the Trump meme coins. Only 58 crypto wallets made millions on Trump's meme coin. 764,000 have lost money, data shows. Yeah, so 58 wallets have made over 10 million each from Trump's meme coin.
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totaling $1.1 billion in profits, blockchain analytics said. But 764,000 wallets, mostly smallholders, have lost money on Trump, according to the firm. When do you realize that you are all the mark? You are the mark. Isn't it just so utterly obvious? One piece of final news to report that I find humorous. Corey Bauman, this guy who was running for Cincinnati mayor, who is J.D.
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Vance's half-brother, got absolutely trounced in round one of the elections for the Cincinnati mayor. The candidate, Aftab Perivel, just like destroyed him, like beat him by like, what is it, like 70% of the vote or something. It wasn't even close. After J.D. Vance's endorsement of his brother, half-brother. Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe.
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Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thank you so much for watching.
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Donald Trump is also announcing that he has appointed Rudy Giuliani's kid, Andrew Giuliani, as the executive director of the president's task force on the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Donald Trump was having a press conference about the 2026 FIFA World Cup while India and Pakistan went to war with each other, with India striking inside the Kashmir region in areas controlled by
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Trump Has Disaster Presser With Canada PM… Not for Sale
Wow, Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office with Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney. Just take a look at Prime Minister Carney's face right here. It tells you everything you need to know. Donald Trump was asked by the press, is there anything that Prime Minister Carney could say to you today that you will stop tariffing Canada? Donald Trump says, nope.
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It should be noted that earlier in the day, we had Treasury Secretary Scott Besson testifying on Capitol Hill. He said there have been zero communications with China regarding any trade deals at all. And as I refer to Donald Trump in my videos, I call them no deals. Donald, never a good negotiator, always a destroyer, never a builder.
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Speaking of which, Donald Trump tries to do the 51st state bit a little bit here before Prime Minister Carney. But Prime Minister Carney is not having it. It's not funny. It's not a bit. You're talking about annexation and threats of war. Prime Minister Carney says Canada is never, ever for sale. Here, play this clip.
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Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump, in pathetic, immature fashion, then tries to go, never say never. And Prime Minister Carney says, never, never watch this clip.
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Then Donald Trump starts to randomly talk about California Governor Gavin Newsom. Apparently, Trump is obsessed with Newsom and Trump is lying and saying that he gave Newsom the water and that there wouldn't be fires if Newsom would have taken the water away. Quicker, as our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, most people who are really dumb like this are relatively harmless. This one is not.
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Now, it should be noted that after the fires were fully contained in Los Angeles, Donald Trump sent the Army Corps of Engineers up to kind of central or northern California to release water. that would not actually reach Los Angeles. And he released water that was actually necessary for a potentially dry summer season. And he put water into areas where it was absolutely not needed after the fires
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were contained. So he can claim that he turned on a faucet. It should also be noted that Donald Trump thinks that Canada borders California because Trump previously talked about opening the faucet or turning on the faucet from Canada into California. Maybe that's why he's talking about Gavin Newsom.
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Then Donald Trump in this disastrous Oval Office press conference mentioned the other disastrous press conference he had with President Zelensky, where he goes, oh, we had a little blow up here. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump then goes on to further attack Canada and say lies about Canada and saying that it is hard to justify subsidizing Canada at all. Here, play this clip.
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Next, Donald Trump says that he wishes the press would stop asking him about doing trade deals already. He's saying, stop asking me about the deals. Here, play this clip.
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Here, Prime Minister Carney makes a strong defense of Canada's sovereignty. As Donald Trump is asked by a reporter, what happens if Canadians don't want to be the 51st state? Would you respect that? Here, play this clip.
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See, the conflict is more of Donald Trump talking about Gavin Newsom, play this clip.
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Donald Trump says that the United States should now be viewed as a super luxury store where you pay more money to deal with the super luxury store. So that's Donald Trump's view of what America is as a super luxury store. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump then brags about the basically complete and total trade embargo with China right now. And he said, because tariffs are now at 145 percent and you can trade at that amount, he says, we are therefore making, I guess, one point one trillion dollars from China right now. I mean, this guy is a dangerous idiot.
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I mean, are you listening to what he's saying in front of Prime Minister Carney? Play this clip.
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Donald Trump is then asked, what's the top concession you want out of Canada? And then Donald Trump says, friendship. Play this clip.
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It's very... Then Donald Trump says that actually the United States does not need to sign any deals because he could simply just make up what he wants the deal to be with a counterpart on his own without even doing negotiations. So stop asking him about deals and we don't even need to make deals. Here, play this clip.
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As Dan Wolkin says, he can recall the name of one hockey player. By the way, Gretzky is a MAGA guy. And the second one he brings up in the context of Canada is Ovechkin, a Russian who plays in Washington, D.C. OK, Donald. Next up, Donald Trump says that he believes that he was the greatest thing to happen to Prime Minister Carney. Again, Trump is a malignant narcissist. Play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump just keeps on talking about former President Obama. Let me show you this. Let's play this clip.
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And then finally, to top it all off, Donald Trump says that the United States does not do a lot of business with Canada. From our standpoint, they do a lot of business with us. Play this clip.
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Should be noted that in 2024, the United States did over $600 billion in trade with Canada, America's biggest trading partner, including 350 billion in exports and 250 billion in imports, and that's how Donald Trump is treating Canada.
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I have a feeling that Canada's gonna be elbows up for the foreseeable future, will not be traveling to the United States, and will be continuing their boycott of all things American. I think that they see utter weakness in Donald Trump there.
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I think Prime Minister Carney was there making a strong statement about Canada's sovereignty, although I think we could perhaps even debate the merits of if he should have showed up there or not. I mean, it's just a complete and utter mess. You tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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Trump Screws His Entire Legal Defense in Front of World
Donald Trump's joint session speech was not only the worst speech I think I've ever seen in Congress, but it also gave all of the people, all of the groups suing Donald Trump a treasure trove of evidence to use against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Let me explain.
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All right, so now let's just take a look at some of the affidavits, some of the declarations that were submitted on behalf of Doge in the various court proceedings. Take a look at this one, for example, and there have been declarations like this in numerous cases.
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Anna Bauer says the following, in a new filing, a Trump administration official says that Elon Musk is not the administrator in charge of Doge. He's a senior advisor to the president per the declaration. And you take a look at this declaration right here, and it says the following.
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This is written by somebody named Joshua Fisher, who may be a little nervous tonight after submitting this declaration. It says, I am the director of the Office of Administration. I have personal knowledge of Mr. Musk's employment status within the federal government. Mr. Musk is an employee of the White House. He holds the position as a non-career special government employee, SGE.
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In that job, Musk is a senior advisor to the president. It says it's not uncommon to have that position. Then it goes on to say... The U.S. Doge service is a component of the executive office of the president. The U.S. Doge service temporary organization is within U.S. Doge service. Both are separate from the White House office. Mr. Musk is an employee of the White House office.
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During one portion of the speech, Donald Trump praised Elon Musk and specifically referred to Elon Musk as the head of Doge, which Donald Trump says was a department that he and Elon Musk created. Now, this directly contradicts the declarations and affidavits that were submitted to federal courts, which said that Doge is not a new department or agency. and that Elon Musk is not its head.
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He is not an employee of the U.S. Doge service or U.S. Doge service temporary organization. Mr. Musk is not the U.S. Doge service administrator. Because Donald Trump right there seemed to say that Elon Musk is the head of Doge, which is its own department, not something that already existed.
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Let's take a look at some of the other court cases where we can find various representations that were made to the courts that, again, seem to contradict what you just heard there from Donald Trump. Like here's a case before Judge Chong. It's a three-hour preliminary injunction hearing, which took place last week. involving a case against Elon Musk and Doge for violating the appointments clause.
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And this federal judge grew frustrated when the government's lawyer was unable to answer question about Doge's chain of command and Musk's role. I'm sure what Donald Trump just said at the joint session is going to be shown to this judge quickly. Quite immediately, here's the conversation or the questions from the judge and the government lawyer. Judge, who was the head of Doge before Amy Gleeson?
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Because one of the things that the Trump administration did is basically pick this like random person who worked at UDS, the United States Digital Services. And her name was Amy Gleeson and said that she is actually the head of Doge to try to use her as a cover-up for Elon Musk, who's really running the show, as you heard Donald Trump just said. So this judge is like, who's Amy Gleeson?
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You're saying Amy Gleeson? Who's this person? Who's the head of Doge before Gleeson? Government counsel. I can't answer that. I don't know. Judge, I mean, that seems like a pretty knowable fact. You don't know who was running it. Before Amy Gleason, government counsel. I'm sure it's knowable. I just don't know it. I'm very conscious of being accurate with the court.
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I just, I can't make a representation, your honor. Judge, have you asked anybody? Government lawyer. I have not asked. Actually, strike that. I have asked previously, but I wasn't able to get the answer. Judge, are you saying there was an administrator before Ms. Gleason? or that there was nobody until this new person, Gleason, was put in, government counsel.
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I'm not saying either because I just don't know. Judge, is there a piece of paper, counsel, like an appointment paper? Is there one that says Elon Musk, senior advisor to the president, not the head of Doge, government lawyer? Sorry, now you're talking about Elon Musk, not the Doge administrator? Judge,
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Listen, counsel, the plaintiffs who are suing Trump and Doge are saying that Musk is the head of Doge. You're saying Musk isn't the head of Doge, but we can't tell you who was, which admittedly is highly suspicious. So I'm not at this point saying that you're not being candid, but this whole operation raises question.
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There's an affidavit saying he's a senior advisor of the president, but there's a strange disconnect where he has referred to himself in public as affiliated with Doge and not as a senior advisor to the president. Until recently, after these lawsuits were filed, his position apparently has changed. Having some backup documentation for that would be useful.
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This is also from that same encounter with the judge. The judge goes, so why do we get a declaration from these people, but there's no documentation or anything there to which the government lawyer said, look, look, judge, it's just important that everyone understands the context here. Since January 20th, we received approximately 80 lawsuits against
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And our staff at the Justice Department's federal programs branch has been cut in half. We have about half the number of staff we had in November, and we are working on expedited schedules. The judge is like saying, so I'm just trying to understand this. Like, are you saying that you don't have the staff? This is what the judge goes.
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So you're saying the Justice Department isn't taking this case seriously, that you're not staffed sufficiently? to which the lawyer goes, it's the opposite. I've had I've been working day and night since being since January 20th. We're working really hard. And the judge is like, I understand that. But come on, like, like, come on here. So let me just show you.
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I mean, and by the way, now Donald Trump clearly said Elon Musk is is the head of Doge. I mean, you heard him say that.
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It's not its leader. I want you to watch what Donald Trump just said. He's going to potentially cause a lot of lawyers that work at the DOJ to be very nervous tonight that they may lose their bar licenses. And he also provided a gift to the people who are suing him, suing Musk, to get accountability. Here, play this clip.
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This is a Caroline Levitt at a press conference when the reporter goes, who's the Doge administrator? And she goes, I'm not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium. That's what she said first a few weeks back. Play this clip.
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So then she said it was Amy Gleeson, and then they just made up that it was this Amy Gleeson person. And so she goes, I told you who it was. It's Amy Gleeson. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows it. Aren't there bigger things in the world who the Doge administrator is? Here she is saying that.
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And then here she is saying she's been the Doge administrator for quite some time. And then the reporter's like, but it seems like the Doge staff just found out yesterday. Here, play this clip.
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Now, see, one of the other big things as well is if this is a new department that was created, as Donald Trump said, it's a new department. A new department requires Congress because we were supposed to be a democracy, not an authoritarian regime. And so this is why the whole kind of con, the fraud that the Trump administration was pushing was to say that Doge wasn't a new thing.
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They were saying you have the United States Digital Service, UDS, which was already in existence. But by the way, what they were basically doing was just like helping with the websites. They were like almost like IT support, like it wasn't government agencies and nothing to do with that. So what the Trump administration, the regime tried to say is that, oh, UDS is
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is doge so doge just rebranded was a rebrand of uds it wasn't like they created a new department and elon musk is not its head because if you had to do that then elon musk has to sit for depositions and he's got a answer for what's going on which they want to hide that's why
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They're saying, oh, he's a special advisor to avoid FOIA requests, freedom of information requests, because he doesn't want to have to answer for it. And if it's a new department, Congress had to create it. So by Donald Trump saying what you heard at the outset, it's basically a stunning admission. Also not that stunning. that the whole operation is unlawful.
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Trump Screws His Entire Legal Defense in Front of World
I bet you lawyers start using that right away and they're going to go to court with it. It's what I would do. It's the first thing I would do. Take that right away to the judge. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Blows Up Key Program in Ultimate Betrayal
With Donald Trump and Elon Musk's wrecking ball to our federal government, let me ask you this question. If you were to call the Social Security Administration to try to get a disability application processed, how long do you think it will take? Well, our friend Sandy Botchum, she's an incredible photographer and investigative journalist, tried.
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We know that the Social Security Administration could cut up to 50% of its workforce, laying off more than 7,000 people, shutting down offices, big Social Security offices in red states, in places like Alabama, have been shut down. The physical office locations have. Elon Musk went on the Joe Rogan podcast and said that Social Security is one big, massive Ponzi scheme.
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In other words, calling the whole thing a fraud. And then Donald Trump at the joint address to Congress last night said that he and Elon Musk have found probable fraud in Social Security. That's his language. And I want you to take note that Elon Musk, by calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, is already calling the whole thing a fraud. Do you see what they're doing here?
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So here's Donald Trump from the State of the Union saying they found fraud in the Social Security Administration. Play this clip.
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The answer is that they're making this up to gut Social Security. As we posted, when's this post? October 29th, 2024 on the Midas Touch account. We were trying to warn everybody. Elon Musk admits that his plan and Trump's plan will be to collapse the U.S. economy, says it's necessary for everyday Americans to experience temporary hardship.
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The answer may or may not surprise you, but let me get to the punchline. It's 200 to 230 days. So when they say, oh, we're not going to touch Social Security, they already have. Previously, the wait times were about 28 minutes in 2024, now 200 to 230 days. Listen for yourself.
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And as the anonymous account posted yesterday, they literally told you they were going to crash the economy. And now they are doing it. I'll show you right here. This was Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan podcast, where he says, you could hear for yourself, he calls Social Security the biggest Ponzi scheme of all times. Here, play this clip.
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Now, rewinding as well, Donald Trump was asked during the first cabinet meeting that he held that Elon Musk was in attendance, can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will not be touched? And you can hear what his answer is right here.
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Here's Maga Mike Johnson from the past weekend where he said, Elon Musk's team has their algorithms crawling, this is his language, crawling through the social security to find fraud waste and abuse. I don't know, how about a 230-day wait time to get your disability application processed? Maybe that's fraud, waste, and abuse. But what do I know? Here, play this clip.
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And notice that language that they use over and over again. Here's Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, another billionaire. It's all these billionaires who want to gut Social Security. Here he goes, we're not going to cut one penny from someone who deserves it. So the threshold is, does Trump think you deserve it? And if you deserve it, then maybe you get it.
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Well, everybody deserves it who's paid into the system. This is Trump's commerce secretary. You can hear him say it for yourself. Play this clip.
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I want to give you other data points as well. The former Social Security head stepped down over Doge accessing the private Social Security data. Remember when we reported on that and CNN reported on that February 17, 2025. The Social Security Administration's acting commissioner said,
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stepped down from her role at the agency over the Department of Government Efficiency, requesting access to Social Security recipient information, according to two people familiar with the official's departure who were not authorized to discuss the matter. Acting Commissioner Michelle King's departure from the agency over the weekend after more than 30 years of service, she worked for it.
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was initiated after King refused to provide Doge staffers at the Social Security Administration with access to sensitive information, the people said. So they probably have access to your sensitive information and your data right now. And while all of this is happening, while Trump's crashing the markets, this is the type of stuff they're talking about on Fox.
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As Aaron Rupert says, here's the view from Pyongyang. It's basically North Korea. At this point, here, play this clip. And here's Alina Haba saying that, you know, even veterans don't deserve their jobs, that they're not working hard enough. Play this clip.
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Now, I just want to give you a bit of a flashback to one of the things that former President Biden did at the end of his presidency.
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Here, he was cracking jokes to sign the Social Security Fairness Act, which actually boosted payments for current and former public employees, affecting nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers, and other public service jobs. Here, play this clip.
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Here, former President Biden makes comments during the signing of the Social Security Fairness Act about Americans who have worked hard all their lives and earned an honest living should be able to retire with dignity. Here, play this clip.
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just so you can take a look at the prior processing times over here. You can see right here in seconds, the prior processing times, but this should not come as a shock. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are indeed targeting social security. This is top of their mind.
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And so you see the difference right there as well. I wanted to show you those clips because with former President Biden, it was about protecting rights, actually making things more efficient, reducing the wait times on calls. And with Trump and Doge and Elon Musk, it's about taking a wrecking ball to it. Let me just show you this other this finally this moment right here.
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where Donald Trump in that joint address last night said that, you know, the age of unelected bureaucrats going through your stuff has ended here.
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I mean, how do they even say that with a straight face when Elon Musk has gone through your social security data, your medical records, your tax information, and Trump and he and everyone, these Republicans are crashing the economy. It's despicable. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Trump's tariffs against Canada are backfiring as Canada stood up for itself, issued a firm and powerful and forceful response, and it has Donald Trump's administration reeling. Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was reportedly nervously calling the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and saying, Doug, please don't do this retaliatory tariff stuff. Please don't cancel the Starlink contracts.
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It seems like this Trump regime is in panic mode as stagflation fears bubble up as the Trump tariffs take effect. Now, economists believe that there will be stagflation, meaning rising inflation and a recession when it comes to GDP growth.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Remember, the Atlanta Fed is now predicting basically a 3% plus contraction in the economy where it was supposed to be a 4% growth if Donald Trump didn't do a thing and just let former President Biden's economy roll on. There you have it, folks. Canada standing up powerfully to the United States. And we're not even talking about the boycotts, the boycott of U.S. tourism, the boycott of all U.S.
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referring to the unity of mostly all of the premiers of the provinces in Canada aligned at the federal level with Prime Minister Trudeau. Doug Ford goes on to say, as a first step in our response, Ontario will rip up our contract with Starlink. Take U.S. alcohol off of LCBO shelves and ban U.S. companies from government procurements. Prime Minister Trudeau issued the following statement.
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goods. Think about the tourism hit when that shows up in our economic data. That's in the Atlanta Fed model in addition to other things. That's why they're predicting like a three and a half to four percent contraction of our GDP recession territory in the first quarter. Trump took a perfectly stable Good economy and crashed it into the ground.
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And you see how weak and pathetic he is, like a quartered rat that he is. No offense to quartered rats. We're frankly more likable. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
The moment U.S. tariffs came into effect this morning, so did the Canadian response he wrote yesterday. Canada will be implementing... 25% tariffs against $155 billion of American products, starting with $30 billion worth of goods immediately and the remaining $125 billion in 21 days time. You see right here, the LCBO halted the sale of all American alcohol.
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The LCBO is the world's single largest purchaser of alcohol. A loss... right away, of $1 billion to American companies. Like that, Donald Trump did it. Here's what LCBO posted. For the good of Ontario, for the good of Canada, in response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, products produced in the U.S. are no longer available until further notice. Looking for an alternative?
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Ask our team about our extensive range of Ontario and Canada-made products. And you saw right there, All of the American alcohol being taken off the shelves. Also, lumber futures soaring to its highest price in recent memory as well, making it very difficult for new homes to be built in the United States. So here's the play by play of what went down as I talked about it earlier.
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Laura Stone got the scoop. So the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, he had to call Premier Doug Ford of Ontario after the press conference by Doug Ford, basically saying, look, your response is too tough. It's too aggressive. You got to tone it down. You're making Donald Trump sad. You're making Donald Trump sad. And Ford told Lutnick, Lutnick, Howard, I ain't backing down. You punched us.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
You went after us. We have to respond. You have to understand, Howard. You come after us. We're coming after you. We were prepared. Your people weren't ready. What you going to do about it? So then Howard Lutnick runs on Fox, American state regime media. And then he's like, all right, we're trying to work out a deal. We're trying to figure something out with Canada and Mexico.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
You know, Trump's a good dealmaker. This is... It's all going to plan, everybody. It's all going to plan. Here's what Lutnick said here. Watch this.
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Just to clarify, I told you- Yeah, you see, when Canada smacked These losers down, you see how weak and pathetic this regime is. This wannabe authoritarian regime of freaking losers who are in charge in the United States right now. These snake oil salesmen, con men who are just trying to screw up the international order to benefit Putin.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Please tell all of your supermarkets not to take the American bourbon and American whiskey off of the shelves. Please don't do that. Let's try to do a deal. to which the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, said, you punched us in the face, Howard. We have to respond this way. And Howard was like, look, we're going to try to do a deal. Donald Trump needs to kind of get out of this.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Yeah, when you screw over Canada, Canada goes over the boards. When you screw with Canada, Canada goes elbows up. Canada's a peaceful nation, as many of our allies are, unlike Russia. But you screw with them, you poke them, they stand up. Here is the Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the speech that he gave yesterday that really scared the crap out of the American regime. Here, watch this.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
And here he is again from the day before that even, Doug Ford saying, we're going to cut off your electricity next too. We're going after you. You come after us, we're coming after you. Watch this.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
We're going to come back twice as hard. And here he was on CNN saying how livid Canadians are. Play it. How upset, how mad are Canadians?
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Erie is saying that Canada will not hesitate to use every tool in its toolbox, play this.
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Thank you, Miracle Made, for sponsoring this episode. and Prime Minister Trudeau's speech yesterday, pitch perfect. You know, he's acting like a wartime president, because it is a declaration of war essentially against Canada by the United States. Here's what he said.
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Here he is again. Let's play it.
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So Doug Ford, the conservative premier of Ontario, who used to be Maple Baga, this guy used to be kind of supportive of Trump, but that kind of was supportive of Trump until he said Trump stabbed him in the back with the tariffs. Here's the message that he posted yesterday. Canada and Ontario didn't start this trade war with President Trump, but Team Canada is ready to win it.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Now, all of the MAGA Republicans had to go on state regime media in the US, Fox, and had to be like, well, look, Short-term pain's okay, right? Short-term pain's okay, right?
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
And then Donald Trump at the State of the Union, you may have seen, or the joint address, whatever the hell they're calling it, was like, we're good with pain, right? We'll suffer a little bit. Everyone's okay with some short-term suffering. Here, watch this.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Well, if you take a look at the Dow Jones yesterday, it crashed yesterday. Over the past month, it's down over 2,000 points. Over 65% of Americans believe the economy is doing very bad.
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right now that's what they're saying very bad but folks the big mega influencer cat turd wants you to know that these tariffs are going to hurt canada a hundred times more than us and the canadian leaders know it they can't hide their panic really because now you It doesn't seem like they're panicked. It seems like they're prepared.
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New York Gov Hochul Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Policies
I'm joined by New York Governor Kathy Hochul. These Trump tariffs against Canada and Mexico going to affect New York a lot. What are you hearing and seeing already? Governor, what should the people know about them?
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Let's talk about those cuts to Medicaid. I mean, I mean, millions and millions of people in New York and other states. I mean, red states as well on Medicaid. This is not like he's just attacking blue states or people who vote a certain way. Tell us about the impact this is having or can have on New York. What are you telling the people in New York and what should we know?
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what went through your mind when donald trump started posting long live the king and then he like reposted like fake time magazine covers from the official white house account as he was going after the policies of new york and and just reposting this stuff i i mean look it's it's it's cruel it's unconstitutional but like this is not normal like this is not annoying this is weird stuff like so what what do you what do you make of just this behavior
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What's your message? You know, we know his staff often watches these clips. They have their rapid response 47 or whatever. And so we know that they follow, you know, these shows, these interviews. And so if he's watching this evening on the eve of when he's giving this joint address, like what's your message? What would your message be to him?
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You saw that town hall, I think it was in New York's 3rd and Hofstra, Hofstra University in Hempstead. Congress member Swazi was a plus five, I think, Trump area. And he was talking about how horrified Congress member Swazi, how horrified he was about what happened in the Oval Office with Trump attacking Zelensky. He got a standing ovation at that town hall, I think.
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I heard earlier this morning that the head of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee said, stop the town halls, cancel them all. And they're now accusing these people of being like paid actors, which just to me further demeans the suffering of these people. What what what what vibes are you? Are you seeing a vibe shift in New York amongst the electorate there?
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You talk about the You're Hired program that you have in New York. Any other kind of programs and policies that you're excited about right now that you want New Yorkers and the rest of the country to hear about?
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Let's talk about some of the other policies coming out of this Trump regime that we know are harming New Yorkers. Would love to get your take on some of these federal job cuts in particular. And then I think we should also talk about how Donald Trump and the Republican budget gutting $880 billion in Medicaid is going to impact New Yorkers. Yeah.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul, thanks for joining us.
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Trump Crumbles in Public as His Entire Life Unravels
The day began with Donald Trump crashing the markets after imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. It concluded with Donald Trump giving the worst joint session speech in American history. And right before he gave that speech, He gave his old buddy Chief Justice John Roberts a pat on the back saying, thank you, thank you. I won't forget what you did, John. Take a look at this.
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How uncertainty from Trump's tariff is rippling through the economy. Trump's tariffs cause chaos in auto industry. The two-headed monster stalking the economy has a name, stagflation. Tariffs have stoked fears of a dreary combination of weak growth and inflation. The Atlanta Federal Reserve believes there will be negative 3% GDP in the first quarter. When if Donald Trump just did nothing,
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and let former President Biden's economy go on auto drive, literally do nothing. The expectation was that the growth would be 3% to 4%, not a contraction, not minus 3% to 4%. Oh, and here's the other headline from the Wall Street Journal from yesterday. This is a Murdoch-owned property. This tilts conservative. Tariff war risks sinking world into Great Depression.
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International Chamber of Commerce warns the world economy could face crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. And by the way, it wasn't like Donald Trump assuaged the fears last night. He said tariffs. There's going to be a little bit of a disturbance. There'll be a disturbance, but we're okay with disturbances, right? Everybody's okay with disturbances. Here, play this clip.
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Everybody's OK with disturbances. Look, we did tell you that he and Elon Musk said that they wanted to inflict hardship upon Americans. They said they wanted to break it down, kind of crash it down. And then they said they would build it back up once they took the whole system down. I mean, that's actually what they said they wanted to do.
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Listen to what he says here in the joint session from last night. Donald Trump says to Speaker Maga Mike Johnson. Get rid of the CHIPS Act. Get rid of anything left of the CHIPS Act.
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Just to remind you, the CHIPS Act was a bipartisan piece of legislation that was signed into law by former President Biden that invested over $50 billion in the semiconductor industry in the United States and created hundreds of thousands of jobs. Red states, blue states, ruby red areas. led to a manufacturing boom that Trump is destroying. Listen to him. Listen to him.
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Remember, Chief Justice John Roberts issued the ruling that gave Donald Trump absolute immunity so he could escape criminal accountability. Look at the raw corruption after Donald Trump crashed our markets earlier in the day. Just watch it. Thank you again.
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And look for Donald Trump, who said that he's going to stop World War III from, remember, Donald, I'll stop World War III. There's no World War III. In fact, America's alliances were stronger than ever under former President Biden. NATO was stronger than ever. But now look at what the Chinese embassy in the U.S. posted. This is the Chinese embassy in the U.S.
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They're seeing how weak Donald Trump is. This is their post. If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we're ready to fight until the end. That's the Chinese embassy in the U.S. saying any type of war, we're ready to fight until the end. Let's go from China.
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Let's go to the United Kingdom, where the Daily Star has on its front cover this photo of J.D. Vance, Trump deputy's vile slur on Brit heroes. Vance slams us, the incredible, brave United Kingdom armed forces who had valiantly fought in many, many wars. As a random country who hasn't fought a war in 40 years, you see Donald in the background.
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These are like little babies, these people, Donald and J.D. But 636 of our troops died in Afghanistan and Iraq fighting alongside the U.S. I mean, you have J.D. Vance and Donald Trump attacking our closest allies like the U.K., like Canada, like Mexico. But, you know, Canada and U.K. fought by the U.S. 's side all of the time. Prime Minister Trudeau posted the following yesterday.
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The moment the U.S. tariffs came into effect, so did the Canadian response. Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155 billion of American products, starting with $30 billion worth of goods. And the Premier of Ontario said, Doug Ford posted, Canada and Ontario didn't start this trade war, but Team Canada is ready to win it.
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As a first step in our response, Ontario will rip up our contract with Starlink, take U.S. alcohol off of LCBO's shelves, they're the biggest purchaser of alcohol, and ban U.S. companies from government procurements. That sent the United States stock market into the crash yesterday.
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And then Howard Lutnick, Trump's commerce secretary, called up Doug Ford and others to beg them, please don't be mean to the U.S. Donald, can we just make up a fake deal again to give? Just don't be rude to Donald. Just pretend you like him. And Doug Ford said, nah, you punched us. You gut punched your ally and now we're gut punching you back. Canada was prepared and ready for this.
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They outmaneuvered the US. Canada's going to have economic difficulties. But as we've been saying on this podcast and on this YouTube channel, they prepared in Canada. And all of a sudden, the US is like, oh, what? They did this? They retaliated? Yeah, we said they were going to do it. They said they were going to do it. And good for them.
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This ridiculous, idiotic Trump regime is driving the United States into the ground. Take a look at this poll from Civics. How would you rate the condition of the national economy right now? Negative 38. 65% of Americans say the economy is very bad or fairly bad right now. But you know,
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Man, Chief Justice John Roberts will go down as the most pathetic chief justice in American history. And that's saying something. So as we sit on the Midas Touch account, is this what they all meant? By the red wave, the stock market is down or the Dow Jones is down over 2000 points, close to 5% in the last month alone.
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The MAGAs are focused on all the important things on people's minds, like they're fighting with themselves over the release of the Epstein files, right? We know that Donald Trump was like Epstein's close friend. And so we told you Trump never wanted the Epstein files released. But for some reason, the MAGAs were like, we're going to release it. Trump's like, nah, can you not release it? Like, no.
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He kind of trafficked the girls from Mar-a-Lago, like Virginia Giuffre, and I kind of was friends with them and Ghislaine Maxwell. I mean, right? So here was the reporting yesterday from ABC. New. Attorney General Bondi blindsided the White House by handing out the Epstein file binders to MAGA influencers last week.
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Bondi told staff not to tell the White House the plan, apparently thinking the surprise would be well received. Surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise. I mean, they're idiotic. Go look at the photos. Go look at the photos. Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side.
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Donald Trump held beauty pageants where he said that he looks at the women naked without their consent because as the owner of beauty pageants, they let you do it. Donald Trump held beauty pageants with teenage girls, 12-year-old girls, 13-year-old girls, younger than teenagers. Trump was photographed on these boats with these young girls. The whole thing is like disgusting. It's disgusting.
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Trump was found liable for sexual assault. What are we talking about here? He's on audio bragging about him. But folks... MAGA Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace focused on the important things like this. Women want someone who will go to battle for them. I am your lion. Hear me roar, as our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes. That's a male lion. That's not a lioness.
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So for someone fixated on women, she picked a lion, a male, not a lioness. The cosplay continued yesterday. A new outfit was unlocked. Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Secretary. She does all this like cosplay dress up. Sometimes she's a cowgirl and then sometimes she's SWAT team. And then here she is. Here she is in in Arlington, Virginia.
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This is cosplaying in Arlington, Virginia, like, you know, five, 10 miles outside of D.C. property. The whole thing is ridiculous. Oh, and then you have MAGA Republican Congress member like Brandon Gill. This is real. They introduced the Golden Act to put Trump's face on the $100 bill.
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Alina Haba, Trump's top advisor, saying that veterans who have been fired from government jobs are not good workers and the veterans deserve to be fired. Let's play it.
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And then finally, here you have Donald Trump blaming everything on former President Biden.
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Looking awfully like Donald Trump's stocks and his companies that went bankrupt. As former Congress member Adam Kinzinger, who was a Republican, posted this meme. Listen up, liberals, as Donald Trump crashes the economy. But look, listen to what the Wall Street Journal is saying. This is four different articles from the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Here are the headlines.
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Do a good job. But of course, Donald Trump has to end with the fundraising blitz. I'm launching an ultra mega fundraising blitz, he says, because the Democrats are watching our numbers like hawks ready to pounce. If we don't shatter records in the hours before my address to the nation, they'll be claiming victory. Oh, victory over what? What the hell are you fundraising for? What are you doing?
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The election's over. As you destroy the economy, as you pummel your supporters to the ground, as you take away their Medicaid, you're doing a fundraising blitz to take their remaining dollars. You pathetic grifter. You're the most despicable person ever. Wow, wow, wow. Anyway, everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Speech Becomes Full Disaster Only Halfway In
So we're not even halfway through Donald Trump's joint address to Congress. It's already off the rails and one of the worst speeches I've ever seen. We are not broadcasting it live because I don't need to show Trump propaganda. I want to show you the lowlights, however, in summary fashion. So we're only halfway through. I'll do a full review of what went down. But here's what's happening so far.
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Then Donald Trump blames the surging prices of groceries and surging prices of eggs, the surging inflation and the terrible economy right now and the markets crashing. He blames it all on former President Biden. You can hear the audible groans in the crowd. Let's play it.
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Then Donald Trump mentions an African nation and the word trans and Republicans find this to be hilarious. Here, play this clip.
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$32 million. Then Donald Trump talks about sports team with trans women losing their funding. This is one of his biggest priorities as Americans are suffering from the markets crashing from cuts to Medicaid to cuts to our government. This is their main issue. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump attacked the Democrats for not applauding him for achievements that he did not actually do. But he's upset that they're not applauding him for hypothetical achievements. Play this clip.
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and to make things very clear where Republicans stand on these issues as Elon Musk and his team of 19 to 25 year olds are going through your personal and private data, social security information, medical information, tax information, and gutting critical programs, FAA jobs, social security administration jobs, national park jobs,
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other government jobs that are very, very, very important and treating people so cruelly. Elon Musk gets the biggest standing ovation from Republicans as Democrats. Stay seated. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump lies and says that he's found probable fraud in the social security system, which is basically just code for they're going after your social security just as they're going after your Medicaid.
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And I've already played clips in other videos that I've done where Elon Musk, who you just saw get the standing ovation, who's basically running the government, says that social security is one massive fraud, one big Ponzi scheme. So when they're saying that, they're basically saying, They're going to get rid of Social Security. Here, play this clip.
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Believe it or not, government... Now, they're already targeting about 7,000 or so Social Security Administration workers to be fired. They're shutting down Social Security offices. I saw an individual, 80 years old, she called the Social Security Administration today for applications, and they said the wait time is somewhere in the range of 200 to 300 days.
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based on staff reductions i'll do a whole other video of that in the morning over here as donald trump says that people need to be hired on the basis of skill and competence the camera cuts to lauren bobert here watch this we believe that whether you are a doctor an accountant a lawyer or an air traffic controller
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Then Donald Trump says, after what, crashing our economy in just 40 days or so, that this has been the most successful presidency and that George Washington is number two. This is what the psychopath is saying. Here, play this clip.
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George Washington. Then Donald Trump says that the country is woke no longer. I'll let you watch this. Let's play this clip.
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Earlier in the day, you'll recall that Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba, who was his former lawyer, said that the reason that all of these veterans are losing their jobs is because they're probably not fit to have a job at this moment. She says, we love veterans, but they're probably just not good workers. Here, listen to yourself.
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Another horrible day in the markets as Donald Trump's bragging about the economy. In the past month, the Dow Jones has declined by over 2,000 points. You see it right there, down 4.57%. As our markets were crashing today, Donald Trump was fundraising off it. And he's saying, I'm launching the Ultra Mega Fundraising Blitz, he says. The Ultra Mega Fundraising Blitz, just give him some money.
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Before the speech, our Gen Z correspondent Adam Mochler had the opportunity to interview DNC Chair Martin. Here's his message to Donald Trump. Let's play it.
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Here's Democratic Congresswoman Clark's message to Donald Trump. Let's play it.
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And just so I can share with you the receipts, this is what Donald Trump's promise was when he said on day one he would lower prices immediately. Let's play it.
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And here's Donald Trump promising that he would bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, which he has not done either. Here, play this clip.
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There you have it, folks. That's the halfway mark, halftime of the speech. Tune in in about a half hour, 45 minutes. I'll give you the full recap. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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They won't do it, no matter. Then Donald Trump brags about the gold card that he is introducing, that he's selling for $5 million, where Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs can purchase citizenship in the United States. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News GOES INTO PANIC MODE over Trump’s FATAL MOVE
So Fox was in panic mode after Donald Trump held a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, where Donald Trump said that he wanted to occupy Gaza with America forces permanently and turn Gaza into the. Riviera of the Middle East and then force out all of the Palestinians to destinations unknown, aka ethnic cleansing, which Donald Trump was saying on camera.
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So Fox in panic mode, they had to cover it up. Right. So bring in Sean Hannity and Sean Hannity starts to basically say, look, He didn't really say that. He said he wanted to rebuild destroyed buildings. He didn't really say what you actually heard him say. This is actually four-dimensional chess right here. Watch pathetic Sean Hannity play this clip.
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By the way, I'm so happy that the Midas Touch Network is currently beating Fox in digital views. Thanks to you. Make sure you subscribe, by the way. We're currently number one. Fox is currently number two. ABC, CBS, CNN, they are trailing far behind. Anyway, I digress.
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So then what Fox does is they have their former host, Pete Hegseth, who has zero experience to be the Secretary of Defense, but he's now the Secretary of Defense. ostensibly in charge of the ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, as well as all of the other wars that Donald Trump wants to get us into. And so here's what they do on Fox.
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They do this segment where they like go on a helicopter safari together because it's all like cosplay with them. Here, play this clip.
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Our generation has spent 20 years guarding other people's borders while watching an invasion of our own. I mean, it's so utterly pathetic. And by the way, did you see that press conference they held with Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Director? And she wears the different outfits. Sometimes she's cowgirl. Sometimes she's ice agent. Sometimes she's park ranger. The whole thing is so bizarre.
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Oh, this was just in last night. The United States Postal Service is announcing a temporary suspension of international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong until further notice. So You can't get products from China anymore. Great work, Trump administration. Oh, Fox did report as well that the CIA has offered buyouts to every CIA agent, every CIA employee.
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In other words, Trump looks like he's shutting down the CIA. Another Christmas present for Putin. All right, back to Fox freaking out and panicking on just being overall weird. They then have Byron Donalds, MAGA Republican, who he claims the drug cartels, the drug cartels are running the northern border in Canada. Here, play this clip.
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You know, Congressman, as Jason Kendrick says, Byron Donald, it goes Winnipeg forecast clear, cold and windy with a noticeable lack of drug cartels. Here you have Byron Donald's talks about Trump doing absolutely nothing vis-a-vis Canada. Let me just show you this. Play this clip. No tariff diplomacy. Quite remarkable, don't you think?
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Oh, MAGA loves a good fake Donald Trump deal to stroke his ego. These people are the most pathetic people. And the people who are watching this just vile propaganda, they go, okay, we did a good deal, America. Like, you realize that America... is being laughed at by all of our enemies and our allies hate us and are disgusted and horrified by us. But Fox, you could keep doing the Hulk Hogan.
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Oh, yeah, the WWE America. We look stupid because of you and exit and Trump and this whole maniac regime. Then Fox has their border czar Tom Homan on, who talks about the Mexican cartel shooting at American troops. He goes, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Because one of the things Trump wants to do is to militarily attack Mexico.
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It's one of the reasons that the Trump regime, the authoritarian Trump regime, is now calling the drug cartels terrorist organizations. Because watch, In the next 180 days, they'll find some pretext and they will drop bombs in Mexico. That's what they're setting up here. It's obvious. Play the clip. The most powerful military in the world will not be intimidated by anybody, let alone cartels.
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And then Fox calls in Trump spokesperson one, their press secretary, Caroline Leavitt. And Leavitt talks about, isn't this so great? We're sending people to concentration camps today. The first flights are out to Guantanamo Bay. It is weird, though. Why don't you just deport them to their countries? I mean, if you're really going to do it. I mean, I don't know what you're doing in general.
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It makes no sense. And you're taking non-criminals and you're attacking – your own, your own supporters like Venezuelans who were once on TPS, temporary protected status. But why, why, why? Why are you sending him to a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay? Oh yeah, cruelty's the point with these people. Here, play this clip.
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And then you have MAGA Republican Senator Britt. Remember, she was the one last year who delivered that like super cringy response to former President Biden's State of the Union address. And she goes, on the one hand, Biden was draining Guantanamo, removing people. We're filling it back up. We're filling concentration camps up with innocent migrants. Oh, yeah, we're winning. Hulk Hogan. Oh, yeah.
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This is just stupid. It's just it's just the dumb. It's like watching something even more idiotic than idiocracy. But play the clip.
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And then here you have Steve Witkoff, special envoy to the Middle East. They have him on Fox to try to further talk about what Trump really meant. Let me tell you what he really meant. Here, play this clip.
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Oh, yeah. Then Jesse Waters has on Donald Trump's very special friend, Alina Haba, who's Trump's senior advisor to the White House. Alina Haba. And Alina Haba says that Democrats should support spending taxpayer dollars to annex Gaza. And then she pushes the debunked lie about government spending millions on condom bombs for Gaza. The condom bombs, which don't exist.
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I think it was Gaza Mozambique. which got a little bit of money for contraception as part of the USAID program that Elon Musk has totally dismantled and will allow or contribute to about 150,000 kids getting AIDS as a result, like HIV AIDS, like that's what they're doing. But anyway, here's what Alina Hobb has to say. Condom bombs, play this clip.
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Just so you can see for yourself and hear for yourself, here's what Donald Trump said about the Gaza Strip. Play this clip.
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Yeah, there wasn't really any mincing words there. Like, the city wants to level it, take it over, own it. ethnically cleanse it. So despicable. Hit subscribe. We need to get to 4 million subscribers. Let's keep growing quicker than Fox. Hit subscribe. Thanks for watching.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND as his Term QUICKLY COLLAPSES
So Donald Trump just initiated a trade war with China. He says he wants to occupy Gaza. Right now, all parcels inbound from China are not being allowed into the United States per the U.S. Postal Service. Donald Trump has offered buyouts to get rid of the entire CIA. He's gutted the entire FBI. counterterrorism division and continues to fire more FBI agents.
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So great work to the leader of the Teamster, Sean O'Brien, who took all of those photos with his thumbs up with Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago and said, Trump's going to be good for labor. Donald Trump's about to destroy the entire Department of Labor.
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Donald Trump also said today he's destroying or yesterday he said he's destroying the Department of Education and he wants Linda McMahon, who hasn't even been confirmed yet, her first act to be to totally gut and destroy the Department of Education. And again, red states depend far more than blue states on Department of Education funds. But this is the havoc that Donald Trump is causing.
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Oh, and by the way, all of that is going on. Donald Trump has revoked the temporary protected status of of Americans who relied on it, like 600,000 Venezuelans. We know the Venezuelan community were big Trump supporters. And now Donald Trump cut a deal with Nicolas Maduro, the totalitarian dictator of Venezuela, who seized power despite losing the election. Sound familiar?
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Where Trump's going to revoke the temporary protected status of Venezuelans, for example, in southern Florida. who supported Donald Trump, who are big Trump supporters. He's going to take him and either send him to concentration camps at Guantanamo Bay or send him back to Maduro. Maduro will probably kill them and torture them. The leopards are eating your faces.
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By the way, this is Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's chief of staff. You see her face right there. That's the face of many a Donald Trump chief of staff and advisor. When Donald Trump said he was going to occupy Gaza, send U.S. forces for a permanent occupation. Donald Trump said he wants to level it, destroy it. And then he says he's going to take.
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Palestinians and just put him in other places to which even in Saudi Arabia, they had to respond at 4 a.m. in the morning. And they said, yeah, that's not happening. We will not have any relations with Israel until Palestine is recognized as a state. But Donald Trump was acting as Benjamin Netanyahu's butler during Benjamin Netanyahu's visit. By the way,
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Even Netanyahu was uncomfortable visually standing next to Donald Trump as Donald Trump was saying the quiet part out loud. And Netanyahu was like, I think he's even going a little too far with what you're saying, Donald. But this is the psychopath running the United States of America right now and destroying our strength. Let me just show you this.
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This is Donald Trump serving as Benjamin Netanyahu's butler. Let's play this clip right here. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, said, I guess, what's the best way to distract from just losing your trade war or your threatened trade war against Mexico and Canada the day before?
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At the same time, his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, met with the leader of El Salvador, talking about shipping American citizens to prisons in El Salvador. And then you have Vladimir Putin just mocking the United States and also mocking Secretary of State Rubio's statements that he doesn't want to see the United States as one of the main powers.
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Oh, well, why don't you say your next move for your next act, you're going to level Gaza and have a United States military occupation of Gaza? Because by now... The truth is out, and I think one of the main reasons the truth is out is thanks to platforms like ours that said that Donald Trump's deals with Canada and Mexico for Donald Trump's threatened tariffs were fake deals.
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Canada already had $1.3 billion in border security plans months ago. They didn't give Donald Trump anything. They said they'll maybe have a fentanyl czar deal. Donald Trump went from threatening to take the sovereignty of Canada and to conquer it and make it the 51st state.
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OK, I'll settle for a you want to give me a fentanyl czar and the same thing that you were doing months ago under Biden and that you then reannounced a month ago or two. Yeah, let's do that. Then when it came to Mexico, Donald Trump agreed to have Mexico put 10,000 troops at the border. Mexico already has like 15,000 troops. So Trump agreed to less troops at the border by Mexico.
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And Donald Trump also agreed with respect to Mexico to impose an obligation on the U.S. to look at and investigate United States gun shipments into Mexico. So Mexico got the better of that negotiation. Anyway, here is Donald Trump at this press conference with Netanyahu yesterday saying the U.S. is going to take over Gaza. We'll level it. will own it. Here, play this clip.
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So then Donald Trump was so proud of that statement, he posted it on his Instagram and all of his social media. He was out there saying, look at what I said. I said, we're going to conquer Gaza. America will occupy it. And then you got all of these comments like impeach button, unlimited jobs and housing. People just don't listen to what this man says, do they?
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So we're just admitting we're going to invade places. Now, this is people on Trump's Instagram right here. Old man couldn't tell the difference between the Gaza Strip and a bacon strip. I guess no more lower grocery prices level it out. WTF do you mean right there? And then again, you know, even Trump supporters were like, okay, can you do the lower grocery prices things?
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Rubio says he sees this as a multipolar world where China, Russia, and US may play a role. If you add all of this together, the playbook seems fairly obvious about what would you do to try to destroy the United States of America. This is not something, whether you are a Republican or Democrat or independent from a red state, or a blue state, you should be horrified by this.
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All the prices are going up, up, up. And as I said before, Donald Trump is a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction, but you got to take this stuff seriously. He's threatening to occupy Gaza. And when Donald Trump, you know, engages in this, you know, WMD weapon of mass destruction, he is, is harming our national interest too. In Canada, they're still going to be boycotting American products.
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Canada's pissed at Trump in America right now. They're betrayed. What do you think is going to happen abroad right now? As the Patriot Takes account says, parents, your children can now sign up to clear bombs in Gaza, this is who will lead them. And this is the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host, who's the person in charge of our nuclear arsenal.
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As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, I'm sure Americans at home and abroad all feel safer tonight now that Donald Trump announced with Benjamin Netanyahu that the US is going to take over Gaza. level all the buildings and forcibly remove the population. You might want to cancel your vacation plans you may have had to Europe.
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And by the way, let's not forget that there were two plane crashes last week. Donald Trump gutted basically the FAA leadership. He's gutted essentially all of the federal government.
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Oh, and let's not forget as well that Elon Musk has put 19 and 20 year olds controlling our treasury department, seizing control over the payment transaction system with all of our private information from social security data to bank account information,
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to medical information, in my opinion, and in the opinion of multiple class action lawsuits that have now been filed in violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, "...we were warmongers for wanting to help our ally, Ukraine, fend off Russian barbarian hordes seeking to murder and enslave them."
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But Trump, their peacemaker, wants to occupy Gaza and take long-term ownership of it for the U.S.? Are you kidding me? Unfortunately not. Even Russian state media is mocking Donald Trump right now. Here's what they're posting. An American Gaza is still American first, America first, Israel second, Israel first, America second. A complete fantasy. Our enemies are mocking us.
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Our allies are a combination of horrified and disgusted. But what was Donald Trump talking about? While Donald Trump removed the security details of his own former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, I hope you're listening, Marco Rubio, and his own former national security advisor, John Bolton, who have credible threats against their lives by Iran.
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What Donald Trump was also fixated on today was if Iran were to try to assassinate him, Donald Trump says he left a note to obliterate them. Here, play this clip.
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And here's Donald Trump talking about those 19-year-old engineers who are working at Doge. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump's government freeze of funds, although they claim that it's actually not frozen, it's affecting red states more than it's even affecting blue states, but it's affecting everybody in the country.
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And folks, now we're seeing places like the Waffle House and others charging 50 extra cents per egg because of the Trump egg price spike. Because right now all prices are going up, up, up. It's less affordable for you to buy a home. Homes are more expensive. Prices are going through the roof. And now apparently you can't even receive packages from China.
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So Donald Trump just destroyed his entire, you know, so many people's businesses who rely on drop shipping. And also we're not going to be able to get packages from China anymore. I mean, just think about how Donald Trump's intruding and ruining and destroying. You know, like actively people's lives right now. But the MAGA people, you know, the MAGA congressmen and women, they're into it.
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Nancy Mace is like, let's turn Gaza into Mar-a-Lago. This lady Chaya Raishik, who runs libs of TikTok or whatever they call themselves, call it the MAGA strip. They're all and all these MAGA people are like MAGA strip. We love it. MAGA strip. Folks, hang in there. We got a lot to, we're reporting on a lot, but that's all that happened, or that's what's happened over the past 12 hours, 24 hours.
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Donald Trump is destroying, if not has totally destroyed by now, USAID, which provided billions of dollars abroad as part of America's soft power leadership to help countries, to help others, and to thereby help America's national security. Donald Trump is next going to be gutting the Department of Labor.
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maniac who is trying to annex Canada and to destroy all of our alliances and destroy NATO and to conquer Greenland. And so, aha, this epiphany from these Trumper groups that are like, and these organizations that were supportive of him, like this group right here, the National Association of Home Builders, a bastion of liberals and progressives. I'm
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Joking, of course, they represent builders in the construction industry, and they were very supportive of Donald Trump. I'm sure not the whole organization, but at the high level, they were very happy when he got elected. They'd say nice things about him. They're saying, oh, his America first policies look amazing.
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Well, now they're sending a letter to Donald Trump saying that our country is already facing severe housing shortages and affordability crisis, which we thought you recognized in one of your executive orders. But right now, by imposing these tariffs on Canada and Mexico, you're going to harm and already increase challenging housing market, you're going to make things far more difficult.
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Since January 2021, inputs to residential construction saw price increases of just over 30%. Our sector relies heavily on a diverse and cost-efficient supply chain for building materials such as lumber, steel, And it lists other elements.
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And it goes on to say, your tariffs will lead to higher material costs, which will ultimately be passed on to home buyers in the form of housing price increases, which is going to make housing far less affordable, not more affordable. And you will be betraying one of your campaign promises. But... All of his campaign promises are being betrayed.
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Other than he's imposing tariffs, which everyone pretended, oh, that's not going to do a big deal. Well, it's crashing the economy and it's going to make prices skyrocket and make housing far less affordable at all. But you let the leopards eat your face, National Association of Home Builders. We're seeing the same thing with the National Association of Manufacturing.
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Also this lobbying group, you know, Republicans are great for business. Trump ain't a Republican. Trump's a psycho. He ain't a Republican. He's not conservative. By the way, I don't buy the premise that Republicans are better for business. Democrats have created
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Of the 50 million jobs created over the past 30, 40 years, or whatever the number is, like 48, 95%, 96% of those jobs were created in Democratic administrations. Trump lost jobs. He was the only president. other than Herbert Hoover to lose jobs during his first term.
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And if you want to know why those housing costs for the National Building Association or the manufacturers, costs were going up because in Trump's first administration, he added $8 trillion to the debt. And because he mishandled COVID, he destroyed all of our supply chains. So when President Biden had the American Recovery Act,
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and had to fix it he was it was the equivalent of biden being the fire department putting out the fire and then ultimately you were blaming the fire department for the fire of course when you're putting out the fire there's still going to be fire but who caused it who started the fire it was donald trump's mishandling of covid adding eight trillion dollars of debt
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And how Donald Trump's come in and he's done cataclysmic catastrophic damage in just two weeks to our economy and our alliances that are going to crush your industry. And it was just so predictable. Look under Biden and Harris, the stock market was up 55 to 60%. America's economy objectively was the envy of the world.
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People's 401ks were going up and Trump administration one, you couldn't get toilet paper. Now we're going to be back in that timeline of not being able to find toilet paper and eggs and all this other stuff that's not going to be available. This was so predictable. But here, the National Association of Manufacturers says that their CEO, Jay Timmon, said, look, they try to act nice about it.
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Manufacturers understand that there's a need to deal with any sort of crisis that involves illicit drug crossings in our borders. OK, let's be very clear. America is not handling the fentanyl crisis the way it needs to itself internally. And American consumers are consuming the fentanyl. Synthetic drugs are not being consumed in Mexico or Canada the way they're being consumed in the United States.
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And most of it's coming from China, who only got 10% tariffs, less than Mexico and Canada. And most of the fentanyl and opioids are happening here inside the United States by Americans. And you're saying Canada's the one who's bringing the fentanyl. It's just absurd.
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Then it goes on to say, at the same time, protecting manufacturing gains that have come from our strong North American partnerships is vital. The success of Trump's landmark trade agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, has strengthened the North American supply chain and bolstered economic power across the region. Thanks to this agreement, one-third of critical U.S.
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manufacturing inputs now come from Canada or Mexico, rather than from competitors like China that often engage in unfair practices. However, with essential tax reforms left on the cutting room floor by the last Congress and the Biden administration, Manufacturers are already facing mounting cost pressures.
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A 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico threatens to upend the very supply chains that have made U.S. manufacturing more competitive globally. The ripple effect will be severe, particularly for small and medium-sized manufacturers that lack the flexibility and capital to rapidly find alternative suppliers to absorb skyrocketing energy costs. Look...
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By sucking up to him here, you're still part of the problem. Just enough, okay? Trump's a psycho. Just saying, he's a psycho. He doesn't know what he's doing. There's a reason he bankrupted most of his businesses, why he bankrupted his casinos, screwing over all of the contractors. He was born with a golden spoon in his mouth from his daddy, and he screwed it up his entire life.
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And now he's made most of his wealth from stupid meme coins and Trump sneakers and grifting off of the Oval Office, despite his meme coin now crashing. And y'all still act like, based on your incredible deal making, he's a horrible deal maker. He is an idiot.
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And make sure you use our promo code Midas so they know we sent you. Thanks, Filter Easy. And by the way, take a look at what these shelves look like right now at supermarkets. If you could even find eggs, if you could find dairy products, if you could find things. Here we go again. By the way, the FAA's main warning system for pilots, well, that was gone for like a day and a half.
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Great work done. After two plane crashes, the main warning system was also down. Most people didn't know about that. People don't want to fly planes anymore. Listen to this comment. I spoke with the owner of a small New York manufacturing firm. Most of his sales are exports. Biggest markets, Canada, China, and Europe. He never thought Trump would actually impose tariffs.
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Figured it was just campaign talk. If they go into effect, which they have, he fears he'll have to lay off most of his 65 employees. Well, they're going to. This one. My friend is a crypto investor and voted for Trump. The crypto community was so happy when Trump got elected and my friend snubbed me for voting for Kamala.
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Then after Trump Melania launched their meme coin, my friend's crypto portfolio went down 60 to 70 percent, even though he did not buy the Trump nor Melania means. He lost 60 to 70 percent because people sold their crypto, which he was heavily invested in, to buy the Trump Melania means, which caused the value of his own crypto investments to take a nosedive.
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When Trump's inside traders sold their crypto, All the investors in the Trump meme lost billions of dollars combined, and there was no money to invest back into his crypto projects that they were originally in. Trump's inside trading was problematic and caused lots of issues. There's more right here. This is from Millennial Conservative.
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This is a conservative message board who's saying, there's plenty of government agencies that need to go, but OSHA? Now Trump and Musk are trying to get rid of OSHA? We need the OSHA. It saves lives. You have Republican Senator Susan Collins talking about how the tariffs are going to hurt her state of Maine. Remember, Susan Collins is the one who goes, I am shocked, I tell you.
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I'm so shocked and I am hurt. I'm going to say how surprised and disappointed I am at this. Okay, really? I mean, come on. Carmack55 on these message boards saying, dozens of female Republican officials who have been fired by the Trump administration's anti-DEI policies. They're complaining that Trump's firings were supposed to be according to race, not gender.
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More people on the Fox YouTube channel and the Fox message boards are saying this. I supported him for lower prices, and they were a lot like me. We will never defend this. This is the worst decision he has ever made with the trade war. No one wins in trade wars. Just means higher prices. I will never vote Republican again if they don't speak out. What happened to lower prices?
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Then someone goes, Trump and his cabinet full of billionaires care less about the cost of living for normal people, but at least he's renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. More from the small government conservative message boards. what's the point of taxing Canada like for real? This is the definition of a pissing contest. What the F man? What's the goal of all of this?
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I'm worried this is going to bite us hard causing prices to skyrocket. I'm in the construction industry would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous on this roller coaster. Here, we have more conservatives realizing that Trump's tariffs on Canada may not be the best idea. So wait, Canada's putting retaliatory 25% tariffs on over $100 billion of American imports?
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So all these Trump voters and organizations that supported Donald Trump are having deep regrets today and over the weekend as Donald Trump imposed the tariffs that he said he was going to impose. I guess they thought that he was joking or that this was all part of some negotiation scheme when in fact he's actually a psychotic person.
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It won't hurt America as much as Canada, but it will hurt. This is just the stupidest timeline. We're allies. Asking Canada to pay more for NATO makes a ton of sense. Asking Canada to secure the borders only fair, although I'll point out much more crime actually moves from America into Canada than the other way around.
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And maybe a few trade concessions like changing some trade policies related to agriculture and dairy goods might make sense. But this is getting into a fistfight with a country that for 100 years has wanted nothing but friendship and free trade. Wild. No, what's wild is that you bought what this con artist Donald Trump was selling. Wasn't this so obvious?
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More people who are saying, you know, oh, this is, you know, woe is me, how horrible this all is. And by the way, I think in South Dakota, you have the Lutheran Family Services Organizations. I think tends to, you know, in South Dakota vote a certain way. And now they're saying that these payments are illegal. And Elon Musk is saying that he's shutting down unilaterally.
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He's deciding that he's going to shut down payments, to which I show you this meme right here of former President Biden, who I had the honor of interviewing in the Roosevelt room of the West Wing of the White House. And he goes, wasn't so, we wrote this, wasn't so bad when shit was sleepy. Now, was it? Let's try to get to 5 million subscribers. Hit subscribe. Thanks for watching.
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We appreciate you. Let's keep growing this.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
You sure you wanted this job, MAGA Mike Johnson? Not sure you can handle this job, MAGA Mike Johnson. Not as easy as you thought it was going to be, or is this exactly what you wanted? Just to be Donald Trump's lapdog, making a fool of yourself each and every day, watching as the world sees how weak and pathetic you are, watching as you cause disaster and havoc on this country.
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And then let's forget about all the bankruptcies. Let's forget about everything that Donald Trump's ever bankrupted. And then let's forget about inject yourself. Just let's pretend it's not. By the way, I don't even know if these are called press conferences anymore. They're more like humiliation rituals.
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Like every other day he goes up like, what was it, last week or two weeks ago, he had to explain why Donald Trump was just speaking like directly with Putin and spreading all of this propaganda from Putin. Like here's what he said a few weeks ago. Let's play it.
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It's just like my arbitration, like when you're Putin and you do mediations and arbitration. I think he also previously described the tariffs like a game of billiards. You need to break the ball so they go all over the place, and that's tariffs for you.
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Oh, and then here, as Donald Trump continues to do these unlawful executive orders, you've got MAGA Mike Johnson saying, we'll just get rid of the judges. We can eliminate district courts. Here, play this clip.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
The desperate times that we created causing people to be desperate requires one man, one person. The deal is the most ridiculous stuff in the world. Let's bring in. Let's get back to reality. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia, who you all know. Congress member, we've seen you also at town halls, both in your district and town halls across California.
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California and in Red District, Young Kim's, California's 40th Red District. But before getting into that, tell us what do you make of what I just shared?
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
So MAGA Mike held a press conference earlier in the day. And he was asked about Trump's liberation day and Trump's tariffs, which are going to cause further destruction on our economy, which he has already wrecked. And here's what MAGA Mike Johnson had to say. Let's play it. The president should move forward tomorrow with tariffs.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
That's actually verbatim what he said, right? He said, I could not care less. I want to ask you, you've been doing these town halls in your congressional district, but also you've been doing town halls in red districts. And young Kim, MAGA Republican, she's too scared to do town halls in her district. I think it's a plus 2.5% our district around that. What are you hearing from the people first?
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Seems that Democrats, though, are starting to answer the call about what it means to fight. You and I were talking about a month ago or so. What does it mean to fight? You told us what you were going to do. You said, I'm going to go into red district. I'm going to speak to the people. I saw you're getting standing ovations in red districts of people just saying, thank you for hearing me out.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Thank you for just even listening. And thank you for fighting. I think it begins with listening, understanding that people are suffering right now and then going out. What do you make of the Democrats who are fighting? How do you describe kind of what we're seeing now in the evolution of, I think, a real resistance, a strong opposition, a defined opposition to Trump?
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I love it. Anything else, any other messages you want to let the American people know right now? Of course, we're in uncertain times. We're heading into more uncertain times. Every day with Trump, it's chaos and destruction. Any last things you want to say before we go?
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Congressman Robert Garcia, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
look, this isn't us. We're not Congress. It's the executive branch. Trust. Trust the guy. I'm just going to make up things that actually didn't happen during his first term. And I'm going to say that it was the greatest when it was literally the worst. And other than Herbert Hoover, Donald Trump being Herbert Hoover, the only president to actually lose jobs. But I was going to say it was great.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
We are now a day away from Donald Trump doing what he's calling Liberation Day, which means more devastation to our economy. I'm not really sure other than tariffing the world, whatever that even means. I'm not sure people in Trump's own regime knows what he's even talking about, but we just got these numbers.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
Then they bring in Eric Trump, who starts selling his Bitcoins.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
I don't even need to show that anymore. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Brendan Boyle. Congressman, I showed you those stats. I showed you those clips right there of what's going on on Fox. What do you make of all of this, Congressman?
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
You've been holding events in your district in the Philadelphia area. One of the events focusing on social security is Donald Trump cuts social security offices and gets rid of these offices and services. Tell us about that, but just tell us in general, what are you hearing from your constituents at these events?
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earlier today from the Atlanta Federal Reserve, their new model is projecting that there will be a negative 3.7% GDP in the first quarter of 2025. So a 3.7% contraction. So for those following along eight weeks ago, we were expecting from the same projection, mind you, We were expecting a 3.9% growth if literally Donald Trump did nothing and just kept the economy on autopilot.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
Tell us also, you know, this various countries now have travel advisories warning people about coming into the United States. They're saying if you show up, you may end up in detention centers or even worse. I mean... You have Canada, because of Donald Trump's threats of annexation, viewing what's transpired as not just a trade war, but like a real declaration of war.
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Trump keeps saying he wants to take Canada and steal the land. The last stats I saw, 75% to 80% of Canadians are boycotting any types of luxury travel, unless it's a necessity, boycotting American goods. Are you seeing that in the Commonwealth? Are you seeing that elsewhere?
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
Let's talk about, you said on the House Budget Committee, I want to hear about the kind of process that's now taking place where, you know, it's a little confusing because they passed an outline of a budget, the MAGA Republicans, and now, I mean, and it was projected then it would cause trillions of dollars to be added to our deficit. And so, like, what now happens?
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We see things happening in a rules committee, just like what...
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If he just went to Mar-a-Lago, golfed and did nothing. Four weeks ago, it was 2.3%. Last week, it was negative 2.8%. Today, it stands at negative 3.7%. Trump and Musk and Doge are driving us into really difficult, difficult times. And this is how it's now being messaged on Fox. This is Harris Faulkner from earlier in the day. Let's play it.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
We're going to have you back throughout that process because that was a great explanation of a Byzantine process. And I was asking because it's confusing to me and the way you described it's helpful. I know a question I want to ask you about here. Then you have the debt ceiling issue because people are like, are we going to have to raise the debt ceiling soon?
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How does that fit into what you just said? Just so people, just so I can know.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
somewhat terrifying that that's going to be the hands of scott besant i mean i remember when janet yellen was treasury secretary and well in advance very transparently she was sending those letters we knew there was a constant transparency and on the other hand you've got scott besant i won't do my scott besant going on cnbc and lying routine i have a whole stick there but i'll just thank you congress member brendan boyle for joining us
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
And we need to have you back soon to really work us through that budget process. Thanks for educating me on what's going on as well. I appreciate it.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
We appreciate it because a lot of the bad things that are happening hide in the obscurity and the Byzantine nature of it, which allows Fox to do what it did, which we were talking about at the beginning of the show. Thank you very much, everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
MAGA Republicans are not exactly coping well with their massive defeat in Wisconsin for the vacant Supreme Court seat. As we called the race last night, Judge Susan Crawford The Democratic-aligned pro-democracy candidate went on to defeat the MAGA doge candidate, Brad Schimel, who was propped up, Schimel was, by tens of millions of MAGA, Musk, doge money, and the entire MAGA machinery.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Good night for democracy. And as you heard, by the way, what Hakeem Jeffries said, even though the Democrats didn't win in Florida's 6th and Florida's 1st, those were plus 30, plus 33 Trump districts. The gap was narrowed by like 20 points. It's too bad the Democratic candidates didn't win there. It was close. It was close races.
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in areas that should never be close. The tide is turning. The tide is turning. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Can we talk about George Soros and J.D. Pritzker and Reid Hoffman? And it's like, what are you talking about? Those people didn't give anywhere near what the money that Elon Musk was doing. Elon Musk was handing out million dollar checks to people and telling people, if you post photos of yourselves next to voting locations, but don't get too close because it may be illegal.
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that he would just give you $20 or $100 or whatever. Many people talking about how Musk's voting pay-for-play scheme itself could potentially be criminal. Here's Scott Walker on CNN. Watch this.
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I think then you had all of the kind of right wing panelists like Jennings on CNN. And, you know, he's like, you know, actually, I think the Schimel campaign was really underfunded. And, you know, I think Elon Musk helped out. I think Elon Musk gave this a boost. That's what happened. That's what the MAGA Republicans and their propaganda mouthpieces like Scott Jennings are saying right now.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Here, play this clip. Scott, do you think this in Wisconsin was referendum on Musk?
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And you had other MAGA Republicans on the panels last night saying, you know, the issue really was that this was a low turnout election. And because Republicans are the working class party now, you need to have more people turn out. You're not the working class. You're the party of the oligarchs. What are you talking about? Also, as it was pointed out in this clip, it was a high turnout election.
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How do you know a MAGA Republican's lying? They open up their mouth, play the clip.
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Now, I'll show you Brad Schimel's concession speech. The mood was grim and sober. Brad Schimel in his concession speech did not talk about psychologically torturing eight-year-olds. That's one of his kind of main talking points when he was going around the state. He talks about, I psychologically tortured my eight-year-old daughter. But here he is conceding. Play this clip. All right.
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The pro-democracy candidate, Judge Crawford, a law and order no-nonsense judge, said, A former prosecutor went on to win that critical race in the vacant Supreme Court seat, tipping the scales of the Supreme Court so that the Democrats will have control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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Bye-bye, Brad. Bye-bye. You know, Brad Schimel dressed up as Donald Trump for Halloween. Brad Schimel would go to those MAGA boat parties with like Trump t-shirts and be like, I love two things, Jesus and Donald Trump. Ridiculous. He was literally the Doge puppet. Like this guy would have destroyed Wisconsin.
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So it's fortunate the pro-democracy candidate went, here's another clip of Schimel's concession. Play this clip.
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Now, let me take you inside the room of Judge Susan Crawford. The mood there, of course, happy, relieved, excited. The fact that a big win for democracy there and a big win, by the way, for Judge Susan Crawford. And as she said, this was about the richest man in the world, this oligarch, Elon Musk, trying to buy the Supreme Court.
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Here, Judge Susan Crawford talks about how Wisconsin fended off this massive attack against democracy from these fascist forces. Play this clip.
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And it's a critical victory because, as I mentioned before, the gerrymandering cases before the court that the MAGA Republicans trying to unlawfully gerrymander Wisconsin will be as such a That now you'll have, I think, a accurate map in Wisconsin, a real map, what it always should be. And I think that will also mean less seats for the MAGA Republican Congress members.
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And then throughout the day as well, I guess the talking point that the MAGA Republicans get, you know, they get their talking points. Representative Brian Steele says, you know, you're talking about Elon. I don't know why I do that voice. He sounds nothing like that. But he goes, he goes, can we talk about Soros, please? Because Soros is the one who poured millions of dollars in.
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And it's like there's no comparison to what Musk is doing than what other random liberal wealthy people are doing. Like Musk is in a whole other league. What are you talking about? And Musk went there. He wore the he wore the he wore the he wore the cheese on his he wore a cheese head in Green Bay. Here, first play this clip of Brian Steele.
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Dude, this was literally Elon Musk over the weekend wearing the cheese head playing this clip. Oh, can I play this for you? Rachel Maddow. I like the way we called it last night on the Midas Touch Network. As soon as the election was, the results were in, we were able to call it. Thanks to Decision Headquarters as well. But Rachel Maddow did a great call.
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This was the moment that Judge Susan Crawford went on Maddow. Hat tip to Rachel Maddow. She's so great. Play this clip.
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And, you know, a big day for Democrats overall. I think a big day for Democratic leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries. If this keeps up, I think you're going to be seeing a Democratic Speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries, very soon. Here he was on Lawrence O'Donnell. And by the way, I'm still a big Lawrence O'Donnell fan. It's good to have even people like Lawrence on MSNBC.
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It's one of the good ones. Play this clip.
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So the MAGA Republicans trying to justify this loss after pouring all of their resources. And it's clearly a repudiation of Trump and Musk and Doge. But they're refusing to admit that. So they brought on CNN, MAGA Republican, former governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, who's just been an absolute disaster. And so he tries to say this isn't about Musk. It's not about his money.
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As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, explains, Elon Musk wore the Cheesehead hat in Wisconsin. He spent $20 million. He paid people to sign petitions. He paid people to canvas. He did million-dollar giveaways, a rally, TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn't appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties. I guess not.
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Remember when Elon Musk said that this election will determine the fate of humanity in Wisconsin while trying to buy the election? Well, here's the clip just to remind you. Let's play it.
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or then Elon went on Hannity and talked about humanity dying. Here, play this clip.
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The last clip I'm going to show you, though, I think is also showing you who this Trump regime really is. And you have Stephen Miller here giving you his view about what a judicial system should look like. In other words, no judicial system is how he feels about it. He goes, what are you going to do? You're going to give these people who are accusing of crimes trials with communist judges?
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You're going to expect that they all do trials with communism judges? Stephen Miller argued there's something called due process. There's due process in the United States of America. That's what we do. We give people process. If they're bad, the law, we should impose law and order to the fullest extent possible.
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But I don't want Donald Trump saying, oh, you, I think you're a gang member, you're a gang member, you're this, you go to concentration. That's not our system. Stephen, if you like systems like that, go to Russia. Go to North Korea. Go to those systems. Here's Stephen Miller, let's play it.
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Donald Trump voters continue to express their deep regrets online and elsewhere, posts like this on conservative message boards. I voted for Trump because I thought it would be funny to see liberals growl like dogs. I wanted affordable groceries. but the tariffs are going to make everything worse and my life savings will be gone. I can't afford to spend this money on groceries.
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now his tariffs hurt them when you look elsewhere across the country you're seeing the same type of pattern from usa today going to be a lot of hungry people food banks farmers across the u.s decry federal cuts from the wall street journal trump's loyal farmers stung by his funding cuts stuff like this is pushing me left says a north carolina honey farmer
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and then outside of farming too across all sectors like the detroit free press major u.s steel manufacturer laying off 600 and deer board and 600 also nearby citing weak auto demands caused by the tariffs but let's break down what's going on first in kind of california with the the farming situation we've got senator alex padilla here senator from california senator we're seeing a lot of trump voters now saying they regret this this is absolute chaos
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You know, when he says, I don't care. And then when he just makes up stuff, you know, I've referred to this as kind of an idiocracy manifested in real life as well. And you see the idiocracy and dangerousness in California when he does something like dumping 2.2 billion gallons of water into from a reservoir that was nowhere near the Southern California wildfires.
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I didn't vote for this. Look, even when you look at, let's say, a blue state like California, but you look at some of the red areas which tend to be The areas with more farmers, like take a look at Kern County and Fresno right there. These are areas that voted for Donald Trump, about 60% in Kern County, about 50% in Fresno. I think Trump was the first Republican to flip Fresno County since 2004.
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It was after the wildfires are contained because he wanted to prove that he could turn on a valve that he's been talking about. So he orders the Army Corps of Engineers to release these billions of gallons of waters that were needed for the summer, for particularly dry times. And again, just further destroying the farmers. What do we know about that? And what's been your reaction to that?
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You know, what your Republican colleagues in the Senate continue to talk about, though, is that this pain is needed right now. They say, we need to experience hardship. It's going to be uncomfortable. They claim that Donald Trump said that this is what it was all about, pain and suffering in the short term. And then they'll figure it out.
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I mean, like Senator Tim Sheehy, who replaced, I thought, a great Democratic senator in Montana, John Tester. Here's what Sheehy said yesterday. Let's play it.
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you and I could probably spend hours talking about these horrific executive orders by the Trump regime. And we do spend hours talking about it on the show, and you do on the floor of the Senate and with your incredible team there in California fighting back against them.
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But now let's take a look at the Fresno B. California farmers fear tariff trade war, losses in billions, uneven bailouts. You have a letter from a group that includes the names of nearly two dozens of the state's most influential farming organization, including the California Farm Bureau, Western Growers, and American Pistachio Growers.
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I just want to focus on one in particular, this executive order that would seem to – tended to disenfranchise so many voters targeting elections. And in Trump's view, it is – I guess whoever Trump deems should be able to vote ultimately is where he wants to go. I mean, I think he wants to bring this in a kind of Putin-esque direction.
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And it's all pretext for his kind of third term dictator language. But what's going on with this executive order regarding elections that seems to disenfranchise so many? And what's your perspective on it?
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You know, Senator, you address an issue that I've been hearing from a lot of women I know. I mean, my wife asked me the very same question. She said, I'm afraid that I'm going to be disenfranchised. We were we were married recently. She said she doesn't know what to do. And what you're saying here is that, by the way, that Trump is targeting women with this.
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I mean, the concern is one that people should be aware about, that this could potentially impact women whose names are different than their birth names and their maiden names. So this is a real fear. What do we do about it?
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It says in part that the emerging trade measures could trigger retaliatory tariffs that will hurt California farmers, who exports totaled $23.6 billion in 2022. Take a look at the recent article from The Businessman. Business Journal talks about the California Farm Bureau president calling for 600 million in legislative action for farmers.
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Well, we'll take a watch at you on the Senate floor with Senator Booker, who's been courageously going as of this recording. Now it's going on 16 hours plus. Is he going to break the record? Is he going for the 24, 25 hours or what do you expect is going to happen?
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Glad to have you fighting, Senator Alex Padilla. California, where I live, thank you so much. All right. Thank you, Ben. See you soon. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Farmers and agricultural leaders are once again highlighting the challenges that they are not that they are now facing. The L.A. Times article, California farmers back Trump.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
World leaders are looking at Donald Trump and they smell weakness. Donald Trump seems frozen. He promised that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours from when he took office. In fact, he said he would negotiate a peace deal even before day one. It would be easy. He failed at that. He failed at trying to intimidate President Zelensky. He's failed at trying to intimidate Canada to annex it.
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We're hours away from a very special... Now, finally, I want to share this with you as well. We should never forget when we have these discussions The ultimate weak act by Donald Trump that right away made it clear to the world that Donald Trump was never going to be a serious individual and that they really should never take him seriously.
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I mean, look, arbitrary, capricious, and he is in control as the commander in chief of the United States, the strongest military force that's ever existed. But Donald Trump is so focused on what his next Mar-a-Lago golf game or what meme he's going to post on social media. Never forget that Trump's campaign promise was on day one that there would be peace in Ukraine, he said, in 24 hours.
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He said even before he took office that he had such great relationships with Zelensky and Putin, this would be easy. Here, play this clip.
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It won't even take that long. So yes, the world seeing stunning weakness. And I'll just share this with you as well. Former United States ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, spoke with me on the Midas Touch Network. about the weakness that Donald Trump has showed in the Oval Office and the message it sent to others.
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He's the former ambassador of Japan who negotiated trilateral deals that sought deterrence against China and the Obama administration. Here's what he has to say what went down. Let's play the clip.
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President Vladimir Putin has called up 160,000 men aged 18 to 30, Russia's highest number of conscripts since 2011. As Spravdy explains, while some still want to entertain the notion that Russia's dictator isn't planning on a full war,
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On the European continent, Putin just signed this decree, you see it right here, for spring mobilization, growing the Russian army by another 160,000 troops, in addition to the constant influx of contract soldiers from North Korea and elsewhere. Your friend Donald, Kim Jong-un, Donald.
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As Jay in Kiev, who does a great job chronicling what's going on in Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as he writes, Russia readies for full-scale war against Europe while Trump tries to extort all of Europe. When America again needs help, allies will be sending blankets. Headlines like this as well from Taiwan.
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The Chinese military announced large-scale drills, PBS writes, in the waters and airspace around Taiwan on Tuesday that include an aircraft carrier battle group, as it again warned the self-ruled island democracy against seeking formal independence, CNBC writes. China kicks off military drills near Taiwan. warns islands independence means war.
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You see right here, these are some of the images of China's Shandong carrier spotted in the distance by the Taiwanese Navy ships. When Donald Trump showed weakness in the Oval Office and attacked Zelensky, when Donald Trump was clearly showing that he could not manage what was going on with Russia's unlawful invasion. China saw that as weakness. Putin saw that as weakness.
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By the way, our European allies, who Donald Trump doesn't want to be our allies and has pushed them away, they saw weakness. Canada saw weakness. Australia, New Zealand saw weakness. And so the entire geopolitical power structure has changed dramatically. America is isolated and alone.
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Do you think that our allies, or I guess based on Donald Trump, our former allies are sharing intelligence now with the United States when we learn more stories about Mike Walls and Pete Hegseth?
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Donald Trump's national security advisor and Donald Trump's defense secretary who were on that group text thread where they invited the editor in chief from the Atlantic, where they were discussing their war plans, where they accidentally invited a reporter.
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And they said, oh, those war plans aren't classified, even though we talk about F-18s and specific strike times in Yemen, even though we are talking about specific drones that we're using and when we're using them. Oh, those aren't war plans. Case closed. That's what the Trump regime says. Case closed. We're not talking about it anymore.
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Well, now we learn that Mike Walsh, the national security advisor, and his staff Yeah, they've been using Gmail for government communications. This breaking from the Washington Post yesterday.
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Mike Walz and other members of Trump's National Security Council conducted their government business over personal Gmail accounts, where they held conversations about highly sensitive information, including about military positions, powerful weapons systems, and more. By the way, let me share this with you as well.
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This from France 24, where they're talking about the Chinese warship planes surrounding the self-determining island of Taiwan. Just watch how the international media is covering what's going on. And just notice that. Do you hear any response from Donald Trump? By the way.
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He's failed to intimidate Europe. whether you're our allies or now former allies based on Donald Trump's behavior, or whether you're our adversaries who Donald Trump wants to be friends with, but who are viewing Donald Trump with mockery and weakness like China and Russia. no matter what, everybody is looking at Donald Trump and sensing the same thing.
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Have you heard Donald Trump on his own without being asked a question from the media talk about the four American soldiers who died in Lithuania? Have you heard Donald Trump talk about that at all? Express sympathy, express compassion. I know he's incapable of that. Anyway, let me play this clip for you. Let's play it.
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forging ahead and strengthening the alliances that Ukraine has with its reliable and unwavering allies like Germany. I'm going to read you this language from Zelensky. You can see here what's going on in Europe right now, as we previously reported. Like last week, there was that meeting held in France amongst the coalition allies. of the willing. Of course, the United States was not there.
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European countries and others who were there to support Ukraine and make it very clear that they would not be allowing Donald Trump and Putin to engage in a bilateral discussion to carve up Ukraine or give minerals away to Donald Trump or whatever without Europe and Ukraine being involved. Here's what Zelensky posted yesterday. I held a meeting with the German foreign minister.
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We discussed further support for our state, the path to a dignified peace and the development of security guarantee formats. Germany is a leader in Europe in the scale of assistance provided to Ukraine from financial aid and weapons to strengthening our air defense. This includes, and it talks about the weapon system. We are grateful to Germany for the decision to provide an additional security
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$3 billion euros to Ukraine. In total, German support this year will be 7 billion euros. We are grateful that German support for Ukraine remains unwavering and stable. We thank Germany, its government, and all the German people for their significant assistance. I just want to show you this interaction.
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between President Zelensky and the outgoing German foreign minister, because this is how diplomatic relations among allies is supposed to go down. This is what mutual respect looks like. President Zelensky acknowledging the incredible support provided by Germany, Germany recognizing
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This is an individual who does not know what he's doing, who can't handle this position, who just wants to go golfing and would rather post memes than caring about any details. And this is someone who's focused seemingly on just destroying the United States of America. Take a look
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that Zelensky is a wartime president defending, frankly, not just Ukraine, but all of Europe from Vladimir Putin, and also making it very clear that even though the foreign minister of Germany is part of the outgoing government, that the new government will have the same continuity of support for Ukraine, and that will be unwavering. This is how it's supposed to look.
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So when you see this clown show of what Donald Trump does with his pressers every day, this is how it's supposed to look here with what you're about to see with Zelensky and German's foreign minister. I want you to watch this.
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at just the international headlines like this in the UK from the Daily Star, madness of King Don, another ordinary day in the grand old USA, man baby Trump, man baby, insists he will defy law to be president until 2023. World markets tumble over new threats on tariffs. You got headlines like this as well. Putin begins biggest Russian military call-up in years.
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Now, President Zelensky made numerous other posts about the various European allies and others who came to visit him over and over again, expressing gratitude and talking about the strong alliances that they have. Now, I want to share this with you as well, because I find this to be kind of interesting.
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What's leaking from the Trump regime about Donald Trump being angry that Putin's outplaying him? that Putin's out maneuvering him. But then as this story breaks, by the way, from Fox broke the story, Jackie Heinrich from Fox broke the story, who, by the way, the Trump regime is really not a big fan of hers.
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Then you have Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, though, saying that the reason that Putin had to invade, he goes, was because Ukraine wanted to join NATO. Donald Trump's instinct, in other words, is to take Putin's propaganda right away and then spread it from the Oval Office. So Let me first show this first. This is from Fox. Trump believes Putin is stalling.
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Administrations eyeing aggressive sanctions enforcements, including Russian shadow fleet. A source familiar with the discussion tells Fox that Donald Trump is frustrated with Putin and believes Russia is slow rolling comprehensive ceasefire talks. A path forward is being discussed. And it goes on to talk about that path forward. Now,
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They're, you know, whether that's being leaked from like Rubio or somebody who wants to be more hawkish, or I should just say more rational about the threat being posed by Russia. And they're trying to will that into existence. I mean, Donald Trump, though, from the Oval Office, reeking of weakness. I don't know how else do you look. This reeks of weakness. Weakness, here, play this clip.
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As Donald Trump continued to take a wrecking ball to the United States economy and to our international alliances and our standing in the world, this is the type of stuff that Donald Trump was posting yesterday. A photo of MAGA Republican Congress member Jim Jordan gesturing with his fingers, what, about Donald Trump's very small and tiny brain. What's Jim Jordan even doing here?
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Is it going to be uniquely tailored to each country? What is it that you're doing? Donald Trump refusing to talk about it yesterday, but he was posting photographs of Jim Jordan. Like, no, it's obvious, right? Like, why you have Judge Susan Crawford winning in Wisconsin against the MAGA Doge candidate Brad Schimel, the pro-democracy Judge Susan Crawford prevailing in that big...
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Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, where Elon Musk threw millions and tens of millions of dollars to try to get his handpicked Doge MAGA candidate Brad Schimel elected. Despite all the money thrown at that race by Elon Musk, the pro-democracy candidate, Judge Susan Crawford, won because Americans are pissed. People in Wisconsin are pissed.
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What Trump and Doge and Musk have done with their hostile takeover of the federal government. What Trump and Musk and Doge have done in destroying the lives of veterans and federal workers and cruelly toying with people's social security, cutting social security administration offices and services.
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creating this tax cuts for billionaires, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts while cutting $880 billion in Medicaid. It's horrific. And look, this is from yesterday on the Hill, MAGA Republicans like Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina and others you'll see in this video. saying that tariffs are going to hurt their people. It's going to cause pain and suffering.
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And what's up with this pain and suffering that what Trump and Musk keep saying people need to be, have a pain and suffering inflicted on them? Here, play this clip.
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Oh, he's holding a hearing to look at the left wing activist judges. Oh, yes. The MAGA Republicans are spending time attacking the judges who Donald Trump says is being mean to him because Donald Trump wants to invoke war powers to kidnap migrants and without due process, send him to concentration camps in El Salvador. and to revoke temporary protected status of over 350,000 Venezuelans.
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Now, yesterday also we saw Senator Cory Booker complete what was the kind of longest Senate speech in history, bringing attention to the wrecking ball that is Trump and Doge and Musk and what they've done to the United States economy, our alliances, our international standing. Here's Cory Booker, Senator Booker, here, play this clip.
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And just so you see even how Fox was talking about it yesterday, Trump's tariffs, like Peter Doocy from Fox wasn't able to articulate, like, we still don't know what these tariffs are going to look like. Are they going to be universal? Are they going to be, you know, tailored to reciprocal, uniquely tailored to each country? Here, play this clip.
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I want to share this with you as well. This is Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat. And here he talks about how, he goes, newsflash, Trump and these MAGAs are incompetent. So it's not shocking that these incompetent and unqualified people are doing incompetent and things that people who are not qualified do. And then they try to cover it up, which just makes it worse. Here, play this clip.
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With all of this going on, is there any stability? No. Is there any articulation of a plan or policy? No. What are we hearing about yesterday? Well, the Washington Post got this scoop. A senior White House official said the administration is currently analyzing the estimated cost of acquiring Greenland, including factoring in the cost of providing government services to its citizens.
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Budget officials are still working to determine what the costs could be. White House officials say the story is White House studying costs of Greenland takeover long in Trump's sights. It's the most concrete effort yet to turn Trump's desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy despite widespread international outrage.
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They're going through the financial costs of going to war against a NATO ally, Denmark. Greenland is within the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. By the way, the new Greenland Prime Minister says they're looking forward to to having the Danish prime minister visit Greenland and Trump's trying to do budget projections of what it would cost to go to war and take it over.
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That's what they're spending their time doing in the Trump regime. And by the way, the Washington Post is writing about it like it's This is a normal discussion. This is from the Wall Street Journal opinion section. Tariffs won't bring a boom in American manufacturing, but tax credits, subsidized loans, and grants could boost U.S. production, energy, and some products.
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By the way, the Venezuelan community had previously been supportive of Donald Trump, but Trump wanted to do it. And federal judges are saying, hold off for now. We need to determine. if there should be due process, because our constitution calls for due process. And then Donald Trump's like, well, they're being mean to me. These unfair judges are being meany heads to me.
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Quote, we know this is from the op-ed. This is Murdoch trying to tell Trump what to do. It's like Murdoch saying, I don't know what to do. Listen, you idiot. Let me explain to you what you need to do so that you can actually help the economy. That's what's going on here.
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Quote, we know of no example in the history of advanced economies of sweeping tariffs having the positive effects the Trump team believes are waiting for us on the other side of his tariff push. This is from Bloomberg. Trump's 25% tariff hands the car industry keys to China. We're now looking at a future where Beijing rules the road. This is from the article.
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Quote, if you're wanting to bring manufacturing jobs back to the heartlands of America, landing a blow against these two Asian allies is a strange way to go about it. What we're seeing right now is China
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reaching economic agreements with Japan and South Korea because Trump is attacking Japan and South Korea, which former presidential administrations worked hard to create deterrence against China's aggression and China's growth as an economic power. The Trump regime just broke all of these deals between the U.S., Japan, and South Korea. Now you have South Korea, Japan, and China Joining together.
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And by the way, you have China conducting aggressive military exercises in Taiwan because they smell weakness in Donald Trump. I'll do a whole other video on that as well. And then here you have Caroline Leavitt yesterday asked at a press conference. Hey, Donald Trump said that foreign countries are going to eat the cost of tariffs.
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So why is he asking domestic automakers not to raise their prices if he says this is going to be great? Take a listen to her response.
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She goes, I'm not sure if that comment was made or not made. That's your response. And finally, I want to show you this clip that was put together by our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, where he goes, the first half of this clip is Donald Trump from last month. telling one of his favorite, sir, sir, stories about his Joint Chiefs Chair nominee, Dan Kaine, which he's told hundreds of times.
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The second half of the clip is Kaine testifying yesterday to the Senate to be confirmed as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showing, surprise, surprise, Donald Trump is lying. Let's play the clip.
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So Jim Jordan, can you hold the hearing? And Jim Jordan's like, yeah, Donald, whatever you want, I'll hold the hearing. So absolutely pathetic. Also yesterday, Donald Trump was attacking other law firms, big law firms, and trying to make them do settlements with him.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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All of this, by the way, while Donald Trump says today, he calls it because he's psychotic liberation day where he's going to tariff the world. But he hasn't explained at least as of yesterday, or at least as of this morning, when I'm making this early in the morning that, Is it going to be universal tariffs across the board at the same amount to every country in the world?
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This is a breaking news alert. The Democratic candidate for the Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin that was vacant, Judge Susan Crawford, is now projected to win the major Wisconsin Supreme Court election. She is defeating the MAGA Doge candidate, Brad Schimel. A huge victory for the Democrat aligned Judge Susan Crawford. This election has massive implications.
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This has major implications for future congressional races. For example, MAGA Republican Congress members like Derek Van Orden and Brian Steele both said that they will lose their congressional seats if Judge Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court race because of the redistricting that they expect to take place.
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Quote, we will both lose now, he said, quote, so that's why everyone is paying attention to this race on a national level. Our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski posted the following after it was predicted that Judge Susan Crawford, the Democratic-aligned candidate, would go on to win this major Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Filipkowski wrote, Trump went all in. Musk went all in.
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Musk said Western civilization would end if Judge Susan Crawford won. Musk bought votes. Scott Pressler, MAGA's get out the vote guy, set up shop in Wisconsin and went all in. Charlie Kirk and the whole MAGA Doge gang and all the right wing podcasters went all in. The entire MAGA machine went all in. Donald Trump went all in.
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Trump spoke from the Oval Office and told people to vote for Brad Schimel just the other day. $53 million were spent to try to prop up the MAGA Doge candidate, Brad Schimel, including PAC money. But Judge Susan Crawford will win this Supreme Court seat easily. And she was far outperforming Vice President Kamala Harris in all of the important counties as we saw them coming in.
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We saw Madison come in, we saw Waukesha come in, we saw Dane County come in, and it was becoming very clear
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that this evening would be a great one for judge susan crawford who ran an incredible race you'll recall images like this of elon musk million dollar checks to individuals um that were part of his you know uh he will pay you if you register to vote scheme that when i spoke to the wisconsin democratic uh chair ben winkler he said that Ben Wickler, he said that that was likely completely unlawful.
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You see here the headline from the Associated Press. Musk announces $1 million for Wisconsin voter in Supreme Court race. Opposition calls it corrupt. Just to remind you who Brad Schimel, the MAGA Doge candidate is, he dressed up as Donald Trump for Halloween. He would wear shirts like this at Trump boat parades. Jesus is my savior. Trump is my president.
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Here's a video of Brad Schimel talking about how Donald Trump called him and knows about the race.
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What did you offer to him in return? Absolutely not. Now, this was Elon Musk over the weekend in Green Bay, where he was handing out million dollar checks and other checks to people if they would vote or register to vote or took photos of themselves near voting locations.
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You will recall Elon Musk poured tens of millions of dollars with the MAGA Republicans and other oligarchs to try to get the MAGA Republican Doge candidate Brad Schimel elected. Elon Musk said that this election would determine the fate of civilization. Elon Musk was in Green Bay this past weekend. This is a massive repudiation of Doge. of MAGA, of Donald Trump.
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Here, he said that it will be an end of civilization, a humanity ending event, he says, if Brad Schimel lost and Judge Crawford wins. Here, play this clip.
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Here was Donald Trump just this past week. Donald Trump from the Oval Office. I think Kid Rock was by his side as well, telling people to vote for Brad Schimel from the Oval Office. You don't get much more corrupt than that. Play this clip. What's your message to the people of Wisconsin, though, who, you know, don't know?
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I mean, you know, some people like, wait a minute, Supreme Court races, people run for this seat. You know, a lot of people don't even know like like that. I know a lot of people in Wisconsin are paying attention when it happens in your state. They start to pay attention, often closer. And I know that people are starting to vote already. So what do you say to them?
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But folks, as I mentioned, the pro-democracy law and order judge, Judge Susan Crawford, will go on to win. I had the opportunity to speak to Judge Crawford. We had her on the Midas Touch podcast multiple, multiple times. She was an incredible guest. Let me share with you just one of those clips from the interview that I had recently with Judge Susan Crawford. Here, play this clip.
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Now, there were other races as well in Florida. Florida special elections there, the Democratic candidates did not win. However, they closed the gap on plus 30 Trump districts and made these races very, very close. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, explains, Mike Walz won the Florida 6th congressional district seat six months ago by 33 points. Trump won this district by 30 points.
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And this was within about a 10-point race, closing the gap by about 20 points. Of course, unfortunate that the Democrats and the pro-democracy candidates lost, but picking up and closing the ground by 20%. 20 points is not a awful result. You take a look at what went down in Florida's first congressional district where Matt Gaetz had previously beat Gay Valamont six months ago by 32 points.
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Jimmy Petronas only won by about, uh, 14 or so points and Valamont actually flipped an area that had, I don't think had ever gone democratic since what, 1960? Escambia County, Escambia County since 1960. So Democrats were making up ground there. Those were very, very tough seats.
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But the big news of the night, that Wisconsin race, the right-wing podcast bros, the right-wing MAGA machine went all in on that. The MAGA Republican Congress members, the MAGA Republican machine, Donald Trump getting humiliated in Wisconsin this evening. A great result for democracy, folks. Thank you for watching. Thanks for getting the word out as well.
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And thank you to Judge Susan Crawford for coming on the show and sharing with us how important this race was. Everybody hit subscribe here. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Judge Susan Crawford, the Democratic-aligned candidate for this Supreme Court seat, will go on to win that race. Democrats will go on to take the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. There will be a number of cases before the Supreme Court involving the MAGA Republicans gerrymandering and all of the chicanery that they engaged in with the law finally being followed.
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I'd say this. We don't have the resources yet to have foreign correspondence in war zones, but that is something we will build to have here. Brett, I don't really care if corporate media does or doesn't succeed at this point.
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So it kind of comes full circle right there. Talking about a full circle moment, Russia, Russia, Russia, everybody, guess what? Didn't Donald Trump tell us that he was going to solve Russia's unlawful invasion, although he didn't call it that, of Ukraine within 24 hours after the election? Last time I checked, we're past 24 hours, but assume he said within 24 hours of taking office. Well,
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Well, when you talk about all of those groups, one of the commonalities are they're being propped up by MAGA and they're being propped up by people like Elon Musk as well. Elon Musk, for example, writing in a German newspaper over the past few days
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His support of the AFD party, which has been described by many as a neo-Nazi party that has said a lot of things that are supportive of Hitler and the Nazis. They've made a lot of horrific statements there. they're viewed even too far right for Le Pen's far right party in France. That should pretty much tell you a lot about that.
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You have this interconnected kind of movement here of these far, far right-wing movements that are all trying to support each other. That's why it's important in the pro-democracy movement we support each other as well.
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That's where, Brett, we form partnerships with people in other countries who, frankly, probably can do better authentic reporting in their own countries than if you were to send an American correspondent who's not educated. We need to – or we're not as educated as people who are from the country. We as independent media need to be good listeners, not just speakers.
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We need to listen to what it is that people in other countries are saying about their countries and not interposing – our American-centric frameworks on their countries. We'll talk about that more later in the episode when we talk about Putin rejecting Donald Trump's proposals in Ukraine, but also Trump's further
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threatening statements that he keeps on making about Panama and Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and what's going on there. We'll talk about all of that. Jordi, to your point, though, about the ABC settlement, I got to tell you, I was actually surprised about the ABC settlement.
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Because say what you want about some of these corporations, I get Disney, which owns ABC, but ABC and its history, for them to do that move,
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destroys their credibility on everything i mean you have to stand up for your reporters and your reporting and where the federal judge and i've read the rulings before gave descriptions about the technical differences at issue between sexual assault and rape but if you read what the federal judge said
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it is very surprising to me that any lawyer would have advised abc that there's real risk um or that you would uh settle at that point before taking donald trump's deposition which you know trump would never do or that you would settle that case before summary judgment unless brett to your point there is a broader capitulation and a way to funnel that settlement as um
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A quid pro quo, believing Trump will help you in return. Brett gave an example, though, everybody, that was not a hypothetical about Trump sending the FCC commissioner that he appointed, Brendan Carr, after ABC.
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as soon as that settlement happened that happened trump's fcc commissioner sent the letter and said we now have serious questions about your behavior you basically admitted that you defamed trump by giving this 15 million dollar payment now we understand that you're negotiating affiliate deals with your local stations we're concerned about those deals you're
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you're going to have to run them through trump and us now to make sure that we're approving of them why are they doing that because they know that sinclair owns a lot of local media which is right wing and they want to have local media speak in a right-wing voice so the message being sent to abc is we're watching you make sure that your local media
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Vladimir Putin and Lavrov, Putin's top aide, came out with a statement saying that they are rejecting the types of proposals that Trump is proposing. And Putin is saying, you know what, we want the United States to make the first move and they should come to us. with their hands out and beg us. Trump, beg me if you want me to try to help you with your 24-hour promise.
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is in check and in line because we could regulate you there as well. Brett, I talked about Elon Musk a moment ago also in connection with funding and or supporting these right wing movements and networks everywhere from the Conservative Party in Canada to the right right wing party in Germany, the AFD, to right wing parties in the UK.
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to javier malay in argentina where the poverty rate by the way is about 54 and people from argentina are on food lines and lines to buy supplies in chile because it's so unaffordable in argentina victor orban and so forth but when you talk about brett the capital that's been spent by the og magas the laura loomers the far right-wing anti-immigrant magas who like trump
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that capital doesn't win when the only capital that wins is money. when it comes to Donald Trump. Hard capital, donations, contributions, who's paying Donald Trump? And that's ultimately Elon Musk. And you take a look at this tech bro MAGA versus kind of OG old school MAGA, and you've got Steve Bannon responding to Elon Musk.
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I mean, Elon Musk is telling OG old school MAGA to take a big step and F yourself in the face. is what Elon Musk said. He also used the R word, which I don't want to repeat again, to talk about the kind of old school MAGAs who believe that all of these jobs should go to Americans and that the H-1B visa program should not be expanded and bring in more immigrants.
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So Steve Bannon's response was, someone please notify Child Protective Services. Need to do a wellness check on this toddler. Donald Trump chimed in over the past 72 hours as well. And Trump goes, I love H-1B. I always use H-1B at all of my properties. They're the best H-1B. Trump really doesn't use H-1B. He uses J-1 and H-B-2 visas. but he's not using those visas that he claims he's using.
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But he did use it though a while back with the Trump modeling agency. A lot of the kind of models who came over came in through the H-1B visas back in the day, but Trump doesn't use H-1B visas. If Trump's claiming that these are people who work at his properties, in hospitality.
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That's not what H1B covers, but Trump's now endorsing an entirely new form of having immigrants come into the United States as well. Essentially, what this boils down to is we need the immigrants that help us, the oligarchs, the billionaires, not the immigrants who are taking less wages and who are working agriculture jobs and hospitality jobs and construction jobs. We need them because
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Elon Musk is like, this is Elon Musk's theory. I could pay H1B visa immigrants from India to do engineering jobs less. They essentially function as indentured servants who can be deported if I don't like the way they're working. We can get around most of the labor laws as well because they're here and they're dependent on us and we can pay them less.
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So Brad, it asks the broader question though, now that Elon Musk and Trump are saying, look, These white Americans who were part of, sorry, you can't do these jobs. You don't have a college education. You're not smart enough for these jobs. That's what they've said. It's really stunning.
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Why would I want to help you? More humiliation rituals. Vladimir Putin is putting Donald Trump through. Also, what's going on with MAGA Mike Johnson? We're talking about humiliation rituals. He's a walking, talking humiliation ritual. The MAGA base hates him. Trump thinks that he can control him as his puppet. What is going on there? Is he even going to survive the January 3rd leadership vote?
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We'll cover all of this on the Midas Dutch podcast. Welcome back, my brothers, Brett and Jordy. I missed you guys on the last one. I went solo and I missed the brothers.
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By the way, Brett, it's because now that they're in power and that they're not whining about – they're great whiners. But now that they're in power and they have to do these things, how are they utilizing it? Brett, it's not a pro-immigration stance that Elon is taking. It's a pro-Elon stance. Replace America with I or me and you'll see what Elon wants. It's for him.
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He wants cheaper labor at his companies that can go around labor laws where people can be treated like indentured servants and he has control over it. That's helpful to him and his sector. So what you have is billionaires now saying, I need this and I need that and I need this. And then you have OG MAGA saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, this whole thing is about we don't like immigrants.
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What are you talking about? You get carve outs and you get carve outs. What is even happening here? And then MAGA now tries, Brett, to your point, to strike Hunter Biden's penis. You see the penis? Or how about San Jose State volleyball player? And by the way, the dark. When we think about that San Jose volleyball player. You're pretty pissed off, eh? Pretty pissed off.
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Can you believe it? Everybody, there's a volleyball player. Your favorite volleyball team, San Jose State, has a backup who's transgender? You pissed? Oh, wait a minute, you care about your wages now? You care about your healthcare and housing? No, be upset about that. We've got a lot more show to discuss here. This is what happens when you get the brothers back.
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I want to remind everybody we've got some great articles up at MidasPlus.com. Check it out there. And then Patreon.com slash MidasTouch. Hey, Brett, on Patreon, we should do a post-New Year's now that the brothers are all back together. We got to do that post New Year's meeting with everybody. So let's get that on the books. Go check patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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We'll post when our next beating is. We'll do it after New Year's so you don't feel like I got New Year's plans. We'll do it after the New Year's. We'll do it after the New Year's. We'll come up with a plan and we'll be right back after our first quick break. First and only. Only a quick break. I'll be right back after this.
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And look, thanks to our pro-democracy sponsors, you know, we don't have outside investors here on the Midas Touch Network. So we get scrappy with it. You know, we got to find ways that we can keep on competing with and beating Fox and ABC and CNN and all those networks on digital. We do that through Patreon.com slash Midas Touch and MidasPlus.com.
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We do it with those pro-democracy sponsors right there. Shout out to everybody there. Let me walk you through this thought experiment here. Now, what if President Xi Jinping of China started posting on his official social media accounts that he was considering conquering Japan? Thereafter, he posted some meme of himself, AI, hoisting a Chinese flag on top of a Japanese building in Tokyo.
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Then he did another post where he talked about turning Japan's leaders into governors or members of the CCP, just right after each other like that. Do you think Japan would be taking that as a joke? Do you think the international community would go, oh, that's just Xi. He's a troll. Xi the troll. Or do you think that, wow, there must be an attack On Japan, that is imminent.
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Okay, I think you know the answer to that hypothetical. So that's both why you need to and we need to take Trump's threats seriously when he threatens about conquering Canada or Panama or Greenland, right? You should take that seriously. And if it's just a troll and Trump does not back it up, which he does, Doesn't usually, he just goes and plays golf after making posts like that.
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Do you see why that would make him look so incredibly weak to people like Putin and Xi and Kim Jong-un and MBS? If you can't back up fight words like that, and it's just, oh, that's just him, he's a troll. That's not some form of sophisticated negotiation, okay? That's just being a freaking idiot. and that's as weak as you can get.
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Similarly, when I teach negotiations in my law school classes and even in my undergrad classes that I teach, I always tell people that time is one of your biggest allies in a negotiation and you need to use time to your advantage. The worst thing you can do as a negotiator
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is to create some arbitrary self-imposed deadline that you can't meet and that your adversary in a negotiation is aware of because they know that you're working under a constraint that if you fail you will get embarrassed or lose the negotiation so oftentimes when i teach negotiation or i'm involved in a negotiation i want to test people utilizing time
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as a negotiating tool so trump creates a self-imposed deadline of his negotiations with vladimir putin over ukraine and trump announces that he's going to get it done within 24 hours of winning the election which he's already failed to do that so assume that he's now claiming i didn't mean after the election i mean 24 hours after the inauguration Now put yourself in Putin's shoes.
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So Putin knows that if Trump doesn't get that deal, Trump is going to be mocked mercilessly here. It'll be viewed as a failure. And people are going to say, look, you didn't deliver on that. I mean, perhaps. Putin would be viewing our media as though our media will actually hold Trump accountable.
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But you get the point, that Trump will be failing to deliver something and it would be embarrassing to him. So Putin knows that. So what is Putin doing in these negotiations with Trump, knowing Trump has this self-imposed deadline? Putin is toying
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with trump so the first way that putin toyed with trump and showed that he is the one dominating these negotiations is that putin announced that he's ready for potential talks with trump during his year-end news conference and trump reposts that i want you to think about how weak that makes trump look Putin is ready for potential talks with Trump.
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In other words, Putin is dictating the timeline for when he will be ready if Trump comes to him. And it's potential. I'm not sure I'm going to even do it. Trump reposts that as though that's a good thing. So Trump already is showing that he is the weaker person. Not that Putin's coming to him. I thought he was a great negotiator.
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I thought he was going to call up Putin, and then I'm going to call up Zelensky. And then boom, the war ends. Well, that didn't happen. Putin's dictating the time. As I told you, a good negotiator knows how to use time. You want to see what it looks like when Putin actually respects you? China's Xi Jinping will visit Russia in 2025, Russian ambassador says. You see the difference there?
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Russian ambassador saying that Xi will be visiting Russia. That shows respect versus Putin saying, I'm going to meet with you potentially when I want to. Also, watch our coverage on this that we've been doing for the past several weeks. Putin had state-run media in Russia run nudes of Melania over and over again on state-run media.
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And the kind of hand-picked hosts, their version of the Hannity's, but who are basically Putin's puppets who do the shows, were just mocking mercilessly the fact that Melania did these nudes. It was a your body, your choice. Then Putin would do other things like he'd send messages through oligarchs that Trump owes him favors now because Putin helped in the election.
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There'd be oligarchs sending that message through TASS, the official state-run media of Russia, which is controlled by Putin. And now the Kiev Independent reports Russia rejects Trump team's reported peace deal proposals on Ukraine. Sergey Lavrov said, and if the name Lavrov sounds familiar, it's because Trump during administration one had Lavrov and Kislyak –
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Putin's top advisors in the Oval Office, and he gave them classified information. It's undisputed. How do we know? He admitted it. Trump posted on social media in May 2017. He said, of course, I have the absolute right to give them classified information. I had to do it, he said, because of ISIS. I had to do it. But he admitted that he gave him classified information.
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In any event, Lavrov, who was there back in May 2017, said the proposal that's been outlined in leaks and in Trump's time interview suggests, quote, freezing hostilities along the current line of contact and transferring the responsibility of confronting Russia to Europe.
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Quote, we are certainly not satisfied with the proposal sounding on behalf of representative of president-elect's team, Lavrov said, specifically rejecting the idea of introducing European peacekeepers in Ukraine. Lavrov expressed Russia's willingness to engage with the new U.S.
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administration, provided Washington takes, quote, the first move to restore dialogue severed after the start of Russia's invasion. In other words, you come to us with your hands out. you come to us, we ain't coming to you. Again, that's a negotiating tactic to show strength in the negotiation to make your adversary come to you to beg.
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And then Putin expressed openness to dialogue with Trump, but maintain Russia's firm demands, including no territorial concessions and a rejection of Ukraine's NATO membership. In other words, He wants Trump to do a total capitulation. Trump's team has yet to outline officially any concrete steps for ending the war despite his bold claims of achieving peace within 24 hours.
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And you see right there how – how that's being reported in the kiev independent which is in ukraine of course so the worst negotiating style imaginable brett and jordy and you see what putin is doing there and i wanted to give you the background on the subtleties of negotiations here to show you just how weak we are positioned and postured into this negotiation.
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This is not from a place of strength, the ultimate weakness.
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A big loss for Donald Trump in the Court of Appeals in the E. Jean Carroll case will break down the massive loss. Trump thought he was going to escape that judgment. Uh-uh, Donald, it ain't happening. What is happening, the tech bro MAGA, the old school MAGA civil war is accelerating. And now old school MAGA is finding out That it's all about the money folks when it comes to Donald Trump.
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a great year and it's uh i would have preferred that at the end of the year the could have been a little bit different in terms of what's happening with the presidential race but we're here with the midas mighty uh it's been an honor to be by your side every step of the way and you know i think that as a lot of maga is in the find out stage there's this opportunity to bring the actual lasting
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In your example, who's Jordy in the American community?
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Let me make this important point, which is – that was a great example, Jordy. Thank you. I love you, man. Which is the media lionizing and idolizing superficial power over actual superpower status. They've Kardashian-ized the Oval Office and they're looking for that theater when you actually had real power in the office because Biden is what?
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Older and he speaks slower and the stutters may be more pronounced now in his older years. someone who was really strong, you Kardashianized it and you've made that this Trump. That's not power. That really isn't power. International leaders see that. Now, that doesn't mean that Trump doesn't have access to power.
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He'll be running the biggest superpower with the most nuclear weapons and the most actual power by military that exists in the history of mankind. But as an individual, he's not capable of wielding this power effectively. And even someone who was born into so much wealth be bored into that amount of wealth and bankrupt the amount of companies that he bankrupted.
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When you're that freaking rich, the only way that happens is if you're both incompetent and you're throwing people under the bus as well. He would do both of those things. People know this mentality. I could finally just take it from a kind of international perspective and bring it also to a kind of domestic perspective at all. I mean, what was he doing this weekend as well? He was whining about
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The debt ceiling not being raised again, like even though it's not even supposed to be raised until next June. I mean, remember when he tried – this was what, two weeks ago, the other drama two weeks ago where he told MAGA Republicans, you shut down this government now unless you either eliminate the debt ceiling – And then he said, make it extended until 2029. And then he said, OK, maybe 2027.
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Then he said, victory, success. We did it, even though Republicans voted against that happening. And then the final continuing resolution had nothing about raising the debt ceiling, even though Trump wanted the MAGAs to block raising the debt ceiling when Biden was in office because they wanted a Great Depression. And Trump's posting now something that is not going to happen.
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Like he's saying that the debt ceiling needs to be raised now or else there's going to be a 1929 style depression happening when he's in office essentially. Now it becomes ours. I call it 1929 because the Democrats don't care what our country may be forced into. Like is he preparing us for like a great depression when he's in office? Like who writes these types of things?
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And I get the not constantly covering every post that he makes. But I think there's a way to contextualize what he's saying the way we are here and showing you how dangerous this guy is. Instead, I've gone back and I've showed you and Brett and Jordy and these people on the network have showed you. Remember what the media headlines were as soon as Biden got in office.
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bloomberg 100 chance of recession nine months later we still have the the recession is coming another one the recession is still going to be that was the whole time and he avoided a recession he took action to avoid the recession but all the headlines were like undermining him from day one and to your point have this episode go full circle now
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trump is ruining the honeymoon phase that the media is trying desperately to give him like they're trying hard and bending over backwards the headlines zero percent chance of recession really zero percent because if you actually look at the indicators and he does what he says he's going to do It seems like it would be more than 0%. I saw another headline today.
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and generational change that's needed. You know, uh, a lot of, you know, whether it was the media or Americans have like flirted with some of these preposterous and dangerous ideas and disinfo that's been directed at them by oligarchs to try to screw them over things like abolishing the department of education, things like, uh,
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Why you expect that the prices are going down? Okay. There's no indication of that right now. Mortgage rates are up right now. Most of the goods you're buying are-
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vibes over lives. That's what the media wanted to do. They wanted to push the vibe when Biden was in office that you all should feel horrible and that this is all Biden's fault. That was from day one. They're pushing bad vibes over lives versus reporting on what was happening in front of them.
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Was the infrastructure, inflation reduction, PACT Act, CHIPS Act, were these net positives or were these net negatives? What is actually happening here? And they didn't do that. Brett, to your point, you go back, they were platforming all of the both sides-ism stuff and they would put on, well, the Republicans say we're now doing this because of Biden.
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know who just was in power it was trump you realize that you're not going to fix all of the issues that were created by him in that first year but biden did a good job and he fixed a lot of them and then year two fixed a lot of them again and then there was the midterms and then in the midterms democrats lost control of the house and then republicans blocked everything from bipartisan
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Immigration Act reform. Brett, to your point, it would have solved all of these issues. There's a way to deal with making sure that the American education system improves so we can get more STEM jobs for Americans, but also deal with the kind of short-term need to bring in engineers to fill these jobs, to bring in migrants who are working, not criminals, not terrorists.
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taking away their social security, making trillions of dollars in cuts in our budget, assuming Congress can even pass one, which Maga Mike seems incapable of doing, which means taking away social security, Medicare, taking away your healthcare. but also giving tax cuts to the billionaires and decamillionaires while raising your taxes.
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Every discussion with MAGA devolves into some red herring. We all agree, no criminals, no terrorists. Get them out. Arrest them. Lock them up. Whatever. Whatever the full force of law is allowed with criminals and terrorists, do it.
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Strong borders, we all agree we should be a country of borders, but let's also remember who's working those construction, the manufacturing, the agriculture and hospitality jobs, and why should they fear for their lives? Why are you keeping them off the books? Why not create a system
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where you have transparency and people aren't living in fear who are contributing to the economy, who are paying taxes, who are, no, no, we have to go, they're eating dogs and cats, they're eating dogs and cats, transgender, blah, blah, blah. No, I mean, let's have real discussions on issues
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And to me, it's the job of corporate media to set that framework and to not Kardashianize our political system. And that's basically where we're at right now. We were out of play. And that's why we're fighting against that. We're at a place where for corporate media, this is all some drama, some theater, some reality show.
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So is it shocking that one of the first reality show hosts is running this dystopian reality show, as I've called it, the Kardashianization of America? No, if they won't be loved, it's all a reality show to them. But there are lives on the line here, and we need to get serious about these things.
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Democrats need to start acting like Democrats again, too, and realize what the sentiment and environment out there is. ABC, always be campaigning. Get out there and speak to people. Speak to people. Sure, Congress is out of session. Go work. Go meet people at the docks. Go speak to the union workers. Just show up unannounced.
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go out there shake hands look people in the eyes start doing that now not 90 days before an election what are you doing i think one of the great things yeah well i think one of the great things that uh our editor-in-chief here ron philip kowski uh said a few weeks ago
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And so in a find out stage, I don't like find out stages because the people have to find out the hard way, but it does present opportunities to create lasting generational change. And I think that that's what we're going to see. And that's what we have to be part of together. And that's one of our goals here at the Midas Touch Network, just to bring you the truth.
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There you go. There you have it, everybody. Happy New Year's. Looking forward to being with you every step of the way in this New Year's. If you can, check out MidasPlus.com. Check out Patreon.com slash MidasTouch as well. We appreciate you and all of your support. Thank you to the mods for all their hard work this year.
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We know how hard all of you mods work, and we're grateful for all of the work you do to keep this chat room polite and civil. And thank you to all the Midas Mighty out there. We'll keep fighting with you each and every step of the way. Jordy, take it away.
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So let's start out, though, by talking about this big loss that Donald Trump was handed by the Court of Appeals, the Second Circuit. It also raises additional questions, would be putting it lightly, why in the world ABC and Disney would cut Donald Trump a $15 million check for a future presidential library, which I guess for Disney and ABC, they were going to take a tax deduction.
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on it by putting in an escrow account and then claiming it as a donation to some future nonprofit. But I mean, look, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found that the trial court judge, the federal judge, Lewis Kaplan, did nothing wrong when he oversaw that trial. The witnesses who testified against Donald Trump about prior acts of sexual misconduct.
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The fact that the Access Hollywood tape came in in the E. Jean Carroll case involving both a claim for sexual assault as well as a claim for defamation. There's still another case out there involving additional defamation, defamatory statements by Donald Trump, which is still pending on appeal. But this one related to the $5 million verdict.
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Second Circuit Court of Appeals looked at all of the evidence and said the trial court did not do anything wrong. The jury didn't do anything wrong when they found that Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll and defamed E. Jean Carroll. I mean, again, we show you the documents here on the Midas Touch Network, so you don't just have to believe me. Here it is right here.
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It's a per curiam decision, and a per curiam decision means that this was the decision of all of the judges. It's unanimous, and here's what they say. In this case, after a nine-day trial, a jury found that plaintiff Appellee E. Jean Carroll was sexually abused by defendant appellant Donald Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1996.
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The jury also found that Mr. Trump defamed her in statements he made in 2022. The jury awarded Ms. Carroll a total of $5 million. in compensatory and punitive damages. Mr. Trump now appeals, contending that the district court, Lewis A. Kaplan, federal judge, erred, meaning made an error, in several of its evidentiary rulings.
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These include its decisions to admit the testimony of two women who allege that Mr. Trump sexually assaulted them in the past, and to admit a recording of part of a 2005 conversation in which Mr. Trump described to another man how he kissed and grabbed women without first obtaining their consent. Mr. Trump contends that these and other asserted errors entitle him to a new trial.
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On review for abuse of discretion, which is the standard of review whereby a court of appeal determines if anything wrong happened at the trial court level, it says, we conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenge rulings.
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Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.
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Trump apparently siding with Elon Musk over his old school MAGA base who now feel betrayed. We could have told you so. Also, You want to know why Trump and Maga want to abolish the Department of Education? He told you, he said, I love the poorly educated. I love people who aren't educated. Why? So that they can bring in people who are educated and pay him cheaper from foreign countries.
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Affirmed, meaning that the sexual assault verdict against Donald Trump stands, meaning a jury made a finding and the federal judge affirmed it, and now a court of appeals affirmed it, that Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. Now, one of the things too, because MAGA
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doesn't understand the law or doesn't read things or doesn't look at the facts, whatever you want to put or just puts out disinformation. Nancy Mace was like celebrating this. She goes, I hope George Stephanopoulos sees this. And then it's the Fox headline how U.S.
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appeals court upholds Trump verdict in E. Jean Carroll defamation case unless Nancy Mace is mocking him for settling the case when he probably shouldn't have settled that case and that ABC Disney should have settled the case. I mean, what would that trial have looked like if Donald Trump even got past summary judgment and the case didn't get dismissed? Trump's lawyer would stand up and say,
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client was found liable for putting his finger in E. Jean Carroll's vagina without her consent and sexually assaulting her. But he claims that his reputation was harmed by the implication that it was his penis and not his finger. As a result, my client has been severely damaged.
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Sure, he's on audio recording talking about touching and grabbing women without their consent in their genitals. Sure, there were other women who have come forward with statements. Sure, Donald Trump has engaged in all this other conduct that reputationally would come in in a case like this. His friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, all of that. But ladies and gentlemen, he's claiming he was injured.
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Trump's going to sit there at that trial? Do you know what that deposition of Donald Trump would have looked like that ABC ran away from? Because I think them and their lawyers knew, who were good lawyers too, they knew that they would have humiliated Trump at that deposition.
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The door would have been open to all of Trump's sexual conduct because Trump is claiming reputational harm on the basis of the technical difference in New York between sexual assault and rape based on finger and genitals and saying that that's what's harmed his reputation. That's what he's going with. So it's just extra frustrating.
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I think that ABC and Disney would settle that case knowing with this coming out. But I could have – we told you that this is where this court of appeals verdict outcome was going to happen, that they were going to affirm the verdict. And I think it also shows people too – That even with Trump winning the election, notice they refer to him as Mr. Trump, not President-elect Trump in the ruling.
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And notice that they didn't bend over backwards to bend the knee. They found that he lost. And I think that's a good sign. The judiciary helped. Yeah.
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We will break it all down. Also talking about that money, Trump's inauguration is featuring a pay for prey scheme. $100,000 if you want to attend services with Trump at the inauguration? Doesn't sound very Christian to me. But then again, the first topic we're going to be discussing is the fact that Donald Trump was found liable of sexual assault in the E. Jean Carroll case.
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Poll after poll after poll, Donald Trump's approval is plummeting. The worst ever, the worst ever among independents, the worst ever in modern polling in presidential history across all polls, whether you're talking about a Fox poll, a CNN poll, an ABC Washington Post Ipso poll, a Pew Research poll, they all tell the same story. The American people hate
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Federal spending is up. Federal spending month over month is higher than it was under former President Biden. And Trump and Musk engaged in a hostile takeover of our federal government and wrecked it and destroyed it. I mean, I've seen estimates that say on balance, Doge is actually going to cost American taxpayers $130 to $150 billion. I think it's multiples of that.
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I think it's going to be in the trillions of dollars because, Brett, as you say, there's not going to be a mechanism to effectively collect the taxes effectively. from the deck of millionaires.
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uh for uh americans who are gonna start to see that products are missing on the shelves we've been talking about this for about three weeks on the midas touch network now and it seems that corporate news is now starting to raise the three alarm fire right now as well um donald trump today also attacked Canada on its election day, a big day in Canada.
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know it's uh it's so funny you know when i used to when i used to back in the day when i was a lawyer and i would do these transactional deals you'd have all of these like hedge funds and private equity companies that would always be they'd always say they care about the data they were analytical and really that was just like a front because the moment there was some like narrative or gimmick
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that like everybody was jumping on, they would just throw away their data and I would and they throw away their analytics and they would just jump, jump on some like narrative and trend, you know, and you'd be like, what? But what about all the things that you talked about, your models, your this and your that? You know, and here, you know, with Trump, they just they jumped on Trumpism.
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They jumped on MAGA. They saw they thought that they were going to be the oligarchs in the system and that they were going to benefit. And they're getting destroyed right now. And, you know, with remember, Kimberly Guilfoyle, the best is yet to come. The worst is yet to come right now. And we know that because we can see what's happening with the freight.
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we can see what's happening with trucking man i think you fancy yourself a bit of a freight expert these days Well, you know, there are a lot of freight experts. And I saw, you know, one, I think his name is like Chris Fuller. And he was on CNBC. And he's like, and by the way, I think he was a Trump supporter too. And he voted for, so to be clear, he's like, I'm not whatever.
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He goes, I got hoodwinked this time again. I got tricked by this. And so, you know, you have somebody like Chris Fuller. He's like, you don't bring me out until like it's like COVID and things are bad because you don't want to think about freight. You don't want to think about the stock futures, right?
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You don't want to think about what's happening in the treasury bond markets and what's the 10-year yield.
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200? Have you done 200 deals? Who are you doing these deals with? Why aren't you announcing them? You've completed 200 deals? Yes, Donald Trump told Time Magazine that 200 deals are done. They previously said, by the way, that they were going to do 90 deals in 90 days. I call him no deals Donald because he's done no deals thus far.
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And who would want to do a deal with the countries that are speaking with him? Don't even understand Donald. what the Trump regime is asking for and like what they're even saying, like doing a deal with Japan should be relatively easy. Doing a deal with South Korea should be very easy.
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But like even Japan's like, he wants like a bowling ball test and he's asking us to remove all bowling ball tests and bowling balls. He thinks we drop bowling balls on cars and that's why we're not buying American vehicles the way we do Japanese vehicles. Like, what the hell is a bowling ball test? I mean, like, literally everyone.
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Donald Trump wanted to make it about himself and interfere with the election in Canada. Donald Trump continued to talk about how he wants to annex Canada, how he wants to conquer Canada, how he wants to be the leader of Canada. And he was basically insinuating that Canada should make him their dictator. Again, it's just so utterly despicable for a United States president to be behind
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I mean, the European negotiators are like, why would we do a deal with him anytime soon? In South Korea, they've left and they said, you know, we probably need some more time, you know, maybe like, you know, June, July, we could try to get back into it. But we had trading relationships with these people. It should not be hard to make a deal.
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So Trump's lying about 200 deals, not even 200 countries, number one. And then he's making up conversations with Xi Jinping and saying that he's speaking to Xi Jinping. And it's not embarrassing that Xi Jinping goes, don't worry, it's not embarrassing for him. It's not a sign of weakness that he's reached out to me. Of course, we're having conversations.
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and the embassy of china has to like repeat over and over again we're not talking to them we're not doing any discussions when they are making this up it's the weird as someone who teaches i teach negotiations at law school, at a well-known law school. You're making up that the adversary's having discussions with you, and you think that that's going to be a way to effectively negotiate a deal?
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It's the most ridiculous thing. Then he has Scott Besant, his treasury secretary. And again, Scott Besant at this point is basically, you know, Bernie Madoff. He's another version of Bernie Madoff. So Besant starts each week by lying about conversations involving China because...
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He knows that helps the market, you know, that it manipulates the markets when, oh, yeah, we're doing good conversation. I think we're in. I think we have frameworks. I think we have that. So here he begins the week. He's speaking with a reporter and he talks about how what's really going on here is we're doing bespoke deals, bespoke deals. Here, play this clip.
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you have the best reviews out there. Fox's own poll shows that Donald Trump is the least popular president in modern presidential history. So they start with that, then Japan's economic minister, Akasawa, says there's no change to our stance. We are demanding the full removal of US tariffs. Now, because of Trump's behavior, he's actually made it very difficult
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to do an easy deal with Japan because now the opposition party in Japan is rightfully pointing out that the main party in power right now shouldn't shame Japan by letting Donald Trump bully them.
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And so that becomes the dynamic of the elections in Japan and whether or not there can be a no-confidence vote that topples the government there because they're looking at this as a matter of respect and honor about all of these lies that are taking place right now. And we're seeing that across the world, that people are like, why would we deal with this guy, Brett?
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behaving that way. It's also just utterly humiliating to see a leader of the United States behave that way as well. Also, the Trump regime's DOJ is now arresting state court judges in their own judicial chambers, in their own courtrooms, because the DOJ wants to run
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want to talk about that when we come back from our first break i also want to make this big announcement here that tomorrow april 29th or if you're listening to this on audio when it drops uh april 29th at uh 8 p.m eastern time 5 p.m pacific time the midas touch network will be hosting the first ever democratic governor virtual town hall on youtube uh It will be featuring Illinois Governor J.B.
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Pritzker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul. We'll be talking about Trump's disastrous first 100 days. That's April 29th, 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific, right here on the Midas Touch Network.
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sting operations in state courtrooms when they can just do them if they want to, like outside the courtroom or wait until the person just leaves the courtroom. We'll break down the latest authoritarian machination of the Trump regime and more here on the Midas Touch podcast. I've been my cell is joined by Brett Jordy. One more day of father duty for Jordy. But Brett, how are you doing?
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Welcome back. Thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors right there. They help fuel this show. The discount codes are in the descriptions below. When we took that break, Brett, we were talking about Trump's treasury secretary, Bernie Madoff, or I should say Scott Besant, and how Trump has built this group of people, these grifters, these scammers around him, and Scott Besant is one of them for sure.
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who just lie over and over again and come up with the most ridiculous explanations for what's taking place. And the problem is, is this has the same vibes of COVID, like a miracle. It's all gonna go away. It's not gonna hit our shores. I guarantee you it's fake news. And then it hits and then everybody's unprepared. There's no plan.
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And then they just throw experts under the bus and then they blame the people who warned about it. That's what they're doing again here. And they're basically creating another version of that with these Trump destructive tariffs and trade war against the world.
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So with all of the chaos that's being created, with everything I've told you about the freight volumes and trucking volumes decreasing, the fact that major retailers are warning the Trump regime that they're not going to have products on their shelves soon, as the major auto manufacturers are raising a red flag, as you have all of these people, all business leaders,
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are basically saying the same thing and Trump's ignoring it. You have Scott Besant, who previously talked about the term treasury secretary, who was talking about we're doing we're doing 18 bespoke deals. Be there bespoke. I don't know. What does that even mean? You're doing bespoke deals, 18 of them. What about 90 deals in 90 days? Now you're doing bespoke deals.
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And then what he said also is that actually we are intentionally, he goes, creating strategic uncertainty. That's their term. So one of them is bespoke. The next one is strategic uncertainty.
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negotiate with them some of those are moving along very well especially the with the asian countries there's so much fraud packed into that as well putting aside china for a second why would you put aside china for a second there's like two trillion dollars annually in trade right And then obviously the sub deals, but you notice how he pivots away from that quickly.
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Like he made his point, but then like any like liar like that, he starts trying to sound smart. Well, just think about it. Let me explain to you why this makes sense, okay? There are 17 actual strategic partners. Where are you even getting these numbers from? You said 90 deals in 90 days. Now there's what, only 17 deals that are apparently important.
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We're talking about sub deals and not actual deals yet. And what's going to happen? Maybe they do one or two. We're going to go right up to that 90-day deadline, right? That deadline's going to hit. There's going to be no deals that have been made. Maybe you make one or two performative deals, but you're not going to write a trade deal that takes many years to write like overnight.
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And then you're going to be what? Back to extending the deadline again. Nobody takes this clown, Donald Trump, no offense to clowns, which is a real profession, like just nobody takes him seriously anymore. or they should never have taken him seriously. But he's demonstrated that this is all, that it's just weakness.
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And again, that to me should not be a Democrat thing, a Republican thing, an independent thing. You should look at this and go, man, that guy's just a con artist. This guy's just a grifter. This guy's like a weak, pathetic scammer. This guy did not step into the role. This guy brought... being a felon and a sexual abuser and having a manipulative personality and being a fraud.
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He brought that to the job and it's just like, people are like, okay, just pathetic. And don't get me wrong, he's got his 35, 37% magamush brain. Maybe that drops a little. You know, they will drink the MAGA Kool-Aid, you know, until the end. But, you know, you go to the polls where you see what the independents think, what Democrats think, with people who are not political think.
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People who were somehow convinced to shift towards Trump in this election, Latino community, 18 to 29 year olds. You know, in other groups, they're just repulsed by the Trump regime at this point. And so we're seeing real movement there. And again, all of the polls, all of them from Fox to Pew to ABC to Reuters, Ipsos, Washington Post, all of them tell the same story.
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The worst 100 days ever, really, since polling has even started. And let me just show you this clip. So then Donald Trump lands back in the United States from an embarrassing trip to Rome, where he was wearing the blue suit and like sleeping and no one wanted to be around him. And I loved, by the way, in Rome, that prime minister of UK, Keir Starmer,
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and macron were right there with zielinski like literally they had his back both figuratively and literally kind of just standing up to like donald trump was like slouching and looked fatigued and just and just like beat up so then donald trump lands and what does he do he continues the fraud donald trump says um you know look it's possible we do a complete tax cut maybe we don't even need taxes at all here play this clip
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uh when if people only understood the tariffs we're going to be giving people of this country a tremendous tax cut and we're going to start with people making less than 200 000 a year i have a question maybe it's a stupid question but there's no such things as stupid questions why would you be negotiating trade deals to remove the tariffs if the tariffs are going to make us rich
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If the things were great, if it was working right now and going according to plan, then why are we trying to make deals where the claim is we're using tariffs as a threat to negotiate trade deals with no tariffs. Brett, I'm just, you know, I don't know. I know I'm a professor at a law school, you know, but I may not understand the logic here.
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Tariffs are both the greatest thing and the worst thing, apparently. They're both a tool to extract concessions and renegotiate trade deals and also the be-all, end-all at the same time.
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We know what's coming. Also the way, if you just saw the way COVID was spreading and, when it originated in China, we knew what was going to happen. We knew when it was going to hit. Like we could have taken preparations, right? We could have developed vaccine early. We could have developed a strategy.
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We could have studied how we deal with small businesses and big businesses and whether people should leave and masking, non-masking. We could have assessed this, right? If we were at a leadership level given accurate information. And we weren't. So when it hit, it literally was like, you know, it was remember it was Tom Hanks. And then all of a sudden we were shut down. Right.
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we it was obvious if we were following the logic but there's this fire hose of disinformation you know that's coming out we know what is happening and they're pretending that it's not happening and then it's going to hit us very very soon that things are not on the shelves and then it's going to be catastrophic and then it's going to be a big thing and everyone's going to be like oh my gosh and then there's going to be unnecessary situations that could just be avoided but one of the points i make
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this is if you're like how did the guy bankrupt all of these casinos and businesses same playbook tomorrow morning i'm going to drop a video on this as well so check our feed i analyzed what he did in atlantic city and i go through the hype i promise this i promise that but one of the things that the people were saying in vegas was why would you open up three casinos at the same time
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They're gonna all cannibalize each other. And then you took out these loans at such a high interest rate on three different casinos that of course you're going to have issues. What Donald Trump do? He made sure the whistleblowers got fired and he ended up actually settling a case with one of these whistleblowers as well.
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When they were trying to warn Atlantic City, the guy's gonna bankrupt Atlantic City. But what was he doing? He brought Michael Jackson there. The media was all there. The gold chandeliers, the this and the that. And within like a year or two, bang, the people stopped showing up. Bang, bankruptcy, bankruptcy, bankruptcy. And then he did multiple bankruptcies of his casinos.
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He was the only one who made money and everybody was screwed. And you know what vibes that I get, you know, so much of like using that exact example, while he's doing this to us, What was what he and his family and his cryptos are? What were they doing this past weekend at the worst White House correspondents dinner ever? There was like no comedian.
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And it was like these just journalists, like not funny talking about Biden. It was like the weirdest thing ever. You have at the Willard Hotel, which the Trump people used as one of their insurrection staging grounds. Now it was used this weekend. Don Jr. and White House crypto czar David Sachs to launch their new exclusive club for the ultra wealthy called the Executive Branch.
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It costs half a million dollars to join, but you get to join the Executive Branch Club with Tom's crypto czar and Don Jr., the Selective Club. half a million dollars while the Trump family profits off. That's what they were doing this weekend. And it's a perfect parallel. You go back to his failures in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s to the present. This is what they do.
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Donald Trump, and it's the worst 100 days ever. Let's just talk about what just happened. What in the past 24 to 48 hours, Donald Trump humiliated the United States at Pope Francis's funeral. He violated the dress code, the only person there wearing a blue suit, and he seemed to continuously fall asleep during the solemn proceedings.
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You know, then soon after Canada, within the next week, we have the elections in Australia there, where again, Trumpism, the kind of MAGA atrocities that we're seeing inflicted here in the United States are having a major impact on the Australian elections, right? They had a MAGA candidate who was the leader of their Liberal Party, Peter Dutton.
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They inflict pain on others and they grift for themselves over and over again. When we come back, I want to talk a little bit more about that. But I also want to talk about Trump's attack on Canada on the day of the Canadian elections, saying that he should be the leader of Canada and how he wants to annex Canada. I want to show you Prime Minister Carney's response.
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I want to talk about a few more things. A reminder, everybody, that tomorrow at Tuesday, depending on when you're listening to this, April 29, 2025, we are hosting the first ever governor's virtual town hall right here on the Midas Touch Network featuring Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
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They'll be responding to Trump's disastrous first 100 days back in office. And we want you to submit video questions one minute in length. It can't be more then one minute. We're going to pick about six to eight questions to show here and to ask the governors and go to MidasPlus.com. You'll see the story where we announced this incredible event that we're hosting.
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We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show.
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Their Liberal Party is actually the Conservative Party in Australia. They just call it the Liberal Party. The Labor Party in Australia is like the Liberal Party. And this guy, Peter Dutton, is like a MAGA, is like a mini MAGA version of Trump in Australia. He was leading in the polls there. And now the current prime minister who leads the Labor Party
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One minute or less. 30 seconds is great if you can do it in 15 seconds. Fantastic. Brett, so today's the Canadian elections. We've been, of course, covering that here. Elbows up for a long time. We are so absolutely grateful for the maple Midas out there, the incredible Canadian community here at the Midas Touch Network. It's such a major part of this network, the Maple Midas.
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We made those Maple Midas shirts 100% made in Canada, manufactured in Canada. distributed in Canada at store.midastouch.com. So check those out as well. I see a lot of people's maple Midas gear was arriving just in time for the election. Of course, we'll be reporting on the elections as soon as the results start to come in. We want to be methodical.
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We know in Canada, it takes a little bit of time for all of the counting to take place. So what does Donald Trump do this morning, though? I attack Canada on election day, try to make it about himself. He goes, good luck to the great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power for free to the highest level in the world.
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Have your car, steel, aluminum, lumber, energy, and all the other businesses quadruple in size with zero tariffs or taxes. If Canada becomes the cherished 51st state of the United States of America, no more artificially drawn line, no more borders, all positives with no negatives. It's meant to be.
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America can no longer subsidize Canada with hundreds of billions of dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a state Again, let me be very clear, that's not just trade war language, that's war language.
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Just as Putin talked about denazification of Ukraine, which was a lie and a pretext to invade, Donald Trump is using the language of an invader and people in Canada are going elbows up because Donald Trump is using the language of taking away Canada's sovereignty and inflicting suffering on Canada. They see how Donald Trump has wrecked the United States of America.
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Donald Trump wants to bring his fraud routine there. But again, the language of Trump right here is that of a Putin. And it is, you know, for us being here in the United States, you know, doing this podcast where Trump is leading this country. It is a great stain. It is deeply humiliating.
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And we stand in solidarity with everybody in Canada and the pro-democracy community across the world against this tyrant. Let me be very clear. Donald Trump is a vile piece of trash.
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Anthony Albanese has taken the lead in the polls there. So we're seeing Donald Trump having a dramatic impact internationally as I think countries across the world are getting to see what this kind of MAGA – I don't even want to call it an experiment – what this thing has inflicted on the United States in 100 days.
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he's a vile piece of trash we just need to be clear about it he is a fraud he is a felon he is a sexual abuser okay you need to stand up to a bully like donald trump and canada has shown the entire world how you do it i am so damn proud about what canada has done in standing up to donald trump and showing the world how to do it
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And I think you see in Australia coming up next, their elections are happening, what, in like less than five days in Australia. You're seeing the impact. And by the way, I think Canada helped show how you do it. But the people in Australia are saying, we don't want a MAGA person here. And Peter Dutton was the MAGA guy.
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He was talking about woke this, woke that, and gutting the universities, using that same exact language. In Canada, their maple MAGA was Pierre Poliev, you know, really kind of leaning into all of that language. Elon Musk boosting him, going on the right-wing podcast. And we've seen this playbook now across the country.
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And Donald Trump has now really damaged these kind of MAGA clones and the people who have used that Musk playbook. It's been turned against them now, Brett.
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You know, it's just such a wild thing. Could you ever have imagined it, that the kind of main beat in a Canadian election is that the United States of America is an imminent threat to their sovereignty? And that the platform right now, because it's true. is that we need to save Canada from a United States invasion of Canada, a threat to the sovereignty of Canada.
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And I think Prime Minister Carney has really met the moment and spoke to that. I also want to give a shout out to Charlie Angus, a former member of Parliament who I've become incredible friends with. I mean, it's been an incredible journey. Me and Angus, when we met, what now, four or five months ago,
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So as I've said before, it's like they get to do the redo election that I'm sure lots of Americans want to have right now. Just think about it like this, Brett. What have we been calling this Trump regime presidency so far? We've been calling it the Ponzi scheme presidency, the rug pull presidency, because like a Ponzi scheme, They build fraud on top of fraud on top of fraud.
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And over time, you know, Angus, before anybody was, you know, articulating it the way Angus was, internationally, Angus was calling Trump a gangster because you never kiss that gangster ring. And I think Angus, one of the first leaders, he deserves a lot of credit internationally as well, I think, for showing people across the entire world how to stand up. But Brett...
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From a perspective, whether you're in Canada, Australia, Europe, Africa, South America, democracies there that are watching this. You know, you see someone like a secretary of state, Marco Rubio, gives an interview in the past day or two. And Marco Rubio justifies the United States deporting U.S.
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citizen children, two-year-olds, three-year-olds, four-year-olds, including some kids with cancer who need life-saving treatment.
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when their parents like when their dad would say i want i want my son to stay here he needs to stay here he needs life-saving treatment what what are you doing and they would deport the kid with the mom who they were deporting and they would rip the family apart they wouldn't even allow the dad or whichever parent it was the due process right to file the lawsuit on time and they ship the kids
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to foreign countries that there was the story in florida about the the woman the cuban woman um who was breastfeeding um and was literally like you know literally but was ripped apart from her kid you know her kid was american um you know her husband was american and she she you know literally like
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After breastfeeding, she like showed up at ICE because she would go about her normal, you know, I mean, she would show up and she would visit because she had to check in occasionally. And they took her and threw her right back to Cuba. She didn't have a home in Cuba. She had nowhere to go. She's homeless now. She has no house. And she was here with her kid.
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And they separated the mom from her young child. And we're seeing stories about this over and over again. A Trump-appointed judge in Maryland on a different case other than Abrego Garcia. saying, you know, you need to facilitate the return of another migrant. We're hearing all of these stories of people who should not be, no one should be sent to concentration camps in El Salvador.
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I mean, they should be given due process and there should be the appropriate penalties under the United States Constitution. They should be getting due process. But sending, what, 85 percent of the people, 75 percent of the people, no criminal history who are in concentration camps with no due process. And the Trump regime is like, we don't owe them process. No due process.
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Why would we give them process at all? So let me just show you some of these headlines as well and videos. If you're in a foreign country, if you're somewhere else, if you're internationally –
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and you're watching this like imagine what you must think though like like of the united states so here's what marco rubio said when he was asked about the trump regime taking kids including in one instance a kid with like stage four cancer and sending the kid to another country and like potentially killing the kid watch this
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i mean that's the united states of america right now how about this the smithsonian begins removing exhibits artifacts from the african-american history museum with all of the news taking place a story like this sometimes you know gets lost right a month after trump's executive order to remove what he calls improper ideology from the smithsonian museum
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And eventually they get caught at the end. And like Ponzi schemers and scammers and frauds, eventually the scam runs out. And by the way, Trump in his past life and currently he's acting consistent with that low character. Trump is a fraud. I mean, he is a criminal. He's actually a criminal. I'm not using hyperbole. He's a felon.
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Artifacts of African-American history are deemed improper ideology. That's happening in the United States of America. I mean, how many times have you heard stories now of tourists, whether it's the German backpackers or someone from Canada or tourists in general? I've seen a ton of these stories too. Tourists from Asia who are business. I saw a story of a lady from Singapore who showed up.
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They get put into like a holding area. then it's determined do we put them in detention centers where they get strip searched and cavity searched and basically put in a jail Or do you kind of interrogate them, ask them questions, and if they don't answer the question correctly, and some of the questions you get grilled with, how much money is in your bank account?
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And very kind of personal questions, people who are tourists. It's why tourism is crashing in the United States. And as I go over in my video I'm doing in the morning about comparing Trump bankrupting Atlantic City to the United States, how now Trump's destruction of tourism is destroying Vegas.
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And then another story that hasn't gotten a lot of attention, there's a person, a Las Vegas councilwoman named Lady Trump is what they call her, Lady Trump. Yes. Do you know the story, Brett, about Lady Trump?
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I think her name is Michelle Fiore. Lady Trump. Fiore is her last name. She was a Las Vegas councilwoman. She was convicted because she took $70,000 that she said was going to build a statue for a police officer who was killed on duty. And she used it for her own plastic surgery. She was convicted. She's despised in Vegas. Trump pardoned her.
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The Las Vegas Review, which is owned by Miriam Adelson, a major Trump donor, wrote this scathing op-ed about Trump pardoning the council. That's a story that just kind of went under the radar also as well. But Brett, what was Caroline Levitt's big announcement today, one of the big executive orders that she was happy about? Donald Trump making sure that truckers
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By the way, truckers are suffering right now. They're like one of the front lines. They have to speak English. And so she holds this conference in front of what she calls new media, which is all just like the right wing, like the biggest propagandists. And she goes, we have a great announcement.
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If you're a truck driver, if you don't speak English, we're going to make sure that you can't be a truck driver. This was tried in Tennessee, and they're like, you're just going to destroy the truck. You're literally going to bankrupt everyone. So this was their move today. Here, play this clip.
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When she referenced Uber right there, there was a question about why Uber drivers don't speak English. And one of the people asking the question was like, I've noticed since Trump, I'm not making this up. I've noticed that since when Trump's taken office, more of my Uber drivers are speaking English. So thank you for that. That was the way the question started.
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He was found by a jury in New York to be a felon and to have done fraudulent business records. Donald Trump was also found liable of fraud in a separate civil case. Donald Trump is a sexual abuser. Donald Trump is someone who's bankrupted a lot of companies he's been involved with in the past. Donald Trump destroyed Atlantic City.
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you know one month down two months away three months away and they're seeing what you're doing to them right now so sure just kick them when they're down great job former president biden created 16.2 million jobs there was record low unemployment there was gdp growth that was leading the entire we were number one we were leading the entire world in gdp growth right so like let's just assume this was like the olympics do you want the gold medal or do you want to not even qualify for the olympics
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Maybe that's how I should explain it to the new media, Brett, that's in that room right there, the Trump new media. Do you want to be number one or now last with Donald Trump?
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By the way, that's one of the messages that Charlie Angus had in my kind of last interview with him before the election. He goes, I just want to say thank you, Donald, because you've really united Canada and you've made us recognize that, like, why are we accentuating our differences when we should be united against, you know, this authoritarianism and this fascism?
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So is it a shocker that the guy who destroys Atlantic City comes back and, let's say, does it again to the country, does it to Vegas? This is who he is. He's a lifelong loser and a lifelong destroyer. And he uses the same fraud tactics that he does in his business here in the United States. I mean, he was asked this question in a Time magazine interview, Brett.
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And just one more thing I just want to point out, though, on this episode to make sure we pack all of the information into this. We've done a lot of individual videos focused on Judge Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge, who the Trump regime's DOJ and FBI arrested in her courtroom. I just want to mention it here kind of one more time at the end of the show.
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I mean, she's a judge who presides over criminal cases. And the individual who was in her courtroom know shows up under a compulsory process that has to go through a metal detector so doesn't have weapons it's in the courtroom for a proceeding and as soon as that proceeding ends if the trump doj and fbi wanted to arrest this guy they could arrest him outside they could arrest him in the hallways
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but to arrest him in the courtroom during a judicial proceeding where the judge, the state court judge, Judge Dugan, is trying to administer justice, state court law, and you want to interfere with that, that's never happened before ever. Don't let the Trump DOJ try to normalize this and go, oh, she obstructed this.
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This has never happened before ever in the history of the United States of America. The feds won't go into state court proceedings. If you, by the way, read the police reports, why we read the things here, we read them to you. If you read the complaint that was filed by Trump's own DOJ, They don't talk about some, and they make up, there was a chase and the guy had to be chased.
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Trump's own DOJ, the FBI was right next to this guy at multiple points in time, on an elevator, in the hallway. They were next to him. They didn't have to do what they did in the courtroom. They were doing it on purpose to create this scene. I mean, if you read their own complaint, they could have arrested the guy. They were with him in the elevator. Just arrest the guy there. What are you doing?
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And all the judge said Just don't arrest him in my courtroom. You want to do it outside? Let me see the warrant. It wasn't even a judicially signed warrant. It was an administrative warrant, not like a federal judge signed off on it. It was like an immigration warrant. The judge is looking like, what are you signing a warrant to enter my courtroom?
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And by the way, you know why they got an administrative warrant? Because a federal judge or a federal magistrate judge would not have signed off on that. They knew that. That's why they didn't go through the normal process. So what we're going to see here, let me just tell you what's going to go down. They're going to bring this case in federal court.
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A federal judge is going to look at it and go, what the hell is this? The case is going to get dismissed or the judge is going to be found not guilty or whatever it is. And the Trump regime is going to whine, oh, unfair judge, woke judge, leftist judge.
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But I hope that you see from the beginning of this episode now until its conclusion, what we're showing you is not even necessarily a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. It should not be this way. The behavior by Donald Trump is consistent with his past behavior.
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And it's sad to see that the Republican Party, when we needed two healthy political parties, has just become a party of MAGA, which is an enabler of a sexual abuser, a felon, and a fraud. And Trump's behavior in office is the behavior of an abuser, a fraud, and a felon. That's how he's acting.
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He was asked, you said you would end the war in Ukraine on day one. Trump's response. Well, I said that figuratively and I said that as an exaggeration because to make a point. And, you know, it gets, of course, by the fake news, unintelligible. We don't know what he's saying there. Obviously, people know that when I said that, I said it was said in jest.
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And there's a reason why people like Trump should be in jail and not out on the streets and certainly not – running a country and we're seeing why. He's dumb. He's an idiot. He's not smart. He's not a dealmaker. He's not a builder. He's a destroyer. He's fundamentally a vile and just bad human. Like literally the worst person for the position.
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Someone with zero experience who just did nothing would do a much better job. He's like literally the worst person possible for the position. And we're seeing it now. I think the American people by and large are getting it. That's being reflected in the polling data. And I think, Brett, to your point, there's been an awakening internationally. of what's happening here.
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And my hope is that generationally there's going to be a lot of rebuilding, but generationally we could build from this moment and make the world a better place for future generations not to make this mistake. A reminder to everybody, Midas Touch will be hosting the first ever Democratic governor virtual town hall Tuesday, April 29th, 2025. It will be taking place at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m.
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Pacific. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, they'll be responding to Trump's first 100 disastrous days back in office. And make sure you submit your questions. Take that selfie video question, submit it by going to monthsplus.com.
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Less than one minute questions will only be the ones that we look at and we'll try to pick a few to show the governors. Brett, anything you want to say before we go?
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But it was also said that it will be ended. So now Donald Trump goes that he's exposed that he hasn't made peace in Ukraine in 24 hours and he's actually made things worse. It was all a big joke. It was all one big joke. Well, let's just take a look at the tape of what Donald Trump was saying during the campaign and think, do you think this was one big joke right here? Here, play this clip.
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And the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes. How would you do that?
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Donald Trump continues to lie about having fake conversations with China and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Donald Trump claims that he's already done 200 deals already. He just doesn't want to announce it. He wants to build up the drama. Folks, there's 193 countries and now Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary is saying, oh, Donald Trump meant 200 sub deals
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there'll be no more bombing of ukraine there'll be no more bombing of russia and everybody will be happy not exactly something to joke about in general hilarious hilarious so then he lands back in the united states after humiliating the united states at pope francis's funeral more on the funeral uh in a little bit
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and he still does the fraud like he can't he can't help himself this is all he knows how to do so now his latest is that he's two weeks away from getting the piece done he just needs two more weeks he says so he went from 24 hours and now that was a big joke to now
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We're recording this live on April 28th, and when he landed over the weekend, it was April 26th, 27th, and he was saying, two more weeks, this all gets done, two more weeks. This is Donald Trump saying, and a reporter's like, two more weeks with what? What's happening in two weeks? What's the two-week thing? Here, play this clip.
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Two more weeks, I'll get it done. And then in two more weeks, he'll say two more weeks, and then he'll say, it's the fake news media that said two weeks. This shouldn't be a Democrat and a Republican or independent. Do you see what he's doing? This is how Bernie Madoff ran his Ponzi scheme, right? I mean, he would rob Peter to pay Paul, and he would tell people, just give me two more weeks.
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Don't worry, I've got this return coming. I got this, I got this, I got this. And you drag people along, and eventually, You bankrupt the thing, people find out. That's why Trump's other businesses had gone bankrupt in the past because he engages in deceit and he engages in misconduct and he hides the issues.
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He compounds the problems with lies and then the things explode versus actually being dealt with. I mean, what Brett, was it back in his first administration? Everything was two weeks. Two weeks for the health care plan. I promise you two weeks, two weeks for this plan, two weeks for that plan. I'm going to have a big, beautiful plan. Give me two weeks.
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You know, one of the reasons why he hates 60 Minutes so much, in addition to the fact that they, at least in the past, have done fearless reporting. Do you remember in 2020 when he was interviewed by 60 Minutes and he put together a
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um you know a a big pile of paper and he said that this was his health plan when leslie stahl interviewed him it was all these binders with paper and then she went and she said let me take a look at it and then on air she looks at it and they were all blank pieces of paper and there was no plan and it was just literally a stack of blank paper
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was no health care plan what what if what is donald trump been saying two weeks recently pretty much everything two weeks is doing that remember the gold card the trump gold card that was going to make america so rich they were going to send these gold they were going to sell gold cars to oligarchs in china and oligarchs to russia and we were going to get so rich off the trump gold card they could buy it and then they become citizens in the united states by paying five million dollars well
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That never happened. I mean, it's the most ridiculous and scammy and grifty idea and dangerous idea imaginable. But putting that aside, April 3rd, what did Donald Trump say about the gold cards and when they were coming? I think we have tape for that. Here, play this clip.
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heck they subbed you that's what they're trying to say now all of this was taking place while freight volumes and trucking volumes here in the united states are absolutely collapsing for those who are watching on screen right now you can literally see all of the ships that are at like the ports in china like the port in shanghai and you can see that there are almost no ships now coming into port in the west coast of the united states this spells big trouble
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He's lying there and saying, first off, that he's the first buyer. Why would you buy the gold card? It makes no sense. You're an American citizen. Is he saying that he's not actually an American citizen? Is he a Russian oligarch who needs to buy the gold card? And by the way, I'm not exaggerating.
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He did say about two weeks before that that these were going to go to sale to Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs. and people who wanted to buy citizenship into the United States. And then he said that was April 3rd, that it would be less than two weeks. And of course that hasn't been released, but it's always these scams, right? The Doge scam, the Doge rebate check.
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Americans are going to get $5,000 from the government. Just you wait, you're going to get your, we know that we're destroying the economy and you may be losing your job, but $5,000 in the Doge rebates going, don't worry, there's gonna be no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. They haven't done any of that. We're gonna go into, where is it? Fort Knox and find the gold.
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And look, Trump no longer has the upper hand. I think maybe he took some of these world leaders by surprise during his first term, but now everyone's used to his shtick, except corporate media who just falls for the press releases every time and just reports it as fact.
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people are suffering because of trump's actions he's too emotional to lead and you know who's paying the price the american people time and time again i mean these tariffs are no joke what just happened over the last 24 hours and now you're going to be seeing this play out time and time again and what trump then gets to spike the football and say he won and he did something great and just corporate media is going to run with that headline and meanwhile it just can be further from the truth it's absolute insanity i'm glad we're here where the collective weed might as mighty everyone here to call it out
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Absolutely. When in any moment in history has isolation been the North Star? It's absolutely pathetic what Donald Trump's doing. It's not even that we're not taking the bull by the horn and leading as America. No, it's we're completely isolating ourselves from these other countries. And as we go further into this presidency, That's what Trump wants to do.
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He wants to keep us isolated and insulated in this MAGA madness. And all of his MAGA cohorts are going to just go along with the nonsense. It's bizarre to see it play out the way it's been playing out for only a weekend.
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Let's go. Links in description of audio and YouTube. Use the links, use the codes, Delete Me, Zbiotics, Graza, huge fans of the Midas Mighty, of the Midas Touch podcast. Definitely show them some love if you're interested in that stuff, because it is fantastic. Benji, where to next?
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And you get hit from it, Ben. You get hit from it in all three aspects, right? You have the chronically online influencers, the DC Dranos polluting everyone's feeds on their phone. You have MAGA, Fox News, propaganda arm just injecting it, Ben, into the TV sets. And you have MAGA Mike Johnson just going unchecked. He's sounding an awfully lot like Kevin McCarthy these days.
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I'm talking about the tone, that soullessness of his voice leaving his body every time he speaks, trying to defend Donald Trump and bending over backwards. And he just... it's just getting absurd, man. Like cooked as a nation, unless people could just stand up to these bullies, weirdo, like just call it weird. Like what they're doing. It's like, and they're being so frigging weird about it.
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Excited to get into the show. Just first off, got to say shout out, Elijah. Elijah, my son turns one today. Happy birthday, buddy. I love you. I can't believe it's been a year. It flies by bonkers. Yeah, I echo all those sentiments and more, Brett. So why don't we just dive into the show? Benji, where do you want us to start off tonight?
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Donald Trump just held a disastrous public meeting with some of his ambassadors. The National Security Advisor Mike Walls was there. He was one of the individuals on the group text thread where war plans were leaked to a reporter who was invited into this unsecured group text thread. So Donald Trump was asked about this massive scandal. Donald Trump was asked
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Then Donald Trump continues to attack the Atlantic. He calls the guy a sleazebag. He calls the editor-in-chief, who Trump's own national security advisor and defense secretary, brought onto this chat a sleazebag. Here, play this clip.
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And this is the Trump regime way. It's not just deflect and deny. It is to affirmatively attack for the Trump regime's own misconduct. Then Donald Trump says, if it was up to me, I would just put everybody in a lead room. And that's how I would avoid what national secrets getting out via text chats with emojis about freaking war plans. Here, play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump says, this is all to do about nothing. What are we even talking about? Everyone's just trying to criticize me because I had the most perfect, beautiful months ever. Here, play this clip.
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So why are you and your regime now saying that the information in this text thread was not classified? Trump just shuts the question down and says, another question, please. Here, play this clip.
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No, Donald, you had the worst two months, the worst 60 days in the history of the United States presidency, where you destroyed, dismantled and did a hostile takeover of the federal government, where you destroyed the lives of federal workers and veterans, where you destroyed people's pensions, life savings, 401ks, where you made the United States isolated. You pushed our allies away.
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You talk about invading and annexing. Canada and Greenland and Panama, you made a mockery of the United States. You did not lower prices on day one, as you promised. You did not create peace in Ukraine on day one, as you promised. You did not make housing more affordable on day one, as you promised. There was nothing about no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime.
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You've made everything worse with your cash. chaos and authoritarian regime. Oh, then Donald Trump praises his national security advisor, Mike Walsh, for these security breaches. Great man. Here, play this clip.
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And it goes on, by the way. Then Donald Trump says, of course, we're going to keep everything as secure as possible. He goes, they're just coming after me because they don't want to talk about all the success that I've had. Here, play this clip.
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And again, what success? You now have all of our former allies saying they don't even wanna buy weapons from the United States because you're saying you're gonna provide them essentially with defective weaponry. Oh, and then by the way, Donald Trump has said, you know, maybe we'll use Signal again. Maybe we'll communicate via this social media app
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even more because sometimes you just need to be quick, so you need to use signal. No, you don't. It is inherently a violation of the Espionage Act. And talking about sources, methods, and war plans is clearly classified information. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump says he knows nothing about Signal, that he just even heard about this, that he has nothing to do with it. Here, play this clip.
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It should also be noted that Donald Trump's envoy to Russia was in Russia while on this text thread. So undoubtedly, Russia now has this information. The individual was in Moscow when this was taking place. Also, Tulsi Gabbard, who at a hearing before the Senate earlier today, refused to even confirm that she was Russian. T.G. with the initials in the chat. She was overseas as well.
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Who the hell even knows where Tulsi Gabbard was? But she also says none of the information was classified, but also she refuses to say if she is T.G. Oh, then Donald Trump attacks Europe. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump says, look, the main thing here, nothing happened, this wasn't bad. So because nothing happened and nothing bad happened, nothing was classified. Here, play this clip.
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Who's telling you that nothing is classified? What does that even mean, nothing? I know that you just stole classified documents like nuclear secrets and brought it to Mar-a-Lago and then just threw them on the bathroom and threw them. I know you don't care about classified information. But we don't know whether or not the Russians now have access to this.
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Clearly, this wasn't the only group signal chat that was taking place. So who else has access to this stuff right now? Are all of our war plans on freaking signal chats? And by the way, Project 2025 outlined put stuff on signal chats in order to avoid Presidential Records Act and public records requests. and having to turn over things to the archives.
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This is all part of a nefarious plan as part of their undermining of our federal government as well. Then Donald Trump says Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, should not apologize. Play this clip.
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But Q and Mike Waltz, who's at this meeting, and he says that this is really just about the journalists who are trying to make a big name for themselves, trying to scam everybody. Here, play this clip.
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What are you even talking about? Y'all invited this guy into your, he didn't ask to be included on your chat and then he just published verbatim what you said and then even kept out certain sources and methods so that people would not get killed. Then Donald Trump is asked, so are you okay with the continued use of this? Here, play this clip.
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You know, you... Then Donald Trump attacks the editor-in-chief of Atlantic, who was brought into this chat, didn't ask to be on this chat, and starts attacking the Atlantic and attacking the editor-in-chief and saying, I think that he's bad for the country. He makes up a lot of stories. Folks, he just quoted directly what was on the chat. Here, play this clip.
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Literally zero consistency here. And then more attacking of the journalists by Mike Walsh. Let's play it.
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What a horrific public meeting before the press, utter humiliation for our country. Another horrific day, a sad day that will live in infamy while our enemies are laughing at us. What do you think happens when you put people like a former Fox News host with zero experience in any military capacity?
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The lunatics are running the asylum or I should say turning the United States into an asylum. Let's just talk about what went down over the past 24 to 48 hours. We learned that the Trump Department of Defense and national security apparatus would make war plans via group text threads with emojis like fist bump emoji, fire emoji, American flag emoji, the most common.
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Vance's wife, the second lady, Usha Vance, to greenland which greenland is viewing very negatively as a show of force as a show of aggression frankly as an attack on greenland and then you had usha vance make this really weird video of herself i mean this looks like right out of like a russian propaganda ai bot like I had to like do three or four double takes.
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But then he held this public cabinet meeting, which was also led by Elon Musk. And then a press conference, Trump was asked, hey, you know, you're doing like your war plans in Yemen with the attack on the Houthis and leaking all this classified information on group text threads, which is one of the most serious violations of the law. Here's what Donald Trump had to say. Let's play it.
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Take a look at Usha Vance, second lady, talking about going into an era. First, let me show you what Trump said, and then I'll show Usha. Do Trump first, and then Usha. First, here's what Trump said.
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The prime minister of Greenland, who was defeated in this election while a new government is being formed, he goes, we don't want them there. The individuals who are expected to lead the new government, including the person expected to be the new prime minister, said we don't want the U.S. there.
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where the Greenlanders have made it very clear they do not want to be controlled by the United States.
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In Denmark, Rasmus Jarlav, a conservative member of parliament who also leads the defense committee in their parliament there, who also said, by the way, like, we should not buy any more F-35s because Trump is saying that he's going to put a kill switch or potentially put defects on it, even if it's not true. And they're just saying that hyperbolically. How could we trust him?
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He goes, Denmark will not sell Greenland. Denmark will not accept and will block any attempts of bribing the Greenlanders. Denmark will not change its stance regardless of threats. Greenland has been under the Danish crown since 1380. It is a fully integrated part of Denmark and the Greenlanders are citizens of Denmark.
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Only 6% of people in Greenland would prefer being American rather than Danish. The only political party that said they trust Donald Trump got 1% and no seats in the Greenlandic Parliament in the election a few weeks ago. Not a single member of the Greenlandic Parliament wants to become American. All of them find it intimidating and threatening that the U.S. does not respect that no means no.
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no means no donald that's why these people are trump has always been a predator he's a sexual predator he is a predator in life he's in a judged sexual predator in a civil case he is a disgusting and vile person and you see his behavior there and then you have usha making this russian style kind of propaganda weird video hello
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You ever go into like a hotel room and the video on the hotel room is kind of that corny style with like a narrator like that. And it's like, welcome to the hotel. We hope you do enjoy your stay at the hotel. I'm not going to disparage any hotels. At our hotel, we have some great accommodations. You will enjoy the city. Enjoy your stay, everybody. Like, what the hell did we just watch? Yeah.
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You know, kakistocracy, big word. Big word, but I just want to call it a regime of stupidity, vileness and recklessness and dangerous. These are just bad, bad people who are also incredibly dumb. When we got back from our first quick break of the show, I want to talk about the snap elections that were called in Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney has got the okay to dissolve parliament.
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April 28th will be the snap elections. And we're already learning that the far right-wing party led by Pierre Poliev,
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In Canada, Canada's Conservative Party was involved in very malicious election interference efforts with Donald Trump to try to have Donald Trump say the types of things to try to undermine the Liberal Party to help the Conservative Party using the premier from Alberta, Daniel Smith, as a conduit. This is some wild explosive stuff going on in Canada.
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I also want to talk about the ruling earlier today by Judge Boasberg in Washington, D.C., who rejected Donald Trump's attempt to try to remove the injunction blocking the Trump regime from further kidnapping people and sending them to concentration camps in
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in el salvador without giving some sort of process to determine if under the alien enemies act individuals are actually venezuelan gang members or if they are not what a what a concept there should be some process before human beings are kidnapped
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and put in concentration camps from a united states government i mean the overton window has been so turned on its head that i have to even say that that is a thing that had to be ruled on by a federal judge reminder patreon.com slash Midas Touch. We will be shortly announcing when our next meeting will be on Zoom.
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So every now and then we're reminded about those many healthy resolutions we made over the years to lose weight, to exercise more, and of course to eat better. But a goal without a plan is a plan to fail. So what I did is I tried Prolon.
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Prolon's fasting mimicking diet is a revolutionary plant-based nutrition program that nourishes the body while making cells believe they're fasting. It was researched and developed for decades at USC's Longevity Institute. By the way, I teach at USC Law.
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The Department of Defense spokesperson has since confirmed that this was indeed an authentic chat that was taking place. Did you see Donald Trump's response? I don't know anything about it. I don't know anything about it.
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But what I do know is that for, what, about a decade now, the Trump regime has been attacking former Secretary of State Clinton, frankly, based predominantly on lie after lie after lie. And as she posts today, you have to be kidding me, where they would talk about, oh, she kept this stuff on a server. And a lot of that story was total BS and debunked to begin with.
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Well, you know, Donald Trump's commerce secretary was doing one of those like podcast shows.
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heck bro things and on that, Howard Lutnick, he was talking about how if you complain about getting a social security check late or not receiving it one month, he says you're probably one of these criminal or fraudsters we're looking at because only criminal and fraudsters are the ones who complain when they don't get their social security check.
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Howard Lutnick is a billionaire and he says that his 94-year-old mother-in-law
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she would never actually complain at all if she'd missed a month of getting her social security check so everybody should be like his mother-in-law we know that elon musk previously referred to social security as a ponzi scheme and also the trump regime has already shut down or is in the process of shutting down 47 social security offices making it difficult for people to have to show up
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usually elderly people, older people, at social security offices to access what they are entitled to have or to even get to speak to people. This is the cruelty of the Trump regime and the banality of evil with which corporate news treats all of this, not here on the Midas Touch Network. While all of that is going on, we talked about it earlier in the episode,
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Donald Trump just making the most grifty and vile post. I talked about at the beginning of the show how Trump was saying he doesn't like this photo of himself in Colorado. He says it's the official portrait of him and that he looks really bad and that the lady who painted it must be too old and that's why she does a bad job painting.
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I mean... Whether it's a good picture or not, a good picture is really beside the point, Jordy. I'm not sure what you're doing with your thumb there.
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This is what Donald Trump... This is what Donald Trump... We're trying to stay the number one podcast, Jordy, in the country. Just get a reminder. Donald Trump does it. Donald Trump posted the following.
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Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado in the state capitol put up by the governor along with all the other presidents was purposely distorted to a level that even I perhaps have never seen before. I have no clue what that means. The artist also did President Obama, and he also looks wonderful, but the one in me is truly the worst.
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She must have lost her talent as she got older. In any event, I would have much preferred not having a picture than having this one. But many people from Colorado have called and written to complain. In fact, they are actually angry about it.
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I'm speaking on their behalf to the radical left governor, Jared Polis, who is extremely weak on crime, in particular with respect to Train de Aragua, which practically took over Aurora. Then he posts the photo. The Train de Aragua did not practically take over Aurora. That was another lie by Donald Trump.
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They talked about this one building where it turned out it was not actually taken over by the Train de Aragua. And the... Thank you. Thank you.
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But don't you recall when, I don't know, the Department of Defense head right now, Pete Hegseth, in his previous job as a Fox host, was saying things like this? I think we've got a nice compilation, courtesy of Courier Newsroom. Play this clip.
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Okay, as Judge Jeb Boasberg said today, he goes, I don't even have to get to whether or not the Alien Enemies Act was properly invoked or not, whether there was a war or not. He goes, under the Alien Enemies Act, you would still have to prove that the individuals are who you purport them to be.
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Federal courts get to determine are these individuals, as you say, trend day or not, there has to be a process for that. And by the way, did you see how and good for that question, by the way, how he changed? Well, I can't speak to the individual details of the cases. Then what the hell are you doing? That's the whole thing. You're speaking to the individual. That's why you have due process.
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These are individuals who you are now killing. So, of course, you need to speak to the individual details. You freaking moron. That's why I said Cacistocracy is a great word, Jordy. But these people are stupid and they're dangerous and they're vile and they're anti American. And frankly, sometimes people are like, oh, Ben, but how are you going to win those people over and screw those people?
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Those people are traitors. And I'm not even trying to, I don't give a shit. Excuse my language. Screw those traitors. They're anti-American. If you care about democracy, if you care about our country, if you care about the values of America, then stand up for them. Not trying to appease these freaking morons anymore.
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And when we talk about in our next, after the quick break, I want to just talk about Democrats who are out there fighting, fighting for values and principles that actually matter to the people, fighting for the workers, fighting for equality.
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fighting for our basic human rights, fighting the oligarchy as Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC's tour is named as they go to Denver, 35,000 people, as they go to Tucson, 25,000 people, 15,000 people in Tempe, close to 100,000 people at five stops. Then you have Senator Ossoff in Georgia, who's doing an incredible job. You've You've got Ro Khanna going to red districts.
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You had Congress member Swalwell going to MAGA Republican Ana Paulina's district. You've got just Americans holding town halls with scared MAGA Republicans in absentia. They're doing town halls and they're doing like cardboard cutouts of their scared and weak and pathetic MAGA Republican Congress members who aren't showing up. So when we get back, I wanna talk about what's going on in Canada
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And wasn't it last week where Pete Hegseth was announcing, oh, we're going to build all of these F-47s with Donald Trump. They're just going to go right from F-35 to F-47 because they just love naming things after Donald Trump and just clownish stuff like that. Remember Hegseth said, and now we are respected again. We're so much smarter.
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I want to highlight what's going on with these Democrats across the country. Let's take our last quick break of the show. Reminder, MidasPlus.com. Check it out. And also check out Patreon.com slash Midas Touch if you want to meet Brett, Jordy, and I when we will shortly be announcing when our next live Zoom meeting meetup is going to be. Let's take our last break.
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classified, sensitive, compartmented information that exists was all there on a text thread. And how did we learn about it? Because the Department of Defense, led by Pete Hegseth, a former Fox host, invited into the group chat the editor in chief of the media company, The Atlantic, who was just in the group chat. He wrote an article.
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Canada's strong, elbows up. Prime Minister Carney and the Liberal Party there now soaring in the polls, but do not get complacent. A complete switch from what we saw a few months ago where the right-wing Democrats Maple MAGA conservative party was in the lead, although that party had been compromised by Trump and MAGA and all of the links to Mar-a-Lago and Elon Musk.
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And they were doing the right wing podcast type of tour. And sure, that backfired pretty big time. So Prime Minister Carney, the banker. Against Donald Trump, the bank ruptor. You got the banker in Prime Minister Mark Carney, who led Canada through the financial crisis in the mid 2000s, leading the Bank of Canada as their governor, Bank of Canada's governor.
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Thank you. By the way, last week when Trump announced the F-47, he also said that he would make the planes have defects. when it would be sold to a foreign country so it would not be as effective. And now we're seeing a lot of European nations, Canada, Australia and others saying, OK, well, we're not we're not going to buy the military equipment from the United States anymore.
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and then the governor of the Bank of England during Brexit, dealing with some of the most difficult crises. This guy is one of the top business guys against Donald Trump, a complete con artist. So Prime Minister Carney over the weekend called for the snap election.
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general elections which will take place on april 28th and he delivered a powerful statement when he announced that elections would be called parliament would be dissolved and now they are in their process where election season it comes on quick in canada once those snap elections are called that's where they're in right now but watch this incredible statement from prime minister carney there is so much more to do to secure canada
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Prime Minister Carney definitely seems to be the right guy for that job. And as Prime Minister Carney announced those snap elections, the other news to break in Canada was that the Alberta premier, Danielle Smith, was involved in secret discussions with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, also via a conservative member of parliament who was J.D. Vance's Yale closest friend.
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Jamal Javadi is the guy's name who works very closely with Pierre Poliev. And they were trying to work with Donald Trump saying, hey, Trump, can you do this? Can you maybe keep the tariffs down just a little bit so that we can try to claim a victory and you can help Pierre Poliev, the Maple Maga conservative leader there win?
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And we heard on the audio Danielle Smith say this, like saying that she's admitting that to working with Poliev, the right-wing conservative leader, to engage in election interference via Donald Trump and JD Vance to try to help the conservative party.
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So on the one hand, you have that incredible speech by Prime Minister Carney, and then the news broke about this election interference plot by the conservative leader of Alberta, I mean, what in the world is going on? So we'll keep you posted every step of the way there.
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While that was going on too, we previously reported how Canada purchased and has bolstered their defense systems, a massive purchase of satellite systems from Australia. By the way, the first customer of this new satellite system that went to the Nunavut Arctic region in Canada,
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the customer was supposed to be the united states and so australia and canada cut the u.s out and uh canada purchased this surveillance system canada is also reevaluating whether or not it's going to buy f-35s or not and i think it's inclined not to and then investing heavily in its own defenses to protect against america invasion Could you imagine that I even have to say that?
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We're going to form our own defense alliances, which is what they are doing. The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, back on March 14th, 2025, posted any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such. So I guess we should start expecting arrests pretty soon. Is that what we're going to do?
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But it's the reality. As I've said, Trump's words are not merely a trade war, which would be bad. The people of Canada, other than Daniel Smith of Alberta mostly, have united because they view Trump's language not as just a trade war, but as a real war. We've been reporting how the boycott by Canada of all things American have impacted people's
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tourism for certain types of uh like luxury and leisure tourism by up to 85 and the boycott in canada of american products the buy canada movement is surging there buying canada stuff which is very helpful to the canadian economy and american suppliers and american distributors are getting crushed that's in addition to even retaliatory tariffs in canada they're saying elbows up
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go over the boards and they are fighting back and showing the world how you stand up to the pathetic, vile, pacistocracy Trump regime. How vile and pathetic? Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, not really the envoy to Ukraine, to Russia,
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He talked about over the weekend how he trusts Putin and Putin is so honest and Putin did a beautiful painting of Donald and Putin's never going to go into Europe. Here's what Wyckoff had to say.
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By the way, it's about two minutes of him glazing Putin and telling the Russian propaganda lie version of why Russia unlawfully invaded Ukraine, like hook, line, and sinker. You couldn't have asked, like Peskov, the Russian PR person, couldn't have done a better job if you were spreading, or a worse job, spreading the Russian propaganda than Steve Witkoff did. But let's talk about the Democrats
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surging, swarming into red districts and red states, and just giving incredible speeches. First, let me highlight Senator Assaf from Georgia. I think reminding us all again what a powerful speaker here he is. Here he is in Atlanta, but this was a powerful rally from this weekend. Let's play the clip.
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I had the opportunity to interview Senator Ossoff today. I will be dropping that interview early tomorrow morning, so make sure you keep checking the YouTube channel for when the interview drops. Then you have Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna.
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now he represents the silicon valley district in california more billionaires in his district than any congressional district in the united states and he had a simple message as he toured three districts in california that had republican congress members who are refusing to hold town halls so here he is in baker's field
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I don't think that's what's gonna happen. Instead, Donald Trump appointed Alina Haba to be the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, and she talked about going after people close to Senator Booker. By the way, we're getting responses fast and furious from politicians about this. what probably is the most egregious leak of war information in the history of the United States, potentially.
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where you have a MAGA Republican Congress member, Valadao, who refuses to hold town halls. And Ro Khanna has the greatest line. He goes, I represent the district with the most billionaires, and they should be taxed more. If I'm willing to say that, and they're in my district, what are all these MAGA Republicans scared about?
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Powerful stuff. He was in Bakersfield. How ruby red is Bakersfield? Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris like crazy. by 19 in Bakersfield. And then Adam Schiff lost Bakersfield to Garvey by over 30 points. That's how ruby red it is. And Ro Khanna went into that district and was just speaking the truth, just talking to...
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talking to the people because their mega republican congress member was too scared to hold town halls how about bernie sanders and aoc close to a hundred thousand people showing up at these five events their fight the oligarchy tour here senator sanders is saying look we are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world there is no excuse for 800 000 people sleeping on the streets absolutely important is for us never to forget
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And then from that same tour, Congresswoman AOC doing an incredible job as well. She's always met the moment, but here she is.
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Governor Tim Walz writes, Pete Hegsa texting out war plans like invites to a frat party. We have Mark Warner, Senator Warner from Virginia, out with a statement. If any career intelligence officer had made this gross mistake, they'd be fired.
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Powerful, powerful stuff right there. And, uh, I don't even think it's worth showing you the clip. I'll do a whole other take on it. But what Pete Hegseth is now saying is that the Atlantic was lying. It's all fake news. It's all one big lie. All right, I'll show it to you. I just I got to come with receipts just so you can be like, really? I got to come with the receipts here. Let's play.
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and this administration i think the od and i the director of national intelligence and others have said you know we're going to seek out all the leakers well we got a chance to ask them tomorrow it's going to be a big hearing tomorrow by the way with tulsi gabbard who's going to bear the responsibility on this congress member eric swalwell post everyone on the public war plans
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Oh, it's a one day story. Then they'll move on and Trump will do another post about the portrait and how ugly he looks. And then he'll talk about annexing another country and then we'll move on. Guess what? Remember that movie, Captain Phillips? I'm the captain now, remember that line? It's a new media environment, okay?
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group text should immediately lose their security clearance and be fired their idiocy just put a gigantic target on america we're not safe and senator mark kelly from arizona posted notice to white house staff there is a room in the building and secure systems where you are supposed to have these discussions signal ain't it your recklessness put the lives of those pilots at risk you got lucky time to reevaluate
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There's a reason that the Midas Touch Network and the Midas Touch Podcast is yes, beating Rogan, yes, beating Fox News on YouTube, because people want the truth. People are pissed off and we are using this network to highlight
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all of those town halls that democrats are showing up to the cowardice of republicans running away from their town halls remember how the corporate media would never show the bernie and aoc rallies well now that we're bigger than them guess what we're showing the bernie rallies the aoc rallies any democrat who wants to go into a red district we're going to highlight those rallies or go to your district and speak truth to power we are going to highlight
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People fighting for people and not the ones running away from the people. This is a moment where courage will be rewarded. It is obvious who the cowards, who the traitors, who the real losers are and who are the people betraying our American ideals. We will keep fighting every day here at the Midas Touch Network and the Midas Touch Podcast for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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the way you are doing things. Let's bring on Brett and Jordy here at the Midas Touch podcast. And we don't know if they got lucky. What we do know is that hackers and other have consistently been able to break through on Signal. We know they're having these chats simply because They inadvertently put on the chat, the reporter and editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic.
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But how many other group chats exist out there that we don't know about where our most sensitive information has been leaked? Final point I want to make on this long intro, Brett, before throwing it to you. Donald Trump stole classified information when he left the White House the first time and Donald Trump's
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appointed federal judge, Judge Eileen Cannon, covered it up for him and basically said special counsels don't exist. But we know that these are people who are not just reckless, but intentionally malicious with our most sensitive data. Brett Jordy.
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The Trump administration, we should call him a regime, texted me its war plans. He talks about how he was invited into this chat. He saw the most highly classified information. He didn't know what the heck in the world was going on. And if this was even real, the information was so sensitive he couldn't even write about a lot of the stuff that he saw.
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By the way, remember in the Dominion lawsuit, we saw all those group text messages of the Fox hosts and how they interact with each other. When you bring a Fox host who never actually led any military group before to lead the Department of Defense,
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you're going to have adverse horrific fatal outcomes that is necessarily what's going to happen when you bring in people like rfk who are anti-vax conspiracy theorists and you bring them in you're going to have serious issues regarding the health and well-being of americans when you bring in people like tulsi gabbard who have a history of laundering
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And by the way, Donald Trump was asked about it today at a disastrous press conference and public cabinet meeting after Donald Trump was posting about how upset he was at this portrait being put up in Colorado of him, which he said is a really bad photo. And that was making him really angry. angry, he said, in a long ranting and raving post on his social media platform.
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Putin talking points and Russian propaganda, you're going to have that permeate throughout the United States government, now the Trump regime. But Brett, as you say, I am pumped that it felt like for the first time democracy has a pulse. Democracy has a plan, and democracy has some leaders. And we're seeing Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman AOC, Senator Ossoff.
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We are seeing people like Congressmember Ro Khanna, Congressmember Kassar from Texas, who I think did an incredible job going on Fox, Congressmember Swalwell. I did a great interview with Congresswoman Janelle Bynum, got over a million views here.
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We're seeing people step up in this moment and a lot of people going, Democrats going into red states, red districts and speaking to their constituents and saying, we know Democrats.
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that your MAGA Republican leaders are too cowardly to talk to you about the Trump regime, getting rid of Medicaid and calling social security a Ponzi scheme and destroying the lives of veterans and destroying your pensions, life savings, retirements and 401ks and gutting the Department of Education. We're here to talk.
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we are here to tell you about what we're going to try to do to help and i saw i mean to see ro khanna in bakersfield i used to litigate a baker's bakersfield i was like whoa and that crowd was into it he was in norco he was in a bunch of other areas speaking to uh constituents in republican areas and brent and jordy you know when donald trump would always say during his uh campaigning you know he just says in general these are stupid people right he goes these are stupid people
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It's always projection and confession with Donald Trump because him and his regime are stupid people and stupidly dangerous people. I mean, what Hegseth, Mike Walls, what these people were doing, it is unforgivable. I mean, you look through these text message threads with these emojis. I mean, it looks like a group of people, what, in like, what is this, like a March Madness chat?
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They're like doing, you know, a A fist bump emoji, America, fire emoji. Good job, Pete and your team. The team at Mar-a-Lago think you did a great job. And then it goes into areas where they're talking about like they're attacking Europe and they're saying things like, the VP, I fully share your loathing of European freeloading.
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it's pathetic but mike is correct we are the only ones on the planet who can do this question is timing i feel like now is as good as a time as any given potus directives as i hear it the president was clear green light but we soon should make clear to egypt and like they're going oh i'm gonna we're going over very detailed stuff
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And there are some messages that Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief, didn't even share because it literally gave sources and methods of our assets and their names and identities, which would get them killed, Brett and Jordy. And then Donald Trump holds this public cabinet meeting where he talks about how he's sending his national security advisor, who's on that chat, Mike Walls, and J.D.
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Donald Trump may be destroying our government, our economy. He may be taking away people's Medicaid. People are pissed. Democrats, Republicans, independents showing up at these town halls and letting the politicians know how livid they are at Elon Musk, getting access to their private data and destroying key federal government agencies. But folks,
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yeah you know their justification these mega republicans as they go aren't billionaires the most trustworthy people there's this is what they really argue which is ridiculous they go billionaires are so rich that why would they do anything negative to you like they're the most trustworthy people out there you know billionaires the heart of gold
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And then when they say, well, they're searching for that heart of gold, apparently in Fort Knox, they're looking for all those parts of it. That's what's stored in Fort Knox, apparently. And then people are like, what the hell are you talking about? And maybe that's what gets promoted on all of these right wing rage algorithms. But in the real world, MAGA people are on Medicaid too, right?
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They're on the Affordable Care Act. They rely on federal programs. Their special needs kids rely on federal government programs. And then they find out that, oh, that's included. And when you're using DEI, you're coming after my kids also when you use that term. You're coming after all of these other programs.
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You're gutting, oh, when we were cheering to gut the Department of Education, what we really meant is we were getting rid of the services that we rely on, like lunches for, like what are you all doing all of a sudden? And it's like, We tried to tell you that. Like, what do you think we meant when we were saying this is what Project 2025 says? Let me just give you a few examples.
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I would rather not explain it now, but it's sort of self-evident, I think. I would rather not explain it. It's rather self evident. Is it self evident because you support Vladimir Putin? That would seem to make some sense. And then Donald Trump tried to attack Europe and attack France. in front of French President Emmanuel Macron. But Macron was ready.
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This is in Missouri. This is MAGA Republican Congress member Mark Alford, where he was confronted by constituents who were asking him questions. He was doing the usual gaslighting, and then people were literally booing him. Here, play this clip.
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I've said on my website, I've said on my website, I don't think we need more gun control in America, we need more self-control. And so if we can help people with mental health, that is going to go a long way in this.
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They thought they were going to show up and because Elon's rage algorithm told them that this is what gets likes. They literally thought people would buy the crap that they were selling. Oh, we found all of the Hamas condoms, everybody. We found the condoms in Hamas. And people are like, what the hell are you talking about? Why are you taking away my Medicaid? Why are you gutting these agencies?
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Why can't I go to a national park anymore because people are being like fired? Why are you giving our tax records over to Elon Musk? I mean, don't you know that there's conflicts of interest here? Why don't you force Elon Musk to testify? Why are you why are you like hiding him like this is a government? What are you doing? You're supposed to be a member of Congress.
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Are you that pathetic that you're letting Elon Musk do all of your jobs? That's what people are saying. I want to show more of these town halls. And we'll get into some ruby red districts as well, like the one we're showing there and others. We'll go to Oklahoma. I'll show you Georgia's 7th.
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We'll go around the country so you can see the mode and the mood, rather, that's taking place in this country. Let's take our first quick break of the show. I want to remind everybody about our sub stack, which is MidasPlus.com. Check that out. Our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, does a great job curating that at MidasPlus.com.
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We'll be right back after our first quick break.
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And as Donald Trump spewed disinformation, I just want you to watch as Macron basically takes command and says, that's not true. Let me be very clear here and puts Trump in his place. Here, watch.
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I would say, objectively, this was probably the worst month in presidential history. And I think the data bears that out as well. If we have some of those polls, you'll see that literally on every issue that Donald Trump's been pushing, Americans are absolutely pissed. And when you look at just a generic, would you rather see the next Congress controlled by Democrats or Republicans?
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It's 54% to 41% in favor of Democrats. That's the latest Ipsos poll. When voters are asked to describe the nation's economy, You have 52% say not so good, 21% say poor. So close to about 80% of Americans believe the economy right now is bad.
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And by the way, if you looked at those economic numbers, despite the fact that people would always attack former President Biden, consumer confidence started to soar again towards the end of former President Biden's term. The Wall Street Journal described how the United States economy was the envy of the world.
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Lots of newspapers were talking about how Biden was handing over a Goldilocks economy to Donald Trump. 16.4 million jobs were created by former President Biden. There were 40,000 infrastructure projects created. that were being funded and taking place across the country. You had the CHIPS Act that brought the semiconductor industry here to the United States.
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You had Biden respecting our veterans, pushing forward the PACT Act to make sure that our veterans got the best health care, especially veterans as well who were exposed to toxic burn pits despite Republicans trying to block that. You had the American Recovery Act. You never had a month where jobs were lost. You had GDP growth that was soaring under former President Biden.
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America's economy was growing faster than China. It really was the envy of the world in terms of the economy. And inflation was going down. There was an expectation that inflation would hit 2%, which is the level the Federal Reserve wanted. Interest rates were being cut. And I just say all of those things to remind you that things were headed in the right direction.
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And if you want to go back to what causes inflation, let me just be very clear. It's kind of like what causes the fire. You know, there has to be kind of an ignition that takes place. And what it was, was that Donald Trump's first administration, he added $8 trillion of debt. Let me repeat that $8 trillion of debt. And that's what caused inflation.
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And by the way, you can go, oh, well, this is the Midas touch. I hear when people talk about you, when they say that you're doing better than Rogan, they call you the Trump-hating podcast. So how do I believe you? Well, I want you to go and look at what Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis both said during the Republican primary debates that Donald Trump was too scared to show up to.
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Because both of them talked about how Trump added $8 trillion in debt, and that's what was the cause of inflation, and that it was the spending habits of Republicans during the first Trump administration.
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So when you look at this new budget that Republicans are talking about, when they talk about cutting trillions to Medicaid, but then giving trillions in tax cuts to the billionaires, there are right-wing conservative Republicans economic think tanks that are saying that could add $25 trillion, $25 trillion, not just the $8 trillion that Trump caused, the first $25 trillion in debt this time.
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And I think it's going to be even more than that, quite frankly. So You have objectively Donald Trump taking that Goldilocks and turning it into even worse than kind of very cold stew at this point. And Americans are livid. And what Donald Trump is doing is he's comparing things now to how great they are, like a great golf game, he goes.
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This is how he's trying to, like, communicate to the American people. He's like, this was so good. You know what it's like? It's like a great golf game when you have those, when you really do well on those first holes. Here, watch this.
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He said that at the CPAC convention, which is like this MAGA event at this point, it's run by a guy named Matt Schlapp. who's now been accused like multiple times of like grabbing Republican men genitals, like he was sued for it, you know, once and they had to like resolve that lawsuit. I think there were recent allegations that emerged again. That's who runs CCPAC, Schlapp.
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That's where Donald Trump was describing Trump. how his first month was like a great game of golf. Like what, what are you talking about? As you cause this devastation, you're, you're comparing it to golf. And I kid you not, this is what the press room looked like today. They have signs in the back of the press room that say, this is from the official white house account. They say victory.
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It says victory. And then on the poster boards behind the podium, it says victory, Gulf of America, victory, Gulf of America. And it shows the Gulf of Mexico and they're calling it the Gulf of America. And they're declaring victory right now. I just want you to think about that as so many Americans are now suffering. Victory? Brad, Jordy.
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Yeah, you had French President Emmanuel Macron basically putting Trump in his place and saying, you don't know what you're talking about. And 60 percent of the money came from us. Let's be very clear. Then later, Donald Trump held a press conference where he attacked what he said was a terrorist. terrible deal with Mexico and Canada.
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He says that's currently causing Mexico and Canada to take advantage of the United States because whoever negotiated this deal is a stupid person. Here, watch what Donald Trump says.
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You know, the new thing that they're dangling in front of people, because this is a Ponzi scheme administration, I'm sure you saw it, are those Doge rebates. Like, don't worry, when Elon finds it, we're gonna give you some money from it.
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the doge rebates so he's just dangling them like maybe when we find you some money we'll give you we'll give you a handout we can give you some money i mean first and foremost it's such an obvious con number one it's such an obvious scam number two even if they did that It would cause inflation to skyrocket, and it would absolutely tank the markets. And so also, what's their plan, too?
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going on an adventure together. They're gonna search Fort Knox for some gold, everybody. It will be televised. Here, play this clip.
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They're going to tank our economy to then try to give people recovery checks after tanking the economy and then keep people in that type of cycle. That's what conservative means right now. I just think people aren't buying this crap anymore. I mean, take a look at this MAGA Republican Congress member, Fitzgerald. This is at his town hall that he had where he got a rude awakening as well.
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I want you to watch this one here. This is a constituent calling in to MAGA Republican Congresswoman Bice. She's from Oklahoma. Watch this Republican constituent call into the MAGA Republican Congresswoman Bice. Let's play it.
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Now, let's go to the ruby red congressional district of MAGA Republican Rich McCormick in Georgia. Ruby red here. Let's play this clip.
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I mean, the level of gaslighting and arrogance is just through the roof. And now you're seeing all these mega Republican Congress members canceling their town halls. They don't want to be a part of it. They don't want to hear from their constituents. And, you know, the people are letting them know what's going on. I mean, and again, that gives me hope as well. So you have that taking place.
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like what's going on in in russia right now where russian state regime media which is basically the equivalent of um you know our fox at this point is basically state regime media they're out there basically saying we couldn't have asked for anything better we've got america in total alignment with putin got trump and putin have formed an alliance together here this is what they're saying all over russian state tv
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Okay, so then Fox has to like justify it. So then Fox is in damage control mode. And so at this point at Fox, like if you look at some of the hosts, right, you have like Lara Trump. like who ran the RNC, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law. You have Kayleigh McEnany, who was Donald Trump's former press secretary, right?
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The former Fox host, Pete Hegseth, is now running the Department of Defense with like literally zero experience. And by the way, Firing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff via a Donald Trump social media post. I mean, General C.Q. Brown, the highly qualified chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gets fired in a social media post basically in the past few days.
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And then they bring in a guy who has to get an exemption because he has no – he did not have the qualifications to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So firing the highly qualified black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, bringing in an unqualified white guy, fired by Pete Hegseth. And people get what's going on. This Fox host, like what the hell is going on?
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Is now the defense secretary firing General C.Q. Brown? Like what the heck? So then Kayleigh McEnany on Fox, this is the message that they're pushing. Folks, you don't know. Trump's a good dealmaker, and it's all part of four-dimensional chess that you're seeing. And it's a strategy. What you got to do is you suck up to the dictator, you soften them, and then that's how you show strength, right?
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Because everybody knows a tough negotiator tries to look really weak. That's like negotiating 101, right? Play the clip.
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Seriously, sometimes you just like look at those clips and you're like.
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it does give me hope though that i think people now are looking at this and it's making them extra angry when they just see how ridiculous it is brett i want to get your take on it jordy i want to get your take on it we got to take our last quick break of the show i want to remind everybody to subscribe on both audio and to our youtube channel so our youtube listeners subscribe to the audio podcast currently number one on apple and spotify in both the us and in canada
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Beating Joe Rogan and all those right-wing podcasts as well. Thanks to all of you, the Midas Mighty. And subscribe on our YouTube channel. Our YouTube channel today, Beating Fox, the NBA, ESPN, ABC. And that's all thanks to you, the Midas Mighty. Check out MidasPlus.com where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes some great pieces there.
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A total idiot. The USMCA, United States, Mexico, Canada agreement. Who –
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Well, let me show you what was posted from a now official government account. This is from the Department of Defense rapid response account where a question was asked to Defense Secretary Pete Hegsa about why he selected an unqualified retired lieutenant general to replace the general. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, C.Q. Brown. This is what they posted.
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So this isn't like, this is what they think makes him look good. If we have, do we have that clip rep to play?
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I'm going to choose to reject your unqualified question. I mean, these are just a bunch of clowns. These are a bunch of real pathetic people, whether it's Kayleigh McEnany's response trying to act like this is four-dimensional chess, whether it's Pete Hegseth saying, I'm going to reject your unqualified question. That's the response of someone
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who is very unqualified, who is not confident in their job, and who behaves like a fifth grade, no offense to fifth grade petulant bullies, but who behaves like that as a grownup, as a leader, let alone the leader of the defense department? What was that?
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There's a lot of litigation with the Trump administration that we've been covering here on the Midas Touch Network. I think one of the most interesting ones that's probably not getting enough coverage is what's taking place with that guy Hampton Dilliger, who leads the Office of the Special Counsel, and that is the agency that's responsible for investigating illegal actions.
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taken against federal employees. So the Trump administration tried to fire this Hampton Dillinger and Hampton Dillinger sued to make sure that he does not get fired. There was a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from firing Hampton Dillinger. The Trump administration took that case up to the Supreme Court as fast as they could.
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And a lot of people were probably like, why is that one? What's it about that special counsel department that's getting so much attention and what's happening behind the scenes there? Well, we now know what's happening.
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So the Supreme Court made a ruling that basically said, you can't, we're not going to overturn the ruling from the district court that you can't fire this guy Hampton Dillinger yet. And so that's going to expire soon. I think in the next two days or so, this district court order expires, and then there's going to be a more fulsome hearing on the termination.
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But in the meantime, Hampton Dillinger dropped an absolute bombshell. And this is what the Trump administration was terrified about. So Hampton Dillinger, who runs the Office of Special Counsel, issued a report basically saying all of the terminations of these probationary employees is almost certainly illegal. Now, what the special counsel's office focused on was six specific cases.
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But in their finding, they extrapolated basically the way you would almost view like a class action lawsuit, that all of these similarly situated people, all of these probationary employees who were fired, were fired illegally.
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As a former practicing attorney who handled wrongful termination cases, you don't really get much more of a smoking gun than when human resources essentially says, yes, the company engaged in employment violations. That's basically the equivalent of what went down.
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You have now the equivalent of basically human resources, this office that looks into these things and making a finding saying these probationary firings were unlawful. And the basis of why they were unlawful is that you have to go through certain steps, even when you fire probationary employees, like you have to communicate.
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If you're firing them for cause, you can't just randomly one day be like, you're fired. See you later. There has to be some attempt to engage with them, to let them know, are they not meeting the expectations? There has to be preliminary steps. I mean, you have to think about it like this. These federal government workers gave their life to do jobs that aren't in the spotlight, right?
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A lot of these jobs aren't glamorous. These are just tough jobs where people sacrifice a lot of their time to do things that keep Americans safe, right? Whether it's working in the agriculture department, whether it's working in the Department of Education, whether it's working in energy,
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Whether it's working in national parks, whether it's, you know, being part of the crisis hotline or working elsewhere within the, you know, Veterans Administration. You know, these are jobs that are necessary, whether it's working within the Transportation Department and focusing on railroad safety, focusing on aviation safety. focusing on shipping safety, right?
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And what these federal workers just wanted in return was just to be treated with respect and dignity and have a due process if you're going to do anything to them. They signed up also for these federal jobs not to be worked by Elon Musk for 20-hour days and to be treated like trash. I mean, these people were giving their time and their life to the federal government employees
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To kind of give back as well and for them to be treated like this is so utterly horrific. But I just – Brett, you alluded to this at the beginning. Based on this finding, now what if all of these probationary employees who were fired, they now would have to potentially get reinstated, put back into their job, get back pay, get penalties, all of these monetary damages as well for being deemed –
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terminated for cause when there was nothing for cause about the termination. Just imagine if these tens of thousands of people who are fired, what if they now file all of these wrongful termination lawsuits as well? And before you know it, you're talking about literally tens of billions of dollars in the aggregate because of these unlawful acts.
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Look, supporting Vladimir Putin is not a popular position inside the United States. That is one of those areas that
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what 80 of people are more uh disapproved i think it's maybe in like even like the 90 of people and the way they that's why fox tries to say this is still part of the four-dimensional strategy it's not part of four-dimensional chess when you literally cast a vote in the united nations that says you oppose condemning russia
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as the aggressor in the Russian war against Ukraine, in Russia's unlawful invasion, that the United States would not even join with all of the other countries, but instead side with North Korea and Russia and Belarus and Hungary against Ukraine. It's like a gut punch when some of these things just hit me like a gut punch. And I'm like, that is humiliating.
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You know, when I see how the new chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, goes up there and says, now the United States, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and these MAGAs, he goes, they're just like Putin. They're basically the same. They're interfering in German elections to try to get the neo-Nazi party, which picked up some seats. They came in second. It's scary that they're picking up seats.
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But fortunately, they underperformed what they were supposed to ultimately do after J.D. Vann showed up in Europe and attacked European nations and attacked the other parties in Germany and supported the ADF. But we have the Republicans supporting the neo-Nazi party at CPAC. You had both Steve Bannon and this other speaker doing the Nazi salute symbol. You had Elon Musk doing it.
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I look at this and it literally – it's a physical feeling of – of my heart sinking, and I go, this shouldn't be a Democrat, Republican, independent. This should just be a human thing. What the hell are we doing? And fortunately, the CDU, CSU party in Germany is going to, I think, be able to form this government behind the new Chancellor, Frederick Merz.
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And he's saying, though, look, he goes, I don't know what we're going to do for our NATO summit in June, because it seems like America's out. I mean, that's how they're talking. That's how they're talking about us, you know, in Europe. And then Donald Trump's proven it with what he's with what he's doing. I mean, you know, then he posts something like this.
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This is what this is from the official account of the United States president as a SpongeBob meme where he's, again, mocking federal workers. for Elon Musk's demand that they justify five things that they did last week. And meanwhile, you had a lot of the agencies then telling their own employees, you don't have to respond to this.
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I mean, we're not even talking about the fact that Kash Patel became the FBI director and his first response in his press conference as FBI director Patel was like, this is effing crazy. This is effing crazy. Then Donald Trump picked Dan Bongino, the conspiracy theorist podcaster who never worked at the FBI.
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I mean he previously worked at the Secret Service, which is not the FBI, to be the deputy director of the FBI.
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But could you imagine the – like if someone – the thing with like a Hegseth too, like the arrogance, if someone were to say that to me, I would just be like, okay, no, what are you talking about? I'm not running the defense department. The fact that Hegseth even thinks that he should be doing it.
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goes to this malignant narcissistic pathology that's almost as dangerous as the complete fatal error of putting him in there in the first place that he takes it. But take a look at what Trump posted, this SpongeBob meme. This is how he's referring to federal workers. Got done last week.
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He's mocking federal workers, cried about Trump, cried about Elon, made it into the office for once, read some emails, cried about Trump and Elon some more. I mean, again, could you imagine a work environment where your boss just like – bullies you and harasses you every day like that. It is so demeaning, but I do want this episode to give people hope because people are rising up.
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That to me is the main theme here. Whether you're talking about from Oklahoma, to Missouri, to Georgia, to the red areas in Wisconsin, to certain red areas in New York. And you go throughout the country. This is a theme we're seeing over and over again.
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And Brett, to your point, y'all need to help make your voices heard, whether it's calling your members of Congress, whether it's showing up at these protests, showing up at events. We'll keep covering them here at the Midas Touch Network. And I just think the pressure needs to grow, Brett.
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For those listening on audio, you had Donald Trump seated in the Oval Office next to French President Emmanuel Macron, who's looking at Donald Trump like he's literally a crazy person, but a crazy evil person as well. French President Emmanuel Macron showed up to basically confront Donald Trump about everything that Trump is doing when it comes to attacking Europe and NATO and
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Yeah. You know, to your point, this is not some hypothetical damage. I mean, I'm sure your 401k is, is down right now. Prices are up right now. Inflation is surging right now. Uh, Jobs are being lost right now, and Trump's out there talking about searching Fort Knox with Elon Musk and doing a national treasure movie. Like, what in the world is going on?
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We're going to keep speaking truth to power here on the Midas Touch Network. We will fearlessly report on what's going on.
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and please help spread the message and show others this show show others our youtube channel send others our audio podcast this movement needs to keep on growing especially as the protests continue to grow we'll be covering them and we will be letting you know where to go what to do um and that's going to become a major important part of this as well
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The funny thing is, though, is that so, you know, one of the parts of Europe's strategy is they kind of send over like a babysitter to Trump, like literally just to distract him for like a few more days. And then they, it's like, then they pass the baton to like the next person. So it's like, who gets the short straw, right? So today it was Emmanuel Macron and,
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And then later in the week, you have Keir Starmer, the prime minister of the UK. He shows up and they realize that you have to just sit there in front of him. And Jordi, to your point that he's got this malignant narcissism, he's so cognitively addled as well.
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That the more you're just like in his face and you exhaust him and you wear him out and then you pass the baton to the next person because the more you're literally physically there, the less chance he does something stupid. That's like the new version of like mutually assured destruction.
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it's like babysitting donald trump so he doesn't commit mass destruction for the world basically and that's what uh that's what they're doing right now because you know you just let donald trump ramble and he just says to your point the most dangerous and crazy things i mean It's clear. You take a look at all of the polling data as well. I mean, Trump's approval is tanking.
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And perhaps the only person less popular than Donald Trump are MAGA Republican Congress members. And the only people less popular than them is Elon Musk. And folks, I'm not talking about... amongst democrats or republicans or independent just talking about americans in general are looking at what's going on and they're like disgusted they're like what you you're giving our private data Why?
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To Elon Musk? And you're supporting it based on some weirdo X memes like we live in the real world. What are you even talking about, MAGA Republican Congress members? Get this guy to go before Congress. Do your oversight job and get us answers. What the hell is going on?
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and Ukraine earlier in the day before that meeting took place. The United States officially joined, I think, the access of evil, you know, what we used to be against. Yes, the United States joined Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Hungary in opposing a resolution condemning Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Yeah, not only did they oppose it, I mean, they could have abstained.
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You're giving our medical records, our social security information, our tax information over to Elon Musk and a group of 19 to 25 year old guys he leads who call themselves big balls and who do them all of these and they do them all of these other things. And then Donald Trump goes up on stage and he says that Elon's a very caring person.
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I think that we got to use the word caring when we refer to Elon here. Let's watch this.
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Okay, that's 100% false. And then just by the way, if you were finding these things, then why is it that the MAGA Republican Congress members refuse to let Elon testify before Congress? It all happens on this weirdo social media app called XNow. What are we talking about? Donald Trump posts, Elon is doing a great job, but I would like to see him get more aggressive.
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Remember, we have a country to save, but ultimately to make greater than ever before, MAGA exclamation point. And then Elon Musk responds to Donald Trump, will do, Mr. President. And then he then sends that weird directive he sent over the weekend to federal employees.
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Consistent with President Donald Trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. I mean, it's not just that they're firing these federal workers, which rips people of their dignity.
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But it's also the dehumanization as well, just treating human beings like absolute trash who are working on very important jobs within our government that help us. And almost disproportionately, too, we're talking about this. veterans who they are firing, because a lot of veterans work in the federal government, the spouses of veterans.
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And because our armed forces people move place to place, the spouses of people in our armed forces are often considered probationary employees since they get new jobs in different states. But they've worked in the federal government and amassed years of expertise Like they're disproportionately getting fired. Disabled veterans and just hardworking people in general are getting fired.
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And then they're being told that they're being fired for cause for their job performance when their job performance met or exceeded expectations or they never even got a job review to begin with. So then it prevents them from even getting unemployment. And so they're just ripping people's jobs. They're throwing people on the street.
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And the payroll in the federal government is really only a very small portion of the overall budget. I mean, the majority of it is for Social Security and Medicare and other services like that. So they're like coming in here, Brett and Jordi, with this sledgehammer like they're these, you know, like a hostile takeover. And that, by the way, shout out to that song, by the way, that's going viral.
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the hostile takeover song. It's like a hostile corporate government takeover, which what they're doing analogous to what they would do in these businesses where they rip the guts out. But this is our government. This is how we stay safe.
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They opposed the resolution and they were in the group with North Korea, Russia, Belarus and Hungary. How insulting can you get? Then Donald Trump in the Oval Office with French President Emmanuel Macron has asked, what's your rationale for siding with an access of evil against your allies? Here, play this clip.
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So what the heck is it that you want? And when you do that, you don't provide stability to the markets. It's the reason why we're seeing the markets continue to crash. I'm sure Donald Trump lashing out at the Federal Reserve chair isn't helping things either.
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And if Trump continues down this road and actually tries to oust Jerome Powell from the Federal Reserve, all of these stock market crashes that we have seen to this point will look like losing pennies compared to what will happen to the markets and to the global markets.
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I want to first start off this episode by giving a huge shout out to all the organizers of these events who did such a fantastic job of bringing folks together. I saw people not only in the big cities, but all the towns across America. I saw people not only in the towns across America, but in these cities and towns across the entire world.
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It was truly an incredible show of solidarity and shout out to everybody who was out there, including, by the way, the Midas Mighty. I'd be remiss if I did not shout you guys out. We saw all the Midas Touch signs out there, which was so great to see.
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Yeah. I see all these MAGA people online going like, wait, like they accidentally make an admission that they don't want to make when they say stuff like this, but they say stuff like, but you know, Biden and Obama, they deported way more people than Donald Trump ever did. And the courts never came after them once, not even once. And I'm like, okay, let's try to follow this logic, okay?
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Perhaps it's because they deported the right people and not random people off the street because they were upset about their numbers. So they tried to fluff them by abducting people off the street and sending them to prisons. Maybe it's because they did something illegally. They followed the law. They did things the right way. Perhaps that is why. And they're just much better at their jobs.
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We'll get into some of this more a little later, but so awesome to hear about all the reports of all the Midas Touch listeners out there on the ground. Jordy, what's the latest?
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And I just want to pause for one second because The stuff that Caroline Leavitt, yes, it's nuts. Yes, we know it's nuts. Yes, the stuff Donald Trump says is nuts, but it's really, really nefarious stuff that they're doing here.
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I mean, this is a guy who was a union member, a father working in Maryland, and for them to just keep ramping up this rhetoric and go, he's a gang member, he's MS-13, he's MS-13, he's MS-13. Okay, where's the proof? Well, we don't have any proof, but he's MS-13, he's MS-13. Then all of a sudden, a couple of days later, they go, oh, he's a terrorist, he's a terrorist, he's a terrorist.
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This is very strong language to be using about an individual. You don't just throw around that somebody is a terrorist lightly. The fact that the government of the United States of America is doing this is absolutely appalling. If they could say it about this individual, they could say it about anybody here. And all we are saying here
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is just stand up for the constitution whether you're a republican a democrat an independent i don't care where you are on the aisle this is about doing what is right by the united states constitution this is giving somebody their due process rights if you truly believe that this person is who you say it is then instead of airing it out on fox news or on your twitter feed or your truth social feed
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air it out in the courtroom, let the court of law decide on these matters. You do not have a right as president of the United States to whisk somebody off the street, send them to an El Salvadoran concentration camp to spend the rest of their lives when they have not been convicted of anything.
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The deep state who you put into office. I mean, the whole thing is so stupid. Caroline Leavitt, every time I listen to her, I mean, it sounds like, it looks like, even her presentation, it looks like you're watching a North Korean propagandist lady delivering news Glorious leader stands behind Sir Pete Hegseth with the greatest strength imaginable.
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It's like, oh my God, you're laying it on a little thick. It's absolutely insane. The Pete Hegseth in that clip to me sounds like, you know, like the villain at the end of the movie is when they get caught and they're like, I'll show you, I'll show all of you. You're going to regret that. And they're like being whisked away by like the police officers. That's what Hegseth reminds me of there.
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He just is completely unhinged. He's completely panicked. And it's just not the temperament you want from somebody who's in charge of our nuclear weapons, who's in charge of our attack plans while he spreads them on Signal and all these other Gmail, all these other various apps that they're using in the Pentagon. The Pentagon right now is in complete and utter disarray.
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And I'm going to bookmark all those clips that we just played here for the moment that we find out that Hexeth is out at DOD. because we're starting to see the dam break. Don Bacon, Republican congressman, is the first now to come out and say that Hegseth should step down or be fired by Donald Trump. I'm sure there will be others as well. I mean, this is serious stuff.
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We're dealing with issues of national security, and we have a complete maniac, a complete incompetent fool, a Fox morning show host, who clearly is in over his head in this role. And it is just so dangerous to the United States, to the entire world. And Ben, you're right.
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This defensive mechanism that they're doing, these comments by Caroline Leavitt, the statements by the administration, it just makes them all look so incredibly weak that they're unable to even manage what's going on inside their own administration. How could you solve the world's problems if you can't even solve what's going on in your own Pentagon, in your own departments?
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It's just completely embarrassing from top to bottom.
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by the way how do you call yourself a fighter when our troops die multiple occasions in different countries in our country and you refuse to even say a single word about them exactly don't give me this i support our troops i'm the guy for our troops i want a lethal whatever military you can't even say a word when our troops die in lithuania you can't even say a word when our troops die because you sent them to the border on this ridiculous scheme it's like give me a break don't like don't give me that crap
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Wait, first let me read the proverb. I'll let the audience think on this during the commercial break because it's a great proverb, Turkish proverb. When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus. We'll be right back after this.
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And that's a Trump supporter who posted that. That's somebody who voted for Donald Trump, who is summing up what Donald Trump did to the economy. Just want to make sure that folks know that as well.
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people are rising up yeah i'll also add it also shows that he's weak and utterly incompetent at everything that he's doing he can't get anything done so his only move is the same move that he always goes to which is to lash out at other people and so you see him and rubio doing that with the ukraine situation you see them doing that in all facets it's just attack attack attack attack rather than just take a moment and actually take a little bit of responsibility for your actions i think that really shows weakness this inability to admit you're wrong
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This inability to say, like, there shouldn't even be this protracted fight right now to get Kilmar Obrego Garcia back from El Salvador. The second that they admitted we sent this guy over there due to an administrative error, he should have been on the next flight home.
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All of these people who they're sending there, because there are many other people who are there who have done nothing wrong, who have not had their day in court. I'd say most of the people there. In addition to Kilmar, Brave Garcia, whose names are being forgotten right now because of the attention. There's not enough attention to go around sometimes. All those people should be back home.
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This shouldn't be a fight. When you admit that you have made these mistakes, correct the mistake or say, we screwed up. Hegseth screwed up. Here's how we're going to take care of it. That's what actual leaders do, not whatever the hell we're seeing right here. And the world leaders right now, they're just mocking Donald Trump.
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They just know that they could go to anybody else and cut these deals and just isolate the United States from everything because the United States has isolated themselves from the rest of the world. It's like the worst negotiating position imaginable. As Ron Filipkowski, our editor in chief, continues to tally, it's now been 10 days
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since Peter Navarro went on Fox Business and said, we're going to get 90 deals done in 90 days. We're going to get a deal done per day. You'll see after 90 days, 90 deals are going to happen. It's been 10 days since Navarro said that. Zero trade deals have been executed at the time that we are live on this episode. Just complete.
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utter incompetence and failure but like ben said the people are rising up i want to give another shout out to all the people who are out there at the 50 51 events um these protests were absolutely incredible this week and i gotta say like pretty big crowds considering the fact that there were protests like a couple weeks ago but people just continue to show up in numbers.
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I saw people in the big cities. I saw people in the small towns. I saw people in Munich, Germany. I saw people all over the world out there protesting Donald Trump, protesting Elon Musk. Side note, did the Wisconsin Supreme Court race just completely break Elon Musk or what? The guy's disappeared ever since then.
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I'm thinking of Trump's comment too, where he says the people who are against tariffs are bad at business. Well, why don't you look at some of the people in your own administration, like Elon Musk,
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who is against the tariffs are you calling elon musk bad at business maybe you want to have that conversation with him as well but these protests out there seeing the people on the streets um it really inspires hope and i want to thank everybody for for being there all the creativity of your signs ron philip kowski on midasplus.com uh he did a great job cataloging some of the best signs that were spotted at many of these events from across the world uh you should check it out
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Like I said earlier, we also saw so many people from Midas Touch out there, like supporters, listeners, people who were out there representing, which was super cool to see. I'll show you some of those posts if you see yourself super cool. If you don't, tag us next time and we'll try to get you. But here's some of them. We see this incredible poster that says, shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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Jordy, your picture's on the, you know, it's, you never know what you're gonna get when your picture's on a protest sign, but I think this is the best case scenario.
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We see truth over lies go to Midas Touch Network. Absolutely love that. I see Midas Touch sent me. I see this one also, another one that says Midas Touch sent me on the sign. Very, very cool. Somebody with the MTN logo, another sign that says follow Midas Touch Network. Another one that has images of Legal AF, of MTN, of our make lying wrong again design. I loved
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This design that we saw that somebody made, it's a picture of a little thing of toothpaste and it says Midas Touch Network. Brush away the lies. Stop truth decay. Absolutely epic stuff. And we've been saying now for a while here that we are building up right now to a democracy summer. Now, I think it came even earlier than anybody expected. Now we are in a democracy spring.
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But the democracy summer, the people are going to continue to rise up. They're going to continue to combat this authoritarianism. And as the people get stronger, you see this inverse relationship right now. The people are getting more confident. The people are getting their power back. You even see a lot of the politicians now figuring out how we fight this regime.
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And you see the Trump administration in complete and utter collapse. They are flailing right now. They look like fools. They look incompetent. They are losing faith of even many of their ardent supporters out there. They've certainly lost faith of the business community, of the finance folks, of many of the small businesses who they are completely screwing over right now.
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So keep up the pressure, folks. It is working. I'm proud that you are in this fight, that you are putting in this effort because it is so important right now to stay engaged, Jordy.
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It's insane. And, you know, what Trump tries to do is, you know, what he tried to do in 2020, which he tried to take credit for, like the and I don't even want to call it good stuff, but the good stuff that happened during the COVID pandemic, like the fact that oil prices collapsed because nobody was leaving their homes. Trump was like, look, Oil prices, they're way down right now.
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Look, no inflation. It's like, yeah, nobody's shopping. Everybody's locked in their homes because you allowed this virus to spread everywhere and everybody is terrified for their lives. See, Trump gave away the game a few weeks ago when he did that post on a social media platform where he said Trump is purposely trying to tank the economy. Remember that video he posted on a social media account?
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Trump is doing this all on purpose. It's all part of this. grand plan, folks. You just don't get it. You're just not smart enough. Well, all the stuff that Donald Trump has caused is actually the opposite of what he at least claimed to intend to do in that video. You see currently the bond market imploding. You see the 10-year treasury yields soaring. You see the dollar crashing.
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You see inflation expectations sky high. So what does Donald Trump do? He tries to look for a scapegoat. In this case, he's trying to look for anybody he could blame. Do I blame China right now? Do I blame the Fed chair, Jerome Powell? I don't know. Let's just blame everybody because I'm not going to let them say that it's my fault. And that's the stage that we are at right now.
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It's the blame game. Donald Trump never takes personal responsibility for everything. He's trying to shift the blame. to all these various people. Meanwhile, he has created nightmare conditions that do the exact opposite of what he was hoping to accomplish, at least his stated goals.
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If Donald Trump's real intent, as described in that video that I'm speaking of, was to crash things such that the Federal Reserve had to lower rates in order to jumpstart this economy, he's done the worst job at it because all those indicators with inflation on the rise with the dollar crashing, with the yield skyrocket, all that stuff, that makes the Fed go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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There's a lot of instability here. And if we were to lower the rates right now, we could supercharge inflation and make this problem even worse because we can't react like that. We need to follow the facts and follow the data. And that's exactly what Donald Trump doesn't want to do. He wants to put this fake jolt into the economy.
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By the way, this is kind of the same thing that caused the inflation in the first place, what Trump wants to do right now again. It's just a speed run of him destroying the economy exactly like we saw in 2020, but happening now at the top of his administration. Utter chaos.
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you know he did a lot to advance the cause of um human rights and to stand up for uh people who have less means and so i was sad news to wake up to certainly happy easter to everybody it's good to be here everybody listening here on apple podcast and spotify everybody watching us live always good to be here with the midas touch network to deliver you the latest and greatest news well not too great i guess because donald trump continues to crash the economy and just send the world
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I want to remind everybody, the trade deal we currently have with Japan was cut by Donald Trump in 2019. He keeps reneging on his own trade deals. It's like the trade deal we had with Mexico and Canada that he says was done by an idiot.
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i agree it was it was done by you donald trump you did that trade deal you did the trade deal with japan and now you want to act like oh we need this is all unfair we need to do something but like this is why none of these countries ultimately are going to trust you one of the issues that trump is running against in all of these kind of all these areas is that there's nobody in the trump administration including donald trump himself who can articulate what they actually want out of these negotiations because they pick these fights without actually thinking through what it is they wanted
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A lot of these countries, I think Japan might be one of them, like we don't have a trade deficit with, we have trade surpluses with, that defeats the entire purpose of what Donald Trump is even claiming to do. So how are you going to solve this, right? He wants some sort of ceremonial, right?
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He wants that Fox News headline that the other mainstream media will run with, Donald Trump cuts a deal with Japan, he cuts a deal with this country, and he can't even get a fake deal done because he can't articulate what it is that he actually wants out of these deals. If you asked everybody in this administration, what do you hope to achieve? All of them would give you different responses.
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into total chaos, and he refuses, as always, to take any responsibility for his actions, just continues to try to deflect blame to other people. But guess what, brothers? Guess what, Midas Mighty? The people are rising up, and it was incredible to see these protests over the weekend. Once again, these 50-51 protests.
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Every single one. It was just like when Donald Trump announced this and you would speak to one person and you'd go, so is this a negotiating tactic? They'd go, no, not a negotiating tactic. You'd speak to somebody else. They'd go, hell yeah, it's a negotiating tactic. Art of the deal. And you'd be like, okay, I just spoke to five different people. I got five different answers.
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41% when you won the presidency, that's not popular. That's not conquering. That's not achievements. And CNN, stop with the freaking normalizing. Oh, he's been known to bend the Constitution. You mean violate it? We'll talk a little bit in the show about this meme coin thing.
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I mean, when you are going to be signing executive orders on crypto and the day before your presidency or 48 hours before you're dropping a shit coin, as they're called, because these things are so grifty. and scammy, it's like what the Hak Tua girl, you are doing in the presidency what Hak Tua girl did, whose name is based on a sex act that got her famous.
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Then Melania dropped a meme coin, and then it started losing billions of dollars. And then Donald Trump's pastor, or the pastor who spoke at the event today, he dropped a meme coin. They're all dropping meme coins, apparently. The grift gets bigger, and I guess a new mark is made every day in MAGA. We'll talk about that and more. But I don't want us to ever be distracted.
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And your allocation is basically the same as Hak Tua girl. We'll talk about that, but that's what you're doing? That's so demeaning to, I don't care what political party you're from, you should be like, ugh, gross, this is just absolutely disgusting. But folks, I always need to bring it back to WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Because notice what Trump did say today.
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And again, I don't show the audio and video. Don't worry, you're not going to hear his voice. Trump goes, they all said inflation was the number one issue. I said, I disagree. I think people coming into our country from prisons and mental institutions is a bigger issue for the people that I know.
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Really, because the whole thing that was spewed seemed to be about inflation, grocery prices, egg prices. He did talk about Hannibal Lecter and he did lie about Haitians eating cats and dogs, but let's be clear. Border crossings under President Biden were lower than under Donald Trump. That's the objective data. They were as low under Biden as they were under Trump in April 2020.
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Do we know what April 2020 was? COVID, the reason border crossings were down under Trump was the same reason that gas prices were down in 2020. People weren't driving, people weren't crossing the border because there were mass casualty events
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taking place in the united states where there were mobile morgues where there were food lines in the united states because trump said like a miracle it's all gonna go away but notice what he's saying here that he's saying that inflation's not the number one issue or the big issue right there
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it absolutely is president biden was getting it under control it was caused by donald trump adding eight trillion dollars to the debt that's what caused it and trump's mishandling of covid so it's a shock to the system when you have to restart the economy with the american recovery act which is what president biden did but now donald trump's like oh that's not a big deal not inflation
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why weapon of mass distraction he's not going to be able to get inflation under control what's other what else is donald trump doing as a wmd a weapon of mass distraction during his inauguration speech talking about conquering other countries we should take it seriously because trump has the ability to do it now um but trump on the panama canal quote we didn't give it to china we gave it to panama we're taking it back excuse me first and foremost it was a lease
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It wasn't give, it wasn't we're taking it back. You're talking about conquering a nation? The president of Panama responded and said, no, you're not. We are a sovereign nation. Get the hell out of here. I'll do a whole other hot take on that. Then Donald Trump spent time saying, Henceforth, it is official policy, penises and vaginas. That's what we're gonna talk about.
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Penis and vagina inauguration. It's the same stuff they do. There are only two genders, male and female. Okay, what do you want me to say? What do you want me to say? You want to spend your time attacking the transgender community, marginalized community, and say, male, female, biological. We're not going to fall for that fake up. First off, do not attack marginalized communities.
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It doesn't make you an alpha to behave. It makes you freaking pathetic. to bully marginalized communities. But I'm not going to be distracted focusing on a transgender volleyball. We're gonna stand up for the community, but we're not gonna get distracted. Oh, the outrage, the transgender volleyball player from San Jose State.
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No, we're gonna hold you accountable and say, where's the peace in Ukraine? Wasn't that supposed, excuse me? What time is it? Wasn't there supposed to be peace in Ukraine today? Didn't you say you're such an excellent dealmaker that you would? By the way, that was supposed to happen after the election. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't give you any benefit of that.
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i'll say you meant today what time is it right now there's no peace in ukraine didn't you say i'm gonna go to putin with your accordion little tiny fingers and accordions then you go to putin here what i'm gonna do putin and here what i'm gonna do is the linsky all right all right you do this And then you do this and boom, I'll get it done. It was not done.
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What did Donald Trump promise? He said, peace in Ukraine today. Well, that didn't happen. So that's a promise broken. Didn't Donald Trump also say on day one, there's going to be so many jobs. You're going to be so upset because there's going to be so many jobs. Well, that's not happening. Donald Trump said prices were going to be lower. That's not happening.
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So, Hey NBC, instead of reporting on booze at a Trump event of Obama, that's not exactly breaking news that that's going to happen. How about you go and report the facts?
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like there was no peace in ukraine today which was also one of his promises and also jobs aren't being magically created like a miracle like he promised how about you do your damn job corporate media or just cut your own cords because people are going to cut it because you are absolutely pathetic right there
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You know, Jordy, did you notice what they did today also? What they did. Which I'm not even going to take their bait and do it here. It's not worthy of our time. But they were praising Trump, doing the whole boo coverage, and then still attacking President Biden, now former President Biden. That's what they were spending their time doing over – Hey, guys, you know what? I get it.
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Trump's in office. We're going to magically fix all of the things that you claim you are going to fix. Ain't happening. We're laser focused. Corporate media, I guess, is focused on kissing the ring. We've got a lot more show, folks. Let's take our first quick break. One thing to remind you all of as well, you've got patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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We got a massive surge of patrons during the puppy inauguration. So thank you to all the new people who join our Patreon. Also, we have MidasPlus.com. That's where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, does some incredible daily reviews of all of the news. I also write a bunch of articles there. That's MidasPlus.com. Check that out. We'll be right back after our first quick break.
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The prices of goods and other things are increasing. Housing's not more affordable. And so it's important that we not get distracted by Donald Trump's WMD. weapon of mass distraction. We'll talk about what went down in some of the weekend shows as these MAGA Republican leaders like MAGA Mike Johnson and Byron Donalds were just incredibly weird and creepy.
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MAGA Republican Congress member Byron Donalds referred to Donald Trump as his, quote, daddy and says, Daddy's home. Daddy's home, everybody. That's really strange. And then Maga Mike Johnson was asked a pretty basic question on Meet the Press about lowering prices. And are you going to put anything in some of this legislation to help the billionaires that may lower the prices?
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Look, NBC is owned by Comcast, right? Comcast has its corporate agenda where it feels it needs to suck up to Donald Trump. They feel that they need regulatory benefits from Donald Trump and they're going to behave the way they do rather than stand up. Then by appeasing him all of these years, they've now again basically taken away all of their own power in doing that. It's counterintuitive.
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As I said in one of my MidasPlus.com posts, when Donald Trump was calling these media companies failing, They weren't failing, actually. That was the thing. They were not failing media companies. But then they took on that persona and became failing, right? Everything Trump touches dies. And now they actually are failing now. And they weren't before. And independent media is growing now.
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because they embrace the Trump loser mentality by being afraid of this guy. It's ridiculous. Anyway, let's go back to what was going on in this inauguration. I'll give you a few more data points here, and then I want to talk about this Trump shitcoin situation, this rug pull. That's one of the big words. I think we're going to call this the rug pull presidency.
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The main word, the word of the year in 2024 was brain rot. which I think is a precursor to rug pull, right? 2024 was the rot which gave way to 2025 as the rug pull. And just so you know what that term means, if you don't know rug pull, the rug being pulled from under you, conning people and then removing the rug and then they fall flat footed or flat on their face after they're conned.
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I think that's what that means, anyway. Now Trump goes, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries and we're going to create the external revenue service. All right, let's see how you actually implement that. It makes no sense. And again, tariffs are taxes on American corporations.
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I don't know what you're talking, it's just ridiculous what you're even saying. It'll only make prices higher. It'll result in retaliatory tariffs. So that ain't going anywhere. More distraction from Trump. We will not forget God. Can't do that. Well, apparently the pastor at the inauguration view of that is I must create a meme coin. God wants me to create a meme coin.
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And Maga Mike's like, well, it's very complicated. You say very, very complicated. But speaking about the billionaires, how weird was it that they were sitting right next to the cowboys? of Donald Trump, who many of them are billionaires as well. Trump has like his billionaire cabinet next to the actual cabinet. It was very strange. You had Bezos's wife, what she was wearing was a bit unique.
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That is true. That's a great point. Yeah. So for those wondering or who watch the puppies and want a little bit of information about what went down, Trump did not place his hand on the Bible.
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And then the day before, one of the individuals who Trump is involved in that company that sells the Bibles said that Trump would place his hand on the Trump Bible that they were going to then sell limited edition Trump Bibles that he was going to use at the inauguration. I mean, honestly, like if you're a religious person, you know, or even a non-religious doesn't make a difference.
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But like for those who are like, you know, the symbolism of the Bible is so important, like Really? Just imagine if Obama or Biden didn't do that. It would be the front page of Fox and every corporate media network. Donald Trump then went on to attack Nancy Pelosi and he called Adam Kinzinger a crybaby, just stupid stuff. He then went on to attack General Milley, former four-star general.
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One of Donald Trump's first acts to show how big and tough he was is he took down the portrait of General Milley that was hanging in the Pentagon. Real strong gesture to get rid of that painting. I'm sure Milley's like, oh, my gosh. I worked and gave all the service so that my painting could be hung in the Pentagon. But it's just a petty, silly, loser move that that's what he was going to do.
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And then you had Zuckerberg taking a peek at what was a bit unique. What? Photo speaks a thousand words. I guess we'll cover that. And also that weird TikTok scheme that Donald Trump was trying to pull where TikTok shut down for 24 hours. And it was like, we are working with dear leader Donald Trump to try to fix this. Praise be, praise be, he's trying to fix it.
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Keep that energy when you're looking at things like this. You had Elon Musk giving a speech at one of these inauguration events. You can judge for yourself what this hand gesture was that he did twice, but this is what Elon Musk was doing. For those who are just listening on audio, you may have seen our reporting on this otherwise. Look for yourself also.
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As soon as that event was done, Elon Musk arrived at the White House right away. He's got an office right there, literally in the executive building that's attached basically to the White House. This is where he is. He's an unelected billionaire and never in the history of the United States would you ever have a situation like this, that the oligarchs are actually in the White House
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influencing and basically serving as a shadow presidency and a shadow government, just taking up the position right there. I mean, just think about that. I mean, think about McCain-Feingold, a bipartisan piece of legislation that was intended to try to keep this exact situation from happening. Bipartisan, right?
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And then they took it down for 24 hours. Then it went back up in 24 hours. They were like, Donald Trump, President Trump, he saved us. He saved TikTok. And by the way, there was no reason for them to take that thing down. The funny thing is, is that All these billionaires, they probably thought they were like so smart with this scheme, but it seems like people are seeing through it.
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And then the right-wing Supreme Court in the Citizens United case said, actually, we got to protect corporations and their First Amendment right to buy presidencies. That's what the Citizens United case basically said. They have a First Amendment right to spend their money however they want to spend their money. And there's cause and effect that that then leads to this situation.
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And again, that was a bi think about bipartisan efforts, the ability to get Democrats and Republicans to agree on anything. They agreed that that was needed. Then the right-wing Supreme Court struck that down and then you got this MAGA mutation developing then from the Tea Party movement springing into MAGA and this is the state that you have right now.
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Speaking about Elon Musk, he's supposed to be leading this fake government entity called Doge and that was actually hit with a lawsuit. One of the first lawsuits that were filed were filed against Doge. By the way, if you go back And Brett and Jordi, you may remember this. In some of my reporting about a month ago, what I was saying is, remember I was calling Doge a quasi-governmental entity?
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And I was saying that it's still, based on how it's being represented, now falls under all of the federal rules of government agencies. You can't just be like, We're not going to recognize federal labor laws and government laws, but we're going to be this kind of government agency. So what the lawsuit said is, look, you're violating the Freedom of Information Act.
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You're violating all of these other federal agency acts. You weren't created through the Administrative Procedures Act. And so this lawsuit, which I think is very meritorious, is basically looking to shut down Doge, number one, but also we want all of the communications
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relating to doge all of elon's text all of elon's emails vivek ramaswami's that should become public um as well and this entity needs to be shut down i think whether you're in front of a right-wing court or a left-wing court whatever
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it's a strong lawsuit against doge one of the other things to mention as well as Vivek Ramaswamy see you later bye-bye he's done he's gone he lasted negative scaramuchis they pushed him out remember Vivek Ramaswamy was basically saying the same thing Elon was saying like they weren't saying really different things and they were basically saying that Americans
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can't do STEM jobs, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, because the culture in America
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is dumber and americans are stupider than people from india so we need to expand the h-1b visa program because americans are too dumb and too stupid to hold stem jobs they literally almost said that kind of word for word inferior to stem workers from india and then donald trump was like i actually always loved h-1b if you look back The entity of Trump that used H-1B was Trump Modeling Agency.
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That's how they got the models here, that they were all geniuses and got H-1Bs and Einstein visas to basically bring the models into the United States. But Vivek basically said, Americans are too busy watching Boy Meets World and they would not like Steve Urkel. They would like Stefan. And that's the big problem with American culture.
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Frankly, it seems like people are seeing through a lot of this crap. And it's just so important. Again, WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Let's focus on what's happening. Let's not make the same mistakes of the past. Let's call him out and let's make this a sophisticated resistance where we're calling them out each and every day on the right things. Brett Jordy, how are you guys doing?
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And then Elon Musk was basically saying the same kind of stuff, but money talks and Elon Musk. is in. Vivek Ramaswamy is being pushed out. Negative Scaramucci's. I don't even know what's going to happen with this doge. The whole thing never really felt like it was a well thought out other than kind of a gimmick to begin with as just a pretext to get Elon that office right next to the White House.
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But the oligarchs are in the White House, literally, not figuratively. They are actually in the White House right now. And Elon has an office there. Just think about that. And again, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, that should piss you off. And if you're a MAGA voter, if you're a Republican who voted Trump, right, you got the rug pulled. That's ultimate rug pulling.
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You got the oligarchs running the show right now and prices aren't lower and there's no peace in Ukraine and housing's not affordable. Focus, focus, focus. Let's take our last quick break of the show. Reminder, patreon.com slash MidasTouch, MidasPlus.com. Thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors as well. Thank you for everybody who watched our puppy inauguration. We'll be back.
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We'll talk about that rug pulling with Trump's meme coin, what these MAGA Republicans are saying on the weekend shows, trying to justify the rug pulling, the promises broken. We'll talk about that and more. Let's take our last quick break.
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A complete inauguration fail. Donald Trump tried to pretend that it was too cold to do the inauguration outside the Capitol. The reality was that he was afraid of those teeny tiny crowd sizes that he draws, or I should say doesn't draw. But what a weird event. We'll break it all down, but of course we don't show the audio or video of Donald Trump.
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Impressive, not impressive. I'll tell you what is impressive, though. The Daily Star, this UK tabloid, their front page was, we're not 100% sure they're right, but one in 25 Brits insist. The orange man baby is a zombie. And that's kind of how you have to deal with him and talk about him, especially when he does things like this.
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Look, even the crypto community was confused when Donald Trump dropped a meme coin on Friday and they thought it was, he must have been hacked. Like, how could this be real? You're dropping a meme coin and then you look at the allocation of the meme coin and about 80 to 90% is owned and controlled by insiders, 10% liquidity on the actual market of these meme coins.
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And by the way, Trump tried to claim it's not like a meme coin because he didn't want it to be considered like a security. So they wanted it just to be like, this is a meme and all you're showing, if you buy this meme, is that you love the symbol dollar sign and the letters, T-R-U-M-P, and you're showing affection for the community that likes numbers and symbols and letters.
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So here's how it went down, Trump posts, my new official Trump meme is here. It's time to celebrate everything we stand for winning. Join my very special Trump community. Get your dollar sign Trump now. Go to Get Trump Memes, then you go to it. And it's like you buy these things with a debit card or you buy it with crypto.
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Then you take a look at the fine print and it says, Trump memes are intended to function as an expression of support for and engagement with the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol dollar sign T-R-U-M-P and the associated artwork and are not intended to be or to be the subject of an investment opportunity, investment contract or security of any type.
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GetTrumpMemes.com is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign or any political office or government agency. See terms and conditions. And when you look at the terms and conditions, it's all of these liability waivers that basically say you can't sue Donald Trump or you can't sue Trump memes.
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And so basically it's this thing that actually looks like a security that like the same thing as like almost like a stock. but it's unregulated. So it has all of this. You hype it up. People say, this looks like a pump and dump. You hype it up. 80% to 90% is held by insiders, meaning they're not the ones who actually buy this thing. They just have 80% to 90% of the supply.
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When I'm saying that there's 10% liquidity, that means the public basically gets around 10% or maybe slightly more of this So if they're all buying this and they're increasing the value by buying and selling this thing and the value is increasing to say $60 for one or $70 for one. Well, then you look at the allocation and you go, what's the quantity that's out there?
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And then you go, okay, the quantity that's out there, meaning the liquidity that's actually now trading on the market. But Trump's trying to claim, oh, it's actually not trading. It's just people selling these memes. But that then gets a value.
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So then you can say, OK, if the value of the 10% is being sold at X dollars and Trump or the insiders control 80% to 90%, you can actually be like, holy crap, Trump's net worth just increased at one point by like $60 billion. 60 billion with a B, became one of the wealthiest people in the world and in America on this meme coin thing. And then his other wealth comes from Trump media.
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But get this, Trump media never made more than close to $3 million in revenue a year or $4 million in revenue a year. It's not making significant profits, but he's making huge amounts of money holding securities or paper that people are investing in because it's him. And again, it's this murky area of crypto. Are foreign governments buying it? Who are the people who are buying this?
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And it's all clouded in crypto wallets. This one crypto wallet holds this. This other crypto wallet holds this. And then here's the thing. Biden's SEC was trying to regulate this stuff and say,
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these memes are securities they should be regulated no different than the stock market because let's be clear what's riskier a meme meme coin or ibm stock why is ibm stock or apple stock regulated by the sec as a security that's on a market that has all of these requirements but meme coins aren't.
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The whole reason why there's an SEC is because once upon a time, people ran all of these scams with things like meme coins, but they were stock certificates and papers that were not regulated. That's why there was this experience that created the SEC. So these meme coins are end run around it.
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Frankly, if there is a place for crypto, and I think there's a place for crypto, I'm not anti-crypto, but this type of crap gives it a horrible name. And then Melania got into the action. She created her own meme coin called Dollar Sign Melania, which looks like Smelania. That's...
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And then when Smolani came out right around that time, it also, whether it was coincidence or whatever, then it started driving down the price of the Trump meme coin. And at one point that Trump meme coin was down like 60 plus percent, meaning the rug was pulled. Lots of people lost massive amounts of money. Imagine buying that at the top of the market and then losing money.
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and putting your life savings into this thing, thinking that you're gonna get rich because all these people are making all of this money. And then boom, it falls like crazy. And then you don't have the ability of the DOJ or SEC to do anything because Trump controls it now. And you can't go after Trump because he now has immunity as the president.
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It is a nasty, I don't care what political party, this was a nasty game. that Donald Trump pulled on the people. It screwed up. And again, are your prices lower? No. Is there peace in Ukraine? No. Is housing more affordable? No. Was he spending time doing that? No. Him and Melania were releasing meme coins that should piss you off regardless of your political party.
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I want to mention two things. First, I think it's important that we also mention developments with Donald Trump's pardons and commutations. When it comes to commutations, that basically just means reducing the prison sentences of individuals.
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So one of the things that Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, sentenced to 22 years, the DOJ called for terroristic enhancements, someone who's literally one of the most dangerous people out there. And whether you were a Trump-appointed judge, a Democrat-appointed judge,
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a Republican appointed judge, they made it very clear over the past few weeks, do not commute or pardon these types of people. Stuart Rhodes, Enrique Tarrio, these violent people. Enrique Tarrio's mom saying that Tarrio's been released and Trump's commuted that sentence. We're hearing about a lot of other violent insurrectionists as well.
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whose family members are talking about them being released. It does indeed seem that Donald Trump's going to, whether you are violent, you get a commutation. And if you are nonviolent, you get a pardon. But this is one of the first acts that he is going to clearly be doing. We'll get you more details on that. I'll do a full take on this as well.
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And this is coming from the family members of Tarrio and other individuals as well. And again, while this is vile, disgusting, despicable, dangerous, pick your word. This is a wake-up call, I think, to Americans that this was someone convicted of seditious conspiracy, convicted. Juries saw this and they said sedition. And Donald Trump said, I'm pardoning them. They get to go.
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It should be noted that Enrique Tarrio was in the White House, hanging out in the White House, in the residency area back in December of 2020, which I know corporate media was too afraid to talk about then. But again, we're not dealing with lower prices. We're not dealing with peace in Ukraine. He's out there pardoning seditionists and commuting the sentences of seditionists.
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It is absolutely, absolutely despicable and vile. Next thing I want to mention, Martin Luther King Day. It is a time for reflection on Martin Luther King's legacy. And as his daughter, Bernice King, also talked about, enough just quoting Martin Luther King, especially by people who don't understand what his legacy really is about mass, strategic, nonviolent protest were the words that she used.
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She goes, if you want to honor Martin Luther King Jr., remember what his real legacy is about. You don't need to do empty quotations of him. And I think it's important that we all reflect on that here today as well. His actual legacy and when we, the people, will be called upon as well to –
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do mass strategic nonviolent protests and how with the incoming that's going to be taking place, we remain united and we make it clear that our voices be heard. I'm not going to pretend that the next four years are going to be puppies and kittens. I think it's helpful that we did what we did today And the fact that we raised $80,000 plus for the Humane Society, I think was a helpful thing.
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Look, we're not showing video or audio of Donald Trump. We're still going to explain what went down. I mean, we are a news network after all. Let me explain to you why I think it's so important, though, that we have independent media. May I show you Exhibit A right now? And this was brought to my attention by others who they tried to dabble with the coverage.
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And by the way, I'm open to doing that once a month and on other special occasions. It's a fun way, I think, to bring this community together. But again, life isn't all puppies and kittens. The network and the news we do and our work here goes on.
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And it's important that we remain fearless, unapologetically pro-democracy, and we stand strong no matter what is thrown our way, that we never obey in advance or ever, we never kiss the ring, and we always stand up. We always stand up for peace, for love, for compassion, for freedom, for our democracy. And that's what we're gonna do here each and every day with you, the Midas Mighty.
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We're going to fight by your side every step of the way. As we did today, as we'll do tomorrow. So thank you very, very much. We appreciate you. Jordy, you want to take us out?
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And they chose NBC because they're like, yeah. Obviously, Fox is an issue, ABC, Stephanopoulos, or as Trump calls them, Slopidopoulos, who has settled the case, so I don't want to watch it. Maybe NBC is a safe place to try to watch this. Maybe they'll give actually some decent coverage and function like The Fourth Estate. If you turned on NBC, this is what you saw. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, what the hell was that? I mean, truthfully, is that the definition of media malpractice right there? You are at a MAGA event and you are... for reporting on their boos and reporting on their boos as though you're reporting on a car chase. It almost had that tone of this live event. And here they come. They're turning right. They're going on the highway. Boo. OK, you are hearing more.
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But we'll talk about how pathetic and low energy it was, talking about pathetic, low energy disaster doge. What's going on with that dogey thing, that fake governmental agency? Well, we do know Vivek Ramaswamy is being pushed out. I guess he's incompatible with the fake agency. That lasted negative Scaramucci. See you later, Vivek.
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What do you expect this MAGA crowd that is literally in a stadium to watch the inauguration. How do you think they're going to respond? Why is that striking to you? And why is that something that you're even reporting on? So I feel very comfortable and confident that the puppy inauguration was the absolute right way to go.
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And that's how they're going to report on things going forward, gamifying, propagandizing. I don't even know what the hell that was, Drew.
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I don't understand why in general, the idea of like being a billionaire and having like so much money just kind of feels a little bit gross to me in general, but whatever, I set it aside. But what's the point of being a billionaire, like if you're a Bezos or a Zuckerberg, if in reality you have like zero power?
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Like, wouldn't part of the evil billionaire kind of thing or whatever, like, to then have the power to like, here's how I'm going to do it. So you have all of this money.
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it's it's a really great it's it's a great point and you know it's like okay what the stock market went up 55 to 60 percent under president biden like objectively those are great returns right if you told me hey if you invest in this over the next four years you'll get a 50 to 60 return right so like they're criticizing that as like whoa things were so bad It's like, really?
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ramaswamy who's going to be the next to fall on the trump see you later bingo card or talking about who's latest latest to fall you've got the trump meme coin falling this meme coin madness at this inauguration party for the crypto community at around that time trump dropped a meme coin and then it quickly made billions of dollars and
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Like you think it was that bad? I mean, look, I don't believe the stock market should be the metric for our economy. There's other metrics that Biden should be rated on, which were, I think, all pretty good. I mean, 16.6 million jobs created, never consecutive months where jobs were lost. You had record GDP growth.
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His Inflation Reduction Act was bringing our inflation down more than any other country. I mean, it was doing a pretty good job until Trump started giving all of these threats and doing the whole Trump shtick, 40,000 plus infrastructure projects. I could go on and on and on. But now these MAGA billionaires needed to have like, it wasn't enough to have 50 billion. It had to be 300 billion.
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And then that wasn't enough. It had to be more like, what are you doing with all of that money? But then you have zero power. And then you're just kind of like sitting there under Donald Trump's thumb. And like, they were all like, really, it was just like a weird thing to see them there lined up. I mean, look, just take a look at them right there. Like we go objectively a weird group.
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these are objectively really weird like really weird people like let's just be real here and then you have like like bezos there you know with his wife and i mean like wait what can like what is this like what you see how she's she's like dressed with the shirt open and then you have zuckerberg standing or sitting right there like just kind of looking like down at
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at her shirt or, you know, what she's, what he's looking at. I mean, the whole thing is very, very strange there. You have Melania wearing this like weird funeral hat. It looks like she's, it looks like her hat is like the roof of Pizza Hut. That's what she's wearing.
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The whole thing, I'm like, what are you wearing? Weird vibes. Weird vibes. It was in the rotunda. It felt very small. It felt very pathetic. I felt like a funeral, honestly. As all of the corporate media, too, was trying to be like, this was an actual headline from the Washington Post.
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how's donald trump conquering dc i think a headline from cnn was donald trump is known to push the boundaries of the constitution i thought there was another headline this may have been from nbc how is he more popular now than ever it's like he isn't he objectively isn't He is the least popular president, I think, in history leading up to an inauguration. It's supposed to be a honeymoon period.
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And for Donald Trump, the nation already wants a divorce from this guy and many want a restraining order. I mean, the AP poll has his pre inauguration approval rating at 41%. This is supposed to be when it's like 70%, right? Obama's was like 78%. Clinton, George W. Bush were like 72% approval. Biden was somewhere between 67 and 72%. That's popular.
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By the way, to an ally, the head of Panama, the leader of Panama, had to respond and say, that's not going to happen. We're going to defend and protect our sovereignty. I'll do a whole video take on that, but that's one of the things that Donald Trump did there then.
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Donald Trump said, as of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. So Trump spending time in this inauguration speech talking about penises and vaginas. Now, one of the things I've always said here on the Midas Touch Network is Trump is a WMD.
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a weapon of mass distraction notice that donald trump's not saying anything about lowering prices or tackling inflation in fact when donald trump and others were asked about are you going to like lower inflation donald trump had actually said in his speeches uh during the day that actually inflation is not a big issue what he said inflation is actually really not a big issue for americans the issue is
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the border. Well, remember, Donald Trump said lower prices, lower egg prices, lower grocery prices. There was going to be peace in Ukraine today. None of that happened. He needs to be held accountable. And let's not get distracted by his penis and vagina and gender talk and him changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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Hillary Clinton was mocking Donald Trump, laughing in his face during Trump's inauguration speech when Donald Trump did spend significant time talking about changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Melania wore a weird hat at the inauguration, dressed very strangely, kind of looked like she was there for like a funeral in an authoritarian nation.
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Perhaps that's what this was. But look how she was dressed when Donald Trump attempted to greet her. Her hat was at such a length and angle that he was unable to even kiss her cheek when she gave him the side cheek. Very odd, very strange. Thankfully, I don't show audio and video on this network of Donald Trump or Melania. Donald Trump also saying we can never forget God. We can't do that.
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We can forget God. OK, how are you going to lower the prices? How are you going to make eggs more affordable, make groceries more affordable? How are you going to deal with the fact that Biden was bringing down the inflation that was caused by the eight trillion dollars in debt that you incurred during your first administration? What are you actually going to be doing?
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Again, no peace in Ukraine in the first 24 hours. WMD weapon of mass distraction. Donald Trump's speech later in the day, he was so he gave the inauguration speech in the rotunda and then he gave another speech in the Capitol building surrounded by the MAGA Republicans. And then Donald Trump said of Nancy Pelosi, she's guilty as hell. She's guilty of criminal offenses.
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She is guilty and then went on to talk about Nancy Pelosi's daughter. being a videographer. And so regardless of what you think about President Biden's preemptive pardons, when Donald Trump makes statements like this, you kind of go, okay, well, I guess what else were you going to do in that situation? Trump then made more statements about Melania's hat.
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Donald Trump's inauguration speech and the speech he gave later in the Capitol building, objectively, it's like the worst speech I've ever heard. We don't play audio or video of Donald Trump here on the Midas Touch Network, so I'll go over what happened. So the inauguration speech starts.
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He said, with that hat she's wearing, she almost blew me away with that hat, or she almost blew away with that hat. Now, folks, again, WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Look, I'll call it out. It's weird. It's a weird hat. They're weird people. I get it. But let's focus. Are prices lower? Is there peace in Ukraine? Is housing more affordable? Did he magically bring all of these jobs on day one?
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Has that happened? You got to ask yourself. Those were the promises. That's where I want to make sure we are focusing on
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This is what Donald Trump then said about 2016. Again, he was obsessed with Hillary. He must have saw Hillary Clinton, must have saw her laughing in his face. Whether he did or did not, he's obsessed with her. Again, this is what he's saying in 2025. He goes, we took on Hillary. She didn't look too happy today. We defeated Hillary. We did much better the second time in 2020.
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Yeah, in 2020, by the way, the election was totally rigged in 2020. It was rigged. It was rigged. Okay, dude, you're now, unfortunately, the president of the United States. Just maybe even try to pretend that you're one 100th president. faking being an adult. Is that too much to ask? Pretend that you're one 100th faking being an adult. You're incapable of acting even like an adult.
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It's in the rotunda because Donald Trump was worried about the crowd sizes, so he acted like it was too cold in Washington, D.C., which it really wasn't. He had a whole section for oligarchs like Zuckerberg and Bezos and Musk. Their spouses were allowed to attend. The members of Congress, their spouses and significant others were not allowed to attend.
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You've already set the floor so low. There isn't even a floor anymore. I mean, it's just ridiculous. But now in 2025, you're up there whining about 2020. How utterly pathetic can you get? Then he talks about California.
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Donald Trump's like, I'm going to ask the speaker, MAGA Mike Johnson, to get involved in California, by the way, not to help with wildfires or provide emergency aid because they want to attach conditions to that. He goes, because I think we would have won that state in California if there was voter ID in California.
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That's what he's talking about with California right now, that he thinks he would have won the state of California. Donald Trump then says, why are we trying to help a guy like Millie, referring to the four-star general chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Millie. He goes, why are we doing Millie? He was pardoned. What he said, why are we helping Liz Cheney?
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She's a crying lunatic, crying Adam Kinzinger. He is a super crier. Again, this language, the language, such a baby. But WMD, Weapon of Mass Distraction, Oh, the outrage. You called the crier. You called Kinzinger a crier. Oh, my God. Folks, ask yourself, are the prices of eggs lower? Is he tackling inflation? What is he doing? And you'll find out. It's all a bait and switch when it comes to him.
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Trump then goes, and I was going to talk about the January 6th hostages, but you'll be happy because you know it's action, not words that count. And you're going to see a lot of action on the J6 hostages, a lot. Now, from all of the reporting that's out there as of the time I'm recording this video, he's supposed to pardon a lot of the nonviolent January 6th insurrectionists.
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And then also potentially deal with some of the more violent ones as well. We will determine and tell you, report as soon as we know what's happening there, but we will keep you posted. Then Donald Trump talks more about Melania. He goes, Melania, she said, sir, she calls me sir when she's angry. I'm only kidding. I better say I'm only kidding or the press is going to pick that one up.
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Oh, you see what he's doing? The press is going to pick Donald. That's not the press anymore. In the words of the Captain Phillips movie, we're the captains now. The Midas Mighty, the Midas Touch Network, we're the captains of the ship now. And so we'll say that that's what you said. Oh, Donald Trump saying sir about his wife. Is there peace in Ukraine? There is not. Are prices lower? It is not.
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Are you tackling inflation? You are not. You are selling meme coins though. You're doing meme coins. Pathetic. Then Donald Trump goes, I will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and brings freedom of speech back to America. He's just so utterly, okay, Donald. Sign that one, because it seems like any time people speak the truth about you, you're so sensitive.
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But the billionaire oligarch sat right next to the cabinet. You see them right there. You can take a look at what Jeff Bezos' wife said. was wearing. You had Zuckerberg clearly intrigued and looking at Bezos's wife in a way that, well, you can judge for yourself. Later in the day, you had Elon Musk doing this gesture right here. You can judge for yourself what it is that he is doing.
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Maybe you're the crier. Maybe you're the crying lunatic here, not Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger. Maybe you're just referring to you right there. And then Trump goes nuts. This is what he's signing some executive orders. And he goes, lastly, we have a proclamation ordering all future inauguration days, including this inauguration day, that flags shall be flown at full mass. Very important.
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Okay, Donald, the flag's full mast, great. You really stuck it to Jimmy Carter in his death, even though the code requires that it be half, it be brought down till half mast until, or half staff rather, not half mast, half staff while 30 days after someone's death. Okay, Donald, again, we're focused.
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And we're focused on the fact that you are saying also today that you think that Americans don't care about inflation. But what Americans really care about is, you know, is whatever, you know, the border, which we do care about. But you killed the bipartisan border deal, by the way. So. Anyway, we'll keep reporting on everything that's happening. I'm not going to show you the audio and videos.
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You can go back. Our senior producer, Asen, gets these clips. So all these clips are available on all of our social media platforms. It's just I've made the commitment that I don't want to play his voice or audio here on this channel. You can go and watch these clips if you want to see him actually say it. That's what happened at his speech.
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the inauguration speech, the subsequent speech, and you saw Elon Musk at the other event. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. It's the Midas Touch Network. I hope you enjoyed the puppies earlier today. Did pretty good. We raised almost 80, maybe by now we have about $80,000 for the Humane Society helping with the animals here in Los Angeles. So thanks for that. Hit subscribe.
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Let's talk about Trump's inauguration speech. Trump threatened Panama and said, we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama regarding the Panama Canal, and we are going to take it back. So one of the first inauguration addresses that was a direct threat was, of invasion and conquest.
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A complete disaster right now unfolding in the White House. Weak, pathetic. And that's Donald Trump's statement that he's not concerned about this clear and present threat to our NATO allies. It's showing utter weakness. And let's be clear, the only thing that Donald Trump did yesterday in his call with Putin was basically say the United States is out. Putin, do whatever the hell you want.
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Ukraine, good luck. America is out. After Donald Trump promised he was going to bring peace in 24 hours. A weak, pathetic, vile piece of trash. That is Donald Trump, who deserves zero respect whatsoever. A stain on the United States of American history. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe.
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He wanted to talk about this fake declaration of independence that's in the Oval Office, which he claims was the original one. And he just goes on this bizarre rant and says, I took it from a vault. I got the declaration from a vault. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, it's pretty pathetic that what concerns Donald Trump is finding a fake declaration of independence from a fake vault versus actually talking about the issues that matter to the American people. And here he is talking about what he calls this Golden Dome. He goes, it's going to be $175 billion in total. He says that there's $25 billion going to go to the Golden Dome. Here's what he says.
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So then he's asked, like, so, are you listening to military commanders or are you just winging this yourself? And Trump says, it's my idea to do this Golden Dome. He just likes the word gold and dome. And so now he's putting this golden dome over the United States when we have systems in place that deal with this already. Here, play this clip.
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We are seeing in real time what a disaster Donald Trump's call with Vladimir Putin was yesterday. Donald Trump held a disastrous press conference today in the Oval Office. He said it was about building this golden dome, as he's calling it, over the United States of America, this missile system that's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
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So Donald Trump is asked about the cost of his budget bill and programs like this. Donald Trump wants to increase the military budget to $1 trillion while gutting Medicaid, gutting supplemental nutritionists. assistance programs, gutting rental assistance programs.
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You know, he's taking away these key programs, but giving these tax cuts for the billionaires that many estimate will cost at least 5.1 or at least 4 to 5 trillion dollars. So then Donald Trump continues this lie where he says, look, we just brought in 5 trillion dollars from the Middle East. I've just collected 5 trillion. So we're cool. We're good. Here, play this clip.
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Er hat nicht einmal so viel Geld gekauft. Saudi-Arabiens gesamte jährliche GDP beträgt 1,1 Trillionen. Katars jährliche GDP beträgt 200 Billionen. Und die United Arab Emirates GDP beträgt 400 Billionen. You add all of those annual GDPs up combined together, it is under $5 trillion. These countries are not giving their entire annual GDP to the United States of America.
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He's just coming up with a fake number the way he gives fake valuations for his properties to justify the fact that the deficit is going to increase by at least $5 trillion. And if you listen to MAGA Republican Congressmember Thomas Massey, Er sagt, dass dieses GOP-Budget das Defizit von 20 Trillionen Dollar erhöhen wird, ist es, was er sagt.
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Hier verschwindet Donald Trumps Gehirn, als er versucht, das Wort Dokument zu sagen. Er spielt diesen Clip. Das ist Monroe aus dem Monroe-Dokument.
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But Donald Trump was asked about the breaking news that it looks like Russia is further amassing troops along the borders towards Finland and Norway and whether that concerns Donald Trump. Here's his response.
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Hier versucht Donald Trump zu beschreiben, was die Golden Dome ist. Und er sagt, denk dran, du schießt Schüsse aus dem Luft. Wiederum, er weiß nicht mal, was er hier spricht. Er sagt keine kompletten Sätze. Lass uns diesen Clip spielen.
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The United States looking gold. And Hegseth is like, add this to the long list of promises made, promises kept. Dude, you said you were going to lower housing prices and make things more affordable. You said you were going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Not this crappy or play this clip.
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Hier ist auch Hegseth zu Donald Trump mehr und sagt, ja, Sir, ich habe gesagt, Sir, das war eine tolle Vision, Sir. Hier, spiel diese Klippe hier.
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Just to remind you what Donald Trump had said after his call with Vladimir Putin. This was from a press conference before this one, where Donald Trump was asked, you believe that Putin wants peace. So if Putin wants peace, Donald, then why is he continuing to send ballistic missiles to kill innocent Ukrainians and drones every single day? Ukraine's agreed to an unconditional ceasefire.
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Putin has not. What do you say to that, Donald? Here's what he said.
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But one of the things Donald Trump has claimed is that during his call with Putin, Putin kept on mentioning Melania and saying Melania is very respected. Melania is a very respected person. Okay, she's not. And on Russian propaganda TV, they consistently show Melania nudes over and over again to mock Donald Trump. Here's what he said.
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Nun, wir können wirklich sehen, wo sie ihre Truppen besiegen. Also, Wladimir Putin gab Donald Trump gestern einen großen Mittelfinger. Und Donald Trump sagt, er hat keine Angst. Er sagt, es äußert ihn überhaupt keine Angst, dass unsere NATO-Alliierten von Wladimir Putin so getötet werden. Now, what Donald Trump did want to talk about, though, was not that.
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auf Aluminium, Stahl, Autos und Pharmazeutik. Er geht 50, 75, 100, vielleicht, wer weiß, wir werden es einfach erhöhen, spielen diesen Clip.
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The damage those pathetic statements are doing, it's hard to even quantify the damage being caused right there by Donald Trump. Because he continues to spread these lies or continues to then wake up and feel this way or that way about tariffs. And it's having a real effect on our economy and making America look like North Korea, frankly.
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So, Maga Mike Johnson holds a press conference while all of this is going on. And he's asked the question, can you just talk to us about the budget? What the hell is going on here right now? And Maga Mike, he just goes, I'm not even going to answer questions. I'm just going to give you my state regime talking points at this point. Here, play this clip.
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And then finally, you know, Donald Trump lying and saying the reason that he's cutting food assistance programs is he says that's going to get you more food. And then he lies and says gas prices are down to a buck ninety nine. They're not a buck ninety nine anywhere in the country.
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He goes on to continue to lie and say that grocery prices are down and that inflation is down and things are going great, which is all a total lie. Play this clip.
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While Rome burned, Nero played his fiddle. While Trump burns America, he posts bizarre AI images of himself calling for criminal investigations against Beyonce, Oprah and Bruce Springsteen. This follows Donald Trump making posts that Taylor Swift is, he says, not hot. Donald Trump has posted memes of himself. himself calling for criminal tribunals to be held against former President Obama.
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has downgraded the United States credit score for the first time in the history of Moody's, which has been around since 1917. This says the MAGA Republicans are pushing forward a budget that will gut Medicaid, take away supplemental nutrition assistance programs.
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Let me share with you this. Donald Trump then talks about how he talks about his Middle East trip during this press conference, and he claims he secured $5 trillion. Here, play this clip.
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And by the way, those are not some of the richest places either. OK, Qatar's entire GDP is $200 billion. You know what the annual GDP of Canada is who Donald Trump attacks? It's like $3 trillion. OK, do you know the GDP of California, which is the fourth largest in the world? It's not that Qatar is rich.
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And this is where Donald Trump's mind is so attached to this idea of like royal authoritarians versus democracies. California has the fourth largest GDP in the entire world. OK, it's not even close. But Trump looks up to these, you know, leaders in the Middle East and they didn't commit five trillion dollars. They didn't commit 30 X their annual GDP to the United States.
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And it's just absurd that nobody there is like, hey, you realize that that just makes absolutely no sense. So then Donald Trump spoke to Putin today. Now, I just want to give this context. Trump was claiming that he was going to go to Istanbul to meet with Putin and Zelensky.
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Remember about two weeks ago, Putin said that he wanted to go to Istanbul and meet with Putin and have peace discussions, which we told you was all BS and it was going to be propaganda to try to play Donald Trump. So Trump would attack Zelensky, but the real goal was just Putin wanted to have a direct conversation with Donald Trump.
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So that he can get everything he wanted out of Donald Trump and then try to force Ukraine to surrender because Zelensky has been making very smart diplomatic moves. Zelensky showed up to Istanbul. Putin backed out. Donald Trump backed out. So then Donald Trump spoke to Putin today. And the purpose of the call was trying to secure a ceasefire. Instead, Donald Trump just made a post.
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He's like, we talked about ceasefire. I feel very good about these conversations. Now it's up for Zelensky and Putin just to talk it out. It's up to them to talk. That's your solution? Your solution is that you're done. I just want to be clear. You're done. Zelensky and Putin need to, you don't think that's been thought about before?
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And the problem is, is that Putin wants Zelensky to completely surrender and Zelensky wants Ukraine just to exist? If Ukraine stopped fighting, it would no longer exist. If Russia stopped fighting, we would have peace. Zelensky's agreed to an unconditional ceasefire. That's the dynamic. But what did our corporate news run with? Donald Trump says ceasefire is going to work. No.
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will take away housing programs to provide affordable housing and affordable rental options this as they provide trillions of tax cuts to their billionaire mar-a-lago buddies while increasing our deficit by at least six trillion dollars we didn't start this fire donald trump did but we here at the midas touch podcast
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Donald Trump claimed he was going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours with taking office or even before that. And what's Donald Trump speaking about? Putin was clearly mocking Melania during the phone call. And we know that also because Russian state regime media has been showing Melania nudes over and over again since the election. Watch Donald Trump talk about, oh, I think Putin likes my wife.
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I think he likes Melania. That's what you got out of the call? Here, play this clip.
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I'm OK. I'm OK with it. I'm OK. Let me be clear. When Putin said they respect your wife over there, he was mocking you. That's what he was doing. I'm okay with, I mean, how weak and pathetic does he look? Then you have Caroline Leavitt give a press conference earlier in the day where she was asked if she has any updates about Stephen Miller, Trump's top advisor's plan to suspend habeas corpus.
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In other words, to dismantle the constitution and take away people's right to have cases heard before federal courts by essentially invoking martial law. And her response is, we're still looking into that. We're still looking into that. Here, play this clip of Carol.
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What in the Kim Jong-un are we watching right there? The question, what's going on with the potential elimination of our constitution? Well, I don't really have any updates on that, but we're going to look into it. Do we understand the import of what they're saying? By the way, this is what's going on on state regime media as they constantly show these Melania photos over and over again.
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We've got a lot to discuss in this episode. I want to talk more about what went down in that Caroline Levitt press conference. I want to talk about the status of the budget bill. I want to talk about other pressing concerns. Let's take our first quick break of the show. I want to remind everybody, subscribe to our YouTube channel. We're getting closer to that 5 million subscriber mark.
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are going to do everything we can do each and every day to try to put that fire out. Brett and Jordy, welcome to the Midas Touch Podcast and Midas Mighty. Welcome as well. We are back from a whirlwind trip to New York where it started with the Webbys, a Katie Couric, interview. We were there at YouTube where they announced we were on the top of their new YouTube podcast charts.
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And Mother's Day, our mom's birthday, and now back in Los Angeles. I was on the tarmac, the runway, for about four hours trying to leave New York from JFK. It was like a 15-hour flight. But here we are. We're back in action.
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It was a birthday gift. It was a birthday gift from our mom. So I wear that, figured I'd wear that birthday gift. All right, let's get into it. So Donald Trump's disastrous budget bill, which he calls a big, beautiful bill. It's actually a massive, gigantic disaster. By the way, don't you see the New York Times and others say, the big, beautiful bill is making its way through.
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How do you literally buy that idiotic framework? What this bill is going to do is it's going to add at least $4 trillion to the deficit
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i think conservatively 6 trillion my prediction is more like 15 to 20 trillion when all is said and done especially when you factor in what doge has done by essentially dismantling the irs to allow rich people to avoid paying taxes by doing maneuvers that would otherwise be investigated so how do i know that this bill is going to add at least $4 trillion to the deficit.
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Remember how the MAGA Republicans were making it almost impossible for former President Biden to raise the debt ceiling? Oh, that's so fiscally irresponsible. How dare you do it? Really? Well, in this budget bill, they raise the debt ceiling, the MAGA Republicans do, by at least $4 trillion. Okay, that's in it right there.
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When you take a look at then the trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the billionaires, you're looking at, you know, I think the best estimate is $6 trillion. I mean, it's literal. I mean, you can't even debate with that. You want to have a debate with me whether it's $15 or $20 trillion that's going to be added to the deficit, you know, fine. But this also cuts taxes.
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Medicaid, $880 billion, that's still there. There were some MAGA Republicans who were holdouts on the budget committee and they were not voting for this budget bill because they wanted more cuts to Medicaid. They wanted to make sure more people were immediately taken off Medicaid and that wasn't delayed by a few years. They wanted it to happen next year.
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That was one of the things that MAGA Mike said, okay,
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we'll get rid of these people from medicaid right away if they don't meet the maga definition of able-bodied maga will determine if you're able-bodied or now maga will determine what your corporation should have to price you know you see all these press conference right now when a company like walmart by the way and i'm not trying to compliment walmart they've done a lot of crappy crappy stuff but
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and have destroyed small and medium-sized businesses but when a company like walmart says we're gonna have to pass on costs to consumers and the trump regime is like no you need to eat it you need to eat it they did like the same stuff with amazon they did the same stuff with like that you you need to eat the cost sounds a little a little little communisty if i uh
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All of this stuff is Trump and MAGA central planning. We're going to create MAGA savings accounts. They literally have something called MAGA savings accounts is one of their gimmicks. So there's not going to be no tax on social security, but MAGA savings accounts, everybody. I mean, isn't this stuff, if you're like, what do you mean MAGA savings account?
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I think I have a clip of Caroline Levitt talking about the MAGA savings accounts. Here, play this clip.
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I wonder which corporations are going to try to be benefiting from MAGA savings accounts and building out an entire industry around there. This is not a family-friendly budget. I mean, this is a budget that's going to kick you off of your health care.
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I mean, the nonpartisan congressional budget groups that take a look at this have said that 13, 14 million Americans are going to lose their healthcare. People are going to lose their supplemental nutrition assistance. They're going to lose their SNAP. It guts HUD, which provides rental assistance and affordable housing. It's by like 40%. This is the least family-friendly thing.
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And then they go out there and have Caroline Leavitt just lie in the most brazen way imaginable. I mean, she's asked about the fact that this is going to add at least $4 trillion to the deficit or more. That's one of the reasons why Moody's downgraded America's credit score, because this is going to blow up the deficit.
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By the way, 25% to 30% of the deficit that's already existing was caused by Donald Trump the first time. He was the most reckless with debt of any president in history. And you don't have to take my word for it. Go back and look at the GOP presidential debates, which Trump was too afraid to show up in.
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And you'll see DeSantis and Nikki Haley said the reason why we had inflation under Biden, a direct quote from them, was because of Donald Trump's reckless handling of the deficit and adding trillions and trillions of dollars in debt. It's a direct quote from them. So you don't have to quote me.
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but here caroline levitt just looks at the camera and i want you to watch her whole demeanor like she has like the worst tells as she gears up to lie she does this thing like she flips her hair and she just kind of gears up and she like revels in the lie. She's like, all right, I'm going to do a good lie. Watch her get the question. She enjoys it. You'll see her wind up. It's sick. It's sick.
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It is literally going to add $4 trillion. Do you see how effortlessly she does it? I'm going to find the other clip where she does that, where she does the thing, and I'll make sure I get it to Brett during the break. But effortlessly.
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Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. That started it. That's where I was like when I was watching it live. I was like, she's like gearing up, you know, like the baseball player before they go to the plate. They like have their practice wins. All right. All right. This is going to be OK. Literally, the world is selling off America right now. They're saying we need to get out of America.
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Objectively, what's happening is the European bond markets, the European equities markets, China's markets, they're actually doing much better right now as people are no longer viewing the United States as a safe place for money or for a safe place that it once was if Donald Trump can. And just let's look at it objectively.
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If Donald Trump wakes up in the morning and he starts to make posts like himself holding a sword, blind justice under the law will return to our republic.
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as he starts posting about military tribunals about obama from q anon counts he's posting counts that from accounts that say i believe in q the great awakening of holding the line actual death cult accounts posting first military tribunals and then himself with swords and then saying taylor swift ain't hot anymore Would you want to put your money in that company who's like, just think about it.
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If it was a company and you're an investor, let's, let's break it down in an easier way. Okay. Let's just say you have $5,000 to invest.
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And on the one hand, you have a company run by a CEO who's posting things like that here, just pulled up one more time, who's posting death cult QAnon stuff, weird sword pictures talking about we should criminally investigate Beyonce, Bono and Springsteen, illegal violations, illegal violations. Or are you going to try to invest with a company where the CEO is like, we need to support
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free trade and we need to create a stable market environment. And China realizes this. China sees this opportunity. While Donald Trump was out there begging for personal gifts to himself in the form of gold-plated jets, which he claims it's like the Statue of Liberty. This was like a gift to America. That's what they're going with now. It's like the Statue of Liberty.
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The Statue of Liberty, there was a congressional resolution from 1877 agreeing to accept the gift of the Statue of Liberty. The United States actually paid for some of its construction, and that was for the American people.
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Giving a gold-plated jet that becomes part of Donald Trump's hypothetical library, which isn't in existence, which means Trump gets to use this and his family uses it for their rich billionaire friends for the rest of their freaking lives. on the American taxpayer dime, okay, that is not like the statute.
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How offensive to say that Trump- It's offensive to our intelligence, honestly, the whole thing.
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just think about how heinous it is too that during this really somber moment for our country to recognize that former president biden got that diagnosis it took what less than 24 hours for donald trump to give a press conference and say the most despicable things about former president biden to go up there and basically spread conspiracies and to say oh we we should be looking into
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What's going on there? Then Donald Trump refers to having a score of nine on the Gleason scale of prostate cancer as stage nine cancer. The whole thing is just like – just put it – and then Trump then pivoting to brag about passing dementia tests himself.
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like making it about himself oh i passed i aced it trying to be like i'm so smart i passed a dementia test but biden has cancer play this clip this was from earlier today do you want to respond to president biden being diagnosed with cancer are you gonna call your your predecessor uh i think it's very sad actually i'm surprised that it wasn't
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And you see the people in the back there, though, to the cop in the back. And they're all like they're all like a lamp. I mean, to me, those people are equally as bad as him. And it's honestly, it's such a shameful representation of America that that is somehow valued. Con artists, frauds, felons, sexual abusers, like a sick, vile piece of trash. That's a piece of trash human being.
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We should start also with our thoughts and prayers and positivity goes out to former President Biden and his entire family. By now, you know that he announced that he has a very serious prostate cancer diagnosis. MAGA Republicans right now are trying to further spread conspiracies about him. Corporate news continues to defame him. I don't even want to
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Lowest of low characters, like a real sicko, a criminal, a felon. It's a felon, a fraud, a freaking loser, a bankruptor, someone whose entire life has been scamming people and ruining lives. Like the fact that you could just have a cop. You think he gives a shit about you? Really? You think he cares about you and your family? The fact that that could even be normalized right there.
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And let me just show you this clip. When I interviewed former President Biden and I asked him what you want your legacy to be, this is what American corporate news is afraid of, by and large.
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they hate to have a good decent drama free human being with predictable foreign policy who handles himself with class because that's not enough drama to get these lazy pieces of in the media the clicks that they freaking want because they are pathetic at their jobs play the clip when history is all told
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He's posting weird images of himself performing in front of fake crowds to music by Journey. This says Donald Trump also held a press conference where he bragged about Vladimir Putin talking about Melania. during their discussions, which was supposed to be about peace in Ukraine, which Donald Trump promised he was going to secure within 24 hours of taking office or 24 hours before taking office.
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And then Patreon.com slash Midas Touch. When we come back, I want to talk about the elections in Romania and Poland where the pro-democracy, pro-EU candidates won and beat expectations. Some real upsets over there. So add Canada, Australia.
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And I even think that Pope Leo, one of the reasons they picked him is because of his kind of position on immigration and decency as a kind of a check on this right wing authoritarianism. We'll be right back after our last quick break.
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get into that and give that any attention i just want to send a heartfelt thanks to everything that former president biden has done for our country and beyond his policies representing decency compassion and a true love for our country so i know the mightiest mighty sending all the positivity we can to former president biden and his family let's get into what's been going down so donald trump got back from this
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disastrous trip to the Middle East. As I posted on various social media accounts, because America is so propagandized and our media basically looks no different than the way like Kim Jong-un state regime media works or Russian state regime media works, the headlines are basically what Donald Trump feeds to the media.
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And they just basically posted, oh, Donald Trump did a $1.2 trillion deal with Qatar. No, he didn't. He didn't do a deal with that. Their entire GDP is $200 billion. They're not giving 6X their GDP to the United States. Do some critical evaluation before you just give those types of headlines.
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but just judge by the actions that we all objectively know took place. I mean, want to talk about deals? Want to talk about deals? How about the fact that under President Biden, Finland and Sweden became members of NATO, right? It was the first time in a long while for NATO to expand the way it did. Think about a deal like that with countries so close.
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to russia and strengthening the nato alliance i mean 16.2 million jobs created 40 000 infrastructure projects taking place lowering prescription drug prices record low unemployment you know drill baby drill while donald trump's actually destroying the gas and oil industry uh former president biden was focused
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on climate change because it's a real thing but also america was energy independent for the first time and there was actually america was the biggest uh energy supplier leading by like every metric leading by like every single metric first place first place in everything in every single metric and
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the one of the big problems though is as i've said america has so propagandized this situation that we're not looking clear eye we are here at the midas touch network and our audiences but a lot of people don't see the connections about what's going on across the world and that's why our international coverage at the midas touch network i think is unique And I think it's unprecedented.
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Brett, to your point, when you take a look at what's happening in India, the people there are pissed at Donald Trump. Trump's family did a crypto deal with Pakistan recently, six days after the terrorist attack in Kashmir. You're not going to hear about that in our corporate news right here. But India's pissed at that.
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You're doing personal crypto deals with Pakistan six days after a terrorist attack in Kashmir? What the hell are you doing? You're claiming that there are trade deals with us that aren't there. You're taking credit for the ceasefire when you didn't have a role in that. I mean, okay, you're tricking American people because our state regime media in America pushes that out.
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But you're not tricking the rest of the world where the impact of these things actually matters. All that countries are trained on is Trump's a weak negotiator. You hold out because you get a better deal if you don't deal with his nonsense. And if you are a country that's able to bribe him and pay him off and buy Trump Towers, you'll get things in return, right?
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And most of the quote unquote deals that Donald Trump announced were things that former President Biden did anyway. Trump did no deals at all. And by the way, when you look at these so-called deals that Donald Trump does, like what he did with the United Kingdom two or three weeks ago as well, It literally said on the bottom of the memorandum of understanding, this is not a binding deal.
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The leader of Syria says he wants to have a Trump Tower. Damascus sanctions get removed. Now you have Vietnam inviting the Trump family to build a Trump Tower in Ho Chi Minh City. I mean, this stuff's happening right in front of our faces.
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That's why China hosted this conference with the Latin American nations and Caribbean nations in Beijing this past week, while Donald Trump's been out there with the Qataris and the Saudis. By the way, the Saudis, what is it? More than half of the hijackers from 9-11 came from Saudi Arabia. Qatar funds Hamas. I mean, just what are we even talking about here? So while Trump's doing that,
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And he's partying in royal palaces. Beijing invited the Latin American countries and Caribbean countries and saying, look, let's strengthen the BRICS bloc. We're a stable force. Trump isn't. You know, we don't believe in bullying and, you know, and this kind of American style hegemony.
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Now, it's it's it's could be China very well could be probably is, you know, China playing the game and spreading their own lies and propaganda. But they're playing the game. And I don't and Donald Trump's posting weird memes of himself with swords.
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like like like what that like trump's not even doing anything at a sophisticated level it's just a bunch of dumb and that our corporate media like again just ignores like ignores the behavior and then emphasizes whatever the headline is trump says we're closer to a ceasefire He said he was going to have peace in 24 hours. You let him off the hook for that.
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Trump said there was going to be peace in Gaza in 24 hours, and things are way worse right now. He lies about every single thing this guy says.
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What did he say last week? It was healthcare costs are now going to be down 90% because he said he signed an executive order. Total BS executive order where he says we're going to force pharmaceutical companies to have a most favored nations clause where whatever they're charging, the lowest price to whatever country is what they charge in America. I so decree by executive order.
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Has anything happened? Are your healthcare costs 90% lower right now? No, if you want to address healthcare costs, have universal healthcare, which Republicans oppose all of the time. Have Medicare for all if you want to reduce healthcare. Have the government, the way it now, because of what Biden did, negotiate lower prescription drug prices across all pharmaceutical companies for Medicare.
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have that take place for the private healthcare market as well, or make the private healthcare totally public so all Americans get free healthcare. Instead, Trump and the MAGA Republicans in their bill are taking away people's Medicaid. Notice the fraud and the sleight of hands.
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And all it did was give preferential treatment to Jaguar, Land Rover, and Rolls Royce over United States car manufacturers. Donald Trump did not do a deal with China, right? It was a consensus. where Donald Trump just totally caved and capitulated.
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He signs an executive order that's bullshit and not real, lowering prescription drug prices while actually taking away health care from 13 to 14 million Americans at least with a piece of legislation. Like that's actually what's happening. So just report – it's easy to see it. Just report on what's happening.
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Brett, you're like, I don't want to get conspiratorial that the corporate media is just shilling for him. But –
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we it's not like what i just said there like it wasn't like i just discovered you know something oh my god look i just came up with some incredible you know new theory of relativity i literally just said the truth healthcare costs are not down they're taking away medicaid so why is that so hard to report on why aren't you prioritizing that in your underlying reporting.
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I want to just pivot quickly to some of these international elections because I think it's important. We reported on the Canadian elections, right, where their MAGA Maple, led by the Conservative Party, Pierre Poliev, was leading in all of the polls. Then they got demolished by the Liberal Party.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney was able to form a minority government right there, and a massive upset in Pierre Poliev lost his seat there. You go to Australia, where their Liberal Party, which is actually their Conservative Party, in Australia is their Liberal Party. The right-wing party, which was led by a guy named Peter Dutton, who they called Timu Trump, he lost his seat and they got demolished.
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So the center-central left party in Canada won, the center-central left party in Australia won, and the polls just like completely switched and reversed. We saw the same thing happen in Romania, where their far right-wing party led by this guy named George Simeon, He modeled himself. He says he's the Romanian MAGA guy. He actually won the first round in the elections earlier in the month.
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But Romania rallied around the centrist, center-left, pro-EU, pro-democracy candidate. Young people basically said, We can't have our country become like Hungary or become like Argentina or, frankly, become like America right now. We're just going to be a Putin proxy. We can't let that happen. And a big victory there from this guy named Nikosher Dan, who is their pro-center, their left –
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Donald Trump rushed his treasury secretary, Scott Besant, his trade representative, Jameson Greer, to go to Switzerland because the products from China were not reaching our ports. And we were about to have a situation where there was going to be nothing on our shelves, even worse than COVID. Donald Trump caved and just took down the tariffs from 145% to 30%.
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their center left campaign pro-EU candidate right there. And that was a big victory there. And then in Poland, you had in Poland, the mayor of Warsaw, liberal centrist guy ended up beating the far right wing, Karol Narocki, in the first round. There's going to be a second round June 1st. The president of Poland right now is a right wing guy. The prime minister is more of a center liberal guy.
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They have somewhat of a confusing system in their part, not that confusing, but in their parliamentary system, the prime minister is the head of government and they have a president who's the head of state. The prime minister has more power, but the president still has veto rights. And so in Poland, you had the center center left candidate win the first round there.
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So we're seeing this Trump effect across the world. And so, you know, either you have countries bribing, you know, Trump at this point, you know, or just totally repelling. and checking him and forming alliances that basically isolate the United States as there's this massive flight away from American markets as the American brand has been irreparably harmed by Trump and MAGA.
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I think that gives us a full scope of all of the events taking place right now. I'm going to go and spend the rest of the birthday with my family. It was incredible to spend the birthday with my brothers and all of you, the Midas Mighty. So if you can check out MidasPlus.com, we really want to get to a million subscribers on that sub stack. So check that out. Patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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Next week, we'll go live there and do our special meeting. You can ask us questions there. And then store.MidasTouch.com. Check that out. Brett, did I leave anything out there?
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Donald Trump's done zero deals in 90 days and all of these other countries are realizing what a horrible negotiator he is, how weak and pathetic that he doesn't hold the cards. Remember Donald Trump saying, I got the cards, you don't got the cards. Everybody realizes that Donald Trump doesn't have the cards and that you can play him so easily.
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This says Donald Trump refuses to acknowledge the deaths of at least 28 Americans in horrific storms that have been a scourge across our country with Category 3 tornadoes in areas like St. Louis and other horrific weather events. No word from Donald Trump about these deaths as Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and other states are suffering. Also, Donald Trump has not called in FEMA.
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Let's take a look at this clip from the St. Louis mayor, Kara Spencer. And this should be the biggest story ever. of the day, of the week, this should be a front page story. Donald Trump has not sent FEMA into St. Louis or any of these areas that have just been devastated by tornadoes and horrific weather events that have killed 28 Americans as of this recording today. That that has not happened.
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The first thing you do is you activate FEMA and FEMA gets on the ground and FEMA works with local and state officials to coordinate things, especially as we now approach hurricane season. What's going to happen then when a hurricane strikes and FEMA isn't doing its job?
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We've been reporting about this FEMA issue and issues regarding the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency that Donald Trump has gutted for months and months. We've made it a major story here at the Midas Touch Network, not just a passing story that gets half a day treatment and then goes away.
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What could be more fundamental to what a government is supposed to do than in a time of distress, provide the service? What are we paying our taxes for? It's certainly not to have a already billionaire born with a golden spoon in his mouth like Donald Trump, go to Qatar so he can brag for gold-plated jets. That ain't frickin' normal. Let's play this clip of Mayor Spencer from St. Louis.
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Did you hear what she said? We had to set up a fund like a GoFundMe because the federal government is not helping out. OK, that's where we begin the top of our story on the Midas Touch podcast. What the hell is going on? And it's not just unique to that. I want you to think about all the other people who have been fired.
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the people who worked at the NIH, National Institutes of Health, the people who worked at the CDC, the people who work at research facilities. I want you to think about the veterans who were fired, the people who work in Veterans Affairs who were fired. I want you to think about the people who work in the national parks, the people across all government agencies who provide critical functions
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to help these states. We learned from the St. Louis mayor. Could you imagine if former President Biden did not call in FEMA when we deal with an event like this? Do you know what the coverage would actually be? We'll focus on it here on the Midas Touch podcast. Also, all of this is going on while Moody's, the credit agency that's been around since 1917,
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that donald trump and elon musk defamed gave him the middle finger and said we're firing you for performance related reasons go f yourself destroyed their lives and dismantled our government we did another report on this as well and i talked about it this weekend
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that Trump fired the head of FEMA, who was a MAGA guy, the interim head of FEMA, because the guy refused to say during a congressional hearing two weeks ago that he wanted to dismantle FEMA. Kristi Noem, dog killer homeland security secretary, said that she wanted to, and she was actively seeking to dismantle FEMA. And the FEMA guy said he personally believed that would be a bad decision.
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This was a MAGA guy who ran for Congress as he said, I'm the MAGA candidate. He got fired for saying he didn't want to dismantle his own agency. So I'm trying to raise... Right now, the alarms of what's going to happen and we're seeing what's happening right there. It's absurd.
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Gov. Andy Beshear on Winning as a Dem in a Red State
I'm joined by Governor Andy Beshear of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Governor, welcome. Oh, thanks for having me. Very excited to be here. Let's start with the news of the day. Donald Trump announcing yesterday he's calling April 2nd the day after April Fool's Liberation Day, where he says he's imposing more tariffs on the country. And he says that's going to make everybody super rich.
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Also, I think it's one in three people who live in Kentucky are on Medicaid, and that's being hit pretty hard as well. What's going on there with the drastic cuts that Doge and Trump and Musk are doing to Medicaid and just shutting down essential government services?
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Gov. Andy Beshear on Winning as a Dem in a Red State
It's not a secret that the Commonwealth of Kentucky is generally considered to be a red state. You are a Democratic governor in what would otherwise be called a ruby red state. You won your election back in 2023. You got about 53 percent of the vote. In 2024, Trump won the state over Kamala Harris by like 30 points.
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Let me show this to you and then let me get your reaction from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Let's play it.
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So you won the state and then he beat Kamala by 30 points in the same state where you're a Democratic. What's the what do you think the secret is here? Because there seems to be a road map there. You're doing something right to be able to win in Kentucky. So what do you do it? That's kind.
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to show everybody a video that you posted in the past 24 hours where you say discrimination holds our Commonwealth and our country back, put in my Kentucky accent. It just ain't right. Let me show you this video and then I got a question. Let me play it right now.
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Governor, I know the Commonwealth of Kentucky has been hit pretty hard by these tariffs. What do you make of that statement? And is that how the people in the Commonwealth are feeling, liberation?
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Now, if a Democratic governor in Kentucky. can do that. What are Democrats afraid about? And the rest of the, it drives me crazy. You're in Kentucky and you're saying, look, I'm not going to let people be bullied. I'm not, I'm not okay. My faith makes me not okay with marginalized people just getting punched down.
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Yet it seems that Democrats are living in right wing frameworks and echo chambers and feeling, you know what, if I want to win an election, I gotta, I guess I gotta kind of be like that. I guess I gotta kind of grow out and punch down and bully. And you're saying, I'm in Kentucky. And you know what? The people in Kentucky like people who stand up for what they believe in and fight for them, right?
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You know, some of this stuff I feel like, you know, is a little bit of a layup too. I mean, as Americans' pensions are being destroyed, as 401Ks in the gutter, what was Donald Trump posting this weekend? I just won the golf championship at the Trump International Golf Club.
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such a great honor the awards dinner is tonight at the club i want to thank the wonderful golf staff and all of the many fantastic golfers that participated in the even he doesn't even spell event right such fun and he's saying such fun as americans were suffering by the way as there were horrific storms ravaging the midwest with dozens of people dead he's saying having Having fun?
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I mean, what's what's your what's your closing message right now? You know, it's your first time on the Midas Touch Network just to the country in general. I know a lot of people know who you are, but, you know, there may be some people on this network seeing you for seeing you on this network for the first time.
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What's your message generally about where we're at right now as a country and what you're looking to do?
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Well, you pump me up for the day. You're making me feel good right now. Governor Andy Beshear from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Thanks so much for joining us on the Midas Touch Network. We hope you come back. I'd be honored to. Thank you all so much for having me. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C. after taking yet another golf vacation in southern Florida. He competed, or so he claims competed, in his own golf tournament where he awarded himself first place yet again. Then he went back to Washington, D.C. after celebrating his own victory in his own golf tournament and then started immediately spewing Putin's talking points just before
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in Canada, in Europe, in New Zealand, in Australia and elsewhere, rising up and stopping Donald Trump and protesting Trump and uniting to kind of boycott all things Trump related, which, you know, for America, it's unfortunate that there are big boycotts against all things American.
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But when Donald Trump is attacking the sovereignty of nations, you certainly understand where they're coming from and why they're doing that.
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so brett your your point is is apt which is now trump is like well i'm just gonna kind of i'm just gonna go for it i'm just gonna go full dictator right now and i'm not gonna hide it anymore so he invokes the alien enemies act over the uh weekend of 1798 this is something he said that he was going to invoke during the campaign and he said he's invoking it as it relates to the trend day aragua gang
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from venezuela but uh what the alien enemies act of 1798 says is that there has to be a war it's a war powers so the only three times in american history it's been invoked and it's been uh invoked in ways that are looked back at at history as being very dark times but the war of 1812 world war one and World War II.
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And most recently, its invocation in World War II was where we saw Japanese Americans put in concentration camps and being treated as enemy combatants with horrific, horrific conditions related there too. And so what Trump said is that there is a war underway where Venezuela and its gangs are involved in a hybrid gang state actor warfare,
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that they've declared war on the united states that thus he needs war powers act and so um he does not have to give anybody due process he says because he's looking for venezuelan enemy combatants he says and so he gets to decide without providing anybody due process whether they're part of the gang He just says they're gang members. I declare them an enemy combatant.
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I'm going to, you know, put them on, I'm going to shackle them. And then what we saw him do over this weekend is send these individuals to El Salvador where he and Marco Rubio and the rest of the Trump regime cut a deal with Naid Bukele, who is the president of El Salvador, who runs El Salvador like an authoritarian. He's like a, they call him like a crypto president, but he's,
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An authoritarian guy there, about 1,800 of every 100,000 people in El Salvador are incarcerated. The entire GDP of El Salvador is about $30 billion or so annually incarcerated. $30 billion. Just by contrast, the GDP of Canada annually is closer to $2.5 trillion, and the United States GDP is closer to $35 trillion annually, although who knows under Trump what that number is.
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is ultimately going to be but trump is sucking up to el salvador with a 30 billion dollar annual gdp that has about a 28 poverty rate close to 10 of people in el salvador are in extreme poverty 28 to 30 percent live
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in poverty or or right underneath kind of serious poverty conditions and and so trump cuts this deal with bukele who runs these concentration camps in el salvador and shoots these kind of isis style propaganda videos and so when trump declared that this group of about 200 individuals he claims
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are are gang members they're venezuelan gang members but as brett said a lot of them are saying no we're not gang members um and we're not we didn't commit any crimes or at least their lawyers are saying that some of these people had hearings coming up this week and trump just took them and trump sent them to el salvador
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Now, look, even the Supreme Court post 9-11 in a case called Hamdan versus Rumsfeld said that enemy combatants are owed certain levels of process, even at Guantanamo Bay under military commissions. What Trump is saying is he declares who he says is an enemy combatant.
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and then he's makes these he makes these videos of himself uh makes these videos of the people he declares enemy combatants and they're straight like isis style videos of these people like you have caroline levitt donald trump's chief propaganda she goes the american people voted for this that's what her post is she goes this is what you all voted for on her post and then here's the video that they released i'm only going to show you
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a small portion of it but it's very disturbing here play this clip So they didn't get, look, I want to be very clear about my position too. Gang members, people who commit crimes should get the book handed to them, right? You know, if you're committing crimes, if you're in gangs, get them off the street. The furthest extent permitted by law to punish people, punish gang members.
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We have due process in this country though. So what, Trump gets to now say you're a gang member or you're a gang member and now you go to El Salvador and you disappear into their concentration camp systems?
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Yeah, and that's the trap that they try to set with all these sorts of policies because they want you to go, that's not okay. That video that we saw looks like Nazi propaganda updated for 2025. It's incredibly disturbing. For those who are listening, you see that people get walked through with these airline hangers and
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and like thrown on the ground on their knees and their heads are shaved and they're like treated like animals like cattle and it's it's a horrifying video and i'm and you obviously heard the music too that goes behind it and it looks almost like a hollywood production like like they sunk a lot of money into making that video it's very grim uh very just gross like like i like i don't feel good and if you did vote for that as an american that sort of treatment of human beings
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I don't know what that says about your own psyche. But yeah, I think that's an important thing to emphasize because the trap that the MAGA people want to try to capture in is if you speak out in favor of due process, in favor of the US Constitution, they want to go, oh, so you support gang members. So you support illegal immigrant gang members. That's what you support, huh?
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Okay, I see what you support. But it's like, no, that's not at all what we want here. We are totally okay and would like to see gang members who are committing illegal acts deported from the United States. They're not here legally, for sure. That's what we want.
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What we do not want and what I think even people who consider themselves to be conservative or MAGA or however you label yourself, what we don't want... is the person who gets to decide who is a gang member should not be the president of the United States.
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It should not just be a single person going off this individual's word without evidence, without any sort of backup, without any court hearings, because that is a slippery slope that leads to some very, very bad things.
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that has led to very bad things throughout history you do not want to give that sort of power to an executive you just do not want to do it you want to follow the laws you want to make sure you're getting out the people who are the people who are committing the crimes you don't you want to make sure you are not getting rid of just venezuelan migrants who may be here legally but have a funny tattoo that you think is weird you know like that's not what you want here you need to follow the law and so this is about fundamental
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Yes. Notice when he talks about Putin, he never says anything negative. about Putin, and he always just buys hook line and sinker what Putin says, like literally nothing about what he just said is true. He's not saving Ukrainian lives with Putin. If anything, Trump is imperiling the lives of Ukrainians. And that's what Putin is telling his people in Russia. It's totally false.
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constitutional powers. This is about due process of the United States. I do not want Tom Holman or Donald Trump or Stephen Miller or any of these people having the right to just grab random people who they think look different than them off the street and send them to El Salvador to be in the custody of this third-rate dictator over there to treat them the way that you see in those videos.
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You have no idea what these people have done. And yes, if they committed crimes, yes, sure, get them the hell out of this country. I agree with you. But you cannot do that to citizens who are who could be innocent. I mean, it's just it's just so vile what we are seeing in this country and and the ignoring of the court orders.
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And then you'll get to Judge Bosberg and what's been happening in the courts today surrounding this since Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. But I just wanted to make our position on this extremely clear.
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And let's also be clear. For this administration, cruelty is the point. That's what they want to prove here. Cruelty is always the point of a Trump administration. Rates aren't getting cut. Egg prices are going up. Inflation's through the roof. Trump's not doing anything to help anyone financially. So what does he have to do? He's got to double down on cruelty. That's what he's got to do.
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He's got to head fake with the JFK files. He's got to throw some red meat with an auto pen conspiracy. What's going on? And then he's going to release this. I don't even know how you want to categorize that video that we just played, but just disgusting and vile video. Why? Just cruelty. That's why. Period. End of story. It's really maddening what we're witnessing.
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Just a total lack of humanity, humility, and just love for people. It's bizarre to see and then be celebrated by someone who's supposed to be the leader of the free world. It really, my skin crawls watching what we just watched.
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For those on audio, it reminds me of those ISIS-style propaganda videos that were released 12 years ago, 13 years ago. But the American regime, the Trump regime, is releasing it while they're grabbing people's hair and throwing them on the floor and then throwing people into these cages in the El Salvador system. Yeah.
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I want to talk about what Judge Boasberg in Washington, D.C., ruled, whether the Trump regime violated that order, what went down in the hearing today as it relates to the Alien Enemies Act and an injunction that was issued. And then I want to talk additionally about some of the international protests that we're seeing, whether it's in
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uh belgrade serbia whether it's in budapest hungary whether it's in tbilisi in georgia against putin putin's never been actually weaker and donald trump is doing everything he can in my opinion to try to throw putin a lifeline and you see canada europe australia rallying behind ukraine in ways that are you know truly kind of meeting the moment we'll talk about that dynamic We'll talk about more.
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The Ukrainian defense forces had to forcefully come out a few days ago with statements saying this is false when Donald Trump made a social media post about that. And one of the other developments as well is that Donald Trump has removed Keith Kellogg, his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, and just reappointed Keith Kellogg as just the special envoy to Ukraine.
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Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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The first time I slipped into my Public Rec Daymakers, I was blown away. Like, How are pants this comfortable and still look this good? I've worn them to meetings, to fancy dinners, and even to bed ones. No shame, they're that soft. And yes, they're sharp enough for date night and comfy enough for the couch. I'm not making this up.
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So I've been drinking way less lately because the fallout for me the next day just seems to get worse as I get older, but sometimes I still want to kick back without the hangover or that bloated feeling. That's why I'm psyched I found out about Sol's out-of-office THC beverages. They've been a great low-calorie, gluten-free alternative, and they don't cause hangovers.
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Let me talk about first the authority of federal judges in general and our federal court system. Since the case of Marbury versus Madison, one of the earliest cases of the Supreme Court, our country has had a tradition of something called judicial review. where the federal courts review the constitutionality of actions by the other branches of government.
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And as part of that judicial review, the federal judges can issue injunctions that can block actions. It goes all the way up to the Supreme Court. And if the executive branch is engaged in conduct that is deemed unconstitutional or if Congress engages in conduct that is unconstitutional, And the federal judge, it could go all the way up to the Supreme Court in our federal system.
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because Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that he doesn't want Keith Kellogg in any interactions with Russia because Keith Kellogg has said positive things about Ukraine. I guess that's what Donald Trump calls the art of the deal, what just listening to whatever Putin tells him to do. And by the way, Trump gave a recent podcast interview.
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So rules, our system has always been based on the kind of good faith compliance with federal court rules. Orders, good faith compliance. And as I've said before, Donald Trump not only is a destroyer of businesses, he's the reason he's bankrupted things over and over again, he is someone who does not engage in good faith. He's someone who has always ripped up contracts his entire life.
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He's tried to, you know, whether it's stiffing contractors or just not complying with contracts, that's been Donald Trump's MO. And so what's the ultimate kind of contract? As it relates to our country, it's our Constitution. So like other contracts Donald Trump's been able to rip up, he wants to rip up our Constitution.
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Now, former President Biden had a lot of his agenda stalled, stopped, or blocked via nationwide injunctions whereby Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society people, they would run to one judge and in the Northern District of Texas, a guy named Judge Matthew Kaczmarek.
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The MAGA lawyers would find some jurisdictional hook, they'd go to Kaczmarek, and then this federal judge in the Amarillo Division in Texas would issue a nationwide injunction,
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for northern district of texas everywhere blocking initiatives by biden to try to help people whether it was expanding health care coverage or forgiving student loan debt things that actually helped people the magas would go to block it they'd go to kasmeric donald trump trying to hurt
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people and so now that uh trump is in power and the trump regime is in power lots of federal judges out there not one just a lot of them are saying hey you can't overturn birthright citizenship hey you can't fire these probationary employees and say you're firing them
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for performance reasons when they've actually performed well and they've done everything that was expected of them and then defame them. We're issuing nationwide injunctions to stop what you're doing that's hurting people. And the Trump regime hates these nationwide injunctions.
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they're challenging nationwide injunctions now all the way up to the united states supreme court using the cases that involve birthright citizenship that trump is trying to overturn and there's going to be briefing in april where the trump regime is saying we don't like nationwide injunctions sure we used it to screw biden but now that it's being used against us where the trump regime's trying to hurt people not tell people we hate it get rid of it this is a
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common theme we see with the kind of right wing they like it when it helps them they hate it when it doesn't help them the only consistency is in both instances they're trying to screw over the people for the oligarchs that's one of the things that we consistently see now I wanted to give you all of that framework so you know what I talk about this Washington, D.C.
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Judge, Judge Boasberg and what he ruled and what the hearing was today. You at least have that as background. Let me just give you a little info about Judge Boasberg. So you understand Boasberg. Who's this guy, Boasberg? He's a federal judge who is one of the top federal judges in all of Washington, D.C.
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where he was saying that when he told people that he would bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, it was all just him being sarcastic. He didn't really mean it, he said. Here, play this clip.
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He was the presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Service Court, the FISA courts from 2020 to 2021, which is a big role to have. So he's dealt with the most classified and sensitive information as a chief judge, federal judge of the FISA courts. And then in addition, he's now the chief judge
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of all of the washington dc district court judges he's the top guy the top dog and he's got massive amounts of experience in dealing with classified information executive authority um and how to deal with all of these cases a very well respected guy
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so a lot of groups like the aclu and others saw that the trump regime was likely going to invoke a war powers under the alien enemies act so they smartly rushed to court at the end of last week before trump ever even invoked the war powers then subsequently trump invoked the war powers there was a hearing that was held over the weekend and apparently
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the Venezuelan individuals who Trump says are gang members without giving them due process, without them having hearings, without evidence being presented with them denying that they've committed any crimes. Trump put him on planes to go to El Salvador. The lawyers who were representing them said, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is unconstitutional. We need hearings.
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You can't just pick up people off the street or pick up people and say because you don't like their tattoo or this or that, that they're necessarily gang members and send them to El Salvador, even if they were gang members, by the way.
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As I mentioned earlier in the show, there's a case called Rumsfeld v. Hamden or Hamden v. Rumsfeld, which the Supreme Court said even as it relates to Guantanamo Bay, when there were – terrorists who were being tried post 9-11, you still had to have some sort of process through these military commissions to make sure that there was some process being offered.
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You couldn't just declare anybody who you want as a terrorist and then put them in concentration camps. So Judge Boasberg issued a kind of nationwide injunction, an all-encompassing injunction that were just basically in order that told the Trump regime, stop.
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in 14 days we'll brief this issue but you send the people back we can't have these individuals lost in the el salvador concentration camp systems so stop it so the trump regime claims that number one that was an oral order and not actually in written form
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so they therefore don't have to acknowledge or respond to courts making oral orders which judge boseberg in a hearing today said that's the most ridiculous thing i i've ever heard i you've heard what i said there's a transcript of it the second trump uh regime argument is that
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the plane with these Venezuelans who they claim are gang members was in international waters, so therefore they don't have to listen to what the judge had to say. And Judge Boasberg's like, that's not what the law is either. You still have to listen to federal judges. You should have complied with the order, and then we could have dealt with this.
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And so Judge Boasberg is now at a hearing today that just took place an hour, a few hours ago, grilled the Trump DOJ lawyers and said, what the hell are you doing? To which the Trump lawyers were like, we don't have to answer any of your questions. National security, to which Judge Boasberg says, I know a thing or two about national security law. I know my case law, you don't.
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No, what you really meant is that you were lying to the American people. Were you being sarcastic when you said that you were going to reduce prices and make housing more affordable? Was that that old-fashioned sarcasm right there? No, you're just a liar in everything you do. Also, were you being sarcastic when you said you were going to release the Epstein files?
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By the way, you may have remembered that I was the chief FISA judge, so I know this stuff like the back of my hand. Under what authority are you claiming And if you are going to say national security, you need to make a showing still. You can't just say, oh, we're going to do whatever I want. And so Judge Boasberg is given 24 hours for the Trump regime to provide a detailed declaration.
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on everything that happened now with that flight we showed earlier of these Venezuelans who are now in the concentration camp system in El Salvador. Meanwhile, you have Trump and Musk attacking Judge Boasberg, posting photos of Boasberg, saying impeach Boasberg. All these spineless Republicans in Congress are saying
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get rid of bozberg and that's basically the status of what we have now and we have all of these we have 200 or so venezuelans and a lot of them whose lawyers saying not gang members not criminals just people who are now sent there who who are now lost in a concentration camp system in a foreign country final point the trump regime shut down what they were doing in Guantanamo Bay.
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And remember in Guantanamo Bay, they said they were having the gang members in Guantanamo, but it actually wasn't gang members in Guantanamo. It was actually a lot of nonviolent people and just migrants at heart. There's a lot of just regular hardworking kind of migrants who were sent to Guantanamo Bay. So Trump lied about putting them in Guantanamo Bay.
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So are these the same types of people who they shut down Guantanamo Bay for? They moved them to Louisiana. Are they those people? Are they other people like that who they were sending to Guantanamo Bay? So these are all of the issues that we're dealing with now. I know that was a little bit of a long and wonky discussion, but I think I had to give it a little bit of the legal.
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I like the level of detail, Ben. Our listeners like the level of detail too. That was excellently done.
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Well, it's an important case, and I think it's helpful that you took people basically inside the courtroom today to basically try to experience what actually went down in that very contentious hearing that took place. And I feel like often people go, when we try to fact check Trump or when Trump says all these lies, they're like, yeah, we know. He's a liar. He lies about everything. We get it.
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Who cares? Okay, so he's hyperbolic about things. That's what he does. That's not... The problem, though, like the problem is that these lies have actual consequences and he's using these lies in order to do things that subvert our entire democracy. Like what he is trying to do right now is tyrannical. It's autocracy. And I know those words are thrown around.
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And sometimes they're thrown around a little lightly. Basically, they have meaning and it's not very good for the United States to be under that sort of rule. But it could certainly apply and should certainly apply to what we are witnessing right now. Because Donald Trump, under his false pretenses, based on his lies... is trying to do all of this illegal activity.
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He's basically saying to the courts and his Department of Justice, and shame on these lawyers at the Department of Justice who were in front of Judge Boasberg today, they're basically saying, as long as Donald Trump says what it is, as long as Donald Trump says these are gang members,
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I mean, the Trump regime is doing everything but release those Epstein files in terms of the things that they're saying that they're going to release. The latest right here was Trump saying that we're going to release the files that you all have cared about the most, the Kennedy files, right? You all wanted the Kennedy files. Here, play this clip.
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As long as Donald Trump says that this is a matter of national security, as long as Donald Trump continues to lie about that, you can't quite even question him about it. It's just this is going to be what it's going to be. And there were multiple times during this court hearing today where Judge Boasberg was like, well, could you tell me who was on flight number two that went out?
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No, no, we're not going to tell you. Well, why not? Can you tell us? We don't have to tell you anything. They kept saying that that was their answer to everything. So ultimately, Ben, what is it? They got to get back to Judge Boesberg tomorrow at noon, I think, with a clear delineation of what their official response is going to be to those questions.
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Because as of now, they are refusing to answer these very basic questions. They are trying to hide behind this national security argument. But this isn't a military operation. Even Donald Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act doesn't automatically make this a military operation. And these were not military planes that were being used. These were ice planes that were being used.
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We are not under an invasion. We are not at war with Venezuela. The entire pretense of this is fake. It's garbage. It's bullshit. And it's the same kind of stuff that Vladimir Putin does. It's the same kind of stuff that Putin did when he went to invade Ukraine. He needed a pretext for it. So he made up whether it was about the NATO stories, whether it was about I need to denazify Ukraine.
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It's those sorts of lies that Trump employs over here to try to engage in his tactics and his authoritarian tactics. And we are seeing that bubble up in various different ways right now in very horrifying ways that are not fit for the United States of America. Now, I think we're clearly beyond the point of no return here. People have been saying, are we in a constitutional crisis?
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We're close to a constitutional crisis. I personally believe we are in a constitutional crisis right now. Donald Trump refusing to abide by these court rulings, refusing to abide by the law.
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so ben i guess my question for you is like what happens now you know obviously there's going to be a hearing tomorrow but what if trump just in his administration what if they just keep ignoring these rulings and they keep moving ahead and doing what they do as the supreme court just giving him a get out of jail free card essentially with their immunity ruling
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look i think we are past the constitutional crisis i think we have to acknowledge not accept but acknowledge that there's no longer a government by the people for the people thus i don't call it a government i call it a regime because it's by the bullies for the billionaires and these uh mega republicans and the trump regime have already destroyed the Constitution.
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So the question is, is they're already attacking Judge Boasberg. We already didn't comply with Boasberg. Now they're attacking Boasberg to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, basically the appeals court that sits above Boasberg. Then above that is going to be the United States Supreme Court.
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And as I've been talking about this case, this Hamdan versus Rumsfeld case, the question is going to become where I think you're going to have have. And you may call me naive here, but to me, looking at the current dynamic of the Supreme Court, there seems to be a five to four court against the dictator stuff that Donald Trump's doing.
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This right-wing Supreme Court will let Trump get away with a lot of Horrific things. I'm not trying to in any way say the Supreme Court is good. It's a six to three right wing court, six right wing justices, three liberal justices. But we are seeing Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett and Donald Trump appointed Justice Barrett.
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So that's why a lot of magas are hating on Justice Barrett. They've been joining with the three liberal judges and forming five to four potentially against some of Trump's biggest excesses. So the question is, what happens when you get a five to four against Donald Trump at the Supreme Court level? Trump says, I'm not complying with the Supreme Court.
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and then we're kind of in this kind of full-fledged you know you know even worse kind of authoritarian grip and then what happens and i think what happens is honestly what you're seeing in budapest and hungary i think what you're seeing in belgrade serbia i think what you're seeing in tbilisi in georgia where you've got these massive massive rallies i mean can we show this video brett and
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I'll tell our audio listeners what it is. I mean, it's hundreds of thousands. I mean, it looks like a million people or so in Budapest in Hungary protesting Viktor Orban, the Putin puppet Orban who Trump loves. I'm going to play it because I want people to see the visuals of what this looks like. We'll just play it short so I don't want to annoy our audio listeners. But just take a look at this.
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false Russian propaganda about how Russia has Ukraine encircled and that Donald Trump and Putin are needed to try to spare the lives of the Ukrainian military and that that's why Donald Trump's going to have to speak with Putin on Tuesday. One thing I should note before playing you this clip of Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center is
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And again, for audio listeners, it's just so many people, like hundreds of thousands. in the streets. Play this clip. And then I'll show you, this is in Belgrade, Serbia. Let's play it. over a million people, I think, in Belgrade, Serbia, protesting against the kind of Putin-aligned regime right there.
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And when we come back from our last break, I want to talk to you about some of the things that Trump is doing right now to kind of further entrench and align himself and his regime
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with Putin, the types of things that he's saying that we talked about at the beginning of the show, what is being done to kind of combat that, this coalition of the willing led by UK Prime Minister, Pierre Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, other leaders emerging. I mean, you're seeing the new Prime Minister in Canada, Mark Carney,
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invited Zelenskyy to the G7 summit that's going to be taking place in June, making a strong stance right there. And Europe and Australia and Canada uniting to be strong negotiating partners with Ukraine to check Donald Trump trying to just have bilateral negotiations with Putin cut everybody out. And what Trump wanted to do was to basically split Ukraine, in my opinion.
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He wanted to steal the minerals for himself and his own sovereign wealth fund, and then he wanted to give the other part to Russia. That's, I think, Trump's vision of what the deal was going to be. Europe and Zelensky smoke that out early. And they were able to say, no, no, no, we're pushing back. They're kind of leveraging kind of Marco Rubio against Trump.
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And because I think that Rubio is uncomfortable with what Trump's doing, but Rubio spineless and they see how to kind of use Rubio. They've been doing a good job. checking Trump. But on Tuesday, Trump's going to be talking with Putin.
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So I think we can expect more of the Putin propaganda to flow on Tuesday and a bunch of ridiculous statements that will be coming out of Trump that will resemble and mirror anything that Putin tells him. Let's take our last quick break of the show. We got a lot to discuss still. Reminder, MidasPlus.com, our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, does his great daily summaries there.
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And also Patreon.com, slash Midas Touch, where you could meet Brett, Jordy and myself for one of our upcoming Zoom chats. We'd love to see you there as well. Let's take our last quick break of the show. So since my daughter was born a few months back, I've been really focused on my fitness and doing what I can to stay healthy.
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where to barbie's dollhouse wow that's against barbie's bombs donald trump's yeah there it is right there there's barbie's dollhouse why am i showing you barbie's dollhouse because donald trump's treasury secretary scott besant lives in the real life version i'm not making this up
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of the barbie dollhouse or the barbie mansion it's a 22 million dollar sprawling pink mansion in charleston south carolina uh donald trump's treasury secretary is worth about half a billion dollars maybe worth a little more and he's been out there talking about how uh like the american people don't care about lower prices that's not really what the american dream has anything to do with so
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I think people have been waiting for the Epstein files. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy, everybody. Yeah, my brother's here on the Midas Touch podcast. And one of the things, too, that Donald Trump was doing at Mar-a-Lago, I'm not sure if you saw this, Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, they were throwing a Birkin, a Hermes Birkin bag theme party. Did you catch that? Where they were showing off
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i i just we we don't see that as anything that american people actually care about so as matthew iglesias says i guess when you already own a 22 million dollar mansion it's easy to sneer at the value of affordable durable goods and this guy is like the sneerer in chief like the most arrogant strange deliver like so out of touch here this is what he said over the weekend let's
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Okay, didn't Donald Trump say that he was going to make things cheaper on day one? Wasn't the whole promise that things were going to be cheaper? Because I'll tell you, under former President Biden, GDP growth, was hitting records high. The American economy was growing faster than China. 16.4 million jobs created under former President Biden. We had record low unemployment.
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We were energy independent, 40,000 infrastructure projects. Real wages were growing. Former President Biden got inflation under control. It was heading towards 2%, which is exactly where the Fed wanted it to be, to cut interest rates. The Wall Street Journal had said that the American economy was the envy of the world.
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Others called it a Goldilocks economy, that it was just right, what former President Biden handed over to Donald Trump. Now, the question when you wake up in this Trump regime is like, is today Donald Trump wants to take over Gaza and make it Trump Gaza Day? Is it he's going to say Shalom Hamas Day? Is it one of those where he goes, Shalom Hamas, all hell is going to break loose?
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Is it a tariff day where he starts saying that, oh, we're doing new tariffs, 200%, 5%. 500%, whatever, 100% on Canada, on Europe. And then he tanks the markets on that day. Is it a conquer Greenland day? Is it a takeover Panama day? Or is it a do whatever Putin wants day and attack Zelensky day, which is basically like every day.
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And then you go through these like cycles, like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, which day is it going to be? And, you know, and this creates great instability in our markets and it's leading to lower consumer confidence. At the end of last week, the University of Michigan consumer confidence showed that the inflation expectations were, I think, the worst since March.
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uh 2008 uh consumer confidence the worst over the past five years uh job expectations the worst since 1987. and while all of this is taking place one of the strange things we're seeing too is not only are you having trump propagandists like scott besin just arrogantly just say americans don't care about lower prices you've got all these maggots now and they were doing it before and it's a phenomenon we saw we see in history with other authoritarians
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they they make themselves look like trump and we saw this like hannity painted his face trump about a year ago remember like hannity started looking just like dream like orange face um and then you had uh maga mike did this crazy botox thing and then he he was on over the past two or three days and let me look at the guy i mean he he looks like a different human being he literally paints his face trump you've got um dr oz
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pocketbooks or handbags or whatever that are like $455,000, the croc versions of it and gold versions of it. Nothing says man of the people like celebrating crocodile skinned Hermes Birkin bags.
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like literally makes himself look like Donald Trump, like splitting images of each other now as he refused to answer whether or not they were just going to totally get rid of Medicaid and cut Medicaid. Let me just show you what MAGA Mike was saying in his appearance, that he's been saying, look, the grownups are back with the economy. We've got it. We're going to fix it, everybody.
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one of the other analogies he gave to were like billiards like it's like playing pool and you break it and then you have to go and then figure out which holes you're going to put the balls into uh first and he looks ridiculous what did he what did he do to his face like let me pull this back up like it looks like he has he did he get fillers i i i
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I think whoever did Matt Gaetz's Botox during the RNC or whatever the heck that was, that's who's doing Mike Johnson's Botox now. I mean, oh my God.
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You know what it's like? It's like they go down to Mar-a-Lago and they have some room or some door that they enter. And they open the door and they go through and then they come out and they're like, that have this fake tan and like dyed hair and like fillers in their face. And they become like these Mar-a-Lago, like Stepford Wives versions of themselves and just become these robots.
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And like there's some sort of process. It's like severance or something where like they take the parts out of your brain that make you anything that makes you semi-normal. And they like implant in you like something that makes you this MAGA weirdo creature because something happens to these people around Trump.
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And it is just like the whole thing, all the vibes, everything that we're looking at is just so utterly strange. And you see Mike Johnson, he keeps going on the various shows and he says things like that. And then he'll say something. And we're able to get all this waste, fraud, and abuse because of Elon and his algorithms. He's got his algorithms going through everything.
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And they just make things up. They're just lying. And we're still waiting. I'm still waiting. Where's all the waste, fraud, and abuse? Let me know. I know you've canceled some programs that you didn't like. I know you've gotten rid of the history of the Tuskegee Airmen. I know you're getting rid of a lot of our history and things like that. I haven't seen any results.
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In fact, I've seen that the United States actually spent more money this February than they did last February by a significant amount. So where are the cuts? The cuts just seem to be cruelty for cruelty's sake because that's all we're seeing. But I think the problem that we're seeing is you see Trump and his – Approval with independence right now is just like crashing.
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wild you don't think the average american could afford a 447 000 purse this is i mean it's just absolutely irate before he said the price i was going to play a game and have jordy try to guess how much this purse cost not not the gigantic one that they blew up for this a celebration on the white house lawn but i was going to make jordy guess it and because i i would i would have guessed zero chance that you would have predicted 447
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It's something like, what has it been? 69% disapprove among independence or something like that. And I saw all these headlines about, it was like, Trump gets his highest approval rating ever. And it was like still 54% of people disapprove of him. And I was like, yeah, I don't know if that'd be the headline of that story. But you see independents running away from them.
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One of the issues that we're seeing though right now is that the Democrats aren't super popular right now either, to say the least. There was a poll that came out about the Democrats that said 29% of Americans approve of what the Democrats are doing. But what that tells me is that Democrats are not listening to their base. They're not listening to the people.
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And so I am just urging any politician out there who wants to oppose Trump, don't just oppose Trump, but listen to the people. Listen to people. We're able to listen to people here. I don't know why you're not able to listen to people when it is your job to listen to people unless you are willfully closing your ears and closing your eyes to everything that is happening out there.
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Because as we've seen with the fights, with like the whole Chuck Schumer situation last week, just doing everything. It's like they... choose to do whatever the opposite is of what the people want them to do every single time. And they hope that that could keep them in power. But ultimately, you know, you got to represent the people. And the people right now want fighters.
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The people right now want you to do something. The people right now want to show that you could actually put up a fight against Donald Trump. And I think folks understand that, you know, the Democrats are in the minority right now with all this stuff. They understand the limitations.
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But A, don't lie to people and say you're going to do something and then back out on it like Schumer did the other day by saying, we're going to fight. Nobody is going to vote for this thing. We're all united on a different plan. And then the next day you fold.
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And then you have to cancel your book tour because you're afraid you had a book tour planned and you're afraid of people crashing your book tour now to protest you. Like how freaking lame is that? Listen to the people and the people want you to fight where you are able to do things, do things. But that's why I like seeing what the people are doing.
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And that's why I like seeing those images of the protests that we were seeing all weekend in various states across the country. People going to the state capitals, people going to there was a protest in front of the New York Stock Exchange. There were protests I saw in.
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in michael lawler's district in the hudson valley in the tarrytown area protesting the medicaid cuts the people are going to be there right the people are doing their thing they need leaders who are going to be able to match their energy as well so it's time to step up folks you know don't don't think you're gonna just like skate on by because trump is unpopular because if you're less popular than he is they're not gonna go to you give them some inspiration give them some reason uh to want to uh fight for you i mean you gotta you get you gotta give people something
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Can you bring up that photo of Mike Johnson one more time? Chipmunk Mike? Yeah, just Mike. He looks like a ventriloquist dummy. That's what I was trying to do. Nothing's moving, just his face. And you know what? In various ways, it's like an analogy or a metaphor for Johnson in general. Just a puppet. Yeah, just a puppet spewing Trump and Putin talking points at this point.
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I mean, talk about a guy who sold his soul. He was one of these rule of law guys, yeah? Or at least that's what he pretended to be.
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nope not anymore and then you look yeah you look at doctor i it's also creepy like what in the kim jong-un are we even looking at donald trump is holding golf tournaments he seven-time champion of his own golf tournament this is just weird stuff and you know what it's okay to call this stuff weird because it is don't feel like You know, any of this is normal.
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Don't be gaslit by corporate media and don't feel bad that you're calling this weird. This stuff is weird. Trump is holding up trophies and not actually working and saying, oh, I won my final tour. Who's he, Jack Nicklaus? I won my final championship game. Oh, oh, Donnie, the crowd. We need to see you do one more season. Please, Donnie, please come back next year.
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a thousand dollars no I wouldn't but for the record I knew you would have at least been talking about the physical purse and not the purse that they blew up on the lawn I don't think you needed to qualify that and I appreciate it thanks for clearing that up just making sure that that everything is clear here anyway it's great to be here Jordy it's great to have you back I know folks have missed you you've been on daddy duty uh loving it um it's great to see you I know everybody has been asking every single day you know they blame us they say free Jordy free Jordy we go it's not us he's got to spend some time
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it this is weird stuff and i said this earlier on blue sky this is like it's just the compounding effect of wtf every day and it's meant to be that way in many ways for you it's meant to exhaust you it's meant to make you want to look away but now more than ever people aren't actually getting exhausted You know, it is tiresome, don't get me wrong, but people are angry and they're fed up.
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And so please, for the love of God, Democratic leaders like just step up. People want fight. They want to see you out there talking to the people, but like earnestly talking, not talking like,
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a weirdo politician just be a human in many ways the democratic leadership has become corporate media in the sense that the people are just a little bit upset and sick and tired and just seeing through all the nonsense that's why independent media is is rising right people just want to be spoken to like people
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yeah we all have our interests we all want to see this country better off for the next generation than when we got here so talk to us like humans and jordy here's democratic leaders your approval ratings will go up and here's the thing i just want to emphasize also it's not for a lack of these leaders existing like there are plenty of people right now in the democratic party who are inspiring there are plenty of people in the democratic party
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who are doing a great job of connecting with voters. When I see these town halls, and I think these going into the red districts where these cowardly Republicans are too afraid to face their constituents, I think this is a brilliant way to show you're fighting. Brilliant. And I love seeing whether it's Congressman Garcia is doing this, or AOC doing this, or Bernie Sanders getting out there.
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We've covered Tim Walz going out there. when you when you see all these politicians going out there and speaking to the people speaking to the voters i'm like yes that's exactly what we need even when you see on social media when you see people like a chris murphy or or whoever it is going on social media and laying out the case for the american people in clear concise ways
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You're like, OK, so there are people in order to communicate. There are people who know how to fight. Well, let's elevate those people to leadership positions. Let's stop going by this old fashioned. You know, it has to be a hierarchy of who's been in the Senate for the longest. And this guy's been in the Senate for 70 years.
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And so he deserves to lead this position, which is going to have a very big public speaking role and is going to have a very big role that has to inspire folks. But let's put this guy who's been in the Senate for 60, 70 years up there. That's not the world that we live in right now. We need a shakeup. You need inspiring leaders. And those leaders exist, but those people need to be elevated.
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They need to continue to get out there, inspire the people. And we can't be sidelining some of the brightest people who are actually doing the work.
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let's close out by playing a game called wtf if what i say inspires you to say wtf i want to hear you say it to your screen or to wherever you're listening just say wtf elon musk has cut funding to the tsa for bomb sniffing service dogs including their food and veterinary care so he and trump are quite literally exposing america
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to real terrorism everywhere wtf elon musk's doge cuts hit the team saving kidnapped ukrainian children a unit that helps rescue ukrainian children kidnapped by russia during its full-scale invasion has been defunded as part of the operations of donald trump and doge this was called The Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab, WTF. You have the following individual was just deported.
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Trump's DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown University Medical School. who is here legally on an H-1B visa that doesn't expire until 2027 and has committed no crimes. Trained in the US at Ohio State University and University of Washington and Yale as a transplant surgeon, one of the most difficult surgical fields in all of medicine.
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She is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants, which cannot be easily replaced. Her phone was seized at the border. A federal judge handed down an injunction against her deportation. but she was already deported on a plane en route to Paris. Brown's kidney transplant clinic is now strained by her deportation.
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with the fam. So we allow that here at the Midas Touch Network. It's part of the family vibes that we got going on. But it's great to have you back. The head fake with the Epstein files and the Kennedy files is like the craziest shit. I mean, there was another clip of him from yesterday where he was asked directly about the Epstein files, and he really downplayed them. And by the way,
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WTF, Nebraska, like many red states, is getting crushed between tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget, and it looks like there's going to be at least a $200 million shortfall this year, this before the tariff impact, and this before the Department of Education is abolished.
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WTF, Donald Trump's National Department of National Security, DNI, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, just reposted an individual named Ian Miles Chung, who's a pro-Russian resident of Malaysia, who just posted the following. This is what the Director of National Intelligence just reposted.
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Trump has ordered the shutdown of the United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, Radio and Television Marti and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. These organizations are shut down because they produced and disseminated, it said, narratives against Russia. It says perpetuated pro-war narratives against Russia.
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pro-war narratives against Russia. That's the director of national intelligence, WTF. I can keep on going on and on, but American people are pissed at this stuff. So whether you're a Democrat or just a human being, stand up and say enough is enough. That's why, look, I love speaking to the politicians, the governors, the senators, the members of Congress who come on, but
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know sometimes i like to talk sometimes i like to talk to people like ken casey y'all know ken casey is he's the lead singer of dropkick murphy's a band that since 1996 punk band putting out working class anthems right so they're traveling the country right now they're on their last stop of their tour
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in boston um so it's fitting because of their song of course uh heading back to boston that that's where they're finishing their tour they're from the area but he speaks in front of these working class crowds all the time and i was able to interview him today because there's been a number of moments where he and the huge crowds that he's
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i'm bringing together for their band's concerts he's calling out there'll be a few mega people in the audience and again his anthem is um working class stuff so and of course you know his song i'm shipping up to boston here's ken casey when i interviewed him today here's what he said and i think what he said here is just perfect let's point out because there's this whole like mentality that mega has painted that like you know you're either
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views i thought that's a perfect way to end this episode on saint patrick's day so oh and by the way there they have a live concert right now um that's playing and in the description below as soon as this show ends we'll throw in the description below it's a website called like veeps.events slash dropkick murphys but we'll throw the link because they're they're playing live as we speak right now in boston so you can uh check it out as they play i'm shipping up to boston we'll
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His supporters like really care about these Epstein files also like they're not they're not giving it up because they should be frankly like the information that's out there should be public. Right. And so he was asked about it. And Trump was like, yeah, you know, like Pam Bondi, like they're all looking into that. They're all looking into that.
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No, that's it. I love Dropkick Murphys, man. They're so badass. And Ken Casey is the ultimate badass. And seeing these clips, you know, the ones we've been posting a lot on our social media of these moments that have been happening at his rallies. They're just, I mean, at his concerts, they're just absolutely electric.
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make sure that you are subscribed. Jordy, it's been great having you back on the show. The vibes are back. The energy is back. Great having you, buddy. And I've been doing the sign-off, but I can't do it like you do it, Jordy. So show the people how it's done. Shout out to the Midas Mighty!
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The Midas Mighty standing strong Against the fascists we sing our song
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But you know what people are really, you know, people really want to, much more than that. You know, it's much more important than that. People have been asking me about the Kennedy files. First off, there's been a lot of information about this, you know, already released. And he's going to do the same thing that they did last time, right?
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They're going to release information that's already been out there. They're going to hand select information. No one's, everyone's going to be upset about this also. And it's just going to remind people again. about the Epstein files.
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But anytime he's asked about this, it's like you've never seen a guiltier looking or sounding person in their life, just the way his kind of face goes, the way he tries to divert the topic. There was that clip too that Fox edited. I remember when we showed Fox edited a clip of Trump when he was asked if he would release the Epstein files. I think it was while he was on the campaign trail.
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uh talking about this and i'll explain to you why he was at the kennedy center in a moment well while donald trump was vacationing over the weekend at mar-a-lago and celebrating his victory there was a horrific storms that ravaged the midwest over 37 people died and donald trump was posting how much fun he was having in his golf tournament while that was taking place then donald trump has already appointed himself chairman
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And Trump was like, a lot of good people may be caught up in that
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a lot of good people that may be caught up in those epstein files so i'm not so sure we want to do that and fox cut that answer out uh just to have him go like yeah we're looking into that yeah just cut that part out he can't answer the question without sounding guilty because this is the guy who quite literally is all over these files is all over the phone book like they not only had donald trump's phone numbers they had like his security guard his nanny they like every
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Everyone around him in the Epstein phone books. He was on the flight seven times. We were speaking to Michael Wolff. Ben, great interview with Michael Wolff on the Midas Touch podcast too.
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I'm trying to get the Epstein. I am actually trying to get the Epstein file. I want to let people know what's going on. So in the absence of them turning over the Epstein files, I'm looking to get those files. So I know that the author, Michael Wolff, who's written about Donald Trump before, was also in the process of writing and potentially writing the autobiography of Epstein.
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So he's got 80 to 100 hours of audio with Epstein. And so a lot of corporate media has basically banned Michael Wolff from talking about the Epstein files and talking about his new book. They're scared to have him on. So what did we do at the Midas Touch Network? I'm like, yo, get me Wolff on. And I'm going to start asking him about the Epstein files. And I made a pitch to him.
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I said, we'll put it on the YouTube page. We will play all of the audio recordings. And do we have the clip of when I was asking Michael Wolff about the Epstein files? And so this is kind of phase one of what I hope to be our release of the actual Epstein audio. Let's play this.
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threatening to donald i mean that's pretty pretty stunning stuff right there and by the way you could listen to the full interview with michael wolf on the midas touch podcast on apple podcast on spotify jordy welcome back should we uh do a full court press to try to get these 100 hours of epstein tapes i think we should
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I think we should. I think we should just put our heads down just like we always do. And I think we should. I think we should do our darndest to get them. I am so excited to be back. Ben, that was a fantastic interview with Wolf. If you haven't, definitely check that out. Incredible stuff. You know, it just goes to show you Donald Trump with the JFK stuff, a weapon of mass distraction, right?
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WMD, that's how we refer to Trump here, weapon of mass distraction. This is just such a brutal misread. Of Trump, of his own, of his own like core base though, because Brett, to your point exactly, you know, everyone wants to see the Epstein, like there should be full transparency here around the Epstein files, make no mistake.
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But you know, the, the, the, the Q base that, that is so deeply ingrained within that culture who have been shouting it from the rooftops, expose them, expose them, expose them for the last, what, four and a half years. Now you got your shot. And what does he do? JFK files, everybody. Release the JFK files. You know, the head fake only works so many times before you just stop biting on it, right?
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I play basketball. You can only do that move so many times before the opponent would stop biting. Well, nobody's biting anymore, Donald. We want the Epstein files. The people want the Epstein files. And the more you show these other files, we're going to be reminded that we want to see the Epstein files. Release the Epstein files, Trump.
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Come on, here's the thing he wants to, you know, he tries to act. And this is one of the most devious and cynical things that Trump does and that his supporters kind of buy into and promote. It's the idea that he is the most transparent president to ever exist. When I hear people say this, I'm like, what world are you living in? The guy's hiding literally everything.
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of the board of the Kennedy Center. He fired everybody pretty much at the Kennedy Center and then appointed all of the kind of MAGA loyalists to positions. No one's really even going to the Kennedy Center anymore, like ticket sales are down more than 50 percent. Hamilton canceled. So he was holding his first kind of Kim Jong-un style board meeting.
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But it's because he makes these big shows about garbage. Like he makes up that he's transparent about things like when he released the fake Epstein documents and not the fake Epstein documents, but the already publicly released Epstein documents. Right. And he's like, look, I'm so transparent. And that gets repeated by his people.
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But meanwhile, behind the scenes, not even behind the scenes, but what is he doing? He's hiding tremendous amounts of information from the courts. He's hiding exactly what he's doing with Doge as they radar various, our social security, excuse me, my God, I don't know what happened there. Our social security accounts, our Medicaid, I couldn't breathe for a second.
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And so Trump is actually trying to hide so much of what is going on behind the scenes. We saw it in this very contentious, combative court hearing today over Donald Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act, how he took these migrants back. whisk them to El Salvador in basically secrecy, not telling anybody when these planes took off, when these planes landed, who was even on these planes.
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He's just saying these were gang members. Take my word for it. They deserve to rot in these El Salvadorian prisons. We already have reports right now of attorneys for at least one of the people who was sent to El Salvador saying they're My client wasn't a gang member. They were somebody who was here in this country working to get their their immigration status updated. They were just had a tattoo.
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They had nothing to do with any gangs and they were taken off the streets and they were sent to El Salvador. That's the kind of shady stuff that they are actually covering up while they try to pretend like they are being transparent. while dangling all this Kennedy files and all this other crap. They're really hiding some really, really abhorrent things that they are doing in our government.
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And Donald Trump, especially over the last few days, has really ramped up the authoritarian bent. He is really almost getting frustrated that in the first 50 days he was not able to conquer America, that we were able to oppose him, that people did stand strong. And so now he's getting antsy. He's trying to take it to the next level.
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And you see this just abrasiveness, whether it's coming from him or others in his administration right now, directed at the American people.
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Look, Hitler's plan was, I think, between 52 and 54 days. Some say it was more like 30 days, but around 52 to 54 days, and they called it, there was a German word for it, but it translated to synchronization, basically full control of all levers of Germany at that time.
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and donald trump wanted to do the same here with elon musk their plan was a shock and awe where they were going to try to take over everything suppress all resistance and opposition and they thought they were going to be able to kind of bulldoze over all checks and balances the way they bulldozed over Republicans in the House and the Senate, right?
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I mean, the spineless Republicans have given up all kind of pretense that they are part of a democracy. They're no different than the people you see in the And I put that in quotes for Kim Jong-un, who do the clapping and they clap loud so that they don't get hurt by Kim Jong-un if they're not seen as clapping enough. That's what the spineless Republicans have done.
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And then he left and then started talking about this, these Putin talking points. Let's play it.
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But judges have been standing up to Donald Trump. The pro-democracy movement has been standing up to Donald Trump. An international resistance has developed against Donald Trump. Shout out to all of our listeners and supporters and members of the Midas Mighty, for example.
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Let's get right into it, folks, on the Midas Touch podcast. I want to remind you from the very beginning what it was that Donald Trump was saying repeatedly on the campaign trail that corporate media and propaganda promoted over and over again. He said that prices will start to decrease immediately on day one. Here's what he said. Play the clip.
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And then you've got 74, 75 plus million of Americans who voted against Trump because he got less than 50% of the vote, basically saying, what in the world is going on while Republicans continue to charade. Jordy, sorry.
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he well jordy i'm reminded by you know kendrick lamar who performed at the super bowl his song be humble be humble sit down right be humble that used to be humility used to be part of a quality of leadership especially at the highest levels of government the same type of leadership that used to value speaking softly or walking softly and carrying a big stick.
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Everybody knows that America was powerful, but you exercised power surgically and strategically and not recklessly with being all bark and no bite. And so literally everything Trump does is counterintuitive and very harmful. It shows utter weakness. and it's masquerading as straight. But here's the thing. Corporate media covers politics the way sporting events are covered.
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And if you think about the way sporting events are covered, there's a reason why you have announcers sometimes, right? They're supposed to be the experts who tell you what's happening accurately and maybe try to guess what's going to happen in the future and kind of narrate the event.
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It's very, very low as young voters who he tricked are now saying, wait a minute, you literally just screwed us and you lied to us. This is the Wall Street Journal headline as well. Trump voters splinter over his rapid shakeup of Washington. And then there are quotes like this in this article. I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful, embarrassed. It's a huge one.
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The way corporate media treats politics is like the sporting event, but then they put their finger on the scales and then they have their announcers affirmatively interfering with the game and telling you things that are happening that are not actually happening before you.
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And one of the goals of the Midas Touch Network is to deconstruct that propaganda and reconstruct the truth to say, look at all of the lies that they're telling you. Here's actually what's going on because they want to focus on, oh, what an incredible incredible patriotic event it was at the Daytona 500.
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What don't they want to talk about is that in states like Kentucky and in states like Virginia and West Virginia, people were dying and Donald Trump didn't say crap about what was happening while he was there saying, look, victory, victory. They want to show you things like this. MAGA Republican Representative Claudia Tenney
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unveils the bill to designate trump's birthday as a public holiday you've got donald trump making posts on president's day by the way i guess today is on president's day at this point we shout out to all the prior presidents before this piece of crap right now in the oval office and you've got donald trump posting his mugshot photo on president's day and next to his official portrait
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with the quote that says they're not after me they're after you i'm just standing in the way happy president's day and then there's another post attached to that which shows that he has posted his criminal mug shot right by the oval office that's his president's day message and they want to distract you that's why at the outset where do i focus this show on prices are going up
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Right now, housing is not more affordable. All of Donald Trump's things that he promised were lies and they want to distract from it. Right.
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I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Donald Trump. Yeah, you should be. This is what Donald Trump was doing this past weekend. While there was horrific storms in Kentucky and Virginia and West Virginia, took the lives of at least nine or 10 people in Kentucky and our hearts go out to everybody there. Donald Trump was spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money going to the Daytona 500.
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Well, look, Donald Trump has made it very clear his priority is simply oligarchs and billionaires. The $4.5 trillion tax cut in the budget for the billionaires. There's nothing about no tax on tips in the budget. There's nothing about no tax on overtime in the budget.
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There's nothing about no tax on Social Security in the budget, $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, $250 billion in cuts to farmers and agriculture, $350 billion in cuts to education. Donald Trump trampling over the environment, which Gen Z does care about, and Gen Z feels like the rug has been pulled. There's reason for hope.
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I want to talk about that soon because I think that Donald Trump and Elon Musk thought by now they were going to bulldoze over all of us. They thought that at this point, America would have submitted. They thought they controlled all of the media. I think they thought they would rule like dictators with their shock and awe plan, but they failed.
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And I think now their incompetence is showing, and they're also now playing on the battlefield of AP. pissed off population of millions who are getting screwed by them every single day, which is why you see the protests growing, why you see Trump's unpopularity rising. And I think it's going to hit a critical point sooner than even I expected.
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And it's important that we here at the Midas Touch Network remain part of the leadership of this opposition, of this resistance and being for something, for democracy, love, empathy and the truth. We're going to have a special Zoom meeting with our Patreons on Thursday after our Thursday show.
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So if you aren't already a member of our Patreon, go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch, and we'd love for you to be at that meeting. If you ever wanted to ask me, Brett, and Jordy questions, we can talk about how the Midas Touch Network just passed 4 million subscribers after our show from last Thursday. Feel free to ask us anything. You can ask Jordy some tough questions as well.
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We'll take a quick break right now. We've got a lot of show left. Let's take our first quick break.
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This followed Donald Trump going to the Super Bowl. The prior week, he just goes to every sporting event now.
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he flies air force one around and he takes the motorcade around again wasting millions of taxpayer dollars while kentucky and west virginia virginia arkansas also tennessee were suffering and literally underwater trump took the motorcade and went around in circles on the track he was also posting all weekend things like this he who saves his country
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Brett, as you mentioned Donald Trump gutting FEMA services, it should also be noted that in the great state of Georgia, their Republican Governor Brian Kemp requested supplemental FEMA assistance in the way of an extension of what Biden approved back in September of 2024, specifically for some additional debris removal caused by Hurricane Helene. So Kemp submitted it to Trump's FEMA.
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Surprise, surprise, FEMA denied it. Also, there's a ruby red town in Tennessee that just experienced a pretty devastating tornado recently, and their leadership there has zero hope that there will be any exemptions or any way that the Trump administration's FEMA is going to help their town out as well.
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Of course, we're also finding out in all of these red states or the red states are finding out, we were trying to tell them before, they depend a lot on federal aid, whether it's the fact that the University of Alabama is the biggest employer in the state of Alabama, whether, for example, in Hollywood.
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Huntsville, Alabama, there's an important kind of rocket facility there that relies on a lot of federal funding and research grants and federal dollars. You can look at a lot of states that are experiencing this as well. You take a look at Louisiana, their workers, lots of federal workers losing their jobs there. Lots of other workers losing their jobs.
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violates no law, quote, attributed to Napoleon, which is an interesting photo and quote for him to pick. One, not just for its just reckless unlawfulness, but also as Donald Trump threatens Europe the way he does. There's an emergency meeting today in Europe called by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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And so, you know, these magas look at Washington, D.C., and I think the unemployment claims are like skyrocketing right now in Washington, D.C. And they're like, yeah, we're owning the deep state. You're destroying your own. First off.
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those were important workers on critical areas as well so those people shouldn't have been fired but also you're screwing over your own states in the process and it's going to lead in a spike in unemployment which i think we'll start to see as future unemployment reports nationally come in which you can save the tape right here my prediction is going to be as it looks like there's going to be months with job losses coming up
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The Trump administration is going to try to stop those reports from coming out to prevent the data from reaching the people that the administration is losing jobs, which is going to create a situation. This is my prediction and my opinion. It's going to be even more harmful to the country because what's Donald Trump's view about everything?
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His view about everything is just if you don't test everything. If you don't do the research and you just listen to Dear Leader, then you don't find out the bad things and you just consume the propaganda. This propaganda that's spreading in the United States by Trump and Fox would make North Korea blush. I mean, it's some of the craziest stuff out there.
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Even Putin doesn't have his own national holiday for his birthday, and no one, I think, has proposed it there. But the MAGA Republicans come up with Here's our new bill that we want to add Donald Trump's face to Mount Rushmore. Here's our new bill to have the national birthday day of Donald Trump.
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I mean, this group of spineless Republicans, then they have the audacity, these spineless Republicans to go to Europe to meet with Zelensky and then give him a standing ovation. And people like Lindsey Graham and other MAGA Republicans act like they've got his back. while they empower Donald Trump, and then they try to gaslight us into saying, you don't understand.
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Donald Trump's doing the flattery of Putin as part of a grandmaster chess negotiating strategy. This is how the deals get done. No, that's not how the deals get done.
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By the way, earlier in the day, when Europe just had its emergency meeting in Paris, in France, to deal with the fact that America is no longer really an ally to Europe anymore, and Europe needs to figure out, is it gonna do a European army? Are they gonna put troops in Ukraine? They're strategizing right now. You have Elon Musk literally making posts,
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praising Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov. And Musk says, this is what competent leadership looks like regarding Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, as Sergey Lavrov meets with Marco Rubio in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, while Donald Trump is playing golf all day in Mar-a-Lago. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, I think had some great insight here.
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to respond to the fact that Donald Trump has cut out Europe and Ukraine and is pursuing just direct negotiations with Sergey Lavrov and Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. Russia's foreign minister Lavrov is there meeting with the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And again, they're intentionally cutting out Europe and Ukraine who are impacted the most. And of course,
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He goes, what a coincidence that Trump announces the creation of a US sovereign wealth fund. Two, he says he wants 50% of Ukraine's rare earth minerals. Three, he tried to have Zelensky transfer All of Ukraine's rare earth minerals into a quote reconstruction development fund.
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And for the head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund is part of the delegation with Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia, where Donald Trump. and Putin are having their people meet and intentionally cutting out Europe and Ukraine from the negotiations. Here's how the Independent reports it. Russia and US to meet for talks on Ukraine's future after sidelining European leaders gather for emergency summit.
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RT, Russia's propaganda network, absolutely loves it. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Saudi Arabia and expected to meet with russia's foreign minister lavrov on tuesday compare that image to the image of the leaders in europe like france's president emmanuel macron meeting with the uk's prime minister kier starmer i show this picture as well right here though This is the photo of J.D.
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Vance from college. Just to look at this punk. If we have this photo of him wearing the CCP or wearing the USSR outfit, we'll try to get... I mean, this guy's just a punk his whole life. You know, he's like, oh, I'm being funny, I'm being funny. This guy is an absolute punk. And I want to share with you what President Zelensky is saying today, or over the weekend, rather.
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when i win i will immediately bring prices down starting on day one we will end kamala's war on american energy and we will drill baby drill we're going to drill i just want to come with receipts like this receipt over here and i could show you hundreds of clips like this where donald trump said that there would be peace in ukraine on day one he said specifically that he would bring putin
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Zelensky's making it clear that Zelensky, Ukraine... and Europe standing by Zelensky's side, that they will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine if they negotiate without Ukraine in the room. Here, play this clip.
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Meanwhile, you had J.D. Vance at the Munich conference just attacking Europe repeatedly, basically saying that European democracies don't support free speech. He tried to promote Germany's neo-Nazi party, the AFD. And if there's some good news there, it seems the more Musk and J.D. Vance support,
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throw their arms around the afd the less support it seems the afd seems to get in some of the recent polling we're seeing there ahead of their elections we're also seeing something similar happen in the uk as it's expected the front runner of the liberal part to take over from justin trudeau's a guy by the name of mark carney used to be a leader of top banks in canada and elsewhere
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This also follows a devastating appearance by the United States in Europe in the Munich conference where J.D. Vance attacked all of the European democracies. And then the Trump delegation tried to get Zelensky to sign a piece of paper turning over all of the rare earth minerals. in Ukraine to the United States and Donald Trump without any security guarantees.
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The polling right now from Main Street polling in Canada actually shows that the Liberal Party would be able to win the elections, party-wide elections, if Mark Carney was its leader and be able to form a government. That was never going to be the case months ago. Let me just show you this clip of J.D. Vance, and then, Brett, I'll turn it over to you. Here's J.D.
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Vance at the Munich conference attacking Europe.
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I think it was two people who clapped there, and that was the people who J.D. Vance brought along a humiliating display in Europe, triggering an emergency meeting of European nations to basically say America's done, America's lost, America's no longer a real ally, maybe an ally in fake name only, but Europe needs to be in solidarity with itself and bye-bye America.
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Fortunately, Zelensky said absolutely not. Oh yeah, by the way, what Trump was posting that quote, he who saves his country violates no law too, was an article about how federal judges were ruling against some of Donald Trump's lawlessness. So Trump indicating that he was not going to follow court orders. And then when Donald Trump left the Daytona 500 event,
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Got a lot to discuss. I want to talk about Donald Trump's awful annual stock report, which shows what a horrible business person he is. I want to connect that to what's going on in Argentina. MAGA's favorite politician, Javier Millay, who's embroiled in a crypto scam. Surprise, surprise. We'll talk about that. We've got a lot of other things to discuss as well.
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Want to remind everybody, if you want to meet Brett Jordy and myself online, On Thursday, we'll be holding our Zoom meeting at patreon.com slash MidasTouch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash MidasTouch. Also, if you want to check out some of the articles from our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, I often do a morning article as well. You go to MidasPlus.com for more there.
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wasting millions of taxpayer dollars, calling Doge, where are you? Oh, lying about condoms in Gaza or whatever. Then Donald Trump talked about egg prices reaching an all-time high. And of course, the liar, guess what? He lied and Donald Trump said, well, the prices were much higher at an all-time high before I got here. Here, play this clip.
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We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show.
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The Midas Touch surpassed 4 million subscribers on our YouTube channel. We now march to five and then to 10. And as I said, we lead with our values and our principles with love, empathy, the truth. And we got to bring people together now more than ever. And just speaking of the truth, I'm an objective data guy. I love data because data just is the data it is. It is what it is.
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So for all of the people who are like, Oh, Donald Trump is a great businessman. I like him because he's a businessman. And they say it like that. I'm not sure what that I like. That's adopting my impressions of. That's it. So let's take a look. Let's take a look at the businessman with the data.
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So Trump's company that doesn't rely on NFTs or whatever, like this is a business, Trump Media, which runs Truth Social. I'm not sure Donald Trump knows what a P&L, a profit and loss statement is or a balance sheet. But let's take a look at it right now because you'll see over the past year, Trump Media lost $400 million.
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400 more than 400 million dollars lost in fiscal year 2024. its entire revenue which dropped 12 from the previous year if this is even possible it's just 3.6 million dollars I'm not talking about profit. I'm not talking about net or net net. I'm not talking about EBITDA. I'm talking about the entire revenue. All of the money brought in $3.6 million and it lost over $400 million.
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Now money doesn't just get lost. It goes somewhere. So we'll investigate and take a look at that. But when you take a look at Trump media, is it any different from how he's going to run the country. When you take a look at the $4.5 trillion tax cuts, as I've predicted before, and then now some fiscal hawks are saying it as well, this could cause over 25 trillion
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trillion dollars in debt over the next 10 years. Go back a few months because I said, oh yeah, these economists are saying, oh, maybe he's going to add 10 trillion, which is pretty freaking bad, by the way, which was like way more than anyone of the top economists predicted. Kamala, what I said, y'all are crazy. Trump's going to add 25 to 50 trillion dollars of debt because
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He's going to 10X what he did last time, I thought. And last time he did $8 trillion. So to me, it wouldn't be shocking if last time it was $8 trillion and this time it's $80 trillion because that's what people like him do. When they get away with it the first time, they do it again. Think about the arsonist. He lights the match. He sets the country on fire.
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OK, liar, liar. pants on fire or America on fire. And it's actually very serious Europe on fire. It's very serious Asia on fire with some of the reckless statements that have been made by the Trump regime. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy.
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Then he sees when the fire department, a.k.a. former President Biden, Biden tries to put out the fire. Whoa, you can just blame the fire department for the arson. Maybe next time I'll strike a bigger match and do a bigger fire, which is the dumpster fire we're watching now. But take a look at this report. I read hundreds of pages of this report, so you don't have to.
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There are just a few parts of it that I found interesting. I'll do a whole other video about it in the morning. So make sure all our viewers, you're checking out the Midas Touch YouTube channel throughout the day.
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if you haven't figured out we post a new video about every 90 minutes starting at 4 a.m pacific 7 a.m eastern and then we go in a 90-minute schedule sometimes we go on an hour schedule you may have figured that out by now but make sure you keep on checking back take a look at this trump's own financial report inflation and global supply chain this is what trump says
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currently the u.s economy is experiencing a bout of increased inflation resulting in rising prices and then it goes on to say although inflation had an impact us in previous years for the years ending in december 31 2024 2023 in 2022 you mean the biden years
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Then it goes, we anticipate that inflation will have an impact on our business going forward, including through a material increase in our cost of revenue and operating expense in the coming years, if not permanently.
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continued or permanent rise in core costs could impact our growth negatively this is trump's statement inflation did not hurt us in the years when biden was in office but now it's going to impact us in the years when i am in office when trump is in office i'll do a whole other hot take on this i don't need to cover now there's a whole other section a number of companies that were associated with donald trump
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have filed for bankruptcy there's no assurances that trump media will not also become bankrupt and it goes this one bankrupt that went bankrupt this one bankrupt that went bankrupt and there's another section a number of companies that had license agreements with donald trump have failed and it goes trump stakes trump university trump mortgage llc trump this trump i i tried doing a tick tock on this earlier um reading through the report i thought it would be like
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Because it's a publicly traded company, there's a section that asks you, have you ever declared a bankruptcy or has another company you ran ever been shut down? So you have to respond yes or else you automatically get sued into oblivion. So Trump realizes, well, I'm just going to disclose it. And as he said, I can shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and they'll still vote for me.
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a little long build up right there but i thought it was important that i showed those receipts right at the outset and get into it because prices are going way up housing less affordable trump is causing major major problems quicker than anyone even anticipated
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So he goes, I'll still be able to basically grift off these people even when I tell them how bad of a business person I've been. That's their calculation. But If you look at the Trump meme coin, it's down 45% in the past month since he's been the president of the United States. You have to try, I think, to be that bad if you're using the Oval Office and you're still failing at it.
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It's unbelievable. Or he has a quarter and he has a back and sees a quarterback, but it's like, okay, but he doesn't actually play this. Our sports analogies get a little walkie on the show. Exactly. So, you know, it's improv, baby. That's what we do on the Midas Touch Network. Then the Smolania Bitcoin or meme coin, whatever the hell you call it, down 82%.
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It's called Smolania because it's dollar sign Melania. And they were too dumb to even realize it's Smolania. But can we go to the guy who was one of the backers of the Smolania coin? It's this guy over here. What's this? Davey. I'm trying to remember what this guy's name is.
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is yeah hayden mark yeah hayden davis is this guy's name here's the guy so here's one of the guys who helped this melania coin and he's also one of the guys behind dollar sign libra which was this coin that was hyped up by argentina's president malay um which was a which appears to be another major rug pull where it went went up to a 4.5 billion dollar market cap after argentina's president says
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Liberal Argentina grows. The private project will be dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economy by funding small Argentine businesses and startups. The world wants to invest in Argentina. Long live freedom, damn it.
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He made a selfie video, this guy, and he's like, I do want to announce I am the advisor. the advisor to Javier Millay. It was not a rug pull. It was just, it did not go as planned. This is the guy who was advising the MAGA sweetheart, Javier Millay, who's overseeing a massive poverty rate in Argentina, who now may face impeachment in Argentina over screwing over his people. Here, play this clip.
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It's all the same that people like Star Trek. That actually could be construed as a compliment.
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It's like what- You don't understand Brett, the tokenization, you have to tokenize it. And then once you have the hybrid with, Brett, here's the thing, Jordy, Jordy, here's the thing. You take a little bit of Solano, you take your Solano, and then you merge it with a little bit of BTC, and then you tokenize it. And then it's all about the tokenization economics.
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Jordy talks about Instagram 1.0 with the aviator glasses. Frankly, I have no clue that reference, Brett.
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Brett, I mean, I had Instagram version 1.0, I think with those weird filters. I wasn't sure what I was taking photos of though. Anyway, Brett's sunny in Philadelphia, but it's almost like JD Vance walked into that room and literally just took a crap in front of everybody.
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people were like literally like dude did you just crap on the floor in front of like you know jd vance is like what that's not what we do here i mean people were absolutely could be immature sometimes like people were like just like the f word the what did he do did he literally just poop on the floor right yeah you'll see this he just guys pooped on stage you see this like it's a combination of like horrified just and like this and like disgusted by him
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All right. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to land this plane while they're still I'm going to land this plane while the FAA still has some people right here, you know, and try to and try to bring it and try to bring this home right here. But by the way, there is absolutely total chaos and pandemonium.
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And it's not a accident right here that the in an accident, I guess I'll continue the pun right here. Let me show you right here.
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all right this deep in this okay these it's not an accident when you put these people in charge the horrific outcomes that we're seeing right inflation is already heating up right here the bureau of labor statistics right here are showing like just look at this stuff like these this is awful data Going back to the objective data, inflation is heating up. Americans are down on the economy again.
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Households are bracing for another bump in inflation. America's now expect that inflation is going to go up to 4.3%. Retail sales are falling more than expected. Gas prices are going back up. In West Texas, there's a measles outbreak right now.
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And as you just look through other objective data, like what's going on, what they're firing people at the CDC right now, CDC's epidemic intelligence service workers are getting laid off right now, like literally like the disease detectives are getting fired right now. Over a thousand of the probationary workers are being let go. These are some of the epidemic intelligence services.
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These are recruits who are some of the brightest public health leaders in the field right now. And they're literally firing FAA people over and over again. And in Canada, shout out to the first responders in Canada who are dealing with another crash. But it just seems like every week we're dealing with like a plane crash. There's been four deadly plane crashes.
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I know there are some people in critical condition in Canada, so our heart goes out to, you know, some of the people there. And thanks to all the work of the first responders. Fortunately, at least as of this recording, I don't know of any deaths, but some serious injuries. And then you have headlines like this.
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trump fires hundreds of the faa despite four deadly crashes under his watch doge is now creating a doge irs account and all of the agencies now have accounts like doe this is what it's like a public twitter account doge is seeking help from the public please dm this account with insights on finding and fixing waste fraud and abuse relating to the irs like what the hell like that's how we're dealing with like the irs it's like
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And this is as Elon Musk's team is gaining access to all of the private tax data. They're sending their team in like literally the system that does the audits, that sends out collection notices or when not to send out collection notices, that the Doge is seeking access to your personal taxpayer data. So like we know that Trump, Trump barely paid any taxes at all. Some years he paid no tax.
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Some he paid the filing fee of $750. You know, we know that Trump fought not to have his taxes released. Like, let's give it to the billionaires who don't want to pay taxes.
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And I've said it like this before. I said what they're doing at Doge is very analogous to like what QAnon does with the Q drops.
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You just sprinkle some seeds. You get people to like try to decode things. Oh, a new USA drop today. What is it? Condoms in Gaza. Oh, crap. Condoms in Gaza. Whoa, you mean Mozambique that Trump was giving in 2019? You mean those? Oh, well, yeah, that's still bad. Well, you know, Trump was doing it in 2019. Well, it was probably the deep state.
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And then you sprinkle more, you sprinkle new ones throughout. And what's going on? Donald Trump taking your money for his propaganda photo ops, spending millions of dollars, vacationing millions of taxpayer dollars,
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forcing the secret service to stay at his resorts paying himself all the while bringing the republicans to pay him spending all the government funds and claiming him for himself basically flying around in air force one riding around the track in circles like a little baby you know at the daytona 500 going to the super bowl the guy gonna go to every sporting event on the taxpayer dime and just vacationing more than 50 and meanwhile let's get back to where we started
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The billionaires and the oligarchs are going to get the $4.5 trillion tax cuts, which could increase our debt by over $25 trillion over the next 10 years while they take away your Medicaid, while they take away resources from farmers, and while they
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take away education and then they screw over the veterans and they cut key jobs at nuclear facilities and they cut key jobs at the FAA and they cut key jobs and just jobs in general of people who protect food safety, you know, and shout out to all the federal workers who have worked so hard and have been just treated
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and called all of these demeaning names, people who worked quietly in the government, just trying to keep the wheels of this thing going, who are not just being fired, but being stripped of their human dignity and their basic, just being treated like they're disposable crap, the way Elon Musk and Donald Trump treat people in their life.
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This all goes back to the fact that who's benefiting from all of this? Not we, the people. not even the one, even less than the 1% at this point, but the 1% or less. You ain't getting tax cuts if you don't make more than $360,000 a year. You're going to get screwed over by all of this.
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and Zelensky into a room together and they would have a deal within 24 hours. In fact, even before he took office, he said if he were to win the election, a deal would just be made during the transition period. Here, play it. You'll see the receipts.
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And with surging prices, housing less affordable, eggs reaching record highs, inflation back to soaring again, you're going to get screwed. So again, whether you're a red state, blue state, independent, whether you're Republican, Democrat, whatever. Just again, I'm just giving you the data.
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And I ask you to think critically, to not just do your own research, but just look at some basic facts as well that's right there in front of us. And maybe because sometimes it's right there in front of us, we try to attribute a more complicated motivations or things like that. And sometimes it's all about just following the money.
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The money from your pocket to the pocket of the billionaires and the oligarchs. That's what's happening. The reverse Robin Hood, the Trump, the Musk, the Trumpy hood, the musky hood, whatever you want to call it. It ain't good for you, but we'll be by your side every step of the way on the Midas Touch Network on this show.
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Make sure you keep checking back in throughout the day on the Midas Touch YouTube channel. And we're going to, until they, as I said before, until they rip this microphone from my hand, we will speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to you, to we, the people. That's what's needed right now. Fearlessness.
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in the face of an authoritarian regime and that's what we have here shout out to our international resistors people in europe people in canada people in mexico people in australia people in new zealand our warning to you as well as you see what elon to germany you see what elon musk is trying to do or what he did here he's going to do that in your country
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So y'all need to unite to stop what has happened here in the United States. That's our call to you internationally. And we here in the United States, while we still have this mic, while we still have this platform, we will fight from within, from within an authoritarian regime here, a Kim Jong Un like regime here in the United States. And we'll rally people each and every day.
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Their audio folks go to YouTube, subscribe to YouTube. Just thanks for everybody. Thanks to the mods. Thanks to the supporters. Thanks to the Midas Mighty. Let's keep fighting together. Every day we'll continue to grow in our momentum, and we're going to continue to stand up. We're going to stop this. We're going to get through this together.
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It's going to be tough, but we're going to get through this together. I make you that guarantee. Jordy, take it away.
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Well, look, Donald Trump is a sexual assaulter and he is an abuser. And if you've had abusers in your life, you know that they engage in torture, psychological torture, and then they try to kind of worm their way back into your life or distract you from the torture to be like, you remember when things were Good. You remember all of these things. You know the type of manipulation.
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You always have to look at the pathology of Donald Trump as an abuser. He's also a reckless individual and a bankruptor and a destroyer of things. And his pathology always shows. But with that abusive mentality, he now wants to take all of the symbols away.
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of our great country and our great democracy and then just use that with all this reckless spending showing up at all of the events look it's a big deal when you see air force one flying overhead just that's a big deal or when you see the motorcade it does make you in the past
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feel patriotic about things he knows that but he's an abuser and he's using it to distract you from all of those receipts i showed you at the outset that prices are going up up up inflation is going to surge again by the way later in the show i've got a
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I would not call it a treat because it's bad for America, but I got something no one else is talking about, which is I read the Trump media annual report for Truth Social. I read the whole report, hundreds of pages. And yes, it did show that the company only earned about $3.6 million in total revenue. Not profit, not EBITDA, 3.6 million in total revenue and it lost over $400 million.
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But there's a whole section, we'll talk about it later, about how surging inflation is going to be very harmful for the future prospects of Trump media. They're admitting it in their own financials that Trump inflation is going to hurt Trump media. He's blaming the failure of his company on the failure of his presidency. So we'll get there.
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But let me show you what the propaganda machine is trying to do. They're trying to pull
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on the heartstrings of people who like these symbols of patriotism so they bring on this guy doug bergum right out of central casting also a guy worth hundreds of millions potentially billions of dollars on donald trump's cabinet he's the secretary of the interior and he goes full north korea and he goes how powerful was that image seeing the beast
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And the motorcade circle around the track of the Daytona 500. America's back, baby.
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Literally nobody is following his lead. Even Hamas is not following Donald Trump's threats. Hamas views Donald Trump's threats as all bark, no bite. Because remember, over the weekend, Donald Trump set that deadline that if Hamas, you don't return all of the Israeli hostages by noon on Saturday, all hell ends. is going to break loose.
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And all Hamas did was return the three hostages it was supposed to under the ceasefire deal that former President Biden negotiated. Then Donald Trump was like, well, then Netanyahu will unleash the hell. I mean, they already did basically before. And now there was no new action that Netanyahu actually took different. So Hamas and Netanyahu basically both just kind of ignored Donald Trump.
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Okay, well, let's look at headlines like this. Major trouble for Donald Trump in new polling. This comes from the Economist YouGov poll, which now has his approval rating dropping to 46%, which I still think is pretty high. And you're probably like, yeah, that's still a little too high. It should be noted, though, that this is still supposed to be the
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And we saw Donald Trump's fake deals with Canada, Donald Trump's fake deals with Mexico. And
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panama and others but these fake deals have left the world hating and despising the united states and showing such weakness that in the next segment we will also talk about this emergency meeting in europe that europe realizes that america's isolated and they're gone and america's basically no longer even a reliable ally or an ally at all brett
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honeymoon period for someone because they literally just won. And they are pushing the propaganda like crazy. And it's not working. You know where he's losing a lot of support with? Actually, young people. About 37% now is what his approval rating is amongst young people.
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the democracies in Europe, at least on one side. And now you have like Trump and Putin and Lavrov on the other side. You have spineless Republicans pretending that that's not the dynamic and that it's all part of some four-dimensional chess, which is not happening.
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For anyone who still says that Donald Trump is a brilliant businessman, well, show me the brilliance here. Donald Trump's company, Trump Media, which owns Truth Social, just announced it lost over $400 million last year. Its annual revenue declined 12% to just $3.6 million in revenue, not profit. Not EBITDA, not net revenue. Total revenue, $3.6 million. Look at the balance sheet right here.
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Part of the disclosures you have to make to the SEC is if you've had businesses that have failed in the past, you have to disclose it. So here it is. I've read the hundred plus pages here, so you don't have to. But here's what it says. A number of companies that were associated with President Donald J. Trump have filed for bankruptcy.
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There can be no assurances that the Trump Media Company will not also become bankrupt. Here's what it says. This is just filed. 214-2025 was the filing, and now it's being made public. Here's what it says. Entities associated with Donald J. Trump have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past.
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The Trump Taj Mahal, which was built and owned by Donald Trump, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991. The Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle, and the Plaza Hotel, all owned by Donald Trump at the time, filed for Chapter 11 in 1992. THCR, which was founded by Donald Trump in 1995, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004.
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Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc., the new name given to Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts after its 2004 bankruptcy, declared bankruptcy again in 2009. While all of the foregoing were in different businesses than Trump Media, there can be no guarantee that Trump Media's performance will exceed the performance of those entities, the bankrupt entities.
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Have you ever heard of someone who's bankrupted more businesses than that? I get maybe you bankrupt something once, I don't know, maybe twice. bankruptcy after bankruptcy, but it's not done yet. There's a whole nother section of companies that crashed that Donald Trump lent his name, image, and likeness to. A number of companies that had license agreements with Donald Trump have failed.
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There can be no assurances that Trump media will also not fail. Trump Shuttle, launched by Donald Trump in 1989, defaulted on its loans in 1990 and ceased to exist by 1992. Trump University, founded by Donald Trump in 2005, ceased operations in 2011 amid lawsuits and investigations regarding the company's business practices. Trump Vodka, a brand of vodka produced by drinks,
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America's, under license from the Trump Organization, was introduced in 2005 and discontinued in 2011. Trump Mortgage LLC, a financial services company founded by Donald Trump in 2006, ceased operations in 2007. GoTrump.com, a travel site founded by Donald Trump in 2006, ceased operations in 2007. Trump Steaks, a brand of steak and other meats founded by Donald Trump in 2007,
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discontinued sales two months after its launch. While all of these businesses were in different industries than the Trump Media Group, there can be no guarantee that Trump Media's performance will exceed the performance of those entities. I just listed so many entities that failed well before Donald Trump ever got involved in politics, so what?
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Was this a Democratic deep state time machine conspiracy where they went back into the past and they set Donald Trump up for all of these things? Or is he just a horrible, awful business person? And he's showing it once again because Trump media only generated crap. 3.6 million dollars in total revenue on a 400 million dollar total loss. He's doing it again and he's doing it to our country.
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Folks, he's a con artist. He's a liar. He's a felon. He's a sexual assaulter. He is a horrible, despicable human being who is a loser in his track record of life is being a loser. And whose receipts am I using? I'm using his. I'm using his receipts that he's a loser.
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It's one of the worst balance sheets I've ever seen. I doubt Donald Trump even knows how to read. a balance sheet or a profit and loss P&L statement. There's stunning admissions in this 10K filing. This is the annual report that publicly traded companies have to file with the SEC. So we finally got Donald Trump's 10K for the year ending in 2024.
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You want to go and see some more stunning admissions from this report? Again, I'm reading you Trump's own financial report. I'm not paraphrasing others. I just want to be clear when I read what I'm about to read to you. So from Trump's 10K. They expect that rising inflation will hurt Trump media's future financial prospects. May I repeat that again?
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Donald Trump, in his own 10K annual report, says rising inflation in America is in the future under his administration will cause harm to the future economic prospects of Trump media, which had only generated $3.6 million in revenue last year. Again, He's a horror. Who looks at this and goes, yeah, that's a good business person. Put it this way.
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One McDonald's franchise, not all of McDonald's, like one McDonald's franchise does significantly more revenue than what Trump media made. It's like the McDonald's down your block, basically. And it's probably profitable and not losing any money. That's Trump's total revenue. Here's what it says. Inflation and the global supply chain will be a big problem for Trump media.
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Currently, the US economy is experiencing a bout of increased inflation. It goes on to say, although inflation did not have a significant impact on our results of operations.
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For the years ending December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, we anticipate that inflation will have an impact on our business going forward, including through a material increase in our cost of revenue and operating expenses in the coming years, if not permanently. Continued or permanent rises in core costs could impact our growth negatively.
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That's Trump's own company saying that inflation is going to rise. What did Donald Trump promise on day one? That inflation would go down right away. I have video of him saying it. Here he is saying it.
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He is a fraud. He is a con artist. He is a liar. Now costs are going up. Right? Prices are going up. Egg prices record highs. Groceries going up. Housing less affordable. Trump can't even run his own digital media company. You think he can run a country? Are you kidding me? It goes on to say here are some other risk factors involved in the Trump media.
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And it is just shocking what a bad business person he is. Let me show you some of the admissions that are made in this SEC report. It's called the 10K Annual Report Filing. So this is Trump's filing. This is Trump's company. That means Donald Trump is saying the things that I'm about to tell you. It's not me, Ben Micellis, the co-founder of Midas Touch.
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There can be no assurances that Trump media will continue to be able to comply with the continued listing standards of NASDAQ. Trump Media's continued eligibility to maintain the listing of its securities on NASDAQ depends on a number of factors, including the price and the number of persons that hold Trump Media's securities. It goes on to say,
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As you read more, if NASDAQ delist Trump Media Securities from trading on its exchange for failure to meet its listing standards, Trump Media is not able to list such securities on another national securities exchange, then Trump Media Securities could be quoted on an over-the-counter market.
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If this were to occur, Trump Media and its security holders could face significant material adverse consequences, including...
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Recent reduced liquidity for its security, a limited availability of market quotations for securities, a determination that Trump Media's common stock is a penny stock, which will require brokers trading in the common stock to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity.
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And while all of this is going on too, remember my report yesterday about Javier Mele, the Argentinian president who promoted a meme coin that proved to be very scammy, causing people to lose their life savings in Argentina and elsewhere. The Libra coin that was done by this Kelsier Ventures, the same company that did the S, the Smolania meme coin. Look at Trump's coin, too, by the way.
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Trump's coin over the past month is down 45%, crashing. Melania's meme coin crashed. What's interesting about Trump media, though, this is just a wild aspect of it, right? $3 million in revenue on $400 million in losses. What Trump is good at is being a con artist and a fraud and a scammer because, I mean, you even take a look right here.
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You have the stock is trading at $30.39 with a $6.59 billion market cap. You want me to tell you what a company that loses $400 million with $3.6 million in revenue is usually valued at? Probably nothing. It probably would be bankrupt by now if it wasn't Trump media with Trump in the Oval Office and using it to get out his messages or propaganda.
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Let me give you the most generous, in my view, evaluation of it, and I'm not trying to give you stock advice, so I'm giving you my opinion only. Three million in revenue with no profit, What would you apply? A five times multiple, maybe. Let me give it a 10 times multiple. I'll give it a 10 times multiple and I will totally ignore the losses, which why would you do that?
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And I'll ignore, I won't do it by EBITDA or profit. I'll just say 10 times multiple. no one would ever apply a multiple to a company that's going in the opposite direction, losing money in this bad. So what my valuation, maybe $30 million, maybe $30 million. So if you had 200 million outstanding shares, let's just use that number, on a $30 million total value,
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That's why, in my opinion, it's quite literally a penny stock if I gave it the most favorable of favorable valuations. Just do the math of what one share would be worth on a 30 million valuation with 200 million individual shares. You could do the math. So then imagine if the valuation is more like 10 million. It's why this is so utterly absurd right now. I'm just giving you the facts and data.
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I'm not reading from you with some New York Times report or some corporate media. I'm reading you Donald Trump's own words from his company, from his company's report. So even Trump's own report admits that he's a horrible business person and that he's bankrupted so many businesses and screwed over so many people. What do you mean? What do I mean by that? Let me show you. Here's what it says.
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I read from you his report. So tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers. I got to stop saying four. We're on our way to five now. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Has Disaster Day With New Plane Crash
While America's psychopathic President Donald Trump continues to make posts about himself on President's Day, we got word that there was another plane crash involving an American plane into Canada. Fortunately, no deaths. As of this recording, at least eight people are injured.
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and the Real World Road Rules Challenge, who is basically posting saying, hey, public, we'd love for you to help us figure out how this equipment works. Go back to the video I did earlier before the news about this Delta flight that flipped upside down in Canada. So we have that happening.
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What we also have happening as well is Russia's propaganda networks have posted the photographs of the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, landing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where they will be having a bilateral meeting, U.S. and Russia, while they cut out intentionally Ukraine and they cut out Europe.
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from these negotiations that will impact Europe and Ukraine most. This was an intentional slap in the face and a dangerous one to Europe and Ukraine who are perceiving the threat because you now have an emergency meeting taking place as of this recording in France that's being led by the French President Emmanuel Macron.
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And then you have all of these European leaders from democracies who are meeting there, not the undemocratic ones like Hungary. So just think a look at this image. You have, you know, Rubio and Lavrov, the U.S.-Russia alliance. How utterly horrific. And then you have over here this image of Pierre Starmer, the prime minister of UK, and Emmanuel Macron.
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According to paramedics, it was a Delta flight carrying roughly 80 passengers from Minnesota into Toronto's Pearson Airport. Again, No casualties reported as of this time, but numerous photos and videos have been released showing passengers safely exiting the plane, which flipped upside down. As Hassan says, all this time it was literally DEI or die, and we didn't realize it.
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the president of France, meeting with each other in France. We're also learning that the U.S. is intending to pull out its military presence from the Baltic states, which would hand a massive, massive win to Russia as well. America essentially capitulating to Russia each and every day.
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We also learned moments ago as the Trump Media Financial Report was released, Trump Media, this is the company that controls Truth Social, they lost $400 million last year. They filed their 10K report. I'll do a deeper dive on this 10K report because wowzer, it is illuminating in a bad way for Donald Trump. The revenue declined 12% to just 3.6 million.
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We're not talking about profit or EBITDA, which would still, in my view, be small for a company like this. Their entire revenue for all of 2024 on the company being run by Donald Trump was $3.6 million in revenue on $400 million in losses. But you should ask yourself, money just doesn't get lost. Money goes somewhere. So where was that $400 million going to that's viewed as a loss?
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Meanwhile, as Doge and Musk continue to fire people in the government, key government jobs. You have Elon Musk making posts like this. What is happening here? And then it says, breaking image released of the migrant mom that stormed a Birmingham hospital armed with axes and blades. It's literally a picture from Batman, The Dark Knight Rises.
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This is who is using his algorithms and AI to cut all of these critical employees who are necessary for the safety of our country. I've said it before and let me say it again. Under Donald Trump, America is no longer safe. So in addition to Canada burning, boycotting the United States tourism because of America's threats of annexation under Donald Trump.
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It's also, they've fired all of these people. Like it's not a safe place for food and flight anymore, which is horrible to even think about, but it's just the reality.
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I have to tell you about this game changing product that I use before a night out with drinks. It's called pre-alcohol. Now let's face it, after a night with drinks, I don't bounce back the next day like I used to. I thought I had to make a choice. I can either have a great night or a great next day. That is until I found pre-alcohol.
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It's this byproduct, not dehydration, that's to blame for your roughnecks day. Pre-alcohol produces an enzyme to break this byproduct down. Just remember to make pre-alcohol your first drink of the night, drink responsibly, and you'll feel your best tomorrow.
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I'll be honest, I was skeptical about pre-alcohol at first, but then one weekend I was hanging out with a few friends over at my favorite bar and I thought, why not give it a shot? So I drank it before my first cocktail, my go-to old-fashioned, and you couldn't believe just how on top of my game I felt the next morning. Every time I have pre-alcohol before drinks, I notice a difference.
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Even after a late night, I can confidently plan on hitting the gym, running errands, or just enjoying a full day without worrying. With pre-alcohol, I can stay on track and not let winter travel or celebrations like Valentine's Day, the Super Bowl, and Mardi Gras throw me off course. Go to zbiotics.com slash Midas to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use Midas at checkout.
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As we've been reporting and others have, have been reporting as well. Donald Trump has been firing hundreds from the FAA despite the four deadly crashes on his watch already. This is yet another crash as well. Democratic Congressmember Steve Cohen says Trump just fired hundreds of FAA tech and maintenance workers
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Here's how they're running our government right now. So now they've created official government accounts like this. Doge IRS. And here's the post. Doge IRS. Doge is seeking help from the public. Please DM this account. with insights on finding and fixing waste, fraud, and abuse relating to the Internal Revenue Service. As Olga Lautman says, what in the hell is this?
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What a lawless country the United States of America is right now. They're posting Doge IRS, give us tips, Twitter, or now X about what's going on. While they fire career people who actually knew what they were doing. But what's Donald Trump doing? Donald Trump is posting the following. After just 17 frenetic days, Trump has already delivered a big part of his agenda. What's that? Was it the...
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plane crashing agenda? Was it crashing planes? Was that part of the agenda? Was it the destabilizing Ukraine, Europe and the rest of the world agenda? Was it was the agenda to lift to pressure Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate? who was charged in being prosecuted for sex trafficking with underage girls? Was that the frenetic days delivering a big part of the agenda?
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I mean, what else would you expect, though, with Donald Trump, who was close pals with Jeffrey Epstein? Someone like Donald Trump who said he bought beauty pageants. And one of the things he liked to do was look at the women or the girls naked in the locker rooms without their consent. Or Donald Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side.
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I guess what else would you expect right there? But by the way, prices ain't going down. Prices are going up, up, up right now. And by the way, you want to take a look at what's in Donald Trump's 10K filing to the SEC from Trump media. Take a look. This is what Trump's filing says. Currently, the US economy is experiencing a bout of increased inflation, resulting in rising prices.
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The US Federal Reserve, as well as its counterparts in other countries, have engaged in a series of interest rate hikes in an effort to combat rising inflation. Although inflation did not have a significant impact on our results of operations for the years ending December 31, 2024, we anticipate that inflation will have an impact on our business going forward
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including through a material increase in our cost of revenue and operating expenses in the coming years. If not permanently continued or permanent rises in core costs could impact our growth negatively. That's Trump's company posting that. So prices are surging, going up, up, up. Housing is less affordable. Pricing is hitting record highs. Gas prices are going up. Um, It's not a good situation.
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He's crashing our economy right now. And also, he's crashed law and order. Four of the top deputies for Mayor Eric Adams in New York, they just announced they are resigning some of the top people in the office.
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Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer, Deputy Mayor for Operations Mira Joshi, Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services Ann William Isom, and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chauncey Parker said that they were all stepping down.
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right now after the quid pro quo deal between Trump's DOJ to dismiss charges against Mayor Eric Adams for bribery for foreign companies and foreign countries, rather, without prejudice for Mayor Eric Adams to pursue the MAGA agenda. And so all of those people are resigning right now. Like, the good people are resigning, unfortunately.
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The people who keep radar, landing and navigation systems running amid a string of recent plane crashes, including in D.C. and Alaska. This is dangerous and it undermines public confidence in air travel. Reverse this absurd decision now. That post was before this crash in Canada.
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That follows seven federal prosecutors resigning, including lots of right-wing conservative lawyers who refused to dismiss the case when they were demanded to because they thought it was unethical and or illegal. And also...
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Our State Department is kind of undermining the way America's had a very delicate balance between rejecting China's sovereignty over Taiwan, but also kind of respecting China's one China policy. It's been a very delicate balance over many decades for America to kind of pursue this diplomatic tightrope walk.
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with China so that we can defend Taiwan's sovereignty, but also not piss off China as part of an, you know, because they're an international trade partner, even though there's an adversarial relationship. So one of the things Trump's State Department did is they deleted language that respected at least China's claim. over Taiwan, despite America still defending Taiwan's sovereignty.
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I know it gets wonky, but it's pissed off China that basically said you're going to now cause severe damage to the China-U.S. relations and cause severe damage to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. So What the Trump State Department is doing is destabilizing everything in Europe, destabilizing everything in Asia right now.
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And while this is going on, Donald Trump was taking laps yesterday in NASCAR around the track with his motorcade to project the strongman image. which really just looked like embarrassing. It just looked like Kim Jong-un, basically. So those are your core updates here about what's going on.
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While you have Tom Homan, Trump's borders are threatening to arrest AOC for providing migrants with what their rights are about it.
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Yeah, and then you also have one of Donald Trump's cabinet members, Doug Burgum. Here, he's like, I've never seen anybody look more powerful than how Donald Trump did when he went around the track. Here, play this clip.
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And the Minnesota senator back on February 6, 2025, Senator Tina Smith, who's been on our program before, said Elon Musk and his interns meddling in aviation safety is truly terrifying. You go back to the report I did this morning, and it was the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who got famous for being on the real world news.
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I want to be honest. It appeals to a group of people who are like, yeah, look how tough it is. And when you have billions of dollars in propaganda behind it, it appeals to a group of Americans, 35% of Americans. They will love Gulf of America. Look, he's riding around the motorcade in the track. We're back, baby. Even as their rights and jobs are being taken away,
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You know, but there's nothing you can do about those people. This is the reality. What we have to do, though, is speak loud with our microphone here. Why we got to grow to five million subscribers and then beyond, because we got to speak to Americans who are apathetic, who may not be following politics, who decided not to vote this election. You know, Trump got under 50 percent of the vote.
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Tens of millions of Americans did not vote. We have to speak to them. And look, Trump's popularity is decreasing. The new YouGov poll has him underwater. I think the approval ratings mid 40s should be lower. But this is also the honeymoon period, which is rapidly fading fast. But. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Thanks for watching.
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The Trump regime is refusing to comply with the Supreme Court's unanimous 9-0 ruling, ordering them to return Abrego Garcia, a migrant with protected status who the Trump regime kidnapped from Maryland and put in a gulag in El Salvador. In fact, the Trump regime has been pretending that they actually won the Supreme Court ruling when they lost 9-0. And relatedly,
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It's because Donald Trump, though, is causing such grievous harm to the economy, to the dollar, to the bond markets, though, that I actually think that lots of people give a crap. I unfortunately think that if it wasn't affecting people's money – that a lot of people would be okay about the authoritarian extermination stuff that Donald Trump is doing, which I think is absolutely reprehensible.
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So the fact that the economy is having this level of volatility with the tariffs all backfiring, at the same time of the extermination camps in El Salvador, they then become inextricably intertwined. So I think that's just an important point. And then Brett, your point of having this El Salvador dictator sit there,
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feigned that they don't have any authority whatsoever in the people's house, in the Oval Office, you know, is a image and a message that is, you know, something that I think still needs to even be processed how bad it is. Let me just read from the Supreme Court ruling so people can know what the Supreme Court actually said. So the Supreme Court said, the district court's order
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donald trump used the time to attack ukraine also a united states special envoy to russia steve whitcoff was there over the past few days in st petersburg russia and in this bizarre photo puts his hand over his heart and shows subservience to putin looks like he's pledging allegiance to putin also let's talk about the fight the oligarchy tour which is taking the country by storm led by senator bernie sanders and congresswoman aoc on saturday about 36 000 people
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properly requires the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that this case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. That's nine to zero. had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador, okay?
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Now, the Supreme Court does go on to say, the intended scope of the term effectuate in the district court's order is however unclear and may exceed the district court's authority. The district court should clarify its directive with due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch and the conduct of foreign affairs.
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For its part, the government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps. The order heretofore entered by the Chief Justice is vacated. So the Trump regime reads that last part as saying, we've taken all the steps. We asked Bukele and Bukele says, nope. So now there's nothing we can do. So you can't force us to do anything.
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That is it. Let me read you the opinion that is by the three liberal justices who agree with the disposition of the Supreme Court's ruling saying facilitate the return and treat Abrego had he not been improperly sent to an extermination camp in El Salvador. Let me read for you just how powerful this language is.
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It says the United States government arrested Abrego Garcia in Maryland and flew him to a, quote, terrorism confinement center in El Salvador, where he has been detained for 26 days and counting. To this day, the government has cited no basis in law for Abrego Garcia's warrantless arrest, his removal to El Salvador or his confinement in a Salvadoran prison, nor could it.
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The government remains bound by an immigration judge's 2019 order expressly prohibiting Garcia's removal to El Salvador because he faced a clear probability of future prosecution there and demonstrated that El Salvador's authorities were and would be unwilling to protect him. The government has not challenged the validity of that order.
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Instead of hastening to correct its egregious error, the government dismissed it as an oversight. The government now requests an order from the court permitting it to leave Abrego Garcia, a husband and father, without a criminal record in a Salvadoran prison for no reason recognized by law.
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The only government, the only argument the government offers in support of its request is that the United States courts cannot grant relief once a deportee crosses the border. And that is plainly wrong. The government's moreover implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without a legal consequence so long as it does so before a court can intervene.
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Because every factor governing requests for equitable relief manifestly weigh against the government, I would have declined to intervene in this litigation at all and denied the application in full.
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Nevertheless, I agree with the court's order that the proper remedy is to provide Abrego Garcia with all the process to which he would have been entitled had he not been unlawfully removed to El Salvador." That means the government must comply with its obligation to provide Abrego Garcia with, quote, due process of law, including notices and an opportunity to be heard in any future proceedings.
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It must also comply with its obligations under the Convention Against Torture. Does that sound like a nine to zero opinion that Trump won? I just read from you what the Supreme Court ruled. And Brett, just one note, the Supreme Court on its own is not going to just issue statements.
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The case has to go back to be heard before they're even allowed to comment, which it will forth, which that's going to happen. But now the question is, is that they're already being defied. And the Trump regime is going to say, OK, Supreme Court, you said facilitate. We facilitated. He's in El Salvador. There's nothing we can do.
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And the reason why the absolute immunity opinion is so significant is that had the Supreme Court not given Trump immunity, Trump, someone in that position, would be afraid that they can be personally charged with murder.
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right like kidnapping like it would be a crime what took place but because the supreme court said well you get immunity there's no ramifications other than the supreme court saying you've been naughty you've been naughty and that is why the trump regime is doing what it's doing i want to talk about more aspects of what went down in that oval office uh uh that oval office uh
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showed up in los angeles then senator sanders went to coachella on the main stage spoke to about 125 000 people in coachella they were all booing donald trump when sanders brought up trump's name then on sunday sanders and aoc took the fight the oligarchy tour
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I want to talk about Trump's talking about more tariffs on pharmaceuticals this time and the chaos that's causing with treasury yields, the 10 and 20 year soaring now, the dollar at some of its weakest levels almost ever, money finding its way into the London gold market now because America's not looked at as a stable economy anymore, mortgage rates above 7%.
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a lot of instability here i want to remind everybody that on thursday we will have our patreon meeting with all of our patrons the state of the resistance the state of the opposition the state of the midas touch network if you ever wanted to meet brett jordy and myself That's where you do it. You could ask us questions. There's a secret link on patreon.com slash Midas Touch on Thursday.
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As soon as that live show ends, we'll go right into the Zoom meeting and you'll click on the secret link. Also, store.midastouch.com. Get your Midas merch, including 100% made in Canada, maple Midas merch. That's store.midastouch.com. Of course, Canadians, you know we had to make it elbows up. 100% made in Canada.
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And then for everybody else, you've got the other Midas Touch gear at store.midastouch.com. We've got a lot more show, a lot more to discuss, including what's going on with the Fight the Oligarchy Tour. We'll talk about that and more. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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Two, of all places, Utah, where about 10% of the entire Salt Lake City population showed up, filled this arena, 20,000 strong, chanting, tax the rich. That and more on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Myselis, joined by Brett and Jordy. We've got a lot to discuss today, brothers. Indeed, full-on authoritarian beyond constitutional crisis in the United States. It's an authoritarian regime here.
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Well, I think just in case you're all losing track on these tariffs. So first, Donald Trump announced on what he called Liberation Day, which is really Annihilation Day or Liquidation Day, that there were going to be reciprocal tariffs. But actually, they were not reciprocal tariffs and they were imposed on everyone other than Russia itself.
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And the Taliban in Afghanistan, the penguins were retaliated against and somehow they got tariffs as well. And then we learned that it was like some cockamamie formula based on the deficit being used as a measure of how the Trump regime viewed tariffs going against the United States. So then tariffs went down to 10% on everyone but China for 90 days.
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And then actually, we then learned that there's still 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, even though they weren't included on the Liberation Day chart. And then there was 50% more tariffs on China and 50% more tariffs on China, but then not computers and electronics, but then maybe on computers and electronics also.
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The question is, what does the resistance to an authoritarian dictator look like?
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due to a system glitch a lot of the tariffs haven't been collected also some of the tariffs may have to be returned on computers and electronics so the external revenue service is actually the external return service also there's going to be separate tariffs on steel pharmaceuticals and semiconductors maybe it's possibly there's going to be just some gifts given to tim cook and maybe to some automakers temporarily trump doesn't know we're going to have to find out what he posts next okay now if you are a business
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What are you going to do? What are you going to do? How is there going to be M&A activity, mergers and acquisitions? How do you know what the cost of your supply is? How are you going to make projections? Are you going to build a factory? Are you not going to build a factory? Is Donald Trump going to wake up and make this post or that post?
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Donald Trump in the Oval Office was asked about additional tariffs, and he talks about tariffs on pharmaceuticals. That's one of the big ones that he wants to go after. Tariffs on pharma. Here, listen to what Donald Trump said in this bizarre and dangerous press conference with Nayib Bukele. Let's play it. On tariffs? No, not you.
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It's unclear what the hell he's even doing. And by the way, I'm not sure if you noticed that moment at the very beginning where he got asked a question and he just looked at the reporter and I think it was a female reporter and he was like, not you, not you. And kind of just like shoot off the reporter. That's not normal behavior.
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I know in the swing of things, what he does, like people just ignore that behavior. I mean, could you imagine again, just like the CEO of a company behaving, just behaving like this? You couldn't. You know why? Because if someone was a sexual predator, a sexual abuser found liable for sexual assault, someone's a felon.
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A felon 34 times over someone found liable for fraud and someone who's bankrupted business after business after business in their life is a destroyer, not a builder. And by the way, someone who speaks in front of kids.
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like donald trump spoke at the young republicans in new york in the past two years and said the most courageous thing he was told he did he claims by someone who was a general who said he's seen death on the battlefield was tell donald trump how courageous it was when trump referred to sexually assaulting women as locker room talk trump said that's real courage that's what that's part of the message to the young republicans okay
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There's a reason why character matters and why Donald Trump's character is disqualifying. I won't even get into it on the show. I covered it elsewhere as well. But like Donald Trump released what he claimed to be his physical and they described he is clearly in good health. as indicated by the fact that he's won many golf tournaments recently. It actually says that.
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And then it refers to what took place in Butler, Pennsylvania, as his ear being scared, it says. It says his ear was scared. The word is scarred. They don't even know how to spell it. And then they claim he's what, 6'3", 220 or 224. It's the most ridiculous document ever.
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And I know just sometimes like the way the question was asked and saying that, oh, he's so strong because he wins golf tournaments. In the swing of things, it seems minimal, but it's all part of this demented mindset of this insane, despicable, vile human being. And then just talking about Donald Trump not answering that question and Donald Trump defying court orders.
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Trump is defying a court order from a judge that Trump appointed in D.C. Judge McFadden is a Trump appointed judge who ordered that the Associated Press be able to return to the White House press corps and be able to ask questions. A Trump appointed judge. But the Trump regime will say all of these leftist injunctions, that they're killing everything, all these leftists, this leftist, that.
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Trump appointed judge. Trump's refusing to abide by that court order as well. Utterly despicable. Brett and Jordy, speaking about utterly despicable, what Donald Trump said about Zelensky at this press conference and over the past, it's been since he took office, but and forever. But while Trump's there with Nayib Bukele.
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While Donald Trump previously, I guess, what is three days ago at this point, sent Steve Witkoff, his special envoy to St. Petersburg. Witkoff looks at Putin, puts his hand over his chest. It looks like he's pledging allegiance. Laura Loomer, the 9-11 conspiracy theorist, posts about how strong Steve Witkoff is with a photo of him shaking Putin's hand and putting his hand over his heart.
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And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, is reposting a 9-11 conspiracy theorist, reposting a video from the Kremlin of an American special envoy putting his hand over his heart and greeting Vladimir Putin. Okay, did you... Did you, what in the mad libs is that, right? Did you hear that? All of that happened. Then Trump in the Oval Office, here he is attacking Zelensky. Let's play it.
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Apple of his eye. He says the 2020 election was rigged. He blames Zelensky for Putin invading Zelensky. He calls Zelensky not competent with Nayib Bukele, the leader of a poor authoritarian Latin American country sitting by his side.
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America right now is like a bigger version of North Korea to the rest of them. No one's looking towards America. We were the leader of the free world. America looks like a pariah regime right now, a la North Korea. Europe is forming its own alliances and Canada looking to Europe as more reliable partners.
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australia looking to europe that's the dynamic right there you know i think we saw from the european commission when they send their diplomats over they now go through the same protocols as though they were going to russia or china they bring burner phones and they protect themselves as though the united states is a hostile nation that's from the financial times and who's this benefiting most xi jinping is just feasting right he's going to australia to buy beef over there
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The Trump regime rolled out the red carpet earlier today for El Salvador's authoritarian leader, Nayib Bukele. Trump was on a hot mic speaking to Bukele, saying that American citizens should be sent to the El Salvador gulags and asking Bukele to build five more facilities so that Americans can be sent there. Sounds pretty dictatorish to me. We'll cover that.
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He's going to all these other countries saying, join the BRICS block. He's going to Europe and saying, hey, we're going to make our BYD electric vehicles available to you. Why don't we do deals with you? We're a better partner than the United States, and we should be relied upon more. that's who's benefiting most from this.
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And then something that I think has gone underreported as well, but it's one of the biggest stories is that you have China suspending the rare earth exports as part of the trade war. So, you know, and I think Spencer Akimian points this out aptly here where he goes, I don't think people are appreciating what this means that China is suspending rare earth exports as the trade war with the U.S.
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escalates. You can build weapons, drones, radars, cars, smartphones, laptops, MRI machines, CT scans without rare earth minerals. China has about a 95% market share over these minerals and their refinement and has chosen to stop exporting them to the United States. This will be front cover news within a few days. Just wait. And Brett, I think you've mentioned this before.
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You're like, you know, my level of... viewing what the business community is saying is at an all-time low. Also, business news reporters who always underplay the facts. It would be like in a tsunami where the water is receding and most people would say, a tsunami is coming. They're like, that just looks like a unique wave pattern that's taking place.
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It's like, say what's happening so people can prepare for it because what China is doing there and the way China is just outplaying Trump and this trade war every step of the way, the fact that the impact is being felt now, that's the actual shocking part because we know it's going to be felt soon when the data starts picking all of this stuff up.
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That was supposed to happen more like the summer or at the end of the year, but it's happening already, Brett.
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Look, we've got a lot more to discuss. I also want to send our kind of heartfelt message to Governor Shapiro, Jordi, of your state of the Commonwealth, who was targeted for an assassination attempt. The governor's residents received serious damage when an arsonist lit it on fire.
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And the plan by this arsonist, by this individual who engaged in an attempted murder, was to go there and to kill Governor Shapiro on Passover with a hammer. By the way, what Donald Trump mocked Nancy Pelosi's husband for being a victim of a hammer attack. which Trump and the MAGA Republicans there kind of, you know, played off as like some sort of, you know, sick, twisted joke.
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When we get back, I'll show you when Trump was asked about governor Shapiro, Trump said, Trump said nothing. He goes, I heard about it. No message of sympathy of like, we're with you like that can't be tolerated, nothing at all. But instead Donald Trump wanted to talk about the masters, the golf tournament, Donald Trump posing in front of gold statues of himself.
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He's building more gold statues of himself and, at his properties when he goes back over the weekend to golf and vacation. We're going to talk about that and more. We're going to take our last quick break of the show. I want to remind everybody, though, that on Thursday, we're holding the State of Midas Touch Zoom meeting. Go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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But for the Canadians, you know, we had to make it 100% made in Canada. manufactured in Canada. Also lots of other great gear at store.midastouch.com. Check it out. We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show.
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So every now and then we're reminded about those many healthy resolutions we made over the years to lose weight, to exercise more, and of course to eat better. But a goal without a plan is a plan to fail. So what I did is I tried Prolon.
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Prolon's fasting mimicking diet is a revolutionary plant based nutrition program that nourishes the body while making cells believe they're fasting. It was researched and developed for decades at USC's Longevity Institute. By the way, I teach at USC Law. It all starts with their five day program, snacks, soups and beverages designed to keep your body in a fasting state.
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Jill and I are disgusted by the attack on Governor Shapiro and Shapiro's family in their home during the first night of Passover. We are relieved that they are safe and grateful to the first responders. There is no place for this type of evil in America. And as I told the governor yesterday, we must stand united against hatred and violence. As Carl Quintanilla writes, at least one U.S.
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president cares to denounce this attack. You know, a lot of what we talk about here on the Midas Touch Network, I think, is beyond politics. Right. I mean, I like to think of what we do here first as beyond fighting for, you know, a political thing or that it's like. empathy, honesty, like truth, objectivity, equality, workers.
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And then I think once you're there and you have the strong values and principles set, then the politics falls in line. But we have to start with the fact that a governor of a state in the United States was targeted a Jewish governor also on Passover, was targeted with an assassination attempt on Passover. And you don't even hear Donald Trump saying anything about it.
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With Donald Trump, what's up is down and down is up. What's right is left and left is right. It is topsy-turvy, and Donald Trump's view of strength is actually weakness. I mean, you look at who Donald Trump admires the most. Obviously, number one is Vladimir Putin, but then Javier Millay in Argentina, right, where inflation is surging.
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I mean, just think about that statement I just read from former President Biden. But the media wants to be like, oh, Bukele, you've got a cool dictator in the White House. Or Trump spending the day glazing an authoritarian image
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And again, I don't want to ever lose sight of it's not normal that a president of the United States does not acknowledge and express sympathy and solidarity with a governor or anyone who goes through that situation who's targeted with an assassination attempt. You know, like not to even mention, right?
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and I did a whole video on this too, like Donald Trump denied the governor of North Carolina's request for additional FEMA aid from Hurricane Helene the same way to emergency removal of debris, right? With everything, that story gets lost and drowned out.
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The same way Donald Trump denied the request by the governor of Georgia, Republican Governor Kemp of Georgia's similar request for the removal of debris, right? Donald Trump, I mean, come on. Like, you should not be okay with that, regardless of what political party that you're from.
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You should not be okay with the fact that you have the head of Health and Human Services, our health department here, RFK Jr., doing exactly what people warned about, bringing in people who are vaccine deniers, going to post things to the website that spreads lies about vaccines. You shouldn't be okay about that at all. You shouldn't.
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You shouldn't be okay that they are attacking Medicaid, that necessarily in their Republican Trump budget plan, it's $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. That's just what it says. It's what it says. They want to hide it, but that's what's in there. We already know Social Security Administration offices are being shut down.
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Again, to me, regardless of what political party you're from, you should not be cool with that. Here's Donald Trump landing in D.C. today. He's asked about Shapiro and the assassination attempt. Here's what Trump says. Let's play it.
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Everybody in the press wants to know this. How do you do it, Mr. President? I haven't set up the two ways. And did you hear the second question by one of the propagandist media? You have incredible health, Mr. President. How are you staying so healthy? I mean, maybe he's lying. Maybe because the report is like a bunch of bullshit. He's not 220 pounds and six, you know, not how much he weighs.
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the poverty rate there what like 40 50 percent in argentina not exactly what you'd want to use as the model for the united states the united states which is supposed to be kind of the icon of stability which donald trump is shattering turning our dollar into basically the trump dollar sign trump mean coin or the dollar sign melania smolania mean coin at this point and who else other than javier malay does donald trump look up to
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Okay. It says his ear is scared. You mean scarred. Okay. We've never seen scarring on the ear. He claims his ear was hit with an AR-15 bullet, but he didn't need stitches and refused to release the report from the Butler Medical Center. Okay. He claims that he's in perfect mental health and you can tell because he wins golf tournaments.
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As Sean Broderick says, there's an old saying from Turkey, I think. When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus. Boy, do I think of that a lot lately. And thinking about the circus, by the way, no offense to clowns. These are fascist clowns. Clowns is a real profession. Elon Musk now saying that Doge is going to just be able to cut $150 billion.
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That's his claim. And I think $100 billion of that
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is also in doubt there's more federal government remember he said it was going to be 2 trillion in cuts 2 trillion that was their promise now they're saying 150 billion about 100 billion seems made up from that as well and there's more federal government spending now with their hostile government takeover and destruction of our federal government firing veterans
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Think about the impacts of what's gonna happen though with future pandemics and illnesses and aviation issues and all of the above as a result of what they're doing. And Brett and Jordi, just did you notice the turnaround in a short period of time of this morning consult poll from last week to this week?
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Congressional trust on issues whom voters trust more on issues like the economy and national security, national debt, foreign policy. The Republicans were ahead just last week and pretty much now Democrats are ahead on essentially Every issue, the economy plus three. It's the first time since May 2021 that more voters trust Democrats than Republicans to handle economy. That's like their issue.
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And then if you look at the remaining issues, more people trust Democrats and foreign policy taxes, the economy, trade, energy, Medicare, healthcare, abortion, LGBTQ, and still more people, for whatever reason, trust Republicans on immigration, national security, and national debt.
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i think a lot of it has to do also though brett and jordy with the fact democrats are fighting back they're doing the fight the oligarchy tour they're taking the message to the people in red states and purple states and areas as well and they're actually fighting and voila when you fight it has results and we're seeing that huh
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Viktor Orban, who's turned Hungary into like a failed state, contrasts Hungary's just kind of awful economy with a democracy like Poland, which is thriving. Does Donald Trump like Poland? No, Donald Trump likes Hungary. And then you go and you see Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador, and El Salvador is a poor Latin American country. Its entire annual GDP is like $34 billion, right?
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the moment politics becomes gamified right and it's viewed like a sporting event there's the team democrats the team republicans do a split screen watch people fight in two minute sound bites and then go to the next one and show anger and rage and who's gonna win you know i saw this
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interview over the weekend on Meet the Press with Senator Cory Booker and Kristen Welker, the host of Meet the Press. What her main focus was this weekend is, so what do you think about Kamala Harris running in 2028? And Booker was like, stop, stop. And that's not what I'm trying to talk about. I want to talk about the people suffering right now and what we're doing to address that.
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And Welker from Meet the Press, she would keep pushing. But I really want to know, what do you think about Kamala? Are you going to support her right now? And he's like, stop asking those questions. She'll make whatever decision she wants to make. I want to talk about what's happening to the people.
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I want to talk about the fact that people are being disappeared to concentration camps, that people are losing their life savings. I want to talk about that veterans are being fired and having their lives destroyed, that the VA is being gutted, that all these government programs are being gutted and destroyed. I want to talk about those things.
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And I want to talk about what the MAGA Republicans are doing to create this fascist state in the United States. So stop gamifying this. So that's why I always say here on the Midas Touch Network, to me, you always have to talk about your values and principles.
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And sometimes those just start with empathy, trying to be a good person, lifting people up, not punching people down, not attacking marginalized communities, being a helping hand to support people, right? Building community, bridging gaps.
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that to me is kind of equality that speak and then we can start going okay well now that i have these values who are the people fighting for them and who are the people fighting against them right to me that's why this is fight the oligarchy not necessarily fight for or against a party it's fight it's appropriately identifying the source
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Donald Trump attacks Canada, says Canada's GDP is like $3 trillion. Donald Trump attacked Europe like real wealthy nations, but Donald Trump loves Nayib Bukele. Why? Because the incarceration rate per capita in El Salvador is the highest anywhere in the world.
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of this problem is a fascist oligarchy that's trying to destroy and is destroying our country. So here's Bernie Sanders from the speech, and he's like, okay, idea one, instead of spending $1 trillion a year on the military, maybe we focus on things like low-income housing. We build homes, okay? Here, play this clip.
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Let's talk about education, right? As Donald Trump wants to abolish the Department of Education, as Donald Trump attacks universities, as Donald Trump attacks opportunities available to Americans, what are Bernie Sanders, what should we be fighting for here? Senator Sanders in his fight the oligarchy speech from this weekend talks about education's a human right. Here, play this clip.
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And that is how it's done. We stream the Senator Sanders fight in AOC, fight the oligarchy speeches live. We then do lots of videos about them. And I just want to leave you all with this, like how we try to meet the moment at the Midas Touch Network, how we use our platform now that the Midas Touch Network gets more views than Fox News, Twitter, twice as many podcast downloads as Joe Rogan.
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Trump loves this image of Nayib Bukele sitting there, no tie, looking like this dictator of the modern age, chin lifted up while they talk about torturing human beings. Trump loves the torture. That's why he loves Nayib Bukele. Just showing you other facts about El Salvador. The poverty rate in El Salvador is about 20% to 25%.
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We're the fastest growing sub stack on all of sub stack. By the way, you can join the sub stack at midasplus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. But thanks to this movement, we've been able to build together with your help, a media network that can now bring attention to to the speeches that corporate news would never cover. There was a recent article in Semaphore by a renowned writer named Max Tenney.
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He talked about how the Midas Touch Network is covering these shadow hearings and how these shadow hearings exposing the MAGA crimes now have a place where people can see them. That's how we use the platform to try to meet the moment. And we have a great editorial team and research team.
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We've been breaking stories in state election races where we've got a number of MAGA Republican governors and MAGA Republican governor candidates basically saying, screw the people on audio that we don't care if you lose your jobs. We broke a great story in Nevada, a great story in the Commonwealth of Virginia that have become the biggest stories in those areas.
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so what we're doing here is very tangible we bring a plan short term long term brick by brick every single day building this with you and it is finally finally finally covering the things that we like you always said were never being covered especially in the right way by corporate news. And now that our platform is bigger, we're the most viewed channel on all of YouTube across all categories.
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That is how we use our mic and our voice. And this is how we bring this community, the Midas Mighty, and continue to grow. So a few points. MidasPlus.com, as I mentioned, is the sub stack. You can even subscribe for free. We'd love for you to become a paid subscriber, of course, since that helps grow the network. But try it. MidasPlus.com. Sign up now.
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I think you'll really enjoy Ron Filipkowski's daily summaries and the other content we have there, MidasPlus.com. Remember, Patreon.com slash MidasTouch on this Thursday coming up. we're going to do our state of Midas Touch, state of resistance, state of opposition, Zoom meeting, where our patrons will get the secret link to attend, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Check that out.
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And then for the Midas merch, I always get lots of requests. about Midas merch, store.midastouch.com. Check it out, the maple Midas gear for our Canadian Midas fans. But also you can get that in the United States as well, but it's 100% made in Canada, manufactured in Canada, store.midastouch.com. Check that out. And we also got a bunch of other merch gear there as well.
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We covered a lot of topics today. Stay strong, Midas Mighty. Stay strong, Maple Midas. Stay strong, International Midas. We'll have to go country by country and develop like Maple Midas. But for real, they want us to back down and tap out and give up. Hang in there. We're in this together. Brad, anything else you want to say?
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about 10 of the country in el salvador lives in extreme poverty so this isn't exactly the success story that mega republicans want to tell you about but just think about el salvador argentina hungary russia North Korea, right? That's who Donald Trump admires.
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So with Naebu Kelly showing up, I can't but think of the contrast between how Donald Trump attacks our allies in the Oval Office, then the Trump propaganda media that's there would like attack Zelensky for not wearing a suit and tie.
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But here you have the authoritarian leader of a poor Latin American country who's now cut some partnership with Donald Trump so that the Trump regime can kidnap migrants. And soon they want to do this to American citizens, kidnap them, disappear them to El Salvador, torture them and put them in basically an extermination camp where they'll never be heard from or seen ever again.
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Like that's what's going on. Let's use the right language. Let's not mince words about what's actually taking place here. So with that said, Bukele is sitting there with Donald Trump.
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And for these quote unquote strong men who claim they have all of the power, who are in a partnership with each other, you have Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office getting the VIP treatment saying, there's nothing I can do. I cannot return Abrego Garcia. There's nothing I can do. What are you talking about? Here, watch this gaslighting 101. Let's play it.
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We'll also cover other things that went down in Donald Trump's bizarre and dangerous Oval Office press conference, where now he's talking about additional tariffs on pharmaceuticals. What even is the status of these tariffs at this point? The volatility, the exemptions, I'm not sure the American government or the Trump regime
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How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?
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I mean, there's a fascination. They would love it. Yeah. Abrego Garcia has never been charged with a crime. He's been checking into the ICE detention centers in Maryland pursuant to his protected status order that was issued by a Trump immigration judge during the during 2019.
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that's what happened and he was disappeared same thing with all these other individuals like the gay hairdresser who fled venezuela and he had a tattoo that said mom and dad on his arms but the trump regime which farmed this out to like private security guards and when you look at some of these private security guards their background was like they were fired from the police force well they just use a point system they're like okay two tattoos
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equals trend de aragua gang member ms-13 send them to the gulags and we've seen that repeat itself over and over again 60 minutes did a report that 75 percent of the people who are now in the extermination camp the gulag in el salvador had no criminal record in their home country no criminal record in the united states now i want to show you though what the trump regime was saying because this is putin-esque to a t which is even though the supreme court ruled 9-0
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against the Trump regime. And they said, Trump regime, you are hereby ordered to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia and treat him as though he never left the country. And yes, the district court has jurisdiction. The attorney general, the top law enforcement officer in the United States is going with the line that actually Trump won nine to zero, even though he lost nine to zero.
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Meaning provide a plan. I'm going to read for you what the Supreme Court said so that it's very clear because I think it's important that facts matter. But here's Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's other top authoritarian advisor. Here he talks about, oh, we won nine to zero. The Supreme Court said Trump wins nine zero when it literally did the opposite. Play this clip.
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even knows what it is we'll talk about that also donald trump's been spending the past 48 hours frankly like he's been spending the past few months in these what are we 75 100 days in a still less than 100 days attacking the president of ukraine president zielinski uh it's particularly
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And I wanna be clear here first, the Supreme Court did not say that at all. The Supreme Court actually said the opposite. Second, this is more than just Debrego Garcia, although it's a travesty if any human being We're talking about human beings are treated like trash and sent to extermination camps because that's what they are and disappeared and never heard from again.
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But it starts with Abrego Garcia and then it moves on to American citizens and then it moves on to people who Donald Trump says are the enemy of the people. Donald Trump says they're criminals, right? It's people in the media. It's people like prosecutors Donald Trump doesn't like. It's politicians who Donald Trump doesn't like, who he calls scum, who he calls vermin.
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Remember how we covered that during the campaign and the media didn't want to acknowledge the parallels? between Trump's language and Hitler's language. And we made it very, very clear. Well, here's Donald Trump on a hot mic speaking to Bukele about the homegrowns. Donald Trump says the homegrowns need to be next, Naib.
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This was before the official press conference took place, but they were mic'd up. And Trump goes, you got to build five more places for the homegrowns. Here, play this clip.
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It's not big enough. So this is a much different. Five more facilities. He says you got to go after the homegrowns next. Brett and Jordy, I want to get your reaction and I want to go through just what this is. I want to read what the Supreme Court actually said so people can hear not my commentary, but the language.
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morbid what Donald Trump is doing as Ukraine experienced one of the most deadly attacks against it by the invader, by Russia. Two ballistic missiles on Palm Sunday killed 34 innocent Ukrainians, injured about 117 others in the city of Sumy as people were out going to church to celebrate Palm Sunday.
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Ten years from today, Lisa Schneider will trade in her office job to become the leader of a pack of dogs. As the owner of her own dog rescue, that is. A second act made possible by the reskilling courses Lisa's taking now with AARP to help make sure her income lives as long as she does. And she can finally run with the big dogs. And the small dogs, who just think they're big dogs.
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Right, not the answer he wanted there.
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is the leader of the republican party with his inauguration set to take place soon and what vile trolling donald trump has that if you even want to call it that making posts saying trump was right with uh the fire by where the hollywood sign uh is just ridiculous posts we will break it all down and again i don't care what political party you're from this should just piss you off
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Crass, vile, taking advantage of people's suffering here in Los Angeles. But that's the MAGA Republicans for you. And I also want you to remember this about Donald Trump. I repeat it over and over again. WMD, weapon of mass distraction, right? As Donald Trump keeps talking about taking over Greenland and Canada being the 51st state.
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Awful, awful. Look, then you have the California Republican delegation. They're at Mar-a-Lago. They leave the state. They pull a Ted Cruz, right? Cancun Cruz. Cancun Cruz. They're chilling with Trump 3,000 miles away doing poses with their thumbs up as they're spreading the lies, as they're spreading the disinformation. So the question is, well, what do we do about it?
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In the next segment, we're going to talk about it. We won't just be descriptive, we'll be prescriptive. I think that Governor Gavin Newsom is giving a masterclass in debunking
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disinfo although he was a day or two late not because it was his fault but because he was handling the crisis but what we have to do now in the pro-democracy movement is not get distracted by the wmd the weapon of mass distraction we have to be clear about what the narrative is and what that narrative is donald trump made a number of promises
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and he's going to be breaking them every single day and every single day that happens don't go to the next shiny object you can still deal with it take it seriously but bring it back you want to rename the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america let's talk about the gulf of cheaper eggs bro and let's talk about how are you going to be reducing the price of goods
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How are you going to make housing more affordable? I love that post by Adam Kinzinger. I want to talk about that and more. We're going to take our first quick break of the show. It'll be a quick break. Want to remind everybody about MidasPlus.com and, of course, Patreon.com slash MidasTouch. We'll be right back after our first quick break.
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For the weekend, you had people like Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, say, actually, we're not going to be able to do a peace deal in Ukraine after Russia's unlawful invasion in 24 hours. But Perchance, can you give us 2,400 hours? How maybe if we do a framework in like 100 days, maybe we do that? No, you said in 24 hours, that was your promise.
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toothbrushing i don't know we're gonna definitely need to have a cleanser after showing you this next clip from maga mike johnson speaker of the house he was asked by cnn if there would be conditions placed on providing aid to california first the very fact that that question even is asked is baffling. Like you have to ask the question, will you impose conditions?
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And all over the weekend, they did a whole video of this. I saw senators and members of Congress from Wyoming and Tennessee and Louisiana and all of these states trying to lecture us in Los Angeles about them holding back resources from us here. I mean, you have Senator Barrosa, all these MAGA Republicans from states that get money from California, right?
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Smaller states who depend on California, which is either the fourth or fifth largest economy in the world, and now you're trying to hold us hostage? from federal aid when we're one of the biggest contributors to the federal government far more than any of this?
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You know how livid this makes me that it's even a question, but what makes me more livid is MAGA Mike Johnson says, yes, we're gonna put conditions on it. And then you'll hear in this clip, he talks about one of them that they're considering is that we're gonna have to agree to raise the debt ceiling so Donald Trump can add trillions more of debt in order for us to get aid in California?
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What in the world are you even, like, honestly, these people are the most, I don't know how else to describe it, other than vile, villainous, and disgusting. Let's play the clip.
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We're not gonna forget here on the Midas Touch Network and we will call it out every single day. But folks, Donald Trump's selling guitars and Eric Trump and Donald, they're gonna do Trump vodka. Don't be distracted. Promises broken each and every day, and we need to call them out every single time.
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some discussion about that but we'll see where it goes there's some discussion about tying a debt ceiling increase for california to get aid and then you notice he spews the elon lies as the pretext hello vladimir putin right that's the putin uh kim jong-un tactic 101 weaponize the lies to have some agenda which is ultimately what's this all about the money. What do they want to do?
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They want to cut taxes for billionaires, and they know they can't pay for that. So they want to raise the debt ceiling, and they want to screw Americans so they can make way for massive handouts to the broligarchs, Brett.
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Also, these broken promises are again fueling this civil war within the MAGA Republican Party, right? You've got even people at the kind of the upper echelons of the MAGA hierarchy, like Steve Bannon saying that he's declaring war on Elon Musk and that Elon Musk shouldn't step foot in the White House. You've got Steve Bannon saying to Breitbart and other places that Elon Musk is too racist.
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Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, responded to this CNN news alert. This is what the CNN news alert was. It said, Trump's musings about the U.S. taking over the Arctic territory have thrusted into the spotlight. This is what it's like to visit. And the headline is World Meat Day. Greenland, and Ron Filipkowski goes, sometimes I think this is a parody site, referring to CNN.
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But what it really is, is it's either intentionally, maliciously, wantonly, or negligently. You decide where CNN, which is funded by oligarchs, is going here, but they follow the shiny object, right? Take a look. Donald Trump's talking about invading Greenland, Greenland, Gulf of Mexico, now Gulf of America. Look at what he's saying about Canada. Look,
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We need to take these things seriously, especially from the perspective that it's uniting the world against the United States. So we should be talking about that and take it seriously, but also realize the hustle. Okay, don't be hustled like Trump admin one. Don't be hustled like campaign every day. Can't be Trump said this crazy thing. Trump said that crazy thing. Trump said this crazy thing.
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And look, I'm not saying that I'm totally innocent in this. I want to improve on how you deal with it. I think anybody who takes a cold hard look at the voting patterns of behavior of Americans, Americans by and large were okay, at least 49% of voters, with how disgusting of a human being Donald Trump is.
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That didn't seem... His low morality, the depths of depravity, being found liable for sexual assault, being a convicted felon, talking about grabbing women by their genitals because he's rich, saying that it's locker room talk in front of a bunch of young Republicans, hanging out with Epstein back in the day. to 49% of the voters, they were saying, well, Trump's made these promises.
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Peace in Ukraine, lower prices, affordable housing, jobs. We can deal with a disgusting human being if these promises are going to happen, to which I was like, dude's lied his entire life all the time. He's bankrupted his companies. The reason I'm focused on the lack of moral character and all of these issues is to show you that all these other things are fraud.
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But people seem to be mesmerized by the lies and Trump being, I guess an example during this time is a tough analogy, but the arsonist and then blaming the firefighters, the Biden administration for what Trump actually created, not in a literal sense, but during the first administration and how you deal with that, right?
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I think it's important that we not get distracted as CNN is there, because let's talk about what happened over the weekend. Trump's envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said, you know what? We're not going to be able to do peace in 24 hours. Yeah, I know that. I know that Trump said that. But look. 2400 hours. How about 100 days?
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Give us 100 days and then we can create a framework for a framework and then maybe create some conditions for ceasefire. I don't know. Here's Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy to Ukraine in his own words. Let's play it.
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for the MAGA movement. Elon Musk, two races for Steve Bannon. We will break that all down. And also Alina Haba, one of Donald Trump's top advisors. She has an official role right now in the White House. She was swooning over Andrew Tate, who's essentially on tape bragging about what he does with women. He's been charged with sex trafficking, vile, despicable stuff right there.
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I predict that guy's not going to last that long in the Trump administration. And let me give you another, let me give you another, by the way, serious guy, Vietnam war, 101st airborne. fought in a number of wars, Gulf War, Lieutenant General. He's a serious dude. He's not a bad person to have in that role.
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But let me show you this other clip of him though, where he's like, I may be the envoy and I may have said all of these things. Because then the reporter asks him, but Trump's saying different stuff than you. So what do you say when Trump goes out and says different stuff? Here's what Keith Kellogg says. Let's
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I mean, literally your job is to speak on his behalf on the issue of Ukraine. Like you're there giving an interview, speaking on his behalf, and then he goes, I don't speak on his behalf. And then he changed the goalposts from 24 hours to 100 days to build the conditions. Now, again, if you were responsible media, You would be covering it the way we're covering it here, right?
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That should be your front page story. Trump lies. And by the way, those are not minor lies. Those lies kill countless people in Ukraine. because you're toying with people's lives by creating fake frameworks that aren't real or doable. You're destroying the ability of NATO to even operate when you're creating these fake and phony deadlines, and you're playing right into the hands of Vladimir Putin.
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Now, what Keith Kellogg recognizes there is actually what he's saying is actually not something I really disagree with because you don't want to create a 24 hour negotiating window and then screw yourself by imposing an arbitrary deadline on your negotiations. It's the worst thing you can do in a negotiation is to let your adversary know
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your arbitrary timeline of what's failure, because then you could be cajoled or coerced in the negotiation. If Putin realizes that you're going to fail, he can say, okay, here's what I want. And that's what Putin's been doing, right? Putin's been saying, I demand total capitulation. I demand a total surrender of Ukraine. And by the way, Donald, I'm going to show nude photos of Melania
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on our on russia tv and i'm gonna have our version of sean hannity laugh and mock you that's what's been going on there but the sleight of hand the pickpocketing of donald trump of now they've moved the goal post to we didn't really promise that by the way i'm not going to play this video because my same rule of not playing trump clips i'm going to extend that to not playing jd vance clips um sorry if you want to watch jd vance but jd vance is asked
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hey, the Biden economic numbers were, give Fox credit, they asked the right question. The Biden numbers were pretty good, huh? 258,000 jobs created, unemployment down to 3.9%. Basically, that's the lowest unemployment since 1960s. The stock market was up under Biden, 16.6 million jobs created. Put
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pretty good right and inflation's you know being tackled and it's better than mostly any other nation out there because of the inflation reduction act so what does jd van say his response is i wish joe biden all the best but the fact is he has left us a dumpster fire not just at the border but with the economy he then goes on to say
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We're going to have to work really hard to try to stabilize things, to try to stabilize the inflation. We're not sure what we can do to try to stabilize these prices. And as James Czerwycki goes, the telling moment here is when Vance, talking about inflation, says they're going to work to, quote, stabilize the prices for Americans. That's not what Trump promised.
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And even people in the MAGA movement like this Monica Matthews, who's been helping with the transition, she's saying, hey, Susan Wiles, you're the chief of staff. What is going on here? We'll read for you what a lot of these MAGA people are saying about Alina Haba, Alina Haba saying about some of these other MAGA people. We want to cover that as well.
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Trump promised voters he would bring prices down. It was a nonsense promise. So now they're walking it back to say the goal is to stabilize, to keep the prices stable. So remember what we said at the beginning, that tank, that deluge of disinformation allow perceptions to take over the facts, change the benchmarks. We're not going to have peace in Ukraine for maybe 100, 200.
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Who knows if we'll ever get there? We'll see. When it comes to the economy, we're not going to be able to lower prices actually. We need to stabilize things. Donald Trump is a perennial con artist. Maybe the greatest con artist or the greatest in con artists shouldn't go along with each other.
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in the history of mankind all he does is lie he's created a virtual reality in his mind implanted it on the reality inhabits this fake world that he's created and thrusts that world of propaganda and falsehood onto the american people which is inconsistent with the world that we're actually living in right now and if you look at biden's record if you look at everything it's actually been
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by fact, not perception, probably the most successful first term of anyone maybe in the history of the presidency. Jobs created more than anyone else. 16.6 million jobs created. Stock market record high. Infrastructure Act 40,000, 50,000. Infrastructure projects, blue states, red states benefiting. Record low unemployment. Never lost jobs.
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Any single month, the American Recovery Act got us out of the disaster. Trump left us in with COVID where Trump said, like a miracle, it's all going to go away. It's like a miracle. Inject yourself with bleach and Clorox or whatever. He got us out of that. And then he protected veterans with the PACT Act, brought the semiconductor industry. President Biden did here with the CHIPS Act.
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We're talking about massive pieces of legislation, and he would have passed a border deal if Donald Trump didn't kill it. It would have been so beneficial to us all, but Trump said killing the border deal was a winning issue, a winning issue to MAGA so they could run on chaos at the border. But by the way, even with that, you want to know the facts, not the perception?
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The facts are that border crossings are down more right now than they were in April 2020 when Trump was in office. By the way, what was April 2020 when Trump was in office? Why were the border crossings down then? I don't know. Maybe something called COVID that Donald Trump failed to manage properly there. And border crossings actually were not down during a lot of Trump's presidency.
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They went down significantly because of COVID, as did gas prices. But that's not something to brag about. when human beings in America can't get freaking toilet paper and there are mobile morgues and food lines taking place in America. I'm worked up right now, folks. We're going to take our last quick break of the show. I want to remind you, MidasPlus.com. Check it out.
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Also, Patreon.com slash Midas Touch. We're going to take our last quick break of the show. When we come back, I want to show you President Biden's closing message to the American people. We'll be right back.
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And look, a few more days of normalcy, folks, I suppose, at least in the White House. President Biden delivered an important foreign policy speech today. And again, no accordion hands. No threatening our allies, talking about American principles. Sorry, corporate media, that wasn't sexy enough or fun enough. It wasn't reality TV, man. But look, I want competent governance.
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you know i'm seeing all these stats about corporate media um that their unique users are down like 97 like crazy stats like that and they thought that uh cuddling up to trump was going to be uh beneficial to them or perhaps when the billionaires um bought their kind of corporate media news outlets.
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And I know sometimes it's hard to defend competent governance. It's kind of like sometimes defending a cable company or a utility company. Like, yeah, you know, you need it sometimes. But we need competent governance, not this crazy chaos. But we'll be with you every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network. Brett and Jordy are here. We're with you every step of the way.
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That was their sacrificial lamb to show that they were maggot to Donald Trump when they did that pilgrimage of shame to Mar-a-Lago. But what they didn't factor in is pro-democracy media. They thought they were the only show in town that, oh, if we just suppress the news, where's people, where are they gonna get it from? Here, here's where you're gonna get it from. And it's great.
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While they did that, You know what? We're ready for the fight. We're ready for the battle. I want to thank everybody who's become subscribers at MidasPlus.com, at Patreon.com slash MidasTouch, on the YouTube site. People have bought each other. You could gift memberships here. And that's been supremely helpful because... I think one of the best things is you can see the growth.
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You can see the research. You can see all of the things we've added in all of these different areas. The scope of the coverage has increased. Why am I going on that tangent? One of the ways that also where we grow is, I think it's important info that you know that. And number two, those pro-democracy sponsors help a lot. I know some people are like, oh, commercials, no commercials.
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It really helps a lot grow this network. Let's talk about the confirmed cabinet confirmation hearings, though, that are taking place. The big one tomorrow, or if you're listening to this on audio podcast on Tuesday, is on January 14th. You have Hegseth. That's going to be an interesting one. And we're going to cover that here on the Midas Touch Network.
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On the 15th, I think the really interesting one of all of these is going to be Kristi Noem for Department of Homeland Security. Pam Bondi, the head of the DOJ, will be interesting as well. She's got the bona fides. She's got the qualification. She was the AG in Florida. But I've seen her...
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I mean, when she was representing Donald Trump in the impeachment hearings, like she was not good, like she was nervous. It was a really shaky argument that she gave. And so I she may be, you know, an operator behind the scenes, but it'll be interesting to see her with the cameras and lights on her there.
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And then we've got on January 16th, Lee Zeldin, EPA, Besant, who is appointed for the Treasury Secretary. We'll be covering all of these, though. So check back in periodically to the Midas Touch Network and our YouTube channel. throughout the day. And I should give a shout out also to our mods here. They do an incredible job. Thank you for keeping the conversations here civil.
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I should give a shout out to you, the Midas Mighty, and also our editorial team run by Ron Filipkowski. He does such a masterful job, Ron, leading the editorial efforts. And then all of our production team led by Adam Salton,
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Yeah, and to all the MAGA people who find this talk by Donald Trump funny about invading Greenland or Panama or annexing canada think about your family think about if you have um young people in your family uh you're gonna send them to die and to risk their lives to attack nato allies like denmark or attack Canada, that's what you're going to do.
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I've had this guy, Corey Hargraves, former army sniper on a lot. I've been interviewing him. He was out there two tours in Iraq. He's been telling me how he's taken life there, how he came back, struggled when he returned. He's like, you're talking about sending us to attack you know, you're trolling or you want us to take it seriously, you're going to put boots on the ground.
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That's what you mean when you say these things, whether you're trolling or not. And, Brad, I think about, you know, Ron's service, you know, to the country as well. And I just think about, like, Just the idea, the language of annexing countries, it is so vile. But also, when we talk about it, remember, bring it back to – Greenland? What are you even talking about? Talk about prices.
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Talk about what are you going to do? You said you were going to make all these jobs right on day one. Housing was going to become more affordable on day one. Oh, wait a minute.
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Perhaps it's all the broligarchs who hang out at Mar-a-Lago who own private equity companies that they've purchased the supply of all of the houses, commoditized it, bundled it together, and have put the prices through the roof. Maybe that's one of the reasons why the prices are high. I don't know.
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Maybe the prices are so high as well because all of these people who have contributed to Donald Trump engage in price gouging frequently. By the way, you know what the oil companies are talking about now? They don't want to drill baby drill. You know why? Because they have enough oil.
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what they want to do is artificially suppress the supply to increase the demand so they can make more money and they could focus on things like stock buybacks because actually we've pretty much geologically drilled in a lot of the areas where they're actually have the supply that they need there's been more drilling in the biden administration than in the trump administration so
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Let's be fact-based. Let's talk about what's really going on here. And it may just be that Donald Trump, someone who's cared more about money than anything before and who's been a horrible manager of money, maybe he's conning you like he's kind of done his entire life. But let's end it with this. President Biden talking about his accomplishments as he did with me.
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And I think my interview with President Biden was the last one-on-one that he did as a video.
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that he did in his presidency. What an incredible honor, not just for me, for the Midas mighty right here. The fact that this community, I'm glad to be in that seat, but it was really the community in that seat in the Roosevelt room of the West Wing. But this is what he kind of told me too.
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And here he is in this foreign policy speech saying that his administration is leaving the next administration with a strong hand to play. Let's play it.
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I'll show you this next clip right here as President Biden talks about throughout his career, the world has undergone tremendous change. But let me share this with you.
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That's the guy they pushed out. That's the guy that the media pushed out that, frankly, the Democrats didn't defend anywhere strong enough that they should have. History, when it's written, and I'm confident that together we're going to get through these next four years together. I am. We had the guy who was delivered. We had the guy. He was right there. We had the guy. We had the guy, Brent.
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And then I'll just remind people about the event tomorrow or today, January 14th, 1230 PM at 1146 East Green Street in Pasadena. If you're from the area, we'll have free in and out burgers, also a bunch of other Free food, Gatorade, drinks. Again, only if it's safe. Show up. You can quickly grab a free meal if you're here. First responders, police officers, firefighters, anyone impacted, come by.
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I'm going to try to stop by at some point tomorrow. I don't want to be a distraction. I'll stop by potentially for a little bit. Um, if I can, although this is my first week of teaching that, uh, at USC. And so I have classes today and I figure out what I'm doing.
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Tomorrow, we're actually co-sponsoring an event in the Pasadena area for those impacted by the Eaton fires. 12.30 p.m. at 1146 East Green Street in Pasadena. We're going to be working with this firm there, Mendez & Sanchez. You see it right there, handing out free meals, free In-N-Out burgers, drinks. I think we're going to have some pizza there as well. No pressure, but if you're in the area,
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The Republicans fled to Mar-a-Lago over the weekend as LA burned, and then they spread lies and disinformation. Now we see MAGA Mike Johnson saying that he would need to impose conditions on Los Angeles and California if California were to receive national aid. How vile, how despicable, we will break it all down. Also, California Governor Gavin Newsom
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And if the conditions are safe, of course, you can stop by and pick up just some free food. I may try to stop by at some point in time and just say hello to everybody. But for first responders, police, firefighters, anybody impacted, go. It's a free meal.
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uh on on us and on mendez and uh sanchez all right jordy your point about gavin newsom though like let's frame it this way gavin newsom's probably one of the best communicators in politics right if not the best communicator in politics right but imagine how he has struggled to fight back against the deluge of lies, even equipped with literally every skillset, right?
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A natural orator, quick on his feet, good looking, like he was built for this specific moment, but it's coming from everywhere. And especially during the middle of a crisis, what do you do? How do you deal with that when your job
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is governance not internet trolling and the moment you're doing fact checks or debunking disinfo you're already in a defensive posture versus an offensive posture and that's why this type of stuff was always off limits in our politics because frankly it's pretty easy
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But callous, if you're gonna take advantage of people during terrorist attacks or natural disasters, it's the most vulnerable group of people. It's the easiest people to take advantage of. Who does that? Donald Trump, MAGA, they've changed the game for how this is dealt with. So now think about the last four years with President Biden.
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President Biden, who's now in his 80s, who's not the orator he once was, right? He is a speak soft, but get things done. Not someone who's got this rapid response machine because he's old school. He just believed in let's do deals. Let's get out the truth. Come on people, let's bring everybody together. And Trump and Magna was like, F you.
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Even if you're giving us what we want when it comes to the border and doing bipartisan border deals, F you, we're blowing it all up. No matter what it is, whether it's Afghanistan, besides the fact that Donald Trump was the one who released the 5,000 Taliban prisoners and created the dangerous conditions.
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whether it was the derailment in East Palestine, you meant a crash in the Canadian border, you named the lack of baby formula, no matter what the situation was, often caused by Donald Trump, it was some way to create and spew the lies. And frankly, I think the Biden administration, which was equipped to govern was not equipped that people don't give a shit about facts anymore.
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The perception is almost more important than the facts. And we've existed in a MAGA framework of debunking versus being on the offense with a narrative that connects with the people because there's lies, lies, lies, lies freaking everywhere. And it's important that we recognize the problem and then learn to solve from it.
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I've noticed Gavin Newsom, though, kind of picking it up and recognizing, oh, I'm seeing the hustle right here and he's adapting in real time. And I do think public sentiment is starting to shift a little bit as you're seeing. Wait a minute. These were bad faith actors who were lying that there was no water and they were lying that that the fire department wasn't funded.
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It was actually funded more. They were lying that the resources were not in place. Gavin Newsom lined up the resources two weekends ago in preparation for this, which was kind of an unprecedented effort. And so let me show you this. First, let me show you this video clip of Gavin Newsom, kind of his response using the kind of bully pulpit of his office to push back. Let me show you this first.
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has now been forced to be a debunker of the deluge of lies being spread by Elon Musk, Donald Trump, MAGA influencers, MAGA propaganda media. Once upon a time when there would be tragedy and crisis, we would unite as Americans and shun the lies and disinformation from internet trolls. Now an internet troll
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And then Governor Newsom posted this video of Elon Musk. And in the post, Governor Newsom basically says that, look at Elon Musk being totally debunked and exposed by firefighters for his own lies. Let me show you. We have this video, Brett, of Elon Musk. If we do, let's play.
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a democratic congress member from detroit introduced a resolution for the impeachment of donald trump today on the house floor this utterly pissed off the mega republicans in the house and they tried to cut off the democratic congress member from even speaking i want to show you what went down here as you have Democratic Congress member Sri Thanedar. He's a Congress member from Detroit.
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There was a coherent policy. So y'all can just, you know, the media can focus on, oh, Biden's old. Okay. Yeah, he was old. He was an old guy. Sure. Should there be younger leadership? Is that the point you want to make? If that's what you want to say, then, you know, you could say that versus being just overtly ageist. But this is what they're focusing on. I mean, Jake Tapper is out.
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And frankly, multiple times a day, Donald Trump is committing crimes. whether it's accepting bribes, whether it's defying Supreme Court orders. Donald Trump is a criminal. He's always been. He's a felon. He's a sexual abuser. He is a fraud. He is a bankruptor. He is a utter embarrassment to the United States of America.
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They're all out with books and they all promote each other's books. Biden aides discussed wheelchair use if he were reelected. New book says. He's here in New York. We see him. He's out getting pizza. He looks good. We saw him at Pope Francis's funeral. Looked great. While Donald Trump was like drooling on himself. Like, could we just be really respectful? I mean, here's Biden. Let's play this.
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That was that's Biden today. On the other hand, we have Donald Trump saluting the Saudi military as MBS is like with his heart. Thank you, Donald. Thank you, Donald. Well, I guess that's why we're taking their audience, huh? I guess that's why the Midas doesn't know because we speak the truth here. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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So, you know, let me know what you think about the fact that Democratic Congress member Thanadar is introducing this resolution for impeachment. Obviously, the MAGA Republicans are going to block it. But what do you think about him even introducing it? Let me show you what went down. Play this clip.
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He's about to introduce this resolution for impeachment. Then MAGA Republican Representative Wilson says, stop talking, stop talking. I want to show you the introduction of this resolution. Let me show you what happens when the MAGA Republicans try to interrupt first. Let's play this clip.
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And by the way, here the Congress member is talking about it even more, about what he's doing here, what he's after, what his goal is here. Here, play this clip.
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I want to also show you now the Democratic leader right here, Hakeem Jeffries. And he's asked a question separately. The Trump DOJ, which by the way, in my view, is a criminal cartel. Let's call them what they are. Let's use accurate words.
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They're trying to now potentially arrest Democratic Congress members in Newark the same way Trump's DOJ arrested the mayor of Newark for simply asking questions about this private prison, Delaney Hall, with private prison guards paid for by tax dollars of We the People. And the mayor of Newark saying, what the hell are you doing in my district? What are you doing in my city?
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Let me see what's going on here. I'm the mayor. And they arrested him and they assaulted Democratic members of Congress. And now they're accusing the Democratic members of assaulting the private prison guards because they're the Gestapo. I mean, they're like, you know, the brown shirts. That's what the Trump DOJ has become. Here's what Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has to say. Play this clip.
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And here's one of the propagandists of the regime angling to be the new pink dress lady after Caroline Leavitt. Here she is, Tricia McLaughlin. She's been making a lot of appearances on Fox. Again, just an utter humiliating human being. Let's watch what she has to say. Play this clip.
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Now, folks, there was also a markup in the Energy and Commerce Committee today. The markup is, again, to take away your Medicaid. The Energy and Commerce Committee is where markups around Medicaid take place, as we've reported here on the Midas Touch Network under the new GOP. tax bill, not the new one, the tax bill.
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They need to raise the debt ceiling by approximately $4 trillion or more, adding massive amounts of money, massive amounts to our deficit. This is the least fiscally responsible thing. They're going to be giving trillions and trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the billionaires. And the plan right now is to cut your Medicaid. That's clear. Get rid of Medicaid.
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You'll lose it under the current way the resolution is framed. There were protests that broke out today. Chaos in the House Hall in general. Play this clip.
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Now, it should also be noted, too, that MAGA Republican Congress members and senators, you know, I even think that they're feeling a little uncomfortable. And these are cult members, right, about the way Donald Trump is accepting bribes from Qatar and Middle East nations as Donald Trump is visiting them. For example, we have MAGA Republican Congress member from New York, Mike Lawler.
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So then finally, Democratic Congress member Thanadar gets to introduce the resolution. You know, and it's a pretty powerful resolution. Look, with the MAGA Republicans in control of the House and the Senate, they're not going to pass any such resolution. But Donald Trump is engaging in high crimes and misdemeanors before our eyes. It's clear that that's happening every single day.
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And here he's asked about the Trump regime accepting bribes from Qatar. and what he feels about it. Let me show you what he has to say.
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Here's MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul asked about the bribes out in the open that Trump is accepting. Play this clip.
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And all these nations now want to get in on the bribe actions. If you tell Donald Trump we want to build a Trump Tower, he sacrifices American foreign policy and does whatever you want. We saw this in Saudi Arabia earlier.
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Trump is now lifting the sanctions on Syria after Syria's new president pitches a Trump Tower in Damascus, literally before and after Syria's new president says we'll do Trump Tower Damascus. Trump announces he's lifting the sanctions on Syria. Now, corporate news can call all of this stuff out. Corporate news should be calling out Donald Trump's crimes.
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And by the way, I did other videos on this as well, so I don't need to repeat it here. I mean, but Donald Trump is clearly addled. He can't even speak in sentences. Can't speak in sentences. Like, I show you these speeches that Donald Trump gives, right? He doesn't. It's word salad. It's word mush, you know, and and he's criming every single day.
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But what is this tells you everything about our corporate news, right? What does our corporate news want to focus on right now? Of course, Joe Biden. Seems like every reporter wants to come out with a book right now. Acting like former President Biden was like like like.
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mentally gone so that he couldn't even think and that like he needs like wheelchairs and like he like we saw him we saw him he was old yes former president biden guess what he was in his 80s he was old but you know what he was able to do speak in sentences speak logically have coherent policies not declare trade wars against the world and then capitulate every time that there's pressure tank the markets manipulate the markets accept bribes i
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Donald Trump accepting $400 million gifts in the form of a 747 jet from Qatar. Donald Trump brags about it and says that this is a great thing for America. In my opinion, it is a unlawful thing that should be talked about in the proper context. We will do that here on the Midas Touch Network. Also, Donald Trump... fully caves and capitulates to China in front of the world.
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And so Trump's solve to this process is apparently now to get a jet from Congress.
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hutter that doesn't have any of that security that doesn't solve that issue that's now going to be a national security issue in addition to a blatant corruption bribery issue that we are seeing just none of it makes sense and if you notice you know trump also what's his like big line right america first his whole thing is we're going to take on the globalists the this and the net that donald trump always appears to be the biggest globalists in one situation that's when it benefits himself if it benefits donald trump he's doing deals with the saudis
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He's doing deals with the Qataris. He's not doing deals for you. He's doing deals for himself. How could this help me? How could this help my rich buddies? How could I manipulate the market to help my friends? That's Donald Trump's brand of globalism that we're seeing. It's not for the American people. It's how could he put more money in his pocket.
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And to that point exactly, Brett, what's Trump's defense when pressed on this? I would be a stupid person if I said no. That's literally what he said. I'd be like a stupid person if I said no. It's not about you, Donnie.
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it's not about you so but think about it too like even brett the you know you ran you mentioned some middle east nations uh but think about the deal with the uk united kingdom right what was who did trump's deal benefit uh jaguar rolls royce and land rover over American manufacturers. Right now, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Rolls Royce have a better deal than General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis.
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I just want you to think about that. That was Trump's first move. was helping luxury cars from the UK over American manufacturers. I mean, just look at it like that. Jordy, to your point right there, Donald Trump held a press conference and he was asked by a reporter, what do you have to say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you?
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I'm surprised it doesn't even have to be phrased like that. The people who are saying that are accurately like it is a gift to him. That is what it is. It is a gift to Donald Trump, not a gift to if any, if it's anything to our defense department, it is a Trojan horse.
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You know, it is the perfect way for a foreign company to harm our defense department if we're going to be accepting a foreign made Air Force One. I foreign-made Air Force One. What are we talking about? Here, play this clip. It's going to be very interesting.
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Mr. President, what do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you? Why not leave it behind?
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and the ability of the government to negotiate in the private healthcare market, the same way former President Biden fought to have the government negotiate across Medicare. We should talk about what Trump is really doing here, which is actually likely going to lead to healthcare costs rising. for Donald Trump. It's just another scam. I'm going to bring your healthcare costs down 80%.
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When Qatar is behind funding for Hamas, gives you a putter, you say, thank you. You're the United States of America. You're Air Force One. is now going to be a hand-me-down, gaudy, golden jet from the Qatari Emir? Thank you? That's what America's supposed to be proud of today? That's the new talking point now that all these magamush brain losers in Congress and the Senate are going to have to do.
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We're so great. We got the hand-me-downs from Qatari Amir to Donald Trump instead of our own Air Force One when we're the United States of America. Here, by the way, Donald Trump continues on that path and says, I could be a stupid person and say we don't want a free plane. Here, watch this.
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that kind of an offer i mean i could be a stupid person say no we don't want a free very expensive airplane uh but it was i thought it was a great job i just want you to reflect on what he said right boeing an american manufacturer had sold this jet to cutter from before
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Then Donald Trump saying that, and then Qatar then wants to give it, now that Qatar's used it and the Emir's used it, they wanna give it back to Donald Trump. He said something about tippy toppy, tippy toppy. I don't even know what he's even talking about there. The maintenance costs are still going to be the maintenance costs.
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And if this is going to satisfy just even our Defense Department criteria, you're going to have to disassemble the entire plane
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and reassemble it to make sure that it's not bugged and you are a stupid person to use your language if you think it's not bugged if you think that you've got such a great friendship with the emir that they're going to not bug it you're you've got it you are truly a stupid person so now our
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I'm going to do such a good work with tariffs that I'm going to, you're not even going to need to have taxes anymore. Everyone's just going to be so rich. It's why we call this the Ponzi scheme presidency, the rug pull presidency. Look no further than Donald Trump's own company.
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most private and classified information is going to go into the hands of cutter and we've just sac i mean we could talk about the bribe and the gift but let's also talk about that he just compromised all of our national security the same way or way worse actually than the fact that they're having conversations on signal about war targets and then they're telling us it's not classified
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I want to take our first quick break of the show. We've got a lot more to discuss, but we have to talk about it in the right context like that.
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because that's what you know that's what i think sets apart this network and other things like what we said there is how you have to report on if you want to report on it report on it accurately all everything i said there was objective facts i wasn't like i'm not giving you my opinion those are the facts that's what it is now after all of that you may say i think this is a great deal
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that he gets the plane. I think that would be ridiculous, but at least you have the facts, not, oh, you're ABC, you're fake news, you're fake news. I mean, it's ridiculous. All right, let's take a quick break. When we come back, I want to talk about Trump caving yet again on this China consensus that was reached where basically it's Trump withdrawing.
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Let's talk about the exclusive that Dan Goldman gave us on the Midas Dutch Network, and let's talk about more. Let's take our first quick break.
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We won podcast of the year. Thanks to y'all. Seriously. Thanks to you guys. You guys made that possible. If you're not already, please subscribe to the audio version of the Midas Touch podcast. It's super helpful. And it's the whole reason why we got here in the first place. Over break, Ben, I was thinking like...
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Like this situation is interesting because I feel like time and time again when we do these trips, like Brett and I are usually the ones recording together and you get your own fancy room. So just going to put that out there. And then the other thing is I was thinking Brett's Terry Moranning me a little bit right now, right? A little forced perception.
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Brett up front, me like way in the back over here, a little forced perception here by Bert.
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Yeah, I have to explain to our viewers what you mean by that. In the Terry Moran interview with Donald Trump on ABC, Terry Moran looked like he was a giant, and Trump looked like he was very, very small. And then I had to look up how tall Terry Moran is. I'm like, is this guy 6'9 or 6'10? And he was like 5'9, 5'10.
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And so ABC just kind of made Moran look so much bigger based on the angles that they looked. And it was actually – I thought he actually did probably – Among all of the bad interviews I've seen reporters do of Trump, I think his was probably the best one. I'm not going to say it was a great interview, but he did a pretty decent job.
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All right, let's talk about what went down in Switzerland over the weekend at the United States request because ships were not coming into our ports. The United States met with China in Switzerland to discuss the trade war that the United States initiated against the world, but specifically here against China, where Trump all of a sudden, like, escalated it from initially 30% to 50% to 145%.
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China responded with 125% tariffs, which effectively meant a trading embargo between the United States and China. There's almost like a $1 trillion annual trading relationship between the US and China. So it was actually devastating to the United States economy. China, if you actually looked at the data,
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they were able to basically send their goods elsewhere and their economy seemed to actually be increasing despite the propaganda from Trump saying the contrary was happening. So the United States needed a way to deescalate the situation is how at least it appeared to me. And then so they met in Switzerland for two days. And I think the language of the sides –
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Also, I think for the first quarter, Trump Media, which runs Truth Social, lost what, like 29, $32 million, something in that range, and then only made 800,000 in actual revenue, brought in 800,000 in revenue for the first quarter. I just want you to think about that. Your local deli, probably does about the same revenue as Trump's company, and it certainly ain't losing $29 million.
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tells you a lot about what took place, right? The United States referring to it as a historical reset, a massive deal, and then our media reflected it that way. The way China talked about it was a consensus that was reached for deescalation, that there will be talks that lead to more talks in the future.
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But for now, the United States would drop its tariffs from 145% to 30%, which let's be clear, that's a tax on the American importer passed on to the American consumer. And on the other hand, China would drop its tariffs against the United States from 125% to a 10%, essentially a 10% tax on its people.
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Now, if you actually read the wording of the deal itself, which is what I tried to do, the wording of the deal certainly doesn't use the word deal. Let me be very clear there. It uses the word consensus. So let me be clear about my language as well. And it says that there's discussions to discuss more. but that the U.S. is going to that level that I just discussed, 30%, and China is going to 10%.
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If you just take a look at how China is messaging this at home, they've got cartoons of Uncle Sam being uppercut by another cartoon image of some... being that represents tariffs. And then when you read how China describes the whole situation, let me just share with you what they're saying so you understand at least how they're messaging this. As a major power in the world, the U.S.
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should act as such in a responsible way. However, the frequent backsliding and wanton changes in trade rules of the government have damaged the country's credibility of itself. The U.S. has become an unreliable and fickle player in in global economic governance with its strategic credibility and international status being continuously eroded by its short-sighted behavior.
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The US is trying to curb China's economic development through high tariffs, but the reality is quite the opposite. The global supply chain has formed an intricate network and China has cultivated irreplaceable advantages in basic manufacturing, support industries and labor. The high tariff policy of the US will not be able to hit China,
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which in turn will seriously damage its own economic interest. China will not succumb to any form of economic coercion and will resolutely defend its legitimate rights and interests in national security through corresponding countermeasures in accordance with relevant laws and regulations and the basic principles of international law.
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The Chinese government had taken a series of precise countermeasures. Then it goes on to talk about History has long proven the large-scale unilateral tariff hikes will only lead to more sanctions lists and tit-for-tat confrontations escalating tensions between the countries.
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Now, that message is not only intended for the people who live in China, but it's also intended for the rest of the world because one of the big problems that has arisen out of this trade war is that the United States' credibility – as a stable player in international trade has been potentially irreparably damaged.
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As we posted on the Midas Touch account, social media accounts, we basically said, US and China agreed a 90-day pause on new tariffs after shipping to US ports plummeted. US tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut from $145. percent to 30 percent. Chinese tariffs on U.S. imports will be cut from 125 percent to 10 percent. If tariffs are supposed to result in massive job growth and make the U.S.
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rich, why is Trump lowering them? I mean, and then this graphic for our audio listeners is a graphic of Trump saying, I'm adding tariffs. And then his MAGA supporters go, this will create jobs. Then Trump goes, I'm removing the tariffs. Then the MAGA supporters go, art of the deal. Then Trump says, I'm adding tariffs. Then the MAGA supporters go, this will create jobs.
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And then Trump says, I'm removing tariffs. They go, this will be the art of the deal. Donald Trump's been saying that the fact that no ships are coming to our ports is a great sign that America is winning this thing. He doesn't want to see the ships coming to our port, he said.
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He said that we're going to be taking in so much money on these tariffs from China that we are not even going to need to have an income tax anymore.
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By the way, even what you just said there – is a contradiction in and of itself. If there are no ships coming in, then we are thereby not receiving any tariff revenue, and we are thereby not getting rich, as Donald Trump puts it. Everything he says contradicts the next thing he says in this argument. And he keeps kind of just deciding which one he wants to do just based on a whim.
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And then we should talk about all these MAGA Republicans from this weekend trying to, I don't know, justify the fact that Donald Trump wants to get rid of habeas corpus and destroy the Constitution. And they're saying, oh, this is so brilliant. And the MAGA Republicans parroting Donald Trump's lines that tariffs are going to be so great, but now they have to like reverse that and say tariffs
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He just kind of throws it all out there and hope it sticks, even when none of it makes any sense whatsoever.
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I'll give you two data points, one from economics professor from Michigan University, Justin Wolfers, who says, there are two ways to frame this news. One, U.S. trade policy and our macroeconomic prospects are much better today than they were yesterday. Or two, U.S. trade policy and our macroeconomic prospects are much worse today than on inauguration day. Both.
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are true i mean china china got we have to understand china got what it wanted out of this deal because china wants to keep its markets open to american to american products that's why it's only going to you know have a 10 tariff the u.s while backing down from 145 percent is still keeping a 30 tariff which is going to be high and that is going to be passed on to consumers
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and businesses are going to use this as a pretext as well to raise prices to try to increase their profits as well let me tell you how charles gasparino a fox host or a fox business right new york post writer as well here's what he says breaking Trump raised tariffs on the world, the markets, particularly the bond market, which we need to finance our debt, rebelled.
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Trump then was forced to back off. End of story. He goes on to say basically the same. And what was Trump talking about today? Trump says that we what did we I mean, I mean this sincerely. What did we get from China? I asked the question on social media. I said, what is it that we got from this deal? Let me know.
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I mean, for real, if I'm missing something, all the MAGA people, Brett, who literally are right out of central casting from the meme that you create are like, we redid the trade deal. No, no, we didn't. There was literally nothing that changed. The only thing that Donald Trump can point to is he says that he believes that there will be less fentanyl coming in from China.
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And he says, I take them at their word, whatever that means. I take them at their word. Play this clip of Trump saying that from today.
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By the way, last week, Donald Trump said that he took the Houthis, at their word and praise their bravery and basically shouted them out nicer than you've ever heard him talk about Ukraine or Canada or Europe or any of our actual allies. I take the Houthis at their word. Who takes the Houthis at their word? By the way, that was barely a story as well.
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I did a whole video here on the Midas Touch Network. But what Trump did there also is part of his predatory behavior, as we'll soon talk about the healthcare costs. Trump recognizes that fentanyl is a major issue.
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Arabs are actually really bad and you should have one doll and you should only have one pencil, little girls, while Donald Trump gets $400 million gifts from Qatar. We're gonna break it all down. I think the American people understand what's up. I'm reporting from New York with my brother, Brett, and with... Jordy, there he is. We're here for the Webby's this evening.
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It's true that we probably all have someone in our family or someone who's a friend or someone that we know who's died of a fentanyl overdose or who's died of opioids or whose life has been severely harmed. So Trump, this is what he knows. He knows it's a bad deal.
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So he uses fentanyl as a way to pull on the heartstrings and lie to people that he's extracted some benefit that's going to result in less fentanyl coming in. And there's nothing in the deal or lack of a deal, there's nothing in the consensus in the joint statement that says anything like that at all.
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And let me remind everybody, say, you know, none of this happened, right? Reset, like, let's go back months from now, right? Months ago. And Donald Trump comes out today and he announces the exact parameters of this deal. We are increasing tariffs by 30% on China. China has increased tariffs on us.
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would be like pandemonium you know it would be like the liberation day disaster so-called you know that this is just going back to that you know these are the tariffs that the tariffs that have been rolled back aren't even those tariffs the tariffs that have been rolled back are the additional ones when donald trump threw a tantrum because china decided to actually stick up for themselves after donald trump attacked them
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with these various tariffs. So you got to put it in perspective too, because when you have media, when you have Trump and all the MAGA people try to claim this as some sort of major victory, we're not even back to zero. We're still above where they were today.
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That's why the Wolfers tweet that we showed before, Ben, his statements were so on point because he shows that literally we are still in a much worse place than we were since the inauguration. This is still... devastating for American families, for American workers, for American consumers. This is still leading us on a path where we are very likely to enter a recession.
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Not to mention the fact you can't exactly just unwind all this stuff that Donald Trump did overnight. Remember, the port orders, the orders that we are seeing of these ships, the freight coming into the ports across the country, whether it be Los Angeles or Seattle or you name it, those are already set in stone right now. That's already happening right now as we speak.
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Dock workers are being fired right now as we speak. The shortages are happening right now as we speak. And just because Donald Trump rolled these tariffs back does not mean all of that is even fixed tomorrow. Not to mention the uncertainty that this also puts into the entire economy. Not to mention the fact that say you were even more, say you're the biggest Trump supporting business on the planet.
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and you go, oh, he's putting in these tariffs. I'm going to change my whole business model right now in order to accommodate these tariffs. I'm going to try to bring manufacturing here. I'm going to try to change things around. Donald Trump just screwed you also. You're in the middle of doing all that. Donald Trump just made all that worthless.
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So how could you make any long-term business decisions at all right now if you don't know what Donald Trump is going to do? If he's just going to decide on a whim, tariffs on, tariffs off, I'm the best, you know, We'd love it, enjoy your $1, enjoy your Range Rover. The whole thing is just so insane.
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And again, the deeper issue too is that the overall brand of America, and this is China's strategic thinking of this. Now, you may not like that you hear, I'm just letting you know what the reality is, what China's thinking about this. China's like, we stood up to them They withdrew a crazy 145% tariff away. We gave up nothing for it and we look – and this is what China always wanted.
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I want to give everybody a heads up in case some major news breaks while we're at the event that we have to pre-record this because we're going to be at the Webby event during the time of our normal recording. So we're trying to capture everything that's occurred today up until this point. And I think it'll be a very, very, very comprehensive show. But I wanted to flag that.
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We look like the adult and they look like what people thought China was. We look like America and they look like China. That's what China wanted. And now they're saying that's what China looks like now. And America is looked at as this crazy actor, and then you may go, well, look, so another administration comes back in afterwards and fixes it.
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The problem is that the trauma that this injects on the overall macroeconomics of policy is such that the world then says, well, how do we know that this country is not going to bring back in another Trump in eight years from now or four years from now? And we're going to be at this again.
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So there's short-term stuff, but the longer-term stuff is how China thinks about things, a civilization that's been around for 5,000 years, and they're playing the long game. And Trump is playing a game to win the headlines every day. And this may be an example. Did Trump win the headlines from corporate media that framed this as a good deal and the markets went up?
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but the sure but the ink but the reality is and why people are not watching corporate news and watching midas is because people know that's and people know what they're experiencing and they don't want to be told by billionaires and oligarchs that what they're experiencing is not real and we have to live in trump's make believe reality tv show world when we the people are really suffering
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And they want people who speak to that and go, I know what's really going on. This is bullshit. What just happened? Market manipulation. Billionaires made money buying dips and going up. And regular people had to drain their 529s and 401ks and pensions because they were really screwed by this if they even could have that. People can't afford homes. People losing their jobs. Our economy contracted.
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While China's economy is growing and under former President Biden, America was number one in GDP growth in the world with record low unemployment, record job growth and bringing infrastructure here to the United States. Not to mention we were the number one oil producer and exporter in the world as well.
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And right now, after all, by the way, of all of Trump's drill, baby drill, he's also crushing the oil and he's also destroying his oil donors. So this is systemic issues and this will reemerge. We got to take our last quick break of the show. When we come back, I do want to talk about Trump's scheme and I want to explain it to you what this most favored nations is.
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healthcare scheme is and I wanna make sure I call it a scheme because that's what it is. And we'll talk about Goldman and the Epstein files and requesting them. And we'll talk about that. Let's take our last quick break of the show.
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Donald Trump is trying to parade out what took place in Switzerland as a deal, but it really was a consensus for the total retreat or almost total retreat and withdrawal by the United States in their trade war against China.
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I think it's going to be adding $4 trillion to the debt limit, like the least fiscally responsible people out there. We'll cover that, but first, let's talk about what Democratic Congressmember Dan Goldman did today. I think this is an important issue. You all know here at the Midas Touch Network that we keep on this story.
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But we got a lot of information to bring to you. We are so excited to speak with you about all the latest updates. We're so excited for the Webby Awards tonight. It should be super cool. And I just want to once again thank everybody for this, because this obviously could not happen without any of you.
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We've been talking about the Epstein list, which more properly should be talked about as the Epstein files, court documents, videos, under seal filings of the co-conspirators, the people who were involved with with Epstein. There have been prior document dumps years ago. Trump's name is in them. Trump's name is in deposition transcripts of women Epstein traffic going to Trump casinos.
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Trump's on Epstein's flight log at least seven times, but it's only a partial release of the flight log. There's Epstein's call list. or like Rolodex basically in Trump's name and like Trump's bodyguards and like various Trump phone numbers are all over Epstein's phone and contact list. We know Trump was on, we know Epstein was on Trump's jet, a 14 year old girl at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.
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174, so I'm bound to get one right, but I guess all of them wrong. Doe 174 in one of the proceedings. So we would know, if I was the lawyer on the case, I would say document request, give me every information about Doe 174. Give me all the grand jury testimony from Jane Doe, who was 14 years old at the time. It would be an easy request to basically find out this stuff.
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the Trump MAGA world and spreading all of their Epstein conspiracies have been trying to, you know, blame everybody else as being involved in this with Epstein. But Trump was like, it's always projected. This is like one of the ultimate projection and confession because Trump's, you know, it was like Epstein's closest friend.
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Like they were like best friends in Palm beach for at least a period of time. That's how Epstein at least classified it. They would party together. They would hang out together. Epstein would find girls that he trafficked at Mar-a-Lago, Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide. She was homeless. Then she got a job at Mar-a-Lago.
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And then Ghislaine Maxwell found her at Mar-a-Lago, brought her to Epstein, and Epstein trafficked her. So we've been documenting this. And Pam Bondi's been lying and saying that she was going to turn over the documents. And at first, she invited all these right-wing influencers, gave them binders, and they like, trying to defraud the American people.
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And so for those who don't know, we have been awarded Webby Podcast of the Year, like of all podcasts. I still kind of think it's a prank until we go on stage and accept this thing. I still kind of think it's a big joke
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They held it up and pretended they had the Epstein files. It was like, that's the phone log that's been released years ago. And by the way, it has Trump's name on it. But that's not the files. There's probably terabytes of information. They've blown every one of their deadlines now where they said this is going to be turned over. They just want us to forget about it.
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But we keep talking about it, even if corporate news doesn't wanna talk about it. And it's good to see impact journalism too, where it's having an impact. Democratic Congress member, Dan Goldman, think agrees with us.
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Can I just pause on Pam Bondi for a second? Because I think Pam Bondi is an interesting character that's kind of emerging throughout the many facets of corruption of the Trump administration right now. Because you look at this Epstein situation right now, for example, Who was the AG? Who was the Attorney General of Florida when Epstein essentially got a slap on the wrist during his crime spree?
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Pam Bondi. She was the Attorney General. She could have done something. Pam Bondi did not. Pam Bondi basically let Epstein off the hook. That's my one point of view, right? That's my one point right there. Now let's go back to what we were speaking about earlier in the episode, right? Qatar and the Qatari jet that was given to Donald Trump. What is the linkage there with Pam Bondi in this?
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Why was Pam Bondi chosen as attorney general after Matt Gaetz? Well, in the situation of Qatar, Pam Bondi was literally a foreign agent of the Qatari government. Let me repeat that. Pam Bondi was literally a registered foreign agent of Qatar. She was paid handsomely for being a registered foreign agent of Qatar. Pam Bondi was paid what Ben? $115,000 per month. Let me repeat that as well.
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people are pulling on me but this has been uh very cool and you guys should be able to watch actually if you're watching this live i think you could probably watch that live right after i believe it's watch.webbiawards.com uh you could check out the webbies uh tonight if you're watching this live with us or you could watch the clips if you're listening to this on audio if you're not listening on audio by the way make sure you check it out on the Midas Touch podcast on apple podcast and spotify we've had we've had a
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$115,000 per month to be a registered agent for Qatar, to be a consultant of the Qatari government. Now, when you see her approve these purchases of the jet, for example, from the Qataris, when you see her apparently brush aside all this Epstein stuff, and then you look into her recent past, and you see, oh, wait, she's got this interesting connection to Epstein here.
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Oh, wait, she's got this interesting connection to the Qataris here. Doesn't it all kind of go, oh, At least this is an interesting link right here that you can make between the person who Donald Trump decided out of all people to choose as his attorney general. I mean, I just feel like this isn't focused on enough, and so I needed to bring it up.
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So Dan Goldman sent this letter to Pam Bondi saying, what's up? Turn it over. And he also said, I'm a former 10-year federal prosecutor. I know that this stuff could be released. What are you doing? It's very easy if you wanted this release. And also, let me know, and this is what I think was powerful about his letter, the connections to Trump.
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Is your whole purpose of this delay going through this to redact any references to Trump? Because what else is taking you this amount of time? Is that what you're doing? We want to know that. Now, here's what Goldman said when I interviewed him in a Midas Touch exclusive. Let's play it.
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And so there was a mad dash and a big rush to release everything and everyone was talking about it. And now there's radio silence and the begs the question, why has the attorney general gone dark on this? Why has Congresswoman Luna and others stopped calling for it?
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What is it that's in the Epstein files that they were so eager to have that now are just not being released, according to the attorney general's promises of transparency, but are not And there's no explanation. And the concern I have, of course, is we know Donald Trump had a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. We know Jeffrey Epstein had numerous numbers for Donald Trump.
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And the question then is, was this some sort of directive from Donald Trump or someone on his staff or an agent of his to the attorney general to kill this? And that would be yet another pretty egregious act of corruption using his position as president for his own personal benefit. It is incumbent upon the Republicans currently in the majority to do their damn job.
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do their job and conduct oversight over the president of the United States. Stop sucking up to him so much.
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Powerful stuff right there. I'm glad that we could break that here on the Midas Touch Network.
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Absolutely, Brett. Now, just talk briefly about this healthcare scam that Trump has been engaged in. Again, I think we all would like to see lower prescription drug prices, lower healthcare costs, right? There's a way to do that and a way to do that is you go and you pass legislation.
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busy few days here this morning. We also did Katie Couric's podcast this morning. That's going to be released this Thursday, so make sure you look up her show and look forward to our interview on her show. We had a really nice time in studio. The first in-studio interview that we've ever done. as brothers, as crazy as that is in the five years of Midas Touch. So check that out.
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One of the things that I think is a way you reduce prices and why prices are cheaper in other countries is that the government speaks with one voice.
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and it reduces the prices prices as a as it negotiates a reduction um the way right now former president biden was able to get it done with medicare but he was not able to do it in the private sector because people like trump and magna block that from taking place
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If you could have the government negotiate across all pharmaceutical companies and drug manufacturers, you could lower the prices while still having market forces at play, but you would significantly drive the prices down. MAGA blocked that.
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So what Trump's gimmick is, so what he's saying he's going to do in this long meandering social media post is in theory, I guess, if you get it done, it's not a bad thing. He says it's unfair that in foreign countries, people are paying less for pharmaceuticals. True. And America should pay the same amount of money as people are paying in other countries for pharmaceuticals.
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So Trump says he's issuing an executive order that will right away lower prescription drug prices by 80 to 90%. That's false. That's false. So now you're playing with people's lives. You're pulling at their heartstrings, their health, and you're leading people to believe you're doing something that you're not gonna actually be able to do. One, the executive order is not a law.
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So you can't, by executive order, decree this. You can't. It will be deemed invalid by courts. It's dead on arrival because an executive order doesn't have the force to do this.
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And by the way, Trump tried to do a very similar executive order in his first term as well, and it was shot down by the courts. And so he's basically – this is essentially a rehash of that, which was already deemed out of his purview here.
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If you want to lower the prices, you don't do it by a phony executive order. What you do is you say to Congress, pass universal healthcare and make it accessible and free and affordable to all Americans. Make it a right. That's what exists in other countries. That's why it's lower.
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But you see, Trump is using this as a way to try to attack other countries and particularly attack the countries in Europe that he says he wants to investigate the countries. not the companies. And so what could end up happening is that these companies have to now increase their prices abroad as well, or take their products out of the United States to begin with.
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create scarcity issues versus actually if you want to deal with this if this is the if this isn't a gimmick if this isn't a scam then we should just do it the right way instead what the mega republicans are doing is their new kind of tax bill top line bottom line numbers are out They have to increase the debt ceiling under their policy by, what was it at least?
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They want to do it, what, $4 trillion in tax cuts? And they want to add, they want to increase the debt limit by $4 trillion to make way for like $4 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires, not for regular folks, for the richest Americans. And they're going to find this money. Again, one, by making it up, by claiming lying that these tariffs have raised all this money, which they have not.
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Big moment Thursday, Katie Kirk's podcast. Make sure you check it out. Jordy, what's the latest with you?
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That's one of their scams. And the other scam that they're going to do Is there going to take this away from Medicaid and education and all of the other services? They're going to rob Peter to pay Paul. In this case, Paul is the billionaire oligarch, and they're going to get paid in the form of massive tax cuts for the wealthy.
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By the way, this also shows how just malleable all the kind of MAGA supporters are on literally any issue. Save for maybe Laura Loomer, who actually pushes back on Trump, oddly enough. But you see all of these people. It's a very weird time, folks.
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Super excited. Hey, everybody. Going to be a great episode tonight. Katie with the exclusive, the three brothers in studio the very first time. This is very cool. You say in the five years, we've never all actually done interview together. I don't know what would have led us to doing an interview with someone prior to.
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But you see all these people right after Donald Trump made this kind of scam announcement about here's how we're going to do this lower drug prices thing. All the MAGA people who spent the last few years
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anytime any sort of democrat uh called for caps on price gouging or anything of the like whether it be with prescription drugs or grocery prices you name it what do they say this is communism you're a common donald trump said this during the campaign he called stuff like this communist all that this is communist it never works it's been tried it's communism it's communism it's communism
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You know who would never go for any of this stuff other than the decreasing the tax burden on the wealthiest Americans are the Republicans in Congress as well. So part of the scam that Trump is playing here, he knows that they're not going to go for this. He knows that this is going to be shot down in the courts. And I'm all for lowering drug prices, honestly, by any means. I'm fine.
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I'm frankly fine with Donald Trump trying this. I'm going to say that. Sure, go for it. But what I don't like is how he's manipulating people into thinking that this is actually going to be something that happens because, like Ben said, this is playing with people's lives here, and we know that it is going to get shot down in the courts.
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We know that the way to do this is via the Congress, and I think one of the interesting approaches – one interesting approach I've seen – And at least I think it's a unique approach. I don't know your thoughts, Ben or Jordy, but I saw Ro Khanna yesterday, Congressman Ro Khanna say, all right, Donald, you want to do this thing? All right, let's put a bill on the floor, okay? Let's do a law, okay?
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Let's get the Republicans. Let's all do this. We'll pass this. We'll pass this bill, okay? We'll cap the prescription drug prices. You ready? Bet. Let's do it. Let's make it happen. Ro Khanna knows that's not going to happen. He knows that this is all just a scam by Donald Trump, but it's just his latest scam. It's just with everything.
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And if you notice, just across the board, Trump dangles these things that he knows that will never happen. Even, for example, one of the things that Trump has kind of – pushed out there through all these sort of side sources and things, just so he could be asked about it, is Donald Trump might actually be open to raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans. He might actually be open to this idea.
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Something he knows is never going to happen. And then Donald Trump is asked about it. He goes, oh yeah, I'm all for it. Oh wait, the Congress won't let me do it.
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I was thinking of the context of like, you know,
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i was gonna i was gonna do it but you know what hands are tied my hands are tied i just i just can't do it so i actually got to give them a massive tax cut i'm sorry i'm sorry i just couldn't do anything oh you wanted those dose checks you went to five thousand you thought it was up those checks i just can't i saw that they i can't they won't let me you gotta you gotta ask con you gotta ask congress you gotta ask mike john it's the same scam over and over he dangles these things at people
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and says, oh, look, I might actually be okay with this sort of thing. And then he pulls it back, which is, to me, even worse than him not doing anything at all. The way he gets people's hopes up with these things, the way he manipulates people, it's just really atrocious.
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a reason why yeah no it makes sense i can't wait for tonight's show where do you want to start off benji let's talk about cutter because it's probably the least thing that donald trump wants to talk about so let me put that first because when we talk about what went down in china it's not a deal okay and there's a reason that china isn't calling it a deal
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So I'll say this as we conclude, let me share with you from Trump's own media company, his own personal private company, how is he handling things with his own company, right? I'll just read from you his latest filing. Here's what it says, based on their financials, by the way, where they show another really kind of atrocious quarter where they lost $31.7 million on $821,000 in net sales.
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Here's what it says. Based on this evaluation, as of March 31st, 2025, the certifying officers of Trump Media concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of that date due to material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting.
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including our failure to design and maintain formal accounting policies, processes, and controls to analyze and account for complex transactions, as well as a need for additional accounting personnel who have the requisite experience in SEC reporting regulation. That's Trump's own filing on his own company.
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where he can't even balance his own books, or setting aside balance, he can't even assemble a team for his own company, which is only doing $821,000 in net sales. He thinks that that is too complex for what his accountants were able to do, and therefore they're not effective, and there are now material weaknesses in their internal controls.
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That's like seven months of Pam Bondi's contract with Cutter. That's all they did.
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These are the people – exactly. These are the people who are running the most complex economy in the world who can't run $721,000 in net sales. That's 821,000 net sales, too complex. The American economy, just think about it. And the whole world sees it now. They should have seen it before, but to the rest of the world, they get it.
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Now, if American media wants to be a propaganda arm for the Trump regime and claim that this is, oh, we're so strong, America. Okay, I mean, you're doing that at your own peril. Like you're doing that at the expense of harm to America. And so we here on the Midas Touch Network, we're just going to continue reporting the truth. We're going to report the facts.
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We're going to connect all of these ideas together. We're not going to forget about things. And that's why I'm thrilled about the growth of this network. And You know, we're recording this early today because we are going to the Webby's. And thanks to you, the Midas Mighty, the Midas Touch podcast has been named podcast of the year by the Webby's, which is their top award, their top honor.
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So we've got to get ready for that right now. We hope you've enjoyed this episode today. I think we've made it as comprehensive as we could. And I'm proud of this episode. And I look forward to everyone seeing that Katie Couric interview because it was probably the longest time we've talked today. you know, to someone about our story, where we're going, our views.
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And I was really excited about that interview. And of course, Katie Couric's a legend. So it was great to sit down with her. And again, from the bottom of our heart, thank you. Let me tell you, if you want to help grow the Midas Touch Network, where you can go.
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It's a statement, it's a consensus where the US is retreating and is withdrawing 145% tariffs. And when you add up all the ridiculous things that are still there, the US is gonna be imposing a tariff of 30%, which is basically a tax on our own people. And China's like, okay, We'll only tax our own people 10%. So we'll reduce ours to 10%. Okay there. Okay there, Donald.
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That's the great, great art of the deal right there. And then other than that as the consensus, there's then discussions to discuss further. There's not a trade deal. It's not some sort of comprehensive document.
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It's literally Trump after saying that he's going to make everybody so rich that you're not going to need to pay income taxes, just basically taking them off the table and then show or removing the tariffs and then basically showing yet once again, he will always back down to pressure and you can't
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in the two quote unquote deals that we've seen so far, one with the United Kingdom, where Donald Trump essentially giving special carve outs to Rolls Royce and Lando Land Rover while taxing the United States and actually not doing a deal. And this China capitulation, I think that Donald Trump may not be a good deal maker and not know what he's doing. But we'll talk about that here as well.
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take anything he says seriously at all and that he has no plan and it's just him and market manipulation and just being arbitrary.
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Frankly, when I watch this, I don't know if you feel the same way, part of me feels like I'm going insane the way some of the media reports on this. Just the way they're like, we have a deal, folks. I'm like, what deal do we have? He lit the fire and now he put out some of the fire and you're calling that a deal?
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I truthfully don't understand this concept where you reward the arsonist with praise when he just kind of puts out some of the fire and doesn't actually get anything in return. I mean, remember the various promises that Ben, that you were just breaking down that he made to the American people with these tariffs, all the lies, all the scams. We're going to get rich.
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There's going to be no more income tax anymore. Manufacturing is going to be rushing our way. Everything's going to be great. Meanwhile, what happened? We had shortages at the ports. We had no ships coming in. We had a bond market in crisis. We had stocks in crisis. Donald Trump panicking, reacting to all that news, begging every single day China to come to the table with him.
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And finally, he gives President Xi everything that Xi wants. And then we're supposed to act like this is some sort of genius deal making like masterclass. I mean, give me a goddamn break here. It's unbelievable.
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That's why you accurately described it as the Ponzi scheme presidency.
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Yeah. And all of this stuff, because, you know, it's Ponzi scheme here, Ponzi scheme there. And who gets rich in the Ponzi scheme? You know, the Ponzi schemer until they ultimately, you know, you know, get busted. Right. And so we'll get back to we'll get back to the China cave in a moment.
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But, you know, let's talk about Cutter here before talking about the jet 747 aircraft that's going to be gifted to Donald Trump and then Trump. his own personal library which basically i'm not sure how you gift a plane to a an active plane to a library which means libraries don't fly planes we could all we could all agree libraries don't fly planes right the person Exactly.
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So it's basically a gift to Donald Trump. And this thing's got gold plated walls, golden toilet bowls, golden beds, you know, and it's one of those things that, you know, Trump probably said to the emir, you know, I like this. I want that. You got it. You got to give me one of those. And obviously there's quid. There's a quid pro quo aspect to this.
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So Trump is one of the evidences of that is Trump's traveling to the Middle East and he's going to be meeting Trump. with Qatar, he's gonna be meeting with Saudi Arabia, he's gonna be meeting with United Arab Emirates. And Trump has multiple deals with the sovereign wealth funds from these countries. Trump resorts in Qatar in addition to the airplane,
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Trump resorts in Oman that's being built by the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund. The Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund is using the Trump crypto as one of its kind of major forms of currency for its transactions, which kicks back fees to Donald Trump as that kind of crypto is being used as kind of one of the forms of currency. And it props up one of these Trump ventures.
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It's not to mention all the other grifts they're doing, like Don Jr. creating a club called the Executive Branch with the crypto czar while Abu Dhabi is using the Trump crypto. It costs $500,000 to be a member of this club. And as we've seen with all of these clubs and exclusive whatever, Trump gives these people preferential access to him. I mean, look, Donald Trump is selling access-
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He's calling it the executive branch. Like all this talk over the past few years, all the sort of Hunter Biden selling access, like all that crap that was going on. And Donald Trump Jr. is running a grift that he literally calls the executive branch. I just need that to sit in in people's brains just for one second. Sorry, I had to point it out.
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Well, and not a peep do you really hear, right? I keep bringing it up because I don't want to lose these threads, which are actually massive scams and scandals, which in our current environment,
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Donald Trump needed a new distraction. after accepting a $400 million gift from Qatar and caving to China. So Donald Trump rolled out via executive order what he claims to be a new health care plan. But with all things Donald Trump, it is a scam.
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are no longer reported i'll give uh dan goldman congress member goldman credit because he kind of checked me on something that i was saying and he was right about this and it's an important point you know to admit when i was wrong i wasn't trying to be wrong but one of the things i said to congress member goldman is i said look when the democrats win in 2026 you know these got this has to be you're going to be doing a lot of investigations ben ben ben
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Let me just be very clear here, though. Yes, of course. But why is it all of a sudden that the Democrats have to be the ones to look into this? He's so right. The accountability structure right now needs to be focused on why the hell aren't Republicans looking into this?
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know they're still a congress and so why is it that when you have an authoritarian and when you have a political party that gives away all of its co-equal branch authority is it therefore just accepted that they get to play by a different set of rules and
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And then someone like former President Biden or someone like Obama gets held to a standard where if you're wearing a colored suit, that doesn't satisfy the media. That becomes a massive week-long scandal, and you're held to a completely different standard. Congressmember Goldman was so right about that.
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He was on the episode this morning, we were doing one of the episodes where we were talking about the Epstein files and the fact that, and we cover this relentlessly here on the Midas Touch Network, that there seems to be a concerted cover-up by Pam Bondi and the White House to not release these files after claiming they were going to release it.
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It was an exclusive we got here at the Midas Touch Network. And as you all know, I'm proud of all of the exclusives that we've been breaking here on the Midas Touch Network, exclusives like that. And a major exclusive, whether it was the Virginia governor's race, the governor's race in New Mexico, where some of our reporting has really been major, major, played a major impact in those elections.
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Anyway, I digress. Let me get back, though, to talking about, you know, the influence and the cutter jet. So we talked about all these other Mideast sovereign wealth fund contributions to Donald Trump. Well, now we're talking about a $400 million jet. My guess, though, first off, is that that $400 million is less than it is. I would say that it's probably somewhere in the range of $1.5 billion.
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Why do I say that? Because they lie about everything, number one. And number two, it's gold-plated this, gold-plated that, gold-plated everything. You know, and if you know like what a gold, you know, and I believe with Cutter, it's probably real gold, not Trump fake gold. You know, like the fake gold he has all over the Oval Office. I think with Cutter, they probably have real gold on, you know.
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It's just him posting all caps and then not caps and then run-on sentences that he's signing an executive order that he says is going to lower prices 30%, 50%. 50%, 80%, who knows even 90% on prescription drug prices and healthcare costs via an unlawful executive order while the MAGA Republicans are the ones who have been blocking the reductions to prescription drug prices
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thinking what that royal family does. So I think it's probably more like 1.2 billion. The baseline of that jet is whatever. And it's given to Trump to then go to his library. So it's basically for Trump's personal use. And I don't just want to talk about it like how bad that is, but I want to talk about it at the same – I think we always have to contextualize it, right?
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Prices are not going down right now. Inflation is going up. Housing is not more affordable right now. Americans are struggling. While Trump lies is we've solved everything. Everything is great. So while American people are suffering, can't afford homes, Trump defrauded everybody. The Ponzi schemer, what's he doing? He's taking 400 million to $1.2 billion private jets for himself.
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And then he's saying that this is a great thing for America.
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But I want to remind everybody here, there's a reason why the Boeing jet that was being designed to be the next Air Force One was not yet completed. It's because they had to redesign the whole plane to ensure that it had proper security features in Air Force One. It's one of the reasons why it's been delayed a little bit throughout this process.
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As Donald Trump continues to tank our economy here in the United States, here is what he's posting on his social media platform. He goes, we're going to become so rich, you're not going to know where to spend all that money. I'm telling you, just watch.
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That's the first thing that they go to, and it's just completely insane what we are seeing. Donald Trump is a complete and total paper tiger who just continues to enrage our allies. And unfortunately, you see – first, I just want to make this clear. What Donald Trump is doing here, it's not some sort of form of four-dimensional chess. I know the Trump people like to say that.
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I know Fox likes to pretend like there is some method to this madness. I assure you, there is not. And you can tell, by the way, that Donald Trump, anytime the going gets tough, he pulls back on what he's doing and looks like a complete and utter fool. Donald Trump has the attention span of a squirrel. No offense to squirrels. And that little teeny tiny brain of his...
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then the question was you hesitated when maria bartiroma who's like your own propagandist donald trump asked you a softball question about do you believe there's going to be a recession and the question that was asked if you couldn't hear it was but you did hesitate and trump's response was Of course I hesitated.
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can only retain information for so long and can only think in very short-term periods of time. And we've heard people who work very closely with him say this as well, that he can't really think beyond the now. And so when you have Trump making all these moves, he's not reacting to long-term trends. He doesn't have any sort of long-term strategy.
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he is just saying oh man the market's going down now i need to do this maybe i should do this he's constantly trying to turn these levers to adjust things in real time and all that does that sort of panic spiraling that kind of decision making it actually makes things a whole lot worse he takes something that is already beginning to crash and then he crashes the markets even more it just gets worse and worse and worse and then he has these propaganda networks
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who try their best to get their back, but before they get on message like today, you see those moments where you see some cracks in the facade and you see them even have to admit, okay, how do we spin this? The stock market's down 1,000 points today. It's down 1,500 points since Trump took office. It's down, it's lower now than it was when Donald Trump was elected in November.
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It's lower than it was November 5th. We are seeing just the bottom fall out now. Every single day, it seems to get worse as Donald Trump enriches himself and enriches his family. And then one of the kind of headlines we see from some of the mainstream media, Ben, I don't even know if you saw this today while you were teaching your class today, but I feel like I'm annoying you right now.
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So let me pull this headline up from Bloomberg. This was what Bloomberg was running. This is the headline. Donald Trump Jr. has plans for monetizing MAGA. At 1789 Capitol, the president's eldest son is chasing profit in the parallel economy of Trump's America. Do you remember when they tried to impeach Joe Biden over it? over Hunter Biden's private dealings.
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And now they are writing a glowing puff piece about Donald Trump Jr. profiting off his father's presidency and the MAGA movement. I mean, you cannot make this shit up.
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Here was the official statement from the White House. Remember, Donald Trump missed a number of these appearances, or at least didn't go on camera like he normally does. But the White House released the following statement about the stock market's downturn. The official White House spokesperson said, quote,
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between animal spirits of the stock market and what we're actually seeing unfold from businesses and business leaders. And the latter is obviously more meaningful than the former on what's in store for the economy in the medium to long term. They're talking about animal spirits of the stock market. It's bizarre. It's weird. It's dangerous. Let me show you some of these headlines as well.
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This graph from the Wall Street Journal. Stock market today, NASDAQ falls 4% after Trump doesn't rule out recession. Heather Long, an economist at the Washington Post, put the following. Wall Street is souring on the Trump economic agenda. The Dow fell 890 points today and is now below where it was on Election Day.
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this is the worst stock market performance in a president's first 50 days since 2009 the market moves today nasdaq negative four percent worst day since 2022 the s p 500 down 2.7 and the dow down negative 2.0 percent uh also important to note as well after rebounding in the fall
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households now have turned gloomier about their financial situation the share of households who expect to be better off in a year at a four and a half year high in november in the new york fed survey the month over month drop in february was the largest since may 2022 consumer confidence is down here and people have gloomier outlooks which means less spending and then in the long run you start to see that impact
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Of course I hesitated when refusing to answer that he was unsure if there was going to be a recession because, for example, the Atlanta Federal Reserve is now predicting a 2.8% negative GDP for quarter one, where if Donald Trump simply did nothing and kept former President Biden's economy on autopilot, literally did nothing, there would be about a 3% to 4% GDP growth.
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May, June, July, but we're already seeing it already. It's important to note as well that I think since 1988 was the last time, and it's hard to find other exemplars, the world economy is actually doing okay and pretty good. It was doing good in other areas. The American economy is the one that's underperforming because of Donald Trump's erratic behavior. I mean, it's
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linked specifically to donald trump now i want to share this with everybody as well because you know we show the trump clips we show all of this stuff but we here at the midas touch network have also been sharing and we've been making sure we broadcast all of senator bernie sanders's rallies Over the past few days, he's been continuing this fight, the oligarch tour.
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He spoke in Warren, Michigan, Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Altoona, Wisconsin. And he's speaking in reddish, purplish areas to workers. This right here is the way you have to do it. If anybody were to say, well, what do we do? How do we message it right now? To me, Bernie Sanders, pitch perfect.
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And now that we have the largest independent media platform in the country, if not the world, I want to use that platform to showcase Senator Bernie Sanders' speeches. And frankly, any other politician who's going to speak like this to workers has a platform that we will look for their speeches and we will broadcast. Let me show you this particularly
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powerful moment from Senator Bernie Sanders' recent speech in Altoona for March 8th. Let's play it.
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Really powerful stuff. And, you know, I want to just like take that clip as... I want to use it as an example for other politicians, other leaders who are going out there and speaking to constituents about the chaos that is happening right now. Yes, I think Senator Sanders provides a good blueprint for how to speak to people. And I think there is a reason that he resonates with people.
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First of all, he's real. You know that he means what he says. Also, he's not trying to do gimmicks. And I feel like far too often, especially in the social media age and as Democrats and other politicians are trying to figure out how do we reach people, how do we break through the noise, they feel like they need to resort to
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let's do this quirky video where we're spouting all this Gen Z lingo and it'll be cute and funny and silly and it'll break through because it's so silly or maybe we do this video and we just curse a bunch because people want cursing and all things like that. People want you to be real with them.
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So a negative 6% GDP swing, bringing us into a great recession and potentially a depression. And Donald Trump saying, of course there's uncertainty. I don't know what's going to happen. Donald Trump was supposed to also appear on numerous occasions today at various meetings, which he did not show up to or at least bring the cameras at while the markets were crashing.
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People want you to be able to look them in the eye and genuinely tell them that you understand what they are going through. And I think when Senator Sanders, the reason why he gets these crowds, the reason he gets the reaction that he gets, no matter where he is throughout the country, even in the reddest of districts,
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the reddest of states it's because he's genuine and because it's clear that he actually cares and that he believes in what he is saying so remember authenticity authenticity authenticity stop the kind of quirky funny unless that's you by the way if that's your thing that's another story but you need to be authentic to yourself and you need to be able to level with people
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and make sure that they understand that you understand their pain and that you are fighting against it. That's just the message that I want people to take away from that.
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And you saw what Senator Bernie Sanders was doing. He was listening. He was listening. He was asking people what they're going through and the pain that they feel so he can relate to them and explain to them what he's going to do to fight for them. But he was showing empathy and listening. to listen to people. It's one of the things I pride ourselves here on the Midas Touch Network.
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In fact, I think it's really the secret to our growth is that we're always listening to what people are experiencing and going through and making sure that we can channel those feelings and bring it here and then talk about solutions.
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So if you were watching even the propaganda state regime media known as Fox, you would see things like this.
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exclamation point that as the markets are taking also if you look at that photo that he posted from his uh interview on fox the chiron reads that ukraine doesn't have the cards so it's a twofer folks he is serving as putin stooge while crashing the united states economy just so you can hear what the full video of what he said is you can hear what a huckster and see what a huckster is let's just play that clip
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You know, it's so interesting, Brett, to see these MAGA Republican Congress members contort themselves into these kind of spineless fascist pretzels to try to
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support donald trump crashing the economy like this is a good thing and this is a normal thing um you know it was just also i i was been thinking about this more and more you know when i would when i think about that joint session from last week that disastrous joint session that donald trump held where you had the mega republicans giving standing ovations
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as Donald Trump was talking about things like getting rid of the CHIPS Act, which provides billions of dollars of investment to red states, as Donald Trump gets rid of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Act, these major Biden initiatives that were putting a lot of people to work with high-paying jobs, not just in blue states, in red states, in purple states.
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And then you saw the members of Congress, like, And it just reminded me these MAGA Republicans look just like when you when you watch the way like the politicians in North Korea, you know, clap for Kim Jong Un. Like, you know, it's like this like nervous, frantic clap that they're all like don't know what to do, but they have to clap for dear leader.
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as he's literally talking about taking away the jobs from their own congressional districts. I mean, take a look at this guy. This is MAGA Republican Tom Emmer, who in another age was viewed as like, not like a crazy guy, you know, but he is, he's like full MAGA nutso right now. Here, watch what Tom Emmer said about the tariffs. Let's play.
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Donald Trump said, I alone can fix it. Donald Trump also said on day one there would be a peace deal in Ukraine. He said actually before day one, he had such a great relationship with Zelenskyy and Putin, he said it would be easy to get a deal done. The only deal Donald Trump even somewhat focused on, I guess for a little bit, was to steal Ukraine's mineral resources.
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then we started talking about some deal where we would basically steal their minerals and what then give russia the rest of their land i mean so the deal i guess was a deal with putin that trump viewed that his regime would take the minerals for his sovereign wealth fund so he can then go and what acquire greenland i mean you have to think about what donald trump's thinking in his own mind and you can piece this together based on his post so trump would get part of ukraine and the minerals and then putin would get the other part that
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was the deal obviously that donald trump was thinking about in my opinion um and you know again he's showed every day that all he's doing is what what putin would want i mean directly i mean you've got donald trump cutting off the satellite imagery and intelligence to ukraine um not just
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turning off the military aid, which, by the way, helped American companies because the military aid was in the form of weapons and systems that were being developed in America and then sent to Ukraine. So you're hurting American businesses and hurting Ukraine. But he also shut off
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1,500 points below where it was when Donald Trump took office. That's not a good look. This is the same network that would try to spin record-setting day after day under former President Biden's economy. And they're like making jokes about it. Looks like we got 50 more points while it was down close to 1,000 points. Oh, it looks like it picked up 50 points.
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the intelligence he's also stopped doing a lot of like joint nato missions and kind of task force stuff together you know every one of his steps and actions would be only to the benefit of like a like a putin here donald trump is asked by a washington post reporter on air force one as he was flying back from his mar-a-lago vacation on sunday to dc to cause more havoc he was asked do you believe putin
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is disrespecting you by attacking Ukraine. Here, watch his response.
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Go ahead. What else? And again, he looks like an addled, cognitively impaired individual, but I don't want to lean on that because I don't want to give, frankly, him an excuse for his behavior. I mean, he's a horrific human being, but when he's answering the questions, too, and he's like, huh? Who you with? Huh? Huh? No, you are bad. You are a bad boy. I'm not going to answer that question.
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Disrespecting me? How? Meanwhile, Elon Musk, who's either serving as a co-president or the lead dictator in this regime, whichever you want to say, here are the types of posts that Elon has been making. So MAGA Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Mike Lee, goes, exit NATO now, exclamation point, to which Elon Musk responds, we really should.
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it doesn't make sense for america to pay for the defense of europe then you have democratic senator veteran astronaut hero senator mark kelly was in ukraine and he posted a photo of him in ukraine just left ukraine what i saw proved to me we can't give up on the ukrainian people Everyone wants this war to end, but any agreement has to protect Ukraine's security and can't be a giveaway to Putin.
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Let me tell you about my trip to Ukraine and why it's important we stand with Ukraine, to which Elon Musk responds, traitor.
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you are a traitor elon musk says then elon musk goes on fox with larry kudlow and then blames a cyber attack on x which used to be twitter he says he blames it on people around ukraine and says it's their fault people around ukraine surprise surprise is going to blame everything on ukraine here watch this
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And then also, Brett, over the weekend, he posted an attack at the Polish, Poland's foreign minister and called it and said, sit down, little man. When Poland's foreign minister just talked about how Poland had fully paid for Starlink. in Ukraine already, and there was no right to take Starlink down. And then Musk attacked Poland's foreign minister and said, sit down, little man, sit down.
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The tactics of Elon Musk and the tactics of Donald Trump don't just resemble what happens in Putin's Russia. They are literally the same tactics that they use. And when I hear Elon Musk say that about Ukraine, by the way, We don't even know if there actually was, in fact, a cyber attack at all.
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I mean, that is who this propaganda network is. Even they can't spin it. But Donald Trump's propagandists were out there on all of the networks trying to spin it, that this is Biden's fault, that Biden's the one responsible for this. This is Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's National Economic Council director. This guy was the guy in 1999, right before the dot com crash.
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Anytime X, Twitter, whatever they call it, goes down, historically now over the past few years, Elon Musk said, we are under cyber attack, we're under cyber attack, and then blame somebody. So when this happened earlier and people were having trouble logging on, In our chat of Midas employees, somebody literally made a kind of joke saying, watch him blame Ukraine for this.
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That's how predictable these people are with their propaganda. We said it as an outlandish sort of thing, watch him do this. And then a couple hours later, he ran to Fox, and that's exactly what he did. Because this is what they do. And this is what kind of Twitter and X is designed for right now.
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It's designed to smear people and spread lies and spread disinformation in order to provide justification for some of the most heinous acts imaginable in humanity. So in this case, they are looking for some sort of out in order not to help Ukraine. They're looking to build more resentment.
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Against Ukraine, they're looking for more reasons to back out of deals, to back Russia, to do all the things that they are doing. So as predicate for that, Elon Musk is, without any proof, without any evidence, without anything, is accusing Ukraine of a cyber attack on Twitter. I think they have some more important things to do right now than attack X and make it so people can't tweet online.
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um as frequently especially when the people of ukraine actually use the site in order to communicate and get out information um but these are the the ruthless uh disgraceful tactics that we are seeing out of this regime and we're seeing it all over the map uh you know i think we'll we'll talk uh in a little bit about mahmoud khalil the uh pro-palestinian activist
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But they're using similar – who was arrested by Donald Trump and threatened with deportation. But we're seeing similar tactics there as well where they make up smears about a person in order to justify heinous acts in this case, in that case taking a legal resident of the United States, a permanent resident.
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uh stripping his citizenship and trying to deport him over accusations that is not what the united states of america is but that is how donald trump operates and that is how elon musk operates and this is why they are such a threat to democracy and this is why by the way regardless of your political party i don't care if you consider yourself left right right center or whatever this is not something you want in a leader of this country you do not want
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people with unfettered power to make up lies about US citizens or residents or anybody, and then use that as predicate to use unilateral power in order to punish them or do whatever they want to do.
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That is the kind of stuff in tin pot dictatorships, not the kind of stuff that happens in the United States of America, where we're at least supposed to have due process, where we are at least supposed to lead with the actual facts before doing heinous things such as those.
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You know, the headline from The Onion, which, you know, supposed to be satire although the line between satire and the idiocracy that's now festering in the white house is essentially blurred is trump says recession unfortunate but a necessary step to get to a great depression so that was the headline from the onion that's not too different from what donald trump said
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when he was asked by Maria Bartiromo that question. I think we have the clip of when Trump was asked, are you expecting a recession? Here's what he said.
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who predicted that things were about to soar. This guy's wrong about everything. He's the person who Trump has on his team, but Trump's whole team are the people who are wrong about everything, right? Who's the most wrong on a topic? I don't know. Who do you want for health and human services? Who could be most wrong?
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You know, don't forget- First off, it's still a bunch of word salad that he's saying. He promised that he was gonna fix everything on day one. And frankly, if he wouldn't have done a thing, he could have just claimed it. because former President Biden brought it to a strong economy where the Wall Street Journal was saying the U.S. economy is the envy of the world.
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Other headlines were we're in something better than a Goldilocks economy. That's just right. Former President Biden brought inflation under control that was caused by Trump administration, number one, by adding $8 trillion in debt. And by the way, don't believe me that that's what caused it. Go listen to what Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis said the cause was during the Republican debates.
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Let me just show you this one other clip right here where Trump talks about a record. He's trying to blame it on Biden. We've had record setting inflation under Biden. Listen to what he says here.
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Let me show you this one other clip of what Maria Bartiromo talks about. Tariffs high, markets down. Here's what she says.
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So the headline that I showed you from The Onion is kind of what Trump was saying there. I mean, zero confidence. blaming things on Biden, saying that he can't control, just give him more time. This is the Ponzi scheme phase of Trump. We've seen it in his other businesses, and now he just delays, delays, delays, and then he makes things worse.
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And that's what I want to talk about when we come back from our next quick break. I want to remind everybody, patreon.com slash MidasTouch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash MidasTouch. Join us on our next Zoom meeting if you ever wanted to meet me, Brett, and Jordy.
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Let's pick RFK Jr., the guy who's anti-vaccine and anti-studying infectious disease. Okay, let's pick that guy. Who do you want as your defense secretary? How about that Fox host, Hegseth? The weekend guy, the weekend host. Yeah, yeah, let's give him the most important position in our government, basically, other than the president. Let's make that guy the defense secretary.
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Okay, good one, good one. Who should we put to lead Homeland Security? The woman who shot our dog? Oh, bingo. Let's bring her. She'll be great. And she could cosplay different outfits every day. Who should lead the Department of Justice? Oh, Pam Bondi? Wasn't that the the lady who was leading the attorney general's office in Florida during all the Epstein years and did nothing.
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Brett, one thing I just do want to mention too before talking about some international affairs is that, you know, the one thing that MAGA Republicans had said repeatedly that they wanted to do was never have continuing resolutions ever again. and to pass their own budget, and they were gonna get this done.
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They were supposed to get it done in the last term, which they controlled the House of Representatives, but they failed to do it then. Then the day before the government was about to shut down, they would pass the continuing resolution, which by the way,
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extends the budget from nancy pelosi and when the democrats controlled the house of representatives so you know how they attack that budget well they continue it with a continuing resolution that's what it's called so you may be confused to be like but didn't they pass a budget no
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They talked about like a blueprint of a budget that they passed, but they have not been able to pass an actual budget beyond the blueprint because the blueprint is just total and utter BS. So what they've done is they just do these continuing resolutions. But then what they've tried to do in these continuing resolutions is to make it like 90%. not actually a continuing resolution.
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So they like sneak in this 99 page document, all of these lines about various like departments and programs getting $0. So it's not a continuing resolution. It's basically rescission without voting on rescission by just putting $0 as though people aren't going to notice.
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And for those audio listeners, we just put up on screen all of these MAGA Republicans who said, we will never support continuing resolutions ever. who continue to support continuing resolutions while they complain that the budget was filled with fraud. The same way I also asked before rhetorically that if Donald Trump thinks tariffs so great, why does he keep withdrawing them?
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If you think it's great, why don't you keep them on? Why are you getting scared if this is going to be the fix to everything right if it's all that easy my other question though is a basic one too if there's all of this fraud that elon musk and trump all this fraud right and they're not shy about using the department of justice to go after people right well so where are all the fraud arrests
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right? Like where are all the, where's all these people being arrested for the doge fraud that's been found? And the answer is there isn't. Also, by the way, may I ask rhetorically, where are those Epstein files? Where are they? Didn't the Trump administration say they were going to be releasing those files on day one? It seems every single promise is broken.
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Remember they gave the right-wing MAGA influencers a binder that said, here it is, the Epstein files. We got it. Everybody
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What happened to that? I thought you all were so confident about, oh, you decided to bring home the Tate brothers, allegedly. That was your move instead of going after the traffickers.
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They'll trade the actual Epstein files for the Tate brothers. Got you.
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And by the way, let me let me break down quickly because you said this wasn't a clean CR. So I'll just tell you like some of the things that are in there. I'm reading through it right now. The bill slashes a number of government funding accounts to zero dollars, including the cops, police grants.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's make her. Let's do it. Anyway, I digress. This is Kevin Hassett right here, Trump's top economic guy here playing.
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Those are the police grants for local police departments, various programs of the EPA, health care, education. It puts zero dollars. It basically changes. It says like in the budget. It would normally be X amount of dollars going to this program.
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It zeroes out the following program saying replace that number with zero dollars for the Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy and multiple other expenditures. It also zeroes out the Toxic Exposures Fund to care for veterans exposed to Burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances on October 1st. These are the kinds of things they're trying to sneak in this bill.
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I mean, it's just really cynical, dirty kind of politics that they're playing. But we're learning Hakeem Jeffries, to the Democrats' credit in Congress, they've come out and they said that they will not be voting for this. They are taking a stand, which they should. And so this is going to be on Mike Johnson now in order to try to pass this thing.
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There have already been multiple people in the Republicans in Congress who have come out and said that they will not vote for this. I'm not speaking about the frauds who Ben showed in the – who he showed in this other screenshot from the past CRs that said we'll never do this again. But I'm talking about some people like Rand Paul who came out saying that he would be a no vote.
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on the continuing resolution. And so we'll see how many other no votes start to rack up because Mike Johnson, once again, is going to be in a hard place. They're going to try to blame the Democrats for their own failure once again in order to pass this bill. So we'll be monitoring this closely.
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You know, they're panicked also because Donald Trump right now is frantically making phone calls to the members of Congress asking them to pass this continuing resolution. So a lot going on. We're going to be following all of it. So, you know, make sure you're listening to stay up to date.
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and remember there's nothing in here about no tax on tips nothing in here about no tax on social security nothing in here about no tax on overtime what happened what happened to all of those things right what happened to all of those remember the day when they lied about all that too and they're like it's in the bill
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Here are the Epstein files. I got it. All of these things are in the bill. You're being scammed, guys. But I just don't get when someone scams you so obviously and maliciously, and then they do it again, and then they do it again, and then they do it again, and then they do it again. How do you keep going back to the same? But really, this time he means it. This time he means it.
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You know who's not going to be scammed? Canada, or the President of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, or the leaders in Europe. They get what's going on right here. And in Canada, the Liberal Party just picked their new leader, who will be an interim prime minister. And then there will be a vote for what the next government is going to be. They picked Mark Carney to be their leader.
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Now, Mark Carney was a governor of the Bank of Canada and led a real banker, someone who really understands the economy, like the perfect person to go against Donald Trump, right? And it was a seamless, graceful handoff from Prime Minister Trudeau to Mark Carney. And I think they're picking the right guy for the moment, too, someone with real, actual expertise.
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economic chops and then carney led canada out of the kind of horrible economy in the mid-2000s steady hand there and then he led the board of governors or he was a governor of the bank of england as well and so widely viewed as one of the top economic you know people if not the top in the world He was elected as the leader right now. There'll be elections.
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And now in the polling, the liberal party, which was down significantly to the conservative party led by Pierre Poliev, and Poliev was priding himself on before all of this being Maple Maga. And they would do a lot of, you know, they do the interviews with the podcast people like Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk would amplify them. And that was like the place to be, I guess, around November of 2024.
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Not so anymore. But here's Mark Carney, who's the new leader of the Liberal Party, from his speech. Let's play.
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I covered his full speech as well on the Midas Touch Network, and it was powerful indeed, Brett.
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Yeah, and thank you to the people of Canada for embracing our coverage of your country. Honestly, we're learning a lot. We're learning a lot from you. We read all your comments. We've been speaking to a lot of folks over there, and it's been really enlightening and really cool to see. My message to you all is elbows up. Let's keep this going.
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I want to talk about another important issue because the thing is that
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you hear statements like that from canada when you see greenland's response to what the united states is doing mexico's response panama's response you name it we're in we're in conflicts with everybody now it's just ridiculous uh you know it's obvious that the whole world does not want to be the united states of america despite the fact that donald trump says that it's incredibly ethnocentric it's not true countries actually appreciate their sovereignty sovereignty they like their national identity
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And we, meanwhile, in the United States are seeing just an incredible rollback of our rights. And even just today, we saw Civicus, an international organization, put the United States on their global watch list because our civil rights are declining at such a rapid rate under Donald Trump.
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I mean, when you hear these people talking about Doesn't it remind you, and no offense to, you know, ShamWow and OxyClean and all of those people who would sell those products. You may have found great success, but I won't bring it to those products. But don't they seem like those people, those guys from the 90s who would pop up at like 2 a.m. and start like selling you things?
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They specifically said it's as a result of Donald Trump becoming president and the actions he is taking that the United States is being added to this human rights watch list.
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it's stories like what we saw unfolded over the weekend that is why we are seeing um the the us being added to these human rights watch lists so i wanted to cover a story that i think is really important that we all follow and by the way this doesn't matter um whatever your views on the subject we should all agree as americans that this is absolutely 100 not okay so there is a pro-palestinian activist his name is mahmoud khalil
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He's a recent Columbia University graduate, and he was arrested by ICE over the weekend, March 8th of Saturday, at his university-owned apartment in New York. I want to be clear. He is a legal permanent resident who has a green card. He's married to a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant. He was a prominent leader in the Columbia protests, the pro-Palestinian protests that
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he was a negotiator in those protests he had a large role in those protests so donald trump recently signed an executive order saying that he was going to combat anti-semitism on campuses and he was going to arrest people who engage in anti-semitism on campuses so he is trying to make an example out of mahmoud khalil who by the way they didn't even apparently know
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his accurate immigration status when they started going after him. But that didn't matter to them. The ICE agents initially claimed that his student visa was revoked, but then they learned he had a green card, but then they decided it doesn't matter. We're going to arrest him anyway. The State Department's been bragging about it. Trump's been bragging about it on social media.
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Spinalist little Marco Rubio has been bragging about it. And there was a large period of time where people did not even know where Khalil was. People didn't know where did they take him. He was basically like disappeared by the United States government as if we were in Russia. Very scary stuff. No due process whatsoever.
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Just basically ripped him out of his apartment and hit him and then sent him to Louisiana. This is just horrific, horrific, horrific stuff that we're seeing in the United States of America. And I really don't care whatever your belief is on this topic. We do not just arrest people without due process in this country, disappear them, send them to Louisiana.
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You cannot just take this idea of anti-Semitism and try to put it on everybody that you want and then arrest people for it. It is just ridiculous. And the the messaging from the White House about this has just been so atrocious.
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And by the way, I even see people who consider themselves to be conservatives to be speaking out about this because it is so egregious and such a violation of the United States Constitution. Just absolutely sick. And these statements that are especially sick are ones like this coming from the official White House account. It says, Shalom Mahmoud.
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It disgusts me as a Jewish person that they're using the word Shalom in order to do their online taunting and bullying and deportations and this disgusting Nazi-style stuff that they are doing from the White House. But they go, Shalom Mahmoud, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a radical foreign pro-Hamas student on the campus of Columbia University.
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This is the first arrest of many to come. And they say, that's a quote from Donald Trump. They have a graphic that says arrested by ICE on March 9th. And then it says lead activities aligned to Hamas. There's no proof of any of this.
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And regardless, you're entitled to your due process in this country, not to just be picked off the street and arrested because of the color of your skin or because of your beliefs. They also shared a post from Donald Trump on his social media app. This is just one of the most heinous things that I've ever seen in this country.
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It is clearly designed to silence dissent and the precedent that it sets of a leader of the United States of America ripping somebody out of their home and arresting them because they're saying something you disagree with. to me is absolutely horrific. And so there was a lawsuit filed immediately after this, and Trump's trying to deport. He's a permanent legal US citizen.
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Trump's been trying to deport him. So for now, at least a US federal judge has stepped in and said, under no circumstances can the Trump administration deport Khalil. You need to let due process play out. You need to let the process in general play out, all the proceedings play out. And so that's where we are right now.
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There are already protests that have been popping up throughout the country, especially in New York, regarding this issue. But it's a frightening thing to see in America. Like I said, regardless of your beliefs on the specifics of the topics, a very frightening thing to watch happen in America, somebody ripped out of their home for saying something that the government disagrees with.
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You're going to be so rich, you're not going to want to know what to do. You're not going to know what to do. Speaking of which, then Donald Trump posed this. This is their priorities, right?
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That is not the United States of America.
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You know, and that's where they start. And then they encroach further on other people when they say the media is the enemy of the people, the enemy of the people. That's where they go next. And what's one of the things that Donald Trump, I think, is trying to do as well or would want to do.
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I think Trump wants to create conditions for martial law where he could also invoke things like an Insurrection Act that he could try to rule the way Putin does or Kim Jong-un does. I think the resistance is growing stronger. I really do. There have been so many people
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who have been speaking out or talking to me and expressing kind of their love of the Midas Touch Network or they've been asking me my views about what I think about the growth and you're beating Fox News and I put news in quotes. You're beating Rogan, you're beating all of these networks. Isn't that great? And I go, look, That's never why I sought out to do this with my brothers, number one.
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And number two, this is not a spike the football moment. I know that there are so many people out there who are now suffering
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Our programs here in the United States, getting rid of $880 billion in Medicaid, zeroing out key programs and calling it a continuing resolution, firing, what, 80,000 people who work at Veterans Affairs, 10,000 people who work at the Social Security Administration Office, shutting down key services. They do have priorities, though, and they're focused on Greenland. Greenland.
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under a trump economy i know so many people who are living paycheck to paycheck i know so many people who you know who don't know what's going to happen at any given period of time with trump are they going to be able to access health care what's going to happen to their medicaid what's going to happen to their social security so this is not
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for me and for this network a spike the football celebratory moment this is in the words of charlie angus and a number of others in canada this is a time though to go elbows up this is a time to go over the boards i mean this is a time you know where where we as reporters and leading this independent media network you know uh have to
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reflect dutifully on the responsibility the awesome responsibility that that you've all placed in us and entrusted us with and to make sure we're delivering on these things that's why i'm sure you've seen our coverage over the weekend we've been covering the protests that are taking place we've been talking about uh in specific detail a lot of the uh foreign policy issues what's going on in ukraine we did a whole video talking about um uh you know the
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The drone swarms and other missile strikes being carried out by Putin against Ukraine as Donald Trump and this regime has stopped sharing intelligence. We've talked about the pro-Ukrainian movement and protests and rallies happening here in the United States as well. Yeah.
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It's an awesome responsibility that you've entrusted us with, and it's vital to us to meet this moment as well for you each and every day. And as I said to a reporter recently asking about, well, what do you think it is that's appealing of your coverage in Canada? And I just said one of the most important things, I think we listen. We take that responsibility seriously.
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And it's important that we are continuing to build bridges and build trust and report day in and day out. That's what we do here. We chop wood in terms of putting out this content and build each day, day by day. And we're so grateful for all of you, the Midas Mighty. if you reflect on authoritarian regimes in the past, they were able to kind of take over all aspects of government.
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In Nazi Germany, they call it synchrosity or synchronization. There was a German word for that.
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you know and some historians put it within 30 days others put it within about 50 days of hitler taking over all aspects of government and in my view project 2025 is a version of synchronization of trying to have trump take over all aspects of the government suppress all dissent control the media and they were trying to accomplish that with what they refer to as shock and awe
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in a 30 to 50 day period. We're now approaching that day 50, and I think that the resistance is growing stronger. I see Trump and Musk growing weaker. Trump is fumbling, bumbling, not showing up at appearances. He's looking like a mess. He's using the small steps to go up Air Force One as well.
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um and and just seems more and more disinterested he thought the tariffs were going to make canada and mexico and europe bend the knee which they didn't he's seeing people stand up and trump's whole history in life is not the
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dealing with adversity responsibly it's actually running away from it which is why he bankrupted so many things why i liked former president biden's leadership is he did it silently without chaos but he made tough decisions and he stood up he was okay with adversity he was okay with problems he dealt with them he didn't avoid him the way trump does trump creates it then avoids it and now we're in that
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avoidance kind of runaway stage that we saw during COVID. runs away from it, makes things worse. And that's problematic for all of us, but I think the resistance grows and grows and grows now. And I think there's a reason why these Republicans are no longer doing the town halls and their playbook is so simple and so stupid. Oh, George Soros is sending the people, it's George Soros' fault.
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Donald Trump posts and Elon Musk amplifies. As I made clear during my joint address to Congress, the United States strongly supports the people of Greenland's right to determine their own future. We will continue to keep you safe as we have since World War II. We are ready to invest billions of dollars to create new jobs and make you rich.
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I mean, it's ridiculous. People are suffering because of Trump and Musk and the regime's actions. And people are pissed. It's why I like to see Senator Bernie Sanders speaking directly to people that way. And so we'll keep building this network with you. We'll be here with you every step of the way.
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I want to give a shout out to all the Midas Mighty who have made the growth of this network possible. I want to thank our mods. for holding this down and keeping the discussions civil here. I want to remind everybody about patreon.com slash MidasTouch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash MidasTouch. Also, you can check us out at MidasPlus.com. Check it out there.
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We'll keep getting the news out. Keep checking it out. Keep checking back. Make sure you subscribe. Turn your notifications on. We'll get through this together. We're going to get through this together. Brett, anything else you want to say?
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Yeah, you know, I'll just say that we view this network as a two way street. You know, we never want to just feel like we're talking at you. We want to let you into what we're doing here and that you are. I want you to know that you're a central part to what we do here. And we read your comments. We read everything. So if you want us to have a certain guest on the show, feel free to pitch them.
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Right. If you want us to discuss certain topics, feel free to pitch them. We want to be your voice ultimately. And that's what we aim to do. And we want you to be a part of this process. And then I'll leave it on there. And then, you know, that's a good segue into me saying, thank you for watching. Thank you for listening.
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And if you so choose, we will welcome you to be part of the greatest nation anywhere in the world, the United States of America. And Elon Musk reposts that. The prime minister of Greenland responded, quote, The recent things that the American president has done mean that you don't want to get close to the U.S. as you might have wanted to in the past.
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We need to draw a line in the sand and spend more effort on those countries that actually show us respect for the future that we want to draw. Brett, you know, the the Elon Musk and Doge. Interesting that they're amplifying that we should get rid of all of our programs here that literally keep people alive. We should destroy the lives of veterans.
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But what we should do is invest billions into Greenland while the Greenland prime minister is saying, now you're attacking our sovereignty. That's a nice little roundup of what's going on in the Trump reality show that we are all non-consensual participants of.
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Well, I think we've been saying from the beginning that Donald Trump's whole framing of this MAGA movement as America first or making America great again is just complete and utter bullshit from the get go. It's all just a total scam in order to transfer wealth from the working people of this country to the wealthiest people of this country by wrapping itself in patriotism, by wrapping itself.
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in this faux christian behavior this this christian nationalism and they use those the iconography of religion they use the iconography of the united states in order to enrich themselves and basically sell the united states for parts i mean what we are seeing right now in this country is the textbook definition of a kakistocracy the rule by the dumbest people among us by the most incompetent people among us um but they're doing this intentionally and i think that's what we have to realize
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Everything right here is completely intentional. And when they're going after folks like Greenland, when they're attacking our allies in Canada, they're just stoking more resentment against the United States. They are further harming our economy. The last I saw in Greenland, something like more than 85% of the people want nothing to do with the United States whatsoever, period, end of story.
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All these countries are just incredibly offended. They are all rising up against us. While, by the way, Vladimir Putin and Russia and our adversaries are cozying up to us. It is complete upending of American values of the pro-democracy vision for our country. And it is just absolutely disgusting. And I want folks to realize that the economy is a very delicate, delicate thing.
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And maybe it takes Donald Trump doing everything that he's doing right now for people to really realize the influence that a president can have on the economy. But there is a reason why things like the Federal Reserve are independent of the presidency.
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There is a reason that they move things in such a slight way, these slight adjustments in interest rates, moving them down by a quarter of a percentage point at a time or up a quarter of a percentage point at a time.
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and there's a reason they do that in general it's to either slow the economy or to pump more money into the economy donald trump is not doing anything with any sort of strategy he is just recklessly slashing and burning programs firing people making these tariff threats throwing the entire world into chaos And all of that is going to have effects on the economy.
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It's all going to have effects on the stock market, your 401ks. It's going to have an effect on the price of goods you pay in the stores. And it goes against everything that he said during the campaign. And it aligns with what Elon Musk said right before the election happened, that Americans are going to have to feel pain.
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And you finally see right now the White House actually shifting to messaging. which basically boils down to, and this is really messed up for a United States president, an administration to be pushing, but basically their message right now is no pain, no gain. Although it seems like all we're going to have to feel is pain.
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You see Donald Trump, and we'll get through some of these clips, but Donald Trump is now pitching this, forget day one, folks. Forget everything's going to be better on day one. Prices are going to come down immediately so quickly. That's out the window. Donald Trump right now is pitching this as a 100 year plan. Yeah, that's not a I didn't misspeak 100 years. China thinks in 100 year periods.
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That's actually what need we need to be thinking about. And this could be our transition period. Well, okay, do you all want to wait 100 years for something that's never going to happen? No.
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these are the words of a huckster a scammer the comments that donald trump is making right now about the economy about the state of uh people's standard of living in the u.s saying you're going to be so rich you're not going to even believe how rich you are we're going to do these gold cards the tariffs are going to make us all millionaires these are the same scams that he has pulled his entire life whether it be with trump university or literally any of his other failed businesses or endeavors we're just seeing this now on an international scale and it is so incredibly dangerous
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Well, if you wonder, how did he bankrupt all of those businesses?
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It seems how you bankrupted like four or five businesses over time and then you had like eight to 10 other failed businesses. Like I get it, you know, most new business startups ultimately fail. But I mean, you kind of had limitless resources. You were born Donald Trump as a trust fund kid with a golden or platinum spoon in your mouth. So how did you keep on failing over and over again?
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Because he does things like this. he's a liar he's a con artist and then when things get really bad you know what he does he looks out for himself and screws everybody when it was in atlantic city he screwed over the contractors and all of the people who were in atlantic city but he took the money for himself and now he's doing that writ large with the American people.
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One of the strangest and also most dangerous clips I think you can possibly watch. I'll give everybody some good news for Donald Trump, though, because his buddy Jeff Bezos is putting Apprentice Seasons 1 through 7 on Amazon Prime. So Donald Trump did make a deal, not the deals that he promised. But as he was there on Air Force One, he said, it looks like we're going to land, everybody.
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I mean, look at the deal that he made. The deal he made was with, what, Jeff Bezos first to buy the documentary of his wife for $41 million. And then Donald Trump did a deal today where he sold seasons one through seven, the back catalog, so we can see how Donald Trump was basically defrauding the country by pretending to be something he wasn't back then. But then Bezos bought that. So
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that's what donald trump is spending his time doing donald trump made huge transaction fees by selling his scammy crypto coin while that crashed and then it seems to be that people in his orbit seem to know just when to buy the dip and then it basically uh crashes again but donald trump went back to mar-a-lago to vacation again this weekend or who was he hanging with
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Billionaire crypto bros, he was bragging about how much money he made off of his meme coin, not the people who put their life savings into the meme coin, because that meme coin is tanking. By the way, as NASDAQ, as the Dow, as the S&P are crashing, you know what's crashing as well? I thought Donald Trump was going to be the Bitcoin president. That ain't doing well either.
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bitcoin was crashing as well today he's literally the worst at everything that he does and he panics because he's a weak pathetic individual and then like a just course right just reverses things immediately because he then panics so let me ask you this if tariffs are the answer to everything and tariffs are so great right then why does he stop putting the tariffs on.
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If they were so great, why when the markets crash, why does he then stop it? Which actually makes things worse when he stops it. Canada still has their retaliatory tariffs on against America at this point because they're sick of being in this idiotic cycle and dangerous cycle of Trump threatening and not threatening. So they're like, you're going to take it off or you're not going to take it off.
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We're going to institute retaliatory tariffs until you say they are off forever. And why are you picking on one of your top allies, your biggest trading partner? That's who you're going to go after. And if you go after us, what message does that send to the rest of the world that you're attacking Canada? And by the way, do you see how Canada stood up to Donald Trump?
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You see how President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico stood up to Donald Trump. You see how easy they were able to outmaneuver him and make him look stupid because they're real leaders. And they know how to outmaneuver idiots like Donald Trump. I just think that they were surprised how easy it was to actually do. And now that they see how pathetic it is, they're like, oh, got it. Elbows up.
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We know how to deal with it in breadth. We'll talk later in the show about the continuing resolution that MAGA Republicans want to pass because they can't figure out their own budget. Remember they had the outline for a budget? Well, they can't. They had an outline that they voted on, but they can't actually vote on a real budget. So they're kicking everything until what?
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Next September is what they want to vote on tomorrow. But guess what's not in there? There's no no tax on tips. There's no no tax on Social Security. Nothing about no tax on overtime. All of every single one of these things was a lie, Brett.
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in fact they're trying to zero out a lot of programs in this continuing resolution not only take the existing budget and push it along but they're also trying to zero out things like uh funding for toxic burn pits for veterans in the pact act why do they always pick on that too it's like the most effed up thing on the planet that that's like the thing they're like i know what we could get rid of i know what people really don't need those 9 11 first responders f them
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The train wreck of the Trump presidency continues to trample over the United States of America. We saw Trump's cognitive issues on full display where he tried to outshine the Super Bowl. He tried to make it all about himself, but he couldn't even last at the Super Bowl through halftime. He had to leave and then resign.
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According to the White House, no one really knows what he's doing or when he's doing them, but that is going to cause major damage to our alliances abroad, and we should expect massive retaliation from our allies now, whether it's Canada or Mexico, Europe,
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Yeah, he says it, and then his team tries to figure out, okay, well, what do you want us to do? And then no one has the spine to actually stand up to him anymore and say no. So then they figure out a way to do it, and now he's imposed tariffs on the world, I guess. And while he does that, let me just explain to you what's happening in Canada right now.
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okay even before the tariffs now were just imposed even when trump paused the other tariffs and then said that there would be 30 days but then i mean this was what seven days later after saying there would be a 30-day pause you can't trust anything he lies he's just a liar everything's a lie There's no stability. You just have to assume the worst.
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He's disrespected the sovereignty of Canada, by the way, the rest of the world as well. But let me just explain to you what's happening in Canada. I think we're going to see this in the rest of the world. They are boycotting still all American products. They go to the supermarket. They do not buy American in addition to their retaliatory tariffs. This is organic.
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This is what Canadian people are doing. And unless they are forced to travel to the United States and have no choice, they are boycotting traveling to the United States. If you look at the Canadian-American border on the coming into America, at night I saw a photo and it was like completely empty. Canadians are not coming into America.
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australia which got exemptions during the first trump administration this will cause major rifts there our enemies like russia are just laughing the whole way one of the things that donald trump said during his interview with brett bear is that he does not want jd vance as his successor great work jd vance you played yourself
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Canada contributes about $22 billion to American tourism every single year. If Canada boycotts, which they're doing now, And it impacts the tourism from Canada to the U.S. by 10%, just 10%. That would cause America's tourism industry to take a $2 billion hit and force 144,000 Americans out of their jobs. Just a 10% boycott by Canada.
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I think the number is going to be closer to 50, between 50 and 100%. That's going to cause literally potentially millions of jobs and tens of billions of dollars just in tourism. Then you get to the goods when Canada's not buying America.
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Then the rest of the world is going to do that because let's be clear, America to the rest of the world right now under Trump is just a bigger version of North Korea. It's like we have our Kim Jong-un. They go, what the heck did you do? We're not messing with you. Like it's pure isolationism, not will it happen? It is, it happened. It's there.
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We are in, America is authoritarian and we are isolated. That's the state of it. And the question is, is the fight back, the fight back. And as I've said, until they rip this microphone from my hand, We're going to fight back. Me, my brothers, this network, and others every single day. Want to remind everybody to check out patreon.com slash MidasTouch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash MidasTouch.
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Donald Trump amended his federal lawsuit against CBS, which was originally for $10 billion, saying that he didn't like how 60 Minutes displayed the interview with Vice President Trump. Kamala Harris during the campaign of 2024. Now Donald Trump says that he's been injured to the tune of $20 billion.
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I mean, that is kind of your profession, but yeah, that's what you do. And come on. Okay.
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One of the things that Donald Trump announced earlier today is that if all hostages in Gaza are not released by 12 p.m. on Saturday, the ceasefire should be canceled and then, quote, let all hell break loose.
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let all hell break loose and break the ceasefire you know normally it's pretty difficult thing to broker a ceasefire and these issues tend to be pretty delicate and scripted but it isn't it just obvious as we go through all of these data points that he's just craving international conflict and wars after isolating America from our allies.
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I'm just, in Trump's mind, I guess he thinks it's gonna be what? America and Benjamin Netanyahu versus everybody else in the world? Is that his kind of world perspective? What's his alliance? Who are the allies? Because it's not the European Union who are arming themselves against America, right? It's not Canada. He just tariffed Australia. So we don't really have any allies.
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And he's added MAGA Republican Congress member Ronnie Jackson as a co-plaintiff in this case, because Ronnie Jackson says that he was a consumer. who was injured under consumer protection laws. This as Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans gut the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau. So make that make sense, folks.
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Is North Korea going to be part of that crew? Is it going to be North Korea? Well, North Korea is allied with Russia. Russia is playing Donald Trump like a fiddle right now. Russia and China have formed alliances with Iran.
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against the united states of america and they've built out the bricks block in the process of the main the main countries there are brazil russia india china and uh south africa which donald trump has now imposed all of these sanctions on south africa and then trump's executive order um is to um make
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promote immigration of whites literally says the white south africans should come to america promoting immigration of white south africans while donald trump has revoked the tps temporary protected status of like his own supporters right like venezuelans in Miami, in Venezuelans, in Doral. They've lost their TPS status.
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Many of them were supporters of Trump and have family members who voted for Trump, who fled the Maduro regime. So Trump's had Rich Grinnell, one of his special envoys, negotiate directly with Maduro to send people back who are venezuelan who fled maduro back to venezuela i i'm just like what's the let me just let me just say that one more time because this isn't getting enough attention
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Who who are the allies and how does he anticipate doing, you know, doing this? And meanwhile, he's crippling the United States from within. Right. Gutting the CIA. Right.
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gutting the fbi i saw christy gnome the homeland security secretary she attacked her own fbi over the weekend and she blamed the fbi for leaking a memo about where the next ice raids are going to be in los angeles that are coming up and she's like the fbi is corrupt as hell I'm like, and she literally posted, the FBI is corrupt as hell. And I'm like, you're the government now.
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And she was also asked on one of the weekend shows about letting Elon Musk get access to everybody's information. And she's like, because the government can't be trusted. And Dana Bash doesn't do a lot of good interviews, but on this one, I thought she did good pushback. And she's like, but you're the government. What do you mean? And so now you're giving Elon Musk everybody's private information.
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And now if you watch what's being posted to on social media, whether it's by Trump or the main MAGA influencers and then reposted by Elon Musk, he's like, yeah, I've got your data. Yeah, I've got it. But I'm more trustworthy than the deep state fraudsters. Like, look at this. I mean, Ashley St. Clair, she's a major MAGA influencer. This is how they talk now.
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She goes, what the F do you think Elon Musk is going to do with your social security number? Tweet it, open a line of credit you don't have, and then Elon Musk responds, seriously, and for damn sure, I'm 100% more trustworthy than the untold numbers of state bureaucrats and fraudsters who may be misusing your social security number right now. Like, that's where we are?
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Also, a number of court orders were handed down, more injunctions against the Trump administration, more findings as well that the Trump administration has been violating other injunctions by still not funding things that Congress wanted them to fund, whether, you know, across all government agencies. We'll talk about that and more. It's the Midas Touch podcast. I'm joined by Brett and Jordy.
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excused himself pretty quickly he said it's a bigger and more important thing that he wanted to announce than the super bowl and then proceeded to talk about renaming the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america again he goes this should be declared the gulf of america day not even the
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Brett, you mentioned, you know, George Soros, Bill Gates. Could you imagine if they were doing this? Well, in literally the fake imaginary world created by the Russian propaganda and by Fox and the way they use George Soros and the term deep state and all of this,
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you that's what the you know 60 of americans have below a fifth grade education right and they get their news from rage algorithms and not from fact-based news sources right so a lot of americans believe that over the past four years that literally what elon musk is actually doing now that that's what George Soros and Bill Gates and all of these people already were doing with their information.
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Brett, Jordy, this train wreck continues right here. And he's just basically following what playbook you would do if you wanted to dismantle the United States and just cripple it. That's what they're doing.
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And now this is like retaliation for what had happened when that's not what happened at all because their rage algorithms were pushing these lies and conspiracies relentlessly over and over again. And now let me just share with you again how it's kind of, you know, like what happens when Donald Trump is asked, you know, so... Why not have Elon, he's apparently has everybody's data.
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So if he's in the government, shouldn't he do disclosures? Like, doesn't that make sense? Like watch Trump's response to this question.
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it's not public and when donald trump says all you have to do is read it it's just to make it make it available i mean why if elon to brett to your point about mark cuban if elon musk is going to run this then he should have to go in front of congress And Congress should get to ask him questions about what the hell he's doing with Americans' data. Like, it's a very simple thing.
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And Americans are not interested in transparency. America, I mean, what the Trump supporters, rather, aren't interested in transparency. What the Trump supporters are interested in is dictatorship. We should want transparency. The Trump supporters want dictatorship. Let me share this with you right here. This is, I could show you dozens of clips, but you'll get the point.
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This is the MAGA Republican Congress member, Pete Sessions, when he's asked about what Elon Musk is doing. I want you to listen. This is how MAGA is saying it. MAGA is saying, well, because the data wasn't handed over to Musk, Musk had to, listen to the language, break into it. He had to break into it. Here, play this clip.
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They broke into the databases? This is what they're saying. They broke into the databases. And again, if this is what we want, right? We live in a democracy. If this is what we want, if the American people want to
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torture people internationally and defund USAID, right, if that's what they want to do, or defund the NIH, defund critical medical research that helps stop cancers and pandemics and that leads to innovation. If America wants to shut down the CDC or the Department of Labor or
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get rid of the CIA, or if America wants to get rid of the Department of Education, like if these are things, there's a process for it, right? The process for it is Congress and the Senate
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they pass laws congress we have two chambers we have the house and the senate they've got to pass it they then have to reconcile their bill and then it gets voted on and then it gets signed into law by the president that's that's the process that exists in a democracy
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That's why I say America doesn't have a democracy anymore because the process apparently is Donald Trump has Elon Musk go into various agencies with this thing called Doge, whatever the hell it is, and they just do things. They shut down USAID. They shut down the Department of Education or they shut down the Department of Labor and they gut these agencies and then they go online and they –
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It's worse than McCarthyism. I don't even know what you get, Elonism or whatever you want to say it is. And they kind of slander people and they put it out there and they move on to the next one and they dismantle everything. And if this is what the American people want, then the Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency.
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So they can go and pass these things and then have it be signed and let the American have hearings on it. That's the way it works in our country. the way it's always worked until now. So then now it is not that. Now it is by fiat, by decree, by order, by whatever Elon Musk wakes up and wants to do. And that's not a democracy. That's the problem right now. It's a big problem.
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So the next question we have to ask is, well, what are the courts doing about it? That's what we'll analyze in the next segment. What's happening with the courts? Now you have Trump defying the court orders, including court orders from Trump appointed judges. So I want to talk about that. Talk about it after the break.
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We'll talk about what's going on in the courts.
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So you saw what we were doing there. First, we talked about what's going on and the disruption and havoc Trump's creating internationally, domestically, as Elon Musk goes into all of these government entities and like destroys them. Now, what's the fight back? Let's be clear. Democrats don't control the House. They don't control the Senate. They don't control the White House.
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That means Democrats don't have subpoena power. Democrats don't have the ability to set hearings. Democrats requested, for example, that Elon Musk be subpoenaed and Republicans cut off debate. I just want to let you know the process. So every time Democrats request it, because they do, Republicans say, we're not even going to let you debate it. Musk gets to do whatever he wants to do.
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So that brings us to the courts. federal judges, state court judges, and then what happens if they make rulings that are against Donald Trump, which most have been against Donald Trump, even from Trump-appointed judges and Reagan-appointed judges, because it's so egregious. It's so egregious what's going on.
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And so what do you do, though, when Trump says, even to a Trump-appointed judge, I'm not following your order? What's the step when the Department of Justice, FBI is gutted, DOJ is gutted or controlled by Trump when you don't have when you don't have people to enforce it anymore because the executive refuses to do its function? Well, let's talk about that.
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What I want to share with you, though, is, you know, one, since our last show, I think it's important just to talk about this, that Donald Trump amended his lawsuit against CBS. So the original lawsuit against CBS was for $10 billion, and now it's for $20 billion. So Trump just arbitrarily added another $10 billion in damages.
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And Trump says that he was damaged when 60 Minutes aired an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, where some of her ums and ahs. There was a moment where Vice President Kamala Harris
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like she was kind of like not completing the sentence and it wasn't like it was like a bad gaffe but objectively she just kind of got a little bit tongue-tied i guess and it was like literally 30 seconds when you watch it so as part of their editing on what they showed on one on one version versus another they just kind of made it a little bit cleaner which by the way it didn't just it wasn't like she said yes and then the answer was no it was literally just her
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I'm going out of my way to try to give you what the best argument that I, maybe I even shouldn't. I'm just trying to give you, if you accept everything.
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Yeah, so Trump was saying that injured him $20 billion. And that caused him, that what happened in the campaign, well, he was too afraid to do another debate. He was too afraid to do that interview. Somehow that injured him $20 billion. I mean, just a made up number. So then he has Ronny Jackson, join him in the lawsuit. Why Ronny Jackson?
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Because Ronny Jackson is the Congress member from the Amarillo area in Texas. The federal judge who's overseeing this case is a guy named Matthew Kaczmarek, who is a MAGA judge. MAGA always tries to get the case in front of him. So Donald Trump's having what's his name? Join the case.
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Ronnie Jackson joined the case to claim that a consumer has been injured and it needs to be protected under Texas's. It's not a defamation case. It's a consumer injury, but Donald Trump couldn't do it alone. So they found Ronnie Jackson to pretend that he was a consumer who was injured to bring the case with Donald Trump and the amended complaint to try to keep it before a MAGA judge.
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And again, if that doesn't reek of weakness and just utter patheticness, I don't know what else does. So while, by the way, they have completely gutted and again, shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which again, they don't have the right to do. If you want to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as I said, you know what you do?
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You pass a law because it was brought into existence. A certain way. So if you want to say that the money that goes to it shouldn't go to it anymore, that's already appropriated for it, then pass a law banning it. And let's see what happens when MAGA Congress members and senators have to go and explain to their constituents why it is now that they are going to get screwed and why, for example.
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over why they're going to reverse uh reforms on overdraft fees and blocking medical debt from being listed on credit reports among other things that the consumer financial protection bureau was kind of focused on so explain that to your constituents say your medical debt gets to screw your credit again and by the way overdraft fees back on we're going to help the big banks that's what republicans are doing right now
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Also, it should be noted that U.S. aid employees have filed paperwork earlier saying that the administration is not complying with Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C. 's order to prevent the immediate dismantling of the agency. They say employees he ordered reinstated have not been and other actions that cut against his order. This was a Trump appointed judge.
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that said, hey, I'm just temporarily blocking Donald Trump's attempt to gut USAID. Some horrific stories of people who are literally now trapped internationally, who can't make it back, how the cuts are literally going to cause tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people to potentially die. So the judge said, hold off. Let me understand if this is legal.
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You know, one of the things is that actually some of these policies hurt red states even more than blue states. Yet we're seeing none of the red state attorney generals even fighting for their own state. I'll give you a case in point.
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And what all of these USAID employees are saying is that Trump's just disregarding your order, Trump-appointed judge. And Judge McConnell, a Rhode Island federal judge, had already made a ruling today saying that the Trump administration violated his prior order to block a funding freeze. And McConnell, this Rhode Island judge, ordered the administration to resume payments to
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for federal programs, including NIH funding. And when you go through the actual filing there, you'll see there's like multiple examples that they quote the Trump administration and Donald Trump saying, I'm defunding this. I'm not funding that. And Elon Musk's posts that indicate that they're not following the court's orders in any material respect. Also, we got the judge in Boston, Judge O'Toole.
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He's extending the deadline for federal workers to accept Trump administration's unlawful buyout order. We're getting the full order there, but that's been extended as well from the emergency relief that was that's been previously been given.
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And that's not to mention that you had the federal judges in New York and elsewhere as well, block Elon Musk's access to the treasury department and Elon Musk's team. And then what do we see happening? Elon Musk, Donald Trump, JD Vance, relentlessly attacking the federal judges. This federal judge, all federal judges, this is unlawful, this is deep state. And then they make this is fraud.
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These people are criminal. And again, the idea that someone like an Elon Musk would be emboldened to call a federal judge a fraud and a criminal and say all of these things. This is the lawlessness that exists right now in the Trump administration. Speaking of which, Fox News reported as well.
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that the Justice Department dropped the case against Mayor Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, where there was all of this evidence about how Mayor Adams engaged in all of these deals and took bribes from Turkey and all these other places. I mean, he had detailed messages. And so any type of foreign corruption type of case,
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Donald, you know, with high profile people, as long as they kiss Trump's ring, he's pardoning them and basically saying, we're all open for business. You know, you just got to tow the MAGA line. And then you have Mayor Adams out there basically speaking as a MAGA person in New York right now. So those are mostly your court updates right there.
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You have Donald Trump and his regime, we should call it, cutting off all of this funding for the NIH, which gives critical grant money to American research universities. So you take a state like Alabama, where the University of Alabama is the biggest employer in the state, right? That NIH discontinuation of funds or stopping the funds that were appropriated to it.
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And by the way, MAGA was utterly triggered by the halftime performance, which featured Kendrick Lamar and Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam. Meanwhile, Donald Trump gave a disastrous interview over in Mar-a-Lago with Brett Baer, where again, he talked about conquering Gaza and conquering Canada, conquering all of these countries. It was just a complete and utter mess.
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The University of Alabama gets a ton of its funding from the NIH to do its research and thereby employ people in Alabama. But now we're seeing the blue state AGs, because it impacts the blue states, fighting for things that ultimately still reciprocally help the red state AG.
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Well, I mean, I'll leave people with a few things. First, let me leave you with just this image so you can see what's going on at Mar-a-Lago and how disconnected they are from everybody. So at Mar-a-Lago, they've got this bizarre golden-hoofed goat idol on display. The idol is wrapped in Trump $100 bills that say, in Trump we trust, replacing God with Trump.
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The idol's base says, quote, I love you, along with Trump's signature on it.
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there and it's like this is what they're doing this is what they're focused on this is the type of symbolism that they're projecting at mar-a-lago so i'll show you that data point another data point i'm going to show you is just look at some of the headlines today from our broken media right cnn this was a push alert that i got they thought this was so important that this was a push alert
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analysis, the method behind Trump's tariff madness. And they tried to say, look, he's this is part of like being a good negotiator. And by the way, whether you open this or not, if you get that, you think, OK, there must be some method to it. Like they're like they're this is one of the most destructive things that's like literally destroying our country. Objectively, you speak to economists.
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This is going to cause a depression. And that's what CNN, right? How about you say, how about your push alert be Trump's reckless tariffs will cause a depression. That would be, that's an accurate push alert. But how about this one from the Daily Beast? So, you know, look, sometimes you think, all right, the Daily Beast, they've got, maybe they got a good writer. Are they writing good stuff?
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The Daily Beast then does this. The real MVP of the Super Bowl was President Donald J. Trump. It says the Eagles won the Super Bowl, but historic Trump, whatever. This is a great day for Donald Trump at the Super Bowl. And it's like, what are you talking about? Did you watch what at the Super Bowl? This freaking maniac talked about conquering Canada, conquering Gaza.
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He threatened tariffs, which he then imposed. What are you doing? What are you doing? I mean, seriously, who puts that out there? And it's, you know, look, and I'm showing you those sources because that's CNN and Daily Beast. I mean, Fox is pumping out propaganda every day, you know, in that state regime media. But like, that's Daily Beast. That's CNN. So it's broken. It's broken. So we're here.
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So the red state AGs don't even go out and fight for it because they're so spineless, even though their state and their workers are going to be screwed the most. And, you know, we saw a
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um a democratic ag who we've had on the show before for example jeff jackson who used to be a congress member in north carolina he successfully prosecuted a lawsuit democrat to stop this uh donald trump attempt to cut off nih funding and we've seen these democratic ags across the country doing that while republican ags have done Absolutely nothing there.
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Let's just take a look at, you know, look, as Donald Trump tries to distract, what are the things that Donald Trump has been talking about? What are the shiny objects that he wants to basically declare as wins?
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executive order where he talked about we're bringing plastic straws back an executive order saying that he's destroying the penny and getting rid of the penny you know executive orders like that that that don't have any impact at all on on people's lives then he holds it up look what i did isn't this what you wanted the gulf of america we've made google change the name and meanwhile prices are still going up
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more than ever gas prices are going up up up up housing is not more affordable and we are so much weaker abroad let's go through everything that's uh going on here and again donald trump ran on no more you know no wars even though Former President Biden actually was the one who removed American troops from Afghanistan and kept America out of wars through our alliances.
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But basically, Donald Trump has threatened wars with basically every one of our allies. I mean, is there a country that Donald Trump has not threatened a military conflict with? I just want you to think about that, right?
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I mean, Canada, Mexico, the European Union through the territorial attacks on Greenland, Donald Trump, again, you know, threatening also to take over Gaza, Donald Trump threatening all these things. And let's just go through a little bit of these lowlights of this interview with Bret Baier. Some of these clips are now being released, of course.
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So the first thing I just want to show you, though, is like someone like J.D. Vance, who has sacrificed his dignity, I suppose. He sacrificed his dignity and any form of self-respect to the extent he had any before to be the VP. As I've always said, what's the point of being in a position of power if you're actually powerless? And so here, Donald Trump just showing how neutered J.D.
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Vance is when he's asked, do you view J.D. Vance as your successor? Here, play this clip.
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Yeah. I mean, he said he said no. I mean, that's your the purpose of picking your VP in many ways is to try to pick your successor. But that's how selfish he is. And you should also listen to what he's saying there as well, because if you add that to the other statements that Donald Trump made, like, let's be clear, Donald Trump is not going to pass the power. Right. Donald Trump isn't.
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And also now at Mar-a-Lago, they have displayed a golden hoofed goat idol wrapped with fake $100 bills that feature Donald Trump's face on it. And instead of saying, in God we trust, the fake dollar bills say, in Trump we trust. Nothing says fighting for the working class people like golden hoofed goat idols with your name, image, and likeness on fake $100 bills wrapped around it.
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Donald Trump is going to try to stay a dictator. I don't think he's contemplating by saying no there, even anybody in his family. I mean, I think in his mind, you know, I don't think it's so much as a Freudian slip as him just saying who he is. I think he views that he's going to have no successor. and that he's going to serve for life. That's what I think he implies there or means there.
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Then he's asked here, would the Palestinians have the right to return to Gaza? Because you keep on talking about occupying it permanently, treating it like a real estate deal. So do the Palestinians get to go back to their land? Here, play this clip.
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do we realize how demented and deranged that statement is first off egypt and jordan are not doing a deal that they agree to ethnically cleanse palestine okay like the man is psychotic like that is not they've said that if that were to happen that would be an immediate declaration of war
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And if Jordan and Egypt entered into a deal like that, the revolutions that they would have at home would lead to their leaders being executed in public squares, probably within 24 hours of them cutting a deal like that. And you notice the language that Donald Trump said, aye. Would own it. He goes, I would own it and I would treat it like a real estate deal.
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I mean, again, if I'm not going to go and say, oh, what could you imagine if Biden? There's just no one who talks like that. He he talks like idiotic Putin, as I've said before. Putin makes these threats and then follows up with the military invasion thereafter, which is why you need NATO to check and counter it, right? Trump makes these threats, attacks sovereignty, and then goes,
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Plastic straws. I got you plastic. Gulf of America. Fentanyl czar along the border. Isn't this what we wanted? I'm going to pass it over to you, Brett and Jordy. I just want to show you one more clip and then get your reaction. Here's the video footage of Trump announcing the 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum coming into the U.S. blanket.
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Any country, anywhere, he just tariffed the world, and he did it heading to the Super Bowl in front of a stupid map that says Gulf of America. Like, the scene here is idiotic, but it's going to cause massive, catastrophic damage to our economy and our allies' economies. Here, play this clip.
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Apparently, Donald Trump has now made good on the other threats that he made during the super bowl to bring attention to himself where kind of once again out of nowhere he announced a new series of tariffs on essentially every country everywhere on steel and aluminum with no exemptions to take place effective immediately so he has now imposed these 25 tariffs
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Trump Makes Stunning Admissions in Disaster Fox Interview
Donald Trump made a number of stunning admissions in his disastrous interview with Bret Baier of Fox. A lot of these admissions are just airing now. Like Donald Trump says he does not want his vice president, J.D. Vance, to be his successor. Here, play this clip.
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I guess this one shouldn't be all that stunning, but hearing him speak about ethnic cleansing in this way is so utterly disturbing. Donald Trump is asked by Brett Baier, well, because you keep saying, Donald, that you want to just get rid of all Palestinians, level Gaza, and then move the people to other countries, are they ever going to have the right to return to Gaza?
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Listen to what Donald Trump says. Let's play.
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Now, statement after statement, this maniac says to me is more horrific, dangerous and demented than the next. Let's not forget about this statement that he made last night about Egypt. Elon Musk, and why does Elon's financial disclosures remain secret? Why is this a big secret? Here, play this clip.
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All you have to do is read it. Perhaps the reporter should have also asked why your financial disclosures, Donald, remain secret. Where are your tax returns? Let's take a look at your crypto wallet. Let's take a look at all of your conflicts of interest.
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I know the Republican Party, now full-blown MAGA, is spineless and they're okay with dictatorships that destroy the lives of we the people and crush and cripple working class people. But Perhaps we ask that question. So Donald Trump is asked though here about Pentagon spending.
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So if you're trying to have Doge cut all of these things, what about space and all of the stuff that Tesla and SpaceX and Space Force, what about all of that since you're taking away fundamental programs that keep people alive? Is going to space more important than the lives of people you're currently killing? Play the clip.
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Now, folks, it's stunning admission after stunning admission, and the MAGA Republicans on Capitol Hill are echoing what Donald Trump is saying. They can't even, they're not even trying to defend it. They're just spineless parrots at this point. No offense to parrots. I mean, here, for example, is MAGA Republican Representative Pete Sessions on Doge accessing Americans' private information.
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And Pete Sessions just explains, matter of factly, yes, Elon Musk's team broke into, so to speak, the government databases because it wasn't being what unlawfully handed over to them. So they broke into it. Listen to the words that you're saying, MAGA, as Elon Musk and his team of 19 and 22 year olds who refer to themselves as Mr. Big Balls. are taking the data of we, the people.
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Listen to this here, play this clip.
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This is what we've been seeing all morning, folks. And I'll do a whole other video on this. But here is the National Economic Council director, Kevin Hassett, one of the top Trump economic people. Here he is on CNBC, again, talking about conquering Canada and how Canada needs to be the 51st
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it's a pretty clear no there by donald trump i'll show you another major admission he made as well that's airing now before showing you that i want to show you the new decor at mar-a-lago where that interview was taking place at mar-a-lago there is now a bizarre golden hoofed goat idol On display, the idol is wrapped in Trump $100 bills that say, in Trump we trust, replacing God with Trump.
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I think he's telling you that they are serious. Well, all of this is going on. Folks, you've got the right-wing echo chamber all on X, which is formerly Twitter, saying things like this. What the F, they use the curse word, do you think Elon Musk is going to do with your social security number?
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Tweet it, open a line of credit that you don't have, to which Elon Musk responds, seriously, cry face emoji. And for damn sure, I'm 1000% more trustworthy than untold numbers of deep state bureaucrats and fraudsters who may be misusing your social security number right now. So folks, This is where we are in the United States of America.
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And I understand why our international viewers are looking at this in utter horror, where an oligarch who's not in the government is out there making posts and saying, what's the worst I can do with your social security information or medical information or private information? Don't you trust me, everybody? Don't you trust me?
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While that's going on, our right-wing propaganda state regime media, also known as Fox, is out there with its hosts pushing their right-wing propaganda. And here what they say is, look, we in media, we should just be reposting whatever Trump tells us to repost. His communications team gives us the info. Let's just repost it. This is what they're saying on Fox. Let's play it.
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And here's the segment Fox ran earlier in the day about the big moves that Donald Trump has made that will impact your everyday life. Here, play this clip.
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All right. While this is going on, folks, the federal judge, or multiple federal judges, continue to rule against Donald Trump. One federal judge, for example, just extended the deadline for federal workers to accept Trump administration's unlawful buyout order. Let me leave you with this, okay? You showed you Trump in the beginning.
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Here's the new chair of the DNC, Ken Martin, talking about his perspective on where we're at now. Play the clip.
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The idol's base says, I love you, along with Trump's signature. This is the main statute right now. in Mar-a-Lago. You see it right there. Nothing says like, I work with the working class people and I care about working class issues and I'm here to lower prices than having whatever the heck that is. Back to the stunning admissions from Donald Trump.
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I'm joined by Senator Cory Booker. Senator, I want to get your reaction to the chaos that Donald Trump is causing in the markets, the chaos that he's plunging our economy into. What do you make of it all, Senator?
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The Midas Touch podcast is also the most downloaded and watched podcast in Canada. Our fans in Canada call themselves the Maple Midas. And they're very worried about the constant threats of annexation. And they don't even view Trump's rhetoric as just like a trade war. They're like, those are actual words of war when you talk about taking over our country. And
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What they've conveyed to me is the same way Putin uses denazification to invade Ukraine. Trump's pretext of all the Canadians are drug dealers bringing in fentanyl. That's why we need to annex it. They're like, that's the Putin tactic. That's the war tactic. We don't find this funny. We don't think this is a joke. We take it seriously. They're boycotting tourism.
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They're boycotting American products, which is hurting our economy. And so what are you hearing, though? Like, one, what do you say to all the Canadians out there? We're like, what the heck has happened to the United States? What are you hearing from foreign leaders in general about this crisis?
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moment where they feel betrayed by a country that used to be their top ally and the leader of the free world?
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People are afraid also to take trips here for tourism or just to travel here for work from foreign countries. They're afraid that they'll get sent into an ICE detention center with no due process. They can get kidnapped and sent to El Salvador's maximum prison facility, which frankly looks like a concentration camp. You know, now that's set up the hard labor camp in there, right?
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And then the Supreme Court, which has been a massive disappointment, seems to be delaying and on procedural grounds, not making at least a firm position. I mean, they did say habeas petitions as it relates, but- It's going to be hard for migrants to find lawyers to do habeas petitions right away.
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But what do you make of what the Supreme Court's ruled recently and just what's going on with these, I call them kidnappings, and then sending people to El Salvador?
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You look at his conduct. Do you think, I mean, it's beyond just kind of a reckless to intentional and malicious, almost as part of the – I've spoken to some of your Democratic colleagues in the Senate, and Senator Murphy was saying, you know, I think it's intentional. He goes, I think it's part of the authoritarian playbook.
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where, you know, by destroying the economy, by putting all these tariffs on, you then have to force businesses and other countries to come to you to beg, please, can I have this? Can you make a deal with me? Do you think it's that or do you think it's a combination? What do you just make of it all? It just seems so obviously reckless.
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You mentioned how you sit on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. One of Donald Trump's promises was that on day one, there would be peace in Ukraine. In fact, he said it would be so easy because he was close to Putin and Zelensky that it would be the easiest thing to do. In fact, before day one, he said that there would be peace. Well, here we are, April 8th, 2025.
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It seems all the Trump regime has done is empowered Putin. Fortunately, I think Europe has been rallying and holding these coalition of the willing meetings in France and the UK to help Zelensky and show you ain't going to do bilateral U.S. Trump regime and Putin. We're here with them. So we're either included or there ain't going to be a deal. But what are you seeing?
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Where do we stand April 8th, 2025?
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Senator Cory Booker, thank you so much for joining us. First time on the Midas Touch podcast. We appreciate you. We hope you come back. I appreciate you. I hope you'll have me back.
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We appreciate you. We appreciate your leadership in the Senate, and we hope to have you back soon. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million. Thank you so much. Thank you. Take care now.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune was recently asked about the tariffs. He's really kind of refusing to criticize Donald Trump, but says, you all know where I stand, but this is what he ran for. Let me show you what Senator Thune did and then get your reaction to it.
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Senator, what do you make of that statement from Majority Leader Thune?
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Let's talk about what the fight looks like. I mean, I think that a visual of that fight was, of course, your 25 hour plus speech where you stood there and you brought attention, I think, to all of these issues courageously. And you saw in doing that. The American people were rallying behind that as well. It was a galvanizing moment. Now, Democrats don't control the Senate for now.
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They don't control the House for now. They don't control the White House for now. So the American people, though, don't care. They said, we still want you to fight. We want you to fight. So what does that look like right now as we do this interview on April 8th, Tuesday, 2025?
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You know, I've seen some data, and I'm not sure if you've seen it as well, that with all of the cuts that Doge has been making, the wrecking ball that Doge has been taking to the government, the hostile takeover of our federal government, the destruction of all of these programs that provide essential services, there has actually not been cuts in federal spending.
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That federal spending is actually higher than it was the same time last year, or at least right in that range. There's been no major cuts at all, actually. And then you layer on top of that that Musk just won't show up and that your Republican colleagues won't ask the questions and even bring these people to hold hearings. It's just very odd.
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Donald Trump was golfing once again this weekend after crashing the markets on Friday. Donald Trump announcing that he won yet another golf tournament, and that was blasted on state regime media known as Fox. Today, by the way, as Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C., the market now resembles a Trump meme coin. Down, up, down, up. It does not look like a stable market.
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well jordy going back to what brett said i would say that this whatever it is it's textbook authoritarian mindset which is by the way i mean vladimir putin goes and sits on horses with his shirt off and he tries to act like he's so strong and he says that he wins these jujitsu competitions right kim jong-un is photographed a certain way this is part of the authoritarian playbook and part of the authoritarian playbook is
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Today, we were getting 30,000, 35,000 viewers at some point in times while we were watching that as they focused on Donald Trump's attack of lawyers and the Department of Justice. And speaking of the law, I want to talk about this horrible Supreme Court ruling.
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You make people suffer. You think Putin cares about how people in Russia are doing? No. You think Kim Jong-un cares about how people in North Korea are doing? No. Authoritarians don't care how their people are doing. In fact, authoritarians actually want their populations to suffer and do worse so that their populations go extinct. and beg, beg for breadcrumbs.
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And they are the ones as the authoritarians who hand out the breadcrumbs. They view economic independence and actually, you know, Donald Trump is all projection and confession. Trump views economic independence as liberation. Trump's liberation day is liberation of an authoritarian ethos. and actually crushing the freedom of Americans.
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And that's why I think he uses that term as well, because now people have to go and beg for exemptions. I need your help. Countries have to, in his mind, beg him for exemption. So now he becomes, in his own mind, the most important person who gets to basically say, I give you this exemption.
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i give you you go bankrupt you go bankrupt he likes to see that he's crashing international markets that that gives him joy to feel that he has that power and people have to go and beg and beg and beg the thing is is that the international community is forming their own alliances now in the short term they're trying to stop the bleeding in the long term they're viewing america as no longer a reliable ally and that they have to create new structures to isolate the united states i mean europe announced that it was going to have its own
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reciprocal tariffs i mean canada's preparing you know its tariffs china announced its own retaliation to which then donald trump said well and if you do that i'm gonna do this which basically would mean what 105 tariffs on china you take a look at what apple is doing um after trump announced that is apple gonna build the factory in indiana know where they're gonna go they're gonna go to india
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Why? Because it's still cheaper to do business there versus Indiana. I saw an analysis that was done by, I believe, Fortune magazine, and I saw others do this analysis as well.
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If you had to move the entire supply chain for an iPhone just here into the United States, all parts like the Trump regime wants, it would cost $30,000 for a single iPhone if you had to make everything here in the United States. And so corporations are not gonna follow what Trump is actually saying. It still doesn't make any sense at all. And the rollout here is so sloppy and embarrassing.
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from earlier in the day about the kidnapping of a migrant from El Salvador who the Trump regime sent back to El Salvador against the order of a court, an immigration court from 2019. The Supreme Court stopped a lower court order which directed the Trump regime to bring back this individual. So Trump now has more time to delay as this individual rots in a El Salvador concentration camp
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I wanna talk about that and more. We gotta take our first quick break of the show. I wanna remind everybody very soon we're going to be doing probably in the next, I think we'll do it next week. We're gonna hold our April Zoom meeting with our members here on our Patreon, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash Midas Touch.
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We're going to take our first quick break of the show. We've got a lot more. to cover. And also the Midas Touch was, I think, the only network to get our hands on the Obama speech and appearance that he did at Hamilton College. And that's gone very viral based on what he said. So we'll show you that and more. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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And the implications here are just broader than that individual as well. If Trump can do that to this individual, who else can he do that to? We'll talk about that and more here on the Midas Touch podcast. I've been joined by Brett and Jordy Brothers. How are you doing?
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You know, the stock market today resembled like the Trump meme coin, the way it looked, right? It would go... all the way down then it would go up then it would go all the way down then it would go up and these are swings that are not reflective of a stable market these are the swings that are reflective of the whims of a maniac I want to go back to what I was saying, though, before the break.
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That's right out of the authoritarian playbook. The Trump regime, specifically Trump, wants everything to be at his whim. I say this, the market rises. I say this, the market crashes.
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that creates ultimately though in the long run the perfect recipe for the worst case scenario when it comes to the economy we're not reliable we're not a stable place to do business and it's just a matter of time though before the international community is able to build these structures and trust me they're building it right now that basically isolate and alienate the united states economy for generations i mean
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We're seeing the boycott, of course, elbows up from Canada, tourism boycott that exceeding all projections. By the way, all these economists and all of these, not just economists, really the kind of corporate projectors, they've been wrong about like everything. Oh, we think it's not going to be that bad. We think I'm like, look. What are you talking about? It's clearly going to be that bad.
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I think in some areas it's like 75% to 80% boycotts of certain types of leisure travel and tourism. I still think some of these projections are in denial. I think it's going to be 10%, 20%. Then y'all aren't following what's happening, Ken. Also, a boycott of goods. Also, we're seeing the boycott expand.
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also internationally in Europe and Australia and New Zealand, Africa and other places as well, Asia, because they're seeing the way America is treating them. I want to share with you what's going on, though, from the Trump propagandists while all of this is taking place. So Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who was previously living in a $22 million replica of
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Barbie's mansion or whatever you call it, Malibu Barbie mansion or whatever they're calling it, like a pink $22 million mansion in Charleston, South Carolina. And this guy's like the most arrogant guy in the world. So he's asked, what's your message to the American people who are suffering right now? And let me just show you what he says. Let's play this clip.
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Really? you think americans don't look at the day-to-day fluctuations and what's happening and that americans have enough in their savings to not care about these market crashes That's what the Trump regime is messaging. It doesn't matter. You need to face pain and suffering and hardship. That's what they're saying. Take a look at Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
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He or she is asked, I think, a very fair question. Why would you tariff penguins? Why are you tariffing American military bases? Don't you see that this looks sloppy? And dangerous. Take a listen to what she says in response. Let's play it.
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Usually the smartest people don't go out and say, I'm the smartest person. I'm the most patriotic and stable person. That's usually not the way smart people conduct themselves. And then just the premise is a lie. We're living a tariff regime under other people. Not really. I mean, y'all are calculating everything.
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tariffs based on trade deficits and based on some cockamamie formula that's also applied wrong based on trade deficits with country and as people said who cares if there's a trade deficit with with vietnam we're buying more of course we're going to be buying more cheaper products from a country like vietnam than they're going to be buying from the united states
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What are we even talking about here? Why is that? And why are we using that delta as part of some methodology to calculate that they're tariffing this amount? And then you see like they spike the football and they're like, we got Cambodia to break. Cambodia says that they're like, wait,
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Trump was in the Oval Office today with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. So while the market is having these kind of massive fluctuations throughout the day after a Thursday-Friday crash, after international markets crashed, This was now the day to highlight Donald Trump's deranged and demented international policies, if you even want to call it that.
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This is where he calls Gaza an incredible piece of real estate, wants to get rid of all the Palestinian people from Palestine, send them to these other countries, which didn't Donald Trump also say that that was going to happen already? Didn't Donald Trump also say that he had figured out all these other countries wanted that to happen? Of course, he Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Many CEOs are saying that the country is already in a recession. Donald Trump's message, he's not going to change anything. He doesn't give an F. Also, throughout the country, as Trump was posting these photos of himself playing golf and also making posts saying Trump is intentionally crashing the markets. We also learned tragic news. Storms across the country killed 18 Americans.
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It was probably one of the biggest mass mobilizations, if not the biggest, in the history of the United States. I think in the total, I've been speaking with the organizers, about 5 million people in the different cities and towns showed up. And by the way, red areas, blue areas, purple areas, people showed up.
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and when he goes through with it that will really show that the america of the past is gone dead not here anymore and it's going to be up to us to revive it i went to law school in washington dc they didn't really even have the infrastructure for a snow plows so you think you're going to put a tank and roll a tank through the streets of washington dc going back to what you were saying also about uh you know elon musk and you know these oligarchs
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Matt, what's one of the biggest issues right now confronting the American people? Housing, right? The affordability of housing. People are working jobs and they can't afford a house. They could barely even afford to rent when they're working full-time jobs. They have to work multiple jobs just to be able to rent and they live paycheck to paycheck. So if something happens, they get evicted.
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But the fact that it got minimal attention from corporate news tells you everything that you need to know there. I mean, in normal times where there wasn't an authoritarian who made corporate news bend the knee and kiss the ring. This should be a front page story, but good news, we're covering it here every step of the way on the Midas Touch Network.
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And when that happens, that's like psychological torture. to people, and we have to recognize that. So imagine if Elon, with all he built, imagine if the focus was on like Tesla homes, or we're going to build millions of homes in all of these areas, and rather than the news story every day,
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being veterans being fired or Medicaid being cut or Social Security Administration offices being shut down, you know, or, you know, national park rangers losing their jobs or whatever the next disaster is where you wake up and you get this.
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imagine if it was we figured out a way to build homes for fifty thousand dollars and we're building you know billions of dollars of investment to make sure all americans can afford their homes this is a housing boom like imagine channeling it for that but No, why don't they do that? Remember what I said before, the authoritarian playbook here is to make people suffer.
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Suffering is not just like whatever, it is the actual goal. It's not the quirk. It is the end. It is the desire because that's where authoritarians feast in that moment. But Musk, though, and these other billionaires, though, who are now finding their net worth gutted. And Michael Cohen was someone who basically said this at the outset, too. I mean, he knows Trump better than anybody.
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So, you know, you know. He gives some good insights. He's like, you realize that Trump's gonna go for the billionaires first. So what did Trump do? Does a lot of shakedowns with the billionaires, right? You better settle your lawsuit for $50 million, $100 million, $20 million. He goes after the law firms,
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and then also what he's doing he doesn't care that the that the billionaires are losing their network trump doesn't care that he's gutting wall street trump hates wall street trump always viewed wall street as people who look down on him trump likes that he's making wall street suffer he doesn't care that it's affecting your pensions and your 401ks and life savings and the way donald trump and his regime are willing to just kidnap people and send them to concentration camps there's no connection to humanity here
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It's just the aggrandization of Donald Trump as an authoritarian. That's where all these moves lead in Geordie, whether it's, you know, demented, whether it's, you know, malignant narcissism, whether it's, you know, whatever, you know, you know, you can say, well, the way he's talking, he looks unwell. I don't at the end of the day, these are the staples of an authoritarian.
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I do want to show you this, though, because former President Obama spoke at Hamilton College, the Midas Touch University.
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exclusively got the footage of what went down at hamilton college at this speech we have the full speech the key kind of portions where he's kind of comparing what's going on now and contrasting it to normal times in america but he spoke at hamilton college i think it was a powerful reminder of what once was and what the issues are let me just show you a quick clip of former president obama at hamilton college where he's like
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Could you imagine if I did any of this, any of it, what would happen? Here, play this clip.
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And the contrast between that image of people rising up as Donald Trump was golfing in a tournament at his own resort that was funded by the Saudis, Donald Trump doing business deals with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund to enrich himself and his family. while the American people are suffering, right? Thursday, Friday saw what, like $10 trillion of market value just erased from the stock market.
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We have that full speech on our YouTube channel. It's close to 2 million views as of this live recording. And I just think that's going to keep on growing. And Brett, when he asks and Geordie and Midas mighty, who are we? You know, are we a nation that without due process, it naps human beings and
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without due process, and sends them to concentration camps in El Salvador, then the Trump regime, at least with this guy, Abrego Garcia from Maryland, admits in a court filing that it was an error, that it was a mistake, and says, oopsies, in the court filing, there's nothing we can do, even though we said the Trump regime has a contract.
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With Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador, we're not going to do anything to get this individual back because we're just going to say that this individual is MS-13 and just trust us, bro. Just trust us. Individual never... Confused of a crime, never convicted of a crime. Just trust us, bro. We're going to say that and we're going to have him rot.
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We're not going to pick up the phone and call up Naebu Kelly and say, we got it wrong. Hey, can you return that guy? Can you return like the gay barber hairdresser who's not a gang member? 75% of the people, no criminal record. They may have had tattoos. mom-dad tattoos, Real Madrid tattoos.
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And because of that, these individuals who voluntarily showed up to ICE, voluntarily, they were here lawfully as asylum seekers, they show up voluntarily, not hiding, they showed up. And then they get sent to concentration camps. a concentration camp in El Salvador. This case about Abrego Garcia, he's the individual from Maryland, working in Maryland, again, no crimes.
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A Trump immigration judge in 2019 Made an order. 2019, Trump was at office. The order was, this guy cannot go back to El Salvador. He'll get killed if he goes there. He was under a protection decree, a protected status decree. He had to check in with ICE. He checked in regularly. He was working.
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There was someone who made an accusation that he was a gang member back in 2019, but no one ever proved it. There's no evidence that he was. Someone made an accusation, but he was someone who the Trump immigration judge says, he can be here. Just have him show up. Trump regime sends him where? The exact place that it says he will get killed if he goes to, to El Salvador. They send him there.
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And that means people's 401ks and pensions were destroyed. We're seeing companies laying off people, the chaos created in the business community. I mean, you have people even like the CEO and founder of Home Depot, Ken Langone, you know, like longtime Republican donor saying this is like the stupidest thing you could possibly ever do.
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And then they say, oopsies in a court filing. A district court judge in Maryland, Judge Zennis, federal judge, says, Donald Trump, you have until April 7th, midnight, find him. Call Nayib Bukele. You said you have a contract with Bukele for $6 million or whatever, $8 million to take migrants. Call him and bring them back. Bring these people back. What are you doing?
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Trump regime said, nope, not doing it. Go deal with Bukele. We ain't doing it at all. Trump regime appeals the district court ruling to the Fourth Circuit. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier today denied the Trump administration's effort to resist an order to return Abrego Garcia by midnight tonight. Let me just read for you what the ruling says.
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The panel unanimously agrees that the district court's order requiring the government to facilitate and effectuate the return of Abrego Garcia by no later than 11.59 p.m. should not be stayed, meaning he should return. The government's motion to stay is therefore denied. I write to explain my view.
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The United States government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The government's contention otherwise and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.
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And then another judge on that panel, Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, said the Trump administration's position on Abrego Garcia amounts to a path of perfect lawlessness. The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole, namely that the government could whisk an individual out
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to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer under their custody and there is nothing that can be done. It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, is what the court says. Perfect lawlessness. lawlessness.
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And by the way, in that ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, they also scolded the Justice Department. Kyle Chaney did great reporting here from Politico, scolding the Justice Department for penalizing the lawyer from the DOJ who argued the case, quote,
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the duty of zealous representation is tempered by the duty of candor to the court and the duty to uphold the rule of law so the doj lawyer who went before judge zenas admitted the facts that this was a mistake, that this person shouldn't have been sent to El Salvador because there was a duty to be honest with the judge and not suborn perjury before a federal judge.
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So then the Trump administration then put that lawyer on administrative leave and basically took an adverse employment action because that lawyer told the truth to the district court judge. So they retaliated against the lawyer for being honest. That part hasn't gotten reported a lot.
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Also, what hadn't been reported a lot, and I give Kyle Cheney credit again for pointing this one out, the United States frequently, based on extradition treaties, brings in MS-13 gang members into the United States. who are abroad, like here's a release from March 5th, which talks about an MS-13 member who is in Guatemala.
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I mean, literally word for word, this is the dumbest thing imaginable. And then Donald Trump just making posts over the weekend, like just toying with the people, like just cruelly toying with the people. I mean, he posted a video that said Trump is intentionally crashing the markets. He posted a video that said that.
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And on March 5th, this same Justice Department reached out to the government there, brought
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the ms-13 member into the united states to try that ms-13 gang member in the united states prison systems and put that person in the united states so someone who was ms-13 you bring him into the united states someone who's not ms-13 or just a baseless accusation you send that person to the concentration camp in el salvador now Let's talk about what the Supreme Court did.
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The Supreme Court then today indefinitely blocked the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal order requiring Abrego Garcia to return. So the Supreme Court, through Chief Justice John Roberts, put a stop to those orders that I just read you before, which said return Abrego Garcia.
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Now, the Supreme Court ordered that there be, you know, pretty urgent briefing, that the briefing be filed by tomorrow at 5 p.m., or if you're listening to this on Tuesday, that it be filed on Tuesday at 5 p.m. Eastern. But the court stopped the actions that said Trump regime return Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
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We'll see ultimately what the Supreme Court rules, but Brett, Jordy, to your point and going back to even what that Reagan-appointed judge says, this is a – it's not a slippery slope to authoritarianism. It is authoritarianism. It is here right now and the totality of everything we told you, Occam's razor, the simple explanation is authoritarianism.
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that this is an authoritarian regime it's not a constitutional crisis we're beyond the constitutional crisis right it is authoritarianism and now it is an authoritarian regime also kakistocracy idiocracy that also looks more bizarre than frankly north korea but authoritarian regime meets the people power right it meets the resistance it meets
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the opposition it meets people taking to the streets five million people corporate media is afraid to report on it we're reporting on it here on the midas touch network we're talking about the hearings that need to be held these shadow hearings being held by people like senator schiff and democratic congress member jamie raskin pointing out what the trump's done with the doj the mega republicans in the house of representatives and senate they've given up all of their co-equal branch authority to donald trump
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and this authoritarian system so no one's covering those hearings we're covering those hearings here and now we're dealing with what we've seen and what's going on right now like in belgrade right in budapest in tbilisi you know, against the Putin regime. We're seeing that against the Trump regime here.
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These protests are going to grow and grow and grow, and we're going to make sure we cover them every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network and use our platform as we did on our sub stack, MidasPlus.com, on our YouTube channel, on all of our socials to make sure we cover these protests from all angles.
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Brett, I'm sorry, it was a long description of everything, but I had to get into the weeds there.
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And then he attributed to Warren Buffett, congratulations, that this is what Warren Buffett thought was brilliant. So Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, had to come out with a statement through Berkshire Hathaway saying he's not endorsing this phony video that says that he's endorsing Trump's plan to crash the markets. And I just wonder if on that for a moment as well.
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Absolutely. I want to remind everybody, check out MidasPlus.com. That's our sub stack where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, who you know and love, goes and cooks. Got some great daily recaps there. If we've missed anything, it's always in Ron's recap. He also did a great article showing you his top protest posters that were out there. That was amazing. Uh, awesome.
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Um, patrion.com slash Midas touch P A T R E O N.com slash Midas touch, uh, where you get the secret zoom link. We're going to be posting, um, soon in the next day or so. And we're going to be hosting a meeting with Brett, Jordan. I, you could ask us any of the questions you have for us at this special, uh, Zoom meeting, check that out.
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store.midastouch.com um really want to thank everybody uh for staying in the fight um the resistance grows the opposition grows we keep on fighting for the truth every single day hang in there we're grateful for everything that you do um this movement is a people-powered movement this network is a people-powered network We're grateful for everything that you've done.
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The president of the United States, though it pains me to say that, from his official account is posting videos saying that he's intentionally crashing the market and you have still the entire Republican party like, okay, I guess We've got to give him space. Give him some time. Let him cook. I think this is going to be a good thing. I think this is exactly what he ran on.
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He said there were going to be lower prices on day one. Not that he was going to crash the entire economy. And as I've said before, and as Carl Quintanilla says, trying to cook a steak by burning down the entire house and destroying people's lives and saying, you know what, though? Gas is cheaper. You're all screwed, but maybe you could get a little bit of cheaper gas at the bottom.
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So Donald Trump heads back on Air Force One from his golf tournament where he brags about how great he played golf and that he won all of the tournaments and how he's got a great handicap, seriously. And he's asked questions on Air Force One. This Bloomberg reporter has been doing a great job, you know, I think asking the right questions here.
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Donald Trump calls the question stupid when she asks, what kind of pain tolerance? Do you think the American people are going to take? He calls her stupid. And then he says the American people need to take their medicine. I'm feeding them the medicine. You need to take the medicine. This is what sociopaths abusers sound like. Here, let's play this clip.
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The United States received four American soldiers who died in Lithuania. Donald Trump was not at that ceremony where you would normally see a president. Instead, Donald Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago and Palm Beach to die. And then today, Donald Trump was in the Oval Office with who else? Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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At some point, you're unwilling to tolerate this idea of a Trump put.
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America is the, was the richest nation in the world. America. Under former President Biden had the highest GDP growth. We had low unemployment. We had record job growth. We were energy independent.
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And as we'll show you later in this episode, now what these Trump regime officials like Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, and Brooke Rollins, the Agriculture Secretary, and Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, what they're saying is,
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What we want to do is, you know, like how in China they put together the iPhones, like we want to create those factories here so that Americans are putting all the screws and widgets together into the iPhones and that they think that Americans are miraculously going to start doing those jobs. At the same time, they're also saying that they want AI and robots.
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to replace low wage labor jobs as well nothing that they say makes sense and as we'll talk about later in the show as well the tariff formula for their liberation day which is really annihilation day or great recession or depression or liquidation day whatever you want to call it the very formula is is incorrect even a conservative think tanks are saying your formula which is also not based on reciprocal tariffs which is based on your calculating trade deficits
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as a form of a tariff, which makes no sense. But even if you applied this concept that a deficit is a tariff somehow, the formula is applied incorrectly. And it just goes to show everything they do is just incorrect and erroneous as well. But let's get back to what I was going down on Air Force One, where Donald Trump landing
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into dc after vacationing again on the taxpayer dime again as storms uh led to the death of about 18 americans in areas like tennessee and arkansas which trump said nothing about trump hasn't made any public statements on his own his own volition about the american soldiers who died in lithuania but here he is talking about how great of a golf game he has and uh how he's got such a great handicap with golf and you know i won the tournament here play this clip
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what in the kim jong-un is that right here and let me tell you let me answer what in the kim jong-un is that state regime media known as fox with people like jesse waters While the markets are crashing, while the futures were down enormous amounts, they were on Friday, over the weekend, what were they saying? They were saying, this is courage. He's staring the stock market in the face.
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And with Netanyahu by his side, Donald Trump was talking about seizing control of Gaza, putting American forces or peace forces in Gaza and calling it a great piece of real estate. But throughout this weekend as well, we saw major protests sweep the country. The hands-off protests, which we were covering here earlier, at all levels at the Midas Touch Network.
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He's golfing in the face of a crash. This is what bravery looks like. Here, play this clip.
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The way they make a mockery, Brett Jordy and Midas Mighty, they're telling the people what ridiculous propaganda they have. And this isn't funny. This is people's lives that they're playing with. And they've got their viewers so magamush brainwashed, their Fox viewers. This is people's lives, though, and they treat it like it's a game and like it's funny, Brett.
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I think there was about over 5 million protesters when you add up all of the different cities, thousands of cities and towns across the country and the world, notably corporate news, really did not cover this at all. But thankfully here at the Midas Touch Network, we made it a priority to cover those. The same way we made it a priority to focus on these shadow hearings being held by Democrats.
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know very very very difficult and very strange move to make because uh in greenland their ruling party was supposed to meet with uh king frederick king king frederick of the kingdom of denmark on wednesday but they sent on junior to be there to basically cause strife with our um nato allies in denmark because greenland is a territory of the kingdom of denmark
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Well, I also am not sure that it's the most productive use of constructive time on how we solve, which is a real important issue, which Jordy, you mentioned that in terms of voting Americans, Trump ended up winning by about a point or a point and a half percent.
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But how is it that so many of those people, if you ask them about their lives and what their priorities are and things that matter to them, and you ask them if they're on food stamps or if they're on social programs or How important Social Security is to them? How important the Affordable Care Act is to them? Do they care about tax cuts for billionaires or tax cuts for themselves?
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What's their view about access to healthcare? What's their views about access to education and affordability of healthcare, affordability of education? When you speak to these people, you find that actually their interests align far more closely to what Vice President Kamala Harris was going to do and what President Biden did.
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But how was it that they were attracted to what Donald Trump was saying? How was it that Trump saying eating cats and dogs for migrants and you need to be concerned about the transgender volleyball player? from whatever the school is, San Jose State.
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How did that drown out the message of actually Trump represents oligarchs and billionaires who are going to screw you and they have screwed you before? And the things that you're upset about, whether it's increased prices, that's price gouging by corporations and billionaires that were aided and abetted by Trump and MAGA policies.
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The housing crisis of less affordable housing or no supply, that's caused by Trump donors, billionaires, oligarchs who run private equity companies who buy up the supply of homes, commoditize it, and prevent regular Americans from being able to afford
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homes you know how is it that the magas have tried to tear down the affordable care act and and kick people off of health care how is it that when you go to all of these red states that could have availed themselves of programs to provide health care to their people they've turned it down so that they can go and attack Biden.
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So to me, it's so important that we spend the time figuring this stuff out and making sure that we can message these things the right way, communicate with people, look Americans in the eye and show them what's really happening. How do we build something that takes on Fox? That's what we're trying to do here every day.
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How do we defeat these propaganda networks that are out there that are causing such harm and such chaos and promoting all of this stuff? How is there a funnel of 11, 12-year-old boys who start watching these
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youtube videos who start watching all of this stuff who start who get start with as gamers and then they become you know kind of pushed to right-wing podcasts and before you know it they're maga adjacent and then they're like full-fledged maga
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It's just kind of more Trump creating international chaos. All this while Vladimir Putin plays Trump like a fiddle. Putin saying, not interested in a peace deal. Anything that Trump said is going to be rejected. I want to break that down, how Trump is already, before day one, creating hostilities with our allies and trying to cozy up with our enemies. who are playing him.
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and have these very anti-women views that have been developed over many, many, many years and make them very susceptible to this kind of cosplay faux alpha culture. We have to address these things honestly and surgically and solve for them. That's kind of actively what we're trying to do here. First, let me show you this photo of Deb Fischer and Bruce, her husband. We got that photo first.
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You'll see that as Vice President Kamala Harris is swearing them in, they're refusing to even stand near her. They leave a gap. So for those listening on audio, you know, there's the Fisher family right there. And they're like probably about a foot, foot and a half removed from Kamala Harris. They don't even want to be next to her in the photo. And she's just doing her ceremonial duty.
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and swearing at everybody, and they're like disrespecting her. And let me show you the moment, just so you can see it for yourself, of the husband of Senator Fischer. Again, she's the MAGA Republican Senator from Nebraska. Let me just show you what he does or doesn't do. He refuses to shake her hand as she's just trying to be gracious and just do her job. He refuses to shake her hand.
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Like, how pathetic can you be? Here, play it.
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So he refuses to even look at her in the eye, refuses to shake her hand. She's the vice president of the United States of America. Now, if you believe that that type of behavior is acceptable or, oh, he just owned her, oh, that's tough or whatever, there are some real issues. And when we come back from our first break,
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I do want to talk about the importance of empathy and connecting to basic human values, whether it's because social media and the overflow of info has just, I don't know, just infected the brains. There's a post-COVID brain rot. Whatever it is, even on January 6th, the fact that lots of Americans, many Americans don't even reflect on an insurrection and what happened and how bad it was.
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I mean, that speaks to this culture-wide, nationwide brain rot and being able to process things. And again, whether that's COVID-related, whether it's info overload, whether it's predatory disinfo, I want to talk about that. We'll show you Trump's weakening America on the international stage.
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We'll talk about President Biden strengthening America on the domestic stage in his last and final acts, like increasing social security benefits for people who deserve them. Oh, we should remind everybody, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel following this show. As soon as this show ends, we're going to be doing our live chat, our exclusive Zoom meeting on patreon.com slash MidasTouch.
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So if you ever wanted to meet me, Brett and Jordy, You can meet us there. You go to patreon.com slash MidasTouch when the show ends. There's a secret link there. You click the secret link. Then you'll go into the room. You'll meet me, Brett and Jordy. Ask us anything. There's no questions that are off limits.
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We haven't even spoken to you yet about some of the stuff that went into that Biden interview. So maybe you want to ask us about that or more. Again, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. I look forward to seeing everybody there. When the show ends, don't worry, we still have a lot more show. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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It just looks so utterly, utterly weak. Also, Donald Trump filed an emergency stay, an emergency appeal in the New York criminal case where he was convicted on 34 separate felony counts, begging the judge, Justice Mershon, to delay sentencing on Friday. So disingenuous, this emergency motion for stay.
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We know what we're up against, and the next four years will mean managing the onslaught of attacks from Christian nationalists and right-wing extremists attempting to force us all to live by their narrow beliefs. Backed by billion-dollar shadow networks, this vocal minority is pushing their anti-democratic agenda everywhere. But here's the thing. You can make a difference.
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I always get asked, Ben, what can we do to make a difference? Here's one thing. Join Americans United. They've been through this before and they will never stop fighting to make sure all of us can be who we are, not who Christian nationalists want us to become. In a country divided, they are Americans United. Join them. Join the fight, go to au.org slash Midas.
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That's the letter A, the letter U, .org slash Midas. One more time, au.org slash Midas, thank you.
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Donald Trump got another loss earlier in the day. We talked about in the intro how Donald Trump was filing this emergency stay where he was trying to appeal the fact that the New York judge in his criminal case where he was convicted on 34 felony counts ordered sentencing to take place this Friday on January 10th.
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Justice Mershon read Donald Trump's appeal, Trump referred to it as an automatic stay. Usually for something to be automatic, guess what? It needs to be automatic. And then you don't even need to file it. You just give a notice if it's automatic. But Trump just basically made it up that I'm just entitled to one.
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And Trump's argument why he should get a stay, why sentencing should be put off, is Trump says that he's the president now.
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you know that that's what he said he said being in the transition is basically like being the president so any of the immunity doctrine given to him by the supreme court which by the way wouldn't even say what he's saying it says basically means that he's currently the president he didn't use that specific language but he said he's entitled to transition immunity
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based on presidential immunity and essentially said they're the same thing so he's creating another doctrine that he's actually immune from anything during the transition period it was entirely frivolous and justice mershon like literally within about 90 minutes of receiving it there was trump filing the appeal request and stay request then the district attorney alvin bragg filed
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The way Donald Trump framed it was like an automatic stay, like he's already just entitled to stop the sentencing, even though there's no such thing. He just kind of created something that doesn't exist. We'll break that down as well as Alvin Bragg's response. And then I think it's really important that we talk about a major accomplishment by President Biden over the weekend.
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in opposition and then like within 90 minutes of all of that, Justice Mershon denied Trump's request to stop his New York sentencing set for Friday, rejecting his bid as, quote, a repetition of the arguments he has raised numerous times in the past.
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So Trump's next stop is he's probably going to try to rush to the United States Supreme Court soon or go to the appellate division in New York, find someone to try to derail this Friday sentencing. Don't worry, we'll keep you posted every step of the way here at the Midas Touch Network and on the Legal AF YouTube channel as well, where Michael Popak's doing a pretty good job.
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He's doing a great job there. But I want to show you this because the thing I said before the break was – There should be things that aren't political that we as human beings should not be so desensitized to that we're like, oh, that's just what we expect from our leaders.
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I mean there was such a difference between the interview I did with President Biden in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing where he was talking about keeping his word. He was soft-spoken but firm. He talked about helping the American people. His statements were, whether you're in a red state or a blue state, I fought for you and I made sure I kept my word and delivered.
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Even more in red states than blue states because a lot of the red states were lacking in the services and infrastructure that blue states had. And then I contrast that to just over the weekend, over the past 48 hours, Trump has just been whining on his social media platform over and over again. I don't even want to read these posts. I just want to show you what they visually look like.
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So for those who are listening just on audio, it's just a bunch of run-on sentences that have a mix between random commas and random punctuation with all caps. And sometimes what's in caps and what's not is just completely arbitrary as well. And if you think to yourself, and it's like one long sentence, like one long paragraph, and it's post, post, post, post, post, post, post like this.
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And I just ask you, if you received an email that visually looked like this from anybody at your place of work, at a social gathering, if you're in a fantasy football league and someone sent a message like that, maybe just in your family, what if you got a message from a spouse of yours and the message from your spouse looked like this?
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Just visually, you got a text message and it looked like this. Here, just put it up one more time, Brett, so I can walk people through. This was the message that you got from a loved one or a family member. you would inevitably say there is something seriously, seriously wrong with this person. This is not normal human being behavior.
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He signed into law the Social Security Fairness Act.
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And again, this is one of those things why to me corporate media is so broken that they've just chalked this up to, ah, that's just Trump being Trump. That's just how he is. He's the most powerful position in the country, if not the world, although he's weakening that position, so he's subservient to Putin and President Xi and frankly others.
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He weakens that position, but in theory, this is the position of maximum power. Just that's how you behave? And not just the corporate media, but smart people, educated people who go along with this because they think that benefits them selfishly or personally in areas. And you're okay with that? If you're okay with that, it's just hard for me to give you credibility in any other aspect of life.
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which is going to be giving americans who have worked hard all their lives to earn an honest living an earnest living to be able to retire with social security in numerous professions where they were not getting social security benefits what a horrific thing that they weren't getting social security benefits but another example of president biden delivering we'll talk about this and more
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If you look at that and you're like, yeah, I'm good with that. It's kind of like over the weekend also, there were a lot of these MAGA Republican senators who did the weekend show and they were asked about someone like RFK Jr. 's views on vaccines because Trump's appointed RFK Jr.
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to be the head of HHS, Health and Human Services, the health department, which oversees all other branches that involve health. The MAGA Republican senators would be like, well, I don't really necessarily agree to it, agree with his positions on vaccines, but there may be some other areas I agree with. So I don't know about that.
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I mean, look, that's kind of like saying with the defense secretary, I don't know about their views on the military, but there may be other aspects in the defense department that I agree with. But when it comes to the military, I think what they're going to do is actually lead to
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I mean, isn't it like the same thing of the HHS head saying, yeah, you know, polio and all of these serious illnesses and pandemics and plagues from the past? I don't really believe in them. But other than that, the guy may have some good points that he's making. I mean it's – at what level do you stoop to this? Brett, I'll pass it over to you for a bit to comment on all of that.
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But then I also want to talk about – look, Trump is out there talking again today about conquering Canada and he sent Don Jr. to Greenland to try to send a message to our NATO ally in Denmark. really causing strife in Copenhagen that America is serious about conquering Greenland and conquering Canada. It's not – if President Biden did any of that, he would be impeached immediately by Democrats.
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I think they do. And it would be the biggest story ever. So why do we lower – why do we lower ourselves to such degradation?
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It is a day that will live in infamy, a horrific four-year anniversary. And to see the contrast between Vice President Kamala Harris engaging in her constitutional responsibility and what Donald Trump did four years ago leading an insurrection,
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Yeah. Just look at some of what the other posts are. This is Trump's post today. Many people in Canada love being the 51st state. That's not true. Mostly all Canadians do not want to be annexed of the United States of America.
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You may find a fellow oligarch like Kevin O'Leary who is a big grifter and goes on and does these interviews wearing like weird shorts and has like cardboard cutouts of himself, like just a freaking weirdo. So you may find a Canadian like that. But no, Canada doesn't want to be taken over by the United States of America at all.
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on this episode of the Midas Touch Podcast. Brett and Jordy are here, all three brothers, with all of you, the Midas Mighty staying strong. Brett, Jordy, how are you?
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So to say many people in Canada love being the 50 – this is what you're doing by the way on January 6th. The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this and resigned. If Canada merged with US, there would be no tariffs.
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Taxes would go way down and they would be totally secure from the threat of Russian and Chinese ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great nation it would be. And again, as you read this –
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If President Xi Jinping of China made a statement like this, but if you replaced Japan for Canada, and he posted it from an official account that said many people in Japan love being part of China, China can no longer suffer massive trade issues with Japan. If Japan merged with China, there would be no tariffs, taxes would go down, and they would be totally secure from the United States.
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Together, what a great nation. China and Japan would be merged as one. If President Xi Jinping said that, there would be no one who's like, oh, that's just Xi the troll. Like there he is. He's just – that's what he does, right? There would be imminent red alert invasion is happening any moment right now, right? Like if Vladimir Putin said that about, you know,
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nations that surround him, which he does, we take that seriously. So seriously, we've created NATO, right? An entire military alliance to try to stop that because that is how he talks. So on the one hand, Trump's statements and threats need to be taken seriously because he actually has the capacity, perhaps not the mental, but access to resources to engage in imperial conquests
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But it also shows to me how weak it is that people are like, yeah, that's just what he does. And think about how if you then don't back that up by actually taking over the nation and that's just part of your troll or, oh, that's just how he negotiates. Who the hell negotiates like that?
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If someone started negotiating with me and threatened to kill me as part of the negotiation, I wouldn't negotiate with them. Could you imagine? Hey, you know, I'd like to strike a deal with you, but I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you and I'm gonna take you over.
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And then I'm going to move into your house and I'm going to live with your family and I'm going to marry your wife and I'm going to take it. If someone did that, I'd be like, what the hell are you talking about? Those are fight words. Those are a fight. Let's go.
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So the fact, though, that people don't even take him seriously when he's threatening national sovereignty, even though they should take him. That's that's so weak. If Biden said that, you'd be like, oh, my God, we're going to be invading. We're really doing this. But when Trump does it, it's a it's a it's a troll. That's ridiculous. Charlie Angus, member of Parliament, who I've had on before.
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He goes, Dear Donald, Canada has something called democracy. It means the leader is accountable to parliament and can be replaced. I bet Americans wish they had that now. And he says convicted, but civilly liable sexual abusers don't get to lead our nation. We're decent folk. P.S. Button up. We're sending frigid cold your way. love Canada.
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And Angus also goes, what struck me about the latest Trump tweets is that he seriously is not fit for public office. His nemesis Trudeau resigned. I was expecting him to do a victory dance. Instead, we got fed this moron slop that not even MAGA dimwits could take to the bank. Putin must be thrilled at the state of America.
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And unlike what Donald Trump said, Prime Minister Trudeau did not resign because Canada should be the 51st state or anything having to do with Donald Trump. Prime Minister Trudeau, who leads the Liberal Party, which is in a coalition right now, loosely held together with the NDP, which is the party that Charlie Angus is a part of, although Angus is going to be resigning soon, the NDP.
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Prime Minister Trudeau was trying to do whatever he can to allow the Liberal Party to go on and find someone who could potentially beat the Conservative Party.
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Pierre Poliev, who leads the Conservative Party, who many believe, based on his prior statements, is someone who would be very Trumpy, would potentially take away universal healthcare in Canada and replace it with an American-style system as well. and threatens the Canadian way of life by bringing a lot of MAGA stuff into Canada. The Conservative Party in Canada is often called Maple MAGA.
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And who did Pierre Poliev interview with recently? The far right-wing podcaster Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk has been intervening in Canadian political affairs to try to prop that up and pushing that and doing the rage algorithm to try to get Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party involved.
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to lead knowing that they'll be part of this right-wing coalition that musk is trying to build so prime minister trudeau is just trying to create enough circumstances to give the liberal party a shot that's why he resigned when he did um and and that's what happened there we've got a lot more to discuss we're coming to our second break right now i want to remind everybody though about
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If you haven't met us before in a more personal setting, it's a great way to do it also. We don't have outside investors, so it helps us grow here on our platform. So let's take our last break of the show and we'll be back. We'll talk about President Biden's accomplishments and Social Security Fairness Act is a big, big deal. We'll talk about why. Let's take our last break of the show.
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To Biden we go. I want to share with you this first. The reporters still, corporate media, they still want to attack President Biden for his age over and over again. You're too old. You do this, being the old. It's just blatantly ageist stuff. To me, with age comes wisdom. I'm sorry.
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I'm not looking for Mr. Accordion Hands, screaming, shouting, all caps, someone who contradicts themselves, someone who lies, someone who we've gone into his history and his past before. To me, leadership should be wielded responsibly and with dignity.
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I always think of Teddy Roosevelt's statement, which was actually borrowed from an African proverb about walking softly and carrying a big stick, not being loud and obnoxious and having a little tiny micro stick like Donald Trump has. It's about being calm with dignity, building alliances, and then when you need to exert power, you do it smartly, smart power.
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That's why President Biden brought in two additional nations that are right by Russia into NATO. It's an unprecedented accomplishment, expanding NATO, strengthening NATO against Russia, stopping Russia from taking over Kyiv. Think about these accomplishments. What a horrible interview that was.
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I don't even want to show any of these clips of that guy, that right-wing podcaster, Lex Friedman or whatever the guy's name is.
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You know, there's a decades-long, I mean, hundreds of years of history, decades-long history, you even want to focus more, 2004 to 2025, about Russia violating everything, trying to take over Ukraine in all these different ways, the rejection of that by Ukraine, the Ukrainian national identity.
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Then even listening to what Putin has just been saying now, that Putin, only way that he would enter into a deal would be if there was total capitulation by Ukraine. Not just simply that Ukraine won't join NATO for 20 years, that Ukraine will be controlled by Russia, all of it. That there won't be a Zelensky, there won't be a free Ukraine. that it will be under Russian influence.
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That's what Putin's goal is and then Putin's next goal is Poland and then other Eastern European nations and nations that border and surround Russia. That's what Putin's goal is. He's saying that's what his goal is and Mr. According Hands Donald Trump is doing what you never do in a negotiation. You set – by setting an artificial deadline that's already passed.
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I mean, where's the corporate media on that? Could you imagine if Biden said, I'm going to end the war in 24 hours? Very specific. After date X, it doesn't happen. It'd be front page everywhere.
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Do you hear any corporate media saying that Donald Trump already broke one of his biggest promises, that he would get Putin and Zelensky in a room together as soon as their election was over and with 24 hours, end the war? And Russia's an awful invasion. No one talks about that.
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Even if you're going to be generous and say that Donald Trump really meant 24 hours after inauguration, let me be very clear. That's impossible. That's not going to happen. There will not be a deal on that day. And you will hear not a sound from corporate media about that. They just move on to the next one, move on to whatever. We'll talk about it here.
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So we're growing faster than corporate media right now. But again, this is an abdication of duty. Instead, what the corporate media is focused on, even right now, as President Biden is leaving with dignity, and as that is probably making a lot of people very frustrated and pissed off, why are you making this transition easy, Joe? A lot of people may be saying, the media is still ruthless.
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by being the oldest president i know more world leaders than any one of you ever met in your whole goddamn life and that's important i know more world leaders than any of you have known in your gd life he said he's saying i know more don't you i created i strengthened nato and you're out here trying to act like that's a like that's a negative
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also one of the things that president biden did is he gave the presidential medal of freedom the highest civilian honor to a number of people um he gave it to michael j fox for those listening on audio we're showing michael j fox right there received the award um former secretary of state hillary clinton received the award there were others there jose andres got the award um
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Magic Johnson was in attendance. A bunch of other kind of great Americans received that award. Bill Nye, the science guy, got the award. It made me think, Brett, as you showed – I think we have this in our archives still – as you showed that clip of Michael J. Fox.
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Remember when Rush Limbaugh, who's one of the first people to usher in this new age of disinfo and hate media and rage baiting and was the leader of this right wing radio ecosystem that poisoned the mind of so many Americans with the bullying and the hate and the other rising? Just think about Michael J. Fox there, right, who's clearly been through so much personally with his health.
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This is what Rush Limbaugh said, and Rush Limbaugh has since died. This is what Rush Limbaugh has said about Michael J. Fox when Michael J. Fox first revealed his diagnosis. Here, play this clip.
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Well, look, you have Donald Trump posting, Biden is doing everything possible to make the transition as difficult as possible. And I want to read the rest because you want to read it on your own time because it's just so full of lies and gaslighting. I mean, you remember when the transition was frankly not happening back in 2020 and 2021 when President Biden won the election convincingly.
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So you have that. And then remember when Donald Trump, I mean, in 2015, you knew he was the snake before you let him in. Remember when he mocked the disabled reporter? The New York Times reporter, Serge Kovalevsky. Do we have that photo where he makes his hand look like the disabled reporter's hand? It's just horrible, horrible stuff.
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Then I don't play audio or video clips of Trump anymore on my programs, but he acted it out. the same way you saw Rush Limbaugh do it. And again, you have that, but contrast that to what President Biden does and posts about. Since I took office, we've recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic and added 7 million more We didn't just recover.
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We built a foundation of stable growth for years to come. Or this one. One of the things I'm proudest of is passing the Inflation Reduction Act, the bill that allowed us to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs for the first time. Not a single Republican voted for it, but we got it done and finally beat big pharma. Medicare prescription drug prices capped in 2025 at $2,000.
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Having Medicare negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies to bring the price down of these drugs, President Biden tried to expand that program to all Americans
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So, if you weren't on Medicare, you would have prescription drug prices capped at $2,000 and the individual drugs reduced to the same prices that people can buy them in other countries so that these pharmaceutical companies can still make money. They don't need to make these ridiculous record gross profits so they can have 10 private jets instead of one at the expense of Americans dying.
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But no, the Rush Limbaugh's of today, that legacy of infamy, what do people do? That's socialism. That's Marxism. They're giving that to the immigrants. And they make people angry. And now you've screwed yourself. You voted against your interests. Even though you're dependent on a lot of these things. You voted to like kill yourself. How do you vote to kill yourself?
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Then you're OK with him gutting the Department of Education, saying he likes the poorly educated to keep you dumb, to keep you uneducated so you don't know about these things.
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And then you just get mad at everyone and then just both sides it and then get more angry about the San Jose State transgender volleyball player who's like on the bench and does not impact your life at all over the fact that like you voted to kill yourself because now you may not be able to afford like life-saving drugs or you won't be able to get an education or they're going to take away programs that you depend on.
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It's horrific stuff. Finally, I'll show you this clip right here. This is President Biden officially signing the bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act into law. It boosts payment for current and former public employees. It affects nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers. and other public service jobs, which is incredible news.
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Let me show you the clip right here if we can play it right here of President Biden when he signed this into law.
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Remember the General Services Administration, the GSA, they refused to even sign the most even like the pens, like the paper, the office space to be transferred, yet alone at the cabinet level positions where Donald Trump and the cabinet members refuse to provide any of the intelligence to President Biden. Well,
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When I asked President Biden what he wants his legacy to be, he told me it was keeping my word and delivering on the promises that I made. He delivered on the promises he made and more. Yet, A large portion of the population and the corporate media vilified him for doing it in a decent, compassionate way that was not loud, but that represented the ideals and values of our country.
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They demonized it because it wasn't dramatic enough to give you the clickbait. It wasn't exciting enough. There wasn't enough drama. There wasn't all of these constant whatever happening. Here's the thing. Corporate media too, like the Americans who voted against their interest to kill themselves, Corporate media by and large voted to kill themselves as well.
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You've lost the trust of the American people and people aren't going back to it. They're coming to places like the Midas Touch Network and other sources of independent media where we can – speak fearlessly and be unapologetic in our pro-democracy voice. Brett, I'll turn it over to you. I'll remind everybody about patreon.com slash MidasTouch as well. I'm so excited to see everybody there.
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Because we don't have outside investors, it's one of the main ways we grow. It's like one of the keys to grow. You can meet us at but it also keeps us oligarch, billionaire free, and we could build this through people power, Brett.
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There's probably a lack of intelligence when it came to Trump and his cabinet, but just even tell them what was going on, like literally zero cooperation. And then there was literally an insurrection to try to overthrow the results of the free and fair election. And then every single day,
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Trump, MAGA, Fox, and all their other propaganda outlets worked tirelessly to undermine President Biden and Democrats when President Biden was enacting an agenda that frankly was helpful to the American people. And President Biden was doing things as basic as trying to get our country to a place of survival. That's one of the strangest aspects to me of all of this, this collective amnesia.
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against our country the contrast cannot be more stark i want to talk about the certification of the elector votes and where we go from here but donald trump has been spending the last 24 to 48 hours just whining about his various court cases post after post after post after post all caps like literally just like dripping with whininess. And it's like, dude, you're the president-elect.
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ever watched the movie men in black that wand that they would use to like erase memories um it's kind of like a collective version of that how people were unable to reflect on how bad things were objectively under trump how bad the economy was the fact that people's 401ks tanked but setting that aside we couldn't even get toilet paper there were mobile morgues
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when Trump left, mobile morgues because people were dying because there was such a mishandling or no handling at all of COVID as Donald Trump would take the stage and brag about the ratings from his press conference. This collective amnesia to that aspect of things is something ingrained in human psychology or that's hard to really even understand.
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Let's face it, President Biden, whether you like this or don't like this, this is who President Biden and Kamala Harris are. They're law and order people. They believe in the rule of law. They believe in the Constitution. And they follow what their prescribed duties are under the Constitution, even if it pains them to do so. So President Biden invited Donald Trump to the White House.
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Remember in my interview with President Biden a few weeks back, by the way, watch that if you haven't watched it yet. In the West Wing, we did it in the Roosevelt Room. I said, why would you do that? I said, this guy has done all of these horrible things. Why would you be there in the Oval Office with him, smiling at him, shaking his hand? Why make it helpful to him?
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And President Biden said, because that's what we do. That's my job. Part of my job is also to ensure that there is a peaceful and successful transition to my successor. That's the way, other than Trump, it's always been. That's what my duty is under the Constitution. Vice President Kamala Harris today said something similar as well.
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I mean, you have to imagine how difficult, personal, and just her position was as the vice president. to have to certify the results of someone who was so hateful to you and said the most horrific, racist things about you, who lied about you at every time, who engaged in all this horrific conduct, and you have to count the votes to say that you lost to this guy?
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I can't even imagine what that must be like. But she's a professional, unlike some of these MAGAs out there, or most of these MAGAs, who didn't show her the same respect. So first, let's go in reverse order. I want to show you this moment right here where a MAGA Republican Senator from Nebraska, her name is Deb Fischer. She's the senior MAGA Republican Senator from Nebraska. Her husband, Bruce,
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refused to shake Vice President Kamala Harris's hand when she was swearing in all of the senators, including Bruce's wife, who's the senator of Nebraska. So let me just show you this moment here, because it's just this – to me, this is outside of – it's not a political – it shouldn't be like, oh, MAGAs, they're just jerks and disrespectful.
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But Democrats, Vice President Kamala, that's just what they do. They act collegial. It should just be – Why can't you, Bruce, just act with respect? You're that petty here. Just watch this, everybody.
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All right. So let's start with Vice President Kamala Harris. Here she is saying what she spent her entire career doing. Let's play.
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It pains me to say that, but you are. Like, can you just try at a bare minimum to even pretend that you can act like an adult? There was a lot of things there too that like please pretend that maybe you can act maybe like an adult. No, he absolutely can't. He also started making additional posts today threatening to invade Canada saying that it should indeed be the 51st state.
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I think that was also – It was not just a warning, but I think it was a message to the people who didn't vote for her too. Did you get that vibe, Brett? I think she was also just saying to people too like, seriously? Like seriously, you all were willing – 49% of voters and to be clear, that's not 49% of Americans because there were tens of millions of Americans who decided, you know what?
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I'm too busy that day. I'm too busy to early vote. This is not that important to me, whatever. But I think it's a message to them and the 49% of Americans who voted for Trump where she's saying, really? If you don't want this- then you don't deserve this. She didn't say it that way, but that's how you do it. But that's how you do it kind of with, it's a reminder, I'm doing my job.
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All you had to do is vote for the, not for the person convicted of felonies who brags about sexually assaulting women, who was found liable for sexually assaulting women, who's bankrupted many of his companies and who almost crashed the entire country the last time around.
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We'll talk about that. He also sent Don Jr. to Greenland. It was a very –
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Let them eat cake. Donald Trump's central planning department is now saying that little girls should only get two dolls, not 35 dolls and only a couple of pencils, not 250 pencils. These are actual words that Donald Trump repeated over and over again in the past 48 hours. Also, no deals.
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What should I say? What should I say? And there was something, maybe we're like three at the time, there was something called Whitewater, and this was an investigation over an obscure, small real estate deal in Arkansas.
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And whether there was self-dealing by Clinton and whether he was using his positions of power to exert influence, there were massive investigations, the Whitewater investigations, the Times and other newspapers focused on this relentless, Every day, the Trump regime brazenly does things for billions and tens of billions of dollars.
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That's what doesn't even make the news at all, or maybe buried in page 18 and gets a tiny paragraph and then no one talks about it again. No one's talking about that Don Jr. has created a club called the Executive Branch.
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For $500,000 per membership with David Sachs, the crypto czar, and they're throwing parties at the Willard Hotel where they're just flaunting this club, which presumably is access to the crypto czar and the executive branch. Donald Trump's deal in Qatar for resorts to be made there. The Abu Dhabi fund spending, what, billions and billions of dollars using the Trump-aligned crypto.
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Trump selling meme coins, heck, earlier today. Just today, Donald Trump posted about his meme coin dinner. If you have the most Trump meme coins, you get to meet with you get to meet with Donald Trump. I could go on. I mean, I could spend 10 shows.
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A lot has happened over the past 24 to 48 hours. And it looks like Donald Trump spiraling out of control just continues to accelerate. It was funny, but I saw some of the comments and they were like, Ben, when you say total meltdown. We always think that's clickbait and you're exaggerating, but you're right. It is a total meltdown. I go, what else do you want me to call what this is?
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Prime Minister Mark Carney will be visiting the White House on Tuesday. Ahead of that, Donald Trump is attacking Canada more, talking about annexation, basically giving the middle finger to Prime Minister Carney in the Oval Office today, saying, I'm not sure why he even wants to be here. I guess he wants to make a deal. Everybody wants to make deals with us. No, you are no deals, Donald.
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Actually, nobody has wanted to make deals with you. You took existing deals, some of which were made during your first administration, like the 2018 trade deal you did with Japan or the USMCA, United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, which you basically just renamed NAFTA and updated a little bit and pretended it was your deal. But that's what you did in your first administration.
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You ripped that to shreds. I did a whole post on our Substack Midas Plus about how Donald Trump violates every rule of negotiation from –
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Setting arbitrary deadlines against himself to breaching prior agreements to underestimating his opponents to not coming in with the data set or a full data set that understands the situation to sending mixed messages to undermining his negotiators to having multiple negotiators saying different things. Donald Trump has never been a good negotiator. He's never been a good builder.
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He's been a destroyer. He bankrupted Atlantic City, where he put three casinos next to each other, assumed massive amounts of debt. The casinos cannibalized each other and put tens of thousands of people out of a job. And people were warning, this is the stupidest thing. Why are you doing three casinos over leveraged like that right next to each other?
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They're all going to compete against each other. You don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to do a big, beautiful casino, the biggest three that you ever did. That's basically like what he's doing with his tariffs. Everybody who knows this says you're going to crush the economy. You don't know what you're talking about. We're getting rich.
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You don't even understand the fact that all trade has stopped with China means we're getting rich. He doesn't know the basics of economics. I want to talk about that and more. We've got a busy, busy day here in the news. We're gonna cover it all. I wanna remind everybody to check out store.midustouch.com for that pro-democracy gear. We also got the Maple Midas gear, 100% made in Canada.
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I wanna give another shout out to our Australia viewers. Albo's up. That's kind of our elbows up for Australia, elbows up for the Midas down under or the Midas mates. We're still working through names there, but they really stood up against Donald Trump this past weekend. And a reminder, everybody, to go to MidasPlus.com. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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I'm just literally observing what I'm seeing right now. I don't know what else to call it.
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We've got a lot to discuss when we return.
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It comes right off the shoulders. Take that dirt, put it on your shoulders.
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The question is, is Prime Minister Carney going to take that dirt off his shoulder? What Donald Trump is throwing his way like that transition? Well, Prime Minister Carney's visiting the White House. Donald Trump being very offensive in advance of that. Donald Trump talking about what Prime Minister Carney said he would not tolerate.
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Donald Trump saying, yeah, I think it should be the 51st state annexation on the table. Of course, I plan to talk to Carney about annexing, which let's be very clear. That means going to war. That means sending young men and women in the military to die in a war against our strongest ally, Canada. And Donald Trump has destroyed that relationship and alliance.
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I just want to be clear these words because I gave the analogy or I gave the example. This weekend, there's that movie, Don't Look Up, where the asteroid is hitting. And there are so many people out there trying to warn the world like,
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you see what's happening here do you see sometimes i feel like like i'm in that movie and i'm like he's talking about annexation the the ships are not coming into the ports trucking volumes are down to record lows we have a total embargo on china do we realize what's going to happen And then people are talking about everything else.
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Oh, well, I guess they're doing the 2026 NFL draft at the mall in Washington, D.C. Well, that's interesting. And the market looks like it's up here and there because it's market manipulation. Because every day, if you haven't realized, they lie.
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and they say they're having conversations with china which is not happening they say they're doing deals which is not happening what are we on day 24 or day 25 now since they said 90 deals in 90 days with the chiron of peter navarro saying we're very very close all you're very very close on is your next scam to manipulate the market the very next day that's what they do it's the most obvious thing and by the way it's not just me saying this okay when you have the
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head of Apollo, one of the top private equity companies, okay, not like a podcaster like me, Apollo, private equity, saying the brand of America has just received irreversible damage because of Donald Trump and business is at a standstill. You want to listen? You want to listen to him? You want to listen to Ken Griffin? You know, one of these private equity guys?
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Do you want to listen to Warren Buffett from this week? Who else? If not me, who else do you want to listen to? Anyway, I digress. Let me show you what Donald Trump said about Prime Minister Carney right here in the Kristen Welker interview. Let's play this clip. It's too early to say that. I don't want to get into that.
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It would be such a great, it would be a cherished state.
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now prime minister carney's made the decision to do this visit it's obviously a high stakes visit that he's doing because if he's sitting there in the room while donald trump's using language like that and if he just sits there and smiles i think a lot of the goodwill that prime minister carney has built in in in really changing the dynamic of that election
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I think he could lose that in a second on this visit if Donald Trump does that and Prime Minister Carney doesn't push back. So very, very, very high stakes. Donald Trump, though, also on Air Force One as he returns. This was so odd, this Air Force One.
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thing that he did he held this press conference on air force one impromptu uh as he was heading back to from mar-a-lago to washington dc last night and he would just like yell at the reporters he'd go like one by one and like and like shout out them yell at this reporter yell at that reporter
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So he was yelling here at the Wall Street Journal reporter and saying the Wall Street Journal are agents of China and that they're really bad. And just like, look at that. Look at the venom spewing from this deranged, demented face. Here, play this clip.
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The Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox. Donald Trump berates the reporter and then says, did you hear what I said? Do you hear what I said? He says, you're China oriented. What the hell does that even mean? And just be clear. That's how he's treating the Wall Street Journal because the Wall Street Journal is reporting on the impact of tariffs.
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They're supportive of Trump. They've endorsed Trump. They go very light on Trump. They gave Trump every benefit of the doubt. And all they're doing now is reporting on what the tariffs are doing. Remember my example, don't look up. All they're saying is, look, that looks, they're not even going the full distance of what they should be saying right now, right?
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Donald is saying because he hasn't been able to secure any deals as part of his disastrous trade war, he may just start to make up his own deals. in his mind and declare what the tariffs are going to be for each country? Isn't that what you did already that got us into this mess in the first place? Okay, Donald. Donald Trump also posted an AI image of himself as a pope.
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looks like a comment's coming everybody and that pisses off the authoritarian in donald trump because no it's not like a miracle it's all going to go away none of this is actually happening and stop complaining stop com little girls by the way why does he keep bringing up a little girls like that's the example that he always goes back to beautiful little girls and their dolls he brings up over and over again they need 37 dolls they need 250 pencils
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First off, no one has $37. I understand that Trump has golden toilet bowls and he raised his kids like driving, you know, like the kids would have like the most expensive stuff. And like, like, like here's a photo for our audio listeners of Trump, Melania and Barron in the, in the gold department that they live in, like maybe fake gold, but who knows? That's not the experience of 99.999999999.
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percent of americans sometimes they want there to be like i don't have golden strollers maybe sometimes people want one doll they can't afford or maybe people just want to put food on the table for their kids and they're living paycheck to paycheck and even though donald trump claims that he's solved inflation and that gas is 187 and grocery prices are all down
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and housing is magically more affordable. No, you know what a mortgage rate is right now? It's about 6.9%. It's about 7%. It's significantly higher right now. And you could keep on lying, but the reality is, is that I understand your MAGA mush brain cult followers will go, Donald says it's 198. Donald Trump claims mortgage rates are 2%. Even though I see it's 6.9%. Maybe I just listened to him.
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I don't know. But most Americans can actually see it and feel it. And we know you're a freaking liar. We know. That's why your approval rating is sub 40 in a lot of polls right now. And on the economy, 35, 34%. Here's Donald Trump with Kristen Welker. I'm going to show you him say this a few times.
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But here he is with Kristen Welker talking about little girls and beautiful girls who only have two dolls. Here, play this clip.
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Well, junk that we don't need. And also, it should be noted. that as part of this embargo with China, China's not sending over the rare earth minerals that become component parts in a lot of our electronics. So right now we are utilizing supply that companies stocked up on believing that Trump worst-case scenario and the worst-case scenario is happening.
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For those audio listeners, Brett just pulled up a meme right here. Pull it up one more time, and it's a MAGA supporter. When Senator Bernie Sanders says, we should improve healthcare via tax hikes on the 1%, the MAGA Red Hat supporter cult member goes, this sounds like North Korean communist hogwash.
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But then Donald Trump says, your kid only needs one doll and you need to be punished for watching foreign films. Donald Trump also said that he was going to put tariffs on films that were produced in other countries. The Red Hat Trump MAGA supporters go, sure thing, Donald. Sure thing, Donald. Jordy.
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uh viewers who are watching this on on youtube and video there's the transcript just take a photo of it for our audio listeners you can go to our youtube and just take a photo we posted it on our social medias as well of what donald trump actually said there you can judge for yourself i'm not going to repeat those words again i think it would be painful but take a screenshot of that we haven't even got into when donald trump posted ai images of himself uh
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dressed as the pope or pretending to be the pope as the world still mourns the death of pope francis he posted it on his personal account his official account the white house account and the official president of the united states account so it went on all three accounts when donald trump was asked about it in the oval office today he said i had nothing to do with it he said maybe ai did it maybe that's what happened there
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and then you have people like cardinal dolan as well and maybe we'll show this when we get back though giving donald trump kind of a pass also right your cardinal the catholic church the top leader of the catholic church in the united states and he kind of tried to avoid it by like speaking latin also and like not addressing the question it's like okay first off
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You can just speak what's happening and just condemn it. There's a lot of Catholic groups who did condemn it, and I give them credit. You don't have to be a Catholic group to condemn it. It's offensive, regardless of anyone who passed away. And you're kind of mocking the person in AI images, whether you're religious or not.
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But I compare Cardinal Dolan's response to Marion Budd, the Bishop of Washington and the Cathedral in Washington, D.C., the National Cathedral.
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how she spoke truth to power at the inauguration during the uh proceedings that took place there and my wife nailed it she goes ben didn't you notice how the woman bishop stood up to him and said to his face how to do it and the male cardinal would not even would say you know i don't even know what's going on you know maybe didn't mean maybe he didn't do it
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And I think about that also there as I see Roger Goodell in the background, the commissioner of the NFL. I want to talk about Roger Goodell being in the background because you all have to remember I represented Colin Kaepernick. So I was there when Roger Goodell put out statements embracing Trump in the first administration. That was very detrimental, in my opinion, to Kaepernick.
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And then Goodell, after George Floyd was murdered, tried to act like he was apologetic. And now Goodell is right there in the Oval Office with Donald Trump. And it's people like Goodell, honestly, who kind of just move with whatever they think the power centers are that really are, in my view, equally as problematic as the Trumps themselves. Right.
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pretend to be allies, and then they aren't, and then they move back and forth. It's very, very problematic behavior. Let's take our last quick break of the show. As a reminder, go to store.MidasTouch.com. Check out MidasPlus.com. When we come back, I also want to show some clips of Fox.
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Karl Rove on Fox last night, top GOP political strategist saying it's pretty obvious why Donald Trump's polling is in the toilet bowl right now, because what the hell what the hell are you doing? And Trump was watching that go down as he was watching Fox as Karl Rove was saying that. And then he was like rage posting last night. Also, let's take our last quick break of the show.
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Jordy, the way your face reacted, you seemed surprised when Brett was saying that the reason that Donald Trump has come out with this, we need to reopen Alcatraz, was because Escape from Alcatraz was actually playing in southern Florida on the networks that Donald Trump was likely watching.
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All of this going on, there's a lot of stories that aren't being discussed, which given the size of our platform, I think it's important that we talk about before I get into Donald Trump claiming that he thinks that AI may have posted the image of himself as the Pope and he doesn't know who did it, even though it was on his accounts. Then he also said that he thinks it's funny.
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But remember, Donald Trump previously said it was a joke. And it was just in jest when he said that he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Remember Donald Trump told Time Magazine that it was a funny, that he was just joking and that the fake news is to blame for taking him seriously. But notice that's how he operates with all of the stuff that he does. It's a joke. Everything's a joke.
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Everything's a joke. And I'm reminded of that Turkish proverb, right?
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that when the clown enters the palace he doesn't become the king the palace becomes the circus or words to that effect but no offense to clowns and circuses i like clowns are okay i like clowns i don't like fascist clowns or fascist circuses but like just just take a look at this enrique tarrio the leader of the proud boys he was hanging out at mar-a-lago this weekend and partying with donald trump when i read this i was like is this real
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There were reporters who tracked that down and actually showed that that movie was playing at night while Donald Trump was vacationing once again on the taxpayer dime. Also, what does Donald Trump want to do on the taxpayer dime? He wants to throw a military parade in June for his birthday with 50 helicopters, paratroopers, 7,000 soldiers, so he can look like Kim Jong-un.
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It is. It is. Enrique Tarrio posted, I just had a great conversation with the President of the United States. He called me and my mother over while we were at dinner and said he was sorry for what Joe Biden did to the January Sixers. He knew the hardships me and my family faced for three long years. He knew how many times they moved me. And he said he is working on making things right.
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I thanked him for giving me my life back. He replied with, I love you guys. To the January 6thers, he wanted me to send y'all a message. He said, thank you. And this has been confirmed now by numerous media sources, white and White House officials confirmed. that Trump had the conversation last night with Enrique Tarrio.
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Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison by Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump-appointed judge. And Judge Kelly, again, who Trump appointed, said Tarrio was the ultimate leader for January 6th. This is a direct quote from the Trump-appointed judge who sentenced Tarrio to 22 years. Quote, It is kind of hard to put into words how important that a peaceful transfer of power is.
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Our country was founded as an experiment in self-government by the people, but it cannot long endure if the way we elect our leaders is threatened with force and violence, Judge Kelly said during the sentence, and quote, what happened that day on January 6th did not honor our founders. It was the kind of thing they wrote the Constitution to prevent against. Again, a Trump-appointed judge,
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said that when sentencing Enrique Tarrio, who was partying with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago this past week. And again, this shouldn't be a Democrat or Republican thing. When it comes to due process, it shouldn't be a Democrat or Republican thing. When I'm observing all of these things and showing you what Trump's saying and posting AI images of himself and talking about annexing Canada.
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By the way, in the interview, Donald Trump also said that he has not ruled out using military force against Greenland. Again, an ally of ours in NATO is Denmark. Greenland's part of the Kingdom of Denmark. That's what Donald Trump said in the interview, just threatening our own NATO allies. Again, this shouldn't be Democratic or Republican things at all.
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By the way, Donald Trump doesn't even talk about – did you notice that Donald Trump never even talks about the minerals deal with Ukraine? It was all they talked about and now that they did one because it was actually a pretty good deal for President Zelensky to try to get –
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some security guarantees as well for ukraine and donald trump was so desperate to do a deal trump's kind of embarrassed about the deal and the maga base hates that that deal was done with zielinski and it was actually done on zielinski's arm you notice they don't even like talk about that and they try to bury that story but that's all we were actually uh hearing about
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Also, Donald, and that's going to cost, what, probably around $100 million or more. We previously reported how Donald Trump has been on a personal deal making, not in terms of the country. Donald Trump is building resorts in Qatar right now. Also, we learned earlier, New York Post exclusive exclusive that Qatar gave Donald Trump and the American military support.
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absolutely i mean president biden's comprehensive bipartisan immigration bill would have enhanced immigration judges in order to expedite deportations of people who may have criminal histories or who shouldn't be here but it would be done in a respectful way that preserved human dignity and Donald Trump killed that bill, and now Donald Trump's whining and saying, well, we can't do trials anymore.
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I don't need to play all these clips of Trump, but Trump says, there's too many trials that are happening. I want judges who don't do trials. huh? You want judges who don't do trials? Again, Jordy, if former President Biden said that, it would be an impeachable offense. I mean, any one of these things would be impeachable offenses, invoke the 25th Amendment type stuff, and it would have happened.
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And it would have happened. Other news that's going under the radar, I guess pun intended, Newark Airport radar loss left controllers blind for 90 seconds. Air traffic controllers guiding planes bound for Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communications for more than a minute early last week before flights at the key hub were snarled for days.
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According to people familiar, this was apparently such a traumatic event for the people who worked in air traffic control that they basically took stress leave and they're already being worked so hard because of all the firings that have taken place that there's just not the resources there. I think one air traffic controller on background told CNN, do not fly into Newark Airport.
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We are an unsafe airport. Don't come here, was what CNN reported. And now what you're seeing the Trump regime secretly try to do is now rehire people that were fired. I've had a number of members of Congress who I've been interviewing who said that's what they're doing. They don't want to talk about it.
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They're trying to rehire all of these people who they fired because they don't have the staff to actually run the government anymore. There's a lot of bad things that can happen. Well, I guess that memo didn't go to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
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He's ordered senior Pentagon leadership to cut the number of four-star generals and admirals by at least 20% across the military, according to a memo signed by Hegseth, dated Monday and obtained by CNN. Hegseth, a Fox News host with... nowhere near the character and with no experience to be in the position as defense secretary, wants to get rid of four-star generals.
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He thinks that we don't need four-star generals and we should gut them. He also wants to add $1 trillion to the defense budget, but in adding the $1 trillion for a total of $1 trillion. Before it was like 850 billion. They want the total defense budget to be $1 trillion. but I guess not pay for the best generals to remain on and cut them and fire the best generals. So that was going on.
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their big jet for Donald Trump to build a new Air Force One with gold walls in it. So it shouldn't be surprising why federal spending is actually significantly higher right now under Donald Trump than it was under former President Biden. All Doge did was take your data, take your Social Security information. take your medical records, take your IRS file and did nothing to cut costs at all.
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And then there's just a number of things that go under the radar too that I'd be remiss if I didn't highlight here. Like 19 states and Washington DC have sued the Trump administration over the dismantling of the Department of Health and Human Services. The lawsuit says Trump and RFK Jr. systematically deprived HHS of the resources necessary to do its job by firing 10,000 workers.
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Here are just some examples that are given in the lawsuit of the type of havoc the Trump regime has caused across the entire health system. This is happening right now on a daily basis. This is why I describe this moment like a don't look up moment. Minors suffering from black lung disease have been left unprotected as congressionally mandated surveillance programs were abruptly shut down.
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Workers have lost reliable access to N95 masks following the closure of the nation's only federal mask approval laboratory. Key centers for disease control and prevention, CDC, infectious disease laboratories have been shuttered, including those responsible for testing and tracking measles, effectively halting the federal government's ability to monitor the disease nationwide.
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Hundreds of employees working on mental health and addiction treatment have
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including half of the entire workforce at the substance abuse and mental health services administration have lost their jobs and the regional offices are closed pregnant women and newborns are now at risk after the firing of the entire cdc maternal health team and head start centers could face closures after many regional employees at the office of head start were let go
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the world trade center health program which provides life-saving care to more than 137 9 11 first responders and survivors has lost the doctors needed to certify new cancer diagnoses leaving the american heroes without access to health care they deserve also you know i could just i could go across agencies right the department of education
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has defunded $2 billion worth of mental health programs and assistance for students. The way MAGA Republicans say it's never the guns, it's just mental health and the guns have nothing to do with it. Well, now you're defunding all of the mental health research and efforts to help children at schools as the Department of Education shutters. And what are they spending their money on?
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$400 million gold-plated new versions of Air Force One, lavish ballrooms, Donald Trump golfing, and the whole staff showing up at Mar-a-Lago. As Donald Trump says, that little girl should only have two dolls. based on what he wants. Little girls, two dolls, five pencils, not 250 pencils. I mean, it's absurd. It's absurd when you look at it. Let me just show you one of these clips.
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As I said, I was going to show it. Donald Trump in the Oval Office being asked if he thinks it's offensive that he posted this image of himself as the Pope. Let's just play one of these clips.
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When I see Roger Goodell, Mayor Bowser, there's Roger Goodell. And Roger Goodell the commissioner of the NFL, right? How much money does, he makes $55 million a year or $60 million a year, something absurd, right? So the guy's probably worth $500 million, maybe more right now, right? He is more money than 20 generations or 30 generations or even more would ever need, right?
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They're actually going to cause a massive amount of money to be added to our deficit in the short term, probably 130 to 200 billion. based on what they've done. But then when you factor in the tax revenues that won't be collected and the dismantling and inefficiencies in federal government that they've caused, I would guess that it will probably be in the trillions.
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And just to think about being there, laughing at that You know, it is why you really need diverse leadership because to see him so – just so – is there anything more weak than seeing a Goodell or a Bezos or a Zuckerberg? And these people would be men. Let me be clear. Men with billions of dollars. What is it? You only live once, as far as I know.
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You're going to go about your life just humiliating yourself like that? Do the bros back at the NFL office, you nailed that, Goodell. Good job, Goodell. You were right there, man. So powerful. What the hell is that?
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honest again and by the way goodell was right there after george floyd's murder doing the video you know in the basement i i made big mistakes we haven't been as diverse as we should be i want to apologize to colin kaepernick remember he did that video
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Karl Rove spends the first three minutes before going into the criticism, knowing Trump watches it, like saying he's been so great. You've been so great on deportations. You've been so good. So there's that. So, like, it's not just all criticism.
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Let's get into some of what I talked about at the outset of this show. Here was Donald Trump in this interview with Kristen Welker, which was supposed to be the 100 day interview. And Donald Trump's on Meet the Press. And Donald Trump is asked, so are you OK with recession? Are you OK? And Donald Trump's like, yeah, yeah. Here, play the clip.
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It's my example, don't look up. If you go and watch this movie too, they bring on the scientists who have done the math and they know the asteroid is going to hit. And then the reporters are like, so tell us about that little science project that you did right there. So tell us about that. And then they were more focused on the fact that the Leonardo DiCaprio character was handsome.
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He called for reopening Alcatraz. He called for tariffing movies produced overseas. He hung out with the leader of the Proud Boys at Mar-a-Lago, Enrique Tarrio. He says he doesn't know if the Constitution applies to him. He doesn't think migrants should have trials. Oh, and they're cutting, what, 20% of the four-star generals? Oh, and the week has just begun. Also...
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So they were like, look at the stud astronomer. And they were focused on the looks. And the president there was in a scandal of sexting things. And nude photos were out there. And so finally, they want to help. I don't want to ruin the movie. So watch them. It's worth watching. They're focused on all of the distractions.
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And then there's like, like the pop star breaks up with her boyfriend, then they get back together. And that's everybody wants to talk about. And then the people like the the asteroid is it's it's going to it's going to hit. And then, you know, here with Trump saying it's like a miracle, it's all going to go away.
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It's not, you know, and you know, it's not because even the Wall Street Journal is trying to speak through its pages of, hey, there's real issues happening here. And, you know, Karl Rove and Trey Gowdy, Trey Gowdy is a former MAGA Republican Congress member, right? He was the one who led the Benghazi hearing. right? So this guy is a MAGA guy who's host this show on Fox or he fills in.
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Let me just show you three clips from this. Let's play the first clip first, Brent.
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You know, and some other good news to report as well. I mean, it's pretty wild to hear that on Fox. I disagree with some of the premise of why people voted for him that Roe was saying. I mean, Trump... did a rug pull. He's a Ponzi schemer. He's a fraud. He's a felon. He's a sexual abuser.
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I mean, he lied to the people about the things he was going to do, and now he's saying it was a joke and the fake news shouldn't have taken it seriously. I mean, that's the most ridiculous and offensive thing. The good news is that earlier we learned that U.S. District Court Judge Richard Myers
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in North Carolina, ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify the win for Democratic Supreme Court Justice Alison Riggs to the Supreme Court seat in North Carolina, rejected all of the MAGA candidate Griffin's election protests. The judge stayed the order for one week so Griffin may appeal. And then separately, even outside of this order,
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It's a transition. Yes, that's what he ran on. I will do a transition day period. Yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay with everything. What does it even mean? You're okay with everything? Here, Donald Trump tells Kristen Walker about the military parade. He goes, this is going to be great for us. This is going to be great. Here, let's play this clip.
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We had previously reported how Alison Riggs also got some good news over some of the vote counting, even though she won the first time, she won the recount. And then the MAGA candidate tried to challenge it and got the MAGA Court of Appeals to agree with him. Then the MAGA Supreme Court in North Carolina partially agreed.
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Justice Allison Riggs was able to get some, was able to, I think, identify a lot of the voters anyway, but that wasn't a sure thing. But it's a great ruling. It will go on appeal, but it was a good ruling by the district court judge. So look, covered a lot on today's episode. As Jordy, as you said, we can cover all of these things at the same time.
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But the common thread throughout all of this is we should look up right we we need to see it we can't bury our heads we have to recognize it we have to fight back against it and there's more of us than there are them they have fear they have threats they have intimidation they have lies but we have the truth we have hope we have our passion we have our love of democracy
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And that's what's going to prevail. So keep your power. Don't let them take your power away ever. We'll be with you every step of the way here at the Midas Touch Network on the podcast, through all of our hosts, through all of our network of other channels. And it's an honor to do this job each and every day. That's all I got to say. Brett, anything you want to say?
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I'm just going to toss it over to Jordy. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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And then Donald Trump talks about building a huge ballroom by the White House and that that's one of his major priorities. A grand ballroom, he tells Kristen Welker. Here, play this clip.
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But it's not an inexpensive thing. I'll fund it. Isn't that what he said about his presidential campaign? I'm sure we'll have donations to it as well. I guess that what Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg, get ready to take out your checkbook. It's time for another check right here to the Trump regime. Doesn't it seem like that's what he's talking about?
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Then Donald Trump, as part of this interview, says that he's not sure. If he needs to uphold the Constitution, he goes, I don't know. When asked a very direct question, don't you feel obligated to uphold the Constitution? Here, play this clip.
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There's no different interpretation of what the Supreme Court said. It was nine to zero. It was a very short order. It was not open to a lot of interpretation. It says facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. It says that people in the United States get due process.
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By the way, even though Abrego Garcia had no criminal history, even though Trump's first administration was the one who gave Abrego Garcia the work permit and issued a withholding order saying you can't send him to El Salvador. even if he was a bad guy or could be a bad guy, if that was demonstrated in a court through process. In America, you have due process.
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Elbows up a big victory for the Labor Party in Australia, which is their left-leaning liberal party there. The Trump-backed MAGA party over there, which is their liberal party, their conservative right-wing party is called the Liberal Party, led by Peter Dutton, had a humiliating defeat on Saturday.
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Now, you may say, well, due process is slow. Due process is messy. Due process takes time. It's frustrating. That's our system. You know where it's quicker? North Korea. Pop. That's how they do it. They say, we think you're a gang member. We don't like you. They shoot you. They kill you. That's it done. How do you think it happens in Putin's Russia? They throw you off the balcony in America.
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Our experience, how we were founded was on the concept of due process. That's it. It's why. it is even, to me, inexplicable why people even have debates over this, right? Like, why would I even debate due process with one of these right-wing people? And they go, well, actually, there's no actually. The Supreme Court said return them, return them. The Supreme Court's the law of the land, do it.
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There's no debate or discussion. There isn't a debate to be had when it comes to due process, period, full stop, right?
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The Labor Party had a massive, massive victory, a huge repudiation of Trump and MAGA because the Peter Dutton party liberal candidate, which again is their right-wing party, was Timu Trump.
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Donald Trump said on day one he was going to have the largest mass deportation exercise in the history. He said on day one, millions of people would be rounded up. I'm glad that that did not happen. We see what Donald Trump's doing with. about 200 plus Venezuelans, 85% who have no criminal history, who are in a concentration camp in El Salvador.
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But what's Donald Trump now been saying over the past 24 to 48 hours? Their new plan as of May 5th is to pay migrants $1,000 to self-deport. So I guess what was the plan? Torture individuals with no criminal history,
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They're like the Maple Maga Pierre Poliev and the way Pierre Poliev in Canada lost his seat, lost his riding, although he basically shook someone down, a conservative in Alberta, to then take that person's riding. Same thing here with Peter Dutton, who lost his own seat in Dixon. And there the right wing party had a massive defeat. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy. We've got a lot to discuss.
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and throw them into concentration camps and then try to pay off other migrants who are here and you revoke their temporary protected status they're here legally and then you pay them off a thousand dollars with the threat do you want to go to concentration camps in el salvador And Donald Trump, again, ineffective, negligent, even in his most dastardly of policies.
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Another point I want to make, and Jordy, you were saying the fact that corporate news normalizes military parades. What I was going to say before is that I'm slightly older than you, Jordy, and slightly older than Brett. Our age difference is about eight years. So I grew up remembering the Clinton administration probably a little more than you did because you were probably, what, five at the time?
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After vacationing in Mar-a-Lago this weekend once again, Donald Trump went back to Washington, D.C. and said, you know what, I'm going to just further tank the markets in the United States of America. The Dow was down 1.48 percent, the S&P 500 down 1.76 percent, Nasdaq down 2.64 percent, and it started crashing significantly when Donald Trump held a press conference talking about how
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I'm really glad you showed the receipts there too. So people know I do a painstaking job to bring you the actual facts and the evidence. And I really try to avoid hyperbolic rhetoric. And it may seem sometimes, whoa, they said 100% or 0%. Brett, I'm really glad that you showed people those actual articles because they were shocking to me.
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And when former President Biden was in office, despite there being like record GDP growth, energy independence at the end of the Biden administration, the lowest border crossings really in a very, very long time, the largest job growth ever, the constant barrage of disinformation made people who were actually living in a time where a lot of the economic data was trending in the right direction.
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feel like they were in a recession or a depression. I understand. I don't want to undermine the fact that prices were up, but we have to also be real about who lit the match that started that fire with the higher prices. It was caused by the first Trump administration. Again, I don't do hyperbolic rhetoric.
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You can go back and watch a lot of the videos that I do where Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, MAGA guy, said that that's what caused higher prices. Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, she said that in the Republican debate because Trump added $8 trillion in debt. That's inflationary. Trump printed money recklessly after handling or I would say not handling at all COVID and
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And then you have to fix it. So when you fix it, that causes a shock in your economy and you have to deal with it the way Biden dealt with it. And that was inflation. That was inflationary. And so right now, Brett, you had all the corporate media. They were doing all they can to help Trump with all of this propaganda about how great his policies are. And I'm like, what are you talking?
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I guess Donald Trump just thinks this is all one big game. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Federal Reserve is now projecting a GDP contraction of about negative 2.8% in the first quarter. It was expected to grow about two and a half, three percentage points, and now it's expected to contract. Many economists believe we are heading into a significant recession and perhaps something even worse right now.
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Here's what I want to do. I was just going to say, when we come back after our first break, I want to pull out some receipts to that point, Jordy. I want to look at Donald Trump's filing that he made recently with the SEC because he has a publicly traded company called Trump Media that runs Truth Social that lost –
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$400 million last year and only made about 3.7 million in total revenue, not profit, in total revenue. Your local boba shop, your local coffee shop is probably doing more revenue than Donald Trump's Trump Media Company that controls Truth Social. I'll show you. I'll show you the amount of bankruptcies that he's had. You can see it It's difficult to do so many bankruptcies.
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I'll show it to you in his own words. So if you have someone in your life who's like, but he's a good business man, I'm going to say, show him this right here. I want to talk about that. I want to talk about the reaction that we're seeing in Europe.
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to uh donald trump's uh support of vladimir putin i want to show you brett to your point i want to talk about all of these scams that they're doing now the trump gold card sell to russian oligarchs five million dollars for visas and citizenship and if you said 10 million out of 5 million dollars you will get 50 trillion dollars hey you know and they just keep doing these ridiculous scams because
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they realize they're about to add $20 trillion to $50 trillion to the deficit. So they're going to act like, but we're going to make it up and trump gold cards, like literally snake oil crap. Talk about that and more. I want to remind everybody about a few things. We have MidasPlus.com, which is our sub stack.
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All of this follows, by the way, we've covered it a lot on our channel, of course, this horrific meeting between Donald Trump J.D. Vance and President Zelensky, where Trump and J.D. Vance humiliated the United States in front of all the world media by wagging his finger at a war hero, President Zelensky, attacking Zelensky, just doing Putin talking points over and over again.
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Let's talk about the things that we know about Donald Trump. He bankrupts a lot of things. He hates paying contractors. He hates Ukraine. He loves Vladimir Putin. He loves talking about himself. He does a lot of scams. So he's kind of acting consistent with the way he's acted his entire life. Like this shouldn't be like, oh my God, he's doing a trump card scam. That's like all he knows how to do.
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It's like, you know, if you, the basketball players out there, right? There's some players when you're growing up who only know how to dribble with their right hand. So you go, there's going right. That's all they know how to do is go right. Trump only knows to do one direction and he's just doing the same routine that he knows how to do over and over again, which is to like destroy things.
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I mean, look, this is from his own 10K. I just want you to see it. I'm not going to read the whole thing. You could take a screenshot of this so you can see. This is Trump's disclosure that says a number of companies that were associated with Trump have filed for bankruptcy. So there are no assurances that the Trump media will not also become bankrupt.
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So it talks about all the companies that went bankrupt, like the Trump Taj Mahal filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991, the Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle and the Plaza Hotel, all owned by Donald Trump, filed for Chapter 11.
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in 1992 then another company called thcr which was founded by trump in 1995 that filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and then you had a new name that was giving to it uh declared bankruptcy in 2009 trump hotels and casino so bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankers like it's right there Did the deep state go back in time using a time machine to achieve this? Is that what happened?
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Dmitry Peskov, who's basically Vladimir Putin's Caroline Leavitt. Peskov is Putin's press secretary, says the United States foreign policy and Russia's policy are directly aligned right now, that the U.S. and Russia will vote together on everything. And the U.S. policy now matches Russia's policy. From that same press conference earlier today where Donald Trump was
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And then it goes a number of companies that do licensing deals with Trump also failed. So there are no assurances that Trump Media will also not fail the way these companies failed. So it talks about Trump Shuttle, Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump Stakes, Trump Mortgage, GoTrump.com, and so on and so forth, ceased operations and failed over time.
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So between the bankruptcies and the business failures, look, I get, you know, sometimes things don't always succeed, but this whole idea that this guy had like good business acumen, I mean, you see right there that he didn't.
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so he brings in this guy howard lutnik as his commerce uh secretary howard lutnik a billionaire guy wall street guy um and and is treating our economy in my opinion like like a pump and dump scheme now i just want you to i'll show you this clip of howard lutnik the commerce secretary as he kind of goes on tv and it looks like he's selling No offense to like a sham wow. Yes, offense to my pillow.
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But he's out there like it's like an infomercial. All right, so here's what we're going to do, everybody. Okay, we got the truck. I know the economy may be in the tank right now. I know that everything's going in the wrong direction. Okay, but I got a secret for you, everybody. If you order a Trump card right now, Russian oligarchs, here's what we're going to do. Watch.
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Like, I'm not really exaggerating that much here.
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Let me tell you how we make America great for the simple price of $5 million. If you are a Russian oligarch and you are watching this, Chinese oligarchs welcome as well. If you would like to purchase your citizenship here, buy a Trump gold card now. A Trump gold card comes with a very fancy picture of Donald Trump.
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And you could even get a picture of Donald Trump golfing everybody or Donald Trump doing the YMCA dance. Nothing says America like an oligarch purchasing a Trump YMCA Trump gold card. Right. I mean, it's it's it's it's the stupidest shit that excuse me. It's the stupidest stuff that we're watching play out. Like, it's just dumb. It's just dumb.
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tanking our economy here in the United States. Donald Trump says that he thinks Zelensky just needs to be more appreciative and thankful. Here, play this clip.
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such a great point jordy because people have been living in their rage algorithms instead of their actual real life right the manufactured rage and the propaganda was so powerful and you've talked about it jordy that to some extent
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You feel bad for some of the people who have fallen prey to it because it's tens of billions of dollars or even trillions of dollars being used by corporate media and right wing media to infect their minds and get them pissed off about things that frankly really aren't impacting them directly. So what you kind of see and look, I think they'll be 20, 25% people who will be MAGA until the very end.
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But for another group of people, it seems that the spell is like wearing off like a little bit. And when you see some of these town halls, when you see what's happening in Ruby red districts, like you don't get more Ruby red than Texas's third congressional district. I mean, Keith self like this, this guy, I think one by like plus 30, like this is a, a massive Republican district.
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And I'll show you what went down when he held his town hall recently. Let's play this clip.
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And then there's another clip where they were yelling, do your job, do your job. Here, watch this.
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Let's take a look, too, at New York's third congressional district at Hofstra University, which is a plus five Trump congressional district. It's actually represented by a Democratic congressmember. The Democratic congressmember won the district, but then Trump beat Kamala in this district in a plus five, you know, Trump district. Tom Suozzi, he held a town hall in this area.
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And when Suozzi talked about, he goes, look, you know, I'm in a reddish district. I'm a Democrat, so you know that I'm someone who tries to bring everyone together. He goes, what I saw in the Oval Office with what Trump and J.D. Vance did to Putin, I'm not ever going to try to find common ground with that. And then the crowd gave him a standing ovation. Watch this.
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You know, and now the line that's coming from the White House, from Trump, from J.D. Vance, from, you know, anybody from the NSA director is Zelensky needs to apologize. Zelensky needs to say thank you. Have you said thank you? Have you said thank you? Here, we got this photo of JD Vance that you made, Brett.
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As the economy is crashing, you know, I think this kind of perfectly sums it up, this meme that you created of JD saying, have you said thank you once? Have you said thank you? You know, you just need to you need to apologize. You need to go on TV, Zelensky, and you need to say how thankful you are to dear leader Donald.
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And you need to and you need to just just say how great he is and how important he is to you in your life. And Zelensky is like, look, I've said thank you a hundred times. I mean, by the way, Trump's given Zelensky like no money at all, like he's basically cut off all the money. So let's be clear.
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he was going to impose the tariffs on canada and mexico and other places he was a total mess during this press conference and let me just show you a clip right here watch what's happening at the the stock ticker as he's talking here play this clip the united states has been taken advantage of for 40 years
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Europe gave more money than the United States of America. Every single thing that Donald Trump says is false and is a lie. And just it. Utterly pathetic. We'll talk later in the show about some of these town halls and ruby red Republican areas where people are just so livid at Donald Trump supporting Vladimir Putin and bring the United States to join the access of evil with Putin in North Korea.
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Former President Biden gave Zelensky and the American people and our government, and frankly, before Trump made this a pro-Putin government, it was largely bipartisan. A lot of the MAGA Republican Congress members and about a dozen or so MAGA Republican senators were very pro-Putin. But this whole idea of like, Zelensky always says, I'm thankful, I'm grateful, thank you, I'm grateful.
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Like, what else do you want the guy to like? What else do you want the guy to do or say? And all they want is that it's a pretextual way to beat down on an ally, the same way Trump wants to beat down on Canada and Greenland and Denmark and Europe and Mexico. And Trump never says anything negative about our allies. I mean, this is Pete Doocy from Fox.
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Here's what he's hearing from senior White House aides and that Trump won't even start any type of discussions at all until Zelensky goes on TV and says how sorry he is here, Clinton.
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First off, he behaved himself exactly as he should. You should apologize for nothing. Also, what are you, five years old? You need to apologize to me. And then also, what the hell are we even talking about? A minerals deal? The United States wants to steal their mint. That's what this is about. They want to give most of Ukraine to Russia.
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And then the rest of it, United States wants to steal theirs. the minerals of an ally that's under invasion from a invading force in russia what trump said on day one is that prices would go down that there would be a peace deal in 24 hours and in this weirdo demented sicko wannabe fascist mind of his he's warped this whole thing into if you want the deal
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where America steals your minerals, you need to say you're sorry to daddy. You need to, like, the hell are you talking about? And Zelensky's like, I'm not going to say that Putin is good. Like, he's killed, like, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people and lawfully invaded. I'm not saying Putin's a good guy. Like, don't you want the minerals deal? No, I don't want this.
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You said you were going to think, you said you were a great negotiator. I don't want the minerals deal. Why would I want you to steal our minerals for? What are you doing?
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And of course, people are pissed with Donald Trump. taking away their Medicaid. You had Elon Musk over the weekend going on the Joe Rogan show to say that Social Security is a massive Ponzi scheme. They're gutting workers in the government and, as you see, destroying our economy. But folks, Melania Trump was on Capitol Hill.
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You know, a few things. The way that Zelensky would have done what Trump and J.D. Vance wanted would have been to give up and just said, I'll give up Ukraine to Russia and I'll give you the mineral deal. That's what they wanted. Anything short of America steals the minerals, Russia steals the land.
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would be insufficient for trump and jd vance and putin because that's what the access of evil wants that's why zielinski says there needs to be security guarantees that's why they held an emergency meeting in london shout out to the uk prime minister kier starmer for arranging this i think he's shown to be a statesman of the highest caliber in history bringing all of these countries together
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She had an important message about who wants to stop all of that bullying going on in digital spheres. Here, play this clip.
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prime ministers and presidents to stand with Ukraine. I think it sent a really powerful message that you ain't cutting Europe out of this. Europe has Zelensky's back. Brett, to address something you said, the only reason why the Afghan withdrawal is sloppy is Trump cut the deal with the Taliban and then didn't do it himself. He cut a deal with the enemy. He cut the
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out the actual afghan government at the time released 5 000 taliban soldiers and then they conquered and took over uh afghanistan and then trump was too big of a coward to make the move to move american troops out after essentially getting the troops surrounded because trump shut down all the other bases and basically had the united states troops surrounded on all sides and former president biden was left to hold the bag and try to
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figure out a solution finally um what donald trump is also doing as well is threatening to send your kids to go to war against canada against the european union against our allies against mexico when donald trump and uh jd vance and pete hegseth make these threats about sending military into mexico or making canada the 51st state these are war words
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These are things that are being taken seriously. This is the language of Vladimir Putin.
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And what that means is that when Trump's saying Canada's gonna be the 51st state, what Trump's saying is he's gonna take your kids, anyone of fighting age, and he's gonna send them to fight Canadians in a war, and people are going to die, what we're seeing in Ukraine and Russia from Russia's unlawful invasion.
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So spare me this is someone who's trying to do peace while talking about annexing countries. No, Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator. His corruption is matched by his cowardice and his incompetence as well. That's what we're seeing. When we come back, I wanna show you a few things. You have the agriculture secretary announced the plan to bring the prices down.
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You need to buy chickens and harvest your own crops, and you need to get your own eggs. But you gotta do chickens in your backyard. I'm not making this up, that's what they're saying. Elon Musk says that social security is a Ponzi scheme, and more. We'll take our last quick break of the show. I'll remind everybody as well, to go to MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com.
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It's just so funny that these people, like the Roganites or whatever these people are, it's like you have Elon Musk. You guys like my branding on that? I like that. Well, maybe. You have Elon Musk show up on Rogan and he calls social security a Ponzi scheme. And we know Elon Musk.
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right objectively as someone who's running our government now whether he's a co-president pulling donald trump strings as a puppet whatever it is right like this language needs to be taken seriously it's like what i said at the outset of the show when he said he was going to inflict economic hardship he's doing it right so when he says that social security is a ponzi scheme and it's a fraud
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you know then where do you think they're going next after they got your medicaid where do you think they're going i mean he's he's telling you so so then to have like roganites go yeah man get rid of social security it's like okay like are you that brainwashed that now you're gonna get rid of you like like you're gonna take everything from you like like literally you're just gonna kind of be there like all all alone you're gonna be like but
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but there's no transgender volleyball player in san jose state well yeah and it's like that's that's your motivating factor that's kind of weird you know that's that's kind of a weird thing that that's what's your your energizing focus that you're gonna now go on to our comment section and write negative reviews i mean look it was a three hour and 11 minute incredibly boring interview but i'll just show you the portion where elon musk uh refers to social security as a ponzi scheme here let's play it
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Yeah, well, you can tell me better than anybody.
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All right. So you heard him there. I mean, I don't need to hear him go, they told you good.
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fake women and Taylor Swift endorsing him when she never endorsed him. And then Donald Trump also attacked Ted Cruz's wife and said that she was a very ugly person. And that's why Ted Cruz was with her. But Ted Cruz was fine having Melania there. Let me show you how Fox is trying to spin this all.
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And there's nothing funny about that. I mean, you're gonna lose your social security because of that guy, because of those billionaires. I mean, their new line as they're tanking the economy is the American people need to buy chickens. That's how you can get your eggs. You need to do chickens in your backyard. That's their plan.
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Here's Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, saying the solution to high egg prices is for Americans to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard. Here, play it.
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Yeah, I mean, these people are actually crazy. I don't say that like this is Looney Tunes idiocracy. You thought, oh, Ben, you're just saying that, right? No, no. They're saying that the solution to the fact that inflation is going to be soaring again in egg prices, you can even find eggs, which I can't anymore. Maybe you can find them. I couldn't this weekend. You couldn't find them this weekend.
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And take a look at what these MAGA Republicans are doing. I mean, you have Darrell Issa, MAGA Republican. Today, I will nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. No one deserves it more. You've got Congressmember Brandon Gill. I'm introducing the Golden Age Act to put Donald Trump on the $100 bill. America is experiencing an historic rebirth under Donald Trump.
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His legacy deserves to be immortalized. Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Trump, it's time to make history. And by the way, I wonder what Ronald Reagan would think of Donald Trump.
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doing whatever vladimir putin and and russia wants i think reagan was atrocious in most respects there's one thing that he did was he said uh he stood up to gorbachev at least in a public speech tear down that wall so i mean so trump's like the exact uh the exact opposite and by the way if you got deja vu and you're like come on guys i thought you reported on this last week no
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Last week we reported on one of the Republican Congress members, Joe Wilson, who introduced the $250 bill with Donald Trump's face on it. And that post said that you need to have the most valuable bill with the most valuable president on it. I think we have this – I mean that's what they're doing. And then you have MAGA Mike Johnson who was on Meet the Press this weekend.
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Larry Kudlow, I mean, again, the Fox state regime media at this point would make North Korea's state regime media and Russia's state regime media blah, blah. Blush. Here's Larry Kudlow saying that the reason that it's all crashing is we're seeing what is left of the Biden economy slumping so badly.
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And MAGA Mike Johnson with a straight face said, here's what we're doing, everybody. We've got Elon Musk, who's crawling through the social security information with his algorithms. I think we've got this clip. Let's play it.
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Don't put that fraud in my mouth. Don't put those words in my mouth that came out of my mouth. You said those words. Let me try to make this very simple. We all agree that fraud is a crime, right? So where are all of the arrests, right? I mean, the tough guy, FBI, DOJ, with all of this fraud that Elon has found, where are the fraud arrests happening since Doge found all this fraud?
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Oh, wait a minute, there are literally zero. zero fraud-related arrests. And if you look at the types of people who've, in the past, been investigated and who invoked the Fifth when it comes to things like Medicaid fraud and other fraud like that, I mean, you wanna know the biggest one in history, pretty much?
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The MAGA Republican Senator from Florida, Rick Scott, invoked the Fifth Amendment close to 100 times. Biggest Medicaid fraud, I think, in American history, He then like left that company, got a massive golden parachute, hundreds of millions of dollars. What he got paid and he invoked the fifth. And I think the company settled a criminal case and for the biggest Medicaid fraud scam in history.
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So that's who's actually doing it. And so when you start to look a little bit deeper, You know, what's one of their scams, Brett, that you talked about? The crypto, this crypto scam? Yeah. What they're talking about, you want to talk about that, Brett, that it's just coincidentally is the crypto czar's portfolio of crypto? David Sachs. Of coins that are being bought?
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I mean, so utterly. I mean, I'm not going to even play the rest of it. It's so pathetic. Let me bring on Brett and Jordy. Brothers, welcome to the Midas Touch podcast.
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Yeah, I'll talk about this as well. Two things to focus on as we head until tomorrow, where these tariffs on Canada and Mexico will be in place. The Premier of Ontario, Premier Ford, says he will be cutting off electricity exports to border states if Trump's tariffs go through tomorrow.
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If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything, including cutting off their energy with a smile on my face. And that's just on the electric grid. We're not even talking about auto manufacturing lumber right now. The futures markets for lumber is at a record high, which means homes aren't going to be built. So remember, Trump promised housing would be more affordable.
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Remember, Trump promised prices would go down on day one. that he had such a great relationship with zielinski and putin that peace was going to happen in 24 hours the guy's a con artist he just is he is a con artist so snap the hell out of it if you're still under this trance he is a con artist okay and everything he does is a lie we're learning tonight as well of course that he's ordered
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and obviously this was coming, the pause in all further military aid to Ukraine with a senior administration official telling Fox News that the aid will be halted until the Ukrainians show a commitment to good faith peace negotiations. The Ukrainians were invaded by a hostile invading foreign force by the Russians who are the bad guys. This isn't a hard equation to figure out.
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Russia was the bad guys who invaded our allies, Ukraine. And you're attacking Ukraine and saying that they're not involved in good faith negotiations because they're not saying they like Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's infantile, hostile, vile mind. Again, that's why all of these people were meeting in Europe, all these world leaders to stand up for Ukraine. They know where this is headed.
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They're not the United States corporate media, which tries to sugarcoat this. They know that Trump is allied with Russia, that Trump has put the United States in a group with North Korea, Russia, Belarus, and Hungary. I mean, it's the most despicable thing imaginable. And you want to know who knew this as well? Let me show you who knew this as well.
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Let me show you a montage of, first I'll show you J.D. Vance. I think this is a good way to kind of sum this up nicely. This is what J.D. Vance, by the way, not like 20 years ago, J.D. Vance said these things like five or six years ago before changing his identity to run for the Senate seat in Ohio and then be Donald Trump's VP. This is what J.D.
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Vance had to say about Trump during the first administration and thereafter until he ran for the Senate seat. Let's play it. I'm a never Trump guy. I never liked him.
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I'll show you Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. Here's how he once compared Donald Trump to a third world strongman. And I'll just let you hear it in his own words.
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I think that sums it up where we're at and how cowardly and spineless those individuals are. When you go back and you look at history and you wonder... How did someone like Hitler rise? How did someone like Mussolini rise? Where were the people standing up? How could human beings just sacrifice their own free will and their own logic to a strong man or want to be strong man?
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I think you see the psychology play out right there. And I don't want history to repeat itself, and I don't know or don't think there is any analog to what we're trying to build in independent media during the times of the past to what we're trying to do now.
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I want us to be that other variable that didn't exist then, because if you look historically, corporate media is one of the first to fall and kiss the ring. It followed that pattern here. when all the corporate media leaders went to Mar-a-Lago, kissed the ring, entered into their deals or settlements or pacts with Donald Trump or whatever, and gave away the game.
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But here we stand, the Midas Mighty together, stronger than ever, growing, educating the American people about what's up, coming with the receipts, and letting you see for yourself. That's what we're going to do here each and every day. Brett, unless you want to say anything.
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Thank you, everybody. Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Subscribe on audio. Audio, subscribe on YouTube. YouTube, subscribe on audio. Check us out at MidasPlus.com. M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. You can check us out. as well at patreon.com slash Midas Touch. And I'll give a little shout out to my guy, Michael Popak, who started the Popak Firm.
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I love to see Michael Popak be entrepreneurial. And I know he's taking big catastrophic injury cases. And I'm proud of him. I know it was a big risk for him to start his own firm. And he's one of my best friends. And so I want to give him a nice shout out here too. You go to thepopakfirm.com or his number is 1-877-POPAK-AF. So shout out to you, Michael Popak.
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I'm glad you're doing something you always dreamed about. And to our mods, thank you. To the Midas Mighty, stay strong, stay tall. We're here with you every step of the way. We're grateful for you. And thanks for being there by our side as well. I know you got our back. We got your back. Jordy, take it away. I think Brett wants to chime in real quick.
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For those listening on audio, it literally just started going down at a rapid pace. At one point, it was down close to 1,000 and ended up finishing really, really poorly. Here, Donald Trump talks about the tariffs on Canada. 25 percent, 25 percent on Mexico here. Play this clip.
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I think what you have to look at sometime are any of the corporate media's predictions and just say the exact opposite is going to happen, right? Under former President Biden, what were the headlines? They literally said 100% chance of recession under Biden. That's what they said. You remember the headlines when Trump took office?
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They were basically saying the headlines literally said 0% chance of recession. That's actually what the headline said. And I was saying, well, that's interesting because if he imposes the tariffs like he says he's going to do, if he implements Project 2025,
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if he does what he and Elon Musk said they were going to do, which was literally, this was their words, inflict severe economic hardship on the American people to break the country down and then rebuild it in the image of Elon Musk. Musk said that. I said, well, I'm going to tell you what the outcome of that's going to be.
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The outcome is going to be recession or more likely even depression because that's what happens when you do these things. Then even right now while you're seeing a lot of headlines predicting really bad things now happening in the economy because they're actually now happening, they still try to like normalize it.
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They go, yeah, but with all of this, we still see potential for – no, no, no, no, no, no. Donald Trump is a freaking madman. He's literally a crazy person. He was at Mar-a-Lago golfing and doing weird YMCA dances over the weekend while Europe held an emergency summit of presidents and prime ministers throughout Europe.
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The leader of Turkey show up, the leader of the prime minister of Canada showed up because they recognize that the United States has now become an ally of Vladimir Putin and that they need to join together and create a strong security apparatus because they've already recognized, although they're not going to say it out loud yet, that NATO is basically done. Trump's destroyed NATO right away.
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He's destroyed all of our alliances. He's destroying our economy. He's destroying our federal government. He attacks our closest allies and neighbors. He attacks Taiwan. Whether Donald Trump is actually an agent of Russia, a useful idiot of Russia, whether Russia has something over Donald Trump or for something else that is not one of those three, I don't know.
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But what I do know is everything he's doing seems to be directly benefiting Russia the way Russia would want to script it for them. So in many ways, even if you don't have the paperwork to be an official agent, if you're out there promoting Putin over and over again and attacking Zelensky and attacking NATO, does it even matter if you're an official agent? You are doing the work of one.
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That's who all of these things seem to benefit from.
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That's not what they're going to do. These factories are going to shut down. It's going to be devastating for our economy here, although Donald Trump is making posts like this today to the great farmers of the United States. Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold inside the U.S. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. have fun.
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Protests against Donald Trump have been now taking place across the country. This as internationally America under Donald Trump is now getting booed. We see that in Canada during the national anthem. Donald Trump did the usual fake deal thing that he does, those stunts that we predicted he was going to do where he creates all of this drama, this weapon of mass distraction conduct.
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look we called what was going to happen i think one of our responsibilities and running this media network is to be several steps ahead to because you know we've studied his pathology so you may recall last week um wednesday thursday friday when all of this was going down remember my reporting was let me tell you exactly what he's going to do
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and we predicted it exactly and by the way it wasn't all that hard to predict and if i'm predicting it i promise you that claudia scheinbaum and trudeau and the others know where he's going with this um so let me just just so you can see so our audio listeners know um
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these clips are from january 30th and january 31st of last week and so our people who are watching this on video they'll see that that's when i was making these statements to our audio listeners that's when these two clips that we put together are they were from last week when i was saying here's exactly what's going to happen it's exactly what he did here let's play it
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Is Donald Trump setting up for yet another fake deal to take credit for just imaginary things that aren't happening so he can get the propaganda headlines that he won? Ooh, Donald Trump made a deal, but in reality, it's just the status quo because he doesn't know what the heck he is doing. So what do we really see here and what do I think President Claudia Scheinbaum is alluding to?
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Donald Trump's going to create all this chaos, a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction, and then ultimately he's going to create the problem and then he's going to try to fix it and say, look, I made Mexico submit. I made Canada submit. But in the end, it's just going to be a press release. And I think that's what she is alluding to. And look, I think we all hope it's just a press release.
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No one wants economic catastrophe. But this is just the chaos agent that Donald Trump is and President Claudia Scheinbaum. And I think other world leaders are almost treating him and putting him in his place like the pathetic little petulant child that he is. Oh, OK, Donald. You want to do that to us? We'll retaliate against you. Okay, Donald, calm down.
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And by the way, Xi Jinping, you want to give us a call? By the way, should we create alliances against the United States? That's what we see happening. By the way, so that's from last year.
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That was really nice. That was precisely what happened. But I was also watching what he's doing. And look, it wasn't just in Canada and Mexico. He did the same thing in Panama. And by the way, his threats were, I want to conquer the nation. I want to conquer Canada, make it the 51st state. And Donald Trump settled on a fake fentanyl czar. I just want you to think about that.
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And a deal that already took place two months ago. So just think about how weak they see him in Canada after threatening to take over. I mean, could you imagine if Vladimir Putin made these threats to Ukraine. And then ultimately, Putin was like, you know what? Actually, we said denazification. We said we were going to invade Crimea. We're going to do all of these things. But you know what?
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Give us a fentanyl, czar. We're OK about it. Trump is using the language of Putin, but then settling for a fentanyl czar, which gets you the worst of all of the worlds. I mean, I clearly don't want imperialistic conquest of Canada, but it just makes us look like a stupid idiot. The whole thing just looks dumb. And the people in the other countries look at us, and they're not Fox propaganda.
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take it over without authority. We saw some Democrats show up at the USAID building, hold a press conference there to call it out. And then you have Elon Musk tweeting about it or putting it on X, whatever you call it these days, talking about like deleting government groups, destroying government groups, like the way we had free tax filing. under President Biden.
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When Fox is like, look what we did. Hulk Hogan, man, Rob, you ripped off my shirt. They're looking at us in other countries like, it's so pathetic. Look, you talk about he sends Marco Rubio to Panama. Do we have the clip of him even today saying that he wants to conquer Panama from the Oval Office? This is what this is today. So let me just show you. This is what he said today.
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And then let me tell you about the Marco Rubio piece of it. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, first off, let's acknowledge that his brain is mush. Like the guy can't even speak. Like you can't even speak in sentences. Like, could we just address the fact that he can't even find the words? And if any other person was behaving like that, you'd probably declare a doubt and need a 5150 cycle. But let's be clear.
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what senator rubio settled for the the deal was made also a fake deal and the deal was that the u.s navy gets to send its ships through the panama canal oh yeah usa and then that panama will consider studying the issue of whether it should continue being part of the silk road deal which There's no real Silk Road deal.
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China's making investments in Panama beginning in 2017 during the first Trump administration when Trump's eye was off the ball, and then Panama stopped its alliance with Taiwan, made the alliance with Beijing during Trump administration number one, and then China's made investments in Panama. There's no Silk Road deal that just gets ripped up and shredded. So that's that.
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But then the reason why US naval ships don't go through the Panama Canal is because the ships are too big. The ships are too big for that. You can't send U.S. naval ships through it. Our aircraft carriers and our ships, they just don't fit through it.
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So the deal, after threatening to take it back, the deal with Rubio is that our naval vessels can use it, which they always could, but they're too big to use it. then his deal with Columbia is like, OK, we are going to make sure we can deport people back to Columbia. OK, that's what was happening in the Biden administration. So it's just fake deal after fake deal, Brett and Jordy.
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That's one of the things they gutted. Say goodbye to free tax filings. Say goodbye to USAID abroad. Say goodbye to a number of other programs here in the United States. And all the while, they're like pretending now that there isn't the government freeze of funds anymore because there's court orders saying they can't freeze the funds. But Elon Musk is clearly doing that.
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Well, Jay, I appreciate you calling out the corporate media. You know, the reality is, though, they're kind of don't even see the corporate media as being a major. I mean, they're the corporate media. I got it. But to me, they're becoming so less relevant every day. I mean, you know, the latest play board charts had Midas as the most watched digital channel. Fox was number two.
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Number three was Forbes. And then ABC was like number seven. And so the reality is we're going to lead by example and we're going to call it out here and we've got the platform to do it. So Thanks for everybody who subscribed. We're on our way to 4 million subscribers. There it is right there. That's Playboard. Most watched YouTube channels in the country. And Midas Touch 1, Fox 2, Forbes 3.
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And I expect this number to be higher. I mean, it's been like 26, 27 million views every 48 hours right now on this network. More than all of the top Fox shows combined. You're getting out the word. You're getting out the message. You're the difference maker. And so this community relies on you. So thank you for that.
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know and then with just the firing of fbi agents the firing of doj officials america's really never been less safe the firing of faa officials the firing of key people working in government positions to just keep americans safe americans never been less safe um and at the same time prices are going up up up through the roof and so all of these stunts this drama this uh chaos
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You know, to me, it's just the opposite of what government should really be. I think Americans are just getting utterly pissed off. Trump supporters have to be like, yeah, tariffs. Oh, actually, no tariffs. Yeah, tariffs. Just the whole thing is one gigantic gong show. It's ridiculous. Brett and Jordy, how are you guys doing?
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You know, someone recognized me on campus today when I was teaching at law school and we were having a conversation and I gave this example and I hadn't really thought of it like this before, but I thought it was worth bringing to the show, which is I think about sometimes the government, the way I would think about getting on an airplane, which is when I get on an airplane, I really, other than maybe the captain telling me where I'm going,
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I really don't need to hear all that much unless there's something serious going on. But my hope is to have the least amount of drama, not trying to think about a bunch of crazy stuff. I just want to get from point A to point B. I'd like for the plane to be comfortable. I'd like for the plane to be safe. I'd like for it to have what I paid for in the example of government.
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When you pay taxes, you'd like to have certain things. But you don't need to hear the captain flying your plane going, oh, and we're going to make a left. Should I make a right? Should I make a left? Should I go up? Should I go down? Should I go right? What should I do, everybody, with this plane? Aren't planes crazy? No, that's not the way it is. And to me,
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The leader of government at the highest office should be steering the plane or the ship in a stable way. Yes, you want to hear from them at certain times, the beginning of your trip, at the end of the trip, maybe to let you know when you reach cruising altitude, but you don't want the drama. I thought that example
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was appropriate given the fact that in Trump's America, I think we're all feeling a lot less safe right now, whether it's also getting on an airplane or whether you're consuming food or whether we're going to be able to deal with things like tuberculosis and measles, whether we're going to be able to have allies abroad.
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One of the things going back to 2016 among many that I just so despised about Donald Trump is that his abusive personality never ceases he brings that abuser mentality into your lives and that every day during his first term and now we're seeing it again that that it's in it intrudes in all of our lives in bad ways in obnoxious ways in loud ways in attention seeking ways. And I don't want that.
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I mean, you would think for people who consider themselves conservative, who consider themselves small government people, you wouldn't want a constant barrage of shit coming in your face from the president of the United States. But that's what Trump does. It's always, it's constant, the post, the obnoxiousness, the meanness, and all of that.
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And to me, whether you're a Republican or Democrat or independent or red state or blue state, you should just not like that. It's overall gross. is just an observation. And again, we see it now over and over again. So, you know, and I've been referring to it as a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction.
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In a little bit, we'll talk about what the government's doing with Trump's announcement of a sovereign wealth fund, because you always have to follow the money when it comes to Donald Trump. And he and Elon want to start a sovereign wealth fund where our money's going to go to the slush fund to be used by oligarchs. No, no.
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Usually, by the way, sovereign wealth funds are used in countries that have like budget surpluses in nations to just invest their excess money. You may remember the conversation. It seems like it was 50 years ago. That was a pretty long time ago. It was 25 years ago when Al Gore and George W. Bush were talking about the lockbox issue. What do you do with the surplus under Clinton?
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And then George W. Bush kind of ran that into the ground. And then there were deficits. Then he crashed the economy. And Obama had to save it. Then Trump crashed it. Then Biden saved it. Now Trump's crashing it again.
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and then that was handed over to the republicans who just destroyed it forever it's never never recovered you remember that debate i mean just think about how times have changed like in 2012 sorry in 2000 i said let's say 2020 in 2000 was when the debate was between al gore and george w that's the first fun fact uh snl skit i remember i think it was a memory for geordie the lockpicks
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I'm going to do this with the lockbox. And then George W. Bush would be like, yeah, and I'm going to do this with the lockbox. And then, you know, and what they were talking, just think about that. That was the drama. What do we do with the surplus of funds that there's a budget surplus and where does it go? And ultimately, you know, George W. Bush had the Supreme Court push him into power.
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And by the way, the people who fought for Bush to do that are now the people on the Supreme Court, like Justice Brett Kavanaugh and others. And they kind of put it. Could you imagine what the world would have been like in another time frame if we actually counted the real votes and not had the Supreme Court stop, like literally stop the count?
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And then those people became Supreme Court justices anyway. But I digress. That's what we were talking about in 2000, whereas now Donald Trump's talking about invading this country, invading that country. So then he moves on, knowing that this is, this was, by the way, this was not Trudeau blinking. This was not Scheinbaum blinking.
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This was Trump blinking and submitting to them, but trying to pretend, oh, look, the threat of tariffs makes me a master negotiator. This is so stupid. But then what does Trump do? He moves on to the next one and then he threatens Europe. So now, okay, I did that, I did that. What other chaos can I cause today? Europe, let's do Europe. Let me talk about Europe here, play this clip.
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I mean, don't you see what a tired playbook this is? Like, it's the same. It's the same. He doesn't have a lot of moves. So when I showed you the clip of me predicting it, I'd like to be like, oh, you know, what a great predict. He has the same moves. So now he goes, he does it to Europe.
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And then, you know, in Europe, the leaders there, whether it's the chancellor of Germany or whether it's Macron in France, they're like, all right, he's going to threaten us with tariffs. And then he's going to impose. He's going to say he's going to do it. And then he's going to call it.
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call us the day of, the markets are gonna crash and then we'll let him tweet something out and then we'll just kind of go like that. That's how they think of him. And then meanwhile, they're thinking to themselves, oh my God, this guy is so weak and crazy. Like this guy's a psycho and he's weak. We can't rely on them. They're the worst. We got to form our own alliance.
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That's the only thing Trump's projecting is weakness. And then he mixes it up with this crap where he's like, look what I did with the water. I turned on the beautiful water in California. Here, play this clip.
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You just think about, though, the totality of all of this stuff that he's doing. And, you know, it's like, okay, Fake trade war against Canada and Mexico, you're kind of pissing them off. You're weakening your alliances abroad. You're playing right into Putin's hand. All of these statements that you're making to, oh, I'm going to tariff Taiwan and their semiconductor industry.
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He says that there are going to be tariffs placed on Mexico and Canada, and then ultimately Donald Trump folds when he crashes the market.
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All of the things he's doing there and then the things he's doing domestically as well. I mean firing any FBI agent without due process if they were involved at all in any January 6th case. So you have the January 6th insurrectionist he refers to as hostages or heroes. They get pardoned. The bad guys get celebrated.
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But the FBI, like the law and order people – who by the way, don't just handle January 6th cases. I mean these are the people who are investigating and arresting terrorists.
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getting you know cartels off our street here and dealing with all of these things these people um you know are fired without any process at all i mean you have donald trump you know gutting all of these agencies i mean just think even as we talk about us aid if you just take a look at one of their programs which is providing medication to pregnant women who have hiv and aids
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in order to help stop the transmission to their babies, to try to stop kids getting HIV and AIDS. And then by the way, as we know from COVID, Pandemics are global in nature. There's a reason why it's important for America to lead abroad when it comes to things like stopping the spread of HIV and AIDS, when it comes to things like Ebola, when it comes to investigating all of these things.
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USAID is like one of the main agencies, if not the main agency that would do that and also provide humanitarian aid. Again, them saying, oh, this is a leftist, whatever. I mean, they're quite literally killing people and they're also creating a void internationally for China to step up in and fill the void and provide aid to countries and to provide soft power and to build alliances as America.
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It's not just even stopping the funding. and announcing it through some streamlined process. It's doing it so cruelly. It's the cruelty also, from stopping this funding to destroying people's lives who work at the government. No notice, no process, no nothing. Just see you later. You're screwed. In some cases, you die. That's what they're doing.
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When we come back, I wanna talk a little bit about, you know, Musk having his teams go into all of these government buildings and seizing control of servers and payment systems and, you know, the Democrat response to that. We should talk about protests that are now happening across the country against ICE targeting. Let's be clear who ICE is targeting now.
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They're targeting way more people who have no criminal record than criminal record. Actually, Biden still, as you look at the stats, was deporting more people than Trump has even now. But Biden has been deporting people with criminal records. Trump is like specifically cruelly targeting people with no criminal record
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and focusing on them and not the criminals at lower amounts, but also making it very stuntified and WWE, where they're playing dress up and you have like literally Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, you know, who's got the full Mara Mara Lago look. She like wears a new outfit and a new Halloween costume every day. She like dress up as like cow girl.
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And then she'll dress up like in the vest. Like she's the one there like SWAT team style. And then she's like dressed up and like, You know, her park ranger outfit, like the whole thing is like, it's like ridiculous, the ridiculous things to watch this. And I'm like, oh my God, I'm just like the best. I'm just cringy. It's like, I'm so embarrassed. It's so embarrassing.
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By the way, for those looking, that was Kristi Noem 2019 before full Mar-a-Lago. And then here she is now doing the Mar-a-Lago dress up thing. You evaluate it for yourself. I would leave it at that. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. We're going to take our last quick break of the show. Reminder, patreon.com slash Midas Touch is a way to help us.
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i was nominated for best eyes and that's cool nicest to bring home nominate it's cool you know nominated winning nicest to bring home nice to bring home so you can't you can't knock nicest to bring home
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Yeah, not even just the nomination. I was also number two. Also number two and most likely to succeed and also student government president.
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I was student government president of the entire high school.
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Take it easy. This is how decisions have been being made at the government lately. One of these far right wing Twitter or X accounts will make some statement like this ALX account that goes something about, I don't know, the person will say like, I don't even understand the language that they use. So I'll try to read it, but it's like basically reading gibberish.
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Anyway, it's a far right-wing count attacking the IRS direct filing program. And then Elon Musk responds, this group has been deleted, to which the Midas Touch Network account goes. So Elon Musk is now bragging about getting rid of the team and that put together the direct file tax filing system, which allows citizens to easily file their taxes for free.
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Direct file is a big target of the for-profit tax prep industry. And then as Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell states, until today, you could file your taxes for free. Trump just took that from you. And it's just such a strange thing to take from people. It really did make things easy and convenient. And that's the type of stuff that they're targeting.
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And then they target it and say, TDI, far leftist. OK, so you're getting rid of that. You're getting rid of USAID. Literally, they go after, this is part of their playbook as well, the most vulnerable. and the most peaceful and the hardest working. That's their foreign policy as well. Let's go after...
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You know, and as Prime Minister Trudeau's like, what American, other than Donald Trump, like wake up and like, let's attack Panama or like let's attack Greenland. But see, Trump just sees like peaceful people who aren't trying to have like massive military establishments around them on the surface. Let's be clear though. Canada was fighting in World War II.
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Before anyone else really was fighting in World War II. And Canada was with us side by side after 9-11. Canada has been one of America's biggest allies on everything. So has Denmark. But Donald Trump looks at these countries that, you know, are trying not to, they're just trying to live their nice, peaceful lives and go after them here domestically. He's like, let's get rid of USAID.
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Let's get rid of FAA. Let's get rid of things that are really needed. Let's get rid of FBI agents. Let's get rid of the tax filing system. It's ridiculous, Brett.
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Well, look, the issue for me also, Jordy, is I teach during the week in addition to my- I get it, you're a professor.
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So with the teaching, I have to get back on a certain day. But I'm glad Brett was there holding down the fort and representing. You know who's loving this, though, by the way? Vladimir Putin is. Vladimir Putin is basically out there. And I'm not going to play the clip because it's in Russian for our audio listeners. But Vladimir Putin basically says, and Donald Trump is very going to-
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So as the market was crashing, then Donald Trump had to run to the president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, and then to the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, with his tail between his legs, and then basically do a fake deal, just basically announcing things like the status quo and claiming that that's a deal. And then he goes, look, what I did America.
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very powerfully and strongly make the European countries submit and kiss his feet. And Putin knows how he's manipulating and playing Donald Trump there while all of this is taking place. Let me share this with you though as well, just so everybody can get the context of it. So the trade deal with Mexico and Canada is called USMCA, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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Look, I want to give a shout out to all of the government workers out there. Yes. These are people who are grinding every single day in difficult jobs who have been degraded by Republicans forever, basically, and they take it.
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Like, imagine if every day, you know, someone just think about your job, if you're not working in the federal government, if every day some of the people with power just would say, what a horrible job, like what you're devoting your life work to.
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how horrible it is and how bad you are and how lazy you are and that you don't work good and that you're just a terrible worker and a terrible person, right? And you're working really hard, whether you're working at USAID to stop the spread of Ebola, whether you are working within a government agency that deals with safety protocols on railroads and you
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Make sure that you're studying every day just the way the machinery works and ensuring that the tracks are certain specifications because if you're not there doing that and making sure there's compliance across all new projects, there could be train derailments and people die. Imagine like you're working to ensure that certain food dies don't get into consumption and
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But for you and your research and your studying, there could be mass casualty events taking place. I could go across so many government agencies where these jobs are so necessary and Elon Musk and Trump are treating these jobs like they're crap. But here's the thing, a lot of these jobs,
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are also incredibly hard to fill with people retention of these jobs is very difficult and who in the world once these jobs are gone are going to want to work there and look you know for elon musk when Twitter's down or when it doesn't work well or when he makes one of his ridiculous Twitter changes.
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And by the way, turns Twitter into X and makes it into this hellscape where there's all this hateful and racist and misogynistic and pornography and profanity. It's a gross place to be. And it's hard because you want to check in occasionally because what was there and some reporters and journalists are still there. It's like, ugh, whenever you go there.
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And now if that becomes the government, what that means is huge problems. If Twitter's down or the posts aren't happening or the videos don't work and that's the government, that could mean planes are crashing. Salmonella is spreading. So that's why these issues are just so...
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and it basically in and of itself was a little bit of a fake deal too because trump basically took nafta which was negotiated in the 90s which by the way he and the republicans pretended to hate so they basically just rebranded it and called it the usmca and trump said this was the greatest deal the greatest deal ever so just so you can see for yourself I think we have to have the context, right?
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You know, I want to also mention the Dems, Democratic senators, Democratic members of Congress went in front of the USA building today. They were, you know, it was good to see them here. I think we have a clip of it. Brett, just pick whichever one you like and let's play.
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That was Democratic Congress member Jim McGovern, who's appeared here on the Midas Touch Network. Democrats need to do stuff like that. I think they need to then use all the legal instruments they can, maybe seek an injunction barring Elon Musk from entering these buildings. I think I'd like to see that. Why not?
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Why not file a temporary restraining order saying that he should be limited from going into the buildings and that he doesn't have the appropriate security clearances? He's not somebody who's been appointed and confirmed. You can't just have random strangers go into the building, even if they work in other agencies. See if you can get a Washington, D.C.
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federal judge to literally issue an injunction banning it. That's an option. Why not at least try something like that? But you need to be out there and you need to have those visuals. You need to show people that you're out there fighting and you need to fight. You need to do both. And I think too much Democrats just assume that people get it. You got to be out there and lead on the front line.
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So it was good seeing them there. But also, I would have liked to see them out there last week in the heart of a lot of this. But they need to be out there every day. I know it's tough. I know it's tiring. But you've got some really
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uh great democratic leaders and they and they can be out there messaging this it's where the a lot whether i don't even think it's that even political anymore you've got your maga people but who's really cheering on elon musk getting rid of like osha like and lowering safety stand like like it's a popular issue for you to take on but it's also the right thing for you to do so do both and go out there and fight for the people i'd like to see that
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When Trump is attacking the deal, it's his deal that we're operating under, the USMCA. And so here he is talking about it during his first term saying, what a great deal this all is. Here, let's play this clip.
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one of the things brian shots a senator from hawaii democrats doing is he's imposed a block on all of trump's nominees from being confirmed until elon musk stops meddling with usaid and usaid workers are restored any single senator one of those weird quirks in the senate can hold up the confirmation hearings of people and so he's placed a hold on it which i think is uh you know yeah for the state department nominees and and we um
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Brett's been doing a great job on TikTok. And thank you, everybody. We'll see you soon. Jordy? Shout out to the Modest Money!
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So you get the point. He was saying that the USMCA is he negotiated. That's the current deal. And he now says that deal is incredibly unfair. And so he was asked at the Oval Office again today, you know, tell us about, you know, is there anything Canada can do in order to stop these tariffs? This was Trump. what moments before the announcement that he would not be imposing the tariffs on Canada.
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Here, let me just play this for you.
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And then some of our right wing propaganda media and then corporate media is like, look, he did the deal. It's like the arsonist causing the fire and then trying to put out their own fire, but not really putting it out and then taking credit for
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So then shortly thereafter, Donald Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau make an announcement that, oh, actually there's a deal that was struck and Canada's gonna put $1.3 billion in border security and Canada's going to appoint a fentanyl czar, even though there's basically zero fentanyl coming into the United States from Canada.
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So the important thing to note is that the one point three billion dollar border border deal that already existed well before this, like that was already something that was in place. A fentanyl czar is basically not going to do much because. There's not really fentanyl coming in from Canada.
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And then earlier in the day, Donald Trump announced also Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, a fake deal with Mexico where they said, well, Mexico is going to add 10,000 additional troops to the border. 10,000, not even additional, 10,000 troops to the border. Well, there's already 10,000 troops to the border when President Biden requested without this drama tariff policy.
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that and acting like they should be applauded the thing is that donald trump is now pissed off the entire world with these tactics like even though canada and uh mexico have pushed off their so-called tariffs for like 30 days i mean the people in canada are living in piston like You can't trust America under Donald Trump, period. And that's how the entire international community is feeling.
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And at the same time, domestically, while Trump's involved in that WMD weapon and mass distraction, you have his co-president, Elon Musk, an unelected oligarch, having his tech teams go into various agencies, seize control of the Treasury Department payment system, seize control of sensitive classified information from USAID and other government agencies, literally just
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Prices are rising. A recession is looming. And what was Donald Trump doing? Vacationing again in Mar-a-Lago, awarding himself more trophies, posting about it on social media while the American people are suffering. Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C.
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J.D. Vance as his puppet to help him achieve those ends. But that's why we refer to this presidency as a Ponzi scheme presidency, as a rug pull presidency. They lie and then they cover up those lies with other lies and they try to drag it out as far as possible. They said on day one. that they were going to make housing affordable, that prices would go down right away.
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Prices were heading down under former President Biden. Inflation was going to hit the Fed target at 2%. There was going to be more interest rate cuts. Under Donald Trump, prices are going up, up, up. The inflation numbers that came in came in hot. Under former President Biden, we saw GDP growth. Now we're likely going to see GDP contraction.
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Trump also promised that on day one, there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. That was a lie. It's lie after lie. So Brett and Jordy, to your point, then they move on to the next one. Hey, everybody, you want to go to Fort Knox?
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we're gonna search for some gold then maybe that'll be part of the doge dividend when we find you gold you want to get rich by the way i subscribe to the trump email list so you don't have to hey he sends his supporters doge dividend this doge dividend that you want to come to mar-a-lago you want to win a trip so you can have the fancy luxury life that you wanted you want to go live the lifestyles of the rich and famous here's what you need to do it is bs
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over and over again and by the way at the end of the day have you heard him say anything without being prompted about the four american soldiers presumed dead or likely dead in lithuania who the secretary of nato said
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that those four individuals are dead have you have you heard donald trump coming out with any statement of sympathy expressing national mourning the types of things that you would almost always hear the leader of a country you would always hear a leader of a country say so donald trump was asked again in the Oval Office about the four American soldiers in Lithuania who are dead.
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And Donald Trump, when he was previously asked last week, didn't even know about it, had no clue what was even being talked about. This time he describes it that they were driving a heavy truck like a toy. He says like a toy. Listen to him try to describe it. And he doesn't express sympathy. He doesn't express that this is a tragedy. He's incapable of it as well. Watch this.
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A federal judge has barred the Trump regime from ending temporary protected status for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals. Another federal judge, Judge Boasberg, set a Thursday hearing to determine if the Trump regime violated his order, preventing the regime from kidnapping migrants and sending them to El Salvador without due process.
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i don't even call that a statement but just whatever the heck that was that we just watched just such a disgrace honestly just such a disgrace and he had to be prompted he didn't bring it up on his own all weekend posting about his golf tournaments that he claims he wins like kim jong-un style i won another tournament i won another tournament look i'm playing golf here while american people suffer
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It's that simple to me that as American people suffer, that's what this Trump regime is doing. They're not just causing the suffering, they're gloating about it. We've got a lot more to discuss. I want to talk about these big elections on Tuesday. I want to talk about some of these court rulings in federal court.
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if we can get 300 youtube members we don't have outside investors so it helps this network grow we're actually almost there already we'll see if we get there during our first break but that elbows up emojis a great one it's us being in solidarity with canada who's leading the way i think in the resistance internationally against the united states we'll talk about that as well
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When we come back, how their boycott of all things American is impacting America's tourism industry, and they're not buying American goods at a significant scale that's causing real, real issues to the American economy. We'll take our first quick break of the show. We'll be back with a lot more Midas Touch Podcast.
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Look, there's a ghoulishness to this Trump regime and to the MAGA Republicans. It is such a stain on our history. I mean, you see them posting on the official GOP accounts things like this from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This is an official – Republican account, and it is a photo of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and J.D.
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Vance holding a casket and dancing while holding it, and then the casket has USAID on it as they're mocking, destroying a program where many experts believe will literally lead...
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to millions of deaths it was a major part of the soft power of the united states as the leader the once leader of the free world to help people who were starving in other countries and people with uh deadly illnesses um and as a result of the u.s pulling out of its us aid and destroying and dismantling it like there could be quite literally millions of people dying
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And they're posting just this ghoulish dancing. And by the way, this is like a theme with them. There's one that Elon Musk did with the Department of Education, right, where they were at a cemetery and Donald Trump. And it's like a photo of Donald Trump, like laughing at a grave. And it says Department of Education and like department is spelled wrong.
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so we did not see this weekend the trump regime's sham wow guy howard lutnik the commerce secretary i was growing up i would be forced to watch those infomercials when i was watching news with the sham wow guy it's a shammy it's a wow i think when you say that then you have to say no offense to the sham wow guy like you're you're i but i don't know what i gotta say i think you can i think there can be offenses the sham wow guy wasn't exactly a great guy
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Okay, so yeah, we looked into it. There could be offense to him. Got it, okay.
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You gotta be up to date on the references that I throw out here.
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Okay. Okay. We did this routine three weeks ago. This was a shtick that we've developed now, you know, over the course of many weeks. Anyway, Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, he was the one who was going on and going, everybody, we're all going to get rich. You're going to get rich. You're going to get rich. You're going to get rich because tariffs are great.
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All right, well, now Donald Trump saying that his liberation day is gonna happen on April 2nd, where he's gonna tariff every single country, which every economist worth anything is saying is going to cause a massive recession or worse. So naturally, right, the news networks were inviting Howard Lutnick back. Hey, Howard, you were the one kind of selling this thing. So let's hear from you.
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What is going to the business community want some certainty, Howard? So what's going to happen? So on Face the Nation, they invited Howard Lutnick. And let's take a look at what happened. Let's play it.
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Oh, too busy? Too busy now, Howard? Seriously? So then they call on Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump's top economic advisors, straight out of jail, basically, right? For contempt of Congress that he served a few months back. He's the one who had like the, what'd they call it?
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Election and- Yeah. And overturn a free and fair election. Anyway, he's the guy now who's out there talking about tariffs. And let's just take a look at what his message to the American people is. This is the message that they were beaming on state regime media known as Fox. Let's play.
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message is that tariffs are tax cuts tariffs are jobs tariffs are national security tariffs are great for america tariffs will make america great again are they doing haikus i mean what they're doing disinfo haikus right i mean are they doing c spot run crash economy books c spot run c spot this tariffs you know This is what I mean, it's a Ponzi scheme regime, right? It's a rug pull regime.
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on Monday where he held an unhinged press conference just an hour or so ago in the Oval Office with Kid Rock dressed in a bright red jumpsuit and fedora. further humiliating the White House and the United States of America. Now, in the past 24 hours, Donald Trump said he could not care less about rising prices. He said he will take over Greenland 100%.
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So you know how we said we were gonna do no tax on tips? You know how we said we were gonna do no tax on social security? Remember when we said no tax on overtime? promises made, promises kept. You get tariffs now, which are the tax cuts. Ergo, mission accomplished. Mic drop. We did everything we said we were going to do. And that's actually what I'm not exact. That's what they're saying.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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and stand up on camera off my legs what if i what if today was leg day i want to show i'm just happy you're wearing boxers quite frankly but the boots look great you know how howard lutnik practiced that line for bad yeah you can practice for good and you can i googled the sham wow guy and wow yeah benji where's your next i told you i got called out for it and i and i changed course jay anyway
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Let me show you, though, who is, I think, leading a new course for how Democrats fight. It's Josh Wheal, the Democratic candidate for Florida's sixth congressional district. There are special elections in Florida. There's the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. It's a strange concept for some people. You're like, why is there's a race for Supreme Court? That's not in the federal court system.
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The president appoints and the Senate confirms for federal judges, state court judges. There's elections. I mean, at first, a governor appoints. But then after there's a term, there's often elections that take place. And so that's why you have a Supreme court election. And it's so interesting too, because then you have these like judges who are not really used to campaigning.
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They kind of have to campaign and it's like a little bit awkward, you know what I mean? And so like normally the judges who campaign, you know, they're not going to try to get too political. Right. They talk about, you know, law and order. And we're here to, you know, just make sure the law is upheld. And that's what Judge Susan Crawford, the pro-democracy judge, is doing.
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Then you've got this guy like Brad Schimel, the MAGA Doge candidate who literally dressed up like Donald Trump for Halloween. And you've got like Elon Musk going into Wisconsin saying, all right, if you take take photos by the voting locations, but you can't be more than a, you have to be at least a hundred feet away. I'm gonna give you $20.
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Then if you do a photo of a friend, like I'll give you a hundred dollars. And then if you enter into the raffle, I'll give you a million dollars. It's the most ridiculous thing imaginable. And we had the opportunity to speak to the democratic chair, Ben Wickler, who talked about what was going on there. He said in his opinion that what was taking place is criminal.
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The AG is investigating it as well in Wisconsin. And I guess the cruel irony too, is that that scheme, a pay for boat scheme involves literally running for the Supreme court seat in Wisconsin. Uh, And this is just what they're going to do over and over again, these Magna Doge people, because they think that's their way to win. They got to buy votes and bribe people to vote.
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I mean, I guess we start moments ago in the Oval Office. I would say it's one of the most bizarre press conferences I've seen. But with Donald Trump, each one is as bizarre as the last, although I guess it's accelerating here. So while Donald Trump's in the Oval Office, he's got Kid Rock. standing next to him wearing this red jumpsuit, a fedora hat. Weren't these MAGA folks lecturing everybody?
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It's impacting all people. Americans badly who are not billionaires, which is mostly all Americans. Yes. And whether you're a veteran, whether you have a veteran in your family, you're seeing cuts to the VA, you're seeing cuts to your services, cuts to the crisis hotline.
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You're seeing veterans get fired and then be defamed and told it's for performance reasons and that veterans don't deserve these jobs. Federal workers aren't just in Washington, D.C., so it's horrific that federal workers in D.C. are being treated horribly.
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But in all states and varied cities across the country, there are offices where federal workers show up every day, hardworking people who are also being cruelly terminated and defamed and being told it's because of performance reasons, which also hurts their ability to get unemployment benefits as well. People are seeing that their Medicaid could be completely gutted and eliminated.
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People see what we showed you earlier, Howard Lutnick basically saying, if you complain that you don't get your social security check,
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you're the fraudster you're the criminal that they say is causing fraud in social security which of course you're not but that's what they're saying to try to take away social security from it they're already taking it away they're shutting down 47 social security administration offices so if you're on social security you're seeing that it's harder to get in touch
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with people and that your local social security office is probably shut down. You're seeing it under former President Biden. You know what you were seeing? Infrastructure projects going up, things being built, an actual builder, right? With Trump, who claims to be a builder, what you're seeing is what he did his whole life, which is to be a destroyer.
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He rips things down and he does it cruelly and then he blames. That's what he does. This is impacting everyone. And I think what Trump underestimated is the resistance and opposition here in the United States and abroad. whether you're talking about in Asia, where you have alliances like Japan, South Korea, and China joining forces. Unheard of. Joining forces to respond to the tariffs.
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Together, you're seeing new European defense alliances form. Europe coming to the defense of President Zelensky and standing up to Trump. And of course, elbows up, you're seeing Canada lead the way as well. And Canada boycotting all things American, boycotting American tourism.
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Y'all remember when some in the media were saying, we think this may be a 10% boycott, which would cause still like massive amounts of – I said –
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me tell you about the maple mites let me tell you what's really going on in canada right now i said i think the tourism boycott will be like 85 and that's more in the range of where it's at so you're seeing like tourism you know even at a micro level you're seeing like in certain locations like in vegas
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right vegas uh significantly down because canadians aren't traveling there then you're seeing this in cities across the country then in the aggregate you're seeing flights being cancelled the airline industry right now in the united states is absolutely plummeting by the way the european markets are for the first time in a long time doing better by the way than the united states as they're all forming alliances with each other in other countries
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isolating the United States. So that's what's actually happening on the ground here. I mean, take a look at this. While the US spirals into a Trump-induced chaos, European equity markets are now outperforming US markets by a record margin, not just outperforming.
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Zelensky, who's, by the way, dressed as a wartime president in a war. They were attacking Zelensky. Now you have Kid Rock dressed this way. I'll show you clips of that in a little bit. But Donald Trump then starts talking about the word kind in the same way Donald Trump is like the word grocery. What an interesting word, grocery. He now does that with the word kind. And he tells this weird story.
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Okay, I was talking about... Great point, Jordy. Someone in our group chat while we're live showed me that photo of your leg, Jordy. You may want to reevaluate that. Anyway, Josh Wheel, the Democratic candidate for Florida's 6th Congressional District, he's out with some ads that...
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don't pull any punches you know and this reminds me of like the earliest Midas days too like where it was like just go like just just don't mince words just say it just go out there and you know you don't need to hold back where you have doge and musk and this wrecking ball
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a look at the ad that josh wheel who's running for florida's sixth congressional seat which is now open because mike walls the national security advisor who leaked all of the classified information in that signal group thread and then invited into the chat jeffrey goldberg from the atlantic oh do not do that is he doing it again oh that's the photo i thought he was doing it again i
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Pull up the photo, Brett, of the Donald Trump, J.D. Vance. No, not that photo. The photo. This is where we get immature. The photo with the casket, you know, which is what the MAGA Republicans are posting on their Foreign Affairs Committee. I mean, so... I don't know how else you can describe what these magas are doing and what Doge is doing.
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Other than how Josh wheel is like describing it, right? Like, like this, this is real. What we're showing you right there, that this is the MAGA Republican house foreign affairs committee, right? This is supposed to be, it's supposed to be serious stuff. And that is what they're, that is what they're posting right there. I'll share this with you as well. This is from judge Crawford in Wisconsin.
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He says someone called him kind and he never really heard the word kind before. Really? I kind of believe that he never heard the word kind, but play the clip.
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And here's how she describes Brad Schimmel, the MAGA Republican Doge candidate in the ad that she just had to come out here, play this clip.
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too extreme for the supreme court also you should know that brad schimmel as i mentioned earlier dressed up as donald trump for halloween he would go to those trump boat parades and it would be like i love jesus and trump's my president like he would do shirts like that like this is the guy they want to have implement the Doge agenda in Wisconsin.
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Again, just a reminder, the election is Tuesday, it's April 1st, and in Wisconsin and in Florida, these are key, key races right there. Let me give some legal news as well, some updates in the various court cases. Earlier today, a federal judge barred the Trump regime from ending temporary protected status for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals, which was slated to expire next week.
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This order by Judge Chen said the decision by the Trump regime appeared to be rooted in racial discrimination against Venezuelans by Noam and Trump, saying that they basically intentionally distorted data to label the massive group of Venezuelan TPS holders to be linked to crime. Now, it's worth mentioning as well that the Venezuelan community, especially in southern Florida, big Trump community.
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These are family members of Trump voters, Cubans for Trump, Venezuelans for Trump. So what does he do? He turns around with Kristi Noem and his MAGA regime, and he labels all Venezuelans, basically, Tren de Aragua. That's the pretext to do all of this. All gang members, everybody's a criminal. You know, and again, we've been reporting on these stories.
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Mother Jones has been doing a great job reporting on these stories. Time magazine has done a great job reporting on these stories. I mean, you've got this guy who we've talked about before, Andre, a gay makeup artist sent to rot in a prison in El Salvador. They call him Trendy Aragua because he has a tattoo that said mom and dad. on his arms.
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We talked about an individual who had an autism awareness tattoo sent to rot in the El Salvador prison system there. You had someone with the Real Madrid tattoo. They were labeled Trende Aragua. In connection with the lawsuits that have been filed in this area of this ghoulish,
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program kidnapping program by the trump regime the aclu filed documents which basically said here's how ice is determining it it basically if you have a tattoo and there's certain street wear like a color of the clothes those things make you gang members in their mind and you don't get due process
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you don't get to say hey by the way can you can i try to prove it to you nope they go you go to concentration camps in el salvador so you have this one case right here um that involves the federal judge um barring for now the trump regime from ending the temporary protected status because once that's ended right then you go to the next step
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which is sending these people either back to Venezuela, where they're political exiles and they potentially get tortured or killed from the Maduro regime, where they fled to then become lawfully here into the United States, or they get sent to El Salvador. Then there's the other case that the ACLU filed, against the Trump regime.
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That's before Judge Boasberg, where Boasberg through at least mid-April blocked the Trump regime from sending or kidnapping migrants and sending them to El Salvador without providing due process. Judge Boasberg earlier today set a Thursday hearing on his efforts to determine whether the Justice Department violated his orders
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restraining the removals under the alien enemies act and then we learned in the past 24 hours that the trump regime sent more people to el salvador and they said they're doing it not under the alien enemies act but under something else that they don't want to even talk about what it is and again I want to be very clear. I don't want gang members on the street. Nobody wants that.
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We have a system for putting gang members in prisons and deporting them. That already exists. Call me old fashioned, but I believe in due process.
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because I don't want to hear or see or learn about people being kidnapped in the United States and then being sent to concentration camps in El Salvador, concentration camps anywhere, or being sent to any place without having an ability to show or share who it is that they are. That's the system that we have.
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And as the old adage goes, right, first they came for this group and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a part of this group. Then they came for this group. I didn't speak up because I wasn't part of this group. Then they came for this group and I didn't speak up and then they came for me and there was nobody left speaking up for me. That's the lesson of history.
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And that's why right now it is important that we all I think basically commit that we are a nation of laws. Due process is a thing. Due process is a thing. And we're gonna keep highlighting these stories here on the Mighty Touch Network.
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An old-fashioned word like groceries? Very old-fashioned word. Am I back? Is my internet just the worst today on this live? It's the worst. I think we need a liberation day from Ben's bad internet. I need a liberation day for my internet right now.
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And then, Brett, you broke the story about when Kristi Noem wearing the $60,000 Rolex watch in front of the El Salvador prison, which by the way, is also a violation of the Geneva Convention to like parade yourself and use people as props. is a Geneva Convention violation as well. It is horrific to see.
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And by the way, why lots of countries are also not traveling or having people travel to the United States and they're issuing tourism warnings, they're telling their people, if you go to the United States, you may end up in ICE detention or in concentration camps. If you go to the United States, they're telling their people the U.S.
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is a dangerous, dangerous place under the Trump regime and that it can't be trusted. This is a natural consequences of Trump's horrific, horrific policies, and it's shameful.
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Finally, I just want to say, I don't think that people want Democrats to look more MAGA. I'd be very clear about that. They want them to be fighters and fight MAGA harder and put it all out on the line because people are suffering. People are feeling pain. And it is so important that we understand what people are actually going through.
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Well, let me talk to you about the next thing. Donald Trump's asked about what he's referring to as liberation. And they ask him if he's going to move towards a universal tariff or to do individual tariffs on the various countries. And let me show you what he says right here. Here, play this clip.
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It's important that we listen to what the people are experiencing. And whether they're a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, pain and suffering doesn't have a political party. Pain and suffering is something that we all, as Americans, as citizens of this world, should want to try to minimize, mitigate, and eliminate, just trying to be good people.
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With this Trump and MAGA movement, they want to inflict pain. They relish pain. in the pain that they're causing and the suffering that they are doing should not be more like them, should be as far from them. We should never sacrifice our empathy, our joy, our hope. But don't confuse those things for weakness. because we can fight like our life depends on it, because it does.
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And for the people out there who are experiencing this pain and suffering, which is most Americans, unless you're a billionaire, they want fighters right now. We commit to you that at the Midas Touch Network, we will fight every day, every minute, every second, We welcome fighters here on the Midas Touch Network. Thank you, Midas Mighty. We appreciate you so much. Thank you to our mods.
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Thank you to everybody. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 5 million subscribers. We appreciate you. Thanks for everybody who got those elbows up emojis. Let's go.
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But we're being nicer than they were. just even his language there were being nicer than they are. And it's not exactly nothing that he says is reassuring, but he has no answer. Do you even think he knows what it means when they say it's going to be a universal tariff or will it be individual?
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And then when he uses the word reciprocal, because the word kind and kindness seems to be very interesting to him. So I'm just genuinely curious if he even knows what those other words mean. And then he talks about, he says, long before Putin, they said, you're not going into NATO. And then he spews Putin talking points from the oval office. Let me play this for you.
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And he does not rule out using military force against Greenland and Denmark, if necessary, to take it because he says it's his. He said he does not even know what signal is or what signal chats are or what the whole text thread on signal thing is all about. And he said he wants to have a third term and there are ways that he can do it. Again, threatening dictatorship.
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That could be the reason the war started. Blaming the fact that Russia unlawfully invaded Ukraine on Ukraine wanting to join NATO and frankly belonging in NATO. And you notice him attacking Zelensky there, attacking Ukraine, not attacking Putin at all. And then talking about the rare earth mineral deal. Donald. What you promised was on day one, you said there would be peace in Ukraine.
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You said you got a great relationship with Zelensky, a great relationship with Putin. It would be easy. You said before day one, you would be able to have peace in Ukraine. But instead, you want to do a rare earth mineral deal, which basically just means you don't say even the United States.
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It means like Trump for what his sovereign wealth fund or whatever he wants to create, stealing the rare earth minerals from Ukraine and then carving Ukraine and Europe up for Vladimir Putin. That's what Donald Trump meant by he wanted to do a deal.
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Let's also talk about what Donald Trump was doing from this horrific Oval Office press conference where he just started telling people to vote for the MAGA Doge Supreme Court candidate in Wisconsin, Brad Schimel. He's like, you better vote Republican, vote Republican. And he's saying it from the Oval Office, which in any normal times in and of itself would probably be grounds for impeachment.
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Lying about the results of the 2020 election, saying that it's rigged, saying to vote for a Republican Doge MAGA candidate. all the while he's not answering questions about what's going to happen on April 2nd with tariffs that are likely going to further destroy the economy. You've got the Atlanta Federal Reserve predicting a 2.8% contraction
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In our economy, you've got stagflation on the horizon, low GDP and surging inflation. And he's whining about the 2020 election being rigged. Oh, and by the way, let me show you this clip where you'll see Kid Rock next to him in the jumpsuit while Donald Trump from the Oval Office is selling Teslas. Play the clip.
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And again, talking about Teslas, the framing of all of that, it's just like poor Elon, pity Elon. Look, anybody who engages in crimes should be brought to justice. A lot of the protests, though, that are out there, most of those protests, mostly all we see, It's peaceful. Elon Musk, Trump, Doge have destroyed the lives of millions of Americans. They're making veterans suffer.
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This says he's crashing our markets, crashing our economy. All of this comes as well as we approach some very important elections on Tuesday, a big special elections in Florida, a major Supreme Court race in Wisconsin with an empty seat.
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Their hostile takeover of the federal government has been a wrecking ball on people's lives. The way they talk about social security as a Ponzi scheme and shut down social security administration office, these people
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are wrecking balls destroying lives and we're going to see on tuesday what that impact is also going to be during a critical election day we saw what happened in lancaster pennsylvania where a senate district 36 in the pennsylvania state senate that had not gone blue since 1889 flipped blue there.
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So we'll see what happens in the special election now in Florida's sixth congressional district, where you have the Democratic candidate, Josh Weill, running against the MAGA candidate, Randy Fine. We'll talk more about that in a little bit. And then the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, Judge Susan Crawford, the pro-democracy candidate, running against the MAGA Doge candidate, Brad Schimel.
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YIKES! Senate Hearing GOES OFF THE RAILS over Trump Picks
Now, I want to show you this clip first to show you Kash Patel is a liar. Some may call that committing perjury. Others may say lying, but I'll leave that distinction or determination up to you and your opinion. But here, Kash Patel appears repeatedly on a show called Stu Peters, which spread some heinous conspiracies and lies and lies. bunch of toxic, dangerous, dangerous stuff.
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I want you to watch him first appear because then I'm going to show you a clip where Kash Patel says, Stu, I don't know this guy. So first, let me give you receipts.
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Thank you for that montage, Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chief now. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin asked Kash Patel, do you know who Stu Peters? Are you familiar who that is? And Kash Patel's like, nope. Watch this.
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So Republicans scheduled three confirmation hearings today to try to jam them all through of the most unqualified, dangerous people. You had Kash Patel, who Donald Trump put to lead the FBI. You had Tulsi Gabbard, who Donald Trump put to be the Director of National Intelligence. And you have anti-vaxxer RFK Jr., who Donald Trump put to run Health and Human Services.
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Now I want to show you RFK Jr. He goes, I've never said anything wrong about science. Play this clip.
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Okay, you want me to show you receipts? Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, bring in the receipts.
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Next up, Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders. Here he goes right here. Let's play the clip.
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The hearings went off the rails awfully quickly today. We try to keep track of them all here on the Midas Touch Network. Here, Kash Patel, who Donald Trump once appointed to lead the FBI, is asked, can you simply say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election? Kash Patel refuses to do so. Play this clip.
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Go to selectquote.com slash Midas today to get started. That's selectquote.com slash Midas. Next up, we have Senator Murray talking to our Democratic Senator Murray, responding to JFK Jr. right here. Play this clip.
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Here is Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Let's play it.
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Democratic Senator Murphy, let's play it.
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I want kids. Democratic Senator Hirono to Patel. Let's play it.
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And finally, here's Democratic Senator Adam Schiff from the great state of California. Let's play it.
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Oh, I see. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Next up, you have Democratic Senator Dick Durbin asked Kash Patel about creating a musical with the January 6th insurrectionists and a song called the J6 Choir, which was used to replace the national anthem at Donald Trump campaign events. Play the clip.
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Trump THROWS Elon UNDER THE BUS for DISASTER
Whether you were in a red state or a blue state, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, governors throughout the country, people throughout the country, were outraged that federal funding was so abruptly cut off with a vague memo Now Donald Trump and the White House is basically saying they didn't even get to review the memorandum.
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They said they didn't see it and it went outside of the protocol through the Office of Management Budget, which we now know is also being led not just by Russ Vogt, the author of Project 2025, but also Elon Musk has stuck his lackeys to basically run and operate the Office of Management Budget.
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They also were the ones who gave that fake severance offer to the 2 million plus federal workers, which if you actually read the fine print, seems like a total fake offer. Now, look, Trump is throwing Musk under the bus, throwing the Office of Management Budget under the bus.
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But let's reflect on what Elon Musk literally said with Donald Trump during the campaign that we tried to repeat over and over again here. on the Midas Touch Network. This is a headline. Elon Musk sees Trump's economic plans causing temporary hardship, is what he said. He goes, there would be an initial severe overreaction in the economy and then hopefully sustainable growth.
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It's like a direct quote from Elon Musk and Donald Trump during the campaign. Or how about this headline? Musk says Trump win would result in hardship to some Americans. The world's richest man promises big spending cuts if Trump gives him a job. Says people taking advantage of government are going to be upset. By the way, we've got the receipts. We've got the audio.
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Here was the unearthed audio of the richest man in the world and in America, Elon Musk, saying that Trump's agenda will cause hardship, will inflict hardship right away. Trump was saying this. Musk was saying this. Russ Vogt, the author of Project 2025, who worked with them, was saying this. Here. Play the clip.
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Now, this is from the Atlantic. I hope this title is being ironic here. The memo that shocked the White House, the directive from the Office of Management and Budget that froze most federal funds on Monday had not gone through the usual approval process. Now, look, Ashley Parker is the author, and Ashley, I just think that Donald Trump probably was aware of this.
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You think that, does it make it worse if he wasn't aware of this? That he's so grossly incompetent and negligent or he's intentionally or malicious. But they're saying what? That there was a secret process, a shadow government, the deep state of Elon Musk and Russ Vogt and the Office of Management Budget. Did Donald Trump, did your own deep state of Elon Musk do this? I mean, come on here, look.
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Donald Trump intended his flood of executive orders to shock and awe his opponents. But on Monday night, a memo from the Office of Management and Budget instead shocked the Trump White House. That memo, with its call for a temporary pause to all federal government grants and loans,
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set off widespread panic and confusion within the federal government and among the millions of individuals and institutions reliant on federal funds. But it was released without going through the usual White House approval process. Ashley, what are the usual White House approval processes? Is it when Donald Trump makes posts of right-wing influencers named Cat Turd? with cats wearing glasses?
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Is that the standard protocol? Or how about when Donald Trump reposts QAnon accounts like this one and others saying, let it flow. Trump sends in the military to turn on the water flow in California. Or this one, this is actually the QAnon one. At spiritual fighter, watch the water. And then when you actually click on it, it's someone who goes, thank you.
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Thank you with the letter Q for Donald Trump posting this and her whole accounts like where we go, when we go all. So explain to me, Ashley, what the diligent processes and protocols are. Or is it as Midas Touch correspondent Mike Sachs has said, I wouldn't be surprised if the White House had trusted votes people.
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And I'll add on top of that, Musk's people who are now at the Office of Management and Budget as well, including OMB's incoming general counsel, to have just proceeded as they saw fit carte blanche. without needing the White House approval because all of the appointees were supposed to be the competent ones and they were supposed to execute the Project 2025 plan. We've got more receipts.
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We always come with receipts here on the Midas Touch Network. But let's recall then what happened. Right. Then you had the White House and the Office of Management Budget put out another memo that purported to rescind the prior memo, which stopped all of the funding and says we hereby rescind it.
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Meanwhile, the various state attorney generals had been filing lawsuits throughout the country and in a Rhode Island federal court. And in the Rhode Island federal court, they were saying, Well, one of the things that Trump's lawyers were saying is, look, we rescinded it. We rescinded it.
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But then Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt, said, this is not a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It's simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The president's executive order on federal funding remain in full force in effect and will be rigorously implemented.
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So you're saying it's not a rescission on the federal funding freeze, which is the OMB memo. But then you say, what's really happening is it's a rescission of the OMB memo, but not the federal funding freeze in the memo. I just think that Caroline Leavitt doesn't know what the memo is. Donald Trump may not know what the memo is.
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They're getting a lot of grief from right wing governors, Republican governors, former Trump voters who are saying, what the heck is going on? Well, the federal judge, federal judge, Judge McConnell was saying, I wasn't sure how I was going to rule. Because if the order was rescinded, then it would be moot. I wouldn't need to issue injunctive relief.
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But because Trump's own press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, says it's not a rescission of the freeze, I'm going to order an injunction. Trump, you lose. And Trump was a loser in court. The freeze is blocked by the federal judge in Rhode Island, Judge McConnell. Trump was a loser. People are pissed. Republican governors are pissed. People are pissed. So what's Trump doing?
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Must have gone through some other process and channel. Was Russ Vogt the one involved? Well, let's check in on Russ Vogt. Before doing that, let's check in on Donald. Because Donald...
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You were asked, can you take a quick question on government funding on the freeze that has scared people to death, that has ruined people's lives, that has turned the country into chaos in the worst week and a half in presidential history? You want to tell us about that? Trump goes, yeah, I don't think it's appropriate timing. I don't want to talk about it. Play the clip.
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Trump want to talk about? WMD, weapon of mass distraction, of course. He wants to say, oh, we discovered that Biden was trying to do $50 million in condoms to Hamas. Did you know that he was doing... And Hamas, they were using the condoms to make bombs. Hamas condom bombs because of Biden. WMD, weapon of mass distraction. None of that's true. There weren't even condoms sent to Gaza.
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The whole thing is made, every aspect of it is false. There's nothing true about it. The whole thing is false. But this is what they do. They want to distract you because they are losing. They are harming the country and prices are going up, not down. And none of the things they said were going to happen are happening.
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So finally, let me show you Russ' vote. So we all are on the same page. Russ' vote said that they're ready to go. They were going to implement this stuff. This isn't a shock. So Trump can try to throw Musk and vote and others under the bus and say, I didn't know about this. You did. You did. Play the clip.
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Donald Trump is now throwing Elon Musk under the bus. Trump is also throwing Russ Vogt, the head of the office and management budget, under the bus for the memorandum, which froze federal funding to departments and agencies, which was incredibly unpopular.
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Okay. Brilliant. Brilliant. Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Check out MidasPlus.com if you can. I think you'll enjoy it. M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. Subscribe. You can even subscribe to it for free. We'd love for you to become a member, help grow this independent media platform. We have zero outside investors, but subscribe for free.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
So is Donald Trump setting up for yet another fake deal?
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to take credit for just imaginary things that aren't happening so he can get the propaganda headlines that he won oh donald trump made a deal but in reality it's just the status quo because he doesn't know what the heck he is doing let's go over the facts folks so right here i want to show you this clip first it's canada's minister of foreign affairs melanie jolly and here she says
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What Canada should do is coordinate a joint response with our EU allies, with Canada's EU allies, to retaliate against Donald Trump. Here, watch this.
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Strong words by Melanie Jolly. Now, that follows a meeting with the prime minister of Denmark, Meta Fredricksen, and European Union leaders as well, and European leaders as well, like Macron and others, and the chancellor of Germany as well. And they all agreed that they were going to coordinate a response.
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Even France said that they could provide military weapons and military aid and troops to Greenland to help Denmark if there was an invasion by the United States. Now, I want you to take a look at this because this is how CNN interviewed Canada's ambassador to the US. And what you'll notice about how CNN and Jake Tapper kind of frame the issue. They're like, well, Colombia backed down.
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So do you think Canada is going to give in to Donald Trump's threats and back down like Colombia? I'm going to show you the clip. But Colombia didn't back down. Colombia preserved the status quo. They didn't want military jets treating migrants like trash. and sending them in that way. Columbia was fine with what President Biden was doing.
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So Donald Trump created this threat, this trade war that was about to take place. And then Donald Trump claimed he made a deal and he said, Columbia submitted, Columbia gave in and they liked it. Look what Columbia did, but nothing changed.
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That's part of Donald Trump being a con artist, a weapon of mass distraction to try to take our minds away from the havoc and chaos that he's creating and to claim victories that aren't real victories, just making them up. I just want you to be aware of the hustle because corporate media ain't reporting it this way, but this is what happening.
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So here's Canada's ambassador, but notice how Jake Tapper asks the question.
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All right, so now I want to share with you the confirmation hearing of Trump's Commerce Secretary pick, Howard Lutnick. Now, Howard Lutnick basically said, look, Canada and Mexico, they can avoid tariffs before Saturday's deadline. They just got to stop killing 100,000 Americans. which they're not. You want to know where fentanyl mostly comes from? China.
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You want to know where else it comes from? America, where 99% of the deaths are occurring are from Americans taking these synthetic drugs. That's what is happening. It is a serious issue.
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within America that states in America should be dealing with, that we should be funding, that we should be properly educating people on, and we should be addressing, but which Trump and MAGA want to scapegoat as they defund all of these programs to try to help it. They want to scapegoat it on other countries.
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So Howard Luttnick saying, look, if these countries just give in, here's what's going to happen. We may not impose those tariffs.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
What's really happening is that Howard Lutnick, who is a Wall Street banker, one of Trump's billionaire, he's a billionaire, billionaire broligarcs, they know if Trump imposes the tariffs, just look how the threat of tariffs on Colombia has harmed the American economy and how coffee prices are up significantly. and gas prices are going up, and how prices are going up in general.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
If that happened with Colombia, imagine a trade war with Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. So Trump and Lutnick need to save face. They're scared of a united Europe, Canada, Mexico. They didn't see that happening. So now they need to figure out a way to save face. Now, Canada may help them save face. Certainly Canadian media is trying to help Trump save face.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
You notice some of the headlines in Canadian media, Canada launches fentanyl crackdown to convince Trump tariffs aren't necessary. That's how you're reporting it, CBC. We need to convince Donald Trump that we won't kill Americans anymore. Canada isn't doing that, okay? It's built on a foundation of lies. So it's ridiculous that that's how Canada is reporting it. Will Trump not give it?
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
Will we submit to Donald Trump? I mean, that reporting right there is pathetic in my opinion as well. Let me show you what Lutnick said. Let's play this clip.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
Canada is not backing down to Donald Trump in the United States. Canada is standing firm. It's standing on business. By and large, Canada and its provinces have united against Donald Trump. And they've united with their allies across the globe to coordinate a strong and powerful campaign. and painful response if Donald Trump imposes tariffs or sanctions against Canada.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
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That's 10% off and free shipping at trustandwill.com slash Midas. That's trustandwill.com slash Midas. Get 10% off plus free shipping. Now, this is from Donald Trump's press conference that he held yesterday where he basically said, look, Columbia submitted it. They liked it. I told them, you take them back and like it. It's just Donald Trump projecting to be a fake strongman.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
And he's really, really weak. Here, play this clip.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
And by the way, with how horrible of a job Hegseth is doing already, Donald Trump's posting this. Recruiting numbers are up. The army now is scheduled to meet its goals. All woke base names are gone. Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Trump saying like the military is perfect and he fixed everything in 24 hours. And then he makes posts like I made, he pretends he made it rain in California.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
Let there be water. That's what he's posting. I mean, you know, we're talking about a real sicko here, but let's be real about the facts about what's happening. And by the way, I hope there aren't tariffs. If Canada wants to pretend they made a fake deal with Donald Trump and Mexico claims they made a fake deal with Donald Trump and there are no tariffs.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
I'll tell you who seems like they're backing down. It seems like Donald Trump is backing down because now we're seeing headlines like this. Canada and Mexico can avoid tariffs before Saturday's deadline, says Donald Trump's commerce pick, Howard Lutnick. They just need to agree to stop shipping their fentanyl and killing 100,000 Americans, which Canada isn't doing.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
I mean, I'll ask you, do you think that that's a net win to have fake deals and then Donald Trump doesn't impose the tariffs? And then he makes social media posts that say they submitted. I mean, I'll let you answer that. That it's just incredibly bizarre and brazen and strange. But I want you to know what the hustle is here.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
And while now Americans are suffering under his policies, while prices are going up, he can't solve the war in Ukraine. And you see how our media reports it like Jake Tapper. Well, Columbia back down. What are you talking about? They did none of that. But now you know the facts. We're going to arm you with the truth here at the Midas Touch Network with the objective data.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
So check out MidasPlus.com for more. You can check that out. Thank you, SnapStream, for some of those clips right there. We appreciate it. That's how we help clip our stuff. And thanks for watching. Have a good one.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Donald Trump has pretended or lied that he sent the United States military into the state of California to turn on a faucet in the Northwest. which is entirely false. And Donald Trump and some of his QAnon cult are now saying that Donald Trump was responsible for the rain. Donald Trump was reposting an account called Spiritual Fighter, which is a QAnon account.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
She then responds, if it is a she, who goes, thank QAnon. At Real Donald Trump for posting the link to my reply on your Truth Social post. It's a great honor. And her account is literally a QAnon account that says where we go one, we go all, the QAnon slogan. But she thanked Q for Donald Trump reposting it, Donald Trump just reposting QAnon stuff. More posts by Donald Trump saying, let it flow.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Trump sends in military to turn on the water flow in California. Again, that never happened. The mental breakdown, the lies, the delusion, the insanity here is omnipresent. Next, Donald Trump, well, they're advertising on his social media platform. When you look through his posts, we're giving away free Trump second term gold coins to everyone who clicks this. Also, at the same time, RFK Jr.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
's confirmation hearing was taking place. They were also advertising on Donald Trump's social media platform. 10% off. Ivermectin. They're still selling that crap on Trump's social media site. More weird posts by Donald Trump referring to himself as the G-O-A-T, the GOAT. And he claims that America's now great again in one week. Frankly, we've never been weaker than before in our history.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
And then Donald Trump finally gets to this press conference and he's asked a question. He's talking about all these other things in the press conference. He's talking about lies that America sent. $50 million bomb condoms to Gaza that we sent bomb condoms, condoms that became bombs used by Hamas. 100% false, not a single dollar went to Gaza for condoms. There was aid that went to Gaza.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
America sent internationally about $60 million of contraceptive aid internationally, but there were no condom bombs or condoms. But Anyway, Donald Trump and MAGA will lie about everything. The bigger, the more outlandish is their WMD, their weapon of mass distraction from the fact that egg prices are not down, grocery prices are not down, gas prices are up. The economy ain't better.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
The Federal Reserve refused to lower interest rates because of Donald Trump's chaos, to which Donald Trump then started attacking the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Chairman Powell, and saying that they're too focused on DEI and green stuff and don't care about the economy. Anyway. Trump was asked, can you take a quick question on government funding?
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Like, you've created mass pandemonium and chaos in this country. What's your response? Trump goes, I don't think it's appropriate timing to talk about that. It's not appropriate. Here, watch this.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
But what was Donald Trump talking about? Lying and saying that they stopped $50 million to Gaza to buy condom bombs. But to be very clear, as Josh Rogin makes sense, according to comprehensive reports issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, not a penny of the 60.8 million in contraceptive and condom shipments funded by the U.S. in the past year went to Gaza.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
But here's what Trump said. Let's play it.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Then Donald Trump talked about his threats to Colombia and the fake deal he made with Columbia, which preserved the status quo that existed when President Biden was in office. But then Donald Trump said to Columbia, Donald Trump goes, I told them you're gonna take your migrants back and you're gonna like it.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
By the way, that's what abusers, that's how abusers talk. And look, Donald Trump is someone found liable of sexual assault. He is someone who was separately convicted of 34 felony counts in New York. He talks like a mobster.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Then Donald Trump talks about how he's basically going to be opening up what appears to be a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. They're calling it a migrant facility in Guantanamo Bay.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
And then Donald Trump posts the following, a photo of Pete Hegseth, who is the former Fox host, someone entirely unqualified to become the defense secretary who the MAGA Republicans confirmed. And now Donald Trump and Hegseth are just lying about the numbers and they go, recruiting numbers are up. The army is now scheduled to meet all of its goals. All woke base names are gone.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
He's getting more unhinged and bizarre each and every day. So Donald Trump's Wednesday freakout was a sight to behold. Donald Trump was supposed to sign into law the Lake and Riley Act, which he did. Took him seven days to do that while he's been playing golf and shutting down government funding to go to where it's needed, and then rescinding a memo, shutting down the government funding.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Fort Liberty's back to being Fort Bragg. Oh, yeah. You just solved everything. Recruitment's all of a sudden up. Everything's great, folks. This is Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin-style propaganda. This is the epitome of weakness, by the way, in addition to freezing. government aid being shipped out. This is why they did a freeze on government communication. They don't want to report disease numbers.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
They don't want to report the real economic numbers. They don't want to report recruitment numbers. Why? They want to do this Kim Jong-un crap and just lie. They think that's strength. Remember what he said during COVID? Like a miracle, it's all going to just go away and they expect us to buy into the propaganda. Pete Hegseth then posted, we don't want criminal illegals on our soil.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
They need to go home. Using Gitmo will facilitate that. It's the perfect location, he says. And by the way, there's also a recent study showing that most of the people or majority of the people they're rounding up are not criminals. They don't have criminal records. They're not terrorists. They're migrants who are contributing to the economy. Don't get me wrong.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
There are some criminals, but Biden was deporting criminals. Biden had less border crossings than Trump did at the end of Biden's term. Oh, and then there's this piece of news while all of this is going on that you have Zuckerberg's meta is agreeing to pay Donald Trump $25 million. million dollars. Donald Trump filed some ridiculous lawsuit for being blocked by Facebook in 2021.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
And the way Donald Trump had ABC kiss the ring and pay him $15 million, well now Donald Trump using the office of the presidency to have the Broligarcs pay him money, which they say $23 million or $22 million is going to the presidential library that's not built, 3 million going to legal funds. And by the way, so what we told you is going to happen.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Trump was going to go to those billionaires who kissed the ring and say, you have to pay me money. So while your gas prices are not lower, while your egg prices are not lower, while your groceries are not lower, while your housing is not more affordable, while the government freeze may have thrown you and your family into an utter panic.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
and has crippled our country while we are weaker internationally than we've ever been in the history of the United States. Donald Trump's out there asking his broligarcs to pay him legal settlements to enrich himself, to enrich his lawyers, and for future presidential libraries. I'm wink, wink, I'm sure about that. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
The truth is so critical now more than ever. I want to thank my friends at Snapstream, by the way, for helping with those clips. Thank you. And go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch. And let's go to MidasPlus.com as well. Thanks for watching.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
But then his press secretary said it wasn't rescinded, so states had to go into court to get another injunction to block Donald Trump from depriving people of emergency and necessary and critical government funding. But while all of that was going on, what was Donald Trump doing? Well, he was sitting around and making posts like this. Watch the water.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
With all of the noise out there, sometimes we just lose the signal that this is not normal and it's not okay. When we watch Donald Trump with his red political hat in front of the army grads giving this disastrous speech at West Point, yes, it's ridiculous. Yes, it's deranged. Yes, it's dangerous. But it frequently becomes a one-day story. Then we move on to the next one.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
So now contrast that to Donald Trump's speech from this past weekend.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
So I want to introduce you now to a West Point grad. Name is Kate Conley. She's running for the congressional seat in New York's 17th congressional district against MAGA Republican Mike Lawler. In addition to graduating from West Point, Kate Conley got her degree, master's degree from MIT and from Harvard.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
Not we here at the Midas Touch Network, but the collective kind of we. And I'm referring more, though, to the kind of corporate news and why we've been created to try to stop that. Because we can't move on from these things and just go on to the next crisis or the next scandal or the next him making a fool of himself. These things happen. make lasting impressions.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
16 years on active duty as an Army officer, deploying overseas six times to keep Americans safe in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Kate Conley, welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. And first and foremost, thank you for your service. And I want to just get your response from an insider's perspective on what went down and how it impacted you.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
And so I thought it was very important that we actually speak to a West Point grad and a West Point grad who finished top 2% of the entire class when she graduated and get really an inside perspective of what went down. And I think it's also important that when we think about what Donald Trump's speech was, we again reflect on other West Point commencement speeches and what could have been
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
You know, and I think that's the most important thing is to talk about just leadership. And then I guess even even a step below on the hierarchy. How about just like behaving like an adult, like like a grown up? And and.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
the behavior that i see frequently from donald trump and the leaders in this republican party feels and again it's it's offensive to children because children behave more mature than this but sometimes i say this behavior is like if if a little child was doing these things or posting these types of things or you know behaving this way i would say i'm not okay with it so why are we
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
supporting it when it's in a republican when it's a political party and why is it being normalized as like whatever and you know i i go to your district because someone like a mike lawler was out there trying at first he represented to everybody in the community that he was the normal guy that he was going to go in there and I'm a centrist.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
And occasionally, you know, you'll see him try to pretend to do that. He'll do, you know, the funny bit. Hey, you remember me? I'm Lawler. Everybody remembers me. But then when it comes to the voting, when it comes to the actual time, OK, well, now you got to be a leader every single time. He'll do the exact opposite. And that that that complicity to me is what enable it's almost worse than
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
than the Trumps. Because we know what the Trumps are. To me, it's the wolf in sheep's clothing, like the Lawlers, that get me even more worried.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
in the words of former Vice President Kamala Harris, because I remember her speech in 2023, which focused on the graduating class. It focused on the future leaders in the Army and what that meant, not on trophy wives, not on not liking stealth technology, not on attacking former administrations. It focused on the graduating class. So here's what former Vice President Kamala Harris had to say.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
Now, finally, when it comes to New York's 17th congressional district, that's the district Hudson Valley that Mike Lawler Republican holds right now. It's a competitive Democratic primary field. We had the opportunity to speak to others, you know, in the primary. So we were glad to be able to to kind of speak to you as well.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
So to tell our audience about, you know, your vision in that congressional district and in a competitive primary field, what's been your pitch to the voters?
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
Kate Connolly, thanks for your service and thank you for your perspective on the West Point crowd. And thanks for everything you're doing for joining us.
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Cait Conley Responds to Trump West Point Disaster
Everybody hit subscribe and let's hit 5 million subscribers.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
You've got MAGA Republican Congress members getting booed at town halls in Iowa now by their constituents in Ruby Red, Iowa. Watch MAGA Republican Congresswoman Hinson get booed yesterday at her town hall. Play this clip.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
is when are you going to do the responsibility that you were elected for by holding the executive branch accountable up to and including impeachment?
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
We're out of time, Kyle. Kyle, we're out of time. Her response was to attack the judges in response to that question. What do you make of everything I just showed, Kyle?
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
Well, Kyle, you know, the Beltway class, they're too busy talking about who's going to be the next left's Joe Rogan. They're saying, is it going to be Ben? Is it going to be Kyle? And we're out there saying we don't want to be that person. Please just listen to what the people are saying in the town halls. The people are suffering right now. Speak to those issues.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
just the level of arrogance there as well by her i want to bring in kyle kolinsky from secular talk we got to break this down together kyle but i think there's some other data points we should look at as well let's not forget that on january 28 2025 a democrat flipped a state senate seat there that was a plus 21 trump district there the latest polls have the democratic senate candidate nathan sage
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
And that's what you do so bravely, courageously at Secular Talk, your YouTube channel. So talk to us just about that, Kyle, which is... The biggest issues that are facing the American people are often the ones that the media is not talking about. All you have to do is show the clips that we just showed you, and you don't have to be a political savant to say, you got to help these people.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
They want you to fight for them, huh?
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
it's such a bizarre thing when, you know, you cover it, I cover it. I mean, when you watch Trump's speech at West Point and you see him talking about trophy wives and how he doesn't like stealth and, I mean, just anything he says in a given day, you know, when you see the press conferences that, you know, that he holds in the Oval Office where he, you know, will be
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
berates a reporter because she asks him a question about him being called a taco that he always chickens out. The fact that it's YouTube channels like yours and ours and others in this zeitgeist that are the ones calling it out while corporate news is not, it just always shocked me because I'm like, don't you see it?
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
Yeah, when Governor Walz calls him the Gestapo, it's because these people are literally waiting. in front of courts while people are showing up to their immigration hearings and they're freaking disappearing them. And they're sending him to concentration camps in El Salvador, in South Sudan, in Libya. And we're supposed to be like cool, like cool with that.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
Kyle, there's a lot of intersection in our channels. When we mention you on our channel, people will comment. When you mention us on the channel, people will comment.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
But for some of our subscribers who this may be the first time being introduced to you, although I would think that that's in the lesser group of people here, just tell people about your channel, what you started, and going forward, kind of what your overall goals are at Secular Talk.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
leading Joni Ernst right there. And if you just listen, this is what I always tell people why I love your show, because you listen to your audience. Listen to what the people are calling for in Iowa. They're asking these MAGA Republican Congress members about impeachment because of Donald Trump repeatedly violating the law. Let's watch this, then you and I will chat about it.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
Well, you paved the way, Kyle. I want to remind everybody that your YouTube channel is called Secular Talk. If you're not subscribed yet to Kyle Kalinsky's channel, Secular Talk, go there now. Subscribe. Say that Midas Touch sent you. We got to do more of these duets together. I'll come on your channel. We'll figure out how to do more of these. Thanks, Kyle. Would love to, man.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
Thank you very much. And everybody, hit subscribe here and help us get to 5 million.
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Kyle Kulinski Responds to Trump Getting Booed in Iowa
President Trump and his cabinet, in addition to being totally unqualified and inept, are breaking laws by ignoring federal judges' orders. The checks and balances of our government includes Congress's responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable. My question for you is,
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
President Biden making a major announcement at the White House today. Let's go to the White House. Let's play it.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
Here President Biden states that the United States remains committed and prepared to engage in any and all negotiations to secure historic deals, to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and to establish a Palestinian state. Play this clip.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
That's right, President Biden announcing a ceasefire deal has been secured between Israel and Lebanon, again, which would provide for no Hezbollah encampments by the border surrounding Israel. Let's listen in more on the deal that President Biden helped secure. Let's play it.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
And if you listen closely, you'll hear the media kind of peppering President Biden with questions here about whether he thinks he'll be able to secure a ceasefire in Gaza before leaving office. Let's play this clip.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
So some powerful clips right there. You know, I want to just reflect on President Biden continuing to work hard right now to do his job. And he knows that his actions will likely just be used by Donald Trump to try to take credit for them.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
I think President Biden knows that Benjamin Netanyahu and other forces in the Middle East would not agree to this deal before the election since they did not want to hand Biden and Kamala Harris any win at all. They're things that could be perceived as an international relations victory before the election. But, you know, President Biden is someone who's always led for the people.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
He's not someone who's gone around boasting and trying to take credit for everything. He's someone who's just done his job. And I think that's resulted in people blaming him for things that he does not deserve blame for and taking credit for things that he actually deserves credit for. Now. Here are some of the factors though I think we need to always remember.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
You've got Mike Huckabee right here who says that he doesn't even recognize the West Bank as something that exists. Let me show you this clip right here.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
And here's another clip of Mike Huckabee, by the way, he's the ambassador to Israel in the Trump administration. Here's another clip of him saying that he does not agree with any Palestinian state at all. Here, play this clip.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
And so, look, I think it is the policy of the Biden administration to support a two-state solution. Even if you had people within the Palestinian community and Arab community in areas in Michigan, for example, who said, do not vote for Biden and do not vote for Harris. I think the Biden administration was and is always committed to a two-state solution.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
And I think we're seeing his commitment to continuing to work hard there. Let me just leave you with this here. This is a clip that our research team found as well about the individual Donald Trump picked to be Secretary of Defense. Pete Hegseth has never commanded a military company, but he's somehow been appointed to lead the Defense Department.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
Here, Pete Hegseth says that Antifa protesters are the exact type of people you want to serve in the military. Here, play this clip.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
It's a lot to unpack there, but I don't think that there's a lot of actual racism synapses connecting in that mind of Hegseth, but that's just me. Anyway, good news to report from Biden. It's good news for the world, not necessarily Biden. It's good news. And when there's good news, we report good news. And we'll keep you posted more. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million together.
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Biden Makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT before LEAVING
President Biden is also talking about a multinational push in general right now that he will be leading to try to secure peace in the Middle East. Let's play this clip.
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Did you hear that sound, folks? Flip. That's the sound of a potential flip from a Republican congressional district in California's 13th to a Democratic seat. It seems that Adam Gray is going to go on to win his race against John Duarte, Duarte is currently the incumbent Republican House member from California's 13th congressional district.
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And there are big implications here because Donald Trump has nominated multiple Republican Congress members for his cabinet. So you had, for example, Elise Stefanik in New York, the ambassador to the UN. Matt Gaetz resigned his seat for child sex trafficking allegations. A bunch of others that Donald Trump nominated as
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Aaron Parnas, who works for us here at the Midas Touch Network, writes, so if Adam Gray goes on to win California's 13th congressional district, Republicans will have a 220 to 215 House majority that will turn into a 217 to 215 House majority until the special election takes place. Because remember, You have Gates out and a number of other Republican Congress members out.
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They are going to literally now get nothing done. That's why this was big. It was a shocking result that Merced dropped like that in favor of Gray. More MAGA chaos, but they're really going to struggle. They have to have... complete unanimity now, and there's no way the Republicans are going to be able to do that.
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Dave Wasserman also says Adam Gray overtakes California's 13th over Representative John Duarte by 105 votes in the new Merced ballot drop. Still way too close to call with a few thousand left, but this is a huge development for Democrats. Now,
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You know, we previously called here on the Midas Touch Network, the 45th congressional district in California, flipping to Democrat as Derek Tran declared victory. Again, we're talking about within just a hundreds of votes there. NBC reports, Derek Tran declares victory in California's 45th U.S. House district three weeks after election day.
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Incumbent Republican Representative Michelle Steele and Democratic challenger Derek Tran have been locked in a close contest for the district representing parts of Orange and Los Angeles counties. Democratic challenger Derek Tran declared victory on Monday, just happened, over incumbent Representative Michelle Steele in this competitive Southern California US House race.
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Tran's declaration in the close contest for the 45th House District came nearly three weeks after election day. NBC News has not declared a winner in the race for the district that includes parts of Orange County and LA County. This is a victory and a testament to the spirit and resilience of our community, Tran said in a statement as the son of Vietnamese refugees.
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i understand firsthand the journey and sacrifices many families in our district have made for a better life my parents came to this country to escape oppression and pursue the american dream and their story reflects the journey of so many here in southern california Just take a look. We're talking about very, very, very close race there. And then you turn to California's 27th district.
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Now, we can't officially call it yet, but here is what went down. A whole new drop of ballots from Merced just dropped. And we're talking about for California's 13th congressional district, we're talking about the Central Valley area. in California. So a batch of ballots from Merced just dropped. Adam Gray beat his benchmarks big time, as Ethan C7 says, winning it by 13%.
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This was called much earlier, but you have George Whiteside, one of the NASA executives, flipped California's 27th district blue. They took that seat from a real bad dude, Representative Mike Garcia. This was a Los Angeles House seat. who had Mike Garcia, who was really all MAGA all the time and pushing some of the most extreme Trump policies.
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And just as someone who lives in Los Angeles, that's not my congressional district in L.A., but to have someone like Mike Garcia in the surrounding L.A. area was really a stain on our country. uh all of los angeles but again those are the three house seats that flipped and as aaron partners said this is big because with donald trump's picks
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We're not gonna have special elections with Donald Trump's cabinet picks. We're not gonna have special elections now, really, until like April. So it's gonna be basically like just a two-seat lead, very, very, very narrow. Let me just share this with you as well so you have a sense of how Adam Gray works. ran this campaign against John Duarte.
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Maybe it's instructive, maybe it isn't instructive for how Democrats win, but it's worth sharing because this was a flip. And when we see flips, I think it's important to reflect that we may see some commonalities here in how these campaigns are being run. So one of the things that Adam Gray ran on is highlighting the support he received from people who work in law enforcement.
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This is one of the main campaign messages he put out, and this was very effective in California's 13th. Here, play this clip. A lot of guys talk tough on crime, but there's one guy actually doing something about it, Adam Gray.
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And by the way, this was from the debate between Gray and Duarte. And one of the things that Gray made very clear was that he was pro-choice and Duarte wasn't. Here, play this clip.
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Now with that, Gray, the Democrat, is now the new favorite to win California's 13th congressional district, and not a lot of people saw this coming. So now the incumbent Republican Congressman Duarte will need to straight up win in Stanislaus, which we don't think he's going to do to win reelection. As Robert Garcia, Congress member from California says, this is big.
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There were a number of other, I think, very compelling moments from the debate between them. Let me just share that with you as well. Here, play this clip.
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So all big developments here, folks. Happy to report some good news. Let me know what you think, all right? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together and we'll keep you posted and everything. But that ballot drop, Central Valley, Merced, boom. Adam Gray taking the lead. Now Democrats can flip three seats in California. That's some good news here.
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It's still not controlled of the House. Democrats are not gonna have control of the House, but that's some big developments. We'll keep you posted with more on the Midas Touch Network, always keeping you informed and in the know. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million things.
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Adam Gray just took the lead by over 100 votes, 100 votes. You see why your votes matter, folks? We are about to beat Congressman John Duarte in this congressional race. So get this, California is about to have three flips from Republican to Democrat while holding every Democratic seat. Let's go.
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Red State CEOs TURN AGAINST Trump for his PLANS
So here's another update on F Around and Find Out. As Steve Inskeep writes, this is fascinating, a red state construction CEO, and it's in Texas, goes on record not wanting to lose immigrant workers. Who would have thought? He favors a guest worker program to legalize employees along the same lines as DACA, hopes Congress will act. You mean like comprehensive immigration reform?
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some of the state's major industries that rely on undocumented labor, chief among them the booming construction industry. I just want to pause there too, because it's my firm view also that if you have a path towards citizenship, as this Republican's red state CEO is talking about. Then you can also treat labor with dignity. We shouldn't have like indentured servitude.
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We should treat labor with dignity. And these are jobs that American workers are not filling. I just think it's important that I acknowledge that at the top of this video. Goes on to say, quotes Stan Merrick, CEO of Merrick, a Houston-based commercial and residential construction giant. Quote, it would devastate our injury. We wouldn't finish our highways. We wouldn't finish our schools.
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Housing would disappear. I think they'd lose half of their labor. I think, this is just me talking, it's more than half of their labor. That's what common sense and my own observations of these types of things instruct. It goes on to say, talk of the mass roundup comes as Texas is booming.
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Texas cities regularly appear on lists of the country's fastest growing communities and construction cranes and workers donning safety vests are common sites in most major cities. That Texas relies on undocumented labor as one of the state's open secrets, despite Republicans tough on immigration stances. I don't really think it's a secret. I just think it's hypocrisy. But I digress.
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In 2022, more than half... A million immigrants worked in the construction industry, according to a report by the American Immigration Council and Texans for Economic Growth. Nearly 60% of that workforce was undocumented. Again, my own view, it's probably closer to 85%, but that's just my own view.
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The state needs to leverage both U.S.-born and immigrant talent to fill construction jobs that power the Texas economy. MAGA's referring to these hardworking people in America, people. These are people who deserve dignity. MAGA refers to them as vermin, as terrorists, as criminals. They're not. They wanna do worksite raids.
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Just even think about how the fear of worksite raids that MAGA's talking about would cause a lot of harm just to work and productivity. Here, Ray Perryman, the president and CEO of the Waco-based Perryman Group, says, quote, it's not remotely practical to round up and deport everyone. He said the reason Texans need so many immigrant laborers is simple.
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The Texas workforce isn't large enough to keep pace with its growth. But we've been told now for three years they're taking the jobs away. Now you're telling me that the workforce actually wasn't large enough and these jobs weren't being taken away, but needed to be filled so that other Americans can prosper. Is that what you're telling me?
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Whoa, it's as if we've been talking about this for four years. Like Merrick, he worries that a massive roundup could have a chilling effect on the Texas economy. And we simply don't have an economic structure that can sustain that. There are more undocumented people working in Texas right now than there are unemployed people in Texas, Perryman said. And also those people ain't working those jobs.
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You mean when President Biden was trying to push for strong borders, which we all agree we should have? but also to ensure that there is a labor force of people here who are not criminals, who are working hard to support our economy. And red state governors like yours and Republican voters and MAGA Republicans all said, kill that bill, kill that bill. You're now saying you want what?
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Let's be real here. The reason, for example, why the Haitian migrants led to Springfield, Ohio's economy doing well is because other people couldn't fill those factory jobs that existed. The Haitians moved there, got lawful status, they were invited there, and then they were demonized for eating cats and dogs. All right, are you ready for this fact?
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The bottom line is if you just look across the country, our birth rates are at historic lows. Our population growth is at historic lows. We just simply are not making enough people, so to speak, to sustain our economy. But wasn't the whole argument that you were using, wasn't the whole Republican replacement theory, was that that's why you wanted to get rid of the immigrants?
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But now you're saying that's why the immigrants need to stay after the election when the person you elected literally ran on the position that could destroy your business and your economy. Now that's where you go. OK, OK. It goes on to say Trump's sweeping campaign pledges likely have the support of Republican border hawks in Texas. First of all, can we stop calling people hawks?
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It's like a stupid word. Hawks. Border hawks. These are just hypocritical people. It's a crazy term. Border hawks. You mean just people who are being... Look, we all want a strong border. Let me just be very clear. I don't want criminals. I don't want terrorists. I want the full force of the law to round up criminals and terrorists. If they're criminals or terrorists, period, full stop.
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I want a strong border. I agree on a strong border. But we have to also be common sense here. Being a hawk, being like a racist, just being complete, just being dumb, trying to hurt the economy, not wanting to speak in ways that address the facts. Is that what a hawk is?
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it goes on to say uh trump's sweeping campaign ledges have support amongst the hawks like i do the hawk thing where a state-led border mission called operation lone star started in 2021 and it's cost taxpayers more than 11 billion dollars that effort included deployment of thousands of texas national guard and state police officers to the border
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constructions of barriers that include fencing walls and razor wire on or near the banks of the Rio Grande River and a floating buoy barrier in the river. All signs show Trump will try to make good on his deportation promises. He's tapped Tom Homan and Stephen Miller, who say they're going to do that.
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And it goes on to say, meanwhile, the state's undocumented workforce is bracing for Trump policies. Veronica Carrasco is an undocumented immigrant from Honduras. who has worked as a house painter at this company in Texas for 12 years. She said that though she's lived through the first Trump administration, he seems more intent now. His administration is going to be more forceful in the past.
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What Biden was proposing now that Donald Trump wants to do bloody mass deportations combined with 25% tariffs on Mexico, which is about to do retaliatory tariffs on the United States and 25% tariffs on Canada. Let's dig into this article from this Texas red state CEO who apparently wants what Biden had been proposing and which Republicans gutted. Let's take a look.
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It makes me frustrated and worried. I'm a single mom. I have three children. She's been working as a painter for 12 years, helping our economy, working hard You're going to round her up? The fact that she's even afraid right now, probably can't even sleep at night, and that there are millions of people like this? Breaks my heart.
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Goes on to say, she's said she's already having difficult conversations with her children. One who she said is here with legal status and two who are U.S. citizens about how to prepare if she's deported to Honduras. In other words, family separations. Imagine it. I'm a father and a mother. They never would want to be separated from their mother, she said.
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Carrasco also pushed back on the rhetoric about immigrants taking jobs of American citizens. She said she does work that few line up to do. I didn't come to take the opportunity from anyone. What happens is that no one wants to do the dirty work. No one wants to do the hard work. It goes on to say, you know, more of the same here.
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And I'll leave you with this video, too, because this is what Trump's propaganda arm is saying. Here's what Jesse Waters had to say about migrants who are here, like Carrasco, doing the hard work. Here, play this clip.
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There you have it. Let me know what you think. Just interesting now that red state CEOs are going in this direction. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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It's articles from NPR by Julian Aguilar. Here's what it says. Clear signals President-elect Donald Trump's plans to make good on his campaign pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants in his second term has sparked concerns among some in Texas's business and economic sectors who say mass deportations could upend
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
Michigan voters are having some serious regrets about picking Donald Trump. Michigan went for Donald Trump in 2024, but a recent focus group by Axios and the group called Engage Us Sago spoke with some of the Trump voters in Michigan who are livid to say the least. Overwhelmingly, the Trump voters in this focus group were pissed off. They said they feel utterly betrayed.
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That's an understatement. And the MAGA Republican Congress members in Michigan, like Tom Barrett, are avoiding their town halls. Let me just share with you from a local news segment. They are finding time to show up to basketball games, but not see their constituents who are holding their own town halls in the absentia of the MAGA Republican Congress members. Let's play it.
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Now let's bring in Michigan Democratic State Senator Mallory McMorrow out with a new book, by the way, Hate Won't Win. Find your power and leave this place better than we found it. Here's the book right here. And I read it. Thank you for sending me a copy of it. And when I show you that focus group, is that what you're hearing on the ground in Michigan?
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Now, one of the things you're hearing a lot, you spoke about it recently at a committee hearing, is how scared the veteran community is not being able to access services. Can you speak to that?
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They say that Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the country and their state, and they want their vote back. We'll just show you a little bit from this focus group that was released a short time ago. Let's play it.
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We've been covering the protests across the country. There was a big protest in Detroit and then kind of a corresponding one in Windsor showing support between the American people and And the Canadian people with this wedge being driven by the Trump regime saying they want to annex or conquer Canada, you know, as Michigan's proximity to our ally, people that we love Canada.
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What are you hearing in Michigan and how is this all affecting your constituents in Michigan?
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You know, your book, Hate Won't Win, it's perfect for this time as well. And it's also, I think you talk about, you know, just as Democrats, but as people, not sacrificing your values. I mean, just because we saw what happened in the 2024 election doesn't mean to become clones of this hateful message to lead with empathy and love and respect. Bridging the Gaps Between People.
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So it's a very timely book and maybe speak to the book in the current context of what we're seeing right now, late March of 2025.
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You know, it's so funny because when I was getting involved as well in building this media network, the first way I started was Googling. Like, what do I do if I want to make a video and how do I go about it? We all start somewhere.
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And that's what you have in your book, you know, find your power, a whole section on the step-by-step guide about what you do and don't view politics as a dirty word and just start by starting. What do you think in this moment? Look, the Democrats on the, Federal level, it's a different situation than in Michigan.
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But on the federal level, Democrats don't control the House, don't control the Senate, obviously don't control the executive branch. But that's not an excuse. People are saying, OK, that's fine, but we want to see you fight. You're known as a fighter in Michigan and in the state Senate. So what do you tell the Democrats who don't control the House and the Senate at the federal level?
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What does fighting look like to Senator McMorrow?
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What do you make of this whole situation, just the incompetence and the dangerousness? And then they always mounted on top of with the lies of what happened with the Trump regime, Department of Defense officials, national security advisors sending like war plans on text messages. And then earlier on Tuesday, there were hearings with the top officials.
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the director of national intelligence, head of the CIA. And they go, yeah, you know what? That's not even classified information. It is what it is. And then the senators were like, we would be talking about war plans. Of course, that's classified information. And it's just this gaslighting, strange time. What do you make of it all?
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And finally, when you see that focus group and you see all of those people who now have regret, like what's the message as you're traveling around Michigan right now as part of the book tour, but just in general, what are you saying to the people who are scared about
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Social Security, Elon Musk calling it a Ponzi scheme, Trump's Commerce Secretary saying you're probably engaged in fraud if you complain if a Social Security check is missed, gutting Medicaid, $4.5 billion tax cuts for billionaires, so on and so forth. What are you telling people who are like, I'm nervous, what do I do tomorrow?
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
we're going to rebuild these systems for you and we have to create a system where they want to be a part of joining us and as you say in your book don't check out stay in the fight stay in there everybody get a copy of this hate won't win find your power and leave this place better than we found it state senator mallory mcmorrow and of course everybody knows the historic speech that you gave i normally would play it at the beginning but everybody knows state senator mcmorrow
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I'll ask you the obvious question if you're going to be running for Senate, but I'm not sure you'll give the answer anyway. And so I'm rooting for you. And that's all that I will. That's all I will say. Thank you for joining.
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I appreciate it. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
We're seeing Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee fighting back. An incredible explosive hearing yesterday where Democratic members were not taking the BS peddled by the Trump regime officials who were testifying. Let me show you what went down.
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Then Congressman Roger Krishnamoorthy, let's play it.
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The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Congress member Himes, said the following to Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence. Let's play it.
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Let's bring in Congress member Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. I guess, first off, it is classified information, correct? As the ranking member, this was classified information that was leaked.
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Where are we at with this right now? I mean, you led for the Democrats as the ranking member, the Democrats in the House Intelligence. Where are we at? Where do we go from here? What's going on?
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But Congressman, this couldn't possibly just be the only one. Like the way they named the chat, Houthi small group, the way everyone seemed to conduct what was taking place as business as usual. At least it tells me that this is what they're doing all the time, every day, with other plans, other attacks.
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We don't know that yet for a fact, but it seemed as a lawyer, it seemed pattern and practice like. So what's being done to determine if this is rampant, if this is how they do it all of the time? And do you think this is how they've been conducting business all of the time like this on signal chats with very sensitive information?
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Now, your Republican colleagues, who I think once upon a time would like labels like National Security Hawk and this and that, their response has either been, this is normal, this is cool. oopsies, mistakes happen, or yeah, I'm concerned about it. It's a mistake. I think the strongest statement we got was somewhere between oopsie and it's a mistake, maybe on the Senate slightly stronger.
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So what could you do though, as the ranking member, that means you're the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, but you still don't control the committee. You don't have subpoena power. They get to control the course of, but what can you do in that reality?
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I want to get your take on Elise Stefanik. It's being announced that her nomination is being pulled for the ambassador to the United Nations. This follows, I think Republicans are getting worried about the electoral map that they're seeing. They saw what happened in a Pennsylvania state race that never went Democrat since 1889 and a Democrat won in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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I think they're seeing kind of what's happening in Florida right now in these specials. People are saying that's behind it. But, you know, Elise Stefanik, She morphed from moderate to ultra-MAGA, ultra-MAGA, and now Hegseth gets to be Secretary of Defense and Stefanik does not get to be Ambassador to the United Nations. Some might call it karma. Some might use other words.
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What's your response to all of this?
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Congressman, as we start hearing more about the framework of the budget, as we start hearing about what they're doing as we reach the debt ceiling, we'd love for you to come back and talk about that. But any other thoughts where things start to head on that front this week, next week, as some of those details start to emerge?
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Well, we hope to have you back soon to walk us through that canyon, take us through the trail and hopefully get us out of Magaland back into the world of normalcy. Congress member, thanks for joining us. Thank you so much. Take care. Congressman Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Thank you for joining us. Hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers.
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What? The director of national intelligence saying that she wants to use her First Amendment rights to repost Russian propaganda? Great questioning there by Congressman Himes. Then you had Democratic Congressmember Castro say the following. Let's play it.
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Trump Has 2 AM Meltdown as Panic Sets In
Donald Trump was freaking out at 1am, 2am in the morning East Coast time, making posts like this. If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large-scale tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend,
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George W. Bush, and then after that by former President Obama, that he was assigned a new federal case. And the assignments are all random regarding the use by Pete Hegseth and Mike Walz and all of the Trump kind of D.O.D., N.S.A.,
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and DNI people on Signal where they were having those war plan chats and how that's a violation of the Public Records Act and other archival laws and just how communications are supposed to take place and not supposed to take place. The judge got assigned that case. So Trump is freaking out there. He's highly conflicted, not only in his hatred of me, massive Trump derangement syndrome.
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I could go on, but you get the point. It's just A huge paragraph of capital letters, non-capital letters, whining, non-sequiturs. And what Donald Trump wants to distract our attention from is the fact that his Department of Defense and national security team were leaking war plans on signal chats with the reporter. Donald Trump is most comfortable attacking judges.
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attacking entities, attacking deep state. And he doesn't want us to focus on his broken promises that prices are not going down, that his tariffs have crippled our economy. The latest economic reports show that the United States is heading into not just a recession, but potentially a deep recession. And even worse, American consumers are
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the least confident about the economy in generations at this point. And it looks like he's intentionally or at least recklessly catapulting the United States into a deep recession or depression. Donald Trump is also seething right now because of this meeting of the Coalition of the Willing of democracies in Europe right now in France. French President Emmanuel Macron is
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that each of those two countries has ever had exclamation point these posts at 1 a.m 2 a.m are literally the posts of like an actual abuser then he posts this in all caps liberation day in america is coming soon for years we have been ripped off by virtually every country in the world both friend and foe. But those days are over. America first.
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has called all these nations whether it's canada and australia european nations and others to show support for ukraine the united states is now isolated and kind of an island in it of itself at this point um as the us wants to like suck up to the access of evil and under donald trump's regime and join with uh putin and kim jong-un and here we see uh emmanuel macron post building a robust piece for ukraine and europe
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Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, the prime minister of the UK, and others, Prime Minister Carney of Canada, I think they've done a great job here kind of rallying together and showing real strength and force and standing up to Russia. I didn't think Putin saw that aspect coming. I think they thought that... The Europeans and Canadians would fold to Donald Trump, but it's been the opposite.
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And Trump's shown pathetic weakness. Macron said Europe must be prepared in case America is not with us, even if that means we have to act alone. Also, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum says within a free trade agreement, by the way, one that Donald Trump negotiated, there should not be tariffs at all.
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Yeah, I mean, Donald Trump negotiated the USMCA and now he says, what stupid people did that deal? Meanwhile, the conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, showing unity with the Liberal Party leader and the prime minister, Mark Carney, saying that we're going to inflict pain on the United States.
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And this is coming from Doug Ford, who was once Maple Maga. He was once a big Trump supporter, this guy. And here's he saying... Trump has added again his 25 percent tariffs on cars and light trucks will do nothing more than increase the cost for hardworking American families. U.S. markets are already on the decline as the president causes more chaos and uncertainty.
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He's putting American jobs at risk. I've spoken with Prime Minister Carney. We agree Canada needs to stand firm, strong and united. I fully support the federal government preparing retaliatory tariffs to show that we will never back
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This as he's gutting people's Medicaid here and attacking Social Security and gutting people's 401ks and retirement savings. This is what he's posting at 1 a.m., 2 a.m. in the morning in his freak out panic. Then he posts this NPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms, networks,
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Speaking about not backing down, the people of Greenland stood up to the Trump regime, and now J.D. Vance, Usha Vance, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz have canceled their aggressive trip to Greenland. They were going to go in there as a show of force. They were literally knocking on the doors of Greenlanders.
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over the past few days trying to get anybody to welcome them to Greenland for a photo op. Nobody wanted them there. There were going to be massive rallies against their presence there. As you see from some of the latest polling data, 85 to 90 percent of Greenlanders want nothing to do with the United States at all. And now Vance
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and the trump regime has canceled their trip they knew it was going to be absolutely humiliating as donald trump continues to talk about annexation the conservative member of parliament in denmark greenland's part of the territory is the territory of the kingdom of denmark rasmus jarlov says the following american organizers went knocking on doors in the capital of greenland to try and find a family that would invite mrs usha vance in when they arrived it failed
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Every single person said no. Instead, a large demonstration against the American threats of taking over Greenland were planned. Realizing it would be a public relations disaster, the Americans finally canceled the visit. Please let it go. The people of Greenland do not want to be American. And they cannot be bought, bribed or persuaded. They have done nothing to deserve this aggression.
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Neither has Denmark. International borders must be respected. And here Orla Jolson has been doing a great job on the ground in Greenland posting the happening, says the U.S. government vehicles. which had been transported to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, Sunday for use to J.D. Vance's wife, are now leaving Nuuk. There you see it right there.
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Greenland visit canceled after locals refused to welcome Usha Vance. And also Denmark went absolutely nuclear on J.D. Vance and the United States over this visit and said, how dare you do not show we do not we do not support this. You're showing aggression to us. Get out of here.
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And meanwhile, you have Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, going to El Salvador, where she made a video like a selfish video in front of one of the prison cells there at their concentration camp. Here's what Kristi Noem said in El Salvador. Here, play this clip.
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Now, this follows one of the things that we've been learning, of course, about how, and this was a report by Mother Jones, you're here because of your tattoos, how a lot of these migrants who were sent to the concentration camps in El Salvador were in the United States lawfully. They were lawful asylum seekers. Some had tattoos like autism awareness. Others had tattoos of butterflies. There was a
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I'm not sure why that's in parentheses with an exclamation point, should be defunded by Congress immediately. Republicans don't miss this opportunity to rid our country of this giant scam in all caps, both being arms of the radical left Democrat party. Just say no and make America great again, exclamation point. By the way, he kept on going. It was a frenzy of panic posts, 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m.
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a gay hairstylist and makeup artist. These individuals are not Trendy Aragua gang members. I mean, you go see these stories of Neri Alvarado working in Dallas as a baker, has a autism awareness tattoo. An ICE agent tells Neri Alvarado, we're finding and questioning anyone who has a tattoo. You have a tattoo. We think you're Trendy Aragua. Concentration camp in El Salvador. See you there.
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Another man who was sent to the concentration camps in El Salvador said, is Arturo Suarez, Venezuelan musician, entered U.S. at the port of entry, not illegally, not unlawfully, no criminal records. He has some tattoos sent to concentration camps. His family was able to recognize him in the video where they were brutalizing the prisoners in the concentration camp.
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You can see the arrow right there. That's how the family identified him. And there was Andres, the gay hairstylist as well, who was sent. Women were sent to the concentration camps. The concentration camps only take male prisoners. Horrific, horrific stuff being carried out at the direction of the United States. Also, one of the things we're learning about now is.
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is a new proposed mineral deal that the United States has sent to Ukraine. Under this deal, the United States would basically steal all of the minerals from Ukraine, provide zero security guarantees, and it would just be a total conquest, basically, of Ukraine.
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As I've said from the outset, with the Trump regime's plan, when they were talking about a deal, it was very obvious to me what the deal was. They wanted to give Putin half of Ukraine.
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And then the Trump regime wanted to take the other half, steal the minerals, in my opinion, put it in a sovereign wealth fund under Trump's control, and then build out all of the things that Trump wants to put his name on and then rule as a dictator using Ukraine's rare earth minerals as his sovereign wealth fund money. That was always my suspicion of what he was trying to do there.
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I think that's borne out. But Zelensky in Europe right now, in France with the Coalition of the Wielding standing shoulder to shoulder as the U.S. imposes its tariffs on everyone and behaves like a total, utter maniac of a nation under the Trump regime. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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in the morning. How about this post? How disgraceful is it that, quote, Judge James Boasberg has just been given a fourth, quote, Trump case, something which is statistically impossible? He's referring to the fact that the Washington, D.C. federal district court judge, the chief judge, the top judge, federal judge in Washington, D.C., who was originally appointed by
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Elbows up Canada, Canada strong, Canada united against the Trump regime as Donald Trump is now saying he's imposing 25% tariffs on automobiles across the world, including Canada. Canada's saying that's a direct attack, Donald. And if you thought the boycott was bad already on what Canada's doing, standing up to the United States, just you wait. We're standing up to the Trump regime.
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Great stuff. Proud that I can show you this. Incredible courage from the Canadian people. We have a huge international audience here on the Midas Touch Network. A huge Canadian audience. The number one podcast in Canada. The number one podcast in many European countries as well. In Australia, big presence there. Big presence in New Zealand and throughout the world.
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And so we're seeing what you're doing, Canada. And Canada Strong elbows up. That's now a rallying call to the rest of the world. Thanks to you. History is going to remember the courage that you all showed. We're grateful for all of you Canadians. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Isn't just a trade war that Donald Trump has declared. He's declared an actual war on Canada and the people of Canada and the people of Canada have stood up. Put Donald Trump in his place. I'm loving, by the way, the Reddit message boards of Canadians sharing their stories like this. Not going to lie, I'm living for the pettiness here.
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It warms my cold, dark heart to see all the American products sitting on the shelves and being donated to the food banks. Viva la Canada. Canada's boycott against anything U.S. going strong. Canada's boycott on U.S. tourism going strong at all Canadian grocery stores and shops in general. They have the Buy Canada label. And if it ain't Buy Canada, they ain't.
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buying it and good for them seeing the elbows up chocolate right here people sharing their Costco runs Costco run zero US product super premium plus cold brew coffee Chapman's ice cream Made in Canada. This headline from the Globe and Mail we see repeated throughout various media organizations. Buy Canadian movement starts to take a sizable bite out of the U.S. business.
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People sharing stories like this in Canada. More cancellations. Just spent the morning with my travel agent changing travel plans. We were initially going to visit friends in Phoenix, Arizona. But under their recommendation, we decided to change it to Mexico. The travel agent said they've seen more than a 50% cancellation rate of their U.S. bookings, including bus tours to the States.
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She told me they have had so many more requests for Canadian tour destinations than ever before. and have totally filled up every East Coast bus tour and are filling a waiting list to get more buses online to Canada. Keep it up. Elbows up, everybody. Now, Mark Carney gave a powerful speech today as well.
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about defending the workers in Canada and how Donald Trump's automobile tariffs is a direct attack on Canada and its people. I want to play that for you, but then I also want to play for you our friend Charlie Angus joining protests at the American Consulate in Toronto. So people in Toronto protesting the Trump regime in front of the American Consulate and then the American Consulate ordered
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the police in Toronto to push the protesters away because that's how big of snowflakes the Americans in the consulate are. They can't handle a protest under the Trump regime. I want to show you what went down there. You're not going to want to miss this. First, Prime Minister Carney is giving a powerful statement right as Donald Trump imposed the 25% automobile tariffs. First, play this clip.
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Canadian Prime Minister. Mark Carney called Trump's auto tariffs, a direct attack on his country. And we're learning facts like this, which we've been talking about on the Midas touch network. Now for several months, we've been predicting this and it's easy to predict things like this.
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All right, now I got to share with you what went down in Toronto with Charlie Angus and protesters. So Charlie just joined a group of protesters. We're seeing protesters across Canada. If you're living in Canada, you know these are going up everywhere, these protests at the American consulates, in front of American businesses, wherever.
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wherever you're having these spontaneous protests take place. So here's Charlie Angus. He meets these protesters and he goes, we in Canada will never kiss the gangster ring of this authoritarian Trump regime. Let's play this one first. Let's play it.
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Elbows up. Now just to show you what this protest looked like, here you see the protesters doing the elbows up chant. By the way, Charlie tells me a lot of Midas Touch fans in this protest, and I want to say what's up to all of you, what's up to all the Canadians protesting. Thank you for standing up and showing a great example, not just in Canada and the rest of the world, but also right here.
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here in the U.S. You inspire us with your courage and your strength. And I just so look forward to the day when we get rid of this Trump regime and we could all rejoice and celebrate together. That's what I look forward to. But here are some of the Canadians protesting in front of the American consulate in Toronto. Play this clip.
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Right now, here's the moment where you can see the Toronto police officer goes up to Charlie Angus and the group and says, you know, look, the people up there in the American consulate, they don't want you standing here. He doesn't say this, but they're too big of snowflakes. And then Charlie Angus is like, all right, like he's being polite. We're a polite people. We'll protest from there.
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When you speak to the Canadian people and you see how strong and powerful they are and the resistance that they're leading across the world is to the Trump regime. Air travel between US and Canada drops sharply. Flight bookings between Canada and the US are collapsing, according to airline data provider OAG.
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Now here, Charlie Angus talks about the strength of Canadian democracy. Let's play it.
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And we will defend it. Oh, this was a great part of this Toronto rally where Charlie Angus says, yeah, we're DEI. We're diversity, equity and inclusion. Yeah, we're the original Antifa. We hate fascists. Our parents and our grandparents fought the fascists and we kicked their fascist asses. Play this clip. I want to thank you for letting me crash your rally, by the way.
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Compared to this time last year, bookings are down 70% every month through the end of September, according to the firm's analysis. Canada is typically the top source of international visitors to the US. Quote, this sharp drop suggests that travelers are holding off on making reservations likely due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding the broader trade dispute, OAG says. Can I rephrase that for you?
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And here I think Charlie Angus captures it all wonderfully where he goes, you know, one of the things with Canada is we're being role models to the rest of the world right now. We're showing Europe how to do it. We're showing Australia how to do it. New Zealand. We're showing people in Africa, Central America, South America, Mexico, wherever.
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We've shown the model of how you stand up to the gangster Trump regime. Here, play this clip.
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Powerful stuff. I got to get Charlie back on and ask him about this. Great work, Charlie Angus. Great work to all the protesters out there. We see you all. We're grateful for you. We here stand in solidarity with you. And I want to show you this moment at the recent hearing in the Senate where Senator Heinrich from New Mexico, Democratic senator.
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he does a great job questioning Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, or for her it's unintelligence, or what, just giving our secrets away to foreign adversaries at this point, I mean, based on their reckless sloppiness and dangerousness.
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But here in this questioning, the senator's like, I noticed in your recent report when you were saying about the dangers of fentanyl, you didn't mention that Canada was involved in any dangers by giving fentanyl. So how do you square that with all of Donald Trump's lies? Why wouldn't you put that in your report? Oh, because it's a lie. It's a Putin style lie.
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It's when Putin says denazification to conquer Ukraine or to try to take it over and unlawfully invade a sovereign territory. This is Donald Trump's version of denazification. Oh, they're killing everybody with fentanyl. You know, Trump learns from Putin. I mean, but you know, he takes his orders from daddy Putin. And Daddy Elon, take a look at what went down here. Play this clip.
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I think what Canada is doing is saying, hey, Donald, you've declared war on our country. Let us smack you down, you pathetic little weasel, you. We're not visiting your country while the Trump regime continues to say how they want to annex us and conquer us. We're going to stand up Canada strong elbows up. That's what's going down. Use the right language.
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Rotten to the core. There's so much Donald Trump has done over the past 24 hours that is absolutely despicable. I don't want to lose sight of the fact that he claims he wasn't even briefed about the four American soldiers who died in Lithuania yesterday. Donald Trump was holding his Oval Office press conference. He was asked, hey, did Pete Hegseth, your Secretary of Defense, brief you on this?
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Oh, and by the way, your top Department of Defense officials and national security officials apparently are in text threads giving war plans to a reporter who they included on a chat called the Houthi chat, destroying our national secrets. While, by the way, one of your envoys who was on that chat was in Moscow. More on that in a bit.
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But we're also learning that Hegsith Walls, Gabbard, have also their private data and passwords. Easily accessible online, Der Spiegel wrote an incredible article here about how private data and passwords of the senior U.S. security officials were found online. Also, from Daniel Bukaslaw, he explains how Michael Waltz's Venmo was public until moments ago. And it's full of reporters.
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public, full of journalists. You know how Michael Waltz, Donald Trump's national security bar is like. I never met before Jeffrey Goldberg. Remember what Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, who was included on those text threats said? It didn't surprise me that Mike Waltz would include me on something. But to be included on this, why?
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Because clearly Waltz is a source for people like The Atlantic. It has lots of reporters, even on his Venmo. Let's talk about the tariffs yesterday. Donald Trump said that he was putting 25% tariffs on all automobiles across the world. He says basically with no exceptions as the Detroit free press rights tariffs threatened to cut us auto sales by 700,000 in 2025 amid recession uncertainty.
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Also the price of a vehicle, will now likely go up $5,000, $10,000, $15,000, which for all purposes means vehicles are not going to be sold. And that's going to further tank the economy. I'm going to do a whole other video about how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rightfully says this is a direct attack on Canada and others across the world are feeling the same.
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Now, when you turn on your phone or when you turn on the Internet in the morning, whereas you used to get headlines under former President Biden, like the American economy is the envy of the world, new records being set in the Dow and the S&P and Nasdaq, GDP hits record growth, America energy independent. 50,000 infrastructure projects going up.
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America defeating China in the race for green energy and world economy. Now you get headlines like this. Business Insider. Here's how far stocks could drop if a full-blown recession strikes. And yesterday was a disaster for the market. And who knows what today is going to hold as yet another day of Trump's chaotic and disastrous policies take effect.
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And Donald Trump cavalierly said, I don't know anything about it and seemed not to even care.
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But yesterday, Donald Trump was asked, hey, Donald, the Nasdaq is down 2% at close. The S&P was down 1%. And Donald Trump's like, is that today? Is that what are you doing with your day? Like, actually, what the hell are you doing?
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That's your response to everything. This is a witch hunt. That's a witch hunt. Y'all just could take accountability, fire the people who were involved, make sure this never happens again. But no, this is how you conduct business. You put classified information on signal text threads and then blame the reporter you put into the chat?
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Here's, by the way, the moment where Donald Trump announced the 25 percent tariff.
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But folks, the Trump regime wants to distract. So what do they do? They send cosplay dog killer Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to El Salvador. So she goes in front of the concentration camps there with the prisoners in El Salvador, mostly all from El Salvador, though the U.S. kidnapped migrants and sent them to this concentration camp.
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More on that in a moment and more on the big court ruling there from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. But here, Christine Ohms, watch her watch. Look at her watch. She appears to be wearing a $60,000 Rolex as she stands in front of the concentration camp in El Salvador with the people from El Salvador, or whoever else is in there. And she's like, look, we got them. We got the terrorists.
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What a despicable response. And what are you doing in the day if you are not even being briefed that four American soldiers died? Could you imagine for a moment what this would be like if former President Biden responded that way? Let me brief you, Donald. Four American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have died today.
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Look at the terrorists back there.
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As Adam Parkomenko goes, Kristi Noem's desperate stunt exploiting foreign prisoners for political fear mongering. I want to talk about some of the migrants quickly that the United States kidnapped and sent to concentration camps in El Salvador. We're learning a lot about their identities.
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Here's a new report from Mother Jones reporting that one of the men sent to concentration camps in El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him, in his place where he's a baker, they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neary has an autism awareness tattoo to honor his 15-year-old brother with autism.
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And on that basis, they claimed he's Tren de Aragua, and they sent him to concentration camps in El Salvador. You'll look at this, no due process at all. He had an autism awareness tattoo. Remember I told you the story over the weekend about Andres, who is the gay makeup artist and hairstylist. You see him right there on the right.
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And he's a, by the way, all these people are asylum seekers here lawfully under asylum rules and laws waiting on court appearances, kidnapped by America, by the Trump regime and sent to concentration camps. Andres, not a gang member, not Trende Aragua. He was sent to concentration camps in El Salvador. We learned the story about the professional soccer player with the Real Madrid tattoo.
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And I said, oh, that makes you Trende Aragua. He was sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador. No process, was not able to even show evidence that he was not a gang member. He was called an enemy combatant terrorist. never to be heard from again, may die, may rot to death in a freaking prison in El Salvador because of the authoritarian, despicable Trump regime.
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We've also told you stories about women who were sent to El Salvador where the El Salvador concentration camps only hold men. Women are not even allowed. So even El Salvador, with its brutal authoritarian regime, like, whoa, whoa, whoa. We can't take the women.
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And we've seen some declarations filed by women talking about their horrific travel where they were told they were going to Venezuela and they were sent to El Salvador. So early yesterday, the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a two to one ruling.
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upheld the district court Judge Boasberg's ruling in joining an injunction blocking the Trump regime from sending more people to El Salvador concentration camps without providing some form of due process. So Trump appealed to the D.C. Circuit. He lost. They upheld Judge Boasberg's ruling.
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And all Judge Boasberg said is, look, I'm not even getting into the issue of whether the Alien Enemies Act was properly invoked.
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assume it was properly invoked even though we're not in the war of 1812 world war one or world war two those were the only other times the alien enemies act war powers were ever invoked so he goes i don't even need to decide was this a war and trump claiming we're at a war hybrid warfare with venezuela he says we still have to determine if the people being sent to the concentration camps in el salvador are actually trend de aragua terrorists or not
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NATO leader says NATO Secretary General Mark Rutt said Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have died, but that he did not yet know the details. Maybe, Donald, that's something that you should be paying attention to instead of announcing another round of tariffs, this time tariffing automobiles across the world and crashing our economy.
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So you have to provide some process to let them prove that they're not. And court should be able to oversee that. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with that. Can I just show you some other evidence? We are a fact-based, data-based network. So when you hear all of the spin, oh, these aren't war plans, blah, blah, blah. Let's just take a look at the messages for a second.
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Here's the group thread that Mike Walls, national security advisor, started. You see it right here. Houthi PC small group right on signal. That looks like the chats that I have with my with. with the employees who work at the Midas Touch Network. It'll be like Midas Touch Network, small group chat, videos, editorial team, right?
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And so Mike Walls says, team establishing a principles group for coordination on the Houthis. And then look, Michael Walls added you to the group chat, added Jeffrey Goldberg. Michael Walls added you to the group. So we see how did Jeffrey Goldberg get added? Michael Waltz added.
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Then you go through the chat and you see war plans, like this from Pete Hegseth, who talks about the time, dates, and locations, which planes are gonna be used. F-18s, F-18s, more F-18s. They talk about when the bombs are gonna drop. They talk about MQ-9, second strike starts. It sets forth all of the plans in detail.
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Well, what does Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, have to say about all of this? She goes, oh, this is just the media's witch hunt also. They're just trying to sow chaos and discord.
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Utterly, utterly despicable. We'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.
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How about you care about our veterans? How about you care about our troops? Or are you and Elon Musk too busy with Doge firing veterans, destroying and gutting veterans affairs, engaging in a hostile takeover of our federal government, getting rid of essential services related to Social Security, gutting Medicaid, gutting the Department of Education?
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
You want this? It's good for people in Kentucky. But while the MAGA Republican Congress members do things like this, Republican Congress member Joe Wilson has announced a proposal for a new $250 bill featuring Donald Trump's face on it. Quote, I'm drafting legislation to direct the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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to design a $250 bill featuring Donald J. Trump, the most valuable bill for the most valuable president. This is cartoonishly clownish. I got to get the take of Congress member Jake Auchincloss, who's been very outspoken about how disastrous Doge has been and these cuts are in this horrific budget. Congress member, what do you make of this all?
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The Congress member, I mean, you're telling me that people in red states are not rooting for things like this, like Trump Gaza. They're not focused on whatever this image is of I don't even know what I'm looking at that Donald Trump is posing. You're telling me that they're not focused on Elon Musk at a beach throwing money in the air and seeing Donald Trump post that.
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You're telling me that the American people are getting pissed? that their Medicaid is getting taken away, that essential services are being gutted, that they're waking up feeling less safe.
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The MAGA Republicans are pushing forward what may be the most devastating budget in the history of the United States of America. We're talking about $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. We're talking about adding $19 trillion to the deficit over the course of 10 years. We're talking about gutting infrastructure. We're talking about gutting important resources to farmers. What are they doing, though?
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know uh donald trump is he was saying today he was blaming uh the egg prices on the administration but he was acting like he wasn't in charge he was just saying you know these egg prices are going up i i got to go speak to the head of the department of agriculture and just see what's going on here i'm i'm pissed about this but wasn't he the one who promised that on day one
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he was going to bring down prices housing was going to be more affordable there was going to be all of these there's so many jobs you weren't going to know what to do with all of the jobs and you know i think what we're seeing in the kind of consumer sentiment and as donald trump's approval is plummeting that despite donald trump's efforts to try to distract and corporate media kind of buying into the distraction framework
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I think it's hitting people hard and they're going, wait a minute. I can't even find eggs. My grocery price up. What are you seeing across the country in town halls in your district? Is this a Democrats, Republicans, independent? What are you seeing?
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
Congressman, I got to push back on you because one of the things that Trump is saying in addition to Trump Gaza with giant golden statues of him and him and Benjamin Netanyahu with their shirts off hanging on the beach and whatever the heck, again, those photos were that he's been posting. He's got... He's got gold cards. He's going to change the immigration system.
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He's going to replace what we have. And he says he's going to sell immigration. It's 5 million a pop. People have a black card because a lot of Americans can relate to having an American Express black card. He's like, I'm going to give you a gold card. So he said this word for word. Russian oligarchs, for example, you Chinese oligarchs, you buy in for
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Five mil, you get your visa, you become an American citizen, and bang, $50 trillion. 50 trillion is what he's saying.
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I mean, they are just outrageously glazing Elon Musk and Doge in like the weirdest way possible. I mean, you got this MAGA Republican Senator Roger Marshall out there saying, go, Elon, go, go here. Watch whatever the hell this is.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
You know, one of the areas where we're seeing a lot of cuts in as well is health, NIH, CDC. And, you know, the same way I feel like Republicans tried to normalize and like school shootings and just be like, it's the second amendment. So, you know, That's what that's just what happens.
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I saw the secretary of transportation, Secretary Duffy, also doing this with the plane crashes and a lot of the things like, you know, planes, planes crash. That's just, you know, what we get used to it like that. That's what happens. And I saw you had RFK Jr. today basically trying to say, you know, there was that death caused by measles in Texas. That doesn't happen.
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Measles outbreaks like this because of low vaccination, that's not normal. But you have the secretary of HHS going up there and saying, this is normal. Measles outbreaks, this is what we're used to here. Just play this clip if we have it, because it was a shocking moment.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
I think we'll leave it on that note. We'll bring you back as well. And Keep checking in with you. Your leadership on the Hill has been a great thing for us to watch. And I just like that you're bringing the facts. You're going on Republican territory also. And you're speaking to their voters and their turf also. And you're doing a great job. So thanks, Congressman. Thank you, Ben.
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Yeah, it's not worth twice as much. It's, I think, worth a fraction of it. He ran it into the ground, essentially. Then you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Barr on the Medicaid cuts. They're like, yeah, we need these Medicaid cuts. People are lazy, you know, lazy people. You don't deserve your Medicaid. This is what the MAGA Republicans are going with. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Major Cognitive Glitch During Awful Presser
Donald Trump had numerous cognitive glitches during this disastrous Oval Office press conference with the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. Donald Trump is asked if he thinks that Zelensky is still a dictator. Donald Trump said, I don't remember saying that. Did I say that? Here, play this clip.
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Okay, and then we can see what he said 24 hours ago. Again, receipts are important. This is where Donald Trump said that the EU was formed to screw the United States. That's the purpose of it. Here, play this clip.
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That's the purpose. You know, going back to the press conference that Donald Trump held today in the Oval Office with Keir Starmer, Donald Trump then asked Starmer if the UK could take on Russia on its own. What, like...
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As Kelsey Taggart says, this is the quote, oh shit, look, if I've ever seen one, what the hell is this guy doing? Donald Trump then is asked a question. If Russia were to attack the UK, would you help out the UK? To which Donald Trump says, I don't think they need much help. Play this clip.
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have been incredible so donald trump then says that ukraine should never join nato play this clip the europeans want ukraine to be part of nato as part of this deal are you willing to budge on that at all or is it well i could be very nice and say oh well we'll work to it look it's not going to happen it's just not going to happen that's what started this whole thing
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Yeah, please. Again, so utterly dastardly, this press conference. What a despicable person Donald Trump is. Here, Donald Trump says that he thinks that Russia's acting very well. It should be noted that Russia continues to bomb Ukraine. And in fact, they've been having their biggest drone swarms recently. Russia's been actually behaving worse than ever. Play this clip.
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Yes, Donald, you did say it and you did post about it as well. More on that in a minute. In addition, Donald Trump was asked about comments he made 24 hours ago where he said the European Union and Europe in general was created to screw over the United States. He was asked about those comments. He said, did I say that? Did I use those words? Here, play this clip.
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Say this, as I said yesterday,
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Donald Trump then says he would not oppose Eric Prince and Blackwater and other private military contractors rounding up for mass deportation. Migrants play this clip.
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Go to selectquote.com slash Midas today to get started. That's selectquote.com slash Midas. While that was taking place, Elon Musk is making posts like this. Here's a meme posted by Musk. Ladies, it's time to start thinking whether the guy you're dating has post-apocalyptic warlord potential. This is the individual who's accessing
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Your social security information, your medical records, his access to taxation records through Doge and who knows what the hell else he has. That's what he is posting as he destroys our government, cruelly firing federal workers, including veterans and throwing people on the streets. A reporter asked Donald Trump about, to that point, veterans make up 30% of the federal workforce.
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You're destroying their lives. Trump goes, no one's ever been better to the veterans than me. Play this clip. I didn't know anything about it.
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Donald Trump then is asked what you would be willing to do if Putin did not stick to the terms of a deal with Ukraine, to which Trump says Putin always keeps his word. I've known him for a long time. He says that they went over the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax together. Play this clip.
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Next, Donald Trump is asked about why the individual named Andrew Tate, who was arrested on alleged sex trafficking charges in Romania, was traveling back to the United States after reports that the Trump administration pressured Romania officials to let Tate into the United States. Here, play this clip. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to keep that one.
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And we're not talking about, we happen to have a great relationship with you, but we did have, and we do have problems with the EU because- So folks, either he is a liar or cognitively declining right before our eyes rapidly, or just an evil menace. I think it's all three. Just so we can see what he said, let's just pull out the receipts here, play this clip.
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I didn't know anything about it. Well, Donald Trump doesn't know about it, but I wonder if his top advisors do. But also Donald Trump doesn't know a lot of things or misremembers a lot of things. This is Alina Haba, Trump's top advisor. Play this clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Donald Trump humiliating the United States again on the world stage. What a horrific press conference there with Keir Starmer to our friends in the UK and Europe and Canada and elsewhere watching that. You should know that there are more Americans who don't support that crap than do. Our voices are growing louder each day.
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It's why the Midas Touch Network and our podcast is now beating Joe Rogan and all of these right wing podcasts. And we're going to make sure our voices are heard. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
Appearing for the first time on the Midas Touch Network, Senator Elizabeth Warren. Welcome, Senator.
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What do you say to people, though, in red states or red areas that go, but this is Senator Warren saying that she's a liberal. She's saying all of these things. What's your response?
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Well, look, you've got all of these Republicans who are gung ho about this. They are saying this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And they're out there, I think, also misrepresenting what's in the bill itself. I mean, I don't know if they're gaslighting the people or if they're just not reading it, but they're saying this is everything we promised.
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No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. It's all there. And the Democrats are opposing all of these things. Now, I I've looked through the bill. I didn't see that language anywhere there. I saw the cuts to Medicaid and the Energy and Commerce Committee. I saw the cuts to farmers. I saw the cuts to infrastructure and I saw the 4.5 trillion in tax cuts.
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So are the Republicans just gaslighting people or what's happening?
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Do you think people are already starting to feel these cuts, what Doge is doing, what Musk is doing in the red state areas? I mean, we're seeing what's going on in a lot of these town halls in ruby red areas. Do you think it's already beginning to set in, maybe even earlier than expected?
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
Let's talk about the CFPB that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are gutting, although I think they're now gaslighting the courts or lying to the courts and claiming, oh, this is just part of a streamlining effort. So what happened was, right, was Elon Musk posted CFPB, RIP, he posted it. Then they started gutting it, destroying it, dismantling it.
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Lawsuits were filed, injunctions were ordered to slow it down or to stop it. Now they're making arguments basically because I think they realize how unpopular it is to gut and destroy the CFPB, which brought tens of billions of dollars back to consumers from corporations that defrauded the consumers.
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
And so now the guy, the architect of Project 2025, I think he's submitting declarations saying, oh, you have it all wrong. This is just part of a streamlining effort that we're doing. What do you mean we're gutting it? What do you mean Elon Musk is posting on it? We don't know what you're talking about. What's going on here, Senator?
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
Why are the Republicans just like babying Elon Musk and they're like babying Donald Trump as though the rules don't apply? We don't know what they say. You know, they just they just say all of these things. Like when I see these town halls. What I hear over and over again from Republican people as well is Elon needs to testify. This is a government. There's something called oversight.
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
You don't just get to post things on social media and then say, oops, I made a mistake there. You show up, you testify, you're transparent with the people. Now, I know you held a CFPB forum where you invited Elon Musk. He refused to show. I know the Democrats have tried to subpoena Elon Musk a number of times.
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
The Republicans usually try to quash the subpoenas or even stop debate about whether a subpoena should even be sent in the first place. So Elon may be watching this. We know Trump's press team watches these things. So what would your message be to Elon Musk if he's watching this about why he should testify before the Senate?
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
I think they're scared. Do you think he's character?
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
Senator Elizabeth Warren, we'll see if he responds to that challenge and shows up. We'll see if he's scared of you or not. We'll find out. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate you joining us on the Midas Touch Network.
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
All right, let's get into it. So the House Republicans this week passed their budget blueprint, tax cuts for the rich, cuts to Medicaid, $19 trillion added to the deficit at least, I think, over 10 years. How much harm is this going to cause the American people?
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Trump Wakes Up to Morning Disaster of His Own Making
Donald Trump woke up to disasters that he created and that he is continuing to create in the United States of America and throughout the world. We woke up this morning learning that jobless claims spiked in a worrisome sign for the U.S. labor market.
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Donald Trump took a good economy. He was handed over by former President Biden, and he is absolutely crazy. crushing it right now. One of the things we learned as well is that Donald Trump is also destroying enforcement against fraud.
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The United States Consumer Financial Bureau, the CFPB, on Thursday dropped its legal action against Capital One, which the agency had accused last month of cheating consumers out of more than $2 billion in interest payments on savings accounts. This is part of the effort.
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There were an estimated 242,000 jobless claims filed last week according to seasonally adjusted data released Thursday by the Department of Labor and who even knows now If the Department of Labor is giving all of the accurate data, it may be far more than that. That's an increase of 22,000 from the prior week's tally and a figure that landed above economists' expectations for 220,000 claims.
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by Elon Musk and Donald Trump to gut an agency that helps people whether you're in red states, blue states, purple states, whatever, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was likely helping you and stopping corporations cheat you. And remember, Elon Musk posted CFPB RIP and then they went on and attacked it.
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And then a federal court issued an injunction basically stopping the Trump administration from gutting the CFPB. Then the Trump administration filed paperwork in court lying and saying, oh, we're not gutting it. We're just trying to streamline things. And I guess by streamline it, they mean helping fraudsters.
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One of the things we just learned as well this morning, the disasters of Trump's own making, is that the Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration's Vaccine Advisory Committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming flu season. One of the things we're also learning is buy Canada, buy America.
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As Bloomberg reports, grocery stores are promoting in Canada are promoting home grown produce to consumers as 85% of Canadians now hunt for alternatives to U.S. goods. Remember a few weeks back when some of the press was reporting, oh, the boycotts 10% or 20% of Canadians. I said, uh-uh. I speak to Canadians every day.
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The Midas Touch Network is the most widely downloaded podcast right now in all of Canada. And I said, I bet you that boycott is more than 50%. I said, it's probably closer to 100%. Now we're finding out that number is about 85% of Canadians do not want to buy American stuff at grocery stores. Think about when that starts to hit the American economy.
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It already is one of the numbers that is now the lowest number ever. U.S. pending home sales, the lowest number ever. Didn't Donald Trump say he was going to make housing more accessible, housing more affordable? And just think about it. That's something he could have jumped in, actually said he was going to do it on the campaign.
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You do that, but no, now you're focused on a budget that will give, what, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires, $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid. So the billionaires get tax cuts, you get your Medicaid cut, and then you also get the MAGA Republicans to lie to you and say, oh, it doesn't say anything about cutting Medicaid. It doesn't say anything about that at all.
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But then it actually says $880 billion cuts to the Energy and Commerce Committee's portfolio, to which the biggest thing is Medicaid. And you can't cut $880 billion from the Energy and Commerce's portfolio unless you basically get rid of Medicaid. So they take your Medicaid and then they lie to you because they think you're stupid. And that's what they think.
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That's why they are now canceling the town halls. The message from GOP leadership right now, MAGA Mike Johnson and Donald Trump, stop with the town halls. That's the order. That's the directive, that it's a bad look for the MAGA Republicans. Stop these town halls.
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So what does Donald Trump do with all this news that the economy is tanking, that the markets are volatile, that housing is as least accessible as it's ever been ever? Here's what Donald Trump does.
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Trump makes a truth social post this morning saying that he plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting next Tuesday, in addition to doubling the 10% universal tariff charge on imports from China. Now, if you've been confused, he said there was going to be tariffs and then no tariffs. What is this even about? Was there tariffs? Well, he did steal tariffs like last week or two weeks ago.
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He These specific tariffs are the one from about, remember, 30 days ago or so, Donald Trump threatened that he was going to impose the tariffs, that he made the fake deal with Prime Minister Trudeau and then President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico, Trudeau of Canada. Then they paused it for 30 days after they made the deal.
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Then Donald Trump says in a post, drugs are still pouring into our country from Mexico and Canada. at very high and unacceptable levels. A large percentage of these drugs, much of them in the form of fentanyl, are made in and supplied by China. More than 100,000 people died last year due to the distribution of these dangerous and highly addictive poisons. Millions of people have died.
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One of the things that CNN is saying is, is this part of the Doge effect, which is now synonymous for job losses? Also, we saw WPP, a major advertising firm, their stock plunged 16%. It's screaming downturn after Domino's, Krispy Kreme, Bed Bath Beyond, and others have a significant warning that consumers are now spending far less as they are terrified in a Donald Trump
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So he says based on... It's like no fentanyl coming in from Canada, by the way. Also, United States consumers of fentanyl are part of the cause of it as well. I agree that it is coming from China. America exports its guns though to Mexico and creates a much significantly dangerous situation in Mexico. But this is also why you can't make deals with Donald Trump.
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You make a deal with him 30 days ago, then he goes and breaks the deal right away.
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and then he just creates all this volatility and uncertainty so what we can expect is devastating retaliatory tariffs right now from mexico from canada against the united states and the rest of the world is going to be taking note as well again that you just can't make any deals with donald trump can we geek out for a minute on something i think it's going to be helpful for you it's called fatty 15. its co-founder dr stephanie vin watson discovered c15 as the first essential fatty acid to be found in 90 years
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Andrew Tate, who faced rape and sex trafficking charges in Romania, was released from Romania to go to the United States. This follows news that we reported on, what was it, last week or two weeks ago, that the foreign minister of Romania said this month that an official at the Trump administration
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expressed interest in the brothers case at the Munich Security Conference and would like to see the brothers be released and given to the United States, not for prison, but to chill, to hang out in the United States with Alina Haba and others in the Trump administration who are like fans of this guy. This caught Ron DeSantis off guard and DeSantis was pissed.
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So after the Trump administration lobbied to get the alleged sex trafficking Tate brothers travel restrictions lifted to come to Florida, DeSantis is pissed and said nobody notified him. This happened moments ago. Play this clip.
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Okay, guys. And just so you can see, this is Donald Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba, previously with Andrew Tate. Play this clip.
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economy what is donald trump doing while all of this is taking place he's making matters worse he's sending emails like this to his supporters i subscribe to the email so you don't have to immediate action required donald trump writes it is obvious how passionate you are about saving the america we know and love that's why i just selected you to represent your state as an ambassador for maga
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And just so you know, the type of guy who Andrew Tate is, or I shouldn't even call him that, here is what he said about how he takes girls, this is his own words, who don't have the will, and he puts them on webcams and takes 100% of their profit so they don't run away. Play this clip.
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This is what webcamming is. So that's who the Trump administration is a big fan of. And, you know, because, you know, that's the type of stuff that Donald Trump would, you know, I mean, what did Trump say? I mean, Trump would say that the most courageous thing he ever did was grab women by their, was when he called women, grabbing women by their genitals without their consent, locker room talk.
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He said that's the most courageous thing that he did. Remember when Donald Trump said that? Here, play this clip.
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Again, so utterly pathetic. Well, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thank you for watching.
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Please complete my official Trump flash poll before it closes at midnight if you want to become a official MAGA ambassador. When you click that link, it then brings you to a page where Donald Trump tries to grift off you and make a bunch of money off of you while he's crashing the economy, causing you to lose your job, making housing less affordable, and prices are surging.
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Exclusive Interview with Canada MP Charlie Angus on Trump Threats
Donald Trump keeps poking and poking Canada. Big mistake, Donald, that ridiculous cabinet meeting he had yesterday. Here's what he said. Let's play it. It's not fair for us to be supporting Canada. And if we don't support them, they don't subsist as a nation. Don't subsist as a nation. I'm here with Canadian Member of Parliament, Charlie Angus.
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to form a government potentially, which no one thought if you went back two or three months ago was a possibility. Have you ever seen anything like, you've been in Canadian politics for a long time, have you ever seen anything like this?
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Talk about this petition to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship in Canada that you've been supporting. I think it's going to be one of the most widely distributed and signed petitions in the history of Canada in general. Tell us about what's going on there.
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You saw what he was saying yesterday at the cabinet meeting. What's your response to him?
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The Midas Touch podcast is now the number one most downloaded podcast in all of Canada, beating all of the Canadian news channels and entertainment channels. So where can people find? We know we have a lot of Canadian listeners and viewers. If they want to join this petition and they're not already signed on, what do they do?
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Let's talk about Wayne Gretzky, who used to be a friend of Canada, used to be beloved, used to be Canada's golden boy. And then he went full MAGA, would hang out at Mar-a-Lago, became a Trumper, not just, he wasn't Maple MAGA even, he was like America MAGA. He was rooting to be 51st state type stuff.
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And then Donald Trump was saying that Gretzky should become basically the leader of Canada to become his puppet and then basically run it the way Putin runs his nations in his orbit, like Belarus. It would basically be that version. And Gretzky was all into it. Then Gretzky started showing up to hockey games and was in Canadian gear. By the way, NHL doing that.
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I'm not sure that was a great decision, but we know why they did that. But then Gretzky would get booed by Canadians and Gretzky can't walk around Canada now without getting booed and one of the most detested people. So Donald Trump had to post this because I'm sure Gretzky's like, hey, I need you to write this for me. I need some cred back. So Trump just wrote this.
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He goes, Wayne Gretzky is a fantastic guy. They call him the great one. He could run for any political office in Canada and win.
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Wayne is my friend and he wants to make me happy and is therefore somewhat low key about Canada remaining a separate country rather than becoming a cherished and beautiful 51st state paying much lower taxes, a free and powerful military, no tariffs and having a booming economy. Wayne and Janet, his wonderful wife, love Canada and they should only support Canada.
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Whatever else makes the Canadian people and Governor Trudeau happy. He's the greatest Canadian of them all. And I am therefore making him a free agent because I don't want anyone in Canada to say anything bad about him. Charlie Angus, your response to that?
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Now, finally, we usually end our interviews with this. We know that Trump's press team watches that. They clip this stuff and whatever. So if you wanted to direct a message to Donald Trump right now, what's your message to him as we're recording this, as we are starting to head into the month of March?
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Charlie Angus, thank you so much. Thank you. Everyone hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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As Jeremiah Johnson said, this is one of the most astonishing polling charts I've ever seen. Trump's impact on Canadian politics is insane. You see the support of Maple MAGA crashing. That's the Pierre Poliev Conservative Party. And now you see under a Mark Carney Liberal Party, your NDP party, but under the Carney Party, the Liberal Party now seems like they're on the verge of being able to
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Trump in Cover-Up Mode Over His Dark Past
It's not the art of the deal, it is the art of the cover-up, and we're seeing now the Trump administration orchestrate a cover-up of the Epstein files, which they claim they were going to release.
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Yeah. And also we have audio of Epstein. Share it with you here. I mean, here's audio of Epstein talking about Trump. Let's play it.
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I think we have a snippet from one of the conversations that I recorded with Epstein. And I think this was in a restaurant in 2017.
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I have more than dozens. I probably have a hundred hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his longstanding deep relationship with Donald Trump.
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And here's a compilation MSNBC did I thought was great about Trump and Epstein's connections and how they would party together. Play this clip. You're going to get great ratings in your show.
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But those flight logs have Donald Trump's name at least seven times. Repeatedly, Donald Trump is mentioned. So if you release those flight logs, we're going to see Trump almost more than anybody on that chat. And get this too, after Epstein died under circumstances that let's just say are more than curious,
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So what are we talking about here? What are we talking about here, Pam Bondi? What I want to see happen is I'd like for you to release the files. You can easily redact the names. Isn't this all about government efficiency? What about Doge? You're telling me how efficient you are and AI and algorithms and all of these things. You're telling me that by now, within what, over a month?
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You'll note our reporting yesterday where the MAGA influencers were basically saying the Epstein files are being destroyed by the deep state, even though Donald Trump wanted to release them all, they're being destroyed.
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We're going to be two months soon. You couldn't redact the names of the victims and release all of the files? It's that hard for you to do? I thought y'all were efficient. I just wonder with these Republicans, though. Who go, oh my God, they released the flight logs. Are y'all being serious? Or you know that you're covering up for Trump? I'm just trying to make sense of it.
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I'm trying to make sense of it. There's almost no one closer to Epstein out there who's living now than Trump. And we know about it. And y'all are out there saying that there's this, you're looking for your guy. Okay. We'll keep covering this though. And we'll keep letting the public know what's happening. And they could judge for themselves. I showed you the depositions.
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I showed you the flight logs. I showed you Trump's words. I showed you Epstein's words. So judge for yourself. Okay. That's all you can do. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Donald Trump got Epstein's jet to use for his campaign from an intermediary who purchased the jet from Epstein's estate. And then Trump put the Trump 2024 logo over Epstein's jet and was flying that around to different campaign stops. So let's just talk about what went down. Let's go through the different permutations. Let's bring out our receipts right here.
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The right-wing influencer named DC Drano responds to MAGA Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. She goes, my office just received a formal response from the DOJ on the Jeffrey Epstein JFK MLK and RFK files, to which Drano, who's a right-wing MAGA influencer, goes, The DOJ has officially halted release of the Epstein client list. They did not give a date when they would release it.
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Not sure why they don't just release it in accordance with Donald Trump's executive order. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, what a surprise. MAGA has been screaming for the Epstein client list for years, and for some reason, Donald Trump's DOJ doesn't want to release it. They might need to do some redactions first. Now,
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It should be noted that Donald Trump and Epstein were very close friends. They hung out in Florida all of the time. Donald Trump is quoted as saying that Epstein is a, quote, great guy who likes women on the younger side. Some of the women who were trafficked by Epstein were found at Mar-a-Lago, for example, and one of Epstein's more well-known victims, someone by the name of Virginia Giuffre.
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She was homeless. She got a job at Mar-a-Lago. That was the first job that she got after being homeless. Then Ghislaine Maxwell found her working at Mar-a-Lago, brought her over to Epstein, had her massage Epstein, and then Epstein began to traffic Virginia Giuffre. That was one of the kind of modus operandi that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell would do together.
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Then earlier today, the Department of Justice sent a letter to Anna Paulina Luna, the MAGA Republican congresswoman who's running a subcommittee whose mission is to, I guess, release the Epstein files, the MLK files, the JFK files.
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And again, Trump's name is repeatedly on the plane list. deposition testimony from the various Epstein cases that have already been released publicly has Donald Trump's name on it. Victim of Epstein's trafficking says that when she was on the plane with Epstein, he called up Trump and then they landed in Atlantic City to go to Trump's casino and
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Indy Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking trial where she was found guilty and put in jail for the rest of her life, prison. where she belongs. A woman who was 14 years old at the time, she was a girl at the time, but she's testifying when she was older, talked about how when she was 14 years old, she was brought to Donald Trump by Epstein. She's a pseudonym Jane Dope.
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That's what she testified at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. And Donald Trump, I mean, in the early 90s through the 2000s, I mean, he would... hold beauty pageants for teenage girls. He would do girl beauty pageants, and then he would invite the girls on yachts. He's photographed with very young girls on the yachts, looking at them in very creepy ways.
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The Guardian wrote a whole piece about one of these yacht trips where it was described that these little girls were dancing on men old enough to be their grandparents. or their granddads, and it was disgusting. And then the old men would be like, get me one of these girls, get me one of these girls. A disgusting article. I mean, you see the photos of these girls right here.
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And look at Donald Trump with the girls right there. I mean, Trump and Epstein were very, very close. So here, let's take a look at the DOJ letter, which rejected the request for immediately releasing the Epstein files. Here it is right here, just so you can see for yourself. It's a response to Anna Paulina Luna.
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It says, thank you for your letters to the Department of Justice dated February 11th and February 19th, 2025. We are sending an identical response to other members who joined your letters. to every component of the department's mission to uphold the rule of law, keeping our nation safe and protecting civil rights.
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the rfk files and also ufo files all of that's under her purview the doj basically said we're not going to release it we are doing our due diligence to look through all of these documents and then we're not turning it over and then that caused chaos in maga world because they all said i thought you were going to release it are you trying to cover it up
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The department remains committed to meeting its legal record-keeping obligations as it pursues that mission. We are reviewing your request and look forward to engaging further to accommodate your oversight and legislative needs. We hope this information is helpful.
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Please do not hesitate to contact this office if we may provide additional assistance regarding any other things related to this matter. And notice that it's also signed not by Pam Bondi. but by a guy named Patrick Davis right there. So let me share this with you first.
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So this was before, this was Pam Bondi, I think a week or two back, where she talked about how the files are on her desk and she's reviewing them and she was gearing up to release them. Here it is right here.
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Well, we'll check back with you. So then Pam Bondi went on Jesse Waters last night. And, you know, after all of this outrage within the MAGA community, hey, we thought you were going to release these files. Here's the video where she says, I've got breaking news. We're going to drop some of the files, some of the flight logs. Here, watch this.
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And then Donald Trump paraded out his attorney general, Pam Bondi, and she tried to basically put out some red meat for her base. And she was like, we're going to release the flight logs. We're going to release some of the flight logs. We can't release a lot of the other stuff, but the flight logs. And so I was like, you mean the flight logs that were released back in 2021?
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MAGA Republican Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna, whether she's just gaslighting everybody or whether she just doesn't know or she's ignorant of these facts, she goes, well done. This is the transparency the American people asked for. We already have the flight logs. I mean, here it is right here. Government Exhibit 662-RR, 118 pages right here. We have them.
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The flight logs were already released in the 2021 Ghislaine Maxwell trial. We see Donald Trump's name. We've circled it there. It's at least seven times right there. We have depositions. Jeffrey Epstein said, great, we'll call up Trump. We'll go to, I don't recall the name of the casino, but we'll go to the casino. We've got depositions. We have Trump's own word.
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Here he is, where he wished Ghislaine Maxwell well before her trial. Play this clip.
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We know that Epstein traveled on Trump's plane frequently. We have that data. Here are some of the major revelations from the bombshell Daily Beast article from Michael Wolff's book. Epstein showed me photos of Trump with topless young women sitting on his lap. That's what Wolff claimed. Jeffrey Epstein described himself as Donald Trump's closest friend for about a decade.
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Epstein claimed that Trump liked to F the wives of his best friends. Epstein alleged Trump and Melania first slept together on the Lolita Express. Epstein suggested Trump was a serial cheat and loved using his power to pursue women. Trump reportedly had scalp reduction surgery and referred to himself as the Trumpster. We have other audio of Donald Trump.
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I mean, here he is saying that he would inspect the girls naked or the women naked, depending on which beauty pageants it was, because he did uh, beauty pageants for, I guess, uh, adults. He also did the teenage beauty pageant. So I'm not sure which one he's talking about here, but he said that he would inspect them naked without their consent. Um, because he was the head and they had, uh,
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Let him do it. Here, play this clip.
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And so I sort of get away with things. I think this is when Lindsay Lohan had either just turned 18 years old. She may have been 17 years old here. He said that he liked that she was psychologically damaged and that he liked having sex with psychologically damaged women because they're better in bed, he said. Here, play this clip.
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Do you think people are so stupid that they forgot that the flight logs were already released? They were released during the Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking trial, where Donald Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein's trafficker, Trump wished her well before that trial and basically hope that she did well. He goes, I wish her well during the trial.
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And here he is recently. This was Donald Trump giving a speech about a year ago before the young Republicans, high school and college age Republicans. And Trump said the most courageous thing he's done, according to a general, was calling the when he would grab women by their genitals, locker room talk.
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He said that was the most courageous thing, far more courageous than what people in the military do, defending our country. He said labeling molesting women, locker room talk, he says, was a very courageous thing, he says. Play this clip.
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I had to see this photo. I can't unsee this photo, so you now have to see this photo. The ridiculousness of this all when you have this individual who is gutting our Medicaid, who is attacking our government institutions, who is sucking up to Putin, who is making posts on his social media platform.
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So, you know, if you're saying that Doge is finding all of these, you know, fraud and abuse, then why would you support a continuing resolution to keep the government funded with fraud and abuse? Here, play this clip.
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And then we fired the Ebola people. I mean, I'm like watching this. I'm like, what the hell are these people talking about?
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Should be noted that the doge amongst the American people is like the number one entity that Americans want to see abolished by far. Oh yes, then there's a new proposal that was released yesterday by a MAGA Republican Congress member, Wilson, to make Donald Trump the first and only living current or former president to be featured on Currency. They want to put him on a $250 bill.
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And they said it's the most valuable currency. And they said he's the most valuable president. That's what the MAGA Republican Congress members are spending their time to as Elon Musk and his team raid your private information, gain access to your social security tax records, medical information, as they gut our government services, as our markets are so volatile that
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I mean, as they're firing central government workers, government workers, veterans, spouses of veterans, people who have just sacrificed in general for us working for the government and then lied and said they were firing people for cause, for performance reasons when it was not based on performance reasons. Here, take a look at this. This is from the cabinet meeting.
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right now, as Donald Trump is posting about Trump, Gaza and having the having America join in access of evil of Russia, of North Korea, Belarus to oppose United Nations resolutions condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. Like, what are we what are we talking about here, folks? Anyway, there you have it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Here is Donald Trump blaming the rising costs of everything and like egg prices on the administration. But Trump's like pretending that he's not the president and he's attacking a phantom administration. Here, play this clip.
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Then Kim Jong-un style, Donald Trump assembles this kind of cabinet of the most spineless men, a few women, but mostly men, and the most spineless people. And he goes, let the cabinet speak. Raise your hand right now if you are unhappy with Elon. Here, just watch this clip.
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referring to Gaza now as Trump Gaza and trying to distract Americans from the fact that prices are surging, inflation is surging again, the markets are doing bad right now. This is what Trump posted before holding a cabinet meeting yesterday. This is a real post. It was a video, he was calling it Trump Gaza, and it was an AI video where they had golden statues of Trump and
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This is like some North Korea stuff right here. Elon Musk would make multiple posts yesterday where he would mock the federal workers who were fired and celebrate their terminations. It's ghoulish behavior. But back to that cabinet meeting here, Elon Musk, this is where he says, I'm going to make mistakes, you know, like Ebola. I will sometimes fire Ebola people, but it's OK.
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We will just sometimes, you know, fire people who do nuclear weapons, you know. Here, play this clip.
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Well, that's my Elon Musk impression right there. Tell me what you think. As our friend Greg Sargent says, another mistake they made was firing USAID people who oversee contracts like the one that supplies life-saving treatments for kids who are suffering from extreme malnutrition or on the edge of starvation.
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You know, it should be noted as well, though, that last night, right before a deadline where federal governments ordered the Trump administration to have to make the payments to USAID contractors, John Roberts, chief justice of the MAGA Republican right-wing Supreme Court, jumped in and blocked the order compelling Trump to fund USAID contracts.
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the Supreme Court over and over again has blood on their hands. How many kids, how many people are going to die because of the cruelty of having their funding ripped away? And then when other federal courts order that that funding be paid,
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By midnight last night, Chief Justice John Roberts, the same person who took away women's reproductive rights, basically changed the law to stop the separation of church and state. The same Supreme Court that basically celebrates AR-15s by schools, that gutted climate change legislation, that gutted voting rights.
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Chief Justice John Roberts said, we're going to temporarily stop this order requiring the funding to USAID. Here, Donald Trump says this country has gotten that America's bloated, fat and disgusting. Play this clip.
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Are you looking in the mirror? Is that what you're referring to? Then they had a conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr., who's the secretary of health and human services. He then talks about how there are that the measles outbreak right now, which has killed somebody in Texas. This is like one of the biggest measles outbreak in recent time because people aren't getting vaccinated for measles. RFK Jr.
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Elon Musk was on the beaches in Gaza throwing up money in the air. And then after committing genocide, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were at the Trump Gaza hotel together in this AI that they created. And then here on the Gaza beach, There are these bearded men with big chests. And, well, you can judge for yourself that Trump actually posted that.
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at this cabinet meeting was like, this is normal. This is what usually happens. There's measles outbreaks like this all the time. There is not. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump insults Canada and says, Canada can't subsist or exist as a nation without America. Play this clip.
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Boy, people are pissed in Canada. That boycott of all things American in Canada is still going strong and it'll start showing in our economy.
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As Christopher Webb points out as well, not too gross y'all out, but it's not just the bruise on Trump's hand. These are not the fingernails of a healthy man. And the White House issued an official statement yesterday saying that the all of these bruises and and the discoloration on his hands and what that looks like is because he shakes so many hands every day is what they're saying
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Cue in Marjorie Taylor Greene, MAGA Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is too scared to allow Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz at the Doge hearings. She rejected his request to attend. So here she talks about, though, how federal workers need to get real jobs. They don't deserve their paychecks. They're not really working real jobs, she says. Play this clip.
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Again, when did it become so normal to just insult hardworking Americans? I don't get it. I mean, what? Just because you're not on TV, that doesn't what? That means that someone who works at our national parks is not good enough for MAGA? The person who works in the Department of Education or Department of Labor or
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So when I go and show you that photo of him, what he looks like without his orange plaster on his face, I mean, like, what the hell is going on here? Then let's go to that cabinet meeting that took place yesterday, which Donald Trump essentially had Elon Musk lead, where Elon Musk's like, I'm going to be making mistakes a lot, you know, like we made a mistake about Ebola.
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or Department of Agriculture, or USAID, or the people who work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or whatever government entity. Why? They don't get on TV, so they're not glamorous. That means they're not real workers. I mean, who talks about human beings in that way? Oh, MAGA. The same MAGA that is shaking down President Zelensky of Ukraine for a rare earth mineral deal.
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So we've been covering on the Midas Touch Network all of Donald Trump's fake deals. where Donald Trump said that he got this great deal with Canada to avoid the initial tariffs Donald Trump threatened. But then he says he's bringing tariffs in a few days anyway against Canada.
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But remember the deal where Canada said, OK, Donald, we will put whatever it was, a billion dollars in border security and we'll give you a fentanyl czar. There was already the border security deal in place under former President Biden and a fentanyl czar, whatever they were calling it, that's There's really no fentanyl coming from Canada to the United States.
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10 pounds or something like over the whole year. Like there's not a lot of fentanyl coming in at all. And then the deal with Mexico, the fake deal where Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico is like, okay, Donald, we'll put 10,000 troops at the border. And Trump's like, deal, look what I've achieved. There were already 15,000 troops at the border. 15,000 is more than 10,000.
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Then Donald Trump made the fake deals with like Columbia and Panama and so on and so forth. So now, so Donald Trump was like shaking down Zelensky for this rare earth mineral deal where, you know, the rare earth minerals from Ukraine would be shared with the United States with no security guarantees. But here's what we know about the deal now.
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Ilya Pomeranko from the Kiev Independent says it perfectly. It's like a fake deal. So essentially, the rare earth agreement is just a memorandum on how the U.S. and Ukraine are intended to invest in Ukraine's mining industry and mineral resources and jointly get profits at some point. There's 0% certainty on whether this will ever be a real big thing.
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The document doesn't even require parliamentary ratification at this moment now. Donald Trump will declare a grandiose victory as soon as Zelensky signs this in front of cameras in D.C. And essentially, that's it. Pomerantz goes on to say this is all so grotesquely dumb and so surreally opposite to basic human morality that one can't believe it's even real.
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It motivates many to try to look for a second agenda to try to read between the lines and make it to a far larger truth. But I'm afraid the answer is very simple. Maga Mike Johnson on CNN is being asked here. This was a good question by Caitlin Collins. She asked Maga Mike Johnson.
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This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run. Mirror, mirror on the wall. That was Donald Trump apparently talking about himself during his first cabinet meeting of his new term. Donald Trump was joined by his puppet master, Elon Musk, who led much of the meeting, which was completely bizarre, full of lies.
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And because we always show receipts here at Midas Touch, let's pull this up. Consumer Confidence has registered the biggest monthly decline since August 2021 as inflation fears take hold. The latest evidence comes from the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for February, which was released this past Tuesday morning.
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The index fell to 98.3, falling for the third straight month and marking the largest monthly decline since August 2021, as expectations for inflation in the year ahead climbed. And that coincides with the trends that were reflected in the University of Michigan's consumer survey for February.
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Trump then turned the meeting over to Elon Musk to tell people what is happening, because apparently he doesn't know what the heck is going on. And Trump said that Elon probably found fraud, but he won't be able to prove it.
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And at times, Donald Trump didn't even seem to acknowledge that he is actually the president. My name is Brett Mycelis with Midas Touch. I'm going to walk you through the lowlights and fact check it all. But first, remember to hit subscribe and help us get to 5 million subscribers. The meeting began with a prayer where they thanked God for President Trump. Just completely bizarre stuff.
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Elon Musk then admitted that he, quote, accidentally canceled briefly funding for Ebola prevention. Watch this.
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By the way, for some perspective on how Doge is actually going, NPR's recent data show that while Doge has said they cut $55 billion in spending, they've actually only reduced about $2 billion with all this chaos, just $2 billion.
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And the New York Times reports that the top five biggest cuts that Doge claimed to have put forward, they've now been removed from their website because they were all fraudulent claims. They were just completely made up. factual errors.
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And while they're causing all this chaos under the guise of cutting the deficit, they are currently pushing through this budget bill in Congress that would add $19 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. $19 trillion with a T.
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So even if NPR's data is somehow wrong by 100x, and even if Doge somehow found a lot more savings since that report came out, it's still not even a dent in what the Trump GOP tax plan is about to cause. And also they could give $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to the richest Americans.
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And you don't have to believe me, here are the deficit numbers as listed in the GOP resolution that passed last night. Take a look at this. And by the way, all these Republican politicians and influencers are now lying about the resolution, saying that they've ended tax on tips, tax on social security, tax on overtime. just a flat out lie.
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And you could see these posts like this one by Republican Representative Ana Paulina Luna. It got fact checked on Twitter of all places. It says on the bottom of the fact check, quote, House resolution does not include provisions for no tax on tips or no tax on overtime. It's a budget resolution setting fiscal targets, not a tax or labor law.
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And Trump's proposals on tips and unmentioned overtime would require separate legislation. Also, to reiterate what was just said in that note, this is just a resolution providing the framework of the budget. The bill itself has not been passed. They are literally making up benefits for the working class out of thin air so that they could push forward these tax cuts for the rich.
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It's absolutely abhorrent. Well, back to the cabinet meeting Trump threatened Canada again by calling them the 51st state. Watch this.
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And if they had to pay their way, they couldn't exist. Trump then threatened Ukraine and said they could forget about ever joining NATO. Watch this.
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Then Trump refused to say if he would ever let China take Taiwan by force.
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Trump was then asked about the message it sends to China if he allows Russia to keep territory they claimed by force. And he once again showed his weakness or rather subservience towards Russia. Take a look.
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Oh, okay. You try and take it away, right? Trump was then asked about his plan to sell $5 million gold cards in order for rich people to be able to buy citizenship to the United States, including Russian oligarchs. The country is literally for sale right now. Trump claimed the country could make $50 trillion on selling gold cards if they could find 10 million people willing to pay the $5 million.
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The guy just makes things up. Watch this.
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Trump’s First Cabinet Meeting Plunges Into Disaster
Trump then encouraged China to invest in the United States. As I said before, the country is literally for sale under Trump watch around this table.
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Trump’s First Cabinet Meeting Plunges Into Disaster
Trump then didn't even seem to know that he is president right now. And he said that while egg prices are a disaster and are really high now, they were low with him.
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Trump was also asked if he could guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will not be touched. And he said he's going to find the fraud. And then he repeated these lies about 200 year old people getting checks completely made up.
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But you have a lot of fraud. If you remember, Trump and Musk were previously saying 150 year olds were getting checks. Now that number has magically moved to 200 year olds. This is all based on Elon Musk and his 20-something-year-old doge kids not knowing how to read government data. And I want you to have your guard up anytime. I'm just going to say this here.
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Have your guard up anytime Trump and Musk or any Republicans say that they are going after waste, fraud, and abuse. They are using that lie to go after crucial government programs and to fire employees. But as you've seen at these town halls lately, people are already catching on to this lie anytime Republicans try to use that line. And finally, RFK Jr.
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was asked about the measles outbreak that's going on in Texas. We just learned this morning that an unvaccinated young child just died of measles. It's the first measles death in over a decade. RFK Jr. was asked about this and he said, it is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year. Watch this. Bobby, do you want to speak on that?
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I mean, it is unusual. This is the first time this has happened in 10 years, and this is a deadly outbreak right now in West Texas due to people not getting vaccinated. As a reminder, RFK Jr. 's lies about vaccines during his visit to Samoa in 2019 have been linked to a massive measles outbreak there, which ended up resulting in 83 deaths, mostly children.
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So there's a track record of this with RFK Jr. Oh, and I have to show you this. This was an AI video that Trump posted on social media last night depicting the Gaza Strip as Trump Gaza, showing gold statues of Trump in a resort-like setting in Gaza with bearded ladies, Trump dancing with a woman who isn't his wife, Trump shirtless with Netanyahu having drinks by the pool.
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This is just completely disturbing. I'm sorry to even show this to you, but people need to see what he is posting. Take a look.
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Trump was then asked about consumer confidence, which is absolutely plummeting right now. People are very unhappy with the Trump economy and how he is handling it, or probably the lack of how he is handling it right now. Trump then argued that confidence was high after the election. I mean, when Biden was still president. Play the clip.
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Biden DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump with REAL STRENGTH
Trying to bully Panama into saying America is going to conquer it or take back over the Panama Canal. President Biden shaking the hands of firefighters. Notice that Donald Trump doesn't do any of that once the election is over, right?
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Donald Trump would always do those stunts where he'd like bring pizza boxes to the fire department during the election, but then after would never deliver on the things he said he was going to do. President Biden's been a steady hand and has been constantly on the side. Workers, firefighters, first responders, unions, the American people, red states and blue states.
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Biden DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump with REAL STRENGTH
Remember what President Biden said to me during the interview we did in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing? By the way, watch it and share it with family members if you haven't. He said, I'm a president for all Americans. And a lot of my policies helped out red states even more than blue states where the red states had really bad infrastructure. We brought them good infrastructure.
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We brought them jobs. And I don't care who they voted for. I cared about their Americans and my job, my duty as the president of the United States is to help them. President Biden goes, this holiday season, Jill and I are thinking of the brave first responders and frontline workers who keep our communities and families safe. Our nation is stronger than ever because of them.
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And that stands in contrast to the firefighters union in New York who are absolutely pissed that Trump and Republicans stripped funding from the 9-11 healthcare program and the continuing resolution. Today's episode of F around and find out. Let's play it.
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New York City Fire Department unions are calling for the restoration of funding to the James Zadroga 9-11 Health and Compensation Act after it was left out of Congress's funding on Friday. The act guarantees medical treatment for first responders, firefighters and survivors who helped with their recovery efforts following the World Trade Center attack.
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It also provides financial compensation for those who suffered injuries, illnesses or death as a result.
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Biden DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump with REAL STRENGTH
Now, also in stark contrast to Donald Trump's behavior, President Biden's been releasing videos about how he's helped the American people. I'm not showing you any Trump videos. I've made you that promise. I'm going to stick by that. No Trump videos, no audio. I hear you. We're not going to show you that, especially not on Christmas.
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I do want to show you, I'm not going to show you Trump, that's not the but. This is a video that Rudy Giuliani released, dressed up as a Santa suit with a woman on his lap selling Rudy Giuliani coffee. Why? Because Trump's selling Trump guitars, Trump coins, Trump watches, Trump, Trump, Trump. Giuliani, Giuliani, there's Rudy, they're in it for themselves. Watch this, then we'll show the contrast.
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All right, and now the contrast. Three videos of President Biden. These are lovely videos and it's so important that you watch all three of them because I think it highlights a lot.
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This first video right here, President Biden talked about how his administration announced that another 55,000 public service workers are approved to have their student debt wiped out, meaning nearly 5 million borrowers have received forgiveness including 1 million public servants. Contrast that to Trump whose PPP program waived the debt, eliminated the debt of rich people.
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Biden focused on public sector workers who gave back. Here, watch this clip.
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Biden DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump with REAL STRENGTH
Now, in contrast to the Trump guitars, the Trump watches, the Trump coins, the Trump NFTs, all the stupid crap that he sells, President Biden, again, this is after the election. The election's over, okay? But what's President Biden talking about? What was he talking to me about? Stuff like this. Thanks to my Inflation Reduction Act, we've made historic progress lowering healthcare costs.
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$35 for insulin, $35 for inhalers, a $2,000 a year cap on prescription drugs for Medicare recipients, and more. Here, watch this.
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On Christmas, President Biden is reminding the American people of what a dignified and compassionate president looks like. Someone who cares about the people in contrast to Donald Trump. And folks, the contrast cannot be more clear here. President Biden posted this lovely image of a little kitten, one of my favorite Christmas tales.
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God love you. Lovely video. It's a beautiful video. President Biden also posted this video right here. I am proud of the work we have done to make the Affordable Care Act more accessible and more affordable for folks like Phoenix's grandmother. Just take a look at this. Here, play this clip.
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Another beautiful, lovely video right there. And again, you take a look at President Biden's accomplishments, 12.6% GDP growth, 16.2 million jobs created, 1.6 million jobs created in construction and manufacturing, lowest average unemployment rate, incomes are up.
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lowered costs for families 20 million new business applications workers filing for union representation has doubled one trillion dollars in private sector manufacturing and clean energy investments have been announced and a lot of that will happen during trump's term too but when i asked president biden i said are you going to regret when the other guy takes crediting us no i'm not going to regret if the american people benefit that's what i care about most
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So in President Biden's final days, as we all sit around the table with our families on Christmas, whatever holiday you celebrate, or if you don't celebrate holidays at all, remember the dignified, humble, public servant who worked for the American people. That's how I view it. In contrast to the bumbling, mumbling fool, as I see it, in Donald Trump's
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Threatening Greenland, threatening Panama, threatening Mexico, threatening Canada, bullying this, bullying that. So deranged, so unhinged. Trump made other posts as well. I don't want to show you his other posts. They're just stupid. Dangerous. I'm going after this person. I'm going after that person. The January 6th committee Stalinist. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Seriously.
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We need to reflect on what dignified, humble, public servant leadership, service, is all about. Service. Service. Reflect on that this Christmas. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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Contrast that to Donald Trump's post, now available, gettrumpguitars.com. By the way, Trump was previously hit with a cease and desist letter by the Gibson Company for purportedly taking their design and intellectual property and selling it with his own guitar line, whatever the heck you want to call it. Donald Trump posts an image of the United States of America flag in the Panama Canal,
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
Yeah, and Senator, that extends to other Trump nominees, Pete Hegseth for defense, Tulsi Gabbard. This unbelievably crazy nomination was made by the same person who's making these other nominations.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
I love that AOC's been doing these kind of ask her anything type videos that she's been making. Really good stuff right here. Here she is talking about the MAGA Republican oligarchy and that it's here already. Here, play this clip.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
Democrats in Congress finally going on the offense, speaking plainly, loudly, and clearly, led by Democratic Congress members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and in the Senate, Sheldon Whitehouse. Let's show you what they're doing. Also, MAGA Republicans don't know how to react and they're exposing their true pro-oligarchy agenda during their public appearances because Democrats are pushing back
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And here AOC is again talking about how Trump wanted the debt ceiling lifted so we won't realize his tax cuts for the rich will explode the deficit. Watch this.
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He or she is again answering if Elon Musk is really the shadow president. Play this clip.
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pushing them into a corner and MAGA Republicans exposing what they're really trying to do with Project 2025. Let's take a look here. Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, let's play this clip.
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Powerful stuff right there. Now, contrast that to MAGA Republican Congress member Tony Gonzalez, who goes, no, we need Elon. Elon's like our prime minister. No, he's not. Elon Musk isn't our prime minister. What are these baggers talking about? We don't want Elon Musk. He doesn't know what he's talking about here. Play this clip.
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And by the way, this is Elon Musk saying that he hates unions. He thinks unions shouldn't exist because Elon Musk says that unions create a lord versus peasants dynamic with the union leaders as the lord and the members as the peasants. Play this clip.
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Yeah, no, Elon, you're describing yourself and the American oligarchy. Y'all see what's going on there? The Lord Peasant dynamic is the Elons, the Trumps, the Bezoses against the workers. You see what they're doing right here?
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
By the way, Donald Trump's out there posting about conquering Greenland and taking back the Panama Canal, which was never ours, it was Elise, but stealing Panama Canal and conquering sovereign nations. You've got Marjorie Taylor Greene posting things like Canada and Greenland should have never been given away in the first place. I have no clue. Just take a look at this.
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What in the world is she even talking about here? But now on Fox, as Donald Trump's talking about conquering nations, they're having guests show up, like the chair of the Republican Party. And they're like, yeah, this is a good idea. We're going to have to buy it. Greenland will cost $1.5 trillion, but a good acquisition. Here, play this clip.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
And then earlier on Fox, they had a guest who says that, or the Fox host goes, Greenland is not for sale, but sometimes they aren't until they are. Here, play this clip.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
By the way, while all of that's going on, there was that breaking story from some great local journalism how the Texas Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger was missing since July. No one knew where she was, but no one was asking questions. MAGA Republicans covered it up and pretended that she was still around for her constituents. She was not. She has dementia.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
And she is in full-time, round-the-clock care because of her deteriorating mental condition. She lived at a dementia care home. And video from her surfaced. This is from earlier in this year. You see her right here. This was before she kind of disappeared. Play this clip.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
Now, I do think it's worthwhile, too, though, quickly to showcase a senator-elect from Utah, Senator-elect John Curtis, who does say, look, I'm going to push back against Trump. He's what he said. He said, I want to highlight him here. He said, I don't think Trump has a mandate. Play this clip.
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And here he is, again, talking about what his constitutional responsibility is. Again, Republican, Utah Senator-elect John Kurtz. But I think I showcase him here because this is what he says. I'll probably disagree with him on a lot of things. But here he is speaking sensibly, at least by the clip.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
Well, there you have it, folks. Doesn't that video give you a little room for hope, I think? Well, it gives me a little more than a little room. That's what I want to see. What AOC is doing, what Jasmine Crockett's doing. Just take your message out. Be strong about it. Call out these MAGA's. Call out their support of the oligarchy.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
You know, MAGA's were always like, oh, Democrats are eating cats and dogs. You're eating your cats and dogs. No, they weren't. But Republicans are literally eating your lunch, right? The oligarchy is literally taking away your paychecks. They're looting and they're pillaging. It's a real threat. It's not an imaginary boogeyman. It's what's actually happening.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
So folks, let's focus on the real threats, what's happening, what we can do to stop it. Don't buy into the MAGA boogeyman, okay? Democrats, be clear, plain, repetitive over and over again. If you want to get your message out, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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FED UP Dems Finally PUT THE SCREWS in House GOP
Next up, I want to show you Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. And here he talks about really Donald Trump was going to appoint Matt Gaetz as the attorney general. Seriously? We now seen the report. We know what he was up to. That's what the Republican Party is supporting and covering up. Watch this. Play the clip.
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
Since that day that Donald Trump calls Liberation Day, which I think we call Devastation or Liquidation Day, Donald Trump's been sending messages of tariffs on, tariffs off, tariffs on, tariffs off. Then there are these private meetings that are taking place where things are leaked out and that the markets become very volatile.
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
What message is Donald Trump sending to the business community with just the volatility he's creating? Well, he's open for business.
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
You visited China in October of 2023. You met with Xi Jinping and other leadership in China. So you know how they negotiate, how they respond to threats. Now, Trump imposed a 145% tariff on China. Then China retaliated in kind. They cut rare earth minerals. Trump's been claiming that he's been talking with China, but China's foreign minister today said that's fake news.
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
There's no discussions taking place until and unless Trump wants to remove the unilateral tariffs. What do you make, Governor, of Trump's negotiations with China?
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
Governor, California just passed Japan as the fourth largest economy in the world, which, of course, sounds like a big deal. You posted about it. Why is this just an important thing for us to all recognize more broadly, geopolitically?
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
You know, Governor, Texas seems to take the Trump approach at the government level, attack the citizens, take away freedoms, ban the books, cut social programs. But California has done the opposite. California has grown because it has invested in good social programs. So you show that that actually leads to growth. Why is investing in good social programs good for business and the economy?
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
I'm joined by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Governor, when you and I last spoke, it was the day after Donald Trump announced his tariffs against the world. You warned everyone how dangerous and harmful it was going to be. Three weeks later, what's your reaction?
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
And finally, talking about the American dream, which is under attack right now. People are scared. They're nervous. What's Donald Trump going to post today? People are looking at their 401ks, their pensions. They're seeing all of this volatility. They're seeing people get disappeared off the streets.
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
They're seeing Donald Trump show off meetings with people, the leader from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. With all of that going on, Governor, finally, as we conclude this interview, just in general, What's your message to the American people right now in this moment, April 24th, 2025, as we're recording this?
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Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump’s 100 Days of Failure
California Governor Gavin Newsom, thanks for joining us here on the Midas Touch Network. It's good to be back with you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Utterly Screws Red States by Denying Requests
The states that voted for Donald Trump are getting the biggest middle finger in the world from Donald Trump. When it even comes to things like disaster relief and FEMA aid, Donald Trump is looking at these red states that many of them overwhelmingly voted for him. And Trump's saying, F you, I hate you. You are not getting aid. Go screw yourself.
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Trump Utterly Screws Red States by Denying Requests
Black tie optional. Of course, Donald Trump says it pumped the value of his meme coin, but then it quickly went down. the debris and dumping all of the disastrous things that happen with natural disasters on even red States and blue States alike. Donald Trump is saying my meme coin, what it went up 71% and then it went right back down. And I want to tie this all together.
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Trump Utterly Screws Red States by Denying Requests
So first let's take a look at this from Arkansas tornado victims blocked from federal recovery aid after Trump denied request. So Trump looks at victims of a tornado and Donald Trump says, screw you.
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Trump Utterly Screws Red States by Denying Requests
The Trump administration denied Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' request for individual and public assistance following an outbreak of severe storms and tornadoes that also affected neighboring Mississippi and Missouri and left more than 40 people dead. And by the way, you may be saying, Ben, I didn't even hear about this tragedy. Well, they did in Arkansas. They did in Missouri.
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Trump Utterly Screws Red States by Denying Requests
And we did cover it here on the Midas Touch Network. But you know who didn't talk about it? Not a peep. Donald Trump. The same way Donald Trump doesn't talk about the four soldiers who died in Lithuania, the two American soldiers who died in New Mexico and one critically injured. The way Donald Trump doesn't address this. shootings that take place.
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Trump Utterly Screws Red States by Denying Requests
The same with Donald Trump doesn't do any of that. He doesn't address the fact that there have been these horrific storms that have left dozens and dozens of people dead.
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Trump Utterly Screws Red States by Denying Requests
It goes on to say the denial by Trump follows executive order signed by Trump seeking to shift the burden of disaster response and recovery from the federal government onto states as extreme weather becomes increasingly destructive and costly in a warming world. And if Missouri got the same letter.
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Now, it should also be noted that this is what Trump and the MAGA Republicans plan is for Medicaid, right? Whereas Medicaid right now has a cost-sharing 90% federal government, 10% states with kind of a match 90-10. What the MAGA plan is to get rid of Medicaid is push it all to the states, which can't afford to provide Medicaid. They rely on the federal government
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He's not using those exact words, but he's sending the same kind of form letter saying we are not giving you aid. He did it recently in Arkansas. He did it recently in Kentucky. He did it recently in Georgia. He did it recently in North Carolina. Now, obviously, Arkansas and Kentucky are voted like 63, 64% for Donald Trump. He's not even giving them emergency aid. I want you to think about that.
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Most states or many states have trigger laws that the moment federal government stops its funding, Medicaid goes away. And this way, Trump and his despicable authoritarian regime can just put the blame on the states. Let's let's. Dig a little bit deeper into this as well. So that's what's happening in Arkansas.
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Let's take a look at what Governor Beshear, a Democratic governor of Kentucky, Wyatt on the Midas Touch Network. Here's what he posted yesterday. Today, Governor Andy Beshear announced that FEMA has denied public assistance for two counties and individual assistance for six counties affected by flooding in February. So Donald Trump said, screw you, tornado victims. Screw you, flooding victims.
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And as I'll show you in a little bit, Donald Trump said, screw you, Hurricane Helene victims in Georgia and North Carolina. Deal with your own debris yourself. The federal government apparently just exists to garnish wages, destroy people's lives, and steal your data and destroy your Social Security and your Medicaid. And I mean it. Oh, and tank the economy. What a despicable...
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Let's take a look right here at the letter from FEMA that they sent right here to Governor Beshear. Let's just look. Let's look at source documents. This is like the letter that Arkansas got, that Georgia got. Just so you go, just so you know, I'm not blowing smoke here, right? This is what the letter that Kentucky got and North Carolina got when it comes to the hurricane.
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Dear Governor Beshear, this is in response to your February 17, 2025 request for a major disaster declaration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a result of severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides, and mudslides during the period of February 14 to March 7, 2025.
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He specifically requested individual assistance for 22 counties, public assistance for 69 counties, and hazard mitigation for the entire Commonwealth. Let's pause there for a second, too. The letter was sent on February 17, 2025. The Trump regime is first responding April 22, 2025. That don't sound government efficiency to me.
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It goes on to talk about how the February 24, 2025 major disaster declaration and subsequent amendments authorized individual assistance for 16 counties. It then goes on to talk about what it's doing. The impact to individual households and the infrastructure was significant.
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However, based on the results of the joint preliminary damage assessment, it has been determined that the impact to the individuals and households in Butler, Franklin, Knox, Laurel, Lawrence, and Whitley counties is not of the severity and magnitude that warrant their designations under the individual assistance program. And then it goes on to talk about how therefore your request is denied.
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These denials may be appealed, but you can see the source document yourself. That's the letter that they received. Now you want to take a look at some of the other letters that were out there as well. Here's the letter that they got in Georgia in response to Governor Kemp. Here it is right here. FEMA, February 12th, 2025.
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Dear Governor Kemp, this is in response to your January 24th, 2025 request for an extension to the cost share waiver under the major disaster FEMA-4830-DR request. That was declared on September 30th, 2024 due to Hurricane Helene.
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And then in the past two weeks or so, we reported how he's not giving North Carolina aid to remove debris. He said, uh-uh, you ain't getting that. And then a few weeks before that, he told Governor Kemp of Georgia, I ain't giving you debris removal aid. Go deal with the debris yourself, state. Federal government is not helping you out.
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You specifically requested an extension of the 100% federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance to 100 days. And you reiterated your request for an increase in the federal cost share for permanent work to 90%.
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And it says, based on our review of all the information available, it has been determined that the increased level of funding you have requested for the major disaster is not warranted. Therefore, I must inform you that your request for more federal funding is denied. OK, that was the letter that Georgia got. And then in North Carolina, they got a similar letter right here.
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Here was a letter that they got in North Carolina. Dear Governor Stein,
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you can read it yourself it follows the same format based on all of our review of all information available it has been determined that the increased level of funding you have requested for the major disaster is not warranted therefore i must inform you that the debris removal is hereby denied denied denied denied denied denied now
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I think when I share that with you, it's also worth me just contrasting that to how former President Biden handled things here. So let me just share with you how former President Biden handled things. So here's former President Biden talking about how for him, he was honored to approve that FEMA gave, for example, Texas $13 billion in taxes. $13 billion in three years in disaster relief.
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As he said, when disasters strike, there's no red state or blue state where I come from. This is who was once running the United States of America. And this is the person who the media and lots of people tore down. This person. Here, play this clip.
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Now, you'll recall, as former President Biden was giving Georgia, North Carolina, all the states impacted by Hurricane Helene, Biden gave them anything they asked for, extensions. You named it. He picked up the phone, said, done. Governors, you know your state better than I do. Tell me what you want. You've got what you want. All of the governors said that. Governor Kemp said that.
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i got approved immediately every governor said right away we got what we needed what did trump do during the campaign that corporate news media by and large i don't want to lump everyone together because there were people calling it out but by and large what was corporate media doing they were said they were not talking about donald trump line So Trump would say, FEMA screwed all of you.
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This is Trump speaking in Pennsylvania. This is a speech in Scranton. So FEMA screwed you. They screwed the people of North Carolina. FEMA stole your money. When I was in charge, FEMA was great. We had tremendous success with FEMA. But Biden, they were only giving you $750 and they're screwing you. Okay, which was a lie. Biden gave an initial $750 to everyone right away.
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And then additional relief, just $750 without even asking questions you got. And then FEMA had all of its programs. And then FEMA was working with the states right away, giving them 100% assistance on everything. But Trump and this whole MAGA ecosystem here in the United States lied about it, pushed this deluge, this tsunami of lies, as though Biden's FEMA wasn't helping the people.
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And by the way, while Donald Trump is giving the middle finger to these states on emergency relief from freaking natural disasters, what's Donald Trump spending his time doing? Well, he was pumping up his meme coin yesterday by inviting the 220 people who have the most Trump meme coins in their wallets get special access to Donald Trump and they could have a private dinner with him.
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This is what Trump said during the campaign. I'm not going to show you. I could show you 20 clips of him saying, they're stealing your money. They're giving your money to the immigrants. I'll show you one clip just so I can bring out the receipts. Let's play it.
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OK, folks, let me go back to what former President Biden said to conclude this video. When it comes to disaster, it's not a red state thing or a blue state thing. OK, you help Americans in need. That's what the purpose of a government is for. For Donald Trump, a government is by the bullies for the oligarchs.
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For Trump, government is a tool to make rich people richer, not to actually do governing at all. And that's what one of the things that pissed me off the most about this is how corporate news tries to present the issues I just presented to you. Well, the Democrats think this and Republicans think that.
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And then we get a split screen and then you fight and then you fight and duke it out, everybody and everybody else. Then we cut to a commercial break. No. We are Americans, damn it. And the federal government, when there's disasters, is supposed to step up and to help we the people.
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The federal government's not supposed to inflict pain and suffering, disappear people, torture people, make people feel like crap. They want us to believe that that's what the government is so that in our suffering, we avoid, we run away, and we don't stop this fascist authoritarian regime. Do not run away. We need to be aware of what's going on.
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And that's why we've created the Midas Touch Network to share, to share this information, to make it accessible, to read for you the letters so you can see for yourself. He screwed the people in Arkansas. You go through some of these states, people in Kentucky voted for 64.5% of the vote. People in Arkansas, 64.2% of the vote. Georgia, 50.7% of the vote. North Carolina, 50.9% of the vote for Trump.
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for Trump to ruin their lives. Come on, people. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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They also ran the following graphic as well from its poll that 56% of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump's job performance on the economy. Only 38% approve. Fox was running that graphic. Then you had Brett Baer. one of the Fox hosts talk about how Donald Trump's approval in 100 days is awful based on the new Fox polling. Watch this.
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And Fox didn't stop there with talking about Trump's Horrible, horrific handling of the economy. They also talked about how Donald Trump continues to attack President Zelensky of Ukraine and Donald Trump goes out of his way to try to compliment and suck up to Vladimir Putin. Here you've got Bret Baier again talking about it over here.
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The president is meeting with enough. And look, even throughout the day yesterday, Donald Trump continuing to attack Ukraine. This as Kiev was targeted again by ballistic missiles from Vladimir Putin after Donald Trump continued to harass and threaten Ukraine and thank Vladimir Putin for commissioning a ugly painting. of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, said this is such an honorable gift that Putin gave to Donald Trump. So then Trump makes posts like this. Ukrainian President Zelensky is boasting on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. that Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There's nothing to talk about here.
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This statement is very harmful to the peace negotiations with Russia and that Crimea was lost years. Let me just stop reading it right there because you know where the rest of this is going. And let me call Donald Trump out as a terrorist himself, as a felon, as a sexual abuser, as someone who aids and abets Vladimir Putin's genocide. And Donald Trump is a sick and disgusting person.
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And by the way, they were calling him out on Fox yesterday a little bit too. So here was Robert Wolf on Fox talking about being in finance for 40 years and never seeing the economy be mishandled in this way in his entire career.
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Now, I explained that some of these shows were being honest on Fox. Just some. And you saw those there, right? I mean, you had Brit Hume and Brit Baer and you had Robert Wolfe, right? I want to highlight it. It was accurate. But then, of course, you had Jesse Waters seeing that. And Jesse Waters, vile, disgusting propagandist that he is.
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He looks like the guy on Hunger Games, like the host in the Hunger Games. And Jesse Waters starts, this is what they talk about. Watch what Jesse Waters says here. Play this clip.
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They will make you clean up the beach. What are they even talking about? Left-wing terror campaign? Dude, Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world. Doge promised that it was going to save $2 trillion. Okay, now they're saying maybe $150 billion, but it seems more like nothing at all.
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What they were all about was not making the government more efficient or cutting federal costs because federal spending, Jesse, is actually up significantly right now, significantly higher. What they did was focusing on stealing the people's data. That's what it was really about, just taking your social security, your medical records, and all that stuff.
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Wow. Fox, which I call state regime media, almost seemed to be giving up on Donald Trump yesterday, at least on some of their shows. They were calling the guy out. They were showing their new Fox poll, which shows that in the first 100 days, Donald Trump has the worst approval of any modern president ever. By far, for example, in the first 100 days, former President Biden's approval was 54%.
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Then Jesse Waters talks about how these snobs... Don't get it. We're watching their IQ test every day. Do you even know what he's talking about here? Play this clip.
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So then they bring on MAGA Mike Johnson, of course, Will Kane, who's trying to be Jesse Waters and Tucker Carlson. This guy's the worst. So Will Kane brings on MAGA Mike Johnson. What do they spend their time talking about? But with Donald Trump, we're going to, We're gonna give money to women who have babies.
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We're gonna have a baby boom and we're focusing on fostering babies and having women get pregnant more. Here, play this clip.
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And by the way, they're not going to pay $5,000 for baby boomers, just like no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. All this is BS. Remember the Doge rebate checks? Yeah. Doge rebate check. We're going to give you $5,000 if you respond to our poll. They're not giving doge rebate checks. They're con artists. They're Ponzi schemers. Okay, they're scammers. Trump's a fraud.
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He's a criminal. He's a felon. The guy lies about everything. Remember the other day Trump was like, The price of eggs is down 94%. I got it down 94%. Bull BS. The price of eggs is up. It's higher than ever right now. They lie and lie and lie. By the way, it should be noted when Trump talks about the baby boom, where'd they get this idea from? Oh, that's right.
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Hitler establishes the Mother Cross to encourage German women to procreate. On December 16, 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother Cross to encourage women of pure German origin to increase the size of their families and grow the population of the Third Reich. They would get these medals and money. And where do you think some of these ideas come from?
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So then you had on Fox also Caroline Leavitt. She was on in the morning and she was asked a very simple question about Donald Trump going to remove these tariffs on China. And she's like, let me be very clear. There's going to be no unilateral reduction in the tariffs. And this was after Trump the day before that said that there would be.
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To me, if you look at the sequence of clips that I just showed you, Caroline Levitt said that this morning. And I think Fox was like, all right, release the poll. And Murdoch was like, release the poll. We got to shut this guy down right now on some of our shows. We can't stop Jesse Waters and Hannity and all of them here playing this clip.
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Former President Obama's was 62%. Even Donald Trump in his first administration was 45%. Now, Trump too, the new Trump regime, Trump's approval at 44% right now. Fox ran that graphic over and over again throughout the day on most of their shows. More on that in a moment.
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Oh, and by the way, on the morning show here, you just see how just like just mean and vile they are. Just watch what they were saying here about Whoopi Goldberg. Thank God she didn't do IVF because just let's listen to it. I didn't want to repeat what they're saying here. Play this clip.
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So vile and disgusting. And then finally, I'm not going to show clips of Hannity because it's just the most ridiculous episode. No mention of the poll. No mention of the tariffs. This is what they were showing on Hannity. These were the topics. Dems in disarray. Ring camera robbery. Shaq's new porta potty, Florida man offers booze to cops during car chase.
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Those were the big issues that they were tackling on Hannity. You see why I call them state regime media, but still throughout the day, some of their hosts calling them out, showing the polls, the Fox polls. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Oh, by the way, this poll too.
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Elbows up Canada, Donald Trump's attack on Canada backfired big time. We're less than a week away from the elections in Canada taking place on April 28th. We already have the advance polls open over 7.3 million Canadians. have voted during the advanced poll period. That is record setting and Canadians are going elbows up. What's up, Maple Midas?
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So folks, as I said, and let me reiterate this again, the end of the day, polls don't vote. People vote. No matter how you end up voting in that election, I think it's just important wherever you are in the world. I think it's just important to understand people's intentions. Why is Elon Musk, why was he involving himself? What was all this woke talk, the similarities? What's going on here?
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You unpack it, you decide for yourself. But maple Midas, let me say this. We're on a journey together. That's just the beginning. And it's been an honor that we've been the top podcast in Canada. It's an honor that you trust me and this network. We don't take that for granted any day. So thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart. We appreciate it.
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Have a great day and hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers. Oh, by the way, you can go check out store.midastouch.com and we've got the Maple Midas gear 100% made in Canada. The boycott in Canada is going strong, boycotting tourism. You've set an example for the rest of the world, Canada.
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You had the banker in Prime Minister Carney versus the bankrupter in Donald Trump. A builder in Prime Minister Carney versus a destroyer in Donald Trump. And Canada united, mostly all of the provinces united, the premiers, regardless of political party, really stood shoulder to shoulder other than Danielle Smith in Alberta. She's Maple Maga as well.
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about what to do and how to stand up to the bully canada you're the front lines of democracy see i thought i was going to end the video but i want to i want to want to recognize a few things that's very it's very true the courage that you've shown over the past several months is nothing short of heroic but it's not over the past several months it's the history of canada if you go back
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to the world wars, if you go back to who's always been on the right side of history in the fight for democracy over time. And as Prime Minister Carney says, as others have said, we've all, you know, countries make their mistakes. Countries don't all have these glorious histories, okay? But let me be very clear. Canada has fought for democracy in all the world wars.
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Canada has been on the front lines of protecting, preserving democracy, of fighting back against Nazis, okay? and standing up for a peaceful, stable, loving, pro-democracy world order. Thank you, Canada. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more. All at store.midastouch.com.
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She was trying to work with Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago to have Trump and Musk interfere with the Canadian elections to try to help Pierre Poliev, the leader of the Conservative Party there, win. That was exposed. They tried to have J.D. Vance's roommate and buddy from Yale, who's one of the henchmen for Pierre Poliev, interfere in the elections with Donald Trump. The Canadians smoked that out.
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And Donald Trump continued his relentless attack on on Canada's sovereignty. I mean, even yesterday in the Oval Office, Trump reinserted himself into Canadian politics. He said he wants to increase the tariffs on auto against Canada. He used the rhetoric of Canada should be the 51st state.
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And let me be clear to those people living in America who don't know, when Donald Trump says this, this ain't merely a trade war. These are words of war, annexation, conquest. It is the language of Putin against Ukraine.
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It is the way Putin says he wants to denazify Ukraine is Donald Trump saying he's trying to get rid of all of the fentanyl from Canada into the United States, which doesn't exist, which is Complete and utter BS, but it's pretext for Donald Trump wanting to have a war against Canada. Let's be clear about what the language is. So as Donald Trump attacked Canada, Canada went elbows up.
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Pierre Poliev plummeted, plummeted in the polls. This is the headline from the Wall Street Journal in the past 48 hours. How Canada's Trump-style candidate blew a 20-point polling lead.
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Pierre Poliev's populist message, let's take out populist and say MAGA message, was resonating until Trump's antagonism, let's remove the word antagonism and use language of war against Canada, pushed Canadians towards a former central banker. Here we are from Polling Canada, which is a good job aggregating these polls.
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With five days to go, all of the major polls, whether it's 338, CBC, Polling Canada, and Main Street, all believe there will be a Liberal Party majority, which was unheard of just a few months ago that that would be the result. But folks, as we always say here, polls don't matter. Vote. Let me repeat that. Polls don't vote.
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It's been such an honor over the past several months to get to know each other so much better. And frankly, we always knew from the outset when the Midas Touch Network was started several years ago, how important our Canadian viewers and Midas Mighty, now Maple Midas are. And so it's been an honor to be on this journey together. And my, oh my, has Donald Trump's plan backfired, right?
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So everybody should be encouraged, no matter where you are in the world, in democracies, to do your civic duty. You take a look at the polymarket polling data online. And they're a kind of an open source betting site that takes the percentages of who they think is going to win or lose. So back on February 5th, Pierre Poliev had an 84% chance of winning.
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Today, Prime Minister Carney has an 84% chance of winning new high. But as I said, and let me repeat it very, very clearly, polls don't vote. Wagering doesn't vote. People vote wherever you are in the world and democracies do your civic duty. Now, how bad is it for Pierre Poliev, Mr. Maple Maga, mini Trump, mini Elon?
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Let me tell you, the conservative party is afraid that he's going to lose his own riding. which for Americans is like his own congressional seat. They call them ridings in Canada. There are 343 ridings in Canada. And in Canada, you don't vote for like your president or their, your prime minister. You vote in your riding for who's going to go to the House of Commons.
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And then the party that gets either the majority or who for, if you don't get a majority and you get a plurality and you have to form a coalition, that's who becomes the prime minister, the leader of that party. So the conservative party is worried right now that Pierre Poliev is going to lose in his riding, which again is unheard of. I mean, in Ottawa.
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So that would be like MAGA Mike Johnson losing his congressional seat. for our American viewers out there. Let's just go through the receipts, how badly Donald Trump blew it, or blowing it's not the right word.
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I think expose what was going on here, this right-wing authoritarian creep originating from Russia that pushed into the US and we've seen these other authoritarian Viktor Orban style leaders, how that drift elevated by these right-wing podcasters was infecting Canada, but how it was revealed by Donald Trump's rhetoric, language, and behavior. Like all things Donald Trump touches, they tend to die.
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So here was Donald Trump on one of these right-wing podcasts just a few months ago saying how excited he was to work with Pierre Poliev, whose views align closely with Trump. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump was going to prop up MAGA Maple or Maple MAGA. He had his handpicked people and they were running the MAGA playbook, right? You go on the MAGA podcast like Jordan Peterson. Elon Musk endorses the MAGA Maple candidate. He puts his thumb on the algorithm and starts amplifying the MAGA Maple, which is the Pierre Poliev conservative party there.
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So then Jordan Peterson, right wing podcaster, has Pierre Poliev on. They drop the podcast episode on Elon Musk's ex. Jordan Peterson is asking Pierre Poliev all these questions about woke this, woke that. It looked like a right-wing podcast interview with an American MAGA politician. Elon Musk lifts it up saying, this is a great, great interview.
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And Jordan Peterson declares, this is the next prime minister of Canada, Pierre Poliev. Pierre Poliev, Maple Maga himself. And you go, Ben, stop saying Maple Maga. It's not Maple Maga. Really? Really? Okay. Let me come out with the receipts right here. This is what Pierre Poliev said after that interview on January 8th, 2025.
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This, you could replace Pierre Poliev with Maga Mike Johnson, Donald Trump. You replace the name. Let me read this for you. You ready? Dr. Peterson has paid an enormous price to go up against the woke censorship apparatus. Thousands of common sense Canadians must self-censor for fear of losing their livelihoods with no way to feed their families.
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Signed to help me end woke authoritarian censorship so Canadians can take back control of their lives let me just show you a small portion of this interview by the way that pierre poliev himself posted so pierre poliev january 8th he thinks he's gonna win he's spiking the football and he posts this play this clip
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OK, now fast forward to this past week. You have Jordan Peterson going on the Joe Rogan show. So Peterson's on Rogan and Peterson basically says and you see how upset he is. He's like, we blew it. Trump revealed the plan, man. And then Rogan's like, yeah, but how didn't Trump realize that he shouldn't have said those things because he screwed the Maple Maga in Canada.
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Here, watch this interaction. Peterson's like, we blew it. Here, play this clip.
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And again, just to show you also how creepy Pierre Poliev is, Pierre Poliev, and this is such like a Trump and J.D. Vance type thing, would go around conflating, he would call it a woman's biological clock. He's obsessed with woman's biological clocks. He's like, age 36, woman's biological clock. Like that, like J.D. Vance.
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Trumpy, and he would conflate a woman's biological clock, in his own words, with Canada's housing market. Here, play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump started his rhetoric about he wants to annex Canada. He wants to make Canada the 51st state. He started calling Prime Minister Trudeau, Governor Trudeau. Prime Minister Trudeau very smartly gave the handoff to new leadership. The Liberal Party held elections. You had Prime Minister Carney stepping into the fore.
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So you take Pierre Poliev and you contrast him to the leader of the Liberal Party, Prime Minister Mark Carney, who puts out this video. Let's play it.
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So then what happens yesterday? What goes down yesterday? You could see Pierre Poliev being like, I could imagine what he, you know, that he's there and he finds out Trump does it again. More 51st State Talk, more calling Prime Minister Trudeau, Governor Trudeau. Watch what Donald Trump says yesterday in the Oval Office. Here, play this clip.
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If we need it. And finally, let me share with you Bruce Fanjoy from the Liberal Party in an interview he did recently. Shout out to the interviewer here as well. This is the guy running against Pierre Poliev because Pierre Poliev is now vulnerable in his own riding in Ottawa. Watch this go down. Play this clip.
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This is a disaster for you, Donald. The American people hate you. They see through your lies. They see what a vile, deceitful, pathetic piece of trash you are. Just take a look at the Pew Research poll, some of the lowest polling numbers ever in history of presidential polling. I Approval rating, 40%. Disapproval, 59%. Just look at these crosstabs.
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Those protests that you're scared of, they're only going to get bigger. The crowds for the events by AOC, Bernie, and other Democrats who are doing town halls and big speeches, those are going to get bigger, Donald. Ooh, I can't wait for a summer of democracy, Donald, as we've been predicting here on the Midas Touch Network. Oh, this was a question that was asked on that Fox podcast.
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put news in quotes poll. In general, do you think imposing tariffs or fees on products imported from other countries makes the products you buy more or less expensive? 72% of people say more, only 7% of people say less. That's bad for you, Donald.
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That means that even people in your own MAGA base know you're a liar because wherever you go right now, you're hearing the word tariff, tariff, tariff, and people know it's screwing their lives. You may claim that the price of eggs is down 93% and the egg price and grocery prices are so low, the problem that you say is that it's too low.
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But most Americans don't, all Americans, unless you're lying, don't think that's true because we go to the grocery store. Unlike you who thinks the word groceries is a cool word, right? Donald goes, have you heard the word groceries? It's like an old fashioned word. No, groceries is not an old fashioned word. It's a word and you're making things worse.
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By the way, like one of the people who works at the Midas Touch Network, Jeremy, he gets emails like this. I'm sure you get emails like this. This is from Guitar Center. This is what companies are sending out right now. And these should be three alarm fire SOS right now. This is the subject from Guitar Center. Lock in up to 30% before tariffs hit.
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Hey Jeremy, we wanted to give you a heads up that prices on gear across the board are about to rise due to new tariffs. If you've been thinking about upgrading your setup or adding new gear, now is the best time to buy before the price increases hit. We're seeing that for cars and basically everything else. Also...
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Freight, the freight industry, the shipping industry, the trucking industry right now is getting crushed. And there's like a 14-day lag time where then we're going to see the scarcity. Lots of companies... prepared for the worst, not all, and they bought a lot of goods in bulk, but now they're running out of supply. And so we're about to just start running out of important things on the shelf.
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So remember with COVID where people couldn't find toilet paper or this or that, get ready for that again. So Donald, you think we're pissed off now? Just you wait in 14 days, you idiot. Here's what we're learning about.
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When you look at his support in the black community, only 14% of black people support Donald Trump. Hispanic support, only 27% of Hispanic people now support Donald Trump. Negative 45%. Only 29% of Asian people support Donald Trump. How about those young people, Donald, who are listening to the podcast? Do they support you anymore? Nope. Only 36% support amongst people ages 18 to 29.
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So the CEOs of three of the nation's biggest retailers, Walmart, Target and Home Depot, by the way, a lot of these people, Trump supporters privately warned him that his tariff and trade policy could disrupt supply chains, raise prices and empty shelves. According to sources familiar with the meeting, the big box CEOs flat out told Trump the prices aren't the prices aren't going up.
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They're steady right now, but they will go up. And this wasn't about food, but he was told that shelves will just be empty. An administration official familiar with the meeting told Axios. Another official briefed on the meeting said the CEOs told Trump the disruptions will become noticeable in about two weeks time. Craig Fuller, who runs a freight analysis company. data company.
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Here's what he's been saying. Year-over-year trucking activity out of Los Angeles now down 23%. It will likely drop to 50% in the coming weeks if there isn't a trade war resolution. Massive layoffs coming to the West Coast trucking sector. And it's not just the West Coast. This story is being repeated across the country. Craig Fuller repeats this story right here.
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Spoke to a Michigan truck driver yesterday. He normally hauls auto parts from Michigan to Kansas. He hasn't had a load now for two weeks. He is getting worried. Industrial trucking is already in a recession. 80% of the trucking industry voted for Trump, but they will be among the first victims of the trade war.
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And one of the things that Donald Trump is also doing is creating massive instability, massive volatility. If you are a CFO or someone planning at a company, how do you know what Donald Trump is going to do next, right? Yesterday, it seemed, or two days ago, it seemed like Donald Trump was going to walk back the 145% tariffs on China.
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It seemed like Donald Trump was going to walk back the auto tariffs against the world and against Canada. And then today, when Donald Trump was speaking about Canada, for example, he said 51st state, he wants to annex Canada. He said that Canada would not exist if it wasn't for the United States. He made comments that
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You know, it's up to China if they want the 145 percent tariffs removed, that he's not going to unilaterally reduce the tariffs. Just going back on what he said. And then he was asked questions like, you know, your policies like disappearing human beings to concentration camps and your attacks on the sovereignty of Canada, Europe and elsewhere.
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are causing nations and causing people to boycott American products and tourism. Hey, Donald, does that bother you? For example, that there's a steep drop in international tourism. Donald Trump goes, not a big deal. Here, play this clip.
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Not a big deal. Goldman Sachs is predicting that's going to be a $90 billion hit to the American economy. Doesn't this give you the vibes of COVID when Donald Trump was like a miracle? It's all going to go away. Justin Jeff bleach into your veins. This is all you got to do is just pretend it's not going to be that bad. And then what does he do? He attacked Fauci during COVID.
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And now who's this fall guy? Jerome Powell is Fauci 2.0. And just like during COVID, he attacks China. It's what he's literally repeating the same playbook over and over again. Then Donald Trump says Canada would cease to exist without American support. Play this clip.
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Hey, Midas Mighty. So I used to have no clue what to get my mom for Mother's Day. And she'd often hit me with, you don't have to get me anything, but I wanted to get her something incredible. I didn't really know where to go, though. And now it's my wife's first Mother's Day since we had our baby girl, Ximena, together.
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That's negative 27%. You're 27% underwater there. But you may say, hey, Ben, that's just Pew Research. I'm sure Fox is saying something different. Not really. Donald Trump's approval based on the new Fox poll is the lowest in modern presidential history for the Fox poll. It is less than his first administration. Trump regime to approval, 44%. Compare this to former President Biden.
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And so she also said, I don't really want anything for Mother's Day, but I want to make sure. I get her something extra special. And so for both my mom and my wife, I shop at Quince. And I hope you shop at Quince too. So they've got everything from cashmere sweaters from $50, 14-karat gold jewelry, Italian leather bags, fragrances, and more. And here's the thing.
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All Quince items are priced 50% to 80% less than similar brands. By partnering directly with the top factories, Quince cuts out the cost of the middleman and passes on the savings to us. And Quince only works with factories that use safe, ethical and responsible manufacturing practices and premium fabrics and finishes. I love that.
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I don't want to fully reveal the secret yet of what I got my mom, but I got her an incredible necklace and I got my wife an incredible set of earrings. I also got my mom a suitcase from Quince. This way, when she visits me and her granddaughter, Ximena, She travels in style. Thank you, Quince, for that. Thoughtful, timeless, totally her. Shop Mother's Day at Quince.
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Go to quince.com slash Midas for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. That's Q-U-I-N-C-E dot com slash Midas, M-E-I-D-A-S, to get free shipping and 365-day returns. That's quince.com slash Midas, Q-U-I-N-C-E.com slash Midas. And then throughout the day yesterday, Donald Trump was also showing these signs of severe cognitive issues. And I don't want that to be an out for him.
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So I don't want to emphasize the fact that he may be showing symptoms of dementia. I'm not a medical professional, although I know people in my life who have dementia or had dementia. So it certainly resembles those. But I don't want to give him an out because he's a vile, despicable person who will try to use that as an out.
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As he gets more desperate, as people rise up, watch, he's going to say, oh, I'm just, I wasn't mentally right. He'll go there down the line to try to protect himself when he's being held accountable. Just bookmark this. But here he's like, I'm suing the law firm of Perkins Coie for their egregious and unlawful conduct. No, you're not.
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They're suing you for your egregious and unconstitutional executive order. And the Trump DOJ lawyer who went to the hearing yesterday got eviscerated by the federal judge for your unconstitutional conduct. By the way, then Donald Trump yesterday was, remember how he started the day? He was wandering around the north lawn of the White House. And then the media was like, what are you doing?
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Why are you doing this? He's like, I'm building a 100 foot pole, a flagpole, a beautiful, big American flagpole. That's what I'm going to be doing. So that's what he spent time doing yesterday, destroying and wrecking the American economy. talking about building a beautiful 100-foot flagpole.
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Oh, and by the way, doing a pump and dump to his dollar sign Trump meme coin where he made this email post about if you want to meet Donald Trump in person, the people who hold the most Trump meme coins can get to meet with him. Just show us your crypto wallet to see how much Trump meme coins you do. That caused Trump's meme coin to rise 71% right away like that. before dropping again.
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Trump using literally access to the White House to pump the meme coin. And by the way, our economy right now looks like one gigantic pump and dump meme coin, right?
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Three days ago, there was that private meeting among Scott Besant, the treasury secretary, and all the bankers where they were told that Donald Trump was gonna deescalate with China and that they were going to walk back some of their tariffs. That caused the markets to rise. The rest of us didn't get that information. It was done in private.
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So lots of people keep getting rich on the market tanking and they ain't the regular folk. They're the oligarchs and the billionaires who are getting special privilege access as Donald Trump is freaking manipulating the markets.
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only for donald trump today to say yesterday to say something basically different and then pump and dump uh the trump meme coin or at least that's what it looked like also to see donald trump attack zielinski again yesterday donald trump made this vile post and he was like how dare president zielinski talk to the wall street journal about never giving up crimea Why is Zelensky doing that?
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And again, Trump just spent the whole day parroting Putin talking points. Meanwhile, what happened yesterday in Ukraine? Putin launched a missile after ballistic missile at Kiev, causing mass casualties while Donald Trump and his regime were in the Oval Office. Again, attacking Zelensky, making posts attacking Zelensky. It was an utterly despicable and disgusting sight to watch indeed.
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At the same time, Biden was 54%. Former President Obama was 62%. Former President Bush was 63%. How about on the economy in the Fox News poll? Let's put news in quotes. Only 38% of Americans approve of Donald Trump's handling of the economy under the Fox poll. And Fox was showing these graphics over and over again yesterday. Yes, Donald, your nightmare is here.
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Also, you had the auto, big auto manufacturing lobbying groups all united, which is pretty rare. They sent Donald Trump a letter believing Trump was going to walk back the auto tariffs. Trump indicated or Trump regime people indicated he may do that only for Trump in the press conference to say he was thinking about raising the tariffs against Canada. It's pure and utter chaos in the Trump regime.
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You've got Steve Bannon, one of Trump's advisors, attacking Elon Musk. You've got Elon Musk getting into fights with Scott Besant. Steve Bannon saying Musk should be audited. You've got Musk calling Scott Besant out, Besant calling Musk out. And by the way, at its most basic function, isn't government supposed to deal with protection and safety, not engaging in cruel destruction of people's lives?
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But yesterday, we also learned that Trump denied emergency relief to Kentucky for flooding assistance, red state. They denied disaster relief for Arkansas and other red states as well. And we previously talked about how they denied emergency relief in North Carolina and Georgia as well. It's just cruelty, cruelty, cruelty, cruelty right here.
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But we're going to cover this every step of the way, folks. We're not going to let any of this go and make sure that you're up to date. Make sure you hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And thank you so much for watching.
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and impose very serious tariffs on them if they didn't become a state," he said. And then when he was asked if by next year's World Economic Forum in Davos, you expect there to be a peace deal in Ukraine, Donald Trump, who previously promised there would be peace in 24 hours, He then said that he was not able to do it. He then said that you should maybe have Xi Jinping negotiate it.
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Here, when Donald Trump was asked, will there be peace next year, what Trump's response was, well, you're going to have to ask Russia. Now, here's the thing, folks. I think this is so newsworthy. I have to show you the clips. I'm only going to show you two clips, though, of Trump. So you have to be able to see it and hear it. I can't have us turn a blind eye to it.
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So here's what Trump said about Russia. Let's play this clip.
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I mean, it's utterly horrific. And here's what Donald Trump said about Canada. Let's play it.
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All right. No more clips of him. You get the point. Let me just report on the rest of what went down. Donald Trump then said one of his big initiatives is stopping transgender. He says he says transgender operations have become all the rage. And now they will occur very rarely, he says. He then goes on to say, with oil prices going down, I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately.
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And likewise, they should be dropping all over the world. Interest rates should follow us. As we wrote on the Midas Touch social media accounts, every time he opens his mouth, he shows he has no idea how anything works. Can't demand that interest rates drop. I guess you can say anything you want, but that's a function of our Federal Reserve. than what you're gonna demand that the world follow it.
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And also the price of oil is not related there too, but everything he says just shows he's got absolutely no clue what he's talking about. He then says this in front of the crowd in Davos, he goes, I'm pleased to report that America is also a free nation once again. On day one, I signed an executive order to stop all government censorship.
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No longer will our government label the speech of our own citizens as misinformation or disinformation. I just want you to understand the context of how utterly humiliating this is for the United States of America. Our enemies are laughing. Our allies are horrified. He's going that we were not a free nation before. I mean, think about how he's undermined
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the real freedom here in the United States. And he's basically saying that, you know, one of the things he's going to encourage are lies, lies about diseases, lies about international affairs, lies about him, and that there shouldn't be any fact checking to those lies. And the fact that he said America's not a free nation before him, just so utterly dystopian.
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He then goes on to say, heap more praise on President Putin. He goes, in fact, with President Putin, prior to an election, which was frankly ridiculous, he's referring to the 2020 election, we were talking about denuclearization of our two countries, and China would have come along. And I will tell you that President Putin really liked the idea of cutting way back on nuclear.
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So again, I want you to see what's going on here. So Donald Trump is attacking our ally, Canada, threatening to annex it. And then he's buying Putin propaganda and praising Putin and Xi Jinping that they want to denuclearize. But he just couldn't get the deal done during his four years. And then he's again lying about the 2020 election and
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complaining and whining and saying, frankly, it's ridiculous. And again, now he's doing this on an international stage. which is, again, just incredibly humiliating for our country. More attacks on Canada. He talks about a tremendous deficit with Canada. He talks about how we don't need you. We don't need your lumber. We don't need your oil. We don't need your gas. We have our own forests.
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He says that's that's how Donald Trump is talking about this issue. And by the way, to the premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, he's mocking you here as she keeps on posting. We're going to do deals with the United States. She's the right wing conservative leader of Alberta. She's Maple Maga.
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But it's just so humiliating because Trump just keeps on showing how pathetic it is that she's like begging and begging and begging like this. Then Trump says this to the Bank of America CEO. Trump goes, I hope you start opening your bank to conservative. By the way, this is in front of the economic forum. Like again, how embarrassing.
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I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank And that included a place called Bank of America. They don't take conservative business.
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And I don't know if the regulators mandated that because of Biden or what, but you and Jamie, referring to Jamie Dimon, and everybody, I hope you're going to open your banks to conservatives because what you're doing is wrong. What the hell are you talking about? Banks are not closed to conservatives. Again, are you talking about felons? Are you talking about banks debanking terrorists and felons?
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Is that what you're saying here? And by the way, yesterday, Remember what Jamie Dimon said? Jamie Dimon said that a little bit of inflation, inflation doesn't really matter anymore because what we really need to focus on is national security and not inflation. Well, you're going to end up hurting both. Very shameful statement by Jamie Dimon right there. Absolutely pathetic.
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Donald Trump attacks Canada even more. Donald Trump attacks the EU on behalf of his tech broligarcs. He then says like the EU, they took these cases with Apple and Google and these other countries, and the European Union won 15 or $16 billion from these companies. And now they're going after Facebook for billions of dollars. These are American companies, stay away from them, EU.
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praising Putin, attacking the European Union, our allies. As Aaron Rupert says, Trump carps for Zuck and others days after they bankroll and attend his inauguration. Then Donald Trump says, my administration has taken actions to abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense.
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And that's what he's saying to an international audience that any type of diversity, equity and inclusion, that it's a bunch of nonsense. That's how he's representing America internationally. And then he goes, and the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, MBS, fantastic guy, fantastic guy. He's going to give us a trillion dollars. I want him to invest a trillion dollars.
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By the way, you remember what happened yesterday as well, where Trump brought in these like executives who handle AI and Elon Musk then attacked it and said... He brought in Matayoshi's son, Larry Ellison, and Sam Altman, tech bro AI people. And they said they were going to invest $500 billion. And Elon Musk's like, they don't have $500 billion. This is just made up numbers.
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Why don't you say a trillion? So Trump's like, bet a trillion. MBS is going to give us a trillion. Here's what happened. That's what went down at the Economic Forum today, folks. Let me know what you think. And subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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The audience was gasping. They were repulsed as Donald Trump gave a speech at the World Economic Forum, which took place in Davos, Switzerland. Now, Trump appeared virtually when he gave his speech and answered questions. During Donald Trump's speech, he talked about annexing Canada, making it the 51st state, or else he would punish Canada
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And he says, basically, it's total fraud. They don't have $500 billion to invest. These companies are just lying. They may as well make up that they're investing a trillion dollars because it's all BS. Then Elon Musk posted an image of a crack pipe next to crack and said, this is where they must have come up with that number, $500 billion while smoking crack. And then others in MAGA were like,
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whoa, Elon, you're being disrespectful to Donald Trump. And Elon's like, yeah, I don't care. I don't like those tech bros. And those tech bros don't like Elon Musk. And if Donald Trump did some basic diligence, and I know he's not capable of that, he would have found out that Elon Musk is actually suing Sam Altman for billions of dollars and hates the guy.
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And all of these oligarchs are suing each other over patent violations and trademark infringement. and other unfair business practices. This is why you should not invite Brolligarchs to run the government. They are self-interested and they're trying to enrich themselves at the expense of the American public. By the way, how about those lower prices, Donald? Where are those?
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Grocery prices are going up. Housing's not more affordable. There's not peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. By the way, Donald Trump said recently, since he was sworn in, that he said Americans don't care about inflation. He goes, that's not the big issue. He said Americans care about the mental institutes that people are coming in from.
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Excuse me, border crossings were down under President Biden and you killed President Biden's bipartisan border deal. But you want to talk about broligarchs? How about one of the things that Donald Trump is really looking to do when it comes to migrants?
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is to help some of the oligarchs who run the private prison system to enrich those billionaires who are opening up all of these private prisons and these private police forces to help carry out bloody mass deportations. Let me just break down everything that happened. So as you know, there was the press conference that was held in the Oval Office. You had Masayoshi's son,
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SoftBank's leader, you had Sam Altman, you had Larry Ellison. And then Donald Trump said, Sam Altman, you are the leading guy in AI. And that pissed Elon Musk off. Then OpenAI, that account, which by the way, Musk co-founded when it was a nonprofit. Musk has some points here. I'll break it down.
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I'll give credit where credit is due on some of these points that Musk co-founded OpenAI when it was a nonprofit. And then it became for profit. And Musk is like, OK, well, I funded this thing. Give me the money. And then Sam Altman's like, nah, it's actually mine now. And Elon Musk's like, yeah, but I was funding it when it was a nonprofit. Now you're going to be making billions of dollars.
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You should pay me for it. And Altman's like, nah, I'm not going to do that. So that's part of the feud in the litigation. So OpenAI goes, we are announcing the Stargate project. The Stargate project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years, building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately.
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This infrastructure will secure. And then it talks about all the great things that it's going to do in the United States. By the way, notice the language that it used, which intends to invest. That's the language Donald Trump always used when he defrauds people and defrauds the American people, right? The first time around, we intend to build these factories.
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We intend to have a manufacturing boom. We intend to build a factory here, which would never happen. Unlike President Biden, who would keep his promises and President Biden didn't intend. He actually put the money into the economy, but I guess President Biden or now former President Biden didn't give the media all of the access that they wanted to just shout questions at him in the Oval Office.
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So they said, that's pretty bad. We're going to have to report negatively on this guy because we don't get the access that we think we deserve. It's pathetic, and that's why the corporate media is swirling the drain. So anyway, OpenAI posts that. And then Elon Musk, who's like, dude, I'm the broligarque here. Why are you chilling with Sam Altman? I'm suing this guy.
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Elon Musk goes, they don't actually have the money. Then he goes on to say, SoftBank has well under $10 billion secured. I have that on good authority. To which Sam Altman, one of Donald Trump's other tech oligarch bros, goes, wrong. As you surely know, want to come visit the first site already underway? This is great for our country.
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I realize what is great for the country isn't always what's optimal for your companies, Elon. But in your new role, I hope you'll mostly put America first. By the way, these broligarch billionaires fighting with each other, is that really what we the people ever wanted? I know. No, I didn't. I know you didn't. But you want broligarchs fighting? No. How about lower egg prices?
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Thank you, Miracle Made, for sponsoring this episode. Then Elon Musk reposts this leaked image of the research tool OpenAI used to come up with their $500 billion number for Stargate. And it's a crack pipe with crack. Then Laura Loomer, one of Donald Trump's kind of closest influencers, and she hates Elon Musk. She comes out and goes, Elon, this is making a mockery of President Trump.
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And it's incredibly disrespectful to Donald Trump and his staff. The implication is that those who announced Stargate yesterday are smoking crack. The announcement was made by President Donald Trump on day two of his administration and the White House press conference. Trump doesn't smoke crack. Very disrespectful to OpenAI, to Sam Altman, to Masayoshi Son, and to Larry Ellison.
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It is trouble in paradise already among Donald Trump's oligarch tech bros who are at war with each other. So here's what went down. So this past week, Donald Trump held a press conference with Masayoshi Son, who runs SoftBank, Sam Altman, who runs OpenAI, and Larry Ellison, who runs Oracle. And they announced that they were going to be intending to invest $500 billion
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Elon Musk then posts the inquisitive face emoji. How is OpenAI a closed source for maximum profit? It was started as a nonprofit with a $100 million investment from Elon Musk. And by the way, this is the lawsuit that Elon Musk filed against OpenAI. amended the lawsuit to add Microsoft, one of Donald Trump's other broligarchs, Bill Gates, who visited Mar-a-Lago. They're all suing each other.
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And all of these lawsuits were happening before the broligarchs all got the front row seats during Donald Trump's inauguration. Just let's take a look at this lawsuit that was filed by Musk against Altman. And they're fighting with each other for Donald Trump's affection. How bizarre.
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Remember when I reported before the inauguration that Bezos and Musk were both at Mar-a-Lago and they were fighting for Donald Trump's affection and people there were saying, oh, Bezos was trying to cockblock Trump.
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Elon or something cock blocking each other I won't use that language anymore but it was they were both trying to appeal for Donald Trump's love here's the thing I don't get to when you're a billionaire wasn't the whole point about being a billionaire which by the way maybe I'm ignorant I don't understand why you need to be a billionaire or even have hundreds of millions I
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There's so much money, it doesn't make sense to me, but perhaps I'm very naive here. But don't they call it FU money? FU money. Well, it's not FU money if you have to kiss Donald Trump's ring and wear knee pads every time you're around him. Elon Musk, Bezos, Altman, Bill Gates, but whatever. Here's the lawsuit against Sam Altman.
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Never before has a corporation gone from tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion for-profit market paralyzing Gorgon in just eight years. Never before has it happened because doing so violates almost every principle of law governing economic activity. It requires lying to donors, lying to members, lying to markets, lying to regulators, and lying to the public.
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No amount of clever drafting nor surfeit of creative deal-making can obscure what is happening here. OpenAI Inc., co-founded by Musk as an independent charity committed to safety and transparency, and nurtured in its infancy by Musk's money, advice, recruiting efforts, and connection is at the direction of Altman, Brockman, and Microsoft fast becoming a fully for-profit subsidiary of Microsoft.
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And they're suing for numerous causes of action, fraud, violations of antitrust laws, So that's what Trump's oligarchy, tech broligarchy is doing to each other. Elon Musk also repost this from Gavin Baker. Look, Stargate, it's a great name, but the $500 billion is a ridiculous number and no one should take it seriously unless SoftBank is going to sell all of their BABA and ARM.
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BABA refers to Alibaba stock and ARM is another tech company that they've invested in. SoftBank has about $38 billion in cash, $142 billion in debt, and generates $3-ish billion in cash flow per BBG. They own $143 billion in ARM and $18 billion in Alibaba. If they start selling ARM, their stake will be worth much less very quickly.
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Oracle has $11 billion in cash and $88 billion in debt and generates about $10 billion in cash flow. OpenAI is just burning cash. NVIDIA will limit how much they invest in any one model company, maybe $5 billion. Barring the aforementioned SoftBank arms sale might be able to put together $50 billion in equity funding over several years. can obviously finance the GPUs and put debt into the JV.
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Nowhere close though to $500 billion. Everyone should just start issuing press releases for $1 trillion AI projects. By the way, love it that the ticker MGX, which is a biotech company, is up 33% on this. If you, a professional investor or analyst, and you took $500 billion at face value or even worse, wrote a note about this, you should resign in disgrace.
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And again, basically calling Trump and this announcement fraud and Elon Musk is reposting that. And it's one of the things I've always said, folks, which is Trump just makes up numbers, right? The case in New York where he was found liable of fraud, It was, you know, his properties and his things were significantly high in value, but he would just make up billions and billions and billions.
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in AI infrastructure that they call Stargate. And Donald Trump was rolling this out. Look what they're going to invest. But then Elon Musk, who now has an office in the White House, one of Donald Trump's other oligarch bros, the person closest to Donald Trump, who basically helped by Donald Trump the election, called out the other tech bros who are competing against Elon Musk in the AI market.
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He would just make up numbers and it would be fraud. That's why he was found civilly liable for fraud. And this is a form of that, in my opinion, because you're saying 500 billion, you're just making up random numbers to sound big. to what, so that the corporate media picks it up.
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But you know, here, Elon, I can't believe I'm saying this, Elon Musk is right in the sense that there's nowhere near $500 billion there. Maybe there's 10 billion at most, most dripping wet. And this is just a way that Trump's trying to say, look at all the things I'm going to do to again, WMD, weapon of mass distraction. He knows prices aren't going down.
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He knows houses aren't getting more affordable. He knows that Putin is mocking him. He knows that he didn't get the peace deal he promised. He knows that all of the things he said he was going to do, he ain't doing. Other than, I guess, pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists and individuals engaged in terroristic behavior. He did that, pissing off the fraternal order of police on day one.
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But other than that, I mean... Is that what the American people wanted? To have freaking terrorists and people convicted of seditious conspiracy running free? Are you freaking kidding me? And again, the broligarch sitting there at the inauguration, that to me is the lasting image of the failure of Trump. To see that image there. It was gross. And they were all making weird faces.
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They looked like they were tweaking out. Zuckerberg was like staring down at Bezos's wife's chest. The whole thing was gross. They can have lots of money, but they don't even have real power because they're kissing the ring. And they also have no class. That's my opinion. What's yours? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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Rep. Janelle Bynum Shares Playbook for Dems Winning in Red States
The midterms are getting closer than we think. And I think we have to really talk about how Democrats plan on flipping red congressional seats blue, how they plan on flipping red states and turning them blue. And we have to look at what's working across the country. And we do see things that are working.
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You know, there was a debate over this horrible budget bill that the MAGA Republicans are trying to ram through. And this is a portion that kind of brings it home where there was a Congresswoman Fernandez
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wanted one of these MAGA Republican Congress members, Adam Smith, to just read the legislation they were pushing through at 1 a.m., and they were sneaking in all of these provisions, like a way to do tax deductions or exemptions for tanning beds, because they're all tanning themselves orange over there, while taking away hospital beds.
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This is an important moment that I think really resonates with voters. Let's play this clip.
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And so I think it's important we highlight people who are in these frontline districts who are winning. I want to remind everybody about our reporting last week about the mayoral election in Omaha, Nebraska, where a Democrat, John Ewing Jr., defeated the longest serving Republican mayor incumbent in the United States. And it was a 20-point shift from the prior election held in 2021.
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So then we look to Oregon's Fifth Congressional District for, I think, one of the best roadmaps of how Democrats can flip seats. There you had Lori Chavez-Durimer, a MAGA Republican who's now the Labor Secretary who actually hates labor. She's been a fraud her entire life, but she pretended that she was for labor.
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You had the now Democratic Congresswoman, Janelle Bynum, who had ran against her before. but was really able to effectively point out in this past election that the Laurie Chavez Doremer did not care about the constituents. And Congresswoman Bynum's always focused on hospital beds, health care, Medicaid, focusing on issues that people really talk about. And she won. Laurie Chavez Doremer lost.
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Doremer then became the labor secretary and then admitted that she was against the PRO Act, against the major thing for labor. So I want to bring in Democratic Congresswoman Bynum to, again, talk us through. We've had Congresswoman Bynum on on before, but taking a few months back. What are you seeing now across the country? We're doing this interview late May ish. What do you see in Congresswoman?
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Rep. Janelle Bynum Shares Playbook for Dems Winning in Red States
You know, what I love about your approach to politics is, is that I don't really view it that much as politics. I view it as people. And you highlight the stories of people in your district and across the country who are the victims, who are the targets of this MAGA cruelty, like Rose, a first grader who you highlighted recently. Let's play this clip.
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And so, Congresswoman, when we talk about, you know, 1 a.m. and tanning beds over Medicaid, we're talking about rows, aren't we?
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So a 20-point shift where a Republican who had held that seat for 12 years, that mayoral seat for 12 years, lost. I want to remind you of what John Ewing Jr. said when he won. Here, let's play this clip quickly.
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You know, your district is a purple district in Oregon. I mean, it was held by a Republican for many years. Just two.
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But that means that people for those years went into the ballot box. They saw a D and an R. And for whatever reason, they clicked the R one for those years. And fortunately, no more. But there are people who what are you hearing from those people, though, right now who went in that direction? Republican, ostensibly Republican voters, purple voters.
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Congresswoman Bynum, thanks as always for joining us. We're going to be following the tour. Where are the next stops?
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All right. We'll have Asin from our team following those town halls. We'll get some clips out of it as well. And I'm sure our audience wants to see that. Thank you, Congressman, for joining us. All right.
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You know, one of the things in that election that I think was important is that the Republican candidate went full MAGA and was talking about all these culture war issues and bathrooms and just all of these things. And John Ewing Jr. was talking about potholes and on medicine and health care and things that really mattered, you know, to his constituents.
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Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
It's not just Democrats, it's the entire country ripping these MAGA Republicans to shreds for passing this horrific budget in the middle of the night. When through the morning these proceedings, it's going to add trillions to the deficit, cut Medicaid, cut Medicare, take away supplemental nutrition assistance programs. It's going to take away rental assistance programs.
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Gentlelady yields back. Democratic Congressmember Doggett, let's play this clip.
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and spoken like a true huckster MAGA Republican Congress member Bean. Let's play this clip.
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And while all of this was going on, you had Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, at a conference saying that everything is great. This guy's a billionaire, by the way. And he's saying, everyone's so rich right now, inflation's gone. No, inflation's actually much worse right now and things are getting really, really bad. And the Trump regime are fraudsters, con artists, hucksters.
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There you have it, everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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The MAGA Republicans were also bragging earlier this morning that they are removing the free method that exists to file your taxes in order to help the businesses that want to control that market. That was a big initiative for them to get rid of the IRS free direct file system. Play this clip.
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And here's MAGA Republican Congress member Clyde on his initiative to remove regulations on silencers for guns, silencers that have regulations that have been around for like 100 years. Here, play this clip.
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It's going to give trillions of tax cuts for the billionaires. But also, don't worry, there will be tax exemptions for silencers and no more regulations in order to register your silencer. That was a major initiative that the MAGA Republicans pushed in this, and also to rename certain types of savings accounts as Trump accounts. Horrific stuff.
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And with- Here are the Republicans celebrating on the floor of the House.
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MAGA Republican Congress member Smith saying we didn't pass this in the middle of the night. Look, we did it this morning, even though you literally put this thing forward at 1 a.m. two days ago. And then you were pushing all of this through like literally at 1 a.m. again this morning. But here's Congress member Smith play this clip.
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Now let's talk about the Democrats right here, what they were doing. Leader Jeffries, I thought, gave a very impassioned speech. Let's play this clip.
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Here's Leader Jeffries again.
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And the stock market and the bond markets are not reacting favorably to this horrific bill that just passed in the House. It still needs to pass in the Senate, so we'll see what happens there. But here you have MAGA Republican Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, praising his dear leader in terms that we would normally see in Kim Jong-un's North Korea. Play this clip.
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Democratic Congress member Raskin right here.
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Here's Democratic Congressmember Boyle.
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With that, Mr. Speaker. Here's Democratic Congress member McGovern right here. Let's play this clip.
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Congresswoman AOC. 90 seconds.
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Senator Warnock Responds to Trump’s Destruction of America
I'm joined by Senator Raphael Warnock. Senator Warnock, let's just talk about the humanity of it all. Set aside the politics for a second, because all of these actions by the Trump administration at a very basic level just seem to be cruel and inhumane, targeting the most vulnerable. I think too much we talk about the politics and not just the human aspect.
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How do you speak to the people and say, you realize they're literally just stealing from you and then giving it to rich people?
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One of the things I'm very focused on here, and I think it's often the things that deserve the most attention, get the least attention, is Donald Trump denied FEMA aid to Georgia. Republican Governor Brian Kemp requested supplemental aid from Hurricane Helene. Trump rejected that initially.
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Senator Warnock Responds to Trump’s Destruction of America
We're heading into hurricane season on June 1st, and we're seeing how slow, if at all, FEMA's reacting to the deaths of You know, 28 people have died based on these horrible tornadoes in Missouri and Kentucky and Indiana. Donald Trump doesn't even talk, doesn't even mention that this took place, which to me is an unfathomable thing for the president of the United States not to acknowledge.
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I like that you talk to the human aspect of it all. So what do you make of it all?
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We just had a mass casualty event caused by horrible storms and the president doesn't even mention it. And then I'm looking at the future of what's going to happen as we've destroyed these agencies with storms like that. And that's that frightens me and it also frightens me senator that is not getting enough attention i think he's a little busy uh working on his meme coin
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And I guess if we were to bring that into 2025 under the Trump administration, while I was in need, you were out there asking for gold-plated Qatari jets. And not only is it waste, fraud, and abuse and violations of the emolument clause, Congress hasn't approved of this. By the way, we learned that Moments ago, the Pentagon announced that it has officially accepted the jet.
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It's now in American custody from Qatar that will be used by Donald Trump once his ride gets pimped out while Americans are suffering. But there's a real issue here, too. with our international standing and just how this makes us look.
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I mean, you had President Ramaphosa, the South African president in the Oval Office, and he's sitting there with Donald Trump and he has to say to Donald Trump, he's like, I'm sorry, I don't have the plane to give you, but there are some issues that we need to discuss. And I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, this is just embarrassing to our country.
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Let me show you that clip and get your reaction to it.
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You see any reason for hope, though, Senator? It is a dark and dismal moment. And every day Americans feel like they're getting gut punched. Wake up. We read some horrible story of Trump doing this or Trump doing that or even just his behavior. I mean, while all the suffering is going on, he's posting, you know, AI videos of himself hitting golf balls into Bruce Springsteen.
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And it's just like like for me, I watch it. And I really don't give a crap if he's posting things like that, but it's in the context of all the other bad stuff that he's doing. And it just makes me, it makes me want to puke. It's a physical feeling. And I know a lot of Americans, you know, are actually now feeling physical pain by what he's inflicting far worse than what I've just described.
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So I'll be clear about that. So what's your message finally, before we wrap up to the American people right now?
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Senator Raphael Warnock, thanks for joining us. We hope you come back. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers this month.
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How do you think we connect that, though, to the people, to let people get it? Because what these MAGA Republicans are good at, what Trump's good at, they'll give it a marketing slogan, big, beautiful bill. They'll do the whole culture war things. The media regurgitates that. So how do you break through in a state like Georgia?
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I'm waiting. I'll yield. Who wants to debate? Of course, there were no takers playing this clip.
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And I think this issue is so underrated and needs more attention right now. FEMA, FEMA, FEMA, FEMA. We're, what, one week away from hurricane season right now, and the Trump regime has completely gutted FEMA. We see FEMA not responding in disasters in red states and blue states, purple states, but even like to Arkansas and Mississippi. We're seeing in Missouri that FEMA was...
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not reacting to the devastating storms. 28 Americans died and Donald Trump hasn't mentioned it. Instead, Donald Trump is out there posting white supremacist brain rot from South Africa, lying that there are these mass graves from a genocide that's not happening, making a complete fool of the United States and the Oval Office.
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That's what Donald, while you have the president Ramaphosa of South Africa saying, what is going on? I'm sorry, I can't buy you a jet, but what the hell is going on? FEMA, FEMA, FEMA.
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And here you have Democratic Congress member Moskowitz who ran emergency management in Florida before being a member of Congress saying it loud, danger, danger, you're cutting FEMA and we are heading into hurricane season. What the hell's gonna happen? There's gonna be a mass casualty event. Here, play this clip right here.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Democrats fighting back. Fighting back. And that's just what I want to see right now. You know, we've said it before. We've heard you say it where it's like, I don't want to hear Democrats saying, oh, we don't have the power. We're not in the majority. So there's nothing we can do. No. Take the gloves off. Fight. Fight in Congress. Peacefully protest on the streets.
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Do everything and anything in your power. Fight for us. That's what we're looking for. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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then the Democrats continue to press these MAGA Republicans and point out that the MAGA Republicans don't even know what the hell is in this budget bill. And why in this budget bill are we prioritizing, or I should say the MAGAs and the Trumps prioritizing tax breaks for silencers while kicking 14 million Americans off of Medicaid.
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And we learned that this disastrous budget is also kicking people off of Medicare to play this clip.
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And Democratic Congresswoman Fernandez was bringing the fight. Here's what she had to say. Play this clip.
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You saw the MAGA Republicans like, stop yelling at me, stop yelling at me. Look, the Democrats were fighting all day. And this is what I wanted to see, Democrats going gloves off. So I want to show you this interaction between Democratic Congress member Neguse, where he speaks to the MAGA Republican Congress member and says,
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And another hat tip to Democratic Congress member Neguse right here, grilling Jim Jordan so hard in the morning that Jordan had to consult with lawyers. Hat tip to Aaron Rupert for picking up this clip right here. Here, play this clip right here.
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who the hell added a provision into a budget bill that not only provides tax exemptions for silencers, but adds a provision that clearly states that people no longer have to even register their silencers anymore. Something that has been around since the days of Al Capone, that you have to register your silencers. Here, play this clip. The question I have is,
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This provision very clearly states- You see, MAGA Republicans don't know how to debate. So when Democratic Congress member Neguse was asking very basic questions, like who the heck put in a provision into this bill that all of a sudden states that you no longer have to register silencers with the ATF as part of the budget bill, who put it in there?
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What are we talking about here? And by the way, not just hat tip to Aaron Rupert, but to our very own ACYN, A-C-Y-N, the superstar clipper himself who uses the software called Snapstream for all of his clipping. Shout out to Snapstream, which he uses and we use to get these clips, how he watches all of these screens at the same time here ASIN is showing another committee hearing.
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This was not about the budget. This was just about basic due process. And Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett had to school MAGA Republican Congressmember Kiley about the basics of due process. It's gloves off, but it's also education time for these MAGA Republicans to read the freaking Constitution. Here, play this clip right here.
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I want to give a hat tip to Democratic Congresswoman Brown right here who's asking... This is simple and straightforward. Who is striking work requirement provisions that are now saying eight-year-olds are no longer dependents? Eight-year-olds are no longer dependents as a way for you to kick children off of their healthcare? Play this clip.
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And I like this tactic here by Democratic Congress member Kassar from Texas. I'm sure you've seen him a lot on the Midas Touch Network. And here he goes, look, who wants to debate me? I will hand my mic over and yield to anybody who wants to explain to me how we are okay with now kicking people off health care or making health care so unaffordable so you can give your tax cuts to the billionaires.
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Trump Loses Control as He Quickly Kills His Entire Term
This is a real email that Donald Trump just sent. The subject reads, "'They're laughing at the suckers that we are!' When you open the email, it is a photo of Donald Trump pointing at a direction, I assume in the direction of his MAGA supporters. Yes, Donald Trump, you are the laughingstock of the entire world." Our enemies are laughing at how weak you've made the United States.
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He was there with you in the Middle East with the $400 billion gold-plated jet that the United States... was bribed by Qatar and accepted officially by the Pentagon yesterday. He was there in the Middle East with you.
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He was there yesterday when you were with the president of South Africa and you made the president of South Africa, Ramaphosa, watch right wing white supremacist brain rot conspiracy trash. literally showing apartheid flags and claiming that there are burial sites for a mass genocide, which is not what that image actually was.
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It's some far right wing white supremacist crazy stuff that you were showing the president of South Africa. It's like, what? What are you showing me? And he had to even say to you, I'm sorry that, and he was kind of mocking you too, I'm sorry that we can't get you a private jet. I'm sorry we can't provide for you the private jet that they can in the Middle East. Here, play this clip.
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Now, the rest of the world is looking at this and saying, America is over. That's how the international community sees this. Xi Jinping in China is all smiles right now. And he's trying to project China as a stabilizing force. He's been mocking the United States all week, putting out statements like, we hope the United States will just calm down a little bit and act more stable.
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There's a flight away from the dollar, a flight away from United States treasuries. We just had a treasury bond auction yesterday. and they usually do well, completely trash. The 30-year treasury yields going up, that's a bad sign when the 30-year treasury yields increase like that. The government's gonna have to pay more interest on its debt because less people actually wanna hold onto the notes.
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That's why you don't want a high treasury yield. The 20 and 30 years, it's supposed to be a lower amount because you're supposed to have a stable government. They hit 5.07% right now, which is kind of in catastrophic territory or just about to be in catastrophic territory. So all of this is going on. Here's what Donald Trump posted. He posted that he wants to take Fannie and Freddie Mac private.
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Our allies who you've pushed away are both humiliated by what the United States has become under you. And they are horrified at the weakness that you are demonstrating and the implications there, too. Donald Trump then sent an email where he was whining about being sued. I'm being sued, is what the subject line reads.
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He said go public, but he really means basically privatize it and remove it from the federal government. I'm giving very serious consideration to bringing Fannie and Freddie Mac public.
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Trump Loses Control as He Quickly Kills His Entire Term
I will be speaking with the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, and Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, William Pult, among others, and we'll be making a decision in the near future. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are doing very well, throwing off a lot of cash, and the time would seem to be right. Stay tuned.
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Trump is going to destroy housing, and we're going to have another catastrophic event in the housing sector. I think Carson Foley puts it succinctly here when he says, this confuses me. I would use the word disturbs, but you could use the word confusing. Privatize Fannie and Freddie. Rates shoot up because there's no government backstop.
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Trump Loses Control as He Quickly Kills His Entire Term
Home prices collapse because there's no demand because of the rates. Affordability is the exact same. I would say affordability is much, much less affordable now. I mean, interest rates are above 7% for a mortgage. So asset values go down, leverage costs go up, and no one can buy a house. Can someone explain how this helps anyone? You know, all this helps Donald Trump and his billionaire friends.
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They don't give a crap about any of this. Cruelty is the point. And yesterday, Another disastrous day on Wall Street. The Dow was down almost 2%. The NASDAQ was down a point and a half, basically. The S&P. 1.6%.
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The volatility I've said of this market resembles a Trump meme coin where basically you have MAGA Republican Congress members insider trading, Trump's cronies insider trading, and we the people are getting absolutely trashed and screwed. All of this was going on yesterday. A federal judge in Massachusetts also found that the Trump regime violated a court order.
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We're likely headed towards criminal contempt from this Massachusetts federal judge. When the Trump regime deported a Burmese national, from the United States to South Sudan. That's one of the areas, in addition to El Salvador, they're sending people to South Sudan while there are injunctions in place. Cruelty is the point.
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Without due process, in violation of the Supreme Court order, in violation of federal injunctions. I talked about that Trump disastrous press conference with South African President Ramaphosa. By the way, Go back and watch the video I did. I did a whole video on this disastrous press conference yesterday.
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So President Ramaphosa of South Africa also brought with him the agriculture ministers and golfers. He brought white people with him. Let me just say what it was. He brought white Afrikaner people with him. And you had the white agriculture minister there. And Ramaphoso was like, ask him. There's no genocide against white farmers. There is crime.
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People recognize that South Africa has a crime problem. And the crime is disproportionately or significantly, I'm not sure, disproportionately, it impacts farmers. But there are white farmers in South Africa. There are black farmers. In some areas, the deaths of black farmers are more than the deaths of white farmers.
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He goes, red alert, my historic Doge initiative is being sued by deranged radical leftists. Actually, Donald, your regime filed an emergency petition yesterday with the Supreme Court to try to keep all of Doge's activities secret, citing executive immunities and privileges that
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But there isn't a government genocide taking place in South Africa that Trump claims exists where Trump and then Trump's playing all of these videos that are just these BS like white supremacist conspiracy theory stuff. And Ramaphosa is watching it. It's like, what? Where is this? What is this? The white... Agriculture ministers watching this like, you don't know.
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You don't know what you're talking about. And Trump starts yelling and railing at the president. NBC reporter in the room. Here, watch this. Mr. President, the Pentagon announced it would be accepting a Qatari jet to be used as Air Force One. What are you talking about?
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A dog bit Laura Ingraham's hand. Her dog bit her. That's what she was talking about yesterday. Her dog bit her. Dogs know. I'm not even sure why I'm even talking about that, but her dog bit her. And she wanted everybody to know that her dog bit her. Dogs know. Let's talk about this budget scam quickly as well. I think Moskowitz puts it succinctly.
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The GOP's big, beautiful bill repeals a tax on gun silencers that's been on the books for over 90 years. So while House Republicans are driving up the cost of health care, kicking off people from Medicaid. 13 million people will lose their Medicaid. People will lose Medicare as well. Medicare is on the chopping block.
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Trump Loses Control as He Quickly Kills His Entire Term
People under the Affordable Care Act are going to lose their health care as well under this disastrous bill. SNAP is going to be cut. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, Rental Assistance, HUD's Rental Assistance programs are going to be completely gut so the billionaires can get their tax cuts.
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that it is a repeal on gun silence taxes inserted in the budget bill was that there would no longer be regulations that you have to register silencers with the ATF. So one of the things that clinched this for the MAGA Republicans is that no regulations on silencers, which has been around for 90 years. I mean, how utterly pathetic than that.
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Trump Loses Control as He Quickly Kills His Entire Term
And of course, Donald Trump finished his disastrous Oval Office press conference with President Ramaphosa by whining about the fact that Russia is not a part of the G7 and it's not the G8 anymore. Play this clip.
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You don't get much more despicable than that, folks. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network. Folks, we have to keep on growing the resistance and this opposition. We need you to subscribe to the Midas Touch channel right now. Also, check out MidasPlus.com. Thanks for watching.
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saying that we, the people, should not get Freedom of Information Act requests processed to know what the hell Doge did with the federal agencies that we rely on for essential services. Oh, I thought this was going to be the most transparent thing ever. No, it is actually added to the federal deficit. It hasn't cut anything. Federal spending is up right now.
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Oh, and by the way, this talk that Elon Musk is taking a a backseat right now. He's focused on other things. Nope. Y'all are just saying that it's another fraud that you are all committing to try to lower his profile because his companies are completely trash right now. But he was there at all of those meetings.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser for Unthinkable Order
Horrible stuff coming out of the White House. Donald Trump just held a bizarre and dangerous press conference where he announced he would be eliminating the Department of Education. He signed an executive order that sets in motion a process to get rid of the Department of Education. Here, Donald Trump says that it sounds strange to say this, but the Department of Education will be gone.
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Let me just share with you another angle. And again, you can see how Donald Trump was using these children as props as he's saying these awful things about the Department of Education. Let's play it. By the way, before showing you more clips, I wanted to share this with you as well.
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Lots of Trump voters out there saying that they didn't vote to gut the Department of Education, which is actually playing a critical role in not just blue states, but even a more critical role in red states to help disabled kids, to help poor kids, to help give kids lunch. Here's one such example. Let's play the clip.
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Donald Trump then brags about gutting the government and firing over 50 percent of people who work in the government. Let's play it.
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Then he randomly points to people in the audience and says, these are all people who are interested in education. Let's play this clip.
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Now, I had the opportunity and honor to interview Randy Weingarten from the American Federation of Teachers. She leads the American Federation of Teachers, the main teachers union. And she explains that, and I did this interview about two weeks ago, she explains the cruelty of Donald Trump ripping away people's opportunities.
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by gutting the Department of Education, where already states run their own state education system. States run their own curriculum. The Department of Education works with the states to help people with opportunities, but it doesn't set the curriculum. So this is all based on a fugazi to begin with. Let's play the clip.
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More from Donald Trump on shutting down the Department of Education. He goes, we're shutting it down and we're shutting it down as quickly as possible. Let's play it.
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So while all of this is going on, what are the priorities of the Trump regime? Well, you had Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, talking about how Americans need to purchase $30,000 robots from Elon Musk. Let's play it.
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You also then have Howard Lutnik talking about how Americans need to buy Tesla stock. Let's play it.
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All right, so you're calling. And then you have Donald Trump bragging about the Trump gold card that he's selling to Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs. Here, let's play the clip. After graduation, they'll buy these
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Horrible stuff indeed. And I think it's worth watching when I had the opportunity to interview Senator Bernie Sanders. When he talks about the psychological torture that Americans are facing, I think about what Donald Trump just did there and using the children as props. Let's play it.
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Now, Donald Trump set up a fake classroom to hold this awful press conference, and he used children as props in this fake classroom where he was gutting the futures of children. Let's play the clip.
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There you have it, folks. Tell me what you think. A horrible press conference by Donald Trump doing horrible, horrible things right there. We'll keep you posted every step of the way on this. I'm Ben Maiselis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Then Donald Trump says that he hopes that Linda McMahon, who was appointed to be the secretary of the Department of Education, will be the last secretary since the department will no longer exist. Let's play the clip.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker Fights Back Against Trump
Has his corruption and the wrecking ball that he and Elon Musk have taken to this country kind of met the expectations of corruption, exceeded them in kind of the pace? What would you make of what you're seeing?
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What are you going to say to them? Join the fight.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker Fights Back Against Trump
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, first time on the Midas Touch Network. Thank you for joining us. Thanks, Ben. Great to see you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's hit that 5 million subscriber mark this week.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker Fights Back Against Trump
Do you think people are indeed getting it now? You know, you mentioned how, you know, for whatever reason during the campaign, and we'll get to that, the election that people, you know, were, I guess, fooled into voting that this guy was going to solve all these issues on day one. You think people are getting it now when you were stating elsewhere?
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We're going to protect this country from Trump's encroachment if he starts violating the Constitution. Why did you come out with that statement right away?
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker Fights Back Against Trump
So other than Herbert Hoover, Donald Trump was the only president during a term to lose jobs. We all saw how disastrously he handled COVID during the first term or didn't even handle it at all. Like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Or he said, don't test because if you don't test, you can't get the results. So we saw that disaster. So what do you think was the issue?
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Why the message got obscured that he could show up with a cold pizza to a fire department And, you know, basically have policies that would gut the unions of those same people, but give people cold pizzas at the union halls and get people to vote against their interest or show up at a McDonald's dressed like whatever. And and that somehow resonated with the people. What happened?
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker Fights Back Against Trump
What does Vladimir Putin have on you? I'm joined by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Honor to have you on, Governor. Governor, right after the election, you were one of the first, if not the first, Democratic governor to kind of come out and say, you know, we're going to protect the state of Illinois.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker Fights Back Against Trump
Donald Trump keeps attacking our allies and keeps doing basically whatever Putin's telling him to do. He keeps on spreading Putin talking points, voted with Putin and North Korea and Hungary against a resolution condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. I mean, not a day goes by where I think There's always an interview with Donald Trump where he's saying something like this.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker Fights Back Against Trump
Here he is giving the Russian propaganda points about Ukrainian troops being encircled in the Kursk region and that he and Putin are going to have to save the Ukrainian troops. But the Ukrainian troops in Ukraine is going to have to give in to what Trump and Putin want. I mean, here's what he said. Let's play it.
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What do you make of Trump's obsession with Putin?
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You know, and in a world, in a country that needs leadership, people are looking to you as well for leadership. So a lot of people are scared right now in this country. Just as we conclude this interview, what's your final message? What's your message right now to the Americans out there who are scared, who are nervous? They're worried about what's going to happen tomorrow.
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Desperate Fox News Flips Out on Air as Trump Cracks
Let's check in on state regime media known as Fox as Donald Trump is crashing the economy and he failed in whatever you want to call those discussions with Putin. He didn't get the ceasefire that he promised on day one now that we're in March 19th. So what's Fox talking about?
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Now, throughout the day on state regime media known as Fox, they were saying, shut the F up, Chief Justice Roberts. They were bullying and attacking federal judges, specifically the federal judge in Washington, D.C., District Court Judge Boasberg, who's the chief judge. of the federal court in Washington, D.C.
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He used to be the chief judge of the FISA court because this judge issued an injunction saying, Donald Trump, you can't implement the Alien Enemies Act for 14 days without further briefing of the court so we can make sure That there is a process here and we know what's going on.
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So you're not just taking people and calling them gang members without us knowing if they're actually gang members or not or whatever. And you have to give people some sort of process. You can't just take people and claim they're criminals without presenting evidence or having a hearing.
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Well, Fox propagandist Jesse Waters brings on this like right wing podcaster and they talk about sipping from straws and that men don't use straws. Here, play this clip.
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And then sending people to concentration camps in El Salvador, well, they're never going to be heard from again. A lot of these Venezuelans who Trump picked up, who Trump claims to be gang members because of a tattoo or some other data that they don't want to discuss under national security, the family members of these people are saying they're not gang members. They weren't engaged in crimes.
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Now, they may be gang members. They may have engaged in crimes. If they are, they should get the book thrown at them, but they should get processed. There's something called the Constitution. That's my view of it. And again, I'm a law and order person who wants to see people who commit crimes get the book thrown at them, go to jail, go to prison for a long time. Just we're a country of laws still.
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I know the Trump regime doesn't like that. Then they have Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff. He goes on state regime media and he praises Vladimir Putin. He goes, President Putin was so great with Donald Trump and Trump was so great with Putin. Here, watch this.
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Really so great? They didn't do a deal. All they talked about was like the United States and Russia playing hockey together in the future and Trump wanting to do big, huge economic deals with Russia in the future. Purportedly, they talked about a ceasefire as it relates to energy infrastructure only, right? Whereas President Zelensky agreed to an absolute ceasefire, Putin didn't.
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Desperate Fox News Flips Out on Air as Trump Cracks
And then right after the discussions with Trump, a Russian bomb took out the power, attacking energy infrastructure in a Ukrainian city just hours after, allegedly, Putin and Trump agreed not to strike energy infrastructure for 30 days while peace negotiation proceeds. It's all BS with Trump. It's all lies. There's no ceasefire. There's no peace in 24 hours in Ukraine.
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Desperate Fox News Flips Out on Air as Trump Cracks
What Trump did do, though, over the past 48 hours is he was in part responsible for the ceasefire being removed in Gaza, where over 400 people were killed in Gaza by Netanyahu. Trump was responsible for breaking that ceasefire. Horrific stuff. Over here as well, you have, this is the Fox graphic, Inflation Nation, sponsored by, I don't know, Lear Capital, whatever the hell that is.
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Desperate Fox News Flips Out on Air as Trump Cracks
And so Fox is now just lying to its viewers that egg prices are super cheap now again. Egg prices are now $3.45. Where? Maybe one or two places. I don't know. But they're using the wholesale price that was given by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The lady who runs the U.S. Department of Agriculture, by the way, that was one of the agencies. All the agencies are gutted by the Trump regime.
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But she's the lady who said you should buy chickens. If you want your eggs. And now all of a sudden they're saying the wholesale price is $3.45. But they're comparing it to the retail price. Eggs in California are $10. I think in Colorado they're like $8. In other states they're like $9. I'm sure there are some states where they're $3. But eggs are in $3.45 right now. Which is not true.
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Desperate Fox News Flips Out on Air as Trump Cracks
But state regime media will tell you it is. You have Scott Besant, Donald Trump's treasury secretary, goes on Fox. Now Besant lives in the real life version of Barbie's dollhouse, a $22 million pink mansion in Charleston, South Carolina. Here's Scott Besant saying, we're unstoppable. We're on a roll. Things couldn't be better. Play this clip.
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Such a bizarre network and they get extra weird as Donald Trump continues to tank. Then you have Greg Gutfeld, one of the chief propagandists on Fox, and his message to the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court is shut the F up. Shut the F up, Justice John Roberts. That's what they're platforming on state regime media known as Fox. Watch for yourself.
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Here, Besant goes on Fox and says he can't guarantee that there won't be a recession. Let's play it.
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Desperate Fox News Flips Out on Air as Trump Cracks
Here, even Maria Bartiromo then appears to lose patient with Besant over their tariffs. Let's play it.
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Then you have Rick Scott. You want to find the Medicaid fraud? You know where it is? This guy. Senator Rick Scott of Florida got rich off of a company that was involved in the largest Medicaid fraud settlement in the history of the United States. That's where it is. I found it. I found it right here, right with this guy. Here he goes, basically starts threatening war against Iran, right?
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The regime that said, no more wars, but we're going to make peace. bringing us into all of these wars. Here, play this clip.
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So then one of the things, too, state regime media has to do, they have to platform the oligarchy. It's funny, though, that everything's backfiring, though, with what they do, right? Like, as they get more desperate and they platform like Musk and these, Muskrat and these Trumpers, it has the opposite effect of what they actually want to happen. So, like, you're looking at the Tesla stock.
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Tesla stock is plummeting, free fall. Free falling, for sure, for sure. Then they bring on Elon Musk. And Elon Musk, in front of the White House, goes, we're just implementing the will of the people. This is the will. This is what the people want. They want veterans to be fired. They want 70,000 jobs at the VA to be cut. That's the will. They want me to call Social Security a Ponzi scheme.
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That's the will. They want me to get rid of Medicaid and to fire all the people who work at the FAA and the NIH and the CDC and the national parks and get rid of the Department of Education. Yeah, screw over poor kids and kids with cancer. Gut the cancer research. It's the will of the people. That's what they want. They want to send people to concentration camps in El Salvador or
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without having hearings or evidence to determine if crimes are even committed. The will of the people, man. Yeah, I'm from South Africa. I mean, stupid stuff. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, right? I mean, y'all, just lower, just leave us alone. I mean, that's kind of what it boils down to, right? Like, with former President Biden, you just woke up. You didn't think about the crazy shit like this. Excuse my language, right? You just went through the day. The markets would do fine. Businesses were doing fine.
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Fox would throw out, you know, everything that they could to undermine Biden and corporate media would buy and hook, line and sinker. But like, what what is this i mean here's elon musk on state regime media in front of the white house trying to pump the tesla stock here watch this yeah it's it turns out uh when you take away people's uh
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Really, Elon, bad people do bad things. That's funny. Funny coming from you. Bad people do bad things. What? Like treat veterans like crap and fire them or fire tens of thousands of federal workers and lie and claim you're firing them because of their job performance when they were performing fine and exceeding expectations or meeting expectations. Bad people do
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I don't know, bad people like Putin, like the people, I don't know, bad people like cutting off intelligence to Ukraine and causing people to die in Ukraine. Bad people, bad people. Bringing Zelensky into the Oval Office and attacking him, a war hero, someone who's trying to save his country. Bad people, bad people like you, Elon, Trump, and the whole regime.
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It's actually how I would define these people. These are bad people. Scumbags, is how I feel it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Donald Trump is now so unpopular in Canada that the right-wing party that were big supporters of Donald Trump and MAGA, they were the Maple MAGA, are now pretending that Donald Trump wants them to lose in the upcoming election because if Donald Trump wants them to lose, reverse psychology, maybe they can claim that they're the party Donald Trump hates the most. So stupid.
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Here's the graphic that we made at Midas Touch. So say like you hate my guts or something. That's how we envisioned Pierre Poliev saying to Donald Trump. Just say you hate me, man, because I'm now losing the election. Everyone thought that we were going to win. And now because of you and they know we're Maple MAGA and people hate MAGA now, you're going to help me lose.
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You're going to make me lose, Donald. So say something different. Anyway, I'll leave you with this clip from Mark Carney that he gave when he was announced as the leader of the Liberal Party about two weeks ago. Let's play it.
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Here's what Pierre Poliev actually posted yesterday, and this was clearly boosted by Elon Musk. Then I'm going to show you all of the receipts, and I've got a bunch of receipts showing how Maple Maga Pierre Poliev is showing
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Powerful stuff there also. We've been reporting throughout the day as well, and I'm sure you've seen Canadian Airlines, Canon Airlines is canceling flights to the U.S. A lot of its routes, they just don't have people showing up. Canadians are not flying to the United States anymore. I predicted that the tourism boycott would be closer to 100%.
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I'm seeing some stats that say leisure travel to the U.S. by Canadians is down about 85% in some areas. That's more in line with what I thought it was going to be.
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I mean, number one, I understand ideologically the boycott, but number two, if you're traveling here, who knows if you show up and then all of a sudden you're sent to El Salvador concentration camps without due process because Trump claims you're a gang member or they put you in a nice detention center, right? I mean, we've seen examples of Canadians who have flown here
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And they've ended up in ICE detention centers without due process. You know, it's actually an authoritarian regime here right now. And so there's that and the ideological reasons, ideological, common sense reasons. Trump's basically, not basically, he's declared war on Canada. So he wants to annex it, steal the land. Anyway, we see through Donald Trump and Pierre Poliev's plan. I know you do too.
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Donald Trump's support of Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party, showing Pierre Poliev go on all these right-wing podcasts, and Elon Musk boosting Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party. I can hardly wait to show it to you, as you can probably tell. Anyway, here's what Poliev posted. He goes...
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Last night, President Donald Trump endorsed Mark Carney, the current prime minister, liberal party leader. Why? Because as Trump said, he's easier to deal with and knows that I will be a tough negotiator and will always put Canada first. Carney is weak and would cave to Trump's demands, just like he did when he moved his company headquarters from Canada to New York.
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Canadians don't want a weak and conflicted leader. They want a strong prime minister who will put Canada first. Dude, you're literally Maple MAGA. I think some of your campaign advisors would walk around in their MAGA hats and like promote MAGA merchandise. Oh, we've got the receipts. But let me show this to you first.
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This was about what, three or four months ago, where Donald Trump said that he would look forward to working with Pierre Poliev because their views were more aligned. Here, this is Donald Trump saying it. Let's play it.
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Now, as this one account says, are Trump and Pierre Poliev the same? Same page, same playbook, same outcome, as Guy Filosella points out. He goes, red flag Canada. Don't make the same mistake as the United States. Hashtag Team Canada. Hashtag Elbows Up Canada. Here, just watch this video clip right here. You'll see exact same playbook, exact same rhetoric. I'll show it to you. Let's play it.
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The Canadian people are smarter than that. They don't have the MAGA mush brain. that we see here in the United States. This is the plan of Pierre Poliev, the leader of the Maple Maga Conservative Party at the federal level. So Donald Trump went on Laura Ingraham in the past few days. And Donald Trump, it was clearly a scripted moment.
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Wow, right? Mic drop. Then, by the way, you had the playbook being executed before... Donald Trump talked about annexing Canada before Donald Trump started talking about the 51st state rhetoric. Maple MAGA, Pierre Poliev were following the playbook of the Trump MAGA movement. They go on the right wing podcasters. Here, Pierre Poliev goes on the Jordan Peterson podcast.
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Jordan Peterson, far right-wing kind of conspiracy theorist, kind of is. He goes, Canada's next prime minister, Elon Musk, boosts it, puts his finger on the scale in the Canadian election. I guess, Canada, if you want Doge Canada, Pierre Poliev is your guy. Elon Musk doing the exact same shtick. And by the way, in this interview as well with Jordan Peterson...
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Pierre Poliev talks about, you know, health care should not be a right. You know, woke is a miss, woke is a that. And Elon Musk boosted the crap out of this right wing Jordan Peterson interview. Why? Elon Musk wants his tentacles. He wants his doge dirty paws into Canada. He wants to destroy Canada. Musk is. and Peterson and Pierre Poliev.
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They want to do the horrors and atrocities you're seeing here. That's what they wanted to bring to Canada. I mean, just look at it. Same rhetoric. Here, Poliev is on Jordan Peterson, and they're like, oh, we've got to stop the wokeness, all the woke and the woke in Toronto and the wokeness. I'm only going to play you 19 seconds of it because that's about as much as I can tolerate.
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But as you go throughout the interview, they talk about gutting health care. They say they talk about gutting dental and gutting services and how, you know, that these things shouldn't be kind of, you know, rights. But I'll just show you 19 seconds. It's all I can tolerate. So I'll just play this for you. Play it.
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On the other hand, you have the Liberal Party leader, the current prime minister, Mark Carney. And here's what he goes. He goes, who's the worst person to stand up to Donald Trump? Pierre Poliev, who worships at the altar of Donald Trump.
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His team probably worked it out with the Canadian Conservative Party. And Donald Trump's like, I prefer to work with the liberal party. I want to work with Mark Carney. And then immediately, Pierre Poliev, the conservative party leader who will be running against Carney, Carney's the current prime minister, goes, you see, you see, Trump likes the liberal party and he hates us.
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And here you got Mark Carney absolutely cooking Pierre Poliev and his Maple MAGA Act. Watch this.
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Okay, so I wanted to share that with you first so you have the background. Here's when Donald Trump went on Laura Ingraham. Here's what he said. And again, obviously, in my opinion, in coordination with Pierre Polievsky, you know, I'm sure Pierre Polievsky was like, just go on and say like you hate me. Say you don't like the Conservative Party.
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Say you want to work with the Liberal Party because you're so hated in Canada that then the Canadians, they'll be like, okay, so I guess we got to vote Poliev because Trump likes the Liberals now. So we want to like whoever Donald Trump is. It's the silliest logic. But here, play this clip.
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Therefore, vote for us. No, Pierre Poliev, we got the receipts. We know your maple maga. We know this Putin-esque plan you contrived because once upon a time, the conservative party was supposed to win the upcoming federal elections. And now the liberal party is surging ahead.
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Okay, I'm pretty confident Canadians see through that shtick. And I think it makes it look extra desperate by Pierre Poliev. I think this Trump-Poliev stunt is going to backfire in their faces as Trump claims that he's supporting the Liberal Party. Okay, we know that's not the case. I really like this from Prime Minister Carney. So when he came back from his meeting, In Europe.
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First, he met with French President Emmanuel Macron. Then he went to UK Prime Minister Pierre Starmer, high level meetings. And one of the messages that he came out with is he goes, look, you know, like Maple Maga Boy, Doge Boy, Pierre Poliev. He couldn't do this trip like he would not be treated with respect in Europe. By the way, does he even have a security clearance?
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Like, I don't think the guy doesn't he doesn't even have a security clearance. He's he's he's too busy doing what? And by the way, sound familiar here. There's so many of these MAGA types in government who don't have the security clearance. Here, play this clip.
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A powerful moment after Pierre, after Prime Minister Carney was sworn in. Here he is talking about responding to Trump's 51st state claim. Let's play it.
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And it looks like Prime Minister Carney and the liberal party could pull off a big upset and win the upcoming election together. and be able to form a government against all of the odds from what things were like months ago. Because Carney is standing up to Trump, because the Liberal Party in Canada stands up to Donald Trump, unlike the Maple Maga Conservative Party.
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And just so you see here, as Mark Gerritsen points out, while Pierre Poliev tries to rebrand his messaging and claim he's not Maple MAGA, look at his own campaign manager wearing the MAGA hat. And then Pierre Poliev was asked, if you've told people in your caucus to stop wearing the MAGA hat, And he can't even say that he told them to stop wearing the MAGA.
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I mean, these are maple bag of MAGA hat people. The Poliev crew, the Doge crew, the Elon Musk crew, the Jordan Peterson crew. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump may be crashing the economy, but you can win a trip to Mar-a-Lago. So says Donald Trump in an email to his supporters as he's crashing everything he sends these emails. Don't miss your chance to win a free flight and hotel in Florida. Everyone that takes the Trump citizen quiz will be entered to win a dinner at the lavish Mar-a-Lago.
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then that actually creates the recession as well. It becomes a self-fulfilling thing. By the way, here's Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's. And he goes, I have no clue what's going on here. Our economy was rip roaring. Consumers were actually feeling good.
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This seems like a recession by design, like this Trump regime intentionally tried to cause it, and they're sending the country into an economic spiral.
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And while this Trump regime sends our country into an economic spiral, they're doing like the weirdest stuff, like this cosplay dress up stick that Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Secretary keeps on doing. This is real what I'm about to show you. It's not AI. So while she and ICE
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are picking up migrants and because of the way they look or their tattoos, giving them no due process and shipping them to concentration camps in El Salvador, she's doing dress up. This was the cosplay outfit, she did a firefighter outfit. Firefighter, no, reporting for duty. And then over the past weekend, she did this photo, gnome patrol. She did this one on the boat.
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You could go to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, everyone. Then Donald Trump sends this email to his supporters. I subscribe to his listserv so you don't have to. He goes, Ben, I have a few proposals on taxes, but I need your input before I make any decisions. One, no tax on tips. Two, no tax on overtime. Three, no tax on social security. Answer Trump.
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She did this one where she acted like she was on like a mission and she was holding the guns. And then this was from a few weeks back where she was dressed up in the bulletproof vest. Then she had the cowboy hat and then she had the ranger outfit. Those aren't AI. She dresses up every other day as Americans are suffering, as they're violating the Constitution and not giving people due process.
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That's what they are doing. Then Donald Trump goes on, Laura Ingraham, and as Aaron Rupert says, this is the Trump University of getting America's fiscal house in order. He goes, we're going to be so rich, you don't even know it. We're going to sell these Trump cards, the gold cards. to the Russian oligarchs and to the Chinese oligarchs, we're gonna make $5 trillion.
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You sell 10 million for 5 million and then 5 trillion.
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And here he is again on Laura Ingraham last night, where he goes, I don't know, should we call it the gold card? There's lots of gold cards. Or do we call it the Trump card? Here, play it.
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I don't give a what you call it. I mean, at the end of the day, why are you focused on these things? Maybe you can, I don't know, like lower the price of things. Now we're in inflationary periods where recessions seem increasingly likely. I don't know. How about you lower the price of things? How about you bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours?
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How about you do the things you said you were going to do? Oh, no, you're too busy talking about what?
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annexing canada annexing the panama canal annexing greenland attacking our allies in europe but praising putin right the big powerful negotiation you did with putin right said you ended in maybe we'll play hockey together we'll play hockey together or putin says we're gonna do a ceasefire and don't worry donald we won't do we won't hit energy infrastructure in ukraine
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30 minutes later, they attack the energy infrastructure in Ukraine. That was after Putin made Donald Trump wait about an hour, an hour and a half, while Putin laughed at making Donald Trump wait. Oh, by the way, in that Laura Ingraham interview with Donald Trump, Donald Trump's like, people think that this button is the nuclear button, but it's like the Coca-Cola button. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, it's deranged, deranged. As Ilya Pomeranko explains, this is one of the cities in Ukraine right now. Over 30 strikes in residential areas reported. The city is burning. How many more times does this need to happen until Donald Trump finally understands that Putin is openly making an idiot of him and demonstrably spitting in his fantastic diplomatic effort?
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Then when you click it, it takes you to a page where he asks you for money for one of his political action things. Hey, Donald, why didn't you put this stuff in the continuing resolution? I don't see any mention of this in the outline for the Republicans resolution. I see massive tax cuts for billionaires, $4.5 trillion.
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Ilya, the answer is never because Donald Trump, in my opinion, is Putin's puppet. Let's turn to Canada for a second where Canadian airlines are canceling flights into the United States and Tennessee and elsewhere because Canadians are not traveling to the United States. As I reported yesterday, leisure travel by Canadians to the United States in some places down 85%. Remember when the U.S.
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Tourism Bureau predicted if it's 10%, it will cause $2 billion damages. I said, I know the maple mighty, the mightiest mighty in Canada. And I know that it's probably closer to 100% in terms of the tourism boycott. Because Donald Trump ain't just using trade war words. which would be seriously damaging. Trump is using actual words of war against Canada. By the way, this is so pathetic.
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Did you pick this up? I know our Canadian watchers did. Pierre Poliev, the leader of the Conservative Party in this next upcoming election, he put out a statement that was obviously, in my opinion, boosted by Elon Musk on ex-formerly Twitter. And he goes, last night, President Donald Trump endorsed Mark Carney. who's the new prime minister from the Liberal Party. Why?
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Because Trump said it's easier to deal with. I mean, does Pierre Poliev think that Canadians have the MAGA mush brains? I think he does. I think he's so entrenched in MAGA and in his Jordan Peterson podcast and all the kind of Putin tricks that he thinks, yeah, if I told the Canadians that Donald Trump says that he wants the Liberals
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then maybe they won't believe that I'm Maple Maga and that I've been supporting Donald Trump and Maga and Elon Musk has been boosting me. Maybe they'll just think, oh, Pierre Poliev is the tough guy. I mean, it's so transparent that Poliev and the conservative party and Trump We're like, all right, Trump, go out on Laura Ingraham and say that you prefer the liberal party.
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And then I'll say, you see, he doesn't want me here. So utterly dumb. We did this graphic right here on the Midas Touch account from Trump to Pierre Polio. This is how we imagine it. So like, Pierre, can you say like you hate my guts or something? Pierre thanked him. So say like you hate my guts or something, man.
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Earlier in the day yesterday, by the way, you had the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, saying, you know, we had a strong fourth quarter. He didn't say under former President Biden, but that's when the fourth quarter was. And now all of a sudden things are getting weaker. Here, play this clip.
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And here was the moment where Jerome Powell said, you know, seems that we're heading in a more inflationary direction right now. Here, play this clip.
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But what are the MAGA Republicans doing? Well, they're posting images like this. Egg prices on the decline. The price of a dozen eggs has now decreased. Now it's $3.10 a dozen. Nearly 50% decrease. It's my brother, Brett wrote. Okay. So they're just making up stuff now. They're just, they just make stuff up. I don't believe any of the data from the U S department of agriculture.
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I see you basically gutting all of Medicaid and destroying the lives of veterans, but I don't see that anywhere. I guess you put them in your emails, but not in the actual budgets themselves. That's why I call this Trump regime insane. the rug pull presidency or the Ponzi scheme presidency. I think the American people, though, by and large, are figuring it out.
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Now, by the way, they're using wholesale data, not retail data, but also we, we, we know if we go in, we'd see the price of eggs. I could barely get eggs out here in California. And I know from speaking to all of you, what the prices are. I'm sure maybe somewhere there's eggs that are low. Maybe they're in a trader Joe's here and there it's $3 and 50, but again,
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Overall, it's like $8, $9, $7, $6.50, $10, $12. That's what I'm seeing. But, you know, what would you expect from the party that does this? Free Trump 2024 gold bars. There it is. Grab yours today. You can get a Trump 2024 gold bar, everybody. Then you have MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer. He takes another turn in the Trump kiss my ass club as Aaron Roper says here, play this clip.
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By the way, shout out to Rupert, shout out to ASIN. They use Snapstream. You should use Snapstream as well. That's where we get these clips from. Snapstream lets you put the clips from the cable networks on the video, and you can clip it really good. It's called Snapstream. I'll put it in the description if you're interested. Reach out to them and tell them Midas sent you.
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That's how we get some of these clips like this. Then let me show you this one right here. Brandon Gill. This is what he talks about when it comes to just picking people off the street, not giving them due process. He goes, this is what executive power is all about. MAGA Republican Brandon Gill. Play this clip.
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But here are the facts, folks, because facts matter. Putin is rejecting Trump's ceasefire. Putin is playing Trump. Trump looks so utterly weak when it comes to Putin. Trump said, you know, Tom Emmer, you think he's a master negotiator? Then why hasn't he made peace in 24 hours in Ukraine? Why aren't prices lower? Why are we heading into a recession or perhaps even worse than a recession right now?
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which as you heard the chief economist for Moody say, it seems like a recession by design. Why do 71% of Americans believe a recession is very likely right now? That's part of the art of the deal. It's part of the master negotiating that we just so smart that we just don't know the plan, man. And just like all the master negotiations where he bankrupted his other businesses?
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Or were those not real? Or is that a smart businessman bankrupts most of your businesses, man? You don't know business. They always go bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt all throughout the 90s and 2000s. Anyway, I'm Ben Micellis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Stay strong. Let's keep fighting together. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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This is from a Fox News Beacon Shaw poll. How likely is it that the U.S. economy will go into a recession this year? 71% of Americans from this Fox poll say a recession is likely. Only 26% say not likely. So 71% of Americans say likely. That is devastating because in and of itself, when consumer confidence falls like that, by the way, that's the Fox-Beacon-Shaw poll.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
What was that? Donald Trump's interview on Fox moments ago, bizarre to say the least. A total disaster. It was with Laura Ingraham, and Donald Trump points out on his desk that the button you see is for his Coca-Cola. It's not the nuclear codes, he says. Here, play this clip.
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friend and foe and on april 2nd i call it the liberation of america we've been the fat dumb foolish country that allowed everybody to rip us off including us next up donald trump shows laura ingraham a photo of the declaration of independence which he pretends is the original copy of the declaration of independence It is not the actual Declaration of Independence. It's not the original.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
But this is what hucksters do. Play this clip.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
I mean, he has to lie about literally everything. That's not the original Declaration of Independence. He's made up the whole story. Next, Donald Trump says that all of his people, they want to call the Trump gold card. They want to call it a gold card or the Trump card. They're trying to figure out the branding right now. Let's play this clip. It's a graduation. They'll buy these.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
Seriously? Then Donald Trump says this? Let's play it.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
So as American people are suffering now economically, as prices are not going down, as people are seeing their pensions and 401ks and life savings disappear, as Donald Trump lies about all of his promises, should we call it the gold card for the oligarchs or do we call it the Trump card? So ridiculous. Next, Donald Trump says that he's a nationalist.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
And as a nationalist, he will make sure America does less business with Europe. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump and Laura Ingraham walk outside of the White House, and he says that he wasn't sure about running in 2024 because he says the 2020 election was rigged. Play it.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
But... He's still whining about the 2020 election right now. This guy is a perpetual whiner. Next up, Donald Trump talks about why he's paving over the Rose Garden because of women's high heels who walk over the Rose Garden. Play it. Mm-hmm. After you. Thank you.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
I mean, seriously, what the hell are we even watching here? Sometimes when I cover what they're doing on Fox in these Trump interviews, I think to myself, this would make Kim Jong-un's propagandists blush. Like, what, really? It's all so odd here. Laura Ingraham, I guess, at least asks a somewhat normal question.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
Do you feel it makes sense to you to allow people like, I don't know, Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs to buy American citizenship? And Trump goes, yeah, that's American first. Let's play it.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
And I just think to myself, like what MAGA person watches and goes, yeah, man, give those Chinese oligarchs a citizenship here. That's what we voted for. America first. What? And Donald Trump talks about he can tell by looking at the people who's going to be trouble. who the people who show up in the country unchecked and vetted. He goes, you just look at them.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
You can profile them and you can tell which ones are going to be trouble. Play this clip.
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Yeah, you see, that's why we need due process. That's why we have a due process. So that Donald Trump doesn't look at people who have a different color skin than him and go, oh, that person's trouble. So I guess we're going to send them to concentration camps in El Salvador and you can't challenge it.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
And I'm declaring a war with Venezuela that doesn't exist so I can declare war powers and you can't question me. That's what Trump's saying and doing. Look, I think there should be do call me old fashioned. I believe in due process. I believe if someone's committed a crime, they should pay the penalty for the crime. I'm a strong believer in law and order. Well, then show me the crime.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
Next, Donald Trump talks about the trillions of dollars that the country is going to make by selling Trump gold cards to Chinese and Russian oligarchs. Seriously, play it.
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Will we see a recession in 2025?
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
goes on the state regime media known as Fox, and he says, you need to buy Tesla. You need to buy Tesla stock right now. Play it.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
We can't normalize this behavior. You're the commerce secretary and you're pumping up an oligarch stock who then gives money to Trump. We all know that this is not how the system's supposed to be. This should piss you off. I want to share this with you to close this video, which is a small portion of my interview with Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
And I think it stands in such stark contrast to what I shared with you. You may agree with me. You may disagree. But watch this message. And this is why I'm a big fan of Senator Sanders and his Fight the Oligarchy tour. This was my interview with him. Just play this small clip.
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Donald Trump then says the country has been fat, dumb, and foolish. Looking in the mirror, here to play this clip.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
That was the announcement by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, saying that because of the Trump tariff stuff, and all of the Trump economic kind of disaster. They wanted to cut interest rates, but they just don't see inflation coming down. Governor, I want to chat with you about what you're doing in your state because you actually got a good report in Maryland.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
You know, and now what's he saying that he goes, April 2nd is going to be Liberation Day. He says Liberation Day. And this is for real what they're saying. They say they're going to give every country is going to get an envelope. But I'm not making this up. And in the envelope, it's going to have. their tariff number on it. And so like a game show, right? For real.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
And then the countries are going to open it up. He goes, not April 1st because that's April Fool's Day, April 2nd. And then depending on how the countries treat Donald Trump from now until then, they get a number and that's what their tariff is. And then we make a whole kind of show of it. And to your point, it's just like, why? Why? Why?
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
Tell me what you can about that conversation with your Canadian counterpart or with the Canadian ambassador who you were speaking to. Because as Donald Trump keeps on talking about annexing the country, which, by the way, they're taking that not just as a joke.
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And not just as a trade war, like their view in that, what they've told me is as like words of actual war on the sovereignty of the country. And we got headlines like this. Canadian airline cancels flights to Tennessee and other U.S. routes. I've seen some reports that travel is down as much as 50 to 60%. You know, I saw some reports, 85 percent leisure travel down.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
First, I guess, what are you seeing in your state regarding that Canadian boycott and what were you hearing from that ambassador that you spoke to?
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
Governor Westmore, you're governor of Maryland. Governor, I want to play one more clip from you for what went down today at this press conference with the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Powell. They are lowering their projections now on what the GDP growth was supposed to be. It was supposed to soar. And here's what's happening right now. Let's play.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
our people and i think there is a real sense of appreciation for that for that consistent steady leadership particularly atomic chaos one of the things i just want to make sure we we touch upon is i don't really see a lot of other leaders talking about this and you posted about and you made it a priority you've talked about it in your state of the state also um your concern about the men and boys in the state and frankly throughout uh the country and your commitment to reaching out um and
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you know, just speaking to kind of a lost generation, suicide rates up and depression kind of up. Why has this been a priority to you? What are you hearing? What are you doing?
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
You know, it's great where you when in a world where you hear about things like Doge that's crashing government and attacking people to actually show people a state government that's actually doing things to help and uplift people. It's why we love having you on. Governor Westmore, thanks for sharing the personal story about your background.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
I know lots of people know who you are, but I think it's helpful that they also are reminded about how you got to where you are and why that's a part of your commitment. So thanks for joining us as always. And of course, we'd love to have you back.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
It's somewhat lower, but it's significantly lower than if Trump just put this on overdrive, let the economy just kind of rock and roll and not interfere with it every day. I want to talk about what you're doing in your state, but first let's just get your reaction to Trump's policies. It almost feels like you have to fight against this tide right now.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Watching Donald Trump put these spineless Republicans through humiliation ritual after humiliation ritual is a sight to behold. I mean, he breaks these people and for what? He's so utterly weak, they're afraid he's going to post on social media. I mean, what does he have over them? I mean, oh, mean tweet, mean post alert. It's like grow up and stand up. but they don't. I mean, here, watch this.
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350 billion dollar cuts to education Nothing about no tax on tips Nothing about no tax on social security Nothing about no tax on overtime 4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts For the billionaires For the billionaires We told you that was going to happen It's all the project 2025 agenda Screwing over hard working people Sad to see Sad to see We got to make our voices heard America
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Then you have your Republicans like your Lisa Murkowski or your Susan Collins, and they're like, I am so shocked and offended. And then they don't do anything. And then they support Trump's chaos and rampage and destruction. This is what Lisa Murkowski said after Donald Trump called President Zelensky of Ukraine a dictator. We all heard what Donald Trump said. Murkowski goes, quote,
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I would like to see the context because I would certainly never refer to President Zelensky as a dictator. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, notes, the context is that Donald Trump is Putin's little bitch. That's the context. What context? You want me to play it for you? I'll play you what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip.
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You need more context than that, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, or are you clutching your pearls? Oh, my gosh. Grow a spine, Republicans. What are you doing? Here, going back to Republican Senate leader, Senator Thune, he's asked, okay, this is a good question by the reporter. You talk about saying that agriculture is the lifeblood of your state, South Dakota.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Well, the budget guts billions of dollars for farmers and Donald Trump's doge attacks affected a lot of jobs globally. Of farmers, Donald Trump's tariffs are going to hurt the farmers. You're selling out your state, dude. And he's like, what are we talking about here? Here, play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
You've got the MAGA Republican Senator. I wouldn't say he was MAGA, but he is now. The Senate Republican leader, Senator Thune, here he's asked about Ukraine. Are you concerned that Donald Trump is calling Zelensky a dictator and Trump is blaming Ukraine for Russia's unlawful invasion? Senator Thune used to be viewed as like a A moderate guy, more of a centrist, a quote-unquote normal Republican?
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
I mean, look, then you go to MAGA Republican, ultra MAGA Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville. I mean, And you don't expect anything from this guy. I mean, this guy is a total clown. And here he goes. Look. I just feel bad for what the American people are about to go through. Things are going to start to get even harder for the American. Why are you going to make it harder?
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Things were going in the right direction at the end of the Biden administration. And these Republicans constantly keep talking about inflicting the hardship on us. Every day they're like, we need to inflict hardship. Look, we got to make sure the billionaires are doing good. We got to hurt the working class Americans. Why? Why? Play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Then you have Ted Cruz go on Fox and Ted Cruz's version of events is not that Donald Trump is literally parroting Putin talking points and Donald Trump is talking about what removing troops, American troops in Baltic states and basically collapsing NATO and Donald Trump's talking about what, just totally capitulating to Russia, letting Russia do anything that Russia wants.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Not anymore. Watch this word salad of a response he gives. Here, play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
But for Ted Cruz, it's Biden's fault. As you know, we all know it's Biden's fault. No, not Russia's fault for unlawfully invading Ukraine. They go, it's Biden's fault.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
I mean, these people are pathetic. I mean, you had a former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev statement. He goes, he quotes Trump here, and he goes, a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. That was Trump's, he's quoting Trump. If you'd have told me just three months ago that these were the words of the U.S.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
president, I would have laughed out loud, he goes. They're mocking us in Russia. And these spineless Republicans are like, we stand firmly with Ukraine. You don't if you're allowing Donald Trump to do this. If you're enabling Trump, then you have over here MAGA Republican Senator Tim Scott, who's literally just making up numbers at this point.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
He's like 10 trillion, 2 trillion, 4 trillion, 18 trillion. Here, play this clip.
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free news for the america people free at last free at last not quite yet but we'll see who knows where they are in six months so wild then you have the trump pick as labor secretary remember who that like maga teamsters head what sean o'brien was the guy's name you know who would give the thumbs up and said donald trump so great we love donald trump or whatever that would be ridiculous
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I mean, throwing the Teamsters under the bus, geez. But here's the labor secretary, Trump's pick, refusing to answer if any American can survive comfortably on a minimum wage that Trump supports because they refuse to support living wages. Here, play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
And I got to play this because in my view, this guy's basically MAGA at this point. Sean O'Brien, the Teamsters president. The damage this guy has done. To the Teamsters rank and file, one of the greatest betrayals, I think, in labor history. It's, in my view, one of the most shameful things. You can't see it over there. I have the Teamsters magazine. I love Teamsters.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
I just can't believe that this guy's leading it. Here, Sean O'Brien goes on Fox, goes on the propaganda network, and he downplays Trump's reckless firings of federal workers. Play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Right. All of this is taking place. Donald Trump is posting photos of himself wearing crowns, saying long live the king on fake Time magazine covers. While all of this is going on, you've got another plane crash yesterday, the ninth plane crash. Nine plane crashes. I think four were lethal. This one was lethal. Maybe five. Nine plane crashes since the Trump administration started.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
And this one was in Arizona. But folks, you have people like this MAGA Republican from Florida, Ashley Moody, who goes, everybody, the grownups are back in charge. The big boys are back in charge. Here, play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
And then over here, you have Speaker Mike Johnson, who previously said, one of my promises is we're going to have single subject legislation. And then Donald Trump said, nope, I want one big, beautiful bill. And then Mike Johnson was like, we're doing one big, beautiful bill. I mean, again, these people, they're not a co-equal branch. They're just utterly pathetic.
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You got Mike Johnson saying, this is what he said on January 9th, 2023. He goes, the House GOP instituted the most positive reform in generations. Some highlights, a truly open legislative process. Bills must be about one single subject only. No new votes on a bill without at least 72 hours notice.
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And then Donald Trump, though, sends a post yesterday, February 19th, saying the House and the Senate are doing a spectacular job. However, unlike Lindsey Graham's version in the Senate, the House resolution implements my full America first agenda. Everything, not just part of it. We need one big, beautiful bill. So what does Mike Johnson then say?
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House Republicans are working to deliver Trump's full agenda, not just a small part of it. Let's get it done. By the way, you know what that agenda is? $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, $250 billion in cuts to agriculture.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
I'm joined by Charlie Angus, member of the Canadian Parliament, who is part of a delegation right now in Brussels as part of the NATO parliamentary meetings, which came after the disastrous Munich conference for the United States and, frankly, for all of Europe, where J.D. Vance attacked the European democracies, where you had Pete Hegseth in Europe saying horrible things about Ukraine and Europe.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
There was an altercation or I don't want to overstate it, but there was an incident between you and a Republican member of Congress who approached you and tried to, you know, he thought he was like joking around with you with your Canadian pin. What happened?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
So, Charlie, what's going on there? What's your message right now to the United States?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Charlie, earlier this morning, Donald Trump made a post where he said Zelensky is a modestly successful comedian that talked the U.S. into spending $350 billion. He calls Zelensky a dictator. He says a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. And so what's your message to Donald Trump?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Are you seeing that in Canada right now? We were talking before about the boycott in Canada of all things American. Do you see it picking up, slowing down? Is the prevailing view in Canada at this point that you're basically dealing with a Putin of the South?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Charlie Angus, please keep us updated on all of the developments. If anything else is happening out there, let me know. We'll have you back on right away. We appreciate your leadership in Canada and across the world, bringing people together to stand up to the authoritarian regime we have here right now in the United States. Thanks, Charlie.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Tell us what's going on behind the scenes. It still seems like, at least publicly, while we are seeing a lot of European leaders speak up against Trump and what happened, they're still trying to be diplomatic. But you're there right now in the inner circles. What's really happening, Charlie?
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Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets
Donald Trump is even now more unpopular than he was during his first disastrous term on economic issues. This according to a new Gallup poll and a Reuters poll as well, showing that his approval rating on economic issues is sinking. and sinking fast. This as he is causing grievous injury to our markets and to our economy.
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Also, Donald Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance was at CPAC and J.D. Vance said the following about the essence of masculinity is telling jokes. Here, play this clip.
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It doesn't get much more cringy than that. While all of this is going on, the Pentagon has circulated to congressional Republicans a list of generals and flag officers that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is interested in firing or replacing. The list, per two sources who have seen it, includes firing General C.Q. Brown, who is currently the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Previously, he was the chief of the Air Force, appointed in 2020. Then in 2023, the Senate confirmed Brown to a four-year term in 2023. The vote was 83 to 11. You all may remember when Pete Hegseth was talking about conquering Gaza and or Donald Trump was talking about occupying Gaza, conquering Gaza, conquering Greenland, conquering Panama, conquering Colombia, annexing Canada.
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You had General C.Q. Brown was in the room. Let me just remind you of why former Fox News host turned secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, now wants to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Here, watch this.
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Folks, while all of this was taking place, a joint key press conference with U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg and Ukraine Zelensky, the Ukrainian President Zelensky, was canceled at the request of the United States. You can see them right here. This is Keith Kellogg, the special envoy arriving in Ukraine to meet with Zelensky.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump was on Air Force One last night trying to distract his supporters by saying that one of the things that he and Doge are going to be doing is going to Fort Knox to try to search for some gold. They're going to go on a gold expedition. Here's what Donald Trump had to say.
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This follows Donald Trump yesterday saying that Zelensky is a dictator and that Zelensky needs to be careful and watch out for himself. Also, you have Donald Trump and Elon Musk pushing Russian propaganda points and saying that elections need to be immediately held in Ukraine. so that Russia could put in their puppet. But the U.S.
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canceled this press conference between Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Zelensky. If you've been watching my shows, you know that I've been saying that I thought that Keith Kellogg is going to be one of the first people to get fired or to get pushed out of the administration. Just to remind you, this is what Donald Trump said yesterday about Zelensky and calling Zelensky a dictator.
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While Donald Trump was calling Zelensky a dictator, Donald Trump was making posts like this yesterday. Long live the king, with photos of Donald Trump wearing a crown, calling himself a king. Should also be noted that earlier this morning, Elon Musk said that he wants to shut down the international space.
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Space Station because the commander of the International Space Station called out Musk for lying about the plans to bring the astronauts home. Just take a look at this. Andreas Mogensen, who is the commander of the International Space Station, responded to Elon Musk saying that the astronauts who are still in space were left up there for political reasons.
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And the commander of ISS said, what a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media, to which Elon Musk then responded, you are fully retarded. SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago and then calls him an idiot, to which Andreas Mogensen says, Elon, I have long admired you.
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You and what you have accomplished, especially SpaceX and Tesla, you know as well as I do that Butch and Sunny are returning with Crew 9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home.
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Also in a new filing in court this morning, Trump is not going to like this in Trump's lawsuit against CBS News in the Northern District of Texas, where Trump is trying to forum shop this case and bring it to Texas. So Donald Trump joined Ronnie Jackson, the MAGA Republican Congress member, as a co-plaintiff in this case because Ronnie Jackson's congressional district was in Amarillo, Texas.
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And Ronnie Jackson said that he was a consumer who was injured as a result of the way 60 Minutes aired an interview with. with former Vice President Kamala Harris when she was running for the presidency because he says that it hurt him and Donald Trump's feelings and caused emotional distress. I believe Ronny Jackson signed a Paramount Plus arbitration agreement, though, so he inadvertently
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may have also compelled the entire Ronnie Jackson's portion to arbitration. And the fact that Donald Trump and Ronnie Jackson are saying the 60 Minutes interview caused $20 billion of damages is one of the most pathetic things. But now CBS is now seeking broad discovery, including those related to Trump's personal finances and those of Truth Social and his Trump crypto project.
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So it's good to actually see, after all this news we heard, that CBS is fighting back. In addition to talking about trying to find gold at Fort Knox, Donald Trump also was asked, do you still think you can pay for extending your tax cuts without cutting Medicaid or Medicare? And you can see kind of a very old and adult and cognitively challenged Donald Trump respond. Here, play this clip.
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Finally, it should be noted that Donald Trump is now sending messages like this to his supporters. If I say please, will you at least answer question number one? If I say please, will you answer this, Ben? It's the easiest question. Please let me know. Will you stand with Trump if I'm impeached again? Dude, you control both the House and the Senate.
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Unfortunately, you're not going to get impeached this term, but he's whining about getting impeached when there's not votes to impeach him right now as much as he should be impeached. Then he writes this. He's just a whiner. He just has to play the victim. They're trying to impeach me. I'm going to Fort Knox. It's like, dude, you said you were going to lower prices. You are not.
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You said you were going to make housing more affordable. You lied. You don't do anything with no tax on tips. You don't do anything with no tax on Social Security or no tax on overtime. Nothing about capping credit card interest rates or penalties. It's all absolutely BS after BS and And then he sends this, but $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires. And then Donald Trump writes this.
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President Trump hasn't heard from you in over two days. Ben, did you hear that you were handpicked to become a cabinet level advisor? Please accept your invitation right away, Ben. That's what we got for you this morning. We'll keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. We're on our way to 5 million subscribers.
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Please hit subscribe right now and help us get to 5 million subscribers.
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But Donald Trump's team does not want the media to criticize any of this. Mike Waltz, Donald Trump's national security advisor, says that they are getting pushback and bad mouthing in the press and that criticizing the administration is unacceptable. Let me show you what Mike Waltz, Trump's national security advisor, said moments ago.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
This is what I like to see. You've got Democrats, you've got Senator Bernie Sanders and others going on the offense and saying to the people, it's time to go to the streets. It's time to protest. It's time to stand up against authoritarianism. Go on the offense. Then you've got these MAGA Republicans and their propaganda machines on the defense. This is what I like to see.
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It is so utterly, utterly ridiculous. So may I just compare right there, John Roberts, who you saw with Jim Acosta. Jim Acosta was recently on the Midas Touch Network. We've been collaborating a lot with Acosta since he left his other network. Let me show you what Acosta said to me when I interviewed him yesterday. Play this clip.
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So good right there. Well, let me know what you think. It's fight time, folks. It's fight time. You ready? You ready? I'm ready. I'm ready to do it with you. Let's go. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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And here, Bernie Sanders says there should be co-equal branches of government. But with the way Congress is right now with the Republicans in control, they've given up their authority to Donald Trump.
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I want to highlight what's going on with some of these stronger pro-democracy voices. And I want to show you what it looks like to see MAGA Republicans on their heels. So here we have Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont. saying this struggle against authoritarianism is going to require we the people to take to the streets. Play this clip.
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You know who I think has been doing a really good job lately? Senator Chris Murphy, I think, has been doing a really good job. Here he is talking about Pete Hegseth.
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And here you have Senator Murphy again explaining why Donald Trump wants to steal Ukraine's rare earth minerals, then kind of put it into his own sovereign wealth fund for him and the billionaires to divvy up. Here, play this clip.
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Don't hold back. Don't mince words. And you know who doesn't hold back and who doesn't mince words? Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. He or she is. Let's play it.
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Next up, you have Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen. Here he is saying, you realize... Just think about what Donald Trump, Marco Rubio are doing by going to Saudi Arabia and trying to cut deals, begging Putin to cut deals with America while Ukraine is fighting for its life.
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Could you imagine what that was like if in World War II you had FDR in the middle of it saying to Churchill, I'll just let Van Hollen says it better than me. Here, play this clip.
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So let me show you some of these MAGA Republicans on the defense. Here's MAGA Republican Senator Katie Britt saying... We're doing oversight. This is great. Play this clip.
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And then you have the MAGA Republican Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, who then tries to blame all of the plane crashes that have been taking place under the Trump administration on former President Biden. Play this clip.
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So utterly pathetic. And here's Sean Duffy again. Again, Trump's Secretary of Transportation lying. and saying that there were more plane crashes under Biden than under Trump already. And he goes, planes crash. That's just air crashes happen. Could you imagine if Pete Buttigieg says, yeah, air crashes just happened. Here, play this clip.
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Exactly, Bernie, exactly. Then Bernie Sanders talks about how we're not just dealing with this move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America. Yes, politicians have always lied, but the way we are seeing the big lie every day
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And by the way, what Duffy's saying is false. And also, Trump's only been in office for a month. There was no commercial jet crash when former President Biden was in office. Absolutely not. And again, here's how the MAGA Republican mouthpieces like John Roberts are trying to justify Elon Musk going through all of your personal files and your records. This is what they're saying on Fox.
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This is how they're trying to brainwash their audience of sheep. They're saying billionaires should be trusted. Billionaires are so rich that why would they care about your information? Billionaires are the most trusted people in America. That's what they're saying, and they're pumping this into the arms of their sheeple. Watch this clip.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
I'm joined by House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Congressman, yesterday Donald Trump held a press conference while he was once again on vacation. He threatened President Zelensky of Ukraine and he called Zelensky a dictator. I want to play the clip and I want to get your response to it. Let's play it first.
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Well, I know that there are tens of millions of Americans who are ready to show up to peacefully protest when we're told where we go. We see the protests, peaceful protests starting already. So we're ready to show up. You tell us when and where, and you will see that positive spirit, peaceful protests throughout, and we're ready to go. So
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House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, we're grateful for the work that you're doing and sharing some time with us here. We know how busy you are on the Midas Touch Network. For everything that you do. Great to be with you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers.
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And so speaking of not letting them off the hook, but what if you can't get the three because they're afraid that Donald and Elon are going to do a mean post? Look, Donald Trump's approval rating right now, it's sinking. It's down in the 40s. But, you know, let's face it. Congress in general has a low approval rating. House Dems on recent polls don't have a great approval rating.
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People want to see fighting. I mean, they want to see Dems out there, peacefully protesting, but out there fighting for their rights. So let's just assume the three people don't come on board. I understand that Dems don't control the House, don't control the Senate. I get that. But people, I think, are saying, what can we do, Congressman? What can we do?
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You know, when people approach me when I'm out and about, they often say some variation of this. You know, Dems are, though, acting like it's business as usual, Ben, while Republicans, the MAGA extremists, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they go, Ben, They're playing dirty out there. They're not following through with court orders. They've gerrymandered this. They're doing all of these tricks.
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And then Democrats are like, well, we got to go through the motions. We got to go through the rules. We got to go through these things. They go, Ben, It's asymmetrical warfare. So how do you even compete with that? You must hear some variation of that as well. I'm not sure if the implication is that, you know, Democrats need to be equally as dirty as Republicans.
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But what's your message when people are out there? You know, I think you hear that. I hear that a lot.
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Let's talk about that GOP budget scheme right now. What, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires and the oligarchs, $880 billion cuts in Medicaid, $250 billion cuts in agriculture to farmers, $350 billion in cuts to education. I could go on. There's nothing about no tax on tips, nothing about no tax on social security, nothing about no tax on overtime. So what are
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What will the Democrats do when Republicans try to ram through, as Donald Trump says, my one big, beautiful bill, which is the Project 2025 playbook? So what do Democrats do when they push this thing through and they say, and what if we can't find those three people? I mean, do Americans need to mobilize? We need to go to the street. What do we do?
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
And so finally, Congressman, let me ask you about this. So every day it seems that we wake up and we find out that Doge is in some other government agency firing people. It feels just incredibly abusive, I think, to the American people as well. Doge is now in the FAA. Doge has entered the Treasury Department and they're gaining access to the payment system. They're in the IRS.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
What's going on with your Republican colleagues, though? They pretend that they support Zelensky, but then when it comes down to it, they're spineless and they're supporting Donald Trump, who's, you know, doing what you just saw there. I mean, is there a way to what can we do? Is there a way to shame these Republicans? How do we call them out whenever they're asked about it?
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They're getting access to your tax information. They're in Social Security. They're getting access to this. As Elon Musk is kind of morphing into these like different roles. I'm the administrator of Doge. I don't work at Doge. I work in the White House. I don't. I'm here.
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
I think people also want to know, how do you make how is it possible that in America you've got an oligarch going into different office buildings of the government and just taking our stuff?
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As we close out this interview, we'd love just to know your final message. We have over 4 million subscribers now and growing. They really wanted to see this interview. You got people out there who are worried, who are scared, who just wake up not knowing what to do. Is Trump going to post this? Is he going to declare war on that? Is he going to tariff this?
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House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Democratic Plans
So just what's your kind of final closing message out there to everybody, you know, right here in the middle of this week and on February 20th?
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They're always like, oh, we never heard what he said.
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Trump Has Morning from Hell and He Acts Out
Donald Trump is having a meltdown this morning as Ukrainian President Zelensky is standing up to Donald Trump and not submitting. Donald Trump making this post on his social media platform, calling Zelensky, quote, a dictator who better move fast or he is not going to have a country left. Donald Trump threatening Zelensky and Ukraine, just outright overt threats on social media.
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There's a reason earlier today that Zelensky said that Donald Trump is literally living in Russian disinformation echo chambers. And by the way, I think Zelensky is being diplomatic there. Donald Trump is the Russian disinformation echo chamber as the main purveyor and spreader of these lies that are all lies. Zelensky never said that at all. But let me keep on reading.
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It goes on to say he refuses to have elections, is very low in Ukrainian polls. And the only thing he was good at was playing Biden, quote, like a fiddle. Just pause right there. His polling number is lower than it was at the start of the war. Zelensky still polls above Zelensky. 50% to Donald Trump yesterday during a press conference while Trump was vacationing at Mar-a-Lago.
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Trump said Zelensky's approval rating was 4%, which is entirely, entirely false. Also, the talking point that Ukraine needs to hold elections Before there is any negotiations or peace talks to happen, that is a Russia talking point as well. Donald Trump just taking the Russia talking point directly from Vladimir Putin.
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He goes on top of this and then he says a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia, something all admit only, quote, Trump and the Trump administration can do.
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And he randomly capitalizes Trump and puts it in quotes because he's a sick, disgusting, psychopathic, malignant narcissist who refers to himself like that. Biden never tried, which is false. Europe has failed to bring peace. And Zelensky probably wants to keep the, quote, gravy train going. I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job.
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His country is shattered and millions have unnecessarily died. And so it continues. What a traitorous and despicable statement this morning to be made by the leader of the United States.
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Shame on Donald Trump and all of you spineless, cowardly Republicans who went there to Munich, who shook Zelensky's hand and said, we've got your back, we've got your back, while still being complicit and supporting this wacko authoritarian wannabe regime here, the authoritarian regime that looks up to Putin here in the United States.
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Let me just share with you what Zelensky said over the past 24 to 48 hours when he was asked why he didn't sign a contract that the Trump administration put in front of him without any security guarantees at all, demanding that Zelensky provide all of the Ukrainian rare earth materials and minerals. to the United States with no guarantees in return. Just sign on the dotted lines, Zelensky.
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Let me read for you this entire post that Donald Trump made this morning. He goes, into spending $350 billion to go into war that couldn't be won, that never had to start, but a war that he, without the U.S. and, quote, Trump, will never be able to settle. Just pause right there. What a despicable, dastardly thing to say right there. As though Zelensky scammed the U.S.? No, Donald.
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What Donald Trump was trying to do was a shakedown so Trump and Putin can split the plunders of Ukraine and create a Russia-centric world order. Here's what Putin said. Let's play it.
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And by the way, remember what Donald Trump said while he was campaigning? Do you remember when he said that he would end the war before he even took office? Because he says he knows Zelensky well and he would be able to resolve the situation in 24 hours. He said even before he took office, during the transition, he'd be able to accomplish it. Well, I've got the receipts. Let's play that clip.
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You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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It won't even take that. I mean, but by the way, Donald Trump lies about everything. I mean, here's the video of him saying that he was going to, well, I'll just do this side by side here, okay? Of Trump saying that he was going to bring down prices on day one. Prices were going down under former President Biden, and now the prices are going back up. Inflation is back.
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And it's surging under Donald Trump because of his reckless economic policies that have hit America very, very quickly. Here, play this clip.
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In addition to that post about Zelensky, Donald Trump then posted fact sheet President Donald J. Trump reigns in independent agencies to restore a government that answers to the American people. What Donald Trump is referring to is he signed an authoritarian, unlawful executive order yesterday while vacationing as well in Palm Beach that
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according to this executive order, the only person who can tell an agency what the law is, it's not judges, it's not the agency's own expertise, that Donald Trump declares whatever the law is for all agencies and that he has the direct control and that everybody, whether you're the SEC, whether you're the FCC, whether you're the FEC, whether you're the FTC,
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Whatever the agency is, you now report directly to the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vogt, the author of Project 2025, who reports directly to Donald Trump. These agencies in the past had been independent agencies that pursue their independent policies. But now Trump is saying it all goes through me. I say what the SEC does. I say what the FEC does. I say what everything does.
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Donald Trump is an authoritarian.
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That was the primary purpose of this conference. Just so you can see this executive order for yourself, it's called Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies. And if you read it, it goes on to say that it says that in order to approve administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials' accountability to the American people,
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It shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch. Moreover, all executive departments and agencies, including so-called independent agencies, shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions.
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to the Office of Information Regulatory Affairs within the executive office of the president before publication. The so-called, he calls them so-called independent agencies. Also, if you look at section seven, Trump's new executive order instructs federal employees to ignore the judiciary's interpretation of the law and follow his instead. Meanwhile, you have Doge.
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Russia unlawfully invaded Ukraine. Russia and Putin want to take over Europe, and they also want to crush the United States. I know you're Putin's puppet, but Putin and Russia want to destroy the United States of America and all of Europe, and we do not want to be part of Russia unlike you.
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It looks like they're changing the numbers where they're claiming fraud exists. So yesterday they claimed that they found $8 billion in fraud. But when you actually looked at this specific company's government contract, it didn't say $8 billion. It actually said $8 million. But Doge said that they saved $8 billion.
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And then they changed the numbers, it looks like, in the computer system to have it re-reflective of 8 billion. I actually reached out to that company directly, and the company told me that it was 8 million, a ceiling of 8 million, not 8 billion, as Doge had said.
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And then we're also learning that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warned all of her employees that they would be getting polygraph tests to crack down on leaks
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that agency officials say have foiled immigration raids all polygraphs must include questions on unauthorized communication with media and non-profits ellen gilmer got that scoop right there great work ellen um that's what we got for you right now hit subscribe let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump goes on to say the United States has spent $200 billion more than Europe and Europe's money is guaranteed while the United States will get nothing back. Pause right there. We'll get nothing back. Do you understand the United States place in the world? Also, Donald Trump's numbers are never accurate. Pause right there.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
As Donald Trump's approval plummets, state regime media known as Fox is doing everything it can to try to convince we, the people, that we should just trust billionaires with all of our data, with all of our information, and they keep hitting this message that If you're going to trust anyone, don't you trust the billionaires for real? This is what they're saying. Here, play this clip.
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I think one of the things that I like about this network, and I like doing these videos like this, is to know when I read your comments, I'm like, okay, we're not alone. These people are crazy. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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It's so pathetic that people can fall for this stuff. I mean, you realize that they're not talking about no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. Egg prices were supposed to go down, not planes going down. You realize that they're pickpocketing you and they're doing the bait and switch to give a 4.5%.
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trillion tax cut to the billionaires while they're cutting $880 billion from your Medicaid, $250 billion from farmers, $350 billion from education. I can go on, but I think you get the point here. Then you got to call in Alina Haba.
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I think she kind of botches the line here, but she's supposed to kind of repeat that same line that I can't believe people are getting in the way of the billionaires who are trying to just help you, who are working for free. Well, let the billionaires work for free. Here, play this clip.
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The billionaires aren't working for free. They are working to shut down the entities that regulate them so that they can make many more billions of dollars by ripping off we the people. And they have a cruel desire to make we the people suffer. While they just get richer and richer while screwing over the people. That's what's really going on here.
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I mean, look, Donald Trump says he goes on Hannity last night. He's like, inflation is back, baby. Inflation is back. But it's not my fault. But inflation is back. Here, play this clip.
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They were cognitively addled. Are you watching this? So then Jesse Waters, Jesse Waters goes, you know how I know Doge is doing it right? Because the math never lies. Math, math, it doesn't lie, people. Here, play this clip.
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And like, I know that, what, it's like 55 to 60% of Americans have below a fifth grade education. I know it's an astounding fact, but then again, 49% of the population voted for Donald Trump. But like, All this USAID stuff that they're dropping, it's like QAnon drops. You know what I mean? Like they're talking about, oh, condoms to Gaza. Eh, false.
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They're saying literally millions of deceased people are getting Social Security. False. They're saying, look, we found another $8 billion in fraud here. And if you actually look at what the number is setting aside, whether it's fraud or not, it's like Eight million. They can't like read the comma right here. They don't know the way the coding systems work.
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So that's why they're getting a lot of this data wrong. Anyway, they then bring on Sean Duffy, who leads the Department of Transportation. This is the guy who got famous on the real world and the real world road rules challenge. reality TV shows and Sean Duffy goes on Fox and he's like, look, I know you're seeing a lot of air crashes lately, but air crashes, they happen. You're playing this clip.
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They're such liars, too. He goes, there were more air crashes when Biden was in office than Donald Trump. Well, first off, let's be clear. Donald Trump's been in office like for a month. OK, Biden was in office for four years. And you're wrong. What? There were four lethal plane crashes in the past month. One day.
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commercial jet plane that was coming into Washington, D.C., that a helicopter crashed into right above DCA Airport. That didn't happen since 2009. They lie about everything. And the same way they were trying to be like with COVID, oh, you have nothing to worry about. This is it's just death. Like, what are we talking about? You see what they're trying to do here? You see what they're doing?
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As they're firing all of these FAA officials, they want to normalize plane crashes. And they're trying to brainwash their viewers to be like, oh, I guess that's just normal. Planes just crash. No, it isn't normal. That wasn't happening when former President Biden was in office. You idiots. That was not happening. I just wasn't sorry for ad hominid attacks. I'm just like, ugh.
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Even I sometimes am just like, ugh. And then they call on Senator Roger Marshall, MAGA Republican. And he's like, look, what we really need to do here when it comes to Maha, make America healthy again, we need to do reeducation. We need to do reeducation camps for the American people. They're talking about the MAGA Republicans are talking about reeducation camps. Here, play this clip.
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Then they have Caroline Levitt on Fox. And then they say, hey, Caroline, so... What's Elon's role? Because you're filing a lot of documents in court now saying that Elon Musk doesn't run Doge. So what's his role there, Caroline Levitt, press secretary? Here, play this clip.
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Mm-hmm. They kind of continue this message at all times during the day. So on their morning show, they have this like fantasy, like imagine when Elon returns all the money to everyone. Imagine when the billionaires give you all of the money. Things are going to be so special on the other side of this. Just you wait here, play this clip.
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I just want you to know why they're saying, you might be like, that's a weird thing. Why are they saying that he's not the administrator of Doge? Because they are frauds, okay? But what they're trying to do is say he works as a special advisor to Donald Trump in the executive branch because they want to declare the Presidential Records Act executive privilege and presidential immunity illegal.
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They want to claim all of those privileges to block transparency. That's why they're doing it. And so when Elon Musk, who has not testified before Congress, he's not responding to Freedom of Information Act requests FOIA. They're doing this and hiding him and saying he's a special advisor and is not running Doge so that he doesn't have to be transparent.
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And he can just post his things on Twitter or X and be like, look. I did another dropping for you. I did another dropping for you. Anyway, here was Caroline Levin on Fox the night before spreading the lie that tens of millions of deceased people were on Social Security. This is false. But notice what she says also. She goes, we haven't looked at the books yet.
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We haven't looked at the books, but we know that there are. Here, play this clip.
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you should probably stop talking when you say we haven't looked at the books yet. Because before you form an opinion, you might want to look at the books. I mean, maybe you do that. And then there wasn't tens of millions of deceased people on social security. You just don't know how to read the coding, which would have been a very basic thing.
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So by the way, Donald Trump was asked what Elon's role and he's like, Elon's role is he's a patriot. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
So they're trying to normalize plane crashes, like normalize the spread of diseases. They want to normalize dictatorship, normalize billionaires going into your private information. It's just a billionaire. You don't trust billionaires like going into your private data like you don't trust them. Come on. What's going on? I mean, that's what they're doing over here.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
So here they try to normalize Elon Musk implanting chips in your head. Play this clip.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
You get the hustle though by Fox, right? You get what they're doing. You see it for yourself, right? My God. My God. This shouldn't be a political thing. That's the thing.
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Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
Stupid, stupid stuff. Just be freaking normal. Just being, why can't we just, I want to boil down this network and the reporting that I do is like, can we just be normal, please? Like, and not this like weird crap. I just don't want you to feel alone.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
If Donald Trump thought that Ukrainian President Zelensky was just going to roll over, well, Donald Trump just got a rude awakening. President Zelensky of Ukraine is saying to Donald Trump, what makes you think that I'm going to give up so easily as you try to sell out Ukraine to Russia? I'm going to show you some clips.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
Finally, Professor McFaul explains the following. Apparently, Trump's team offered Putin one, Ukrainian territory, two, no NATO membership for Ukraine, three, no U.S. soldiers in Ukraine, four, the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Europe, including from frontline states, and five, sanctions relief. Putin's return offer, absolutely nothing right there.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
Zelensky's powerful words, though, remain what I shared with you at the beginning. If we didn't accept such ultimatums in our hardest moments, why would we now? I'm Ben Myselis reporting from the Midas Touch Network. Let's get to 5 million subscribers together. Thank you for watching.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
give so it's very serious things okay then following the meeting between uh the united states and russia rubio and sergey lavrov which russian press russian state media i should say and propaganda was loving it the united states bending its knee to russia this was the moment that russia always wanted having the united states kiss the ring of russia it was so humiliating for the United States.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
Of what President Zelensky recently said, this follows, of course, the United States under Donald Trump's authoritarian regime, sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to negotiate directly with the Russians, led by their foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. and the United States and Russia cut off Ukraine and Europe from being part of the negotiations.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
And as an American, it was so shameful to see this American regime so utterly weak and pathetic. But you know who wasn't pathetic? President Zelensky. President Zelensky went to Turkey where he met with the leader Erdogan there. And then Zelensky talked about and basically directed this message to Donald Trump saying, you think you're going to just cut us out?
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
You think that I'm just going to submit to what you tell us to do? Do you know the history of Ukraine? Do you know how valiantly we fought the Russians when nobody was by our side at first and then the rest of the world took notice? You think we're going to tap out that easily? Well, you don't know Ukrainians, Donald. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
Powerful words there by Zelensky, where he said, it feels like the U.S. is now discussing the ultimatum that Putin set at the start of the full-scale war. Once again, decisions about Ukraine are being made without Ukraine. I wonder, if we didn't accept such ultimatums in our most difficult moment, why does anyone think we would now, Donald, you weak, pathetic person, you?
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
Look, this is a Republican senator over here, Senator Roger Wicker. He is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and he's been a powerful ally, powerful advocate for Ukraine. He was asked right here if America, if Trump should trust Putin. Watch what this Republican says. Play this clip. You think that Putin can be trusted in these negotiations?
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
The plan was for the United States and Russia to carve up Ukraine, to sell it out to Russia, and then just impose their will And before this meeting, Donald Trump tried to get Zelensky to sign a piece of paper giving basically all of Ukraine's rare earth metals and rare earth materials to the United States in perpetuity.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
but as Julia Davis, who covers all of the Russian state propaganda. She runs Russian Monitor. She does a great job. She goes, wait until Trump teaches him and the rest of the spineless GOP to trust Putin. It won't take long for these pathetic magas to fall into line like the sheeple that they are.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
While all of this was going on, Russian press was ecstatic at the weakness shown by the United States. Their top propaganda shows were saying, quote, the U.S. is doing Russia's work, says ecstatic propagandists. Putin's mouthpieces are in a lather over the excitement over the U.S.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
administration's willingness to make the deal that Russia wanted, the ultimatum that Russia put to Zelensky at the beginning of the war before its unlawful invasion. Here's the headline from Politico in Europe. Moscow's media gloats over U.S.-Russia talks. As this account explains, war criminal Putin is having a fantastic week.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
We have no clue how the so-called peace agreement will play out or what's next for the war. But one thing's clear, Putin is getting legitimized. His atrocities conveniently forgotten. Is the rest of the world fine with this? Professor Michael McFowell says the following. So Putin is apparently insisting that Ukraine hold new elections. Phase two allegedly of a peace plan.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
Phase one is a ceasefire before real negotiations on a settlement begin. The US should agree as long as Russia holds a free and fair presidential election too. Professor McFowell then says, as I predicted last night, the main goal of the Russian delegation in Riyadh was to restart US-Russia relations. They've already achieved their goal.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
And so Russia is ecstatic that the Trump regime has legitimized the Putin regime. As Phillips O'Brien says, I hope people understands what we are seeing here. However, Trump and Putin are preparing a common plan to dictate to Ukraine. Ukraine will surprise them, at least Trump, by refusing. The war will continue. The role of Europe will become decisive.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
Here was a press conference that Donald Trump gave yesterday while vacationing in Mar-a-Lago because apparently Donald Trump doesn't even work in Washington, D.C. anymore. He was asked the following question. How would you guard against Russia installing a puppet government in Ukraine? And then Donald Trump blames Ukraine for the beginning of the war. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
So let me show you what Zelensky did as the United States totally capitulated and showed how weak the United States is going to be and the betrayal by the United States to Ukraine and to Europe.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
So before this meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between the United States and Russia, let me show you what Zelensky said when he was asked why he did not sign the piece of paper to give up all of the rare earth materials belonging to Ukraine to the United States, especially with no security guarantees. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
Donald Trump was asked if you have a message for Ukrainians who feel betrayed. Play this clip. Yeah, please.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
Again, what a dastardly, despicable, disgusting statement by the menace that is Donald Trump. running the authoritarian regime here, Putin's puppet in the United States of America.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
And to see the weak, spineless Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, hyping how he wants to do economic deals with Russia, all I say to the spineless Republicans who pretend to be Russian hawks is take a look at what's going on here. And this is you. You are complicit in this. Here, play this clip.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
His rhetoric, what he's done, what he's threatened.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Let me ask you this. As you prepare to leave the White House, any other regrets that you have? Anything you wish you would have done differently?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
That's not who the hell we are.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
I'm not going away. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network reporting from the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House. That's right, we have a very special interview for you today with President Joseph Biden. We will talk about his time in the White House. We will talk about his legacy. We will talk about what he intends to do in the future. We will talk about what is NATO,
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
You think you reach a deal in Gaza before your term ends?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
What do you say to Americans who are understandably very nervous right now, who didn't vote for the other guy, who are fearful of the threats, the rhetoric, the idea of retribution? What do you say to them who are looking at you, who admired your work? What do you say to them right now who are watching?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
You've said before that Project 2025 would cause major economic harm. It's in contrast to your bottom-up, middle-out. How dangerous do you think Project 2025 is?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
So you were the youngest senator? I'm the oldest president. I didn't say it. You're very nice to say it. I didn't say it. What's that been like, having those two perspectives?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
our NATO allies saying to him. We will address all of that and more on the Midas Touch Network. Mr. President, I want to thank you for this interview today. And we're here in the Roosevelt Room right now in the West Wing of the White House. You have a few more weeks here in the White House.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
And so as you look back over the past four years, what do you believe are your biggest accomplishments that you're most proud of?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Any kind of formal organizations that you're thinking about starting? With these Republicans that you're talking about, is there going to be some sort of group that's going to be working towards those goals, Democrats, Republicans, to try to... Well, there's some working on specific issues together, but I think it's more about...
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Final question. When history is all told, how do you want to be remembered? What do you want your legacy to be?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
in the right place i really really do we just got to keep fighting mr president thank you so much for this interview thank you for what you've given this country over the past four years and i really appreciate it thanks pal appreciate it thank you marketing is hard
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
And look, you mentioned all of these accomplishments that you just listed, and you focused on bottom-up, middle-out economics to help workers. Infrastructure Act, Inflation Reduction Act created over 16 million jobs more than any president.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
But here's the thing, though, and I really want to get your insight on some union leaders and even some kind of rank and file workers ended up voting for the other guy with all of the benefits you delivered. How do you square that?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
What are you going to do when the other guy goes out there bragging about accomplishments under you? The Medicare $2,000 cap is going to kick in in 2025. He's going to be out there saying, I did this. How is that going to make you feel when that happens?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Let's talk about foreign policy. Our NATO allies, what are they saying to you right now? You know, Trump's out there threatening allies. Mexico is threatening Canada with tariffs. Obviously, NATO countries very concerned right now Are we going to stand up to Putin in 2025 the way you did? What are they saying to you?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
You're going to be at the inauguration?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
That's what I want to talk about, because he obviously did not make the transition easy for you would be putting it as delicately as I can. You've made the transition smooth. You've invited him to the White House. How do you square that with his rhetoric, what he's done, what he's threatened, to invite him here, sit him in the Oval, smile? How do you do that and why?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Let's talk about the media coverage of your presidency. We talked about all of these accomplishments, but very rarely did you turn on the TV and hear about 16 million jobs. Very rarely did you hear about the Biden stock market up 50% from Trump. You weren't out there bragging about your stock market. I mean, the other guy would be doing that every day. Yours was up 50%, 55%.
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
What's your overall view of, I think, the media coverage? Do you think there's anything you could have done differently in interacting with them? What's your overall perspective on that? Were they too busy covering the horse race of politics?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
Mr. President, you're going to be at the inauguration. Some union leaders and even some kind of rank-and-file workers ended up voting for the other guy. How do you square that? You think you reached a deal in Gaza before your term ends? As you prepare to leave the White House, any other regrets that you have? Anything you wish you would have done differently?
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President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch
What are you working on right now that you hope to accomplish before the end of your term? Is there one thing that you're hoping to get done?
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office with the Prime Minister of Italy. Of course, Donald Trump mostly made it about himself, his grievances, his retribution. Donald Trump spent the time attacking the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, who Donald Trump himself appointed in 2017. Play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Donald Trump then said that Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is going to face a lot of political pressure. He goes, you know, these are political guys. And so you're going to face a lot of pressure. Play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Once again, let me repeat, Donald Trump appointed Chairman Powell in 2017, okay? So now Donald Trump is attacking his own person because his own person is saying accurately that the economy is struggling right now because of Trump's failed trade war with the world. Donald Trump then says that Jimmy Carter, a late president, is actually a happy man. He died happy because he was better than Biden.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
This is again, The deranged, demented mind of a freaking lunatic. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
A reporter then asks Donald Trump to clarify his views about Chairman Powell and about what he intends to do to Chairman Powell if Chairman Powell does not reduce interest rates. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
And it's just interesting that Donald Trump continues to cite Europe's central bank as a reason the United States should be doing interest rate cuts. You know, Donald, we were doing interest rate cuts in the United States. You know when? under former President Biden. You know why? Because inflation was hitting its Fed target rate of 2% based on things like the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Former President Biden had to clean up the mess left by you, the arsonist. The arsonist then claimed that the person putting out the fire was actually the arsonist. You came back into power and now once again, voila, you are the arsonist again, screwing up the economy, causing inflation to rise such that interest rates can't be taken down.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Now, one of the expressions that I've heard and Carl Quintanilla has said it before, what Trump wants to do is try to burn down the house in order to cook a steak. So you're trying to destroy the entire economy, blow it all up to what, to lower the interest rates when the economy is going to be literally the worst since the Great Depression? Like that's the game plan?
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Donald Trump then says that there are lots of countries calling him up, so many countries calling him up to make deals that he maybe doesn't even want to do deals with them. Play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
And we heard this earlier today in the White House when Donald Trump was asked about Xi Jinping now meeting with allies of the United States and China cutting deals as Donald Trump has turned America into basically the manifestation of a Trump dollar sign meme coin or a dollar sign Smolania meme coin. Play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
nobody nobody can compete with us nobody going back to the disastrous oval office press conference uh donald trump uh is asked again about you know these you know what what about these trade deals americans are suffering to which donald trump says i'm Americans aren't suffering. We're doing great. He goes, everything's down. Prices are down. Things are great. Americans are thriving.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
They're great again right now. He goes, the only thing that's bad is interest rates. Play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Donald Trump continued to attack Chairman Powell because Chairman Powell accurately described that our economy is having big problems now created by the Trump regime. Donald Trump in this Oval Office press conference says he doesn't know what Congo is. even is, the country. He doesn't know what it is, but he says they're doing bad things. Play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
I'm gonna bring the data at the end of this video, don't worry, where I'm going to fact check everything that he's saying, because it's all 100% false. But what else is new? How do you know Donald Trump and MAGA's lying? They open up their mouth. Here, Donald Trump then talks about the only thing that's going up are interest rates, play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Trump is then asked, what's going to happen, Donald, if a federal judge holds you in contempt? And Trump like throws his DOJ under the bus. He's like, oh, it's not going to be me. Ask the lawyers. Ask the DOJ lawyers. You hear that, DOJ lawyers? Here, play this clip.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Again, just take a look at some charts. I like charts. I like data. I'm a data guy. I'm a chart guy. Federal spending up right now. More federal spending now than under former President Biden for everything that Doge said it was going to do. It didn't do it. The U.S. dollar is having the worst start to a year since 1995. Consumer confidence right now is at its lowest point since 1981.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
Its second lowest point since 1951 or 1952. when university of michigan really started doing its consumer confidence survey we've now heard from the atlanta fed which believes negative 2.2 gdp contraction in quarter one we've heard from the new york and philly feds which show manufacturing declining at a rapid pace.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
American Express put out guidance, assuming in their guidance that there will be an average unemployment of around 5.7%, but they think that their business will be largely immune from any great recession because they have wealthy people as clientele. This just in, mortgage rates see the largest one-week hike in nearly a year, reaching their highest level in two months.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
I've seen some mortgage rates as high as seven, seven and a half percent, some slightly lower, but housing is not more affordable. Prices are going up. The price of eggs, remember the price of eggs are higher. Donald Trump is a complete liar and a complete failure in everything that he does, but he goes there in the Oval Office and lies like living people breathe.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
That's kind of how Donald Trump exists. As I said in my sub stack on MidasPlus.com today, go check it out. MidasPlus.com and spell it right. M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. I said Donald Trump's an expert in one thing, fraud. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Decline Continues
And all over the world, they came in, opened their... Donald Trump next addresses the school shooting that took place at the FSU Student Union, or I should say, he mentions it. He doesn't really address it. His statement is, quote, things like this take place, is his response to the horrific tragedy that took place today. Play this clip.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
Well, it certainly looks like we're heading towards contempt proceedings against the Trump regime and its DOJ in federal courts as the Trump regime and the DOJ continues to give federal courts the middle fingers and also pretend that they won in the Supreme Court. when they lost 9-0 in the Abrego Garcia case.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
If he does not, he must be removed from power. It's that simple. To which J.D. Vance then takes the Supreme Court's ruling and makes it into this ridiculous argument against nobody. Are you proposing we invade El Salvador to retrieve a gang member with no legal right to be in our country? When in the Supreme Court's decision, where in the Supreme Court's decision does it require that?
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
take a look at the Supreme Court's decision where it clearly says the order by the district court properly requires the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
And then when you go to the joining opinion in the nine to zero ruling, it says the government's argument moreover implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence so long as it does so before a court can intervene. Because every factor governing requests for equitable relief manifestly weighs against the government.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
It is therefore ordered that Abrego Garcia's return be facilitated. And then this is what they're going with now. They're claiming the Supreme Court ruled in their favor. This is Stephen Miller's line that's being repeated by Pam Bondi. Let's play it.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
So the federal district court judge in Maryland, as you may know, has been ordering the Trump DOJ to provide status updates each day since the Supreme Court's 9-0 order requiring the Trump regime to return Abrego Garcia. Now, the Trump DOJ has been submitting some declarations from people that, let's just say,
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Richie Torres. Congress member, you just introduced the repeal the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and repeal the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, IEPA. Restore constitutional balance, return power where it belongs in the United States Congress. Why is it so important that you're introducing this?
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
And what do you make of those statements by Miller and others in the Trump DOJ?
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
Even when Congress capitulates, which it did, I mean, clearly all the MAGA Republicans in the House and Senate, many of them seem to be okay with authoritarianism, but then Trump gets smacked down in a 9-0 ruling by the Supreme Court that says very clearly, unambiguously, facilitate the return of Ebrego Garcia and then a...
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
and treat him as though he was not improperly taken and sent to a foreign country. Give due process. And if at the end of the due process that's given, there are findings that are made, you can act on those findings. But we're a country of due process. And then the Trump regime goes, actually, this was a win, 9-0. He stays in El Salvador. You've seen a lot, Congressman.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
What are you making of this argument that they're making right now, that they won?
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
are far from compliant and not saying at all the efforts that are being taken to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. They're kind of written in a mocking tone as well to the federal court. For example, in the declaration submitted yesterday,
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
There was that moment so eerie, you know, I think it'll forever be etched in history as just one of those, you know, low points, although the depths of depravity seem to be getting lower and lower by the day and by the minute. With Bukele sitting there as Trump glazes him, sitting in the same location where Trump was attacking Zelensky and mocks our allies.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
and they were asked a very simple question about following the supreme court ruling and bouquet you mentioned it bukele's there just mocking our system of justice and due process how would you expect me to return do you expect me i do not have any power whatsoever and it was such a mockery of the united states
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
from an authoritarian, from the country of El Salvador, by the way, which its entire GDP is like, well, we're attacking all of our allies and attacking all these countries. I mean, El Salvador has what, a 25% poverty rate. The entire GDP is $35 billion. So great.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
We've attacked Canada, Europe, Australia, and now we've won a guy who's claimed to fame, if you want to call it that, or infamy, is building concentration camps in his country. Let me just show everybody the clip just because I think I got to play it, then I'll get your reaction to it, Congressman. Let's play it.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
I mean, there's a fascination. They would love it. Congressman, I want to get your reaction, but you know what I think about there? Chief Justice John Roberts tried to act like a moderate guy who gave Trump absolute immunity. And when the liberal justices were saying that exact scene is what's going to happen, Chief Justice John Roberts, nah, I don't think that's going to happen.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
After Nayib Bukele left the White House, the declaration basically stated we're not returning him and then said, I understand in response to a question regarding Abrego Garcia, President Bukele of El Salvador said, quote, I hope you're not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
And I could just imagine him watching that after trying to give an off-ramp to Trump in that ruling to save face and do it in the right way, going... Yeah, yeah, you played me. What do you make of it?
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
Finally, Congressman, it's been a dark conversation. Any room for hope? I mean, the protests growing. I think the people you're seeing in your district standing up more and more. Where do we go from here?
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
Congressmember Richie Torres, thanks for joining us as always. Always a pleasure. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
That question is preposterous. A video of the meeting is here. I declare under penalty of perjury. And then you have J.D. Vance making posts like, the entire American media and left-wing industrial complex
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Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations
has decided the most important issue today is that the Trump administration deported an MS-13 gang member and a legal alien when he was challenged by Mike Gillette and said, no, the most important issue is that the Supreme Court ruled nine to zero in a decision that you must return him. Trump is not a dictator or a king. He's a president and a president must follow the Supreme Court's rulings.
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Fox News Loses It as Trump Suffers Bad News
State regime media known as Fox was in free fall yesterday as Donald Trump continued to collapse the market, collapse the economy. And as China and their leaders were mocking him, you had Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, going on Fox and literally begging China to give Donald Trump a call and then saying, look, American consumers are the best China.
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Fox News Loses It as Trump Suffers Bad News
Then Donald Trump was on Fox and he makes this very strange, bizarre, and outright disgusting comment about the Holocaust. And he said, some people were treated good.
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Fox News Loses It as Trump Suffers Bad News
hell is he even talking about? Then you have Pam Bondi, as Aaron Rupert says, grotesquely claiming Abrego Garcia's wife and children, who are American citizens, are better off without the husband and the dad here. They should be thankful to the Trump regime for putting him in the concentration camp in El Salvador. This is what Attorney General Pam Bondi says. Play this clip.
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And then the Trump regime had this guy on Fox who kind of glitched yesterday when he was talking about whether or not we were going to experience a recession, which most economists believe we're heading into a recession, a great recession, or even worse. Watch this Trump regime official glitch on live TV.
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Just give us a call, will you? Yep. Here, play this clip.
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Back to Attorney General Pam Bondi here. She goes, every liberal journalist who called Abrego Garcia a Maryland man should be bowing down and apologizing to the Trump regime right now. Here, play this clip.
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Can we just cut to the chase right here? Here's the file for Abrego Garcia. You see, it says no criminal history, no criminal charge. So you could keep defaming this guy. Look, I wanna give the facts. One of the facts were, In 2019, a cop who was disgraced, who ended up pleading guilty to exchanging favors for like a sex worker and giving private data and like pled guilty.
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This was an individual who claimed he had a confidential informant who told him that Abrego was a gang member from the Westerners in Long Island, which is.
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abrigo garcia never lived in long island so it never made sense that's when they say oh he was a gang member he was a gang member it was based on a disgraced cop who ended up like pleading guilty to like giving it like confidential information to like a sex worker for favors that that's who that comes from by the way and then okay if ultimately you say that he is a bad guy then you
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do due process, and then you can deport him. Like the 2019 judge said, just not to El Salvador where he's gonna be killed. We're a nation of law and order. You go through a process, you can have an outcome. You put forward evidence. That's the way our system works. So what else did the state regime media wanna do yesterday?
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Here, their hosts, one of them, Earhart, Earhart, she's married to Hannity. She was, this like other host was like eating bananas off the floor. And then they talked about how Pete Hegseth, now the defense secretary, when he worked at Fox, he would take cream cheese bagels off the floor and schmear it on his face and then eat dirty bagels. This is what they talk about on Fox, eating dirty bagels.
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Tough is one thing, but... I bet you thought that, like, come on, Ben. What do you mean? He eats dirty bagels off the floor. That's, yes, that's what they do at Fox. And that's what they're talking about. I don't know. I could think about some other important things that we should be talking about today. But that's the weird dystopian world that Fox creates. It's all a game.
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uh to them in a gross game at it as well here donald trump uh as part of this fox interview talks about i watch people in the capitol our people don't carry ropes on theirs i don't even know what the hell he's talking about here play this clip it's amazing when they don't give you the information when you know when they don't you know they're not on the right the pipe bomber is not a person on the right it's a person on the left okay and you know when i watch some of those uh people in the capitol
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That's supposed to be strength. That looks like total weakness to me. I thought you had the cards, Donald. I thought you had the cards. By the way, China is mocking Donald Trump for saying they don't have the cards. Then Caroline Levitt kind of glitches here where she's like, I don't have any updates because I haven't spoke with Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary.
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Then Fox brings on Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, who got his start on the real world road rules challenge. And here he attacks air traffic controllers for retiring after 25 years. He goes, why do they retire so early? Here, play this clip.
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Because it's a pretty stressful job. What is their attack? These rich people hate Americans retiring. They hate American Social Security. They hate people. They hate life. Life isn't all about these air traffic controllers who work 25 years in a very stressful job. You don't think they should retire after 25 years while these billionaires are getting all the benefits in the world? It's so effed up.
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So anyway, here you have Sean Duffy on pulling EV charging stations. Play this clip.
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I'll show you this other piece right here where in the Fox interview with Pam Bondi, this is why they're state regime media, because they're inextricably intertwined with the regime, the Trump authoritarian regime. Here they are encouraging Pam Bondi to criminally prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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after Donald Trump's investigators have recommended to Pam Bondi that the New York attorney general face criminal prosecution. Here, play this clip.
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Then she goes, I just spoke with the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson. It's like, what in the world are you talking about, Caroline? Play this clip.
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Indeed. All right. And then the kind of capstone, the gem, if you will, being sarcastic, they bring in disgraced former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. And sometimes you forget what a pathetic, spineless piece of you know what this guy is. So he goes on and he has the audacity and Laura Ingraham, because this is what they were pushing.
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The reason the economy is doing bad is because the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell saying bad things about the economy. It's the Federal Chair's fault. It's Federal Reserve Chair Powell. He's doing it by talking about things. Play this clip.
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You know, this goes back to the Trump ethos. If you don't test... How do you prove people are sick? If you don't look at it, then how do you know what's there? Like a miracle, it's all going to go away, right? That's what Trump says. Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve Chair, is looking at data. I know the Trumpkins hate data. Looking at it and saying, what we're seeing are signs of recession.
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We're seeing signs of inflation. We're seeing what happens when you engage in reckless trade wars with the world and you tariff the world. We're seeing what happens when China bans rare earth minerals from being exported to the United States. When China now bans in Hong Kong the postal service from shipping things to the United States, we're seeing it play out.
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So he's telling you Jerome Powell is giving you the data. And who do they blame? They blame the messenger, right? Why did they all hate Dr. Fauci? Because Dr. Fauci was just saying, here's what's happening. And they go after the messenger versus their own ridiculous and dangerous policy. So there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Judge for yourself if Fox is spiraling there. Let's hit subscribe. Thanks.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump After Tomato Threats
She's back, Donald. Mexico's very popular president, Claudia Scheinbaum, holding more press conferences where she kind of very politely just shoes Donald Trump off. And she's like, you know, this Trump regime, they have a way of speaking. They're kind of just fools. Okay, Donald, you want to try to now do tariffs against our tomatoes?
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Now, here's President Claudia Scheinbaum talking about tomatoes. And she has one of her top officials by her side. And you can see they're viewing the Trump regime as like a like an oddity. Like, OK, we've seen this before. Here, play this clip.
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Because, folks, we have seen this before. They know the playbook. The world knows that Trump is a con artist, a vile, despicable piece of trash who's a very weak cornered rat. Again, no offense to cornered rats who are of far more dignity than Donald Trump. This is Donald Trump during his first campaign. Remember when he said, we're going to make Mexico pay for it. Here, play this clip.
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OK, then that just means that the Americans are going to pay 21 percent more for their tomatoes. They're still going to buy our tomatoes, Donald. This is after Trump's latest gambit after losing, losing and losing more. He's going to tariff the tomatoes that Mexico sends to the United States. Mexico's the biggest supplier of tomatoes. And let me
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You know, as I played you that clip, I was having a discussion with someone yesterday where I was like, you know, there's so much that I detest and despise and loathe about Trump's evil policies. I said, but one of the things, too, that I just can't get over is this guy's behavior. Like, it's not normal. Like, you saw that clip of him from the campaign. Like,
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That's not how adult human beings in leadership positions should behave. If people who you worked with acted like that, you would be like, what the heck is going on? This person is some serious problems. You contrast Trump's behavior to President Claudia Scheinbaum. She's dignified, right? She speaks deliberately. She... She's a leader. And Trump's Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.
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That's why when she goes, oh, they speak of this is how they speak. They're like like like he's Kim Jong Un, basically. By the way, here's a montage of Donald Trump making the promise that Mexico is going to pay for the wall in the first term, which never happened. Play this clip.
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Now contrast that to Claudia Scheinbaum. Again, these clips I'm showing you are from this week. We AI'd the voice because I want to make sure that our English speaking viewers can hear it too. So I apologize to our Spanish speaking audience. It's probably like, why are you doing AI voice? But it captures it pretty well, the translation.
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So here she is, and she's asked about being one of Time Magazine's kind of people of the year right now, one of the most powerful people that Time Magazine said. And watch how she handles it versus how Trump handles it. And you notice that in how she responds, she's taking a subtle jab at Donald. Play this clip.
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be clear, while it's very, very, very important that we here in the United States are supporting first and foremost our American tomato farmers, there has to be some part of broader plan so that Americans who are already suffering because of Donald Trump's failed policies are not quite literally paying 21% more for things based on Trump's recklessness.
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And then here's this clip of Claudia Scheinbaum that I think is very powerful as well, where she's convened an international coalition, a Latin American coalition rather, about sovereignty, respecting sovereignty, not subjugating Latin American countries. And she's bringing the countries together together.
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And the theme here, and this is a direct strike at America, sovereignty, sovereignty, sovereignty. You do not cross that line of sovereignty. You understand, Donald? And she's rallying Latin America to behind the sovereignty. Here, play this clip.
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So here's what President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico said, where she was like, They have a way of talking about things. These people in America, just basically calling them clowns. No offense to real clowns, which is a real profession. Donald Trump is a fascist clown. Play this clip.
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Speaking of sovereignty and dignity and all of these things, I want to leave you with this thought right here. I want to remind you of this headline from this week that you may have not even known took place or may have just kind of crossed the newswire, but you didn't hear about it because normally a United States president would talk about it. This is from ABC.
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It talks about two service members. the United States, were killed near the U.S.-Mexico border in a vehicle accident, and a third service member involved in the accident remains in critical condition. Let me read it for you, because our hearts, I wish more could be more than my hearts and my thoughts, but I wish I could do something more than that, but
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any in their families, what they're going through. I can't even imagine in my heart and my sympathy and everything goes to those families in this tragic death. Here's what happened. Two service members were killed and another is in serious condition following a vehicle accident earlier Tuesday in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
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The United States Northern Command said in a statement shortly before 9 a.m., three service members deployed in support of a joint task force southern border were involved in a vehicle accident. Northcom said Tuesday's accidents are the first fatalities associated with the United States military's mission along the border with Mexico that had been disclosed.
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More than 10,000 active duty service members have been authorized for the border mission. The cause of the accident is under investigation, officials said. So think about that. Donald Trump has not posted about it. He's not given a speech where he's mentioned it. He says all of these deranged things. He attacks Abrego Garcia.
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The MAGA Republicans go in front of the concentration camp jails and they do thumbs up. Have you heard him once acknowledge this the same way Donald Trump refused to acknowledge the American soldiers who died in Lithuania? Lithuania acknowledged that Donald Trump doesn't. Why?
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Because Donald Trump thinks that our veterans and people who die in combat or people who die in the military or injured are suckers and losers. That's what Trump thinks about him. Why else would he not, again, express sympathy for people who died, who are deployed because of his war on the border with Mexico? Anyway, I thought it was important that I bring that up. Hit subscribe.
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Trump Goes Nuts in Public as Walls Close In
Not a good day, Donald. Your regime is facing criminal contempt in federal court right now after defying a federal judge's order to not send migrants to concentration camps in El Salvador. You've got Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman AOC drawing massive crowds in Idaho. Montana, Salt Lake City, they're all there booing you, Donald Trump, and cheering, tax the rich.
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Are they saying America is back? No, the Financial Times isn't saying that. Are they some lefty radical paper, Donald? Never thought of the Financial Times like that. Here's their headline. The economic consequences of a mad king. Trump's delight in doing whatever he wishes in the moment is incompatible with stability and sustained dynamism. Oh, I guess that means America's back Donald.
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I don't think so. Here's what this article says. We know that nobody can be trusted with absolute power, least of all the demagogues who seek it. The one good thing Trump's trade policies are achieving is to demonstrate that yet again. The world's challenge is to survive the folly. The US's is to end it. That's how they're talking about you, you pathetic, vile piece of trash, Donald.
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And I'm not going to hold back and mince my words about what we think about you here. Zero respect. You deserve none. as you send migrants to concentration camps and then claim that you won a Supreme Court order nine to zero when you lost.
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And then you have Pam Bondi, your attorney general, have the audacity to say that Abrego Garcia's family is better off without their dad, that the kids are better off without their father, that the wife is better off without her husband who had no criminal history. Y'all are a bunch of sick, pathetic. I'll just leave that. Here's Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's attorney general. Play this clip.
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Okay, so we're 72 days into trading in the S&P 500, Donald. Is this America being great? Because we are now in our fifth worst start to a year in history. Only really behind 2001, September 11th, 2020, COVID, 1932, post Great Depression. But I guess for Donald and the White House and the U.S. Department of Labor, this is Americans being great right here.
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Photos of miners with their faces covered from the mines and everything. The Trump regime is saying, this is what we want more of, more coal, more, that's what you're saying? How about we get Americans higher paying jobs? How about we get Americans working in safe jobs? How about we have America lead the world in new cutting edge technology? How about we help people like that afford homes, Donald?
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How about we focus on what you promised, which you've lied about because you're a fraud in every single thing that you do, a deranged one too. Donald Trump posting, can you believe it? A judge ruled against us. Wow, wow, wow. I'm not even going to read the thing because it's just whining and whining and more whining right here.
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Want to know what else, Donald? Your tariffs are backfiring. You're crashing the economy. CEOs have zero confidence in you. And China is mocking you. They are posting these memes of you with your fat, stubby little fingers where they're saying, oh, look who holds the cards now. And they're not budging at all. As your chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, goes on Fox and says...
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I've never just seen any adult like behave like this other than Donald. And just think about what a sick, demented human that he is, right?
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By now, he knows, because we're in Thursday now when I'm recording this, he knows that the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, was targeted in an assassination attempt where the governor's residence was burnt in the arson attempt, and the attempted murderer had a hammer to try to kill Shapiro on the first night of Passover, right? Has Governor Shapiro heard from Donald Trump? No.
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Former President Biden sent his deepest condolences to the governor. But here's what we're learning. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson attack. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. How difficult is it, Donald, for you to show some sort of sympathy or empathy or anything?
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For Donald Trump, because he's a deranged, demented maniac, he can't. Suffering is the point. Here was Donald Trump on Air Force One several days ago when he was asked about the assassination attempt. So he's on notice of what's happening, but he don't give a crap because he's a crappy human being. You just have to accept that about him. He is a crappy human being. Here's what he said.
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You got the perfect health report. Everybody in the press wants to know this. How do you do it, Mr. President? Yes, this crappy human being is the same person who has denied federal funding for additional help to North Carolina for Hurricane Helene relief. He's denied additional help for debris clearing. He's denied additional FEMA help to the state of Georgia for debris clearing. I mean, who...
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Who denies that? Meanwhile, I mean, Trump does. And Musk, while they're out there, what do they do? They're talking more about the gold card and that guy from Musk's team who calls the 19-year-old or 21-year-old guy who calls himself Mr. Big Balls. They're working on the Trump gold card that they're going to sell for $5 million to the Russian oligarchs and the Chinese oligarchs.
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These are deranged people. By the way, have you heard Donald Trump talk about this at all? Have you heard anybody really talk about this at all? Since the headline was announced that two service members were killed near the U.S.-Mexico border in a vehicle accident and a third service member involved in the accident remains in critical condition.
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These service members were sent to the border on behalf of the Trump regime for decades. They're performative, pretending there's a war that's raging right now so they can say there's an invasion. Two died, one critically injured. Our armed services, our troops. And does Donald Trump say a thing? No, just like he didn't say anything about the American soldiers who died in Lithuania.
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He doesn't care. He doesn't give a crap. He has no connection to what this country is all about. In fact, he hates this country and his actions show every day. Why wouldn't you put a message about these soldiers who died that you sent to the Mexican border? Why wouldn't you put a message about the soldiers who died in Lithuania? Because Trump has said.
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that people who are injured or die in war are suckers and losers. We know Trump's pathology. He's a sick, demented person, but he's also a weak person. Here his regime is. Here's Caroline Leavitt begging, begging China, please give him a call. Here, play this clip.
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And while that's happening as well, you then also have Kevin McCarthy. Sometimes I forget how spine, I shouldn't forget how spineless this guy is. The disgraced former speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy goes on Fox because one of Fox's themes right now is that the crashing of the economy is not Trump's fault.
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I am delivering a message on behalf of Donald Trump to Xi Jinping. Please give him a call. Please give him a call. But I guess for Donald and this deranged, demented regime of his, that means America is back. America is back, he says, as quite literally, I think we are in one of the worst economic periods and we're heading into an even worse economic period in the United States history.
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It is the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell's fault, because Chairman Powell talked about what's happening in the economy when he spoke in a speech that he gave yesterday. So as a result of that, the Trump regime says it's Powell's fault. It's the chairman of the Federal Reserve. He's doing it by speaking about the conditions of the economy caused by Trump's disastrous trade war.
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This is the message on Fox and that McCarthy spewing. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah, what they're trying to do is Dr. Fauci, Jerome Powell. They're moving in that direction, right? Trump said with COVID like a miracle, it's all gonna go away. You know, there's nothing to worry about. And then they try to blame everything on Fauci. They're doing that with Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve. They wanna blame him and say his comments
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talking about the reality of what's happening. Remember Trump said about COVID? You can't do testing. If you do the testing, if you don't do testing, you don't even know what's happening. That's what we want. So the fact that Chairman Powell is talking about what's actually happening, that is pissing Donald Trump off. Now,
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i'll i'll leave you with this right here azalea banks uh who voted for trump uh singer songwriter trumper she this is what she said back on november 6 2024 lmao i lied i voted for trump yesterday Here's what she's saying right now. Okay, I think it's time for everyone who voted for Trump to admit that we made an effing mess. Like this is an absolute disaster.
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He's so petty and vindictive right now, to be honest, rightfully so, but not when the well-being and livelihood of billions of people damn near the entire world lay in your hands. Someone needs to get him a cute little lower Zimprim and a high grade ashwagandha supplement because it can't happen like this. Nobody on earth is afraid of crazy old white man anger.
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Old white men need to reinvent the archetype because it's too predictable. Like China is just dunking on him and everyone right now. That's what they're saying about Donald Trump. As the U.S. economic policy uncertainty index soars to record highs, as our markets, $1.5 trillion wiped off the United States market. Donald Trump looks like this with his orange face. And here's what China's posting.
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The art of the deal with Trump's stubby little fat fingers. And they're mocking the hell out of him right now. And by the way, Donald, your regime needs to respond to federal Judge Boasberg, who's held y'all probable cause criminal contempt for not following the orders. And he wants names of who's going to who he'll appoint, probably a special counsel to throw these people in jail.
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But Trump's posting America's back. What, Donald? You don't think people can look at their life savings? You don't think they look at their 401ks? You don't think they can actually see the grocery prices going up or that housing is less affordable or mortgage rates are soaring? You don't think people recognize that?
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That's what's going on. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Remember, go to Midas Plus. Check out the merch at store.midastouch.com as well. Check it all out. Thanks for watching and have a good one. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more. All at store.midastouch.com.
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You think everybody, Donald, has MAGA mush brain and gets their news from state regime media? No, Donald. People get their news from the Midas Dutch Network right now on YouTube. They subscribe here. They go to Midas Plus on our sub stack. This is the most watched news network in the world, Donald. Sorry about that. Take a look at what the Financial Times is saying.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
Let me show you what he said about retaliatory tariffs as he was next to Prime Minister Trudeau and the other premiers of the various provinces. Let's play it.
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So you see right there the hat he's wearing now. Canada is not for sale. In a press conference that he gave shortly thereafter in Ottawa, here is what he had to say. Here, play this clip.
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Now, I thought this was a powerful moment of this meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. That's at the federal level. Prime Minister Trudeau from the Liberal Party. And then you had the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and the other premiers who are there at the provincial level. Kind of like the governors, if you will, from my American counterparts. in Canada.
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And here's what Doug Ford says. He goes, look, you're never going to see in America what you're seeing here right now in Canada. You're never going to go and see in the Oval Office Democrats and Republicans uniting with Trump to attack Canada. He goes, we're uniting here to fight back against Trump's threats. No matter what party it is, he goes, whether you're the Green Party, NDP,
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Orange Party, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, you name it, BQ, whatever. We are uniting against Trump. And this is a powerful move from someone who used to be very favorable to Trump. Listen to what he says here. Play this clip.
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Now, one of the things, though, that Doug Ford pointed out as well, and I'll show you these clips here as well, is that there was one of the premiers of Alberta, Danielle Smith, who humiliated herself. A total disgraceful move. She went to Mar-a-Lago trying to divide and conquer against the other provinces in Canada. She was trying to cut a side deal with Donald Trump just for Alberta's
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the oil industry there, and her people to screw over the other provinces. So she's someone who Donald Trump's trying to use to divide and conquer. But get this. First off, she told the press that she was going on vacation with her husband. And then it turns out that she was actually at Mar-a-Lago.
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But when she read, oh, and then she was hanging out with Kevin O'Leary and far right-wing podcaster Jordan Peterson. It was, oh, you mill, embarrassing, pathetic. And then when she returned, it was more pathetic because not only did she not get a deal, but Donald Trump told her, go pound sand, get the hell out of here, essentially.
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Canada Leaders Issues FINAL URGENT WARNING to Trump
And so she then said, actually, he's going to do 25 percent tariffs on us and he's going to do it to everything, including crude oil. No one's exempt. Yeah, exactly. Duh. That's what we tried to tell you before you made a fool of yourself going there. Ridiculous. So this is from this meeting, though, where you have Doug Ford. You have Prime Minister Trudeau.
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Let me share with you what goes on here. First, let me play this clip. Let's play. You know, Donald Trump.
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Well, Donald Trump sure knew how to unite Canada against him and against the United States in Ottawa in an unprecedented showing of unity. You had the premieres with the prime minister, Justin Trudeau. all joining together and talking about things like retaliatory tariffs and how to hit back hard against the United States when Donald Trump imposes 25% tariffs across the board.
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This is an Ottawa unprecedented unity here we're seeing from these Canadian leaders to fight back against America, to fight back against Trump. And look, on day one, Trump does 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and Europe. They're going to hit us. freaking hard here in America. I mean, Trump literally all he has to do is just coast on Biden's economy right now.
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He could play golf and just take credit for things. That's all he had to do. He's not going to do that. He's going to implement his idiotic tariffs, have trade wars against our allies. They're going to retaliate. Our industries are going to suffer here. Then he's going to go, oh, wait a minute. So you're telling me tariffs aren't taxes on them? They're And then what's he going to do?
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He's going to have to give government handouts to these various industries to try to prop them up after their markets are shut down internationally. And then what's going to happen? The debt's going to balloon. We've seen this story before in Trump administration one with not the same level of tariffs. And he wants to do that on day one. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe.
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Now, even Conservative Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, was actually one of the people leading the charge. Now, Doug Ford previously said that his support of Donald Trump and MAGA was unwavering. He said that during the first Trump administration, but now he's wearing a new hat, quite literally saying that Canada will never be America.
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GOP House BLOWS ITSELF UP as MAGA Mike FIRES Top Member
House Speaker Mike Johnson is removing House GOP Representative Mike Turner as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Madhu Raju explained Jim Himes' Top Democrat, the ranking member on the House Intel Committee, just told a group of us that removing Turner, quote, of oversight and trying to protect our country from Russian propaganda.
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That's why Donald Trump ordered MAGA Mike to get rid of Mike Turner. Again, someone who's had a very successful career, someone who's very qualified, someone who didn't bend the knee, although... You know, he spoke in favor of Donald Trump.
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If you watched him before, you would see that he would still say things that are favorable to Donald Trump because he had to, but generally viewed as someone who was at least competent and qualified. So a bad sign that he is gone. We'll see who replaces him. As Melanie Zanona says, Trump was a big factor here. What we're actually hearing was Trump was the factor.
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People in Trump's orbit thought Turner was too close to the intelligence agencies, and others didn't like how Turner was handling a lot of issues, including the fact that Turner was pro-Ukraine and pro-NATO. Norman Ornstein says, I will reserve judgment on Mike Johnson and the Intelligence Committee until we see who he picks for its chair.
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But I can say now that no one is more happy by this than Vladimir Putin because Turner on the Intelligence Committee was a check against Putin. So Donald Trump doing Putin's bidding right here. Margaret Brennan reports the following. I spoke with House Intel Chair Mike Turner, who told me that Speaker Johnson fired him as chair of the committee overseeing the intelligence community.
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Johnson cited, quote, concerns from Mar-a-Lago. as justification for firing Mike Turner from being the chair of the Intelligence Committee. Representative Jim Himes tells CBS that it sent a shiver down his spine, which I just read. As Andrew Desiderio writes, wild. Turner is one of the biggest Ukraine supporters among Republicans on the Hill. and is also very involved with NATO.
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Much more hawkish than Trump aligned ours would like. Hawkish meaning he believes that Russia should not invade a sovereign country of Ukraine the way Donald Trump is threatening Greenland and Panama and saying he wants to annex Canada. Let me show you this from last year where Mike Turner went on CNN
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and basically said that some of his house GOP colleagues had become useful idiots for Putin and Ukraine. Let's play it.
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Now, here is Mike Turner talking about Tulsi Gabbard, that he does not think that she was someone who should be appointed to a significant cabinet position. Certainly not the director of national intelligence. But he goes on to say that he trusts the Senate process. Watch this.
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Donald Trump has chosen Tulsi Gabbard, the former congresswoman, former Democrat, now Republican, to be the director of national intelligence, overseeing 18 intelligence agencies. She not only went and met with Assad, she publicly doubted high-confidence assessments by U.S. intelligence that he did what we showed you pictures of him doing, using chemical weapons there.
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Do you trust that she could actually represent the intelligence community, lead it, and be trusted to brief the commander in chief?
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Well, this is a community that you also have oversight of, so you may not vote in the Senate, but it sounds like she doesn't have your confidence.
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The civil war inside the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives continues. Donald Trump ordered MAGA Mike Johnson to fire the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Turner. Mike Turner was a fierce opponent of Vladimir Putin and Russia and a big supporter and proponent of Ukraine. Mike Turner also spoke his mind about the Russian propaganda
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And here's the thing, though, with people like Mike Turner. You'll see in this clip as well how he tried to... appease Donald Trump. He tried to hold back his criticisms and ultimately that always comes back to burn you. If you Don't forcefully stand for something. You'll lose everything in Trump's orbit. You can't be in the middle ground. You can't think you're going to appease the guy.
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Honestly, you just either you got to you got to leave Congress if you're not going to fight the guy or stand up to him. Or, you know, if you're a full fledged cult member, you bend and kiss the ring, which is utterly despicable. And I think completely. The opposite of what our Constitution calls for, for a co-equal branch of government. But here's Mike Turner. This is April 14th of 2024.
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So again, Vladimir Putin clearly celebrating this. Donald Trump making a move directly helpful to Putin.
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against nato's interest um and look i'm no mike turner fan but he's at least the guy you'd want to chair that committee if you had to pick somebody and now maga mike johnson fired him because the entire co-equal branch of government the house of representatives they just would literally whatever donald trump says maga mike does because otherwise maga mike gets removed the
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Because he doesn't stand up. So basically, none of these MAGA Republicans in the House have any power. They just do what Trump says. We'll just keep you updated every step of the way. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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that infected many of the MAGA Republicans. So he has been fired from his position. He's been a member of Congress since 2003. Ohio's 3rd Congressional District became Ohio's 10th Congressional District in the Dayton area. area. That's his congressional district. CNN was the first to report it along with Punchbowl, rather. And here's what we learned.
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
Speaker Mike Johnson suggested additional aid might have to come with certain conditions. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso said he expects funding to have strings attached. Senator Tuberville even said California doesn't deserve anything, saying, quote, unless they show us they are going to make some changes. You have been here on the ground in communities for the last week.
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What is your reaction to the response from leaders in Washington?
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More interested from you and how damaging it is when you have somebody with that type of a platform who is next week going to be the president of the United States is injecting inaccurate information about a the worst wildfires in American history.
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Trump Has Disaster Presser as Trip Ends Terribly
Donald Trump just gave a disastrous press conference in Qatar. He began by talking about Pete Buttigieg riding bicycles and Pete Buttigieg riding bicycles really makes Donald Trump upset. And that was something that Donald Trump wanted to share with the Qataris. Here, play this clip.
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You could judge that mess for yourself, but that was his speech in Qatar. Oh yeah. And then just to add insult to injury, this was from earlier where it's just so obvious that yes, Donald, everybody is laughing at you. Total laughingstock. Let's play it.
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Anyway, thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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And then he says, Sean Duffy climbs trees. His transportation secretary loves climbing trees. Here, play this clip.
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So then he continues to talk about Sean Duffy climbing trees. And he goes, did you know Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is a tree climber? Did you know he climbs the trees? Here, play this clip.
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This is what you're saying in Qatar. You're talking about Sean Duffy climbing trees. Then Donald Trump, again, blames former President Biden for all of the issues we're having with our air traffic safety system. I don't know, maybe it's the fact that y'all fired people at the FAA. that Elon Musk and you ripped apart our government agencies.
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Like Donald, you do realize that unfortunately you were in office from 2016 to 2020, and you would also be responsible for this. Also, you know, there were no issues under former president Biden like this. They're all happening now with your incompetent tree climbers. Here, play this clip.
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Next, Donald Trump praises the leader of Syria who offered Trump to build a Trump Tower in Damascus. And then he goes on to talk about he's a strong person, not a weak person. It's just a bunch of blabbering rubbish. Play this clip.
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More of Trump talking about Syria.
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So we did that and- You know, and one of the things that makes Trump such a vile piece of trash and just an overall horrible, like just person and leader, but just a horrible person, you know, he's there in the Middle East. And he spends all of his time not setting forth a vision of what to do, right? That's what leaders do. Here's the plan. Here's what's going to happen.
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Here's how I want to strengthen our relationship. He just goes there and whines about Biden. Oh, Biden was bad. Biden was bad. Oh, I'm sorry he was so bad. First off, he wasn't. He didn't need to beg Qatar for $400 million jets. He didn't have to go around to the Middle East and beg. He understood who America's true allies were in NATO.
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Unlike you, who's now trying to cancel the United States from going to the G20. But here he is right here. Just listen to what Trump says. Let's play it.
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And Donald Trump starts talking about like military equipment and it gets really bad really quickly. Here he starts and because he pretends he knows what he's talking about. And so you'll see me showing you clips where he talks about submarines and F-35s and how many engines he thinks should be in there. And he doesn't like stealth. He goes, I'm not a stealth fan.
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But anyway, here he is talking about submarines and he tries to like explain it. He has no clue what he's talking about. Play the clip.
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Here an addled, cognitively declining Donald Trump says America previously had no spirit. Let's play it.
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Here he is saying that he basically threatened Tim Cook for moving Apple business to India to avoid the China tariffs. Play this clip.
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Okay, so now here's where he talks about the F-35s. Let me show you this clip.
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Donald Trump admits that Putin will not be going to Turkey to negotiate with Zelensky, even though Zelensky was there to negotiate with Putin. And then Trump says, it's Putin's not going because Trump's not going. But really, it was Putin who said he wasn't going first, but... You said there was going to be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours, Donald. Here, play this clip.
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Here, Donald Trump says that he's not a big believer in stealth. Let's play it.
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Here, Donald Trump talks about how Howard Lutnick wants Trump to start a sovereign wealth fund, but Trump may start a sovereign wealth fund. He's just waiting. Play this clip.
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really donald that's what you're thinking about while you're at lusail palace in cutter begging them for 400 million dollar gold-plated jets you've got pete budaj on your mind you know what he else what else he has on his mind so he's talking about uh how drones are being used in the war when russia unlawfully invaded ukraine And how it shoots down trees.
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And finally, Donald Trump claims that we're no longer losing a trillion dollars from China because he put tariffs on China for a month and then withdrew them. Play the clip.
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Trump Panics He Is Getting Laughed At in Disaster Day
We are now learning that Donald Trump's been telling his staff on this Middle East trip that the reason he absolutely needs this gold-plated $400 million 747 jet from the Qataris is that he just feels humiliated when he has to meet the royal families of these Middle East nations who are giving his family all of this money and he has to go around in the regular Air Force One
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Meanwhile, they're out there funding Hamas. You'll be out there doing what the Saudis want while you attack our allies in Europe, while you attack our ally in Canada, while you attack our allies abroad. You want to know, Donald, what people are laughing at? They're laughing at when you send emails like this. This is the email from Donald Trump to his supporters this morning.
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Please open this email if you love me. Open this right now if you love me. Do you love me? He sent this one on May 10th, but he sends this one like every other day. Do you love me? Open this email. That's what the President of the United States is sending to grift off his supporters. Then, of course, it asks for financial contributions to him.
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Seriously, Donald Trump is out there posting things like this, like he loves being in royal palaces. I mean, do you see how gaudy he's made the Oval Office where he painted like fake gold statutes around the Oval Office? Here's what Donald Trump is posting this morning. America first, am I right? Trump attends state dinner at Lausanne Palace in Qatar.
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Oh, Donald, you and the regime are at Lausanne Palace in Qatar while American people can't even afford groceries, while you promise to bring prices down and they are going up, while you promise to make housing more affordable and housing is less affordable, while you've utterly destroyed the bond market right now, the 10, 20, 30-year treasury yields. They may hit a five handle.
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They're heading towards 5%, which is going to screw with mortgage rates. And by the way, you know what Walmart just announced, Donald? The tariffs are more. This is what the Walmart CFO said this morning. So while you were out there in Lucille Palace, Donald, I know, living the lavish life with the royals in Qatar who give you bribes. The tariffs, this is from the Walmart CFO.
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The tariffs are more than any retailer can absorb. It's more than any supplier can absorb. And so I'm concerned that the consumer is going to start seeing higher prices. You'll begin to see that likely towards the tail end of this month and then certainly much more in June.
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Also, one of the things that we've been talking about and other analysts like Brousselis is saying it as well, the bond market is not buying it. It being Trump, the Trump regime fraud. And that is because fixed income investors are sniffing out the logic of economic populism amid a move toward trade protectionism, which strongly implies higher inflation and rising long term yields.
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You want to know what the European Union and Japan think about you, Donald, as you go on these foolish trips to the Middle East and announce your fake deals, as you announced your fake deal with the United Kingdom, where the only thing that actually came out of that fake deal was that Jaguar, Land Rover and Rolls Royce got preferential treatment over American car manufacturers, Donald.
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He says that he needs a gold-plated Air Force One so that his jets can look like their Royal Jets. And that would make him feel stronger when he meets with them. This is the latest reporting from The Atlantic. I'm not making that up, folks. And why would you think I am? I mean, that's Donald Trump's personality to a T.
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in comments before a european union meeting of trade ministers in brussels he said the european union should not jump too fast the block he said did not need a quick deal with donald and that seemed to be the sentiment of others such as japan eu ministers aim far higher than that british u.s trade deal european union trade ministers want a more ambitious trade deal than what took place with the uk because they want to do a fake deal with you donald
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you want to know why people are laughing at you as well donald while you were in cutter this was the speech that you gave you talked about that you're not a huge believer in stealth because you don't like the shapes you said you don't like the shapes the hell are you talking about play this clip
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Trump has told aides and advisors that it is humiliating to him when he has to show up and fly around in an outdated plane and that foreign leaders are laughing at him when he shows up to these various summits in older versions of the Air Force One. You think that's why they're laughing at you? Maybe they know how weak and pathetic you are, That they know that you are an easy mark to manipulate.
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And you went on to say that we're no longer losing $1 trillion because you paused all trade to China for one month and therefore we're not losing a trillion dollars. You have no clue what you're even talking about here at Playlist Club.
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I mean, is he the biggest laughingstock or what? I mean, look at when he said this. We're a laughingstock. Play this clip.
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Now, there were supposed to be very important diplomatic discussions in Turkey today where Putin originally said that he wanted to negotiate directly with Zelensky. Zelensky said, I'll negotiate directly with Putin in Turkey. Donald Trump, you show up. Donald Trump is not showing up to Turkey.
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And Donald Trump claims because he's not showing up to Turkey, that's why Putin is not showing up to Turkey. So, so this is the art of the deal. After telling Zelinsky he should show up because y'all were going to show up. Now you don't show up. Oh, a master at work, a master at work. Here, play this clip.
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Here's Donald Trump talking about F-35s. He says he wants to call them F-55. He loves to like name things. I'm gonna call them F-55s and maybe we put four engines on them. I like four engines, maybe eight engines, but they look ugly. What are you talking about? Play this clip.
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Two more pieces of data that I want to give you this morning. Number one, the Trump Kushner grift in Serbia just hit a snag. They're trying to build a hotel in Serbia. Trump Kushner Hotel Serbia hits a snag over an alleged forgery. Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging documents allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump Hotel.
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Yes, so Trump wanted to demolish a historic site using forged documents in Serbia. Does that shock you there? And then here's Donald Trump's post this morning. Some all caps. You can't even read these things because they're just so incoherent. I mean, just physically look at this post. Big case today in the United States Supreme Court.
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Birthright citizenship was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent citizens of the United States and bring their families with them all the time laughing at the suckers that we are. For Donald Trump, I just want you to think about this guy. Everybody in his mind, everybody's laughing at him. Oh, they're calling us suckers, suckers, suckers. They're not going to like my jet.
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They know like Cutter, whose entire annual GDP is $200 billion a year, that all they have to do is tell you that they're going to invest $1.2 billion. trillion dollars in the United States, like six times what their actual GDP is. And you'll believe that or you won't even care because you're a con artist to begin with. You'll then give them all of the benefits that they want
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They're not going to like my jet. America was the most powerful nation in the world. We were on top of the world. We're where all of the countries put their money. Why would they be laughing at us and then trusting the United States with their money? Why was the dollar the world's currency? Why were our bond markets so strong?
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Why was it that foreign investors would always want to buy homes in the United States? Is that because they were laughing at us? It's because they're laughing at you, Donald. It's because you're a pathetic, vile piece of trash, felon, sexual abuser, fraud, bankruptor. Maybe they're laughing at you, but not what our country is. And now they're laughing at our country because of you.
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You're trying to tamper with the Supreme Court's decision-making today? Just stay the hell at Lucille Palace in Qatar. Why don't you just do that? Because that's what you seem to like. You know, if you don't like our Constitution, look, maybe people go, I don't like birthright citizenship. By the way, I'm fine with it. I like it. But let's say people don't like it. You know how you deal with it?
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Maybe you pass a law. Maybe you pass a constitutional amendment. Maybe you go through a process. That's due. Due process. Why don't we call it due process? Why don't we go through the system that we have in America versus you signing some phony executive order and decreeing things? That's my view today. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing
Them Dems are at it again, some scathing cross-examination of these MAGA Republican witnesses, and particularly these Trump cabinet members, one by one, testifying, and Democratic senators smacking them down, Democratic House members smacking them down. Let's talk about what went down. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who's just been
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Next up, the freshman Democratic senator from New Jersey, Senator Kim, had his shot asking RFK Jr. some questions. Let's play it.
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On the other hand, you had Senator Hawley from Missouri. MAGA Republican used his questioning, as Aaron Rupert says. to push RFK Jr. into further restricting Mifepristone. That's how they're spending their time. Play this clip.
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Now, this is the actual quote that just came from, as I said earlier, from Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services. My opinions for vaccines are irrelevant. I don't think people should take medical or health advice from me. You're the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Here, play this clip.
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I'm not trying to do it as a gotcha. But I just want to show you, too, what's brewing with these MAGA Republicans like MAGA Republican Mark Alford right here. So they're fighting with each other over the fact that the MAGA Republicans in the House, by and large, want to get rid of Medicaid. Right now, Medicaid's on the chopping blocks.
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If you look at what's going on in the Energy and Commerce Committee, $880 billion in Medicaid getting cut. You will lose your Medicaid the way it is right now. Period. Full stop. There's no ambiguity of what is actually happening right now.
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Now, vulnerable members in Congress, like some members in New York, for example, and other seats, they're worried that it could look bad if people lose Medicaid. They're not worried about people suffering and dying. They're worried about it looking bad.
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And then you have the other MAGA Republican Congress members who don't care if it looks bad and they don't care if their own people are going to lose Medicaid in their states. They're just saying we want our people to die in our states because they like to see death and cruelty. I mean, just listen to what MAGA Republican Mark Alford saying here. Play this. Thanks for having me on.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think about all of this. But again, Democrats with some brilliant, sharp, pointed, direct cross-examination. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thank you for watching.
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What a humiliating appearance, not just for RFK Jr., who's the Secretary of Health and Human Services, but for the entire regime and frankly, the entire United States of America, having someone so pathetic, by the way, who also testified, do not rely on me for any medical or health guidance. Dude. You're the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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He goes, you don't want to follow my advice on vaccines. I know we don't. That's why you're not qualified for that position. Let's take a look at Democratic Senator Alsa Brooks from Maryland play this clip.
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crushing it lately on a tear of MAGA frauds, liars, and grifters. Here's Senator Murphy laying down the law with RFK Jr. Watch what goes down. Play this clip.
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You see, he doesn't even know the most basic, basic things. Let's take a look at Democratic Senator Murray. Let's play this clip.
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You just ask the simple questions and you'll see that people like RFK Jr. have no clue what the hell he is talking about. And here...
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under more questioning rfk jr admits that nih cuts will hurt people surprise surprise when you cut the national institute of health and the center for disease control yeah when you start firing the people who look over infectious diseases yes similarly when you get rid of people who deal with emergency disaster relief like fema that's bad and now it's a ticking time bomb waiting for the next disaster to unfold here play this clip
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Next up, you even have a Republican senator, Senator Cassidy, here asking a very basic question of RFK Jr. How will the NIH successfully do more with less? You fired all these people. So how are you going to do better? To which RFK Jr. said, well, we got rid of diversity. So we got rid of diversity. So we're going to be much better. China doesn't have diversity. The hell is this guy talking about?
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If you want to know what's really going on and what you should be worried about because of your cuts, because of your hateful and despicable rhetoric, your attack on science and scientists and researchers, you know who's recruiting our scientists? China, South Korea, Taiwan. Europe, Canada, they're out there saying, look, make a lot of money in our countries being a scientist and a researcher.
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The United States is no longer friendly to science. They attack and hate science. Look what the US is doing to universities and Harvard. Just look what they're doing. Come to our country, we'll pay you well, we'll give you the life you deserve.
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So now we're having reverse brain drain where there used to be brain drain from the rest of the world and America would get the best and brightest scientists and researchers and academics and inventors. Now they're leaving the United States and they're being recruited by China and other countries. That's what's going down.
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Let me show you what went down when Senator Bernie Sanders was questioning RFK Jr. Play this clip.
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Now, our friend here at the Midas Touch Network, Senator Tammy Baldwin, got her shot at questioning RFK Jr. Play this clip.
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And here's our friend at the Midas Touch Network, Democratic Congress member from California, Congressman Garcia, Robert Garcia. Here's what he had to say to Kristi Noem, Miss Dog Killer cosplayer herself. Let's play this clip.
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MAGA Mike in Panic Mode as Bill Starts Blowing Up
The cracks are showing, MAGA Mike. Can you handle the pressure? It looks like Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill is turning into a big, awful disaster, and you're the one holding the bag as this is all blowing up.
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MAGA Mike Johnson is then asked if he has concerns about Donald Trump's business dealings. Here's what MAGA Mike says.
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And some of the MAGA Republican senators are saying under no circumstance are they going to agree to this awful, awful bill that increases the deficit by trillions of dollars and guts Medicaid. So here MAGA Mike Johnson held a press conference earlier in the day. And he was asked a lot of questions, by the way, including Donald Trump accepting bribes from Qatar.
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uh congress has oversight responsibility but um i think so far as i know the ethics are all being followed so yes sir it's always projection and confession with these people it is the trump crime family and the fact that they are doing it in plain sight doesn't make it any better and it also doesn't mean that there's a lot going on behind the scenes as well
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These meme coins are basically untraceable. So which foreign governments or they're hard to trace. So which foreign governments are using their meme coin wallets and hiding it to buy off Donald Trump? What else is going on behind the scenes that we don't know about? Because actually, the way the cutter jet was exposed was through confidential sources who Donald Trump's DOJ wants to go after.
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So then what does MAGA Mike have to do? Just think about this. Threatening his colleagues, the Democratic Congress members, with arrest. That's where we are right now. We're this despicable, vile piece of trash, Speaker of the House coward who has some weird app where he monitors his son's website going to porn and his son monitors their mutual porn app. Some weird stuff going on.
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Here's MAGA Mike threatening to arrest Democrats and saying the DOJ is looking into it. What he's talking about is how Democratic Congress members were at Delaney Hall, a migrant detention center, which was reopened in Newark, where the private prison guards assaulted the mayor and assaulted Democratic Congress members.
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But now the MAGA playbook is saying we're going to prosecute Democratic Congress members because that's what the Trump regime wants us to do. Here, play this clip.
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You can see MAGA Mike's stress as he goes, I've been a little busy dealing with reconciliation. So I don't know. What are we talking about here with this with this Qatar jet? What are we talking about here? Play this clip.
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Let's take a look at what some of these MAGA Republican Congress members are saying. Like here, Josh Hawley from Missouri saying that he's not going to support the bill that's in the current form in the House of Representatives. Play this clip.
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Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Lawler, who says that he's a no on the reconciliation bill. Let's play it.
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Here's some additional opposition from MAGA Republican senators. Manu Raju was able to interview MAGA Republican Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and others. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip.
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should also be noted that I think Democrats have been doing some great cross-exams during these congressional hearings. For example, you had Democratic Congressmember Tom Suozzi expose that in cross-exam of one of the individuals who has to rate this tax bill, that actually all of Donald Trump's promises on the campaign trail about no tax on this and no tax was false, play this clip.
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And we also know that from additional cross-exam that tens of millions of people will lose their health insurance. Play this clip of Democratic Congress member Doggett and his questions. Play this clip.
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You see the cracks beginning to form as well right here. Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Jeff Hurd, who talks about his concerns of Donald Trump getting bribed by, can I play this clip?
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Although MAGA Mike did seem to express some sympathy for members of Congress who engage in insider stock trading. Let's play this clip.
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And here's MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy talking about Qatar. Play this clip. Reflections on what we're watching now, Senator.
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And finally, Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz. Let's show you what he had to say. Let's play it.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers.
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Trump Loses It After Shock Election Loss
You have Donald Trump wearing makeup so his face is three different colors. You see it right there. You have J.D. Vance going so heavy on the smoky eyeliner in the morning. And then just the absurdity of it all as Donald Trump is posting fraudulent deals, lying to the American people that Qatar is committing $1.2 trillion to the United States. when Qatar's GDP is $200 billion a year? Yes.
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But to me, some of the most offensive things watching Donald Trump parade himself and his regime around these Middle East nations that he's paying homage to because their sovereign wealth funds are paying him off and bribing him off and buying him jets is that how the hell is this helping the American people right now?
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I know all of the MAGA people who live in their MAGA mush cult are like, yeah, he's going to Qatar. Did you see the motorcade when Donald Trump went to LaSalle Palace? Oh my God, he went to LaSalle Palace in Qatar with all of the gold on the wall and all of the diamonds out there. What are we talking about here? How is this helping American people? I'll tell you what's hurting American people.
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Trump's big, beautiful tax bill is a massive tax scam that does nothing that Donald Trump actually promised, but will rip Medicaid away from you. That's what it does. They may say, oh, trust me, we're not going to touch your Medicaid. They are. It's in the freaking bill. Also, when you look at Donald Trump's tax bill right now that the GOP is trying so hard to push through.
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In addition to having trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the billionaires, which they then need to raise the debt ceiling by at least $4 trillion, you also look at it and it has some really dangerous policies as well. Like it has a 10-year ban on states' rights, a 10-year ban on states from regulating artificial intelligence in their states. It's the federal government is not regulating AI.
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And Donald Trump wants to give all of these handouts to his tech bros and oligarchs like Elon Musk and Sam Altman and others. Donald Trump is preventing states from engaging in common sense regulation programs. of AI. So states are banned from it. And you know what? This has real world implications.
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We saw today Elon Musk's AI just randomly spewing lies about South African white people being subject to a massive genocide. taking place right now. Then if you ask Grok what was going on, even Grok says, we've been programmed by our creator, Elon Musk, to lie to people. Under this GOP tax bill, they slipped something in that says states couldn't regulate that. States couldn't regulate, say,
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like AI images of name, image and likeness of people or like, you know, AI that does sex shaming, you know, all that stuff. The AI companies are getting Donald Trump to sneak this in the bill. It's a paid for presidency right now. And here Donald Trump posts memes like this. This is an actual post from Donald Trump. the return of the goat, America is respected again.
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And it's a photo of himself with MBS. So Trump's just going palace hopping to the various Middle East leaders who run sovereign wealth funds, who buy off Donald Trump and Trump's family, right? So he was with MBS and the Saudis who are building Trump resorts. You've got Donald Trump going to the Qataris who buy off Donald Trump. By the way,
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Here's a fun fact that isn't getting enough attention about that gold-plated jet that Donald Trump won so badly from Cutter. Cutter pulled the same scam, the same scheme with Turkey's leader. And Turkey's leader accepted it. So Donald Trump's getting, what, the seconds or the thirds right now after Qatar pulled the same thing with Turkey?
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Now, normally, the United States of American president would say, what the hell are you talking about? Not taking a gold-plated jet from Qatar. But if you take a look at Donald Trump's Oval Office right now under Donald Trump, just think about how bad he wants to... Pretend that he's like in a royal family.
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So Qatar, yes, Donald Trump, Qatar has committed 6x its entire GDP to the United States. I'm sure we're going to be seeing a lot of that money flow into the United States and help the American workers and help the American people who are suffering. I'm, of course, being sarcastic right there. American people are suffering here. They can't afford groceries.
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Just think about how bad like he literally has like fake gold painted stuff and has turned the Oval Office into the most gaudy, disgusting looking things imaginable. But let's talk about the real world implications of it, because, you know, when we talk about, oh, Donald Trump's getting a gold plated jet, there's that.
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I always want to connect it to Donald Trump is so focused on making himself rich and having Middle East countries buy himself crypto. And what does he try to do? He tries to distract us all with culture wars here in the United States to divide us.
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against each other, pit American against American, so he and the oligarchs can take for us while Americans are suffering, while they take away our Medicaid, they take away our health care, they run these scams where Donald Trump says, look, my executive order says that I'm going to cut health care costs by 80%. Look, I signed an executive order. Yeah, your signing doesn't do a thing.
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An executive order is not a law. It's just more of your fraudulent, phony behavior. I think Americans are realizing what is happening, don't you? I mean, take a look at what happened in Omaha, Nebraska. In Omaha, Nebraska, there was a mayor who was the longest serving Republican incumbent in the United States of America. Jean Stothert was her name.
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And she went full MAGA in the last election where she spent all this time speaking focused on talking about bathrooms and peepees and vaginas and gender and sports and men and women's sports and punching down at the transgender community. All that bullshit is what she spent her time. And she had previously won her last election. I think she was serving for about a 12 years before.
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Again, longest serving Republican incumbent mayor in the United States. Well, she lost to the Democrat where she previously won by 20 points in the last election. This election, she lost by seven. We're seeing this trend across the country. Why?
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Because we all reckon, Americans are recognizing by and large that this Trump MAGA thing is some weirdo freaking cult authoritarian bullshit giving Donald Trump gold-plated jets, and Americans are suffering. Americans aren't being tricked when Donald Trump says, oh, I've solved inflation. It's better. You can afford homes now. No, people can't, Donald. You didn't solve anything. And by the way,
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When Sean Hannity was trying to prompt Donald Trump about what to say, Trump couldn't even handle it. So Trump had to correct Hannity when Hannity was praising Donald Trump's trade deal with China, which was not a trade deal. It was a capitulation where Donald Trump just pulled back the problems he created.
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He pulled back the tariff and made China look like the reasonable adult and America looked like a crazy person. You know, since January 20th, I think Reuters did this analysis. The United States has changed trade and tariff policies 50 to 55 times. About every two days, the United States rolls out a new trade policy. Why do you think the 20 and 30 year Treasury yield is going so high?
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and may hit 5%. So why do you think? Because of the instability that Trump is creating. So here Donald Trump refers to the consensus with China as a concept of a deal. Let's play it. Well, actually on Sunday you announced a deal with China.
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And doesn't that remind you of on December 8th, 2024, when Donald Trump talked about having concepts of a healthcare plan? Here, let's play this clip right here. Replacing Obamacare for 10 years, and then he voted against.
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They can't afford basic necessities in life. Donald Trump ran on a fraud that he was going to make things cheaper on day one. He lied. Housing is not more affordable. It's less affordable. Right now, we're seeing the 20 and 30-year treasury yields go up into areas that express extreme and utter volatility. And that also has an impact on things like mortgage rates and makes lending more difficult.
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One of the things I want to point out as well, and I'm going to do a whole other video on this, is that one of the deals that we know that Trump just did is he made a deal with the family of El Chapo to bring 17 family members of El Chapo without consulting Mexico about it.
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Apparently, the Department of Justice is trying to work out some deal with Chapo's son, who's previously been extradited to the United States. So we let in 17 members of the The Chapo family. So ridiculous. Let me just show you this one before we go. Two clips, I think, sum it all up. Here is Benny Thompson, Democratic Congress member right here.
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So what he had to say to Kristi Noem about her cosplaying. Let's play this clip.
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And then here is AOC right here talking about Medicaid cuts. Let's play it.
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Finally, Donald Trump here was asked about the United Arab Emirates, the Abu Dhabi fund, buying all of his crypto up. And Trump's like, I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. Two billion dollars, Donald. You don't know about the Abu Dhabi crypto deal for two billion dollars. Here, play this clip.
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You have Donald Trump promising that he was going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, peace to Gaza in 24 hours. It's just lie after lie after lie. But what Donald Trump does do is gimmicks. I call it a rug pull presidency. I call it a Ponzi scheme presidency.
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Zelenskyy Calls Trump’s Bluff and Checkmates Him
President Zelensky has brilliantly outmaneuvered both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Let me explain to you what went down. So on the evening of May 11th, Putin gave this national address to Russia, where he said that he was willing to have ceasefire negotiations with Zelensky in Turkey. Of course, Putin was not serious about having these ceasefire negotiations.
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I will be there on Thursday, May 15th, which is the date that Putin suggested. And let's all have peace negotiations because we, Ukraine, are open to an unconditional ceasefire. And Putin isn't. I'm going to call Putin's bluff publicly. And it was a brilliant execution of calling Putin's bluff and showing what's up. Because after Zelensky said, I'm willing to meet with Putin directly.
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face to face, person to person. Donald Trump would say, man to man, okay, let's have this meeting. What did Putin do? Putin said, oh, this is theater. This is just Ukrainian propaganda. Why would we ever hold that meeting? I don't know, Putin, because you said you wanted to hold that meeting. And this is the kind of sociopathic mindset of a Putin individual. and a Donald Trump, right?
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What they'll say is, hey, we're willing to have the meeting. And Zelensky's like, bet, okay, let's have the meeting. And then Putin's like, you want to have this meeting? What are you even talking about? That's propaganda. What do you mean? You were the one who offered the meeting in the first place. Let's methodically go through this piece by piece with the receipts right here, right?
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So Putin gives that speech. We called it out right away here on the Midas Touch Network saying Putin ain't going to do that. As soon as Putin gave that speech, remember the report I did? I said, watch, Donald Trump's going to make a post about this very, very soon. What did Donald Trump do? He made a post about it. Here's what Donald Trump posted. He wrote on May 11th, 2025.
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President Putin of Russia doesn't want to have a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, but rather wants to meet on Thursday in Turkey to negotiate a possible end to this bloodbath. Ukraine should agree to this immediately. At least they will be able to determine whether or not a deal is possible. And if it is not, European leaders in the U.S. will know immediately.
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where everything stands and can proceed accordingly. I'm starting to doubt that Ukraine will make a deal with Putin, who's too busy celebrating the victory of World War II, which cannot have been won not even close without the United States of America. have the meeting now. So Zelensky said, sure. I mean, by the way, why is Donald Trump attacking Zelensky right there?
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He just wanted to manipulate Donald Trump into believing he wanted ceasefire negotiations. And he also wanted to try to delay sanctions from the European Union that were about to be imposed. How do we know that Putin is not serious about having ceasefire negotiations other than the most obvious that he just doesn't? and other weapons on a daily basis.
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Zelensky has agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, which Putin refuses to agree to. Now, the news we were getting out of Russia was simple, was that The ceasefire that was being proposed by Russia, as they had said before, would be a ceasefire in name only.
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The Ukrainian troops were saying that fighting never paused at all regarding any of the claims of past ceasefires, and Russia continues to attack. We don't have to just take the word of Ukrainian troops. I mean, we see the bombs every single day. So with that as background, let's take a look at what happened next from Kyiv Insider.
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After Zelensky calls Putin's bluff, the Russian dictator refuses to meet. So let me show you here what Zelensky posted of himself. This is an incredible video. First, let me show you here where Zelensky says, you name the city, Putin, I'll be there. Let's play this clip.
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Now, here's another video of Zelensky or another clip from this interview. Let's play it.
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Right. He's saying, Trump, let's go. I'm ready. Here's another clip from that. Let's play it.
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Here's one more clip from Zelensky right here that I want to show you. Let's play it.
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So as I said, Putin wanted to manipulate Donald Trump into believing that Putin wanted to have these negotiations so Donald Trump can make social media posts attacking Ukraine, and he wanted to delay a sanctions package from Europe. and Putin was able to achieve both of those things. But let me then explain to you how Zelenskyy then counterattacked.
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As Jane Keeve explains, UK, US, EU, and Germany all postponed sanctions plans because Putin offered to meet in Istanbul. Now the cowardly little piglet says he's going to a restaurant instead, that he's too busy and that he's just going to maybe go somewhere else on Thursday, May 15th. Here, play this clip.
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Zelenskyy Calls Trump’s Bluff and Checkmates Him
Now, what I think is brilliant about what Zelensky did as well is said, OK, Putin, you said you want to meet. You show up. Don't send up your worthless minions. You meet me face to face. Let's look at each other eye to eye. Let's stare each other down. You heard him in the clips. And Donald, you get your ass over here. You want to act tough like you act tough in the Oval Office?
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Zelenskyy Calls Trump’s Bluff and Checkmates Him
You guys get your ass in Turkey. And let's go. Let's have conversations. Zelensky says, I will meet directly with Putin in Turkey. I'm not going to meet with other members of the delegation. Let's meet. And Donald, you want to be a tough guy? You come and meet also. We will all meet together. Now, I showed you Putin's reaction.
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Zelenskyy Calls Trump’s Bluff and Checkmates Him
Here's Donald Trump's statement today in Saudi Arabia, where he doesn't even acknowledge what Zelensky was saying. Here, play this clip.
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Zelenskyy Calls Trump’s Bluff and Checkmates Him
So what Zelenskyy did, and this is where it's brilliant, is he said, I'm willing, he said it publicly, he gave a speech, I wanna show you some of that speech. Zelenskyy says, I will meet with you in any city in Turkey. And by the way, why doesn't Donald Trump join us? Donald Trump, you're in the Middle East anyway, you're close enough, come to Turkey.
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Zelenskyy Calls Trump’s Bluff and Checkmates Him
And whenever I show these clips of Zelensky, I want to always remind us, what did Donald Trump promise, though, when he was running for office? Right here. I could show you a thousand clips like this, but I'll just show you one where Donald Trump says on day one, he will bring peace to Ukraine. It'll be so easy. Let's play the clip.
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Zelenskyy Calls Trump’s Bluff and Checkmates Him
Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
But people want to know, what can they do today? What can they do tomorrow? So what do you tell all the people who are commenting like that?
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
Look, Senator Bernie Sanders is getting a hero's welcome there, and he's listening and talking to the people and asking, what does it mean to live paycheck to paycheck? And people are saying it out loud, and those ideas are being exchanged online.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
So we see AOC doing that and we see a whole tour now, though, of other Democrats now saying we're going to go into these reddish and purplish areas and we're going to speak to these voters. So the question is, is what should they be speaking about? And just remove the political party aspect of it. What what what should people be speaking about to meet the moment?
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
One of the groups I've been talking with now, the band Dropkick Murphys, and they've done an incredible job as they are traveling around the country, making me they've been making music for decades for the working class. And we're going to be highlighting a lot more of their music, obviously, going back to Boston. Everybody knows the song do to do to do to do to do to do to do, you know.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
And so, you know, especially as we get close to St. Paddy's Day, I'm looking forward to covering their shows and doing some exciting things because I'm with you. Movements need music. And I think that's we've been working with them behind the scenes. So I'm excited to to roll that out, the musical composition to it all. So finally, as we wrap this up, you reference these focus groups.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
If you can kind of summarize the findings that you have right now, the amalgamation of your focus groups as we're kind of here, you know, mid-March? Where are people? What are you seeing at a high level?
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
Well, I think everybody sees right now why, as I said before, Anat Shankar Osorio is in the Midas Mighty, the team, our, what would you call it, but our Marvel superheroes or whatever. The Midas Mega, Midas Mighty.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
The Midas side of Cinematic Universe. I love it. There's about four and a half thousand people here watching. If everybody were to subscribe right now to the sub stacks above would be fantastic. Everybody make sure you hit subscribe. Let's end on hopefully an optimistic note. Reasons for hope right now in March. Do you see positive right now?
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
I want to thank you, Anat Shankarsario, for joining us. I want to thank all the Midas Mighty for joining us here as well. Make sure you subscribe to the sub stacks above. All you have to do is click it. It's a simple click and then boom, you're subscribed. We should do this more or not. We'd love to have you back on.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
You know, and we should figure out a way just to open up this this this forum to you as well, that when you do a focus group, if you have some new research, you can bring it right away, you know, you know, to this massive audience here because we go live here. Then we post it to the sub stack, which has, you know, a distribution now of close to a million people.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
And so a lot of people in the United States and across the world are getting it. And I think it's helpful to get your research and your just your data in front of people so they know how to react. I think this conversation was certainly what's great about this is that this is for everybody watching this. This is the kind of conversation that Anat and I would before Substack.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
we'd have with each other and then say, all right, I'll see you later. Have a great day. And then go on with our day. And then it would inform the videos. So I'm learning with all of you the same way I would have if it was a private phone call. But now we can open this up and have everybody basically be on a giant conference video call and see it in action.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
And we should be doing this more and more. So everyone, please subscribe to the Substacks and we'll have you back on. We appreciate you.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
Thank you. All right, everybody hit subscribe. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
I hope everybody sees right now why and not Shank Rosario is in the Midas universe of superheroes right now, because it's where I she helps for my intellectual foundation and gut checks me on these types of things as well, which ultimately form the foundation for the type of reporting you see here on the Midas Touch Network.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
Let's talk about what the Republican messaging is right now and what your reaction to it is. You hear some variation of a MAGA Republican senator or congressperson saying, look, this is a detox period. We need no pain, no gain. This short-term suffering is needed. We are a bloated nation. This was a sugar high, and we need to come down from the sugar high.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
There's various variations of that, but they all seem to be like... suffering is okay for the greater good of what's to come, which seems to be more suffering. But let's just start with the messaging, which is, what's your view? Does it surprise you that that's the direction that they're going in?
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
And how do people who do not want to suffer, when we hear, okay, fight, what does it mean to counteract that? But let's start with what they're doing and then how to counteract it.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
You were definitely part of the universe, and it's been an honor to know you over many, many years. And as our description for this Substack Live is adequately or accurately said, you are a messaging expert in these areas. We need that more often.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
than ever right now you're with a group that you founded called the research collaborative and you go around the country you speak with people you talk to focus groups you're looking at the trends you're seeing how people are responding to different messaging and um You know, it's interesting because we've been reporting a lot now.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
You know, one of the things that I see as... which I think is a good sign, but a sign of how desperate the other side's getting. But we have to counteract it, I think, and I want to get your thought. We're seeing them now say, well, look, what if... Yeah, we didn't lower prices on day one. We didn't do peace in Ukraine in 24 hours, but... We're coming up with a plan now.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
If you make under $150,000, no taxes at all, or we're going to do a Doge rebate. All this money, and it's not a lot of money at all, actually, and it's all bogus, that Doge is getting, you're going to get Doge rebate checks, and we're going to make you rich. And so I've been calling it a Ponzi scheme regime because this is the next part of the Ponzi, which is, OK, we tricked you now.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
Now we got to we're going to hustle you again with the next one until it busts like the Ponzi schemes of the Madoffs and blows up and becomes, you know, becomes a thing. Well, what? What does that signal and how do you just stop that and say, okay, y'all, don't you see this, what they're doing? They're doing it again and again and again. And how do people keep falling for it?
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
That's my first question. Then I got one that everybody's asking, which is what can regular people do? But let's start with the first one.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
It seems that as these MAGA Republicans are going to not be doing these town halls, they're canceling these town halls and running away from it. You are starting to see, and we reported on it last night and this morning, Democrats
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
And not only does it make sense, that's what we live by. It's why I don't ever even debate or step into the frame of the MAGA podcast people and why I will say on the Midas Touch Network, we're gonna stand up for marginalized communities. I believe that being a bully is the weakest thing you can be. That doesn't make you alpha or masculine. But when they try to bait me
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
to get into all of those debates also about a transgender athlete in San Jose State. To me, that's their frame to try to take you away from all of the things that they're doing. And I go, first off, I'm never going to do anything to bully people. I'm going to stand up for people. And I'm never going to punch down to marginalized communities. But why is that what you're thinking about?
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
whether they're taking our advice or they're also just doing it on their, you know, it's not exactly like we're the only people who have said it out there, but they're saying, hey, maybe we should be going into some of these districts, these reddish or purplish districts.
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
You are gutting Medicaid, Social Security. You're taking away people's rights. You're destroying people's pensions. And this is what you want to even talk. So I don't even go there with them because you have, to your point, exiting their frame. And too long, I think both corporate media and Democrats have been living in an entirely bogus, bullshit, bizarro framework that
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
you know, dystopian 1984-ish fantasy world that looks like Elon Musk's ex or Twitter and not speaking to Americans about the actual issues, bring them back. Exit frame, reframe to where people really are. So what you're saying makes a ton of sense. What should people do about it? This is the comment that you're seeing a lot. People go, what do regular people do about it? And
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How to Fight Back with Messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio
What we do as a media network when we show, I think, the Bernie Sanders rallies and use our platform now to do things and show things that never existed on corporate media before with more viewers, that's what we can do with our platform. But regular people say, what can we do? Well, I say you're a part of the Midas Mighty. You built this network, so we're in this with you.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
They don't even know what the Department of Education is like. The states do run their education and the Department of Education helps with things like helping with disabled students and poor students in their red states. I mean, they're quite literally voting against their constituents.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
So then you have that combined with what Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, then goes on and talks more this morning about conquering Canada. Play this clip.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
the end game here could you eventually get to a point where there's no that you've got a huge economy you've conjoined you've merged the economies of canada and the united states can you get to that point you think the best the best way the president has said it the best way to actually merge the economies of canada the united states is for canada to become our 51st state if they want to
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
Let's call in Democratic Congress member Boyle, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from Philly. Congress member Boyle, what do you it's like some like weirdo cosplay. Like maybe we like did this in high school where we were told to take contrarian opinions and you were still looked at as like, what the heck are you doing? Like this is what they're doing in our government.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
More lunacy this morning as Europeans apply retaliatory tariffs against the United States. The MAGA Republicans in the Senate and the House of Representatives are trying to just justify everything here is normal.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
Even the Wall Street Journal opinion page today. How do you like the trade war now? Trump is furious that Canada won't take his tariffs lying down. And then you had that photo of Donald Trump and Elon Musk selling selling Teslas in front of the White House. I mean, what are you what are your I mean, Philly's tough. Philly's tough.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
I mean, your constituents have to look at the... Show that photo one more time, Salty. I mean, if you go around like that in Philly, what are people saying there?
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
When you hear a clip like I played at the outset of Senator Jim Banks of Indiana saying that we don't need the Department of Education, It doesn't matter what they do with disabled students. The states will just deal with it anyway. I mean, it fundamentally misunderstands the dynamic of the way education works.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
But you're someone who's always, from the day you arrived in Congress, you've been fighting for the best education and to avoid cuts. And now you're seeing the entire Department of Education essentially get gutted. What's your response to all of it?
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
This also, as they gut the Department of Education, firing over half of their staff and doing it also so cruelly, they faked a security emergency to get people to evacuate the building so that once they were fired, they couldn't get back in. And Linda McMahon basically confirmed that on Fox, the new secretary. It's just cruel.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
talk about how, in addition to attacking education, seems that Doge and these MAGA Republicans and Trump are always attacking the most vulnerable or the people who have also given the most to the country. I mean, they're attacking veterans.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
but getting rid of what 70 000 jobs at the at the va attacking the social security administration 7 000 jobs there uh attacking over and over again medicaid what are you hearing from your constituents there and you know and again that that contrast as people's 401ks and pensions are being destroyed as people are being cruelly fired trump in front of the white house with elon musk selling
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
selling Teslas and talking about buying fancy cars?
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
Let's talk about finally, what's the plan right now, though? I mean, obviously, Democrats don't control the House, the Senate or the executive branch. So you can't really set the committee agendas or issue subpoenas or whatever. But what are you doing to fight back right now? What are you doing in your district and what are you urging others to do in this very difficult moment?
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
Talking about cruelty, take a look at MAGA Republican Senator Jim Banks. When he's asked, you You know, the Department of Education, it's tasked with protecting disabled students in red states. Also, watch the response.
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Rep. Boyle on Trump Abandoning His Promises
Democratic Congress member Boyle from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Thanks, Congressman. All right. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe and let's get to five million subscribers.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
As the world stands up to Donald Trump, Donald Trump panics, causing more market uncertainty, causing the markets to continue to tank. Donald Trump took to his social media platform and threatened that if EU does not remove the tariff on whiskey, in retaliation to the United States putting a 25% steel and aluminum tariff on Europe. The U.S.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
Very reassuring. I'm being sarcastic, of course, to hear the Treasury Secretary says it's just one tariff against just a small little trading block, the EU. I mean, these people are just absolutely idiots. The Wall Street Journal just did a piece tallying some of the recent warnings about consumers not spending money anymore as America heads into a great recession and potentially even
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
A Trump depression, Walmart, McDonald's, Costco, Delta, Target, Foot Locker, Lowe's, Kohl's, Macy's and others have been quoted as saying consumers are just not spending money anymore. Consumer angst is striking all income levels. Signs of weaknesses are now showing up in spending.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
on everything from basics to luxuries dollar general says our customers continue to report that their financial situation situation has worsened over the last year many of our customers report that they only have enough money for basic essentials
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
with some noting they've had to sacrifice even on the necessities even on the basic essentials american eagle ceo says they have the fear of the unknown not just tariffs not just inflation we see the government cutting people off they see programs being cut they don't know how that's going to affect them and when people don't know what they don't know they get very conservative.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
Reuters reports that the US corporate bond spreads hit its widest in about six months on recession fears. Also, one of the main things that we're seeing reach a spike on Google is Boycott USA. Boycott USA has spiked on Google in the past seven days, with four EU countries and Canada topping the search list. We know that Canada has a very strong boycott against all things American.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
and against American tourism, unless Canadians absolutely have to be in the US, they're not traveling to the US and they're not buying US products. That's in addition to the retaliatory tariffs by Canada in response to the US tariffs. We're now seeing those same boycotts spread to the European Union and spread elsewhere.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
One of the things we also learned is that Elon Musk's hyperactive efficiency drive failed to prevent US federal spending actually rising. You got that right. Federal spending was rising last month when Elon Musk was destroying the lives of all of those government workers and shutting down those buildings. A record $603 billion last month. I wonder if
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
is going to put a 200% tariff on all wines and champagne. Donald Trump says this is going to help all of the champagne suppliers in the United States. Donald Trump doesn't realize that you don't make champagne in
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
All of those trips that Donald Trump was taking with Air Force One and driving around the NASCAR track and spending all that money at Mar-a-Lago. I wonder if that was adding up to this total. A record $603 billion in federal government spending last month. according to new treasury data has revealed, highlighting the Trump administration's difficulty in drastically cutting the size of government.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
In other words, they cut nothing. While they cut the jobs, they actually didn't cut any spending at all. Completely inefficient. Oh, and by the way, you saw the story I did earlier this morning where they shut down their Guantanamo Bay facilities, where they said, we're going to have 30,000 people here. They had like 180,000
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
non-violent people and they just shut it down because they couldn't operate it so what's trump doing with all of this news you saw the headlines that i read from you a lot of those headlines you saw from the wall street journal right leaning more conservative paper here's what trump says the globalist wall street journal has no idea what they are doing or saying they
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of screwing the United States of America. Their Wall Street Journal thinking is antiquated and weak and very bad for the USA. But have no fear. We will win on everything. Egg prices are down, oil is down, interest rates are down, and tariff related money is pouring into the United States.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
The only thing you have to fear is fear itself. And Donald Trump posted that at 5.56 AM in the morning. We all know how we are feeling. Do not let these MAGA sociopath abusers gaslight you. We know what we're experiencing. We know we're heading into a recession and potentially a Trump Great Depression right now. Despite Donald Trump saying things are great, they are not.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
And here's how they're trying to spin it on Capitol Hill. Here's MAGA Republican Senator Bernie Marino. Here's what he had to say. He goes, look, Things are good now. Just think about it. Yeah, things may be down 10%, 20%. People may have lost a lot of their life savings. He goes, but if Kamala Harris won, you'd be down 50%. That's their line now. If Kamala won, you'd be down 50%.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
the united states here's what donald trump posted the european union one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the world which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the united states has just put a nasty 50 tariff on whiskey
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
So what you're down now is pretty good, all things considered. Play this clip.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
You know, when I see that, it's an obvious fact check, right? That former President Biden handed Donald Trump an economy that was the envy of the world. GDP growth over 3%, unemployment at record lows, job growth hitting record highs. Former President Biden created over 16.4 million jobs. America's economy was the envy of the world. Former President Biden was reducing prescription drug prices.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
We had 40,000 to 50,000 infrastructure projects going up across the country. We had the CHIPS Act, which brought the semiconductor industry back here to the United States of America. I mean, things were going well. Well, now you have Scott Besant going on CNBC, and he's asked by CNBC, so, you know, the markets are going down a lot. Like, what do you make of it?
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
And Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, is like, Well, look, we're not really focused on that. We're focused on the real economy, not what you're seeing. What does that even mean? Because we're focused on the real economy. You mean you're trying to do tax cuts for what? The billionaires? I mean, that's your focus while everybody else suffers? Here, play this clip.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
As Ahmed Baba says, the Trump administration's fundamental stance is that America needs to go through economic pain in order to achieve long-term growth. The problem is all their economic policies will only lead to long-term economic pain. It's nonsensical and they're tanking an already strong economy. Let's talk about foreign policy.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
If this tariff is not removed immediately, the US will shortly place a 200% tariff on all wines, champagnes, and alcoholic products coming out of France and other EU-represented countries. This will be great for the wine and champagne businesses in the U.S. It should be noted Donald Trump has a failing wine company in the United States.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
We learned earlier this morning that, of course, Russia and Putin have no interest in doing a ceasefire, although I reported on that before. That should have been obvious. So while Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio were like, we got Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire, we were like, look, they're just... doing those Trump fake deal stuff again. But here's what the Trump regime is focused on.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
Trump White House has asked the US military to develop options for the Panama Canal. Potential military plans range from partnering more closely with the Panamanian military to a less likely option of US troops seizing the canal by force. military plans to invade the Panama Canal.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
US officials told NBC News, the White House has directed the US military to draw up options, including reclaiming the Panama Canal through military force. Donald Trump posts, the US doesn't have a free trade. We have stupid trade. The entire world is ripping us up. Then Donald Trump posts again this morning, Canada needs America. America doesn't need Canada.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
And he's citing Grant Cardone of Cardone Capital on Stuart and Varney. I mean, that's who he's citing. A huckster here from the Financial Times. Russia says it does not want a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine. Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas goes, Putin doesn't want peace. He wants conquest. Duh. We know that. We know that. But Donald Trump has Putin's back and not who Putin's invading back.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
Who's our ally? Zelensky's our ally. Putin's the enemy. Who's Donald Trump supporting? As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, goes, I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you. Trump, Vance, and Musk have been telling us that Putin wants peace. What happened there? Donald Trump on his social media platform, they're running ads like this. Do you approve of Doge? Yes, it's my money, no waste is great.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
As you saw before, they are cruelly getting rid of jobs, attacking veterans, destroying your social security, taking away your Medicaid, and they're not even reducing government spending. Government spending is up. It's up to record levels. Last month, last month. Oh, and then Donald Trump posts this. This is one of his last posts from this morning. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
Trump is a great businessman. Thank God for him. This is what Donald Trump has his cabinet officials. They have to go on TV and just Kim Jong-un it. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
How embarrassing can you get? This is when he says that Trump is a master negotiator. Just take a screenshot of this image right here. This comes from Donald Trump's own SEC filing. This is from his own stock filing for Trump Media, which made like $4 million. $4 million in total revenue off $400 million in losses last year. So this is what I'm reading from the 10K article.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
And it just lists all of his businesses that went bankrupt over the years. 1991, the Trump Taj Mahal. 1992, Trump Castle, Trump Plaza, Trump Plaza Hotel. Chapter 11 in 1995, THCR, Trump Entertainment and Resorts, bankrupt. 2004, 2009 bankruptcies. The guy went bankrupt over and over and over and over again.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
And then when it comes to the champagne industry, there is no champagne industry in the United States. On that news, the markets further tanked. So CNBC then interviewed Scott Besant, Donald Trump's treasury secretary, about these 200% tariffs. Here's what Besant had to say. Let's play it.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
Here are the here are the businesses that Trump failed at Trump Steaks and Trump Vodka and Trump Mortgage and, you know, just go through the Trump University. Just go through that. Take a screenshot of that. Like he's been the worst business person in life. There's a reason this idiot has bankrupted everything he touched. He's an idiot. He's an idiot. He's not smart. He's dumb. He's psychotic.
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Trump Panics on Thursday AM as He Collapses It All
And yet these spineless Republicans follow this psycho. Just look at what I said to you. Screenshot it. Read it on your own time. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
Their pensions and 401ks are being destroyed by these MAGAs. So Democrats, go out and speak to them, please. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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He's relating to what the people are saying and the suffering that they're experiencing now being caused by the Trump regime. Let's play it. Thank you.
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Next clip I want to share with you is Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota. Did a great job on this interview. I'm liking this Governor Walz. And I just think he either held himself back or he was held back during the campaign. This is the guy that made me really excited when I was when I found out that he would be picked to be the VP pick with Vice President Kamala Harris. Here's what he says.
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Now, take what I just showed you and contrast it to what MAGA Mike Johnson was saying yesterday. MAGA Mike Johnson was saying, look, Elon, he's so smart. He's got the biggest platform in the world. You know, sometimes he says things that are misunderstood and it causes big problems.
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I don't know, like when he got rid of people at the nuclear power plants or nuclear weapons or when he said that he fired the people who study Ebola or watch what MAGA Mike says.
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So utterly pathetic. Let's go back to Governor Walz. Here's what he goes. He goes, look, Trump's the guy who's declared bankruptcy over and over again. Who declares bankruptcy more than Trump? This is a guy who doesn't pay his bills. Play this clip. Again, he negotiated the damn trade deal.
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And boy, did Montana make a massive mistake when they chose the MAGA Republican guy, Sheehy, over... over John Tester, who was a great senator. Here, the MAGA Republican senator from Tim Sheehy from Montana says, look, this is what happens sometimes with the stock market. We were on a sugar high. You know, we'll see a correction here. No one really likes good stock markets, right?
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We don't like that. We like crashing markets. That's how the MAGAs are trying to spin this, that crashing markets are good because we were on a sugar high. And now we need to be punished by Daddy Trump and Daddy Elon.
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Donald Trump's approval is plummeting. No wonder people are pissed at these magas. MAGA Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville right here and his view of the markets crashing, people's retirements being lost is no pain, no gain, he says. No, because when he was a coach in football, no pain, no gain.
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You deserve to feel the pain, care of the Trump regime because that's the only way you're going to learn to be a better person when they inflict suffering on you. That's what they are saying. Play this clip.
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Now, let me share with you Democratic Congress member Neguse. He came on the Midas Touch podcast. I interviewed him. Let's take a look. He's on the Rules Committee and he focuses on the subcommittee on legislation and the budget. Here's what he's got to say.
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That's how you fight. Democratic Congress member John Larson saying, where the hell is Elon Musk? Oh, wait a minute. We know why he's not here submitting to oversight by Congress. We know why you MAGA Republicans are refusing to do your damn job. It's because Y'all want to get rid of Social Security.
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had Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on.
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And our Gen Z superstar, Adam Mochler, had Democratic Senator Mark Kelly on. And here's what Senator Kelly had to say.
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That's what Elon Musk has been talking about as he's talked about privatizing Social Security or saying that the whole thing is a Ponzi scheme. Let's highlight some Democrats fighting back like Democratic Congress member John Larson, shall we? Here's Bernie Sanders at a recent event that he held. And again, He's listening to the people.
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I had New York Attorney General Letitia James on the Midas Touch podcast. Here's what she had to say.
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And, you know, there wouldn't be a Midas Touch video if I didn't share with you Democratic Congress member Jim McGovern on the House floor. speaking the truth right here.
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And one of the things he points out is in that bogus BS, continuing resolution that the MAGAs have tried to push through, that will be a massive gain for the billionaires and screw over people on Medicaid, screw over veterans, screw over the Department of Education. He goes, they slipped in a clause letting them escape from ever having to debate or vote on Trump's tariffs.
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They gave full authority and they'd snuck it in in a little tiny footnote. Here, play this clip.
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Good to see fight. Democrats need to be fighting like this. Now, Democrats need to go into those red districts and go into those purple districts where the MAGA Republicans are too scared to speak to their voters. And Democrats need to speak to them because they're on Medicaid. They have these programs that are being taken from them. They're veterans. They're on social security.
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OMG! World Leaders Destroy Trump in Trade War
Donald Trump just got a world class beat down from the world. About $60 billion in retaliatory tariffs being applied to the United States when you add up the retaliatory tariffs from Canada and Europe. This follows Donald Trump following through on his 25% across the board aluminum and steel tariffs in Canada and in Europe. Canada and Europe swiftly responded.
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Not surprisingly, Donald Trump's now approval is the lowest it's ever been on the economy, 56% disapprove. Frankly, I don't know how it's not lower than that, but it is plummeting every single day. The J.P.
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Morgan latest report talks about rising inflation, a decline in new orders, less inventories, the barrage of economic gibberish coming out of the White House is what how they refer to the havoc that's being caused. But if you listen to Trump's 27 year old. Chief propagandist Caroline Leavitt, she'll say, this is effective, things are working, things are going great. Here, play this clip.
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One of the things also that I think is so fundamental here as well is, as I've said, it's not simply that Donald Trump has declared a trade war on Canada. In my view, Trump has declared actual war on Canada. When you talk about annexing Canada, conquering, taking over the land. I mean, to me, those are fight words. Those are war words.
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And one of the things that Donald Trump refused to do as well is that when a new interim prime minister, Carney, Mark Carney, was selected by the liberal party, Canada is going to go into their elections, of course, shortly. And I think the liberal party is going to be able to form a government coming out of those elections, but people are going to have to go out and vote.
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But Trump didn't even reach out to the new interim prime minister, Mark Carney, and congratulate him or say anything. And so Caroline Leavitt, the chief propagandist at the White House, she was asked, why didn't he do that? And then she just went on to attack Canada. I want you to watch this, play this clip.
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Now, I like Mark Carney, the new prime minister of Canada's response about will he meet? with Donald Trump and when? What's his plans? First and foremost, he gave this incredible speech at a factory in Canada standing with the aluminum and steel workers who are being hit the hardest by these tariffs.
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At these factories, one of the things that Mark Carney announced is that unlike Trump, who wants to use tariffs to enrich himself and other billionaires, and make way for billionaire tax cuts or for Trump to create a sovereign wealth fund like MBS in Saudi Arabia so Trump could buy more Trump hotels or whatever.
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Canadian Prime Minister Carney says, here's what we're going to do with the money that we get. We're going to give it right back to the workers, and we're going to make sure that we do everything that we can to help the workers. One of the things that Carney also said is, look, I'm open to meet with Donald Trump in Washington, but he's going to have to respect the sovereignty of Canada first.
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Carney said, I'm drawing a clear line. I'm not going to go and sit in the Oval Office if Trump disrespects Canada. I'm just not going to meet with him. If he shows respect for our sovereignty, then I will be open to it. I think this is the right approach to it. Here, play this clip.
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It was so odd yesterday, Donald Trump hosted the prime minister of Ireland and in that bizarre oval office, whatever you want to call it, Donald Trump was bragging that the premier of Ontario removed certain tariffs, which the premier of Ontario added to the existing tariffs that were already gonna be part of the retaliatory tariffs cuz Trump has no clue what he's talking about.
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Canada tough. Elbows out, elbows up, over the boards, let's go. Let me share this with you as well. This is what the Canadian foreign affairs minister had to say. I think she's amazing. Here, play this clip.
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And then, you know, I can't do a video on Canada without showing you my buddy, Charlie Angus, NDP member of parliament. When he spoke with me the other day, here's what he said about those tariffs. Let's play it.
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I want to share with you this graph before showing you the next video as well. I love Carl Quintanilla's posts. I think he does a great job showing these graphs. You know I love geeking out with graphs because I'm a data guy and data doesn't lie. If you look at this graph, what it's basically showing is how U.S. stocks have completely, overwhelmingly underperformed global markets in 2025.
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The markets everywhere other than the U.S. are going up, up, up, and the U.S. markets are going down, down, down. And you can literally see the point where the U.S. markets crashed when the U.S. markets were doing great and when the world economies continued to grow when the U.S. market crashed. You wanna take a guess on what date it is? Ding, ding, ding, the inauguration. You guessed it right.
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Because Americans are feeling the pain right now. The Trump erratic behavior means people are pulling their money out of the United States. Even like getting out of real estate investment. It's an unstable market. In addition to people in other countries just boycotting the U.S., not traveling here with this corrupt, idiotic, authoritarian regime we have here.
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Just watch what Donald Trump said though in the Oval Office, play this clip.
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People don't want to do business with the Trump United States. Let me share this with you. This was a C-SPAN caller who says, look, I've been affected by these tariffs already. The 8% to 10% increase in the product I was buying was passed on to me because that's the way tariffs work. Play this clip.
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Yeah, I told you, I thought that was powerful stuff. May I share with you though, I want you to watch this. This is Mark Carney's full speech at the factory that he was at. It's about two and a half minutes, a little bit more than, about three minutes. Watch this though, because to me, and I know in Canada, you're probably used to kind of... Smart, sophisticated, steady leadership.
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This guy, Cardi, he led the Bank of Canada during the most difficult period of time in the mid 2000s to get Canada out of that recession. And then he was the governor of Bank of England. where he navigated through Brexit. I mean, this guy knows his stuff. World-class banker, economist, knows his stuff.
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And perhaps Donald Trump should have been paying more attention because right around that time, Canada announced that it was applying its retaliatory steel and aluminum tariffs. I'll just show you. Here's the finance minister of Canada, Dominic LeBlanc. Here's what he had to say yesterday. Let's play the clip.
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He's like the perfect person, in my opinion, to be the counterpoint to Trump's idiotic bankruptcy, right? The banker versus the bankrupt. The banker, I like that. The banker versus the bankrupt. That's what we got here. Watch this, though. I think you'll just find this powerful. And it's also a defense of the worker. Play this clip.
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Told you you were going to want to see that. I mean, just take a look at the American markets now. You look at the NASDAQ, the Dow, the S&P. I mean, it's horrible, horrible stuff. Oh, I shared this with you as well earlier, but I think you got to see it. This is the president of the European Union Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
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Here she is talking about what Europe had to do in response, regrettably, in response to the U.S. declaring a trade war on Europe.
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Panicked Trump Screws Himself as Term Collapses
Well, the last thing I want to point out to everybody as well is Seems obvious that Vladimir Putin rejected the ceasefire agreement. Putin launches drone strikes on Kiev hours after Trump challenged him to, quote, tango and agreed to Ukraine ceasefire as pressure mounts on Kremlin to back down. Oh, that's going to do it. Trump's going to say tango, tango, Putin. Don't you want a tango?
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Putin's just like ignoring it. Sergei Lavrov, Putin's foreign minister, is like just basically ignoring it. And they're not only ignoring it. They went into the Kursk region dressed in military fatigues. And Putin demanded that the war be escalated and that more land be taken. So that's what happened. Anyway, we'll keep you posted with more. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Network.
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Look at this one right here from Chief Executive Magazine. Not exactly a bastion of liberals. They said the following. A poll of more than 220 U.S. CEOs finds business confidence at the lowest level since November 2012. CEO optimism plummets in March amid tariff uncertainty. Here's another doozy from the Wall Street Journal. Trump's economic message is spooking some of his own advisors.
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President's team receives flood of calls from business executives concerned about mixed messaging on tariffs. Quote, senior officials, including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, have received panic calls from chief executives and lobbyists. It has been a horrific start for the economic policy team. So, you know, when I have the headlines,
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Oh, Trump panicking or because I'm literally saying what the truth is. And I know sometimes in a Trump world, the truth may hurt, but we got to say what the truth is. Here's another Wall Street Journal headline. Is Trump throwing it all away? Duh. His tariff circus undermines U.S. standing just when it could be most useful. The U.S.
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has been the best functioning, most innovative economy in the world at a time when its rivals and partners are all struggling for different reasons. Trump is throwing it away with his tariff policy. But Donald Trump doesn't seem to care. What was he posting first thing in the morning yesterday? Wow. He goes, he goes, wow. People are loving Elon, a great patriot. Nice to see.
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I mean, literally, people despise Elon Musk. I'll show you this one right here, for example. I'll show you a Trump Republican congressional district right here. During a town hall, they now do phone town halls rather than in-person town halls because they're terrified of what's going to actually happen.
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And so the MAGA Republican Congress member, Tom Barrett from Michigan 7th, this Republican district, asked the people, type whatever if you like Doge. Type whatever if you don't support Doge. Watch what happens. I wonder if these are all the Soros bots. Here, play this clip.
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Have you noticed Trump is looking pretty beat down, pretty fatigued lately, as though he's somehow shocked that the world and now Democrats and other people are actually standing up to him. I mean, look at him yesterday and then the day before when he did that weird product placement event. Look, Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's pink dress lady, she's unable to spin this.
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And by the way, you know, people are calling C-SPAN and I'm not going to, I could show you dozens of calls like this, but I'll just show you this one right here. Let's play it.
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So if you want to get science-y about it, studies show that C15, it works by strengthening our cells, improving our mitochondrial function,
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So it comes in these gorgeous reusable glass bamboo jars and refill capsules. that are shipped to your door quarterly in pouches made from recycled materials. I love that. Fatty 15 is on a mission to replenish your C15 levels and restore your long-term health.
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People's retirement and savings is getting destroyed. Pensions are being destroyed. And what's Donald Trump doing holding product placement events saying how much he loves Elon? Here's a scoop right here from Karen Tumulty. Scoop, social security facing pressure from Doge is now weighing big cuts to phone service.
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Agency considers ending phone program that helps claims processing and is used by millions. In other words, you won't be able to call. Social Security anymore. Remember I showed a video a few days ago where the wait time just to even get somebody was like 10 hours and then to process a claim it was like a year? What do you think happens when they fire everybody?
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Who's going to be able to process the claims? So one of the ways they're going to try to privatize and get rid of Social Security is by firing everybody, let the system crash, let it fail, and then try to have a business basically take it over. I wonder... I wonder which businesses it's going to be. Is it going to be an Elon Musk business? Shocker, shocker, shocker.
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I mean, she's making matters worse. And then you have Donald Trump's pink dress man, his vice president, J.D. Vance, can't spin this either. This was the real release, though, that they released. Not the photo, is it real? But what they said here is actually from the White House. This was another week filled with endless wins for the American people under President Donald J. Trump.
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But you know, look, the Trump administration's focused on what's mattering to the American people most. Plastic straws and making sure that the DOJ is involved in robust enforcement of plastic straw situation. From the office. of the Attorney General. President Trump, this is real. This is real memo that was issued moments recently.
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Trump recognized that there has been an irrational campaign against plastic straws that has led to the forced use of non-functional, more expensive, and potentially hazardous paper straws. The department stands with the president in rejecting this misguided effort of supporting plastic straws. Folks, I'm not making this up that that's what their focus is on. That's a real memo.
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I'll give you this update as well. Judge Tanya Chutkin, Washington, D.C. federal judge, issued a powerful ruling yesterday, which has Trump and Musk freaked out, saying that Doge needs to submit to immediate expedited discovery. We told you about Judge Cooper doing that in another case. Judge Chutkin goes even further. So the walls are closing in on Doge. The
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walls are closing in on Doge and Guantanamo Bay is closing. Remember, as I say, the corruption of the Trump administration is matched by its incompetence. So they couldn't even figure out this Guantanamo Bay thing. First, one of the things people uncovered is that in Guantanamo Bay, where they said they were giving the most dangerous migrants, almost none of the migrants were actually dangerous.
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They picked like 40 or 140 people originally. It wasn't even that many people. And they were nonviolent people, not the gangs that they said. And they just took like people and threw them in Guantanamo Bay and then like deported them elsewhere to other places. But they like put them in Guantanamo Bay. Well, now... ICE has now returned all migrants from Guantanamo Bay to stateside facilities.
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A new court filing described strip searches and the use of restrained chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base. Jennifer Griffin over at Fox News. She's one of the good ones they have over there. Good reporter. She goes, Gitmo detention plans hit another bump.
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The administration's decision to take migrants to Gitmo appears at best to have been an expensive photo op. Now Fox News has learned all the migrants held at Gitmo have been sent to the U.S. and plans to send more to the U.S. Naval Station have been put on hold. Read the thread from Liz Fryden.com. I can't all the reporters there be like Jennifer Griffin.
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There are currently no migrants being held at Gitmo and no flight scheduled to arrive. Fox has learned none of the 195 tents set up to hold migrants have been used because they do not meet ICE standards, according to several U.S. officials. The operation to build more tents was halted back in February, just several weeks after it started.
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Remember these photo ops from Cosplay Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem? under President Donald Trump, the days of open borders are over. High threat criminals are being arrested and locked up in Gitmo. Then she did this photo op and then she did this video where she talked about it. And then she went on Fox and did this video.
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All right, well, let's take out the receipts. Let's see if we've got these endless wins from the Wall Street Journal editorial board. Again, this is a right-leaning Wall Street Journal. How do you like the trade war now? Trump is furious that Canada won't take tariffs lying down from the Wall Street editorial board.
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Well, it was all BS. I do want to mention this as well because it's not getting attention in American media. Did you all know that a Russian ship, cargo ship, intentionally crashed into another ship, a U.S. tanker, transporting jet fuel for the U.S. military off the coast of Britain on March 10th? Did you know that happened?
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I mean, the Russian nationals been arrested, the Russian crew was arrested, but it seems to be an intentional act of war. We don't hear a lot of people talking about that here, that the captain of the ship was Russian. We'll be reporting on more on that in other videos as well. The one thing I think to note about America's crashing economy, though, is that
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Other areas in the world are doing okay or good. Like if you just take a look at this chart right here, the U.S. stocks have underperformed the global markets in 2025, like significantly. And when was the date where the global markets significantly overtook the U.S. markets? Ah, surprise, surprise. The day of the inauguration.
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The day of the inauguration, the Atlanta Federal Reserve was predicting if Trump just kept The former Biden economy on autopilot did nothing, golfed, took credit for it, just said, look what I did, look what I built. It probably would have grown about 3% GDP quarter one. Now we're expecting a contraction, a recession as well with about negative 2.8 to negative 3% GDP.
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But folks, the MAGA Republicans want to spin this all as great stuff. Like Laura Ingraham says, this is a transition. We're living through a great transition. Play this clip.
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And Tommy Tuberville, MAGA Republican Senator, says no pain, no gain. Play the clip.
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We said from the beginning that this North American trade war is the dumbest in history and we were being kind. Donald. It's the right leaning Wall Street Journal. So if you're like, oh, I heard that this is the anti-Trump channel because that's what they're saying in the media. I'm just reading for you the headline from the Wall Street Journal. I find those other headlines funny as well. Take a
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No pain, no gain. And then you have Trump's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, saying this was the best 50 days ever. Play this clip.
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Fox News Crashes Hard on Live TV as Trump Tanks Fast
As I watch state regime media known as Fox, the following quote from 1984 comes to mind. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. If you watch Fox News, everything is exactly the opposite. Like Larry Kudlow, who used to work
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And I'm sick and tired of a bullying culture and normalizing this hate and normalizing this idiocracy and normalizing this incompetence and normalizing war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and all that BS that I just showed you and fact-checked for you. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Donald Trump declares trade wars, what I consider, frankly, to be actual wars against Canada. Canada goes elbow up above the boards, stands up. Trump then delays the tariffs. And now the Trump regime declares that as a victory on state regime media. Play this clip.
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Keep going with this theme as the state regime media known as Fox takes our Constitution, rips it to shreds, and tries to hoist up this idiotic authoritarian regime. Here's Laura Ingraham on Fox saying, it's just absurd to think that our framers would believe the Constitution safeguards the rights of people who are in the United States. Here, play this clip.
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For the first Trump administration was saying how everybody knows that tariffs are not inflationary and they won't lead to a recession as our country is heading into a recession as inflation is increasing because tariffs are literally inflationary and recession and or Great Depression inducing. Here, play this clip.
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Then you have MAGA Republican Senator John Kennedy not really a Kennedy, but John Kennedy. Here he says, if you ain't, by the way, his accent is not a real accent. It's a fake accent that he's created to try to make himself like relatable to Southerners. And go back and watch videos of this guy.
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He didn't have this accent, but he goes, you know, if you're not happy, if you're not happy, you're not a tree.
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So then state regime media brings on Kevin O'Leary, who purports to be a business person the way Trump purports to be a business person. I've looked at Kevin O'Leary's background. To say his background is unimpressive would be an understatement. And so he's like... The person who's like, maybe Canada should be annexed by the United States.
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And oddly, he refers to the relationship between Canada and the United States. He's like, this is like a marriage. And in this marriage, you know, you're going to get into fights in this marriage. Here, play this clip.
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Everybody loves each other.
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Interesting you use the example of like a marriage or relationship, because as I've said before, Donald Trump's treatment of Canada and frankly, other people, other allies, for example, is the height of abusiveness. Donald Trump picks on the people he's in relationships or the United States is in relationships and treats them the absolute worst.
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and then treats the enemies the absolute best because that's the crew that Donald Trump actually wants to hang with because Trump's pathology is geared towards the access of evil and not our allies. So Donald Trump's behavior towards Canada is the height of abusiveness and gaslighting. And then it's like, oh, Canada's being mean to us. You threatened annexation.
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You've made posts saying that you don't believe that there's really a border between the U.S. and Canada and Canada needs to be annexed and, oh, Canada will become a great song of the United States. So utterly pathetic. Then here's Larry Kudlow again, again, lying here that there's all this fraud in Social Security. There's so much fraud here.
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but the fraud like social security people are 150 years old getting social security checks which is insane uh or that's one of the things that this regime has been saying over and over because they want to gut social security so they've been saying that elon thinks that there's about 600 billion to 800 billion in fraud in social security elon thinks
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So Caroline Leavitt was asked during the press conference she held yesterday. But those numbers aren't real. To which Caroline Leavitt responded, I never said they were real. I just said that's what Elon thinks. We're going to have to find out if that's real.
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But that's what we're going to use to basically fire everybody, which they're doing, who works at the Social Security Administration, shut down the buildings. so that they cripple the Social Security Administration so people don't get their Social Security checks. That's what's going to happen. And we should be absolutely pissed about it.
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Yesterday, if you haven't gotten the theme also, the Trump regime is having all of their cabinet people go on Fox to try to spin up is down, down is up, war is peace. freedom is slavery, you know, and all of those things.
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So here's Linda McMahon, Trump's new Secretary of Education in the cabinet, and here she talks about that she will totally shut down the Department of Education, and they've now fired 50% of the staff, and then they're gonna get rid of everybody. Here, play this clip.
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And then Linda McMahon is asked by Laura Ingraham, one of the chief propagandists for the Trump regime. There were reports today that the Department of Education buildings were shut down because of security concerns. They really weren't shut down. You know what the security concerns were?
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As Linda McMahon explains, they shut down the building so people could evacuate so that they didn't let the people back in. What they were worried about is once they announced people were being fired, that the people wouldn't leave.
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So they created a phony security crisis, got people to leave the building, then locked down the building to not let in the people they fired so they couldn't get their belongings.
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Got to give a shout out to our friend Jessica Tarlov on Fox. He or she calls out Jeanine Pirro, one of Trump's chief propagandists, about the Canadian tariffs and how Pirro's like, this is great. And Jessica Tarlov's like, yeah, because you're rich. You're rich.
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Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Fox then interviews RFK Jr., an anti-vaxxer who's now leading Health and Human Services. And here he, not surprisingly, attacks vaccines with more weird conspiracies. Play this clip. Used to be when you and I were kids, everybody got measles. And measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine does.
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This doesn't affect you, these tariffs, because you have your mansion and your fancy cars and your private getaways, while most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. And this stuff is crushing Americans. Here, play this clip.
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Then you had Brooke Rollins go on Fox and say, hey, she's the agriculture secretary. She's the one who says that the way to deal with these surging egg prices is that we all need to buy a chicken. And that's what we need to do. And here, Brooke Rollins is like, look, yeah, it's going to be bad. It's bumpy, it's gonna be bumpy, but we like bumpy, right? Bumpy economy, we like bumpy. Play the clip.
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And then they have Energy Secretary Chris Wright on. You see what I'm saying? They're having all the cabinet people go on to spread the propaganda. Then Chris Wright, Energy Secretary, goes on and he's like, Trump is so brilliant. Here, play this clip.
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And then they have Kevin Cramer, MAGA Republican senator. This is the guy who vilified Hunter Biden. and mocked Hunter Biden for recovering from drug addiction. But Kevin Cramer has one son who was on meth and killed a cop while driving or something like that. And then Kevin Cramer had another son who died of alcohol abuse.
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And Kevin Cramer, this is the MAGA Republican Senator, who was mocking the recovery journey of Hunter Biden. And this guy, to me, is the most deplorable of them. Like, I mean, they're all pretty deplorable. But knowing this guy's past that I just shared with you, let me play this clip.
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And I'll say this again, too. I mean, when these MAGA Republicans attacked people in recovery from addiction, you get the you get the trend, what they're doing. They pick on the weakest and the most vulnerable types of people. People in recovery, veterans, seniors, children, marginalized communities, and they bully. And they bully.
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And, you know, it's so interesting because there's so many people as the Midas Touch, by the way, subscribe to the Midas Touch podcast on audio too, as people are like, oh, so, you know, you're getting more, you know, downloads than Rogan. So you're like the left's Rogan, right? I'm like, nah. Let me be very clear.
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Remember what I said at the beginning, Orwellian stuff right here, as one of Donald Trump's top propagandists, his press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, says something about how Canada was forced to back down to Donald Trump when, in fact, Donald Trump backed down to Canada. This is how they're spinning things.
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I know Rogan and those pod bros call themselves like, oh, we're alpha, we're masculine. As I always say, people who are like masculine and alpha, first and foremost, don't go around saying, I'm alpha, I'm a masculine. And I'll tell you how I was raised. The way I was raised is that Actual people who are alpha or masculine, they don't call themselves that. But two, you don't bully people.
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You don't punch down. You don't attack marginalized communities. You help uplift people. You use your position to be an ally and to be helpful. and to show empathy. That's what strength is.
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Even North Korea is denouncing Donald Trump's proposal to take over Gaza. Yes, we're in the timeline where North Korea is more sane than Donald Trump. And just look at what Donald Trump is posting, by the way, in his social media platform. Trump wrote this. President Donald J. Trump was just unanimously elected chairman of the board of the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
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Here, Donald Trump brags about meeting with Putin, how excited he is to meet with Putin, play this clip.
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So he says, shush your effing mouth. It looks like, I mean, tell me what you think. He says, then he picks his nose and wipes it on the desk. And Donald Trump just sits there and takes it because let's face it, Elon Musk is basically running the government at this point. Let's play it.
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We're also learning, of course, from sources within the NOAA that additional administrative burdens combined with the ongoing federal hiring freeze and anticipated staff and budget cuts by the Trump administration, will hamper the ability of the U.S. to maintain a functioning weather service. So America's basic weather service is going to be gutted.
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Hey liberals, delete the weather service right there. Also, Donald Trump and Elon Musk don't have to worry about how to pay for their kids' education, but for working Americans, whether it's working Rhode Islanders or others,
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Donald Trump's destruction of the Department of Education is going to lead to fewer teachers, bigger class sizes if there's class at all, and less programming in public schools. Here's Donald Trump from yesterday talking about closing the Department of Education. Let's play it.
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Should also be noted yesterday that a military fighter jet crashed into the San Diego Bay. This is the sixth plane collision and second military collision since Trump took office. By the way, over the past 24, 48 hours, the Russian stock market soaring, America's stock market tanking.
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And when you want to talk about fraud, by the way, let me give a hat tip to Empty Wheel, by the way, they do a great job. Trump fired inspectors general, identified $183.5 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse. These are the people who Donald Trump got rid of.
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The cost savings of these inspector generals, who were the ones tasked, independent people, who were tasked to look at fraud, saved American taxpayers $183.5 billion. Meanwhile, the bait and switch by MAGA is, hey, let's talk about condoms in Gaza and $50 million and $6 million here based on lies, as Elon Musk admitted in the Oval Office. He's just like making a lot of this stuff up.
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And he goes, yeah, I'm going to be wrong. But then a $4, $5 trillion tax cut, utterly absurd. Finally, it should be noted that even Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will not travel to Washington for talks at the White House if the agenda at all includes, at all, ethnic cleansing Palestinians, kicking Palestinians out of Palestine,
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If there's no two-state solution, the Egyptian president's not sitting there the way King Abdullah of Jordan did, making a fool of himself in front of Donald Trump. We could reflect at the end of President Joe Biden's presidency. There was 2.9% inflation, 4.1% unemployment. The Dow Jones was hitting records every day. Manufacturing boom. A Gaza ceasefire.
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Medicare Part D 2000 prescription drug cap. Infrastructure boom. Fastest economic recovery. COVID handled. I could go on and on and on, but you get the point. Here we are, America. I like, though, that people are fighting back. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. And thank you so much for watching.
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All right, I just had to show you that in the morning. Oh my God, all right. Speaking of bizarre, so Donald Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who's supposed to be like the, she's supposed to be like the smart one and the rational one in the administration. So she held a press conference yesterday where she said that she was bringing
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charges against the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, and other New York officials like Letitia James, the New York attorney general and others. She goes, I'm bringing charges. Watch this. Watch this. Then we'll talk about it.
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So when people saw that, like, are you bringing criminal charges? Like, what are you, you're charging the New York governor and the New York attorney general with crimes? And by the way, nothing even was filed on the docket until hours later. Here's what Governor Kathy Hochul wrote once the case wound up on the docket finally. New York is proud that immigrants from across the globe come here
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searching for a better life. And we're protecting all New Yorkers by cracking down on violent criminals. We expect Attorney General Pam Bondi's worthless publicity-driven lawsuit to be a total failure. My full statement. Statement from Governor Kathy Hochul. on Attorney General Bondi's publicity-driven lawsuit.
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The president stated, quote, it is a great honor to be chairman of the Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing board of trustees. We will make the Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place. And below it, they're advertising whatever the hell this AI thing is. Don't borrow from banks. Do this instead. Brilliant. Now, again, of course, it's making Kim Jong-un look a little rational.
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Earlier today, Attorney General Pam Bondi marched in front of the television cameras for a dramatic media briefing to announce she was filing charges against New York State relating to our immigration laws. Hours later, when legal papers were shared with reporters, we learned this was smoke and mirrors.
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The Department of Justice was filing a routine civil action about a law passed in 2019 that has been upheld by the courts time and time again. Here are the facts. Our current laws allow federal immigration officials to access any DMV database with a judicial warrant.
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that's a common sense approach that most new yorkers support but there's no way i'm letting federal agents or elon musk's shadowy doge operation get unfettered access to the personal data of any new yorker in the dmv system like 16 year old kids learning to drive and other vulnerable people new york is proud that immigrants from across the globe come here searching for a better life
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People like my grandparents who left Ireland looking for the American dream. We welcome law abiding individuals who want to work, pay taxes and contribute to our communities while at the same time protecting the public safety of all New Yorkers by cracking down on violent criminals. We expect Pam Bondi's worthless publicity driven lawsuit to be a total failure just like all the others.
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Let me be clear, New York is not backing down. And by the way, I like that attorney generals from across the country, democratic attorney generals, democratic governors, democratic senators, democratic members of Congress have finally got their fight back and they are pushing forward. And this is what I've been wanting to see. By the way, here was Pam Bondi again at that press conference.
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She doesn't seem to know the way the baseball strike system works. She goes, strike one was Illinois, strike two, just watch this, it's so bizarre, let's play it.
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meanwhile the canadian boycott on all things america and american continues strong i think we're going to see this in some of our economic data here in the united states over the next several months it won't hit right away because the boycott is a few weeks old canadians are not buying american nor are they traveling to america
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I got to show you this clip because a lot of people have been going back to that bizarre and deranged Elon Musk press conference with his kid inside the Oval Office with Donald Trump. And if you actually have seen a lot of people point this out, I got to show it to you. Then I'm going to go on to increasing inflation. Donald Trump talking about capitulating to Russia. I'll get there in a moment.
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If they have rental properties or homes, they're trying to get rid of it and sell it. In essence, it's a scarlet letter from Canadians or for Canadians to travel here or to buy American. And Canadians are pretty united about this across the country. Obviously, if they're forced to be here, if they're forced to do something, they got to do what they got to do.
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But unless that's the case, Canadians are saying no. Member of Parliament Charlie Angus, who you've seen a lot here on the Midas Touch Network, said the following. Don't spend another dollar in America. Across the country, Canada, people are canceling long-planned trips. I just heard from a Canadian travel agent who was telling her customers she won't book trips to the United States.
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Canada, the boycott is strong. Canada, strong as F-word. We don't bend. We don't break. Meanwhile, one of the things we also learned is that New York, by the way, has good reason not to give Elon access to all of the personal data for another data breach.
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We learned that Trump and Elon Musk illegally revoked $80 million in congressionally appropriated FEMA funds from New York City's bank account yesterday.
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money previously dispersed for shelter and services says new york city comptroller brad lander lander is demanding that the state pursue legal action so remember what happened donald trump dismissed without prejudice the federal case against the new york corrupt mayor mayor adams
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In return, it seems there was a quid pro quo to allow the federal government, allow Musk to just steal $80 million that was appropriated to FEMA, from FEMA to the people of New York. This is the statement from the New York City comptroller Lander on Trump administration's illegal reversal of FEMA funding.
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This morning, my financial team shockingly uncovered that President Trump and his crony, Elon Musk, illegally executed a revocation of $80 million in congressionally appropriated FEMA funding from New York City's bank account. Late yesterday afternoon, this is money that the federal government previously dispersed for shelter and services, and it's now missing.
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This highway robbery of our funds directly out of our bank accounts
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is a betrayal of everyone who calls new york city home new york city cannot take this lying down i call on the mayor to immediately pursue legal action to ensure tens of millions of dollars stolen by trump and doge are rightfully returned if instead mayor adams continues to be trump's pawn my office will request to work in partnership with the new york city law department to pursue aggressive legal action so this is what the deal that was cut
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between Trump and Adams to steal the money that belonged to shelter services in New York. This shouldn't shock you though, because Republicans hate everyone other than billionaires. Repeat after me, Republicans hate everyone other than billionaires. Look at the budget that they released yesterday, right?
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This is their budget, $4.5 trillion in new deficits for tax writing, 4 trillion debt limit hike for their tax cuts that go to billionaires. trillions in tax cuts to the billionaires. And then it goes on to talk about $800 million or so reduced from Medicaid. 800 million reduced from Medicaid right there. Increase the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. While all of this is going on,
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the ap associated press was banned from the press room because they refused to refer to the gulf of mexico as the gulf of america this is the statement by associated press as a global news organization the associated press informs billions of people around the world every day with factual nonpartisan journalism.
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But look at this. Elon Musk's kid appears to have said to Donald Trump during that Oval Office press conference, I want you to shush your effing mouth. Watch for yourself. Here, play this clip. from one year to the next are the same. Okay, let me just show it to you one more time. This is from a viral TikTok that's just been making its rounds. You may have seen it.
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Today, we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with Donald Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon, AP's reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.
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It's alarming that the Trump administration would punish the AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP's speech not only severely impedes the public's access to independent news, but it plainly violates the First Amendment. also violating our national security.
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Tulsi Gabbard was confirmed by the spineless Republicans yesterday as the next director of the National Intelligence. She will now oversee all of America's intelligence community. Vladimir Putin says thank you. Vladimir Putin says cheers. I can assure you now.
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that no other NATO country or any other ally or once ally of the United States, because America is basically even a weirder version of North Korea, Trump a weirder version of Kim Jong-un, no one will be sharing intelligence with Tulsi Gabbard and the United States. We have boycotts, no sharing of intelligence, pure isolationism of America. America has never been weaker in its entire history.
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Trump has destroyed America in just three short weeks, destroying the economy, destroying the alliances, ripping apart the government. Vladimir Putin is happy. Elon Musk is happy. By the way, I saw this one going around right here. Elon Musk going anywhere in public using his son as a prop. Please, I have a child.
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Over in Kyiv, in the Kyiv Independent, great reporters over there like Ilya Pomeranko, after Donald Trump's total capitulation to Putin yesterday, here's what Pomeranko wrote. So are we supposed to give up our national territory, vow never to join NATO no matter what Russia does to us, and also give Donald Trump our rare earth metals?
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That's a very interesting deal from an aggressor and a partner that was supposed to support our security, in exchange for Ukraine giving up our nuclear weapons, missile armaments, and strategic bomber fleet. Of course, yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump said that it was a bad idea for Ukraine to go into war. They were, excuse me, they were invaded by Russia. It was an unlawful invasion.
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And Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin without speaking to Zelensky first and apparently cut a deal to basically hand over Ukraine to Russia, ban Ukraine from joining NATO or not supporting Ukraine ever joining NATO and not allowing Ukraine to ever restore its pre-2014 borders. Here, watch this.
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Donald Trump has asked if he opposes NATO membership of Ukraine.
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The Fox state regime media strikes again. So here's what went down. So on their morning shows like Maria Bartiroma, they were reporting, because it was a business show, that inflation is way up right now, exceeding anybody's expectations because of Donald Trump. So what Fox tries to do at first is just say, look, this is not Donald Trump's fault. It's just the bird flu. It's Avian flu.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think about, you saw that strategy with Fox, starting in the morning, and then you see the brainwashing that they do over and over and over again. Hit subscribe, help us get to 4 million subscribers. Thank you for watching.
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Cue in Caroline Leavitt. I mean, she's just so utterly pathetic, isn't she? So then she goes on like Jesse Waters and she goes, these are monumental changes that the people wanted. People wanted monumental changes. We're giving it to them. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, then they have Stephen Miller on and Stephen Miller's like, He's looking more like a genius every day. This is genius. You see, this is so genius what we're doing. Here, watch this.
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Okay, next you then have Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, this is what we wanted. Everyone voted for this. Elon Musk raiding the government. We did it, America. Mission accomplished. So what they're trying to tell their zombified, you know, right-wing fascist viewership, I guess, zombified, you know, is that, oh, we want this? Oh, this is good, good. Like Pavlov, we like this. Here, play this clip.
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And then Marjorie Taylor Greene goes even a step further. And she's like, and Elon Musk, we should be appreciative. This is a billionaire who's just volunteering his time.
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Don't blame Donald Trump. But see, Trump gets pissed. He sees that. So then Donald Trump starts posting on social media, Biden inflation up. And then Donald Trump starts attacking the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, saying interest rates should be lowered. something which would go hand in hand with upcoming tariffs. Let's rock and roll America.
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Really? It's just so nice, really. I mean, a guy who built his business off of government contracts, someone who was being investigated by mostly every single government agency for all of his misconduct. We then learned yesterday that Elon Musk's Tesla was likely going to get a massive government contract for like half a billion dollars for Tesla armor vehicles.
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Okay, he's what a selfless individual. And the only funny thing, if you even want to call it, that was when Elon Musk's kid was cursing at Donald Trump. And I didn't mean like, what, what, what? He's going to be raising a kid just like him. But just seeing Donald Trump get cursed out by Elon Musk, kids say, you're not the effing president.
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And Donald Trump just like sat there and take it and took it as like the ultimate powerless image. It was wild to watch. All right. So so then get this. So then they have Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas. Now, she's the most wasteful governor in history.
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You've probably seen, I've done the lectern gate videos where she spent like $20,000 on a fake lectern, but ended up, I think, going to Paris with her friends. She spends all this money on this, like going to football, all this taxpayer money, going to football games. She has these like, PR, these like press conferences where she like lines up like all the cops behind her.
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So she looks tough, like she's the most wasteful person imaginable. While Arkansas ranks kind of just as low as Oklahoma does in areas of like education and wealth and like you name it, Arkansas is towards the bottom. And it's sad because Arkansas is a great state and they could have like elected a rocket science
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Like a rocket scientist Democrat, an accomplished person who was running against her and they chose her. But here's Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying, we have to stop this waste and we have to stop this fraud. Again, they're always just telling on themselves. Here's Huckabee Sanders. Let's play it.
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Then what does Jesse Waters need to do to further kind of pump up the Fox zombified audience? He has to say basically, here comes the people who have weaponized the government against our victim. Our poor Donald Trump is trying to gut the government and there are people standing up to him. What a victim.
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And then Jesse Waters is like, Donald Trump, when I think of him, all that comes to my mind is a true humanitarian play this clip.
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Then Fox has to change its entire coverage to just be like pure propaganda, which it was before. But then they have all these guests on like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Caroline Leavitt, the press secretary, Stephen Miller, and they're all repeating the same line. This is what you voted for. This is what you want. Elon Musk is a genius. He's volunteering his time.
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Then they bring in MAGA Republican Congress member Chip Roy, who basically says, what we need to give Donald Trump the power for is the power of impoundment. Impoundment is illegal. What Trump's been trying to do is seize all of the... Remember, Congress has this pocketbook. The power of the purse is in Congress. They've already appropriated money and passed laws that go to things.
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Impoundment, that word impoundment, it's what it sounds like. impounding, taking the money and seizing it for himself, for Donald Trump. So Trump does what he wants, but he and Elon Musk, not where the laws say the money should go, right? The laws designate where the money should go. Trump wants to impound it. Here, let's play this clip.
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If you go to shopify.com slash Midas, all lowercase, that's shopify.com slash Midas and get that $1 per month trial period right now. Thanks, Shopify. Now, here's the thing I just want to remind you of. And again, let's set aside political parties for a second. If you want to do something, we live in a democracy.
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We're not a dictatorship, although Trump's turned it into an authoritarian regime already. But what you do is you pass a law. That's what you do. Trump controls, Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the executive branch. So if you want to do something, just pass a law. And you could pass a law. Shut down USAID. Pass a law. Shut down the Department of Labor. Pass a law. Pass a law.
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Enable Doge to do X, Y, and Z. Pass a law. Stop this. Pass a law. Do that. That's the way our system is supposed to work. But Trump and MAGAs want impoundment. Give Donald Trump the power of the purse and allow him to do whatever he wants and give him immunity. That's called a dictatorship. You could pass laws, but they don't want to do that. And you know why.
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Oh my gosh, this is what you want, America. We're doing it. We're shaking things up. Let me break down the anatomy of state regime media right now. So first, I want to show you that report from the morning where Maria Bartiromo and her panel have anxiety that the bird flu and related spike in egg prices could be, quote, another COVID crisis to greet Donald Trump.
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Let me just share this with you as well, though, because I do want to give a shout out to our friend Jessica Tarlov. And she goes on Fox and she gives them some pushback. So it's good to see Jessica Tarlov here. Jessica Tarlov is here. She's talking about politics. what Musk is doing, play this clip.
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And here Tarlov is again, let's play it.
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It's good to see Tarlov fighting there. And while all of this is going on as well,
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um russia's stock market soaring today as america's stock market was doing horribly um and then you've got people like elon musk who's out there attacking judges this evil judge must be fired and then this guy andy goes judge john bates is the same judge who presided over matt perna one of the five january 6 defendants who unalive themselves john bates needs to be fired okay
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federal judge John Bates, senior judge in Washington, D.C., appointed by George W. Bush. I know he made one of those rulings that said, what Judge Bates ruled was that the websites for HHS, FDA, NIH, and a few other agencies, they needed to be restored. So for that, why? And people depend on those things for their life. But for that... MAGA was going after him.
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You see, they treat him like he's a little toddler. Oh, it's never Donald Trump's fault. Always the victim. Here, watch this.
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Now, let me just share with you one final thing because it's not on Fox, but I think it's worth it to see John Bolton on CNN. He used to go on Fox more when he was Trump's national security advisor. But here he talks about how what Donald Trump did with Russia yesterday in the Oval Office, basically saying that he was not okay with Ukraine becoming a
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that Trump was gonna go visit Putin, blaming Ukraine for Russia's unlawful invasion, saying that the borders should not be what they were pre-2014 in Ukraine. I mean, just total capitulation. And so John Bolton's like, so literally before the negotiation, you're giving Putin everything he wants? That's called surrender. Here, play this clip.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leading Canada like a wartime president against Donald Trump's reckless and dangerous threats. Prime Minister Trudeau continued to talk about how sovereignty is not on the table. In no way will Canada ever bow down to Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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And here's the statement that came out from the European Union. Let me read it for you. Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation,
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europe must have a central role in the statement they put out we're ready to enhance our support for ukraine we commit to its independence sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of russia's war of aggression we share the goal to keep supporting ukraine until a just comprehensive and lasting peace is reached a peace that guarantees the interest of ukraine and our own
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We are looking forward to discussing the way ahead together with our American allies. Our shared objective should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations. Ukraine should be provided with strong security guarantees. A just and lasting peace in Ukraine is a necessary condition for a strong transatlantic security.
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We recall that the security of the European continent is our common responsibility. We therefore working together to strengthen our collective defense capabilities. Now contrast that to what Donald Trump disgustingly said in the Oval Office. Let's play it.
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Horrible stuff. Oh, let me lead you out here with another clip by Charlie Angus, Member of Parliament in Canada. Play this clip.
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He's a convicted predator. There you have it, folks. Hit subscribe right now and thank you for all of your support. Have a good one.
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And then you go from Macron to former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, so in the Middle East. He says, you know what? Maybe Mar-a-Lago would be a great place to put the Gazans. Maybe we move everybody to Mar-a-Lago. Watch this.
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And by the way, I'm not the biggest Boris Johnson fan. But when it comes to defending Ukraine and when it comes to stuff like that, you got to admit he is witty. And at least on those issues, you know, there's something to be said there. Let's talk about the leader of the liberal, Ed Davey, a member of parliament right here. Here he is talking to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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And I love the way they do this in the UK. And Ed Davies asking if Starmer had reassured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he could not be bullied by Trump and Vladimir Putin after Donald Trump capitulated to Putin in the Oval Office yesterday. What a horrific scene that was where Donald Trump bragged about his call with Putin and basically said he was going to give Putin everything.
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And Donald Trump said that he didn't view Ukraine as like an equal partner and he blamed Ukraine for Russia's unlawful invasion. Let's watch Davey play this clip.
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And here's another powerful speech right here from Ed Davey saying that the government needs to draw plans to tariff Tesla right now. Elon Musk and Donald Trump should not be allowed to bully the UK while conservatives and Nigel Farage cheer them on from the sidelines. Watch this.
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I got to follow Ed Davey a little bit more now. He's reminding me a lot there of Charlie Angus, member of parliament in Canada. And I think we need the Anguses. We need the Davey. We need this type of energy right now internationally. Let's go back to French President Macron.
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Powerful words right there. And we know there is a massive boycott underway in Canada, boycotting all American tourism, boycotting all American products and goods. It is a scarlet letter unless you're absolutely forced to in Canada. to buy anything America or to travel to America.
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Here he is taking a swipe at Donald Trump at an AI summit in Paris while calling on attendees to choose Europe for their business needs. Play this clip.
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Folks, some interesting data coming out of Canada as well. It was previously projected in the polls that the Conservative Party was going to win if there was the snap elections. But now it seems that Liberals are projected to win a majority if Mark Carney is named the party leader. In addition to Carney, there's a deep bench.
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There's an energy around the Liberal Party right now, I think, as Prime Minister Trudeau is also leading as a wartime president and passing on the baton. In addition to Mark Carney, who was a leader of a bank, he's got incredible CEO bona fides. You also have Chrystia Freeland. Let me just show you how they are reaching out to the people in Canada. It is wonderful.
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rallying people against Trump and against American fascism. So Christie, if Freeland's running for the prime ministership and become the leader of the liberal party, here's what Freeland has to say. Here, play this clip.
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Let's go to France, where there you have French President Macron slamming Donald Trump's plan to ethnically cleanse, let's just call it what it is, Gaza. Here, watch this.
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Prolonlife.com slash Midas. Check it out. And here's Chrystia Freeland doing what she does best, taking on Trump. This is on CNN. Let's play this clip.
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This is the ad she cut. Join the fight for Canada. And she's calling out PP, Pierre Poliev, the conservative right-wing Maple Maga guy who had been sucking up to Donald Trump all this time. Let's play it.
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Now contrast her and also who she's running against. I mean, Mark Carney's great. Liberal Party, he's running for the prime ministership. Let's play this clip.
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Donald Trump's press conference just blew up the entire world order. Total capitulation to Vladimir Putin. I want to show you what went down and an abandonment of our support of Ukraine. So cowardly, one of the most despicable things I think in United States history. Donald Trump talks about how it's an interesting question whether or not to even view Ukraine as an equal partner
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A reporter then talks about how, basically, if you're now saying, Donald, that Ukraine shouldn't be a member of NATO and shouldn't return to pre-2014 borders, aren't you essentially giving Russia everything? Literally just handing over everything to Russia? Here's what Donald Trump says. Let's play it.
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A reporter then asks Donald Trump if he would support Zelensky ceding territory to end the war. Then Donald Trump... falsely attacks Zelensky's poll numbers and spews Russian propaganda. And then you'll see soon Donald Trump talks about how he wants to see there be an election in Ukraine. Why? Because Trump and Putin want to install a Putin puppet in Ukraine. Watch what went down. Play the clip.
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in negotiations with Russia, and Donald Trump then blames Ukraine for going into a war with Russia, not the fact that Russia unlawfully invaded Ukraine. Play the clip.
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Here's the clip where Donald Trump talks about elections in Ukraine. And to be clear, what that means, and Putin, you know, we've been covering a lot of what Putin and Russia have been saying.
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As part of their plan to make Donald Trump kiss the ring and have total capitulation, one of the Russian preconditions, as Donald Trump's like, I'm going to do peace in 24 hours, was to force an election in Ukraine to try to install a Putin puppet and depose Zelensky. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump talks about how he sees it as not practical to have Ukraine and NATO. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump brags about his call earlier in the day with Putin. And he goes, look, everybody, Putin wants peace. He didn't want it with Biden. He wants it with me. Well, you idiot, you freaking traitor. It's because you're giving away Ukraine. You're breaking apart NATO. You're giving Putin everything he wants. So utterly pathetic. It's not even Neville Chamberlain stuff.
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It's quite literally traitorous, in my opinion. Play the clip.
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And you tell me why that is, okay? Then Donald Trump brags about having Putin come to America and Donald Trump going to Russia, which, by the way, is going to make Helsinki, where Donald Trump shamed our country, look like minuscule compared to the embarrassment and humiliation we're going to see as Donald Trump travels to Russia to kiss Putin's ring. Play the clip.
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And while all of this was going on, these spineless Republicans here in the United States confirmed Tulsi Gabbard, who's a Putin puppet to be the director of national intelligence. By the way, all of this was coordinated. Confirmed Tulsi, big win for Russia. Have Pete Hegseth go to Europe and talk about how he does not agree to have Ukraine ever
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join NATO, and then Donald Trump's call with Putin, all part of total capitulation. Now, as Tulsi Gabbard gets confirmed, let's be very clear. There's not going to be a single foreign intelligence agency that will ever share information with the United States, knowing that that information will likely get passed to Putin right away. So you have Donald Trump threatening to annex the
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Canada threatening to invade Greenland and annex Greenland. Same thing with Panama. You have them capitulating to Vladimir Putin. You have Tulsi Gabbard coming in. You have all of the world uniting against the United States. And we have a psychotic, idiotic president in Donald Trump from the Oval Office kissing Putin's ring. By the way, this was Hegseth
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Here was Donald Trump's ranting and raving post from earlier in the day where he brags about the common sense solution that he's developed with Putin and that he had a lengthy and productive phone call with Putin. What I noticed about this as well is that Donald Trump doesn't mention his envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, in this.
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He talks about how Rubio, director of CIA John Ratcliffe, and national security advisor Michael Waltz, and special envoy Steve Witkoff will lead the negotiations. What about your lead negotiator, by the way, Keith Kellogg, who, I mean, I guess people thought that Keith Kellogg was going to what? actually try to negotiate a positive resolution for Ukraine.
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Next up, Donald Trump talks about how he does not believe that Ukraine should go back to pre-2014 borders. By the way, this echoes what Defense Secretary, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth said earlier in the day when he was in Europe, where he said that he would not agree to have Ukraine in NATO.
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As Nicholas Tenzer explains, literally Trump's post seems like it was directly dictated by Russia, as was Hegseth's speech. In Trump's world without law or principles, there is no longer an aggressor or an aggressed, a culprit or a victim, but submission to the one who appears wrongly to be the strongest. Everything depends on Europe right now. That's basically where we are at right there.
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Here, by the way, you see Vladimir Putin basically, you know, this is looks like he's cheersing with a total capitulation. I've seen that meme go everywhere, especially with the Tulsi Gabbard confirmation. As Ilya Pomerenko of the Kiev Independent explains.
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So we are supposed to give up our national territory, vow never to join NATO no matter what Russia does to us, and also give Donald Trump our rare earth metals? That's a very interesting deal from an aggressor and a partner that was supposed to support our security in exchange for giving up our nuclear weapons, missile armaments, and strategic bomber fleet.
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And by the way, as Olga Lautman explains, on top of all the other gifts Trump gave Russia, he also disbanded the klepto capture task force that dealt with the seizure of Russian assets and all the units monitoring the flooding of foreign money. bribery and interference in U.S. elections. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, explains, oh yeah, that too.
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Every bargaining chip has already been given to Putin for free. Art of the deal right there. Meanwhile, Russia's stock market is soaring on the news that Donald Trump is totally capitulating to Vladimir Putin. In the meantime, America's markets are not doing well with inflation rising, prices rising. It is some horrific things. Oh, and what Donald Trump is talking about as well.
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You want to know what he's posting because he's in his pure wannabe dictator mode. This is what he wrote. This is real. President Donald J. Trump was just unanimously elected chairman of the board of the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The president stated, quote, it's a great honor to be the chairman of the Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing board of trustees.
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We will make the Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place for anyone who voted for this psychopath who has just destroyed our national interest and sold out the United States of America's foreign policy
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I just have to say how despicable of a decision you made for the rest of us, putting this ridiculous psychopathic person in charge who's bragging about appointing himself to the Kennedy Center while giving Vladimir Putin everything. Seriously, shame on you.
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And now we, the pro-democracy loving people in America, have to look to allies in Canada and Europe and elsewhere to try to maintain some semblance of a world order that doesn't have Vladimir Putin and China taking over everything. The most weak and pathetic administration ever. And shame on you spineless Republicans for enabling this crap.
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And he said that he would not think it is a feasible option to have Ukraine return to pre-2014 borders when Russia invaded then and annexed land the same way Donald Trump threatens to do with Canada. Here, play this clip. Sir, just to be clear, do you see any future in which Ukraine returns to its pre-2014 borders?
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This is the state of the MAGA Republican Party right now. You have MAGA Republican Congresswoman of South Carolina, Nancy Mace apparently faking being attacked by a trans activist who turns out not to be a trans activist, but a foster care youth activist who simply shook Nancy Mace's hand. And then she exaggerated being injured by a handshake.
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and then proceeded to go on social media and claim that she was physically assaulted by a trans man activist. And it seems that she then went on her burner accounts to engage with her own pity party over an event that really didn't occur. According to witnesses, can you really get more pathetic than this? I guess you can with MAGA, but let's just break it down.
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So over the past few weeks, MAGA Republican Nancy Mace has been going on Fox and all the right-wing news networks. Her whole thing right now is because there is a Democratic trans woman, Congresswoman, who's now in the House of Representatives from the at-large District of Delaware, Nancy Mace, over and over again. I mean, I'm talking quite literally hundreds of posts a day.
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attacking transgender people, attacking her transgender colleague in the most discriminatory of terms over and over again. And by the way, three years ago, MAGA Republican Nancy Mace was a completely different person. And she made public statements supporting the LGBTQ communities, supporting transgender people. But now she sees this as a culture war issue ticket for her to get on Fox. Also,
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Her South Carolina congressional district was gerrymandered. So it's pretty much comprised mostly of MAGA people right now, and it became less moderate. So she just changed her personality like 100%. Let's take a look at some of these headlines right here, and let me break this all down for you. So here's the headline.
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This Republican representative may have lied about trans activist attacking her. Can you think of any more MAGA headline than that? I don't know. Maybe Donald Trump says that Mexico should be 51st state as well as Canada. Anyway, here's what we posted on the Midas Touch Network as we were looking at her post. It was post, post, post, post, post. Oh, and then by the way,
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She then started to wear like a cast and like a sling and acted like her arm was broken. We'll get to that in a second. This is what we wrote on the Midas Touch Network. When you forget to switch off your burner account. So Nancy Mace keeps saying, yes. I was physically accosted tonight. More to come. Hashtag hold the line. And then it goes, oh no, what happened?
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And then Nancy Mace responds, a pro-trans guy out of Illinois assaulted her. Assaulted her? You mean assaulted you? Forgot that you weren't on your burner count and you were on your official congressional count? There's a lot more of these like this one. Yes, I was physically accosted tonight. More to come. You okay? She's in pain. That's what Nancy Mace is saying about herself.
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She's in pain, but she will survive as she always does. And she's not well right now. I mean, this is some bizarre stuff. Nancy Mace previously posted, I was physically accosted at the Capitol tonight by a pro-trans man. pro-trans man, one new brace for my wrist and some ice for my arm and it'll heal just fine. The Capitol Police arrested the guy.
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Your trans violence and threats on my life will only make me double down. F around and find out. Hashtag hold the line. She got this guy who shook her hand who, again, is not even a trans activist. He's just a foster care youth activist named James McIntyre. He simply said, hey, it would be nice if you respected the trans community more. And then she went, ow, ow, you heard me. You broke my arm.
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Oh, no. And then she had the Capitol Police arrest him. And then all of the corporate media were doing these stories on violence against members of Congress. By the way, there's real violence taking place against members of Congress, mostly MAGA people against Democratic Congress members. But there's also violence. Marjorie Taylor Greene's been targeted before. Violence is never the answer.
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Let me be very clear, regardless of political party. But faking this crap is some real serious, serious, it's a real serious problem. Here's what we wrote about on MidasPlus.com. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, put it thus. Witnesses are now disputing Nancy Mace's claim that she was physically assaulted at a foster care event in the House of Representatives.
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Several say that longtime foster care advocate James McIntyre, who Mace had arrested by Capitol Police for assaulting her, simply shook her hand. The imprint is a magazine or newspaper which covers foster care events, interviewed witness Elliot Hinkle and others.
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Quote, from what I saw, it was a normal handshake, an interaction that I would expect any legislator to expect from anyone as a constituent. Nancy Mace alleges that she was assaulted by a trans activist. For some reason, the drama never ends with Mace. She said that Trump called to check on her. I'm going to be just fine as soon as the pain and soreness subsides.
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She walked into Congress in an arm sling, looking like she just did three tours in Iraq. More from Mace, quote, I never want to hear the left call themselves the party of love and tolerance again. And then we get the police report. There are police reports.
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And as it turns out, the most that happened, according to the police report, if you accept Nancy Mace's version of events, is that the guy held the handshake longer than Nancy Mace wanted. So the guy did to her what Donald Trump did to President Macron in France the past weekend, but not as bad.
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If you believe Mace's version, which as Ron Phillip Cowsey says, I don't, then a MAGA Republican representative, Tim Burchette, told the MAGA party line, quote, where's the outrage in the media from the left on the assault of Nancy Mace?
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Every time Mace falls out of the news for a few days, some incident seems to happen, as Ron Filipkowski says, which he plays it up for all it's worth in her never ending quest to get on Fox and Newsmax and other right wing media to get as much attention as possible. Emily Brooks from The Hill writes, A disputed handshake is at the center of Tuesday's incident involving Rep.
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Nancy Mace that resulted in an Illinois man's arrest, according to her police report of witnesses who spoke to the Hill. Here is the police report, with Mace's accounting to officers that relays a more contentious interaction. Said... Subject began to aggressively and in an exaggerated manner shake her arm up and down.
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The victim stated that she attempted to pull her hand away from the subject but was held in place by the subject. But a witness at the event, Elliot Hinkle, told me, quote, James McIntyre met her by the door where people could see her and him and say trans youth are in the foster care and they need your support and gave a handshake and then walked back to his seat and sat down.
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adding that it seemed like a pretty normal interaction. James McIntyre, who's been arrested for assault, has now pled not guilty to being charged with assault. Nancy Mace posts photos of herself as Wonder Woman. She goes, I'm Stan with Nancy Mace. War pink tonight. Celebrate all my real womanhood. A woman being bullied for weight for it. Protecting woman is the height of gaslighting.
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I'll drink your tears in my Pinot Noir. Cheers. Just so you see, Here's what Nancy Mace posted back on June 4th, 2021. The pandemic, this is from Nancy Mace back then. The pandemic kept all of us from fully celebrating pride in the low country in 2020.
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But hopefully as we finally begin to open back up, we can all come together to celebrate the challenges our LGBTQ plus community has overcome and the bright future ahead. Hashtag pride month, hashtag pride 2021. So what, she just reinvented her whole personality? That's the thing with these magas. All of this stuff is so performative. It's so phony over and over again. These stunts, this crap.
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That's why I just want normalcy here at the Midas Touch Network. And by the way, May I just share with you this short video here of Congresswoman McBride, transgender woman, Congresswoman from the at-large district in Delaware. And she says, look, I don't talk about being transgender. She goes, I talk about representing the Delaware people. You don't want me to use your bathroom?
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OK, I'm here to represent the people. Can you stop turning me into some culture war issue? That's not why the people of Delaware elected me. Watch Democratic Congresswoman Sarah McBride act mature, play this clip.
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I wanted to highlight all of this. There's a broader story here about this MAGA, what would be the opposite? It's a form of virtue signaling, MAGA signaling, whatever this is. And they live in their own fictitious gonzo MAGA world. That this fictional world is then spread through corporate media as a reality. It's ridiculous, dangerous. Gotta call it out.
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We'll go through it one by one the way we do here on the Midas Touch Network. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together.
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Congress Casar responds to Trump Economic Chaos
Another volatile and disastrous day in the markets, at least as of this recording right now. Who knows if Donald Trump's going to make another post saying bye-bye-bye to potentially manipulate the markets again. But this is where we're at right now. Our economy looks like a freaking Trump meme coin right now. And what are the MAGA Republicans saying about this?
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Congress Casar responds to Trump Economic Chaos
Donald Trump had billionaires in the Oval Office and they were all bragging about how rich they were getting. And everyone's got billions of dollars. I think we have the video of Trump literally with people in the Oval Office saying everyone's getting rich. You were 2.5. You made 900 million. Here, play this clip. One more clip I'll share with you.
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MAGA Republican Congress member Burgess Owens saying, this is amazing. They've got the greatest entrepreneur as the captain of America. Here, play this clip.
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Congress Casar responds to Trump Economic Chaos
I'm excited about what's happening now. Remarkable times. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member from Texas, Greg Kassar, Congress member. Remarkable. Remarkable times we're living in, huh?
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Congress Casar responds to Trump Economic Chaos
Oh, they think it's absolutely great. They love the American economy looking like the dollar sign Trump or the dollar sign Smolania.
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While that market manipulation appear to be going on, while the markets, as of this recording, as I said at the beginning, it's tanking right now, but it trades like a Trump meme coin. Is he going to do a post, another pump and dump? Like what the heck is going down? All of this is going on.
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priorities of the MAGA Republicans in the House and Senate was to put forward this budget to take the Senate's budget plan, which looked nothing like the House's plan, but then pretend that they were somehow similar and pass it. I guess the only area where they were similar is figuring out how to give the most tax cuts for the billionaires.
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I think they had disagreements in how to conceal it, like the formula from the Senate looked different than the formula for concealment of the House. But talk to us about what this is and what's going on.
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meme coin here's mega republican congress member carlos jimenez here's what he's got to say he goes no manipulation i was sitting with a stockbroker and we is this is cool because i'm sitting with a stockbroker apparently that means no market manipulation here play this clip president put out a post on true social at what was it 9 18 a.m um 9 37 a.m i should say where he said this is a great time to buy
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Congress Casar responds to Trump Economic Chaos
You're one of the people leading the campaign to make sure Elon Musk is done on May 30th. You posted by law Elon Musk must be removed by May 30th. Tonight, House Democrats send Trump a clear message. The clock is ticking. The law is clear. The people are watching. Fire Elon Musk. Tell us about that deadline and what you're doing to try to get that done.
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I heard Doge was at FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, today. where people depend on that, especially in times of this market manipulation.
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I know you've been speaking in red districts, purple districts where MAGA Republican Congress members have been too cowardly to hold town halls. You were on the tour with Bernie and AOC. Talk to us a little bit about what you've been seeing, what you've been hearing. You were at the big hands off protests. I saw your speeches. You know, you're there as well.
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Congress Casar responds to Trump Economic Chaos
You feeling a vibe shift even from when you and I spoke two weeks ago?
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Congress Casar responds to Trump Economic Chaos
Did they invite you back on Fox? I did a whole segment. You may have seen it where I showcased. I mean, you were on Fox. You don't need to watch my segment watching yourself on Fox. But I did a whole segment of you on Fox. Did they invite you back after that?
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Democratic Congressman Greg Kassar, thanks for being on. Thank you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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I guess that solves the issue. I guess. I mean, you're literally Congress. I mean, you're supposed to do oversight. I mean, no, I don't know. Maybe you want to look at the markets and see the unusual trading activity right before Donald Trump even made that post and then right after and then.
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Whoa! Bernie Brings the House Down at Town Hall
This is how it's done, folks. Senator Bernie Sanders sat for a town hall with Anderson Cooper on CNN, but Bernie Sanders was not afraid to call out corporate news directly to Anderson Cooper's face. Senator Bernie Sanders was not afraid to call out the cowardly law firm submitting and making deals with Donald Trump, turning their back against the Constitution.
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There you have it, folks. Great town hall by Senator Bernie Sanders. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Oh, check out MidasPlus.com as well. M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. Go check it out. It's where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes these great daily summaries. Tell me what you think. MidasPlus.com.
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If somebody gets next, Senator Bernie Sanders goes after the law firms who have bent the knee and submitted to Trump. Play this clip.
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Next, Senator Bernie Sanders looks at the crowd and says, raise your hand if you think the American health care system is broken. Everybody raises their hand. And Anderson Cooper tries to say, OK, it looks like the majority. And Sanders is like, nope, everybody just raised their hand. Let's be clear.
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What I love about Senator Bernie Sanders here is that he's not just going along with the corporate news narrative. He's saying, here's what's going down. Here, play this clip.
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Senator Bernie Sanders was not afraid to call out American universities for turning on their students. Senator Bernie Sanders was not afraid to call out the United States health care system and the United States government for not providing health care services. as a guarantee to its citizens and to the people of this country.
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Senator Bernie Sanders talks about the broader implications that if Elon Musk can do this to the federal government, think about your jobs and what he's going to do to everybody as AI gets more advanced as well. Play this clip.
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Senator Bernie Sanders next talks about the United States having the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country. And that apparently that this is something that corporate news doesn't want to talk about.
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I love how no matter what the questions Anderson Cooper was trying to frame in the framework of corporate news, Bernie Sanders brought it right back to the central issues that are truly impacting the American people. Here, play this clip.
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Senator Bernie Sanders standing up for workers, showing it how it's done. Let's take a look at what he said here. Senator Bernie Sanders said, I sure hope that when other people come into power, when this Trump regime era is done, we remember who the cowards were, who the people who turned against the Constitution are. Here, play this clip.
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Senator Bernie Sanders says what I'm going to be doing a lot of videos on this over the coming days. So keep checking back on our YouTube channel that I think what Trump's been doing is market manipulation as well, taking the market and then signaling to his family and to his, my opinion, to his oligarch friends when to buy while they keep screwing the markets. Here, play this clip. You've
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This is yeah. Next, Senator Bernie Sanders says, look, if you use tariffs the right way, there are ways that tariffs could potentially work. However, if you're applying some cockamamie formula and applying tariffs against the world and your allies and rolling it out in such a disorganized fashion, it's a mess. It's dangerous and it's economy crashing. Here, play this clip.
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And then let me show you how this all kind of started off here, where Anderson Cooper wanted to direct the conversation in one area, and then Senator Bernie Sanders is like, okay, Anderson, relax. Let me make the point that I want to make. Here, play this clip.
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You know what, as a bonus, let me just share with you a short portion of when I did the interview with Senator Bernie Sanders, what he had to say. This is what he said to me. Play this clip.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
It did not go well for Donald Trump's top trade representative, Jamison Greer, who testified on Capitol Hill for two days under oath, the first day before the United States Senate, the second day before the House of Representatives. He spent a day and a half
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Going back to day one, here's Senator Bernie Sanders also pointing out to Jameson Greer, like, you guys lie about everything. You're saying that Canada is causing the fentanyl issues in the United States? Assuming you even want to do these tariffs, why does everything, every freaking word got to be a lie? Senator Bernie Sanders with the win right here. Play this clip.
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So then naturally on day two, the Democrats pounced and they were asking Trade Representative Greer, you didn't know about that. You've just spent two days testifying. This would never happen. And now that's happening. Explain that to us.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
And let me give some credit here to Republican Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina, although he knows he's going to be heading into a difficult Senate race. He's doing this for a reason. Let's be very clear. And so here is North Carolina Republican Tillis questioning the U.S. trade representative, Jameson Greer, on Trump's strategy.
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This was, of course, before Trump changed course within 24 hours. Play this clip.
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And Jamison Greer's like, oh, well, I'm reading the Post and I think that this is actually really smart because there's no depth to the excuses and depravity that they won't justify when it comes to Donald Trump. So let's talk about what went down. So first, you have Democratic Senator Mark Warner. This is day one when Greer's before the Senate.
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I've been seeing memes like this all day, MAGA economics. You see that the economy without tariffs doing much better, the economy with tariffs much lower. But then all the MAGA people like, see, tariffs work. So wait, are tariffs either the greatest thing, but then you say that the fact that tariffs are withdrawn, that's the greatest thing?
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I mean, didn't y'all say that tariffs are gonna make everybody super rich and be great? Y'all removed the tariffs. There's no consistency with this at all. You take a look right here as Dave Whammon posts, Trump gets no concessions, art of the deal. I destroyed the global markets and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
It should be noted, too, that while all of this is going on, aided and abetted by the Republicans in the Senate, but the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives, all but three House Republicans voted for the Trump tariffs. The procedural measure, as Aaron Frischner writes, which preemptively surrenders congressional power to stop Trump tariffs passed with all Democrats voting no,
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Every Democrat voted no for this. You see the vote count here, these MAGA Republican senators supporting it. So here's how they procedurally engineered and rigged this thing so that there can never even be a vote on tariffs and Congress actually claiming its power. So here's Congress taking away its own power. This is what the MAGA Republicans wrote into the budget. You ready?
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And Senator Mark Warner just goes off on Jamison Greer saying, Why the hell are you tariffing Australia, our ally, when there's a surplus that we have in trade with Australia? That makes no sense under your cockamamie Greek formula. Play this clip.
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Each day during the period from April 9th, 2025 through September 30th, 2025 shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of Section 202 of the National Emergencies Act with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on April 2nd, 2025.
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So what that language means is that there's going to be, they're not going to even allow a day to be counted for the issue to be brought up because they're saying the day doesn't even exist where they can even talk about tariffs. If you want to talk about kissing the ring, think about what the MAGA Republicans did just there. By the way, how embarrassing for Jamison Greer what went down there.
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We'll keep you posted every step of the way. I just wanted to give you the full context of that hearing. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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justifying and making every excuse in the book for Donald Trump's tariffs against the world, the cockamamie formula, using deficits to calculate reciprocal tariffs, which weren't actually reciprocal tariffs, testifying under no circumstance ever. and I mean ever will there be a pause on any of these tariffs. We're all in. If there's 10% inflation, no pause. If millions of jobs get lost, no pause.
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Next, you have Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan, and she says to Jameson Greer, what if inflation was 10%? Would you still keep these tariffs on? Here, play this clip.
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Next up, you have Democratic Senator Cortez Mastro. And he or she talks about what are you doing to impact the negative impact on international tourism right now? What are you doing to deal with that? Here, play this clip.
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And then on day two of his testimony before the House of Representatives, you literally see him getting a text message or a Google alert on his phone, and he has this Oh, crap moment where he finds out that Donald Trump reversed course on every country other than China. And then Donald Trump essentially paused all of the tariffs against the world.
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I'm happy to come speak with you. Thank you, Senator. Next up, you have Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren saying, OK, so what you're saying is that if 700,000, a million Americans lose their jobs, you're going to keep these tariffs. You're going to support and play this clip.
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Next up, you have Democratic Congress member Lloyd Doggett. And here he really kind of just drives home this point to Jamison Greer about the way our economy functioned for 50 years and why America was benefiting under the trade policy as it always existed. Play this clip.
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Precisely what Jameson Greer testified would never happen. And also because Jameson Greer's the top trade representative, this would be like the decision that he makes.
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Then you have Democratic Senator Cantwell. Here she is, Washington state senator. Play this clip.
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or should be involved in, and he was finding out that Donald Trump basically made a tweet or a social media post, and on that basis, the entire tariff policy shifted in a moment, an entire realignment of United States trade policy took place, and Jameson Greer, the trade representative, was finding out This is the chaos of the Trump regime.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Next up on day two, you have Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi right here. Here's what he's got to say. Play this clip.
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And he's so right. Just flipping the policy. Did you even know, Jameson Greer, anything about this? And Democratic Congress member Stephen Horsford brings the point home as well. Let's play this clip.
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
Speaker of the House of Representatives, MAGA Mike Johnson, just got humiliated by his own party on the floor in the House of Representatives. MAGA Mike Johnson was promising Donald Trump that he'd be able to deliver the passage of the Senate budget blueprint, which was recently passed, that the House would adopt that.
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
Hallie Talbot, who does a great job covering this stuff, has the following spreadsheet about how the budget vote that MAGA Mike promised he would get done was punted over this extra day. There's about 20-ish members, MAGA Republicans, who aren't voting for this.
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
The House is supposed to leave for a two-week recess today, but MAGA Mike Johnson says, I'm going to keep you over the weekend right now if you don't vote for this. Take a look at this spreadsheet that she prepared right here.
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
Now, if you listen to what the MAGA Republicans are saying, they're saying that the Senate budget blueprint only has about $4 billion in cuts, whereas the MAGA Republicans say that their House blueprint, calls for $1.5 trillion in cuts. There's also kind of a dispute over this wonky-ish language over the Trump tax cuts and putting forward these Trump tax cuts for the billionaires.
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and how that's going to be calculated in order to pretend that it's not going to add at least $4 trillion to the deficit. So you have all of this infighting taking place. But there was Maga Mike waiting 80 minutes. The process blew up yesterday. And now... He's got to kind of wrangle everybody together. Is Donald Trump going to call and start threatening all the MAGA Republican Congress members?
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
Let me show you this clip, right? Because they didn't respond to the threats from Tuesday night. I'll tell you that. Here's MAGA Mike Johnson saying yesterday that he was still going to put this for a vote. He thought he'd get it done, but he did not get it done. Here, play this clip.
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Then they would go further into the reconciliation process to ultimately pass this horrific budget that would gut $880 billion in Medicaid, $400 billion in education, close to the same amount in agriculture, and then also completely revoke the authority of Congress to assert its lawful authority over tariffs and allow Donald Trump to basically do whatever he wants.
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As Jake Sherman, who covers this every day for the past very long period of time, the comings and goings of Congress, he said, I've never quite seen anything like this in my career. He also said this is supposed to be the easy part. of reconciliation right here.
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
So what now MAGA Mike Johnson is going to try to go to a conference with house leadership and Senate leadership in order to bridge the difference between 4 billion in cuts from the Senate and 1.5 trillion in spending cuts from the MAGA Republicans in the house. As Jake Sherman says, got it easy enough. Makes a ton of sense right here. Let's take a look. Manu Raju from CNN.
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He does a good job reaching out to these MAGA Republican Congress members and others outside of Capitol Hill. Here he's talking about people. He spoke to MAGA Republicans like Tim Burchett and others. Watch this right here. Here, play this clip.
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Now here's MAGA Republican Congress member, Andy Biggs. He's a holdout as well, not approving the Senate budget blueprint. Here's what he had to say, play this clip.
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Here's a bunch of other MAGA Republican Congress members saying that they're not going to vote for this blueprint, like Ralph Norman and Chip Roy and Thomas Massey and others. Here, play this clip.
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They're the best wings you'll ever taste for free, but for a limited time. Here's how you spell it. M-O-I-N-K box.com slash Midas touch. That's moinkbox.com slash Midas touch. Here was MAGA Republican Congress member Chip Roy on the House floor. Let's play this clip.
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
So MAGA Mike put this Senate budget blueprint for a vote in the House of Representatives. Now, for those who know the procedures in the House, you don't do that if you think you're going to lose. It's an embarrassing thing for a speaker to be kind of stood up by their own party. That's precisely what happened yesterday. Maga Mike was waiting in the house floor for like 80 minutes.
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
Now, here was MAGA Mike Johnson also indicating that he was not going to do any sort of checks and balances as it relates to Trump's tariffs. And he was just going to give Donald Trump carte blanche authority to do whatever he wants on tariffs. Here, play this clip.
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Now, one of the language that was being inserted into this budget blueprint and this budget in order to give Donald Trump full tariff authority was
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was to basically talk about Donald Trump's emergency, like Donald Trump's asserting special like wartime emergency powers to do these tariffs, because the power of tariffing is quite literally the power of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate. But the MAGA Republicans in the House and the Senate are letting Donald Trump just do this without permission.
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The House and Senate's oversight, like it's a complete abdication of the co-equal branch of Congress by the MAGA Republican Congress members. And what they're doing in the budget is they put language that says that it won't count as a calendar day.
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Any kind of discussion or debate over the tariffs so that it can't even be discussed during the next six to nine month period because they're not even saying discussion of tariffs constitutes a actual calendar day. Meanwhile, I mean, the feud between these MAGA Republicans is growing as well. You have MAGA Republican Congress member Stuby
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Stooby Stooby Doo says to MAGA Mike Johnson, where are you? He didn't say that. He said, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus, MAGA Mike Johnson. In the name of Jesus, you are rebuked, MAGA Mike Johnson. You know, it is interesting to point out as well that in MAGA Mike Johnson's district, nearly 40% of the people in his district are
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are on Medicaid, rely on Medicaid, and the House budget basically totally guts Medicaid. They're like, oh, it doesn't gut Medicaid. It does. They bury it in, oh, we're just dealing with this specific committee. It's say goodbye. to Medicaid under the House budget. What I do like, though, is the Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, calling Maga Mike Johnson out.
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He sent a letter saying, let's debate on the House floor, Maga Mike Johnson. I won't rebuke you in the name of Jesus. I'll just do a debate. Why don't we show the American people what we think about this? This way, You can tell the American people how you want to go after Social Security and Medicaid and just justify it. Let's talk leader to leader. Let's do a debate.
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
Of course, MAGA Mike Johnson's too scared to do it. So Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries took the floor yesterday. And here's what he had to say. Play this clip.
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First, it was 30 minutes, 60 minutes, then 80 minutes. And then it was clear that MAGA Mike was not going to have the votes from his own party in order to pass the Senate blueprint.
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Love that. Love that clip right there. And just to remind you, here's what Donald Trump was saying to the MAGA Republicans Tuesday night to try to force them to pass this budget blueprint on Wednesday, which they refused to do. Here's Donald Trump the night before. Play the clip.
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So a big defeat for MAGA Mike Johnson and Donald Trump. Now the MAGA Republicans have to bridge the Senate's blueprint, $4 billion in cuts, the House blueprint, $1.5 trillion. And that's where we're at. So we will see what happens right there. And then we're staring down issues regarding the debt ceiling and what's going to happen there. And will there eventually be a default?
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Now, this follows Donald Trump the night before on Tuesday night speaking before all the MAGA Republican Congress members at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner and Donald Trump basically threatening them all, you better vote for this or else. They did not line up and actually vote for it yet. Now, that could change today, but you take a look right here.
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And when will this whole bill happen? go through the reconciliation process. And again, this is the, this is supposed to be the easy part because they're just agreeing on blueprints. Like they're not even getting into the weeds yet of the numbers. This is supposed to be the easiest part because it just BS blueprints basically.
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MAGA Mike Gets Humiliated by His Own Party on Vote
Then it gets to like the actual cuts in the weeds, but we're not even there yet. So things are going to get crazy. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more all at store.midastouch.com.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
The question is a very simple one. Did Donald Trump intentionally tank the market by tariffing the world so that once the market crashed and he removed a lot of those tariffs or pressed pause on it and the market shot back up that he would enrich himself and his billionaire friends?
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Here's Fox with multiple clips of Trump officials saying there would be no pause. Play this clip.
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So, you know, Donald Trump and his regime members, all of his propagandists, the Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, his press secretary propagandists, Caroline Leavitt and Trump have been saying there will never be a pause ever in these tariffs that Donald Trump placed against the world. They will always remain in effect. Tariffs are the greatest thing ever.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Now, if I was presenting this case to a jury, one of the things that I would say is a smoking gun is actually what Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, said yesterday. Here's Besant saying that he and Trump had a long talk on Sunday and this was the strategy all along. Here, play this clip.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Now, Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, and Caroline Leavitt are trying to show, oh, this is the art of the deal. This shows how smart Trump is. This was all part of three-dimensional chess. Well, if they're saying that this was the plan all along, so their plan all along was to deceive the American people, deceive American corporations, cause American corporations chaos.
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What if in reliance, American corporations were building, said, okay, well, I guess we got to move factories, change supply chains. So that was all part of the plan. They didn't want to tell it. They created this chaos, destroyed tons of businesses that are going to feel like effects of this.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Small businesses, medium-sized businesses, businesses in general, they don't have the luxury to go, oops, I guess it's not a tariff day. I guess it's tariff. So that was the plan all along, but that was kept secret to destroy wealth, to erase $10 trillion from the markets, to wipe out $10 trillion in the markets, wipe it out, erase it.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
People had to go to their 529 accounts for the college savings accounts for their kids because they were terrified. This was the plan. And then a massive transfer of wealth. I mean, it seems like that's an admission to me. And here's Caroline Leavitt. Again, this seems like an admission to me. Play this clip.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
I'll let you judge all that data for yourself. You can let me know what you think. But I wanted to analyze this like I would if I was presenting my case to a jury. This is an investigation, I think, that needs to be done. And there needs to be more questions being asked. Why were those? Who knew? Clearly, the trades were happening even before the posts. Trillions of dollars just exchanged hands.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
It's going to make America rich. We will not back down on tariffs. In fact, Donald Trump's trade representative, who ostensibly is the person who came up with the tariff formula, was testifying over the past two days, first in front of the Senate, then in front of the House of Representatives. saying that the tariffs will always remain in effect.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
And often it was the people taking the money out of their 529s for their college kids so that they could afford to live because they were losing all of his money and then getting the wealth being redistributed back to them. You get what's going on. Well, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
In fact, he was testifying, Jameson Greer was testifying to that effect that the tariffs are not going to be removed when Donald Trump then posted around noon yesterday, at least my time, based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world's markets. I'm raising the tariffs to China, he says, by 125%. He then says, though, he's pausing the tariffs as it relates to everybody else.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
I want to explore this with you and I want to share with you what certain Democratic senators and members of Congress are doing as they demand investigations into whether market manipulation took place. So let's take a look at this and analyze it through a legal prism. As a law professor, let me try to walk us all through this.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
He says the tariffs are otherwise going to be paused. And then what happened? The stock markets just started surging up and they went from crashing to basically having the best gains possible. on a day-to-day basis in a very long time.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
It should be noted that during some of the periods of the greatest market crashes, the great recessions of kind of the 2008 period, and also during COVID as well, some of the biggest losses were then followed by the biggest gains. It's demonstrative of market volatility. But while the market all of a sudden accelerated up First question was, was there a test of this a few days before?
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Did the Trump regime or insiders test this out to see if this was going to make the market surge? Did they run a test? I'll get into that in a second. But first, I want to talk about tracking some of these exchange traded funds. These exchange traded funds, they have these funny names like QQQ or like QQQT or SPY, S-P-Y.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
But all these exchange traded funds basically mean is they seek to provide investment results for that before expenses correspond generally to the price and yield performances of the different indexes. So like the QQQ follows NASDAQ, SPY follows the S&P 500. So when you take a look at this, there's very suspicious trading taking place. The unusual Wells account explains it over here.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Now that you have the background on QQQ, I know it's TQQQ. These are these exchange traded funds and SPY. Remember, those just track the indexes. All right. This is what this account says. All right. I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded on it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted buy on Truth Social, traders opened QQQ TQQQ, and SPY calls.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Right before the news, someone opened SPY 509 calls expiring, get this, today. So those calls were up 2100% in one hour. You take a look at these charts, you can see all of the volume that was literally open today. Look at that little green arrow right there. you can see all the volume is new opening volume, not only on the zero days, but also on the weekly QQQ and TQQ calls.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
This is especially odd given the IVR on these was around 82 this morning through the roof. The traders really wanted to trade directionally here. In fact, using Unusual Wells Net Premium, you can see people have been loading calls, trading for a reversal following these open calls. Very clear example right here.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
So earlier yesterday morning, kind of first thing in the morning, Donald Trump made the following two posts. Be cool. everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before, exclamation point. He followed up by saying in all caps, this is a great time to buy, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, DJT. Now,
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
And then other example, the market exploded a few hours later after Donald Trump paused the tariffs. You can actually see right after Donald Trump posted on Trump media, on Truth Social, the call premiums exploded. So those traders who waited then, though, they exited over 300% up today. You can see right here the behavior of Trump.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
the market right there of people trading, the Trump media right there. So now go back, rewind a little bit for a second, right? And remember what happened on April 7th, 2025. Whatever this account is, this Walter Bloomberg account reported the following. Kevin Hassett, Trump's top economic advisor, Trump is considering a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except China.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
That was from Monday, April 7th. And then the Trump regime walked it back. But what we saw immediately is the stocks went up like a thousand points or like three, 4%. And then they went down, down, down, down, down again. So the question was, was that information leaked out there into the market as a trial balloon, as a test earlier in the week? Then the Trump regime said, ah, I got it.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
This will have the effect of pumping the market and we can create a pump and dump scenario. I'm asking questions right here as a lawyer or as someone who was investigating this. These are the questions you'd want to ask as the CoffeeZilla account post. Wait. So the Monday fake news about the 90-day pause was actually real all along.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Spencer Hakimian, who I think has been doing a great job tracking all the chaos in the Trump financial markets, goes, by the way, the leaked pause news the other day, he believes was 100% intentional. White House wanted to see how markets would react. if and when they needed to exercise their put. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
This account right here explains, so someone, and we've seen lots of trades like this, but this is just one trade just as an example. I want to give you specific examples of someone just trading on SPY, the exchange traded fund tied to the S&P. Someone bought $1.3 million of SPY earlier. They are now worth $1. $33 million. So someone who bought that earlier just made $33 million in one day.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
You see the cycle of Trump decision making or lack thereof that we have on the Midas Touch Network. I make stupid decisions. Something really bad happens. I convince my followers the problem is now magically solved. I reverse my stupid decisions. But within that, is Trump and his oligarch buddies getting rich off of this is the question. Now, Senator Adam Schiff is asking those questions.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
He's launched an investigation. Let's go to Senator Schiff and see what he has to say.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Under United States securities law, and really the very existence of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is to prevent behavior like this. Because could you imagine if the CEO of a company or an executive of the company posted out, buy the stock now, buy, buy, buy, what do you think would happen?
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
Next, let's go to Democratic Congress member Stephen Horsford. Here he grills Donald Trump's top trade representative, Jameson Greer, on Donald Trump's tariff reversal. Remember, Jameson Greer spent two days, I'll do a whole other video on this, but he spent two days, first in the Senate, then in the House, saying there will never be a pause. And then while Greer was there,
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
It would manipulate the market and people would go and buy, or insiders would say, that's a signal. And then maybe temporarily the stock would go up. And then if it crashed again... Retail investors and people can get screwed. Insiders can benefit off of this knowledge, and the knowledge is contained and controlled by insiders. That's why there are all these laws against insider trading.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
In the House of Representatives, saying there will never be a pause, Trump did a pause on all of the countries other than China and then raised the China tariffs. And here was what Representative Stephen Horsford, a Democratic congressman, had to say at play in this clip.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
And here's what Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said demanding an investigation. Let's play it.
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
So meanwhile, the Trump White House posted the following. They have the photo of Donald Trump that looks like the mugshot of him. And this is actually the White House post after Donald Trump created chaos in the markets, said there would never be a pause, and then said there's a pause on all of the countries. Although there's not a pause when it comes to
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Market Manipulation Red Flags Surface on Trump Decision
What the aluminum and steel tariffs, the tariffs on Canada and Mexico. And he says he's looking to put tariffs on pharmaceuticals and there's 125 percent tariffs on China. Frankly, people are very confused what the whole situation is. But just so you see for yourself here, Scott, here is multiple clips. that even Fox ran with of Trump officials saying there would be no pause.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
So did Donald Trump blink yesterday? Was he terrified seeing the bond market implode? Was he manipulating the market? Was he just trying to do another distraction? Was it all of the above? Let's explore and let's not ignore some of the other disastrous things Donald Trump did yesterday, like signing executive orders, directing the Department of Justice to investigate the
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So all these activist judges, you mean your own judges? George W. Bush judges? Sure, judges appointed by Biden and Obama and others. But their injunction frequency is because you frequently are committing crimes and violating the law. That's why. Two other stories I want to mention right now. Number one, a Delaware judge has made a finding that Newsmax affirmatively defamed Dominion.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
So Donald Trump gave press conferences yesterday where he said he was scared. Things weren't going as planned. The markets were getting spooked. And he was using words like that. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, Trump's propagandist Caroline Levitt said, this was all part of the art of the deal. This was all part of the plan.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
This is a legal finding, meaning the trial will now just be about damages. You'll recall Newsmax went public. The stock went up to like $100 and then kind of pumped up and it looks like a Trump meme coin or the American economy right now. And then it crashed to like, I think it's at like 33 right now, but it's still got a market cap Pretty freaking high right now.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
And so Newsmax going to trial next month just on damages. They've been found liable for the conduct itself of defaming. So it's just the money at this point. So I think Dominion's well placed for either getting a huge settlement bigger than Fox, especially now that Newsmax went public. But we'll be following that story right there. And also yesterday, I'll do a whole video on this as well.
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So keep checking back on our YouTube channel. MAGA Mike Johnson was supposed to pass the Senate's version of the budget blueprint and then reconcile it to push forward Trump's tax agenda and budget agenda. But he didn't get the votes in the House of Representatives. That got derailed. And so that's moved to today. We'll see if there are votes today and what's going to happen.
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But the Senate budget has spending cuts of about $4 billion. The House has cuts of about $1.5 trillion. So they're figuring out how to, I guess, deal with that. Very embarrassing for MAGA Mike Johnson. So we covered a lot of ground, a lot of stories right there. I like doing these recaps in the morning. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Check back.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
I'm going to do a whole analysis on the YouTube channel on market manipulation, a whole video on MAGA Mike getting humiliated. We'll talk about it all and more. Thank you for watching the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
So the plan was to lie to the people, lie to the markets, lie to corporations, lie to the world, crash the markets, wipe out $10 trillion from the markets, and then say that was the plan to begin with. And you think that you haven't lost all credibility? Well, you've already lost it pretty much months ago, and I think even before then, if anybody's ever been paying attention to this. But
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
Let's keep going. I want to talk about market manipulation soon. I'm going to do a whole video, by the way, on market manipulation this morning. I want you to watch that. I'm going to post that soon on the YouTube channel where I will break it down from a legal perspective what I would investigate the questions I would ask. Take a look at this headline from the New York Times.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
from be cool to getting yippy inside Trump's reversal on tariffs. Economic turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields, caused President Trump to reverse course on the steep levies. The real credit Mr. Trump's advisors admit privately.
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should go to the bond markets trump's decision was driven by fear that his tariffs gamble could quickly turn into a financial crisis directly attributable to only one man as scott galloway explained so as a result what trump did is he pulled the knife halfway out of the economy's back But the injury, no longer a reliable trading partner, will take years to heal. Hashtag stupid.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
Spencer at Kimian keeps a running list for everyone of all of the things that Donald Trump and his regime have been stating about tariffs. Tariffs are going to bring jobs back. So why are you pausing it, Donald? Tariffs are actually going to stop all fentanyl deaths. So why are you pausing it, Donald? Tariffs are actually to negotiate. So why are you pausing them, Donald?
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Tariffs are actually for external revenue. We're going to get rid of the IRS. So why are you pausing them, Donald? Tariffs are actually to crash bond yields. Tariffs are actually to raise bond yields. Tariffs are actually to fix trade deficits. Tariffs are actually to make the world stop depending on us and abusing us. Tariffs are actually to make everyone be our ally again.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, because he said that they believe that the election from 2020 was not stolen. And because he believes the election was stolen and they're outspoken against Donald Trump's election lies, they need to be criminally investigated. Let's be clear. We are all Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor. Donald Trump is just waiting for the time to go after all of us.
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and only be China's enemies. Now, keep adding to that list that Hakimian is making. As I mentioned before, Trump paused most tariffs for 90 days amid economic turmoil. He adds that he has authorized substantially lower reciprocal tariffs during this period. of about 10%. But when you actually look at the tariff rate to the world, then you actually look at it from a blended perspective.
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The overall tariffs to the world where you include China's in a blended average and all these other countries at 10%, and then the other tariffs that still apparently remain, although with the chaos in Trump, it was like unclear which tariffs are there. Is Canada and Mexico, are those tariffs on? Steel, aluminum, are those tariffs on?
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But it seems like a blended rate of somewhere around 23% to 25% from like 2% where it was before. So that's going to raise the prices. Oh, and by the way, as according to Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, this was all part of the plan. Screw the market. Wipe away $10 trillion. Tons of parents were tapping their 529 college accounts for their kids because...
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
That was part of the plan, apparently, by Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said, or as Senator Brian Shates says. Our plan is working perfectly and it's just a negotiation tactic, but it's also going to be permanent and we will be the world leader in textiles. And now there is a pause and everyone needs to chill, but also we will never back down.
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Or as we've done the kind of cycle of Trump stupidity, I make a stupid decision. Something really bad happens. I convince my followers the problem is now magically solved. I reverse my stupid decisions.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
want to explore the market manipulation case i'm going to do this in a longer video as well take a look at the nasdaq call volume spiking minutes before the 90-day tariff pause was announced as spencer akimian says not a good look at all someone knew when did they know it why did they know it how did they get this information um and you'll see all of a sudden a spike in volume people were very much aware of what was going on yes
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
Donald Trump did make a post earlier in the morning. Now is a good time to buy. Hell says that. Was that the signal? But even before then, we saw spikes taking place and unusual behavior. If you look at some of the exchanges and some of the funds that trade opportunities,
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parallel to the exchanges like one of them is called spy which trades alongside the s p and it basically takes their kind of relative percentages um and you basically trade the s p it's called spy there's one called qqq and tqqq which trades alongside the nasdaq so those calls were up dramatically and rapidly before the announcement. And so it seems that some people had significant knowledge.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
Now, one of the case that this was a plan from the outset, one, we know that Donald Trump has a history of being a fraud, right? He was found civilly liable for a fraud, number one. Number two, he's a felon. Number three, he's a sexual predator. Number four, he bankrupts business. Number five, He's Donald Trump. But go back to this video right here.
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December 12th, 2024, Donald Trump goes to the New York Stock Exchange. He's standing with Jim Cramer. Remember this moment where Jim Cramer asks Donald Trump, should working people buy more stock? And Trump says, I don't know. I would not want them to be in a situation where we have a dip or something. That's what Donald Trump said back in December of 2024. Remember this? Let's watch it.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
But let's explore first the financial and let's go into some of these other areas. So right yesterday, Donald Trump announces, voila, these big, beautiful tariffs that are going to make us all rich. He's pausing the tariffs on the entire world that he imposed. based on a fake formula. Other than China, he raised the tariffs against China to 125%, but the rest of the world will be tariffed at 10%.
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And now- So then yesterday, here's Donald Trump saying why he instituted a pause, because people were getting yippy. Here, play this clip.
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I know the presidents. They wouldn't have done it. The Ways and Means Democrats posted the following as the markets were crashing. Color me yippy yippy and afraid. Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist. said this was all part of the art of the deal. Play this clip.
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And by the way, this is not getting a lot of attention, so I want to give it attention here. There was a hearing that was held with Trump's nominee to head NASA, a guy named Jared Isaacman, who really, really, really did not, as Jamie Dupree explains, did not want to admit that Elon Musk was in his meeting with Trump.
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uh over nasa because elon musk getting them government contracts they got what i think uh spacex got what like 5.6 billion dollars from the federal government recently here play this clip was elon musk in your meeting when trump offered you the nasa position at monologue center i was interviewed by the the president united states was elon musk in the meeting when he offered you the job
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Now, as I said, with all the chaos going on, I don't want to get distracted from a lot of things, right? Prices are not going down. Prices are going up.
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One of the things we learned is one of the ways the Trump regime has tried to take down egg prices is buying them from foreign countries that, by the way, were tariffing and then selling them for lower prices here to manipulate the market when it comes to eggs. There's always a scam. with Donald Trump, but prices are going to still be surging.
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I mean, the blended tariff rate internationally is now 25%. If 125% tariffs on China means all your stuff from Amazon, all the stuff that you're buying is gonna be a lot more expensive. Think about what the cost of an iPhone is going to be very soon. JP Morgan still has a 60% chance of recession based on Donald Trump's arbitrary and capricious nature and behavior.
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And I don't want to forget that Donald Trump signed these executive orders yesterday directing the Department of Justice to go after Chris Krebs, who ran cybersecurity, was a major player in the intelligence community, protecting the 2020 elections from interference by Russia. And Chris Krebs said it was a free and fair and safe election.
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But all of those other tariffs that were above that 10% based on that fake formula, those would be paused for a 90-day period. So here's the headline from the Wall Street Journal, why Trump blinked on tariffs just hours after they went into effect. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson helped persuade Donald Trump to take time to negotiate with trading partners in face of pressure from business leaders.
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So Donald Trump hates Chris Krebs because Chris Krebs was technically part of the Trump administration. Miles Taylor as well, who was a whistleblower against Trump. And look, what Trump wants to do to Krebs and Miles Taylor, he wants to do to all of us here. But play this clip of Donald Trump signing the executive order yesterday and whining that the election was rigged. Here, play this clip.
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And I also want to mention this story because it's not getting enough attention as well. Despite being called one of the top three MS-13 leaders by the Trump regime, federal prosecutors yesterday moved to dismiss the charges against Henry Santos. This was one of the individuals. They did this whole press conference with Bondi. and Kash Patel. And they said, this guy's MS-13.
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Well, very quietly, the Trump regime moved to dismiss, dismiss the charges against the person they said was the main leader of MS-13. And one of the things that they want to do is not have to go through a trial. They want to take him now and then send him to El Salvador without process. They don't want to have to go through the court system to prove the evidence against him. Now look,
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Which is due process. If the evidence shows that he's MS-13 and he's a criminal, then the guy should be in jail forever, you know, or whatever the time the judge sentences him to. We all think bad gang members and people who commit crimes should go to jail. What the Trump regime wants to do here, though, after saying he's MS-13, is send him to El Salvador.
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So they want to dismiss it, snatch him, disappear him to El Salvador versus go through a trial. Now, here's the thing. The Trump regime was bragging on March 5th about extraditing, bringing people into the United States who are MS-13 to try them in the United States legal system. That's not uncommon to bring these gang members in who are coordinating gang activity abroad.
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not to let him free on the streets, to put him in prisons in the United States. We have a due process system. And then it goes through a process where they're charged and there's prosecution the way like El Chapo was found guilty. He was in the highest prison facility that there is, highest guard of prison facilities, went through a process, guilty.
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because there's supposed to be more security here than in the Mexican prisons when Chapo left. So what are we talking like? What are we even talking about here? They want to disappear people, and they think that they have a green light to do that right now. Also, the House of Representatives... introduced a bill, H.R.
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1526, to basically stop federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, which the Trump judges did all the time under the Trump administration. That passed the House. It goes to the Senate. I don't think the Senate's going to pass that at all. You know, one of the interesting things, though, as they talk about all these activist judges,
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A lot of these judges are appointed by George W. Bush, who are issuing injunctions against Trump. Judge McFadden, who issued the injunction reinstating the Associated Press in the White House after Trump blocked the Associated Press because they called the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, not the Gulf of America. Judge McFadden, a Trump appointee.
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And then on the right, you have, at least on a provincial level too, I mean, you have people who were once kind of MAGA Canada, like Doug Ford, who's out there saying, why don't we conquer America? Why don't we take Alaska, Minnesota? And there are some other states that we may want as well. You also had someone in the Green Party. I did a video on her yesterday as well, saying the same thing.
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So they're all uniting in Canada. The world is uniting against the United States of America. America went from a uniting force, NATO and all of our alliances, to now the world uniting. Now we're a pariah state. Now the world is uniting against us. It is humiliating here.
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And as long and until I still have my ability to make YouTube videos and speak my mind freely, and as long as until they lock me up, I'm going to just call out this Trump regime for the wannabe fascist, the weak, pathetic individuals that they are. I'm going to use my voice here. and call them out. I'm gonna do what corporate media refuses to do here in the United States.
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Yeah, as Ian Bremmer says, file that under. Two can play at that game. Donald, you heard her right there getting out that old map. to show Mexico's territorial claims on the United States. And I've been covering Claudia Scheinbaum's responses to Donald Trump. When Donald Trump first threatened Mexico and Canada with 25% tariffs, President Claudia Scheinbaum said, if you do that to us, Donald,
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We're going to make it hurt for you. We're going to make you feel pain. And by the way, Donald, perhaps you shouldn't be spending all of this money on military and weapons of war and your designs of conquest and perhaps deal with a comprehensive immigration solution versus just blaming everybody else. And by the way, don't blame Mexico for synthetic drugs.
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We here in Mexico don't have a synthetic drug problem. It's actually from the United States where that problem originates and that 95 to 99% of the casualties and deaths are coming from inside the United States. And she goes, also, by the way,
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You know, a lot of the violence in Mexico is caused by the fact that America has a rampant gun culture and your weapons of war get exported across our border. So let's have that talk, Donald. And by the way, do you realize that some of your biggest car manufacturers are based in Mexico? So put some tariffs on us and we'll make sure that you feel pain as well.
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And then Donald Trump spoke to her and Donald Trump tried to claim like a victory in the negotiation. And she responded right away. She goes, no, I didn't change any of my positions. I made it very clear where Mexico stands on these issues. Donald Trump knows that he can go pound sand. And again, it's not just Mexico who's standing up to Donald Trump. We're now seeing this internationally.
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We're seeing it with the EU. We're seeing it in Canada. We're seeing it with the UK. We're seeing it in countries like Panama. Heck, we're seeing it in countries like the Bahamas. But here's some of the other headlines just from the past 24 hours. France warns Donald Trump against threatening EU sovereign borders.
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The Foreign Minister of France hits back at Donald Trump after Trump refuses to rule out military control over Greenland. And the Foreign Minister of France reminded Donald Trump that we in the European Union have a mutual defense agreement. So if you intend to pursue territorial conquests of Greenland,
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President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico strikes back again at Donald Trump in her latest press conference. She took out a map of Mexico from 1607 and she said, look, Donald, if you're going to start threatening to conquer this nation or that nation, how about what we really do? is rename the United States Mexican America.
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Then we're going to defend Denmark, who's not just a member of NATO, by the way, if you're going to attack your NATO allies, but we here in Europe owe a defense duty to Denmark and we will defend Denmark against you, Donald Trump. So that's one headline. Then you have Germany's chancellor warning Donald Trump over threatening to take control of Greenland on Wednesday.
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German's chancellor calls out Donald Trump over his threats to seize control of Greenland. saying the inviability of borders applies to every country. Borders must not be shifted by force, said Germany's chancellor. This principle applies, and it is a foundation of our peaceful order.
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Again, Scholz was reacting to all of Donald Trump's statements, and Scholz said he had discussed the issue with fellow European leaders on Wednesday, reporting a certain lack of understanding regarding current statements from the U.S. among European partners. The principle of the inviolability of borders applies to every country, whether it's to the east or west of us.
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and every state must abide by it, whether it's a small country or a very powerful state. It is a fundamental principle of international law and a core component of what we call Western values, Donald. Germany's chancellor also highlighted the importance of the Western Defense Alliance, NATO, calling it the central pillar of the transatlantic relationship.
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During his press conference this week, Trump made more attacks on NATO, to which German Chancellor said, "...one thing is clear. The security situation in Europe will remain very tense for the foreseeable future. We must respond to this in a calm and resolute manner." And then they go on to basically say, look, there is a mutual defense agreement.
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It is out of the question that the EU allows other nations of the world, whoever they are, and I would even say starting with Russia, to attack its sovereign borders. And that one came from Russia. French's foreign minister, who I referenced before, Jean-Noël Barrett.
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Barrett said that European Union must wake up and strengthen itself militarily and should not be intimidated or made to feel insecure by Donald Trump. If you're asking me whether I think the U.S. will invade Greenland, the answer is no, he said. But have we entered an era in which the law of the jungle is returning? The answer is yes. Here's page one from the Financial Times.
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Europe's leaders warn Trump against meddling with its sovereign borders. Greenland threat sparks backlash. EU defense pact covers the island. Musk's support of the AFD right-wing extreme neo-Nazi party in Germany adds to concerns. And this article talks about how European leaders are warning Donald Trump, do not meddle with our continent's borders. German Chancellor, who I just referenced.
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It goes on to talk about, in addition, the French foreign minister who I mentioned. And it says, the EU treaty contains a mutual defense clause that specifies if a member is a victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other states have an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power. In other words, you touch Greenland, which is part of Denmark, just part of the EU.
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We're going to fight you, United States, and you want to trigger a war with Europe? By the way, everybody, check out the interview I did. I've done two interviews actually now with Corey Hargraves. He's a former army sniper. He was sent on two deployments in Iraq. as in connection with being a sniper. He's someone who grew up on a Native American reservation to a single mom. He was very poor.
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And let's redraw those borders from 1607 if we're going to start talking about territorial expansion. I love this. This is how you have to kind of just mock Donald Trump back and show strength. I want you to watch this. And we translated her voice with AI. Here, play this clip.
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He said the only pathway available to him to do anything was join the military. And he has a very unique perspective here as well that he shares. about someone like Donald Trump who's never served in the military and a lot of these chicken hawk mega Republicans who, by the way, were out there saying, oh, Trump's going to stop World War III. Trump's going to stop World War III from happening.
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And he goes, now you're going to send young men and women to die in wars against our allies to attack a NATO country like Denmark or other countries in the EU? or attack Canada. And just watch that interview. But you know who's loving all of this? Russia. This is being reported in the Denmark papers, this out of Copenhagen. Russian cheers for Trump.
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Quote, he will dismantle the remnants of the old world order much faster and more effectively than we could. We do it from the outside. He does it from the inside. Here's another Google translate of another headline there. The mood is good in the Kremlin. Trump has just fulfilled Putin's greatest wish.
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They can already imagine how Russia can now lay claim to Estonia, Finland, Poland, and other nations nearby because of Donald Trump's laying claim to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Well, then Vladimir Putin says, of course, that's why I want all these other nations. That's why President Xi Jinping of China says, that's why I get Taiwan. That's why I get this nation.
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By Trump merely saying. that he's going to be doing these things and that he won't rule out military force. He has created the permission structure for countries like China to invade their neighbors, for countries like Russia to keep on invading. And Trump has already, already before day one, destroyed our international allies and alliances. He's already destroyed it before day one.
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This is from CNN. Danish officials fear Trump is much more serious about acquiring Greenland than in first term. And it goes on to say the ecosystem supporting this idea is different now, according to a Danish official. This seems much more serious. And, you know, they're taking the threats like they're beefing up their military and may be ready to go to war.
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With the United States, we got to handle business. If you're going to attack us, we're going to build up military to get ready to defend ourselves. And if we have to go to war and Europe's going to go to war with the United States and that's what you're going to do, we'll go to war with you. We'll do it. We hope that you're trolling, but we're ready to go.
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By the way, this is a meme that we created at the Midas Touch Network voters. Can we get lower prices? Trump. Best I can do is invade Canada. Think about that right there. And then all these other MAGA idiots, I mean MAGA members of Congress, then gave all of these interviews and they were being kind of normalized by the corporate media. You have Representative Brandon Gill saying,
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Trump is bringing us into the golden age of America. This is the new manifest destiny, reacquiring the Panama Canal, acquiring Greenland, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This is the light of America expanding.
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I mean, seriously, this is some... You then have Benny Johnson bringing MAGA Republican Congress members on, showing them a map of the greater American empire, which involves conquering Mexico, Canada, and Greenland. And you've got all of these... you know, American MAGA politicians out there saying, no, we're going to conquer it. This is what we want to do. This is what we're going to do.
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We're going to go to war with Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Panama, everybody. We're going to war with everybody, apparently, according to these MAGA idiots. And world, this is not all of America. This is not all of America. in some of America, but we don't support this. And if this ever happens, we will make sure our voices are heard here. I want to assure you of that in the biggest way possible.
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We're not running away from this. We will confront this head on if this is what they're going to do, okay? By the way, you have a situation where in Canada you have everybody from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying the following. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.
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Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other's biggest trading partners. So, Liberal Party... Justin Trudeau, prime minister, although he resigned. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh saying, we're going to stand up to the bully. We are going to make sure that... And Trump's going to pick a fight. It's a fight that we're ready for.
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Trump ATTACKS on LA should be CRIMINAL…I was EVACUATED!!
Hey everybody. So I live in Los Angeles. I had to be evacuated. My family is okay. I don't know what's going to happen with my house, but I just pray for everybody's safety. I'll just tell you what's pissing me off so much right now after seeing the devastation of so many people here. It's just the lies over and over again from Donald Trump and all of these right-wing so-called leaders.
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It's always a political wedge to make us all hate each other. Enough. Enough of this crap. Here's what Donald Trump posts. He goes, Governor Gavin Newsom... By the way, I don't show Trump video and audio. You don't have to worry about me playing it. Trump goes, Governor Gavin Newsom...
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refused to sign water restoration declarations put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain and snow melt from the north to flow daily into many parts of California. He wanted to protect essentially worthless fish called smelt, but didn't care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid. An incompetent governor says,
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Then Donald Trump says he is to blame for this. On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes, a true disaster. And folks, what Donald Trump is saying is false. But here's the thing. This false statement spreads rapidly. I hate to use the term like wildfire, pun intended or no pun intended.
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I can't even tell you how many people have reached out to me and they said, oh, I heard the issue is that Gavin Newsom's doing something with smelt and you don't have water there. No, this is a once-in-a-generation event, but that is getting increasingly worse as our climate gets warmer. We're having once-in-generational droughts, and this is a catastrophic event. People are suffering.
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Gavin Newsom has marshaled resources. And he's done that in advance of this as well, planning how to deal with this. And this is a horrific, horrific event that is a natural disaster. And Trump's using it as a wedge issue. But all of MAGA is, quite frankly. This is what Donald Trump Jr. goes. Can we rename DEI to DIE?
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Since that's what seems to be happen to the people downstream of those who place woke virtue signaling far above competency. I mean, shut the up. Don Jr., you go to Greenland and film documentaries there as you cosplay trying to conquer it, you freaking idiot. What are you even talking? DEI, die.
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There are real people who are suffering in Los Angeles right now, but I don't want to make it about just us in Los Angeles. I want to make it about other Americans who have gone through natural disasters or terrorist attacks or what have you, and constantly a barrage of, this is the Democrats' fault, this is the woke fault, the transgenders did this, the migrants did this.
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Y'all are a bunch of divisive, you know what? I'll try to temper my language. Maybe I shouldn't. Donald Trump goes, As of this moment, Gavin Newsom and his Los Angeles crew have contained exactly 0% of the fire. It's burning at levels that even surpassed last night. This is not government. I can't wait to January 20th.
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It's lie after lie, and it's politicizing the pain and suffering of so many people here in Los Angeles. And this isn't unique to Los Angeles. This is precisely what they do every time there's a natural disaster.
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And again, I'm not going to show you video or audio of Trump, but I'll tell you what he said. Trump goes, I know these areas well. This is what he said at the Rotunda where he, again, politicized the death of Jimmy Carter in the Rotunda to talk about this. He goes, it's a true tragedy. Nobody ever thought, I mean, virtually Beverly Hills. And areas surrounding Beverly Hills are being decimated.
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A basic research would show you that Beverly Hills is not one of the affected areas. That's not being decimated. You're just an idiot who wants to pander and divide Americans. Let me show you what Gavin Newsom said, though. Governor Newsom said when Anderson Cooper said, Donald Trump's choosing to attack you. Here's what Governor Newsom said. Play this clip.
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Finally, your message. Again, also the language calling him new scum. What are you, a third grade bully? No offense to third grade bullies. Who behaves like that? Oh, others in MAGA. All night on Fox, Sean Hannity. This is DEI. This is woke. Donald Trump warned about this 10 years ago or eight years ago, and you refused to listen. Donald Trump would have fixed all of this.
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Again, the propaganda here puts North Korea's propaganda machine to shame. Donald Trump didn't say crap. Donald Trump doesn't know anything what he's talking about. He thinks the fires are in Beverly Hills. He talks about windmills killing whales. The guy's a freaking moron. But worse than that, he is a divisive hate monger is what he is. And here's a divisive hate monger.
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Jesse Waters, who goes, this right here, ladies and gentlemen, this is the leadership of the LA Fire Department. I sure hope they know what they're doing. And he's pointing to a group of women, and he has a clear intent on what he's trying to say there. And he goes, oh, again, Trump warned about this years ago. Trump would have saved this. Trump would have stopped this. Totally.
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talking about don jr of course uses it as a way to attack ukraine oh look of course the la fire department donated a bunch of their supplies to ukraine then you have mega republican senators like mike lee they were responding to the la fires by attacking california democrats and echoing Trump's talking points about protections for Delta smelt playing a role.
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When there were hurricanes that hit the East Coast, they lied and said that FEMA was not there to help the people and migrants were getting all of the money and people weren't getting relief. Every single thing MAGA uses as a political wedge issue, you know, once upon a time. We as a country, when there would be terrorist attacks or natural disasters, it wasn't a political thing.
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You have Benny Johnson using a clip where Governor Newsom was being briefed about the fire, and he was right there, Newsom getting briefing from fire chiefs. And Benny Johnson's like, California Governor Gavin Newsom shows up on site of the Palisades fire, offering nothing but a glance. and his hands in his pocket.
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Again, I'm not even going to show you the clip if you want to watch it, but it's like six seconds of it, and that's the type of propaganda that they spew out there. Other right-wing influencers like John LaFrarve goes, Trump was right about the fires in California. It's not climate change. It's the Democrats, this next guy. So sad to see all the fires burning in California.
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It's a disaster on scumbag new scum. MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Biggs goes on Newsmax and says that the fires are caused by Democrats. They're skipping right over thoughts and prayers. Elon Musk chimes in. They've prioritized DEI over saving lives and homes. Alex Jones, the propagandist who defamed, mocked,
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The parents of kids who died in school shootings got a judgment against him and runs away from that judgment. Goes, ESG and DEI all brought to you by BlackRock in action. More clips of Jesse Waters saying all of this.
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Let me contrast this to what President Biden has been saying all day. President Biden posts, I am being frequently briefed on the wildfires in West Los Angeles. My team and I are in touch with state and local officials and I have offered any federal assistance that is needed to help suppress wildfires. the terrible Pacific Palisades fire.
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Earlier tonight, FEMA approved a fire management assistance grant to support areas that are impacted and help reimburse the state of California for the immediate firefighting costs. My administration will do everything it can to support the response. I urge the residents of Pacific Palisades and the surrounding areas of Los Angeles to to stay vigilant and listen to local officials.
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President Biden posts, over 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate communities impacted by the Southern California wildfires. At least two people have been killed and many more are injured, including firefighters. It's devastating. To the residents of Southern California, we are with you. He also posts,
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Already, my team has provided 24-7 weather forecast support, sent five air tankers and 10 firefighting helicopters, pre-positioned dozens of fire engines, approved grants to reimburse firefighting costs, and I've approved Governor Newsom's request for a major disaster declaration.
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We came together, we tried to solve the problems, and we stood as one, we stood as Americans. And so when I read this filth, this hate from Donald Trump and MAGA, it just compounds the pain and suffering that we have here in Los Angeles, but frankly, This is not unique to us. This is how he treats people. This is how he treats marginalized communities. This is how he treats everybody.
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Brandon Richards, whose rapid response for Governor Newsom talks specifically about how Gavin Newsom ordered and pre-positioned critical assets like 75 local government fire engines, seven water tenders, seven helicopters, nine dozers, more than 105 specialized personnel in LA, Riverside, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura.
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The state strategically moved California fire firefighting resources from Northern California into Southern California, including 45 additional fire engines and six additional hand crews to Los Angeles. But then on the other hand, you've got MAGA Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, Governor Newsom failed so miserably in water and land management
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And now the state of Canada is sending firefighting planes to bail him out. Again, joking, mocking, or perhaps actually threatening our allies in Canada by calling them the 51st state, the state of Canada. I mean, these are truly deplorable people. I mean, Hillary Clinton, this is deplorable. Who behaves like this? And by the way, Canada is helping Canadian crews because they're our allies.
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We're sending their crews to help us extinguish the LA fires because that's what allies do. They don't threaten to take each other over and attack each other. That's awful. There's a broader point, folks, though, which is the question is this.
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where you have someone like a President Biden or Democrats who are out there saying, here's what we're doing, here's what we're focused on, and they're speaking positively about, and they're speaking in a way that's constructive about how to get things done, and they're not attacking the other side, they're not blaming, they're working, they're doing the work, they're rolling the sleeves up.
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But then on the other side, You have someone blaming, blaming, blaming. It's their fault, their fault, their fault, their fault. But there's no volleying back. Democrats aren't saying they're to blame, they're to blame. So all the people are, you see the strategy here that MAGA is using to divide us?
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Because all the people are hearing is on the one side, MAGA is blaming Democrats and Newsom always for no matter what it is. Democrats are like, we can't deal with that now. We are focusing on helping people and saving lives.
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But there's only one narrative out there in terms of who's to blame because Republicans, the MAGA, they're out there blaming people, Democrats, for things that Americans never blamed Americans for at all. That's the issue. And I could just tell you here, I'll leave with this. My heart goes out to everybody who is going through incredible tough times right now.
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I mean, do I hope that my home is okay? I do, but... My baby girl's here. My wife's here. My family's safe. And I know that makes me fortunate and blessed. And there's, I'm sure, many people out there who did not get out in time and for people who are injured. So when you're hit with things like this, all that matters is... your family, their health and safety. And so that's where we're at.
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Trump Very Confused in Disaster Presser as More Bad News Strikes
Donald Trump just gave a disastrous press conference in the White House that is sparking more questions about his mental fitness and cognitive decline. Trump did not seem to be aware of much of what was going on in his administration. This, as the Federal Reserve was sounding the alarm about the collapsing economy. My name is Brett Miscellus with the Midas Touch Network.
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Oh, and if that wasn't enough, Trump said we're actually going to have two victory days now, one for World War I and one for World War II, but said that the American people get too much time off as it is. I don't even know. Watch this.
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Trump was also asked about his administration's plans to now send migrants to Libya. Trump said he didn't know anything about it. Watch this. So three US officials have now confirmed to the press that the Trump administration is planning on deporting migrants to Libya for the first time this week. Human rights groups have called Libya's detention centers, quote, horrific and deplorable.
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Remember to subscribe and add the Midas Touch Podcast right now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify for more. This tweet from reporter Sam Stein summed up this press conference perfectly. When Trump was asked to comment about Vance saying that Russia was asking for too much in negotiations, Trump replied, When did he say that? It's possible he's right.
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And the State Department has even called these facilities harsh and life-threatening. The State Department even has a travel warning for Libya, warning of terrorism, kidnapping, and armed conflict in the region. This is just yet another dehumanizing idea by the Trump administration, and one that Trump is saying he just knows nothing about.
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Trump was then asked about his trade war, which is having devastating effects on the U.S. economy. Trump was asked if he would exempt products that families rely on from his tariffs, and he said, like everything else, he didn't know. Watch this.
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Trump continues to lie about China wanting to engage in trade conversations with the United States. In fact, China has said that the US has been trying to initiate talks with them. I mean, the US is practically begging them to speak, not the other way around. Trump was asked about this and he lied some more. Watch this. We will, but we haven't made that decision yet.
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Go ahead. Trump was then asked if he'd be willing to pull back on his massive tariffs to try to get China to negotiate. He said no. Watch this.
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No. And I should note that literally just hours before this, Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said that the US would consider lowering the tariffs. Okay, I have to say, Hexclad completely changed the game in my kitchen. I used to constantly wrestle with the choice between stainless steel for durability or non-stick for cleanup, and honestly, neither ever felt quite right.
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On news that the Trump administration is now going to deport migrants to Libya, Trump said, I don't know. You'll have to ask Homeland Security. On Republican Senator Tom Tillis opposing Trump's nominee Ed Martin for U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Trump replied, "...I didn't know that."
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Let's eat with Hexclad's revolutionary cookware. By the way, here was a great moment from a hearing this morning where Democratic Congressman Meeks questioned Scott Besant directly about the Trump administration's entire basis for these tariffs, where they say that our trade deficits constitute a national emergency. Watch this epic moment.
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Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has announced it is leaving interest rates unchanged, issuing a major warning about stagflation in the United States. That means slow economic growth, high unemployment, and rising inflation. Here's Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warning about stagflation if Trump's tariffs remain. Watch this.
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As Max Burns wrote, "...either Trump's cognitive function is in sharp decline or his White House team is intentionally keeping him out of the loop on key national security issues, or both. Any combination of those things is a huge problem." Let's go through some of the lowlights here. Donald Trump rambled and complained that the U.S.
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Trump Very Confused in Disaster Presser as More Bad News Strikes
Back to the press conference, Trump was also asked about the ongoing conflict between U.S. troops and the Houthis. While Trump is now claiming there is a ceasefire with the rebel group, there have been multiple incidents over the past couple weeks in the region. In fact, just yesterday we learned about a U.S.
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fighter jet that plummeted into the Red Sea when trying to land on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. At least, that's the story that we've been told. This was the second fighter jet the U.S. lost in the Red Sea in just over a week, and the fourth major mishap in just months.
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These fighter jets are worth about $70 million apiece, but I guess this is what happens when you have a Fox News morning show host in charge. Anyway, Trump said today that he honors the Houthis' commitment and commended them for their bravery. Watch this. Take a look, but, you know, we had, uh,
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Another day, another disaster. You know we're going to continue to follow it all right here on the Midas Touch Network, so remember to subscribe and add the Midas Touch Podcast right now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. My name is Brett and I'll see you soon.
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doesn't get enough credit for World War II as he designated Thursday as Victory Day. Here's the clip.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Let's talk about... More Marjorie Taylor Greene attacking Congresswoman Crockett. Let's show you this clip right here.
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MAGA Republican Congresswoman McClain also kind of going through this saying like you're living in a fake reality or whatever the hell she's talking about. Here, play this clip.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Now, if you go to another committee hearing that was taking place as well, You have Andy Biggs, who's chairing this committee over here, attacking Democratic Congress member Goldman. Let me show you this when he's banging the gavel over and over again as well. Let's play this clip right here.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Then finally, we got to hear from Democratic Congress member Goldman about how he feels about that hearing. Let's play this clip right here.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
And then over here, more Marjorie Taylor Greene yelling at Democratic Congress members and saying, you're taking my time. You don't have the ability to speak. Just watch how odd this is. Play this clip.
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And you know, with Marjorie Taylor Greene as the chairwoman of this committee, that it was going to go off the rails and get unhinged very, very quickly. So she just takes her gavel and just starts banging it over and over again as Democrats are just trying to reclaim their time and ask questions. Watch how unhinged Marjorie Taylor Greene is here playing this clip.
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And yeah, this committee that Marjorie Taylor Greene's chairing goes more off the rails. Let's play this clip. Point of order.
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Now, there was one moment as well, and this just shows you how deceitful these MAGA Republicans are. So one of the people who were subpoenaed to show up is a guy named Damien LaFelte, and he's the chairman of the board of USA Fencing. Now, you may say, USA fencing, but what the hell are they even doing here?
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Well, one of the state regime media Fox things that they were pushing was like two years ago or something that there was a transgender fencing person and that the transgender fencing person was this major scandal. So this was on Fox all of the time. So as a result of Fox basically doxing this chairman of USA fencing, because there was a thing, one transgender fencing person.
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And I don't think it was even recently. This guy got death threats. Lafelt got death threats over and over again, the head of USA fencing. So they subpoena him to try to attack him. And then they try to defame him. So the MAGA Republicans show a photo of him that makes it look like he's giving the camera away.
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the middle finger, but they manipulate the image, where if you actually look at what the image is, you'll see that he was showing two fingers, but they chop it off, so it looks like he's giving the middle finger. This is how deceitful and devious these MAGA Republicans are. Play this clip.
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Yeah, this hearing went off the rails very quickly. Marjorie Taylor Greene is the chairwoman of the Doge committee here. The hearing that was held was called unfair play. keeping men out of women's sports. And it focused on USA fencing, which receives literally zero federal funding.
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Whoa!! GOP Hearing Goes Off the Rails… Dems Respond
Now, do you remember the video I did? When was it? 18 months ago or maybe longer ago when the MAGA Republican Congress members were doing the Hunter Biden hearings and they would literally edit the text messages like they'd manipulate the words. And then I think it was, yeah, it was Congresswoman AOC who said, I have the real texts. You literally changed the language here.
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Like you're committing a fraud in Congress. like tampering with evidence, but that's who they are. Here's a moment where LaFelte, the head of USA Fencing, says we don't get any federal funding. Not one penny of USA Fencing is supported by federal funds. Play this clip.
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So what the hell is this government efficiency doing? They're spending their time going after USA Fencing, which is not subsidized by the federal government at all? This is what they're spending our taxpayer money on?
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Well, she's always completely unhinged. So bizarre. You know, who are the weirdos there, Marjorie Taylor Greene? You may want to look in the mirror. I want to show you this moment here, though, where Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett had the most incredible series of questioning. She said, OK, let's play a game. Congresswoman Crockett said she goes, let's call it Trump.
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While you are suffering, while people are living paycheck to paycheck, while mortgage rates are close to 7%, while inflation is on the rise again as we're heading towards stagflation, as our GDP is shrinking, as frickin' Donald Trump and all these MAGA morons are out there saying that you should only get $1.05
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for your little girl or granddaughter, and that she needs to pay more for it because why would she want more than one toy or whatever the hell they're talking about? This is what they're focused on? Democratic Congress member Garcia had an important point to make here as well. Let's play this clip.
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Yeah, he showed the words of Nancy Mace because once upon a time when she was pretending to be a centrist in her district in South Carolina before it was gerrymandered to be one of the most extreme agri-republican districts, Nancy Mace was saying, oh, I'm for the LGBTQ community. Of course I am. Now she posts, what did he say? 347 times in a day, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ stuff.
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And here she is posting, this is weird behavior. Set aside politics. This is weird human behavior. This is not how people behave. And she goes, spotted in Austin. all gender restroom on a recent trip to Texas. No, there are only two. Hold the line. Biology isn't bigotry. This is what she does. She posts this crap over and over again. She got community noted.
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This is a single occupancy ambulance toilet, which is a lockable door. These are also known as disabled toilets. What are you
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taking pictures of and posting yourself of this why are you bullying transgender people why are you bullying gay people what go spend your time doing something else like maybe actually making trade deals or or making the economy work for everyone maybe just focus your freaking time on dealing with housing so that people don't have to work multiple jobs to live paycheck to paycheck.
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or trans, and let's see who's really hurting the American people. Here, play this clip.
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But if they work one job, they can get paid with dignity, and they can afford a house, and they can afford their mortgage, and they don't have to worry about living paycheck to paycheck. Why don't you guys focus on those issues? And then maybe once you get through the basics, if you want to start talking about USA fencing, let's go through a bunch of other issues first, shall we, right there?
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Here's Congressmember Kassar. Let's play this clip.
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But of course, the MAGA Republican Congress members like here, Congress member Fallon, basically, though, goes and attacks the head of USA fencing here for not being transparent here.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
And you live in your $20 million homes and behave the way you do like a reckless maniac while you cause harm to the American people, you and other state regime media hosts. Here's Will Kane, who's trying to be like Jesse Waters and Jesse Waters trying to be like Tucker Carlson with MAGA Republican Congress member Anna Paulina Lunon. And here they're talking about they got to go after Dr. Fauci.
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That's how they spend their day. Go after Fauci. Here, play this clip.
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That was a host on state regime media known as Fox right there calling out the current regime for its dangerous, dangerous handling of the FAA and across its agencies. That's on Fox. But of course, you then have other hosts on state regime media known as Fox, like Jesse Waters, saying, look, the United States just needs to steal land. That's what we do in the United States. Let's steal Greenland.
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Next up, I will show you Kevin Hassett right here, Donald Trump's national economic advisor on Laura Ingraham. Play this clip.
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And here they are bragging about how the federal government is unlawfully taking away two point two billion dollars from Harvard. And they're celebrating this like it's a good thing. Yeah. Celebrate the fact that you're gutting America's top university. And now our top professors and scientists are being recruited by Europe. by China and by other nations, you freaking moron, state regime media.
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Great to celebrate this as now brain drain is taking a hold and the brand of America has been damaged by morons like you. Here, play this clip right here.
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I do want to show this other moment, though, when Fox was covering the congressional hearings that was taking place. And they pointed out a moment where these MAGA Republicans were trying to make it seem like the head of the United States Fencing Association was giving the middle finger to a selfie photo. But then as a Democratic congresswoman pointed out,
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Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Magas manipulated the photo. He had two fingers up and they cut off one finger to make it look like he was giving the middle fingers. Play this clip and then I'll explain to you. Ben, what are you fencing? What are you talking about here? Play this clip.
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Yes, folks, fencing. Why fencing? I'll do a whole other video on this today, but the MAGA Republicans did a hearing for their doge, government efficiency, whatever the hell they're talking about, which, by the way, is going to cost trillions of dollars, add trillions of dollars to our deficit and has saved nothing. It's stolen your data, by the way.
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Let's take land. Manifest destiny. We need conquest. This is pathetic, vile host from Fox, Jesse Waters. Play this clip right here.
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But the Doge hearing led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, they had the head of USA Fencing because they wanted to talk about how there was a trans fencer, a transgender fencer, and that that was offensive to them and Even though the fencing USA gets no money from the federal government. Anyway, I'll do another video on that.
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Laura Ingraham then asked Kevin Hassett, Trump's national economic advisor, about firing Jerome Powell. Play this clip.
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Kevin, I have to. By the way, this guy, Kevin Hassett, is an idiot. He's wrong about everything. This is the guy right before the dot-com bubble bursted in 2000. He's like, it's about to soar. And it bombed. This guy's wrong about literally everything. I think it was he and Peter Navarro. Remember, they guaranteed.
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Remember, they said, we guarantee you quarter one will not have any contraction at all. We will grow. There They're just wrong about everything, and they just move on to the next lie. Here's Kevin Hassett again attacking the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. Play this clip.
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Then on Hannity, you had Josh Hawley talk about, these people live on different planets. They're from Mars. I didn't know what this guy talking about played this clip.
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Fox News Loses Control on Live TV as Trump Gets Worse
Here he is blaming the current rising inflation and former President Biden. Let's play it.
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And may I just contrast that to some normalcy here as well? like Minnesota Governor Walz was on MSNBC last night. And here's what he said. Let's play the clip.
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Here he is again, play the clip.
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And here's Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Let's play it.
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Do you see the contrast there, folks? Let me show you the full clip of that Fox host, by the way, who I showed you at the beginning. Let's play it.
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You know, when you say things like that, Jesse, I know you think that that's, you know, funny or that's entertainment or anger, taming or rage baiting for your audience. What you mean by that is you want to send young men and women to die in wars against our allies. So shut up. Because you have no clue what you're talking about. You have no clue what sacrifice is.
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
Let me repeat, nonpartisan CBO analysis of various Republican plans for Medicaid spending reveals that under every scenario laid out by the GOP, millions would lose insurance. The GOP's plans would have a disproportionate impact on low-income and elderly populations. Literally millions of people would lose their health care. Because there's going to be $800 billion plus in cuts to Medicaid.
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
How do we know it? Because we can read their one big beautiful bill and see it. But you see what's happening right now, folks, is that the MAGA Republicans are fighting each other because they are seeing, whoa, whoa, whoa, it's almost 2026. The midterms are getting closer. Can you believe that, folks? Yes, hang in there. The midterms, before you know it, are going to be right around the corner.
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And these MAGA Republican Congress members are seeing Republicans get beat in seats during special elections. They're seeing Supreme Court races in states where Democrats have won big. And they're saying, uh-oh, are we next? And the answer is yes. So they're saying, you can't cut Medicaid, you know, MAGA Mike, because if you cut Medicaid, we're definitely going to lose.
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
Our best shot of staying in power is if you don't cut Medicaid. Let's take a look right here at this article from CNN. House GOP infighting turns ugly over Trump's big, beautiful bill. That's what he's calling it. And he's making all the MAGA Republicans refer to it as the big, beautiful bill because they're fascist toddlers.
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It says Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill is running into a wall in the sharply divided House Republican conference with tension spiking over MAGA Mike Johnson handling of the party's biggest sticking point.
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overhauling medicaid as johnson presses for a house vote before memorial day the battle lines are becoming more pronounced the republicans in swing districts are saying the sweeping bill can't slash social safety net benefits while gop hardliners are saying but Bye, Medicaid. We don't care if people die and get sick, and they're demanding trillions of cuts, many that would be in Medicaid.
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MAGA Mike Johnson walking away from reporters, MAGA Mike Johnson is once again in the hot seat. His job is on the line as there is massive infighting in the MAGA Republican Party. In that clip I just showed at the outset of this video, MAGA Mike Johnson was asked why Donald Trump say that he doesn't know if he needs to follow the Constitution, to which MAGA Mike said you can't expect Donald Trump
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Those frustrations emerged in a two-hour meeting in Johnson's leadership suite on Tuesday night in which the speaker huddled with a roughly dozen GOP centrists. What's a GOP centrist today? But okay, I'll bite. A GOP centrist who have refused to back any Medicaid changes that could hurt eligible Americans who rely on the program.
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
Inside the room, Johnson made one more attempt to sell those members on a contentious plan backed by the hard right house freedom caucus and others to sharply reduce Medicaid payments to states that expanded the program under Obamacare, according to two people in the room. His push drew a rebuke from multiple centrists. There's no such thing as a centrist when it comes to Republicans, but okay.
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centrists in the room who believe that idea was already off the table. The people said, quote, we laid down the law.
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One Republican member who attended the meeting said of the firm position many members took that they don't want to shift the federal match, which was like 90-10 right now, and move it all to the state, which basically means based on certain trigger laws that states have, Medicaid would go away in most states under that plan. Zero Medicaid. It would eliminate Medicaid for people.
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So if you're in Medicaid, that plan shifting it to the states is a Bye-bye to your Medicaid. Johnson and his leadership team insist in the end the GOP members are going to all work together and they're going to make it all work. On the one hand, you have Andrew Garbarino from a vulnerable seat in New York, MAGA Republican. He goes, I don't want to be mean.
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And I think anytime it looks like we're actually hurting people, that's going to piss off the American population. And if you piss them off, they're probably not going to vote for you. Notice that he says looks mean. Because if it didn't look that way, they'll be happy to be cruel and mean. They just don't know how to hide what they're doing right there.
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MAGA Mike Could Be Toast as GOP Deal Implodes
And then you have all these MAGA Republicans like Chip Roy and others basically saying, bye-bye to your Medicaid. It needs to be cut. Let's take a look at MAGA Republican Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson over here. Here, you know, he's talking about the big, beautiful bill. And he's saying, this big, beautiful bill, you know, those little girls got to say bye-bye to their dolls. Why?
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Because Donald Trump said that little girls shouldn't have dolls or pencils. They get one doll and they get five pencils because Donald Trump's regime does central planning. And they say that's what little girls deserve.
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Donald Trump and his family get to, what, they make $2.6 billion more in their crypto schemes and their resort deals with Qatar and Oman and Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi using their crypto coins. But your daughter or granddaughter, how dare she have more than $1? She gets $1, five pencils, and she's going to pay more for it. You understand? That's what they're saying.
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And here, MAGA Mike Johnson says, we got to do it. We got to do that to the little girls. We got to be the disruptors. We got to disrupt the system and it's going to cause you pain. But you voted for pain, right? Trump equals pain. That's what you voted for. Play this clip.
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to know about all of those Supreme Court cases. I do. I do expect the President of the United States to know about Supreme Court cases, but more fundamentally, Maga Mike Johnson, I expect Donald Trump to know about the United States Constitution in a very, basic concept we have here in the United States called due process. But that's not why MAGA Mike Johnson is on the hot seat.
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Yeah, so that's the campaign they're running. The Trump causes you pain campaign. OK, no pun intended. Here's MAGA Republican Chip Roy talking about gutting Medicaid. Let's play this clip.
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Here is MAGA Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin. Here's he's asked by Fox, are we going to get a tax bill before Memorial Day as MAGA Mike Johnson promises? And Ron Johnson from Wisconsin says, nope, because of the stupid big, beautiful bill thing. We could have got it done if we didn't do big, beautiful bill. But now we have stupid, big, beautiful bill. Here, play this clip.
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Now, MAGA Republican who pretends he's not MAGA Republican, Mike Lawler from New York, here he's asked on Fox Business, are you good with the MAGA plan that they're talking about to shift Medicaid to the states? And MAGA Republican Mike Lawler, who pretends not to be MAGA, goes, hell no, hell no. He's trying to pretend that he's not that MAGA, but he's very MAGA. Play this clip.
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It's because he's trying to push through what Donald Trump is calling one big, beautiful bill through a reconciliation process between the House of Representatives and the Senate. And as we've reported before, under the blueprint that was originally passed by the MAGA Republicans, which calls for, in theory, trillions of dollars in cuts, those cuts are coming from Medicaid.
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Here's MAGA Republican GOP conference chair, Lisa McClain from Michigan, Here she's like, yeah, it's getting messy, but that's DC for you. We're getting messy. We're getting messy. Here, play this clip.
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In my opinion, you're getting messy. Look, y'all haven't passed a budget now. And what, what has it been four years since you've passed it? And you didn't pass the budget you've been doing. continuing resolution CRs from Nancy Pelosi's like budget from 2021 or 2022. Y'all haven't been able to pass a budget, your most basic task. So here you are trying to do it.
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You're calling it one big, beautiful bill. And while you're doing it, you're crushing the economy. You're causing a lot of pain and suffering, but Trump don't care. Trump's selling meme coins. where only 57 wallets, 57 like people who bought Trump meme coins made money, 747,000 lost money. Well, what do you know? Another Trump scam.
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Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, announced yesterday, if tariffs are not reduced, we should expect higher inflation and lower employment. And he did not lower interest rates as a result. What else are we learning? The U.S. is pushing nations facing tariffs to approve Elon Musk's Starlink is what the intelligence cables are showing.
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Some countries are being told if you don't get Elon Starlink, you're going to get hurt economically. So I guess that's what it's all about. According to Goldman Sachs, inflation is about to imminent. Goldman Sachs has had conservative financial models erring on the side of bullish over bearish. And now Goldman's getting very bearish.
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According to Goldman Sachs, inflation is about to imminently take off and not stop accelerating until June 2026. Lots more inflation. So that's what you've got, Maga Mike. One big, beautiful mess that y'all created for we the people. So we'll check back in, Maga Mike, if you lose your job. If you lose your job, punch the mic. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe.
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Those cuts are coming from education. Those cuts are coming from agriculture. Those cuts are coming from infrastructure, while the billionaires are getting massive, massive tax cuts. You know, the Congressional Budget Office came out with a report today at the request of Democrats and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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Another morning of panicking and ranting and raving by Donald Trump. Here's what he just posted. Our court system is not letting me do the job I was elected to do. Activist judges must let the Trump administration deport murderers and other criminals who have come into our country illegally without delay, exclamation point.
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People are seeing the impacts in our economy while you're pretending everything is great. And on May 7th, 2025, you're waking up. This is what you're posting about. This is what you think leadership is like. Can we just talk about right and wrong for a second? People, we don't need to talk about Democrat, Republican independence. What the hell is this? I don't know how anyone looks.
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This goes, oh, the election interfering. Oh, he makes a good point. What are you even doing? No deals, Donald. The election interfering 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which aired on CBS just before Election Day and deep into early voting, turned out to be much worse than expected. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Did 60 Minutes and its corporate parents apply to get an Emmy?
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for an illegally falsified interview? Or did other fake outlets nominate them for this dubious honor? These antics are why the American people have no trust in the press. The hell are you even writing about? You promised there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. A lie. You promised you would bring peace to Gaza in 24 hours. A lie.
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And now Israel is saying that they plan to fully occupy it forever and remove everybody from Gaza. That's what they're saying they're going to do. In addition, a war just broke out between India and Pakistan, and you're posting this? Oh, and you're also, again, promoting your meme coins, the Trump meme coins.
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It should be noted, Donald, that your Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday gave a press conference where she said that she wanted the worst of the worst murderers and criminals to be prosecuted and put in American jails. But Donald, there's something called due process in our country, and you're deporting and disappearing people without criminal history to concentration camps.
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where the top 22 holders of your meme coins get to meet with you for an exclusive dinner in Washington, D.C. on May 22nd, 2025. And now we know that the Abu Dhabi fund, by the way, Trump's going to the Middle East next week. The Abu Dhabi funds using $2 billion in Trump crypto for transactions. So the transaction fee will inured to the benefit of Donald Trump and his family.
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Personally, we have Donald Trump building resorts in Qatar right now. Donald Trump building resorts in Oman with Saudi Arabia right now. I mean, the corruption is right in front of our faces and look. Should we talk about the insanity of Donald Trump posting images of himself as the pope and offending the Catholic community right before they go into their conclave? Should we talk about that?
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Yes, it's deeply offensive and despicable. Donald Trump wanting to open up, reopen Alcatraz. Yes, but let's not forget about the billions and tens of billions of dollars in corruption right before our face. with Donald Trump and his crime family. Then Donald Trump posts, Lawrence Jones is doing a great job on Fox and Friends. You just watch TV all day? You watch TV?
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I mean, again, imagine if you had someone who worked at your company, a boss, whoever, at a company, at a midsize, big size, small size company, nonprofit, whatever, who behaved this way. You would say this is absolutely despicable. Well, are we any closer to having peace in Ukraine? A statement from J.D. Vance this morning, quote, there is a big gulf between where Ukrainians and Russians are.
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U.S. Vice President Vance says we think Russians are asking for too much. Vance also says it is probably impossible to mediate this without at least some direct negotiation between Russia and Ukraine. Well, I'm
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add on May 7th, 2025, after making a fundamental promise of your campaign that you were going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, you go, it's probably impossible without direct negotiations. You mean between Russia, which wants to exterminate Ukraine, which invaded Ukraine and Ukraine, which has agreed and wants there to be a ceasefire without any conditions at all.
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Europe realizes what a loser Donald Trump is. The world realizes what a loser Donald Trump is. And as Donald Trump makes the world weaker, Europe, Canada, Australia, other places are saying, okay, we got this. We know. Okay, Donald, you want to post about 60 minutes and how that makes you upset? Was 60 minutes mean to you, Donald? Okay. We're going to pursue intelligent fiscal policy.
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We're going to handle central banking the way it should be handled. We're going to build alliances the way they should be built. The European Commission will announce on Thursday details of its plan for countermeasures against U.S. tariffs should negotiations with Washington fail, European Trade Commissioner Mauro Sveko said on Wednesday.
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Also, you remember yesterday how Treasury Secretary Scott Besant announced that he would be meeting with uh, Chinese trade representatives in Switzerland, uh, in the coming days, manipulates the market, moves the market. It's, it's the China play. Like our markets right now are moving on the idea that the Trump administration is going to remove the tariffs on China. That's
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And Trump appointed judges in multiple states now have joined with judges appointed by Democratic administrations. And they've all held, every single one of them held, that there's something called due process in the United States of America. You present the evidence, you prove your case. If you prove people are guilty, they can go to jail and they could be deported. That's our system, Donald.
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While former President Biden pursued smart, intelligent fiscal policy, created 16.2 million jobs in our economy, record low unemployment, 40,000 infrastructure projects going up. And they were they were brutal to former President Biden. They treat Donald Trump removing. the problems he created as somehow being a win.
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And on that basis, the market is being manipulated based on the ideas that there may be some sort of a deal with China in the horizon to remove the tariffs, not some comprehensive trade deal, but just to undo the damage that Donald Trump has done in this embargo.
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So so now Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is saying, is he trying to downplay the expectations after he moved the market? Now he downplays the expectations. Just the beginning of conversations. Well, we'll see where it goes. OK, well, now used car prices are going up. reflecting broad inflationary impacts from tariffs up 4.9% year over year in April, the biggest jump since August of 2022.
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So inflation is back. You know that even though Donald Trump's claiming, oh, like a miracle, it all went away. We know that it's here.
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and then the cruelty of his policies are seeping into a lot of other things as well take for example this bulletin that cornell university put out approximately 40 000 children born every year have some type of heart condition but that isn't a large enough number to incentivize the private sector medical device companies to invest for that reason the only option for
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You don't like our system, go to Russia. We know that's where you want to go anyway. With posts like this, we know that's where you want to be. You hate the free press. You hate our Constitution.
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federal funding and one of the issues here is based on the trump stop work order for federal government the project's future is uncertain so on a lab bench in the basement of wheel hall a tiny device silently plumps fluid through a series of tubes and vessels that mimic the human heart it has the potential to save lives lives of tens of thousands of babies with heart defects
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But the oligarchs say, screw that. I always want to highlight those little pieces in a given day, too, because with all of the Trump chaos, let's not forget the cruelty is the point. Speaking of cruelty being the point, J.D. Vance yesterday at this conference. press conference that he was having with Donald Trump while India attacked Pakistan and they were at war with each other. J.D.
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Vance joked about deporting tourists who attend the 2026 World Cup. He warned people that if you stay a little bit later than you should after you attend the World Cup, That dog killer Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will throw you into concentration camps. So funny.
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I'm sure people who have legitimate fears about coming into the United States because the United States is literally disappearing human beings to concentration camps in El Salvador and showing ISIS style videos about it. I'm sure that's going to encourage tourism, you moron. Guys, JD, these people are cruel and they are morons. It's just that simple.
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Donald Trump whining this morning about 60 Minutes again and about CVS and Trump trying to shake down Paramount and trying to block the merger between Paramount and Skydance by attacking them through this $20 billion ridiculous lawsuit that Trump filed against 60 Minutes because he didn't like the way they did an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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The US in February made just $4.3 billion in new binding funding commitments to state and local governments, a 57.5% decline from the same month a year earlier. We also learned that more than a half of the top holders of Donald Trump's meme coin who are jockeying for that dinner Donald Trump that he was posting about today have used foreign exchanges that say they ban U.S.
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users, suggesting that many of the purchasers are based outside of the U.S. Speaking, by the way, of what else is going on outside of the U.S., Denmark inviting American scientists to continue their research in their country. We're seeing this all throughout Europe. We're seeing this in Australia. We're seeing this in China. We're seeing this in Asia. We're seeing them saying, look, U.S.
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scientists will offer you funds and stipends. Come over here. brain drain let's get rid of the best and brightest from the united states come to denmark come to europe come to france and they're offering incentives to do that come to canada and we're seeing our scientists do that they go why would we go here where we're going to be attacked by the Trump regime for doing scientific research.
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Are we going to get thrown in jail? Is he going to throw the DOJ at us? Is he going to shut us down? No, we need to be able to do our job, do our profession, be scientists in a place that actually supports science. I want to leave you with this story because it's so incredibly bizarre, but it's one of these things that are not getting reported enough.
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Let's just go into the reporting inside Sweden itself in Stockholm and take a look at what their local paper is reporting. This is front page news right now in Sweden. I know we have a lot of supporters from Sweden who are part of the Midas Mighty. The U.S. Embassy reported.
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in Sweden sent a contract to Stockholm's urban planning office demanding the elimination of equality, diversity and inclusion policies and demanded they sign it. It's completely bizarre. A Stockholm urban planning counselor, John Valskog, said it's the most bizarre thing. So the United States, through its embassy, is acting like it controls Stockholm, that it controls Sweden.
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And it is telling the people of Sweden, you can't have diversity, equity, and inclusion in Sweden. Our embassy, you heard that right, the US embassy sending contracts to government officials in Sweden and foreign countries saying you must agree to remove your DEI if you want, what, the United States embassy to be here? And the people are outraged there.
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And I think the United States is now gonna be doing this And other nations as well. I think they have before. It's wild stuff that that's what they're doing. This is the Trump regime. It's buffoonish. It's clownish. No offense to clowns, but it's another day in the Trump regime. Tell me what you think. Leave comments below. What's up to all of our Sweden fans? Great to have you watch.
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I got a lot of messages about this one from the Midas Mighty in Sweden. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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in October of 2024, before the November election that Donald Trump was too afraid to sit for himself. Trump writes, the election interfering 60 minutes interview with Kamala Harris. Just pause there for a second, Donald. It's May 7th, 2025. Americans are suffering right now, okay? Main Street is suffering. Your trade war against the world has created massive uncertainty. People are being laid off.
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weak pathetic vile cruel all of these things describe that piece of trash in the oval office named donald trump who increasingly looks so utterly pathetic to the international community and we know here in the united states that his approval is plummeting and i think the world is seeing what a pathetic and weak fool he is this meme right here is kind of defining the trump regime right now
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As Donald Trump then continues to do deals with Qatar for Trump resorts, deals with Saudi Arabia for Trump resorts in Oman, and Don Jr. continues with his club called the Executive Branch, which he's selling memberships for for $500,000 a membership. One of the things that went down yesterday that we got to talk about as well is Donald Trump firing his surgeon general via a social media post.
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Now, Donald Trump's prior surgeon general was a surgeon general named Dr. Nashuot. And Laura Loomer wanted that doctor fired. So then Donald Trump hired like like a social media, like a junk science, fake science kind of influencer person by the name of Casey Means. who I don't even think is a licensed doctor, to be the Surgeon General.
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And of course, Donald Trump announced it via a social media post. Donald Trump goes, I am pleased to announce that Dr. Casey Means will be nominated as our next Surgeon General of the United States of America. Casey has impeccable MAHA credentials and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Well,
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Andrea Love, PhD, explains Casey Means is a grifter who dropped out of her ENT residency to start a company selling glucose monitors and health all to non-diabetics. She doesn't know basic science, yet claims she's a metabolism expert. Incomplete ENT residency does not an expert make. But of course, she's now up for Surgeon General.
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Pat Dennis says, here's a list of things our new Surgeon General Casey Means did to find love at age 35. Per her newsletter, shrine, full moon ceremonies. She talked to trees and then she did mushrooms. Even Donald Trump's close advisor, Laura Loomer, says, what are you doing? Aren't surgeon generals supposed to be top doctors, not people who appear not to even have their licenses?
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We'll report more on this today, but that's Donald Trump's Surgeon General for you folks. Also, Donald Trump tends to announce today, according to the New York Times, that he's going to do some sort of deal with the United Kingdom.
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But it seems to be one of those fake deals to manipulate the market again because Donald Trump realized that systemically our market, our actual economy right now is breaking. But what he saw with his trade war against the world is that he can move the market and manipulate it, especially for his rich oligarch friends who get inside tips or learn about it through private meetings.
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It's Donald Trump in AI form wagging his finger at a little girl saying, you will own one doll and one pencil and you will be happy, little girl, and you're going to pay more money for it because the Trump regime central planners say that's what little girls get. Stop asking for all of these dolls.
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And he can do that by tweeting and posting about things. But when you actually look at what this UK supposed deal is going to be. The deal won't even get rid of the 10% tariffs on the UK. It looks like there will be a reduction in tariffs on British cars in exchange for the UK lowering taxes on digital services like Google. So it's not a deal. Is this one of those sub deals?
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That Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is talking about a Spencer Kimmy and says, yeah, every six hours, Donald Trump's going to come back with a new massive trade deal. It ends up being absolutely nothing just to pump the markets for a few hours. Here is Donald Trump yesterday during that bizarre press conference that we covered here in the Midas Touch Network.
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where he was asked, are you willing to pull back your tariffs to get China to the negotiating table? Remember, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says he's going to Switzerland to speak with China's trade representatives. So the reporter asks, are you going to pull back any of these tariffs? Trump sabotages Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's talks with China before they even begin. Trump says no.
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Here, play this clip right here.
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No. A reporter then follows up with Donald Trump and says China said that the U.S. initiated the trade talks this week. What do you say about that? To which Donald Trump said, they're wrong, they're lying. Donald Trump, you pretty much have the track record of lying right here. Let's play that clip. We will, but we haven't made that decision yet.
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Well, I think they ought to go back and study their files. OK, I do think that that's what Donald Trump's saying right there. What is Xi Jinping saying? Well, Xi Jinping. is taking a trip to Russia where he is going to be in Moscow meeting with Vladimir Putin. Do you see, by the way, both of them giving Donald Trump the middle finger right here?
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It is a move showing that they think Donald Trump is utterly weak and pathetic. And trust me, our NATO allies who now see Donald Trump as weak and pathetic know exactly what this meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping is about. And ahead of this meeting, China's Xi Jinping likens U.S., hegemony to fascist forces ahead of this meeting. Xi Jinping has drawn a parallel between the modern day U.S.
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hegemony and the arrogant fascist forces of 80 years ago, ahead of Thursday's Moscow summit with Vladimir Putin and Second World War Victory Day celebrations. The Chinese and Russian president are using the visit to signal the strength of their alliance against the U.S.-led international order. as Donald Trump unleashes tariffs on Beijing and tries to push Moscow towards a peace deal.
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I don't think that's what Donald Trump's actually doing there. The just forces, this is the quote from Xi, the just forces of the world, including China and the Soviet Union, fought bravely and defeated the arrogant fascist forces side by side, Xi wrote in an article published in Russian and Chinese media before his arrival in Moscow on Wednesday.
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That's actually something that Donald Trump's been repeating over and over again as his presidency continues to plummet and spiral out of control. Now, as Donald Trump is doing that, let's take a look at what else he's doing as well. Of course,
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He added, 80 years later, unilateralism, hegemony, and bullying are extremely harmful. Humanity is once again at a crossroads. Moscow struck a similar note in the run-up to Thursday's summit, the first between Putin and Xi since Trump took office in January. The just forces of the world, including China and the Soviet Union, fought bravely side by side to defeat the arrogant fascist forces.
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She wrote in the article and and again, analogizing it once again to what's going on right now. Want to share this with you, though, because let me bring you some other just objective data. I want to share with you what's going on in the Seattle ports. So first, I want to show you the guy who's leading the Seattle ports right now. So you can see what he's saying about the ships coming in.
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Let's play this clip first. Let's play it.
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yesterday he continued to push his trump meme coins enriching himself as he's still done no deals in the trade war against the world one of the things we've learned is that the trump family net worth though while donald trump's wagging his fingers at little girls saying you can only own one pencil and one doll and while mortgage rates are soaring and housing is less affordable and inflation is on the rise the new goldman sachs report shows
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in container volume through our. And now let me play for you the guy who's leading the ports in Los Angeles, in Long Beach over here, so you can see what he's saying right now. Here, play this clip.
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Now, I bring you that objective data because while Donald Trump's out there lying, while you see Xi Jinping and Putin forming stronger alliances against the United States, so you see what's going on there, while you see a war between Pakistan and India, India attacked Pakistan after a terrorist attack in Kashmir, and that they're at war with each other right now, a hot war,
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You see that Donald Trump has no clue what he's doing in all aspects, economic, foreign policy, you name it. Trump has no clue. So let me just show you one other objective data. I want to show you hard data, the ports. And now I'll just show you what the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said yesterday. Here, play this clip.
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So I think that paints to you a clear picture of what's happening in the world right now. And we'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network. But the message over and over again is weakness, weakness, weakness of Donald Trump. I don't know how you come away with something different.
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And you think Donald Trump's going to do a deal with China after what China just said and what Trump's saying about China? The worst deal maker ever. A destroyer, not a builder. You tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Inflation is coming back and it's coming back bad, folks. Donald Trump's family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, according to new reports. Also, we know that the Abu Dhabi fund is going to be using Trump crypto. in billions of dollars worth of transactions, shifting transaction fees right into Donald Trump and his kid's pocket.
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So I want to congratulate the family. It's a big post. You better do well, Andrew. Thank you. Tell him, is my golf game okay, too? Fantastic. He knew what to say, see? Well, he's a smart person.
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I thought it was a very bad decision. It was headed by Trudeau, by the way, and Obama, they were the ones that really fought hard to get Russia out. I think if Russia were in, you wouldn't be. They threw them out. And because of that, maybe millions of people are dying. Millions, you know, millions. The numbers are far greater than you think. But millions of people are dying.
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If he was sitting around a table with other people, seven people hammering him and saying, let's not do this, you would. I think you wouldn't probably have had the problems that you've had.
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Hey, that could be a good incentive, right? We want to get them to stop. We want them to stop. We want the 5,000 young people a week are being killed. It's not even believable.
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For people with that, but I gave a very long definition this morning in the Oval Office. We're in very, very good shape. This country's never been in better shape. And We're doing great. We were being ripped off by every country in the world virtually, and now we're not being ripped off anymore. It's very simple, very, very simple.
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As far as calling him Governor Carney, no, I haven't done that yet, and maybe I won't. I did have a lot of fun with Trudeau, but I think this is a big step up.
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Any questions for Steve? No, it's a shame. We just heard about it just as we were walking in the doors of the Oval. Just heard about it. I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past. They've been fighting for a long time. They've been fighting for many, many decades. And centuries, actually, if you really think about it. No, I just hope it ends very quickly.
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And we can't wait to welcome soccer fans from all over the globe. I don't know if I'm supposed to say soccer or football because every time I say soccer, Barron and Eric say you're really saying it wrong. It's supposed to be football, but we know it more as soccer.
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later this week? Well, I can announce all of them now. I could announce 50 to 100 deals right now because, you know, I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store. And, you know, I know what countries are looking for and I know what we're looking for. And I can just set those terms and they can go shopping or they don't have to go shopping because everybody wants to shop here.
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Trump Holds Inexplicable Press Event as War Starts
This is like a beautiful store. This is like one of Bernard Arnault. Maybe I should say Alex, even more importantly, Young, the future.
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Trump Holds Inexplicable Press Event as War Starts
Well, I don't want to get involved in something that Pamela is involved with. If you'd like to say something, Pam. I can say unrelated to that. She's a disaster for New York. She's a horrible, horrible human being. And I think she's a total crook. There's no question about it. But that's just my opinion. Pam's going to have to do what she wants. She's a very bad person.
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Trump Holds Inexplicable Press Event as War Starts
She's a very, very, very bad person who campaigned solely on I'm going to get Donald Trump over and over again. She's a sick person. But that has nothing to do with what Pam does. Pam is going to do what's right. She always does.
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Trump Holds Inexplicable Press Event as War Starts
I think a lot, because I think Russia wanted to take all of Ukraine and they've stopped. That's a lot of progress. You know, it's small. It's a portion of Ukraine. But no, I think a lot. I think if we weren't here, they would be right now fighting to take the whole country. And they're not doing that. So I think that's a lot of progress.
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Trump Holds Inexplicable Press Event as War Starts
And our executive director, Andrew Giuliani, just got the post, and he's going to be great. I know him for a long time. He's a highly competitive golfer, which, I mean, really good. And he's also a highly competitive person, and he loves what we're doing. So I want to congratulate you and your family and your father, your great father, who was the greatest mayor in the history of New York.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
I don't know about you, but this doesn't feel like winning to me. Waking up again this morning to see the Dow Jones crashing and our markets crashing once again, and then seeing Donald Trump in a panic, reversing the trade war stuff that he previously threatened.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
I think that Justin Trudeau is using the tariff problem, which he has largely caused in order to run again for prime minister. So much fun to watch exclamation point. There's so much to break down there. First off, so much fun to watch exclamation point. We're about 24 hours away. Tomorrow on Friday, we expect there to be one of the most devastating job reports in recent history.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
Americans are suffering right now. We have the markets that are crashing each day and then Donald Trump comes up with some other scam and then it rises a bit and then it crashes the next day. We have GDP contraction right now. The Atlanta Federal Reserve is saying that the GDP will go down in the first quarter.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
somewhere near 3%, where if literally Donald Trump did nothing and just put former President Biden's policies on overdrive, we could have had 3% to 4% growth. And he's saying, so much fun to watch. Secondly, Prime Minister Trudeau is not running for prime minister again.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
that he previously reversed that he previously threatened that he previously reversed that he previously threatened and that he previously reversed what making it endlessly about him as we the people are suffering each and every day up the dow down about 1.21 as i'm recording this and then donald trump posts this For now, he says, the tariffs against Mexico are going to be off.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
If you have the most basic research about what's going on in Canada right now, you would know that there's a race for who's going to lead the Liberal Party right now and that there is going to be
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
uh elections that are going to be held relatively soon and then this malignant narcissism from him an abuser personality by donald trump saying trudeau caused the problems the tariff problem when donald trump arbitrarily and unilaterally put these tariffs on canada and essentially declared war on our ally. And he's blaming Prime Minister Trudeau for defending his people.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
It is a shameful day once again to be an American right now based on these despicable statements and despicable behavior of this authoritarian regime that is now running our country and has essentially completed a coup or is attempting a coup of our democratic institutions. It is absolutely despicable. And as they're crashing the economy right now, you see what's happening.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
You have like Larry Kudlow, who's on Fox Business and the revolving door of a Trump regime propagandists who then become Fox hosts and Fox hosts who become somehow the freaking defense secretary of the United States doing a horrible job, may I add. So then Larry Kudlow is like, things are crashing, but we know Trump had nothing to do with it.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
So then they bring on their snake oil salesman, which one, you may ask. They bring on Howard Lutnick, and Howard Lutnick says, look, you know, stock market goes up, stock market goes down. That's not a big deal. You know that we here never use the stock market as an indicator of success. Really? Because that's all Donald Trump has ever talked about before.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
Here's Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick. Let's play it.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
And then previously, Howard Lutnick would say, well, look, you know, we want to solve our deficit. All we've got to do, all we've got to do is sell to the Russian oligarchs. Five to 10 million Trump gold cards and voila, everything is dealt with. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
Howard Lutnick is asked, so... You're focused on increasing robotics and increasing machinery, but how are you going to deal with the loss of jobs? Here's what Nick said. Let's play it.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
So then we get more whining from Donald Trump. He posts, Massive trade deficit with the world just announced. Compliments of sleepy Joe Biden. I will change that. I think you're changing a lot right now for the worse. Donald Trump then posts, the fake play the ref news in order to get a great divide between me and our great U.S. Supreme Court. Heard me, this is what he posted last night.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
He's not mentioning anything about Canada, although he did reverse the auto tariffs yesterday against Canada. So all tariffs off against Mexico until, though.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
At 8.06 West Coast time, so right before about 11 p.m. he was writing this. Heard me say last night, loudly and openly as I was walking past the justices on the podium, thank you to Chief Justice John Roberts. Like most people, I don't watch fake news, CNN or MSDNC, but I understand they are going crazy asking what it was that I was thanking Justice Roberts for. He didn't just said thank you.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
You said, I won't forget, but let's listen to your lie. He goes on and says, they never called me to ask, of course, but if they had, I would have told these sleazebag journalists. I would have told these sleazebags that I thanked him for swearing me in on inauguration day.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
You mean when you never put your hand even on the Bible and you claim to be a religious person and doing really good job in doing so. The fake news never quits. Oh, that's what you meant when you told Chief Justice Roberts won't forget. Not that he was the author of the majority opinion in a case that gave you absolute immunity, which you are now using to turn America into an authoritarian regime.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
I'll just play that clip of what happened at the joint session address. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
Well, all this is going on too. Donald Trump is emailing his supporters at 5.03 a.m. in the morning saying, I asked my team to flag your response. I need 3 million responses before midnight. Ben, I asked my team to flag your response. Did you vote for me in November? Please don't forget question number three. Finish the MAGA poll. Respond to Trump. I look forward to reading your response tonight.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
And then when you click on it, It asks for money and to give Donald Trump donations for his joint campaign committee, even though he's not running for anything. And then here you have Howard Lutnick further attacking Canada and saying that even though the data shows that only 43 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the Canadian border, he goes, it's much more than that. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
april 2nd and then we do this whole thing over and over again right that's the definition of insanity but then he attacks prime minister i'll just read this for you briefly he goes after speaking with president claudia scheinbaum of mexico i have agreed that mexico will not be required to pay tariffs on anything that falls under the usmca agreement this agreement is until april 2nd so the usmca the united states mexico canada agreement
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
Other news to report. Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke the temporary legal status for the 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, told Reuters. This means that the Ukrainians would be deported back to Ukraine. And then Musk's Doge terminated the lease at the Obama presidential library site.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
And we are also learning this morning that there is a draft of a Trump executive order that will abolish the entire Department of Education. The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, would be directed to take all necessary steps to facilitate the full closure of the Department of Education. That's all that's happening this morning.
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Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses
We will keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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the deal that you made during your first administration, which basically covers all of the goods. You're saying that, what, that you made a horrible deal, and now you're saying that that deal holds? But here's what he has to say about Prime Minister Trudeau and Canada, though. Again, he posted this this morning as well. He goes, believe it or not, despite the terrible job he's done for Canada,
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Hey everybody, Brett from Midas Touch here. My brother Ben and I just had such an incredible conversation with Anand Giridharadas on the Midas Plus substack. Anand is a brilliant journalist and best-selling author, and he has been warning about the oligarchy and the threat of billionaires in the United States for years.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Here's my question, if I could chime in. I think what Ben was about to say also, that if you want to subscribe to all of our substacks here, that you could follow. There's a follow button right up here. It takes two seconds. You could quickly subscribe to all of our substacks, make sure you're getting all the information.
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You've been, by the way, if people want to jump on that fad, jump on it because it's true. But you've been warning about it really since day one. All of your books have really been focused primarily on that topic and this class war that's being inflicted by these oligarchs, but also the way they were doing it, almost shapeshifting and pretending that they were doing it. And you said...
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
So the thing I wanted to ask you about on this topic is, I think the thing that has maybe surprised me the most over the past year or two is how willing the kind of general public is to go along with whatever the billionaires are saying.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
I feel like there used to at least be a little bit of kind of whether you want to call it class solidarity or something else where we view these billionaire people as assholes to, you know, for lack of a better word. But now it's like Elon Musk says something and you just have all these people. Yes, Mr. Musk. Yes, I'm with you. And it's been just disheartening to see. Really?
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
You're going to do the bidding of this guy who doesn't give a crap about you? I'm just curious to get your thoughts on that. Do you think that's why they view with such importance to control the kind of flow of information? Why Elon Musk bought a platform like Twitter, overvalued, and then sunk the valuation? Why Bezos bought the Washington Post? Are those things all linked? And I guess...
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Sorry, I'm throwing a lot of various things at you, but is that also tied to them appearing on these Joe Rogan podcasts and kind of laundering their image? You got Zuckerberg there with his new weird haircut and acting like a bro and talking about boxing and all this stuff. What's your take on kind of all that? I know that's a lot.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
They're waiting for this mask off moment. Just you wait. They're hiding behind their philanthropy and winner takes all. You said they're hiding behind their philanthropy, but they'll have this mask off moment once they amass enough power and they're going to let you know who they are. And it was such a prescient book, you know, 2018 to where we are today.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
That leads us to, I think, the final question that I see so many people asking, which is, you know, the natural progression of a discussion like this. And I'll call it the 19 trillion dollar question, because with the four point five trillion dollars in tax cuts that Trump is going to be giving to the billionaires, it looks like our deficit will increase at least 19 trillion dollars.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
His work has actually informed a lot of what we do here at the Midas Touch Network. and I found his comments today to be incredibly illuminating. We've been hosting live conversations with incredible guests like this every Thursday on Midas Plus. That's the Midas Touch sub stack. So make sure you visit MidasPlus.com now and sign up so you could be the first to hear conversations like this.
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over the next 10 years. But that $19 trillion question is, what do we do about it? Well, here, we're taking your thesis and we're trying to put it into action by creating a network like the Midas Touch Network, where we talk about these ideas, where we rally people, we let people know where the rug pull is happening, which we think is an important service.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
We can break it down with our respective backgrounds, me as a former litigator, Brett, as a former digital rapid responder, Jordi, as a marketer, and then our great hosts who have all of these backgrounds, us also bringing, you know, your voice, you know, to our audience and making sure that we let people know about your substack, the Inc., and your works as well, so people get acclimated with it.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
But tell us all what you think is, what do we do? I guess is that $19 trillion question. What do we do?
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
So first off, I wanted to let everybody know. And I am someone who appreciates your work. I am a consumer of your sub stack. And you and I had been talking over the past six to nine months. So I'm glad we can collaborate and find some time to work together. Yes, I love it.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Well, that makes me feel mighty. Wow. The mightiest mighty. What do you all think about that? And I'm here just so everybody knows I'm taking a ton of notes, right? I take a ton of notes.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
So when I do these speaking series, you know, it's it's a class for me where we do a lot of learning and reflecting here about how we could be better with our media network and what we need to focus on and having on and in conversations. is a perfect way for us to learn.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
And I think we all have to be open to learning more, doing better, being better, homing in on our message, and getting it out to as many people as possible. Anand, I want to thank you so much for joining us today. I want to remind everybody about your sub stack, The Ink. You should all check it out if you enjoyed this conversation.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
You're going to enjoy what he's writing over there on a daily basis. Remember to subscribe here as well. You see it right up there at the top to the Midas Touch sub stack. We're going to keep on growing. We're going to keep on having this speaking series. Hey, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
So thank you. We appreciate it. Day by day, generational. We're in this together. Thank you, everybody. Keep checking in the sub stack for new and updated content. And we'll be back with your normally scheduled programming here on the Midas Touch Network. Thanks, everybody.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Well, I'll say this. The warnings were heeded by us at the Midas Fetch Network. And intellectually, they formed part of the intellectual infrastructure in terms of what we felt that we needed to build, especially your latest book where you say that liberals were getting too insular, progressives or whatever. whoever's not the right-wing fascist at this point, whatever you want to call him.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
I call him George Democracy Movement. Exactly. I often get asked that. But we were building what we thought could be that infrastructure brick by brick. So you've laid the intellectual foundation, right? So as J.D. Vance was looking to, what's that guy's name? Garvis or Jarvis or who is his right-wing guy? We were looking to people like you who've been informing us.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
And so what do you think, though, right now, here we are, 2025, the state of journalism as you see it?
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Without further ado, enjoy the interview.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
All right, welcome everybody to our weekly Midas Touch Network speaking series. I'm here with Anand Giridharadas. You all know him from the ink right here on Substack. And Anand, on your Substack today, I saw also... celebrating, what, two decades from when you first wrote at the New York Times. The article is still up right now.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
Someone asked this question and on Substack's I'll I'll I'll curse. But someone says, why are they scared? What are these billionaires actually scared about? And this is where I'll curse. You know, you've heard the expression, fuck you money, you know, and that's what the billionaires like to say that they have that they've got F you money.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
But in theory, these people who say they have F you money are scared of their own shadow and have given away all of their power for the appearance of power to the fake billionaire who's become a real billionaire over them in a Trump. So so what? you've studied them. What's their worry? What's their fear? As far as I know, I'm only going to live once.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
I'd rather live my life courageously than die a thousand embarrassing deaths every single day the way some of they do. So what's your assessment of that?
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
And you wrote this piece today reflecting back on what it was like to start as a journalist and then what it's like now, kind of the mixed feelings that you have, but the importance of being an independent reporter and keeping your independence. And
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
You know, one of the things I've always respected about your work, in addition to the content that I agree with your thesis that you've been talking about, especially as it relates to the dangers of the oligarchy. But Anand, you've been calling this out now since the beginning of your career. This isn't you're jumping on the oligarchs are bad fad.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
And that's why their priorities are often a form of socialism, but just for the billionaires where the billionaires get the benefits and have, you know, and then what that actually is called is not socialism for billionaires. It's actually called oligarchy. And then you start looking like what you have in Russia and in Soviet states of the past. And we used to look at that in a certain way.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
And what your thesis there is, you know, also perfectly explains why they do the most illogical things vis-a-vis the market. We all know that tariffs would result in the outcomes we're seeing now. We all know that these threats against our allies would result in the markets tanking.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
We all have seen in the history where, no, America wasn't economically most successful, as Donald Trump likes to believe, during the years of the Great Depression. We remember those years as the Great Depression for a reason. So if you're looking for some sort of pseudo-capitalist idea explanation of why they're supporting this. It's actually because these billionaires are not capitalists.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
They are oligarchs, and they actually want to undermine the whole system. And if we, the people, suffer, that's not a bug. That's actually their design, as long as their proximity to power is preserved, which for them, they'll buy into all this bullshit about the tariffs here and this, and it's going to make us great and gold cards. They're like, and they can see the markets tanking.
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Ben Meiselas and Anand Giridharadas on Fearless Reporting
And for them, it's like, are we just going to be close to power? It's fascinating, but I think it explains everything.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
Let me show you this right here. This is the premier of Manitoba saying, I am signing a big, beautiful order today, pulling all of the American booze from our supermarkets. And that followed what went down in Ontario with their premier Doug Ford. Here, watch this moment. Let's play it.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
And then finally, here is one of Trump's trade advisors, Peter Navarro, fresh out of jail. You get the trend here. And here, Peter Navarro is big man at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling Donald Trump Donald. Donald, Donald, play this clip.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
So utterly weak. And the comparison between Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus and the weakness of Donald Trump, it couldn't be more clear. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. And let's get to 5 million subscribers. The truth is more important than ever.
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Man, Charlie Angus does not mince words. I hear there's a movement in Canada, Draft Charlie Angus, but he's been an incredible unifying voice throughout Canada, and it's been an honor to become such close friends with him here at the Midas Touch Network. We got the Maple Mighty or the Midas Maple, whichever you prefer, standing strong.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
Over here, we have next up, Member of Parliament Charlie Angus talks about how the century of America's leadership is now over because of Donald Trump. Here, watch this.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
That was Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus in a powerful speech he just gave in Ottawa. As he says, elbows up. The Canadians are fighting back against the Trump regime. And already we're seeing the Trump regime cave. the Trump regime pulled back some of those auto tariffs that they imposed and Canada gave nothing for it.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
Now, if I can, let me share with you the whole speech. It's only about seven minutes long by Charlie Angus in Ottawa. I think it's incredibly powerful. One of the best speeches I've heard recently. You're going to want to watch every single word. So first watch this. And then when we come back, I want to show you the Trump regime squealing. Watch Charlie Angus's press conference. Let's play it.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
Canada said, we're going to continue our reciprocal tariffs based upon the fact that you keep on attacking Canada. You want us to remove our reciprocal tariffs? You want us to stop banning your American booze from our supermarkets? Well, then get rid of the tariffs, treat us with respect, and then we can have a conversation, Donald.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
And then some of Donald Trump's trade advisors like Peter Navarro was like, can you not call him Donald? Let me show you another part of this incredible speech by Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus in Ottawa. Here he says, look. Maybe there's a deal that Donald Trump wants to make. Maybe he doesn't. Who cares? Donald Trump doesn't know what the hell he's doing. And he keeps attacking us.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
I told you you were going to want to watch that full press conference right there. So what happened in the past 24 hours? Well, Donald Trump was summoned by the big three auto manufacturers in Detroit. The CEO of General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, gave him a call and said, what the hell are you doing?
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
Do you realize, first and foremost, that you were the one who negotiated the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement? So now you're breaching your own agreement, idiot. And you're about to cause numerous auto manufacturing plants to shut down, moron. And Canada's standing strong. I don't know what the hell you're doing, Trump.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
What Donald Trump then did is he paused because he has no clue what he's doing. The same way with Donald Trump's cases, when he files the lawsuits, he always tries delay, delay, delay. He now moved back the tariffs just as it relates to auto to April 2nd. All the other tariffs are still in place.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
The auto trade between US, Canada, and Mexico, I don't know, that makes up about what, like 15% to 20% of the trade. It's so... A lot of the other tariffs are still there and it's still going to have a crippling effect. But Canada is standing strong.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
I want you to watch this moment where Caitlin Collins of CNN asked United States propagandist from the White House, the Trump regime, Caroline Leavitt. So what is behind your calculus of giving a one month reprieve until like April 2nd on the tariffs as it relates to auto manufacturing? Here, play this clip.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
I mean, truthfully, there's no clue what she is doing there. Here is Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary from the Trump regime, already walking back the tariffs, going on Fox to do it. But then he's like, well, we haven't decided yet, but we're doing it. Just watch how flustered this moron looks, let's
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And he's not going to go away until we stand up, go elbows up, go over the boards and knock down this bully. Here, play this clip.
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Give me a break. But then, of course, Caroline Leavitt has to once again insult Canada, demean our ally in Canada. Disrespect Canada. And Canada sees what's happening. And here Caroline Leavitt with that smirk on her face is like, we feel strongly that we want to make it our 51st state. We want to conquer it. Aren't I so funny? I mean, it's so ridiculous. Grow up. Play this clip.
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European leaders are meeting in Brussels today to forge a new military alliance and a new military relationship likely that does not involve the United States of America as the Trump regime has pulled the United States of America into an access of evil with Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un of North Korea as well as Hungary and Belarus voting against our NATO allies attacking Russia.
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europe of defense which we have been advocating for eight years is therefore becoming a reality powerful words right there we had that of course uh translated from french using ai into english for our english speaking audience to our french speaking audience i apologize for that i'm sure you would want to hear it in its original i just am trying to spread this video as far and wide as i can let me show you this other clip
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from this address to the nation by French President Emmanuel Macron. You can see how seriously they are taking the ultimate betrayal by Donald Trump and how seriously they're taking that in Europe to get Zelensky's back. Here, play this clip.
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our allies like Canada and Mexico. It is utterly despicable. But French President Emmanuel Macron delivered an incredible speech to the people of France yesterday, where he talked about the new way forward. Let me share with you what French President Emmanuel Macron said. Here, play this clip.
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Another notable speech that I've seen that just has recently gone viral is a French senator by the name of Claude Mallorette. And let me show you what he says. He calls Elon Musk a ketamine jester. he refers to him as.
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And he talks about how Trump and Musk have brought the United States into the depths of depravity, into an alliance with Putin and North Korea, and that America can no longer be relied upon with respect to anything at all. These were powerful words. We translated it as well using the AI software so you can hear it. Let's play this clip right here.
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Now, I'm sure by now you are aware that the United States has cut off all aid to Ukraine. That's a major benefit to Vladimir Putin, a slap in the face to our NATO allies, a slap in the face to the people of Ukraine. Something I want to point out, though, that was perhaps equally important
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if not even more dastardly by Donald Trump delivering a major win to Vladimir Putin, is that the United States stopped sharing any and all intelligence with Ukraine over the past 24 to 48 hours. So the United States was still providing logistical support to Ukraine with respect to the
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targets both offensive and defensive to help with the HIMARS, for example, and the weapon systems, to help Ukrainians know about the drone swarms that are coming in, to have access to our sophisticated satellite systems here. So the United States cut that off, all of that intelligence, to basically leave Ukraine on its own. Russia has been exploiting that. Putin has been exploiting that.
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And Trump's basically given the green light for Putin to go and launch attacks that in the past Ukraine would be able to defend itself with. So the cruelty there is something that I think is worth pointing out because we hear a lot in the news, and we've been reporting on it too, about the aid, military aid being cut off.
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But it's the intelligence as well that I think is even more of an FU to our NATO allies than A new poll out of France, by the way, shows that 73% of people in France no longer even consider the United States of America an ally anymore. I've showed you polling that's very similar in Canada. where I think it was only 25%, 30% that actually views the U.S. positively in Canada.
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And we're seeing this across Europe in our former allies. I mean, I wish they were still our allies, but how could they ally with us when Donald Trump is making alliances with Putin and saying all of these nice things about Putin. Now, meanwhile, what else is happening geopolitically?
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Well, you have Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary, who was a Fox News host, who should never have been a Defense Secretary. So he's making major cuts to the American military budget. Now, I actually believe there probably should be cuts to military spending, but... Donald Trump's threatening wars with everybody. Now is not the time for those cuts.
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My views, there should be a lot more priorities spent on health care, on education, on providing resources to people, supporting our veterans. helping people get better jobs. I mean, that's where I, you know, the Republicans believe that that money should go to the billionaires, make them even more billionaires and make them even richer.
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But we have our defense secretary cutting our military budget while picking wars. with people. You see what they're doing? Like, who does this benefit? It benefits Putin. So as HEGSIF, American Secretary of Defense says, we're lowering it about 7% to 8% per year. So then that on the aggregate keeps on increasing.
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Well, in China, after the United States is declaring this trade war on China, China goes, if war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we are ready to fight until the end. That's the official message from China's embassy to the United States. Now, Donald Trump also showing world leaders
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how people like Secretary of State Marco Rubio is really just a neutered little nobody. Trump, did you see the moment in the State of the Union where Trump mocked Marco Rubio? Here, play this clip.
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And then finally, another message about just the idiocracy, the lack of attention to details, the stupidity of this Trump regime. So during the State of the Union or the Joint Address Session, did you see this where Donald Trump said that, and USAID, through the Secretary of State, under Biden and others, they were giving... They were doing transgender mice surgery. Transgender mice, everybody.
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The word was transgenic, and it was about trying to cure forms of cancer. Not transgender, transgenic. And I know Donald Trump doesn't read things like he doesn't read the USMCA, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which he was the person who negotiated, which he says, we're ripping off, we're being ripped off. But this just shows the world how stupid this regime is.
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Here, I'll play this clip.
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Now, the gong show going on in the press room with American chief propagandist Caroline Leavitt here. She was asked, well, by Peter Doocy from Fox asked this question, asked her. So we see that some officials are miffed. that Zelensky showed up without a suit, but Elon doesn't wear a suit. I mean, this is what they're talking about and they're making jokes. Well, Elon this, Elon that.
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Look, Ukraine is at war. Ukraine is at war because Russia unlawfully invaded it. Russia, bad guy. Ukraine, good guy. Zelensky, war hero. Putin, authoritarian dictator. Can we get this straight, please? But for the White House, this is all one big laughing matter. Pathetic. Play this clip.
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And then finally, a hat tip to our Gen Z reporter, Adam Mochler. When he was on Capitol Hill, he asked Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi about this powerful moment during Suozzi's town hall, where Suozzi said, look, we stand, by the way, Suozzi's district is a plus five Trump district.
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And Suozzi said, look, I'm usually someone who's viewed as a problem solver who brings Democrats and Republicans together. He's like, you There's nothing to bring together when it comes to that. What I saw there when Donald Trump attacked Zelensky, the way Donald Trump treated Ukraine, it was beyond pathetic. Here, watch this.
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The world is recognizing how utterly weak and pathetic Donald Trump is. Donald Trump is caving with respect to the tariffs that he imposed on Mexico and Canada after he crashed the American economy and world economies. Donald Trump got a talking to by the big three auto manufacturers and Donald Trump said, can we do an auto manufacturing carve out Canada?
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And if you just sold 10 million Trump gold cards and give citizenship to what, 10 million oligarchs, You can make trillions of dollars, quadrillions of dollars. By the way, take a look at how long it took these presidents to reach net negative approval ratings. Donald Trump's reached a net negative approval in 44 days, whereas it took former President Biden 224 days.
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All of the services in these contracts, about $2 billion or so, can be sent to where it belongs. So a 5-4 decision with Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts, right-wing justices. And Amy Coney Barrett was appointed by Trump. So you have all these right-wing influencers like, she's a DEI judge, DEI judge. It's so ridiculous. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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It took Clinton 132 days, Obama 520 days. Yes, Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, plummeting, plummeting like the American economy. We now see headlines like this. Beware a recession that could be triggered by a chain reaction of tariff risk. Wall Street executives say, you think Donald Trump crashing the economy and also crashing the lives of people who served our country so courageously.
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It seems that Donald Trump is focusing his attacks on marginalized groups, on vagrants, veterans. I mean, just take a look at this. The Trump administration is firing, as you know, thousands of veterans, as well as the spouses of armed service members who work in the government.
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And Donald Trump, we now learn, is planning on firing about 70,000 people who are part of the VA staff that serve veterans. And we previously reported that that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are basically gutting the entire Social Security Administration.
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Remember yesterday I played you an audio where the wait time was like hours and hours and hours just to try to get a human being on the call and then to process a disability application. They were saying it would take close to 300 days for it to even first be processed to potentially even get a contact back.
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Donald Trump destroying our national parks, Donald Trump destroying the Department of Labor, gutting the Department of Education, gutting our weather services, gutting all of the federal government every single day. But Donald Trump is blaming the fact that we're heading into a potential government shutdown on Democrats because Donald Trump just thinks that everybody's just so stupid.
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to which Prime Minister Trudeau was like, do whatever you want to do. We're going to keep retaliatory tariffs until you stop putting us in this yo-yo cycle of abuse and tariffing us every 30 days. Do what you want to do, Donald. We're going to keep the retaliation going. Also, you have French President Emmanuel Macron delivering a powerful address to the people of France where he said, look,
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that will just believe anything that he writes. It's like 1984, right? Just they tell you what to believe and they tell you two plus two equals five and you believe it. So here's what Donald Trump posted yesterday evening. He goes, government funding runs out next week and Democrats are threatening to shut down the government. Can we pause there for a second?
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Donald, you control the executive branch. The House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans. The Senate is controlled by Republicans. You're blaming Democrats for trying to shut down the government. Here's the thing. You can't normalize this behavior. The level of lying here is stratospheric. Democrats don't control any branch of government. They don't control the executive.
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They don't control either the House or the Senate in Congress. And Donald Trump's blaming the Democrats. Excuse me. So Trump goes, government funding runs out next week and Democrats are threatening to shut down the government. But I am working with the great House Republicans on a continuing resolution to fund the government until September to give us some needed time to work on our agenda.
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Conservatives will love this bill because it sets us up to cut taxes and spending and reconciliation, all while effectively freezing spending this year and allowing us to continue our work to make America great again. Very important. Let's get the bill done. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, goes, Democrats have no power to shut down the government.
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Even when Republicans control the presidency, the House and the Senate, every legislative committee, they still try to blame Democrats for their failures. Pass your budget, Republicans. Oh, sorry, you can't figure out how to do that. Pass your CR then. And you notice they're still using the budget? from Nancy Pelosi back in 2022.
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So while they claim all of this fraud, all of these things that are going on, they're still using the budget when the Democrats were in power in the House of Representatives back from, what, 2022 before the midterms? Because Republicans have been unable to do their most basic function, which is to freaking pass a budget. Donald Trump then writes the following.
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He goes, for anyone who is interested, I also told Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada that he largely caused the problem we have with them because of his weak border policies, which allowed tremendous amounts of fentanyl and illegal aliens to pour into the United States. What, from Canada? These policies are responsible for the death of many people.
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See, this is why, even if the tariffs eventually become resolved, why Canadians are boycotting all things American. You're calling Canadians our closest ally before you, Donald Trump, took a wrecking ball to our alliances. You're calling them murderers. You're calling the most peaceful people murderers based on abject lies. It is utterly, utterly disgusting.
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And Donald Trump's saying this because he got his— you know what, handed to him by Prime Minister Trudeau, by the premiers of Canada like Doug Ford, by the premier of Manitoba and others who said, you know what, Donald, you want to see our big, beautiful laws that we're passing? We're banning all things American. We're taking American booze off of our shelf.
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We're taking American products off our shelf. You know, government procurement, no more for American companies, Donald. Oh, And you're going to send your commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, that freaking snake oil salesman into Canada to say, can we please make a deal? The American economies are crashing.
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United States is basically done. We need to lead Europe along with the UK and others. We need to create new security alliances. And we have to realize that Donald Trump is pretty much with Putin at this point. And we've got to realign America becoming isolated and weaker than ever. But what's Donald Trump doing? Well, here's what he's spending the day doing. You want your free Trump?
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We weren't prepared for this, even though Canadians, you prepared your people for a trade war. We just declared trade war. We don't know the ramifications here in the United States. And you know what? Prime Minister Trudeau and the premiers of Canada said, go pound sand, America. If you want to take away all of your tariffs, we'll take away our retaliatory tariffs. But do whatever you want.
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So you know what the United States does? Donald Trump caved right away. And Donald Trump said, OK, we're going to remove the tariffs for the auto and maybe we'll remove the tariffs for... Agriculture, the agriculture hasn't been removed yet. The auto has. Why? Because Trump's destroying all of these industries in the United States. But Trump's like, all right, 30 more days.
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Let's do a 30-day extension, which, by the way, is creating an absolute mess. Here's Donald Trump's trade advisor, Peter Navarro. saying, though, Canada, it's been taken over by all of the Mexican cartels.
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You need a spectographer to do it. So utterly stupid. Then Donald Trump makes this post yesterday. He goes, Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye. It also means peace. You can choose, release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered or it's over for you, Hamas. Only sick and twisted people keep bodies and you are sick and twisted.
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I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job. Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don't do as I say. I have just met with your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed. This is your last warning, Hamas, for the leadership. Now is the time to leave Gaza while you still have a chance. Also, to the people of Gaza, A beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages.
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If you do, you are dead. So he's just threatening all the people who live in Gaza. Make a smart decision. Release the hostages now or there will be hell to pay later. Okay, this is different though than on what, February 10th, when you threatened to unleash hell by the following Saturday if all of the hostages weren't released and then you did nothing? Or how about you rewind before that?
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How about on January 7th, 2025 from Mar-a-Lago while you were golfing? You took a little break and Donald Trump said, this is January 7th, 2025. He said, if all of the hostages aren't released by the time he gets into office, because remember by January 7th, that's before the inauguration, He goes, all hell will break loose. January 7th, 2025 play.
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Okay, now here's February 10th, 2025, where he says that the following Saturday, all hell would break loose and he would unleash hell. The following Saturday was February 15th. Here's what Trump said on February 10th. Play it.
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2024 gold bar. Grab yours today. This is what's being posted with Donald Trump's name, image, and likeness on his social media platform. And by the way, Donald, it's also 2025. But to be clear, this is a free Trump gold bar as opposed to the Trump gold card where Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs can buy citizenship into the United States for $5 million.
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Okay, and Donald Trump didn't unleash hell. The same way Donald Trump has caved, he's caved on the trade wars, and because he's a weak and pathetic, and the same way strong men know how to bully Donald Trump. I think one of the things that Our allies, unfortunately, are realizing is you just can't be nice to this vile, despicable, pathetic, and weak person.
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This reality huckster, you got to treat him like the piece of crap that he is. You can't treat him with respect. If you treat him like crap, if you act like a strong man to him, he's a weak, pathetic, little imbecile. And I think that's why Donald Trump looks up to strong men. He mistakes kindness and empathy and friendship and alliance for weakness when it's actually strength.
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Because he's such a pathetic little person who goes after, what, veterans? He sends Alina Haba. Alina Haba, who like lost his cases and got sanctioned in federal court, who's now his top advisor. And she goes that veterans are not fit for their jobs at this moment. Here's what she said.
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Starting to think about maybe some of those veterans who worked for the federal government and maybe what the administration can do to at least help salvage their lives.
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Oh, and by the way, did you see this news as reported from the Wall Street Journal? The U.S. suspends costly deportation flights using military aircraft. Okay, how about this headline? Trump administration ordered to reinstate thousands of fired United States Department of Agriculture workers, all of those probationary workers that were fired.
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A blow to the Trump administration's effort to drastically and quickly shrink the federal bureaucracy. It could lay the groundwork for further rulings reinstating tens of thousands of other probationary workers from whom the Trump administration fired.
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And basically the merit systems board said, you unlawfully said that these probationary workers were fired for cause because they were fired without cause. You had to develop some sort of like plan to provide at least some notice to them, which you did not. Oh, by the way,
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Hayden Haynes, the chief of staff of House Speaker Maga Mike Johnson, was arrested late Tuesday night for drunken driving after his car struck a Capitol vehicle. Johnson's office confirmed the incident. And let me take a look at this. Oh, from Barron's. No, Mr. President, there aren't millions of dead 100-year-olds. collecting social security. I like this person's post.
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Dark Macron, Emmanuel Macron assembling leaders throughout Europe. We also saw Prime Minister Keir Starmer do it and Emmanuel Macron standing up to Donald Trump and basically saying, we have prepared a peace plan for Ukraine. May not involve the United States. Europe is entering a new era. The threat from Russia extends to us all. Peace cannot be concluded on Russia's terms.
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We must prepare for the fact that the U.S. will not be by our side. Peace cannot be signed in Washington or Moscow alone.
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You also had MAGA freaking out that Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the liberal judges in a five to four decision by the Supreme Court yesterday against Donald Trump, ordering that the billions of dollars in contracts that have already been made under USAID actually be paid so that like the food that's rotting and all of the
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Donald Trump is waking up like a little cornered rat after that disastrous speech he gave to a joint session of Congress. You have China standing up to Donald Trump, saying that they are ready for an actual war if that's what Donald Trump wants.
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After addressing the nation last night, millions are saying Trump was right about everything. That's why we made the Trump was right MAGA hat so you can wear it proudly as we make America great again. Shop now. So as he's harming the economy, as he's destroying the lives of his own supporters, he wants to make sure that they buy a mega hat that says Trump was right about everything.
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The Des Moines Register, they post the following. With tariffs looming, Trump urges farmers to have fun selling their products domestically. And Donald Trump reiterated that message at the joint session where he said, have fun, everybody. These tariffs, isn't this a great deal of fun? Just take a look at the various headlines that America woke up to. I'm the Wall Street Journal.
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How uncertainty from Trump's tariffs is rippling through the economy. Trump's tariffs cause chaos in the auto industry. Tariff war risks sinking the world into a new Great Depression. The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. This is the Wall Street Journal headline, okay? This is Rupert Murdoch's own paper, The Wall Street Journal.
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You have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers of Canada standing together saying that if you're going to continue to bully us with these piecemeal tariffs and then pull the tariffs off and then put them back on, we're just not going to stand for this yo-yo chaos as you destroy our country and attack our people.
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I'm just being clear what I'm reading right now. The two-headed monster stalking the economy has a name, stagflation. This is from The Telegraph. China says it's ready for war with America. Beijing boosts its defense spending by 7.2% and warns Washington that it is prepared to fight until the end. The Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson says, intimidation does not scare us.
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Anyone using maximum pressure on China is picking the wrong guy. If war is what the United States wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we're ready to fight until the end. And by the way, as China is announcing a 7.2% increase in its defense spending for 2025,
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The United States of America, under a former Fox News host named Pete Hegseth, is talking about major cuts to the defense budget in the United States, cuts by about 8% each year, while China will be increasing theirs basically 8% as well, while America is through all of these wars across the world. Let me be clear. I'm for decreased defense spending. Let me be clear about my position.
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I'd like to see more spending when it comes to health care, when it comes to education, when it comes to supporting our veterans for building infrastructure. But if you're going to start picking wars with people and saying you want to annex this country and annex that country while lowering your defense spending, do you realize how stupid you look?
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You look like the orange blob occupying the White House now. And that's how all of these foreign leaders see it. This orange, idiotic, pathetic, weak blob in the White House. Greenland's prime minister responds to Donald Trump, quote, We are not for sale and we can't just be taken. Our future will be decided by us.
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In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not open to lifting Canada's full package of retaliatory tariffs if U.S. President Donald Trump leaves any tariffs on Canada in place, according to a senior Canadian government official. I'm sure that probably sometime after I'm recording this, Donald Trump will try to announce some fake deal and declare, look how great he is.
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But ultimately, I want you to know what Canada's position is and how they've forcefully stood up to Donald Trump. Prime Minister Trudeau. the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford. They've been doing a great job standing up, I think. Take a look at what also happened this morning that Trump woke up to.
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The Supreme Court declined the Trump administration's request to pause the lower court order that required it to pay out roughly $2 billion in foreign aid funds to USAID. You had the right-wing justices, Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Trump appointed Coney Barrett. They joined Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson. to form the five to four.
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So you had the right-wing justices, Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett. They joined the liberal justices, who I consider the pro-democracy justices, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson. You can even see last night, though, the disgust that Amy Coney Barrett had on her face when she saw Donald Trump. I'll throw up some of that B-roll last night from the joint session.
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you have the leader of greenland responding to donald trump talking about annexing it and conquering it saying it is not going to happen and then you have economists saying that donald trump is leading the nation right now or not leading the nation right now but
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So what this means is that the Trump administration was ordered to pay the contractors, Who did the work? You know how Donald Trump hates to pay contractors, right? That's always what he did his whole life is not pay contractors. So to pay the contractors who did the work so that the aid can go to where it's supposed to as part of the money that was already appropriated by USAID.
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So a massive Supreme Court loss. for donald trump unfortunately i don't know how many lives were lost by the delay in getting the that aid to people but at least that aid's going to go to people by the way the four justices the right-wing justices who were in the dissent issued a scathing dissent saying that trump should basically be a dictator or do whatever the hell he wants to do
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Look, these Washington Post columnists, I got to give them a hat tip. I think some of this stuff's pretty good right here. Take a look at some of these articles today. As Peter Segal writes, somewhere Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking the track shipment to see what happened to his new editorial page.
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That's why I got to separate the Bezos and the billionaires, I think, from some of these writers who are... having their own resistance, I think, within the Washington Post. Just take a look at some of these headlines. What the numbers say about the erosion of American freedom by Philip Bump, George Will. This is American greatness only if you have a magnifying glass.
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Mark Fisher, Virginia spurned Trump three times. Why do his... Why do its politicians idolize him? A classic Trump speech rich in showmanship and at odds with reality. The crypto reserve isn't even good for crypto. How to lose a century in 43 days. The White House's risky cyber offense stand down. I don't like that headline that much. Sorry, David.
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I'm not sure if you did the headline, but they're not enforcing cybersecurity against Russia anymore. I think we know the outcome there when you're saying that Russia is not involved in hacking U.S. stuff and you'll allow Russia to infiltrate U.S. systems. In just five days, Trump has set the country back nearly 100 years, was the headline by Dana Milbank. That's a good article.
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Trump Gets Crushed by Terrible News on Wednesday
Jason Leopold explains new how Elon Musk muscled his way into the FAA. FAA employees are on edge. They were told that anyone who impeded progress of the new FAA SpaceX partnership would be reported to Musk and risk losing their jobs. jobs.
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bringing the nation towards stagflation low gdp and high inflation and you actually have a lot of newspapers throughout the country that are actually publishing things like whether it is the time now for you to buy chickens live chickens for your backyard because there may not be eggs anymore. This is what it means to live in America under Donald Trump.
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Also, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Doge alerted the court, as Kyle Cheney points out, of Donald Trump's remarks at the State of the Union, calling Elon Musk the head of the office, as we predicted, because The Trump administration was trying to claim that Doge isn't its own department. It was just a rebrand of the digital services that already existed.
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And that in any event, Elon Musk is not its head. Why were they saying that? Well, the White House was saying that because they don't want Elon Musk to have to testify about what he's doing. And they don't want to have him respond to FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests to turn over his emails. and his communications.
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So the White House wants to hide Elon Musk and say that he's Trump's special advisor so they can claim, which they already have, immunities, Presidential Records Act immunities, executive privilege, to avoid Elon having to actually be transparent to Congress or to the public.
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But Donald Trump said at the joint session that Elon is the head of a new department called Doge, so the plaintiffs are now bringing that to the attention of the courts, and we'll see what the courts ultimately do there.
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As I'm sure you saw last night, a Democrat Congress member by the name of Al Green got thrown out of the State of the Union, and a former Republican House candidate named Laverne Spicer says that she is giving her followers the N-word pass. She goes, y'all can call him whatever dirty name you want. Y'all got the N-word pass tonight, is what she's saying.
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Trump Gets Crushed by Terrible News on Wednesday
I mean, that is a horrible thing, horrible thing to say. And that is, I mean, I don't know how you get more horrible than that. And she was a Republican House candidate, a major MAGA influencer. You saw that the S&P was wiped out yesterday. And then finally, I'll play this clip for you as well.
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Trump Gets Crushed by Terrible News on Wednesday
So the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives, they're about to do another continuing resolution to fund the government, meaning they're using Nancy Pelosi's budget, which they rail against. and they keep continuing her budget. Because at least when the Democrats controlled Congress, the Democrats were... They were able to pass a budget. Republicans can't pass a budget.
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Trump Gets Crushed by Terrible News on Wednesday
They can't get their appropriation bills through. So what they're doing is they just keep doing these what are called continuing resolutions to kind of kick the can down the road. But as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, points out, here's MAGA Mike Johnson in November 2023 saying that he's done with CRs and they're not going to do anymore.
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But all he's done was CRs over and over again, continuing resolutions. Play this clip.
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You know, the ultimate irony there too is they're saying that there's all this fraud, there's all of these problems, but you're doing a continuing resolution. Why don't you do your job in Congress then? If you think there are all of these issues, right? Like let's, if you think that Elon's found these things and all of these things exist, I have two questions.
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Trump Gets Crushed by Terrible News on Wednesday
One, if there's all of this fraud, where are the people being arrested for the fraud? Because fraud's a crime. That's not happening because there's not really this fraud that Elon's saying he's lying about most of it. And then secondly, then why don't you all come together as a Congress? You have control of the House and the Senate and the executive branch.
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Trump Gets Crushed by Terrible News on Wednesday
And then just come up with your priorities. Just do it. Just do it yourself. It should be easy then if all of these things exist, but they don't. Instead, they use Pelosi's budget and her appropriations from 2022 because it was the last one that was passed. And the Republicans know that all the stuff they're spewing is crap. Why else would they not pass their own then? That's what I ask.
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I mean, it's simple logic, right? Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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And to me, it kind of brings me right back to all of the flashbacks of what it was like in March and April of 2020 during COVID when Donald Trump was saying, like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Let's take a look at what Donald Trump is sending to his supporters today. This is real. Donald Trump sent the following email. Trump was right.
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Now the Department of Education is the next target of Donald Trump and Elon Musk and others in the administration or the regime. And the Department of Education is about to be gutted and her school will be defunded and she will lose her job. Play the clip.
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Let's take a look at what's going on in southern Florida with all the Venezuelans who supported Donald Trump. Venezuelans are having their TPS status removed, their temporary protected status. Goodbye. ICE is rounding him up.
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Donald Trump cut a deal with Nicolas Maduro, the dictator in Venezuela, who President Biden, former President Biden, would not recognize Maduro because Maduro is clinging on to power and is actually not the person who won the last election in Venezuela, the real winner is. is in exile.
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And so now Trump is rounding up Venezuelans in southern Florida and either sending them to concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay or sending them back to Venezuela with Maduro. Now that Donald Trump and his regime recognizes the Maduro regime.
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And by the way, I should mention the Maduro regime about three weeks ago or so threatened to invade Puerto Rico, which Donald Trump apparently liked that as well. For all the Latino voters for Trump, play the clip.
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Speaking of Latino voters for Trump, let's take a look at the mayor of the city of Doral in Florida. There she is. There's Christy Fraga, the mayor of Doral. And now she has big MAGA supporter. Now she's got to explain to all of the Venezuelans in the city of Doral, big thriving Venezuelan population, why they're getting rounded up and why they are living in total fear and why they're
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temporary protected status has been revoked and why Donald Trump is now friends with Maduro and why the Trump regime is recognizing Maduro and Well, there you have it. Here is Doug Ford. Doug Ford is the premier of Ontario. Used to be Maple Maga, was a big Trumper.
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Here he is on a hot mic moment where he talks about how he was happy that Trump won, but then Trump pulled out a knife and yanked it into Ford. Play this clip.
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Listen to his past statement. I mean, this guy's psychotic. I mean, look, Trump is a felon. He's a sexual assaulter. He's a criminal. He's a fraud. He bankrupted business. This is an awful human being. His entire life is just being an awful human being.
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Oh, you have Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, Louisiana, who continues to support all of the Trump nominees who are destroying our country. But Bill Cassidy is very upset because PEPFAR, one of the programs that... Ensures that kids don't get bored with HIV and AIDS from mothers who have it. PEPFAR, this is what Bill Cassidy goes, PEPFAR is the epitome of soft power. It's a Republican initiative.
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It's pro-life, pro-America, and the most popular U.S. program in Africa. There's even a waiver acknowledging this, yet I'm told that drugs are still being withheld at clinics in Africa. This must be reversed immediately. Again, just to remind everybody what that means when these life-saving drugs, HIV AIDS drugs to the moms, are being withheld. They're dying. Kids are dying.
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Or the kids are being born with HIV AIDS. Like 150,000 kids are going to be born with it because of Donald Trump and Elon Musk's cruelty, potentially. Also, to this clown, Sean O'Brien, the leader of the Teamsters. Y'all are still letting this guy lead you? This sellout lead you? This guy went to Mar-a-Lago. The leader of the Teamsters. I love the Teamsters. I got...
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My Teamsters, just so you know, I wasn't even planning on showing you this. I got my Teamsters magazine right here that I read frequently. It's on my desk, the Teamsters magazine. I love Teamsters. I love unions. I stand in solidarity with workers. But this clown, Sean O'Brien, this is what this clown does.
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So he goes to Mar-a-Lago, he speaks at the RNC, and then he posts the photo of himself without his thumbs up. Then Trump posts the photo of O'Brien with his thumbs up because Donald Trump's like, look, I made this guy submit because that's Trump. He's a sicko. He's a psycho. That's how Trump thinks. And then O'Brien was like, don't worry, unions. I got your back. I got your back.
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I know what I'm doing. OK, well, now the National Labor Relations Board. This is just totally gutted. Trump fired the first black female member of the NLRB and now they can't form a quorum. So now the NLRB can't recognize unions or hear grievances. So that's destroyed. And O'Brien is silent on that. And, you know, you won't hear from him there.
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And now with Trump's new actions of gutting the Labor Department, Trump is now having Elon Musk and his team of 19-year-old and 20-year-olds who went to the Treasury Department and took over all of that data. Then Went and got sensitive classified information from USAID and went around to all these departments and took all of our data. Right.
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Yeah, that's Ken, a Trump voter who's now feeling instant regret. We're hearing stories like this across the country. People are saying, wait a minute, he told us lower prices and he was going to end the war in Ukraine on day one and all of these things and inflation was going to go down. Now he's doing the opposite. What's going on? Well, we told you, we warned you.
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This may be the biggest data breach maybe in American history. Now they're targeting the Department of Labor. That's going to be gutted. Department of Education is going to be gutted. And that's what's going on there. You have Elon Musk bragging about deleting direct filing of the tax program. And even like the Musk and Trump supporters are like, why? Direct filing seems like a good thing.
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Direct filing is a good idea. Why are we doing this? Direct filing works for me. Why are we deleting this? Elon, I love you, but you got this one wrong. It's always funny when people are like, I love you, but you got this one wrong. There's always sometimes issues too. Like you take, for example, the Venezuelans in South Florida. They're like, I like his tax policies. I like the tax policies.
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But I just don't like his policies as it relates to Venezuelans. What are we talking about? Their policy is to hate you and to not recognize your existence as human beings. They view you as cockroaches, but you're unsure. There may be some other policies when it comes to maybe taxes. Maybe the border in general, you like some of those ideas.
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But you have some issues when it comes to the fact that they want to send you to concentration camps. So you don't really know how to balance this. I mean, President Biden was very hard on the Maduro regime. President Biden had strong sanctions against them. President Biden was representing all of your interests, protecting your temporary protected status. But he was sleepy. Sleepy Joe. Sleepy guy.
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Sleepy man. So... I don't know. Where do I go on this one? I mean, the rage algorithms have created such a brain rot. I don't know if I'm even making excuses for you, but hello. ridiculous, ridiculous stuff. People who said that Donald Trump was going to be great on Palestine and he was going to create peace.
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Well, Donald Trump announced that he was going to conquer it and occupy it and level it and destroy it and have American troops permanently occupied. That's what Donald Trump said with Prime Minister Netanyahu. So we're seeing a Some Palestinian folks are pro Trumpers who are Palestinian and Muslims for Trump saying we might have effed up this one. We may have screwed this one up.
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By the way, here's the CEO of Google. Was that Donald Trump's inauguration? There he is. There's the CEO of Google right there. And now China's retaliating against Google based on Trump's trade war against them. So that's where we're at, folks. Leopards eating faces. Leopards eating faces. I'm going to go read my Teamsters magazine now. Hit subscribe. We'll get to 4 million subscribers.
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Oh, and then the news yesterday that The Trump administration has canceled all parcels coming in from China as a trade war is escalating with China as well. You know, these stories are repeating over and over again. I mean, here is a teacher working in a red state who was a Trump voter.
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Donald Trump's plan has backfired massively in his face. Donald Trump announced that he wanted to send United States troops to occupy Gaza. Trump said he wanted to just level it, level the whole thing, get rid of it. Well, in the Middle East right now, multiple Middle East nations saying that they would go to war with Israel and potentially the United States if the United States did that.
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Danny Dannen, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, backed President Donald Trump's plan for the United States to take control of Gaza, though he doesn't believe Palestinians should forcibly be removed from the land. Quote, I think we all agree that it should require the consent, consent of people to move out from where they live and the consent for other countries to receive them.
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I mean, let's be clear. What Donald Trump was talking about was ethnic cleansing. It is utterly despicable and it should be condemned in the strongest terms. Fox interviewed people and leaders in Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia who were all rejecting Donald Trump's plan to take over Gaza. This is from Fox, by the way. I'm showing you what Fox is putting out on one of their shows.
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Here, play this clip. Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yanks has that part of the story from Tel Aviv.
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Now, at the same time, we're hearing those very strong voices right there. You've got the utterly spineless MAGA Republicans in Congress, most of them. are basically whatever Donald Trump wants. Here is MAGA Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Here, this is a typical MAGA Mike response where he's like, caught me by surprise, but if Donald Trump says it, oh, by golly, I think I like it.
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The ambassador from Israel to the United Nations had to walk that back and say, We don't even know what he's talking about. Even we're not suggesting that that should happen right now. But whether it's the countries like Jordan or Saudi Arabia, they're saying absolutely not. This is not happening. Even MAGA Republican senators like Rand Paul are saying things like this.
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Here's MAGA Mike Johnson again being asked by a reporter. So are you saying this is American first? to have the United States troops occupy Gaza and become a police department in the region and police the world? Here, play this clip.
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That's the propaganda right there coming out from the MAGA Republicans. Also, Kim Jong-un's press secretary, I mean, Donald Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levin. I mean, this is even more embarrassing. This is more embarrassing than the Kim Jong-un stuff. Here, she goes, everybody loves this plan. What are we talking about? The world is rejoicing.
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Donald Trump said he's conquering Gaza and sending the United States military to permanently occupy it. And the world is so happy. I mean, these people are the biggest liars, gaslighters, delusional propagandists there is. Play this clip. He also said that everyone loves this plan.
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The pursuit for peace should be that of the Israelis and the Palestinians. I thought we voted for America first. We have no business contemplating yet another occupation to doom our treasure and spill our soldiers' blood. To which our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, responds, you voted for a psychopath. He's your party's leader.
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And by the way, this was on Fox as well. You have our friend Jessica Tarlov saying this to Jesse Waters and some of the worst propagandists. What are you going to do with these people? Two million people and Jesse Waters from Fox goes, send them to Greenland. Here, play this clip.
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By the way, I want you to just take a look at this angle of Benjamin Netanyahu during the press conference with Donald Trump. You can see even in Netanyahu's face that like Donald Trump was saying the quiet part out loud and Netanyahu knew that what Trump was saying was actually going to create more problems, significantly more problems in the Middle East.
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And Netanyahu was like, why are you saying this out loud? I mean, this whole thing is just, again, utterly despicable. But hey, they're selling the quiet part aloud. Now, watch Netanyahu's face, though, as you zoom in on it. Here, play this clip.
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And then some more news to report, folks. Whereas once upon a time we used to boycott South Africa for apartheid, now the MAGA Republicans and their Secretary of State, MAGA Republican Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump's authoritarian regime. They're currently boycotting South Africa for being unfair to the white South Africans. That's being championed by Elon Musk.
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We are now withdrawing from the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. This shouldn't really shock you from an authoritarian regime here in the United States, the Trump authoritarian regime that has now sought to disband the CIA, disband the FBI and the FBI's counterterrorism division,
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disband and destroy USAID, disband and destroy the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, destroy all of our alliances, threaten Canada with annexation, threaten Mexico, engage in a trade war with China, then blocked all parcels inbound from China. And then Donald Trump chickened out and then said he backed down to China, but we still have tariffs against China.
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Donald Trump attacking the EU. So is it really a shock? that Marco Rubio would withdraw the United States from the G20 summit. But Russia is cheering right now. Marco Rubio, Secretary Rubio goes, I will not attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg. South Africa is doing very bad things. It's like Elon Musk writing this for them right here.
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Expropriating private property, using G20 to promote solidarity, equality, and sustainability. In other words, DEI and climate change. My job is to advance America's national interest, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism. Folks, we have an authoritarian, disgusting, and despicable regime here in the United States of America. We call them out.
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One of the things we're learning is that Jordan is ready for war with Israel. If the Palestinians are expelled into its territory, Trump's call to clear out Gaza has sparked massive anger throughout Jordan, with well-placed sources telling this journal, Middle East Eye, that the U.S. ally would be prepared for war.
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You're starting to see protests everywhere. take place across the country and throughout the world. And I think we're going to see those grow and grow in response to this crass corruption, this authoritarian, totalitarian, disgusting stuff, everything. DEI this, DEI this. These people are morons. Authoritarianism meets idiocracy. Our enemies are laughing. Our allies are horrified.
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America is alone in the world, weaker than ever because of Donald Trump and the despicable spineless magas who support this stuff. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Here, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations says Palestinians shouldn't be forced out of Gaza. Quote, I think we all agree that it should require the consent of Palestinians. I mean, what he says.
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Donald Trump ran away from Washington, D.C. today to take another vacation at Mar-a-Lago to play golf on the taxpayer dime. While on Air Force One, Donald Trump pulled out a golden $5 million bill and said this is a Trump gold card that we will be selling to oligarchs and people who want to buy citizenship.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
I'm joined by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Governor, the markets are crashing right now. The last I checked, and I don't like to check, the S&P 500 down 4.4%, the NASDAQ down 5.6%, the Dow is down 3.6%, and we also received news this morning that the U.S. announced job cuts totaled 275,000 in March. a record high for the month of March.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
recession i mean we all knew what happened with smoot holly in the 1930s we know that if you impose these types of tariffs it's going to have the consequences that we are seeing now so with all of the info out there with all of the data that's out there how could it be that this is how do you how do americans process this moment governor
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
California Governor Gavin Newsom, first time on the Midas Touch Network. We appreciate you so much. Great to be with you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
And again, no offense to petulant babies. Donald Trump is then asked when the last time he spoke with President Xi Jinping of China is. And then Donald Trump says, whatever. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters. Listen to what Trump says here. Play this clip. It's been an issue for years. It's been people have talked about it for years.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
Also, we learned that Donald Trump had been meeting with Laura Loomer in the White House when he announced his tariffs against the world. Laura Loomer, a 9-11 conspiracy theorist. Laura Loomer is someone who said that if Vice President Kamala Harris were to have won the election, it would make the White House smell like curry. She says hateful, ugly, disgusting things.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
I don't even want to repeat a lot of the things that she said, but Donald Trump here on Air Force One said that, yes, he takes advice and guidance from Laura Loomer, including who to hire and who to fire. Play this clip. I'd say also, tell us a little bit about your meeting with Laura Loomer and Mike Wilkes today and how that came about.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
Let's talk about that, the how we do it. What's your message to the governor of the largest state? the fifth largest economy in the world. What's your message right now about what the Democrats should be doing in messaging what's happening with the economy and just generally in this moment right now of chaos? What's going to happen tomorrow? What's he going to post?
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
How is that going to impact people's lives?
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
This is what Trump was doing after crashing the markets today, one of the worst crashes in American history. Here, play this clip. I haven't seen you in a while. Five million.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
She's been in the party a long time. She's done a good job. Now, we also learned that Donald Trump did, in fact, fire three individuals working for the National Security Council after Laura Loomer met with Donald Trump. In otherwise normal times, it would be pretty shocking and probably disqualifying. No, not probably. It would be disqualifying to just say that.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
But in the Trump regime, this is just another story in the mounting chaos and catastrophe and cataclysm that this regime brings. Donald Trump is asked about Elon Musk. Will Doge continue to destroy the government and destroy the federal workers after Elon leaves? Trump says yes. Play this clip.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
Now, Governor, we're going to talk a little bit about the podcast. I've got some questions there, but we got to talk about this breaking news and your response to it.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
A lot of those people, I believe, are going to go into the agencies. Donald Trump is asked about, well, why did these National Security Council staffers get fired? Why were they let go? Why are you firing people? And here's what Donald Trump says.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
You know, as part of that cockamamie tariff formula, we're also seeing that tariffs were imposed on an Antarctica island where just there's no human inhabitants.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
And then another island where the only population is an American military base. So we're tariffing our own military base. No offense to clowns. This is clownish stuff. It's dangerous stuff. And when you're speaking to world leaders, and I've seen you've been meeting with a lot of world leaders recently in California because they're looking for stability and answers.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
What are you hearing from them, Governor?
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Join deleteme.com slash Midas and enter the code Midas at checkout. That's join deleteme.com slash Midas. Use the code Midas. Join deleteme.com slash Midas code Midas. Thanks, delete me. Donald Trump then asked about the market crash taking place today. And Trump's response was, yeah, we expected the market crash. That's to be expected. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
It'll be out in about less than two weeks. And just so you can see that Donald Trump previously said that he would be selling these Trump gold cards to Russian oligarchs. This is just from a few weeks back where he confirmed his intention to sell these to oligarchs in Russia. Play this clip. Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card?
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
Interesting Donald Trump so cavalier about it as well. Also, as we previously had reported in Donald Trump's post earlier in the day, where Donald Trump said the following, while the markets were crashing. what, 1,600 points with the Dow, four or 5% down the Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq. Trump goes, this is all in caps. The operation is over, exclamation point. The patient lived and is healing.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
The prognosis is that the patient will be far stronger, bigger, better, and more resilient than ever before. Make America great. Again, that's And also as we learned that Donald Trump literally applied tariffs to an island near Antarctica with no human inhabitants, that is just comprised of penguins. Yes. Donald Trump tariffed penguins.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
Governor, I think about some of the people who voted for Donald Trump in our state of California. The farmers in Kern County, in Fresno, they're getting hurt right now, maybe even the most or as bad as anybody. Also, we learned about how Donald Trump emptied those reservoirs because he wanted to say he opened up a valve and released the water into Southern California. This reservoir was
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
He gave the Taliban an exemption to the tariff formula that he hit Europe and our other allies with. Yes. And Donald Trump also tariffed a United States military base. Um, Donald Trump is asked, uh, More questions. Let me show you this too. As Donald Trump said that this was to be expected and he said that we inherited a terrible economy. We did not, as we've always pointed out before.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
was nowhere near where the fires were. At the time the reservoir was drained, there was already full containment or mostly full containment of the fire. This was nowhere near where the fires were. But now the releasing of this water is going to harm farmers during a dry summer. This can be devastating, releasing $2.2 billion just so he can do a freaking social media post.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
And as Gillette points out here, unemployment was 4.1%, the lowest in 50 years. He inherited that. GDP growth was 2.4%. Inflation was under 3%, headed to 2%. We had the number one economy in the world under former President Biden. 16.2 million jobs created. 40,000 infrastructure projects going up. GDP was leading the world. Unemployment down. Job growth hitting records.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
What's your reaction to that? What's the status of that right now?
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
Donald Trump is then asked about people losing their 401ks and life savings. Here's what Donald Trump says. Play this clip. We have a very good dialogue going on.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
I haven't checked my 401k. Thank you very much. Donald Trump is then asked if he hopes to do deals with the countries, and Donald Trump gives a bunch of gibberish word salad. Let's play it. And it's going to make our country very rich.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
Governor, you are a fighter. You are known for being a top debater as well. And I'll just give you the example. You went on Fox News and you had Sean Hannity conduct a debate with you and Ron DeSantis, knowing that Hannity would, you knew they were going to do the stunts. You did that in front of millions of people on Fox. Look, The stakes don't really get higher than that.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
Donald Trump then talks about how China may want to give him a call now to try to cut a deal on TikTok. This is what this maniac is talking about. Let's play it.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
So when people think about you, they think fighter, debater. So I have questions about the podcast. I'm sure you've heard these questions before. And I think it's only fair that I ask them on this show because what people were wondering When you had someone like a Charlie Kirk and a Bannon, they know that Newsom's a fighter. That's what they think.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
It's possible. Going back to Donald Trump's trip back to Florida, Moralago, where he will be golfing again. Here he is on Air Force One being asked about additional facts that we're learning about all these war plans on Signal and Gmail that his Defense Department and National Security Advisors are engaged in. Donald Trump responds to the reporter, do not ever ask me about this again.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
So when you have them on the show, this is what the argument is. And then let me know. They said, look, Kirk said some bad and not Kirk says a lot of bad things. MLK is a bad guy. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake. If you vote Democrats as a Christian, I think you can no longer call yourself a Christian. Black pilots. I'm sorry if I see a black pilot. I'm going to be like a boy.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
I'm going to be asking if he's qualified or not. Bannon pled guilty to a felony contempt of Congress. So people are saying you have them on. Does it feel like you're normalizing them for not challenging them and hitting them for those ideas? Because you're a fighter and that's what you're known for. So what do you say to those people, Governor?
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
I have no knowledge of that. Trump then attacks Europe, which got some of the harshest treatment by Donald Trump on these tariffs against the world. Let's play it.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
Donald Trump is asked how long it will take to get manufacturing here, and Trump says it will be at least a two-year process. First off, it's gonna take longer than that, Donald, but that's kind of the problem here, that you've now created such uncertainty in the marketplace. Are you going to take the tariffs away? Are you not going to take the tariffs away? No one knows what to do.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
We're seeing factories engage in mass layoffs right now. We're set for another crash likely tomorrow of the economy. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane After Market Crash
A year and a half to two years, Mr. President. And there you have it, folks. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. I wanted to share with you what went down. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Trump Crashing the Economy
You know, what makes this worse, if it could get worse, is that it's a self-inflicted
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
As the markets are crashing today as a result of Donald Trump's announcement of what he called Liberation Day, which feels more like Annihilation Day or Recession Day. Donald Trump is sending his surrogates on various media platforms, but it's definitely giving off that kind of Baghdad vibe.
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
The data would suggest otherwise. And also, factories don't get built in a 24-hour period as much as they'd like to weld that into existence. Let's bring in Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont. Governor, you have a business background, of course, everybody knows, before becoming the governor of Connecticut. What's your reaction just generally to what's going on today?
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
Let's talk about your plan. I mean, we can talk... We're probably, unfortunately, hours about the damage that Trump and Lutnick are causing almost every single day with just the chaos and it's just the new terrible announcement. But what are you doing? I mean, what should Democrats be doing? What's the plan?
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
bob kind of vibe or a pink dress lady kind of vibe from north korea i mean they're trying to claim that everything is absolutely great and things are amazing but the markets would tell you otherwise also getting very bad economic data as well today about the job cuts that are coming out some of the worst job cut numbers
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
How about the impact of tourism on the state? You know, Donald Trump's attacks on Canada and Europe. You know, we're hearing about the boycott, 75%, 80% tourism boycotts from Canada. We're seeing Europe now also kind of joining that movement. Are you seeing things in Connecticut that are worrisome on that front?
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
Let's talk about the emergency measures that you talked about a few days ago that may be necessary as a result of these cuts. Can you first just talk more broadly about these kind of the Doge cuts, the Trump cuts, are any Social Security Administration offices being shut down or services being cut off? What are you hearing from your constituents in the state?
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
I think it's a great point that you make right there because, look, you as a business person before being governor, when you roll out something new, you want to try to do it with the least amount of instability, the least amount of chaos. You want to let people know what the plans are.
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
know and it's just interesting to hear from you to say you know one of the big issues is is just when doge happens to make whatever it's going to do you even as the governor and i'm sure you're hearing from other governors and maybe talk to that aren't and it's on a bipartisan basis it's not just because you're a democrat something hits
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
And then you kind of find out about it as the governor, frankly, the way a recipient of the service who's relying on it in a life or death way would find out because the website is shut down, a portal is closed, and then people are panicking and they're frantic because it's not being communicated. Speak to that chaos, if you can.
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
And that's the thing about you. I mean, look, your reputation always has been you're someone who wants to do your best to work across the aisle and get things done if it benefits Connecticut. They're making it awfully hard.
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
that we've seen in a very very long time i mean really since the great recessions of 2008 the third highest monthly total on record i mean you take a look at what howard lutnick is saying though and he's telling you donald trump's commerce secretary this is great everything's amazing this is what a great day it's liberation here just just play this clip you're right in the long term but in the long term we're all dead so how long are we gonna have to wait for the benefits to come pouring in
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
When a tariff announcement hits like this, knowing your background and you're trying to work with it, they ain't making it easy on you when you have days like today that they call Liberation Day and tank the markets and crash people's pensions and destroy people's lives. It kind of makes it difficult.
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
Tell us briefly about your budget, how you frame things and how you think about things. And, you know, and is it different than what you're seeing at the federal level?
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
You know, I think you said that, you know, this is, again, not Liberation Day. This is Tax Day. This is just another word for Americans are going to be taxed. What do you expect is going to happen, though? I mean, we're really in uncharted territories. I mean, look, we've seen historically – recessions have happened, but they're usually not so self-inflicted and obvious.
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
If you look at Smoot-Hawley tariffs back from 1930s, we know where this ends. It ends in very bad economic places. So what do you think happens? And what do you urge Donald Trump and others to do in this moment right now?
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
Well, other than cheering on your Huskies, any final words you want to give to the American people right now who are worried? They're seeing the markets. If they even have the fortitude, I don't, to open up that 401k and even look at it right now, they're worried. So what's your message to the people right now?
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
Governor Ned Lamont, it's your first time on the Midas Touch podcast and network. We really appreciate you coming on. Hope you come back. Ned, let's do it again.
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Connecticut Governor Lamont responds to Trump Tariff Disaster
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
world leaders are responding with anger resentment fear confusion at donald trump declaring liberation day and tariffing the entire world at rates higher than anybody expected donald trump self-inflicting a collapse of the united states economy by declaring liberation day in america The futures market last night crashing by a thousand points and more. I'll get to that in a moment.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
So then Fox, state regime media in the United States, has to justify Donald Trump's disastrous actions. So they bring on Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump's other top economic advisors. This is the guy fresh out of prison. He was the guy who served 30 days for contempt of Congress. This guy came up with the Green Bay Sweep scheme to try to overthrow the results of 2020 election.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
This guy is an insurrectionist, an insurrection enabler who went to jail last Here he is, and here's how he describes the tariffs. Play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Happy Liberation Day, Peter. Seriously? Seriously, right there. By the way, it should be noted that Democrats in the Senate led a bipartisan majority to overturn Trump's tariffs on Canada. It passed in the Senate, but it's not expected to even be taken up in the House. So it's not actually going to become a law.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
But the Democrats showed that they were able to bring four Republicans along with with them. to say don't tariff Canada, although the rest of the Republicans want these tariffs and trade war going on against Canada. As Geiger Capital, an account that was very Trumpy, very pro-Trump in my opinion before all of this, now is saying the overall weighted average
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
tariff is 29%, the highest in over 100 years, bigger than the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, which resulted in the Great Depression. Donald Trump just, you can see right here, the estimated 4-2 announcement, the Liberation Day tariffing the world, significantly higher than Smoot-Hawley, which again resulted in an economic depression in the United States. And by the way,
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Even Senator Rand Paul, MAGA Republican from Kentucky, even he's making sense here. Here, play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Well, there you have it, folks. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. I wanted to show you what the international leaders are saying. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
exports, nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff. So then Sir Wiki and others figured out how the Trump regime actually calculated the tariffs and what they were going to be imposing on the rest of the world. He goes, just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates plus non-tariff barriers as they say they did.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. So you take $17.9 and $28 equals 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
And then the White House actually confirmed that this is how they're doing it. Let's take a look at what the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had to say about Donald Trump. And she talks about how disenchanted, disheartened, disgusted Europe is at the Trump regime. Play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the following to the British Parliament regarding Donald Trump's Liberation Day tariff stunt scheme. Play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Donald Trump listed every country that is being tariffed, which he's calling Liberation Day. When you actually look at the chart as well, as Oliver Cooper says, can someone please tell Donald Trump? that the only people in the British Indian Ocean Territory are the U.S. base at Diego Garcia. He's taxing an American military base.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Let's take a look at what Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had to say about this. Here, play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Let's take a look at what Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney had to say about this. Play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Also, if you look at the chart of who Donald Trump is tariffing, he's tariffing the Heard and McDonald Islands. He's not making this up, declaring a trade war with penguins. Planned tariffs that were shared by the White House includes an island that's uninhabited other than penguins.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
I want to show you how they're reporting this internationally. Let's take a look at France 24. And in about two minutes and 43 seconds, Professor Scott Lucas, who's a professor of U.S. and international politics at the Clinton Institute University College in Dublin, breaks it down how economically illiterate Donald Trump's
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
speech was where he declared liberation day and tariffed all of these countries. He says this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Watch this. This is a brilliant breakdown right here. Play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Now, James Surotsky and others have been going through the formula for how Donald Trump and his regime actually calculated this tariff scheme stunt, self-induced world economic collapse. And it's by lying and saying, oh, these were just reciprocal tariffs. They're not reciprocal. I mean, if you look at the tariff rate of, let's say, Europe versus the United States, it was like
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Now, I showed you Australia's current prime minister, Albanese, and what he had to say. Let me show you a prior prime minister. Albanese is from the Labor Party. Let me show you the former Liberal Party prime minister, John Howard. Here's what he had to say about Donald Trump generally and Trump's tariffs. Here, play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Now, notably, when Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant was asked about the tariffs, following Trump's horrific, awful speech, you had Treasury Secretary Besant really didn't know how these things were negotiated. He had no clue about where these numbers even came from. He was like, I really don't know. I was not part of the negotiation.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
The Treasury Secretary, as Tom Bonior says, totally normal, competent government stuff here. He's being sarcastic. The Treasury Secretary of the United States seemingly has no details on Trump's trade war. Play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
And here's Scott Besant again saying all these countries don't panic, don't retaliate against us. We're going to try to figure this out. Just don't retaliate. And you can see how flustered he looks here after saying he had no part in coming up with these tariffs. You're the Treasury secretary. You're saying you had no part in this play this clip.
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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump on Trade War
Each country in Europe were tariffing each other 1%. So where was Donald Trump making up these numbers? As James Czerwicki said, it's important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us that Donald Trump is claiming exists are just made up numbers by Donald Trump. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reacts to Trump Crashing Markets
The markets are tanking right now after Donald Trump announced across the board tariffs on the world, something he called Liberation Day. The Dow futures as of this recording are down more than 1000 points. The S&P is down about 3.7%. The Nasdaq is down almost 5%. This is
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reacts to Trump Crashing Markets
Let's bring in democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries. Leader Jeffries, what do you make of all of this?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reacts to Trump Crashing Markets
What do you make of the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives and in the Senate who are saying America needs pain? This is pain that is needed, short-term pain and suffering. This is what was promised. So everybody, they go, it's like a kitchen remodel or like when you remodel your house. I think that's what a lot of the MAGA Republicans have been saying. What's your response to that?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reacts to Trump Crashing Markets
unprecedented market crashes right now and the white house doubling tripling down their official rapid response account saying liberation day and they're posting all the countries that are being tariffed worse which is every country basically we're seeing headlines like this from barons the stock market pain is just getting started this is how you sabotage the world's economic engine
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reacts to Trump Crashing Markets
Let's talk about that. What do you make of the results in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, those special elections also in Florida? Are you seeing a through line, a trend developing here?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reacts to Trump Crashing Markets
Leader Jeffries, this is the messaging that's going down on Fox right now, how they're trying to tell their viewers, this is how you have to deal with the pain and suffering. I want to show you this. Then I want to get your message to the voters out there and the people who are seeing these, the markets crash. They're seeing their life savings go away. But this is how Fox is framing it right now.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reacts to Trump Crashing Markets
Here, play this clip.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reacts to Trump Crashing Markets
So that's what Fox is saying. Tell people that we're at war and this is like World War II and that's what's going on. What's your message though, Leader Jeffries, to the American people right now who are seeing this crash take place before their eyes, a self-induced recession by Donald Trump? What do you say to them?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reacts to Trump Crashing Markets
And Treasury Secretary Scott Besson does the following, advising countries not to panic, not to retaliate right there. And then from Fitch, we have this is a game changer, not only for the US economy, but for the global economy. Many countries will likely end up In a recession, you can throw most forecasts out the door if this tariff rate stays on for an extended period of time.
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Why do you think he's doing it? Do you think it's part of the authoritarian playbook? Is he someone who just has bankrupted a lot of the companies that he's created before, and this is just what he does? What's your take on it?
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I've been hearing from a lot of our viewers see Democrats now going out. I mean, you told us this is what was going to happen. Democrats going out, not just in their home districts, but in red districts across the country, leading rallies. You've been leading events as well, focused on Social Security and Medicaid. We've been seeing this across. So you're up in the fight right now, right?
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You've also brought a lawsuit against Donald Trump. Talk about what contours the fight is taking on now and what we're seeing now, because it looks like, you know, and I've been hearing from a lot of people that said, yes, this is what we've been looking for.
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From CNBC, the market reaction after hours. I've never seen anything like this. Worse than anybody expected. This is what Donald Trump said moments ago in this horrific press conference. Let's play it.
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So it's been a pretty solid honeymoon for Donald Trump, other than he added journalists to classified text message threads. He mistakenly deported legal migrants to concentration camps in El Salvador, and he's now tariffing the entire world, including remote Antarctic islands that are uninhabited by human beings, but inhabited by many penguins. Hat tip for Carl Quintanilla's post right there.
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That will cause devastation to world economies. It will cause devastation to the United States economy.
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As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, wrote, it's comforting to know that our economy is now being driven by Howard Lutnick, a modern incarnation of the ShamWow guy, or really the modern incarnation channeling the ghost of Smoot and Hawley, rolled out by a frontman in orange makeup and high heels who bankrupted casinos.
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We're seeing memes like this, like Donald Trump being Salt Bae, but not Salt Bae. Economic destructive, I don't even want to say bae. And it ain't Liberation Day, it was Annihilation Day. The annihilation of America's economy, the annihilation of America's standing in the world, which Trump was withering away with Elon Musk and the wrecking ball that was Doge over the past 70 plus days.
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And then Donald Trump just grandstanded in front of the entire world and announced we're tariffing everybody with this stupid chart that he had. Again, where he even listed islands in like near Antarctica, Arctic islands that are just inhabited by penguins. But on a more serious note, attacking our allies, basically attacking Europe, the worst.
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I mean, going right after Europe and then some of our allies. enemies or adversaries kind of getting even some better deals than like Europe. None of these are good deals at all. And so now the question is, what is the further retaliation against the United States going to look like? But this is when Donald Trump brought out a chart to try to describe his tariffs. And I want to be clear that
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i need to fact check this crap donald trump's calling this reciprocal tariffs there's nothing reciprocal about what donald trump is doing like the tariffs that europe imposed against the u.s and that u.s imposed against europe before this both were about one percent so donald trump has made up a completely false formula i think using chat gpt i'll talk about that formula in a moment
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and then came up with fake numbers to justify his liberation day, which is really recession day, depression day, annihilation day. Watch this.
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There, as Roger Sherman writes, we simply had to intentionally destroy the world's strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings ever again. As Jessica Rydell says, some voters got mad about people listing their pronouns.
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Yeah. So James Sir wiki really kind of figured out what how Donald Trump even arrived at his numbers for tariffing these nations. He goes, just figured out where these fact fake companies.
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tariff rates came from they didn't actually calculate tariff rates plus non-tariff barriers as they say they did instead for every country they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's export to us what extraordinary nonsense this is Here's the take from Democratic strategist James Carville. Carville on Trump tariffs.
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It's just his ego playing itself out in public. He loves having foreign people call and say, hey, can you exempt Finnish steel from these tariffs? There's no policy behind it. It's just his ego playing itself out in public. And it's going to hurt a ton of people that you can't even imagine the devastation. that this is going to wreak on people.
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Just take a look here when you see Trump's proposed tariffs will give the United States higher tariffs than any industrialized nation, and it's not even close. You see how phony Donald Trump's claims are that this is reciprocal. Now, Geiger Capital, right-leaning kind of in my view, I could be wrong, Trumpy-ish, account.
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They previously said anybody who believes that Donald Trump would impose 20% tariffs is an idiot for thinking Donald Trump's going to do what he says he's going to do. But now Geiger Capital has to admit the overall weighted average, as I said at the outset of Trump's tariffs, is 29%, the highest in over 100 years, bigger than Smoot-Hawley, which caused the Great Depression.
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So Donald Trump is taking the Great Depression strategy and multiplying it by many, many multiples of that, you know. An interesting thing happened in the United States Senate yesterday as well. A somewhat bipartisan piece of legislation was introduced in the Senate. All of the Democrats plus Republicans, Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul.
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The Senate passed this resolution to block Trump's tariffs on Canada. Trump attacked all of those Republicans for joining with the Democrats in an early post in the morning where Donald Trump essentially called all of Canada drug traffickers, killing Americans with fentanyl, once again lying and defaming the great nation of Canada. As I've said before, the way Putin
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justified his war against Ukraine on denazification and the horrific lies there. Donald Trump's version is that, because Donald Trump thinks the same way as Putin, is that Canada's killing all of these Americans with fentanyl is Canada's fault. Thus, we need to go to war with Canada. And by the way, that's how Canadians perceive this, not just as a trade war, but as a war war against Canada.
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It's why Canada's gone elbows up, why they are boycotting all American products, and why most Canadians, 70, 85, think it's going as high as 90% of Canadians boycotting travel to the United States. So with all of the pain and suffering that the Trump regime is inflicting on the United States of America, What is the Trump family doing?
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So now we're sending law abiding legal migrants to torture prisons and being hit with the largest middle class tax hike in at least 40 years. The American markets are crashing right now. Donald Trump is imploding the entire American economy. GDP is expected to contract now by as much as negative 3.8%. Whereas if Donald Trump did nothing eight weeks ago, the Atlanta Federal Reserve
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What is this family that sees itself in the form of authoritarian families in the past? Lara Trump, also a Fox host, posts Trump store. Guess where you can get all of your Trump store merch? Now on Amazon. Oh, they're selling Trump store merch right here. Let me share this with you right now.
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Donald Trump's treasury secretary, Scott Besant, was asked about Donald Trump's disastrous trade war following Donald Trump's announcement of liberation crap or whatever the hell he's calling it, where he's tariffing all worlds at that blended 29% rate when you take all of his tariffs. So what did the Treasury Secretary Scott Besson say?
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Well, Scott Besson said he wasn't even involved in the negotiations. He says, I don't know anything about it. I don't know. I don't know. I wasn't involved in the negotiations. I'm just the Treasury Secretary. What am I supposed to know? I'm just the Treasury Secretary. Here, play this clip.
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I think you're supposed to know what Treasury secretaries are supposed to know. But folks, don't you worry. Fox has a plan. State regime media known as Fox has a plan. You want to know what their plan is? They're telling... They're telling Americans we're at war. So you got to feel pain and suffering because it's all for the greater good of the war. The imaginary war that they're making up.
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This is a war like World War II. So your pain and suffering is going to be helping the war effort. What the hell are they talking about? Here, play this clip.
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Well, I'll leave you with this clip right here of Governor Walz, Minnesota. I wish we saw more of this type of Governor Walz on the campaign during the presidential election. They kind of reined him in, or whatever you want to call it. I would have liked to see him speak more like this. This is the Governor Walz. who I think we need to hear more from play this clip.
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predicted 3.8% growth. Now it's negative 3.8% or 3.8% contraction because of what Donald Trump has been doing. Donald Trump's quote liberation day was an utter disaster. And as economists said, it was worse than anybody expected. When you take a look at all of the tariffs that Donald Trump imposed on On every country in the world, the average tariff is about 29%.
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It's important to understand that we have many visitors in the city of New Orleans right now. Safety is our top priority, and we want our guests and the world to know that Louisiana does not cower to radical Islamic terrorists. Our restaurant and all New Orleans has to offer, has to remain open for business. By the way, I'm not sure if that message is all that much better.
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You're trying to act like it was an act of bravery that you went to Bonton's Prime Rib Fancy Steakhouse before going to a football game. I mean, you think or in preparation of going to a football game. You think that's what's actually showing leadership right now? And folks, it's important to get the facts.
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What a leader does when there's a domestic terrorist attack or when there's something tragic is first you speak to the people. After gathering the information about what happened, you don't lie and spread disinformation.
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And as I've said in a video I did earlier today, there was once a time, believe it or not, in American history, not all that long ago in my lifetime, where when there would be natural disasters or terrorist attacks, we would come together as a nation and try to actually solve the problems. We wouldn't finger point and say, oh, it's this person's fault or that's person's fault.
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But that's all MAGA does with all of these attacks and natural disasters. I mean, Just think about even how Donald Trump was campaigning. You know, when there were those horrible hurricanes that hit the East Coast, what would Donald Trump do?
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He would lie and say that Biden is making sure that FEMA is helping illegal immigrants and not helping the people and Biden's not going to give you any money or resources, which was 100 percent false. It was a way, though, to turn it into a political thing and to blame things on immigrants and rile people up. That's not what leaders do.
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Let's just talk about what the latest set of facts are, what the latest data is. The FBI now says that there is no evidence that the New Orleans attacker was anything but a lone wolf. There was a lot of disinfo out there about, oh, that this was a conspiracy with lots of other people.
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Again, this was someone who was an American in Texas who was in the United States military who did this and who was working and living in Texas. Here's updates from Mike Baker post the latest updates. There's actually 14 dead down from 15. The attacker, Jabbar, he reported joining ISIS last year. Two explosive devices were found in the French Quarter. Jabbar placed them.
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Investigators are now confident he acted alone. They have not ruled out any connection with the Cybertruck blast in Vegas. So that's what we know now. And with that data, it is important just to report that. As we said yesterday, when we knew what the data was yesterday, Always said it's a 42 year old. His name is Shamshud Din Jabbar, American citizen, U.S. Army veteran, born and raised in Texas.
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Here, take a look at this, folks. This is the MAGA Republican governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, at 7.15 p.m., 16 hours after, I think it's now 14 people were confirmed dead and 30 injured from the domestic terrorist attack in his own state. in the city of New Orleans.
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But now what's MAGA saying this morning? Even when they're given this information, even when they're given this data, they find a way to attack immigrants.
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with the information that i just gave you speaker my i'm not going to play you the videos of mike johnson and these magas i know my policy only applies to trump right now that i'm not playing trump videos or trump audio but i don't want to play it's a new year i i may play in the future clips of maga mike johnson and these magnets but i just i don't want to play the clips if you want to see the clips you can go and look at our social media platforms midas touch we have them there but i'm just not playing them here
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I hope by now you trust that I'm saying what's in the clip. So Speaker Mike Johnson was on Fox & Friends this morning, and he suggested that it's Biden's wide open border that played a role in the New Orleans attack. Again, the perpetrator was born in Texas and served in the United States military, but they're going all in on wide open border. And at the same time, I've said this before,
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President Biden wanted a bipartisan border deal passed. The lead negotiator of the bipartisan border deal was none other than James Lankford, a very right-wing guy, a very right-wing conservative from Oklahoma. This would have had the strongest borders ever. And it would have had ways to deal with humans with dignity. And it would have addressed all of the issues about labor shortages.
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And it would have had extra, would have paid border agents more money. It would have been great for the police and border agents. But MAGAs killed the bill because Trump said he wanted chaos because it was a winning issue for him and Republicans to run on a chaotic border. Don't you see people that they are running on our pain?
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Don't you see that they like when we're in pain and we're suffering, these MAGA Republicans, so that they could divide us? And why are they dividing us though? Think about, follow the money, where does it go? The Mar-a-Lago billionaires entrench their wealth when we, the people, are pit against each other, when we're in fear. That's when they thrive.
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If we open our eyes and we see what they're doing, picking our pockets and looting us while making billions of dollars, then they get exposed. Don't you see? That's why they want you to get angry about all of these issues that don't you see? And they don't want you to know the truth.
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The second post that you'll see here was 90 minutes later when he learned that the feedback he was getting was less than stellar, posting a photo outside Bonton's Prime Rib, a fancy steakhouse with a bunch of his friends. As this account, Laura Burkhart says, elect better people. It doesn't have to be this way. You don't have to bring in such ghoulish people who do stuff like this.
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As Tim Miller talks about here, also the idea that racially motivated extremism was nonsense would be news to all the dead people in El Paso, Buffalo, Christchurch, Charleston, etc. Here's a pro tip. It's important to oppose mass murder in all cases, not just when the perp is a convenient political cudgel.
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So then the Fox hosts have on Mike Waltz, who's the incoming national security advisor to Donald Trump. currently a MAGA Republican congressman. This is a big job. National security advisor, head of the national security apparatus here. And this is what Mike Walz does. Mike Walz does.
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Mike Waltz uses the attack in New Orleans and the incident in Las Vegas to now insist that Trump's cabinet shouldn't even be questioned. They need to be confirmed immediately now because of these incidents. So you see how they use the pain and suffering of we the people, of the people in New Orleans, of the whole situation to achieve a political end. Well now, why are we even holding hearings?
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You have to confirm everybody right away. As Michael Freeman says, in challenging times, cabinet nominees need less, not more scrutiny. It's not a very good argument to make. They need more scrutiny.
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And what Democrats should be saying is, actually, in these times, we can't be having these compromised, unqualified people who are, what, going to post photos of themselves in front of steakhouses when there is an attack? They're going to be missing in action. because they don't even have the qualifications to handle these jobs. But folks, this has been all morning today.
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MAGA Republican Representative Dan Mouser, he blames DEI and the FBI investigating Trump for the attack in New Orleans. And what he means there is that the FBI agent who's been holding press briefings, she's black, it's a black woman. And so that's what they're referring to. And again, MAGA has to make this DEI stuff versus just saying we all need as Americans to stop this terrorism.
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This is what MAGA does on every issue. Then you have next MAGA Republican Congress member Randy Weber. And as Aaron Rupert explains, even though the New Orleans attacker was born in Texas and is a veteran, all the House Republicans on Fox are following Trump's lead and just pretending that the terrorists came across Biden's open borders.
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And they're making this an open borders thing, it's an immigrants thing, bring it home and we need to round up and do bloody mass deportations. And as Eric Columbus says once again, this is a great opportunity for Dems not to defend Biden, but to insist that the GOP take the danger seriously and reject nominees plainly unsuited to the task. like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and others.
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You then have Tom Holman, Trump's border czar, goes on Fox and then continues to talk about this as a border issue as well. And they repeat this over and over again.
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who going back to what ultimately trump's statement was and you saw trump's statement i read it to you earlier this morning i mean trump said when i said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country that statement was constantly refuted by the democrats and the fake news media but it turns out to be true the crime rate in our country is at a level nobody has ever seen before our hearts are with all the innocent victims and their loved ones including
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the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump administration will fully support the city of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil. So again, I mean, why can't you just say our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones?
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We're investigating and we'll make sure you have all the up-to-date information and we'll take all action to stop this. But no, they make it about the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country. That's not even a true data point and that's not what's happening here.
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You can actually elect people who care about we, the people. And I go back and I remember all of those videos we were doing with the red flags of Jeff Landry and how he was just a Donald Trump mega sycophant who would post these bizarre messages and photos of himself. And this is what you get, a lack of leadership, zero leadership. Then Landry posted 90 minutes later,
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And by the way, with all of the information about what's going on with the Tesla truck, what we know about this individual, the man connected to the rental of the Tesla cyber truck that exploded outside of the Trump Hotel in Vegas on Wednesday, is a U.S. Special Forces soldier who was assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group per four U.S. officials.
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The mass shootings that take place in the United States are Americans who are doing that, who are radicalized here. So we just need to stick with the truth, people. And the going to the steakhouse is so utterly ghoulish and gross. Anyway, thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to four million together. Thank you.
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unions which you claim which you actually don't support unions but you claimed you supported unions we're going to put you on the spot and we're going to introduce legislation and we're going to use your exact words from the campaign in the legislation and we're going to show that you actually don't support these things and we're going to go one by one and say here's the promise okay we're just going to draft that
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We have to educate the public who's blocking the priorities that matter to the public. A lot of these issues are complicated or could be complicated. How does a bill, it shouldn't be all that complicated. How does a bill become a law? How do agencies work? Which judges are appointed by which president? What are the priorities of the president? and what actually went down.
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So when Trump says, hey, labor, I'm with you, but then dismantles the National Labor Relations Board, which is the forum that allows labor to be recognized as having rights as a union and to file grievances, you go, you're lying. We know you're lying. You've come out and you've made all these statements against the rights of unions to even exist.
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Heck, your buddy Elon Musk said that unions shouldn't exist because they create a lord versus peasant dynamic. That's what Elon Musk and Trump think about unions, that they create a lord. That's actually what they say to manipulate your thought process about unions.
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The lord v. peasant dynamic are the billionaires at Mar-a-Lago, the lords, and the peasants are the people who they're keeping making less than a living wage with bad healthcare, without access to education, without the ability to advance. I see other Democrats following this tactic, this strategy, and introduce the legislation.
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We've seen, I've interviewed him, Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna, Americans' outstanding credit card balances jumped 8.1% higher over the past year. Still, the average credit card interest rate is 21%. Americans are in need of a chance to catch up. We need 10% federal caps on credit card interest rates. Trump said he was going to do that. Let's call him out for it.
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Congress member Tom Swasey from New York's third congressional district. I'm going to interview him soon. He did a guest essay in the New York Times, The Wake-Up Call America Needs, and what he's saying is, okay, Trump went out and said he was gonna do all these things, He basically stole issues that Democrats have been actually fighting for.
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And Trump's saying these things because he's lying to his audiences. So, okay, let's show that he lied the same way, you know, he's going to get exposed with, I'm going to stop the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Introduce it. And if the bill becomes a law, that's a win. If Americans can get the things I outlined before, that's a win. It is. But we know what's going to happen. Call their bluff.
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Call their bluff and say, let's do it. And when they block it, call them liars. It's simple. And don't over intellectualize it. Just say they're liars. They lied to you. They rug pulled you. Pulled the rug right from under you. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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And we're going to submit that to Congress to see if Congress will pass that and see if you'll sign it. And ultimately, when Donald Trump doesn't sign it, Democrats will be kind of setting this up. They're setting the trap for the midterms in 2028 to say, look, he's a liar about everything. We've already seen Donald Trump showing that he was a liar about his position on H-1B visas.
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Donald Trump's whole position on the campaign trail in 2016 and in 2020 was that he was going to make sure that Americans get those jobs. He said, I'm going to make sure America goes H-1B visas and I'm gonna come up with a way to get rid of them.
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I'm not gonna show you the clips of him, but we did a great comparison of what he said in 2016, what he said in 2020, and what he said at New Year's, and it's just very different things. He went from saying these are American jobs, we're gonna get American jobs in these STEM jobs, science, tech, engineering, and mathematics. And now he's saying Americans can't do these jobs.
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And the thing is that there's a nuanced approach to this. There's a lot of American engineers who can actually fill these jobs. Just people like Elon Musk and the tech bros don't want to pay American talent. There is American talent to fill this job. Now, there may also be a need for for H1B talent as well from India and other countries. But there is American talent there as well.
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There's a smart, nuanced way to have conversations without just constantly saying, they're eating cats and dogs, or they're coming for, you know, they're gonna take over your house, or the fear mongering and all of that. So here's what a Democratic Senator, it's what Bernie Sanders said, actually. Bernie Sanders says the following.
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Sanders goes, during the recent campaign, Donald Trump proposed a 10% cap on credit card interest rates. Great idea. Let's see if he supports the legislation that I will introduce to do just that. To be clear, it's more of an independent, but caucuses with Democrats. But here he's saying, okay, you want to do the 10% cap on credit card interest rates? Then let's do it.
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The other thing that Bernie Sanders is saying, and he penned a entire op-ed in The Guardian, is, all right, you're having RFK Jr. say, make America healthy again. Let's talk about health. And I think Bernie realizes, Senator Sanders realizes, that Americans are focused on health. housing, education. Those are top of the mind issues to Americans and Trump's not going to deliver on his promises.
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So it's important though that Democrats put him on the spot right away on these issues that frankly are actually democratic issues that Democrats didn't message as powerfully or as directly as they should. So here's what Bernie Sanders says. We should be leading the world in terms of life expectancy, disease prevention, low infant and maternal mortality, quality of life, and human happiness.
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Here is how we actually make America healthy again. So you see there, okay, you want to make America healthy again? You want to maha? Okay, let's do it. So here's how we reform our dysfunctional healthcare system, Bernie writes. He goes, Over the past year, I've had the privilege of serving as chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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As I leave that position, let me reflect upon where I think our country should be going in healthcare and the obstacles we face. We are the wealthiest nation on earth. There is no rational reason as to why we are not the healthiest nation on earth. We should be leading the world in terms of life expectancy, disease prevention, low infant and maternal mortality, quality of life and human happiness.
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Sadly, study after study shows just the opposite. Despite spending almost twice as much per capita on health care, we trail most wealthy nations in all of these areas. So if we're going to Mahatma Gandhi. If we're going to make America healthy again, RFK, let's do the things that actually people want. Let's make America healthy again. So Medicare for all. Health care is a human right.
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The function of a rational health care system is to guarantee quality health care to all, not huge profits for the insurance industry. The United States cannot be the only wealthy nation that does not provide universal health care. It's not acceptable that while spending almost 18% of our GDP on health care,
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Millions of Americans delay going to the doctor and 60,000 Americans die each year because they can't afford the care they need. I just want you to think about that number. What's the function of government at all if it's taking away life? I mean, government should do things.
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for people right it shouldn't be used as a tool to torture harass and harm it should be a tool to help 60 000 americans are dying each year because they can't afford health care just think that's a huge freaking number that should be addressed by the way even like in canada
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Their right wing party, the conservative party, Pierre Polivet, Doug Ford, you know, at the at the federal level and at the provincial level, PP at the federal level, Doug Ford at the provincial level. They still believe in universal health care, at least for now. Lower the cost of prescription drugs.
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As Americans, we should not be paying by far the highest prices in the world for lifesaving medications. It's absurd that while the pharmaceutical industry enjoys huge profits and benefits from US taxpayer research, one out of four Americans can't afford the prescription drugs their doctors prescribe.
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We must cut prescription drug prices in half by making sure that we pay no more for medicine than Europeans or Canadians. Why are we paying more for the same exact drugs?
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that are in canada and europe we should pay the same price why to line the pockets of pharmaceutical executives so that they can buy 10 private jets instead of one private jet it's ridiculous and so bernie and democrats are saying okay donald you want a maha Here is what we support.
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And as I've said, if you've been watching my videos lately, in these episodes of the Midas Touch podcast, I said a few things. One, Democrats need to do ABC, always be campaigning. You can't just wait until an election and then be like, hey, everybody, we're here. You gotta start now, meet with the unions, meet with people, go into the towns, shake people's hands, go face to face.
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Just don't do that 90 days out. Campaigning should start now. And then also Democrats need to be Democrats. I mean, these ideas that I'm reading, if Republicans want to say this is socialist or whatever, let them say it. People like these ideas that I'm sharing with you. So don't buy into the Republican framing and Democrats shouldn't become like Republican light on these issues.
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paid family and medical leave. Workers should not have to go to work when they are sick. I mean, could we just think about these concepts? 60,000 Americans die each year because they can't afford healthcare. One in four Americans are unable to afford their prescription drugs. Just think about that. And people are forced to go to work sick and then they get other people sick.
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Mothers and fathers should have ample times to stay at home with their newborn babies. A parent should not get fired when they stay home with a sick child. We must guarantee at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave to every worker in America. And if MAGA wants to say this is woke, let them say whatever they want to say. This ain't woke. This is what Americans want, by the way.
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It looks like Democrats are adjusting their strategy to call out and expose Donald Trump. And what they're doing is, I guess, a form of reverse psychology or just setting these traps along the way. And they're saying to Donald Trump, look, Donald, you made all of these promises to people on the campaign trail. So what?
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Reform the food industry. Large food corporations should not make record-breaking profits making children addicted to processed foods, which make them overweight and prone to diabetes and other diseases. As a start, we must ban junk food ads targeted to kids and put strong warning labels on products high in sugar, salt, and saturated fat.
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longer term we can rebuild rural america with family farms that are producing healthy and nutritious food raise the minimum wage to a living wage millions of workers should not have to worry about how they'll pay the rent or buy foods for their kids working class americans live far shorter lives than the rich because of the stress of trying to survive on a paycheck to paycheck existence
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Stress kills, stress makes us sick. We must raise the minimum wage to at least $17 an hour. By the way, that's at least, whenever people have this debate too, they're always like, that's gonna be bad for the economy and CEOs are gonna have to fire workers, so this actually has the opposite effect, bull crap. Bull crap, okay?
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No one has that same discussion when the CEO's salary goes up by tens of millions of dollars. There's never a discussion. Yeah, but now you're going to have trouble hiring people. No. There's this culture of idolizing CEOs making hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. And look, this is a capitalist society. You can make money, but you got to take care of all Americans.
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And Trump lied to people and claimed he was going to do that. So Democrats, own your issues that are Democrat issues. Why are you letting them, the Republicans and MAGA, take your issues, but then use them to defraud people and lie to them about it? So I like this strategy.
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introduce the legislation, but then message the heck out of it over and over again, and then go into the communities and say, look what we tried to do, look what they blocked.
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We're going to hold you to those promises and where these promises, whether it's things like no tax on tips or whether it is capping interest rates on credit cards or whether it is automation versus non automation at the docks, whether it's your support of
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Lower the work week to 32 hours with no loss of pay. People will live longer, healthier lives if they can spend more time with family and friends and have the opportunity to enjoy leisure time. Advancements in technology, automation, and AI must benefit workers, not just billionaires on Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
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We can make those things actually coexist and work together, and workers will be more productive if they're not stressed and if they can actually spend time with their family. Combat the epidemic of loneliness, isolation, and mental illness. Too many Americans are struggling with intense anxiety and disease of despair, alcoholism, drug addiction, and even suicide.
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Not only do we need to greatly increase access to mental health care, we must rebuild our sense of community and create a culture in which we better enjoy and appreciate each other as human beings. We must also take a very hard look at the impact smartphones and social media are having on our mental and physical health. He goes on to talk about address climate and environmental crisis.
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Every American is affected when the Earth's temperature rises and the air we breathe is polluted. Climate crisis and extreme weather disturbances will cause more widespread suffering and disease, economic disruptions, and population dislocation. By the way, when I grew up, remember what the most popular show was or a popular show? Like Captain Planet.
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You know, people weren't like, oh, that's such a woke issue and green new deal socialist. If Republicans want to frame helping the planet and environment as a bad negative thing, defend it, stand by your principles, Democrats, and put forward legislation and show where you stand, show where your priorities are. Stop existing in the Republican framework of issues.
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Sanders goes, create a high quality public education system. Lifelong education is a human right and should be obtainable for all in a wealthy nation like ours. Health, life expectancy and economic well-being are often tied to educational attainment.
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Instead of spending $1 trillion a year on the military, we should make certain that all Americans, from childcare to graduate school, are able to enjoy free, high-quality education and job training. Let's be clear, the way forward to creating a healthy society is not radical or complicated. And many of the components that I've outlined already exist in countries across the world.
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And this is something that we need to address together. So they're putting Trump on the spot. Now, when it comes to the caps on interest rates for credit cards, I'm sure you didn't even know this happened. But back on May 2024, a judge, one of these MAGA judges, blocked the Biden rule to cap credit card late fees at $8.
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I think it's a bad thing. But don't you realize Trump just says whatever he wants you to hear him say when he leaves a meeting? Because what did Elon Musk just do? Who's running the show? Who's the real puppet master here?
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who we saw actually is controlling Donald Trump's economic policies, for example, when it came to the H-1B visa mega civil war, Elon Musk posted like a six to seven minute video trashing automation at the docks. So take a look at what Elon Musk posted. You see Elon Musk repost. And here's the post by a guy named John Stossel who says, not a single American port ranks in the top 50 worldwide.
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How is that possible? One reason is that while other countries welcome automation, American labor unions ban it. As one commentator notes, a few weeks ago, Trump came out in favor of banning port automation. Now, Elon is reposting a video that stakes out the exact opposite position.
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I don't know what it sounds like when Donald Trump was saying that he's against expanding the H-1B visa program and that he would help Americans get those STEM jobs in science and technology and engineering and mathematics. But then Donald Trump said, no, we actually need STEM. engineers from India.
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We have to expand the H-1B visa program because Donald Trump and Elon Musk are now saying there's simply not enough college-educated Americans to fill these STEM-related jobs. So we have to get the talent from India. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are calling to abolish, yep, you guessed it, the Department of Education. So
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Let's just take a look at what Donald Trump's statement was back on December 12th, just so you see it's directly at odds with what Elon just posted. Trump, and then the media runs with it. Trump comes out against port automation. Trump is against unions. Get that through your head. The guy hates unions. The guy screwed over all of his contractors.
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He screwed over all of the workers or most of the workers. He's bankrupted a number of companies. He has left a trail of ruin when it comes to workers. He's on audio recording with Elon Musk, mocking, I don't play audio of Trump anymore, video of him, but the audio recording, which I played for you multiple times, he praises Elon for firing striking workers.
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Okay, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, you think they're your friends, union workers? You think they're the man of the unions? You think they're man of the people? They're the people who are hanging out at Mar-a-Lago while also filing briefs. before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to eliminate the National Labor Relations Board.
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You're not going to have a place to bring your grievances or that will recognize the right of your union to exist. It's not even gonna matter if your labor secretary in terms of Republicans is somewhat pro-labor if you don't have a forum to assert your grievance. Just so you hear, here's Donald Trump's post December 12, 2024.
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Just finished a meeting with the International Longshoremen's Association and its president, Harold Daggett, the executive vice president, Dennis Daggett. I guess they're all related to each other, right? I guess there's a bond, a nepotistic bond right there with the Trumps and everybody named Daggett apparently in this union at the leadership level.
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There has been a lot of discussion having to do with automation of the United States docs. I've studied automation. No, you haven't. and know just about everything there is to know about it. The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American workers. In this case, our longshoremen.
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Foreign companies have made a fortune in the US by giving them access to our markets. They shouldn't be looking for every last penny knowing how many families are hurt. They've got record profits, and I'd rather these foreign companies spend it on the great men and women on our docks than machinery, which is expensive and which will constantly have to be replaced.
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Okay, the video that Elon Musk released, who's going to be running Doge, the one making these cuts, who's, as we see, is running the show before, is exactly against what Donald Trump just said. I mean, union workers, you think a guy who's selling fake $2 bills for $19.95 is has your interest at heart. I mean, heck, Donald Trump is still out there trying to raise money right now after the election.
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He goes, unlike sleepy Joe Biden, Trump would never lie to you. So I'm going to, do you think someone who speaks like that tells the truth? So I'm going to share the great news from our finance team and the bad news. The great news, thousands of patriots nationwide chipped in and is getting us within striking distance of our FEC goal. The FEC goal of what? The election is over.
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Now, you do remember, though, back on October, October 3rd, 2024, The Biden administration helped ensure that there would not be a strike at that time by the Longshoremen's Union and was advocating for the union workers and getting the union what it wanted. As Heather Long reported, the dock workers are heading back to work. Washington Post reported a 62% wage increase over six years.
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The union had initially requested 77%. Negotiations will continue on automation, but workers agree to work until at least January 15th. In other words, President Biden led, not by words, but by deeds with the Biden administration and his support of unions. And I can go through literally all of the unions whose pensions Biden saved. Biden was the most pro-union president in history.
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on the picket lines with union workers. Biden actually delivered 62% wage increase over six years with his labor department overseeing those negotiations, okay? But a lot of you, and I think including Daggett, who seemed to be kind of very Trumpy in my understanding of him, and a lot of union workers, a lot of longshoremen ended up being very Trumpy.
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So you pick the guy who basically showed up to your docks, with cold pizza and made you a bunch of empty promises over the guy who quietly delivered for you and got you the things that you were actually looking for? Seriously? And now you're supporting the guy who's got Bezos and Musk, basically, or Musk particularly, living at Mar-a-Lago? It's
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$2,000 a night cottages in Mar-a-Lago, who's referring to non-college educated MAGAs using the R word, which I don't even want to repeat anymore, and other words to that effect. Just remember what Vice President Kamala Harris said regarding the International Longshoremen Association strike back in October. She said, deserve a fair share of these record profits.
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Donald Trump, on the other hand, wants to pull us back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize. As president, he blocked overtime benefits for millions of workers. He appointed union busters to the National Labor Relations Board. And just recently, he said striking workers should be fired. Trump makes empty promises after empty promises to American workers, but never delivers.
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He thinks our economy is should only work for those who own the big skyscrapers not those who actually build them as president i will have workers backs and finally pass the pro act and i will fight for an opportunity economy where every person has the chance not just to get by but to get ahead look i think that opportunity economy line did not really work for the Harris campaign.
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People didn't know what she was talking about with opportunity economy. But if you go into the words, she's laying it out there though. We're actually delivering for you and we did deliver for you. Trump comes with empty promises like he did before and then just lies to you and you keep on falling for it over and over and over again.
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Let me leave you all with this video of the guy who's going to be controlling the policies likely with the National Labor Relations Board and labor policy, Elon Musk. So Elon Musk in this interview said that the reason he thinks that unions shouldn't even exist, he says.
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He says the reason unions shouldn't exist is because it creates a lord versus peasant dynamic amongst union leadership and rank and file union members. Listen to what Elon Musk says here. Let's play it.
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I want you to think about that. And I want you to think about why he's saying that, because it's all projection and confession from these oligarchs and billionaires. Wake up. The lord versus peasant dynamic is Elon Musk and you. The lords are the billionaire oligarchs who have all this money and are hoarding more of it, and they're treating the rest of us as peasants.
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That's what's actually happening. And they want to rile you up to get angry about the transgender volleyball player from San Jose State or make up that immigrants are eating cats and dogs and geese and all these things that... You shouldn't actually be mad about cause they're not really impacting your life.
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What's impacting your life is that the real Lord peasant dynamic is Trump hoisting up his oligarchy is billionaire bros who are actually screwing you. They're taking away your education. They're taking away your healthcare. They're taking away your housing. Literally, they're taking away your supply of housing. That's what's actually happening.
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They're taking away your Social Security and Medicare right before your eyes, but they have you distracted on stupid crap that you shouldn't even be concerned about. Stop bullying people. Stop bullying and punching down on the 10 transgender athletes who just want to live with dignity in the NCAA when there's 550,000 athletes. Stop punching down and bullying people. Enough of that.
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They're bullying you and they're distracting you to make you pissed off about things that don't actually impact your lives. Do you see it? Or do you just like the leopards eating your face? Hmm. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million together. Thanks for watching.
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Union workers who supported Donald Trump just got a rude awakening, although The awakening should have been what Trump's done his entire life to you, screwing over workers and mocking union workers, but I guess that wasn't enough. Well, Donald Trump recently met with the head of the Longshoremen's Union, and Trump came out with a statement, and he was like, I am against automation at the docks.
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the fbi arresting a state court judge alleging that a state court judge obstructed an immigration arrest operation that the feds wanted to do inside the judge's courtroom which the fbi had then announced on twitter now x in which the attorney general then posted on Twitter, now X, it's a sentence that would be unfathomable, Harry Littman, in normal times.
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Judge Dugan basically has this individual who's there, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, who ICE and the feds want to detain. And the judge accepting all the allegations as true, which we don't necessarily know is the case from the feds and the DOJ,
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The judge then basically says to the individual, you know, you can go out the back door or, you know, here's here's where you can go, because my courtroom is not going to be used for operations without my knowledge and consent. And then on that basis, that happened last week on Friday. The FBI is basically what shows up during her Friday docket. And like like this.
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arrests her, cuffs her, and throws her in jail. Then the head of the FBI, Kash Patel, announces it on social media. Pam Bondi announces it on social media. And this seems to be one of these issues that the
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performative doj fbi want to say this guy was a bad guy domestic violence look at his background who would ever want this guy this judge was trying to help someone who beats his wife i mean really this is a judge who does that so they're they're doing that thing to try to divide public opinion on this issue harry wright and make it seem like how could you defend this judge doing it but what they really want to do here
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is trample my view on federalism states rights federal rights and start doing sting operations in state courts and i'll toss it to you harry the one of the big issues that concerns me is that this guy who's charged with domestic violence he showed up to court and if the judge would have made the finding that he did it he probably would have gone to jail for that how many people now
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who could be charged with crimes because our system is, are you going to get thrown into El Salvador concentration camp? What's going to happen if you show up to court? Are people just not going to show up to court anymore? And it's going to have a fundamental breakdown of law and order. That's how I thought about it.
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You break it down, Harry, from your lens as someone who was a leader in the DOJ and was the United States Attorney in Western District of Pennsylvania.
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The very idea that the FBI would be kind of lurking outside of a state court judge's courtroom to try to do an infiltration operation against In a criminal proceeding that a judge was presiding over, this happened just to remind everybody what I'm talking about. Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan presiding over her daily docket last week.
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When you and I do these videos together, we try focusing mostly on the legal stuff and really getting in the weeds and not so much the political. But there's a parallel here that I think is worth noting, you know, that the headline grabbing day that the Trump regime wanted was this thing happened. Look, we arrested a judge in Wisconsin who is look what we're going to do.
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States, you need to get you need to be scared the same way they go for the headlines each day. 90 deals in 90 days. Yeah, we're doing, you know, and then it turns out as you dig deeper and you poke holes in it, it's all a bunch of BS and it all falls apart.
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So on their best case scenario, they had a day where they got a headline out and they got to tweet about it on Elon Musk's social media platform. But now this goes to federal court. in a federal judge in Wisconsin, and a judge, a federal judge, is going to see a state court judge. You have to think these things through.
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A state court judge is going to walk in there with probably an army of the top lawyers pro bono who are going to be representing this judge. And There's going to be a lawyer now who the DOJ has to send in justifying this thing. Who's that guy going to be or gal going to be who's going to be there? A federal judge is going to say, what the hell did you do? You went into this –
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And from both a legal understanding of what the obstruction statute says, if you are a judge in your courtroom about to enforce justice against this individual in your own courtroom with your state law, How could you, and the person is showing up, you're obstructing what? The judge is saying, this person was here on a domestic violence charge. I'm a state court judge.
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If anything, this would be the great argument, right? You obstructed my ability to be a state court judge and do what I was doing. If there's any obstruction here, it was you, the feds, you obstructed me. we were going to probably put this person in jail or make sure state law was applied. And you created this situation by doing it this way. Harry, I'll give you the final word on this topic.
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It was a case before her involving an alleged domestic violence incident. And, you know, these judges go through lots of cases. It's not just one case usually on the day. And they go through their full docket of criminal cases. The feds, the FBI, they want to go into the courtroom.
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You know, I have a lot of issues, as people know, with this Trump administration. But almost foundationally, they're a bunch of losers. Like, this is a loser move to do that seems like what –
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annoying law student would like make a joke about you know during a class of a hypothetical and you'll be like uh can we just study for the final like what are you talking about right and they do they do the thing and and you're like okay i i i get it and and then you know look there are people who are non-lawyers who will hear this story at first and go okay you know maybe the judge shouldn't have done that
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But then it's just one of those things that then becomes a death by a thousand blows and the holes get poked in it. And then they end up losing. And the Trump administration looks losing. And they just look weak. And it's pathetic looking. And it's just – it's not a good – I'm not trying to help them out. I just – it bugs me to see a bunch of losers running this thing. I'm like –
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Wow! Trump Arrest of Judge Blows Up in His Face
Such a loser, lowbrow, like, ugh, move. Five more seconds.
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Wow! Trump Arrest of Judge Blows Up in His Face
And a lot of them Reagan appointees, George W. Bush appointees, Trump appointees. Yes, some Democratic appointees, but on balance, not a drastic difference of Democrat versus Republican judges. Anyway. Harry, Talking Feds YouTube, Talking Feds Substack, Talking Feds Podcast, everybody, subscribe to all of those. Just search Talking Feds. Hit subscribe. It's where I get my legal news from.
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Wow! Trump Arrest of Judge Blows Up in His Face
Thanks, Harry. Thank you, Ben.
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And for a state court judge in our system of federalism, I've never heard of without coordination or anything like sting operations taking place in state court judges' courtroom. The allegations, if you just accept all the allegations basically being said by the FBI and DOJ as true, the feds last week, they want to get into the courtroom.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Look, Democrats are bringing the fight now. Yesterday they were skewering these MAGA Republicans in public hearings and during interviews on cable news. Watch this as Senator Bernie Sanders just laughs in Donald Trump's face, basically mocks Donald Trump.
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So I want you to take what I just showed you and contrast it with Donald Trump surrogates who were going on cable yesterday. Like they had Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, who was, you know, whining about how Europe and Australia and all these other countries. He goes, we have the best beef and they treat our beef so poorly or we're being treated so badly. Here, watch this clip.
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Stop treating us poorly. And then you have Donald Trump's trade secretary, his lead trade representative, Greer. And here he talks about how he hasn't even had one single conversation with his counterpart in China. There's been zero conversations with China's trade representatives. Play this clip.
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So pick your fighter, okay? I think I showed you a group of intelligent Democrats pushing back, fighting back, coming with the facts. And I think that's the fight we all wanted to see. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thank you so much for watching. New Midas merch drop.
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Then you have Democratic Congress member Ted Lieu, who says the fact that I even have to introduce an amendment that says ICE cannot deport U.S. citizens is batshit crazy. Here, play this clip.
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because Trump is trying to act like he draws bigger crowd sizes than Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC, when clearly Bernie Sanders and AOC had much bigger crowd sizes than Trump. Just watch Sanders just laugh in Trump's face. Let's play it.
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We have Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin mocking Donald Trump for having the lowest approval rating ever since polling has really started in presidential history. Play this clip.
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Then Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman went on Fox. He went into enemy territory. And the Fox host was so worked up over Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries saying that it's fair game to talk about Donald Trump's cognitive decline. Watch this interaction play this clip.
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Shout out to Democratic Congresswoman Becca Ballant. This is a great, a great part of her speech right here in the House play.
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Back to Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Let's play.
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Then you have Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman, who looks at his MAGA Republican colleagues in Congress. He's like, do you all have a single independent thought of your own? Or is it just whatever Donald Trump tells you? Because you are all pathetic. Here, play this clip.
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And finally... Then you had Democratic Congressmember Kassar. Let's watch what he's got to say. Let's play it.
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Democratic governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, went on Fox and he was just spitting facts. Let's play this clip.
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Fox News Panics on Air Over Trump’s Health Issues
if you want to see fox just absolutely lose it bring up donald trump's accelerating cognitive decline if you even raise the question they have a utter freak out so when i had democratic leader hakeem jeffries on the midas touch network earlier this week I asked him, do you think it's a fair question that we raise Donald Trump's cognitive decline as a significant issue right now?
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okay we'll take a look it's you just such a disservice we'll take a look why are you just saying yes he does and you know go on to something else he's contested right and then what does donald trump consistently keep on talking about when he's on uh air force one uh and he's usually coming back from golf after a weekend of golfing he keeps talking about taking physical exams and acing cognitive tests he keeps doing that against him i pass cognitive tests here play this clip time ago long time
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And then, of course, you remember during the campaign, he would say over and over again that people keep saying he's cognitively impaired, he's cognitively impaired. Here, play this clip.
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You know, I think about what Senator Bernie Sanders told me. And he said, you know, Ben, sometimes the things that are kind of most obvious and are most glaring are the things that are discussed the least often. And I think if you put all the puzzle pieces together and go, OK, corporate news isn't reporting on this. That's kind of strange because it seems pretty obvious.
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Fox gets very worried the moment it's mentioned and devote a ton of coverage to trying to swat it down. You had Donald Trump's communications director, Stephen Chung, like freak out when Joanna Coles basically said, like, Nothing even that significant about Donald Trump's health. And we just observe his behavior right now.
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As I said before, I don't want this to be used as an out for Donald Trump to one day avoid accountability. And I don't want to just try to blame his actions. disgusting behavior on a physical issue because there could be complex explanations because he's still vile and he's still disgusting. But I think it's something that needs to be talked about more.
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I'm going to use the platform to talk about Donald Trump's declining cognitive issues more. But you see that it certainly is very worrisome to Fox. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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And more importantly, exactly what... I loved how Congressmember Goldman said that, look, it seems pretty obvious that Donald Trump is having cognitive issues. Now, you can go back to 2019 when Donald Trump took this secret trip to Walter Reed,
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There were many people at the time that were suspecting that Donald Trump may have been experiencing mini strokes because right around the time and thereafter, he really started slurring his words. And there are lots of people who opined on that. And I'll talk about that in a moment. And I want to be very clear. I'm not a medical doctor.
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I've taken a look at what medical doctors have said and opinions that they've given. I'm just expressing my opinion right now. But it seems this is a very sensitive topic for Fox and also for like Donald Trump's communications director in the White House, Steve Chung. So just take a look at what Steve Chung posted this past week.
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He goes, CNN had this blithering idiot on Inside Politics from the Daily Beast named Joanna Coles making unsubstantiated claims about President Trump's health. Joanna is a piece of shit, clearly suffering from a debilitating case of Trump derangement syndrome, rotting her pea-sized brain. So I went to see, like, what did Joanna Coles from The Daily Beast even say when she was interviewed?
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And I'll play the clip for you. She basically said, like, not a lot. Here, watch this clip.
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And he goes, when he travels the country, he gets the question frequently. And he said, looking at Donald Trump's conduct, he understands why people are raising that issue with him. And he says he thinks it's a fair question. So throughout the entire day yesterday, Fox was focused on why would Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries ever bring this up?
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So if you see what's happening here, you've got Fox and Donald Trump's communications director, Stephen Chung. They're kind of telling on themselves here, right, that this is a very sensitive issue for them. So go back now to 2019 for a second when Donald Trump took that visit to Walter Reed. And I want to share this with you. This was a doctor that CNN had, a guy by the name of Dr. David Shiner.
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He was President Obama's former doctor, and they had him on CNN to talk about, and this was in Donald Trump's first administration, to talk about whether or not Donald Trump was having many strokes or whether there were some cognitive issues there. Play this clip.
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Now, I think it's important to note when we talk about Donald Trump's accelerating cognitive decline, I want to be very careful because I also don't want Donald Trump to use that as an out to avoid accountability one day and say, oh, it was because I had physical issues. This is why I behave the way I did.
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As Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told me, it also is just the truth that Donald Trump is a total liar in every single thing that Donald Trump does. So whether it's because Donald Trump is experiencing severe cognitive decline or he's just a total liar or both, You know, that all can be the case. Here's what Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told me this week when I interviewed him.
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And he should be talking about former President Biden. Just take a look over here at this chyron. It says, Jeffries, fair to question Trump's mental acuity. And like on the Will Cain show, they brought on Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman and they asked Congress member Goldman, come on, come on, Congressman. How could you ever possibly raise an issue about Donald Trump's mental issues?
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Now, going back to the incident at Walter Reed, when you had Ronnie Jackson, now Congress member Jackson from Texas, when he was Trump's doctor, here's what he said when he was asked about Donald Trump potentially having mini strokes at that time. Here, play this clip.
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I'm not sure if you remember, Donald Trump had to put out statements back then denying that he had a series of mini strokes. And here's the statement that was made by another doctor, Dr. Sean P. Conley. Donald Trump has asked that I, Dr. Sean Conley, physician to the president, address the recent public comments regarding his health.
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I can confirm that President Trump has not experienced nor been evaluated for strokes, mini strokes, or any acute cardiovascular emergencies, as have been incorrectly reported in the media. The president remains healthy and I have no concerns about his ability to maintain the rigorous schedule ahead of him.
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As stated in my last report, I expect him to remain fit to execute the duties of the president. But do you notice that nobody really talks about that anymore today except here on the Midas Touch Network? One of the red flags that I think exists as well is if you take a look at Donald Trump's recent physical that was released a few weeks back,
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The way it described that he was in good health is it said he's in good health as evidenced by his frequent victories in golf events. It said it also claimed he was like six, three to 20, which he obviously isn't. But again, you know, you go back. because the past really kind of informs, I think, how we need to look at it today.
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And Donald Trump's doctor back in 2015, 2016, who's no longer alive, Dr. Harold Bornstein, who was a gastroenterologist, he did Trump's doctor note back in 2015. And this was Trump's doctor note or medical report back when Trump was running for office the first time. It says, to whom my concern, not to whom my concern, to whom my concern.
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And then as you read through it, it talks about how Donald Trump's physical was astonishingly excellent. He was extraordinary. And then it says he will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. And it's signed over here by Dr. Harold Bornstein, a gastroenterologist. I mean, obviously, to whom my concern is red flag number one.
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How could you ever do that? Watch what Democratic Congress member Goldman said in response. Play this clip.
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Two, why is a gastroenterologist writing this report? Three, using language over and over again like the most astonishingly excellent person and saying he will be the healthiest individual ever. One of the things we know as well is that Donald Trump sent people back in 2018 to raid Dr. Harold Bornstein's office.
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Let me just show you what Dr. Harold Bornstein said on May 1st, 2018 about Trump sending goons to raid his office. Here, play this clip.
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And then another thing that Dr. Harold Bornstein told CNN was that Donald Trump was actually the person who wrote his own physical. That medical note that I just read was actually written by Donald Trump and not Dr. Harold Bornstein. Let me just play a clip of CNN reporting what Dr. Harold Bornstein told them in May of 2018. Let's play this clip right here.
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And so let me just show you a portion of that interview one more time that has since gone very viral of Terry Moran from ABC and Donald Trump in the Oval Office, where Donald Trump believes that what was clearly photoshopped on Abrego Garcia's hands, the letters MS-13 are like clearly like computer typed font and it's not the tattoos that
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But Donald Trump is arguing, and I want you to watch Donald Trump's just physical behavior. I want you to view it from a kind of psychological perspective as you're watching him. And just the weird stuff he's doing with his body and his face and the way he's looking at Terry Moran and saying, no, Terry, no, Terry, that's real. It says MS-13. I see it. Terry, you're wrong, Terry.
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The way he's like looking and trying to intimidate Terry Moran, the fact that he thinks that that it actually says MS-13 with the letters, MS and the numbers 13. It doesn't, and it's not just that. It's also him making up fake conversations that never happened with China and saying that he's speaking to Xi Jinping. It's Donald Trump lying about saying he's done 200 deals with only 193 countries.
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Donald Trump tariffing penguins, the way Donald Trump looked and behaved at Pope Francis's funeral. I mean, we can see this thing with our own eyes, right? I mean, here Donald Trump is in the Oval Office interview with Terry Moran from ABC. Here, play this clip.
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and deported United States citizens. So, I guess Trump's plan is to engage in this cruelty and then blame it on his lawyers. And now his lawyers, I mean, you see this order by Judge Zinnes here, his lawyers have to now show up before the court and justify why they're not in compliance. And Trump's saying that they could do it if they just gave him the advice.
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Donald Trump says, yeah, I have the ability and power to pick up the phone and give a phone call to the leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, and ask for the return, and yeah. He would return Abrego Garcia. I'm sure if I ask him. But Donald Trump said, my lawyers say I don't need to do that. So I'm not going to do that. We all know what the Supreme Court order says.
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It says you need to facilitate the return and take steps to do that. So if Donald Trump's lawyers are really saying that to Donald Trump. dann werden sie in großen Schwierigkeiten vor den verschiedenen federalen Geräten sein.
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Nicht nur die in Maryland, die den Ebrego-Garcia-Fall betrifft, aber es gibt auch federalen Geräte in diesem Land, wo wir auch diese Art von Ordnern sehen, wo Donald Trump Migranten nach El Salvador entfernt hat. Ich möchte Ihnen zeigen, was Donald Trump gesagt hat. Ich möchte mit Ihnen über diese spezifische Sprache sprechen.
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But I think it's notable that the federal judge in Maryland, Judge Zinnes, in the case of Abrego Garcia, while there was a temporary pause that took place in that case on the expedited discovery that Judge Zinnes, had ordered regarding why Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador, the steps that are being taken for his return. This pause in discovery has now ended.
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I think that pause was because there were representations made to the court confidentially that there were steps being taken to try to facilitate the return, which was then not carried out. And now the judge, Judge Zinnes, has ordered Let's go. Expedited discovery. I want it all done by May 9th. And I think Judge Zinnes is teeing this all up to make a contempt finding, a criminal contempt finding.
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And this is a no-nonsense judge that I think is pissed at the violations of her court order and what the Supreme Court ruled, which is facilitate the return. Forthwith. So here's what Donald Trump said in his interview with ABC this past week. Donald Trump's talking about Abrego Garcia and Terry Moran. The ABC reporter says, I'm not saying whether Abrego's a good guy or not.
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It's about the rule of law. The order from the Supreme Court stands, sir. Trump goes, he came into our country illegally. Terry Moran says, you could get him back. There's a phone on his desk. Donald Trump says, I could. Terry Moran says, you could pick it up and with all. And Trump says, I could.
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And Terry Moran says, with the power of the presidency, you could call up the president of El Salvador and say, send him back right now. Donald Trump says, I could. But then Donald Trump blames his lawyers. And he says, well, I followed the law, Trump says. And my lawyers say, I don't need to do that. Let me play this clip for you. Let's play it.
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over and over again donald trump keeps throwing his doj lawyers under the bus they may find themselves being held in criminal contempt soon potentially even losing their legal license their bar license or being put in prison for violating court orders when donald trump is asked
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Es gibt noch einen anderen Fall in diesem Interview, in dem der Berichterstatter Terry Moran sagt, Donald, die Gesetzgebung braucht, dass jede Person einen Prozess hat, dass es einen Prozess gibt, der ihnen gegeben wird. Und Trump sagt, das ist nicht, was meine Berufe mir gesagt haben. Hier, spiel diesen Clip.
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If you go through Donald Trump's Time Magazine interview from last week and you see what Donald Trump said, you'll see that he consistently throws his lawyers under the bus as well. By the way, all of this is going to be used in these federal court proceedings. So this was the Time Magazine interview. Donald, you committed to complying with all Supreme Court orders. Trump says yes.
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When you and I last spoke April, are you still committed to complying with the Supreme Court orders? Trump goes, sure, I believe in the court system. The reporter goes, well, the Supreme Court ruled 9 to 0 that you have to bring back Abrego Garcia. You haven't done so. Are you disobeying the Supreme Court? Trump goes, well, that's not what my people told me. They didn't say it was.
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They said it was the 9 to nothing was something entirely different. Then the reporter goes, well, let me quote from the ruling. Quote, the order properly requires the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador. Are you facilitating the release? Trump goes, I leave that to my lawyers. I give them no instructions.
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Why are you violating the Supreme Court's 9-0 order, saying, Donald, you've got to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, who your regime disappeared to a concentration camp in El Salvador without due process. You need to facilitate his return to the United States, provide him with due process, and then you can go from there. Why aren't you following the Supreme Court's order?
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They feel that the order said something very much different from what you're saying, but I leave that to my lawyers. If they want, and that would be the Attorney General of the United States and the people that represent the country, I don't make that decision.
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Okay, maybe, but Mr. President, whatever he might have done, Abrego, whoever he might be affiliated with, doesn't he deserve his day in court? And Trump goes, I really just give that to my lawyers to determine. That's why I have them. That's not my determination. It's something that, frankly, bringing him back and retrying him wouldn't bother me. But I leave that up to my lawyer.
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You could bring him back and retry him. To which the reporter goes, that's exactly right. You could fix this simply by bringing him back and going through a legal process. To which Trump says one more time, but I leave that decision to the lawyers. At this moment, they, the lawyers, just don't want to do that. They say that we're in total compliance with the Supreme Court.
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And Trump goes on to say that over and over again. Just one other point I want to bring up here as well. Remember in the earlier clip I showed you, Donald Trump said that Abrego Garcia's wife doesn't want to talk to him or hates him or words to that effect. Just so I can fact check everything that Donald Trump is saying. This is the wife of Abrego Garcia. This is from April 15th.
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I'm only going to show you a short portion of this clip, but she makes a heartfelt plea to Donald Trump. I want my husband back. Es ist der Vater unserer Kinder. Abrego Garcias Frau lebt in Maryland. Sie und Abrego haben drei Kinder zusammen. Die Kinder sind amerikanische Bürger. Abrego Garcia hat keine kriminelle Geschichte überhaupt. Er wurde von der Trump-Administration im Jahr 2019 verurteilt.
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There was a withholding order in 2019 as well, saying you can't send him to El Salvador. And he's been showing up. He works in a union. I mean, he's been showing up to ICE every year. He's a member of the community there. I know the Trump regime wants to act like this guy is like bin Laden, but it would be like if that's the case. So then you in 2019 Trump gave bin Laden.
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Donald Trump consistently says, because my own DOJ lawyers said that I won in front of the Supreme Court and that I don't need to facilitate the return of Ebrego Garcia.
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Dann gibt es auch noch einen anderen Aspekt aus dem Interview auf ABC, in dem Donald Trump sagt, dass die MS-13, dass es auf Abregos Nacken steht, dass es MS-13 ist und es nicht ist. Ich meine, Abrego hat Tattoos in diesem Bereich, aber dann photoshoppt auf seiner Hand waren die Klamotten MS und die Nummer 13. Das ist nicht tatsächlich auf seiner Hand.
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But Donald Trump is saying what he's been told, what he's been given ostensibly by lawyers, he claims, is that it says actually it says MS-13. By the way, even if it said MS-13 on it, then you Trump administration one gave this guy a work permit, he would still be entitled to due process.
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Und letztendlich, wenn er gefunden wurde, ein schlechter Kerl zu sein, dann könnte es eine Verantwortung für ihn geben. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob die Verantwortung ein Mensch zu einem Konzentrationskamp in El Salvador senden sollte, aber wir wollen definitiv Gangmitglieder auf der Straße sehen.
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And most recently, in this disastrous interview that Donald Trump gave with ABC on his 100 days in office, the most disastrous 100 days in the history of the presidency, Donald Trump said, my lawyers are telling me that I don't need to do anything. In fact, what Donald Trump said is, If I wanted to, Trump says, I could facilitate the return of Ebrego Garcia.
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Sie können verantwortlich gehalten werden und es sollte voll und komplett Gesetz und Ordnung gehandelt werden. Aber Trump sagt, dass das ist, was seine Lehrer ihm gesagt haben. Hier, spiel diesen Clip hier.
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okay we'll take a look it's you do such a disservice we'll take a look why don't you just say it yes he does and you know go on to something else he's contested so now trump's lawyers have to go in front of these federal judge the federal judge in maryland judge zinnis there's a trump appointed federal judge
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In Maryland as well, in another case involving a 20-year-old Venezuelan, who this Trump-appointed judge ordered be returned, and the same way Abrego Garcia's got to be returned, consistent with the Supreme Court's 9-0 order. There's a Trump-appointed judge in Louisiana, who's saying that the Trump administration sent a two-year-old United States citizen to Honduras.
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Sometimes being a disruptor causes pain, and pain is good. That's what the MAGA Republicans are using as their talking points now. As Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, they are praising the pain that Trump is inflicting upon the nation. How do you know you're in a cult? Maybe because you're saying things like this. So you had MAGA Republican Congress member Mauser.
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I mean, how are these people real? They're MAGA, I guess. Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Jason Smith. And Jason Smith goes on CNBC. It should be a friendly audience for him. And they go, look, we've looked at your budget. You're clearly going to be increasing the deficit by a lot of money. So what are you doing here? You said you were going to reduce the deficit.
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Watch MAGA Republican Congress member Jason Smith crumble in the most basic question. Play this clip.
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So you know what they're saying? They're like, Trump's policies, his tariffs, they're working so well that we're going to get so rich. You know, those Trump gold cards, they're going to make everybody so, so wealthy that that's how we're going to make up for the huge deficit, the trillions that we're going to add. Do you remember?
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I think it was even during the campaign where all of the economists were saying under Donald Trump's plan, all the top economists like in the world, in the country, said under Donald Trump's plan, it would add like 15 trillion, like 10 trillion, 15 on the high end, five on the low end or some numbers like that. Remember, I was like, nah, it's going to be like 30 trillion.
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It's going to be like 40 trillion. Just take the number, multiply it by the worst case scenario, and you get Donald Trump. Now, look, one of the things that the MAGA Republicans are doing is they're bringing these like fake experts or these so-called experts to Congress. And they're just getting ripped to shreds also by Democrats. So the MAGA Republicans brought in recently.
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He goes on CNN and he goes, pain, pain, pain is good. What? Play this clip.
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these manufacturing and industrial experts to try to say donald trump's policies are making america great like we are making so much money so then democratic congress members like rokhana were like okay should we talk about tariffs? Because you haven't mentioned that once. So what's your view on tariffs? And Congress member Khan is like, I'm not asking you a trick question here.
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What's just, what's your view? And then the like Trump MAGA economist experts, all of these people, you know, in different, there's have been different times. We're like, uh, we're not here to talk about that here. Play this clip.
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Here's Democratic Congressmember Frost play this clip.
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You know, and one of the things, too, that these MAGAs do, oh, we're the party of free speech, free speech. No, they're like the opposite. Obviously, we know that. I mean, they want to shut down universities. They want to shut down the media. They want to shut the opposite of free speech. But everything with them is like Orwellian dystopian. Orwell would be like, what?
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So when Democratic Congress member Swalwell confronts Congress member Higgins, because Congress member Higgins said that we need to arrest, quote, hundreds more judges need to be arrested. Congress member Swalwell says, which ones, which judges are you saying need to be thrown in gulags? To use your words, Congress member Higgins, watch this.
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And do you see that, that the MAGA Republican Congress member Green's like, we're not going to allow those types of questions. You can't ask questions. And finally, Democratic Congress member Eric Swalwell's like, well, then what are we doing here? Like, what's the point of this? Like, what, why are we here at all?
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And just so you see, this is like part of their talking points. And it's not unique to that MAGA Republican Congress member. You've got MAGA Republican Congress member Ryan Zink. And he's like, yeah, he's from Montana's first congressional district. And he's like, yeah, you know, Donald Trump's doing shotgun policy. And, you know, he shoots from the hip. He shoots from the hip.
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That's where we're at right now. By the way, I interviewed yesterday Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, one of my favorite parts of the interview. He said what I think I've always wanted to hear Democrats saying, which is Trump needs to be Trump's cognitive ain't there. Trump ain't thinking right.
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Like, how are all these MAGA Republicans in media talking about former President Biden when we see Trump every day? And it's so obvious that he's unfit to be anywhere near the Oval Office. Hat tip to Democratic leader Jeffries for this one. Play this clip.
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And finally, here's Democratic Congress member Kassar play it.
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But, you know, we deserve it. Here, play this clip.
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Amazon was going to post on its website how their products were impacted by the tariffs. Transparency, right? So the consumers would know, why is my product going up 20, 30, 50 X? I mean, percent, $10, $30, $50. Why is it so much more money? And then Donald Trump calls Bezos and says, Donald Trump admits to this. Shut it down.
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And then Bezos, to protect his tax cuts or whatever, his oligarchy, removes the tariffs from the website. Oh, I mean, he just removes it. And so what? Now we're just going to hide it. Stop the testing. If you don't test, you don't get the disease. That's not the way it works. The tariffs are still going to cripple. They're just in cover up mode. So pathetic. Anyway, let me know what you think.
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I know we have bigger problems than this to discuss, and we will. But this makeup that Donald Trump is wearing right now as he walks around the White House with globs of this stuff on his face, it's just so utterly bizarre. And it almost, to me, accentuates the madness of this entire regime. The kakistocracy meets fascism all wrapped up into one disgusting and despicable bow.
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Your posts back in 2024 when you were not in office said this is Trump's stock market and the economy's doing great because people want Trump back in. So now that you're in and things are crashing, you blame it on Biden. It is the most pathetic lack of leadership that exists. But Donald Trump doesn't give a crap about you or me. He doesn't care about the American people. He's a fraud.
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He's a felon. He's a criminal. He's a sexual abuser. With all of this chaos that he's creating, what's he doing behind the scenes? The Trump Organization agreed to partner on a real estate project in Qatar. and the latest of a series of projects tied to foreign governments. New Mideast project is latest Trump company deal tied to a foreign government.
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New York Times just reports that matter-of-factly, Donald Trump cutting deals with Middle East countries, making himself billions of dollars while we the people suffer. Oh, by the way, I've told you this story before, but it bears repeating again. Don Jr. and Donald Trump's crypto czar, David Sachs, launching an exclusive club that they call the Executive Branch. That's the name of their club.
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It costs half a million dollars if you want to become a member of their Executive Branch club and get access to them. That's what they're doing. There's buying. You could buy access to them and it's just so open and obvious that Here's Donald Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, yesterday in this bizarre interview with Rob Schmidt of Newsmax.
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And here Howard Lutnick says, look, you know, just trust Donald Trump. Just trust him. This guy is the greatest dealmaker who's ever lived. I mean. Doesn't Howard Letnick just give you the vibes of just like the biggest snake oil salesman as he talks? Just watch what he says here. Play this clip.
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I mean, as Donald Trump is crashing our economy, as our GDP shrunk negative 0.3% for the first quarter, as freight and trucking volumes are precipitously declining, Donald Trump is creating fake websites that look like it's the Drudge Report, but it's on WhiteHouse.gov where Donald Trump writes headlines about himself.
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We love Americans, but let- Folks, Donald Trump is literally the worst deal maker of all time. Just go read Donald Trump's Securities and Exchange Commission filing for Trump Media. Donald Trump bankrupted in the 90s, casino after casino. Then in the 2000s, bankrupted the reorganization of those casinos after casino. He destroyed Atlantic City. Donald Trump's never been a builder.
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He's a destroyer. He's bankrupted so many companies. And he's destroyed so many companies that his name has been attached to. And he's doing the same scam and schemes now with the American economy. He's like, oh, he's the worst dealmaker ever. Here's Jameson Greer, Donald Trump's top trade representative, being asked in this interview by Fox. Have there been any talks at all with China?
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There's 145% tariffs against China. The ships from the ports in China are not coming to the United States anymore. We are heading towards a period of scarcity. It's right around the corner where products are not going to be on shelves. Here's what Jameson Greer, Trump's trade representative, says. Play this clip.
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Did you hear what he said? This is Trump's top trade representative. I want you to hear it in his own words, that there has not been a single discussion, not one, since April 2nd, when Trump announced Liberation Day, which is liquidation or Great Recession Day. Not one. But Donald Trump says it's fine. Donald Trump says suck it up.
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Donald Trump says pain and suffering should be what is inflicted on American families. Donald Trump mocks
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children getting toys here's a photo of donald trump from what probably 15 20 years ago or maybe more at this point donald trump melania and that's baron at the time just look at where donald trump lives he literally lived in a penthouse that was it's probably fake gold who knows but that's made of gold he has a golden toilet bowl seat Not because he's a great businessman.
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He inherited daddy's money. His dad was uber wealthy. Then Trump got into a fight with all of the family members over the inheritance. I think I saw reports that if basically Donald Trump did almost nothing with the money, he'd have more money than had he done a lot of his failed endeavors. But that's him over there.
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But here's Donald Trump saying, look, who's going to really complain about the economy? Children who want more dolls? Children who want their dolls here play this clip.
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I mean, how tone deaf can you be? And by the way, isn't that a literal war on Christmas? That Donald Trump saying he's going after kids and kids wanting toys. It's not just kids and toys, though, right? It's going to be parts to air conditioning. It's going to be lots of hardware parts. And there's lots of products that we import from China. That's not going to be arriving.
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So when it's clear our economy is heading in a disastrous direction because of Trump's reckless trade wars against the world, Donald Trump made this website. It looks like drudge and it says the most successful first 100 days in presidential history. I mean, this stuff is really, really pathetic.
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The ships are not coming. And Donald Trump knows that. That's why he's blaming next quarter. on former President Biden. All this guy does is blame, blame, blame. Here was Donald Trump yesterday saying, even next quarter is gonna be bad because of former President Biden. Play this clip.
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What? Former? Next quarter? I guess what? In 2029, it won't be Biden's fault anymore? Is that it? I want to show you this as well, because this video over here really hit home to me. A Reuters drone captured detainees, Venezuelan detainees, at the Blue Bonnet Immigrant Detention Center in Texas. And you'll see these people here spelling out the message to the outside world, SOS, they need help.
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As Chris Hayes says, this is America now. Your kids get a max of two toys. Then they grow up, as Howard Lutnick said in another interview, to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather, screwing in tiny screws in an iPhone. That's the American dream. Take it. Take it. I want to show you this as well.
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Donald Trump was asked about his attacks on universities, his attacks on Harvard by Stephen A. Smith. During an interview late last night, Donald Trump then confuses Harvard with Harlem and Donald Trump starts talking about getting black votes in Harlem. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump began yesterday by making post after post on social media like this one right here, saying that this is Biden's stock market, not Trump's. You're in office. You're literally the president. You've been the president now for not like even one day or two days, 100 days. The election was in November.
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And finally, I want to report that Mohsen Madawi, who is a permanent resident here in the United States, was released based on the order of a federal judge. He was one of the leaders in the protest of Colombia. And let me just read for you what the federal judge said in this order.
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Jeffrey Crawford, the judge in Wednesday's ruling, wrote that those who know Madawi describe him as a peaceful figure who seeks consensus in a highly charged political environment. Judge Crawford added, though, even if he were a firebrand, his conduct is protected by the First Amendment.
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The court is aware that he has offended his political opponents and apparently given rise to concerns at the State Department that he is an obstacle to American foreign policy based on his support of Palestine. Such conduct is insufficient to support a finding that he is in any way a danger, as we use the term, in the context of detention and release.
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Legal residents like Madawi, not charged with crimes or misconduct, are being arrested and threatened with deportation for stating their views on political issues of the day. For Madawi, it's a free Palestine. Crawford said, citing the Red Scare and McCarthy error targeting of political people for their views.
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The wheel of history has come around again, but as before, these times of excess will pass. I think we have to make sure that we're fighting for it to pass. It's not inevitable that it will pass. And what we try to do here on the Midas Touch Network every day is highlight the authoritarian tactics of this Trump regime. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and help us get to 5 million subscribers.
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And by the way, in 2024, when the stock market was setting record highs, when our economy was booming, when Wall Street Journal and others said that our economy was the envy of the world. We were leading the world in GDP and energy production. We had record low unemployment, record high job growth, 16.2 million jobs created.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Trump’s Disastrous Start
Concerned about even potential market manipulation? Is that something that you're concerned about or looking at?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James, we're 100 days into the Trump administration. We appreciate you fighting back for the people.
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There you have it, New York Attorney General Letitia James. We appreciate you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Tell us about the work by the Attorney General's office over the past 100 days. A lot of lawsuits and a lot of great work.
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I'm joined by New York Attorney General Letitia James. I gotta ask you, what is your grade for Donald Trump's first 100 days in office?
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Part of that chaos and confusion also is New York, a vibrant immigrant community, a lot of people have temporary protected status.
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They came here, they did it the right way, they were here lawfully, and they didn't think though, even though Trump was saying a lot of stuff during the campaign, that he was gonna go after people on TPS, and he's going after lots of immigrant communities, including immigrant communities who supported him. So what are you doing on that front?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Trump’s Disastrous Start
You know, we heard last week how Trump's FBI arrested a sitting Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, a state court judge, inside of her courthouse as she was administering the law in her daily docket. They made a bunch of accusations against her.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Trump’s Disastrous Start
the very idea of running sting operations inside state courtrooms when people are showing up as part of the docket and a judge is assessing, you know, individuals showing up, you know, and they may be migrants. I think you mentioned there too, that also has a, one, I want to get your thoughts on it, but two,
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Doesn't that also have a chilling effect on people then not showing up to the courthouses to begin with in the first place and the exact opposite result of what Trump says he wants to happen happening anyway?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Trump’s Disastrous Start
I often note the parallels between Donald Trump's business fraud when he was not in office and kind of what we're seeing now in office. I often refer to this presidency sometimes as a rug pull presidency, as a Ponzi scheme presidency, kind of mounting a lie on top of a lie until it all kind of explodes.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Trump’s Disastrous Start
You successfully prosecuted in a civil case Donald Trump for business fraud, a verdict of about $444 million, but who's counting? You see Donald Trump, though, doing some of the same stuff. Like I saw him holding this gold, this Trump gold card, I'm gonna make you rich. If we just sell this gold card, everything's gonna be, I'm gonna eliminate taxes for everyone. Don't you worry.
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More renovating, less violating due process.
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Let me just show you this clip of this gold card thing that they wanna sell to, I guess, he said he wanted to sell it to oligarchs. Just take a look.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Trump’s Disastrous Start
Your case was about, you know, valuations and his value, you know, making up valuations. And it just seems that the way he deals with numbers, 200 negotiations, I've done 200 deals, I've done this, I've done that, I've done that. And it's just not tethered to reality. You have an intimate knowledge.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Trump’s Disastrous Start
Lots of people are concerned about even potential market manipulation and whether these statements create artificial spikes and then decreases in the market. Is that something that you're concerned about or looking at? I'm not sure what you can share or can't share, but is that something that concerns you?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Trump’s Disastrous Start
You know, there's a lot of, I would say, more than a lot. Not a day goes by where Trump or someone in his administration doesn't attack you. It's every single day. I mean, how do you deal with that noise? And, you know, and do you just tune it out? I'm just curious because literally it's every single day.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Trump’s Disastrous Start
So finally, here we are 100 days in. Just want to let you just deliver your message to the people of the state of New York who are watching this and Americans in general who also just admire the fact that you're not afraid to fight and stand up for due process in the Constitution.
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Introducing Meidas Health with Dr. Vin Gupta, Episode 1
Hey, Midas Mighty, Ben Mycelis here from the Midas Touch Network. I want to share with you a new show we are launching right here on the Midas Touch podcast feed that's going to be hosted by myself and Dr. Vin Gupta. We call it Midas Health.
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His public health communication work, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, has earned multiple recognitions for its clarity and effectiveness, and he is often described as one of America's most recognizable healthcare figures. So who else to launch Midas Health and host it than Dr. Vin Gupta? Dr. Vin Gupta has a multidisciplinary background as a practicing pulmonologist with 10 plus years of
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of military background in the united states air force reserves and as a technologist working on medical devices and other innovations for a range of companies and as a researcher serving as a as affiliate faculty at the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation dr gupta earned his bachelor's of arts degree from princeton medical doctorate
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A lot of you, the Midas Mighty, have asked us questions, whether it's about the measles outbreak or whether it's about the Trump administration gutting the Health and Human Services and gutting other Thank you so much for joining us.
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and a medical doctorate from Columbia, a master's in public administration from Harvard, and a master's in international relations from the University of Cambridge. He completed his medical training at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is a life member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and a national board member of the American Lung Association.
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Introducing Meidas Health with Dr. Vin Gupta, Episode 1
So without further ado, let me bring in Dr. Vin Gupta. Dr. Gupta, welcome to the Midas Touch Network.
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breaks down how RFK's firings at HHS will impact the health and well-being of everyday Americans, crippling health agencies from doing even the most basic tasks like comprehensively monitoring the entire food and drug supply. Dr. Gupta also provides an update on the measles vaccine and actionable advice you can use to keep yourself and and your loved ones safe.
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I want to give you a brief background on Dr. Vin Gupta before I introduce him to the first episode of Midas Health. Dr. Vin Gupta is a prominent American physician and public health expert who operates at the intersection of healthcare innovation and communication. Vin is likely known to many of you in his role as a frequent medical analyst on all matters healthcare for NBC News and MSNBC.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Wisconsin is under attack by the Trump-Musk-Doge regime, and Wisconsin voters are absolutely pissed off. Look, it's no secret that Trump was able to eke out and win the state in the 2024 election by president.
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promising lower prices on day one by promising to end the war in ukraine in 24 hours making housing more affordable promising this promising that i alone can fix it which of course we were warning about was a lie but some people bought into it donald trump would dress up like a like a garbage man and do these you know ridiculous stunts remember the garbage man stunt was in wisconsin i think we've got a clip of it just to remind you when he went
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
So now we have a major, major election in Wisconsin for an open Supreme Court seat there. You have a Doge candidate, a MAGA candidate, Brad Schimel. Then you have a pro-democracy law and order candidate, Susan Crawford. We've had Susan Crawford on our program before, and you've heard her talk about upholding the law.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
now trump musk doge very very unpopular so what are they doing well elon musk is coming into wisconsin and he's announcing it he's just giving away a million dollars giving away checks like throwing money at people so there's this post excited to announce our first million dollar award for supporting our petition against activist judges in Wisconsin.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Next million dollar award will be announced in two days. Then he posts the following today. On Sunday, I will give a talk in Wisconsin. Entrance is limited to those who have voted in the Supreme Court election. I will also personally hand over two checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote. This is super important. I don't know.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
It looks and feels as a lawyer, just giving you my opinion, feels illegal to me. But let me bring in the Democratic chair of the Wisconsin Party, Ben Wickler. Hey, Ben, we just learned that Elon Musk deleted the tweet where he talked about paying people a million dollars to show up at a town hall. I mean, was that a crime that we saw? What's going on in Wisconsin right now?
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Elon Musk deleted that tweet because he knows that that tweet was a crime, and it's still a crime. In Wisconsin law, it is plain as day. You cannot promise something of value in order to induce someone to vote or refrain from voting. This is Wisconsin statute, and it's a felony to cross that line.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Elon Musk has committed blatantly, obviously, an illegal act to help Brad Schimel buy his seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, and Elon Musk should be brought to justice for that crime. This is something that we should not accept in a democracy, vote buying.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
And at this point, we have to ask whether Brad Schimel knew about this, whether he approves of this, whether he's going to condemn Elon Musk for trying to buy votes for promising something of value, which is itself a criminal act. This is not an edge case.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
This is a central question for whether we're going to survive as a democracy or whether the richest man in the world will be able to pay people in order to get them to vote. And we need to make absolutely clear that this will not be accepted in Wisconsin or anywhere else across this country.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Ben, you believe a crime was committed and that's why Elon took it down. And it is possible. What did Brad know? When did he know it? That needs to be looked into now, huh? Absolutely.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
I mean, the idea of of saying if you're if you vote, you can come to my town hall and you could get a million dollars. That is so far beyond the criminal threshold for vote buying. The threshold is if you offer someone something that's worth at least $1, then that itself is a violation of the vote bribery, the election bribery statute in Wisconsin.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
So you have to ask whether Brad Schimel will immediately denounce this and call for an investigation, whether he knew about this in advance, whether he's planning to appear with Elon Musk when Elon Musk comes to Wisconsin this Sunday. Was it Brad Schimel calling Elon Musk and telling him to delete the tweet because they could get in trouble? What happened here? We don't know.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
But what we do know is this, if the richest person in the world can go around buying votes in order to buy control of courts, the way he seems to have bought control of the White House, then we have lost any semblance of the rule of law in the United States of America and our democracy has been smashed to pieces, or I should say cut with Elon Musk's chainsaw.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
extra orange and dressed up like the garbage man here, play this clip. He went in the garbage truck and he promised that he was going to do all of these things. Well, look, Trump's tariffs are hitting the farmers, manufacturers, workers in Wisconsin hard. Trump's attack on the Department of Education is devastating to Wisconsin.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
We need to fight back against this and it should be prosecuted in court and it should be just triggering an avalanche in the ballot box with voters making 100% clear that our democracy can't be bought. Susan Crawford's victory will send a message to the whole country that Elon Musk's illegal vote buying schemes will trigger an electoral avalanche in the other direction.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
And if we can make that clear, maybe we can shut this down before it infects the rest of the country in 2026 and beyond.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
No, I don't know the laws. And, you know, I mean, I have a sense of the laws in Wisconsin and generally, you know, in the United States when it comes to these things. You know, we saw, I think, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania when Musk was doing it there with certain populations. He likes to claim like, well, actually, what this is really about is a spokesperson.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
I'm giving somebody a job and I'm giving them a spokesperson position. So it's so that's what it is. I mean, look, I think the people like do the people of Wisconsin get what's going on, though. And what do you say when he makes that kind of argument?
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
people absolutely get what's going on. And before it was, you know, if you sign my petition, then you can be entered in this drawing or, you know, we can give you a spokesperson fee or whatever it is. This crosses all of those lines because this is explicitly, you can get into my town hall if you voted. And if you voted, then I could give you this check.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
And so it is, you know, Wisconsin statute says offering, giving, lending, or promising to give or lend anything of value to go to or refrain from going to the polls is, that that's a felony in the state of Wisconsin. So he's really, like, way out over his skis to the point where his skis are on the ground and he's flying over the cliff like Wile E. Coyote with this thing.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
And Brad Schimel needs to condemn it immediately. I mean, this is an attempt to buy votes by someone who is doing everything in his power, including, at this point, close to $25 million by our count, to help Brad Schimel get elected to the top legal job in Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court office, I think Brad Schimel is now tied indelibly to this kind of criminal vote buying behavior.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
And that creates a giant political problem for him. Elon Musk's money and his behavior in this race is now politically a disaster for Brad Schimel.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
And what we can see is that Democrats, people who believe in democracy, the rule of law, they are voting at explosive numbers in a way that I think could demonstrate to the whole country that Elon Musk is not the guy that you want on your side in this election or any other going forward.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Talk about this race, Ben. I mean, we've had Judge Susan Crawford on twice. I've covered, you know, how dangerous, you know, Brad Schimel is. I mean, I've showed I mean, first, Brad Schimel was trying to be like, yeah, you know, I'm not really like a Trump guy. Like he tried to do that thing. And then all of like he dressed up like Trump for Halloween.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
He had a he where it goes to boat parade saying like, I live. it's like jesus beer and trump like what's something like that like you know he wears like trump shirts out and about this guy um so he's clearly a trump doge you know kind of puppet but explain to the people watching what why is this so important why is he so dangerous what are the stakes
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Yeah, so that clip that you played of Trump in his garbage man outfit, Brad Schimel dressed up as that guy for Halloween right before the election this November, this last November. Brad Schimel is a dyed-in-the-wool mega warrior, and he wants to use the Supreme Court, as he puts it on the campaign trail, to be Trump's support network.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
He says that Trump keeps losing in court, which you and I in the audience knows because Trump keeps breaking the law. But Schimel says the only way to stop this is in the courts. So he's running to allow Trump to break the law and now clearly to allow Elon Musk to break the law. So there's a deep, question of accountability in the rule of law here.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
There's also, Elon Musk has his own personal case around Tesla dealerships going through the Wisconsin court system. So as always, this is a question around Elon Musk lining his own pockets. But it's also this question of whether people who are committed to public service can win elections in Wisconsin and across the country.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Because Susan Crawford is exactly the kind of dedicated public servant that Elon Musk hates and is trying to drive out of the government. You had her on, you heard her story. She has been a prosecutor for years and years, keeping the public safe. She went into state government.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
She led environmental law enforcement at the Department of Natural Resources, which is something that Elon Musk clearly hates and loathes as he drives a gut in the environmental protections in our federal government. In private practice, There was a case called Planned Parenthood versus Brad Schimel. Brad Schimel said it was an honor to have his own name in that case.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
The lawyer for Planned Parenthood was Susan Crawford. She has fought for reproductive freedom successfully in our state. She defended voting rights when they came under attack by Republican voter suppression. She defended workers' rights. She has this track record that demonstrates her value.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
And now she's a judge who treats everyone equally when they walk into her courtroom, regardless of whether they're the richest person in the world or a random citizen. That's what you want. You want the law applied without fear or favor to anyone.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
So electing her is also an act of defiance against the people who want to tilt the playing field, who want to rig this country for the mega billionaires at the expense of everyone else. It's an act of defiance against a Trump-Musk administration that's trying to shred our Constitution and the idea of equal justice under the law. It is an act of affirmation of the best
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Donald Trump's attack on Social Security, shutting down Social Security offices and services. hitting Wisconsin hard, Trump's attacks on Medicaid. There's not a single thing that Trump's doing that isn't hitting Wisconsin hard. And I'll just show you from a local Wisconsin news channel, WSIN 12.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
traditions of this country that we're always aspiring to reach for. Susan Crawford is the kind of person you'd be proud to have on your Supreme Court.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
And Brad Schimel represents everything that the people who believe in democracy in this country are fighting against the corruption, the extremism, the total partisan loyalty to someone who wants to be king instead of to the constitution that you're supposed to swear an oath to protect. These are the stakes. And what happens in Wisconsin, the closest state in the country
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
It's the bellwether for what happens in the entire nation for years to come. So this is a must-win race. And anyone who can, you can go to Crawford4WI.com and give directly to her campaign. You can volunteer and donate with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, WISDEMS.org. We are sending out door knockers day after day. We have virtual phone banks you can join from anywhere in the nation.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
We're still finding every way that we can to buy more ads and get in front of more people. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. If we win, we send a message of hope in a moment where the country desperately needs it.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
Ben Wickler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Thanks for joining us. Ben, thanks so much for having me on.
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Exclusive: WI Dem Chair Says Elon Musk Committed State Felony
I mean, this professor at Madison, he explains, look, when you do these tariffs, tariffs up, tariffs down, Wisconsin's kind of biggest exports, imports, I mean, Canada, Mexico,
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Celebrating the leaking of our classified information, let's bring in Democratic Congresswoman Kathleen Clark, Democratic whip. Congresswoman showed you that intro. What do you make of this all?
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
You know, J.D. Vance is in Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which is part of NATO. And he's there and he is attacking Denmark from a base in Greenland. He was also attacking Canada. This is what they're doing. I'll show you this other clip. This is the message that they're sending today on Friday to the war. This is how they're showing how strong they are.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Here, let me show you this clip.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
It is what it is. I think 85% of Greenlanders do not want anything to do with the United States like this. And this is just what they just go and try to, when he talks about bullying too, it's projection, right? Because they just go around just trying to bully Canada. Oh, wait, they're united against us. Bully Greenland, bully Europe. It's just odd.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Jobs were being created, low unemployment, energy independent. And when we used to show you those Fox clips, remember how the hosts like Larry Kudlow, they were almost like upset that they had to report on the good economic news and they did everything they can to try to spin it in the bad way. Look, Trump is crashing the markets.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Congresswoman, what's your take on Donald Trump pulling the nomination of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who he picked to be the ambassador to the United Nations? That seat was a plus 21 Trump district And Donald Trump even revealed the reason he pulled the nomination, he said, is that he's worried that he would lose that seat in a special election.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
We saw what happened in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which that 36 Senate district hadn't gone Democrat since 1889. Guy named James Malone won there. We're seeing things happening across the country that's feeling like the people are getting it. So first, what do you make of the Congresswoman Stefanik situation? And second, do you see a vibe shift, a mood shift taking place?
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Congresswoman Catherine Clark, we're going to be following your shadow hearings as well. Just so people know, you're holding these hearings because the MAGA Republicans are refusing to subpoena the right people and actually hold those hearings. We're going to be covering those.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Trump, Doge and Musk are involved in a hostile takeover of our government. They're coming for Medicaid. They're coming for Social Security. The way they're firing veterans is horrific in and of itself. And then they're doing it so cruelly and cavalierly. Just every day it's something else. And as we're seeing the markets tank, like what's this administration? I call them a regime.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Finally, before we go, voters out there are saying, look, we want to see Democrats in the House and in the Senate and in general fight. They know you don't control the House or you don't control the Senate.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
I think they want to see people out there just speaking to the people, talking truth to power, doing anything they can to try to block the dangerous authoritarian stuff that's happening every day. So what's your message? What's leadership's message right now? End of March to the American people, especially those who see their life savings crashing on a day to day basis.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
Congresswoman Catherine Clark, thank you so much for joining us. First time on the Midas Touch Network.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
We gotta have you back. Keep us updated. A lot of our viewers were asking to hear from you as well. So it's great to have you on. We'd love to have you back.
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Congresswoman Clark Responds to Trump’s Market Crash
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What's this regime doing? They send J.D. Vance. to like a military base in Greenland. He couldn't leave the base because they're so unpopular in Greenland because Trump keeps talking about conquering it. And so this is what they're doing right now. And JD Vance was asked questions about Signalgate speaking in Greenland. Like, what am I even saying here? And here's what he said. Let's play it.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Give a shout out over here to some of the protesters across the country right now. By the way, I see a lot of protesters wearing Midas touch gear like Susan right here. She goes at a protest right now. Someone who voted for Trump confronted us and we talked to him. He listens to podcasts, but never heard of Midas touch. So he promised to listen in. He's a white 50 year old named Andy.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
and just started walking out. Let me show you this moment. Play this clip.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Well, hey, Andy. Welcome to the Midas Touch Network, Andy. There you go. I'll just show you one more clip right here of just how much the people hate Victoria's Sparks. Let's play this clip right here. Powerful, powerful stuff right there. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thank you all so much for watching.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Now, a lot of MAGA Republicans or people who pretend they aren't MAGA Republicans, but they really are. They're not even holding the town halls like you've got Susan Collins, the Republican senator from Maine, who hasn't held a town hall in 25 years. She's missed. I'm clutching my pearls. How could Donald Trump do this? I'm so sad. I'm going to think about doing something about this.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Well, anyway, she didn't show up at a town hall that was held in her absentia and watch where the people there say, where have you been?
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Now, the Midas Touch Network broke this story today and it became a big story at a town hall event that was held on March 13th, 2025 by Virginia's GOP Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Earl Sears. And she kind of did this event where she thought she was just going to be in front of a Republican audience or her MAGA audience. By the way, we got our people there.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
So we got the audio, let's just say, of what went down. And here she's like, why are people complaining about losing their jobs? She's like, we all lose jobs. Who cares if people of Virginia and America get fired by Elon Musk and Donald Trump? Here, play this clip.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
That was a great find by our research team who were able to get that.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
how we all feel about their hostile takeover of the federal government, their destruction of essential services and their utter cruelty. Let's take a look at what went down inside this MAGA Republican town hall in Indiana. She was getting absolutely showered in nonstop booze at the town hall. Play this clip.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Let me compare what you just saw there to the Democratic town halls. Democrats are not afraid to hold town halls, and they are getting standing ovations. Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia and his district, which is in Long Beach, he gave his town hall on Friday at Long Beach City College. Here's the standing ovation that he got from his constituents because he's a fighter.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
He's fighting for his constituents. this clip. Yep. Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia is meeting this moment. And here he gives the Midas Touch Network a shout out. Thank you, Congressman Garcia. And thank you to everybody in the crowd who applauded when he mentioned the Midas Touch Network. This is a cool moment. Play this clip.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Yeah, no, seriously. Thank you. Thank you for the shout out. Thank you for the warm response, Long Beach and across the country, across Canada, across Europe, across Australia, New Zealand, South America, Africa, Central America, Mexico. We're getting such a warm response. The Midas Touch Network is thank you everyone to our international supporters as well.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
That was the scene outside of MAGA Republican Congresswoman Victoria Sparks' town hall in Westfield, Indiana. And it got even louder inside as Americans from all political parties, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, people who weren't political at all, were letting Donald Trump and MAGA and the entire Trump regime let them know that
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
And we stand in solidarity with the pro-democracy community internationally here. Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia also talks about how Nancy Mace is trying to censor him. Trump's trying to arrest him. He goes, but I'm going to fight for you each and every day. Play this clip. Let me say this in close.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
It's another great clip of Democratic Congress member Garcia from a town hall where he's actually engaging with the audience, listening to their concerns, fighting for them. Play this clip.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Should also be mentioning that Beto O'Rourke and Governor Tim Walz have been holding some town halls. Here's one they held in Texas. Democrats, Republicans, Independents were in attendance. Let's play this clip. So no more playing nice. In my opinion, just mine alone, Chuck Schumer needs to step aside. Another clip right here from Democratic Congress member Garcia's town hall. Let's play it.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Is that things cannot stay the same.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
And then people who were there to try to actually extract information and to participate. Once it was clear that she was just going to go on this glaze fest of Elon Musk and Donald Trump and not even answer questions. And I'm just saying this seriously. It was hard to even understand just what she was just being honest, like what she was saying. People left the event.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Then over here, Senator Chris Murphy, he's been fighting hard. He's been meeting the moment in my view as well. This was such a touching moment from his town hall where he spoke with a brave young girl. Her name is Charlotte. And he talks, this was the last question of his town hall. Just watch this because to me, empathy, understanding, it's going to heal.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
And the children, the kids, the youth are our future. And it's important that we listen to them and we fight for them. Play this clip.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
A lot of applause here where Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia says that we need this is we need to meet this moment. We need to stand up here, play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
Watching the very popular president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, play mental jujitsu with low IQ, Donald Trump is a sight to behold. Now, as Donald Trump is saying, April 2nd is going to be Liberation Day, where there's going to be tariffs on Everything imaginable. And he goes, things are going to be great.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
Then as part of her other press conference, she seemed to reiterate this message where she's basically calling Donald Trump an idiot and a weak, pathetic coward without using so many words. And she's being diplomatic and she's just like, look, all right, we've been through this cycle before. He huffs and he puffs and he says, is it going to blow your house down? But what? We'll be prepared.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
We've got the remedies on April 2nd or April 3rd. If he does indeed do his liberation day plan and impose these tariffs. But we've seen what happened before. So we'll see what happens here. Play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And of course, he's imposing the 25% auto tariffs throughout the world, which is going to hit Mexico and Canada particularly hard. This was from earlier this week, a press conference that Claudia Scheinbaum held, where she said, look, built into the very fabric of Mexico's constitution is the concept of not tariffing it. People not tariffing other nations because it has disastrous effects.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
This is from Claudia Scheinbaum's press conference as well. Play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And I think it's also worth highlighting the contrast between her and Laika Trump. I think there's a reason why she has an 85% approval rate in Mexico. I think the people in Mexico see how she's checkmating Donald Trump and outmaneuvering him and kind of making him look awful without really even... Trying all that hard. But also here she's talking about things that matter to the Mexican people.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
Education. Low unemployment. Mexico has very low unemployment. Most people are working in Mexico right now. But here, this is what she devotes her press conference to. Promoting education. Could you imagine that if you had someone like... Trump like say they want to help education versus have Elon Musk and Doge destroy education. Play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
But she says, without saying so many words, look, Donald Trump's a weak, pathetic loser. And we know he's backed down before. So why don't we just see what happens on April 2nd? Because he tends to back down when he sees the stock market crash. Watch her play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
That's M-U-D-W-T-R.com and use the code Midas. Now, one of, I think, the great moves that Claudia Scheinbaum did, and it's kind of funny and trolly, but it's part of her, I think, mental jujitsu that she does with the low IQ Trump regime morons who form Trump's cabinet, is she kind of, she's done psychological profiles on these low IQ individuals like Trump and J.D. Vance and
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
Kristi Noem, although to be fair, J.D. Vance is smart. He just plays stupid. So more like Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz. Vance is evil smart pretending to be stupid. I'll clarify that right there, but behaves like an idiot. So Kristi Noem, Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, what does she love to do? Cosplay. Dresses up in different outfits and then goes to different settings. So
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Claudia Scheinbaum knows this about Kristi Noem. So watch this. She invites Noem to Mexico and then kind of rolls it out in a way to make Kristi Noem feel like super tough. And then she helps Kristi Noem film one of these like G.I. Joe or G.I. Jane, like Rambo videos so that she could say, look, look, look how good I made you. But Claudia Scheinbaum knows what she's doing here. We welcomed U.S.
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to the National Palace. We had a fruitful meeting with her, benefiting both Mexico and the United States. Our countries maintain a good relationship within a framework of respect for each other's sovereignty. You notice that? That she goes, Scheinbaum goes, we're setting the framework. You are in my framework, Noem and Trump.
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A framework of sovereignty. So if you want to be in that framework of sovereignty, we're happy to chat. If not, get the hell out of here. So then precisely what we thought was going to happen, Kristi Noem then posts her G.I. Jane or Rambo style video.
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Secretary Noem met with Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum and thanked her for deploying the National Guard troops to the border and accepting deportation flights. Secretary Noem made it clear there is more work to be done to stop the flow of drugs and illegal aliens into the United States. And then Noem did the following video. I'll share with you the video in a moment.
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But just remember that there were actually less troops at the border than were previously given under former President Biden. But Claudia Scheinbaum made it feel like a deal. I'll give you 10,000 troops. And there was previously 15,000 troops. So it was like 5,000 troops less.
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So when they raised the troops, it's just the levels that have already existed when they cut these deals with former President Biden. Anyway, here's the video, the G.I. Jane video that Kristi Noem then cut. Here, play this clip. Now, the backdrop of all of this also is on Saturday. Donald Trump was playing golf with the president of Finland.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And I think Donald Trump was trying to show off to the president of Finland as Trump tries to attack and threaten EU. Look what I can do. You want me to make some news, president of Finland? Look what I'm going to do. And he calls NBC News Kristen Welker. I don't think this was a scheduled interview per se. And so Trump just starts talking and he starts talking about April 2nd, Liberation Day.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
And Donald Trump says, I couldn't care less. If foreign automakers are hurt, if this makes the prices go up, I couldn't care less. I hope, he goes, I hope they raise the prices on automobiles is what he says. And he goes, I don't give a crap if they raise the prices. Good. So we're going to see what happens on April 2nd and April 3rd. Now, Claudia Scheinbaum.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
is focused on, look, I think Trump's going to back down. He's back down before we've gone through this cycle. But we'll see if Trump ultimately folds. And Trump tends to fold as the markets keep on crashing. And I think that Scheinbaum's like, all right, here we go again, another cycle. The markets are going to crash. And really what she has in her kind of back pocket, if you will, is China.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
Ultimately, I think what she's able to do is move Mexico closer to BRICS, Brazil, Russia. India, China, South Africa, and others, and if ultimately Trump goes ahead with these tariffs. I mean, some say, but Ben, look what Claudia Scheinbaum looks like, what she's doing is, is she appeasing Donald Trump? Look, I think she's been tough where she needs to be super tough.
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And then she kind of, in her own way, I call it like mental jujitsu, but I think she knows kind of how to play Donald Trump. You could tell me, what you think about it. But I want to give a shout out also to me, you know, to all the maple mighty out there, the Midas maple, maple Midas, because, you know, look, Canada has been, you know, I think just so super strong on all of this.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump as Deadline Approaches
I mean, I think, you know, even more so than Mexico. I mean, you know, my own view. What Canada's been doing, what Prime Minister Carney's doing, I think how Trudeau's handled it. You know, I've had on our program Charlie Angus on repeatedly. I think Canada deserves all the credit of showing what real international resistance looks like, standing up to the Trump regime.
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and really fighting back and having Donald Trump scared. Let me just share with you, at the end of last week, I interviewed Charlie Angus, and here's what he had to say to me. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Meltdown as He Runs Away Like a Coward
It's another day of Donald Trump taking a vacation and golfing on the taxpayer dime. And while golfing, he called Kristen Welker of NBC to boast and brag how he couldn't care less if prices go up, specifically auto company prices going up for your cars and supplies as a result of his 25% tariffs. He says that he's told the automakers, congratulations,
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Prices are rising way faster than even expected under bad scenarios for Donald Trump. Core PCE just jumped 0.4% in February, hitting 2.8% year over year, the highest in over a year. And things are about to get way, way worse. And Donald Trump says in his own words, he wants to see prices go higher now.
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Let's take the receipts when Donald Trump was campaigning and he said prices will go down immediately. That was his promise, right? Well, we've got the receipts. Let's show you play this clip.
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Well, Donald Trump also said on day one that there would be peace in Ukraine. He guaranteed that even before he took office, he had such a great relationship, he said, with Putin and Zelensky. This would be so easy to do. Remember when Trump said this while campaigning? Play this clip. You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, I could.
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Well, now the only thing that Donald Trump wants to do is extract and steal the rare earth minerals from Zelensky and then let Putin take over the rest of Ukraine. That's what Donald Trump meant by a deal, by the way. Putin gets Ukraine. Trump gets the rare earth minerals.
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Also, obviously, Trump and Putin discuss spheres of influence where Donald Trump wants to conquer Canada and Greenland and Panama and take all of these countries. Putin gets Europe and Ukraine and all of the countries Putin wants. And Xi Jinping gets Asia. That's clearly what, in my opinion, what Trump and Putin were talking about. Fortunately, Europe is resisting.
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Canada led the way and showed how you resist the weak, pathetic Trump regime. And we're seeing other countries stand up as well. And Greenland standing up as well to the pathetic, feeble, disgusting person that is Donald Trump. How feeble and weak and disgusting is he? Well, Donald Trump...
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demanded that the White House Correspondents Association drop comedian Amber Ruffin from the 2025 White House Correspondents Dinner because Donald Trump is such a weak and pathetic and small, putrid, disgusting human being that he can't even handle a freaking joke. He wasn't going to attend anyway, but now even though he doesn't want to attend, he can't be in a room
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This is great for everybody that prices are going to go up. Also, in the same demented interview with NBC, Donald Trump said, we will get Greenland. Yeah, 100% we're going to get it. And we are not ruling out military force against Greenland to take it. Now, this follows, of course, J.D. Vance going into Greenland. where no Greenlanders wanted him anywhere near their homes. So J.D.
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or even near a room, or even in the same territory where there's going to be bad jokes about him. By the way, Donald, Where are those Epstein files, huh? Where are they? That was one of your promises on day one. Also, oh, is it because you and Epstein were close friends and you said he's a great guy who likes women on the younger side? Is it because that you and him partied together?
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Is it because there are all of... Your name is all over depositions of Epstein and all over his flight log. I don't know. Maybe that's the reason. But, you know, I guess Donald Trump wants to show off that he and Lindsey Graham were golfing again and they awarded themselves trophies. Yay. So, Donald, while you golf,
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gut the VA, while you gut Social Security and Medicaid, while you and Elon Musk and Doge engaged in the hostile takeover that cut essential services, tanked the United States economy, which was doing well before it was turned over to you, while you are Closing down Social Security Administration offices and engaged in just abject cruelty.
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Y'all are awarding yourselves little trophies, little boy trophies. Doesn't that make you happy? I mean, what freaking losers? By the way, speaking of Elon Musk, Elon Musk made a post and then took it down right away. Here's what Musk posted yesterday. It is improper for lawmakers to target a single person or company snowflakes. That's what you're saying.
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It is improper for lawmakers to target a single person or company. They can give it, but they can't. take it out. Literally, that's what you and the Trump regime are doing. You're going to people who you don't like because they stand for law and order and you're attacking them. Trump does all the executive orders. I'm going after this firm. I'm going after that law firm.
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I'm going after this person. The whole thing is retribution, grievance, and being total losers. By the way, Protesters continue to rebel against Elon Musk's purge of U.S. government and they are swarming Tesla showrooms. Peaceful protests, of course, is what we are good with here. Make sure it is peaceful, folks. Make sure it is peaceful, folks. The Tesla takedown movement Saturday.
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attempted to surround all 277 of the automaker showrooms and service centers in the U S in hopes of hitting Musk's bottom line. Like this one, a great day in Winchester or some other great ones across the country. Pasadena here in California. I mean, I'm going to name 277 locations, but lots of people out there peacefully protesting the, Elon Musk and Tesla.
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Now, other headlines in the Trump regime, 2025, you've got measles outbreak, national cases near 500 as illness continues to spread in Texas and elsewhere. That's what you get when you put people like RFK Jr. in charge of health, anti-vaxxers in charge of health who don't take these things seriously. Big problem. By the way,
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If you're driving around, have you saw some of these billboards that Canada is buying? Canada, the maple Midas in Canada are the best. Incredible. Showing the world how it's done. And they've bought billboards in the United States saying 10%. Tariffs are taxes on hardworking Americans. But Trump's interview with NBC, Kristen Welker, while he's golfing says, this is, he goes, I like higher prices.
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Congratulations, America. I'm making your prices higher. By the way, Trump's auto tariffs are also on the supplies as well, not just the cars themselves, but all of the supply chain, which is going to be absolutely crippling to the automobile industry and those who are all part of that supply chain. Now, here's a fact that we talked about yesterday and MarketWatch led the way with this story.
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Federal spending right now is surging. So despite all of the chaos caused by Trump, Musk, and Doge, federal spending is now on pace to come in 7.4% higher this year than last. You heard that right. 7.4% higher. The federal government has spent $1.893 trillion in 2025 as of March 26th compared to $1.763 trillion at the same date last year.
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Vance and Usha Vance had to stay at a military base because they weren't welcome. And then J.D. Vance said the following, I think Greenland understands that the United States should own it. The United States needs to own it. That's what he said there. Absolutely ridiculous and dangerous and despicable rhetoric.
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MarketWatch notes that by comparison, federal spending at the end of the first quarter in 2024 was on track to be 1.6% lower than the prior year, though overall spending ended up 3.0% higher for the full year 2024 compared to 2023. So things are getting more government spending. Things are getting more expensive. The government's spending more money.
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Trump Has Meltdown as He Runs Away Like a Coward
Doge ain't doing crap other than dismantling our federal government and taking away your essential services. And they're spending hundreds of millions and billions of dollars on brutality stunts. on ISIS-style videos. Yep, the Trump regime has turned the American government into producers of ISIS-style hostage videos and brutality and concentration camps in El Salvador.
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You see here, Kristi Noem last week She paraded herself in front of a concentration camp in El Salvador, a violation, by the way, of the Geneva Convention to use people as props. And then we've learned a lot of stories as well, like this from the Miami Herald. A U.S. sent a Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador's mega prison.
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Frenzel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case, but suddenly he got sent to El Salvador. And as Jeff Stein says, no criminal record, no tattoos, no due process. Father of a nine-year-old loving pet owner, family insistent that he has no gang affiliations. And you know here that we've also been covering all these other migrants, no criminal record.
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We're here lawfully asylum seekers. We talked about Andres, the gay hairdresser, political exile from Venezuela. We talked about the professional soccer player who had a Real Madrid tattoo. We talked about another individual who had an autism awareness tattoo, not Trende Aragua. We talked about women who were sent to the male-only concentration camp and got turned away.
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There are tons of stories like this, and it is absolutely, absolutely horrific. And finally, the top FDA vaccine official has resigned, citing Kennedy's misinformation and lies. Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccine is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
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Quote, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of all of his misinformation and lies the trump regime a total train wreck an utter disaster a disgrace in america the the worst thing imaginable and the entire world i think sees it for what it is we're going to continue to resist from within
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By the way, one of the things we learned as well as Donald Trump was golfing for and speaking with Kristen Welker about how he likes to raise prices higher. We've learned once again that the Atlanta Federal Reserve believes there will be a 2.8% contraction, so negative 2.8% GDP in the first quarter. Also, inflation is spiking and going through the roof right now.
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Ambassador Susan Rice Responds to “Signal-Gate"
I'm joined by former Ambassador to the United Nations and former National Security Advisor, Ambassador Susan Rice. Welcome. We really want your help to help us navigate what's going on with these text messages of war plans that they invited a journalist on in this Trump regime. Let me just share with you what Tulsi Gabbard said during a hearing in the Senate.
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She said there was no classified materials. I read it. I want to get your take on it, but let's play this clip.
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Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat. The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, testified today that he wasn't even aware
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today that wit cough was in moscow when i knew about it because it was a matter of public attention how dangerous is that do you believe the russians now have all of that information and potentially more what can you give us based on what what would you know about these things well
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What should happen? I guess in the normal course, what should happen? What do you want to see happen? What do you think is going to happen?
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Ambassador, do you see anything here that could potentially rise to criminal violations of the Espionage Act and how this is handling or other things like that?
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seeing a recent poll that just came out about 74 of americans find this to be a very serious issue only eight percent say they don't find it serious then there's a group of undecideds there i just have to ask you while i have you on the show
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You've been observing what this Trump administration, I say regime, has been doing in terms of attacking our allies, consistently talking about taking over Canada, annexing it, annexing Greenland, annexing Panama, throwing tariffs on this country, pulling the tariffs back.
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really pushing our allies to isolate us form their own kind of defense groups we're seeing that in europe with canada making deals with australia while i have you i just would want to hear your kind of overall also by the way trump's attacks on ukraine a lot to unpack and i want to have you back on the show to go over all of those issues of course but while i have you here now ambassador you're just your overall thoughts of what you've been observing
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Sometimes Occam's razor, the simplest answer may be the tragic, unfortunate and dangerous one. Ambassador Rice, it's an honor to have you on first time on the Midas Touch Network. And we hope you come back and we hope this is the beginning of a number of interviews we're able to do with you to help us navigate through these difficult times. Thanks, Ambassador.
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Trump Gets SLAPPED IN HIS FACE by PISSED OFF Market
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Furious Kenya Blasts Trump in Public Meeting
And then shortly after making those remarks as Donald Trump tariffed the world, President Ruto of the Republic of Kenya took a state visit to China to meet with Xi Jinping. So as Donald Trump has been lying this whole week and faking having conversations with Xi Jinping, further humiliating the United States. We know what Xi Jinping was doing.
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He was giving a state welcome, a big celebratory visit to the leader of Kenya, President Ruto. It should be noted how strategically smart former President Biden was right here. So who was the ambassador to the Republic of Kenya under former President Biden's administration? It was Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay and HP.
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And it was a very strong and powerful showing by former President Biden that he was committed not just to the Republic of Kenya, but also to the entire continent in Africa, and that it was an important priority for him to invest in Africa. Now, we know that China has sought this foothold in Africa through their Belt and Road or their Bridge and Road initiatives.
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the new Silk Road where they've spent billions in different African nations. They've helped build government buildings. They've helped build highways there because they understand the strategic importance of Africa to China and building goodwill and what that could ultimately do. They have strong power. They have soft power.
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Furious Kenya Blasts Trump in Public Meeting
A lot of what the United States was doing also with USAID, which Trump and Elon Musk gutted, was kind of similar in trying to help out African nations and show solidarity with countries. So let me show you what went down. As I mentioned, President William Ruto of Kenya, after saying that Trump issued a death blow to the world order, he meets with Xi Jinping. He goes to China. He's in Beijing.
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He thanks Xi Jinping for the tens of millions of dollars in support for health. education, and disaster relief, as well as for the planned construction of a new complex for Kenya's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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And by the way, you take a look at Ruto's background, you would think that he would be someone who Donald Trump would try to cultivate, an evangelical Christian from a modest background who was elected on promises to help Kenya's poor in a country that was struggling with debt. Think about this. You've seen my reporting from this past week.
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Donald Trump has denied emergency aid to red states like Arkansas, to Kentucky, to Georgia for like debris removal, things caused by flooding, tornadoes, Hurricane Helene, North Carolina. Donald Trump stopped emergency relief. China is giving emergency disaster relief to Kenya, not just Kenya. across the world. Why? They also want Kenya to join the BRICS bloc.
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Furious Kenya Blasts Trump in Public Meeting
All throughout Africa and East Africa is no exception. The countries on the continent are pissed at Donald Trump. They believe that Trump is blowing up the world order and all of the goodwill that former President Biden helped establish in various African nations, Donald Trump has wiped out instantly. And you know who has prounced on that? Xi Jinping of China.
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Furious Kenya Blasts Trump in Public Meeting
And China is making their play right now. And they also uniquely understand that Africa in general is the fastest growing digital continent. And in under 100 days, Trump has just totally destroyed America's presence there. Let me show you what went down when you had President Ruto of Kenya show up at the state visit in China this past week. Let me just show you what it looks like. Play this clip.
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Here's how France 24 correspondent talks about it. Let's play this clip.
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So in contrast, let me just share with you how Donald Trump just talks about Africa in general, how he just overgeneralizes Africa and how he makes just the discussions of African nations like into a joke. So I just showed you that. This was Donald Trump from the joint address he gave to Congress. Play this clip.
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Here's what Donald Trump said about Congo in the Oval Office over the past few weeks. But I'll just show you this one clip. But he says this over and over again. Play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump posted this on Friday. Big news coming out of Africa, where I am also involved in settling violent wars and conflicts. I don't know why so many of these events have fallen to me and my administration, but they have. And we have done an unprecedented job in getting them settled or putting them in a position for peace.
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Stay tuned, exclamation point, as our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes. While on his trip to Italy for the Pope's funeral, Trump says he is ending violent wars and conflicts in Africa. And again, Donald Trump has no understanding for cultural differences within Africa or what nations are in Africa. Um, and I'll show you this as well.
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Furious Kenya Blasts Trump in Public Meeting
Um, as Donald Trump, uh, continues to demean African nations, you know, Donald Trump has said horrible things about South Africa. He and Elon Musk, um, have just said, you know, the, the, the worst things about the, the government, their imaginable executive orders about South Africa. Um, The European Union Commission and European Union leaders have stepped up and they also see U.S.
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weakness under Trump. And so they've talked about we like diversity. We're for you. We're with you. Watch what they put together in the European Union Commission and European leaders play this clip.
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Should be noted that Africa is one of the fastest growing digital continents in the United States, probably the fastest growing digital continent. A lot of big business growing there. And it's important that we invest in Africa. If you take a look in East Africa, for example, in the Republic of Kenya, which now has the largest economy in East Africa, about 131.67 billion.
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Furious Kenya Blasts Trump in Public Meeting
Now, let me just rewind for a moment. and show you, you saw the state visit, Kenya, in Beijing, President Ruto. This is former President Biden. He posted on May 26, 2024, not all that long ago, what, a year ago, a little more than a year ago, America and Kenya divided by distance, united by democratic values. Think about that. And here's the video he posted.
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And then from that state visit that former President Biden gave to President Ruto, he said, Today I am optimistic and hopeful as I was all those years ago when Kenyan patriots raised a new flag high into the midnight sky. Kenya and the United States stand together, committed to each other, committed to our people, and committed to building a better world.
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Meg Whitman, what an incredible ambassador to have in Kenya, given her background. And why is she a perfect fit? Because in Kenya, entrepreneurial spirit, building business. I know Donald Trump thinks Africa is all war and conflict, but entrepreneurial spirit, digital expanding economy, growth. semiconductor chips, AI. There's a lot to do there and a lot that China is trying to do.
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So former President Biden's playing the geopolitical game and having an entrepreneur like Meg Whitman, like an all-star. She explains how she was picked to be the ambassador. She goes, Joe Biden called me and said, hey, Meg, I want you to be an ambassador. And before I can say anything, he said, I want you to go to Kenya. I said, Kenya? I was thinking France.
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But she then goes on to talk about why it was so important. Here's just a small portion of Meg Whitman's Honorable Margaret Whitman. She goes by Meg. Her quick interview that she gave recently at the Princeton School of Public International Affairs. Play this clip.
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Furious Kenya Blasts Trump in Public Meeting
So about what, four or five times the GDP of El Salvador, which Donald Trump loves so much there. The Kenyan President William Ruto basically said that Trump has just created a death blow to the current world order. A death blow, he said.
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I think it's so important that the news cover this stuff. Now that we have this major platform at the Midas Touch Network, the same way I cover news in Canada, I cover news in Australia, in Europe, South America, in Mexico, Central America, and elsewhere. I think it's so important that we cover what's going on in Africa, East Africa, Kenya.
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We talk about the geopolitical ramifications of Donald Trump's destruction of America's power in the world. And we're seeing it in real time this past week. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Throws DOJ Lawyers Under Bus for Contempt
So Trump is doing it again. He's throwing his DOJ lawyers under the bus. These DOJ lawyers really need to be careful because they may find themselves losing their bar license soon, getting disciplined, getting sanctioned and just having their reputations tarnished. as Donald Trump doesn't give a crap about them. They're like cannon fodder for him.
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Well, that's not what my people told me, referring to his lawyers. They didn't say it was. They said it was. They said it was nine to nothing or something entirely different. So then the reporter goes, OK, I'll quote from the ruling, quote, the order properly requires the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador. Are you facilitating the release?
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What are you doing? And then Trump says, I leave that to my lawyers. I give them no instructions. They feel that the orders said something very much different from what they are saying, but I leave that to my lawyers. If they want, and that would be the Attorney General of the United States and the people that represent the country, I don't make that decision.
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You know, when you look at this recent New York Times-Siena poll that analyzed the issue of a lot of issues, but also how American people feel about Abrego Garcia, Donald Trump's 21 points underwater. He's negative 21, only 31% of Americans underwater. approve of the way Trump is dealing with the Abrego Garcia situation by defying Supreme Court orders to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia.
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Trump Throws DOJ Lawyers Under Bus for Contempt
So what Trump is saying right here is that on their own, they're not taking direction from Trump and that they are choosing Trump's DOJ lawyers not to facilitate the return on their own. Essentially, Trump's saying that if his lawyers told him something differently.
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that you had to facilitate the return he's basically like well i would do it they're just not telling me that now we know that's not the case right i mean we know intuitively that donald trump has told them what he wants them to do and they're following trump's guidance but he's throwing them out there right now to basically have their own bar licenses on the hook um
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Donald Trump then is asked by this Time Magazine reporter, so have you asked Bukele to return Abrego Garcia? And then Trump goes, I haven't, but he said he wouldn't. But question, did you ask him? I haven't asked him positively, but he said he wouldn't. But if you haven't asked him, then how are you facilitating his release? Watch Trump's response.
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Well, because I haven't been asked by my attorneys to do that. Nobody asked me to ask him that question except you. So Trump is saying that the first time he's ever heard that he was required to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia was from this Time magazine reporter and not from the DOJ. Trump claims they told him nothing.
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You better believe that the lawyers for Abrego Garcia, who are sharp and smart lawyers, that they are going to tell the judge that. By the way, there's something going on behind the scenes in the Abrego case that I'm sure we'll find out soon because there's been a delay. in the government's requirement to respond to discovery.
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Trump Throws DOJ Lawyers Under Bus for Contempt
So I think behind the scenes, it's hard for me to know, because a lot of things are happening what's called under seal, meaning it's happening confidentially to the public.
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I think there's some activity regarding Abrego that's not being reported right now that's in the under seal filing because it's the only reason why federal judge Zinnis in Maryland would allow the Trump regime to have some delay in their turning over discovery. Then the reporter says, do you believe that Abrego Garcia deserves his day in court?
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And then Donald Trump does like some ranting and raving about a bunch of nonsense. And then the Time reporter that goes, but look, Nazis got their day in court. Al Qaeda terrorists got their day in court. Surely Abrego Garcia, who your first administration gave a work permit to in 2019, deserves
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who has no criminal history, who's been checking in with ICE regularly every year to restore his work permit every year or to renew his work permit every year, who's married to an American woman, has three American children. This guy should have due process, right? And what does Trump say? I really give that to my lawyers to determine. That's why I have them. That's not my determination.
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It's something that, frankly, bringing him back and retrying him wouldn't bother me. But I leave that to my lawyer. You could bring him back and you could retry him. You see what Trump is doing there? He's good at two things, fraud, criming, which put them together, and throwing people under the bus. And he does that there. Of course we could retry him.
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And I think he also knows how underwater he is on the issue. So he's scapegoating his lawyers right there. And the Time Magazine reporter goes, that's exactly right. You could fix this simply by bringing him back and going through the legal process. And what does Trump say? But I leave that decision to my lawyers. At this moment, they don't want to do that.
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They say we're in total compliance with the Supreme Court. So it is a total throwing of the lawyers under the bus right there. And you see a pattern of this, too. Remember a few weeks back when Trump was asked by a reporter, will you ask for the return of Ebrego Garcia? Trump said, I must tell you, I'm going to have to refer this to my lawyer. You're going to have to speak to my lawyers.
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Trump Throws DOJ Lawyers Under Bus for Contempt
So Trump was asked about Abrego Garcia in this recent Time magazine interview. And the Time magazine interviewer said, you know, are you aware that you're defying the court order? It was a nine to zero decision. saying facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. The Time magazine reporter then read from the Supreme Court's order and from the lower court's order.
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They're the ones. I don't have anything to do with this. Play this clip. Okay.
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Or then Trump was asked, what about a judge who was issuing contempt, you know, criminal contempt against the behavior of your administration? What are you going to do when they go find people in contempt? Trump's like, not my problem. Go speak to the lawyers here. Play this clip.
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Now, let me leave you with this. Earlier this week, Judge Zinnis made this ruling, postponing discovery in the Abrego-Garcia case for a week with the agreement of both sides. As Kyle Chenney says, the reason is unclear, but it follows a sealed filing from the government this a.m.
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That follows Judge Zinnis saying that your breaches trumped EOJ lawyers in not obeying my orders are willful and malicious, and she's setting up for contempt. criminal contempt, I think, against the lawyers, throwing the lawyers in jail. And by the way, Trump was asked in the Time Magazine interview, would you follow lower court rulings as well? And Donald Trump said that he would.
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So what do I think is happening? I think now these lawyers feel the pressure and they're like, Trump's throwing us under the bus. So I think that they're actually, and you may call me naive, I think they may be actually trying to facilitate the return of a Brego Garcia and figuring out a way to do it because they know that they're going to be thrown under the bus.
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There was another ruling by a Trump, a Trump appointed judge in Maryland. Judge Zinnis is not Trump appointed. Um, But a Trump-appointed Maryland district court judge ordered another individual to be returned the same way Abrego has been ordered to be returned.
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So we're going to see a lot of orders like this now because what's happened is groups like the ACLU and others have been filing in different jurisdictions and states pursuant to a prior Supreme Court ruling to get the return of these people. So that's happening now. So I think we're going to see dozens of orders. Return this person. Return that person.
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There's 200 plus people who are in the concentration camps in El Salvador now. And so I think the Trump regime is trying to figure out how to backtrack this and save face. as they're being thrown under the bus by Trump. You see it there. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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And then Donald Trump's response was, I leave that to my lawyers. I give them no instruction. And then he says that his lawyers actually told him something very different about what the ruling said. He said that my lawyers did not say that that's what the ruling said. And I rely on what my lawyers ultimately tell me to do. Here's just the questioning.
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You committed to complying with all Supreme Court orders. Yeah. When you and I last spoke in April, are you still committed to complying with the Supreme Court order? Sure. I believe in the court system. The Supreme Court ruled nine to zero that you have to bring Abrego Garcia back. You haven't done so. So aren't you disobeying the Supreme Court?
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Zelenskyy Checkmates Trump in Rome with Power Move
Ukraine's President Zelensky is commanding respect and taking the initiative in negotiations with the United States, really taking the upper hand, and Donald Trump looking like the weak one now in the negotiations. So during the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome, Zelensky was surrounded by his friends, his strong allies. You had French President Emmanuel Macron,
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So the United States trying to jam under Trump, trying to jam down Zelensky's throat, a mineral deal, you must give up Crimea, you can never join NATO, and Zelensky's saying no. We want peace. We're agreeable to an unconditional ceasefire, unlike Putin. But we and our European allies have our own terms and we're standing on business. We're standing strong.
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So that's what was happening in Rome over the weekend. And this followed that meeting on Friday between Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin. And it also followed, while that meeting was taking place, there was also the general, the Russian general, who was assassinated as his car blew up in Moscow as well. So there was that development that happened too.
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So that was all going on on Friday. Now, Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, he met with Putin for approximately three hours. It was the fourth visit. There was another visit a few weeks back where he put his hand on his heart and looked like he was like pledging allegiance to Putin. In this meeting with Putin, you can see how inexperienced and amateurish Steve Witkoff is.
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To be clear, Steve Witkoff is not a diplomat. He's like a New York real estate guy who just knew Donald Trump. And so he shows up to this fourth meeting with Putin. Without an interpreter, without anybody from the United States embassy, without anybody, just shows up alone. And then when he gets there, he looks at an interpreter provided by Putin. He's like, are you from the embassy?
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Are you my interpreter? This is unheard of. You do not show up alone there. to meet with Putin in a negotiation when Putin's team is there and then wonder who the interpreter is who's even been provided there by Putin. It's just not the way you conduct business. And Putin was doing that to mock and humiliate the United States when that was taking place.
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Zelenskyy Checkmates Trump in Rome with Power Move
Let me just show you what was going on with Witkoff on Friday when he met with Putin. And I think it's important to talk about that in the context of what went down over this weekend. Here, watch this clip. How are you, Mr. President? Very interesting. Very good. So good to see you.
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You had the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. You had the European Union Commission President, von der Leyen, and others surrounding Zelenskyy. and standing strong with Zelensky. I mean, literally right here, you have Macron and Keir Starmer with Zelensky as they were speaking to Donald Trump. I mean, Trump looked addled. He looked fatigued. He was wearing a blue suit at the funeral of
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So then before that meeting between Witkoff and Putin in that clip that I just showed you, he was strolling alongside a Russian sovereign wealth fund CEO, Kirill Dmitriev, going around Moscow and looking at shops and buildings. Because one of the things I think Putin is trying to say is we're going to build the Trump Tower. We're going to build all of this.
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Let me show you the scene as Witkoff, Trump's special envoy, was strolling outside of Moscow. This was an incredibly embarrassing moment right here. Here, play this clip right here. So that's what went down on Friday.
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And then you had on Friday as well, the situation over here where Major General Yaroslav Mosiklik, Deputy Chief of Main Operations, Directorate of Russian General Staff, he was assassinated when his car exploded. Now, On Friday, that happened on Friday, Donald Trump had posted the following.
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Ukraine headed by Zelensky has not signed the final papers on the very important rare earths deal with the United States. It is at least three weeks late. Hopefully it will be signed immediately. And Trump puts that in caps. Work on the overall peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is going smoothly. Success seems to be in the future. Then you have that Witkoff meeting. Trump touches down in Rome.
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Trump writes, just landed in Rome. A good day in talks and meetings with Russia and Ukraine. They are very close to a deal, and the two sides should now meet at the very high levels to, quote, finish it off. Most of the major points are agreed to. Stop the bloodshed now. We will be wherever is necessary to help facilitate the end to this cruel and senseless war.
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Zelenskyy Checkmates Trump in Rome with Power Move
And then following Trump meeting with Zelenskyy, And again, Zelensky had Macron and Starmer and von der Leyen and others backing him up. There are others in the European Union. Then Trump posted after he left the funeral for Pope Francis. Trump wrote, no matter what deal I make with respect to Russia, Ukraine, no matter how good it is, even if it's the greatest deal ever.
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The failing New York Times will say what a bad deal it is. He goes, with all that being said, there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns over the last few days. It makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war. He's just tapping me along and has to be dealt with differently through banking or secondary sanctions.
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Too many people are dying. And you have to credit President Zelensky of Ukraine for saying, confronting Donald Trump appropriately at the funeral of Pope Francis and conveying very strongly the points that needed to be conveyed right there. And here's basically the counterproposal that Zelensky and Europe made. basically responded with.
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Reuters published a full Ukraine-Europe peace counter proposal to the U.S. from talks in London. There are four main parts, ceasefire security guarantees for Ukraine territory and economic ceasefire. Commit to a full and unconditional ceasefire in the sky on land and at sea. Both sides immediately entered into negotiations with the U.S. and European countries. Ceasefire monitoring led by the U.S.
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and supported by third countries. Russia must unconditionally return all deported Ukrainian children, exchange prisoners of war for all, release civilian prisoners, security guarantees for Ukraine. Ukraine received security guarantees, Article 5-like agreement, including from the U.S., but there is no consensus among allies on NATO membership, no restrictions on Ukrainian defense forces.
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The guarantor states will be European and willing non-European countries, no restrictions on the presence, weapons, and operations of friendly foreign forces on the territory of Ukraine. Ukraine pursues becoming part of the EU. Territorial issues will be resolved after a full unconditional ceasefire. Territorial negotiations start from the basis of the control line.
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Ukraine regains control of its nuclear power plant and its dam with US involvement. Ukraine enjoys unhindered passages to the river and the control of the other major location. The US and Ukraine implement an economic cooperation minerals agreement. Ukraine will be fully reconstructed and compensated financially through Russian sovereign assets.
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US sanctions on Russia since 2014 may be gradually eased after achieving a sustainable peace. and resumption if the peace will be breached. That was from Reuters who got their hands on it. So it's brilliant. You've got Zelensky from this position of power with Europe saying, no, Donald, here are the terms that anybody who's actually interested in a peace should want.
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Pope Francis, the only person not wearing a black suit and a long black tie, which was the dress code. And one of the ways Zelensky's been outmaneuvering Donald Trump, standing with his allies in Europe, the real coalition of the willing. making it clear that there are bright lines that Ukraine will not cross in any negotiations.
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Zelensky posted the following yesterday after Trump, Pope Francis's funeral today in Rome. I met with the president of the council of ministers of Italy, Georgia Maloney. We discussed the importance of security guarantees for Ukraine and efforts to restore peace and protect lives. 46 days ago, Ukraine agreed to a full and unconditional ceasefire.
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And for 46 days, Russia has continued to kill our people. Therefore special attention was paid to the importance of applying pressure on Russia. I appreciate Georgia Maloney's clear and principled stance. I also informed her about the constructive meetings held by the Ukrainian delegation with representatives of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany in Paris and London.
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There is a shared position. An unconditional ceasefire must be the first step towards achieving sustainable peace in Ukraine. He then posted this yesterday. During my meeting with Emmanuel Macron, president of France, we discussed the path toward a full and unconditional ceasefire and the need to apply pressure on Russia and establish it
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I outlined the consequence of the Russian attacks that we've been talking about in Sumy and Kiev and other places. To protect the lives of Ukrainians, there is a critical need to strengthen our air defense. We are counting on the support of our partners. I thank Emmanuel for his steadfast support of Ukraine and for all the efforts that help our people endure and bring peace closer.
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As it relates to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, Zelensky writes, the steps necessary to establish a full and unconditional ceasefire and to develop further security guarantees were the main topics of our discussion. We summarize the outcomes of the meetings between representatives of Ukraine, U.S., France. UK, Germany and Paris and London.
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We will continue to work within the coalition of the willing. The unconditional ceasefire must be achieved in the air at sea and on land and must become the first step toward establishing a just peace with reliable security guarantees. Only strong guarantees can ensure lasting peace and protect people's lives. And then he met with Donald Trump right there, which we talked about yesterday as well.
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And then Donald Trump made that post after that meeting transpired and took place. One of the things that's also worth noting as well is, you know, Donald Trump had previously given this Time interview, interview with Time magazine, where Trump claimed that bringing peace to Ukraine in 24 hours was just a joke. He said it was just jest.
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That's what he told Time Magazine, that nobody took him seriously, except fake news took him seriously, which is kind of a ridiculous thing to say. We should all be reminded what Donald Trump's promises were, because their promise is broken. This is what Donald Trump was saying during the campaign. Let's play this clip right here. Let's play it. It would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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So that's where things stand right now. The Kyiv Independent is also reporting that in terms of what's going on on the front line of the war, while Russia has made some marginal gains here and there, the gains that Russia has been making is not at a level of significance where Ukraine fears that it's in a position of significant weakness, where it has to negotiate some sort of surrender.
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Ukraine making it clear that they're the ones who agree to an unconditional ceasefire, and it's Vladimir Putin who refuses to do an unconditional ceasefire. Ukraine also making it very clear they're not going to give up Crimea. They're not going to give up territories that are Ukrainian territories that were either annexed or stolen by Russia in an unlawful invasion.
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Ukraine feels strong about its position. Russia has put all these resources into this latest offensive, and by and large, they're bogged down, again, with certain skirmishes here and there that, you know, slight gains here and there, but nothing that, as of right now, Ukraine, European intelligence are fairly confident that this can be done.
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dealt with and eventually pushed back and that they feel confident in their position. But when you take a look at this all, I think it shows the strength of Zelensky's negotiating position, how he managed to handle everything, I think, really intelligently in Rome and having his allies by his side, taking command, taking the initiative in these negotiations.
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You tell me what you think, but I think that gives you a fair summary of where we are now. No deal Donald still. I call him, you know, no deal Donald, no trade deals, no peace deal, zero, zero. But Zelensky and Europeans, you know, coming together to negotiate strongly and powerfully. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. New Midas merch drop.
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Trump Gets Shamed in Front of Entire World and Shrivels
I have a serious question, Donald. For just one day, can you act like an adult? Can you be normal? I know the answer's no. Donnie No Deals does it again, humiliating the United States when he was in Rome for Pope Francis' funeral. A cardinal who was even giving a speech called Donald Trump out for building walls instead of bridges. How do you get called out at a funeral of a Pope?
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Out of every single president ever, Donald Trump's approval rating, at least modern polling, the lowest, and it's getting lower. We talked about a bunch of polls yesterday, like the Pew Research poll, where Trump was Polling at 40% approval, but on the economy, he was at like 37%. Similar results from the Fox poll, from the Reuters-Ipsos poll.
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Well, the new Associated Press-NORC poll just came out. Donald Trump's approval below 40% on this one. 39% approval. And then when you go into the various issues, like on immigration, Donald Trump has real big issues. On the economy, very small amount of people approve. Trade negotiations, like what is it, only 37% approve. This is bad, bad news for Donald. Bad, bad data.
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But folks, when you see what Donald Trump's doing on the international stage, humiliating the United States and on the domestic front, I mean, of course his approval is going to be plummeting right now. People are pissed. I mean, take a look at headlines like this. This is from the Rolling Stone article. Trump has now deported multiple U.S. citizen children with cancer.
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Two families, among them three U.S. citizens age two, four, and seven, were abruptly deported under troubling circumstances, says the ACLU of Louisiana. And also a Trump-appointed judge, federal judge in Louisiana, called Trump out as well, for sending a two-year-old United States citizen deported the little baby to Honduras when his dad was petitioning, do not deport my son.
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And this is from the Washington Post. Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a four-year-old with stage four cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family's lawyer said. How horrific can you get?
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Apollo, not known for being a left-wing organization. Apollo, a private equity group that votes Republican or usually pushes Republican candidates. Their latest report talks about U.S. consumer sentiment collapsing. I mean, the University of Michigan Consumer Expectations Report has consumer expectations basically the lowest ever
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I mean, we're talking about Great Depression levels of low consumer expectation, U.S. tourism collapsing, freight levels, trucking levels collapsing, cost pressures up. I mean, when you take a look at this map right here, which shows vessels leaving the port or not leaving the port of China, And you can see kind of that fluorescent color right there by China.
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Well, if your name is Donald Trump, that's how. I mean, he shows up yesterday wearing a blue suit. Look, everybody around him follows the dress code, but Donald Trump wears a blue suit. You're supposed to wear... A black suit with a long black tie. That's the dress code. Then Donald Trump falls asleep during the proceedings, during the ceremony.
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That represents all of these ships that are not leaving the ports to come to the United States with goods. And so there's usually about a 14 day to 21 day lag time. If you're following freight volumes, trucking volumes right now, there's major problems ahead.
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And we're going to be heading into a situation of scarcity where products that are supposed to reach the United States are not reaching the United States. Some more stories I want to share with you along those lines. Amazon sellers hiking their prices on hundreds of goods. You're probably seeing that if you're buying those goods right there. The Tesla protests, I want to give a shout out to them.
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Still going strong, even with Tesla just absolutely getting crushed right now because of the behavior of Elon Musk. That is not deterring any of the Tesla protesters. They show up every weekend with their signs like this right here. The dominoes are already falling. Donnie protests are working. That's why we're proud here at the Midas Touch Network to highlight the protests.
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to work with groups like 5051 to share their protests. Indivisible, other groups, highlight their protests. It is a major, major priority of ours. I want to share this with you as well. Donald Trump talking about how it was in jest, he says, that he was saying that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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He said it was one big joke and that no one should have taken him seriously at all when he said there was going to be peace in Ukraine. He said that that was fake news if he thought he was being serious. Just so you can see, let me share with you what it is that Trump said. Here, play this clip. You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, I could.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound like someone who is joking right there at all. I want to read this for you as well. This is what Donald Trump posted yesterday. One of his posts yesterday after meeting with Zelensky, Donald Trump's post was, well, I actually don't think that Putin may want peace at this point. I think that Putin may not be interested in peace.
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Really, it took you that long, Donald, to come to that conclusion. By the way, there have been zero deals so far in the 15 or 16 days since since Donald Trump said there would be 90 deals in 90 days. And here's what Trump's posting as well. American ships, both military and commercial, should be allowed to travel free of charge through the Panama and Suez canals.
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Those canals would not exist without the United States of America. I've asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to immediately take care of and memorialize this situation immediately. So from Donald Trump, it's basically just moving on to now threatening more people, you know, has going to have he's going to puff and he's going to blow your house down.
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But at this point, everybody knows, you know, when it comes to Donald, he threatens he. Then falls asleep. He moves on. You know, he claims there are going to be deals and then there's no deals. It's just total BS, total BS, one after another. So we'll keep you posted with more. But that was Donald Trump's, I think, embarrassing day yesterday. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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You know who didn't fall asleep and you know who followed the dress code? Former President Biden did. You see him right there following the dress code. What do you think Melania was praying for here? What do you think she was thinking here? So then Donald Trump was outside, and then French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Pierre Starmer, they were with President Zelensky.
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Watch this moment here where Macron shakes one hand, notably when Donald Trump puts his hand out. French President Emmanuel Macron did not have any time for it. President Emmanuel Macron, like, Like, let's get real, Donald. I'm not doing the stupid handshake. On the domestic front, Donald Trump's approval is plummeting to the lowest in presidential history.
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Denmark UNLEASHES FURY at Trump after CALL FROM HELL
Intends to try to use military force against Denmark and Denmark and the European union need to now prepare their military to try to counter whatever the hell Donald Trump thinks he's going to do this as Donald Trump has continued to reiterate that he wants to annex Canada, turn it into the 51st state or else he will impose severe punishment on Canada.
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Donald Trump has turned the entire world in just one quick week. against the United States of America. America finds itself literally right now with zero friends. If you take a look at the World Health Organization map showing all of the nations that are part of the WHO, you'll see that the United States is the only nation.
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Maybe there's two others, Iran and one other, that are not part of the World Health Organization. And that basically sums up where America is in the world right now. Alone, detested, despised as the entire world stands in unity in different alliances against the United States. Whether you have a Russian-China alliance against the U.S., whether you now have Canada-European Union
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and other countries against the United States, whether you have South American unity against the United States, Latino immunity against the United States. What a disaster this is. Let's just take a look at this article. This one, for example, is from the Financial Times. Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark's prime minister over Greenland. U.S.
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president insists he wants to take over the Arctic island. It said that Donald Trump insisted that this was serious. He wants to conquer Greenland. He had this phone call with Denmark's prime minister, Met Frederiksen. She's the Danish premier for the call lasted about 45 minutes.
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The White House has not commented on the call, but other people who were familiar with the call have described what went down. Donald Trump said, I want it. She goes, okay, it's not for sale and said, we understand that that's what you're interested in, but we're not giving it to you. It belongs to us. It's part of our kingdom.
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Five current and former senior European officials who have been briefed on the call said the conversation went awfully. They added that Trump had been aggressive, confrontational, and just outright rude following the Danish prime minister's comments that the island was not for sale, despite her offer of more cooperation on military bases and mineral exploitation.
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So the prime minister met Fredericks and she was trying to be nice. He said, look, we're always down to improve our alliances and to strengthen our relationships. But this is how people described it went after she said that quote, it was horrendous, said one of the people. Another and another added he was very firm. It was a cold shower before it was hard to take it seriously.
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But I do think it's serious. I do think he is serious. and potentially very dangerous. The details of the call are likely to deepen European concerns that Trump's return to power will strain transatlantic ties more than ever, as the US president heaps pressure on allies to give up territory. I mean, do you realize even as I read that sentence, as he heaps pressure on allies to give up territory?
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Who the hell does he think he is, this freaking treasonous? I mean, as I talk about it, Trump has asserted in his second term, musing about potentially taking over Greenland, Panama and Canada. Great job, everybody in America who voted for this guy. You got your own Vladimir Putin, who is absolutely despised and hated by the world.
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And by the way, we now have zero allies in the United States of America in one quick week. As our neighbors up north in Canada said, it feels like we're living above a meth lab is what they've told me. Many European officials had hoped his comments about seeking control of Greenland for national security reasons was a negotiating ploy to gain more influence over the NATO territory.
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Russia and China are both jostling for position in the Arctic, but the call with Frederiksen had crushed hopes, deepening the foreign policy crisis between NATO allies. Quote, the intent was very clear, they want it. The Danes are now in crisis mode, said one person briefed on the call. Another said the Danes are utterly freaked out by this.
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A former Danish official said, quote, it was a very tough conversation. He threatened specific measures against Denmark, such as targeted tariffs. The Danish prime minister's office said it did not recognize the interpretation of the conversation given by anonymous sources. Greenland, home to just 57,000 people, is an entry point to new shipping routes gradually opening up through the Arctic.
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It also boasts abundant but hard to access minerals. Why are these ship routes now opening up around the Arctic? I don't know. Maybe because of something called global warming as well. Then it goes and says that Trump is demanding that he conquers it. He's threatening to take it over. Now, I want to share this with you.
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You've seen this clip, but it's, I think, appropriate in this context right now. Here's how the people of Denmark are feeling. This is Anders Vitzen, a Danish member of the European Parliament, offering this blunt message to Donald Trump about his obsession to take over Greenland. Let's play it.
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Denmark UNLEASHES FURY at Trump after CALL FROM HELL
We are learning about a disastrous phone call that took place recently between Donald Trump and Matt Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Denmark. Donald Trump re-emphasized that he wanted to conquer Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. He said he was serious, hand it over right now, to which the Prime Minister of Denmark said, no, it belongs to us.
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But the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate continued to say that this is our manifest destiny. America, we are predators is what they say. I'm not making this up. This is, for example, Andy Ogles, MAGA Republican.
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He's the one who introduced the resolution or introduced a proposal to make Donald Trump a dictator for life within the first week and to amend the Constitution. He and other MAGA Republicans are out there saying this. America, they go, we are the dominant predator, so we need to impose ourselves over others. Just watch it.
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And just so you go, oh, well, that's just, you're just showing me ogles, Ben. Show me someone else. Okay. Well, here is MAGA Republican Brandon Gill. And he says that the golden age of America means that it is our manifest destiny. We need to take over these nations. We need to, we need to acquire them. We need to own them. Here, play this clip.
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And by the way, while all of this is going on, America is already in a crisis domestically, massive labor shortages called by Donald Trump's mass deportation threats. Our egg supply right now is severely strained as a result of Donald Trump. Although Fox wants to say, It's because of the bird flu. It's because of the bird flu. No, Donald Trump's in power now.
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The same way you blamed everything on Biden when Biden actually improved the economy and got us out of the trash bin that Donald Trump created. You blamed every single thing on him. This is Trump's fault. All of this chaos is Trump's fault. Now we are alone, isolated, mocked, by the world, laughed at by our enemies, looked on with horror and disgust by our allies.
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to which Donald Trump said, we'll see about that. Multiple people who were familiar with this phone call said it was an utter disaster, that Donald Trump was rude, that he was yelling, that he was trying to bully the prime minister of Denmark, that she stood her ground.
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Thanks to all of you MAGA Republicans and all of you who voted for this freaking idiot. You happy that you did this is what you wanted? Are we great again or are we really? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. We speak the truth on this YouTube channel. Hit subscribe right now. It's free.
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But anybody who was on that phone call that thought, oh, this is some negotiation ploy by Donald Trump, they left that call saying, no, Donald Trump
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Trump DESTROYS Lives of HIS Voters who TRUSTED HIM MOST
Someone, a 31 year old female just found out that their husband, a MAGA guy, 34 year old male lost $600,000 in Donald Trump's stock and his memes. How can I get him to stop? Before he loses everything. And it talks about how Donald Trump took his grandparents inheritance around a million dollars, put it all into Trump related stuff. It started to crash.
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He then started borrowing and borrowing even more money. going into even more debt. And eventually this lady left her husband. She goes on to say they're in a hotel. The husband won't talk to her since her post went absolutely viral. The total losses her husband's incurred is about $700,000 and says that he refuses to talk to her, but is happy to speak to his fans.
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I mean, this definitely does not sound like someone who is Well, I'll just leave it at that. I want to share this with you as well. Those people in red states who voted for Donald Trump, those who were in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, well... You know when that next hurricane hits you? Well, you're on your own.
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Donald Trump took a trip to North Carolina where he was supposed to tour some of the devastation that was caused by the hurricanes there. But when there, Donald Trump said that he basically wants to eliminate FEMA. He was very, well, I wouldn't say he was very specific, but he basically threatened the states as well. He was like, well, look, when...
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something happens to Florida or North Carolina, the states can deal with it themselves. Just let the states handle it. There's no role for the federal government in dealing with this. Well, we hope Floridians enjoy all the FEMA they got from Milton because it will be their last
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There's a reason why Ron DeSantis or the governors in all states, including red states, why they declare an emergency situation, because then the federal government's supposed to step in. Never before in American history were we like, we're not going to give this state emergency aid because it's a red state or a blue state. First off, let's be clear, too.
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The blue states, by and large, are the ones funding this. the entire federal government in the United States. Most of the red states, most of them, not all, most of them take, take, take, take, take and rely on federal government aid, but then turn their backs on the federal government and then threaten us here in Los Angeles and threaten the blue states elsewhere.
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Just so you can hear it, I don't show a lot of Trump clips, but I think it's important because this is a message directed at all these people who have suffered and will suffer in red states with Donald Trump saying that the whole concept of FEMA isn't good. He goes, we're going to have to revisit the whole concept and just let the states take care of it.
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So all of you Floridians and Georgians and people from Louisiana and elsewhere who voted for Trump, this is what you get. Let's play it.
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Also, one of the things we're learning about as well is that Donald Trump's various policies cutting Medicare, Medicaid, which they say they're not going to do, but they are. This is going to impact most also the red states where there are more people on these programs. I don't like F around and find out content because I feel bad for people.
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I don't want them to have to find out that the leopards are eating their faces, but The leopards are eating your faces. Here's a story that we're learning as well about a MAGA supporter who is being absolutely mocked by his fellow workers after voting for Trump by other MAGA voters. Let me be very clear. So this is what we are learning about. Hispanic Trump voter getting turned against at work.
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This isn't specifically electrical, but just a story of what I heard at work today. As we all know, Trump won the election. The union plumbers at my job actually wore Trump 2024 shirts the day he won to work. One of these plumbers is Hispanic. They looked like one big happy family that day. Today at work, I heard his foreman calling him the most racist names and speaking to him in mock Spanish.
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They're arguing back and forth a bit before his white foreman said something along the lines of, shut the F up, go back to work, you Hispanic slur. Can't wait till your ass gets deported, the guy said. I have a feeling that guy might be regretting his choice. And by the way, we're now learning about workplace raids in Newark, potential raids in schools, elementary schools in Chicago and elsewhere.
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Donald Trump sending the United States military to the border to have these G.I. Joe PR stunts and also lying about the fact that border crossings are up. In fact, when President Biden left office, border crossings were basically at an all-time low based on the cooperation with Mexico.
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And look, Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans tried to kill, they did kill, the bipartisan border deal, stopping President Biden from implementing a bipartisan piece of legislation that would have been helpful so that Trump can say, look at the chaos, look at the emergency, look at the things that I want to, what we need to do immediately. And that's what Donald Trump is doing.
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But folks, maybe it wasn't about the egg prices because, as Justin Wolfers points out, those folks who are obsessively posting about egg prices over the past few years have gone strangely quiet as egg prices now hit an all-time high. Yeah, strangely quiet all of a sudden. But the reality is, is that...
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It's only been one week and Donald Trump is ruining people's lives. He's ruining the lives of his biggest supporters, people who entrusted him. I'm not just talking about voters in red states. I'm also talking about voters across the country who got grifted by his meme coin scam. By the way, his meme coin is absolutely crashing. Melania's meme coin is crashing. Let me just talk
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This is what Trump is going to do now when Donald Trump implements tariffs on Canada, Mexico and starts these trade wars. Combined with the fact that we're learning, for example, in Bakersfield, which is a red spot in a blue state of California, but Bakersfield, very right wing, very MAGA. We're learning that the workers in Bakersfield aren't showing up to the farms there.
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It's citrus season there. And they grow pistachios there and other things that are very important to the economy not showing up there. We've shared stories about Nebraska, the meat industry there. The workers aren't showing up there. And this story is repeating over and over again. There are labor shortages going on right now. And the issue is that Americans aren't doing those jobs.
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And the people who work at these farms, and we've heard the stories of the MAGA farmer in Florida, the tomato grower, for example, who was sharing the story. Americans don't want the jobs. The Americans aren't taking the jobs. OK, instead, the Americans are a lot of them taking in these red states on federal government assistance, which they then say is socialist.
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And they want to eliminate the programs that are going to screw themselves. But the Americans aren't working the tomato farms. The Americans aren't picking the grapes or working on the on the citrus farms. They're not working and doing any of those things. And now you're deporting your own people.
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workforce and labor force, rather than creating a pathway to citizenship for those who are contributing to our economy. That's what you're doing. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals attacking DACA and saying that DACA is unconstitutional.
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You know, and you've heard these stories of like nurses who work in the state of Texas, for example, who've paid taxes their entire life, unlike Donald Trump, who hasn't. And now they're being told they have to like leave the state or else. I mean, this is what's going on in now Trump's America right now. And for anyone who put their money in the meme coins, the stocks,
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whatever, the leopard eating your face now. I just don't get it. But I'll leave you with this too. There is this, and I want you to recognize it, there's a psychological phenomenon of people who are in groups that humiliate them. Some to cults. Sometimes they go deeper in the rabbit hole the more they get humiliated because they can't bring themselves to admit to others how devastating it was.
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They've created this persona. They've told the public that they're MAGA or they're this and they're that. So for them to all of a sudden say, wow, I got screwed, the leopard ate my face, I'm finding out, this is terrible, is hard for them because they know the damage that they've caused their families for all of these years saying that they're with this guy who conned them.
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It's the hardest part about getting out of cults or groups is is feeling that you're going to be publicly shamed for it. So for those out there who are watching this, who may have a family member who's in the find out stage or in the leopard ate their face stage, I'll just leave you with this one thought, which is maybe try to give them a soft landing out of it.
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And let them know that what they did is going to be very hard to forgive. But that, you know, you need to admit it and you need to stand up against it before you cause more people pain and hurt more people. Consider it. Maybe. Maybe. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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to you about different ways Donald Trump has destroyed the lives of people who voted for him and who entrusted him. So remember last week he released this meme coin and it shot up and he was going to make all this money, but then his meme coin crashed and Melania's meme coin crashed. I mean, crash crashed. Here's a story that we're hearing right here.
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Mexico President DESTROYS Trump and REJECTS HIS ORDER
The Mexican government has criticized Trump's unilateral immigration actions and said that trying to land your military airplanes here, that requires our assistance. You're not going to do it unilaterally. We are not permitting you to do that. in our airspace and on our airfields. NBC is reporting what went down. Mexico denied U.S.
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military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily, frustrating Trump administration's plan to deport migrants to the country. This according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation. So two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s carrying about 80 people apiece, flew deportees out of the U.S. This was on Thursday night, the source said.
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The third flight slotted for Mexico never took off because Mexico said, we are not letting you land those planes here. Absolutely not now. Claudia Scheinbaum, we've been talking about her for a lot of months here on the Midas Touch Network right now. She was elected recently, but then after Donald Trump was elected, she stood up to him right away. She had a plan. She was ready to go.
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Mexico President DESTROYS Trump and REJECTS HIS ORDER
She knows Donald Trump's type. She has about an 80% approval rating in Mexico. So when Donald Trump threatened those sanctions against Canada and Mexico, she responded right away with just an incredibly powerful letter in response. And she said, look, we're happy to work together. But let me be very clear, Donald, we will retaliate against you and make you feel equal pain.
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if you try to harm the sovereignty of Mexico or if you try to impose tariffs on Mexico. She reminded Donald Trump about the auto manufacturers and other business vital to the United States interests that are based in Mexico. She reminded Donald Trump of the trade agreements between the United States and Mexico. And she also said, how dare you try to act like synthetic drugs is a Mexico problem.
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Ninety nine percent of the people who are getting killed in the United States from synthetic drugs are Americans and Americans are the ones bringing synthetic drugs into the United States. And she said, you can look elsewhere. China is. But we're not doing that here in Mexico. And she also said in that letter, you remember China.
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And while we're at it, maybe if you spent less time on wars and trying to build up your military and more time on comprehensive immigration issues, you'd be able to sort through all of this.
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She also reminded Donald Trump that border crossings were actually at an all time low with President Biden, that there were no caravans that Donald Trump and Fox kept on talking about because that was actually addressed by Biden and Scheinbaum when there were bilateral relations and communications taking place to actually stop the caravans.
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And then she also told Donald Trump and y'all are sending guns into Mexico and you're harming us here. So you should deal with your own problems. Focus on that. Then she's continued to say, you know, if you claim that you want to take over Mexico, well, maybe we take over the United States. Let me show you the map. of what the United States actually once was, which was a part of Mexico.
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Maybe we should just refer to the United States as actually part of Mexico. We want to go down this route. So she's always been standing up to Donald Trump. Now, she held a recent press conference after Donald Trump talked about renaming, this just happened, the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And after all of Donald Trump's executive orders, Let me share this with you now.
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We translated this for you in AI. It uses her voice, but it's an AI translation, which does an incredible job. This was from her most recent press conference this past week where she stood up to Donald Trump. This is incredible. Let's play it right here.
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How great was that? President Scheinbaum also standing up for the sovereignty of other nations, like when Donald Trump attacks Panama. This is from a few weeks back where she says that Mexico stands in solidarity with the people of Panama. Here, play this clip.
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And also one of the other moves that she did that I thought was just... It was subtle, or maybe not that subtle, but sent a powerful message, although maybe Trump's not smart enough to see the message. So President Scheinbaum was not supposed to meet with Xi Jinping of China, the leader of China, during the latest G20 meeting.
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But after Trump won the election and Trump said all the things he was saying, not only did Scheinbaum meet with Xi Jinping, but But she was photographed with Xi Jinping. So anybody who knows what goes on in diplomatic circles knows that Scheinbaum was sending a message there. And again, Trump and his team may be too ignorant to understand the message, but the message was, OK, you do this to us.
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we have other people who we can have relations with, that we could build our relationships with China and elsewhere if you are not going to be our allies anymore and you're going to attack us and treat us this way. I thought that was a powerful thing by Scheinbaum as well. So anyway, let me know what you think right there. But Scheinbaum going on the offense and she's saying,
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We must have a level head. We must be clear and not overreact. Meanwhile, you have Donald Trump, Mr. Accordion Hands, overreacting and just behaving in such a barbaric, chaotic, just a way that's so unbecoming of a leader. That's me putting it gently. Tell me what you think about President Scheinbaum's actions. Put it in the comments below. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Mexico President DESTROYS Trump and REJECTS HIS ORDER
Mexico's powerful and popular president, Claudia Scheinbaum, is striking back right away to Donald Trump and saying, do not mess with our sovereignty. A few things went down this week. First, Mexico refused to accept U.S. deportation flights into Mexico.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
some more powerful cross-examination by Democratic senators at the various hearings. I want to talk about a particularly powerful moment where Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin was questioning RFK Jr., who leads Donald Trump's Health and Human Services. But as you remember from last week, he said, don't take my advice on anything medical related. I shouldn't be asked questions about this.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
This is a fun game that we are playing. I also want to show Democratic Congresswoman Barragan. She was asking Lee Zeldin, who leads the Environmental Protection Agency. I'm not sure if leads the appropriate word, but she said, look, you're out there on Fox saying that there is criminality taking place that you've uncovered, but there's no criminal charges being filed.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
Like, why are you grandstanding? Like, just tell the truth and level with the American people. Let's play this clip.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
Anyway, here's what he said under questioning by Democratic Senator Baldwin. Let's play it. Any life-saving research.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
Time has expired. Are you kidding me? Let's bring in Senator Tammy Baldwin right now. We showed that cross-exam by you of RFK Jr. at the beginning. Walk us through that line of questioning and really the devastation that you're seeing in your state of Wisconsin and elsewhere.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
I mean, we saw a MAGA Republican Senator, Josh Hawley, at a separate point with another hearing with Kristi Noem, literally like begging her, we need FEMA in our state. You're not sending FEMA here.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
From the people of Missouri, please just send FEMA here because some of the most basic things that we expect federal government to do, whether it's issues like health, NIH, whether it's issues like FEMA after horrific storms, which by the way, Donald Trump has not even mentioned once. 28 people dead. We haven't even heard him mentioned. Let me just show you Josh Hawley and then get your response.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
And Senator, she previously testified last week that she wants to get rid of FEMA, and they fired the FEMA administrator who was a MAGA guy because he said that he thinks that it should still exist. They fired him in 24 hours. What do you say?
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
Let's talk finally about the reconciliation. We still don't know what the House is going to do. Trump showed up. yelled at people, cursed at people, seemed to push certain people further away from it, although who knows with what the House is going to do. But we've seen a lot of Republican senators basically say whatever they're doing there is dead on arrival here, whether that's true or not.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
But we saw Ron Johnson from your state, he's been consistently saying, I ain't supporting this. We've seen Josh Hawley say that. We've seen Rand Paul say that. Let me just show you a clip of some of them who have said that just because I'm trying to figure out now, where is this going? And aren't we going to be hitting a debt ceiling issue soon anyway?
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
Aren't we going to have government funding running out in September? You know, MAGA Mike Johnson said that this would all be sorted out by Memorial Day, which doesn't seem to be realistic. But who knows? This is what some of the Republican senators have said.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
And you kind of in there have different people saying different reasons why they oppose it, right? So what do you make of all it?
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
Senator, anything else that you're focused on that you're not being asked about? Whenever I have a senator like you on, I like to ask the question because lots of people in the media, they want to have their narrative and their questions, but you see things that we don't see. Anything we should be focused on that you think is not getting attention? Yeah.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
Senator Tammy Baldwin, thanks for joining us.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin on Trump Cabinet Disaster Hearings
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
You know, it's like clockwork with these sociopaths. They never want to face the consequences of their actions, and so they'll pretend that they're the victim. I'm just gonna have to sail into the sunset. We're seeing this with Elon Musk right now, and frankly, it's absolutely pathetic. Don't buy what he is selling.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
Now is the moment for Musk to channel his fury into executing on the company's long-promised pivot to driverless cars. You want us to believe all of this crap? I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous. I mean, look, here's what Elon Musk just recently posted. He had his ex-account. He was calling himself Kekias Maximus. And then he changed it back to Elon Musk. And Grok is his background to see.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
See, I'm serious, everybody. I'm no longer Kekius Maximus. But here's what he posted. I have come to the perhaps obvious conclusion that accelerating GDP growth is essential. Doge has and will do great work to postpone the day of bankruptcy of America. But the profligacy of the government means that only radical improvements in productivity can save our country.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
In other words, you're just going to use a bunch of gibberish word salad, big words and be like, I tried. I saved us. That's where we are right now. He went from we're going to cut $2 trillion from the deficit to $1 trillion in the deficit today.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
to $500 million to $150 million, to we're actually adding to the deficit, to, oh my God, we're adding $5 trillion to the deficit, to, oh my God, we may be adding $20 trillion to the deficit. But now it's, I tried. I did my best. I saved us for a few more years. No, you've absolutely made things worse. You made things much worse.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
quite literally and also when it comes to this routine that he's doing, that he's somehow stepping away from the government and he's going back to sleeping on the factory floor, everybody. So that's the sob story that Elon Musk is trying to sell the American people right now. I'm moving away from government. I'm not going to do any more political donations.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
Then you have other posts from Elon Musk like this because he's trying to make us feel bad for him. He's trying to make us feel like he's got to go back to the factory to work after destroying our federal government. Let me be very clear also. Doge was never about efficiency. It was never about cutting the deficit. It was always about one thing, stealing your data.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
taking your social security information, taking your medical records, getting all of the data aggregated with Elon Musk's crew, Mr. Big Balls, or whatever they call themselves. And once they did that... That's all they really gave a crap about. And the destruction was the point. They destroyed it all. There's no efficiency.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
It's not efficient now that in FEMA, there's like very little staff there who can actually respond to emergencies. It's not efficient that at the National Weather Service or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, There aren't people who can predict the weather patterns and do the forecasting.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
It's not efficient when you don't have people answering the phones at the Veteran Affairs Suicide Hotline. It's not efficient when you're not helping 9-11 survivors and first responders, right? It's not efficient when you shut down the Department of Education and you steal school lunches from the mouths of low-income students. It's not efficient when you kick people off of Medicaid programs.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
It's not efficient when the Federal Aviation Administration just made a total disaster of our airports with massive delays. The radars in Newark and Denver are shutting down. The flights are incredibly dangerous. Planes are crashing. There's nothing efficient. That's not what they were doing.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
He put the poison pill or the nuclear bomb, blew up the federal government, and now he just goes, I'm going back to spending 24-7 on the factory floor, everybody. I'm not sure why I'm doing a Mickey Mouse voice for that, but here's what he says. I'm not even sure if that was a Mickey Mouse voice. This is his real post from May 24th.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
So yesterday, back to spending 24-7 at work and sleeping in conference server factory rooms. I must be super focused. on X and XAI and Tesla, plus Starship launch next week, as we have critical technologies rolling out. As evidenced by the X uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but it did not.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
Let's just take a look at where you've been, Elon. As Mark Pocan points out, Elon Musk was back on Capitol Hill today. This was a few days ago. Anyone actually believe he's stepping back? He's just hiding in the closet, but he's still in the room.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
Trump and Musk are doing everything to get tax cuts for themselves and ripping away your Medicaid and Medicare, even cutting health care for 14 million people and food assistance. That's what he was doing. The week before that, here's a photo of Elon Musk and MBS in Saudi Arabia. Elon Musk took that trip. Of course, you know that Elon was in the room with South African President Ramaphosa.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
So you see all of that. But Elon makes the sob video. He makes the selfie sob video. And he goes, in terms of political spending, I'm going to do a lot less in the future. I think I've done enough. Here, play this clip right here.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
I'm just going to fade into the background. I tried with Doge. I did my best. Elon Musk, you were still at Capitol Hill last week with the Congressional Energy and Commerce Committee where you were talking about cutting Medicaid. You were with Donald Trump in the Middle East where you met with the leaders of the UAE and Qatar and Saudi Arabia. You were with Donald Trump in the Oval Office when
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
Oh, Elon, we're supposed to feel so bad for you, so bad for you, that you were, what, giving away like a million dollars in different elections if people were registered to vote? I want to share this with you as well. Message from Democratic Congress member Greg Kassar, who goes, Elon Musk is not gone and we can't let Republicans pretend he is just because he's unpopular now.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
We have to keep up the pressure until we actually fire Elon Musk. And you see Jake Sherman, a Capitol Hill reporter, talked about how last week Elon Musk is on the Hill meeting with the ENC Republicans, Energy and Commerce, on energy and AI. Notably, I think Medicaid is in there as well. The $880 billion cuts are in there as well.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
Now, this was Donald Trump on a plane recently when he was asked, would you appoint Elon to any other position? Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play the clip.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
That was on April 3rd. This is on April 3rd as well. Even when Elon leaves, will Doge still be around was the question. Here, play this clip.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
So, as I mentioned, Elon Musk is not going anywhere. Oh, here was Trump with Ramaphosa pointing out that Elon, the South African president Ramaphosa, pointing out that Elon Musk was in the room. Here, play this clip.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
Now, where do you think the idea is originating from that the white Afrikaners are given this without basically any paperwork at all? Their citizenship, path to citizenship is fast-tracked into the United States. Who do you think is giving Donald Trump that information that the white South Africans are going through a genocide which they're not in South Africa now?
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
South African President Ramaphosa was there. There's literally nothing has changed other than the fact that you realize that your destruction of our government, the hostile takeover, the cruelty with which you've done everything, has made you one of the most detestable human beings in the United States and the world. And your cars and your other companies are suffering as a result.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
There is gang violence in South Africa. It affects white people and black people around the same proportion if we're talking about white and black farmers as well. And it's a horrific thing that there's that gang violence and deaths of farmers in general. But it's not a white genocide taking place in South Africa. Where do you think that's originating from?
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
I want to give you just a few more data points before we go as well. In addition to the fact that the MAGA Republicans will be adding somewhere between $5 to $20, maybe even $30 trillion to the deficit. That's what we get with Elon Musk and Doge. I mean, this is the Wall Street Journal headline. The stark math on the GOP tax plan, it doesn't cut the deficit.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
But if you just take a look at the federal spending, just federal spending alone alone. over the past few months. What are we, over 100 days now, 100 and whatever we are. 120, 130, 140 days. Look at the federal spending. This is what Pantheon has to say. Doge is falling well short of its goal to slash federal spending, reducing at least one major near-term downside risk for the economy.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
Real-time data suggests that federal spending has been roughly 10% higher since Donald Trump was inaugurated than in the same period a year earlier. Okay, so 10% more month-over-month federal spending with Trump than Biden.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
So with all of the hostile government takeover, all of the firing of the IRS and the veterans and the National Park Rangers and the FAA and NIH and CDC and, you know, and all these people, right? All those terminations, all the, you know. There's more federal spending now. When you think about it, it's like, obviously.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
I mean, Trump's, you know, using Air Force One and bringing the motorcade in these lavish trips and a trillion dollar military budget and all of the spending at Mar-a-Lago, hundreds of millions of dollars for PR campaigns that mock Mexicans and threaten them that are being aired in English.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
on Fox and also aired in English in Mexico with like Christie gnome praising Donald Trump and his bizarre ad campaigns that our taxpayer dollars are going to, you know, our taxpayer dollars are going to like torturing migrants. Um, and, and there's less people being deported under Trump than under former president Biden.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
But these, these more propaganda kind of ways of doing it with that, that costs tens of millions and hundreds of millions of dollars. And, and, and,
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
so the spending is up not down the deficit's about to this is going to be this budget bill is about to make the deficit go up on the low end four or five trillion how do we know that they have to raise the debt ceiling in the bill it has to raise the debt ceiling by four or five trillion that's one of the ways we know
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
And then, of course, just listen to what the Congressional Budget Office has said about how horrific this is. And people are going to be losing their Medicaid and Medicare. So don't buy the crap that Musk is selling. And you can just see the coordinated effort, right? Wall Street Journal writes the story. He's back. He's angry. He's pissed. He's going to go help Tesla again. He's going nowhere.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
He's doing the same crap that he's been doing before. Isn't it obvious? Well, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Elon Pretends to Give Up to Avoid Consequences
So you just want to pretend. You want to try to act like you're no longer involved with Doge or anything and that you're just going back to Tesla. And it's total BS. But it's all coordinated, right? I mean, the Wall Street Journal article, angry Elon is back. That's good for Tesla.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
The MAGA Republicans are stunned. They did not expect it, but they should have. As MAGA Republicans are too afraid to hold town halls and be confronted by their own constituents, we're now seeing Democratic leaders stand up and fight for the people. we're actually seeing Democratic fighters. I'll show you what went down recently.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
Here, Senator Ossoff talks about how apparently the Trump regime is now selling meetings at Mar-a-Lago or at the White House or elsewhere for $5 million, play this clip.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
And here Senator Ossoff says Georgia will never bow to a king. Man, I'm pumped up just showing you these clips. Let's play it.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
Like on Saturday, Senator Ossoff of Georgia gave an incredible speech in Atlanta. He reminds us once again why he is such a powerful speaker. Here he is right here. Let's play it.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
Then Senator Warnock from Georgia gave a speech as well. Same location in Atlanta this weekend. Here's what Senator Warnock had to say. Let's play it.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
Here's Senator Warnock again. Let's play it.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
By the way, I had the opportunity to interview Democratic Congresswoman Janelle Bynum from Oregon's 5th Congressional District. That was an incredible interview. Go back and watch the full interview. But here she is. She flipped a red seat to blue. Watch what she says. Play this clip.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
Now hearing these smart Democratic fighters, isn't it so much better than when I showed that? I mean, I have to show the Trump clips because I have to call it out, but it's like a completely different universe. or I guess on the one hand, democracy, pro-democracy fighters with Democrats and Trump, this wannabe authoritarian gross.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
Here's Donald Trump just recently, before he went to go play Mar-a-Lago again, golf at Mar-a-Lago again this weekend, when he issued an executive order saying he wants to eliminate the Department of Education. He said the reason why he's doing that is because all these workers at the Department of Education are too busy playing golf and not working, as Donald Trump is playing golf and not working.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
And folks, you even have Republicans out there. It's like Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski speaking in her state. And she's saying, how did this happen? How did we get to a place where we're attacking Canada and we're supporting Russia? Because of you, Murkowski. It's because you support people like Donald Trump and his idiotic, dangerous regime. Play this clip.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
And again, just think about those clips I shared with you earlier in this video of Senator Ossoff, of Senator Warnock, of Democratic Congresswoman Bynum. Think about those clips. Now contrast them to this right here, Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary, billionaire Howard Lutnick, who says that we should absolutely not make Doge more empathetic. to the concerns of the American people.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
He goes, no, no, no, no empathy. No, no, no. Play this clip.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
They're all sickos, actually. This guy's a sicko. And by the way, here Howard Lutnick talks about the Trump regime's view of social security. And here he says- that if you complain about not getting your Social Security check as they're trying to gut Social Security, you are a criminal.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
You are a fraudster because only criminals and fraudsters complain that they don't get their Social Security checks on time. Here he is. Let's play it.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
All right, now you know if I'm doing a video on Democrats fighting back, I gotta show you some Senator Bernie Sanders. He's been speaking in front of, what, over 87,000 people at five events over the past few days. I did a whole other takes on Senator Sanders, so I'm not gonna play that many clips here, but let me give you a highlight here. Let's play it.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
Here Senator Ossoff again talking about how MAGA doesn't give a crap about ordinary people, let's play it.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
One more clip here of Senator Sanders. Let me play it for you.
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BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
Yeah, powerful stuff indeed. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. We're on our way. Let's get there together.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Some new horrifying information has emerged about the Republican candidate for the Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin that's going to decide the balance of power on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The far right-wing Doge MAGA candidate, a guy by the name of Brad Schimel, He's been trying to pretend that he's not Doge, that he's not MAGA, that he's not Trumpy. He's trying to run away from it.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Then we did some more digging into some speeches that were given by Schimmel and some kind of just scary and weird stuff came up. Like this one right here where Schimmel tells this story while he's speaking in front of this group about how he psychologically beat the daylights out of an eight-year-old in the backseat. I think he's talking about, you know, his daughter.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
You can feel the cringe level of the audience as he's telling this bizarre story. Play this clip.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
I want to bring in Dane County Circuit Court Judge, Judge Susan Crawford, who is running against Schimel in this seat. We have a law and order pro-democracy judge here. What do you make of all of these recent videos from his past that have emerged?
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
What's your message to the people of Wisconsin, though, who, you know, don't know? I mean, you know, some people like, wait a minute, Supreme Court races, people run for this seat. You know, a lot of people don't even know like like that. I know a lot of people in Wisconsin are paying attention when it happens in your state. They start to pay attention, often closer.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
And I know that people are starting to vote already. So what do you say to them?
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
So we here at the Midas Touch Network, of course, first saw this published by Axios that Elon Musk's PAC is offering $100 to Wisconsin voters in a pitch against, quote, activist judges, as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, there goes Musk again. He's trying to buy those votes again. And then it became clear to us that really Elon Musk was trying to dojify Wisconsin.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Yeah, I mean, when you and I speak, it's always speaking about I'm law and order. I'm going to enforce the law. I'm going to enforce our state's constitution, United States Constitution. When he goes on podcasts, he goes to like the – you know, the MAGA bro style podcast. And he, and he tells that same story. Like he, that story, he like loves that story.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Here's another one that we unearthed a second clip of shimmel on one of these bro podcasts or whatever they call them saying his wife told him he shut her and his daughters out. And I didn't want to talk to you. What, what does he mean? What is he even talking about here? Play this clip. And, um,
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Maybe I need to take a step back. Like it's a choice to go on a podcast like that and say, It's creepy.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Let me show you this. Let me show you this other clip right here, though. And as serious, I mean, horrific stuff right here. This is a clip that we unearthed where he said that he's personally against marriage equality. Let me show you this one.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
And, Judge, let me show you one more right here where he said he would have defended a ban on interracial marriage.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
What do you make of all those clips that I shared with you?
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
You know, and I think the big fear right now is as Doge is taking a wrecking ball on people's lives. I just saw Donald Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, kind of making fun and mocking the concept. I think he said, so what if your social security check comes in late? He goes, if you complain that it comes in late, you're probably the fraudster. direct quote that he said.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
So we had to look deeper here at the Midas Touch Network into Brad Schimel's past, look at his social media posts, and we found this. While he claims he's not a partisan, this is what he was doing. He would go to those Trump boat parades, and he would wear shirts like this one that says, Jesus is my savior, but Trump is my president. And here's the thing with someone like this, too.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
So as people in Wisconsin hear this, they see Doge firing these veterans. They hear about people potentially unconstitutionally being kidnapped and sent to concentration camps in El Salvador. And they think about someone like a shimmel. And I think they're asking, is this guy going to be a rubber stamp or authoritarianism? Or is he going to defend the people of Wisconsin?
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
What's your closing argument to the people of Wisconsin? He is.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Judge, where can people find out more information about you? I know the last day to vote is April 1st, but right now voting is taking place right now. Where can people find out more information if they want to learn about you and your background?
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Judge Susan Crawford running for Wisconsin Supreme Court. Very big race there in Wisconsin with national implications as well. We appreciate everything you're doing.
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
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Judge Susan Crawford on New Developments in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
It's like if you're Trumpy, then just say it. Just say you're Trumpy and let the voters ultimately decide that you're a Trumpy doge guy. And if they want to vote for getting rid of Social Security and Medicaid, if they're into all that stuff, you're their guy, I guess, you know, on the court.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
if democrats plan to take back the house of representatives they're going to have to flip seats so i think we should study the democrats in the house who have been able to actually flip seats to see what they've done and maybe that shows a road map why don't we just take a look for example at oregon's fifth congressional district and it's been in the news a lot lately because
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
The Secretary of Labor no longer supports the piece of legislation most important to labor and was pretending to support it in Oregon. So who was calling her out? Who knew that this was going on? Well, let's show you the moment where that seat flip. Let's play it.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
We're joined by Congresswoman Janelle Bynum from Oregon's 5th Congressional District. You knew you were warning people. The people knew. The people, though, voted for you. So they got it. But you were telling everybody who she really was. Huh? Feel vindicated?
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
And tell us about how damaging that is for labor.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
Tell us, how did you do it? What's the playbook? It was a red district. I mean, it's in Oregon. It's a blue state, but it was a red spot or purple. What in the world was going on and how did you do it? What's the secret?
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
It used to be held by a MAGA Republican Congresswoman, and that MAGA Republican Congresswoman, she'd like to pretend that she wasn't really MAGA. She liked to claim that she stood on the side of labor.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
What are you hearing from your constituents now? Because as we've said, it was represented previously by a Republican, which means there were a lot of people who voted Republican in your district. And now they're seeing Medicaid under attack.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
They're seeing Elon Musk take their private information and call Social Security a Ponzi scheme, treat veterans like crap as they fire these government workers. They claim that it's for performance reasons, which is basically just defaming them. People are seeing their pensions and 401ks struggle and suffer. What are you hearing? What's the sentiment? What are your constituents saying?
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
I was always very suspicious of that shtick, and someone who was very suspicious of it was someone who ran against her, now the Democratic Congresswoman from the Fifth, who flipped it, who called her out in the debates, Congresswoman Janelle Bynum, now a Democrat. after flipping that seat from Oregon's 5th Congressional District.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
You've always stood up for the Department of Education. You've always stood up for the American worker in general and American people, but the Department of Education near and dear to your heart. I know people are scared that, you know, totally abolished. What does that mean? Linda McMahon, you know, the WWE head who's got her own issues is out there mocking it. And it just seems that Trump and
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
And his billionaires beat down on what the beating down on poor kids and disabled kids and giving kids lunches. I mean, that's who they go after so that they and their billionaire friends can party with their. You saw they did the pink Birkin bag party in Mar-a-Lago with these gigantic Birkin bags that they're celebrating. That's what they're doing out there.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
Lots of people, and I'm sure at these town halls, a lot of people are saying, you know, we want people who are fighting. We want fighters. You know, obviously Democrats don't control the House and the Senate. They can't subpoena. You can't set the agenda. We don't control the White House. But people are saying, we don't care. We know that.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
So what does it mean to you to fight? What's your message to other Democrats, though, too? And how do you interpret that fight?
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
And you may know about that district also in the sense that Lori Chavez de Riemer, now the Labor Secretary, although she's not looking out for the interests of labor, was that MAGA Republican congresswoman pretending not to be MAGA in Oregon. She claimed to be on the side of labor. But do y'all remember we covered this
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
You know, finally, I'm seeing all of these travel advisories now being issued from foreign countries, basically saying, hey, they're citizens.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
go to the united states you may end up in an ice detention center or get sent to a concentration camp in el salvador and you may not ever be heard from again also you know it's dangerous in the us now as they're gutting essential government services there's there's measles outbreaks in certain states now as uh there's someone running the health department who doesn't like health it's it's it's
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
I don't know. I'm not sure where the question is going other than what the heck is going on and what are you going to do about it?
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
You flipped it. You showed the roadmap and I'm hoping and I'm confident people will see what you did. Follow that model. Congresswoman Janelle Bynum, thank you so much for joining us.
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Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
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on the Midas Touch podcast before, the confirmation hearing where all of a sudden she said she's on the side of the oligarchy and she no longer supports the PRO Act. Remember this moment where Rand Paul, MAGA Republican Rand Paul, said the following to her. Let's play this clip.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
Remember during the campaign when Donald Trump was on the state regime media known as Fox and Sean Hannity said this to him and this is how Donald Trump responded? Let's play it.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
He's also issued a number of executive orders directly attacking law firms by name, attacking Perkins Coie, Paul Weiss, Covington and Burling, like executive orders that say the name of the law firm on the executive order and basically tell people not to do business with the law firms as part of Donald Trump's revenge. But so if Donald Trump, these are bad people who
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
Who are the good people for Donald Trump? Here he talks about the political prisoners and heroes who he's there to help. Let's play it.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
That's who he thinks are the good people. By the way, my theory also about why Donald Trump is also fixated on annexing Canada and attacking Canada, you know, a lot for a variety of reasons. But to me, I think it partly has to why he hates Trudeau. I think it partly has to do with this photo right here. And I could be wrong about that.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
But, you know, he's such a person of personal grievance and revenge. And just just here's what he said about Canada yesterday, your point.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
Let's bring on Alex Eisenstadt, author of the new book, Revenge, the inside story of Trump's return to power. I know this, been working on this for over two years, and it truly is an inside story. You take readers inside Trump Revenge. airplane that he calls Trump Force One. I don't want to give it the name that he called it.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
You bring people inside Mar-a-Lago and at these meetings where he's seething with anger, calling former President Biden the R-word, calling this person fat and gross. And it just seems like if you're with Trump at an event, it's just him like mocking people and attacking people. Tell us about the book, why you wrote it, and give us some anecdotes that you can share.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
They're wrong. But after this election, I would have every right to go after them. So in the past two weeks, what's Trump done? Well, he's been doing it more than that, though. But he went to the Department of Justice building. And what did he say in the Department of Justice building? Here he talks about Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, his alphabet of grievances here. Let's play it.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
You know, it's also interesting because Trump always attacks his political opponents as getting the questions in advance and workshopping the answer. So there's always a lot of projection there as well. But, you know, it does seem, though, now – not seem, it is – the main thing that he's focused on appears to be revenge, seething revenge in the Oval Office.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
I've referred to it as this kind of almost like a walk of shame or humiliation ritual. I mean, first, having these people kiss his ring at Mar-a-Lago. I want to get your take on that because people showing up at Mar-a-Lago, he'd make these executives and all the people who he thought gave him bad coverage show up at Mar-a-Lago and
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
tell him how great he is and kind of humiliate themselves and you kind of see him doing that in the oval office where he'll bring people there and he'll have people sitting very uncomfortably and try to humiliate them um in public so That seems to be his focus. I mean, revenge is what he was running on. And I mean, it's not success isn't his revenge. It seems revenge is his revenge.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
And he's not really focused on the other things. And I think that's what's pissing people off. What do you make of what's happening right now?
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
He seems to be most comfortable in this victim revenge modality. And so the moment you're seeing, I think, judges rule against his executive orders or issue injunctions. That's the you know, that's where. He's able to speak that language of kind of victimhood, revenge, grievance. They're coming after me. This is unfair. Bad judges. Well, what do you think about that?
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
Part of the thing he does too is he doesn't pronounce the names right, Letitia James. Then Mark Elias, he named checks, and a bunch of other lawyers who he hates here play this clip.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
I want everybody to get the book because it helps, I think, really give a background into what is driving. I mean, you know, look, our coverage here is, you know, I think he's the greatest threat to my own views. I think he's the greatest threat to democracy, I think, ever. And I think you have to study it. And I think your book takes a good look into the pathology.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
I could go on and on with you and talk about the specific instances, but I want people to go get the book. So it's called Revenge, The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power. Alex, you're now at Axios and you're one of their lead reporters there. And at the time you were writing this, you were at Politico and love reading your stuff. And so thanks for being on.
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Author Alex Isenstadt and the Inside Story of Trump’s Power Grab
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Japan, the EU, and China will outperform the United States in the next 10 to 15 years, as Sean Broderick says. How about that for winning? And this is happening because of Donald Trump. We're seeing headlines like this when you wake up in the Trump regime in America. As Trump broadens crackdown, focus expands to legal immigrants and tourists. U.S.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the administration scrutinizes green card and visa holders who have expressed opposition to its policies. This is why... We've seen in Canada, we've seen people in Europe and elsewhere across the world issue travel advisories to their citizens. If you go to the United States,
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
You may end up in ICE detention centers or even in concentration camps in El Salvador. I'm going to do a whole other video on the situation with these migrants who were kidnapped by Donald Trump. And he claimed they were Venezuelan gang members and he sent them to concentration camps in El Salvador. We're hearing a lot of stories, though, that some of these individuals were not gang members.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Also, Trump said one. women there and the concentration camps don't even take the women. So they were sent back to Venezuela where they were likely going to be harmed by the Maduro regime, which they were leaving. I'm going to do a whole video on a guy named Andres, who is a gay hairdresser from Venezuela, who was here legally asylum seeker. He had a tattoo, not a gang tattoo.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
He was about to go to his next asylum hearing where he was kidnapped by the Trump regime, shipped to El Salvador, where no one has heard from him again. I'll do a whole story on that. A photojournalist for Time magazine did a whole story as well on that. And if you connect the dots with this person's lawyer who was on Rachel Maddow, it seems to be that individual Andres.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Here's another scoop from the Washington Post. The Internal Revenue Service is nearing an agreement to allow the Department of Homeland Security to use tax data to get info on undocumented immigrants. Quote, a complete betrayal of 30 years of the government telling immigrants to file their taxes, one IRS official said.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Now, remember that scoop with this scoop from the Washington Post as well, that tax revenue is expected to drop by 10% this year, which is about $500 billion in lost revenue, Elon Musk, Doge, Donald Trump. So what they're doing is causing the deficit to go up, up, up.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
And remember what I expected that they were going to add 30 to $50 trillion to the deficit was my guess of what was going to go down. And because the IRS enforcement division is gutted, a lot of Donald Trump's billionaire friends are gonna try to use all these tricks, not pay their taxes.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
to screw over we, the people, and you take that and who, how else is Donald Trump using the IRS to go after the immigrants who are actually paying their taxes? The people who are working here, not gang members, not trend day, Iraq was Donald Trump tries to claim all these individuals are terrorists. No, we're talking about hardworking Americans who pay their taxes.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Donald Trump was frantically spamming his supporters' emails yesterday with emails like this. You want a Doge dividend check, Ben? Honk, honk, Ben. I got a MAGA bumper sticker. Hello? Hello? I have an important meeting alert from Trump. Do you want a Trump was right at? So that's what Donald Trump was doing while he was at Mar-a-Lago, vacationing once again, golfing once again.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
That's who the Trump regime is going after horrible stuff. No wonder, though, we're seeing these rallies and these protests grow across the country. We cover them also on our sub stack, MidasPlus.com. We have Midas Mighty citizen journalists at these events taking photographs for us. Take a look at the ones we posted from the Windsor, Detroit protests. We're gonna be profiling different protests.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Check that out. But take a look at the size of this rally in Denver. 34, 35,000 people showed up to see Bernie Sanders in AOC. Also yesterday, we saw in Tucson, Arizona, about 25,000 people show up. The expectation was 3,000 people were gonna show up. We're in a non-election year, and I think they're gonna start filling stadiums of 50, 75,000 people soon because we, the people are pissed.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
It's not even a blue state, red state, red, blue, Democrat, Republican. These fricking oligarchs are destroying our lives. They're calling social security Ponzi schemes. You've got Donald Trump's commerce secretary saying that if you complain about missing the social security check one month, that makes you a criminal. That makes you a fraud. What, Donald?
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Does that make you also a Trend Day Aragua gang member who you're going to send to freaking concentration camps in El Salvador? Is that what you're going to do? What a pathetic piece of... Regime this is. What a bunch of freaking grifter losers. It just pisses me off as I even talk about it. I work myself up a bit talking about this and I'll try to keep it even keel.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
But these people are... I'll leave it at that. Speaking of which, Elon Musk says the following about his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson. This is just what Elon Musk is posting throughout the day. My son Xavier died from the woke mind virus. That's how he refers to his transgender daughter. What a piece of crap these people are.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
You know, when I think about these MAGA Republicans, as they refer to the transgender congresswoman from Delaware as the gentleman, the gentleman, why are you so evil? Why are these people such freaking bullies? For what? Just evil in their heart.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
And that's why at the Midas Touch Network, I so frequently talk not just about politics, but about empathy and being good people and fighting for fellow Americans and standing up. I'm sick and tired of being like, oh, are you like the Joe Rogan of left? No, F Joe Rogan. He's a jerk. We're never going to in any way sacrifice our values. We're never going to punch down on this network.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
We're going to be who we always are. We're going to stand up for people loudly and proudly. That's what we do in this community, in the pro-democracy community. And that is how you have to appeal to American people, because if you're going to go down this Trump MAGA rabbit hole, you're just as bad as them. Anyway, you've got Senator Bernie Sanders here.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Let me just share with you from his speech a part that really resonated with me. Let's play it.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
You know, and as all that's going on, like what is Donald Trump posting again? Like he keeps on posting this weird article from The Sun that King Charles is making a secret offer to Donald Trump when Trump visits the UK. By the way, people in UK, why are you having this guy? You better, why are you having this guy there to begin with, number one?
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
You had Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago. I don't know what the hell he's doing here, but this is the guy who's destroying our federal government and destroying the lives of veterans and destroying our pensions and life savings. Here Elon Musk is. What the hell is he doing?
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
By the way, I think Prime Minister Keir Starmer is doing a good job with Ukraine. I think he's been, I think he's done actually an exceptional job with international diplomacy, like A plus. And I get why he, you know, what do they say? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. So I guess I get it from that perspective. But here's what Trump's posting about Ukraine.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
That King Charles is making him a secret offer to make America a territory of the United Kingdom. I kid you not. That's what this article says. And then Trump says, good idea for America to have the monarchy. I think it's part of Trump's plan where Trump then thinks he can use that to make himself a king once he makes the United States part of the... I don't... The hell is he talking about?
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Can you just keep our Medicaid and keep our health care and not gut the Department of Education and stop bullying disabled kids and poor kids? Can we stop firing our veterans? I mean, how about that? By the way, I want to share this with you as well.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Great piece here by PBS, which shows people who are outside the Nebraska town hall of a Republican congressmember, congressmember who, to at least his credit, congressmember Flood, at least held the town hall. Here, play this clip.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
You don't have to follow all of us, but we have to have a voice. And while all this is going on, Elon Musk is posting memes like this. Just so we're clear, I voted for all of this. It reminds me of former President Biden's kind of final message on the dangers of oligarchy when things were normal.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
So let me show you one more clip here from Senator Sanders. Let's play it.
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
Now, because of the Trump regime's devastating economic policies, not only are we expected to go into a deep recession, potentially have stagflation, low GDP with surging inflation. One of the things that JP Morgan now expects that based on this current trajectory with the way Donald Trump is dealing with tariffs is
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Panicked Trump Gets Frantic as Tables Turn
And finally, to all of our Maple Midas out there, Midas Maple, our Canadian supporters, I just got to highlight Mark Carney's video right here. It's exceptional with Mike Myers. Elbows up. Play the clip.
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
Donald Trump's uber rich treasury secretary who's worth about half a billion dollars. He's saying we're on a roll right now, America. Sure, there may be a recession looming and sure you may be suffering, but isn't it all great? Don't you all love the vision? I mean, let me just show you what the oligarchy looks like. I mean, this is his $22 million mansion as he says he
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
It would be funny if it wasn't so outrageous. Let me call in Democratic Congress member from Texas, Greg. Greg, so as I see it, all of the countries, they're going to get an envelope on April 2nd, which Trump calls Liberation Day. All of our allies and everyone abroad. And they open it up. Then they get a number of what they're going to be tariffed because Trump's on a roll.
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
What do you make of all of this?
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
You're joining Bernie Sanders, AOC, and others on the Fight the Oligarchy Tour, where you're going into red and purplish states and districts and speaking to working class folks and probably a lot of people there who actually even voted for Trump. Look, you're someone who says, I'm unapologetically progressive.
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
yeah, you could deal with a little bit of suffering. I think we have the dollhouse photo if we have it. No, no, that's actually Barbie's. This is the one he lives in, a $22 million mansion. And he's lecturing people. People don't want cheaper prices. That's not what people are looking for. It's not like Donald Trump promised he was going to lower prices on day one.
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
You think progressive ideas are going to be well-received in these red and purple areas?
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
You know, I love having you on the program because you make it so simple. And it's like, which person in the red state is voting to hand their Social Security over to Musk so Musk can make $8 million every single day off of his own government contracts? Who's voting to gut their Medicaid and destroy veterans to pay for Donald Trump's? What? Every weekend now, he does more vacations in Mar-a-Lago.
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
He plays in his own golf tournaments. Did you see at Mar-a-Lago, they were doing a Hermes, I think I'm saying it the right way, Birkin bag show where they were displaying $447,000 Croc Birkin bags. at Mar-a-Lago, and they were just talking about how rich they are. If you're making it so simple, what's the disconnect? What's going on? Like, why isn't that?
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
Earlier in the morning, he was asked about the probability of a recession. Watch the arrogance as he answers this question. Let's play it.
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
And I appreciate you, AOC, Bernie Sanders, people like, in my view, Governor Beshear in Kentucky, someone, a blue governor in a red state. I mean, there are others. I could go on. But why is it hard for the message to be getting out when it's people?
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
We're going to be covering the Fight the Oligarchy tour. I've been covering all of Bernie Sanders' speeches. I cover the full speeches, even though corporate media gives it no attention. We give it attention. I assume people are going to tune in on the Midas Touch Network, watch your speech, watch AOC's speech, watch Bernie Sanders' speech. But if they're unable to make it,
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
Just talk to our audience. I mean, we do 350 million YouTube views every month here. We're beating Fox in the digital views. Big audience here. So why should we be fighting the oligarchy? What's your message that you're bringing on tour in case our viewers aren't able to catch you when you're in Denver and Vegas and some of the other places you're going to?
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
We'll be following the Fight the Oligarchy tour. Thank you for fighting, speaking truth to power, power to the people. We appreciate everything you do, Congressmember Kassar. Thanks so much for having me on. Everybody hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Rep. Casar Responds to Trump Wrecking Economy
I recall someone campaigning saying, I guarantee you on day one, I'm going to lower this. On day one, there's going to be peace. I guarantee you all of these things. And by the way, here's Scott Besson says, we're on a roll right now. Don't you feel the momentum? Things are great, huh? Here, play it.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
Donald Trump has been firing thousands of federal workers every day. Tens of thousands of workers have been fired. And now these workers are speaking out in public. A lot of them are disabled veterans. Veterans make up about 30-40% of our federal workforce.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
And he basically says, oh, I guess people who get fired never say they perform bad, right? Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
Just so you see as well, I'll leave you with this. There are other programs that they're cutting. They're cutting jobs at the Veterans Affairs crisis hotline that deals with suicidal veterans who are calling and need help or are in crisis. They're making cuts there. They're making cuts to 9-11 first responders. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
You know, no wonder that we're seeing Republican voters as well show up at town halls being held by Republican members of Congress. Democrats, Republicans, independents are pissed at what Trump and Musk are doing to our veterans, to our hard-working government workers who have worked every day to keep us safe as well.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
They're trying to take away your Medicaid and Medicare, and they're going after your Social Security. And what about just privacy? Privacy, right? We all value our privacy. Why are they trying to tell us that Elon Musk and billionaires get to go into our bank accounts, get to have our tax records, get to look at our medical records, get access to our Social Security information?
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
Get access to all of the private data about our families? Why? Why do they get that? And then Trump and Elon Musk and J.D. Vance and these right-wing media networks, they want to tell us, oh, because these people are so rich, they would never do anything bad with it? Come on, what are we talking about here? That's not America. We should not be okay with that, regardless of political party.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
So stand up and make your voice heard, okay? We're in this together. And my heart goes out to all of those veterans, disabled veterans who I showed you in this video. who lost their jobs, but also whose dignity was attacked as well. And that's an attack on the dignity, I think, of all veterans and all hardworking government workers, all government workers. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
The next clip I want to share with you is just so sad, and it's Chelsea Milburn. She's a disabled veteran sharing her emotional story about being fired from her federal job that she worked so hard at by Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
After sacrificing on the battlefield and across the country for our military, oftentimes our veterans get work within the federal government to serve for their lifetime. Donald Trump is tearing their lives apart, firing them and treating them like absolute trash. They're now speaking out about it. Let me share some of these stories with you.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
Yeah, that one brought a tear to my eye. Here is another veteran fired by the Trump administration. Here's what she had to say about what happened to her. Play this clip.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
And I'm one of them. And folks, there are tens of thousands of stories just like this. I'll just share a few more with you. And I've went through them all. And if I kept on showing these over and over again, I think you you get the point. I just I want to give these individuals a voice on this platform as well. And I want you to see how cruel and unusual this.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
The treatment is by the Trump administration, by Elon Musk, against people who have sacrificed their lives for the United States of America. It's so horrific. Here is a veteran by the name of Andrew Lennox. He's speaking out after his job at Veterans Affairs was terminated in the Doge Purge. Let's play it.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
And as you'll see at the end of the video, some individuals were even Trump supporters and didn't think this was going to happen. But let's just show you at first some disabled veterans who have lost their jobs. For example, here's a disabled veteran who lost his job with the Salt Lake Veteran Affairs Department. This is from Fox 13 News in Utah. Play this clip.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
Here is another fired Army veteran speaking out about the federal layoffs. Let's play it.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
Yeah. You know, and a lot of veterans. They end up working at, it shouldn't surprise you, the Veterans Department and Veterans Affairs, which is just getting absolutely gutted. There could be about 50, 60, 70,000 veterans who are going to be losing their job based on what the Trump administration is doing, each with a story like the one I just shared with you.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
As I said at the beginning, I wanted to share with you a video of a Trump supporter. And here's what this Trump supporter, I don't know how the other people voted in the beginning of this video, but this is a Trump supporter right here, is a FEMA civil servant and disabled military veteran voted for Trump. Now he's out of a job.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
American veteran fired from FEMA told WTOP, quote, I voted for Donald Trump, but this is not what I was expecting. We didn't think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug. The man said he was a Trump voter. He was fired by a White House. official and said in TV interviews that contradicts what White House officials have said, that these are like far left people.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
He was dismissed as part of a widespread purge. Yet the form email reads, quote, The agency finds based on your performance that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest. The government blames his firing on him. WTOP says it reviewed his positive evaluations as a leader. The man and his wife accepted that the U.S.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
needs to save money, but assumed that as a veteran of long service, he would have been safe. They're calling their reps in Congress. They thought it wasn't going to happen to them. This nastiness, this devastation would just happen to others. We tried to warn you that it was going to happen to you, and it's going to happen to others if you don't stand up. Look, Americans are pissed right now. U.S.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Fired Workers Go Public
consumer sentiment is plunging. Trump's approval ratings are plunging. The University of Michigan's latest consumer survey shows American sentiment declined in February for the second consecutive month. And it was a double digit decline from the month before. Inflation already surging.
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And to that comment from the Trump supporter who said he didn't think that they would take a chainsaw to a silk rug. May I show you this video of Elon Musk at CPAC? Here, play this clip.
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or how about stephen miller blaming you blaming our hard-working veterans and federal workers as well just federal workers in general who work every day for our government you know they're not seeking attention on social media they're not out there you know seeking the limelight like trump and these magas they're out there working hard you
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chopping wood every day to make sure that you and I and others in this country are safe and secure. And then you have Stephen Miller saying things like that. Horrible. And here is Donald Trump's National Economic Council director, Kevin Hassett. And he basically blames Trump. that these federal workers were bad workers, is what he says. And he mocks them.
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Oh, and here was Donald Trump on Friday attacking the governor of Maine, Governor Mills, and saying that he was going to not fund her state because she wasn't complying. He goes, I'm the federal law. You don't listen to judges. You listen to me, he says. He goes, I will defund your whole state. And she's like, no, I'm going to sue you. And she stands up to him. Democratic Governor Mills in Maine.
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And of course, you probably saw this, the stock market absolutely crashing, unfortunately, on Friday, caused by Donald Trump. As Donald Trump sends his followers emails like this, I'm dark MAGA, I'm dark MAGA, I'm dark MAGA. Elon Musk is dark MAGA, weird stuff. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Power to the people at these town halls. Americans from all political parties are having their voices heard. What you saw there at the beginning of the video was a town hall held in Wisconsin by MAGA Republican Congress member Representative Scott Fitzgerald. And you heard people there who were pissed.
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So now I want to share with you what was going down in New York and Representative Paul Tonko's congressional district, Democrat Paul Tonko here at this town hall. A huge ovation as a teacher encourages Congress member Paul Tonko, who is pushing back to do more. To work harder, even if that means getting arrested for civil disobedience. You're in public service right now.
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You cannot sit idly by as Elon Musk and these billionaires take away all of people's rights and freedoms. Watch the energy in this room in New York. Play this clip.
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So then one of the things that we're seeing is that a lot of Republicans, surprise, surprise, because they are spineless MAGAs after all, they are not even showing up at town halls. So here, Democratic Congress member Mark Pocan, he points out that these MAGAs are not even showing up to town halls. This Congress member, the Democrat goes, I just held the town hall with Wisconsin's Farmers Union.
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They invited all elected officials in the area. Unfortunately, not a single Republican showed up, including Representative Van Orden and Representative Tiffany. The farmers I spoke to are worried about Trump and Elon Musk cutting their federal funding and contracts. To all of our Wisconsin farmers, I hear you and I have your back. Let me just play you this video.
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Let's play it, then let's talk about it.
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that he was enabling and allowing Elon Musk and Donald Trump to go through their personal data and have access to their social security information and medical records while they gut and destroy the government and take and tank our economy. Let me just show you a longer clip from that town hall. And then I want to show you that from Wisconsin to Georgia to New York to
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And that's the thing. They are crushing farmers. By the way, they crushed farmers with Trump's failed trade wars during the first term. And now it's going to be. far worse devastations about to hit farmers across the country. If you look at Trump's budget, it's $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
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There's close to $300 billion in cuts for farmers, close to $400 billion in cuts in education. And who are the people that they're attacking most with Doge? The most vulnerable, like the group they pick on the most, Farmers, disabled veterans. Disabled veterans are their number one group that they pick up.
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Disabled veterans who served our country now working in the federal government because disabled veterans are often probationary employees because they go to different jobs and they travel and also military spouses also travel a lot. So they're technically probationary. These are the people who are getting fired the most. But tens of thousands of people are being let go.
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And my thing with these spineless maggots, show up. Show up and hear from your constituents. What? You just want to live in your Twitter, which is now ex-Elon Musk's bubble, which is not real life? Because in real life, people freaking hate you.
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And you need to hear how angry you've made us at you for your betrayal, for your support of Putin, for your support of traitorous policies, for your support of destroying our country every day, for letting billionaires down. have access to our tax records and our social security information and our medical files, invading our privacy.
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You, MAGAs, spineless idiots, you need to hear how angry we the people are when we show up at these town halls. And I encourage all of you, Midas Mighty, call them, call them cowards, call them spineless MAGAs, call up their offices, tell them what you think about them, and show up at these town halls and demand they hold these town halls. Not this stuff right here.
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This is what Elon Musk was doing during the week while he was destroying people's lives. This is what he was doing. I was on the stage with Javier Millay, who's embroiled in a massive crypto scandal right now in Argentina, where he pumped and dumped a Libra crypto coin, causing people to lose their life savings. Sounds familiar. This is what Musk was doing. Play this clip.
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To the West Coast, people are rising up right now and having their voices heard. Red states, blue states, purple states, all of the colors. People are angry. People are pissed. People demand action. Watch this right here from that town hall. Let's play it.
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Now, going back to MAGA Republican Congress member Rich McCormick, this was his town hall where he compared his own constituents asking tough and fair questions to being January 6th insurrectionists. Play this clip.
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A C-SPAN caller from West Virginia reached out and said, hey, you realize that all of a sudden I'm diabetic and on Medicare and now my insulin was $6 for a 28-day supply. Now it's back up to $80. Well, yeah, because Trump reversed what Biden did on everything. Here, play this clip.
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And then we also learn more about just how despicable and creepy these MAGAs are. Like here's this MAGA Republican Congress member, Corey Mills. Look at this creep right here. D.C. police confirmed that they are investigating an alleged assault in D.C. by this MAGA Republican, Corey Mills. He represents the Northeast District of Orlando.
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And it turns out what it's about is he apparently assaulted a woman, 27 years old, who's like his girlfriend, even though he's married. And then he told her to lie about the origin of her bruises. That's what's being reported there. Do you remember, though, the types of town halls that maybe when we showed you these videos to all the magas out there who are now watching this?
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Because I know there's a lot of you coming over and saying, hey, we're sorry we were wrong. But I want to I want to share this with you. Go back to our videos where we would say to you, hey, this was Trump at his town halls that he would hold meetings. During the campaign, when he would be asked questions about Project 2025 or the economy, he would say, let's not do questions.
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Who wants to watch me dance? Who wants to watch me hear music? Play this clip.
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By the way, a little bit more from that MAGA Republican Congress member McCormick's town hall. Let's just play a minute and ten of this. Let's play it.
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Trump Voters Turn Against Him as His Approval Crashes
We are hearing from a lot of Trump supporters who are now having their lives destroyed by Trump's policies. Many actually even worked for the federal government and they said they were trying to help the government become more efficient, but Donald Trump fired them and made everything less efficient. I want to give a hat tip. to NBC 10 Philadelphia. Support your local news.
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He bankrupted most of the companies he touched and owned bankruptcy after bankruptcy. and then companies that he lent his name to did horrible, and many of them went out of business. Now, just look at his most recent company. Just take the most recent company, Trump Media, which lost $400 million last year and only earned $3.6 million in revenue. So in terms of that guy in Philadelphia,
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You know, a Philly cheesesteak restaurant probably does more revenue than Trump media in a year. I'd be willing to take a bet on that. And Trump lost $400 million last year. And by the way, when you go through Donald Trump's financials, You take a look at it. This is what he filed. This isn't me saying this. This is what Trump filed.
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There's a section because when you're a public company, you have to list all of your bankruptcies and you have to list all of your businesses that went out of business and failed. It's a requirement if you have a publicly traded company. So here it is, February 14th, 2025. Just take a read at this. I'll show you the screenshot.
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I'm not going to go through the whole thing now, but it lists Trump Plaza, Trump Hotels and Casinos, TMTG, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Bankruptcy. Then it lists all of his businesses that failed right here. This is his filing. Trump shuttles, Trump vodka, Trump mortgages, Trump University, Trump steaks. Just go through it. He failed in everything. All right, back to this guy right here.
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Here's the Trump supporter, now former IRS worker. Here he talks about how he got fired and what went down. Here, play this clip.
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Here's a former IRS worker who supported Donald Trump speaking out to NBC 10 Philadelphia after being fired by Donald Trump while working at the IRS. I want you to watch this.
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and cancel your unwanted subscriptions today you know it's interesting how you know these spineless republicans also like when they try to stand up to trump they then like get like threatened and then they like go back on what they say like this guy right here republican congressman troy balderson who reps an R plus 18 district in Ohio. So plus 18 Republican.
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He says that Trump's executive orders are getting out of control. Congress has to be the one to decide whether or not some of these agencies and departments get abolished. like the Department of Education, not the president, not Elon Musk. Congress must decide. Then obviously somebody got to his ear after the Columbus dispatch. Again, support your local journalism for this reason.
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The Columbus dispatch wrote about it. And then Congressman Troy Balderson responded to the Columbus dispatch. I fully support Trump's agenda to rein in bloated federal government and put America first. Now it's time for Congress to act. It's up to us on Capitol Hill to make permanent his executive actions, ensuring continuity in public policy from one administration to the next.
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continuity he's literally ripping apart america america hates this right now donald trump's approval is plummeting democrats generic democrats versus generic republicans in congress democrats are up like plus 12 plus 15 right now if an election were to be held elon musk's approval is in like the low 30s when you go to republican districts by the way people at these town halls republicans
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are letting their legislators their representatives know what the hell are you doing you're giving elon musk access to our private data you're letting elon musk and these billionaires gain access to our medical files and our tax records
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and our social security information, and have access to the Treasury Department's transaction payment system, and you're firing all these veterans, and you're destroying the lives of veterans. I'm doing a whole other video of disabled veterans who have just had their lives gutted by the Trump administration. People are pissed.
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Here's a Trump voter realizing that Trump is pro-Russia and regretting the decision to vote for Donald Trump. This guy goes, supporting Trump was not a popular thing that many of my friends and family members, when I told my friends and family members, but I did it nevertheless. If Trump really said that Ukraine started the war, I feel deeply ashamed for my naivety.
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I strongly assume that most decent people feel the same way. Yes, he really did say that Ukraine was responsible, and he said that he trusts Vladimir Putin, and he called Zelensky a dictator this past week. Here's another one from WTOP News. This FEMA civil servant and disabled veteran voted for Trump. Now he's out of a job. Quote, this American veteran told WTOP, care of Steve Inskeep.
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Quote, I voted for Donald Trump, but this is not what I was expecting. We didn't think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug. The man said he was a Trump voter. He was fired by a White House whose officials have assumed and said in TV interviews that federal employees are almost all far left. He was dismissed as part of a widespread purge.
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The forum email reads, the agency finds based on your performance that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest. The government blames his firing on him. WTOP says it reviewed his positive evaluations as a leader. The man and his wife accepted that the U.S.
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needs to save money, but assumed that as a veteran of long service, he would be safe. They're calling their reps in Congress. So he thought it would happen to other people, not him. By the way, military veterans make up, I mean, 25% of the newly hired workforce in the government as of 2023. Veterans make up somewhere between 30 plus percent of people who are in the government.
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Let me show you this. This is from Georgia's 7th Congressional District right here. This is MAGA Republican Representative Rich McCormick comparing his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions. He calls them January 6th insurrections. These are Republicans in a Republican district saying, why are you giving Muscar stuff? Here, play this clip.
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More stories again of leopards eating faces. Supporting Trump was not, here's another one, sorry. Another day, another MAGA voter betrayed by the felons she voted for. MAGA federal worker from North Virginia shocked. that the fat felonious leopard ate his face. He's also a disabled veteran. That didn't mean shit whatsoever. I'll say it again. We told you so.
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Trump voter, disabled military veteran, value member at FEMA fired. And Herb, how about this one? I didn't know my daughter-in-law would be targeted. A Missouri woman who voted for Trump now says she is ashamed to be an American. after her daughter-in-law, a Mexican immigrant who had been in the U.S. for nearly 20 years, was deported.
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Shirley Stiegel told Associated Press that while she supported Trump's campaign promises to deport more criminal immigrants, she did not think her son's wife fell into that category. We told you so. Here's someone else who says, I voted for Trump. I don't like what's happening. My aunt also voted for Trump, but lost her government job.
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I'm on Social Security and I'm now nervous about that being taken away. I want a better America, but my groceries are still high and people are losing their jobs. I didn't sign up for this and I did not vote for Musk. I feel my freedom is being taken away. I'm not happy. A lot of Americans are not happy. It's why Donald Trump's approval rating is sinking. It's why people are pissed right now.
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America is a pressure cooker as a result of what Donald Trump has done and what a con artist and utter fraud he is. I want you to make sure you're subscribed to this network, though, because I think in the coming weeks and months especially, I think you're going to see big, growing, peaceful protests and We'll be with you there every step of the way.
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So hit subscribe, help us get to 5 million subscribers. We appreciate you so much, Midas Mighty. We appreciate all that local journalism as well. They did a great job digging up some of those stories. So thanks to them too. Hit subscribe here. We appreciate you.
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Right now, this individual, you heard him say that he thought that because Donald Trump's a good businessman, that Donald Trump would go in there with a scalpel and not a chainsaw and fix things. Donald Trump was never a good businessman. We tried to tell you that here over and over again on the Midas Touch Network. He bankrupted his casinos.
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A Message from MeidasTouch Co-Founder Ben Meiselas
Hey Midas Mighty, Ben Mycelis here from the Midas Touch Network and the Midas Touch Podcast. Since the news broke that the Midas Touch Podcast is now getting more audio downloads than the Joe Rogan Show, we've got a lot of new subscribers. So I thought I would spend the time to Welcome you all to the Midas Touch Network, to the Midas Touch Podcast as well.
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Once again, that's at MidasPlus.com. I'd like to just spend a little bit of time with you, if I may, to read you a message that I posted online. on our sub stack at MidasPlus.com on Saturday morning. I'd like to read it to you so you can hear it to all of our new podcast listeners and older podcast listeners and everyone else. I just wanted to share with you this entry.
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It's been really popular on sub stack, so I thought I would share it with you. I call it a message from the Midas founder. Let me read it for you right now. Hey, Midas Mighty, it's Ben Mycelis, co-founder of the Midas Touch Network and host of the number one most downloaded podcast in America with my brothers, Brett and Jordy.
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Yes, we officially dethroned Joe Rogan this week in monthly podcast downloads. Thank you to all of our Substack subscribers for fueling this organic growth. Please subscribe to the Substack if you can. Then I go in and I say the following. Let's not mince words about what is taking place, okay? Trump and Musk now lead a repressive and authoritarian regime.
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America is no longer a democracy under them. Trump and Musk are engaged in a constitutional coup to shred our founding documents and remove the separation of powers. They are tyrants. Republicans in the House and Senate are complicit co-conspirators in the coup. These are evil people who hate our democracy and hate our freedoms.
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They want us to be sick, weak, poor, starving, angry, begging, and Russian. Let's be clear-eyed and not talk around this. Why are they doing this? Because they are sick and cruel people. That's why. For them, money isn't so much even a measure of wealth. as it is a tool to inflict suffering, which gets them off. In Putin, they see the ultimate manifestation of evil that they relish.
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The torture, pain, and hate are not a bug, it's their desire and their final solution. Once we identify the problem with clear language like this, we can solve for it, just as one must identify the disease before devising the cure. We cannot normalize the behavior we are witnessing or treat it as business as usual.
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You'll see here on the Midas Touch Podcast that we have a show that I do with my younger brothers, Brett and Jordy, that I am super excited to do each and every week. Make sure you You check out those podcasts. Also, throughout the day, we will drop other podcasts on this feed.
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And I believe one of the reasons the Midas Touch Network has been growing is because we call it what it is. Even if that pisses people off, so be it. This is a time for fearless resistance. Trump and Musk did not believe America was capable of mounting an effective resistance to their shock and awe campaign of government bulldozing.
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For the first weeks, Americans seemed frozen in place, expecting politicians and institutions to do something, anything at all. Americans were used to checks and balances and guardrails working. That didn't happen. But recently, something clicked. People realized that they had to take matters into their own hands.
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People saw Trump and Musk gutting our government, destroying our institutions, destroying our international standing and alliances, and intentionally crashing our economy. Trump, Musk, and their authoritarian regime are inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on us, the people. This past week, it seems that Americans made a major breakthrough in our shared resistance.
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Trump, Musk, and their MAGA ghouls poked and prodded you. They diced and sliced your hopes and aspirations. They used and abused you. They trashed veterans and disabled Americans. They went after the most vulnerable. They came for your Medicaid. They came for your healthcare. They came for your dignity. They came for your happiness. They tried to break you. but you didn't break.
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The will of the American people solidified this week. People stopped looking for a superhero and realized that they were the fighters they were looking for and people started rising up. When history is written about the downfall of Trump, and it will be written, this week will be viewed as the start of an energy not seen before in American history.
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It's an energy that hasn't been felt before because Americans have never had to confront an overtly authoritarian regime on our soil. When our history is written, I believe this week will be remembered. as the moment when the real silent majority of Americans understood the assignment. We know that what is to come won't be easy, but we see a path to victory.
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It is not a coincidence that this week the Midas Touch Network dethroned Joe Rogan on podcast downloads and Fox on digital platforms. We've been trying our best to keep people in the fight against Trump and Musk and not give up. And it really felt like this week people got it and collectively said enough.
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We've been following the town halls in red and blue districts alike where real patriotic Americans of all political parties are letting politicians know how angry they are about how Trump and Musk have destroyed America.
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So make sure you keep checking back since we do some breaking news hits on this podcast feed, as well as deliver other news. Of course, you can check out our YouTube page as well, which has over 4 million subscribers and is quickly growing to 5 million subscribers. You can also check us out at MidasPlus.com. Just make sure you spell Midas correctly, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com.
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People are livid that Musk and his team of 19 to 25 year olds have been invading our privacy, taking sensitive records, destroying government departments and agencies, and firing people in the most cruel ways imaginable. People are livid at Trump's press conferences where he blames the surging inflation and crashing markets on former President Biden.
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We know that under Biden, our 401ks were up, prescription drug prices were down, jobs were plentiful, and we didn't worry about daily chaos or planes crashing seemingly all the time. Trump, the perennial con artist and fraud, has lied about everything.
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and people know it now people of all different political affiliations are uniting trump's approval ratings are crashing and are now the worst in the history of the gallup poll for this time in a presidency trump is compounding the hatred of him with his sick and twisted stunts calling himself a king using tens of millions of our tax dollars to vacation to golf or ride around in a racetrack in his motorcade
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Trump is a sick, demented, evil human who deserves zero respect. We will show him none since he shows our country none while running around to promote our enemies like Putin. Trump and Musk believed all resistance would be crushed by now and they are getting more desperate as the pressure cooker they created, or should I say the dam they defunded, is ready to burst.
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There are no historical analogs to this moment in American history. Instead of viewing this as some curse, let's consider ourselves fortunate that history has brought each and every one of us here together. We have each other. We still have the ability to fight together. Our numbers and momentum are growing.
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We are fortunate because we have the opportunity to deliver the decisive blow against a movement of hate and destruction that has taken root in America. It's a spirit. It's a fervor. It's an energy. It's the discombobulated stew of splattered remnants of the melting pot of the American dream that once was yearning to find its equilibrium again. It's the patriotism. It's duty.
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It's a calling, it's all of these things and more, and it's here right now. We didn't choose to be here in this moment in history, but we are being called to action now, right now. When I watch Trump's speeches these days, I see weakness, not strength. How about you? I see a pathetic and scared person yearning to be a strong man, but who knows he's just a two-bit con man
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with Putin imposter syndrome. He is terrified of us, we the people, and his house of cards is collapsing fast. I expect a bunker boy spring if we can keep this momentum up. We are lucky to have you on our team in this moment of history, Midas Mighty. We need you on our team. The growth of the Midas Touch Network is because of you. It's that simple.
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You've shared our videos on YouTube, on Instagram, and TikTok. with everyone you know each day and you share this sub stack with everyone as well. You are telling others about the Midas Touch Network. You are having others subscribe to our audio podcast. We are gaining hundreds of thousands of new subscribers each day because of you.
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And in those numbers are patriotic Americans who want to save our Constitution and our democracy. You have made the Midas Touch Network the leader of all independent media, and we hope we are making you proud by fearlessly meeting this moment to stand up to the authoritarian Trump and Musk regime each and every day.
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From the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep, I promise you I will put it all on the line each day. I want our country to once again experience love, shared empathy, happiness, success, true patriotism and objective truth once again. I will fight and I will use this network and I will use this podcast to sacrifice everything I have to get our constitution and our democracy back.
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That's our substack where we post daily articles and where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, provides what I think is the best daily recap of the events of the day. And he posts that almost every single day. The only days he doesn't post are Wednesday and Saturday. He does a full weekend recap on Sunday, and then every other day of the week, you will get a post from Ron Filipkowski.
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This is what the moment calls for and we will answer that call. I wanna thank you all for listening to that. You can go to our sub stack at midasplus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. You can subscribe there. Make sure you're subscribed across all of our platforms. And please, after this recording is done, it would be a huge help if you shared this audio recording with anyone and everyone you know.
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Just text message people, post on your Facebooks, on your social medias, tell people who you meet with over the next few days to listen to that speech and to subscribe to the Midas Touch Network everywhere. That would be the biggest help to us. One more time, you can go to our sub stack at midasplus.com. We appreciate you so much. We're in this together and we are going to prevail in the end.
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And I say this as an American, you know, when I do these interviews with Canadian politicians, the friendships I've built with people like Charlie Angus, it just, it warms my heart to see this. This is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau celebrating the moment Canada won the four nations face off ice hockey tournament against the United States. Let's play it.
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know one of the great joys about running the Midas Touch Network has been the relationships that we've built with our Canadian colleagues and it was great to see Canadians celebrate a big victory in the four nations hockey championship where Canada beat the United States and
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And then to see in Canada the way they were all singing the Canadian anthem together, standing shoulder to shoulder, the way Canada has stood up in history in the face of authoritarians and tyrants. Now, I know Donald Trump doesn't read history at all, but you go back and read the history of when Canada gets provoked.
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Canada makes sure they go over the rails and they fight authoritarians and they've won over and over again. Here, this is Prime Minister Trudeau in the crowd of a prior game in this tournament when the Canadian national anthem was played. Let me show it to you.
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And so now after Canada beat the United States in that hockey tournament this past week, after Donald Trump and his press secretary, they tried to get involved and they tried to make it about themselves, right? The same way Donald Trump tried to make the Super Bowl about himself. And Trump said that he was supporting the Kansas City Chiefs and they had the absolute worst Super Bowl imaginable.
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Donald Trump then got involved and said that he was, you know, he was there with the United States team and then everything Trump touches dies. Now we're just seeing Canadians out there like this. As we wrote on the Midas Touch Network, Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province. As Tricia from Canada writes, of course we did.
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Our 11th province needs to step their hockey game up. We see memes like this and photographs like this throughout Canada. Welcome to the USA, Canada's 11th province. or this Kendrick Lamar photo of Kendrick Lamar looking at the camera and basically, hey, Drake, basically, hey, Donald, take a look at me in this Canadian jersey. Memes like this as well. And let me just share this with you as well.
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You know, here's a video, and this was done by our friends at The Recount. And here they asked Canadians about Donald Trump saying that he wants to annex Canada. And they just went up to people in Canada and said, what do you think about that? And Canadians are like, wow, what the hell? This is from recent. Play this clip. Canadians have a message for Trump.
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It would be ludicrous and hilarious if it was John Goodman saying it in a movie.
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I mean, I think it's pretty dumb on America's part, but I feel like it's kind of stupid to like exile your number one alliance.
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And it's a weird thing for me as an American to watch that video of Canadians celebrate beating the United States, but to appreciate the national pride that they have in Canada, standing up to a bully, standing up to Donald Trump and standing up to what the United States of America has become under Donald Trump. As Donald Trump continues to threaten Canada over and over again with
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And to just see what the United States has become, it's very tough for me as an American here to see, to live in an authoritarian regime, to be here with this microphone, with this platform, knowing that America is now a dictatorship. That's a strange concept. We're past the stage of constitutional crisis here. We're in the stage where there's an authoritarian regime.
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And the question is, will the people rise up? Will the people peacefully march and take to the streets and stand up against this? We see those protests growing. I've predicted in the spring and summer, you'll have a spring or summer of democracy here coming soon as Donald Trump's crashing everything. Our economies are crashing right now. The stock market crashed. Inflation is rising.
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And some of the economic effects, all of the economic effects of Trump's reckless stuff really hasn't even kicked in yet. That was supposed to kick in later. It's already kicking in right now. And you just see stuff like this, like Donald Trump fired our top general here via social media post. I mean, how cowardly.
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and dastardly didn't even tell the guy, just posted that I want to thank General Charles C.Q. Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, and then just says that he's getting rid of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, General Charles C.Q. Brown Very serious general. He was the top of the Air Force. Donald Trump actually appointed him to be the top of the Air Force.
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Received overwhelming support in the Senate. Then he became the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Overwhelming support. I mean, this guy had a legendary career and now getting pushed out by a former Fox News host. Pete Hegseth, who runs the Defense Department, who was too chicken shit to do it himself. Donald Trump was also too chicken shit to do it himself via like bringing him in.
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So he posts about it on social media. I mean, it's just so utterly pathetic. Oh, and then we get guys like Kash Patel in to be the head of our FBI. And as he gets sworn in, he's like, oh, man, this is effing crazy. Can you believe it? I'm the FBI director, everybody. It's effing crazy. You don't believe me? Here, watch this. Thank you for entrusting me.
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And so all of that's going on. I mean, you have about 27 to 30 percent of Canadians now view America as an enemy state, as literally the enemy. Only 30 percent of Canadians right now still view the United States of America as an ally. So 70 percent don't view America as an ally. 30 percent of Canadians view America as an enemy state.
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with annexation the way Putin does with his neighbors. It was great to see an underdog nation or a nation that has been so bullied and brutalized by Donald Trump stand up and feel this sense of real, authentic love of country. And to see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who just months ago was pretty unpopular, now
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as a and i'm surprised frankly it's not more but only 30 see america as an ally and with donald trump making statements statements like this it's no wonder here's donald trump again this was um right around when the hockey game was about to take place and donald trump again calls prime minister trudeau a governor and keeps talking about canada as the 51st state play the clip etc and
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We gave the Panama Canal to Donald Trump's press secretary. Caroline Leavitt goes up every day. They're not joking. This isn't a funny joke. They really want to annex Canada, and Prime Minister Trudeau said as much as well. No, they're being serious about this. Play this clip.
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But Prime Minister Trudeau has been standing up for Canada and Canadians. I think he's done an excellent job and he's basically become a wartime president. Here's Prime Minister Trudeau saying there's not a snowball's chance in hell Canada will become the 51st state. Let's play it.
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Here's Prime Minister Trudeau again. Let's play it.
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Hear Prime Minister Trudeau saying how just perplexed Canadians even are that like our closest friend would do this to us, play this clip.
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And then this is when Prime Minister Trudeau said, okay, you tariff us, we tariff you. Play this clip.
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You know, and then seeing, you know, the news last night as well that was broke, that Reuters broke the U.S. as part of U.S. 's desire to seize the rare earth minerals from Ukraine and to seize their natural resources. The United States of America is now threatening to cut off the Internet of Ukraine because Starlink provides internet to Ukraine.
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So that's part of the way America is now extorting Ukraine. We're turning off your internet. It is shameful. And I just want, I know we speak to a large international audience here. And I say this, I don't know I don't know what's going to happen to us here in the pro-democracy community. I know that we can't run from this.
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Rally the nation, rally the liberal party, build this coalition, pass the baton on to likely Mark Carney, who will likely be the next prime minister if things can hold and to stand up and resist. what America has become.
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I know that right now in this moment in history, we've been able to grow this platform on the Midas Touch Network, and it's our turn in history to meet this moment, and we need to stand up. We live in an authoritarian regime. There may come a time where they throw us in prison. There may come a time where they try to kill us. There may come a time where they come after us.
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I fully expect that that's a possibility based on where they're going. But I want everybody to know that we're not scared. We're not going to back down. And I want to...
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do videos like this where I let the people in Canada know, let our friends in Europe know, let our friends in Australia, let our friends know in Africa, let our friends know in South America, in New Zealand, Australia, everywhere, that there are more Americans that are pro-democracy than Trumpers right now. People are pissed and livid.
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It is a pressure cooker here in the United States because of Trump's actions. And Americans are ready to explode. It's gotten very bad very quickly here. And we're going to meet the moment. We're going to resist. OK, we're going to continue to grow the protests that you're seeing and we're going to stand up to this and we're going to meet the moment in history.
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We're not going to let this authoritarian define the future. He's already an authoritarian. We're not going to let him define the future of what America is going to be for my daughter and her daughter.
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Now, you remember the sequence of events right here? There was a continuing resolution that was agreed to by Democrats and Republicans. Then Elon Musk started posting yesterday, kill the bill with samurai swords. He called the bill criminal. He said that anybody supports it is going to be primary.
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Then Trump swooped in and said, look, we could only support a continuing resolution to stop a government shutdown if Trump the debt ceiling is abolished.
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So Donald Trump and all the MAGA Republicans who previously said that the debt ceiling should not be raised when President Biden was trying to raise it and then a deal had to be struck with Kevin McCarthy are now saying not only should the debt ceiling be raised, they're basically saying the whole concept of the debt ceiling should be abolished. And so even MAGA Republicans like Chip Royer, like
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So wait a minute, this whole Doge thing about reducing the deficit and cutting back on debt. So the MAGA Republican plan was to kill a bipartisan continuing resolution and to change it based on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's request, something that was going to increase the debt immediately by $5 trillion.
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This right here is a MAGA Republican, Chip Roy, who's on the House floor saying, what in the hell are you doing, Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Watch this.
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But then Donald Trump and Elon Musk started attacking MAGA Republican Chip Roy and saying that he was a phony and he's just in it for himself. But it wasn't just Chip Roy. There were 38 other Republicans who voted against this new version of the continuing resolution. Then MAGA Mike Johnson gave a press conference and MAGA Mike Johnson said, OK,
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Don't be fooled by Republicans wanting to increase the debt limit because this is actually something that we're trying to decrease by increasing.
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And here, MAGA Mike Johnson just looks absolutely terrified. And he's like, this is just Washington. This is what you do. No, MAGA Mike. This is what Elon Musk is directing you to do, who's controlling our government, a billionaire, unelected bureaucrat who's ordering and basically running the government. Take a look at MAGA Mike Johnson here. Play this clip.
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Here's House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Hakeem Jeffries wrote, the Musk Johnson government shutdown bill has been soundly defeated. MAGA extremists in the House GOP are not serious about helping working class Americans. They're simply doing the bidding of their wealthy donors and puppeteers. Got to give credit to Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz, who calls it out so perfectly right here. Let me bring you Moskowitz.
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Let's play the clip.
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Democratic Congressmember Jamie Raskin says, this holiday season, House Republicans want to break a bipartisan deal and furlough millions of hardworking federal workers, including 50,000 in my district who placate the richest man in the world, President-elect Elon Musk and his VP, J.D. Vance. I voted no.
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And as Jake Sherman, who covers the comings and goings on Capitol Hill, he says the following, look, House Republicans are a long way from solving this problem that they created because samurai sword-wheeling Elon Musk and Donald Trump said kill a bipartisan bill. As Jake Sherman says, House Republicans are a long way from solving this. A technical point to mention, as of now, 8.05 p.m.
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when he wrote this, the House GOP leadership has not given itself same-day authority. This means it will be difficult for them to pass a bill tomorrow under the simple majority threshold. And as you heard, Congressman Jared Moskowitz said, look, we've bailed you out before. Good luck. You do it on your own right now. If you want to be adults and have conversations with, we'll help.
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But if you want to be samurai sword wielding maniacs and just try to give all these handouts to your billionaire oligarch friends, we are not going to be there to help you. Finally, Democratic Congress member Garcia, here's what he's got to say. Play the clip.
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Absolutely. I mean, I think we are beginning and witnessing the start of the Elon Musk presidency. There is no question. And Donald Trump has been regulated as now the vice president to Elon Musk's new administration. The Republican Party here in the House completely bent the knee to Elon Musk. He says something, they jump.
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And it's just insane and crazy that a deal that had been negotiated by Speaker Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries and the Senate was completely tanked because of Elon Musk sending out messages on X and his social media platform. And so this is complete insanity. There is now this new administration developing at the head being Elon Musk. And the fact that we have now the richest man on the planet
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Utterly humiliating for Donald Trump and Elon Musk right there as 38 Republicans voted against the Trump, Musk, and Maga Mike Johnson Frankensteinian bill that replaced the a bipartisan agreement to stop the government shutdown. You saw it there. That was the moment where 38 Republicans stood up and said, you are not bullying us, Elon Musk and Donald Trump. The bill failed 174 to 235.
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Dictating what the United States Congress should be doing is completely insane, dangerous, and Americans should be very concerned.
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So there you have it, folks. A humiliating defeat for Donald Trump and Elon Musk after they killed the bipartisan bill had this thing get put in instead. And again, this thing, like, you know, basically, what did it add? It added... It lifted restrictions on investment in China. I wonder who would benefit from that right there.
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And they wanted to remove the debt ceiling so that Donald Trump could do tax cuts for billionaires. Okay, guys, didn't work. Democrats standing up and pushing back. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Well, earlier this week, and I'm sure you probably have seen my reporting, MAGA Mike Johnson said, finally, there's a continuing resolution that has been prepared. He said that he's giving it to everybody to read.
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But now Elon Musk, an unelected bureaucrat who's basically a co-president, and Vivek Ramaswamy, who run this fake government agency called Doge, they're saying kill the continuing resolution. Nobody should pass it. This is what Elon Musk's actual post is. This bill should not pass.
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And Vivek Ramaswamy goes currently reading the 1547 page bill to fund the government through mid-March, expecting every U.S. congressman and senator to do the same. OK, good for you. You're reading it. But then Elon Musk says this bill should not pass. So what do you want to do? You want to just torch the entire American economy?
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I think Elon Musk said that we should all suffer some form of economic hardship. That's the language that he used. What, do you want us to be like Javier Millay in Argentina and we should suffer Trump and Elon Musk austerity measures while y'all are partying in Mar-a-Lago and on private jets and Bentleys and Rolls Royces and whatever that we the people suffer?
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You know, Donald Trump's proposed tax plan adds more taxes to everybody but the billionaires. Is that what you all wanted? Is that what you all voted for? Elon Musk, you certainly didn't vote for. I mean, he's not an elected official. He writes the following as well. Ever seen a bigger piece of pork? and he takes a photo of the bill.
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Now look, okay, 1,547 pages, whatever it is, is long, but you need a functioning government. I think it's ridiculous that MAGA Republicans literally dump this thing two days yet again before the government shut down. But that's what they've done before. Note, when the Democrats were in charge of the House of Representatives, you know what happened?
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There was a budget that was passed and you didn't have to do continuing resolutions every year and go through this again. Remember going back, what, three years ago or so or two years ago? At this point, Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling. We're going to send the country into a Great Depression. Remember they said that? And Biden had to fix that. And they didn't pass a budget.
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Continuing resolution, continuing resolution. What else is Elon Musk posting? He's using his artificial intelligence on his social media platform to post images of over here Elizabeth Warren dressed up as Pocahontas. So that's also what he's doing in addition to telling MAGA Mike Johnson and the MAGA Republicans to kill their own bill.
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And again, this is where some understanding of civics is important. Who controls the House of Representatives right now? The Republicans, not the Democrats. Who put this forward? The Republicans. MAGA Mike Johnson. The party that you support, Elon Musk, put this thing together. And if you just want to destroy it, I'm being serious. Why do Democrats continue to bail them out?
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I understand that nobody wants a recession or a depression or to go through any of this. But why are we why are Democrats constantly swooping in to save the day and make MAGA Republicans look semi-competent? Just let them torch it. And then you can go look. They don't know what the hell they're doing. Look at Elon Musk's post. He said, kill this bill, kill it. This is what ABC is reporting.
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Total dumpster fire. Republicans fume over Speaker's spending plan days from shutdown deadline. The Republican speaker, your own person. Mike Johnson under fire as House Republicans torch his funding bill. You mean their funding bill, the new Republican? The Republican funding bill. You're in charge of the House of Representatives. Here are some statements as well. This is like...
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This is from Eric Burleson called the continuing resolution a total dumpster fire. By the way, a lot of the things that Republicans don't like in this is the disaster relief portion as well to bring disaster relief to areas hit hard by the hurricane. because they still want to spread all of those conspiracies for Donald Trump. MAGA Republican Eric Burleson goes, I think it's garbage.
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This is what Washington DC has done. This is why I ran for Congress to stop this, Burleson told a nonprofit broadcaster C-SPAN. Sadly, this is happening again. I think that it's shameful that people that celebrate Doge coming in and yet we're going to vote for another billion dollars be added to the deficit. It is ironic. You know, when Trump was in power the first time,
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You know how much you added to the deficit? It didn't start with a B. It started with a T. And it didn't start with a 1. It started with an 8. $8 trillion you added in debt. $8 trillion. More than anyone before. Why? Because this is all a sham. All this is is a power grab for the billionaires and the oligarchy to loot, plunder our economy here in the United States. So what are you whining about?
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This is your party. This isn't Washington, D.C. The Republicans are in power. Since we've been given the majority again, we're adding $30 billion and literally totally unpaid for additional deficit spending. Just since November 5, Chip Roy, another MAGA Republican, says, I don't see what's doing what we're supposed to be doing. I don't know. do what you're supposed to do, do your job then.
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The conference itself owns this. The conference needs to decide whether we're actually serious about spending, we're just fundamentally unserious about spending. The main thing that you're supposed to do in Congress is you have the power of the purse.
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So when you say we're unserious about spending, just redact the word spending and just say, or cross out the word spending and just say, we're unserious. By the way, you wanna know what's in the continuing resolution? a pay raise for Republicans and an Obamacare opt-out.
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That's what they decided to put in this continuing resolution, where if it doesn't pass in two days, the government is going to shut down. So as Sam Stein says, the Speaker of the House, second in line of presidential secession, groveling with leaders now.
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of a fake government entity called Doge, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to get them not to torpedo a government funding bill, which if they torpedoed could send us into a recession and depression and shut down our government. As this other account says, just in case there are any questions about who's in charge. So MAGA Mike Johnson goes on Fox News this morning.
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And he's asked the following questions about the Doge directors. The Fox and Friends hosts asked Mike Johnson to respond to that Elon Musk tweet I read for you at the beginning of this video live on air. Here, watch this.
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And this is the thing too, remember I've been saying this over and over again in the videos, the whole Republican philosophy is as follows. Be the arsonists, destroy, plunder, take whatever you can as the arsonist, and then blame the firefighters for putting out the fire. Have people reelect the arsonists by destroying education and taking away any understanding and how civics works.
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And then literally have people reelect the arsonists who burnt it down to begin with by blaming the firefighters for not being able to fix the arson quick enough. That's essentially their philosophy. And in the chaos, in the suffering, they hoist up a strong man. And they said, only he can fix it. He's going to be able to bring so much stability. It's why we need a steady hand right now.
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We are less than 48 hours from the government shutting down because the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives don't do their job. They're dependent on Democrats once again to try to bail them out because all of the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives want to torch their own continuing resolution. They've never actually passed a budget.
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MAGA Mike LOSES CONTROL of GOP…Shutdown IMMINENT?!!
You're in charge. What are you even talking about? You need to have Daddy Trump help you out, Maga Mike. This is why these people are so freaking pathetic. Here's Maga Mike saying, look, we need Donald Trump. He's going to help us from the drones. He's going to help us from the drones. And he's going to help us from ourself. Here, play this clip.
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All right, good luck the next 72. So utterly pathetic, folks. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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MAGA Mike LOSES CONTROL of GOP…Shutdown IMMINENT?!!
So we basically go month to month or every other month or so, and then there are All of these procedural maneuvers that are done, and then we have to pass continuing resolutions. And then the day before, there's all of this crisis, and then Democrats bail the MAGA Republicans out.
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Trump IS HUMILIATED by Stock Market with WORST STREAK
The stock market in the United States economy does not like Donald Trump. Look at this headline yesterday from Yahoo Finance. stock market today dow s p 500 nasdaq clobbered as federal reserve chairman powell signals fewer rate cuts in 2025 which he did as a result of donald trump's inflationary measures like bloody mass deportations and tariffing our allies and trade adversaries alike
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Now, we also know that when Donald Trump showed up at the stock market in the past two weeks, he was asked a question by Jim Cramer. Should American workers invest in the United States stock market? Trump botched that question and said, I don't know, because there may be a dip. There may be a dip.
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You're the guy who went around during the election with your accordion hands and said you were going to just make everything a miracle and it was all going to be so much better, despite the fact that President Biden brought the stock market up about 55 to 60 percent higher than than when you, Donald Trump, were an office, or approximately that amount.
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The Biden stock market far better than the Trump stock market. Just take a look at this headline from Yahoo Finance. Stocks were clobbered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve, despite slashing interest rates by 25 basis points, signaled it would cut fewer times next year than previously projected. All three major indexes reversed gains following the decision to end with steep losses.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down about 2.6% or over 1,000 points, clinching its 10th straight down session, the longest losing streak since 1974, over 50 years ago in reaction to Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 fell roughly 3% and tech heavy Nasdaq composite slid more than 3.5%.
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Quote, The slower pace of cuts for next year really reflects both the higher inflation readings we had this year
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and the expectation inflation will be higher federal chair jerome powell said why do you think that they have those expectations because of donald trump's threats meanwhile americans across the country are now stockpiling on goods and americans across the country believe prices will be higher under donald trump you know americans you didn't have to vote to inflict pain and suffering on yourself but i don't know that's just me
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Trump IS HUMILIATED by Stock Market with WORST STREAK
You take a look at the sector breakdown of percentage losses. Consumer discretionary down 4.74%. Real estate down 3.9%. Communication services down 3.16%. Financials down 3.03%. Infotech down 2.99%. Materials, industrials, energy, utilities, healthcare, all down one by one. And as Carl Quintanilla posted, the Dow is on pace for the longest losing streak since October 4th, 1974.
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As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, says it's been a hell of a week since Trump rang the opening bell at the stock exchange. I mean, some serious stuff, folks. Donald Trump went around the Pied Piper of broken promises during his campaign. I'm going to make it better. If you elect Kamala, there's going to be a depression, the biggest depression you've ever seen.
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With Donald Trump, all that stuff is always projection and confession, in my opinion. Just think about this New York Times headline. U.S. unemployment is worst since depression. You know when that headline was? When Donald Trump was in office, that US unemployment was worse since the Great Depression. But what does Donald Trump do? He's got a social media platform where he's posting
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I've got or he's having ads that post with his name, image and likeness on him. An IRS loophole that could save your retirement during Biden's recession. There was no recession when Biden was in office. Unemployment was down. Record jobs were created. The inflation was brought down because of the Inflation Reduction Act, which Trump is going to bring back up. GDP was highest of the G7 nations.
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Average pay was up 19%. There was a manufacturing boom in the United States. Go back and look at the interview I did with President Biden where we talked about facts. It wasn't a gotcha interview. We talked about what he did. He talked about what he did for red states and turning red state economy around. And by the way, you know, the magas are always like drill, baby, drill.
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There was more domestic oil drilling when Biden was in office than when Trump was in office and Biden cared about climate change. Just showing you this graphic here as well. This goes over the GDP growth, the jobs created, construction and manufacturing boom, $1 trillion in private sector manufacturing and clean energy investment announced.
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Can you take a look right here at the JP Morgan report here? When JP Morgan is saying things like this, you know there's an issue. When they're being snarky like this. Daily economic briefing. Walking into a dark room full of furniture. And yes, already based on the stock market losses since Donald Trump went to the stock exchange. This is what Bullrunners reported yesterday.
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Over $2 trillion has been wiped away. from the US stock market. One month of stock market gains has been erased in a single day. The US stock market has lost over $2 trillion in valuation. Think about that.
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Meanwhile, you've got our billionaire oligarchy with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy killing a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown, further plunging our country into economic turmoil. As Dean Baker goes, pretty cool how a billionaire has decided to shut down the government. That's how we can tell the Republicans are really the party of the working people. Good times.
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Trump IS HUMILIATED by Stock Market with WORST STREAK
It's pretty neat that an unelected billionaire like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy get to shut down our government. It's very MAGA to leave this call to our favorite billionaires being sarcastic. Uh, Senator Bernie Sanders writes the U S Congress this week came to an agreement to fund our government. Elon Musk, who became $200 billion richer since Trump was elected objective.
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Our Republicans beholden to the American people are president Musk. Uh, this is the oligarchy at work and you see Elon Musk, uh, posting all of these photos, kill the bill, kill the bill, kill all the bill. Now, just think about what Donald Trump's also said over the past two weeks or so. He went on Meet the Press. He told Kristen Welker he will not guarantee lower prices.
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Now, most economists expect that the prices on all kind of normal goods are going to be significantly higher or higher than as a result of Donald Trump's policies, right? I mean, Donald Trump's mass deport, I did a whole video on this, Trump's threats of mass deportations would cause catastrophic harm in the construction industry, in farming, in hospitality,
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and in other areas where migrant labor is really kind of relied upon, that would cause significant job losses and a significant decline in the economy. If they keep engaging in these government shutdowns and trying to, you know, screw the government that way, that's going to, and just screw government employees, that's going to slow down the economy as well.
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Trump IS HUMILIATED by Stock Market with WORST STREAK
I mean, I just think about if like services are now shut off. I mean, look, you had Elon Musk and Donald Trump out there saying that they wanted to inflict economic hardship on the American people. They said that there will we will feel pain is what they said. You got to feel pain. And then they said things will get better after you experience the pain.
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The billionaires, they'll party at Mar-a-Lago. We all will suffer pain, they say, but that's for our own good. The billionaires are telling us that we need to suffer the pain because that's a good thing for us while they're on their private jets and while they're out there with golden toilet bowls and the like.
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One more time, go to lumen.me slash Midas, L-U-M-E-N dot M-E slash Midas and get 15% off your purchase. Thank you, Lumen, for sponsoring this episode. Donald Trump has, in addition to saying that he can't guarantee prices will go lower, he also says it's very hard. He said in his Time Magazine article interview, very hard, very, very hard to bring prices down once they're up.
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Trump IS HUMILIATED by Stock Market with WORST STREAK
He says he's not sure he can do it. It's very, very hard is what he says. Very hard. Your whole campaign was going around and making these types of promises. And then I think Americans are now finally who have Googled, okay, well, what's a tariff? What's this? What's that? Are now saying, oh, wait a minute. You mean that this is going to cause our products to be significantly higher? And you...
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Trump IS HUMILIATED by Stock Market with WORST STREAK
going after Canada and Mexico, our allies, and then also going after China and all these other countries, going to go after everybody, have everybody hate the United States, and they'll all form trade deals together and cut the United States out and ultimately screw the United States. And you think that's going to be beneficial to we the people? I mean, just take a look at who they...
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Trump IS HUMILIATED by Stock Market with WORST STREAK
Who's like one of the main leaders that MAGA Republicans look up to? Javier Millay, right, in Argentina. The poverty rate there is 53%. 53% and they look up to Javier Millay, the president of Argentina. It's ridiculous. But Donald Trump, congrats, buddy. A 10-day losing streak of the Dow Jones. No one's done it. No one's done it since 1974.
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You brought back a 10-day losing streak the same way you had the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, the same way you were the only president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs. But you alone do it. You alone do it. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network. And subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
What's the matter, Donald? You're having a terrible Easter. Is it because millions of people across the world and in the United States protested your regime once again this weekend? Is it because your approval is plummeting? Americans think you're handling the economy disastrously. Is it because, Donald, no countries want to cut a deal with you because you've extorted them over and over again?
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to the weak and ineffective, and he puts that in caps, judges and law enforcement officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our nation to continue, an attack so violent it will never be forgotten, exclamation point, sleepy Joe Biden, purposefully blah, blah, blah, blah, wah, wah, wah.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
like a little baby no offense to little petulant babies donald because they have far more maturity than you but yes donald it's what a nine to zero supreme court ruling saying you know what we are a nation of due process facilitate the return of abrigo garcia is that the
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the radical left ineffective judges you're talking about Donald or how about the fourth circuit court of appeal judge, judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee whose law clerks go on to work at the Supreme court. Someone who's viewed as one of the biggest conservative judges in this country said that what you are doing is so unlawful and authoritarian. and wrote one of the most scathing opinions ever.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
Is that one of these leftist, ineffective judges? Or maybe, Donald, you're a felon, you're a criminal, you're a fraud, you're a liar. Heck, even Justice Alito's dissent and that emergency order blocking the additional group of victims in Texas, the migrants to be sent to the concentration camp in El Salvador,
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He was saying you need to comply with the order to provide due process to each of the migrants. Justice Alito, though, said, well, we believe that the Trump administration is going to do that and he's going to follow our order. While seven other justices of the Supreme Court said, we don't trust you, Donald. Donald Trump went on to post the following on Easter morning.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
We are together going to make America bigger, bigger. better, stronger, wealthier, healthier, and more religious than it has ever been before. And then he puts this in caps because he's a deranged, demented lunatic. Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. Well, why don't we go in reverse order there, Donald?
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You want to make America more religious. This is coming from, again, you, a sexual abuser, somebody who brags about sexually assaulting women. And you say because you're rich, they let you get away with it. And then you go and speak in front of a group of young Republican teenagers.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
and say that you heard that was one of the most courageous things you've ever done calling sexually harassing woman locker room talk and that that makes you a strong person okay let's keep going healthier you appointed anti-vaxxer rfk jr to say the most hateful things about autism to already spread lies and now we have measles outbreaks throughout the country as you gut the nih cdc and as you attack people's medicaid medicare
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
Is it because... Little kids are going to the protests and mocking you and mocking your regime. Why is it, Donald? Is it because Easter is a time when people spend the day with their family and show love and empathy and you don't know what that means? All you have is vile hate in your heart. Here's what Donald Trump is posting this morning on Easter.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
and Social Security wealthier. Hey, Donald, the last time I looked at the markets, they are down significantly, down off their highs under former President Biden. In terms of wealthier, have people look at their 401ks and pensions and life savings. I think the facts, Donald, although you don't live in facts, you live in fraud, speak for themselves that you are a disaster on the economy.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
So no wonder the new CNBC poll shows your approval on the economy dropping to the lowest of even your first term as well, lower than it even was during COVID. Oh, by the way, Donald, your approval rating among Republicans and GOP leaning independents has fallen 15% at this point. Fifteen percent, Donald. America absolutely hates you. We're going to make us stronger. We're weaker by far.
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You have China now cutting deals with Japan, South Korea, Europe, Australia. You have NATO looking elsewhere. America is isolated as a pariah regime viewed by the world as even weirder than Kim Jong Un, Donald. So definitely didn't make us stronger. And you're going to make us bigger and better, bigger and better, Donald. In what way?
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By threatening to annex and conquer our allies who are now boycotting the United States of America's products and tourism. Our tourism is down so significantly from Canada and Europe and elsewhere. It's going to cost our nation at least $90 billion. And frankly, I think it's going to be more than that. But you don't care, Donald.
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There you are with Elon Musk and your billionaire buddies writing your stupid tweets and your dumb posts on Easter like a petulant little three-year-old. No offense to petulant three-year-olds.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
Oh. And then you posted this this morning. You posted state regime media Fox. And here's the chyron from Fox. Experts warn China poised to interfere in Trump tariff deal with EU. I want you to watch this video that Donald Trump posted. I'm only going to show you like 30 seconds of it because the Fox host goes, what a difference that administration makes. China is so frazzled.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
They're so scared of the United States. They're now cutting deals with the European Union and they're blocking Donald Trump from doing deals with the European Union on tariffs. Look how good Donald Trump is doing. I'm watching this and I'm like, wow. Look, North Korea is watching this and saying, could we get these people to help Kim Jong-un? Here, watch this.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
Donald Trump posts Happy Easter to all, including the radical left lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring murderers, drug lords, dangerous prisoners, the mentally insane and well-known MS-13 gang members and wife beaters back into our country. Pause. Donald, you are a felon. You, Donald, are a criminal. 34 times over. 34 felony counts, Donald. You are a sexual abuser.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
Well, the Chinese want a much better deal with the Europeans than they have with us. But y'all see what's going on there, right? The European Union's like, why would we cut deals with you, Donald, an extortionist? OK, the European Union sent its chief negotiator to talk about the tariffs and left saying, what the hell is Donald Trump even talking about?
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
Japan's chief negotiator left the White House without a deal. And what are these crazy people in the White House even talking about? Trump can't even cut deals with our allies on these reciprocal tariffs, which are based on a fake and fraudulent formula. Surprise, surprise. The fraud makes fraudulent formulas to attack allies. more than adversaries.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
And by the way, that formula was not applied to Russia. It was not applied to the Taliban, but it was applied to the European Union and to penguins and to our own military bases on foreign islands. Absolutely ridiculous. And speaking of absolutely ridiculous, on Easter. Here's the headline from Politico. Bonkers crazy pants. American diplomats shaken by reports of new State Department cuts.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
Purported executive order by Donald Trump, which is going to be released this week, calls for slashing State Department offices and bureaus, overhauling how diplomatic posts work, getting rid of like all of these diplomatic outposts that promote democracy in Africa and Europe and elsewhere. One U.S. diplomat described the draft to Politico as bonkers crazy pants.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
You could give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters and they would come up with something better than that. And this follows the State Department shutting down its foreign offices to block Russian disinformation because Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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In an actual release, this is real, says protecting and championing free speech at the State Department that Russia's disinformation campaign in the U.S. is a form of free speech that should be promoted. That's in his release right there. There you have it. Trump's Easter will keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. Thank you for watching.
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
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Trump Has Disaster Easter Sunday as Resistance Grows
You were found liable for sexual assault. Hey, Donald, you are a fraud. I think if anyone needs to go to El Salvador, frankly, it's you and other criminals in your regime. But I digress. Let me keep on reading. Trump goes, happy Easter also.
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Fox News Crashes On Air as Trump Screws Them
state regime media known as fox is really struggling as donald trump torpedoes our economy you know they're doing their best as state regime media trying to pump up trump's lies but it's just belied by the data there's really nothing they can do i mean fox is trapped right now They previously brought on Trump's top economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, who said things are great.
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I just it is shocking that when the it shouldn't be shot. Nothing shocks me with the with Fox. But when the Supreme Court rules nine to zero facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals being led by a right wing Reagan appointed judge, Judge Wilkinson,
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makes it very clear that i mean this is a threat in all american citizens and fox is doing this i mean kim jong-un would be like wow here's that same fox host saying look if i look at bukele the the leader of el salvador and he goes bukele seems to be more patriotic than the democrats and again you have fox promoting the authoritarian leader of el salvador watch this
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You know, it's interesting to see Maria Bartiromo, who works so hard to help with the propaganda for the Trump regime, but even when she brings on these MAGA Republicans like Beth Van Dunn, it's like, come on, here, play this clip.
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Congressman, you've got a new bill, which... You can tell there that even Maria Bartiromo, a major propagandist, is like... She knows these people are idiots. Bartiromo knows. Fox Business anchor Cheryl Cassone then suggests, brings on this MAGA Republican Congress member.
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There's 100% guarantee he says no recession, but we'll show you what they're now saying. But here's Kevin Hassett, let's play it.
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This is the guy who took, Congress member Moore, who took the photo with his thumbs up in front of the concentration cells in El Salvador. They suggest there's some big conspiracy theory behind Senator Van Hollen's meeting with Garcia. Play this clip.
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So then Fox brings on the State Department spokesperson, Tammy Bruce. And again, as Michael Cohen, not Trump's Michael Cohen says, even Kim Jong-un thinks this is a bit much. Here, play this clip.
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Well, now even the guests on Fox are saying, look, there's a reason why Donald Trump is being viewed by the American people as being the worst on the economy ever. Here, play this clip.
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But Jesse Waters wants to make it very clear that he's not looking in his investment account. He goes, things are great. I haven't looked at my bank account or my investment account here. Play this clip.
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Okay, Jesse, just because you haven't looked doesn't mean the rest of us decide to cover our eyes and close our ears. The American people are hurting, Jesse. They don't have $20 million a year contracts like you do. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. And Donald Trump defrauded the American people. Because he is a fraud. He's a sexual predator. He's a criminal. He's a felon.
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Donald Trump said that he was going to lower prices. Donald Trump said that everything would be great on day one. Housing would be more affordable. Mortgage rates are like at 7% right now. Housing is less affordable. There's nothing about no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. The price of eggs is much higher. Groceries are much higher.
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Trump can lie and say that that's not the case, but things are less affordable and the economy's tanking right now. Oh, then Fox brings on RFK Jr. RFK Jr., he's been saying the most, he always has, but again, the most horrific things about people with autism. And here also RFK says that adults don't have autism. Again, he just spreads lies. He spreads medical lies and dangerous disinformation.
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This guy's leading the health department. Play this clip.
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Then Fox brings on the guy leading the transportation department who got famous off of the real world road rules challenge, Sean Duffy. Here's what he says.
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You're just doing stupid stuff. We don't care about green. We don't care. Dude, shut up. Right. With these people. And here's State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce. Here's what she has to say about NATO basically throwing Europe under the bus.
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So they try to pivot and they try to act like Donald Trump sending migrants to El Salvador is this incredibly courageous thing. And they just they spread all of these lies. It's so bizarre. I mean, take a look here. One of the Fox hosts is saying, so why are we having United States senators, you know, promote terrorists? Shouldn't he be fighting for his own constituents here? Watch this.
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So that in a nutshell is what's going on in Fox right now. It's a mess, a utter mess in state regime media. Anyway, we'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more. All at store.midastouch.com.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
So more information actually led to less information. So if AI is going to be a path forward to actually help people, how do you ensure it? And this may be another interview that we have. that it's not going to be abused, though, by the same bad actors who we see abuse this great information revolution with the Internet?
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
Legally or illegally, when they do things legally, you're going to do. I mean, he was saying that during the campaign. I mean, now you're seeing right wing papers like the New York Post say, Mr. Trump, save my business. Small companies plead, plead for relief from crushing tariff costs. We see this Trump. This is from a right wing writer, Rich Lowry.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
There you have it. We start with Jupiter, Florida town hall. We end with AI. Deepak Chopra, I want to remind everybody, your AI twin, deepakchopra.ai, digitaldeepak.ai, and also your 95th book, Digital Dharma, came out in September on how AI can revolutionize spiritual well-being and open new horizons for personal development. Thanks, Deepak. Thank you for having me. Everybody hit subscribe.
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who would post things during the election, like Joe Biden will never be normal again. And on August 26th, 2024, this guy wrote, Trump can win on character. This right-wing writer goes, Trump will destroy a world economy that has us at the apex and only getting stronger. We see Trump denying FEMA aid in North Carolina from Hurricane Helene. He did the same thing in Georgia. Farmers are suffering.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
You get it. There's a lot of suffering taking place. So I want to do this differently right now because we all know the suffering taking place. I want to talk about... the mindset right now, though, about moving outside of this pain and suffering and resisting in a mindful way. Let's bring in Deepak Chopra right here. Deepak, they used to be bringing in politicians. You're not a politician.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
You're not a political guy. But you're someone who certainly doesn't like to see people suffering. That's not a political thing. So, you know, just just People who are going through this, what are you seeing right now? What's your guidance to people?
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
So that right there was MAGA Republican Congress member Brian Mast at a town hall that he held in, get this, Jupiter, Florida, red area, MAGA Republican Congress member. And those people weren't paid to be there. They were booing because they recognize that the tariff policies by Donald Trump, like most of the policies by this Trump regime themselves, have been just bad for the people.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
Set politics aside. These are bad policies. As I saw Claude Taylor post this morning, I just hate the United States being the bad guys. We're better than this. You see these posts of these migrants who are being sent to these camps in El Salvador. Andrew Romero, a gay makeup artist sent to El Salvador, sobbing and praying as guards shave his head.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
Well, let's see if something better will emerge. You know, it's interesting because when we built this network, we actually didn't build the Midas Touch Network on politics, which is a surprise for a lot of people. We built it on values and principles. And in the hierarchy of values and principles, empathy, respect, equality, decency, compassion was number one.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
My philosophy was always, if you start from there, the
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
politics then fall in place because you go who's fighting more for those things and who's fighting against those things and people can decide so when people see my perspectives they'll go well you seem to be supporting certain types of candidates and i go well because they seem to be the most aligned with the hierarchy of values that this network stands for versus us kind of chasing politicians so so look
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
You've had an incredible career. I mean, 95 books that you've written. Time magazine named you one of the top 100 influencers over the past century. Your latest book, Digital Dharma, analyzing how AI can actually revolutionize spirituality and vice versa. Yeah. Tell us for people, though, who are struggling in this moment right now, who are scared. What do you suggest people do?
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
I mean, it's rare that they get to ask Deepak Chopra, what should I do right now? I'm scared. I'm nervous. You know, I don't know what this guy is going to post on any given day and if that's going to impact me. What do I do in my day? It's a big existential question, but what do I do?
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
And the United States government is making videos gloating over the people suffering. And, you know, when you go back to to Trump speeches, we tried to point this out as well during the campaign campaign. You know, when Donald Trump would continually echo the types of language that we heard from authoritarian leaders of the past. I mean, take a look at this video that we did.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
Here's Trump echoing what sounded like Adolf Hitler during his rally during the campaign. Play this clip.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
You know, what's interesting is you talk about still having a medieval mindset. What was interesting actually in medieval times with the medieval mindset is there was this great disparity in the access of information where the feudal lords would have the information and the serfs would not have the information, that disparity of information also created some of the issues of subjugation.
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Deepak Chopra on Navigating Uncertain Times
You fast forward to the future, the internet was supposed to be this great equalizer where everybody had access to all the world's knowledge. You can Google it, you can do all of these things. But what it ended up being used by the modern day versions of the oligarchs and feudal lords was a way to manipulate that. So they injected bad information in the veins of people.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
COVID level supply shocks are beginning to happen. The general public and most operators have no idea what could be headed our way if this is not fixed within a week. And it won't be. May 2020 had 51 shipment blank sailings over October. 80 so far in April 2025. COVID actually will look like good times for the trucking industry. Let me repeat that stat one more time for you.
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In May 2020, there were 51 shipments of blank sailings. Already over 80 in April of 2025. And just for the non-truck drivers and people who don't follow freight, blank sailings occur when ocean carriers skip scheduled port calls due to low freight demand or equipment shortages, disrupting supply chains.
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So in April 2025, over 80 blank sailings were reported, surpassing the 51 from May 2020, signaling a severe collapse. In global shipping activity, this spike in blank sailings could exacerbate the trucking market woes as reduced import and exports shrink freight volumes, intensifying economic pressure. Craig Fuller from Freight Alley goes on to say more.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
Many truck drivers I've spoken with don't realize how quickly container volumes have collapsed. Starting in May, port freight out of California will be almost eliminated. It's going to be a bloodbath, bloodbath, they are saying, for truck drivers. And just as we told you before, the polling by groups like CDL Life and others showed 75 to 80 percent of truck drivers were supportive of Donald Trump.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
Again, you just take a look at these graphs of the canceled sailings by the major container shipping firms by month. And again, you see a total collapse. Derek Thompson posted the following new pod. A lot of companies are definitely going to go under. That's for sure. I talked to a manufacturing CEO about how the tariffs are affecting his business.
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He told me America could be could be sleepwalking into a small business apocalypse. Derek says, let's say the tariffs on China stick around. How does your industry, the toy industry, look different in three years? Molson Hart goes, if the tariffs don't go anywhere, toys are the least of our worries. What about transformers and pumps and air conditioners?
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A lot of these products aren't really made anywhere but China. At a certain point, the stock of replacement transformers, the replacement pumps that we need for clean water, are going to run out. And there isn't anyone building new factories for those things. And the factories won't be ready in time.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
Surprise, surprise, Donald Trump is screwing over one of his most reliable voting groups, truck drivers. About 80% of all truck drivers voted for Donald Trump and 90% of all truck drivers out there in the United States voted Often they lived in critical key swing states. So truck drivers could have turned the balance of this election and tipped it in favor of Donald Trump.
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As for the toy industry, I mean, I'm not sure what's going to happen, but a lot of companies are definitely going to go under. That is for... Sure. We're hearing about an Allentown, Pennsylvania. Hundreds of workers now being laid off at two truck plants in Pennsylvania and Maryland as company officials say orders are down amid market uncertainty.
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Volvo Group North America confirmed to ABC 27 News. that 250 to 350 people will be laid off from the Mack truck plants near Allentown, along with 50 to 100 people from the Volvo Mack powertrain plant in Maryland. Volvo owns Mack trucks. And the plant manufactures engines, transmissions, and drive trains for both.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
The reason why I was mentioning that Derek Thompson pod where they were talking about the transformers and the air conditioners and the pumps is because they arrive, trucks take them from the ports and bring them across the country. But that's why you now have these blank sailings. Now, So I want to share with you, what was Donald Trump doing during his campaign?
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
Here was a moment where Donald Trump was in Allentown, layoff central right now for truck drivers. And here's what Donald Trump said to the truck drivers. And apparently this worked. Apparently this was effective. Here, watch this clip.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
Seriously? Seriously? I remember when Donald Trump was like walking to, remember he was cosplaying like he was a garbage truck driver? Remember he was doing that? The cosplay garbage truck driver? Play this clip. That's why we were telling you then that red flag, red flag. He cosplays these positions, and that's how you know who he screws over the most. When he does that cosplay, he's mocking you.
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He's not lifting you up. He's telling that he thinks that you're pathetic. Let me show you another moment where Donald Trump said things that were similar. Here, play this clip. These people are crazy.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
Now over the past week, what's going on? Trump just absolutely destroying the incomes of those employed in America's number one job among non-college educated men. Truck drivers, the average seven day van rate mile drop to
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
And by the way, it's not just truck drivers, also just trucks that people drive in general. The tariffs that are retaliatory from China to the U.S. has effectively shut down the China market to the United States on basically everything. So Ford this week halted all shipments of its F-150 Raptors, Mustangs, and Michigan-built Bronco SUVs, as well as Kentucky-made Lincoln Navigators to China.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
The Wall Street Journal reported, this is bad, but you know how, what was it, Kimberly Gargoyle said, the best is yet to come. The problem with what's going on for truck drivers and frankly, for all professions, And the far worse is yet to come. Right now, what we're experiencing, the volatility of the markets, the days where it dips three, four percent, goes back up a little, dips some more.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
That volatility is actually nothing compared to why it is that Jerome Powell of the chairman of the Federal Reserve and others are predicting volatility. dismal economic conditions. It's because there's a lag effect.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
So what China's doing, what all these other countries are doing, what the, just think about the boycott from Canada and Europe, what that is doing, that's going to start being felt now in April, May, June. And then what happens when one company defaults on its loans and multiple companies default on their loans? And then you have this domino effect of defaults. Then what happens to the banks?
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
This is a self-engineered great recession by the Trump regime that unless something miraculous happens is coming. And that's what all the economists see. And Donald Trump and his idiotic, vile, trash regime is there, you know, accordion hands acting like it's not. And to the truck drivers out there, I have such great respect for you. I have such great respect for your profession.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
And you may not be one of those Trump voters, but I'm sure you know people who you hang out with who were. Show them this video. Show them the Midas Touch videos.
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negative 40 percent and still falling yep trump won this demographic by 80 percent his core electorate as jay in keeve puts it craig fuller from freight alley explains the trucking market conditions are soft but with imports and exports collapsing The industry is in for a very rough season in the coming months. The winds are picking up, but the hurricane is still offshore.
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Trump Quickly Wrecks the Lives of His Top Supporters
why why would you vote for someone whose entire history in life have your truck driver friends who like trump go back and look at all of his bankruptcies where he screw over workers and contractors and didn't give a shit he's a bad guy who has hurt workers his whole life why do you think this guy likes you he you're just his mark you're just his mark that's how he sees you To use you.
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The way I've described it right now is it's like a tsunami where the shore recedes and And you see that tsunami coming and you know where this story is going to end and it's not gonna go well for truckers. The only difference with this tsunami example is a tsunami and many tsunamis and average size tsunamis are already hitting this industry. As Dominic Tullo says,
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Okay, I think you're referring to yourself. You, Donald, are the greatest threat to democracy. Then Donald Trump posts the following. I look forward to having Easter service early tomorrow morning at the White House! Does every sentence you use, Donald, have to have an exclamation point? We don't look forward to you being in the White House for Easter.
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You know who also doesn't look forward to you being in the White House on Easter? Pope Francis skipped the Vatican's official meeting with Vice President J.D. Vance on Saturday, instead having his number two give the Vice President a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement. The Vatican said that they lectured J.D.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Vance on issues about immigration and world peace, and the Pope was not having that meeting with J.D. Vance. Well, Donald Trump was posting ISIS-style torture videos yesterday, like this post right here. I mean, this is from Donald Trump's official account, and he's posting photos, and it has this ominous music in the background of putting migrants into...
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concentration camps, extermination camps in El Salvador without due process. Trump keeps reposting these torture videos over and over again on Easter. He has hate in his heart. As I've said before, he's a felon. He's a sexual predator. He's been found liable for sexual assault. He's a criminal. So I don't think we should be like, whoa, he's doing this? He's a criminal. He's also weak physically.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Did you see the video I made yesterday where, you know how we've been reporting Donald Trump is panicking on this, Donald Trump is panicking on that? And sometimes I get the comments, oh, he's not panicking. He looks like he's just doing fine. I said that's his pretending to project a strongman image when he's panicking behind the scenes.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
What's been happening is Donald Trump's economic advisors on his cabinet, like Scott Besant, his Treasury Secretary, Howard Lutnick, his Commerce Secretary, keep hearing Donald Trump pacing around the White House fretting and saying, am I going to cause a 1929? Am I going to cause a 1929? Am I going to be responsible for a Great Depression? The guy is weak, pathetic, and scared.
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And this is what he's sending to his supporters as well. I subscribe to his email list so you don't have to. As Donald Trump sees these protests spreading again across the country, this is the email that he sends to his followers, or I should say his cult. Ben, be honest, are you still a true MAGA patriot? I'm running a quick MAGA survey to find out who's still standing with me.
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If you are, you'll pass it easily, but you've never let me down, so I'm not worried at all. Complete it now and you'll earn a Trump merit badge. And apparently the Trump merit badge is an American flag with Donald Trump's name on it in gold, a clear violation of the flag code. But also regardless of what political party you're from, why are you plastering your name on our flag?
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That protest I showed at the beginning of this video was from Cincinnati's 50-51 protest on Saturday. We saw thousands of protests like that in towns and cities across America. I'll be doing a whole other video highlighting the signs, the protests, another successful day of opposing the regime. So what's Donald Trump doing as his approval is plummeting to new lows?
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Like that should piss you the heck off no matter what party you're from. But I guess the Trump cult pledges allegiance to Trump. not the flag, not the United States of America. Oh, by the way, when you click that, Trump grips off you and asks you for money. Surprise, surprise.
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Not surprisingly either, the Financial Times is reporting that the delegation from Japan returned to Tokyo without reaching a deal with Donald Trump on tariffs. Here's the headline from the Financial Times. Donald Trump weighs in on Japan trade talks, but Tokyo team leaves without a deal. The first in the queue for negotiations was being closely watched for signs of a U.S. strategy.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Newsflash, there is no strategy. Donald Trump is just attacking allies and adversaries alike. Although for Donald Trump, allies are now his adversaries. And of course, he kisses Putin's ass. Spencer Hakimian says, Japan has a lower tariff rate than the United States does. What is taking so long to sign an imaginary trade deal with them and pretend that we accomplished something?
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Even Japan's like, what the heck are they doing? The fact that you can't quickly, like literally within 24 hours, make up a make-believe trade deal with Japan to announce just shows how utterly incompetent this regime is. Going back to what I said at the outset of this video, Trump's approval rating on the economy is now at its lowest of his entire presidential career, as Akimian says.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
The most ineffective first 100 days of a presidency that many of us will ever see in our lifetimes. An unnecessary disaster from the get-go. Donald Trump was always a disaster, so it doesn't shock me that this is happening. If you want to look at Easter egg prices, despite Donald Trump saying the prices are so low on Easter for eggs that there are too many eggs, they're too cheap, he says.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
He says, mission accomplished, he made them so cheap. Nope. In 2024, if you look at what eggs cost, $2.99, now $6.23 on average. If you look at the Nasdaq, the Dow, the S&P, you just take a look at a straight line down during the Trump regime. You'll notice under President Biden, it steadily went up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
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Then under Donald Trump, you see it falling significantly, almost a straight line down right now. As Sean Broderick, economist, puts it, posting this for later, pay it no mind. And he's showing the way the markets looked during the Great Depression and when the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were announced in 1930 or so.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Just so you know, Trump's tariffs are far more harsh than even the Smoot-Hawley tariffs. And if you start looking at the chart, it's going in that direction right now. Goldman Sachs economists, we're learning, estimate that the US could lose as much as 0.3% of its entire GDP or $90 billion from a plunge in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Early signs of the pullback are starting to show up in economic data. That's from Bloomberg. I think it's going to be more than that. When Goldman says that's the maximum, I think the damage is going to actually be much higher as Canada's boycotting everything, boycotting tourism. We're seeing a massive boycott from Europe. And of course, they're boycotting.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Trump's throwing people in concentration camps, extermination camps, ICE detention centers with no due process. And then trying to deny people habeas corpus. It's horrific. And some of Donald Trump's top advisors or top allies who he takes meetings with. Remember Donald Trump a few weeks back says that he listens to Laura Loomer on hiring and firing. And she's one of the more influential people.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
It was Trump's words. Here's what one of Donald Trump's top people posted yesterday, again, the day before Easter. In most countries, when you cross into the country illegally, you're shot to death on sight. Trump is gracious. Democrats should be happy he's deporting the illegals on planes. There's always alternatives. Just look at how trespassers are treated on other foreign borders.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Hey, Donald, America hates you. The world hates you. You are the most loathsome president in the history of the United States, the most contemptible individual in the world right now. And Americans and the world are letting you know how we all collectively feel about you. History will not look kindly on you and your ilk.
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So utterly horrific, horrific stuff. So I had the opportunity to interview Charlie Angus, former member of parliament in Canada, one of the leaders of the elbows up resistance tour in Canada right now. And he says it perfectly, perfectly. Take it away, Charlie.
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Trump Loses His Mind as His Approval Crashes
Donald Trump's approval on the economy, the lowest it's ever been, including his first term. Donald Trump's approval on all other issues plummeting. Donald Trump's overall approval plummeting. flubbiting across the board, even in Republican pro-Trump polls. He's underwater. So Donald Trump's posting this. Why? Because he's a liar. He's a fraud. He's a sexual predator. He's a felon.
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Stop truth decay. Nice shout out to the Midas Touch Network on that post. A lot of posts, a lot of posters shouting out Midas Touch and a lot of Midas Touch gear at the protest yesterday. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. Thanks for watching. Appreciate you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. We're almost there. Make sure you hit subscribe.
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This is what people like that do. Here's what he posts. Trump's best poll numbers ever. Thank you! Exclamation point. Detached from reality, aka a fraud. Donald Trump then posts this yesterday. It's post after post after post like this. Ranked choice voting is one of the greatest threats to democracy. It is total and very fraudulent joke. And he puts joke in caps.
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That justifies our unlawful invasion of Ukraine. And while we're at it, why don't we take Poland? We can take Finland. We could take Sweden. We could take Norway. What else should we take? By the way, it enables Xi Jinping to say, well, Taiwan is ours. By the way, even Venezuela is getting in on the action. And Venezuela is saying, we want to conquer Puerto Rico. Why don't we join with Brazil?
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And then we can use our forces and let's take over Puerto Rico, everybody. What are you going to do about it, Donald? This is the chaos and havoc that Donald Trump is already causing. So let me show you just a minute or so from this Russian state TV propaganda. I want to give you the disclaimer that that's what it is. We have the captions on the bottom.
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It's just important that we show you here what is actually happening so you can see it for yourself. That's why I give you the disclaimer. This is where they go on their primetime show. calling Donald Trump gramps this, gramps that, and they use Donald Trump's words against him to support Putin's agenda of conquest. Watch this.
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now we've been reporting again on these various appearances on this russian propaganda tv like we were talking about them showing them balania nudes where they would say it is your body your choice milani i guess this is what you want to do with your body also Putin knows that Donald Trump is weak and will be terrified of threats.
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So Vladimir Putin just continues to brutally mock Donald Trump on Russian state TV, like we previously reported how Putin was just showing nudes of Melania over and over again as his handpicked hosts would mock Melania and Donald Trump. Well, in the past few days, one of the things Putin's been doing is he's been calling Donald Trump gramps, and he's been having his propagandists who host
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So Putin made a deal with Belarus, one of their neighbors, giving them nuclear weapons and saying that nuclear weapons are going to be positioned facing Europe. Putin just cut a deal in the past 48 hours with Iran, a 20-year partnership with everything on the table.
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And we're seeing a lot of already kind of international deals, shifts in alliances as countries are scrambling to deal with the fact that America will no longer be a leader in the world under Donald Trump. For example, I talked about how Mexico, their President Scheinbaum, did a public meeting with Xi Jinping at the G20 a few months back after Donald Trump won the election to send a message.
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We'll just work with China, Donald, if you're going to try to screw us. We have other options. China's expanding the BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and they want us to join BRICS. We said we weren't going to join it before. We wanted to be good neighbors with the United States. But Donald, if you're attacking Canada and you're attacking Mexico and Panama, you're
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I guess we're gonna have to look at new alliances.
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You have Mexico also forming a doing another deal recently in the past 48 hours with the president of Guatemala sticking up for Panama as well as their sovereignty is under attack. And while all of this is happening, remember what Donald Trump's promise was. Donald Trump said in Ukraine there would be a peace deal in 24 hours. He said after the election, that didn't happen.
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So even if you assume Trump meant 24 hours after the inauguration, well, that's not going to happen. Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, was on Fox, and he said we need at least 2,400 hours. like 100 days, give us 100 days, and then maybe, just maybe we'll start to create a framework for something.
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Their version basically of the Hannity show say, okay, it seems like we need to help Gramps. Let us help you, Gramps. You're not going to be able to conquer Greenland, Gramps. We'll conquer it for you. And so what these propagandists on Russian state TV are saying, it's exactly what we warned against here on the Midas Touch Network and others did as well.
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Putin BRUTALLY MOCKS Trump on LIVE TV PRE-INAUGURATION
But again, just showing how utterly weak and pathetic Trump is already, breaking the key promise that he would bring peace right away. Here, play this clip.
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While all of this is going on, there was also a trade deal between the European Union and Mexico. This trade deal was put on hiatus for nearly a decade, and they're renewing their relations in a big, robust way. So... A lot of people now or a lot of countries are saying, look, Trump is weak, pathetic, rambling. He's going to cause a lot of damage. He wants to isolate the U.S.
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Putin BRUTALLY MOCKS Trump on LIVE TV PRE-INAUGURATION
Let them be isolated. Trump's bluster, bravado, his threats against allies. We need to create a new international structure. You also had Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau right before the weekend. He gave an impassioned speech as well. Maybe I'll do a whole other video just on his speech.
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Putin BRUTALLY MOCKS Trump on LIVE TV PRE-INAUGURATION
And in Prime Minister Trudeau's speech, he said, all options are on the table in terms of our retaliation against the United States. And if you make us feel pain, we want to make it clear to Americans, you will feel pain. We will inflict pain on Americans. Your prices will go up. And we're ready for a trade war. You want to come after us? Bring it. You shouldn't, but we'll be ready for them.
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That's what's going on internationally. Wanted to give you a fulsome update. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thank you for watching.
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That when Donald Trump's talking about annexing Canada and Greenland and and attacking Denmark and attacking Panama, it will be used as pretext by Russia and other authoritarian regimes to say, actually, we're going to conquer these places. Why don't we conquer our neighbors like we're already doing? Look, America is saying they're annexing Canada and all of these countries.
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Trump Voters Get KARMA they DESERVE before INAUGURATION
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And he wants to stop illegal border crossings and likes the idea of deporting migrants convicted of serious crimes. But When it comes to Trump's broader promise to expel all 11 million undocumented people living in the country, Damari thinks it would be a disaster for American farmers. Can we pause there for a second? Damari, listen, nobody wants convicted felons and criminals and terrorists here.
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How do you fall for that red herring? Not like President Biden and Democrats are like, let's get the terrorists here. That's just total and utter BS. President Biden put in place exactly what you are asking for, Damari, a comprehensive immigration bill that would have had the strongest borders invested.
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millions in border patrol officers, but would have also recognized exactly what you want here, which is some form of recognition and pathway towards citizenship for the hardworking migrants who are here, who are contributing to the economy, not the criminals. But you know who killed that Bill Damari? It was Donald Trump who killed it. Here's what Damari says.
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He goes, quote, we have to secure our borders south and north. Duh, we're all good with that. But you have to have a workforce in this country. Duh, it sounds like you're talking about what? Comprehensive immigration reform? But I thought that's socialism or too woke. Isn't that what y'all were saying during the campaign?
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Damari, whose family has 4,000 acres of tomato farms in Florida and California, goes on to say, quote, there's no doubt that this is going to restrict and put pressure on farming and and many other industries that rely on this workforce. But Damar, I have to say this.
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So you're okay with certain tariffs on Mexico, targeted tariffs there, but you realize what Trump's asking for is across the board tariffs. And so if you tariff Mexico on that, Don't you realize that Mexico is just going to retaliate against people who you're probably friends with as well? Automobile industries and plastics and just other things.
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If you tariff Canada, don't you think they're going to retaliate? What about your fellow farmer brothers and sisters who export stuff to China and other countries or Europe that Donald Trump's threatening as well? If they impose retaliatory tariffs, wouldn't it make them suffer? I mean, can't we think comprehensively right here?
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The article goes on to talk about how US farms run on an army of more than 850,000 crop workers, almost half of whom the Department of Agriculture estimates are undocumented. Some 160,000 of them move with the seasons, harvesting vegetables during Florida's winter before moving north to pick crops such as snap beans in North Carolina or blueberries in New Jersey.
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This complex system that sustains America's relatively cheap food supply is now at risk as Trump promises the biggest deportations in U.S. history, surpassing the notorious 1954 operation that forced 1.1 million people to return to Mexico.
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From Florida to Nebraska, from Idaho to Montana and other red states in between, Trump voters are in the find out stage. Many who are farmers or involved in agriculture or construction or other industries that depend on undocumented labor or others who rely on government-related benefits. They're all saying, Donald, you are going to screw us.
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A nationwide crackdown could drive labor costs higher for farmers already struggling to compete against cheap imports and reignite the kind of inflation that tanked Joe Biden's presidency. You know where the inflation came from that President Biden reduced through the Inflation Reduction Act? Donald Trump, the fact that Trump added $8 trillion of debt.
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And by the way, you don't have to say, well, Ben, that's what you're just saying. Go and look at the Republican debates. What did Nikki Haley say? What did Ron DeSantis say, Damari? Your governor in Florida said Trump adding $8 trillion to our debt is what precipitated, is what caused the inflation. Nikki Haley agreed with that as well. And the reckless printing of money.
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Where in Nebraska, you have people who are terrified as well. And they're saying, look, you're going to cause us a huge, huge problem here. Here's what they're saying over there in Nebraska. Here's the article. Let's pull it up. Immigrants drive Nebraska's economy. Trump's mass deportation pledge is a threat. It goes every so often.
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Al Junkie, executive director of the Nebraska Pork Producers Association. He says he'll get a phone call from one of his farmers about how to solve Nebraska's severe labor shortage. It goes something like this. Al, I got a giant idea. I got a great idea.
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Why don't we invite any immigrants, legal, illegal, I don't care, invite them to Nebraska because we have lots of openings out on our farms and we need help. Junkie smiles warily as he tells the story. Nebraska is one of the top meat producers in the U.S. and also has one of the worst labor shortages in the country. For every 100 jobs, there were only 39 workers, according to the U.S.
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Chamber of Congress. Last January, the state's economic chamber released a report saying Nebraska had no choice but to welcome immigrants to address the workforce gap. Nebraska might need immigrants, but it also voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, who's threatened to carry out mass deportations of people living in the U.S. illegally.
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And for some of these individuals, I was able to dig up some footage on them from Trump administration number one, where they were complaining about Trump policies. Yet, They voted for him again in 2024. And now that he's on the eve of putting in place these executive orders that can totally screw over their businesses, they're like, can you not do that? But maybe do this one. Let me explain.
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Junkie says attracting workers to Nebraska is not about wages. The average pay for a meat trimmer is close to $18 an hour. well above the state minimum of $13.50. These are good paying jobs and plants. People say, well, just double or triple the pay and you'll get United States citizens to work. No, you won't. United States citizens are not working on those jobs. They're not picking the crops.
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They're not working some of those jobs in construction that you see. They're not working in the landscaping jobs. Even if you open it up, the Americans are not taking jobs. those jobs. That is a major problem here. And when you think about what was going on in Springfield, Ohio as well, that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance demonized, the Haitians are eating your dogs and cats.
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The Haitian community there revitalized the town of Springfield because they took the jobs that the Americans refused to take. They were working super hard to in the factories and even in Springfield, Ohio. As we go to this various red states that are in the find out stage, now you have the Haitian community there like, should we go in hiding? Clearly they're going to target Springfield, Ohio.
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And then the factory bosses, the Americans who were there, who employed the Haitians who were there on legal status, they voted for Trump. Damari voted for Trump. These Nebraska people voted for Trump. And then afterwards, they're like, well, we actually, you know, let's be real here. We need this labor and you're going to uh, you know, deport it. You're going to go after our jobs.
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We support some of your rhetoric, but when it comes to our businesses, you're going to kill and destroy our businesses. I, I wanted to show you this too, because this baffles me. I just went back through the archives. I looked up about, you know, Damari and I saw there was this, he, he was interviewed CBS, uh,
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Back in 2020, in April 2020, where he was talking about how there was so much supply of tomatoes that he had and he couldn't find a market for it. That was during the kind of the heart of COVID. And so it's like, you know, Damari, what are you doing? You realize this guy is going to do this. It's just it doesn't make any sense to me at all.
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Just watch this clip from CBS and you can see it for yourself. Let's play it.
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And while all of that is happening as well, You then also have all of these red states where people over way more people in the red states are on food stamps, government assistance. Their health insurance is entirely tied to the Affordable Care Act.
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And they're voting against their own interests right at the same time President Biden on Friday as his kind of parting gift talked about lowering more prescription drug prices for Medicare. You've got Donald Trump doing all of this. So, look, I don't – I hate the – I don't take pleasure in the find-out stage. I don't like Americans suffering. I don't want these businesses to get hit hard.
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I want people to prosper. I want Damari to do well. I want these people to do well. Even if they voted for someone who I don't want them to vote for, I don't wish ill will on Americans at all. It's just we're in the find-out stage. Anyway, hit subscribe.
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There's this article. First, I'll share with you from Bloomberg. Here's a guy, his name is Tony DiMari. He's from Florida. He's a tomato grower over there. And he said he voted for Trump. He says he loves Trump's idea of slapping tariffs on Mexican farmers who undercut him by paying workers a fraction of what he does.
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People don't believe it. Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was. Okay, okay.
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Furious India Blasts Trump for Screwing Them
India is furious at the Trump regime right now. This is not being reported at all by American media, but it is being reported in India. Let me explain to you why India is furious. There's three main reasons. Number one, Donald Trump was taking credit for brokering the ceasefire between India and Pakistan after the terrorist attacks in Kashmir.
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Is Donald Trump going to be changing his policies toward India? Is Donald Trump engaging in behavior that's pissing off the country of India right now because Trump's family, which has a 60 percent stake in this WLFI, this World Liberty Financial Company? Is that why Donald Trump's position with India has changed? So let's break down all three of these things.
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And why don't we bring you directly some great reporting from India itself? And then we'll break down this kind of one by one. I want to give a shout out here to Vantage Media, show Vantage with Palki Sharma. They do a really good job here.
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And in this first clip I want to show you from the show, they talk about how this is India's external affairs minister saying that the negotiations regarding ceasefire between India and Pakistan is being handled on a bilateral basis. And this host, by the way, Palki Sharma, is incredible. I mean, I think that she's a very strong host, you know, at least here. Here, play this clip.
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Now, here this host, Palki Sharma, as well, then talks about Donald Trump misrepresenting the trade deals with India. Let me show you this clip right here. And then she also cites the external affairs minister as well. Let me play you this clip right here.
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India's saying Trump had nothing to do with it at all. It's strictly bilateral discussions between India and Pakistan. And India is saying by Donald Trump pretending that he got involved in it, it actually makes India look weak when India said we negotiated this on our own based on the strength of the Indian military. Stop interfering, Donald Trump. Another reason
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Now, here's what DW News has to say about these tensions between Trump and Modi right now and why India is so furious. It's along the lines of what I was saying, but here, play this clip.
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is that Donald Trump's been misrepresenting that he has some trade deal with India that hasn't taken place. And Trump said that he basically used trade as a carrot to broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan. And again, that makes India look weak. And India is saying that's not true. We don't have a deal. We're only going to do a deal that's in the interest of India.
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Now, let me show you what World Life Liberty posted about their deal with Pakistan's crypto council. This is from April 28th, 2025. So about six days after the terrorist attack in Kashmir, here's what WLFI posted. Historic moment, WLFI has officially signed an MOU with Pakistan. It was an incredible experience meeting with Pakistan Crypto Council and the leaders shaping the future of crypto.
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We're proud to be building with Pakistan to drive innovation forward. This is just the beginning. I'll play you about 30 seconds of this hype video. But mind you, the Trump family has a 60% stake in this WLFI as it's been reported. Play this clip.
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Now, let me flesh out some of these clips as well that has really made India furious. I mean, and you've seen him there in those other clips that I played for you. But here's Donald Trump on his most recent interview with Bret Baier saying that everyone knows that without me, the N-word would have been in place.
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The N-word, Donald Trump says over and over again, which Donald Trump says the N-word means nuclear. And here's kind of him saying that with Bret Baier. Here, play this clip.
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Thank you for the clarification.
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And this was Donald Trump, what he said about Tim Cook. Let me play this.
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Stop lying about our negotiations and our discussions. And along those lines as well, remember Donald Trump attacked Apple, the company Apple, for saying it was going to move factories to India because Donald Trump said that. That was an end run around his tariffs against China. He said he called Tim Cook and said, don't build factories in India.
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So I think you can see why there, why India would be absolutely livid and pissed about this. And again, this is being reported by media in India and elsewhere and international media, but not being reported in the United States. And I think it's an important factor for you to see how one, people view Trump internationally as this clown, as this
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a person who's just focused on himself and putting his interests above even the United States. Anyway, let me just conclude this video by saying I think it's why it's so important that we have an international perspective of things and we keep you posted at every step of the way. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop.
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So India is like, why the hell are you telling Apple not to develop factories in India? That's screwed up. And then finally, the third reason why India is absolutely pissed, and there's deeper levels of complexity here, I'm overgeneralizing it, is that the Trump family seems to have done a crypto deal with Pakistan and with the Pakistan government. And Indian officials are basically saying,
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
And when you go through specific policy areas, he has a net minus 32 point rating on prices and inflations. A minus 17 point net rating on jobs and the economy, a minus 21 when it comes to trade, a minus 20 on government funding, minus 17 on healthcare, on foreign policy, minus 16 points on federal government workforce, minus 15, minus 16 points.
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A lot of these were areas that Republicans used to do good at also. Donald Trump attacking James Comey's daughter-in-law and he calls him Comey. James Comey's daughter and son-in-law need to be relieved of their duties by the FBI. They work in the federal government. Oh, and not to mention Donald Trump posting weird posts. Just fake AI videos of himself singing songs in front of fake crowds.
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I mean, this behavior is completely unhinged. I mean, you also have Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran saying the following about Donald Trump. Some of the remarks made during the US president's trip to the region, to the Middle East, aren't even worth a response at all. The level of those remarks is so low that they are a source of shame for the American nation. Just think about that.
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You have the leader of Iran acting like a moral authority, saying that I don't even need to respond to what Trump is saying. He so shamed the United States of America. It is just so utterly embarrassing for America right now. Es ist ein Amerikaner. Weißt du, wie beängstigend das ist? Und ich habe das andersherum gesagt. Amerikanische Medien haben dieses Trump-Regime so propagandisiert.
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Und ich spreche nicht nur von Fox. Meine Corporate News hat versucht, all diese Dinge normal zu machen. Und sie... regurgitate Donald Trump's fake deals as headlines to make it seem like Trump did this great trip to the Middle East and they spend their times like talking about Biden and all these ridiculous things while Donald Trump's destroying the United States of America.
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I don't think Americans fully appreciate how utterly disastrous this trip to the Middle East was and just how further it reinforced to the rest of the world the What an unstable, like, gremlin creature, like Kim Jong-un, like this mush of a human, if you want to call him that, is. And it just reinforced to the world, like, utter weakness. I mean, they look at what Syria did, right?
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Like, the leader of Syria saw all these other countries bribing Donald Trump with... Bitcoin-Deals und mit Gold-Platten-Jets. Und so ist der Leader von Syrien so, okay, hier ist, was wir tun werden. Wir wollen die Sanktionen gegen uns entfernen. Lass uns einfach Donald Trump einen Trump-Tower in Damaskus anbieten. Lass uns ihn anbieten.
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Und dann vielleicht bekommen wir einige dieser Sanktionen entfernt. Sie anbieten ihm einen Trump-Tower in Damaskus. Grundsatz, Donald Trump trifft den Leader von Syrien und nennt ihn einen hübschen Mann. Du bist so hübsch. You're so good looking. Look how handsome. You're hot. You're a handsome man. That's what Trump says to the guy. And then he removes the tariffs against Syria.
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Just go to sleep, Donald. Just a complete and utter maniac. All throughout the night, post after post, attacking ABC, saying I'm gonna sue you if you keep talking about Qatar. I'm gonna sue you, stop talking about the plane. You've got Donald Trump also making posts. Er verurteilt Hillary Clinton für Mord in diesen seltsamen Konspirationsvideos, die er postet.
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This is going underreported as well, but I'm going to do a whole other video on it, because I think it's very important. So Donald Trump's family, who are 60% owners of this crypto venture that he does, World Liberty Life, or like World Life Crypto, whatever the hell it's called. They did a deal, underreported, with Pakistan in late April, like six days after the terrorist attack in Kashmir.
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Das Trump-Familie-Krypto, die 60% dieser Firma kauft, hat dieses Krypto-Deal mit Pakistan gemacht. Und es hat wirklich Indien infuriiert. Und der Premierminister Modi ist gerade infuriiert. Donald Trump versucht zu schreien und zu kritisieren für das Negotiieren des Zerstörers zwischen Indien und Pakistan. Und Indien ist so, als hätte man damit nichts zu tun.
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Und dann ist Donald Trump da draußen, macht Fake und macht Erkennungen, dass er mit Indien Verhandlungen gemacht hat. Und Indien ist so, wir haben nicht mit dir einen Verhandlungsverhandlung gemacht. Hör auf, diese Dinge über Indien zu machen. Hör auf, über unser Land zu lügen. Also, das Pakistan-Krypto-Verhandlung mit der Trump-Familie, das wurde auch unterreportiert.
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Und hier ist Trump, du weißt, spät abends, Saturday night, you know, it's like 11 o'clock, like 11 o'clock Eastern. Why doesn't Chairman Bob Iger do something about ABC fake news? Especially since I just won a 16 million dollars based on the fake and defamatory reporting of little George Slopadopoulos. He was given warnings, but just couldn't be restrained by management.
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Now I see they are at it again, and I've given these sleazebags fair warning. The wonderful country of Qatar, after agreeing to invest more than $1.4 trillion in the United States of America, By the way, do you notice how the deal went from 1.2 trillion dollars to 1.4 trillion dollars? The entire annual GDP of Qatar is 200 billion dollars, okay? Qatar...
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Qatar can't make a $1.4 trillion contribution without sacrificing six years or more, seven years under your new fake number of its annual GDP. It's just all an absolute lie. Und das ist der Grund, warum man mit Trump nicht aufhören kann. Wenn du ihm einen Inch gibst, nimmt er dein Leben. Er ist ein Verbrecher, ganz literally. Er ist ein Verbrecher. Er ist ein Verbrecher. Er ist ein Sexabstürmer.
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Das ist, wer er ist. Er ist ein Sexabstürmer. Er ist für sexuellen Verbrechen verantwortlich. Er ist ein Bankruptier. Du machst keine Verhandlungen mit diesem Mann. You can't. He's a crook. He literally is a criminal. You can't. You're going to go do deals with criminals and then go, oh, my God, I got screwed by the felon. I mean, the guy's a felon. He's going to act like a felon.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
He's a he has horrible. He has no character. He's a vile piece of s***, a vile piece of trash, excuse my language. Sorry, Kirsten. That's who he is. That's who his history is. You can't trust somebody like that. And just take a look at this. You've got him posting weird videos of himself playing piano. What the hell is he doing?
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
I like Jonah Goldberg, who wrote this when Donald Trump was saying Walmart needs to stop blaming tariffs for raising its prices and they need to eat the tariffs. Jonah Goldberg goes, I'm old enough to remember because I'm not a newborn infant when Trump said tariffs were paid by other countries. How can Walmart eat tariffs when they're not already eaten by other countries?
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
You want to see like real diplomacy? You want to see what's really going down in the rest of the world? Here you have President Zelensky and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney discussing new sanctions targeting Russia's energy sector and shadow fleet. Quote, the priority is pushing Russia toward real steps to end the war.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Nicht zu erwähnen, dass Donald Trump früher in den Tagen Walmart attackiert hat. Er hat gesagt, Walmart macht zu viel Geld. Er sagt, du musst die Tarife essen, Walmart. Du musst die Tarife essen, China. Dieses Verhalten ist so unabhängig. Ich möchte nur durchgehen, was hier runtergeht.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Zelenskyy und Carney diskutierten neue Druckmechanismen auf Russland während einer Meeting in Rom. Das ist, was die Ärzte tun. Während Donald Trump da ist, weint er wie ein kleines schmutziges Baby. Keine Entschuldigung für schmutzige Babys, die viel mehr aufwachsen als das. Das ist, was Donald Trump... This is what real leaders are doing now. I want to share with you this as well.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Spencer Kimmian pointed this out. American companies going to Europe to raise Euros because it's more stable, easier and cheaper to borrow in Frankfurt than in New York. Welcome to the upside down. US companies are now tapping Europe's debt market at a record pace. Attracted by lower borrowing costs on the continent,
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
und die Chance, ihre Gründe für Finanzierung zu diversifizieren, und Unwahrheit über Donald Trumps Tarife, schwingt große Märkte. Strong demand from European debt investors has allowed US non-financial companies to borrow 40 billion euros So, if you're wondering the ramifications of Donald Trump's behavior, as lots of top financial people have said, as I've said...
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Donald Trump hat die amerikanische Marke zerstört. Er hat die Idee zerstört, dass Amerika der stabile Ort ist, wo du dein Geld hinstellst. Es ist es nicht mehr. Also, die Unternehmen schauen jetzt andersherum. Moody's, die Kreditagentur, die seit 1917 vorhanden ist, ich habe gestern darüber berichtet, hat den USA-Kreditschwert gesteigert.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Es ist das erste Mal, dass es seit 1917 gedowngradiert wurde. Sie haben den US-Kredit-Score durch die Weltkriege, durch große Rezessionen, durch große Depressionen, nicht gedowngradiert. Jetzt ist es gedowngradiert. Wegen Donald Trumps schrecklichen Verhalten. Das ist der Grund. Das ist das, was da runtergeht. Ein paar andere Dinge, die ich bemerken möchte.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Ich denke, es ist wichtig, darüber zu diskutieren. Einer davon ist, dass es schreckliche Stürme gibt. Ich werde ein ganz anderes Video dazu machen. Schreckliche Stürme in Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois. Donald Trump hat sie überhaupt nicht erwähnt. Ihr habt ihn nicht gehört, er sagt nur eine Sache darüber. Über 16 Amerikaner sind in diesen schrecklichen Stürmen gestorben.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Und eines der Dinge, die wir lernen, ist, dass die Sturmverkaufsverordnung kompromissiert wurde. Bei Doge's Firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agencies and the Weather Service, the National Weather Service, NWS. They didn't have the staff to even let people know about how bad these storms were going to be before. Horrible stuff. And Donald Trump's not even acknowledging it.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Und all of this is taking place as a new poll was just released showing Donald Trump's approval is underwater in basically every major category. And when you start talking about the economy and foreign policy and tariffs, American people, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Hate this guy. It's the latest polling from a company, an organization called Strength in Numbers Verisite.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Another factor, you know about the situation in the airports right now with air traffic control in multiple airports losing sight of their radar for minutes on end. We've seen it happen in Denver. We're seeing it happen in Newark. We're seeing it happen in other airports. And we're going to learn about more airports over the coming weeks. We know that.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
But now in Newark, there's also a measles outbreak. So, Newark Airport under the Trump regime. Come for the near death flight experiences and delays. Stay for measles. And RFK Jr. will tell you that he thinks that he's not sure if you should even get vaccinated for it. Of course you should. What a ridiculous kakistocracy. What a ridiculous regime.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
Let me play this video of Democratic Congressmember Jamie Raskin to play us out. I want you to hear what he has to say. Let's play it.
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Trump Has Extreme Meltdown as He Kills His Own Term
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
As Donald Trump continues to wreck the economy and consumer confidence is almost as bad as it ever was in recent modern history, the University of Michigan survey shows the worst consumer sentiment since 2022. Also, the inflation expectations, the worst since 1993. What's Donald Trump talking about? tariffing champagne in response to his tariffs.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Look, she was the attorney general of your state. And when she was the attorney general of your state, I mean, let's be real. I mean, those were the relevant years where Epstein was also living in your state. And did you see that stunt that they did where I think she gave and she thought that Donald Trump would be pleased about the stunt that she did?
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
He's saying to all the champagne businesses in the US, because there's all those champagne businesses in the US. I'm not sure Donald Trump realizes where champagne is actually made. He's going to be the protector of champagne because Europe's put on retaliatory tariffs, because Trump arbitrarily and unilaterally put on tariffs against Europe for stealing aluminum into the rest of the world.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
I mean, I'm not sure how Trump wasn't aware of the stunt. The whole thing is strange. But they had those MAGA influencers show up to the White House, and she gave them all binders that said, this is the Epstein files.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Many years ago, which, by the way, has Trump's name on it. You previously in Congress in the last session actually brought it up and said, look, Magas, you know, you want to actually talk about those connections. What do you think about the fact, though, that they've made that such a big issue for them? And now they keep uncovering up the Epstein files and now like they're blaming the next person.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
They're never going to turn those over, are they?
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
By the way, Boskowitz, that barely got a blip in the headline as you're mentioning that right now, that they had someone talk to Hamas, talked up like, oh, they're pretty good negotiators, good people.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
I mean, but that didn't get enough attention. But look, in your state of Florida, there was a lot of tourism from Canada, you know, and that Canada tourism boycott, you know, must be really hurting you. I've heard personally from a lot of people who have rental properties in Canada who own it and rent it out to people in Canada that they just ain't showing up right now.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
I think it's like 40, 50 percent of the kind of just just the Tourism, vacation, rental stuff is going. Are you seeing that in Florida? Are you hearing that from constituents?
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
What else is Donald Trump talking about in addition to to champagne? Because as people's 401ks and pensions are being destroyed, Donald Trump's top official at the DOJ is Attorney General Pam Bondi had an important message that she and the Trump administration will be doing everything possible to protect Tesla's. Play this clip.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Well, I mean, what I saw this morning was he posted, our economy will boom like never before. I mean, you know, the guy, though, moves on so seamlessly, Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme style, just to the next one, what they floated that there was going to be. If you're making $150,000 or less, you're not going to be taxed. By the way, what happened to no tax on tips, no tax on social security?
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Not in the bill. Not in the bill. Explain to the people out there, Moskowitz, if they wanted it to be in the bill, it could have been right. They could have put that in the bill.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
And he has his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, who looks like he was selling sham wows in the 1990s. Here's what he's got to say. Let's play it.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Wait, wait, wait. Say it again. A what?
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
2.4% contraction? Correct. First quarter. Okay, right here, right here, right now. Right here, right now. That is ridiculous. Okay.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Right here, right now. That's ridiculous.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Do you know the ShamWow reference? Of course I do.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
There you have it, everybody. Democratic Congressmember Jared Moskowitz appreciates you. Everybody hit subscribe. Does your dog always walk around with a tie? Is that just...
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
It's very cute. Everyone hit subscribe.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
He thinks you're doing A+.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Oh, there you go. Let's get to 5 million. Thanks, Congressman.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
I mean, these are decisions that they're making to go out and say these things. Let's bring in Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz. Congressmember Moskowitz, what do you make of just this moment? What are you hearing from your constituents right now?
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
Let's talk about someone who Donald Trump attacks over and over again, probably almost more than anyone. It's a reporter and author by the name of Michael Wolff. And I'm sure you've seen Donald Trump attack him like this. So-called author Michael Wolff's new book is a total fake job, just like the other junk he wrote.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
And finally, I don't want to ruin the book for everybody, so they should all get it here. Flash the book one more time, Salty, so people can see it. All or Nothing by Michael Wolff, How Trump Recaptured America. And thanks to your team for sending it my way. And I'd recommend everybody to read it. But what do you make right now?
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
Obviously, you're observing, I think, the way the rest of the world is. This manic Trump of tariffs, no tariffs, tariffs, no tariffs. Him sitting in front of these world leaders in the Oval Office talking about everything. Annexing this country, annexing that country. How does your research on him maybe inform people on this moment that they're seeing right now?
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
Are you seeing something different right now in his pathology, or is this consistent with who you've covered?
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
Like you may recall this one that we in the Daily Beast reported, but almost no one else was reporting before the election. Seems like a big deal to me, but you remember this, let's play it.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
As I like to say now, we are all somewhat trapped as kind of non-consensual participants in this dystopian reality show that he's created. Are you going to do any more books? What are you thinking? What's the next one?
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
Well, you've written a lot of books after swearing it off. So we'll come back in a year and we'll check in on you. Michael Wolff, thanks for everything. And everybody check out the book, All or Nothing, How Trump Recaptured America. Appreciate you, Michael, for coming on. Thanks so much.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
Let's bring on Michael Wolff, since we now have a platform bigger than corporate media platform and they don't want to have him on. Let's have him on, the author of All or Nothing, How Trump Recaptured America. First, Mr. Wolff, my question for you is, how have you uncovered that you're pretty much banned from being on corporate media?
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
He called me many times trying to set up a meeting, but I never called him back because I didn't want to give him credibility of an interview, blah, blah, blah. There's so many other posts like this. And Michael Wolff's out with a new book called All or Nothing, How Trump Recaptured America. And frankly, because of posts like that, He's kind of persona non grata when it comes to corporate media.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
What's the shock to you? I mean, you spent your whole career as a reporter. You write these books. You read a lot of books that before I even got into quitting my law practice and doing this full time, I read I read your books. I read Fire and Fury. Just this idea that you would be told. It's the climate has shifted where you can talk about your book. And I know the exhaustive process.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
I mean, you go through hours and hours of interviews and and fact checks. And they're being told because you're writing a book critical, you can't go on the networks. And then Trump's people are saying it's a different climate, which you perceived, I think, rightfully so as a threat.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
Yeah, well, you're going to be stuck with me right now for this interview, Michael. So let me ask you one question, and we get more viewers than a lot of them, and I think all of them. So let me start here. I want to go talk about your book in a moment, but I did show that clip of the Epstein tapes, and I think it's in the news a lot because Trump's putting it in the news.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
And normally you do a book tour. You talk about your book. Michael Wolff wrote about it in The Hollywood Reporter. Michael Wolff, Trump scared the news networks into banning my book. It's a guest column in The Hollywood Reporter. And does it shock you that the corporate media oligarchs who went and kissed the ring at Mar-a-Lago would not want someone like Michael Wolff on their network?
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
His regime people are saying, we've got the files, we're going to release the files, and then they release – They give binders to influencers who then say, these are the Epstein files. And then they blamed it on like FBI in New York and said, that's the reason why. And then I think they're just hoping that everybody like just forgets about it. Just can you remind us and let us know
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
The amount of one, why do you have these, the audio recordings like that? How many do you have? And just remind the audience of like a general flavor of what they are so people know what it is that I even showed them.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
They used to have him on the network all the time to talk about his reporting. I think there may be another reason as well that Trump attacks Wolff more than anybody. What can it be? I thought for a second they were going to release those Epstein files. Remember all of those MAGA influencers? They went outside and they were holding their binders up saying that they had those Epstein files.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
How many hours would you say is about audio? You said there's like maybe 80, 100 hours total. But of that, what do you think would be of Trump-related conversations? You know, I can't.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
Are you planning on ever releasing? I saw the snippets on Daily Beast, the other portions that haven't been released.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
Well, we'll chat afterwards, and I'll make a pitch to you. But let's talk about the book All or Nothing right now. Tell us what's in this book. Tell us why people should get it and why this is kind of the evolution of your books, whether it was Fire and Fury. Where does this fit in your – Sure.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
You know, there's something too, though, about your legacy as a writer of these types of biographies that I think scares him. It's peculiar and particularly focused on you. And I think it's because, you know, and this is a compliment to you, that you're one of the kind of remaining old school biographers kind of out there and in his own mind.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
And it turned out it was just like Epstein's phone list, by the way, which has Trump's name on it, which was released many years ago in connection with the various cases involving Epstein. But if y'all remember, Wolf's got a lot of tapes online. of Epstein talking about Donald Trump.
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Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
He respects your work in a sense, and he knows your process. So when you're giving that lens, his fragile ego can't accept it. I don't know if there's parts of that, but it's something unique about you that pisses him off. There's lots of people like that.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Fox is very scared right now. Let me give you some data points. Consumer confidence is in the gutter. The economy is crashing. Donald Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi promised to release the Epstein files and now, surprise, surprise, she's covering it up.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Then Sean Hannity is terrified of Democrats going into these red and purple districts. So Hannity says, look, if you're in one of these conservative areas, be careful. The Democrats may be talking about like transgender people playing sports. Oh, here, play this clip.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
That's all they have at this point. All they have is to try to bully marginalized communities as Donald Trump and Elon Musk take a wrecking ball to Medicaid, Social Security, cruelly fire our heroic president. Veterans gut the VA, gut the NIH, CDC, Department of Education, attack the most vulnerable, attack poor kids. And what are the MAGA Republicans talking about?
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
And Democrats are going into reddish and purplish districts where MAGA Republican Congress members are too afraid to hold town halls and Democrats are speaking with pissed off constituents. and voters who are enraged at what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Doge and all of these magas are doing. So what is the Fox propaganda machine doing? They are propagandizing it.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Ooh, the Democrats are coming in talking about transgender volleyball players. What the hell are they even talking about? Then you have... Alan Dershowitz, Donald Trump's lawyer, he goes on Fox and he praises how great Donald Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi is doing. I think she's doing great. So Dershowitz, Trump's lawyer, also has some connections with Jeffrey Epstein, I might add.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
So maybe this is why he's praising Pam Bondi. Maybe Fox is platforming. I don't know, but you can judge for yourself. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
And remember, Pam Bondi said she was releasing the Epstein files, but it turned out she just brought in a few weeks ago, those MAGA influencers who were handed binders that says the Epstein files, here it is. And it wasn't the Epstein files. Remember what it was? It was like Epstein's
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
phone list, which was released many years ago, by the way, which had Donald Trump's phone number on it and lots of Donald Trump contact information on it. But let me just give you this data point on Alan Dershowitz, Trump's lawyer, former lawyer who was on Fox, who was saying, Pam Bondi's doing a great job. Take a look at this.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Told you we got to come with receipts here on the Midas Touch Network. That's what we're going to do. So then as Donald Trump is crashing our economy as people's 401ks and pensions are in the gutter. But according to Kellyanne Conway, things are great. Who does the Trump regime bring onto the Fox show? Maria Bartiromo, who also sits on the Kennedy board at Donald Trump's selection.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
She's one of Trump's chief propagandists. They bring on Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, and he's like, whoa, there's no way there's going to be a contraction. The Atlanta Federal Reserve, no way, they're wrong. Watch what he has to say. Play this clip.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Then on the Laura Ingraham show, they hosted J.D. Vance and he just said a bunch of word salad about how he's deferential to Donald Trump. I didn't try to even make sense of what he's saying here. Let's play it.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Let me show you what they're doing. They have Kellyanne Conway, the queen of alternative facts. She goes on The Hannity Show, and she talks about consumer is up, way up, everybody. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
And then Hannity brings on Donald Trump's national security advisor, Mike Waltz, who just spews Russian propaganda. And I like the way Hannity, I don't really like it, but Hannity in this clip acts like, so let me just see if I can postulate this correctly. So what you're saying is, I suspect the deal is going to be like this. Hannity's actively involved in Trump administration policy as well.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
So he's just giving the layup to spell it out to his audience. Play this clip.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
I think this comment sums this up nicely, though. What this is almost certainly about is the Trumpers in their vast ignorance buying into the Russian claim that the Ukrainians in the Donbass region are Russians because they speak Russian. That's like claiming the Irish are English because they speak English. And that's why Hannity was serving it up kind of as a layup to literally launder Ukraine.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Consumer confidence is way down. It's the worst University of Michigan inflation expectations since 1993. It's the worst University of Michigan consumer sentiment. They're the university that takes these consumer survey data. They're the gold standard. It's the worst University of Michigan consumer sentiment since 2022.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
the Russian Putin talking points, talking about laundering the Russian Putin talking points. Donald Trump earlier in the morning yesterday literally posted Putin's talking points. Trump says, we had a very good and productive discussion with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday. Pause there. Have you ever seen Donald Trump post, we had a very good and productive conversation
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Have you ever heard him say something anyway? But about Putin, it was very productive. And there is a very good chance that this horrible bloody war can finally come to an end. But at this very moment, thousands of Ukrainian troops are completely surrounded by the Russian military and in a very bad and vulnerable position. That's all in caps for dramatic impact.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Trump goes, I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared. This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II. God bless them all. Literally everything Donald Trump said there is absolutely false. It's some fantasy Russian propaganda fiction that Putin spews to his people. There's nothing true about that.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
So Ukraine's general staff had to issue a statement directly refuting the report that Ukrainian forces are encircled. Here's what the Ukrainian general staff wrote. Reports of the alleged encirclement of Ukrainian units... by the enemy in the Kursk region are false and fabricated by the Russians for political manipulation and to exert pressure on Ukraine and its partners.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
The situation has remained largely unchanged over the past day. Combat operations within the operational zone of the Kursk group of forces Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine have successfully regrouped, withdrawn to more advantageous defensive positions, and are executing their assigned tasks within the Kursk region.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Our soldiers are effectively repelling enemy offensive actions and inflicting significant fire damage using all available weapon systems. Since the beginning of the current day, 13 combat clashes have taken place in the Kursk direction. There is no threat of encirclement of our troops. units. In other words, everything that Trump is saying is absolutely false right there. Surprise, surprise.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Howard Lutnick then goes on Fox, Trump's commerce secretary, to attack the EU. Here, play this clip. The world just let us rebuild.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Now, one of the things about that attack on the EU that I find interesting, did you see this story from Reuters? How many eggs can you send? US is now asking countries that it's attacking to help lower the soaring prices of US eggs. Peep this.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic Countries Egg Association said on Friday. The request from the U.S. Department of Agriculture coincides with a raft of new U.S. tariffs on countries, including in Europe, and a threat of more.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Donald Trump has also threatened economic sanctions unless Denmark hands over control of Greenland to the United States while the Trump administration or regime, I should say, is out there begging, begging Denmark to help the U.S. lower egg prices. How utterly despicable can you get? Yeah, probably more with the Trump regime. There you have it. You see the propaganda.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
And the big news in this University of Michigan data was not simply the inflation expectations and consumer sentiment. Look at what people are saying about the jobs market. Expected change in unemployment is the worst right now since the 2008 recession. So let me fact check Kellyanne Conway right there with actual data.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
I know you want me to fact check it, which is why I come with the receipts when I show you anything Fox related. Let me know what you think. And subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Suffers Badly as It All Backfires on Him
There's Donald Trump heading out to golf yesterday while vacationing in Florida at Mar-a-Lago. Such a small individual in a big car right there. And while Donald Trump was vacationing at Mar-a-Lago and playing golf, This was the event that he was hosting at Mar-a-Lago. You see it right there where they had a giant pink Croc Birkin bag on display. The theme was expensive purses and pocketbooks.
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And he says it's just gonna focus on the gangs, but if you actually read the text, It would give Donald Trump unilateral authority, basically, to declare anybody a gang member and deport them without their constitutional rights. The Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked three times before in history. The War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.
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And now, as Donald Trump is alleging, Venezuela has invaded Venezuela. the United States of America, which it has not. Let me also be very clear. Nobody wants gangs here in the United States. There are already laws on the books that deal with gangs and how to deport them, as well as how to criminally prosecute them and how to throw the book at them. You don't need to invoke phony wartime powers.
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And as I've said before, I believe Donald Trump is doing this as a precursor to invoking other wartime powers to eventually declare martial law, put curfews on and try to rule like an authoritarian. That's what this moment is about. And we have to perceive it as such. As I've said, I don't call the Trump regime a government because it's not by the people for the people.
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It's by the bullies for the billionaires and for Putin. Speaking of Putin, this was an interesting headline that I read. Donald Trump appoints Keith Kellogg as special envoy to Ukraine and removes him from dealings with Russia. I found that headline quite interesting because I remember back on November 27th of 2024, this headline from the Associated Press and others, and we reported as well.
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Trump selects longtime advisor Keith Kellogg as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. I put that X over the word Russia, and you see I circled there November 27th, 2024. So what Donald Trump did, by the way, this was at Vladimir Putin's request, was to remove Kellogg from having any dealings with Russia. So right now, Kellogg is just the envoy to Ukraine.
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And the regime just wants us to accept this as though Donald Trump has just made this appointment and it didn't happen on November 27, 2024. And now Donald Trump is changing it because Putin is telling him to. But the regime wants us to believe, oh, that is perfectly normal. That's how Donald Trump keeps on caving to Putin.
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I've been reporting, and I'll do other reports today, how Europe has been fearlessly and forcefully by Ukraine's side and has not let Ukraine go it alone. Yesterday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a virtual meeting of the new coalition of the willing, whereas the United States essentially is in the access of evil right now with Putin, North Korea, Hungary, more on Hungary in a little bit,
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and others, Europe is standing up on behalf of Ukraine. And they all have kind of a joint plan to make sure that there actually is peace through strength and that those words mean something and that Europe will provide security guarantees to Ukraine. But this is what Donald Trump posted yesterday. And I want you to remember this. Trump is golfing. He's on vacation.
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By the way, that pocketbook that they're, I guess, showcasing there is for sale at the price of $447,000. $447,000. So as Donald Trump is gutting your Medicaid, calling your social security a Ponzi scheme, firing veterans, cutting 60 to 70,000 jobs at the VA, tanking our economy, destroying your 401k and pension,
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He's doing a Birkin bag party celebrating half a million dollar pocketbooks. And this is what he's posting. I'm pleased to inform you that General Keith Kellogg has been appointed special envoy to Ukraine. General Kellogg, a highly respected military expert, will deal directly with President Zelensky and Ukrainian leadership.
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He knows them well and they have a very good working relationship together. Congratulations, General Kellogg. So in other words, you demoted him. You've removed him from being the special envoy to Ukraine and Russia because you're terrified of your daddy, Vladimir Putin. That's what went down. By the way, Keith Kellogg was once a respected individual.
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Remember, I said this guy's the first guy to be pushed out and this guy's humiliated himself. This guy was a fierce defender of Ukraine. You can say a lot about him and be critical, but he had the experience and he had a good reputation. Now, Keith, if you're watching this, your reputation is in the toilet bowl. You played yourself and you are a laughingstock to the whole world.
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And I know your people watch this. You are a clown. You beclowned yourself. I know you're watching. You beclowned yourself, Keith. By the way, I'll show you another example. This was Keith Kellogg recently when he was speaking at a foreign relations panel, and he basically got booed and hissed. And here's what he was saying. He goes, yeah, Donald Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours.
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He didn't say which 24 hours. So pathetic. Play this clip.
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Oh, yeah. And yesterday, Donald Trump gave an interview that aired where Donald Trump said he was just being sarcastic when he said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, that he didn't really mean it. Play this clip.
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Oh, ha ha ha. So is the sarcasm, Donald. That's not like you killed people there, which you did. Oh, just sarcastic. Like when you said no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. Oh, just kind of sarcastic. Like when you said people wouldn't get taxed.
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at all, that you would have an external revenue service and we'd make so much money on the tariffs that people wouldn't even have to pay taxes ever again. Or then you said that people who make under $150,000 don't have to pay taxes. Oh, you're very, very sarcastic. Or when you said you were going to lower prices on day one, oh, very sarcastic.
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When you said you were going to protect Medicaid and now you cut it and you're destroying people's Medicaid. Oh, so it's just a little bit of sarcasm here. When you said you were going to make housing more affordable, how can I not trace the sarcasm as you're making people suffer? And it pisses me off that you're making people suffer. Just take a look at some of these other headlines as well.
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Elon Musk's Doge cuts hit the team saving kidnapped Ukrainian children. A unit that helps rescue Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia during its full-scale invasion has been defunded by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They paused financial support for researchers at Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab.
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A university spokesperson confirmed to Newsweek that the government funding for its work on the war in Ukraine has been discontinued. How about this? Elon Musk and Donald Trump quite literally exposing America to real terrorism from anywhere new. Elon Musk has cut funding to the TSA for bomb sniffing service dogs, including their food and veterinary care. That's what Elon Musk was doing.
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How about this? Trump's DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown University Medical School who is here legally on an H-1B visa that doesn't expire until 2027 and has committed no crimes. Trained in the US at Ohio State, University of Washington and Yale as a transplant surgeon. one of the most difficult surgical fields in all of medicine.
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She is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants, which cannot be easily replaced. Her phone was seized at the border. A federal judge handed down an injunction against her deportation, but she was already deported on a plane en route to Paris. Brown's kidney transplant clinic is now strained by her deportation.
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There are stories like that that don't get told every day, but we'll tell them here on the Midas Touch Network.
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Also, it should be noted that yesterday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., Judge Boasberg issued a ruling, an injunction blocking Donald Trump from invoking the Alien Enemies Act and then set a briefing schedule for about 14 days or so and said any planes that are already out there need to turn around immediately. I wanted to flag this as well. I saw this on Donald Trump's social media posts.
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It's great to know that at Mar-a-Lago, while Donald Trump's been vacationing this weekend, they're throwing a party where they're honoring the pink Birkin Croc bag that's for sale for the price of $447,000. Now, while Donald Trump was vacationing, he also invoked wartime powers. He invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
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So as he posts, there are these advertisements. And by the way, Trump media has only made $4 million in revenue and lost $400 million in revenue last year. But there are ads like this that I guess generate revenue that use his name, image, and likeness. So I had to click on it. It's called Patriot Addict. And it says, we're giving away free Trump blankets to everyone who clicks this post today. So
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Trump contracts with these people, right? I mean, they're using his name, image, and likeness to sell things on his social media platform. So I had to click on it to see, you know, what in the world is this? What are they selling here? And here's what happens when you click the Trump blanket. It says...
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There is no doubt times are tough for America, and it doesn't appear to be getting better anytime soon. It's time to start getting ready for new America to help in one small way. It's a patriotic survival company that is issuing free Trump blankets to all patriots in a massive campaign to grow their patriot mystery box. So the Trump ads are saying the following.
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There's no doubt that times are tough for America and it doesn't appear to be getting better anytime soon. I don't know because when I see Trump's buddies at Mar-a-Lago, they're advertising $447,000 Birkin, Rose, Sherazade, Crocodile, I don't even know how to say these words, bags. That's what they're doing here. I want to show you this graph as well.
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Capital is flowing right now from US to Europe. Europe's doing well right now. People are saying, get my money the hell out of the United States. I don't want to be anywhere near this Trump craziness. So people are putting their money to Europe.
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By the way, European countries are making their pitch to people and governments to buy their products, to buy their weapon systems, to buy their stuff and not to buy Americans. Europe, Canada, elsewhere, they're boycotting all things America, boycotting American tourism. One other thing I want to mention here, I'm going to do a longer video on it today. So I'll just mention it here as well.
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So Trump's buddy, Viktor Orban, is in a lot of trouble right now in Hungary. There were massive, massive protests in Budapest. And the opposition leader is poised to win, he called. Orban comrade to mock him. And I think Orban is done. I think see you later, Orban in Hungary. It's just a matter of time.
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Then in Serbia, in Belgrade, massive protests there as well against the Putin-aligned regime there as well. And so people are rising up right now, standing up against Putin, standing up against the Trump regime, which aligns itself with Putin. And you see what Donald Trump did there with Keith Kellogg.
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And all of this was happening, by the way, again, while Trump was like partying, like the guys like, what would they say? You know, Nero played the fiddle as Rome burned. Well, Donald Trump's been hosting parties with
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half a million dollar Birkin bags for his billionaire buds and their wives and their families and playing golf while he's crashing the American economy, while he and Elon Musk are inflicting suffering, while he's invoking war powers. Well, we the people aren't going to take it, are we? We the people aren't going to take it.
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Yes, Donald Trump put in an executive order that the United States of America is currently at war. He describes it as a hybrid war between Venezuela and the Venezuelan gangs against the United States, whereby Venezuela and the gangs fight. have created such an invasion that it is a war, that Donald Trump needs to invoke wartime powers in order to deport people who he believes to be war criminals.
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Y'all think that we're just going to be like, okay, you could have your pink Birkin bag party. Okay, Donald. Ain't going to happen. Ain't going to happen. People are pissed. The summer of democracy is coming. It's coming. Let's stand up. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network. We're in this together. We're exposing these fools. We're exposing these fascists, huh?
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They didn't think they were going to have to deal with us, did they? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Has Morning Tantrum as Mental State Gets Worse
Trump's psychopathic behavior is getting worse as he loses more cases in courts, as his authoritarian designs are being resisted by Europe, by Canada, by Mexico, and elsewhere. He is getting more unstable. Let me show you what he posted this morning. He went on a complete tantrum. He posted the following. He who saves his country does not violate any law. says every dictator I think ever.
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to the oligarchs and to the billionaires. I ask any of you, go read what the budget says. Doesn't have any of the no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. It's all a bunch of BS. But here he says, should I audit the IRS into oblivion? I don't know. I mean, the fact that they've audited you before because you don't pay your taxes.
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And it turned out that when people looked at your tax returns and they finally got four or five years, you basically paid like nothing. There were some years where you paid the equivalent of like a $750 filing fee. But this is how he riles up his base, who I doubt have been audited the way Trump has been audited. Here's his post announcing the first ever presidential poll from Donald Trump.
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But it's not really a poll. When you click through, it says, give him money so he can grift off his supporters. It says, Ben, are you sick of being targeted and harassed by the IRS? Well, maybe it's time that somebody ordered them for a change. I hear that they'd fail worse than crooked Joe Biden on the debate stage. It would be that bad. Ben, are you sick of them?
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Before I make any final decisions, I need to hear directly from you. Should I authorize Elon Musk and Doge to audit the IRS? Yes or no? Yes. Make America efficient again. Then you click it and it says basically give him money. It's not really a poll. You then have this post by him as well. Trump moving towards peace in Ukraine is the most statesman-like president in history.
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And then this is some right-wing crazy article. And then it has him, and again, he desperately wants to have his face on Mount Rushmore. And this is what the MAGA Republicans are talking about. It says, it calls to mind the American and world leaders who defended freedom in during World War II. You serious? You think that? It's probably the opposite.
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You see, Americans during World War II stood up to the Nazis, stood up to fascism. The names that go back in history as being weak in World War II and appeasement are names like Neville Chamberlain. But What J.D. Vance did was worse than what Neville Chamberlain did by far. What J.D. Vance did was outright capitulation. What you did was outright capitulation to Putin.
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You said that Ukraine should not be entitled to its own land pre-2014 borders. You also said that Ukraine should not be a member of NATO. So you removed all of the negotiating chips. Then you had your delegation try to get Zelensky to sign a piece of paper turning over all of their rare earth materials to the United States.
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And you had your people demand he sign it right there, which he did not do. Zelensky said Trump has no plan. By the way, Trump, you told Americans as well that Russia was going to be sending a delegation to Munich where all the sides were going to talk. Guess what? Russia did not send a delegation to Munich. And all I hear you do is talking about.
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That's what he's posting this morning, essentially saying that he will not follow laws and that he will rule as a dictator. I think he realizes how utterly pathetic and weak he has been looking as the world has been both horrified, mortified, and just vicariously humiliated by his behavior. Then he posts the following this morning at 10 a.m. Should I audit the IRS into oblivion? Pause there.
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annexing Canada, annexing, taking over Panama, annexing Greenland, threatening your allies. What J.D. Vance did was attack and threaten European democracies and democracies abroad. And J.D. Vance in Munich promoted Russia interfering with elections. I think J.D. Vance got like three people to applaud for him. It was absolutely pathetic. Donald Trump continues to post this.
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This is from Miranda Devine. This is like the New York Post propaganda is just next level. Trump administration is showing itself as a child friendly administration because Elon Musk brought his kid into the Oval Office, who is basically like yelling at Donald Trump in the Oval Office because Elon Musk wears his kid as a prop as they go through
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All of our files as they go through our tax records, our social security information, our medical files. By the way, Trump fired allegedly accidentally the workers who oversee our nuclear arsenal and then scrambled to try to. hire them back when it goes, oh, wait a minute, we fired all the people who oversee our nukes. The level of incompetence is matched by the corruption here.
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But Donald Trump then goes on to say, he posts this article from Breitbart. I mean, these articles would make North Korean propaganda blush. Banks, Trump brought back manufacturing, saved America. Trump brought back manufacturing? What the hell are you talking about? Donald Trump's tariffs are about to lead to a manufacturing depression after former President Biden
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created a manufacturing boom under President Biden with his infrastructure act. There had been more manufacturing projects going up across the country than ever. Donald Trump right now is killing manufacturing. Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariff
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is going to cause grievous harm retaliation is already being started across the world in response to america's actions and this is donald trump also says that he's going to basically tariff any nation in the world he reposted this again that has a vat a vat tax which is trade neutral by the way and is not a tariff he goes we're going to tariff all of you
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Oh, remember, didn't Donald Trump say, what was it, three or four days ago, that if Hamas didn't return all of the hostages, all of the hostages to Israel, that Trump, he said that we will unleash hell. Hell will be unleashed. And Trump gave a noon deadline today, East Coast time on Saturday, which is a holy day, by the way, in that region. But that's what Donald Trump said at noon Eastern time.
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Well, what happened? Hamas returned the three hostages who they were already going to return. Not all of the hostages. Israel returned the 200 or 350, whatever the number was, hostages back 300. I think it was 300 hostages back to Israel. Hamas in Gaza. And it was just what the deal previously was that former President Biden made. Hell didn't break loose. Hamas didn't return all of the hostages.
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And then Donald Trump pivoted and changed it where he was like, well, Israel's is what Trump goes. Hamas has just released three hostages from Gaza, including an American citizen. They seem to be in good shape. This differs from their statement last week that they would not release any hostages. Israel will now have to decide what they will do about the 12 o'clock today deadline.
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I'm going to show you what he wrote, but let me tell you what I think you should do. You should have no tax on tips. You should have no tax on Social Security. You should have no tax on overtime. You should lower the prices of groceries. You should lower the prices of eggs. You should make housing more affordable.
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He puts that in caps imposed on the release of all hostages. The United States will back the decision they make. You said that you were going to do something. So now you're saying it was Israel's decision. You will back that decision. Again, Trump makes fake deals. OK, Canada, we need you to have a fentanyl czar. Mexico, we need you to have 10,000 troops at the border.
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There was already 15,000 Mexico troops at the border. But as I said, think about this. Let me repeat this, folks. The Trump and GOP budget had nothing about no tax on tips, nothing about no tax on overtime, nothing on no tax on social security. It does have a $4.5 trillion tax cut for the billionaires. However, I'm going to leave you with this because Trump has just done pissed off all of Canada.
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This was at the four nation games in Canada. I just want you to see how amped the Canadian patriotism is right now. Here, play this clip. Here's what Zelensky said yesterday.
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And by the way, here was Zelensky staring down J.D. Vance at yesterday's hearing and didn't sign anything giving up their rare earth medals. Zelensky stood firm, stood his ground. And when J.D. Vance had to sit across from Zelensky, it was a very different tone than when J.D. Vance was attacking Europe. Play this clip.
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Those were the things that you promised, notably absent from your budget and the Republicans' proposed budget. was anything about tax on tips, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. But there was an $880 billion cut to Medicaid, a $350 billion cut to the Department of Education, about a $300 billion cut to farmers and agriculture, and a $4.5 trillion cash giveaway to
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Trump Makes Fatal Error Over Nuclear Arsenal
The Trump administration has made fatal error after fatal error regarding our nuclear arsenal, classified information, personnel information, and one has to ask, is it an error, is it a mistake, or is this malicious and wanted? Take a look at this headline, Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing that they oversee the country's weapon stockpile. Sources say that's right.
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And this was part of the broader energy department layoffs where they want to fire basically everybody in the agency. Now, if you believe this was mere negligence, that just means that you've also then said, Trump is this brilliant businessman and Elon Musk is so smart. These are the smartest people ever. Yet they fire the people who oversee the nukes?
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You think that's what really happened, that it was just a mere mistake? What is it? Did they do it intentionally? Did they just fire everybody and not realize who these people were? So of course the Trump administration lies, but their lie is it was less than 50 people, which I think we know to be false because they lie about everything. Some of the fired employees, including NNSA staff,
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who are on the ground at facilities where nuclear weapons are built, were pretty surprised when they got this news. You'd think there'd be some job security that you wouldn't be fired overnight when you're the one overseeing the nuclear button. But then again... Take a look at this guy, Pete Hegseth. Six questions, three scotches.
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This was him in Brussels, and then he was also in other places in Europe as well, where he was giving away all of America's bargaining power as it relates to Ukraine, saying that Ukraine should enjoy NATO and that Ukraine should never get the... of land pre-2014 back, basically giving Putin everything that he wants.
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But that's Pete Heggs at the Fox News host, who Donald Trump and spineless Republicans gave our nuclear arsenal to. So Do you sense a pattern here, picking the most unqualified person? By the way, I don't know what he was drinking there. It's a weird cut, by the way.
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And we all know Pete Hegseth's history when it comes to drinking, that he both redeemed himself and found Jesus Christ and became a changed man after sexual assault allegations and allegations of rampant alcoholism. He found Jesus Christ and repented, but then also he never did anything wrong. So what are you repenting about? It doesn't make sense. So you have Hegseth.
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You have terminating the nuclear arsenal. You've got the people overseeing it. You've got Donald Trump appeasing Putin. Do you sense a pattern here as well? It goes on to talk about how after these Thursday night firings,
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bipartisan senators members of congress like whoa you fired these people quote their strong support on the hill for the nnsa and its nuclear modernization writ large clearly the nnsa is a critical agency lawmakers are concerned oh my god Gosh, I'm so concerned there, Donald. You are giving away our nuclear arsenal, aren't you?
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I mean, just think about these spineless MAGA Republican Congress members. Now, at the same time that's happening, Elon Musk is bemoaning. That's the headline that news week. He's bemoaning too much information is being classified. That's what he's bemoaning about. Interesting. Donald Trump, somebody who stole classified information after he left office the last time, talked about it publicly.
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He's bemoaning things that are just too much stuff classified. Meanwhile, the Doge website, which which is supposed to post, I guess, information about what Musk is doing. I don't know. posted classified information worrying intelligence officials. Fatal mistake, fatal error, or intentionally malicious? I'll let you decide.
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Elon Musk's much-touted new website for the Department of Government Efficiency posted classified government information setting off alarm bells in the intelligence community. The website, which launched in the middle of last week, published federal personnel data including employee head counts and budget details.
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What happened this past week is the Trump officials fired hundreds of people at the National Nuclear Security Administration, and then Friday they scrambled to try to hire back the people they fired because they didn't realize that this was the team that oversaw America's nuclear weapons. I just want to read from you a little bit from this story.
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Although there was a note at the bottom of the site that says the workforce data excluded information about certain agencies, military and intelligence organizations, that classified data was actually verified. visible when you took a look at it. The site published data about the National Reconnaissance Office, the federal intelligence agency that builds and launches U.S. surveillance satellites.
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The NRO budget and headcount are classified, but continue to be accessible on the site. Quote, Doge just posted secret NOFURN, not releasable to foreign nationals info on their website about intelligence community headcount. So currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed according to defense intelligence officials.
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This is something that Elon Musk should know about because SpaceX has a contract with these types of agencies. Also, the Doge website was hacked and then people, hackers were posting, this is a joke of a .gov website people are posting. Others were saying that this thing, Quote, these experts left their database open, another hacker posted.
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404, which is doing a good job covering all of these shenanigans, criminality, negligence, recklessness, maliciousness. You pick your word. Anyone can push updates to doge.gov website. So as all of this is going on, you have Lee Zeldin, member of the cabinet. And here he goes. This is all great. This is just the appetizer.
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These past three weeks, you know, with inflation going up, up, up again, with consumer confidence being shattered, with corporate America feeling total and utter chaos, right? With all of that going down, Lee Zeldin goes, if you love these weeks, wait until you see what we have in store for you. Here, play this clip.
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And while all of this is going on, everything I just listed, here Donald Trump says that he believes, this is what he said at the end of last week, Putin wants peace, he said. He goes, I trust this guy so much. Didn't say nice things about Ukraine, said horrific things about Ukraine. But Trump says, I believe Putin that he wants peace. Play this clip.
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Then I want to talk about the classified information that's not supposed to be revealed to foreign sources that was just posted on the Doge website. We could talk about how hackers access the Doge website. We'll talk about all of this. So the Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night. at the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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While all of this is going on, China called for America to disarm itself because they smell utter incompetence and weakness. They chide them. They go, if you mean American first, then why don't you go first and get rid of all of your weapons? Well, I think that's kind of, they're already screwing up classified information in our nuclear systems, but play this clip.
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You know, but but by the way, folks, Donald Trump doesn't even know that China is in the bricks block. Trump believes that he destroyed that. This is what Trump believes for real, that he destroyed the bricks block. with his social media post. He destroyed it. That's the alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, BRICS. The C is China.
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But Trump goes, are they even in the BRICS block? Yes, they are. And they are developing a currency and an alliance that's attracting lots of South American countries and African countries and countries across the world who no longer feel safe with America leading the world because America's no longer leading the world. America's become a pariah state viewed like North Korea right now.
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In three short weeks, Trump's destroyed all of America's alliances. But play this clip so we can see, does he even know what the BRICS block is? Play this clip.
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Folks, that's like not knowing how to spell your name on the SATs or an exam that you take. If you're the president of the United States, you should know what the bricks block is. Anyway, hit subscribe. Help us get to 5 million subscribers. Let's get there quick. Thanks for watching.
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Now, you would think if you were making cuts and firing people, I don't know, maybe that would raise a red flag, Nuclear Security Administration. I mean, it should all raise a red flag, but maybe that one was like, are these people the people who oversee our nukes? This is the agency tasked with managing the nation's nuclear stockpile.
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Dems Finally go ATTACK MODE on Republicans IN PUBLIC
Let's go, Democrats. Who's gonna lead? Who's going to take charge? We see some Democrats going on the offense and pointing out that Donald Trump and his cabinet of oligarchs, who are worth over $500 billion combined, plan to pickpocket the American people and exploit we, the people, to further enrich their oligarchy. Here is Austin-based Congress member Greg Kassar, Democrat.
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Here's what he has to say. Watch this powerful message.
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Look, that's the type of messaging that's needed right now. I mean, just take a look at this new Echelon Insights poll. Among Democrats, Democrats should lean harder into economic populism, like breaking up big corporations and preventing workers from being exploited. 70% of Democrats are saying they should do that. Frankly, it's consistent with President Biden's middle-up, bottom-out economy.
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Let me show you this as well. This is Democratic Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut. Here's what he's got to say. Play the clip.
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And then Senator Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, raises this point as well. that Donald Trump's administration is compromised, right? They've taken all this money from the Middle East. You have Jared Kushner who got like $3 billion from the Saudis, UAE, Qatar, and others, making him millions of dollars in fees every year. You've got the Trump family.
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having their name plastered on buildings in Saudi Arabia. They're bragging about it. You've got Eric Trump bragging about his buildings that are paid for by Saudi Arabia, not his buildings, the Saudi buildings. They put the Trump name on it, give the Trump family tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars. Why? To buy them off.
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Look, MBS, the leader of Saudi Arabia, previously said that Jared Kushner is in his pocket. Here's what Senator Murphy had to say. Let's
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but more so he's going to put his wealth and his family's wealth first the national security of the country second and look these are the messages that need to get out you put those messages in contrast with indiana senator-elect jim banks right here who says we need to re-evaluate vaccines in general this is a senator spreading vaccine dis info with rfk jr on things like
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polio and measles that could result in the deaths of tens of millions, and especially children.
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As Shannon Watts puts it, is America trying to find new and creative ways to kill children besides gun violence? Well, not Americans, Republicans are. Count on the Republicans to do that. A large part of managing a business's finances is tedious, repetitive work to ensure accurate bookkeeping. You know what I'm talking about, ramp.
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You can customize spending limits and restrictions so employees are empowered to purchase what your business needs and you could have the peace of mind. RAM plays bad cop so you don't have to. You be good cop. Detecting policy violations, chasing missing documentation, requesting repayment, and locking cards of noncompliant employees. And get this,
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will allow you to close your books eight times faster and now get $250 when you join RAMP. Just go to ramp.com slash Midas. That's RAMP, R-A-M-P, ramp.com slash Midas, R-A-M-P.com slash Midas. Cards issued by Sutton Bank member FDIC. Terms and conditions apply. Let me just show you this as well. A group of students were trying to interview Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina.
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Just ask him some basic questions about corporate contributions he received. Watch how he treats these students. With utter disrespect, play this clip.
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Meanwhile, what's Donald Trump doing? Well, he's posting images of people who tattoo Trump's name on their arms. Can you say cult? Donald Trump is also saying mystery drone sightings all over the country. Can this really be happening without our government knowledge? I don't.
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think so exclamation point let the public know and now otherwise shoot them down d j t who's going to start shooting in the air that is that the game plan or how about donald trump saying this the republican party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight savings time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't.
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Dems Finally go ATTACK MODE on Republicans IN PUBLIC
Daylight savings time is inconvenient and very costly to our nation. As Aaron Rupert said, did standard time donate a million bucks to Trump's inauguration? Or what's going on here? You want to keep standard time where it gets darker earlier? Anyway, I digress. What Trump wants to keep, though, and what Congressmember Kazar and
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Senator Murphy are pointing out, which we've been talking about here at the Midas Touch Network all along, though, is this message of Donald Trump literally lives in a golden palace in a golden country club with golden toilet bowls. I mean, look how soft this guy is. I mean, just. This is what he was doing when people were fighting in Vietnam. He claimed that he had bone spurs.
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Just look at him on that bed right there. He's got golden toilet bowls while Elon Musk and other MAGA billionaires in Trump's cabinet talk about taking away vaccines and taking away your health care, getting rid of your Social Security, getting rid of veteran benefits, getting rid of Medicare, making sure that people are suffering. It's a real issue. But Democrats keep going on the offense.
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Sharp, strong, loud messaging on the economy. Please hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Evidence of Trump’s Stock Manipulation
We continue to look into whether or not stock manipulation was at play when at 9.07 a.m. in the morning earlier this week, Donald Trump posted, this is a great time to buy DJT, which also happens to be the stock symbol for Trump media. Then after saying that there was not going to be any pauses on these tariffs against the world, he then in a few hours later announced that
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I want to get your take on this Senator, what you've made of all of this. Um, since that's occurred, what you've evaluated. And even on a day like Friday, you've got Trump still dangling things. Oh, I may wanna call Xi Jinping, I may not. And all of these things are impacting the markets with volatility we haven't seen before.
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Now, normally that would be the job of something called the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department. But under the Trump regime, they're too busy disappearing people to El Salvador concentration camps and not focusing on this issue. So what do what happens? What does an independent investigation actually look like?
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Let's talk about the consumer sentiment right now. Let's just say it's not good or perhaps disastrous. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Report, the lowest since 1981, the second lowest since the 1950s. The people who were polled and that are surveyed expect inflation to go 6.7%. Even the independents in that poll expect 6.2%. It seems that people are understanding now finally.
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I mean, you and others were saying, Tariffs bad, tariffs bad. A little bit too late now that they're realizing that. But tell us your assessment, though, of just how disastrous these tariffs are and what it really means for the cost.
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that there would be a pause, kind of. The announcement was misleading. The tariffs against China went up. Then when you focus on the global tariff rate, it's still actually a blended rate of about 25% when you factor in all of the other tariffs.
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You know, we're hearing about treasury yields surging in a way that is very harmful. We're hearing about bond markets being disrupted and these bond auctions not going well. A lot of people are now learning about things that they never focused on under former administrations because you didn't have to wake, you didn't have to, before you go to sleep, go, I better check the futures market.
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Like there's a lot of that happening right now. So can you just explain to us why that's happening and why that's relevant?
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But then you started to see videos like this emerge of Donald Trump in the Oval Office with his billionaire buddies talking about how rich they got that day. And he's like, you got $2.5 billion. You got $900 million. Here, let's play this clip.
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know there was this bizarre cabinet meeting that was held earlier in the week i've described it as kim jong-un meets the apprentice and i said i think the people on the apprentice would do a better job than this cabinet so then you have elon musk gets called on in the cabinet meeting which even when i say this it feels like the worst dystopian mad libs ever and he describes the cuts
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that he's solved right and they said it was going to be two trillion that was their number two trillion and then he slips this in i'll play it for you and this whole thing is hot it's such a strange scene too but i want you to take a look at it when i think he says and we after all of this the hostile government takeover destroying the services he goes 125 billion and no one's like what what that that's not what you said here watch this clip and this whole scene
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What do you say?
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Also, when you look at the markets, you can kind of identify a very strange kind of surge in the Dow before Trump made the announcement. It's an odd looking spike right there. You see it spikes right before the 1 p.m. announcement, then the announcement happens and it spikes. So is that a cohort of people who may have known about it? Then these
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And finally, Senator, with all this talk about the tariffs, like we shouldn't forget, right, that it's actually not Trump's authority to do this. He's claiming extraordinary emergency war powers, the same types of powers in a different sense, but the same pretext he uses to do this disappearing of migrants without due process. He's doing it here with tariffs. But
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One of the issues is, is that the Republicans in the Senate, not all of them, and the overwhelming majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives, they want to forfeit the co-equal branch of government's authority to control this type of stuff, to control the tariff.
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So I know you're working towards legislation and trying on a bipartisan basis to say, hello, this is our role, not the role of a dictator.
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uh, exchange traded funds like spy and a triple Q and TQQQ that trade alongside some of the exchanges also had very strange activity right before Trump made this announcement. Lots of people saying lots of MAGA Republicans also saying now's the time to buy, you know, the person who knows the most about this stuff, both before being a Senator and her work in the Senate is Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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Senator Warren, we appreciate you as always. And hey, if you ever decide you want to be a podcaster, I'm always looking for co-hosts.
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I like it. Thank you very much.
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Absolutely. And everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Very Publicly Screws Over States Who Voted Him
The retribution tour continues. Donald Trump is denying FEMA aid to North Carolina in connection with Hurricane Helene. You'll recall we previously reported how Donald Trump denied FEMA aid to Georgia. Democratic governor in North Carolina, Republican Governor Kemp in Georgia. Donald Trump doesn't like either. And Donald Trump previously said recently that he wants to gut FEMA, get rid of it.
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on state regime media known as Fox and all the propagandists that FEMA wasn't giving money to people and that FEMA was just helping the migrants. And people believe that and then voted for Donald Trump.
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Take a look right here at the letter that Donald Trump just sent to the governor of North Carolina, Governor Josh Stein, where Trump says, quote, it has been determined that the increased level of funding is not warranted. In a emergency caused by a hurricane, this is the official letter from FEMA to Governor Stein.
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This is in response to your February 20th, 2025 request for an extension to the cost share waiver under major disaster FEMA-4827-DR that was declared on September 28th, 2024 due to tropical storm Helene. You specifically requested an extension of the 100% federal cost share waiver debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, for an additional 180 days.
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On September 25, 2024, the federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, was increased to 100% for 180 days from the start of the incident period pursuant to
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And then it goes on to say on December 6, 2024, the federal cost share for all categories of assistance, including direct federal assistance, was increased to 90% of total eligible costs, except for assistance previously approved at 100%. This cost share adjustment is for the lifetime of the disaster. Based on our review of all, by the way, that was all under former President Biden.
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Based on our review, the Trump regime's review, of all information available, it has been determined that the increased level of funding you have requested for major disaster is not warranted.
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Therefore, I must inform you that your request for an extension of the period of 100% federal funding for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance for an additional 180 days, is denied. Doesn't that look awfully similar to the letter?
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By the way, from when the request was made by North Carolina, February 20th, 2025, they're now getting a letter April 11th, 2025. Doesn't exactly sound like government efficiency to me. And it also feels retaliatory and the height of cruelty. I mean, what do you think a federal government's supposed to do? I guess for Donald Trump, it's make people suffer and boost his ego.
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Like this is the role of the federal government. And by the way, Georgia got a letter like this February 12th, 2025, similar letter. Dear Governor Kemp, this is in response to your January 2025 request for an extension to the cost share waiver under major disaster relief, FEMA dashed the same thing on September 30th, 2024 due to Hurricane Helene.
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It goes and talks about how Biden approved it for 180 days. It's now expired. And then Donald Trump says that he's denying it. Your request is therefore denied. And it goes and says that right there. We're going to closely monitor it, but it is hereby denied. Now, I'll just want to refresh your recollection here about what went down.
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He says he's going to replace it with the states. whatever that means, and that it's going to be much bigger and more beautiful and better, but Donald Trump not supporting people with emergency aid who lost their lives and lost their life savings or lost their shelter or lost their homes because of devastating hurricanes. You don't get much more low than that, actually, when it's Donald Trump.
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So when Donald Trump was in these various states and he was talking about FEMA spending their funds on things, like here's part of Donald Trump's campaign speech where he says, FEMA was great under the first Trump administration. We had tremendous success. Then he attacks Biden. Let's play this clip.
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Everything will be beautiful once I take office. Everything's going to... They spent all their funds. They have no funds to take care. They have no funds. They have no workers. They have no nothing. FEMA, we had such a good FEMA. FEMA was great under Trump, that I can tell you. We had tremendous success.
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This is what Donald Trump said when he was in North Carolina in October of 2024. He says, FEMA's not supposed to be spending the money on taking it out on illegal, on spending it on illegal migrants. Play this clip.
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A reporter asked Trump in North Carolina on October 21, 2024, how an armed man was arrested for threatening FEMA workers because Donald Trump's lies were activating MAGA people to terrorize FEMA workers. And here's what Trump said. Play this clip.
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Well, I think you have to let people know how they're doing. If they were doing a great job, I think we should say that, too, because I think they should be rewarded. But if they're not doing, does that mean that if they're doing a poor job, we're supposed to not say it? These people are entitled to say it. And these are honest people behind this.
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If FEMA were doing well, they would be saying they did a good job. They're not, for the most part, political people. For the most part, they're not political people. But you've obviously seen nothing but... You know, very bad statements coming out about the job that FEMA and this administration has done having to do with this area, North Carolina as a whole.
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And by the way, other states also, they're also complaining. But look, a lot of the money is gone. They don't have any money. They have to have they have to have a meeting in Washington, a special meeting in Washington to get money. It's all done. They've spent it on. Illegal migrants. Many of them are murderers. Many of them are drug dealers.
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Many of them come out of mental institutions and insane asylums. And many of them are terrorists. And they spent money to bring these people into our country. And they don't have money to take care of the people from North Carolina and other states. So, you know, I think you have to be able to speak. Does that mean let's talk about it?
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There's really no depths to his depravity. North Carolina voted for Donald Trump. Georgia voted for Donald Trump. Former President Biden immediately activated FEMA when it came to the national emergencies in both of those states over and over again, no questions asked, and supported those states relentlessly, only for Donald Trump to go into those states and lie and claim that FEMA was stealing.
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because by doing that they'll do a better job the next time it's very important yeah one more question and now let me also show you some receipts this is what governor kemp said when he was asked about This is in response to Hurricane Helene, where Governor Kemp is asked about when this is when Biden was in office. Did Biden give you a call? Did Biden reach out to you?
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Because Trump was lying and saying Biden refused to call Kemp. Here, play this clip. So.
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And here's the former governor of North Carolina, Governor Cooper, letting former Vice President Harris know when she was in the area, the amount of support that the Biden administration gave to North Carolina. Play this clip.
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And remember on January 24th, 2025, a few days into the Trump regime, Donald Trump visited North Carolina. And this is what he said about FEMA. Let's play this clip.
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So that's the only thing I can say. And certainly you have all heard the same stories that we all hear, that FEMA has done a very poor job. Our FEMA, when we had a problem, we did record rescues. And the job that FEMA did under... The Trump administration was really incredible.
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But they had spent, in all fairness to FEMA, they had spent hundreds of millions of dollars doing other things, things that I don't think bear any relationship to this money. They were not supposed to be spending the money on taking in illegal migrants, maybe so they could vote in the election, because that's a lot of people are saying that's why they're doing it. I don't know.
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I hope that's not why they're doing it. So they really didn't have any money. They don't have very much money. And now they're saying, can we have a special vote? Let's have a special session. I'm in favor of that. But somebody has to get back to why did they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on something that they were not supposed to be spending it on? Right.
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And from that visit, Donald Trump then said, they don't need FEMA to come in all of these states like Florida and others. You don't need FEMA, he said. And he goes, it should be the states that take care of it. Here, play this clip.
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FEMA is a very expensive organization that really doesn't work out very well. It hasn't, this is not the only example, so. It was up to me right now. It ended right now. And I just let the state take care of the problem. I mean, you can always have problems. Let the state, if it's Florida, it's a hurricane. Let Florida take care of it. They don't need FEMA to come in.
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Well, the whole thing is that FEMA works with the states. That's the way it works. This is not government efficiency. This is government cruelty, inflicting pain and suffering on North Carolina. And by the way, the North Carolina, Georgia, you voted for Trump. You voted for a guy.
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who took away emergency disaster assistance for debris removal, who's gutting your Social Security and your Medicaid, who's cruelly firing veterans, who's cruelly destroying the federal government. and getting rid of essential services that you need. You literally are voting.
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Trump Very Publicly Screws Over States Who Voted Him
Remember what Trump said during the campaign? That he would make FEMA so much better that during his term, FEMA was the greatest thing ever. And he said FEMA was stealing the money from the people of North Carolina and Georgia and elsewhere and giving it to illegal aliens is what he said. And then Donald Trump convinced his supporters, and this was echoed,
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I mean, I'm not saying all the people in North Carolina, there's a lot of people who voted Democrat in North Carolina and Georgia as well, but the state voted Trump. I think about all those people who are voting against someone who goes, yeah, you don't deserve disaster assistance. Yeah, you don't deserve your Medicaid. Yeah, die. This is a sick regime, this Trump regime. Cruel, cruelty.
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You have the receipts right there. You watched it for yourself. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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Musk Gets Instant Karma as Trump Tariffs Screw Him
Let's take a look at what's going on over here. As Fortune puts it, Trump tariffs backfire on Elon Musk as Tesla pulls U.S.-built models from China. Tesla has stopped taking orders for the Model S and Model X in China, which now face retaliatory tariffs in the amount of 125% on import duties levied by Beijing. So the local customers are only able to choose from new cars still in inventory.
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know which company is doing really good right now the chinese electric vehicle company byd byd shares are soaring and roaring right now and also china and europe are making deals together to bring chinese electric vehicles into the european market so as Elon Musk's Tesla share decreases.
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We're now going to see BYD and China's electric vehicles as China's actually investing in clean energy, green energy, which the MAGA Republicans here in the United States call the green new scam. And Donald Trump mocked during his campaign.
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now the chickens have come home to roost donald and elon musk with what's going on here now elon musk apparently was begging begging the trump regime not to do these tariffs on china and elsewhere which the trump regime did not listen to also we're seeing other members of the trump cabinet seem to turn against Elon Musk.
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They're also leaking out how annoying they think Elon is, how they despise him and how they just want him out and that he's just a very annoying person. Let me share this clip with you where Elon Musk says that he hopes the US and Europe move to a zero tariff situation. Really, Elon? You've enabled this and now you're getting your karma. You're just desserts. Here, play this clip.
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Now, there's a feud that has been brewing between Elon Musk and Peter Navarro. Peter Navarro is one of Donald Trump's top economic advisors, and Navarro's been going on Fox and making his rounds on other right-wing propaganda media, saying that Elon Musk really isn't a car manufacturer. He's just a salesman, Navarro says. He's just someone who sells cars.
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Elon Musk, meet karma. Karma, meet Elon Musk. Elon Musk is now getting the karma he deserves. It always comes for you when after destroying our federal government in a hostile takeover he did with Donald Trump. Gleefully, as Rolling Stones aptly put it in a recent headline, laughing as he calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme.
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So then Elon Musk responded by calling Navarro a moron. Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false. Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks by any definition whatsoever.
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tesla is the most vertically integrated auto manufacturer in america with the highest percentage of us content navarro should ask the fake expert he invented ron vera and then elon musk started calling peter navarro peter our word repeatedly over and over again.
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This is from that Rolling Stones article that I referenced before, which was basically titled Inside Elon Musk's Gleeful Destruction of the Government. Here's what it says. It says the following, quote, I have been in the same room with Elon and he always tries to be funny and he's not funny like at all, says a senior Trump administration official, quote.
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He makes these jokes and a little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don't lap up his humor. I keep using the word annoying a lot of people who have to deal with him do, but the word doesn't do the situation justice. Elon just thinks he's smarter than everyone else in the room and acts like it, even when it's clear he doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Musk has gnawed at the patience of an array of high-ranking administration officials. to the point that, according to this official and two others, Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high.
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Administration officials joked to one another about subjecting Musk to mandatory drug testing, which Musk himself said would be a great idea for federal employees. A lawyer for Musk has said that he's regularly and randomly drug tested at SpaceX and has never failed the test. Quote,
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Talking to the guy is sometimes like listening to a really rusty nail on a chalkboard, says the senior Trump administration official, who adds that Musk is not much of a team player either. He's just the most irritating person I've ever had to deal with. And that is saying something, especially someone who works for Donald Trump. That is saying something. I want to show this as well.
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Here's the audio of Elon Musk saying during his telephone town hall a while back that electing Trump would bring temporary hardship and pain, although I'm not sure Elon Musk expected to bring himself pain. But as I said at the beginning, karma comes for everyone, and Elon Musk played this clip.
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Now, Elon Musk's biggest foreign market, China, is saying bye bye, Elon. China has placed 125 percent retaliatory tariffs against the United States. in response to Trump placing 145% tariffs on China. China called Trump's levies against China laughable. China continues to mock the United States for Trump's reckless tariff regime.
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Should also be noted that Tesla, not only are Tesla sales plunging, but we're seeing gains in GM and other automakers. Overall sales of electric vehicles are actually rising about 11% in the first three months of the year as traditional car makers offer new models. And that's the leakage of people who had Teslas before saying, I can't be caught driving one of these things.
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You know, at this point, it is a sign of shame based on what Elon Musk has done to the brand. Car buyers are moving away from Teslas and towards models like General Motors, Chevrolet Equinox electric vehicle, which started at around $35,000. and other automobiles like that. Tesla sales plunged 76% in Germany last month.
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China, Europe, as I mentioned before, working together, which looks like it's going to help BYD. The BYD stock is soaring. And let me show you this. This is Trump's transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who got famous on the Real World Road Rules Challenge. And here he seems to be almost blaming Elon Musk and Doge for cuts. No, he doesn't seem he is. After multiple fatal aircraft crashes.
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There was the helicopter crash this weekend. Airplanes clipping each other. He was speaking in front of the federal aviation. That was Trump's transportation secretary speaking in front of the FAA there. Share this with you, a scoop from Wired. So I guess this is Elon Musk's last grasp here.
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So one of the things that Musk is trying to do is to make X, his social media platform, which used to be Twitter, the main form of communication by the government with people.
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So, for example, and Wired got this scoop, the Social Security Administration, SSA, will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X. Sources tell Wired this comes as agency plans, as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90%. So let me be very clear. They're cutting the regional social security office workforce by 90%.
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But if seniors want to now find out about issues regarding their benefits or what to do, apparently one of the things that we're learning about here is seniors will have to what? Join X. They'll have to join the platform right now. Um, seriously, um, in any event, uh, that's Elon Musk's last grasp here, but karma has definitely come from, Oh, you want to see what BYD looks like?
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This is from car gurus, UK. They've got a YouTube channel and here they go into the BYD car to show what it's like here. Play this clip.
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And now Elon Musk finds himself unable to sell Teslas to essentially his biggest market outside of the U.S., also Europe. boycotting Tesla's, the amount of Tesla's being sold in Europe, fractions of what it once was. Similarly, here in the United States, we're seeing a massive drop in Tesla sales. And of course, you all know about the Tesla protests, which seem to get bigger every single weekend.
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talking about here while they crashed the economy while people's pensions are destroyed and gutted life savings are being erased while Donald Trump and his oligarchs manipulate the market and say now is a good time to buy and we see rampant insider trading he goes back to Florida on our money on taxpayer money and takes freaking photos in front of gold statues of himself while he grifts off of us are you kidding me
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You see those crowds, Donald? They're not here to cheer you. They're here to fight you. They're here to fight your authoritarian regime. 36,000 people, Donald, who gathered in Los Angeles as part of Senator Bernie Sanders' Fight the Oligarchy tour that he did with AOC and others. We did a whole video covering it last night, and we streamed it live here on the Midas Touch Network.
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How could you possibly be OK with that unless you were just an absolute death cult member? Go live in North Korea if you like that crap. That's not what our Constitution is about here in the United States. And we're going to fight like hell every day in the Midas Touch Network to make sure that that is something that our future generations don't have to ever deal with.
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We'll work every day for that. Yeah. So while Donald Trump was doing all of that, by the way, he violated the Supreme Court's order and a district court's order after the Supreme Court in the nine to zero decision ordered Abrego Garcia to be returned. Remember, nine to zero.
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They said Trump regime facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia forthwith, to which the district judge of Maryland, Judge Zennis, held a hearing and said, OK, when are you returning Abrego Garcia? File papers. by 5 p.m. on Saturday and let me know what the heck is going on. The Trump regime blew the deadline because, of course, Donald Trump was too busy posing for photos in front of gold statues.
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And then when they finally submitted a declaration yesterday, they wrote they had someone from the State Department write the following. It is my understanding based on official reporting from our embassy in San Salvador that Abrego Garcia is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. He is alive and secure in that facility.
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He is detained pursuant to the sovereign domestic authority of El Salvador. Well, you filed that late. Two, this is hearsay because you clearly don't have personal knowledge. You're saying based on official reporting from the embassy, then someone from the embassy should write this declaration if you don't have firsthand knowledge. That's called hearsay, by the way.
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And also what Judge Zinnis put in her order was here was what was supposed to be filed. One, the current physical location and custodial status of Abrego Garcia. Two, what steps, if any, defendants have taken to facilitate his immediate return to the United States.
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and three what additional steps defendants will take and when to facilitate his return a follow-up person in hearing a follow-up hearing will take place on tuesday and you see what the trump regime didn't respond to what are you doing to return him and what steps need to be taken to return him because the supreme court ruled nine to zero facilitate his return so when i read that filing
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by the trump regime secretary uh state department person michael kozak i said oh i see what they're doing right here they're going to say sovereign authority of el salvador nothing we can do to facilitate it anymore then sure enough what does donald trump post the following looking forward to seeing president bukele naibu kelly the authoritarian leader of el salvador on monday
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Our nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations and build a future of prosperity. Bukele has graciously accepted into his nation's custody some of the most violent alien enemies of the world, and in particular, the United States.
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These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign nation, and their future is up to President Bukele and his government. They will never threaten or menace our citizens again, exclamation point. Let's be very clear. 75% of the individuals who you disappeared to this concentration camp in El Salvador do not have any criminal records in the United States.
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or in their home country. Some of them weren't even from El Salvador in the first place. Lots of these people were in the United States lawfully. They were asylum seekers. They submitted applications. The Trump judge, for example, in 2019, a Trump immigration judge, as it relates to Abrego Garcia, the Trump judge gave Abrego Garcia in 2019 protected status.
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There's no criminal record that this individual...
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has there's no there's no any allegations that this guy is or proven allegations that this guy is a gang member and this is an individual who showed up to ice checked in and then was sent to a concentration camp in el salvador by the way bukele is in washington dc or he's in flaw wherever he landed right now we have photos of him landing that he posted on his social media and there donald trump is saying you can see trump saying they're barbarians
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People are ready to fight your oligarchical kleptocracy regime. This is what Donald Trump was doing yesterday. Not making this up. He was posing for photos in front of a new gold statue of himself at his golf course while he was vacationing at the taxpayer dime. Here he is with a new golden statue at his golf course.
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we didn't give him due process and i'm not going to return him so there donald trump openly defying the supreme court there's a brego garcia by the way and also donald trump's white house propaganda account posted the following very exciting this is what they posted yesterday very exciting for america and the world we are doing really well on our tariff policy very exciting for america and the world it is moving along quickly
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DJT. I mean, this is some of the most heinous propaganda that would make North Korea blush. And I think what's happening is Donald Trump sees the opposition and resistance growing, that we the people are pissed and fighting back. They see the hands-off protests growing. Donald Trump sees the... Fight the oligarchy protests growing. He sees where people are.
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So I think Donald Trump's now accelerating the authoritarian machinations. And now he's saying to the Supreme Court 9 to 0, I'm not listening to you. I'm not facilitating the return. The migrants are with Bukele in El Salvador. He can do what he wants. That's me facilitating. Go pound sand.
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So in the same week that Donald Trump reeks of fascism, Donald Trump's imploded the economic markets, imploded the bond markets. Mortgages are above 7%. The 10- and 30-year Treasury bond yields are going way, way too high right now, showing instability in the United States markets. And Donald Trump has created a constitutional crisis, the biggest constitutional crisis in United States history.
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By the way, yesterday as well, Donald Trump caved once more and his regime announced exemptions as it relates to his tariffs to certain electronics like laptops and iPhones. In other words, helping people like Apple, Tim Cook, helping NVIDIA, helping semiconductors and the semiconductor industry, but screwing everybody else.
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So the billionaires, they'll get exemptions and the rest of the people, including Trump voters, are going to get screwed. But Trump didn't even have the guts to himself admit these exemptions, because remember, he's been going around saying, no exemptions, no exemptions, no exemptions.
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As this intraday commentary from Vital Knowledge explains, notably the exemption announcement by Trump was not made by Trump himself, but was instead posted on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website. suggesting that Donald Trump isn't keen to advertise what amounts to his second major tariff retreat in just a few days.
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It also speaks to a trade policy that's increasingly mercurial, incompetent, and to quote China from Friday, an absolute joke. The fact Trump didn't herald the exemption suggests even he was somewhat embarrassed about it. Trump abandoned a significant amount of negotiating leverage. Remember, didn't Donald Trump say... no exemptions. Here's what I'm going to do.
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Then quietly, he just has the U S customs announced that actually there's going to be exemptions to iPhones and to electronics and to laptops. When he said that was not going to happen. So what a coward, pathetic person he is and China and the rest of the world realizes how pathetic he is. By the way, I'm going to do a video shortly about,
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on canada's secret meetings you got to watch this video with other world leaders where prime minister carney the banker versus donald trump the bankruptor right canada has the top banker america has the top bankruptor prime minister carney met with world leaders and showed him how you engineer a bond implosion in the united states market watch that video after this one
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Let's go the right now to Bernie Sanders fight the oligarchy rally. We did a longer video on it, but let's see Bernie Sanders trolling Donald Trump at the crowd size that Bernie gets that Trump doesn't get play this clip.
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shaking hands with donors and other people and billionaires and rich folk laughing at the people laughing as they disappear. Migrants in the United States to concentration camps in El Salvador and then violate court orders. Here's Donald Trump golfing. Oh, by the way, last night, then Donald Trump went to a UFC fight. Here he is walking into the UFC fight, by the way, just totally ignoring the,
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And here's AOC talking about oligarchy versus democracy. Let's play this clip.
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And here's Democratic Congress member Gomez from Los Angeles talking about we're in the F around and find out stage. Here, play this clip.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. I'm Ben Maiselis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more. All at store.midastouch.com.
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The wife of RFK Jr., Cheryl Hines, right there. Good for her. But earlier in the day, while Donald Trump, I know he was very busy posing in front of gold statutes of himself, like what in the Kim Jong-un is that? What in the Saddam Hussein is that? What are we talking about?
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And oh, now you're saying you always supported the H-1B visa program? No, your policy and your ideas have just completely changed, a.k.a. you are a liar. Take a look at here some of these other Trump supporters. I voted for bro. I voted for Trump. I voted for bro. But Gulf of America sounds so crap. What the F does renaming the Gulf of Mexico have anything to do with anything?
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What are you talking about, Donald? I'm worried about how I'm going to be able to afford to live with my two children. I'm worried about...
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policies get the f out of here donald and here's the way you need to respond when donald trump does all of these wmds weapon of mass distraction stuff okay cool bro but how is this going to lower prices cool bro how is this going to make housing more affordable cool bro you said you were going to eliminate inflation president biden was bringing it down with the inflation reduction act but
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What are you going to do to reduce the prices of things? Cool, bro. Egg prices are still going up. Cool, bro. Housing is not affordable. Cool, bro. All of your billionaire oligarch buddies are like mocking and laughing us. How is that supposed to help us? Cool, bro.
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So Elon Musk's entire strategy with you to derail the continuing resolution is because you wanted to get rid of a provision that would have created more restrictions from American companies. to do business in China? I thought you said you were going to be tough on China. Oh, wait a minute.
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You're just trying to help your corporate oligarch buddies from Mar-a-Lago do more deals with President Xi Jinping? Cool, bro. Didn't you say you were going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours? But now you've already canceled the meeting with Ukraine. And you have some now undefined timeline with Vladimir Putin and when you're going to meet with him.
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But Putin said he's not going to do a deal unless there's complete and total capitulation by Ukraine. So, cool, bro. It seems like you've lied. So, bro, cool, bro. You said you were going to stop World War III from happening, which isn't happening. But now you're going to start sending our troops. You're going to start sending...
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young americans and other americans to fight wars in canada denmark greenland panama that that that's what you're doing that's cool bro that that's your plan bro here's some additional posts um from trump supporters h1b and his disgusting rhetoric about mexico canada greenland and panama The more he spews that imperialist nonsense, the more I regret my vote for him.
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He didn't say any of this bullshit during the campaign trail. I wonder why. Oh, yeah, because this shit isn't popular with Americans. We want an anti-war and pro-peace president that will work with nations, not threaten annexation and attacks. Trump isn't even president yet, and I'm slowly regretting my vote now. Even with a comment like this, you're slowly regretting it?
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Trump voters are in the find out stage and Donald Trump hasn't even been inaugurated yet, seeing posts all over like this. The Gulf of Mexico becoming the Gulf of America? Donald, what are you even talking about? How about the Gulf of... How does this lower prices, Donald?
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What would make you quickly regret it? Because all of these things that he's doing seem to be kind of deal breakers, right? I mean, he's gonna what, do drafts to send you to war against Denmark? That's slowly making you change your opinion, or I don't know, to me, it pretty quickly, I don't know.
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Trump kind of lost me back in 2012 and 2008, or maybe before that, he lost me in the early 90s when he bankrupted most of the companies and he said horrific things about women. And I was paying attention, you know? Aren't you guys like, do your own research? I did my research about this guy's background in business.
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And when I did my research, it turns out he screwed workers his whole life, that he was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, still bankrupted most of the companies he touched, was a complete and utter failure, hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, used Mar-a-Lago or had Mar-a-Lago as a location where Epstein found the woman who Epstein eventually trafficked.
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Trump would talk about going into the locker rooms to look at girls naked during his beauty pageants. I think we knew who the sicko was. That was the deal breaker to me. But it wasn't a deal breaker to you in 2016 when he would mock disabled reporters. It wasn't a deal breaker to you after 2020 when he led an insurrection, mishandled COVID, said like a miracle it was all going to go away.
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weren't deal breaker things when he added $8 trillion in debt. And for all of you who are saying, oh, but Donald Trump is promising no tax on tips. But do you remember what happened during the first Trump administration? Or was there this collective amnesia by you where you forget that Trump's policy during Trump administration one was no tips, that your tips belong to your boss.
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So perhaps when Donald Trump was saying no tax on tips, There were no tips. And perhaps this was a way to allow bosses to take your tips and then claim it as a way as tax-free income. I don't know. I mean, a little... You guys do your research. So what happened with your research? You think the billionaire Donald Trump who brags about his money...
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who hates workers, who has screwed unions, is now going to be pro-union and like workers? Why? Because he brought cold pizza to firefighters? You think he likes you when he screws firefighters from getting the money they deserve from 9-11? Really? You think he's going to support you as a veteran when he mocks John McCain and calls veterans suckers or losers?
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I mean, the comment here about you're slowly... He's regretting your vote. Maybe it should be more quicker. He goes on to say, other people are like, you were warned. Trump never spoke about these topics until after he was elected. How was I supposed to know? It's not true. We talked about all this stuff.
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The Trump supporters are saying, we never heard you talking about annexing Canada or Greenland or taking over Panama or changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. You promised to lower prices. Oh, wait a minute, Donald. You're now quoted in all of these interviews saying that you can't lower the prices, that that's not going to happen.
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Oh, another person goes, I regret voting for you. Next election is time, time to go blue. You are no man of God as God respects building bridges. You're an imposter. I pray that God forgives you because I won't. You are a two-tongue snake. And by the way, this anti-Harris professor, his name is Hassan Abdel Salam at the University of Minnesota.
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He said to people, do not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. Do not support other people. And so now he's like, well, you know, maybe it wasn't a good idea to support Trump because perhaps Trump's cabinet is more extreme than I thought. By the way, have you heard what Trump said? Trump saying that if President Biden.
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does not bring the hostages back from Gaza before Trump takes office, that Trump will unleash hell in Gaza? How much more hell can you unleash in Gaza than has already been unleashed in Gaza? Okay, Donald Trump doesn't support a two-state solution. Donald Trump picked as his ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, a guy who says Palestine should not exist. Is that a slow deal breaker to you?
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If you support Palestine and you have options, right? On the one hand, Vice President Kamala Harris, who I get, you could say, certainly by no means perfect or great as it relates to the issue for you. But I think you can say she supports a two-state solution. She is trying to rein in Netanyahu. Or do you want to vote for Trump who put someone who says Palestine shouldn't even exist?
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So you just completely lied and mortgage rates are going to go back up, which they already are because the bond market sees volatility with Donald Trump. Wait a minute, Donald, you're not going to make housing more affordable. Wait a minute, you're not going to bring jobs here. Wait a minute, you're doing a complete shift and change.
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Or do you want to go with Kamala who says two-state solution? Which one are you going to go? Someone like Trump who says he'll do anything that Netanyahu says? What do you think anyway? I digress even more. Also, now Americans are waking up to how bad Trump's universal tariffs will be.
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From the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey, now the share of consumers who are worried about the prospect of tariff hikes continues to rise. Nearly one-third of consumers spontaneously mention tariffs as a major concern. And now there's also a big jump in inflation expectations for next year.
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So people think that tariffs will be a major problem and people think Trump will cause more inflation. Now, by the way, so do the feds. So does the Federal Reserve, rather. Federal Reserve officials are worried about Trump's inflation impacts. from Trump's policies, the minutes show.
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Federal Reserve officials at their December meeting expressed concern about inflation and the impact that Donald Trump's policies could have, including that they would be moving more slowly on interest rate cuts because of the uncertainty, minutes released Wednesday showed.
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Without calling out Trump by name, the meeting summary featured at least four mentions about the impact that changes in immigration and trade policy could have on the U.S. economy. Since Trump's November election victory, he has signals plans for aggressive punitive tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada, as well as other U.S. trading partners, which he says he's going to put in on day one.
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So on the one hand, you have that. On the other hand, you have President Biden, who on Friday announced the U.S. added 256,000 jobs in December, surpassing expectations, bringing the total for 2024 to 2.2 million jobs. Unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%. Wages grew 3.9% over the past year, far outpacing inflation. And President Biden created 16.6 million jobs during his term in office.
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But on the other hand, Donald Trump held a press conference on Thursday where he said Jeff Bezos came, Bill Gates came. Mark Zuckerberg came. Many of them came numerous times. The bankers have all come. Everybody is coming. That's what Donald Trump said about all of his friends who are visiting him at Mar-a-Lago.
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Trump Voters SUFFER Instant Regret as TRUMP SPIRALS
So you think when Donald Trump's talking about all these billionaires coming at him in Mar-a-Lago that he cares about the workers? The people who want to destroy the workers? are coming on Trump or coming to Trump and they're saying that, I mean, and you think, huh? Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Leopards are eating your face, y'all. Leopards are eating your face.
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Trump Voters SUFFER Instant Regret as TRUMP SPIRALS
On your view of H-1B visas, didn't you say that you were going to get America these type of jobs? But now you're saying Americans are too dumb to do the job. So you need the H-1B visa program to be expanded to bring in talent from India because you say Americans are not smart enough to be engineers. Didn't you promise Americans these jobs, Donald?
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
Very different than when Trump was in office. Here's President Biden's response to this great news. With today's report of 256,000 new jobs in December, we've created over 16.6 million jobs during my administration, the only in history to have created jobs in every single month. Despite inheriting an economic crisis, we built back our economy from the middle out and bottom up.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
Even Fox had to report that this was good news, that Biden is leaving on the highest note possible. The jobs report came out, Maria Bartiromo and Fox, who've always wanted to root for a bad economy and bad reports. Once again, didn't get that here. It'll be interesting to see how they will try to spin when Donald Trump tanks the economy. Oh, wait, they're already trying to do it.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
In Murdoch's other rag, the New York Post, one of Murdoch's writers, Charlie Gasparino, a right-wing guy who says he's a business writer, this is what they're pushing in the New York Post. Joe Biden's fiscal time bomb is set to explode just in time for Trump to take office. It would be laughable if it wasn't so crude and outrageous.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
Frankly shocks the conscious that this is what they're going with. Biden, who inherited disaster, turned our economy around. And every month has produced jobs and most months exceeded expectations on the jobs report. Stock market up 55, 60 percent from when Biden took over. Now that Biden's giving a seamless transition to Donald Trump, MAGA is already making those excuses.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
Look at that photo of Charlie Gusper. very serious guy Gasparino he just knows that Trump is a loser that it is the grifting season right now for all of these right wing greedy people and they're going to ruin the economy let's just Let's go to our playbook and let's try to blame Biden for everything. By the way, take a look at the charts. You'll see for yourself.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
Biden will go the entire term without a single negative jobs month. The last time the economy lost jobs. Oh, wait. December 2020. Who was in office then? I don't know. The guy who added $8 trillion of debt. I don't know. The guy who... probably destroyed your 401ks. The guy who said, like a miracle, COVID would just magically disappear. Then people couldn't get toilet paper.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
There were mobile morgues and food lines that looked like Argentina. where there are lines going into Chile for the people there to try to get goods because Javier Millay, who MAGA and Elon love, there's currently a 53% or 54% poverty rate there. I don't think we want a 53% or 54% poverty rate here. Anyway. I digress. President Biden also posts the following.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
Take a look at these final parting messages that President Biden's sending to Donald Trump. It's a thing of beauty. It's photos with himself and President Zelensky. It's photos of himself with our NATO allies. It's photos of himself with Justin Trudeau. the former prime minister of the UK, a leader of South Korea, the leader of France, international allies. Just take a look.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
Then you've got him meeting here as well with the Quad, and you see him right there having meetings with the leader of India, Modi, and other world leaders. He goes, American leadership holds the world together. Our alliances and partnerships are what keep us safe, and our values are what makes us a partner that nations want to work with.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
I'm proud to say that the United States partnerships and alliances are stronger today than ever before. By the way, how much do you love when I do videos on Biden and highlighting the good news that you don't hear anywhere else, and I don't play audio or video of Donald Trump? Isn't it refreshing? I don't know. I digress. It's refreshing to me.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
So you got President Biden talking about domestic jobs, Biden talking about international alliances stronger, and he's showing how you lead in crisis. or crises, President Biden writes. I'm surging every federal resource possible to Southern California, including hundreds of federal firefighters, 30 firefighting helicopters and planes, eight DODC-130s, and 500 military ground-clearing personnel.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
We're working with the Department of Defense to identify what more can we surge. But What kind of questions do you think our corporate media here was interested in asking him? What do you think that they wanted to know? Well, their question when they had a press conference with President Biden was, have you ruled out a pardon for yourself? That's...
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
That's what they were, that they wanted to know if he was gonna pardon, for what? Watch President Biden's response in his face though. Like, what? Like, what are you asking me here playing this clip?
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
president biden is giving a master class in how to leave the office with dignity and how to show the contrast between the success of your administration and the likely anticipated failures of the incoming Trump administration. Now, big news on Friday. You may have heard about this. The United States added 256,000 jobs in December.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
On a more serious note, President Biden talked about the disinformation being spread on social media. and how billionaire oligarchs are using their wealth to undercut the truth and facts. Here, President Biden's talking about how Mark Zuckerberg has eliminated fact-checking at Facebook, is allowing language and rhetoric to attack transgender people, marginalized communities.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
And now you could just say the most hateful and disgusting things. By the way, it wasn't exactly like Facebook was a bastion of civil discourse before, but also Mark Zuckerberg is now moving his whole content moderation team to Texas because he says California is too woke for them. I mean, I'm going to play you this clip, but can we think about this for a second?
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
You've got all of these whiny billionaires who, by the way, during the Biden administration, their wealth has grown dramatically. Go back and look at Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk, and a lot of these billionaires, their wealth It's grown dramatically, 3x, 5x, 7x times, billions and billions of dollars more. Why? A lot of it because the stock market was up 55% to 60% under the Biden administration.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
So with all of the wealth that they've gained in the Biden administration, while Biden was focused on lifting up other people, Right. Lifting up the 99 percent others. And Biden's just saying, look, guys, billionaires, you could be billionaires. Biden says, I'm a capitalist. I'm OK with you making money. But can you just pay your fair share of taxes? You're thriving under my economy.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
But it's unfair that you're paying less in actual dollars, not even percentages, dollars than a teacher, a firefighter, a construction worker. That's unfair. And the billionaires who made all this extra wealth are like, no, even though we're thriving even more, we don't want to give any money back to you. We want to hoard it. We want generational wealth forever.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
And it's not just enough that we're rich. We want to make sure that the workers suffer. We want to stop their unions. We want to dismantle the National Labor Relations Board, the NLRB. We want to make sure that they don't get a
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
raise in the minimum wage to a living wage we don't want to pay overtime we don't want to do any of that you know how sick is that it's like the billionaires get off in the suffering of we the people and they can make all this money in the world but that's not enough for them how many private jets yachts
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
Once again, exceeding, surpassing expectations and bringing the total for 2024 to 2.2 million jobs. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1% and wages grew 3.9% over the past year, far outpacing inflation. President Biden's final gift to the United States of America, Joey Jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs. How many times have you heard each month these reports exceeding expectations?
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
homes mansions that do you actually need while americans suffer and they can't buy it's so strange to me anyway i digress i say i digress a lot here's what president biden says about um facebook's policies play this clip telling the truth matters i mean it's uh
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
I think it's really shameful. And here's what President Biden asked when he's asked if he regrets his decision to run for reelection. Again, what a weird phrasing of the question. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING from Biden BEFORE DAY 1
Okay, so... President Biden making, I think, a compelling argument for his closing statement that I inherited disaster. I left the economy strong. Our international allies are strong. I'm responding to I'm responding to emergencies and I'm not going anywhere. It's powerful stuff. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
Is this MAGA Republican budget bill blowing up already? They're calling it a big, beautiful bill, but it looks like a big, beautiful disaster.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
It just reminds me of the kid who just doesn't does his homework. who doesn't do his homework at the most basic level. It's just like competence here. Watch this. I have a timeline on that.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
And, you know, the MAGA Republicans, though, in the House were focused on all the most important pressing issues as our economy is shrinking, as Main Street, as regular folk, regular Americans are suffering. As Donald Trump is saying, you're little girls. Give him one doll only, five pencils. That's what Trump regime central planning is saying.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
Here's what they were focused on in the House of Representatives. MAGA Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who launched her massive doge hearing on USA fencing yesterday, followed up with a doozy. Here, play this clip.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
It's about as much as I can handle of hearing her voice. Let's bring in Democratic Congressmember Brandon Boyle. Congressmember Boyle, You're the ranking member on the budget committee, but let's, I guess, first talk about the status of the budget, what's going on there. Then let's move in, talk about the economy and some other things. When you see all those clips, what the hell is going on here?
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
I want to share this next clip with you as we talk about the overall state of our economy right now. The Trump propaganda machine before the election, they would have these MAGA parents dress up their little girls in the MAGA shirts, and they would talk about how Trump was going to make their Barbies cheaper. This was actually part of the campaign that Trump was running here.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
Let me show you this clip, for example.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
And now you got this guy. You got Trump up there literally saying, you know, while he's doing deals with the Abu Dhabi fund for his crypto and Trump resorts in Qatar, I saw a report, the Trump family's net worth increased by $2.6 billion just over the past 100 days. He says, little girls, you get... I can't believe I'm actually quoting the guy.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
He's like, you get two dolls and five pencils and they'll cost more and you shouldn't complain about it. What do you make about all that? But more seriously, just the state of the economy right now and how Main Street's feeling. Yeah, I mean, I have an 11-year-old daughter.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
You know, I've called this Trump regime the Ponzi scheme presidency or the rug pull presidency. And it seems rather than unlocking actually how to benefit the people in his own mind, he's like, oh, I can unlock a new Ponzi scheme in a new scam.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
And the new one that he seems to do is that he's realized with his tariff war against the world that if he makes certain statements about a new deal, it impacts the markets. And the markets get manipulated based on his statements. And there's incredible volatility, but people can make a lot of money on it. So he'll say something like, I did a trade deal with the U.K.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
He didn't do a trade deal with the UK. He talked about doing something with Range Rovers and that the price of the Range Rover goes from 20% to tariffs, 25% to 10% when they were 0% a while ago. He's like, we're talking to China. When he was not talking to China, and then he'll attack China. And to me, then you have this market volatility, which also abstracts
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
the GDP contraction and all these other systemic issues that you're seeing. So what do you think along those lines around the kind of what's going on in the markets and what's going on in people's kitchen tables?
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
if you were to listen to maga mike johnson and some of the reporting we did earlier in the day you know you would say it's all going well it's one big beautiful bill the beautiful bill is so big it's beautiful it's going amazing so the other tack that i guess this trump regime is taking now is that when they send their people to even show up before committees that oversee you know budgets whether that's in the house of representatives or the senate
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
And on that last point, getting suckered by the BS while their Medicaid, while their health care is on the line.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
You know, we saw the CBO nonpartisan scoring of what would actually happen with people losing health care, millions of people losing health care, you know, off of what these MAGA Republicans are doing. Can you speak to the attack on Medicaid, though, and what that really means for
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
I know MAGA Republicans were talking about shifting all of the kind of Medicaid cost share to states, which would basically in many states that have trigger laws mean no Medicaid at all. Or even if they didn't have trigger laws, they're not able to fund it. So what's going on there?
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
MAGA Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin was on right-wing propaganda media today and he was sending a message saying, we don't know what the hell these MAGAs are doing in the House of Representatives, but we ain't supporting what they're doing in the Senate. That was an interesting note. Let's play this clip. Thank you.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
Like they don't even do their homework. And when I was watching this clip of Kash Patel, who somehow the FBI director showing up in front of the Senate without submitting the most basic outline of what the FBI budget is and seeing Senator Murray say, where's where's the budget? Like, can I look at it? And Kash Patel's like, it's not ready.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Big Disastrous Budget
Congressman Brendan Boyle, thanks for joining us as always. I'm sure you're going to be coming back here as we go through whatever the next steps are of this big, beautiful disaster called the MAGA Republican Budget Bill. Thank you so much. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
The Trump regime is attacking the museums right here in Los Angeles, where I live. They're going after the Japanese American Museum in Washington, D.C. They're going after the African-American Smithsonian Museum. Throughout California, they're going after funding for museums and libraries. It's not just unique to California or D.C.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
Attorney General Bonta, you've filed lawsuits here in California on this issue, and you've joined with attorney generals on many other issues, which we'll discuss. But you won two preliminary injunctions on Trump's attack on museums and education institutions in California. Can you talk about those cases and the significance of the order?
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
We've seen attorney generals throughout the country, whether it's been in Arizona, whether it's been wherever, I mean, Michigan, you name it.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
You joined with Democratic attorney generals across the country also to file a lawsuit against Donald Trump and RFK Jr. gutting health and human services. And I saw the list of the things that were being dismantled by Trump and RFK. Everything from preventing the first responders in 9-11 to have the full access that they needed to
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
uh people on call and and appropriate cancer diagnoses to you know you listed them all in the lawsuit you know uh people who work in mining you know we're not being able to get health care services very specific stuff and you know it's not a republican or a democrat thing i mean like this stuff is literally going to be like like killing us like it's like this result in people dying i just feel like we're back to the coveted years again where they didn't give a crap about you
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
the the trump regime is shutting down like or taking things away from museums not giving funding for critical things they're in new york they're going after cultural institutions uh a hundred and hundreds of non-profits in new york for example are having cuts theater dance museums galleries you know i i gave a speech about this yesterday where i was telling the audience i'm like i i
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
And it's like, what are we talking about here?
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
You know, I'm taking these issues one by one. You know, I started with the museums. We talk about health and human services. Then you bring up Department of Education, right? In the past week, the Department of Education said they were gonna cut between a billion and $2 billion in mental health funding.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
And so after the MAGA Republicans say the sole reason why there are school shootings, right, they always say it's only because of mental health, not the guns. Well, OK, so let's do mental health funding and let's also address the guns, which I know you as an attorney general are focused on. We'll get there in a second. But let's just let's just take it mental health.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
OK, they're going after mental health services and getting rid of that in school. And I know you just spoke recently at a mental health symposium or spoke on the issue recently at the Hoover Institute. And so I know it's a very important issue to you. It's very important. It is an important issue. Cruelty is the point, it seems again.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
You know, sometimes when I cover this, it feels like whack-a-mole, you know, because you have all the things that we discussed, and then it's like, oh, then Donald Trump's offending Catholics by posting AI images of himself as the Pope. right as Pope Francis passed away and everyone's in mourning. You're like, do I follow that one? Or he'll go, we need to tariff movies.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
I don't want to be the bad guys. Like, why are we just doing as a country? I know it's not we, the mightiest mighty, like it's just cruelty for the sake of cruelty. And of course we can talk about all the other things, disappearing migrants and just the horrific, just gutting of Medicaid, the treatment of veterans and the firing of veterans.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
What do you even mean tariffing movies? But a lot of that's distraction. It doesn't mean necessarily that we don't cover it, but we have to stay focused on these things. And I'm sure as the Attorney General of Now, California is the fourth largest economy in the world. There are things that you see that you're probably like, stop with these distractions. We need to focus on this, this and this.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
I wish there was more media attention on this. So we have an audience of now five million subscribers. What issue or issues do you think we need to be focused on more that that's not getting enough attention from you as the top law enforcement officer in California?
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
But like, also it's like, you're going into museums, you're getting rid of artifacts, you're stopping the funding. Why? Just the cruelty is the point. This is what I saw, this out of Washington, D.C., where they were removing the artifacts for the African-American History Museum there. Play this.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
The big oral argument on the birthright citizenship case is coming up on May 15th, right? The New Jersey Attorney General, is he gonna be the one making that argument? How do you pick who gets the oral argument? I mean, I'm sure, do you get an oral argument coming soon? We're the fourth largest state by GDP. Why are we giving it to Jersey?
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
Well, I remember during former President Biden's administration that A lot of these MAGA attorneys would go right to the Northern District of Texas, get nationwide injunctions that took away rights and freedoms that or took away things like student debt relief and things like that. So they were they were perfectly happy then.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
But now when it comes to protecting a constitutional right of birthright citizenship, they go away. Foul. We don't want that. So, you know, we'd love to have you back on, Attorney General Bonta, to discuss with us after the case. I'd love to have a look back. So let us know there. And I think we covered a lot. Anything else you wanted to say before we go? It's the first time on the Midas Network.
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California AG Rob Bonta Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump Regime
California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Thank you so much, Attorney General. Honored to be with you. Thanks for having me. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
What in the world is going on in Virginia? The MAGA Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, as I call him, MAGA in a vest, has just vetoed two bills that would have guaranteed Virginians access to contraception, marking the second time that he's blocked efforts to protect birth control rights through state law. Not one, but two right there.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
And here in this clip, she talks about how she doesn't understand why workers are that upset that they're getting fired. And she's like, you know, just just get over it. Virginians, just dear Virginians, just get over it here. Let's play this one. I think it's created by the Democratic Party of Virginia and actually use our research. That's pretty cool.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
It happens to everybody all the time? Okay. And the media is making it out to be this huge, huge thing. And I don't understand why. Yikes on that one. Let's bring in the Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, also a former congresswoman from Virginia and former intelligence officer. What were we looking at there? I guess we'll start in reverse order.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
I mean, number one, you have the MAGA Republican candidate saying, who cares if you lose your jobs? It's not a big deal. Rewind. Let's start with that one.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
House Bill 1716 and Senate Bill 1105, also known as the Virginia Right to Contraception Act, was passed by the Democratic-controlled General Assembly earlier this year. The bills were designed to preserve access to contraceptives such as birth control pills, IUDs, and emergency contraception, particularly in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
So you have the MAGA Republican candidate, Winston Earl Sears. You have the MAGA Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin. And just at like a human level for me, the level of gaslighting coming out from them and the level of just not having the back of Virginians, like to me, I don't even know what they think their job is. It's like, it'd be like a coach of a sports team rooting against their team.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
And then when you call timeout and you're in the huddle, you just start punching your team and breaking their legs and basically saying, everybody's broken their leg before. You're whining that your leg just got broken? Come on, everyone breaks their leg. And it's like, why are you just normalizing at a basic level cruelty to the people living in Virginia?
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
Talk about the veto of this right to contraception, because many people were saying after Dobbs overturned Roe v. Wade, the next thing that the MAGA Republicans are coming for is contraception. So it seems here, you know, the Democratic led assembly was just like, OK, well, look, Trust but verify.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
OK, you know, at the end of the day, sure, there are Supreme Court rulings from 1970 and 1960s on this. But so is Roe v. Wade. You all promised us Roe v. Wade was never going to get overturned, that it was super precedent. So here we go. Let's just mine it. Let's say that it's let's just put it in law so we can never go back on it. Here it is.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
And after it passed in the House and the Senate, the MAGA Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin dismissed the legislation and said, why do we need it? The Supreme Court ruled on this in 1965, in the Griswold case in 1972, and Eisenstadt v. Baird. And we trust the Supreme Court. It's not like they just overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision. So we've got that coming out.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
And then the fact that they that the MAGA Republicans, you know, led by Youngkin, you know, veto that, you know, it's like, what are we where we live? I mean, like it is I mean, is is Virginia now, you know, under Youngkin like the Taliban? I mean, seriously, what are we like? What are we talking about?
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
I think it's pretty clear. I mean, my opinion is if she's vetoing protections on interracial marriage and same-sex marriage, something leads me to believe she finds that morally objectable, leads me to believe that there's a
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
line of thinking there and long along the lines of vetoing the right to contraception all right finally um congresswoman spamberg let me ask you this just what what areas do you think are not getting enough attention that you're focused on as you're out there shaking hands you're speaking to people um what do you think you know with with the huge audience that we have that that they need to be hearing about what's happening in virginia
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
And then it resurfaced that the MAGA Republican Governor candidate in Virginia for the upcoming elections in November, Winsome Earl Sears, in her capacity as lieutenant governor, she wrote a formal objection to a bill that was eventually signed into law that was basically saying that she was morally against
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
Where can people find out more about the campaign?
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
I want to remind our viewers and listeners that is this year. I know you think in midterms, but 2025 is the governor's election in Virginia this November. So check it out. Thank you so much. Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, Abigail Spanberg. Thank you.
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Gov Candidate Abigail Spanberger Rips MAGA GOP in Virginia
interracial marriages and same sex marriages, the bill would have and it did was signed into law protecting interracial couples and same sex marriage, same sex marriages. And she was against that. Oh, yeah. And then there was the Midas clip that went viral about Winsome Earl Sears. where she just doesn't get what you're going through.
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So where is Melania? Well, we know she's selling meme coins, or I'm not sure if you can even call that. We know her meme coin is absolutely tanking and it's lost over 82, 83% of its value. We know she's selling a documentary of herself that no one wants to watch to Amazon for like $40 million. Can you say quid pro quo, Jeff Bezos? But where is she?
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And then I think also she's at Mar-a-Lago, but she doesn't want to be anywhere near Donald unless she's making money and grifting. Or unless she's making a public appearance, like when she was at Pope Francis's funeral, which Donald Trump said, oh, that's such an incredible funeral, such a great time. Who calls it a great time? Let me show you what went down first on Friday.
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Thursday, where she was at this Barbara Bush stamp ceremony that I think nobody wanted her to be at. I mean, here's what she said. It's hard to even understand what she's saying, but here's what she said at this Barbara Bush ceremony. Play this clip.
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But as we go through the Melania appearances, if you will, it's about grifting. It's about making money for herself. Take a look at the official Melania meme coin, dollar sign, Melania. That's what they call it. You see what that looks like right there with the green going,
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the way up and then crashing well i i guess you could say that that's what donald trump has turned the american economy into it's like a smolania or dollar sign trump meme coin but there she is the meme coins absolutely an utter disaster by the way with trump memes coin i think there were like 50 wallets that made money in 776 000 that lost money just literally screwing people over
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Then right here it says First Lady Melania Trump scores win for America's foster youth with twenty five million dollar investment. That was one of the PR scams they wanted to announce. Funding is a game changer changer in providing young adults with access to short term housing assistance. So I'm like, she secures an investment, $25 million. That sounds like a lot of money.
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What are we talking about here? So you gotta go into the article and they're talking about, they're acting like she secured this. Melania announced Friday that a $25 million foster youth investment will be included in Trump's 2026 fiscal year budget. The funds will go to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Foster Youth to Independence Program.
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to support young people who are transitioning out of foster care let me be very clear way more money than 25 million dollars should be invested in hud and specifically this program this is one of those examples where milani is a scammer and fox is a scammer and they treat us all like we're actually stupid because if you actually look at the budget 26 billion dollars with a b
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has been cut from HUD in their Section 8 housing portion alone, $33 billion total from HUD. But when it comes to rental assistance programs and just in general helping low-income Americans and other low-income Americans and foster care Americans, just generally, we're talking about 26.7 billion to $33 billion in cuts.
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I mean, seriously, she did attend on Thursday a ceremony giving former First Lady, the late Barbara Bush, a stamp. More on that in a little bit. But that was one of, I would say. maybe four or five times we've actually seen Melania. You know, the New York Times wrote this article, and this is what it's called, a most sensitive subject in the White House. Where is Melania?
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And they're acting like $25 million is somehow a win that Melania secured as though it's her money. Don't they act like they act like this is their money? It's the taxpayer money. And what you're actually doing in this budget is you're adding $120 billion more to defense spending so you can have a trillion dollars.
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You're adding $44 billion to immigration crackdown so you can do publicity stunts and not actually do deportations with dignity or actually have a functioning immigration system. But yes, $33 billion cut from HHS, $12 billion from education funding, $15 billion from infrastructure funding on climate change, $34 billion from HUD funding. And it's eviscerating HUD by over 40%.
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So don't brag about like, you know, oh, we should be thankful for what you're doing here. Because what you're really doing, Milani, is while nobody sees you at the White House and you spent like four days there. Here we have over here what Milani is doing. She's selling necklaces for $600 and $200. That's what she is doing. But may I bring some receipts?
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Melania, because first, let me show you what you're complicit in. This is Melania when Donald Trump was running the first time where she where she said that it was merely locker room talk when Donald Trump brags about. He described it as locker room talk to you. I mean, you sort of alluded to that as well. Is that what it is to you? Just locker room talk?
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So now let me pull out some receipts, shall I? Let me introduce you to Natasha Stoynoff, who alleges Donald Trump assaulted her. Play this clip.
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Now let me introduce you to Jessica Leeds. who alleges that Donald Trump assaulted her.
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I mean, she doesn't want to be anywhere near Donald Trump. I mean, We've known that and we've reported that before. You know, it's funny in this article from The New York Times, they're like, you know, sources charitably say she's been at the White House about 14 times in the hundred plus days that Donald Trump's been in office charitably.
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Let me introduce you to Stormy Daniels. Here's what she has to say. Oh, is this the one? It's another! Let me introduce you to Karen McDougal. Here's what she has to say.
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Now, Russia is enjoying all of this as part of their mockery of Donald Trump in the United States. State regime media in Moscow has frequently been showing Melania nudes over and over again while their hosts mock Melania over and over again. And they show all her photos from when she was a nude model. That's what you want to call it.
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Melania has previously posted, why do I stand proudly behind my nude modeling work? And by the way, I showed you Karen McDougal. There's Karen McDougal. There's Ivanka. There's Melania all standing there partying together. That was shortly around the Epstein days for Donald when he would party with Epstein. It was right around that time period, a little later, I think, but in the in the late 90s.
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And we all know how Melania met Donald Trump. Of course, she was introduced by a guy named Paolo Zampolli, who now has some like ambassadorship. Donald Trump appointed him to a big like ambassadorship role. But he ran a modeling agency. She was an Eastern European model. He would have the models show up at these parties at the Kit Kat Club. Wealthy Manhattan men would be invited in the 90s.
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I think that probably means she's been there about four or five days. So like, where is she physically? I think she's most frequently in New York, which Donald Trump calls a hellscape, and they love to attack New York. And she's at the apartment there where Barron goes to school.
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And that's how Melania ultimately met Donald Trump. through that. Now, I had the opportunity to interview Stephanie Winston-Wilcoff about all of this. And this was a little bit before the election, but here Stephanie Winston-Wilcoff tells me what she thinks about all of this play, this clip.
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You know, I wonder now when it comes to Melania, though, if one of the things she's nervous about is what happened to Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana. Remember when the Daily Mail reported that Trump's wife, Ivana, first wife, Ivana, was buried in a cordoned off grave?
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in bedminster that was barely visible in a completely overgrown area and the 506 acre golf course apparently or allegedly so donald trump could get tax exemptions or tax write-offs by turning the golf course into a cemetery in an area where he buried his first wife after she fell downstairs well anyway Okay. No Melania. I guess she's talking about stamps. Who knows?
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Grifting, losing money for people. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing
MAGA Republicans are at it again, altering evidence during congressional hearings to try to attack witnesses as part of whatever their agenda is. So here's what went down this past week. The MAGA Republicans held a Doge committee hearing.
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And finally, the messaging from Fox, though, and this is what I think is important to tie this all together. The messaging from state regime media known as Fox is basically who cares about evidence? It doesn't matter. Like just if you think people are bad, they don't need due process. Just throw whoever you want to throw in jail. If you're the regime here, watch this.
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Or if you try to actually make points, you can, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's now chairing the committees, she'll just bang her gavel over and over and over again. Here, play this clip.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. See how they alter that evidence, huh?
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One other thing that we should note about this guy who runs USA Fencing, he's received a ton of death threats because of things that I just showed you there. The altering of the evidence and the MAGA Republicans would be like, look, he's trying to pursue a woke transgender agenda and fencing.
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And so he set his he set his social media accounts to private because he was getting all of these death threats. Then after doxing and defaming him with altered evidence, the MAGA Republicans then attack him for making his social media private as a result of death threats. Watch this.
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where they subpoenaed the head of United States fencing, like the sport fencing, because the MAGA Republicans saw some story on Fox about a transgender fencer, so they wanted to go and attack the head of USA Fencing, even though they received zero federal funding. So here's what went down.
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Now, this is part of a broader pattern that we've been covering here at the Midas Touch Network about MAGA's manipulating evidence. You'll recall when the MAGA's were so focused on trying to impeach Joe Biden and they were doing Joe Biden crime family and all of that crap. They don't care at all that Donald Trump's actually doing all of the things they lied about with former President Biden.
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They would do things like this right here. They would take like portions of text messages between like Jim Biden, Joe's brother, and Hunter Biden. And they would show like a portion, but not the full context. Like here was a text message that they showed from Jim Biden, which says this can work. You need a safe harbor. I can work with you, father alone.
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We, as usual, just need several months of his help for this to work. Let's talk about it. It makes perfect sense to me. This is difficult to fully vet without talking. Will you please call me? We can develop a plan together. It can work. I'm going to try to call you again. Please answer. I can and I will. Crisis with Caroline. Same problem with P in New York Post. Dealing with it as we speak.
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She is okay. I believe I have it under control. I'll get back to you ASAP.
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but now when you look at the actual message that was sent with jim biden what it actually says is the following i can work when i'm in new york city all day every day for the next three months from eight to twelve but i can't pay alimony without data or tuitions or for food and gas really it's all gone i can go make it up in 15 to 20 days i'm sure but he's basically made it clear that he's not paying alimony because mom made clear
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that she won't do it. Haley won't allow me to be at the house or lend me or pay me back any money. Ashley moves into my mom's house after I told dad that I would move in there. That night I told dad I want to probably stay in the area and specifically I wanted to live by you and teach my course at Penn and maybe develop another one. So if you can see right there,
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You can compare where they chopped it off. They made it seem like they were engaged in something nefarious, where it's actually Hunter Biden at a very vulnerable moment saying that, you know, his dad, Joe Biden, who wasn't the president, then this was in 20. This was in December 29th of 2018. It was when Trump was in office. Was basically saying, Hunter, I can't help you with a lot of things.
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I can help you with some things to live because Hunter was a drug addict at that time. And they were just trying to come up with a plan for a dad to help his son live. There was nothing nefarious going on. How they showed the full context. Then, you know, wouldn't have seemed nefarious.
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And they went from like chopping things off these MAGA Republicans in the prior congressional session to then doing this like they just straight up used fake text messages, like completely bogus, false images that Hunter never even sent. And they tried to make this like the centerpiece of what they were saying.
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The MAGA Republicans were trying to pretend that the head of USA fencing who received all of these death threats as a result of the doxing from Fox and the MAGA Republicans, that he was giving the middle finger in a selfie like F you, America. And he was actually holding up two fingers.
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And so like if you actually go through it, the screen grab images that were posted by the MAGA Republicans are not real and contain a myriad of issues. Both include a photo of Mr. Biden, not from 2017, but from the White House Easter egg roll in April 2022. long after the purported messages were sent. Both images portray the message in a blue bubble when WhatsApp messages are in green.
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One image superimposed the Chinese flag for the contact ID when surely that was not how a text or contact was kept. And one message purport to be a screenshot with ellipsis of someone composing a text as in the Apple's iMessage when that does not happen in WhatsApp. In short, The images you circulated online are complete fakes.
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Many media articles confirm the data purported to have come from the devices has been altered and manipulated. You or someone else did that again. I mean, if you did this in court, you would lose your bar license. But because the MAGA Republicans keep doing this stuff in Congress, they claim, oh, we get speech or debate clause immunity.
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Watch as AOC in the last congressional session called them out for doing it. Here, play this clip.
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But what the MAGA Republicans did in the photo was they cropped out one finger to make it look like he was giving the middle finger to the American people. Now, fortunately, Democratic Congresswoman Stansberry had the actual photo. She was ready to go. And she showed what the MAGA Republicans were doing here to lie, deceive and defame this witness, the head of USA Fencing.
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Now, folks, this takes other forms as well, where MAGA Republicans will build entire pieces of legislation around completely fake areas to stir up culture wars and lies based on 100% fraudulent and false things. I want to give a shout out to a legislator in Texas. You've seen him on the Midas Touch Network before, James Tallarico.
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when he cross-examines this MAGA Texas legislator who built an entire piece of legislation in Texas around banning litter boxes from elementary schools when there are no litter boxes in elementary schools. And then the guy goes on and talks about banning like licking your fingers. which, if you licked your fingers from eating Cheetos, would you get prosecuted?
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I just want you to see that they build everything. Everything is on fabrications. Watch the Democrat, the legislator, James Tallarico, cross-examine this MAGA legislator who introduced this legislation. It's going to be law in Texas.
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It's like, why am I even here? Why are you attacking me? Here, play this clip.
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And then you have James Tallarico again, cross-examining this guy who put forward the legislation and basically showing that like, don't you have better things to do than like just make up fake things and try to criminalize like licking your fingers and you're saying people are becoming cats? Like, what the hell are you doing here? Here, play this clip.
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You know, but then you have the situation like when Kash Patel testified in Congress this past week, where he got mad at Senator Patty Murray after he didn't even show up with his actual budget, which you're supposed to show up and actually do your homework. But then he like yells at the questioning when they get cornered, when they know they're caught lying, what do they do?
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They go, I'm just not going to tolerate you anymore. I'm not going to tolerate you. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Loses It as Panic Over Full Collapse Sets In
When I say that Donald Trump is a felon, a fraud, and a sexual abuser, it's because he's those things. He's also a bankruptor. He's a destroyer, not a builder. And so when you see Donald Trump make a post like he did last night, saying that great progress was made in the trade talks with China, we're going to do a total reset in our economic relations with China. This is going to be great.
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We're about to run out of goods and products that are not going to be on these shelves. And so here's what Donald Trump posts. He goes, a very good meeting today with China and Switzerland. Many things discussed, much agreed to. A total reset negotiated in a friendly but constructive manner. We want to see, for the good of both China and the U.S., an opening up of China to American business.
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Great progress made! It's almost like the arsonist showing up at the scene of the fire. and basically saying, look, I'm going to try to put this all out. Let me be the hero. A total reset of the fire that was created. You made the mess. And then when Donald Trump uses language like a total reset negotiated, and again, Donald, aren't you saying that tariffs are the greatest things?
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So if tariffs are the greatest thing in the world and we're getting super rich with 145% tariffs on China, and as you said in press conference after press conference, you think it's a great thing that ships aren't coming into our ports, then why are you trying to negotiate deals that are going to remove the tariffs and reset that? Shouldn't you be celebrating how rich we are?
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No, because it's all a scam. It's all a fraud. It's to help Donald Trump's rich billionaire oligarch friends.
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And all we should be talking about, whether you're a Democrat or whatever, as human beings, what we should be talking about is allowing people who work hard to live in a freaking home, to allow people who work hard to just have one job and get wages where they are paid with dignity and they're not living paycheck to paycheck, where they can have health care, where they can have a good education.
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where they're not going to be disrespected and defamed by oligarchs like Elon Musk, who says that I'm firing you because you're not doing a good job for performance reasons when you are working your ass off. I want to make sure we're protecting our veterans who sacrifice for our country, not firing them and treating them like crap.
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And I don't want to ever see people punch down at marginalized communities and gut essential services that help and keep people alive. I can tell a myriad of stories of what the Trump regime is doing. I could give you one example where they're eliminating research in Cornell. that is aimed to help babies who have heart disease right out the womb, and this could save their lives.
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Trump is a con artist. Now look, I hope that our economy can do great. But Trump, you wrecked it. You declared a trade war against the world. You have been saying that tariffs are the greatest thing ever. Then why are you negotiating to remove the tariffs if you're saying the tariffs are the greatest thing ever?
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They're destroying programs like that. I can tell you how the Trump regime is getting rid of $2 billion in... mental health programs at schools when the MAGA Republicans blame all these school shootings in the United States on mental health issues. I could tell you about how the Trump regime wants to eliminate all Section 8 housing.
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They're getting rid of, what, $25 billion from HUD and what's going to make the homeless problem here worse. And you're just great progress, total reset. You created the problem, you freaking fraud. You felon, you sexual abuser, you created the problem. You know, and his words are so cheap other than to manipulate the markets for his oligarch friend.
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Remember earlier in the day yesterday when he said, after a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I'm pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire. And then like moments later, they started attacking each other again and And then people said the United States had nothing to do with this.
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And now you have Pakistan, like, you know, again, you know, looking into like their nuclear committees meeting. You have, you know, things are escalating. And so, you know, the talk is cheap. The talk is usually fraud from this guy. And they but they move the markets. They make things volatile. And even if you remove the tariffs, what?
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Now corporate media is supposed to praise you and say, oh, this is such a brilliant deal. You caused the problem. What are we even talking about here, folks? I want you to take a look at this here as well, just so you see how cheap his words are. He posts this 99% approval is what he's saying his approval rating is.
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And what he's citing is a CPAC, one of these right-wing convention balls right here. And then you take a look at the Y-axis where it says that he has a 99% approval. The Y-axis goes up to 120%. So I don't know. I think someone said this. I don't know what's more comical here. him saying his approval rating is greater than Kim Jong-un's in North Korea, or that the Y-axis goes to 120%.
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And just to see the other things that Donald Trump is posting, he's posting attacks on New York Attorney General Letitia James like, From hashtag MeTooCrusader to cover up Letitia James' silence, I mean, attacking her. Let's go into what the actual facts are to see who actually has the cards in these negotiations between China and the U.S. China saw the U.S. tariffs coming, as Robin Brooks writes.
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China's trade surplus with the U.S. collapsed in April 2025, but its surplus with other countries began rising in January 2025, which more than offsets the fall. U.S. tariffs trapped a wall of goods in China that need to get out. Those goods are definitely getting out to other places, just not getting out to the United States of America.
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And we were seeing how close we came to having no goods on the shelves. So We'll keep you posted on what's going on with these negotiations, but that's where we're at right now. I mean, you also have Donald Trump posting things like this. Today, I signed an executive order to launch the first ever self-deportation program.
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Illegal aliens who stay in America face punishments, including sudden deportation in a place and manner solely of our discretion. And he puts this in caps to all illegal aliens. Book your free flight right now. Let me be very clear. The statement is unlawful for a variety of reasons.
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You have your treasury secretary saying this is all part of the, this is a direct quote, crazy Ivan strategy. where Donald Trump injects strategic uncertainty into the markets. And then we try to make deals in periods of strategic uncertainty, which is no, it's just Donald Trump waking up, posting deranged and demented things and screwing over main street and
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When he says, including sudden deportation in a place and manner solely in our discretion, that's Donald Trump saying basically that he wants to suspend habeas corpus, that there's no due process. If they want to send you to Libya, they'll send you to Libya. If they want to send you to concentration camps in El Salvador... They'll send you to concentration camps in El Salvador.
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And by the way, to all the Venezuelans for Trump and Cubans for Trump and Latinos for Trump, I thought you said that he was just going to be going after the criminals because it seems here what he's saying is once he revokes your temporary protected status, which he's trying to do, he'll send you wherever the hell he wants to send you. And unless you self-deport yourself now.
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I also want to talk about the incongruity of news that the right wing's getting, the left wing's getting, because I think this goes to a key point right here. So right now, there's something called the Canadian Snowbird Act, which has been proposed in the U.S. Congress. It's actually one of the few things that are being proposed on a bipartisan basis, and it's Congress, both
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Congress members and senators trying to reach out to Canadians in order to get Canadians to stay in the United States longer. We know Canadians have gone elbows up. They're not traveling to the United States anymore, and they're not buying, by and large, lots of American products. But on a bipartisan basis, people realize that Donald Trump's attack on Canada is not a good thing.
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But of course, they don't want you to know this on right-wing media. So there's not a single right-wing media that's reported on that, which I think is an interesting data point as well. I'll show you what right-wing media is reporting on in a second, but it's essential for me to get my research right. And one of the tools that I use is something called Ground News.
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It's essential nowadays to see through any double standards in the current media ecosphere. Here's what I want you to do. Go to ground.news.mtn or scan the QR code. We're giving our viewers 40% off Ground News' top-tier vantage plan, which I use to do the research I'm doing right now, and it'll get you unlimited access to everything I use and more.
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And what I use there is a feature called Blind Spot, where I find what are they not talking about in the right-wing ecosphere. Now, let's talk about what these MAGA Republicans are actually talking about on their right-wing echo chambers.
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They have all these MAGA Republican media people and members of Congress who keep on going to the concentration camps in El Salvador, which, by the way, it's a violation of the parade yourself in front of a group of like, you know, prisoners like that in order to use them as props. But here you have Matt Gaetz and MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Ogles right there.
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As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, calls it, is this like MAGA porn hour? Like, what the hell are they even doing there? And then you have Matt Gaetz bragging about the OAN exclusive first look. And he goes, trend day, Aragua members in El Salvador, Seacott prison. Look, at the end of the day, there's something called due process in the United States. You go through the process.
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If someone's involved in a crime, There's ramifications for the crimes. It's just that simple. If you don't believe in due process, then you don't believe in the United States system. That's what this is all about. It should not even be a debate that is taking place. Another fact about OAN as well.
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Trump Loses It as Panic Over Full Collapse Sets In
One of the things that state regime, the Trump regime wants to do is to use the OAN feed as part of the international broadcasts that Kerry Lake wants to show to all of these other nations. Take a look at what Trump's also been posting as well. Attacking wind energy, how the global wind power industry is losing steam.
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and then manipulating the markets and helping his billionaire and oligarch friends while we the people don't even know if our small businesses and medium-sized businesses are going to be able to survive because we don't get the special exemptions that Apple and all of Donald and Bezos and all of these people get.
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Trump Loses It as Panic Over Full Collapse Sets In
On January 20th, Trump's first day in office, he wasted no time delivering a death knell to the offshore wind industry. And again, why would you be celebrating giving a death knell to offshore wind industry or wind in general, which is supplying power to lots of places in America, creating lots of jobs. It's good energy. But Donald Trump has this bizarre and weird hatred for windmills.
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Trump Loses It as Panic Over Full Collapse Sets In
Going back to his experience in Scotland, he was building a golf course and didn't like the windmills near his golf course. I mean, that's what this all is. kind of traces to his own psychosis right here. Last thing I want to point out as well, just so you see what the regime is actually focused on.
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Trump Loses It as Panic Over Full Collapse Sets In
The Pentagon, Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is focused on moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military. So any transgender people who were sacrificing their lives to fight for our country, they're getting fired right now. And if you don't self-report yourself as a transgender person in the next 30 days, There's other penalties for that.
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Trump Loses It as Panic Over Full Collapse Sets In
So and also you have Hegseth purging anything relating to diversity, equity and inclusion, ordering all military leaders, commands and academies to review all books and get rid of them if they include anything that addresses racism or sexism. That's the status right now of the Trump regime. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers. And thanks for watching.
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Trump Loses It as Panic Over Full Collapse Sets In
So here's what Donald Trump posted last night after the first day of discussions between China and the United States over Donald Trump's trade war against China and the world. America has 145% tariffs against China. China has similar tariffs against the United States. There's an effective trade embargo. Shipments are not coming into our ports anymore.
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Panicked White House Snaps in Disaster Press Briefing
Donald Trump's chief propagandist, his press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, just snapped during a disastrous press conference when she was asked about Donald Trump traveling to the Middle East and meeting with many of the countries and sovereign wealth funds that he has personal business interest with, who have enriched him to the tune of about $4 billion. Here, play this clip.
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I could go on, but I think we all get the point. Then Caroline Libet, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, attacks the Librarian of Congress who Donald Trump unlawfully fired and basically says that she was woke and DEI and that's why she had to go and be fired even though Donald Trump doesn't have the authority to unilaterally fire the Librarian of Congress. Here, play this clip.
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Question, the president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why did he choose to do that?
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And by the way, it should be noted that Dr. Carla Hayden, who's the 14th librarian of Congress, was Senate confirmed in 2016 during Donald Trump's first administration. She's the first female librarian of Congress. She's the first African-American librarian of Congress. And she's the first actual librarian, librarian of Congress.
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Panicked White House Snaps in Disaster Press Briefing
But for Donald Trump, anyone who supports education, anybody who supports diversity, that makes you woke and you've got to go. Next up, the Bulwark reporter who's in the Oval Office asks a question about Donald Trump continuing to post about meme coins. And do you think that's a conflict of interest? Here's what Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt, says about that.
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Oh, so you just think that's normal, Caroline, that Donald Trump makes posts that if you have the 22 largest crypto wallets filled with the Trump meme coin, you get to personally meet with Donald Trump. You don't find it abnormal that Donald Trump runs pump and dump like schemes. At least that's my opinion of what it appears to be, which, by the way, is what he's doing with our economy as well.
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We're supposed to normalize United States presidents selling freaking meme coins and access from the Oval Office while y'all were ranting about whatever you were upset about with Hunter Biden. I mean, seriously, that's what we're that's that's where we're at today. with this. Oh, and by the way, just a stat for you on the Trump meme coins.
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There were only 55 crypto wallets or like people who actually made money from Trump's meme coin while there was 747,000 who lost money, who got the rug pulled from this Ponzi scheme, perpetual perennial fraudster presidency. The next time, the next question, a reporter asked Caroline Levitt about the Trump regime dismantling the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Play this clip.
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Oh, as we wrote on the Midas Touch Network. Oh, dismantling the agency that coordinates recalls. What could possibly go wrong with that? I don't know. I don't know. Ridiculous. Okay, next. Then we have here, next clip, we have a reporter asking Caroline Leavitt about, so does Donald Trump intend to have a 10% baseline tariff no matter what on the United Kingdom?
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Because Trump announced some like fake trade deal with the UK. So is there always going to be 10% or, and then Caroline Leavitt responds, oh, it's going to be 10%, no matter what, every country in the world will get tariff 10%. is what Donald Trump intends to do. But obviously we know when Trump says he intends to do something, he doesn't really do it. Here, play this clip.
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Don't tell them what it is. I'm just going to tell you. I got them an Aura digital picture frame where I was able to load some of the best memories from the past seven months of my mom's granddaughter and my wife's daughter, Ximena, and all of us together. Normally, these photos would just be on my phone and I wouldn't know what to do with them.
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Panicked White House Snaps in Disaster Press Briefing
Next up, Caroline Leavitt, chief propagandist for the White House, is asked whether Donald Trump intends to in any way. What are these conversations with China going to be like? Donald Trump like randomly posted. I like 80 percent. Remember, Donald Trump said I'd like the number 80 percent for tariffs with China.
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Panicked White House Snaps in Disaster Press Briefing
I mean, as Donald Trump toys with and tries to manipulate the market, although they didn't do a great job manipulating the market on Friday, although they Before he did, I just think that people are like, what's really going on here? Is there going to be a deal that's going to happen with China?
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And by a deal, basically you as the arsonist putting someone out your fire and just watch what's said right here by cheap propagandist Caroline Leavitt. Let's play this clip.
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Panicked White House Snaps in Disaster Press Briefing
So, again, leaders need to speak with clarity. Leaders need to speak with precision. Right. What are y'all even talking about here? They're the way they toy with people's lives. You know, small businesses are getting screwed. Medium sized all businesses. but especially those that can't just call up the White House and do quid pro quos for favors are getting screwed.
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Panicked White House Snaps in Disaster Press Briefing
So when you see stuff like this, and you don't provide clarity or what the plan is, Donald Trump just sends a post in the morning, and it's like, oh, that's where we're going this time. It's absurd, it's dangerous, and it has real-world ramifications. Next up, Caroline Levitt is asked a question about the Pope, which she doesn't want to answer, apparently. Here, let's play this clip.
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And isn't it just so interesting, too, that now all the MAGAs like despise this pope, Robert Prevost, who's now who was Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, because he's spoken positively about migrants.
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And he said that we need to have, you know, that there needed to be unity with the black community after the murder of George Floyd, that that Pope Leo XIV talked about, you know, encouraging vaccine use. And now for MAGAs, that's, you know, repugnant. How dare you? How dare you do those things?
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Remember what I shared with you as well, though, that there was that bishop in Donald Trump's religious advisory board. And he was previously quoted as saying that the Vatican will never name an American pope so long as America is leading the world and everything else because the Vatican doesn't want there to be an American religious leader while America is the leader in all other things.
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But one way to determine if America is in decline, this is what Trump's own advisor said months back, was if an American pope was selected, the Vatican would be sending the signal that America's lost its power in other areas. And could that have been the message that was being sent there as well?
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Oh yes, Caroline Leavitt, it would be ridiculous for anybody in the room to dare question Donald Trump's motivations. Or we could come with receipts, Caroline. Like, I don't know, Donald Trump doing a deal with Qatar for a Trump resort there. Donald Trump doing a deal with Saudi Arabia for a resort in Oman. The Abu Dhabi fund using Donald Trump's crypto for $2 billion worth of purchases.
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But Pope Leo XIV seems actually like an overall, whether you're religious or not, just like a good person, like a good human being. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
Donald Trump is getting a rude awakening in Michigan after going to Michigan to celebrate 100 days, the most disastrous days ever in the first 100 days of a presidency. We're getting new polling data out of Michigan and Donald Trump's poll numbers there are are crashing.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
You know, one of the things, too, in Michigan that I've noticed also is that that Trumpism, that just kind of cruelty and meanness, unfortunately, seeps into that Republican Party there.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
Their Speaker of the House, a guy named Matt Hall, just the insults that he uses, I mean, the way he refers to another state representative, Mai Zong, and I'll just play it for you, because they just use the Trump immature bullying, and this should Being nowhere, not in Michigan. We should just act like adults and be professional and carry ourselves with dignity and act responsibly.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
But just watch. This is Michigan's Republican Speaker of the House. They all do like Trump routines now. Let's play it.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
A recent poll out of Michigan is showing 56% of Michigan voters disapprove of Trump's performance after his first 100 days of his second term. Only 17% say it's pretty good. Only 24% of people
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
Let's bring in Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to talk about this all. You're out with a new book also, The Purposeful Warrior, Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High. You're also a candidate for governor in the state of Michigan, so you're a pretty, pretty busy person right now. Let's first talk about Donald Trump's poll numbers there, but less about the poll numbers.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
What are you seeing? You know the state better than just about anybody. What are you seeing, Secretary?
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
You know, then he shows up in Michigan. He gives that speech in Warren. He praises the January 6th insurrectionists again. He then talks about one of his accomplishments. He talks about, we've opened up toilet bowls. I'm the toilet bowl president. I'll just show it to you because every time I see it, I'm just like, wow. I'm like, come on. Like, this is just not normal stuff. Like, wake up, people.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
Just watch this.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
say that it is excellent but by far more people are viewing this as negative to catastrophic also when you dig into the numbers here uh donald trump is negative on every single issue the only issue though where he i guess is you know basically at a baseline even is i suppose his main issue immigration for which 48 percent of respondents in michigan gave him a positive rating
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
Yeah, I mean, when people are feeling pain and we know the people in Michigan are feeling lots of pain, then he goes in and does that. I just go. this goes with your book. I just go, that's not right. Let's not talk about politics. I just go, that's not right. Like, don't we have to go back fundamentally to right, wrong, purpose, non-purpose.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
How big of an issue is Donald Trump's insulting of Canada on the economy of Michigan? And how big of an impact are you seeing there? I mean, it's not just the tariffs, right? When Donald Trump uses language of annexation, you know, all of our Canadian supporters who call themselves the maple Midas, they go, Ben, that's war language. He's speaking the way Vladimir Putin speaks.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
speaks to ukraine which leads to invasion so we don't take it as funny we don't take it as a joke and we're not traveling to these states anymore and you know i've seen people in michigan you know go out and protest against trump showing canadian flags to show solidarity um and then i saw the other one in windsor and people you know so it was great to see that at its core americans recognize what important allies canadians are but what do you see in there
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
And before we go, talk about the book, The Purposeful Warrior. I mean, we talked about it a little bit before there, but the idea of being purposeful, the idea of right and wrong, as you said, the decisions that you had to make in 2020, this isn't even about this political party or that party. You don't steal elections. You don't try to overthrow free and fair elections.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
You know, and what's really, you know, Impacted me so much, you know, as I am seeing, though, even Trump appointed judges who are ruling against him on certain issues about, you know, due process. But then I see Donald Trump inviting the head of the Proud Boys to Mar-a-Lago this past weekend. They were partying together. Enrique Tarrio, Donald Trump. partying at Mar-a-Lago together.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
and 48% gave him a negative rating with still 4% undecided. And the pollster here says that it's clear from the data that he's beginning to suffer from his own base, from the own MAGA supporters, which is interesting because he's usually able to still hold that kind of MAGA crew. Of course, Michigan is a pivotal swing state, and unfortunately it went for Trump in the 2024 election.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
And then I think of the Trump-appointed judge who sentenced Enrique Tarrio to 22 years. And speak to that if you can.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
The purposeful warrior, Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State. Good luck on your candidacy for governor. We'll be following it and we hope to have you back to talk more about that as well.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
Let me just show you the scene outside of that Trump rally or whatever the heck you want to call it, where he was there for his 100 days. It seemed like there were more protesters and more than even people who were actually at this event. Here was the scene outside of the event. Let's play it.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
so by now you probably know that the state of ohio went from a purple state a little bit over a decade ago to becoming a red state although it's got some blue dots in there but maybe it should have gone back to purple or blue because this whole red state thing doesn't really seem to be helping at all that much. Take a look at some of these recent headlines from various places in Ohio.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
Let's call in the Cleveland mayor, Mayor Justin Bibb. Mayor Bibb, This chaos is not good for business. What are you seeing in your city, sir?
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
What are you seeing in Cleveland in terms of Trump gutting federal programs, federal jobs? I know that you've been leading a lot of initiatives to try to help all of these people who have lost jobs to find jobs in other sectors. But how hard has that hit Cleveland from your vantage point?
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
I mean, this one from Fox 8 Cleveland, for example, although it's a blue city, veterans affairs to cut 70,000 jobs. Local veterans are deeply concerned. How about this headline? The Chips Act brought Intel to Ohio. Trump wants the Chips Act gone. He announced No more CHIPS Act, MAGA Mike Johnson at the joint session address. Will Ohio's congressional representatives defend it? I don't know.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
Cleveland was, and you, Cleveland was back. I mean, Cleveland was thriving. I mean, you started to see some of that great storied history and manufacturing and other sectors return with the jobs of the future. It was really one of those incredible stories. I mean, look, with your leadership, and I'm sure you're doing everything you can To Trump, proof it.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
You know, I still think you'll be there, but now you're facing different types of resistance. You know, you know, in many ways, do you feel like, you know, that the city's under attack from this administration and that your posture is is is is different? I mean. that perspective shift really quickly.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
Cause you know, Trump was trying to create certain characters of cities like Cleveland as being failing and all of these things. It actually wasn't, it wasn't.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
I saw them all giving a standing ovation when Donald Trump said to get rid of the jobs in Ohio and elsewhere. Here's this one as well from Akron. These three Northeast Ohio federal buildings could be sold by the Trump administration. How about this one from Axios? Ohio farmers face uncertainty amid Trump tariffs.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
It's the thing, right? Former President Biden had a bipartisan border bill that would have actually addressed the issues and the complexities of it and provided cities with the resources they need when it comes to immigration. But just look at Trump's joint session, right? He singles out another city in Ohio, Springfield. He spread lies and says, you know, it's a wreck. It's the worst.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
The Haitians have destroyed it. And the Springfield mayor came out and said, that's not that you're wrong. You are you are wrong. And now, though, what you're doing is actually hurting the community because the incredible workers are now fearful of their lives and livelihood. So you're now creating.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
the circumstance that you fear mongered in the first place and is trying to make it a self-fulfilled prophecy. You know, I know as a mayor, you're probably close with a lot of the other mayors in the state. And there's got to be some mayor solidarity happening here, regardless of Democrat, Republican or whatever. Right.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
And so what would your message be as we conclude this interview to the people of Cleveland, but generally to people who are living in cities like Cleveland across the country who are nervous right now, who feel betrayed? They were promised lower prices on day one, and now they're being told by the Trump administration, no. Short disturbances are good for you. It's like a it's like a cleanse.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
The nation's breadbasket is feeling the pressure as new tariffs on our country's largest trade partners trigger, guess what, retaliation, leaving farmers worried about their livelihoods. It goes on to talk about how Midwest states like Ohio
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
It's like a detox. We all want detox. That's what their pitch that they say. They said that Scott Besson, his treasury secretary detox. What's your message to the people of Cleveland and frankly, to people throughout the country right now, especially people are looking to you because you're crushing it in Cleveland and you've got a national profile now.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, his first time on the Midas Touch Network. We hope it's the first of many. Thanks for joining us. Everybody hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers this month. Thanks for watching.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Trump Attacks on Ohio
heavily rely on agriculture, especially soy, corn, pork, dairy, and wheat, and escalated trade tensions could cause serious economic consequences for farmers and rural communities. And it probably doesn't help as well that Donald Trump puts tariffs on, then takes them off, then puts them on again, then takes them off again. It is total Trump chaos, not good for business.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
Canada went elbows up. They stood up to the Trump regime. And right now, Canada knows that they successfully pushed back against Donald Trump. They see how weak and pathetic the Trump regime is right now. And Canadian leaders are just saying how stupid the Trump regime's policies are that are crashing the United States economy, frankly, while the economy in Canada and in Europe is resilient. Why?
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
This guy looks and sounds so freaking arrogant. Oh, we're just detoxing. Just detoxing. Shut up. You were handed a Goldilocks economy and you threw that Goldilocks economy into the ground. And then you have shows like this. Maria Bartiromo on Fox saying it's a recession. The recession's coming, but it's Biden's recession. Play this clip.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
what he does as a cornered little rat no offense to cornered rats great work and to all of our canadian supporters out there we know there are millions of you this is the most watched podcast in canada we stand with you against the trump regime and we look forward to the day when we will be allies again when we will be best neighbors and best friends again this is a passing period we stand up to that cornered rat no offense to cornered rats this trump
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
I make a stupid decision. Something really bad happens. I convince my followers the problem is now magically solved. I reverse my stupid decision. Or how about this chart right here? Donald Trump, I'm adding tariffs. Trump supporters, that will create jobs. Trump, I'm removing tariffs. Trump supporters, art of the deal. Donald Trump, I'm adding tariffs. Trump supporters, this will create jobs.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
fascist regime. We stand up to bullies. And until they rip this microphone from my very hands, there will be fearless reporting here at the Midas Touch Network and highlighting your great work. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
Donald Trump, I'm removing tariffs. Trump supporters, art of the deal. I think you get the point right here. Let's take a look at what Chrystia Freeland has to say. She's the former Canadian Minister of Finance. She's running for leadership in the Liberal Party race. It's really her against Mark Carney.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
Right now, the Liberal Party, by the way, is soaring in the latest polling up four to five percent over the Conservative Party because the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poliev, really went maple maga. And then Donald Trump went and screwed over Canada. So being maple mag and not the greatest place to be under Pierre Poliev, who was really getting pushed by the Elon Musk algorithms.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
He did the Jordan Peterson podcast and talked about, you know, all of the things that Elon Musk and Doge were doing in America that Poliev said he wanted to do in Canada. Not the most popular place to be. And the polling in Canada is reflecting this unprecedented liberal surge. I mean, I don't think they've seen this level of popularity since, what, 2000 or so.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
But let's take a look at what Chrystia Freeland says here on CNN, where she looks at the camera. She's going on American media. And she is saying to Donald Trump in America, do you realize how stupid the Trump regime is? They're killing your stock market. And here in Canada and Europe and elsewhere, we know what we're doing. Actually, the European stock market is up right now.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
The dollar is actually getting crushed vis-a-vis the euro right now. I mean, America is in a trash can right now because of the Trump regime. Here, play this clip of Chrystia Freeland, who's running for leadership in the Liberal Party.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
Because we told you They were prepared for this moment. They are united. And the United States Trump regime was saying, oh, the tariffs are going to be the greatest thing. And then Donald Trump revoked the tariffs. He puts the tariffs on, revokes the tariffs, put them back on, revoked them again, claims he's going to put them back on on April 2nd.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
Now I want to share this with you as well. This is Mark Carney, also running for leadership. Many believe that Carney is the frontrunner, but I think it's still anybody's game for the race of leadership in the Liberal Party. Here's what Carney has to say. Let's play it.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
And as I mentioned, the polling, the Conservative Party is on a downswing. The Liberal Party is surging. When people expected the Conservative Party to have been able to form a government several months ago, the whole dynamic has changed because of Donald Trump there with the Liberal Party surging. Ahead also, as I told you, consumer confidence is up, up, up because Canadians are standing united.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
Unlike here in the United States where consumer confidence is plummeting essentially to all time lows. And we're hearing from other Canadian leaders, authors, celebrities, you name business leaders, all talking about the unified boycott that is still going on.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
You saw the report that I did where Jack Daniels is saying even beyond retaliatory tariffs, the fact that Canadian provinces have taken all of the booze, American booze, off their supermarket shelves and grocery store shelves, that has actually been even more harmful to these liquor suppliers, to Kentucky Bourbon, for example, Jack Daniels and others, than even the retaliatory tariffs.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump and Knocks Him Out
But Canada's like, you realize how pathetic you look right now? Look, consumer confidence in Canada is actually soaring right now because Canadians were ready for this moment. Unlike here in the United States, where consumer confidence is absolutely plummeting. Here in the United States, the Atlanta Federal Reserve is predicting a negative 2.8%.
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Now, wait until... we start getting the data about the tourism boycott. We all know how powerful that boycott is. It hasn't showed up yet in the financial data just because it'll probably pick up in the March and April data. But Canadians ain't traveling to the United States. They're canceling their vacations. They're canceling their rentals.
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And those in the United States who would rent out to Canadians or who run travel agencies here or are involved in the tourism, you know Canadians are canceling everything. I predict that it'll be about 50% to 75% of Canadians who will be participating in the tourism boycott, unless they absolutely have to come here. I think they're just like, why would I come to this place where idiocracy prevails?
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And look, talking about idiocracy, I mean, it's just stuff like this. You banning photographs, our Secretary of Defense, if it has the word gay in it and not realizing the Enola Gay, the World War II bomber, has the word gay in it and that they're banning photos of the Enola Gay. I mean, it's just the stupidest stuff happening here as well.
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I mean, talk about the gong show here in the United States. You have the Army Corps of Engineers being sent by Donald Trump to drain reservoirs in California into farmland
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frankly, run by right-leaning Republican farmers in the land that's nowhere close to Los Angeles in Southern California, because Donald Trump believed that you can turn on some like faucet that's somehow connected to Canada and that the water would flow and stop the fires, which had already stopped in Los Angeles.
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So Donald Trump dumped reservoirs that were needed for summer for these farmers into random farmland in like Central and Northern California. I mean, it is... the height of stupidity right now. I showed you this, by the way. This is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from earlier in this week saying, we are not backing down.
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Here is Prime Minister Trudeau again giving a great response to Trump changing his mind on tariffs at the end of last week. Let's play it.
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Thursday. And here's my buddy, by the way, you all know him by now, Canadian member of parliament, Charlie Angus. Here was an incredible speech. I'll give you a short portion of it that he gave in Ottawa about how Canadians have stayed united, how they've stood up, how they were prepared. And now the American economy is tanking because of the stupidity of the Trump regime.
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GDP contraction, whereas they previously expected a former President Biden's economy was just put into autopilot. GDP growth of about 3% to 4%. In the United States, we're talking about stagflation right now. Stagflation means contraction in the GDP.
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high inflation it's like the worst case scenario economists here are talking about recession great recession and even depression based on donald trump's stupid policies you take a look right here at canadian grocery stores they all look like this american liquor still removed from the shelves canadians are sick and tired of this stupid cycle of donald trump here it is right here
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Folks, we're seeing headlines throughout like this one. Trump's policies have shaken a one solid economic outlook. The bank stocks here are down seven to 12 percent. The Wall Street Journal headlines are how tariff wars are risking sinking the United States into Great Depression. Donald Trump is also killing a fifty two point seven billion dollar semiconductor chips act.
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destroying red states and blue states alike. And what does the Trump administration have to say about this, about Canada? Just pathetic, what, name-calling. Here you have Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, calling Trudeau a numbskull. Play this clip.
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Well, guess what, Scott Besant? Trudeau just ate your lunch. The Canadians just went elbows up and they made you look like a fool, pathetic and weak. And now you have Scott Besant over here saying, you know what? Things may be bad in the United States, but guess what? We're just detoxing. The economy is detoxing here. Here, play this clip.
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As Americans protest, Donald Trump hides in Mar-a-Lago as he crashes the economy and takes away the American dream from We the People. That protest I just showed you at the top of this video, that was in Indiana, but protests are taking place across the United States.
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and what they're going to do with their crypto and their meme coins, everybody, while we the people suffer. So despicable. Great work to all the people out there protesting. Great work to Senator Sanders and everybody who showed up to those protests and to those events. Happy to highlight it here on the Midas Touch Network. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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is Donald Trump is tanking our markets, tanking our economy as the Atlanta Federal Reserve now predicts a negative two point eight percent GDP growth. contraction in the first quarter of this year when they previously predicted if Donald Trump did nothing and just put Biden's economy in overdrive, it would have been about 3% to 4% GDP growth.
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This is the type of things that Donald Trump is posting. Elon Musk and Marco Rubio have a great relationship and He's saying that in response to this story that broke in New York Times and elsewhere, that the cabinet is like pissed at Elon and Elon's pissed at the cabinet. Look, I don't really care who's pissed at who. What I care about is that they are gutting the federal government.
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They are treating people so horribly and cruelly. They are taking people away from critical positions. They are leading to an economic recession and potentially a depression. They're treating our veterans horribly. And then you have Donald Trump posting this this weekend while he's vacationing and golfing. This is a real post. Donald Trump reposts the following. Shut up about egg prices.
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Trump is saving consumers millions, so just shut up. This is really Donald Trump's message on social media that people need to stop talking about egg prices and just shut up. As Donald Trump was posting that, Russian state regime media was posting this. U.S. This is from Russian propaganda media, RT. U.S.
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rejects Canadian plan for task force to target Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers bypassing sanctions. That was an article from Bloomberg News. That RT is happily reposting that the United States is screwing over our allies like Canada. And then here's another post from RT, the Russian state TV. Draft G7 statement leaks shows that the U.S. wants any reference to sanctions against Russia gone.
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Russia's ability to maintain war to be swapped with Russia. earn revenue and so quite literally donald trump is now acting as an agent a promoter of russia and he is making the u.s part of an access of evil which americans don't want to be a part of except for the hardcore maggots aligning the United States with Russia, North Korea, and Belarus, as Jay in Kyiv writes.
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Trump expands his war against Ukraine, remotely cutting off vital electronic interference equipment on Ukraine's F-16s. Trump is merely Putin's you-know-what. And then Jay writes, US President Donald Trump's team has ordered the termination of vital support for F-16 fighter jet jamming equipment that Ukraine has.
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Also, you have Bernie Sanders crossing the United States, going into red and purple districts in Wisconsin and Michigan and speaking to workers in front of massive crowds. He was in Kenosha And then he was in Michigan the following day, gave some great speeches. I want to show you what Donald Trump's been doing, though.
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What is important to understand is that this could deprive the Ukrainian Air Force of its most important air countermeasures. So that's what Donald Trump's doing from vacation. He's tanking the economy from vacation once again. He's spending, what, tens of millions of our taxpayer dollars so he can frolic in Mar-a-Lago with billionaire oligarch crypto bros or whatever.
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Oh, and then you have Elon Musk no longer following Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as part of that New York Times report and some of the reports we've seen elsewhere. Marco Rubio and Elon Musk got into a fight at the last cabinet meeting, and so did Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. Now, Sean Duffy got famous off of the real-world road rules.
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reality TV show challenge in the 1990s or early 2000s, whatever that was. Sean Duffy's now the Secretary of Transportation, and he's saying, look, Elon, you're firing all of our FAA workers, and now there's plane crashes happening all the time, and you're making me look like an idiot. And then Elon said, I don't care. I'm unfollowing you on Twitter. and that's basically what went down.
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Here, Jay writes again, Trump's peace plan is just to help Putin genocide Ukraine. Christopher Steele writes, Trump's claims to be a peacemaker are risible. His decision to end intelligence sharing in Kyiv has clearly encouraged and enabled Putin to increase his missile and drone onslaught on non-military targets.
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Over the past 48, 72 hours, we've seen an uptick in the Russian non-military missile strikes. And many believe, in fact, that not only is now the Trump regime stopping any sharing of surveillance with Ukraine, but that the Trump regime may be sharing intelligence with Russia about where to attack in Ukraine.
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And it's why people in Europe and Canada and elsewhere just view the United States basically as not even a member of NATO anymore, and like the US is just totally isolated on an island on itself as a result of what the Trump regime has done.
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Let me share with you the following because you had JD Vance make a post where he was complaining that he was basically accosted and treated horribly when he was with his three-year-old walking around the Cincinnati area. And he was whining how bad he was treated and how unfair it is to be him. And he talks about in this post also how he was walking his three-year-old.
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Just an odd way to phrase it. These MAGAs use their kids as human shields. So he was walking with his three-year-old in Cincinnati. People approached him. And then he was acting like, oh, this was such a horrible thing. And when the people approached him, they were like, why are you selling out Ukraine? I want you to watch this interaction. Let's play it.
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Here Donald Trump is with his rapid response account saying, keep fighting, keep fighting, exclamation point. And then one of the other kind of Trump right wing accounts goes, Trump never stops working for the American people. literally as he's going to play golf over this weekend and vacation once again on taxpayer dollars.
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And by the way, while we're on the topic of J.D. Vance and while I shared with you before Donald Trump's post while vacationing saying that we all need to shut up about egg prices, this is all they talked about during the campaign, right? The whole campaign they were saying, you know, look, eggs are going to cost you around $4 thanks to Kamala Harris. $4, everybody. Well, now eggs, $12, $15.
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They don't exist at all. If you have Trump's agriculture secretary saying we need to buy chickens and if we can live chickens so that they can make the eggs, I'm not making that up. I've showed you that clip on so many videos. I'm not going to show it here. But just to remind you during the campaign, here's what J.D. Vance said. They made eggs like the main part of the campaign.
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Also, while Donald Trump is vacationing, we're getting headlines. Oh, he's posting this. Then I'll show you the headlines. Well, I'll show you the headline first. The Wall Street Journal writes, Donald Trump's tariff war risks sinking the world into new Great Depression. International Chamber of Commerce warns the world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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And again, the International Chamber of Commerce is a right leaning business group. The House and the Senate have put together, under the circumstances, a very good funding bill, a CR. It's a continuing resolution. All Republicans should vote. Please, please. Yes, next week. Great things are coming for America.
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And I'm asking you, just give us a few months to get us through to September so we can continue to put the country's financial house in order. Democrats will do anything they can to shut down our government. And we can't let that happen. We have to remain united. Also, we're not talking about a few months, right? We're in March. So April, May, June, July, August, September.
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As the Patriot takes account, he's literally on his way to the golf course in that video. Another weekend vacation for Donald Trump as he destroys Americans' alliances abroad, as he has stripped Ukraine not just of military aid, but he's also taken away
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So what are we talking about? Like seven, seven to eight months or so for this continuing resolution. And do your job. I mean, like the Republicans can't pass a budget. Just so you're clear when I'm talking about a continuing resolution. They're continuing the government funding based on the last budget, which was Nancy Pelosi's budget before the Republicans took control in 2022, 2023.
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The Republicans have been in power since then, but Republicans have not passed an actual budget. So they keep on doing continuing resolutions because they need to fund the government. using basically Nancy Pelosi's budget as a template. And then they all whine and say, oh, there's so much fraud. There's all of these things. And it really isn't any of that.
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If y'all want to change priorities, if you think that there's all this misconduct and fraud, then pass your own budget. Do your damn freaking job. But no, this is what they're talking about right now. As I started this video showing you the protest, I showed you one in Indiana. You saw them in all 50 states yesterday. Someone reached out to me here from St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Protest happening now in St. Paul, Minnesota. This is what democracy looks like. It says Lucy the Protesting Beagle is here too. What's up, Lucy the Protesting Beagle? MidasTouch.com, please help us spread the word. No corporate media anywhere. Well, you know we're covering it here on the Midas Touch Network. Another thing I wanted to point out as well, because we've talked about all of the other
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kind of country seeing how weak and pathetic Donald Trump is. The latest to stand up to Donald Trump is Iran, who's clearly not scared of Donald Trump. The Iranian leader says he won't accept demands by bully countries after Trump claims to have sent the leader Khomeini a letter
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And like Donald Trump said from one of those weird Oval Office press conferences at the end of last week, that we sent a letter and Iran's going to have a lot of problems if they don't do what they're supposed to do. Here's what Donald Trump said.
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And then what Iran said is that, look, what Donald Trump said is absolutely false. We're not scared of him. We're not going to respond to him. Literally, we're just going to ignore him. We don't listen to bully regimes. At this point, this is how everyone's dealing with Donald Trump. Even Iran is not afraid of Donald Trump.
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I showed you at the beginning some of the Bernie Sanders town halls and rallies in red, purplish areas. Just so you can see here as well, this was from Saturday. He writes, Senator Sanders writes, "'Totally insane. First a gym full of people, then an overflow crowd, then an overflow, overflow crowd, and an overflow, overflow, overflow crowd.'"
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the military intelligence and surveillance that America was providing to Ukraine, making Ukraine more susceptible to Russian missile strikes and Russian drone swarms. But Ukraine's doing as best they can to defend themselves courageously. And here's what Donald Trump's posting as well. Elon and Marco have a great relationship. Any statement other than that is fake news. D.J.T.
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More than 9,000 people came out in Warren, Michigan to say no to oligarchy, no to cuts to Social Security, no to Medicaid, no to cuts to the VA. Also, I think it's worth mentioning as well over here that they still haven't released the Epstein files, right? They still have not released it. Remember weeks ago when the MAGA Republicans said they were releasing the Epstein files, I told you.
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They were never going to release it. And then they gave those MAGA influencers who showed up at the White House a binder. And they wrote Epstein files, the most transparent administration ever on the binder, thinking everybody's stupid. Yeah, it was then exposed that it was not the Epstein files.
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It was Epstein's phone book that was released in 2021, by the way, which has Donald Trump's name on it. And now they're saying they're not going to turn over the Epstein files. I told you they were never going to turn it over, ever. I mean, because it probably has stuff with Trump's name on it. I mean, Trump was close with Epstein. But I'll tell you what they did do.
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The Trump administration did help get the Tate brothers, who were arrested on sex trafficking of minor charges, alleged. Sex trafficking and minor charges, although we've heard them speak and the Tate brothers have said in their own words the most horrific and despicable things as well about trafficking.
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But they were brought back from Romania to the United States where they're getting a hero's welcome from all of the MAGA people who are saying how great it is that they're there. So while you don't get the Epstein files, you do get the Tate brothers who were arrested in Romania on sex trafficking charges. So that's what MAGA is doing.
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Higher egg prices, a tanking stock market, a tanking GDP, stagflation, meaning you're GDP growth low or contracting, inflation surging, stock markets crashing, and then Donald Trump saying, shut up, shut up about egg prices. He's got a vacation, everybody. He's got a vacation. He's got him and the oligarchs, him and the billionaires. They got to talk about their crypto reserves.
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As Donald Trump runs back to Mar-a-Lago to play golf once again this weekend on the taxpayer's dime as he keeps crashing our economy, he posted this message to the American people. Shut up about egg prices. Shut up. Here he makes this post on a social media platform. It's an article from Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump posts it. Shut up about egg prices, Americans.
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So despicable. Then she went on Larry Kudlow, of course, and Larry Kudlow calls her Brookie. He goes, Brookie, the economy is suffering, but it's all Biden's fault.
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So pathetic. What else is Donald Trump doing today while he is vacationing at Mar-a-Lago, crashing the economy and telling Americans to shut up about egg prices? Here's what he posted as well this morning on Saturday at 10.25 a.m. He goes, "...the House and Senate have put together, under the circumstances, a very good funding bill, a CR. All Republicans should vote." Please. Yes. Next week.
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Great things are coming for America. And I am asking you all just to give us a few months to get us through to September so we can continue to put the country's, quote, financial house in order. Democrats will do anything they can to shut down our government. And we can't let that happen. Excuse me.
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first and foremost democrats don't control the house they don't control the senate they don't control the executive branch you do so how are democrats going to shut it down also please i mean so utterly pathetic and you see what a con artist is as he's crashing our economy as he's vacationing in mar-a-lago by the way where he's hanging out with like crypto billionaires bragging about how much money he's made off his dollar sign trump meme coin as he starts talking about
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Trump is saving consumers millions. No, he is not saving consumers millions as he's playing golf on the taxpayer dime. Donald Trump is crashing the economy with his feckless trade wars where he goes, I'm going to do a trade war today. Oops, the market's crashing. I'm not going to do a trade war. I'm going to do a trade war with Canada and Mexico. Oopsies, the market's crashing.
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making these meme coins, part of the Treasury Department's crypto reserve. As he's doing all of that, as Americans are suffering, he's saying, please, and let's just do a continuing resolution because the Republicans can't even get a budget together. They can't pass a budget. So they need to continue the budgets of the past, which the Republicans were never able to do. So they're continuing what?
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The resolution from Nancy Pelosi? which is before Republicans took control of Congress in 2022, and they've been unable to do their most basic function and pass a budget. And isn't it interesting, too, that they want a continuing resolution while they say that the prior appropriations are all filled with fraud? So you control the House. You control the Senate.
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If you believe there are priorities or things you want to change, guess what? You can make the laws. So do it. No, you're too pathetic to do that because what would you rather be doing? What they're doing this weekend, vacationing, partying, telling Americans to shut up and stop whining about egg prices. And J.D. Vance and Elon Musk posting the cringiest, weirdest memes. Elon Musk reposting J.D.
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Vance, Leonardo DiCaprio memes. I don't even know what they're doing here. Meanwhile, you have like Laura Ingraham and Donald Trump talking about how Glad that Laura Ingraham is, that Donald Trump has appointed her to the board of the Kennedy Center, because that's what Americans care about right now.
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Donald Trump posts, I'm thrilled to announce that Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo from Fox will be joining our Kennedy Center board. That's why I call Fox state regime media, because they're literally part of the administration, the regime. This completes our selection. We look forward to a golden age, to which Laura Ingraham responds this morning. Thank you, Mr. President.
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This appointment is an honor. I look forward to working with such a stellar group to showcase the best of the performing arts in our nation's capital. Guess what, Laura? No one wants to work with fascists. Actually talented artists do not want to work with fascists. So why don't you put Kid Rock up there or Ted Nugent up there and they can talk about whatever the hell they want.
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But real talented people like the people behind Hamilton, they're canceling and most people are not going to the Kennedy Center anymore. Let's take a look. What's Donald Trump doing? Golfing, golfing, just some weird stuff going, taking place at Mar-a-Lago. While you get headlines like this,
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Beware, a recession that could be triggered by a chain reaction of tariff risks, Wall Street executives say. You have the Wall Street Journal citing the International Chamber of Commerce as well, saying that America could be heading to a Great Depression. Wall Street Journal, International Chamber of Commerce saying that...
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You've got headlines from the New York Times saying economic forecasts have deteriorated in recent weeks, reflecting the upheaval from federal layoffs, tariff moves and immigration roundups. Trump's policies have shaken a one solid economic look. Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Just weeks into Trump's term, the outlook is gloomier.
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I'm not going to do that. Now, because of Donald Trump's policies, the Atlanta Federal Reserve is predicting a negative 2.8 to negative 3% GDP in quarter one, a contraction. And we're also predicting inflation, which is stagflation, low GDP, surging prices equals stagflation, which is a disaster for our economy.
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But what is Donald Trump doing with his base? Grifting off of them. That's all he knows how to do. Grift, rinse, repeat. Grift, rinse, repeat. Donald Trump sends the following message to his supporters. Today, I'm announcing my newest membership program, Trump Oval Office members.
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I wish this Trump badge meant that I can meet you in the Oval Office because I would love for you to come unlock your membership now. There it is. It's an American flag, but it's Donald Trump's name on it. You defile our flag with your name on it in fake gold. Dare you. Then Donald Trump sends this email.
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If I say please, that's one of us think, please, if I say please, will you at least answer question one? It's the easiest question. Please let me know. Take the MAGA poll. Will you stand with Trump if I'm impeached again? You control the House, the Senate, and the executive branch. And you're saying, please, if I get impeached right now.
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And then Donald Trump sends the following to Ben, this is your chance to tour Mar-a-Lago. You're invited to dinner at Mar-a-Lago. You mean so much to me that I'm personally inviting you to my beautiful home. Free flight, free hotel, free meal. Oh, your beautiful home where you're hanging out with your billionaires while you're telling Americans to shut up and stop talking about egg prices.
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Yet Americans are pissed. Prices are surging. You promised they would go down on day one. By the way, Maria Bartiromo, who's now on, I guess, the Kennedy Center Board with Laura Ingraham as well, remember when she asked Donald Trump this week, you know, Donald, Donald, can you give a sense of whether or not you can give some clarity to the business community? Remember what Trump said?
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Here, play this clip.
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Trump is a disaster for business. And here's this type of stuff that he continues to post though, right?
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As Americans are wondering right now, Americans who live paycheck to paycheck, as they're getting laid off from their jobs, as they're seeing Elon Musk destroy the federal government, as Donald Trump is doing whatever the hell Putin wants, as Donald Trump's cut off intelligence to Ukraine and is allowing Vladimir Putin...
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and possibly sharing with Putin our military intelligence, allowing Putin to just indiscriminately kill Ukrainians and not allow Ukraine to defend itself. Donald Trump's posting things like this. Israel's lookout to be renamed the Trump lookout, because that's what everybody's focused on right now. Or how about this post? Why Trump's steel tariffs must be permanent. American greatness.
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And then he's like making like weird old posts from like mid-February to of like propaganda polls as Donald Trump's polling right now is in the toilet bowl as it's sinking. Nation is the happiest ever right now that Trump is the president. Nation is the happiest ever right now.
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Well, you know, I wonder if that's why every time you even turn on Fox, they're talking about recessions, but they're blaming the recession that's about to hit us on form or the great recession or depression on former President Biden. Here's Maria Bartiromo saying it's Biden's recession. Here, play this clip.
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Most economists now are predicting a recession, a great recession, or even a depression as Donald Trump's surrogates are out there saying, oh, that's just a short-term disturbance, or America needs to detox, or we don't really need federal workers. Why do we need them? Or why do veterans need jobs? So absolutely pathetic, and how dare he say this while Americans are suffering.
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Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. That's what Trump's doing today.
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Trump Says 'Shut Up About Eggs' as He Golfs on Saturday
His message is shut up about egg prices. Well, meanwhile, his Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, has been making her rounds on all of the Fox shows, and Here she says that what Americans really need, they want to deal with the surging egg prices, is that they need to buy chickens because the chickens will make their eggs for them. Play this clip.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
I'm joined by Democratic Congress member Seth Moulton. Congressman, your former Marine Donald Trump's actions seem to be disproportionately attacking the veteran community, the spouses of members of the armed services, both in terms of the cuts in the federal government, where a lot of veterans work, as well as to veterans affairs. We're learning what 60, 70,000 jobs could be lost.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
share with you what Trump said earlier in the day. He held one of those Oval Office press conferences where he signed some ridiculous executive order. I think this one was he signed an executive order saying that he was great for women. And he goes, I guess I'm great. I'm signing the order anyway. Then he gets asked all of the questions. And here he's asked, are you making it U.S.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
policy that the U.S. won't defend NATO countries that don't pay? Here, let me show you what he said.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
I want to get your reaction to that.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
Now you know from your service. Talk to us about it.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
Well, look, elections are won and lost over the economy. As you posted, Russia's stock market is up. China's stock is up. America's stocks are down. And it's just more than just the stocks being down. The Atlanta Federal Reserve,
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
saying that GDP will be negative 2.8% to negative 3% in the first quarter, whereas if Donald Trump just put on autopilot former President Biden's economy, it would have been 3% to 4% GDP growth. Also, you have prices surging, so that combination of GDP contraction and prices surging is something called stagflation. It hasn't happened in 50 years and is crushing, and then Trump every day says,
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
tariff no tariff tariff no tariff and he's like watching the market go up and down and then he gets scared so he pulls the tariffs which are dangerous what what are you hearing from you know your constituents what what are you seeing out there you know generally the the sentiment and the vibes are caused by his economic uh disarray look i can't remember a time when we've gotten more calls into the office from people who were just scared desperate
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
Let's talk about Doge, Elon Musk. Pretends that he's not the leader of Doge. They said some Amy Gleeson, who no one's heard of, is actually administrator because Elon doesn't want to have to testify before Congress before getting into the damage that Doge is causing. Let's just talk about Trump.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
transparency, which is that none of your Republican colleagues are allowing Elon Musk to go before a Doge subcommittee or any committee to actually discuss what he's doing. I mean, regardless of where someone is on any political issue, you would think at the most basic level, oversight is a thing and you show up before Congress and you talk about it or else you're probably got something to hide.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
Let's start with transparency and let's talk about the impact you're seeing.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
The final question, I'm sure you hear it a lot at your town halls. I always get asked it as well as, you know, what are the Democrats doing? What should they be doing? Everybody gets you don't control the House, you don't control the Senate.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
you don't control the executive branch but i'm sure you hear it from your constituents they say we still want you to fight we want you to fight yeah and so you know what does that mean to you where democrats don't have control what does that look like and what are you challenging other uh democrats to do as well during these difficult times
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
Yeah, not a surprise that that's coming from him. But are you surprised that pretty much all of your colleagues have gone and the Republican side have gone full MAGA at this point, giving standing ovations as Donald Trump talks about conquering Greenland and Panama or giving standing ovations as he talks about revoking the CHIPS Act, which brings a lot of jobs even to their red states.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
I appreciate that. You know, I often get asked, you know, you cover Trump this. Is it just that you hate Trump? I go, look, if this was a guy who was in Mar-a-Lago just being a billionaire or whatever, I go, he's impacting you. He's impacting America. He's hurting the economy. He's hurting our alliance. That's why I cover it. Let's focus on those issues.
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Rep. Seth Moulton on Trump Failed Policies
Congress member Seth Moulton, I appreciate you joining us. This is your first time on the Midas Touch podcast. We hope you come back. Thanks for having me. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
Mexico's powerful and wildly popular President Claudia Scheinbaum stood up to Trump yet again, calmly, confidently, and shut him down, Donald Trump back down, like the pathetic loser that he is. Let me show you what President Claudia Scheinbaum did. Here was the statement that she gave, cool, calm, collected. And she said, look, Donald Trump's going to put these tariffs on us We'll respond.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
You do not insult the sovereignty of the great nation of Mexico. You do not attack our people. You do not defame us. And she's ready with the receipts. If you want to talk about the real issues with fentanyl,
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
If you want to talk about who's providing the weapons to drug cartels, if you want to talk about who's dealing the fentanyl and opioids in the United States, you may want to look inside your own borders there, Donald. And instead of putting billions of dollars towards weapons of war, maybe you want to focus on things like education and actually helping your people.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
Here's President Claudia Scheinbaum again. Let's play it.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
And I just want to show you how leading up to the imposition of these tariffs by Donald Trump, Claudia Scheinbaum never backed down. She was always cool, calm, collected and knew exactly how to deal with Donald Trump. Here she was the day before that press conference.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
We're ready to retaliate. Nothing to worry about. We will strike back hard, but we're prepared to negotiate. Calm down, Donald. You're being too emotional. Let's play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
Sorry, that press conference there again. And look, like clockwork, she was right. Donald Trump then posted the following on March 6th. On Thursday... After speaking with President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico, I have agreed that Mexico will not be required to pay tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA agreement. This agreement is until April 2nd.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
I did this as an accommodation out of respect for President Scheinbaum. Our relationship has been a very good one, and we are working hard together on the border, both in terms of stopping illegal aliens from entering the United States and likewise stopping fentanyl. Thank you, President Scheinbaum, for your hard work and cooperation.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
Remember the first time that Donald Trump imposed the tariffs and then he withdrew them right away because President Claudia Scheinbaum agreed that she would put 10,000 Mexican troops at the border? But it turned out there was already 15,000 troops at the border. So she actually agreed to 5,000 less.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
But Donald Trump doesn't pay attention to any details because he'd rather hang out with crypto billionaire bros so he can line his own pockets by grifting his own supporters. You remember that? She showed the world how weak and pathetic Donald Trump was there. Can I show you these two clips, though, as well?
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
I want to show you this clip where Donald Trump talks about how anybody, the person who negotiated this deal with Mexico and Canada is so stupid. Who would be so stupid? Here, let's play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
And now I have this other clip where, you know, the person who negotiated the deal, the USMCA. Yeah, it was Donald Trump. And I think Donald Trump liked USMCA because to him it was YMCA and he liked the name because he's an idiot. And then first Trump, I bet you he didn't read the USMCA. You know, I just think he's like, ooh, sounds like YMCA.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
But it was your deal, Donald, and you love those letters you said during the first administration. And now you're saying that whoever negotiated that deal is so stupid. Here, play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
I think it's time we pull out our handy-dandy graphic, the stupid cycle of a Donald Trump decision-making tree. I make a stupid decision, something really bad happens. I convince my followers the problem is now magically solved. I reverse my stupid decision. Or how about this one right here that you may like better?
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
Trump goes, I'm adding tariffs, to which the MAGA supporters go, thought we'll create jobs, yay! Donald Trump, I'm removing tariffs. To which the Trump supporters go, art of the deal. Donald Trump then goes, I'm adding the tariffs. The MAGA supporters go, that will create jobs. Donald Trump goes, I'm removing the tariffs. Art of the deal.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
That's literally what they've been doing every, what, other week at this point? And the markets here in the United States are crashing because of it. Businesses like certainty. They don't like Trump chaos. And Trump is demonstrating chaos, chaos, chaos. Oh, and by the way, You want me to show you how that meme is actually real life and that I'm not overstating it?
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
Here is Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's propagandist. He or she says, this is the art of the deal. This is how you do it. This is the art of the deal. Here, play this clip. This is major news. I know everyone wants to talk about tariffs, bad, bad, bad.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
Here was Donald Trump as he was talking about the tariffs before he withdrew the tariffs earlier in the week, talking about it, and you'll see that the stock market is tanking while Trump was talking about the tariffs.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
And I'll show you an oldie but a goodie. Remember when President Claudia Scheinbaum, in response to Donald Trump using a map from 1607, I remember when Trump, in response to Donald Trump actually claiming the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America, she showed this map from 1607 saying that, you know what, Donald, you want to play this game?
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
We will name the Gulf, we will name all of the United States of America, Mexican America. We'll name it all. Here, play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
The Wall Street Journal previously wrote this. How Mexico's leader is writing the playbook for handling Trump? And she's been calling him out strongly each and every way. But you know, look, then Donald Trump moves on to the next shiny object. And what's he back at? Well, he was, oh, this week, what was he back at? He sent a post on his social media. He went back to Hamas. Shalom, Hamas.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
Shalom, Hamas, he says. I'm going to unleash hell. Remember, he said he's going to unleash hell like he does that every month. He goes from the tariffs to the unleashing hell. Oh, and then he goes to his joint address before Congress where he talks about conquering Greenland. He went back to that. Here, play the clip.
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Oh, but such a pathetic, decrepit, decaying, despicable individual he is. And he just looks so weak. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million. Thanks for watching.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump and Humiliates Him…Again!!
Man, President Claudia Scheinbaum really knows how to deal with Donald Trump. I mean, she's smacked him down so many times. It's been really just an incredible experience reporting on it. Here she is again from that press conference again saying... Look, see what he's going to do. He'll probably back down like he's done before. If not, we've got our plans ready to go. But let me be very clear.
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
Prices are not getting lower. Housing is not getting more affordable. There's not peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. It seems that every day Donald Trump breaks another 20 promises. And this is hurting Americans, hurting Americans in the pocketbook, hurting America's standing internationally. Folks, even Fox is turning against Trump on some of their more newsy segments I get here.
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
I'm joined by the newly elected chair of the DNC, Ken Martin. You got your handful, Mr. Martin. What do you say in response to all of that?
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
You know, you can tell that it's even permeating the Fox bubble, their echo chamber, where they had to discuss it. And then, you know, the pivot is we got to feel pain. Like if you're paid, this is what they're saying on the magazine. If you're a patriot, you got to you got to sacrifice for Donald Trump and and Elon Musk Americans.
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
I mean, didn't Donald Trump say he was going to lower prices on day one, that there was going to be more jobs sold? much jobs. You weren't even going to know what to do with all of these jobs. Didn't he say there was going to be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours? So what do you say to all of these Americans who are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what, what?
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
You're talking about, I think Trump was talking about on Friday, plastic straws, the big one. Everybody thinks about how much we need plastic straws. What do you say to the American public?
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
Watch what they said earlier in the day. Let's play it.
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
So, Ken, you're in the hot seat now, one of the most important jobs, DNC chair, also sometimes one of the most thankless jobs as the DNC chair, but incredibly important. And, you know, so the question I get asked, and I know the question I'm sure you're hearing right away and you were hearing as you were running for DNC chair is, where are the Democrats? What are the Democrats going to do?
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
When are we going to see them fighting? And people don't just want to hear what's Well, Republicans control the House and the Senate and the Supreme Court. Look, I think we need to educate people that that's the reality. But I think people want to see fighters. They want to see people out there. What do you say to people when they say, Ken, congratulations? What are you going to do for me now?
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
Let's talk about how you would define the Democratic Party in 2025. You know, one of the things that I've been saying, I've been saying a few things. One, ABC, always be campaigning. And DBD, Democrats be Democrats. And you don't need to chase being, in my view, Republican-lite or just a form of being a Republican. Stand up for workers. Be proud of what your principles and values are.
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Because if you actually look at the polling... Most Americans actually align. But I think one of the weaknesses is like, I don't know, Democrats get psyched out by all the right wing disinformation. They let Fox set the narrative. And then somehow we're we're chasing that. And we're like a lighter version of some of their stereotypes. I'm like, just stand for workers, stand up.
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
So you talk about defining Democrats right now. We need to go on the offense. How would you define what you want to see the Democratic Party be in 2025 moving forward under your leadership?
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And I enjoy my eggs, too. So this is certainly. And it's not just egg prices. It's all prices in general. You're seeing MAGA people are sending us messages as well like this right here, you know, saying what's going on with these egg prices and they're complaining.
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
No, I always say, you know, while Democrats may have been fighting for workers or firefighters or first responders, Donald Trump would show up to the fire station with that six-hour cold pizza and stand with them and then get people to vote against their own interests. And I've always said, Democrats, ABC, always be campaign. Go to the fire department. Hang out with the fired workers.
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Exclusive Interview with New DNC Chair Ken Martin
Hang out with the workers. Be there because your values actually align as well. But you got to look people in the eyes and you got to say to people, people want to hear it. I'm with you. I feel your struggle. Let me shake your hand. Let me give you the final word, Ken, about what you want to say to people about the beginning of your tenure, any message you want to give to the people.
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And Martin, newly elected chair of the DNC, excited to see what you do next. Thanks for joining us. Thank you so much. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers by the end of this weekend. Thanks for watching.
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And then you even have MAGA Republican Congress members who are going on and they're talking about their priorities and they're saying Americans need to experience pain. paying for Elon Musk, for Donald Trump. The budget's going to be filled with pain. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
Democratic governors are going on the offense against Donald Trump as Trump's disastrous policies continue to cause major damage in the United States. The various Democratic governors are letting the people in their states know that they're going to protect the people of their states from Donald Trump's harm. For example, Here is the Democratic governor of Illinois, J.B.
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
Next up, Governor Walz from the great state of Minnesota. He's still out there fighting and he's drawing a contrast between what he's doing for the people in his state versus the disastrous policies of MAGA. He says, in Minnesota, we're focused on feeding our kids and investing in our schools, not taking away people's rights. Let's play this clip. All right, do this. And then what?
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
I got to show you this one other clip from Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois. This is like the ultimate troll of Donald Trump. Here, Governor Pritzker declares Lake Michigan is now Lake Illinois and says Illinois has annexed Green Bay. Watch this.
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
Pritzker, talking about how Donald Trump is just engaged in a massive distraction operation from the fact that prices are not lower, housing is not more affordable, there's no peace in Ukraine in 24 hours, and Donald Trump is causing so much harm.
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
Next up, we have the governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Here we have Governor Shapiro saying, look, people of Pennsylvania, I've got your back. As Donald Trump's causing all of this chaos, I've got your back. Watch Governor Shapiro. Let's play it.
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
And one of the things that I like that these Democratic governors are doing is they're bringing visuals into it. They're going out there in that ABC mode that I was telling you about. Always be campaigning. And here, for example, we've got Governor J.B. Pritzker campaigning.
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meeting with companies in his state that are being impacted hard by Donald Trump's various trade wars and the threats of trade wars. As Governor Pritzker says, Donald Trump's tax on working families is hitting businesses in Illinois. And I've heard from so many who are concerned about having to pay the price.
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Companies like Darvin Furniture have already had to put holds on deals with suppliers due to the uncertainty in the market that's being caused by Donald Trump's arbitrary, capricious, and reckless manner. Play this clip.
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
Let's go to the great state of Washington, where their fearless governor, Bob Ferguson, and governors before him in the great state of Washington, have been leading the fight against Donald Trump's tyrannical policies and the Trump regime. Here, Governor Bob Ferguson talks about how Washington was the first state to stand up to Trump in the first administration.
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defeating his Muslim ban back then. And now they are the first to block his illegal executive order on birthright citizenship. How the state of Washington, their great attorney general, their team of lawyers, they're led at the top by Governor Bob Ferguson, will protect the people of that state and will fight for the rights of all Americans. Play the clip.
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
Let's go to Kentucky, where there you have Governor Andy Beshear, who breaks down the danger of Donald Trump's tariffs and how they could result in job losses and increased prices for the people of Kentucky. Here, play this clip.
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Now, Abigail Spanberger, Congresswoman Spanberger, she's running for governor in Virginia, which would be great to see her as the governor. I've interviewed her before. She's got a great background, previously working in the intelligence community. It's been a great congresswoman there in Virginia. She says the federal workers Trump wants to fire are Virginians. They're moms and dads.
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They're law enforcement officials who keep us all safe. They're our neighbors. They deserve a governor who will look out for them in our economy, not one who will cheer on Trump's chaos. Here, let's play this clip.
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Next up, I want to show you Governor Wes Moore, who talks about how courage will lead us through Trump's chaos.
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Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
Now, finally, I want to share with you Governor Gavin Newsom. Now, we've showed you lots of clips before when Gavin Newsom confronted Donald Trump directly when Trump landed on the tarmac in L.A., even though Trump was not too cowardly to be returning Governor Newsom's calls. And here Gavin Newsom explains, at the end of the day, we're Americans.
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When disaster strikes, we set aside our differences and work together to help communities get the aid they need. Here, play this clip.
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uh georgia people been impacted by disasters and emergency and the american spirit is to live to lend a hand and provide that support and i expect that will happen for california well there you have it folks it's great to see these governors democratic governors leading the way it's also great to see the fight that we're seeing from now democratic members of congress and democratic senators it seemed that there was a sluggish start if you will as donald trump and elon musk were
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just ransacking our government, going building to building. But now it does seem like Democrats have got their fight back. It does seem like you have a lot of these civil rights groups who are filing all of these lawsuits.
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And of course, as I'm describing in this video and showing you, you've got the Democratic governor showing grit, showing tenacity, showing that they are not just ready to fight, but fighting hard right now for their states and frankly for all Americans. So Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to four million subscribers and have a great one.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
Donald Trump is getting easily outmaneuvered by China and its leader, Xi Jinping, even Republican members in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. Whether they want to admit it or whether they're saying it privately, Donald Trump and Elon Musk gutting the main source of America's soft power, USAID, which Elon Musk and Donald Trump are seeking to destroy and just completely rip apart.
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I mean, or you could do it. Former President Biden did, which was to bring the semiconductor industry here, compete, make sure we strengthen our all of our alliances abroad. But Donald Trump is just, you know, with a sledgehammer destroying all of America's alliances. We're seeing this happen in real time. And China is the main beneficiary. You put this all together. Yeah.
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On Friday, a court did temporarily block Donald Trump's attempt to fire pretty much everybody from USAID as a surgical injunction, if you will, a small injunction, until more data is presented. We'll keep you updated every step of the way. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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This is what his views were before about how important USAID is, how small it was on our overall budget, less than 1%. Watch this right here.
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So that's what Marco Rubio said when he was in the Senate, much different than what you're hearing him say now as Secretary of State, which is destroy USAID, fire everybody. I mean, just horrific stuff we're hearing, right? Like people who have been receiving medication from the U.S., being forced to basically die, not get their medication.
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People who have had stuff implanted to try to help them live, being forced to keep medical device. I mean, horrific, horrific stuff happening. This is current GOP Senator Wicker. Here he is, again, he's saying right now, we need to look into this. USAID's a pretty important thing here. So I'm not sure what fraud Elon Musk claims exists, but this was an important tool.
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This is a Republican Senator saying this. It was an important tool to help American leadership abroad, which America is now compromising and saying America shouldn't be the leader in the world. Play this clip.
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And one of the things we're already hearing about as well is that China and Russia are already celebrating. Lots of other governments have reached out to them. Hey, America's abandoned us. Want to be our ally? Let's play this clip right here.
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The destruction of that, the main beneficiary is Xi Jinping in China. They are already getting calls from our former allies asking for help. America's leaving. We need your help. China's going to swoop in there and establish those relationships which were built over a long time by the United States. China was prepared for this. They're taking advantage of it.
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Now, I want to just, again, share this with you. USAID was created by John F. Kennedy. to project America's soft power as a way to help the United States gain influence and win friends and to avoid wars by helping, by extending.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
And so the Belt and Road Initiative is basically China's version of USAID that they've been pursuing now for a significant time as China's been looking to expand its influence abroad like this article right here. China has begun to challenge the United States hegemony in Latin America. The chaos of the Trump presidency may present it a new opportunity.
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Foreign Affairs Magazine just wrote an article. Chinese leaders expect that the Trump administration policies will dismantle the foundation of U.S. global hegemony and create an opportunity for Beijing to expand its influence farther and faster, writes Yoon Sun right here.
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One of the things that we've been saying is China's been expanding the BRICS block alliance. of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. Oh, and by the way, one of the places that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are attacking now is South Africa. And they're saying that The white South Africans should be allowed to emigrate to the United States, but only the white South Africans in South Africa.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
It's part of Elon Musk's who was from South Africa. That's what their focus is on right now. But back in the G20 summit.
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Right after Donald Trump was elected, one of the things I noticed and I started reporting on right away is how Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum, who was not supposed to meet with Xi Jinping, and in my view would not have met with Xi Jinping if Vice President Kamala Harris or former Vice President Kamala Harris wasn't. won the election. She was she met with Xi Jinping.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
She was photographed with Xi Jinping. I have no doubt that in those private meetings as well, not the public ones, they discussed deals that they were going to strike together in the event of Trump doing the types of things that he was doing. Now, one of the things that Trump was doing as well as though he, you know,
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created these fake trade wars with Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, where all of those countries outmaneuver Donald Trump, whether it was Mexico offering less troops than were already at the border and Trump thinking that was a deal, whether it was Canada agreeing to the money that they've already spent at the border.
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So not agreeing to anything at all after Donald Trump threatened to annex them, whether it was Panama, where Trump and Marco Rubio claimed there was a deal, but then the Panama Canal Authority said there's no deal, whether they threatened Colombia with tariffs, but Colombia basically did the same deal that they had with former President Biden, so it was no deal at all.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
So while Donald Trump's doing that, he did impose a 10% tariff on China. China then swiftly retaliated with tariffs against the United States. On Friday, Trump temporarily allowed, quote, de minimis packages from China to come into the U.S. tariff-free. This is good news for anyone ordering from Taimu, Sheen,
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Certain Amazon sellers packages valued at less than 800 are exempt from tariffs, but the executive order today or Friday says this is a pause until quote adequate systems are in place to collect the 10% tariffs. They don't remember earlier in the week, the Trump administration banned packages from China, but then they said, Oh, then they re reversed their own policy.
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It's very strange stuff right here. So Trump's commerce secretary said, Howard Lutnick is going to have to figure out how to tariff 4 million de minimis packages a day from China to the US, which Trump first was going to block. Figure out how to fund a sovereign wealth fund, because that's one of the things that Donald Trump wanted, a sovereign wealth fund.
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Figure out how to enact sweeping tariffs without taking the economy. Ensure trust remains in US economic data. Decide what to do on the very popular CHIPS Act semiconductor funding. Help renegotiate the USMCA, the United States, Mexico, Canada agreement, which Donald Trump negotiated and said, we got ripped off in the deal. It was the US, the USMCA was Trump's deal, which he now says is a ripoff.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
Just so you can see how Donald Trump has basically forced everybody around him, or they've done it willingly, to compromise things that they've said before, let me just show you—and CNN did a great job compiling this—
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OK, David Axelrod says Xi Jinping probably can't believe his luck. This is a stunning U.S. retreat in getting rid of USAID that will now open some of the best opportunities imaginable for China to gain stronger toeholds throughout the world. Kishore Mahubani, speaking with Foreign Policy, talks about how China is reacting to Trump in the first weeks and how it is looking to retaliate.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
And this is very fascinating here. to play this clip.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
Now, one of the interesting things I found as I was reading this article from Foreign Affairs, which of course is the gold standard, I think, in writing about some of these foreign developments. So China's preparation of dealing with Trump was structured by China to mirror the success of how Biden focused on America's China strategy and how America was beating China.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
Secretary of State Rubio, former Senator Marco Rubio, the importance that he said existed with USAID, which now Marco Rubio is contributing to destroying because Donald Trump and the co-president or the real president, Elon Musk, is telling him to do so. Just look about what a malleable, weak individual, I'm going to call him a man, malleable, weak individual Marco Rubio is.
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Trump Gets Outmaneuvered by World Leaders Instantly
I just wanted you to think about that. China was so impressed with how Biden outmaneuvered China. China wanted to learn from Biden. Wow. America's economy was growing faster than China. China was supposed to catch up and America exceeded all expectations, fastest growing GDP, and President Biden was doing things to reach out and strengthen American alliances abroad.
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So China's strategy is the Biden strategy towards China to continue to expand upon their Belt and Road Initiative. I'll tell you who else is loving this. One of the Russian former leaders, Dmitry Medvedev, he's loving all of this as America's power.
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is just completely deteriorating every day i know i guess for fox they find this do this like cosplay gi joe trump crap like yeah let's go but you know america's both a laughingstock and just generally detested and despised now under donald trump abroad almost universally hated. And again, here was Donald Trump about a week ago or so.
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Here he is talking about he wants to put tariffs on Taiwan, our ally Taiwan. Who do you think that's going to help? Tariff Taiwan semiconductor industry. Play this clip.
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All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Turns LA Into War Zone
Right. And I do believe that, you know, these agents, the FBI, the ICE agents, they know they are going to be met with resistance. I'm not quite sure if they thought it was going to be to this level today, the way they saw people surrounding these vehicles leaving, trying to keep them inside the area. And then once more reinforcements came.
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Obama Goes GLOVES OFF and goes after Trump at His Forum
Gloves off former President Barack Obama. Gloves off. President Obama was giving a speech at the end of the week at his Obama Institute. Here he talks about fighting. We need a fight. Watch it.
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But let's face it, in our current polarized environment, political reforms are probably not going to happen anytime soon, at least not the ones I want to see.
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More from former President Barack Obama here. Let's play it.
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Fact is, for most of our history, our democracy was built on top of a deeply entrenched caste system, formal and informal, based on race and gender and class and sexual orientation. A system that excluded or severely limited big chunks of the population from the corridors of power.
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Just to give you some perspective, as late as 2005, when I was sworn in as Illinois' junior senator, I was the only African American in the United States Senate.
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Certain set of rules. That's where you said Obama. What happens when the other side has repeatedly and abundantly made clear they are not interested in playing by the rules? It's a problem. And when that happens, we fight for what we believe in.
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Obama Goes GLOVES OFF and goes after Trump at His Forum
Powerful speech by him right here at his Obama forum. Let's play this.
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If you're not black, you don't understand. You don't have standing to talk about race. My status trumps yours. Framing issues that way may keep things simple. It's easy to tweet. Is it still tweeting? Okay. X-ing? I don't know.
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Obama Goes GLOVES OFF and goes after Trump at His Forum
One more clip of former president Barack Obama. And then I got to show you something very important here. Play this clip.
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Often focusing on our differences leads to this notion of fixed victims and fixed villains. And it creates a presumption that our identities are all singular and static that because you're a male, you automatically have certain attitudes and let's face it, you're part of the patriarchy. I have two daughters and a wife, and sometimes I'm sitting at the dinner table. I'm like, what, what'd I do?
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They pick on me all the time. You know that, brother. I'm the brunt of every joke. I'm like a sitcom dad.
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When the survey asks, please support our show and tell them that we sent you. Look, I appreciate former President Barack Obama saying, going on the offense, also showing some good nature and decency, right? But I want to see, I've talked about this on the podcast, ABC, always be campaigning. You can't just do it at the Obama Forum once a year. I mean, Donald Trump was campaigning for four years.
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These MAGA Republicans are always in campaign mode, and Democrats are not. Democrats just show up 90 days, 120 days before an election, and then they're like, all right, There's an election. You've already lost touch with the people. ABC, always be campaigning. But look, I want to highlight a Democratic House member who I haven't really shown many clips of him, but he's great.
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There are going to be times, potentially, when one side tries to stack the deck and lock in a permanent grip on power, either by actively suppressing votes or politicizing The armed forces are using the judiciary, the criminal justice system to go after opponents. And in those circumstances, pluralism does not call for us to just stand back and say, well, I'm not.
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Obama Goes GLOVES OFF and goes after Trump at His Forum
Here is Democratic Congress member Brad Sherman right here, just torching Donald Trump and Elon Musk for naming their committee after the cryptocurrency of Elon Musk. Duh. Here, play this clip.
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Here's another clip right here of Democratic Congress member Brad Sherman of California here torching Donald Trump and MAGA when they claim that they've got a mandate. Just watch this clip again. I want to see this type of fighting. Like Brad Sherman here, play this clip.
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Obama Goes GLOVES OFF and goes after Trump at His Forum
As I reflect on those Obama clips, though, that I shared with you, I do reflect back to a time when our politics was grounded in some level of decency and decorum. Like, do you remember when John McCain, late great John McCain, I have so much respect for him. when he was running against former President Barack Obama.
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And the people in the crowd, you know, wanted McCain to call Obama all of these names and defame Obama. Then one lady started saying all these things about Obama. Remember this moment you're playing.
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That moment really stood out to me as a moment of when moral character was was important. You know, and you saw I want to make sure we bring moral character back to the highest office in our land. That's one of the things we're going to fight for every day for the next four years, every single day. But we've got to get aggressive. Gloves off, go on the offense.
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I would probably want to see it even a little stronger than what I saw there from Obama. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.
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Next up, former President Barack Obama talks about the current polarized political environment.
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Ideally would be making government work better. You know, I believe, for example, that if we established nonpartisan redistricting here in the United States, it would encourage more candidates to compete for every vote as opposed to just appealing to the most partisan members of their base.
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Dem Leader Finally GOES ON OFFENSE against GOP in House
Finally, we're seeing Democrats push back against MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives. The Democratic minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, held a press conference, and here's what he had to say about MAGA extremists. Let's play it.
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Let's talk about what Hakeem Jeffries also said during this press conference. He said, look, all these MAGA Republicans, this is going to be a very, very close majority to House Republicans to Democrats. 217 to 215 right now after Democrats flipped some red seats blue. Take a look at what Democratic Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries says here. Let's play the clip.
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Look, the MAGA Republicans in the House today are kind of demonstrating what Hakeem Jeffries is saying is correct. They're showing that they're just not going to do anything at all and just pursue, again, these ridiculous witch hunts. Here you have Congresswoman Millie Otakis, MAGA Republican Congresswoman.
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Here she talks about we're still going to be, our main priority is we're focusing on Hunter Biden still. Hunter Biden, really? Play the clip.
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You know, Congressman, everything you said is really important. The American people, because the media didn't cover, and watchdogs have been criticizing them for not covering what you've been talking about for a long time. And the other thing, too, is the wording of the U.S. Constitution shows it's unconstitutional to do preemptive pardons. So show the wording of the Constitution.
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It doesn't see anything. It says pardons for offenses, not future offenses or potential offenses down the road. That means Biden's blanket pardon, Hunter Biden, can be challenged and thrown out in court.
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And I think that you'll see members from the Oversight Committee and other committees that have worked so diligently on this try to seek out those arguments because... Then you had MAGA Republican Congressmember Chip Roy saying, look, all of these sex assault and rape allegations against Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick to be the Secretary of Defense.
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Dem Leader Finally GOES ON OFFENSE against GOP in House
According to this MAGA Republican congressman, he goes... Hasn't everybody done that? Doesn't everybody have indiscretions like that? Here, play the clip.
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Take a look at what the House Republicans are doing today on the House floor. Looks like they're tackling one of the most important issues the country's facing this morning. Of course, I'm being sarcastic, as was Aaron Rupert, who wrote that. Teaching the dangers of communism in schools. That's what MAGA Republicans are focusing on passing performative legislation like that.
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Dem Leader Finally GOES ON OFFENSE against GOP in House
Also, it should be noted that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy met with MAGA Republicans in the House yesterday, talked about cutting your Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That's what they reported. That's what's being reported on Fox. That's what they're going to do. It's all on the table. Your Social Security, your Medicare, your Medicaid. Say goodbye. Play the clip.
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Nothing is psychosomatic. Nothing. They're going to put everything on the table. That's what they told lawmakers. Everything is on the table, and that includes Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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Also on the Hill today, MAGA Republican Senator Kevin Cramer suggesting that the allegations against Pete Hegseth, including the letter by Hegseth's mommy about you're an abuser of women's son and you need help, that this is all part of an elaborate smear campaign here. replay this clip.
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Finally, one of the topics on the Hill as well is Kash Patel, Donald Trump picked to be FBI director. Here is a super cut right here. Kash Patel saying how he agrees a lot with the QAnon movement. Here, play the clip.
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and just sort of tweak it a little bit. That's all I'm saying. Well, there you have it folks. You see Democrats fighting back. You see what they're fighting against. You can make the decision which side you think is doing the bidding of the American people. Judge for yourself. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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Then Democratic Congress member Hakeem Jeffries continued and talked about the only mandate that really exists after this election is that people are worried about the prices of things and the MAGA policies are only going to raise people's prices. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
on sunday morning donald trump is posting videos of himself playing golf on his social media account one post another post of himself landing at a golf course on marine one which is a repost and then videos of himself golfing this as the markets are crashing this as america experienced a day of one of the biggest nationwide protests in the history of the nation
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This is literally the video that Donald Trump posted of himself this morning as we appear to be heading towards another week of horrific stock market crashes. Let's play this clip.
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Donald Trump also is posting this, hang tough, we can't lose. Donald Trump is sending emails like this to his supporters. Please answer before the poll closes tonight. Would you accept a Doge dividend check signed by Trump? Should Trump give Doge savings back to American citizens via check? That's why I always call the Trump regime a Ponzi scheme presidency or a rug pull presidency.
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After they are exposed lying about one thing, there's not going to be lower prices on day one. There's not going to be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Housing is not going to be more affordable. There's not going to be more jobs. You can go down all of them. Inflation is surging. What does Donald Trump do? Well, Maybe I'll hand you a check. Maybe if you beg me, I'll give you some breadcrumbs.
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That's what he's doing. Also, this morning, Trump was posting these very weird videos that appear to be created by the government of Mexico. They're in English. And they feature Mexican people. And they say, you need to be happy. Choose to be happy. Choose to be happy. Don't do drugs. Don't do fentanyl. And then there's an 800 number associated with the government of Mexico.
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and telling Mexican people not to do fentanyl in English, Mexican people in Mexico not to do. And Donald Trump is reposting that. You know, it's why I say this is also a very demented presidency. This is what he's posting. Just think about what he's posting this morning. He's posting that he's intentionally crashing the markets and he's lying and saying Warren Buffett says this is a great idea.
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He's posting more videos of him golfing, and he's posting videos by the government of Mexico in English telling Mexican people in Mexico to stop doing fentanyl when there really is not a problem in Mexico there. The scourge of fentanyl consumption is here in the United States.
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Anyway, take a look at these protests and what they visually looked like across the country, just keying in on some cities here. But there were a lot of other cities. I mean, there were literally thousands of towns and cities where protests like this were taking place. But you can see this visual Boston, New York, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Idaho.
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Utah and Oakland and so many more. What was so incredible about this is seeing the protest, you know, just in local small towns that were even like red leaning towns, seeing them in like the villages in Florida, seeing them in, you know, right leaning towns in Ohio and in Wisconsin. and in Utah and in Minnesota, you know, just across the country. We saw some great ones.
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As Spencer Hakimian also points out, what went down on April 3rd, the stock drop was one of the biggest in the history of the United States. It was basically the same stock drop right after 9-11. And when you add up the crash of Thursday, Friday, and what appears is going to happen on Monday. It may be among the worst ever of all major crashes in the history of the United States.
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Thank you everybody for sharing those with us. I mean, just take a look at this image right here of the protest that took place in downtown Chicago. Just take a look at what it looked like. Let's play it. I mean, look, we've made this the main story on the Midas Touch Network because it is the main story. But the way corporate news, don't get me wrong, I've seen corporate news cover it a little.
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You know, maybe they showed it. They've always downplayed it.
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you would think that in normal times you would be embedded with the protesters the way we were and showing the scale and scope this has never happened like this in american history before and the corporate news like well a few hundred people so there was millions of people across the country when you add up all of the towns and cities rising up right now rising up to crap like this
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You have Scott Besant going on Meet the Press this morning. And Kristen Welker says, you said you were going to improve the economy. What's your message, let's say, to people retiring right now who have now lost their life savings? To which Scott Besant, who's worth half a billion dollars, who literally... lived in a pink Barbie palace. That's what he called it.
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It was in Charleston, South Carolina. He goes, I think Americans have it all in their savings. He says, I think they have it in their savings. I wouldn't worry about that. I think they have it in their savings. Play this clip.
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Trump's agriculture secretary, Brooke Collins, is asked by Jake Tapper on CNN, why are you imposing 10% tariffs on penguins? And she's like, oh, because he's so smart. He's so smart. Play this clip.
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By the way, when we talk about pink dress lady from North Korea, now the propagandist, the main anchor in North Korea, Donald Trump literally has pink dress ladies dressed in pink dresses. Then you have Howard Lutnick asked about the destructive nature of these tariffs. And Mr. Sham Wow, Mr. Fascist Sham Wow goes, it's a shammy.
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It's why he goes, look, he goes, look, Trump has been talking about this his whole life. I'm gonna do big accordion hands. Luck, luck here, everybody. Here, play this clip.
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While all of that's going on, Donald Trump is posting this. Trump is purposefully crashing the market. He's continuing to repost this bizarre video, which claims that he has a plan to crash the markets and that that's going to ultimately be good because he's going to lower interest rates. And then all the other nations are going to submit and bow down to him.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
Again, these people are demented. Here is Scott Besson, Donald Trump's treasury secretary. Lutnick's his commerce secretary. Here's Scott Besson saying, you know, I would tell everybody Things are good. I would tell them things are good. What I saw on Friday in the market with the volume, with the trade volume, it's good. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
Oh, and then you have Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's top National Economic Council advisor. Here's what he has to say. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
And here he is again. Let's play it.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
Oh, then they bring on Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's attorney general, who continues this idea that we may have to look into a third term for Donald Trump. She's asked. So, you know, she goes, maybe he'll just listen to her in her own words.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
Finally, here is Democratic Senator Adam Schiff. Here's what he's got to say. Let's play.
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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as His Regime Scrambles
He also falsely claimed in that video that he posted that Warren Buffett endorses his plan and says, it's a great plan. Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway had to immediately put out a statement, um, denying that they had anything to do with that and that they totally disagree with everything that he is doing. I'll share this with you right here just so you can see for yourself.
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That's exactly true. Anyway, that's what's happening this morning. We'll keep you posted. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
Yeah, so, well, first, Ben, since I'm three hours ahead of you from the future, it's not good over here. 2,200 points and still going. We're getting close to the closing bell. It's not funny, actually, what's happening. What happened yesterday? What happened today? And and look, let me say a couple of things. I think we got to separate this debate.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
OK, so, yes, during covid, when I was the director of emergency management in Florida, I had to buy products from all over the world. It was frustrating medicine, things of that nature. OK, we did have supply chain issues. And then when Trump did the first stimulus package, three, four trillion dollars, he didn't do anything to fix any of the supply chain issues which we could have done.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
Then fast forward, we passed the Chips and Science Act, which was to fix the chip supply chain issue. Most Republicans voted against that. Trump wants to repeal it, he said in his State of the Union. And we all know that this team sport thing, like it's just ignoring the facts. I mean, I give credit to Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. They've been very tough. Tariffs are a tax.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
This is going to be a tax on the American people when they say pain in the short term, like it's going to be a 30 day deal. OK, factories can't come online immediately. I do think we should make things more things here. Can't make everything here because obviously the reason we make goods in other countries is so that the cost of those goods to Americans are cheaper.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
You think if we made everything in America where wages are $15 an hour, which is a good thing, where people get healthcare, which is a good thing, you think you can find things at Walmart for 99 cents? It's not gonna happen. The idea of that was to get goods cheaper in this country. That doesn't mean we can't have more manufacturing here. We should have more manufacturing here.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
And so let me separate the goal from the execution. The goal of increasing manufacturing, it's a bipartisan goal. We all support that. Democrats were the ones who did that with the Chips and Science Act that Republicans voted against. That was to increase chip manufacturing here in America, okay? But this execution of what they're doing, okay, is batshit crazy, okay?
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
We're gonna crash the stock market. And then Trump comes out and tweets and says, oh, maybe Powell should lower the interest rates. What are you doing? Are you crashing the stock market so that you can get interest rates lower? Powell came out today and said that that's not going to happen.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
And you all know, we all know that if Joe Biden did this or made any policy change in which we lost 34,000 points, Okay, and almost 4,000 points in a two-day period. We've gone from 44,000 to 38,000 since Trump took office. They'd be like, it's because Joe Biden's in the basement. It's because he's with Hunter.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
There wouldn't be enough airtime in the day for them to fill, but yet most Republicans are silent. Trump's a genius. Right. They say I don't remember Trump ever talking about crashing the stock market while he was on stage in between the Hannibal Lecter talk. I don't I don't remember. I mean, I mean, are you not entertained? I mean, by the way, this this is not easy to do.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
I mean, I give Trump credit. I mean, he literally killed the economy, which he told everyone was terrible. OK, and some people believe that. But the economy wasn't terrible. Well, it is now. So he's made that he's made that happen. I mean, he literally wiped away trillions of dollars from the U.S. economy. We can't even make that up in the tariffs. And so, look, he tariffed the penguins.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
He tariffed Vietnam, Madagascar. OK, I mean, I don't know what the plan is. Is the is the plan to get people who live in Vietnam to move to Greenland to make the shirts there? Nobody really knows what's going on. And Ben, let's not forget, let's not forget. Can you imagine if Joe Biden was playing golf for two days while the stock market was cratering?
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
I mean, the articles of impeachment that they would be filing, 50 members. OK, they would have tried to impeach his dog. OK, you know, based on what was going on. But this is the time we live in. Everything Trump does is good. Even when we're staring in the face, it reminds me of that Leader DiCaprio movie, Don't Look Up. That's that's where the Republican Party is right now. Don't look up.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
And I know there are people out there who are like, this is good. The Republicans are going to get wiped out in the midterm. And don't get me wrong. I want to win the midterm. And we need breaks on President Trump. But a lot of people are going to get hurt. Businesses, people, seniors, my community, that this is their nest egg. They don't have 10 years to recover. You know, this is all very bad.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
And then like it never stops getting worse for like you mean when Peter like runs, he goes to the Hinden Peter and he gets in and then it just crashes.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
Look, they're used to spinning things, right? And creating their own sort of reality. They're used to doing that, but this is gonna be different. People are being affected, right? Like, so it's not just like a talking point. They can see what's happening in the markets.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
And so, yeah, look, there are people who voted for Donald Trump that thought, you know, he was a stable genius and he's going to get us to the promised land, golden age. And, you know, now's not a time to revel in the fact that, you know, this is what they voted for. But, you know, these people are probably now and I'm hearing from some of them, business owners who are having orders canceled.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
People are pulling back, pulling back their their their money from the economy. You know, this, I mean, you got JP Morgan saying, you know, this is the highest tax increase on the American people. You know, you have JP Morgan saying that there's now a 60% chance of recession. So better than 50% chance. Before Trump did this, we were in the 30s, very low percentage of recession.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
We had hit that soft landing. And so, look, we're going to go back to Washington on Monday. Most of my Republican colleagues will tell us the truth when the cameras aren't on. They'll tweet how, you know, Trump knows exactly what he's doing. But, you know, when the cameras aren't on, they'll tell us. But they'll be too afraid, too afraid to come out and say it.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
I mean, Mike Pence was literally, you know, Mike Pence had the courage, was the first one to come out and said this is a terrible idea, even before the markets happened. collapse today. And so, look, it's up to the House and the Senate if they want to put brakes on that. There is a Republican senator that has put a bill forward that this would require congressional approval.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
Even Ben Shapiro said that these tariffs are probably unconstitutional, by the way, yesterday, because he needs congressional approval. You can't have a tax increase on the American people without congressional approval. And so... Listen, we're just going to have to see what the next couple of days are. I have no way to know how Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday is going to go. The tariffs hit.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
Most of the tariffs will hit on April 9th. China's reciprocal tariffs will hit on April 10th. And who knows where the bottom has been?
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
Appreciate it. Keep doing what you're doing. Congratulations on being number one. People are coming to you guys, you know, for the real stuff.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
I know with all of the devastation and destruction Donald Trump has caused in the United States and the world, it can be easy to forget all of his broken promises. Like, I'm sure you remember his broken promise that he would bring down prices on day one, but he's now caused prices to rise. Or he said he would make housing more affordable. Housing is less affordable.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
locker room talk it's locker room talk what the hell what are you talking locker room talk that was not a great so we're dealing with a sick demented twisted sexual predator that's who we're dealing with here and so You know, it is shocking to me how corporate news has normalized this behavior. This isn't normal. It's not funny.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
You know, and when I see stuff like that, it makes me just extra dedicated to do more videos, to grow this media network bigger, because what the hell is that? And no, we're not going to stop reporting about the Epstein list. I'm going to come with receipts all the time here. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Your name appears on the Epstein Jets flight logs at least seven times. What's that, Donald? Is that your name on deposition transcripts where some of the women that Epstein trafficked went to... hotels and casinos that you owned. And the woman who were trafficked talked about that in depositions. Oh, wait, wait a minute, Donald.
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At Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial for sex trafficking on behalf of Epstein, where she was found guilty and basically put in jail for the said that Epstein introduced her to you. She goes by a Jane Doe. Oh, wait a minute, Donald. You appear to be everywhere on what's already been released over and over again. So what about in the files that you said you were going to release? Pam Bondi?
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Your attorney general, she's made 5,000 appearances on Fox. But in terms of the new Epstein files released, zero. New Epstein prosecutions, zero. Oh yeah, what about fraud prosecutions from Doge? Zero. Oh, yeah, Donald, during the 2024 campaign, weren't you flying around in Epstein's jet as well?
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Yeah, the jet that Epstein flew around in before he died under, let's just call it unusual circumstances during the first Trump administration period. Remember when Epstein passed away?
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
He said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours or even before he took office. And of course, he's made things worse there and he just whines about it now. But you also remember the promise that he made that he was going to release certain files. Remember those?
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
away he died his plane was then auctioned off or sold and then that individual then i guess or or that company gave you access to the same jet to fly around for the 2024 campaign that's pretty ghoulish donald that's out of all the planes in the world you want to fly around in that Gulf Stream right there. Oh, and is this a statement that you made, Donald, back to the New York Magazine in 2002?
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Quote, I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It's even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. So, Nancy Mace, MAGA Republicans, where are the Epstein files? Release the Epstein files. What are you worried about? What are you scared about?
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Well, let's hear Jeffrey Epstein in his own words when he spoke to author Michael Wolff, when he was meeting with Michael Wolff, an author, a biographer, about potentially, when writing a biography for Epstein. Here are some of the things that Epstein said about Donald. This is Epstein talking to Michael Wolff. This is Epstein's voice. Listen to what he said. Play this clip.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Now, I had the opportunity to speak to Michael Wolff, the author who you heard in those audio transcripts. Wolff spent a lot of time with Epstein when Epstein talked about Trump. Let's hear from Wolff in his own words. Play this clip.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Maybe Donald Trump was hoping that in all of the chaos and destruction and market crashes and economic crashes, we'd forget that we would just not report about it anymore. Sorry, Donald. The Midas Touch Network, where are the media now? And you know who brought up those files, Donald? You know the ones I'm talking about. Nancy Mace, MAGA Republican Congresswoman.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Interesting. Now, why don't I share with you this clip that MSNBC put together about Trump's relationship with Epstein. Let's play it.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Nancy Mace at a hearing three days ago this week. Here is what she said. Play this clip.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Interestingly, Sean Hannity recently said on Fox to his audience that the Epstein list, if it's ever released, people should not rush to judgment. Because a lot of famous people hung out with Epstein. And just because you hang out with people, he said, isn't a big deal. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Well, that's from Sean Hannity right there. And I want you to listen to this. This is when Donald Trump was interviewed by Fox several months ago. And here's what Donald Trump said when he was asked about the Epstein files. Let's play it.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Are you sensing a pattern here? Are you sensing a pattern here? By the way, I mean, just think about what Donald Trump did with his wealth in the early 1990s. Like, it's gross. It's gross, right? Like, just think about you have all the money from your dad, right? That's where he got all his money from his dad, a lot of money from his dad.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
And so he spends the money to do beauty pageants for girls. He did beauty pageants. He did like beauty pageants for women. But he also did these like teen beauty pageants. And then like here's one that was at his hotel from Look of the Year, 1991. These are like little girls. at his events. And then the girls went on a yacht in New York and Trump was photographed with the girls.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
You see the photograph here? Donald Trump with contestants at 1991's elite look of the year. Look at him looking at these girls. They went on a yacht together. This yacht trip was well documented with other old men who were old enough to be the woman's grandfathers and That was talked about in an article in The Guardian. Some real gross stuff.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
And by the way, here's a flashback to 2005 where Donald Trump bragged to Howard Stern about how he would go backstage during a Miss USA pageant when the young contestants were naked. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
I mean, this is... You know, look, I know with the market crashing, with our alliances being destroyed, with Trump threatening Canada, threatening invading Canada and all of these things, you know, look, I've said it before and I'll say it again. Let me not mince words here. Donald Trump's a sexual predator. Donald Trump's a felon. Donald Trump's a fraud. Let me repeat that again.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Hmm, I could think of someone whose name is on that list. Aha, it's on the list right there, Donald. There's your name. That's on Jeffrey Epstein's phone number list of the people whose numbers he had on his Rolodex. That was already released in connection with some of the other cases that he was involved in. Oh, there you are again, Donald, on the flight logs.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Donald Trump is a sexual predator. He was found liable of sexual assault. Donald Trump is a fraud. He was found liable of fraud, lying about his business valuations. Sounds shocking to you? Kind of like how he just makes up tariff numbers? Oh my God, the guy who lies about things and makes up numbers engaged in fraud? Oh my God, really? What a shocker right there. Donald Trump is a felon.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Donald Trump was convicted in a criminal case by a unanimous jury for business records fraud. By the way, Donald Trump also took national secrets when he was citizen Trump to Mar-a-Lago, classified information, potentially nuclear secrets. So is it shocking that the people in his regime are sending classified information over Gmail and signal text threats? No, this is all very predictable stuff.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
I'll leave you with this, too. How sick and demented he is. So back about a year ago, a year and a half ago, he gave a speech in front of young Republicans, high school kids, college kids, young Republicans, high school kids, college kids, young. And he was keynoting the speech. And he told the kids...
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
That the most courageous thing he had ever done in his life, according to a general, said it was the most courageous thing he saw. Remember when Donald Trump said that he grabs women by their genitals without their consent? Remember how that was on that Access Hollywood tape? Well, remember when Donald Trump called it locker room talk? He said it's locker room talk.
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Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
And he said that's how men talk. No, it isn't. That's how disgusting people like you talk. Not men talk. What are you talking about? Disgusting. But anyway, Donald Trump told the young Republicans that he was told that was the most courageous thing he did, calling that locker room talk. Here he is in his own words. Let's hear it.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
Donald Trump was once again golfing all day yesterday and through a spokesperson he leaked that he does not give an F about even trying to make appearances that he cares about anything. That's one of the things that leaked out. We get it, Donald.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
Very seriously, we know how important it is that since we now are about to have 5 million subscribers and we're the most viewed news YouTube channel in the world, it is critical that we cover what corporate news refuses to cover, the protests. And they will continue to grow as we head into democracy summer. It's already here early.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
Let's take a look at what the White House was also talking about in the past 24 hours. This is real. This was a real press release issued by the White House. Seriously, the president won his second round matchup of the senior club championship today in Jupiter, Florida, and advances to the championship round tomorrow. That is a serious press release issued by the Trump regime. Not making that up.
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They made that through their official formal White House press channels. Well, Fox State Regime Media picked it up. Here's what Fox posted. This was a real story that Fox ran yesterday. Trump advances to championship round of senior club golf tournament days after imposing wave of tariffs. Well, at least they included the tariffs part there.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
Also, Donald Trump's press secretary, chief propagandist Caroline Leavitt, taking selfies like this with her forty eight hundred dollar Louis Vuitton bag. It must be nice. Caroline Leavitt does.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
As Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chief, says, Caligula Nero Kim Jong Trump is about to win another fake championship on his own course while the economy tanks. Donald Trump from the golf course posting this. We need tariffs on China. And he's quoting someone named Gordon Chang. Donald Trump reposting this TikTok video that says Trump is purposefully crashing the market.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
This is what Donald Trump is actually posting. This isn't AI. It's a real post from the official account of Donald Trump. saying Trump is purposely crashing the market. Then Donald Trump posts, watch Mark Levin on Trade with China tonight on Fox News. Also watch Lara Trump at nine. Her new show is doing great. Well, I tuned in so you don't have to.
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Let me show you what Mark Levin was saying when you tuned in so you can see this ridiculous state regime propaganda. Let's play it.
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Now, last night as well, Marjorie Taylor Greene posted the following photo. It's my baby boy's birthday, he's 22. I love him so much, heart. buy him a beer. And then it has a link to Venmo to buy her son, Derek. It links to Derek's personal Venmo. And it's a photo of him, I guess, younger, killing a deer. And you can send money to him on Venmo.
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So as Americans are losing their life savings, as our 401ks are now 201ks or zero Ks at this point as the Trump regime is destroying our life savings, destroying our retirement funds, destroying the market, destroying the economy, destroying our businesses. Donald Trump's golfing.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
you and the trump regime just literally mocks we the people but the past 24 hours saw some of the biggest protests in the history of the united states of america the hands-off protests were absolutely stunning in scale scope and size here in the united states and abroad uh in an hour and a half i'm gonna post another video
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Caroline Leavitt is cheap propagandist, is frolicking with Louis Vuitton bags and taking selfies about how rich apparently she is. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is begging for money so that we can buy her son a beer for his birthday. Absolutely repulsive. Absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely vile. This another headline worth talking about.
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Trump's family cash registers ring as financial meltdown plays out. The party was on. in Florida where Donald Trump was golfing, yay, at the Saudi-backed live golf tournament at the President's Doral Resort in Florida and a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago even as the markets tumbled. So the Trump regime celebrating and having the time of their lives. Talk about international news for a second.
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On the one hand, in Canada, you have Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, saying, we will win the trade war against the United States. Prime Minister Carney standing up very powerfully. to the Trump regime. Notably, if you take a look at this from a service called Blind Spot, which is brought to you by Ground News, which I do to do my research.
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You see here, nobody on the right, no right-wing media is talking about Prime Minister Carney standing up to Donald Trump. You know why? Because the right-wing media is a bunch of snowflakes and they are not covering it at all. What's also interesting is how the right wing though, they're not covering that story, but this is what they're bragging about as well.
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And again, you can see on the blind spot, like who's covering it. who's not covering it and that's brought to you by ground news ground news happens to be one of our sponsors it says trump says vietnam willing to cut tariffs on u.s goods to zero to reach deal and you see that's what the right wing covers on this blind spot feature that i use 76 right and 9 left But do you notice why?
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Because it's framed as Trump says. When Trump says that's usually an indication, that it's lying. So I use Blindspot when I do these videos in the morning and I do these videos in the evening as well, because I want to know what's the strategy going on here by the right wing. And I even want to know what's other kind of news media covering. So I use Blindspot.
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That's the feature that I just showed you. It's pretty great. It lets you burst out of your political bubble and you get better understand how these things are being framed. I use Ground News. I think it's essential nowadays. You got to go to ground.news.mtn or scan the QR code here.
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We're going to give our viewers 40% off Ground News top tier vantage plan right here, right now, which will get you unlimited access to everything I've shown you and more. The research tool that I'm literally using right now as I'm talking to you. Ground News is subscriber funded, so they don't rely on ads. That could also introduce bias. Subscribing supports our channel and their independent team
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working to keep the media transparent. One more time, it's ground.news.mtn, ground.news.mtn. Notably, this is interesting, Elon Musk, as his Tesla stock is tanking, as his net worth is crashing right now, He is fighting with Peter Navarro, Donald Trump's top economic advisor. So Elon Musk made a video yesterday saying that he hopes the U.S. and Europe move to a zero tariff situation.
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where I'm just going to devote it to all of the protests, highlight all of them. But let me show you, while Donald Trump was golfing, what it looked like in Chicago. Play this clip. Powerful, powerful stuff there. And let me show you also what it looked like in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stand up, rise up. Here it is right here. Powerful, powerful stuff right there.
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So after Donald Trump announced Liberation Day, which is Annihilation Day, Recession Day, Great Recession Day, Destruction Day, Elon Musk is making videos now saying he wants to see zero tariffs. Here, play this clip.
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And also Elon Musk is attacking Peter Navarro and saying Peter Navarro's never built S-word. I want to share this with you as well. Jim Cramer, who is someone who masquerades as a financial analyst on CNBC,
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He now believes there will be a 1987 Black Monday tomorrow, that he believes the stock market will crash tomorrow worse than it ever did before, and that he thinks that he's been played by Donald Trump and that he got suckered. You think, Jim? Maybe you had a responsibility as someone in finance to know what was going to happen the way we were warning people, but whatever.
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Canada warns travelers to the US to expect border scrutiny, including possible phone and device purchases. So there's travel warnings from other countries basically don't travel to the US. UBS says that if Trump's reciprocal tariffs stay the way they are, inflation will shortly skyrocket to about 5%.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
As I mentioned earlier in the video, in about an hour and a half, that's why you gotta keep checking back on this YouTube channel, the next video I'm gonna load is gonna be, I'm gonna highlight all the protests. I'm gonna go one by one. I may miss some cities, and I'm sorry if I missed your city, I really am. But I'm gonna do as many cities as I can.
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Take a look right here, the Penguins showed up to protest a hands-off event, and they've got the photo of Donald Trump, the portrait from Colorado, that Donald Trump hates, traitor in chief, the penguins are pissed. You've got this one, pretend we're Melania, hands off. So you had incredible signs. Again, I'm going to highlight that soon. Let me share this with you as well.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
Cory Booker, Senator Booker. I think I'm going to be interviewing Senator Booker soon, and I look forward to sharing that with you. Senator Booker gave an incredible town hall yesterday. Let me share with you what he said. Play this clip.
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Take a look right here. You'll see the crowd in Boston from this Boston Globe article about my friends from the Dropkick Murphys. It's been such an honor for me to become friends with Ken Casey, the lead singer of the Dropkick Murphys. They've always been on the side of workers since the band started.
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in the mid-1990s and this is what he says what that this is what music for what music is for you use it to protest that's what we're here for um we're going to be highlighting the dropkick murphy's performance in front of a hundred thousand people in boston um i can't wait to show you that other headlines worth mentioning as well farmers are bracing for significant losses in the new trade war um
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
From Bloomberg, Wall Street gets rude shock as Besson plays second fiddle on tariffs. Meanwhile, on Saturday, as traders and executives across Wall Street and corporate America were still reeling from the market mayhem, White House aides issued an announcement. Trump had won the second round of the senior golf championship at his Jupiter Golf Club.
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You don't get more demented and deranged than that. Midas Mighty. The people are rising up. I saw lots of you also in the Midas Mighty gear that we have at store.midastouch.com. Saw a lot of the gear at the protest, which was super cool as well. Check out midasplus.com, another area. where we cover the protests, MidasPlus.com, just spell it correctly, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com.
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Trump Shuts Down as World Unleashes Fury at Him
And then next week, my brothers and I are going to be on Patreon, where we're going to do a Zoom meeting with our patrons. So there you go to Patreon.com slash MidasTouch if you want to meet me and my brothers. I'm so proud of you all. You really showed the world that America is not going to take it. Hands off, elbows up. We're in this together. Americans are rising up. You have the power.
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You have the power. And it's people like you who are going to stop this authoritarian regime. We're all going to look back together at this moment when we said hands off, when we went elbows up, when we resisted. Stay strong. We're in this together. We love you. We're grateful for you. I'll see you soon on the next video.
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
As we think about the response from the officials in the Trump regime and how they've reacted to Signalgate and all of these other failures, as we've seen once again, the week concluding with the stock market tanking, people's life savings are being crushed as we see in cities across the country, social security offices being closed, essential federal services being gutted.
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
A meeting that would take place in North Korea. That was then Congresswoman Karen Bass, now Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles. And have her as a guest on the Midas Touch podcast. Mayor! Welcome. And I don't know if you remember that clip, but it was kind of spot on as you reflect on that clip to the moment. What are you thinking?
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
So I guess you can say the first administration, it was like a virus fighting the antibodies and it was chaos and what was going to happen. Now there's no antibodies and it's just a virus and it's just doing what it wants to do. And it's a wrecking ball though.
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
And what Doge is doing in cities like Los Angeles, and I had the mayor of Cleveland on recently, and we've been speaking with a lot of mayors and these are mayors like you have been doing great. Great work for the city. And now it's like you're going against this doge kind of riptide that's trying to pull all of the work apart. What are you seeing with the doge wrecking ball in Los Angeles?
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And how are you dealing with that right now?
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What's going on and how are you dealing with what ICE is doing and what, you know, what the Trump regime is doing with Alien Enemies Act and these renditions? And, you know, we've you know, we've seen Kristi Noem, you know, pose in front of an El Salvador cop.
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
And then there's that this image, though, of all of the people Trump surrounds himself, whether it's Maga Mike Johnson in the house or his cabinet. It has this Kim Jong Un like feel and they do the clapping for him and they clearly know what's going on is wrong and they're just not doing anything about it.
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
concentration camp, which by the way, in my view, is a violation of the Geneva Conventions to do a photo of yourself as a pose in front of something like that in and of itself. But this idea, and we're hearing lots of stories from ACLU lawyers and others of some people being people who are here lawfully, asylum seekers, doing the process the right way, who basically were kidnapped
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and then end up in El Salvador never to be heard from again. Everybody wants to get the bad guys off the street, but how do you deal with due process and how do you protect the population from what's going on?
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
And Mayor, what's the latest with the federal funds for rehabbing after the fire? What's going on there? Is that an issue for the upcoming budget discussions? What's the latest on that?
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
So I remember that there was a clip from a congressional hearing in 2019 that was prophetic, that summed it up in connection with the initial impeachment hearing. And I found that clip and I have to share it with you now. Let's play it.
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
Mayor, finally, what do you say to the people in L.A. and other cities as well, but obviously you're the mayor of L.A., who are just – they're worried. Every day they wake up, it's chaos. There's another bad headline. There's economic horrible news. There's a lot to process. So what do you say to people who just wake up just feeling panicked, and what do we do?
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Mayor Bass on the Trump Administration and Los Angeles
Mayor Karen Bass, thanks for joining us as always.
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There you go. I got my Karen Bass clips all around. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
Thank you. don't think we were talking about it. James Comer from the House Oversight Committee would talk about this incessantly, proved absolutely nothing at all. His investigations went nowhere because it was all built on lies and fake whistleblowers.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
We make good videos back then. I can do that just based on this week. That was 2020. Look at the headlines this week. Meanwhile, over at the Willard Hotel, Donald Trump Jr. and White House crypto czar David Sachs held an after party and launched a club for the ultra wealthy called the Executive Branch. that costs more than half a million dollars to join, calling their club the executive branch.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
You had Donald Trump previously meeting with UAE's national security advisor and announcing a big deal this week, not a deal involving his horrible trade wars that's harming our economy, but a fund backed by Abu Dhabi will be making a $2 billion business deal using a Trump firm's digital coins. The transaction would be a major contribution by a foreign government to Trump's private venture.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
And how about Qatar? Qatar and Dar Global will be developing a Trump golf or golf courses and villas in Qatar this week. They announced that big deal. Big deals for Donald Trump. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz. Your buddy, James Comer, MAGA Republican from the House Oversight Committee, doesn't seem interested in any of this, does he, Congress member?
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
That was a February thing where he would post the AI memes of himself. You're right. Yeah, yeah. That was February.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
I want to talk about all of the things that are happening in plain sight right now, but I want to remind everybody a video that we did at the Midas Touch Network, what we really just started. It was a video we made basically like five years ago at this point. We called it the Trump crime family then, in 2020. And it's way worse now. But let me show you this video. Let's play it.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
What I think is the most important point there also, though, in addition to the fact that that's corrupt and unlawful and all of that, how the American is feeling right now, the average American who was promised all of these things by Donald Trump. And even though Donald Trump's out there giving speeches.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
Well, that's the point, right? As he goes out there right now and says, this is the greatest it's ever been. Your gas is $1.89, right? Right? No. He says, by the way, gas in Florida, $1.89. I think Scott Besson then repeats that. Oh, eggs are down 87%. Housing is more affordable. I did it. I did it. The greatest ever.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
And I think Americans, other than, you know, look, 35% of the MAGA crew, they're not going to move. But independents and Americans are saying, that's not happening. It's not.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
when doge was first announced i mean you had said look i would and it wasn't described as being actually in the executive branch or whatever it is right now you said look i will do oversight count me in as a democratic member to try to hold musk accountable you got some criticism for that but your point was let me look through what they're doing because you had at the time had a sense
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
I know if they're doing a great job, great. But if they're not, there needs to be people who have oversight over Doge. Right now, federal spending is actually higher than it was under former President Biden.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
If anything, Doge has added to the deficit. I mean, first, has Doge, in your view, now that you have a data set, been a complete and utter failure? How would you describe it? And then two, what are you kind of doing even right now to fight back against it?
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
According to the Times tonight, President Trump has a previously undisclosed bank account in China. That company, mysteriously, showed a huge spike in revenue right after Trump was sworn in as president.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
Also, your MAGA Republican colleagues, weren't they obsessed with releasing the Epstein files? And they would say all the time they had a whole committee where they were going to do that.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
I got said the full files, the full files. And then they went out the right wing influencers of the White House. They tried to pretend that they were the files.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
I mean, Trump's name was literally in the call log, but that was information that was publicly released before. But now they just move on. Right. I mean, they make that an issue. They push it out there as like a key issue for them. And then all of a sudden they're like, yeah, we're not we're not doing that anymore.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
Congressman, when I've been having members on and I've been interviewing them, I end with this question because there's things that I know and there's things I don't know because I'm not.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
That's what I was about to ask you. Personal hobbies, favorite things to do. But in all seriousness, there are issues that are not being discussed by media that you think deserve more attention, that you're thinking about, that with our audience here, you just want to let people know.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
Japan's finance minister, Katsunobu Kato, had a powerful message for the United States. If you treat us in Japan with disrespect over these tariff negotiations, we could use the nuclear option. We have the largest holdings of U.S. treasuries in the world. totaling over $1 trillion. You treat us with disrespect, Donald, we will dump those and we can crash the United States markets.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
And, you know, one of the things that we're learning about as well is, and you see right here, Japan's lead tariff negotiator, Roy Siakazawa, just says things just generally are not going good. And Prime Minister Ashiba's administration saying Japan's prepared to use its role as America's largest creditor as leverage in the trade talks.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
So if that's how our close allies are treating us, how do you think the rest of the world is viewing us right now? I want to just show you some data points here as well. Why is Japan saying this now? Well, if you've been watching the Midas Touch Network, you know we've been following Prime Minister Ashiba's actions.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
One of the things that Japan saw that they took big notice of, the elections in Canada. You go, how could the elections in Canada impact Japan? It's why on this network we have a global focus so you can see the connections. The same reason that the Canadian elections also had a big impact on the Australian elections. And it's the Trump effect.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
When Trump is dishonoring nations, treating nations like crap, A resistance rises against Donald Trump. And if leaders are obsequious to Donald Trump and try to appease Donald Trump, they're punished at the ballot box. Take a look at the Japan Times, for example. The Trump effect on elections is just beginning, including in Japan. And this article talks about how Trump.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
The governing party in Japan is worried that the government could be toppled by the opposition party if they strike a bad deal with Trump, look weak, and they get mocked by Donald Trump. Let me show you an opposition party member of parliament. I've showed this clip before, but it's worth playing right now. Here's an opposition member, and here's what he has to say. Here, play this clip.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
So don't test us. Don't treat us with disrespect. Don't dishonor us. And Japan has objected to the way the United States has presented these trade proposals. Now, This should be an easy deal to make with Japan. We already had a trade deal with Japan in 2018 that Donald Trump negotiated.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
Going back to the other data point that I wanted to talk about with Trump's disrespect as well, On, it was Thursday, Donald Trump spoke where University of Alabama, he gave that disrespectful speech where he was like doing the, remember he was doing that move. It was the whole thing was just so utterly weird. Go back and watch the video that I did on that.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
They're like, Ben, what the hell are you talking about? Go and watch it. But here, Donald Trump says that the US can sell cars in Japan because it's tariffing the hell out of the United States. Japan hasn't imposed a tariff on car imports since 1978. Trump has no clue what the hell he's talking about.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
Now, the Financial Times reported last week that Donald Trump is attacking Japan over a, quote, bowling ball test that Donald Trump takes issue with. Where Donald Trump says, in Japan, in addition to tariffing our cars, which they don't, they drop bowling balls. This is what Donald Trump says. Is it crazy? They drop bowling balls on the roofs of our cars.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
And then when the cars break, they say, we're not buying American. Trump has, quote, puzzled trade negotiators in Tokyo after complaining about a test where he claims a bowling ball is dropped on a car. Japan does not carry out such tests. Here's from April 24, 2025. This was Charles Gasparino from Fox's Big Scoop. People inside the Trump White House are alerting Wall Street execs.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
They are nearing an agreement in principle on trade with India. According to my sources, Gasparino warns, we've been here with Japan, but there has not been any deals yet with Japan. It's all market manipulation. They go tell this to Wall Street. They spike the stock prices for a few days. Then they get dumped. Main Street gets hard, gets hurt.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
And the billionaire oligarchs who get the tips from the Trump regime about when they're going to message these things and not do them. They make money and we the people get absolutely screwed over these things right here.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
Japan's press secretary, Kitamura Toshishiro, he was in the Philippines this past week talking about the bilateral relationships with the Philippines, broader relations in the region as well. Here's what he talks about in terms of dealing with Trump.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
And now that Donald Trump wants to dishonor Japan, treat Japan with disrespect, Japan is objecting to the trade proposal. And right now there's been no deal. Now, Donald Trump has told us what week after week after week. We're about to do a deal with Japan. I'm about to do a deal with India and Japan. We're announcing it. It's right around the corner. It's right around the corner.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
And I want you to, when you watch it, I want you to see how Japan's press secretary, Kitamura Toshihiro, just how composed he is and contrasted to Trump's behavior. Play this clip.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
And finally, I had the opportunity a few weeks back to do this interview with the United States, the former U.S. ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel. And if you want, when do we do? We did this in March, right? Mid-March, actually, I think. We did it before the Liberation Day, you know, or Liquidation Day, I think, or right around then. We were warning about this months ago.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
Japan, China, Philippines. And it was important for me to give you all the warnings because you could just follow the data. If you speak to the experts and you follow the data, like if you follow the freight levels, if you follow the trucking volumes, if you see the ships aren't coming into the ports,
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
On the West Coast, Long Beach, Seattle, East Coast, Boston, you go, oh crap, we're going to run out of supplies. Yeah, it's going to happen. There's going to be a Tom Hanks moment. I call it a Tom Hanks moment. Remember Donald Trump said, like a miracle, it's all going to go away with COVID. And then Tom Hanks got it like, oh shit, lockdown mode.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
We're going to have a Tom Hanks moment soon with stuff not being on the shelves. That's what's going to happen. Anyway, here's former ambassador Rahm Emanuel to Japan. That's why we had to get him on. We need to speak to him about this. Here, play this clip.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
That has not taken place despite all of Donald Trump's lies that it's going to happen. And to me, this is a major indicator again because the deal with Japan should be the easiest deals. Now, we got a whiff that things were going very bad.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
So powerful words from Japan saying, uh-uh, ain't happening. We're prepared to use our treasury holdings if you dishonor and if you disrespect us. Also, as we previously reported, and Reuters and Carl Quintanilla did a good job of highlighting this too, the Chinese government sent a letter a few weeks back to Japanese Prime Minister Ashiba calling for a coordinated response to U.S.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
President Donald Trump's tariff measures. They had a ministerial level meeting. Japan, South Korea, and China. Does that sound familiar? Former President Biden, that's why China did it. That's why Xi Jinping did it. He knows. Trump's too stupid to get it. Former President Biden brought together those leaders in Washington together, side by side, shoulder to shoulder. as a deterrent to China.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
It was the ultimate checkmate move. Donald Trump took the checkmates and like took the, turned them into checkers and then put them all over his face like a fool. That's what happened. We'll keep you posted with more, but he can't do a deal with Japan. No deal. Donald can't do a deal with anybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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Furious Japan Issues Major Threat to Trump
when japan's prime minister ashiba back on april 21st 2025 said we're not rushing into anything we want to strike a fair deal we don't want to be disrespected and japan just can't keep on conceding things to the u.s without getting anything in return japan is not going to do that Then messages got out that a deal with Japan may not take days, but maybe weeks away.
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Trump Loses It as His Entire World Crumbles Fast
The protests are not going away, Donald. The protests are not going away, Elon. That was a protest in front of a Tesla store in Boston. Shout out to the peaceful protesters there. You saw a saluting Elon joining the Tesla takedown protesters there. Thank you to dissent pins for posting that. Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, they're partying. Donald Trump was golfing again.
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It'll cost around $100 million, at least so Donald Trump can look like North Korea's Kim Jong-un in a military parade in Washington, D.C. It is so utterly embarrassing right now. Let me remind you of five things alone that Donald Trump did this week. One, he blamed Biden for the stock market tanking. Two, he called for criminal investigations of pollsters over his low approval ratings.
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Three, he claimed gas prices are under $2 a gallon. Four, he was a no-show at the White House on Friday and ran cartoons of himself instead of the press briefing that he said that was going to take place. And then he went golfing. I could add 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 very easily.
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Donald Trump posting AI images of himself dressed as the Pope right after Pope Francis's funeral, giving the middle finger to the Catholic community. And whether you're Catholic or not, whether you're even religious or not, this is the height of being disrespectful, mocking the Catholic religion. Could you imagine if former President Biden ever did anything like this?
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The New York state Catholic conference put out a statement just before they said there was nothing clever or funny about this image. Mr. President, we just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the Cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us, Donald, a powerful statement from the Catholic conference of New York.
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And I've been seeing a lot of other statements like, like that from the Catholic community and others who aren't even religious or Catholic. We reported on this before, but again, I want to reiterate it here. A big election victory for the Labor Party in Australia, which is their left-center party in Australia.
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Anthony Albanese there, who's the prime minister, will go on to secure another three-year term. Their right wing party in Australia, which is called the Liberal Party, led by Timu Trump, a guy by the name of Peter Dutton, got obliterated. It was embarrassing. It's showing the entire world that if you stand with Trump, you will fall for everything.
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You will fall in the elections and you will get embarrassed the way Pierre Poliev of Canada lost his riding yesterday. Peter Dutton not only lost the election for the Liberal Party in Australia, again, which is their right-wing conservative party, he lost his own seat as well. It was the worst election day pretty much in the history of that liberal right-wing party in Australia.
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And folks, here's why too. I mean, take a look at what the Trump regime is doing internationally. You have Secretary Marco Rubio making the following statement, attacking Germany. We have the United States Secretary of State attacking Germany. And he goes, Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy. It's tyranny in disguise.
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What is truly extremist is not the popular AFD, which took second in the recent election, but rather the establishment's deadly open border immigration policies that the AFD opposes. Germany should reverse course. Shut the F up, Secretary Marco Rubio, you despicable... You know what? You don't need to interfere in German elections.
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The AFD is a far right extremist party that many have called neo-Nazi, a far right extremist party. The German Foreign Office has to respond and teach democracy to Secretary Marco Rubio from the despicable Trump regime. The German Foreign Office writes, this is democracy, you idiot. We didn't say you idiot. They said this is democracy. Marco Rubio.
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Trump Loses It as His Entire World Crumbles Fast
Michael Cohen, not the Michael Cohen on the Midas Touch Network, writes nothing to see here. Just the U.S. secretary of state advocating for an anti-Semitic, anti-Islamist right wing German political party and then getting posterized by the German foreign office social media manager. And folks, I get to ask this question a lot here, which is, how do I do research on the Midas Touch Network?
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He wrecks the economy, destroys our lives. Then they party at Mar-a-Lago. The oligarchs and their spouses taking selfie photos, laughing at the American people who are suffering as Donald Trump lies and claims that he solved inflation and claims that egg prices are down and gas prices are down and everybody's doing amazing, Donald Trump says, when we the people know that's not the case.
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What are the tools that I use? I use a tool called Ground News. At ground.news.mtn is where you should go. I use a feature called Blind Spot. because I want to be informed. What's the right wing talking about? What's the left wing talking about? I want to come with receipts and facts here when I do these hot takes each and every day. So I use Ground News. It keeps me informed.
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I use their blind spot feature. And if you want to do the type of research I do, I suggest you check it out. Go to ground.news.com or scan the QR code. We're giving our viewers 40% off Ground News' top-tier vantage plan. which will get you unlimited access to everything I've just discussed and more ground news is subscriber funded. So they don't rely on ads that could also introduce bias.
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Subscribing supports our channel and their independent team working to keep media transparent. Again, it's ground.news slash MTN ground.news slash MTN. Because I wonder. Is this getting coverage on the right wing or are they just trying to cover it up as well? That a air traffic controller in the Newark airport has told CNN it's not safe. It's not a safe situation right now for the flying public.
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Do not fly into Newark. Avoid Newark at all costs. A direct quote from an air traffic controller. saying U.S. airspace is now unsafe in the Trump regime. We've gone five days going on six of major delays at Newark with FAA citing staffing levels because Elon Musk and Doge fired all of the FAA air traffic controllers. They gutted the agency. There's not the right staffing of people working there.
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And remember I said, what now, for three weeks, there's going to be a, I call it a Tom Hanks moment, referring to COVID where Tom Hanks got COVID and people were like, oh shit, we should take this seriously. I guess like a miracle, it's not going to go away. I guess the seven cases are not going to go to zero. Like dear leader was saying, maybe we're being defrauded.
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Donald Trump is the rug pull presidency, the Ponzi scheme presidency. And any rug pull and any Ponzi scheme, eventually when you rob Peter to pay Paul, it's eventually uncovered and you get busted and things go bankrupt. You want to know why Donald Trump's gone bankrupt over and over again? He covers up things, turns a mistake into a catastrophe, a catastrophe into a bankruptcy.
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That's how he's run all his crap into the ground throughout his life. He's doing it again right here. Travel alert. United flights will cancel 35 daily round trip flights at Newark Liberty starting this weekend due to the air traffic control shortage. Shortage, United CEO says. The FAA has had to implement another ground delay program at Newark flight due to air traffic control staffing issue.
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Delays are averaging one hour and 43 minutes. Saturday is actually the sixth day in a row for Newark's ATC staffing issues. Let me show you how ABC described it. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump's destroyed our economy. He's destroyed our alliances abroad. He's destroyed the very brand that was the United States of America. And here they are. Look, RNC chair Michael Watley and co-chair Casey Crosby at a spring gala at Mar-a-Lago. So not only is Donald Trump spending our taxpayer dollars to golf again this weekend and to bring all of his staff and
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Now, folks, the incompetence, the lethal, fatal incompetence is across the Trump regime, right? You know how they're bragging about their airstrikes with the Houthis in Yemen? Well, the New York Times is reporting that a visual analysis shows that the U.S., likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28th.
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At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen. That's what they're bombing? And would it shock you that that's what they're bombing? You think about what they're talking about on Signal.
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You're talking about the way they deal with everything, the way they've handled the tariff formulas, which were all made up and has led to a disastrous trade war. No deals, Donald. Zero deals, 90 days. Spencer Akimian posts the following. Las Vegas is taking it on the chin. Unemployment is going up in Nevada. No way around it at all. Donald Trump destroyed Atlantic City in the 1990s.
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He's destroying Las Vegas in 2025. Go look at what's happening at MGM right now. Go speak to people on the ground in Vegas. This is a three alarm fire in Vegas right now. If you're from Vegas, tell me in the comments below what you see going on there. I'll leave you with this.
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Democratic Congress member Garamendi, he exposed a $150 billion Republican slush fund where they're stealing healthcare money and lunch money from children as a slush fund for, what, the defense budget? They are screwing over Americans. The most vulnerable is who they attack, this dastardly Trump regime. Play this clip. Have we lost our minds?
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Let's grow. Stay in the fight. I know you may feel a little bit of fatigue right now. Don't. We're in this together, okay? You're doing an incredible job. The resistance is strong. The opposition is strong. Trump's on the ropes. Stay strong. We're in this together. Thanks for watching.
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where he houses them at Mar-a-Lago that we the taxpayers pay for, but they're doing the RNC gala so Donald Trump can make more money and grift even more. I previously reported this, but it bears mentioning again that Donald Trump and his regime are now preparing a military parade. In June on his birthday, 7,000 troops, tanks, parachute jumps, 50 helicopters, airplanes.
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Ukrainian President Zelensky just gave an interview with Fox where he addressed the Oval Office meeting where Donald Trump and J.D. Vance laundered Russian propaganda to attack and yell at Zelensky in the Oval Office in front of the world media where Zelensky held his ground. pushed back against Trump and J.D. Vance and strongly defended Ukraine, as well as democracies across the country.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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And Zelensky said, let me just be very clear. Putin is a killer. I'm not going to say nice things about Putin. Play the clip.
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Now, while that was taking place, Donald Trump wanted to hog the media attention. And Donald Trump then told the media what would have made him happy is if Zelensky would have said nice things about Putin. Donald Trump says, why is he saying mean things about Putin? He needs to be nicer to Putin. This is what Trump just said. Here, play the clip.
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He doesn't Then Donald Trump attacks Zelensky while Zelensky is basically doing this interview on Fox and Donald Trump tries to like mock Zelensky and Trump's wearing the MAGA hat. This whole thing is just so humiliating for the United States. And Donald Trump's like, what? He thinks he's a big shot here. Play this clip.
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Back to Zelensky's interview on Fox. Zelensky says he's thankful for Americans. Play this clip.
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Zelensky was asked by Bret Baier of Fox if he would apologize to Donald Trump on camera, to which Zelensky said, no, what am I going to apologize for? I did not do something bad. Watch this. During all these years, 10 years,
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You helped us to How many more times do you want to hear him say that? And before I've heard him say that he was thankful for Donald Trump, even though he shouldn't have to even say that, I've heard him repeatedly make those comments. What did Donald Trump want him to do at the Oval Office? I think Donald Trump said it before. Praise Putin, which Zelensky would not do. That's what Trump and J.D.
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Vance were trying to bully him to do. That's what they thought the art of the deal was when it was really the art of the steal and the shakedown trying to extort Ukraine into some ridiculous rare earth mineral deal when Donald Trump promised that he was going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. But what was Trump's plan the whole time to steal the rare earth minerals from Ukraine?
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What the hell is even going on right now? Here is President Zelensky saying how he respects the soldiers and the people of Ukraine too much, again, to kiss Putin's ring in the Oval Office.
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you mentioned when i tried then donald trump outside saying that putin needs to i mean uh he goes putin is is right and we were saying before or zielinski needs to stop the fighting with putin here play this clip you're gonna keep fighting you're gonna get the war done or let them go and see what happens let them fight it out
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Then Donald Trump keeps talking about the cards, the cards, you can't embolden somebody that doesn't have the cards. Play this clip.
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Then you had Ukrainian parliament member right here, Rudik, and he or she talks about the American people don't tell Ukraine who should be their leader or not. Play this clip.
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And here the Ukrainian parliament member says, we hope Zelensky knows that he had the full support of the Ukrainian people in parliament. Play this clip.
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Now let me show you what Donald Trump was saying as well, how the meeting didn't work out well. Let's play it.
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Folks, President Zelensky is standing on business. He talks about how he respects America. He respects the American people, but he's not going to capitulate to Vladimir Putin, who's trying to wipe Ukraine off the face of the map. Here, Bret Baier asks Zelensky if he thinks his public spat in the Oval Office, that's how they're framing it on Fox, would serve Ukrainians well.
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We want peace. More from Zelensky right here.
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And by the way, here was Donald Trump several months ago during the election saying that he would bring peace in 24 hours and he would get a deal done. But it seems the only deal he's been focused on is stealing Ukrainian rare earth minerals or material and doing that deal. What the hell is even going on here? Play this clip. You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Actions, not just words. Britain stands with Ukraine today and always. That is how you respond to the despicable behavior of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the Oval Office when President Zelensky of Ukraine was invited as a guest only for Donald Trump and Vance to launder Russian propaganda to attack Zelensky in the Oval Office. and to try to break Zelensky. Zelensky wouldn't break.
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Take a look at the moment this $3.3 billion security deal was inked.
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kia starmer writes it was an honor to welcome president zielinski to downing street and reiterate my unwavering support for ukraine i am determined to find a path that ends russia's illegal war and ensures a just and lasting peace that secures ukraine's future and sovereignty and security slava ukraine
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Now, this follows Keir Starmer posting this other video right here, which is after Donald Trump's disgusting and repulsive behavior during his meeting with Zelensky. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer wasted zero time on Friday to call out the fascistic behavior of Putin, of Trump, and all of it. Watch this incredible video. Let's play it.
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I want to show you what French President Emmanuel Macron is doing as well. But I want to check this out as well because I had a blind spot with this story as well. You have Pete Hegseth, the Fox host turned Secretary of Defense somehow in the United States, and exactly what Putin would love and is loving. Hegseth warns of military action if Mexico fails to meet Trump's border demands.
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It's been reported by the Wall Street Journal and others. I had a blind spot to it, but fortunately, I am using something called Ground News. I've talked about Ground News before. It's essential nowadays to see through any double standards in the current media ecosphere. If you go to ground.news.mtn or scan the QR code I'm posting right here,
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Zelensky then went to the United Kingdom where he met with United Kingdom's Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, who showed what a state visit is actually supposed to look like, how leaders in democracies are supposed to treat other leaders of democracies who are supposed to be our allies.
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Are there things that right wing media is talking about that I'm not seeing anywhere else? Do I need to bolster my coverage here? And here's an example as well. Right now you have Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.
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trying to have Donald Trump save face again, come up with another fake sham deal with Canada, saying, Canada, you need to match Mexico's plan to go after Canada, or else we're going to tariff you. Just take a look at this. You have like no one from the left is covering this. You have 56% of coverage on the right and from the center. So go check it out. Ground.news.mtn. Scan the QR code.
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uh slash mt and let's get back to some of this reporting um this is from inside this meeting between pierre starmer and zielinski where starmer says you have the full backing across the united kingdom and again contrast this to whatever the hell that happened in the oval office with trump let's play it cheers on the street outside
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Take a look at this video Kier Starmer posted of the moment Ukrainian President Zelensky arrived in the UK for this meeting where a historic $3.3 billion security deal was inked and there was a whole crowd of people cheering on Zelensky. Action, not just words. Play this clip. So at this meeting, the UK and Ukraine signed a $3.3 billion security deal. The money will be dispersed in the next days.
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president zielinski of ukraine then wrote the following london a meaningful and warm meeting with prime minister kier starmer during our talks we discussed the challenges facing ukraine and all of europe coordination with partners concrete steps to strengthen ukraine's position and ending the war with a just peace along with robust security guarantees
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a principled statement of support from the Prime Minister and an important decision. Today, in our presence, Ukraine and the United Kingdom signed a loan agreement. This loan will enhance Ukraine's defense capabilities and will be repaid using revenues from Russia's frozen assets. The funds will be directed toward weapon production in Ukraine. This is true justice.
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The one who started the war must be the one to pay. I thank the people and government of the United Kingdom for their tremendous support from the very beginning of this war. We are happy to have such a strategic partner and to share the same vision of what a secure future should look like for all.
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President Emmanuel Macron posted the following as well, or made the following comments rather. If anyone is playing World War III, it is Putin. He brought 10,000 North Korean soldiers to Europe. He begged for Iranian drones, aiding their nuclear program in return to wage war on Europe. It is not Zelensky who's playing World War III, Donald. So what's Donald Trump doing right now?
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Yes, he's golfing, more vacationing. He's reposting Marjorie Taylor Greene, MAGA Republican extremist. This is what homeschooling looks like in Georgia's 14th. Golf of America, everybody. Look at how smart we are in Georgia's 14th. We take maps that say Gulf of Mexico and we put America over it. Yeah. By the way, did you see when J.D. Vance went to Vermont?
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Of course, he was vacationing in a blue state. Get the hell out of blue states, J.D. Why don't you go to one of your red states? See what they enjoy. Enjoy the red state. Go to Oklahoma. No offense to Oklahoma. Go to Arkansas. No offense to Arkansas. These are the signs that greeted J.D. Vance in Vermont. Vance is a traitor. Go ski in Russia. Vance uses fake syrup.
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Donald Trump golfing, golfing, golfing. Oh, by the way, remember that question that Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend asked Zelensky? Because now in America, our press is kicked out of the Oval Office, but they bring in Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. I'm not making that up, Brian Glenn. He's like, why aren't you wearing a suit?
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By the way, here's Winston Churchill at the White House not wearing a suit because his country was at war during World War II. Just take a look at some of these UK headlines as well from the Daily Mail. Raging Trump humiliates Zelensky on live TV. A spectacle to horrify the world. This is from the Mail. Amid outrage over U.S.
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President's humiliation of Zelensky and as the king of the United Kingdom hosts Ukraine leader today, members of parliament in top brass demand. Now stop the state visit for bully Trump. Do not let Trump in. And then it shows that's how to treat a war hero. Prime ministers hug ahead of crunch summit because today European leaders are showing up in the United Kingdom.
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By the way, did you see this from Haltbach Bunkers? This is a Norwegian fuel company, Haltbach Bunkers.
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And they said, after witnessing the, this is their language, after witnessing the biggest shit show ever presented on live TV by the current American president and his vice president, huge credit to president of Ukraine restraining himself and for keeping calm, even though USA put on a backstabbing TV show, it made us sick, short and sweet.
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And as a result, we have decided to immediately stop as a fuel provided for, as a fuel provider to any American forces in Norway and their ships calling Norwegian ports. No fuel to Americans. We encourage all Norwegian Europeans to follow our example.
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We know they are needed ASAP. Europe is standing up. We're talking about the UK. We're talking about the EU. We're talking about the nations in the EU. We're talking about Canada. We're talking about Australia. We're talking about the world democracies coming together to support Zelensky even more now based on the traitorous and despicable behavior by the Trump regime in the United States.
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And indeed, when a United States nuclear submarine, the USS Delaware, showed up, they were forced to turn around off the coast of Norway after a refusal to refuel by a private company following the Trump and Zelensky meeting. May I share this with you? This TikToker, I think, did an incredible job, I think, laying out what it was like if Trump and Vance were hostage negotiators.
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Great work to follow this guy. Here, play this clip.
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Dear MAGA, did Trump's tantrum in the Oval Office with President Zelensky of Ukraine successfully make you forget that he didn't deliver on the Epstein files, which he claimed he was going to turn over this past week, but instead he gave like
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Many of the MAGA influencers were seen posing and smiling and some dancing with their Epstein binders, which contain potential evidence against those who sexually abuse children for their own pleasure. It should be noted Donald Trump's name was in there. And also these documents had been released in 2021. This was not the, quote,
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Epstein files that were supposed to be released, which would have included grand jury testimony, witness statements, photographs, videos. That is what they are not releasing and trying to cover up. The optics of what went down at the White House this past week was so bad that even MAGA and pro-Trump accounts were blasting that influencer group and the White House on social media.
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Charlie Kirk posted, the Epstein files phase one, it is happening. I mean, so sickening. One of the personalities invited to the White House and given a binder was someone by the name of Jessica Reed Krause, a pro-Trump individual and self-described independent journalist who has been granted access into Mar-a-Lago Trump campaign events and even into intimate Trump family gatherings.
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Krause on Instagram. stated that he had earned the Epstein binder, which drew further criticism. Pro-Trump journalist Jessica Reed Krause, with her copy of the Epstein files released by the White House, you can see it right there. Krause, who has a large following on Instagram and Substack, covered the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a partner of Jeffrey Epstein, who helped groom his child victims.
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10 MAGA influencers, a binder with Epstein's phone list that was already released back in, let's say, about 2021 that also contained Donald Trump's name on it because Trump and Epstein were buddies. Did you forget about that? Are you moving on to the next distraction? Because we're not forgetting about it. In fact, we put our investigative team at the Midas Touch Network on it.
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That is Ghislaine who helped groom the child victims. As the criticism over the binder continued, screenshots of Krause wearing a free Ghislaine shirt began appearing on Twitter. Laura Loomer posted, it gets worse. This is Jessica Reed Krause. She was invited to the White House to get an Epstein binder and spread Pam Bondi's lies.
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Here's a photo of Jessica allegedly wearing a shirt that says free Ghislaine that she posted on her Instagram account. Ghislaine Maxwell serving prison time for the sex trafficking. Laura Loomer is a MAGA person. She is a Trumper as close to Trump at one point as anybody was.
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So she's calling out this stunt, though, by Donald Trump, by Trump's attorney general, Pam Bondi, for giving these binders to MAGA influencers that were not actually the Epstein files and trying to act like, oh, we're releasing everything, which they did not. Now we put our team at Midas Touch on it.
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Midas Touch has been able to independently confirm that the screenshot of Krause circulating on Twitter by Laura Loomer and others showing Krause wearing a Freaky Lane shirt is indeed authentic. On her Instagram account in August 2024, Krause posted a picture of herself wearing a Freaky Lane shirt during a trip to cover the DNC. According to an archive of Krause's Instagram stories,
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She implied her, quote, Freaky Lane shirt was her favorite controversial T-shirt just before posting a picture of it to her Instagram stories. Hey, kids, grow up and work as an independent journalist and you can lay on the floor and eat fried chicken and watch politics and write whatever you want. while wearing your favorite controversial t-shirt.
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Another picture of Kraus wearing the Freaky Lane shirt appeared on the Reddit channel Our House on Fire. The picture shows Kraus wearing the shirt outdoors while with RFK Jr. supporters at the DNC. Some members of the group you can see right there. In June 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors.
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Krause wants Ghislaine set free in exchange for revealing who the Epstein clients were, calling her conviction, quote, absurd when the clients are still free. She writes, my readers are very familiar with my stance on Ghislaine. Freaky Lane convict her clients. That's my stance.
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I find it absurd that one woman is serving Epstein's 20-year prison sentence while all of the men involved are free and unbothered. I've spent three years explaining this. Don't you have single mothers to harass Laura, attacking Laura Loomer? Calling for freedom of an unknown abuser of girls is quite the position to hold, but not one that bars a person from access to the White House, apparently.
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During her White House visit on Thursday, Krause posted a picture of herself with Trump, J.D. Vance, and RFK Jr. behind the desk in the Oval Office. While leaving the White House, Krause was pictured holding a binder and wearing a Trump-was-right-about-everything hat.
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nothing shouts independent journalists quite like wearing a hat like this one of trump's white house invitees someone who the administration via pam bondi is willing to hand off potential sensitive information about sexual abuse victims advocated to free the person who groomed them for abuse Don't they do any basic vetting in the West Wing? Shout out to J.D.
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Wolf for writing that story right there. But by the way, I mean, Donald Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell well before her trafficking trial. Remember when Donald Trump said this? Play the clip.
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And we learned that one of the influencers who was at the White House, influencers and quotes, of course, this MAGA propagandist was someone who was previously at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial wearing a T-shirt that said free Ghislaine. Who's Ghislaine Maxwell? She was the sex trafficker who worked for. Jeffrey Epstein. She was Epstein's co-conspirator. She's basically serving life in prison now.
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And by the way, the information linking Donald Trump to Epstein is plentiful. Trump is on those call logs. Trump is on the flight logs. Trump is in the deposition. Trump's been, you know, lots of depositions. Trump was photographed with Epstein all the time. Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side.
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I played you audio before of Trump saying at his beauty pageants, he inspects the women naked without their consent. Donald Trump, uh, was found liable for sexual assault in New York in federal court by a unanimous jury, and then found liable for defaming a sexual assault victim. Here, just take a look at this tape. It shows some of Trump's connections with Epstein here. Play this clip.
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I was not a should be noted as well that Ghislaine Maxwell would find girls to traffic. for Epstein at Mar-a-Lago. For example, Virginia Giuffre, a victim who's been in the public as well a lot. Virginia Giuffre used to be homeless. Then she got a job at Mar-a-Lago. After being homeless, she gets the job at Mar-a-Lago, in swoops in Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Maxwell finds Giuffre, brings Giuffre to Epstein for a massage. Epstein then traffics Giuffre at the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. you had, uh, uh, you had a 14 year old girl. Well, at the time that she was a woman now, but at the time of the incident, 14 years old, she testified that, uh, uh, she was brought, uh, to Mar-a-Lago by Epstein.
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And so one of the people who the White House gave an Epstein binder to was someone who wore a free Ghislaine Maxwell shirt, which We wrote about it at our website. You should check it out right here. Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of grooming underage victims for Jeffrey Epstein. Here's what we write at our website.
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Um, those are the types of documents that need to get out there though. Like her police reports from her, her testimony, grand jury testimony and stuff like that. Um, but look, they're all trying to distract us right now as well. I mean, this is what, uh, FBI Director Kash Patel. I can't believe I'm calling him FBI Director. Here's what he just posted.
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The American people will get an FBI that's transparent, accountable, and committed to justice, just like when I exposed grotesque violations and fraud leading to the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Crossfire Hurricane, calling out corrupt actors. I will equally defend those attacked falsely, especially as your new FBI Director.
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A female agent was falsely referenced in the media this week as part of an alleged whistleblower disclosure. She was not a honeypot. I have reviewed the matter again, and she did the limited job assigned to her. These actions were also reviewed by special counsel John Durham, and he found no evidence of any wrongdoing.
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This agent has dedicated her life to public service, and I will have her back for it. I think he's talking about the person who, what, Fox hosts? Like Jesse Water was accusing? They're all just accusing each other now, because I'm pretty sure this is the story. I could be wrong, but is this the story? Here, play this clip.
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I think that's the story that they're talking about. How about here's the letter that Pam Bondi wrote, Attorney General to Patel. Dear Director Patel, before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts, and a list of victim names and phone numbers. I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request. and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents.
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Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI field office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files. When you and I spoke, you were just as surprised as I was to learn the new information. Then she goes, by 8 a.m.
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tomorrow, the FBI will deliver, February 28th, will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office. It's not going to be thousands. It's going to be millions of pages. It's going to be terabytes of documents.
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It's going to be video, audio, text messages, emails, photographs, police reports, witness statements, grand jury testimony, under seal testimony, because that's the way the law works on cases like this. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or an experienced lawyer to have to figure out what these documents are going to be. And we know Trump's name is repeatedly in a lot of this stuff already.
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On Thursday, the Trump administration invited a bunch of MAGA influencers and pro-Trump journalist types to the White House. While they were there, Attorney General Pam Bondi gave them a, quote, phase one binder of Epstein documents.
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So one would assume he may be mentioned again, like with the 14-year-old girl at Mar-a-Lago. That may be an example of it. MAGA Republicans like Annapolina Luna are saying, get us the information we asked for. What you turned over is not the information that we wanted. So, I mean, MAGA's in complete disarray on this issue. They gave the binder to someone wearing a free Ghislaine shirt.
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I mean, they're accusing each other of honeypotting each other. I mean, what the hell is going on? We're going to be diligent. We're going to keep reporting it here at the Midas Touch Network. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 5 million subscribers.
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Here, Carney is again talking about Pierre Poliev. That's why I wanted to give our non-Canadian viewers and listeners the context of what's going on in Canada with recent polling and who Poliev is.
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Now, I want to go back and share with you more of that clip from Prime Minister Trudeau in his speech about the likely tariffs that Trump has said he will impose on Canada. But first, I got to play a Canadian member of Parliament, Charlie Angus, a good friend of mine now. Here's what Charlie Angus had to say to me when I spoke to him recently to play this clip.
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A powerful speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and a powerful response in general by Canada to the bullying and despicable behavior by Donald Trump and his administration now leading the United States of America. As you heard, Prime Minister Trudeau say that Canada will strike back hard.
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Yeah, Charlie Angus does not mince words. Now, here's the full speech, about a minute, 30 seconds or so, of Prime Minister Trudeau when he talks about these tariffs that Trump now says he's threatening again. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah, you know, I think that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been, I think, pitch perfect since Donald Trump had been threatening Canada. I think Prime Minister Trudeau has been someone rallying all Canadians and inspiring Canadian pride. Let's go back right now to Charlie Angus. a Canadian member of parliament from the NDP. Here's what he has to say. Let's play it.
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If Donald Trump does implement these tariffs that he's saying will be implemented on March 4th after making that fake deal 30 days ago. I wanted to share this clip with you as well. This is Mark Carney, who many expect will be the next leader of the Liberal Party and many expect will be the prime minister and will.
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Now, while all of this is going on, you have a powerful boycott. taking place in Canada, of all things, United States of America, a boycott of travel to the United States, which I know is wreaking havoc on our tourism industry here in the United States.
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I know some of that data has been percolating, but I think I have a stronger sense of how damaging that is based on a lot of the research I've been doing and my communications with both Canadians and American companies involved in tourism. The boycott also of all American products. Newsweek's reporting U.S. companies could take a hit from the buy Canadian boycott. Here's what it says.
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According to the office of the U.S. trade representative, the United States exported $34.9 billion in goods to Canada in 2024, making Canada its largest export market. Let me be clear, Canada's the largest export market of these goods from the United States. Should the boycott of American products in the country gain significant momentum, it could harm U.S.
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potentially go on, I think, to defeat the Conservative Party coalition in an upcoming elections. The Conservative Party under Pierre Poliev had previously been polling ahead of Prime Minister Trudeau's led Liberal Party. But given the fact that Pierre Poliev is maple MAGA and they've been sucking up to Donald Trump, the Conservative Party in Canada has been
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producers economically and potentially prompt a reconsideration of the new administration's aggressive approach towards its main trading partner. Now, Some of the data we have as well is that I think it was like 85% of Canadians. Let me repeat that. 85% of Canadians say that they are readjusting their purchasing habits to not buy American.
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So if that holds and 85% of Canadians are participating in this boycott, not just readjusting their purchasing habits to not buy American. Do 80% of $349 billion and you'll see the devastation that could be caused to the American economy right then and there. And then you hear individual stories just like this from The Guardian. This is a Canadian pizza shop.
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And when you hear just stories like this, think about this extrapolated at large. I decided I was done. Canada pizzeria boycotts U.S. ingredients in tariff dispute. Graham's pizza owner and chef is boycotting U.S. products after Trump threatened to add 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods.
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Canada Sticks the Dagger in Trump After His Meltdown
Tucked away in a former garage space in Toronto's West End, Graham's Pizza is usually packed with diners hankering for anything from classic pepperoni to vodka and Hawaiian pizza. Sounds pretty good. Lately, however, owner and chef Graham Palmeter has made some changes on how he makes his pizzas. After Donald Trump threatened to slap 25% tariffs on Canadian goods,
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and even to annex the whole country, Paul Meter decided to banish U.S. ingredients from his restaurant. Quote, I just decided I'm done with the U.S. I wanted to move away from American companies. Canadians know Americans pretty well, and we don't always agree with the choices that they make. A lot of us are disappointed, to put it mildly.
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Making the switch has not been the easiest task, he says, but they are making it work. Look at that pizza. It looks pretty, pretty good right there. By the way, this is a previous story we did back in early February that the Canadian travel boycott of U.S. could cost two point one billion dollars to the U.S. Travel Association. The U.S.
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Travel Association warns to our tourism industry if just 10 percent. of Canadians reduce their tourism purchasing in the United States. And so I think it's going to be far more than 10%. So I think that number will actually be much higher. Canadian soccer coach blasts Trump's ridiculous comments on nation becoming the 51st state.
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Trump reiterated his desire this week for the United States to annex Canada. And to his credit, the American coach, Jesse Marsh, of the Canadian men's national soccer team in Canada blasted Donald Trump on Wednesday amid icy geopolitical tensions. Donald Trump also humiliated the United States in the Oval Office earlier in the week, of course.
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with his attack on Zelensky and, of course, Prime Minister Trudeau in Canada, which also houses one of the largest Ukrainian community in the world outside of Ukraine, was strongly in defense of President Zelensky and democracies across the world, unlike the United States under Donald Trump. Because here's what Donald Trump was saying with his red hat outside. Play this clip.
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And then, of course, here was Donald Trump bashing Canada, saying that if we don't support Canada, they can't exist. Let's play it.
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tanking and a liberal party with Mark Carney potentially as its next leader will be likely to form a government in the next elections. Here's what Carney has to say. Let's play it. But let me start by being clear.
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Trump Runs to Golf and Gets Booed Everywhere
That was in Texas's third congressional district. You don't get much more ruby red than Texas's third. The MAGA Republican Congress member getting booed right there for his and Donald Trump and Elon Musk and all the other MAGA Republicans actions. It's Congress member Keith Self. It's basically like a plus 30 Trump Republican district in Texas's third.
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Donald Trump said that on Monday he will reinstate or put in place, who even knows with him, the tariffs that he threatened 30 days ago to try to inflict. financial devastation, like our closest ally, a country that is literally our top trading partner. So of course, the people are going to boo.
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And in Canada, they are currently boycotting pretty much all things American, boycotting American tourism. We stand in solidarity with you, Canada. The Midas Touch podcast is the number one podcast in all of Canada. So while that booing is taking place, what is... the United States under the Trump regime, which has joined the access of evil with Russia, North Korea, Belarus, Hungary.
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What are they doing? The White House is posting images like this, this photo of JD Van sitting on his girlfriend, a couch. And the White House account says, Have you said the White House account goes, have you said thank you once? And they're bragging that J.D. Vance was attacking President Zelensky of Ukraine in the Oval Office meeting. And he said, have you ever said thank you?
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Say thank you to me right now. And it's like President Zelensky said thank you repeatedly. to the people of the United States of America, even though he shouldn't say thank you to Donald Trump in advance. He said thank you repeatedly. All President Zelensky said that he was not willing to say is that Putin is a good guy because Putin is killing Ukrainians en masse and unlawfully invaded Ukraine.
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Trump Runs to Golf and Gets Booed Everywhere
So while Trump and Republicans are getting booed, what's Donald Trump doing? It's weekend at Bernie's. It's a vacation time for Donald Trump. As the Patriot Takes account goes, Trump is working hard to lower grocery prices by golfing and reposting Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, this is what homeschooling looks like in Georgia's 14th. Gulf of America, America, yeah.
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And it's a map where I guess somebody put America over Gulf of Mexico. Right-wing propaganda right now in America, state regime-run media, they're trying to desperately cover up for Donald Trump because they know the American people are pissed. They thought the American people were stupid. They figured they elected Donald Trump, so maybe American people wouldn't realize that the Trump GOP budget
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Gets rid of Medicaid, basically, of what, $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, close to $400 billion in cuts to education, close to $300 billion in cuts to farmers, over $10 billion in cuts to infrastructure. But the billionaires get $4.5 trillion. trillion, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. And so here's Fox trying to really try really hard with its propaganda saying, look,
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Trump needs a Nobel Peace Prize. What he did in the Oval Office merits Nobel Peace Prize. They're so pathetic here. Watch this for yourself. Luxembourg doesn't have the weapons to give them.
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Let me just show you another angle so you have a full kind of scale of the crowd that assembled at Keith Self's town hall as he was mercilessly booed, but as other MAGA Republicans across the country were mercilessly booed. Here, play this clip.
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And he was giving Zelensky. And then you have the right-wing clown, no offense to clown propagandists, because not all clowns are propagandists. These are the clown propagandists, like Benny Johnson going, President Trump at Mar-a-Lago on the phone, working. He's an absolute machine. Fire emoji.
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It's like these right wing influencers who went to the White House on Friday and they were handed like a binder and the binder said Epstein files. And so Trump's trying to cover up not turning over the Epstein files because we know from what's already been released. I mean, Trump's name based on what was released in 2021. I mean, Trump's name is on the flight log. Trump's name is on the call log.
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Trump's name. his indepositions. I mean, Trump was close friends with Epstein, said Epstein was a great guy who likes women on the younger side. Anyway, they gave the right-wing influencers, if you want to call them that, who showed up at the White House, a binder that said, transparency, the Epstein files, except it wasn't the Epstein files.
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And then the right-wing influencers were like, oh yeah, we got it. I mean, how horrific that you're like dancing around with A call log from 2021, which is not the files. When we're talking about someone who trafficked children, I mean, there's sick people dancing with this with these files. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Another day, another airplane is on fire in the United States of America.
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That happened yesterday. Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham looking miserable. The new FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, I don't even know why he posted this yesterday, which was March, which was March 1st. He posted this yesterday. Today is March 2nd. And Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Yesterday was literally March 1st when he posted that.
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And he may want to look because the last day in February, right before March 1st, that's the way it works, February then March, the Atlanta Federal Reserve predicted negative 1.5% GDP growth. when it was supposed to be under former President Biden, somewhere close to 3%. Take a look at all the papers worldwide condemning Donald Trump. In addition, Trump has lost the Daily Mail.
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When you lose the Daily Mail, yeah, you're a global pariah as Anonymous writes. Trump on Friday presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history, a spectacle to horrify the world. But you know, I guess that's the art of the deal. It's four-dimensional chess, everybody. I'll show you this. Federal workers at a Virginia town hall at the end of last week.
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Here is what they want to say. Play this clip.
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Did you hear that? They said, you know, Musk and Trump, their goal is to make us miserable. Right. So whether we're talking about the ruby red Texas third or you go into Virginia, which is purplish, People are pissed and they should be. I mean, take a look at this headline from CNN on Friday. Markets wrap rough month driven by extreme fear. U.S. stock seesawed Friday.
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But all three major indexes closed the month in the red, a sign of increasing unease in the markets. Volatility gripped markets as traders closed out a dismal February that wiped out some games. Quote, extreme fear was the sentiment driving the markets on Friday and for the fourth day in a row, according to CNN's Fear and Greed Index.
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And then it goes on to say the VIX Wall Street's fear gauge popped to its highest level this year. In the afternoon, it said while trading markets recouped losses, U.S. markets sputtered in February and slid this week. Quote, we believe there is a valid concern in the markets right now. And so all this is going on. What is Elon Musk talking about? So Joe Rogan.
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Losing to us in the podcast ratings. And I know it's getting to him. I've heard how much it's getting to him. So he needs better ratings. So he brings on Elon Musk because he thinks that's going to get him better ratings than us. He wants to be number one podcast again. So you have Elon Musk and Rogan like just launders the oligarchs and tries to make them cool.
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But I think everybody knows that Rogan is just an oligarch launderer at this point. So here you have Elon Musk with Rogan saying that Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time. Let's be clear. Not only are they going after your Medicaid in the budget. I want you to hear it for yourself. They're going after your Social Security. And what do we know?
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Now, I'll do a whole other video on all of these other MAGA Republican Congress members getting booed at the recent town halls they held. But let's go up north, shall we, to Toronto, where the WWE held an event. And during the singing of the national anthem, guess what you heard? More boos. Here, play this clip. And folks, Canada is pissed. I mean, Donald Trump continues to threaten annexation.
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One of the ways they're doing this, I think they're set to fire 6,000 to 7,000 people who work at the Social Security Administration, which is going to basically make it very difficult for you to even get your Social Security check. Then there's going to be chaos. And then I think they're going to stop paying it. I mean, let's just... I'm not trying to fearmonger.
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Just listen to Elon Musk, who's running the government, right? I'm coming with a receipt. This guy we know is running the government for reasons that are still unclear to us all. We know that Trump and Elon are refusing FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act, saying that he's entitled to Executive Immunity, Presidential Records Act, and he's in the executive branch, so he won't testify.
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But he goes on Rogan. Here's what he says. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah, well, you can tell me better than anybody.
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So, yeah, I don't think I'm fear mongering when I'm playing you the clip of ultimately what he is saying. Take a look at what the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote about Trump's meeting with Zelensky. It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump's allies defending this debacle as somehow a show of American strength. And that's why, by the way, when J.D.
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Vance went to Vermont for a vacation, they were all vacation. All these guys just a vacation. He was greeted with booze. Play this clip from Fox.
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Here are some of the signs. Vance is a traitor. Go ski in Russia. Goodbye, free world. Traitor Trump loves Russia. Our friend Adam Kinzinger, former Congress member, posted this photo right here. The Trump-Zelensky meeting. Sometimes political cartoons sum it all up. Great work to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Mr. Bennett posting it. Great work.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
And I think people are realizing that this tax cut is a scam that's just going to be helping the billionaires and screwing over working people. Well, all of that's happening. You've got like Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that these federal jobs that are being cut are not even real jobs and the people who are losing their jobs deserve it. Here, let's play this clip.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
Wow, let's bring in Democratic Congress member Suhas Subramaniam. Congress member, first off, welcome to the Midas Touch Network, your first time appearing. You are a Congress member from Virginia's 10th. What do you make of that? I know your district is being impacted by these cuts.
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You know, I'm hearing that Republican leadership all the way up to MAGA Mike Johnson and Trump are telling the members of Congress, the Republicans, to stop doing their town halls because it was so humiliating what happened.
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Then MAGA Mike Johnson went on CNN about a night ago, and he was saying, you know, all of those people that you're seeing in these ruby red districts, he's like, they're not real people. This is all fake. Don't believe your eyes. Let me just show you a bit of what he said, then get your reaction to that. Let's play it.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
Earlier this morning, we got some troubling news that jobless claims in America are spiking worse than expected. There were an estimated 242,000 jobless claims that were filed last week. This exceeded the expectations above most economists. And We're hearing now from Democratic voters, Republican voters, independent voters, people who aren't even all that political, just how pissed they are.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
I'll give you a little trip down memory lane, although not so long ago. When you were running for the 10th Congressional District, you did an interview from WUSA 9, and they were saying things about the economy then. And we're not talking about years ago. We're talking about months ago. This was the interview. This is how they were describing the economy then. Here, play this clip.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
So that's where it was then. I just wanted to show that because in a matter of months... This guy has like taken a sledgehammer. Trump's taken a sledgehammer to this economy and I think has destroyed it quicker than most people expected. I mean, prices are surging right now and he can try to distract with all of the posts that he's making, but the data is the data.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
Now, this is the first year that you've been in Congress. What I hear from the American people, they don't like process answers of we can't do things simply because we're in the minority and we can't hold the hearings. I think people are looking for fighters right now who are going to stand up because people are pissed. Now, you've been a very outspoken freshman member of Congress.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
And we're learning about a lot of stories from people who were former Trump supporters as well, who are regretting their votes. We're seeing in ruby red districts as well, these red state voters showing up and saying, this is not what I voted for. You promised this, you promised that. None of the promises are happening anymore. And in fact, prices are surging. I mean, you've got posts like this.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
You haven't hesitated to call out Trump and Musk in no uncertain terms. You've been utilizing all digital platforms as, you know, being innovative in Congress. So the question I always get asked is, all of this is great, Ben. You know, Congress member Subramaniam is great. What can we do? What do you want us to do? Where do you want us to go?
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
Help help lead us, because I think this is a time where people just want to say, please help us and please tell us where we're ready to do what you want us to do to stand up to a lot of these atrocities taking place.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
Congressman Suha Subramaniam. Great to have you on the show. We hope you come back soon. And, you know, I'm glad you just said, hey, we're we're ready to protest and we're ready to be by, you know, you're ready to be by the people's side when that happens. It is happening now. We're seeing it grow. Absolutely. Thank you so much. Everybody hit subscribe.
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Let's get to 5 million subscribers and have a great day.
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam on Trump Fallout
The Let's Go Brandon store has its, they lost their lease. You have people posting on the various right-wing subreddits and social media chats saying that they're losing their jobs right now. A lot of people on Trump's social media platform responding to that bizarre post that he made about Trump, Gaza. And they were like, what the hell are you even doing?
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
He puts that in caps. both with regard to trade, crime and poisonous drugs. He puts all of that in caps that are allowed to so freely flow into America. Those days are over. That's in caps. The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico and China and almost all countries. Exclamation point owes thirty six trillion dollars. And we're not going to be the, quote, stupid country any longer because
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this is in caps make your product in the usa and there are no tariffs why should the united states lose trillions of dollars in subsidizing other countries he puts that in caps and why should these other countries pay a small fraction of the cost of what usa citizens pay for drugs and pharmaceuticals as an example question mark now he puts all of this in caps
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This will be the golden age of America, exclamation point. Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe and maybe not. But we will make America great again and it will all be worth the price that must be paid. We are a country that is now being run with common sense and the results will be spectacular exclamation point exclamation point folks.
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We are now being run by a psychopath frankly a wannabe authoritarian someone who's behaving like an authoritarian right now who is creating an authoritarian regime. in the United States of America as spineless Republicans refuse to stand up to him as our spineless media here in the United States refuses to stand up to him. That post right there, one of the most psychotic posts I have ever read.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
But then I read the next post that he made on Sunday morning as well. Here's what he writes. We pay hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize Canada and subsidizes in caps. Why? There is no reason. We don't need anything they have. We have unlimited energy, should make our own cars, and have more lumber than we can ever use.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable country, harsh but true. Therefore, Canada should become our cherished 51st state, much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
and no tariffs exclamation point folks despite the fact and everything that Donald Trump said is utterly false notwithstanding all of the fact that it's lie after lie after lie take a look at the language when he uses language like Canada ceases to exist as a viable country harsh but true it should become the 51st state and then no tariffs This is not a joke.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Donald Trump is using the language of conquest, of warfare. These are fighting words that he is saying. And I know Canada is a peace-loving nation and Canada was our biggest ally. Canada, we here in the United States respect and love Canada. We have this madman psycho that 49% of the voting votes people in our country chose. This is embarrassing. This is humiliating.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
I have disturbing news to report this morning about the tariffs that Donald Trump has imposed on Canada and Mexico starting a trade war. Donald Trump has made two posts on Sunday morning regarding the tariffs. In one post, Donald Trump said that there will be pain in America, yes, Maybe not, but it will be worth the price that will have to be paid by Americans in the form of suffering, he says.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
There's nothing funny about statements like this. By the way, remember our reporting back on October 29th, 2024, before the election? Here's what we reported at MidasPlus.com. Trump ally Elon Musk warns of a necessary economic collapse if Trump is elected. Musk says everyday Americans must embrace the pain if Trump gets back into the Oval Office.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
This was a story that we wrote with many stories that we wrote trying to warn the American people. here's what elon musk posted he reposted this account flasher king who said the following if trump succeeds in forcing through mass deportations combined with elon hacking away at the government firing people and reducing the deficit there will be an initial severe overreaction in the economy.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
This economy is propped up with debt generating asset bubbles and artificially suppressed wages as a result of illegal immigration. Markets will tumble. And then this person goes, but when the storm passes, you're going to love it. After we inflict the pain, abuse you, break you down. you're going to love it. And Elon Musk's response then was, sounds about right.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Also, there's a bunch of other audio clips we played of Elon Musk saying that there needs to be economic hardship. Here, I'll play it. I'll show you another example so you hear it in his own words. That there will be short-term economic hardship that he wants to inflict on we the people.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
But by the way, as we pointed out in that article back from October of 2024, we wrote, Meanwhile, under the Biden-Harris administration, the U.S. economy has seen record growth. This month, the Economist called the U.S. economy the envy of the world amid historic growth, low unemployment, and the lowest inflation of any nation in the G7.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
The major stock market indices continue to hit record highs on a nearly daily basis. Yet Trump and Musk want to replace this prosperity with pain. By the way, not just them, the oligarchs, all of the other oligarchs as well, who wanted to inflict this pain, the corporate leaders who sold us out, the Republican politicians who sold the United States of America out.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
And now what we're learning too is that Donald Trump's buddies, the oligarchs, A new Goldman Sachs assessment of shorting stocks shows this, that there are all these oligarchs right now who are betting on an economic collapse. They're shorting our market. Their whole plan was to short the market, destroy our lives and then try to buy the dip. That was their game plan. Horrific.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Charlie Angus, a member of parliament in Canada, says the following message to the grifter king from Canada. And it's a quote from Winston Churchill. We will have no parlay with you or the grizzly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best. We do not expect to hit without being hit back. And we intend with every week that passes to hit harder.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Charlie Angus also says Canada is ready. We will fight. I thank the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, for his powerful statement in response to the thuggish attacks by Trump. We are unified as a nation. Our American cousins are divided. We will kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Prime Minister Trudeau from yesterday saying, look, Canadians are a little bit complex why our closest neighbors would do this to us. Here, play this clip.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Here's Prime Minister Trudeau as well announcing the 25% retaliatory tariffs last night, let's play it. Tonight,
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
And then second, Donald Trump says that the tariffs will remain in place until Canada is annexed and becomes the 51st state of the United States of America. So for anyone who thought, oh, he's just saying that he's just joking. No, he's trying to impose economic warfare on
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
And here Prime Minister Trudeau talks about how this problem is going to impact Americans as well. And Americans will feel pain. Here, play this clip.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
I like this post right here. So what's Trump's economic strategy? Threaten 25% tariffs on America's closest allies. impose them without any negotiation. Remember, Donald Trump refused to take Prime Minister Trudeau's phone calls over the past several weeks. Three, receive retaliatory tariffs back, get really angry and then increase the tariffs more and then threaten actual war.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Here is Mark Carney, many believe is one of the frontrunners to be the next prime minister of Canada. Here he says, Trump thinks we're pushovers. He doesn't know Canadians. Here, play this clip.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
on our once closest ally, Canada, to make them submit so that he can try to annex it the way Putin annexes countries or goes to war with them. Let me just read for you Donald Trump's posts, and I have an important message at the end of this video about what we can do. I was asked a question last night at dinner. What can I do, Ben? I want to share it with you. Here's Donald Trump's post.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Folks, and while all of this is going on, you have Donald Trump's various cabinet picks going on weekend shows and cosplaying in their, like, Halloween outfits, their positions. It's so embarrassing. I'll give you an example. Kristi Noem, Donald Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security,
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refuses now to rule out detaining women and children at a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay as part of their deportation sweep. They're open to putting women and children in concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Let's just be very clear what that is. Here she is in her little cosplay outfits. This weekend, she dressed as a cosplay cowboy.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
She was cosplay ranger, and then she was cosplay police ice officer. So utterly embarrassing there. Final point I want to make, this is what I was asked. I was asked, Ben, what can I do? At dinner, I said, the first thing you can do is a simple, small thing. Do not normalize this. When Trump makes posts like that now from that office, this is not funny. This is not humorous.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
It pisses me off to no end that corporate media is treating that like, you know, it's just Trump being Trump. Right now, unfortunately, he is... the running this country. We have a psychotic individual, a demented individual, a dictator running the United States. You just have to use that language.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
The way those messages are being perceived right now in Canada, in Europe, in Mexico, and across the world that I just read for you, that's fight language. That's the language where militaries are going to get involved. Wasn't Donald Trump supposed to create peace in Ukraine in 24 hours? But now he's bringing the world closer to the brink of a World War III and with our closest allies against us?
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Let me say this to the international community as well. There are tens of millions of Americans who do not support that. And there are tens of millions of Americans who are ready to fight with you against that. We don't support that one bit. Until they rip this microphone from my very hands, we are going to speak truth.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
What we're seeing in those posts with those statements and his psychotic, disgusting, despicable, foolish, dictatorial actions every day do not represent the views of so many millions of us Americans. It is horrific. It is the most vile thing imaginable. We stand in solidarity with you against that crap. We want peace. We don't want that crap. Others need to speak up.
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Trump has SUNDAY MELTDOWN as Canada STANDS UP
Corporate media needs to grow a spine. Republicans, you need to grow a freaking spine. Wake the hell up. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Please subscribe now. It's so critical we grow right now.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
State regime media known as Fox is growing more desperate by the minute as Donald Trump crashes, the economy crashes, the stock market as Donald Trump's approval plummets. Fox is crashing on air. They've got to distract. their viewers from the reality that Donald Trump is destroying everything. So what does state regime media do?
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Because all these magas are, seriously, he made up the voice. But anyway, here he is doing his fog hog, leghorn impression. And here he is saying, I've got a message for Musk. Maybe you do more press conferences.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
And then finally, right here, I want to share with you, this is what was going on on Fox Business, where they tried to build some conspiracy between NPR And Jeffrey Goldberg being invited by Pete Hegseth on the Signal chat by Mike Walls, the national security advisor. And somehow the NPR is involved in this. Play this clip.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Sorry, one more. Elon Musk, as part of that interview with Bret Baier, he does this thing where he goes, the administration, the regime, is going to go after you if you spread lies about Tesla. And he does, watch what he does with his fingers. He makes like a gun motion. Play this clip.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
That was a gun motion right there. Should be noted, Fox News as well, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who's facing scrutiny over his handling of details of the military strike, in other words, giving classified information. He brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed. We're learning that as well.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Stupid is as stupid does. Dangerous is as dangerous does. Dangerously stupid, the Trump regime, with their propaganda state regime media known as Fox. Hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
So utterly, utterly pathetic. And as the world... Turns against the United States and as Donald Trump's attempt to bully Canada and Mexico and Europe and Australia with tariffs is backfiring in Donald Trump's face as Canada said, we don't need. you anymore.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
And we're going to boycott you as Europe's creating its own defense initiative where they're going to be building their own weapons and not participating with the United States. And they've rallied to Zelensky's defense. America finds itself isolated, alone and weaker than ever. But state regime media known as Fox is They've got to spin this.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
They've got to give some narrative to their peeps watching it. So what has Jesse Water said? He goes, no friends. We don't need friends. Friends are for losers.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
That's the demented message coming out from Fox. We don't need friends. We're going to go extinct like the dinosaurs and there's a super secret scavenger hunt needed for the real JFK tape is what they're saying. This while other countries are engaging in serious business, like in Canada, where their prime minister, Mark Carney, says goodbye, United States.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
So I wanted to show you this right after showing you what Jesse Waters said. Here's the prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, saying our relationship with America is over. Done. That's special relationship. See you later. This is exactly how you meet the moment. Play this clip.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Well, they say, look, we're all going to go extinct like the dinosaurs. This is an extinction level event. If Americans don't start having more babies, have more babies. That's what they were talking about all day yesterday.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
I had to show you that after the ridiculous clownish buffoonery of Jesse Waters.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Ana Paulina Luna, speaking of clownish buffoonery, by the way, no offense to clowns, which is a legitimate profession as opposed to whatever the hell MAGA Republicans are doing. Ana Paulina Luna then goes on Jesse Waters and she's like, from what I gather... The people in Greenland really want to be part of the United States.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
When we talked, well, let me give you the facts, Anna Paulina Luna, if that's even really your name. She's one of these George Santos types that have like a bunch of names and like who even knows who she really is. She was like a swimsuit model turned MAGA influencer. And she would dress with like machine guns and bathing suits. And that's how she rose through the MAGA ranks.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Yeah, it's idiocracy in real manifestations, but Annapolina Luna, let me tell you the facts. It's like 90% of people in Greenland don't want anything to do with the United States. But what are numbers? What are percentages to MAGA? Here on Fox, you have one of their hosts, Sandra Smith. tried to spin that the fact that the markets are down about 5.5%. She goes, that's not a crash.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
That's not a big number. And at least to the credit of one of the people on these shows, he's like, I think that is kind of a big number. By the way, I think that is a big number. Play this clip.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Well, in addition to saying that Americans need to have more babies, what they were also talking about on Jesse Waters and on other Fox programming is that they've discovered, they said, a super serial secret video that they say shows the real killer of JFK. But they got to find it. So they're going to do a scavenger hunt, everybody.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
They're saying, oh, if your 401k is decreased by 5.5% or more, a lot of people's 401k's retirements have decreased by a lot more than that as well, but that's not a big deal. Really? Because I seem to recall when former President Biden was in office and we would get like record breaking good numbers. Another jobs report out and the jobs exceeded expectations.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Another day, the Dow Jones and the S&P and the Nasdaq close at record high. Remember when those would be the way Fox would sign off and then people like Larry Kudlow or the Sandra Smiths, they'd be like, but this did not meet the targets. This was still below what we expect. Dear leader, Donald Trump will make it go much higher. Remember when they were trying to spin that crap?
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
When things were going good and now when things are decreasing, that's not that bad. That's where you're going with it. That's not that bad. I know it's nice for you as a Fox host living in your mansions and doing all the rich people things. But, you know, you really are destroying people's lives. You may want to actually speak to human beings. Maybe try that.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
By the way, here was the moment that Fox signed off after the markets closed. And here was the handoff to the Larry Kudlow show. Larry Kudlow runs one of the top Fox business shows. He used to work in the Trump administration and the first administration play this clip.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Going back to what Fox is messaging, they've had Elon Musk and given him this massive, like, full hour or two day interview with brett bear and here elon musk is asked what's the biggest thing that keeps you up at night he like pauses for 20 seconds and then he says the birth rate more babies are needed play this clip finally what's the biggest thing for you that keeps you up at night
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Then bring in Alina Haba, who was Donald Trump's very special advisor, who Donald Trump has now appointed as the interim United States attorney, the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, even though she's like one of the worst lawyers ever. She'd like lost all of Trump's cases, was sanctioned over a million dollars.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Woohoo, a scavenger hunt while they just deal with this ghoulish behavior and try to just spew a bunch of nonsense. Anna Paulina Luna, the MAGA Republican from Florida, is spending her time on this as the MAGA Republicans, Trump and Elon Musk, are going after our Social Security, our Medicaid, dismantling unions, and engaging in a hostile takeover of our government. Play this clip.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Donald Trump picked her to be the interim leader of all federal prosecutors in Jersey. And here she goes, look, the bottom line is that Trump's approval is at all time highs right now. Play this clip.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
It's literally at basically all time lows. Like he couldn't be doing a worse job. He couldn't be more despised. I think actually he could. He will be more despised and hated. But he's pretty freaking despised and hated right now and his approval is plummeting. And you just go on state regime media, right, like pink dress lady from North Korea, and you just spew this nonsense.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Speaking of spewing nonsense, here you have MAGA Republican Representative Wesley Hunt, again pushing the lie that Greenland wants to be part of the USA. Play this clip.
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Fox News Crashes on Live TV as Trump Loses All Control
Then you've got MAGA Republican Senator John Kennedy, not to be confused with what Anapolina Luna is doing. This is a guy who he like created this fake accent to. This is go back and watch videos of this MAGA Republican senator from Louisiana. He never used to talk like this. He never talked like he like made that voice as part of his shtick.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
The reverberations of Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Doge wrecking ball to the United States of America is being felt in pissed off voters. We reported before what went down earlier this week, a political earthquake in Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, which didn't go Democrat since 1889. A Democratic Senate seat there flipped.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
I mean, you've got Trump supporters who may be Cuban or Venezuelan who are now having their family members targeted. We're seeing stories like this in Florida.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
Then, of course, you have Donald Trump attacking Social Security, shutting down Social Security administration offices throughout the country, attacking Social Security, Medicaid, attacking veterans in Florida and elsewhere. And then you've got Elon Musk saying it's a Ponzi scheme. That's why we're going after it. It's a Ponzi scheme.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
to Democrat, a candidate named James Malone became the state senator there. We're seeing Donald Trump withdraw the nomination of Elise Stefanik in a plus 21 Trump district in New York after Trump's pollster Fabrizio, Trump's guy, started showing Donald Trump all of this data, both what's going on in New York,
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
Let's bring in that candidate for Florida's 6th Congressional District, Josh Wheel. Josh, we had you on earlier in the week before the news of the Fabrizio poll. The Trump's pollster shows you're running ahead. I don't want that to make voters think they don't need to get out, so I'm somewhat reluctant to even... Talk about it. But what do you make of this news?
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
Clearly, you're one of the reasons why he pulled Stefanik's nomination and why they're freaking out right now. What do you make of all this, Josh?
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
So when you and I talked a few days ago earlier in the week, you were analyzing the data, letting us know what you saw, setting aside that Fabrizio Trump polling as we now head into the weekend and we head towards that special election on April 1st next Tuesday. What are you seeing right now as we head into the weekend?
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
So what do we do now? What do you do now? What do the people do now? What do you want to see happen from now until April 1st? What's, you know, what's the closing message look like?
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
And of course, what's going on in Florida, where Fabrizio, again, Trump's pollster in the sixth congressional district in Florida, has the Democratic candidate, Josh Wheel, up by anywhere between three, four, or even more. In what used to be viewed as a plus 30, plus 35 Trump district, the leaker himself, Mike Walls, now the National Security Advisor, used to hold the congressional seat there.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
I grew up in Long Island, and so a lot of my friends' parents now live in Florida, live in the congressional district you're running in. Side topic, what part of Long Island? Nassau County.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
You're right there. Stony Brook's got a great university, great research center, which Donald Trump is absolutely gutting and wrecking right now. The incredible work that they're doing at Stony Brook University. We're probably around the same age. You may be a little younger than me. I don't know. How old are you? Forty. We're exactly the same age. And you and you grew up in Stony Brook.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
We may play soccer.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
So one of the big trips we took on Long Island was Stony Brook University. We'd go to the research center, and it's sad to see all of that being gutted. Tom Swasey from the 3rd Congressional District is the member of Congress there.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
You know, he's great, and he's been getting standing ovations in a plus-five Trump district, standing up against Trump's coddling of Putin, and I showed a lot of clips there. What I want to talk about as well is, though, a lot of people, though, moving to Florida— They want to enjoy their retirement right now.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
They've worked hard for their life savings and their retirement to have the peace of mind. Social security they paid into is going to be there. Their health care is going to be there. And what they're seeing now, you know, is every day if they're watching Fox and you've got a lot of people in your district to watch Fox, they're seeing this.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
That's what Randy Fine and Trump are doing. And you want to fight for the voters. I'll let you tell them yourself.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
Well, we'll be following your race. The election is on April 1st. What do you want people to know about where they can find more information about you from now until election day?
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
There you have it, Josh Wheel running for Florida's sixth congressional district. Everybody hit subscribe and let's get to five million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.
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Dem Candidate for Florida Special Election Surges (Josh Weil Interview)
So this is a vacant seat right now. You have the Democratic candidate, Josh Wheel, running against a MAGA Republican, Doge candidate, Randy Fine. And Josh Wheel's got momentum. He said, watch what I was doing a few months ago, and he's got momentum. People throughout Florida are absolutely pissed. It's no different in the sixth and people are pissed for a lot of different reasons.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Donald Trump's announcement of tariffs on automobiles has absolutely pissed off the entire world, including Japan. Japan now says every option is on the table against Trump's 25% car tariffs. Japan's government warned on Thursday of a significant impact on its economic relations with the United States and on the global economy because of tariffs announced by Donald Trump.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Finally, what should Democrats do? I mean, if you were in leadership.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
You make those deals, by the way, in your previous administration. By the way, the Washington Post headline is Japan, a car-making giant mulls appropriate response to Trump tariffs, and they are thinking how they are going to retaliate. Why don't we call in the former ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, also former mayor of Chicago, also former chief of staff to former President Obama.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, thank you for joining us. First time on the Midas Touch Network, and I think we covered it all in 20 minutes, but we got to get you back on soon. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Ambassador, what do you make of all of this? I mean, you know U.S.-Japanese relations better than anybody. What do you
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
So, Ambassador, as you see it, is Donald Trump just going around, let me attack Canada, then let me go after the European Union, then let me go after Japan. Let's try to destroy all one, the economic relations of the United States, as in two, all geopolitical security.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Quote, we believe that the current measures and other broad-based trade restrictions by the U.S. government could have a significant impact on the economic relationship between Japan and the U.S., as well as on the global economy and the multilateral trading system, a spokesperson for the government said. Also, now as you're watching Japanese TV news programs,
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
and other national security concerns as well from donald from donald trump saying things like uh maybe we'll give degraded versions of the f-35s to uh allies because they may not be allies to of course signal gain and while i got you on the show i gotta get one thing can i do one thing i don't mean to interrupt but having been a person on the ground helped create the trilateral between the united states japan and korea
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Speak to that because you negotiated it. Speak to that because people, I talk about it on the show a lot, how China's moving in and filling the void, both in terms of BRICS and also reaching out outside of BRICS with people and with countries that formerly allied with the U.S.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
certainly a pivot from how they were previously covering the United States and how they're dealing with U.S.-Japanese relations, which seems to be entering into a period now of instability due to Trump and Musk. Here, the commentators suggest that Japan, like Europe, needs to think about a foreign policy that does not rely on the U.S.
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
I gotta ask you about Signalgate. Of course, you are a former chief of staff to former President Obama. What do you make of all of this and what would have happened? Well, that would never have happened with you there, but what do you make of it?
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Interview with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
What do you make of the cover-up where now they're saying there's nothing on there that was classified? This is normally what happens. No classified information. You've seen classified information. You can say with 100% certainty that was classified, right?
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And of course, this is all happening as there is a coalition of the willing meeting in France with Emmanuel Macron and other leaders standing up with Ukraine. Then earlier this month, Donald Trump made the following aggressive statement towards Japan. Let's play this clip.
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Got to ask you about your thoughts on this Doge, Elon Musk, wrecking ball to the federal government, attacking veterans. What do you make of it?
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World leaders are standing up to Donald Trump and making a powerful statement. Donald Trump looking weaker than ever. Earlier this week, you had Ukraine meet with European world leaders in a coalition of the willing meeting called by French President Emmanuel Macron. in France arising out of that meeting. Solidarity between Ukraine and European leaders, as well as Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
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Well, they didn't actually leave the military base. So here, though, is J.D. and Usha Vance pretending to wave to absolutely nobody in Greenland since nobody wants them there. The crowd goes wild. Sarcastically here, play this clip. Now, I want to share this with you as well.
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Conservative member of parliament who's also chairing one of the key defense committees in Denmark, Rasmus Jarlav, he went on CNN and he explained why it is that when America attacks Germany, Greenland and attacks its sovereignty, why this needs to be taken so seriously. This is a Denmark conservative member of parliament here, play this clip.
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And then finally, here is JD Vance from his Greenland bizarre press conference where he attacks Denmark. Let's play.
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As Jay and Keeve writes, Putin basically had Trump design the new mineral deal so that it keeps Ukraine in debt, broke and out of the EU while the U.S. offers no assistance. Well, Europe was not letting that happen. whether it was French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, or others.
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A coalition of the willing uniting and saying, we've got your back, Ukraine. Zelensky posted the following this week. During the leaders meeting in France on support for Ukraine, I emphasize that the war is still ongoing and it's only happening because of Russia, whose position is simple. Keep the war going, keep attacking and delay diplomacy. Zelensky is right.
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Ukraine has agreed to an unconditional full ceasefire. Putin has not. In fact, I'll show you in a little bit what Putin is saying. Putin wants to ramp up his attacks on Ukraine, especially targeting civilians. I'm going to show you Putin saying it in his own words. Donald Trump clearly unable to have any positive impact on negotiations.
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In fact, making matters much worse and basically just amplifying what Putin wants to say. But let me share with you what came out of this powerful meeting between the Coalition of the Willing in Europe and Zelensky. Here is French President Emmanuel Macron from this meeting. Let's play it.
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Here's another clip. By the way, I translated what he said in AI. That's not actually his voice. It's an AI rendition of his voice. So you can hear what he said to our French audience. Sorry that you heard that, but I want our English speaking audience to hear what he said.
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Here's what the Kyiv Independent is reporting. Ukraine won't sign a minerals deal with the US if it threatens EU membership, Zelensky says. Zelensky knows he has real, true, reliable friends. in Europe, Canada, Australia, and not in the United States. Ukraine will not sign a mineral deal with the U.S. if it threatens its ascension to the European Union, Zelensky said earlier this week.
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Here's French President Emmanuel Macron also saying, look, we're going to commit troops and forces also in any peace deal to provide security guarantees for Ukraine. We're not going to trust Russia. We know that they want to take over Europe. Next play this clip.
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Let me show you what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had to say, and he makes it clear. As we've always been saying, Ukraine wants peace. They've agreed. No conditions, ceasefire, we're ready to go. On the other hand, Putin says... We'll do no ceasefire, or maybe we'll do a ceasefire where we just don't attack energy infrastructure. And then what does Putin and Russia do?
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Attack energy infrastructure while Ukraine goes along with a ceasefire. So it's more of the same when it comes to Putin. Here, play this clip of Prime Minister Starmer.
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And I guess you can say it was a one-two punch from Europe as well as from Canada when Prime Minister Carney made it very clear the relationship with the United States as we used to know it is done. You've disrespected us. We have moved on. This is what Prime Minister Carney said earlier this week as Trump slapped Canada and the rest of the world with 25% tariffs on auto. Play this clip.
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Zelensky's remarks came a day after details of a new alleged draft mineral agreement between Kyiv and Washington emerged. The Financial Times were the first to report on March 27 that the latest version of the agreement proposed by the U.S. includes terms that would grant Washington unprecedented control over Ukraine's natural resources through a joint investment fund.
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Now, one thing I want you to notice, though, is the tonal change of Donald Trump when you confront him, when you beat back on the bully. So remember, earlier in the week, Donald Trump said the following. If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale tariffs far larger than currently planned will be placed on them both.
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in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries ever had. In other words, I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down. But. The European house, the Canadian house is built of a very powerful stone. One might say built of powerful rare earth minerals that you Trump regime are never going to get your hands on.
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So after Europe stood up to Donald Trump, after you show strength to Donald Trump, because he's a little weak, pathetic weasel. What does Donald Trump do? He's like, oh, crap. Canada, Europe, they're strengthening their ties. They don't need us. I'm taking the United States economy and they're strengthening their economies. I thought this tariff thing was going to work.
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I thought if I huffed and I puffed, I'd blow their house down or they would be scared of me. No, Donald, everyone knows you're a weak, pathetic loser. Then Donald Trump posts the following. I just finished speaking. This was later in the week. I just finished speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada. It was an extremely productive call.
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We agree on many things and we will be meeting immediately after Canada's upcoming election to work on elements of politics, business and all other factors that will end up being great for both the United States of America and Canada. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Explanation point in the typical form of an abuser.
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And I know Prime Minister Carney knows this and leaders across the world and in Canada. See how Donald Trump's abusive behavior works, right? Threats, threats, threats. Then you stand up to him and then he's like, oh, let's be friends. Let's be nice. Threats, threats, threats. You can never trust what he says. He is a cornered rat and behaves as such. By the way, no offense to cornered rats.
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So Putin sees Europe showing strength and pushing back against Trump. So what does Putin do? He knows that he's got to psychologically, you know, mess with Donald Trump now as well. So then Putin says the U.S. push for Greenland. is rooted in history and vows to uphold Russian interest in the Arctic.
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So Putin then is basically like, hey, Donald, remember when we agreed to spheres of influence and we're going to carve up the world? We're going to give you Greenland, big guy. Remember, we're going to give you Greenland. And by the way, J.D. Vance went to Greenland on a military base there in Greenland, and he did not leave the military base.
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One of the things we've always been saying here at the Midas Touch Network, Donald Trump's view of a deal with Putin was Donald Trump and Putin carving up Ukraine. Donald Trump wanted a sovereign wealth fund. He wants to steal Ukraine's rare earth minerals and then give the rest of Ukraine to Putin. Vladimir Putin, in my opinion, that's what's going on.
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By the way, while he was attacking Denmark, which Greenland is part of the kingdom of Denmark, because not a single Greenlander would invite J.D. Vance into their home. So while J.D. Vance was that was there, this is what Putin was saying. Then this is a video that Putin cut this week. And in this video, Putin says we want to listen. Doesn't exactly sound like someone who wants peace.
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He says we want to destroy Ukraine. We've withdrawn from negotiations, which they never were in the first place. We're preparing for a summer military campaign, and he believes he can significantly improve Russia's military position, not going to end the war. And his statement yesterday about how he will crush Ukraine and put it under external control.
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He literally said, we're going to crush Ukraine. So to be very, I just, I want to show you the raw videos so you can see for yourself. Zelensky wants peace. Putin wants war, blood, genocide, and wants to then take over Europe. Here, play this clip.
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As expected as well, a Stratcom center says, Russia has merely used the pretext of a ceasefire on energy infrastructure to further destroy Ukraine's energy networks while Ukraine stands down, abiding by the agreement. Every agreement to which Russians are a party is just another tool for their global terrorism. Oh, by the way, remember when I mentioned J.D. Vance and Usha Vance going to Greenland?
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Losing, losing, and losing again. That's how Donald Trump spent the past day. Frankly, that's how he's spending every day. Also, he's spending his time crashing our economy and crashing our markets. Let me explain what went down. Oh, and by the way, Donald, when are you going to release those Epstein files? Don't think that we forgot about that. Let me explain what went down.
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not gang members, no criminal history, not Trende Aragua, a gay hairstylist, a musician, a soccer coach, people like that who had like, one person had like autism awareness tattoo because their 15 year old like nephew had autism. One person had a Real Madrid tattoo, they were a soccer player, whatever it was, They were put in concentration camps in El Salvador by the Trump regime.
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But who's the Trump regime helping? People like this. Nikola founder Trevor Milton is granted a full pardon after he gave $1.8 million to Donald Trump while he was on appeal. He's the founder of a bankrupt electric and hydrogen-powered truck. Maker convicted of fraud.
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He was sentenced to four years in prison in 2023 after a jury found him guilty of lying to investors about the company's technology. By the way, his lawyer is Pam Bondi's brother. So he got released. He got a full pardon. Basically pay for play, it seems like. You give Donald Trump 1.8%. million and that's what you get.
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Also, remember we reported how when Donald Trump was in the Bronx, he gave a speech where he brought up on stage rappers like Sleepy Hollow and Chef G. Remember that? Well, one of those rappers pled guilty to being basically a gang member and involved in attempted murder. When Trump brought him on stage, there was already the charge for attempted murder and terrorizing New York.
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But that's who Donald Trump, that's how Donald Trump, who Donald Trump helps out, right? Donald Trump wanted to say, look, the black community supports because I have Sleepy Hollow and Chef G on stage. You see everybody? That is how Donald Trump and MAGA think about things. And we have to call it out. We have to expose this terrible, terrible behavior. We're calling out every day.
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Also losing internationally as well. You had J.D. Vance in Greenland where he was not welcomed by the Greenlanders. So he had to stick to a military base in Greenland where he was whining and complaining about this grievance. and that grievance from Greenland. About 90% of Greenlanders basically want nothing to do with the United States having any formal role or any role at all over Greenland.
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Greenlanders are pissed, and I think they are seeing how Canada has resisted, and now I think the whole world, including Europe, has seen how Canada resisted. An incredible meeting in Europe earlier this week as well called by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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the coalition of the willing in France, democracies in Europe, other countries in Europe, Canada, Australia, and others supporting President Zelensky as Donald Trump is spending his time basically getting Cheetos painted on his face at this point. I mean, I'm exaggerating, and this is an AI image of J.D. Vance. spreading Cheetos on Donald Trump's face.
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And here's another one that I like even more. Sorry, I'm going to be immature just for those five seconds. Let's get back to it. As the Patriot Takes account said, here are the five things that Trump did this week. Number one, Trump defended leaking war plans over Signal. He said it was great. Why would I get mad at Pete Hegseth?
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I don't know, maybe because Pete Hegseth literally listed the itinerary of
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So Donald Trump previously issued an executive order against yet another law firm he doesn't like because he says they're mean to him. The law firm's name is Jenner and Block. Jenner and Block, unlike the law firm Paul Weiss and Skadden, Jenner and Block didn't back down. They sued Donald Trump right away, the same way the law firm Perkins Coie did, the same way the law firm WilmerHale did.
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of when f-18s would be bombing certain locations our air force pilots are pissed at hegseth putting them in harm's way our troops are absolutely pissed in any government anywhere else in the world people would be fired they would be charged with crimes but under the trump kakistocracy high five a high five they think this is normal that's my impression of borat number two
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Donald Trump took away Elise Stefanik's promotion. She was going to be appointed as the ambassador to the United Nations, but even though she was in a plus 21 congressional district in New York, Donald Trump's pollster, the Fabrizio Group, showed that in Florida's 6th congressional district, which was a plus 30 Trump district, used to be held by Congress member Mike Walz.
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Yes, the Mike Walz, Mr. Leaker himself, Mike Walz, who was on the Signal text thread, who's now the national security advisor, that seat, the Democrat who I've interviewed multiple times. That candidate, Josh Wheel, is apparently in the lead, according to Donald Trump's own pollster, Fabrizio.
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So Elise Stefanik, a member of Congress, MAGA Republican, Trump was worried they're going to lose that seat too. Trump's worried they're going to lose the Florida seat as well. And so Trump basically recalled her nomination by Elise Stefanik. And I reported earlier in the earthquake that took place in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which hadn't turned blue since 1889. Yep, 18. You heard me right.
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1889 was the last time a Democrat won that Senate District 36 over there. The Democrat James Malone beat the MAGA Republican and Malone ran against Doge and Musk. and all of the horrifying things that they're doing in their hostile takeover of the United States government.
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Oh, by the way, we're learning now as well that John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, you have the same CIA director who said no mistakes were made by having the signal chat and inviting a reporter from the Atlantic, the editor in chief onto the signal chat. Yep. That John Ratcliffe has invited now Elon Musk to the CIA and to look through all of the CIA weapons systems.
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Yep, that's going to make people a little more pissed off. I think so. And also, number three, Donald Trump tanked the stock market again. Number four, Donald Trump left work early on Friday, probably going back to Mar-a-Lago for yet another day. Golf vacation at the taxpayer dime. And number five, Donald Trump protected the Epstein files for another week.
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When are you releasing those files, Donald? Didn't you say the Epstein files were going to be released? Oh, wait a minute. You're also the same guy who said Jeffrey Epstein is a great guy, you said, who likes girls on the younger side, right? That's the Jeffrey Epstein who you talked about, one of your best friends before, who you partied with in Palm Beach.
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Yeah, that Jeffrey Epstein, who's a trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell. You wished her well at her sex trafficking trial. Yeah, that's you, Donald, right? Because you'd always party with them. And I think I understand why it is that those Epstein files are not being released. Take a look at the front page of the Globe. Trump's self-inflicted recession begins to take shape.
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Take a look at Business Insider. Look at the top right there. Over the past 24 hours, the Dow Jones down nearly 2%, the Nasdaq down nearly 3%, the S&P down nearly 2%. Donald Trump crushing the American economy. Business Insider writes, another big bank has slashed its stock market outlook amid soaring economic uncertainty. What's Trump and the MAGA press talking about?
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More on that in a moment. And Jenner and Block won. They got assigned in their federal lawsuit against Donald Trump. A George W. Bush judge, a judge by the name of Judge Bates, who was absolutely disgusted by the behavior of the Trump regime and issued an injunction against Trump's executive order. The Hooser, number one, Donald Trump. Then Donald Trump loses again.
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What are their pressing concerns in the Oval Office as Americans are suffering, as Donald Trump is shutting down Social Security Administration offices, as Donald Trump's giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the billionaires, and Donald Trump is cutting $880 billion in From Medicaid, $400 billion. From farmers, $400 billion.
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From education, frankly, gutting the entire Department of Education as Donald Trump is cruelly firing our veterans and demeaning and defaming them with Elon Musk and Doge. What are they talking about in the Oval Office? What's a woman? What's a woman? What's a woman? Penis, vaginas, that's what they're talking about. That's what they want us to focus on, these weirdos.
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Here's what Donald Trump says in the Oval Office. Let's play it. Thank you very much.
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Meanwhile, back in the real world, Wall Street Journal is reporting things like this. And Wall Street Journal leans conservative, leans right-wing, right? Trump warned U.S. automakers not to raise prices in response to tariffs. Oh, you mean price controls? That's your view of conservatism? Price controls is what you're saying there. And also you're going to do these tariffs.
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You're going to keep the prices going up. And then what? You're just going to crush the automobile industry. Exactly why the Atlanta Federal Reserve once again has its GDP tracker for quarter one. at negative 2.8%. You've heard me right, negative 2.8%. So we went from former President Biden, where we would have all of these wonderful reports, GDP increases, record job growth, energy independence.
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Remember all of those headlines? And then on Fox, they tried to be like, Yeah, but this does not exceed what our expectations are. He should be working harder. Remember all the crap they gave former President Biden when the economy was actually hitting record highs? Don't get me wrong. Inflation was still higher than it needed to be.
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We should still be very sensitive to the reality that things were hard to afford. Abso-freaking-lutely. But former President Biden was bringing inflation down with the Inflation Reduction Act. Inflation was set to hit about 2%. That's the Fed target. The Fed was lowering interest rates, and now they can't do it because the Trump regime is... causing inflation to rise once again.
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Atlanta Federal Reserve says that there's going to be a negative 2.8% GDP contraction. That is bad. Signal chat leak angers U.S. military pilots. By the New York Times, men and women who have taken to the air, pilots on behalf of the United States, expressed absolute bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. Quote, You're going to kill somebody, one of the pilots said.
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And look at JD out there all alone. Vance lands in Greenland, a place that doesn't want him. So what's JD Vance doing in Greenland? Well, he's using our troops as props, standing in front of them and attacking Canada and attacking Denmark, by the way, as well. But I'll just show you him attacking Canada. Play this clip.
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The law firm WilmerHale, who Donald Trump targeted with a similar executive order, sues Donald Trump. A federal judge is assigned to that case. Also, a Republican federal judge, a George W. Bush appointee by the name of Judge Leon. And Judge Leon rules against Donald Trump. An injunction, Judge Leon was disgusted by the Trump regime's conduct. Also,
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Now you have, as I mentioned earlier in the video, that defense, very important defense security meeting that was held in Europe, in France, by a coalition of the willing, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, also Prime Minister Pierre Starmer as well. They said, Ukraine, we got your back.
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This, as Donald Trump threw in front of Ukraine a new minerals deal, which would basically destroy the Ukrainian economy and steal all of the minerals. for Donald Trump. Pathetic behavior again by the Trump regime. As I always said, I always believed that the deal that Donald Trump wanted to cut with Putin was as follows. First, spheres of influence. Donald Trump goes, I got Greenland.
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I'm going to take Canada. I'm going to take Mexico. I'm going to take the Panama Canal. That's my territory. Russia, you get Ukraine. But Trump's going to say, I got the minerals of Ukraine. And Putin, you get all of Europe. And I get the minerals from Ukraine. And then Xi Jinping, you can take Asia.
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I think that's what the overall plan as Donald Trump saw it in his own mind, in his own wannabe authoritarian mind. But now, fortunately, you have Canada standing up, Canada strong. Elbows up to all of our maple Midas out there. We love you. We're grateful for you. Europe stood strong. Australia stood strong. They stood up to this tyrant. Trump looks weak. He's flailing. He's crashing the economy.
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He's a weak, pathetic, cornered rat, as you know what I like to say. No offense to cornered rats. By the way, we got a shout out at the Midas Touch Network at Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia's town hall. It's a pretty cool moment on Friday.
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Now, I'm going to do a whole other video about the town halls that are being held. Some are still being held by MAGA Republicans and the awful reception that they are getting there. I do want to show you this Canadian member of Parliament, Charlie Angus, who joined me this week. And here he's saying, look. Let me explain to you also why Canadians aren't going to America.
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Yes, the threats of annexation, the attacks on our sovereignty, absolutely number one. But also, we see in America a totalitarian regime right now. We see an authoritarian regime where if you show up there, you could be like the lady, Rumesa Azterk, the Turkish national who was kidnapped in the United States. Not charged with any crimes. She wrote a paper, a pro-Palestine paper.
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She's a PhD student at Tufts. And as a result, she got like kidnapped by ICE. No due process at all. Kidnapped by ICE. Here's what Charlie Angus has to say. Play this clip.
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Judge Jeb Boasberg, the federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to kidnap migrants and send them into concentration camps in El Salvador. Well, he extended his injunction to mid-April, blocking Donald Trump from kidnapping migrants and sending them to concentration camps. What a loser this Trump regime is, lost over and over again in the courts.
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By the way, we've also heard stories of Canadians coming in, being lost in ICE detention centers for three months. I mean, for three weeks, two to three weeks, rather. And then I've reported as well of a lot of migrants who were here lawfully, asylum seekers from Venezuela.
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As Donald Trump and his minions take a wrecking ball to the federal government and social services that people rely on, it's important never to forget the human element here, the stories of real people who are suffering, people
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So she lives in New York's 17th Congressional District. She talked about MAGA Republican Mike Lawler. When I see Dionne Volz there spoke to me, tell her story, and then I see Mike Lawler, who's around my age, and I see him going and doing these interviews, and the way he talks about Medicaid and Social Security as though it's just, eh, we're going to deal with it.
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who have experienced things in the past when government worked the way it was at least supposed to work better, and seeing it now and seeing how this has harmed their lives, I was able to speak with a 102-year-old Medicaid recipient named Dionne Volz. Her perspective on things really touched me, and I wanted to share this with everyone.
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
Here, just watch an interview that he did recently. Let's play this.
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
I wanted to show you those clips back to back, because when you hear Dionne Volz, 102, talk about what Medicaid meant to her, And then you see MAGA Republican Mike Lawler representing the district. I think it just brings the point home. Let's bring in Beth Davidson. She's a Rockland County legislature running for the congressional seat there against Mike Lawler, still in the primary stage.
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
So running in the Democratic primaries there in New York 17th. Beth, I want to ask you this. from your perspective as a Rockland County legislator in that district, of course, when you see those videos and you see what Mike Lawler says, what's your response to that?
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
You know, I think about just these human stories and I try to take the games out of politics in my reporting. I think corporate news for too long made this like a horse race when this is about people's lives. So I think about Katie Sanchez, a 37-year-old disability rights advocate and Medicaid recipient in Pearly River who spoke with me. Let me just share her story.
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
And then I want to hear just generally about your communications with constituents there. But let's play this one.
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
So she lives within New York's 17th Congressional District in that area. Let's just take a look at this interview. Here, play this clip.
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
Like, this is who Lawler is picking on and Trump and Musk. This is who they're targeting while they hang out in Mar-a-Lago and party with the... The last party they had was the pink Birkin bag Mar-a-Lago party bragging about $400,000 handbags that they were displaying. Or Trump talks about his meme coins that he's whatever. This is who they're attacking, Beth? This is who they're attacking, Beth?
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
Beth, are you seeing a shift in the district because the people still elected this guy in 2024?
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
Kamala, but Lawler. And so they still picked Lawler, though. So are you seeing, though, a shift there where they're starting to realize, though, that Lawler is an agent of Trump, that this is not someone who's pretending to be something else? Do you think that's getting through right now?
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
And Beth, people in Rockland County, of course, know who you are. But to the broader Midas Touch network here who may be seeing you for the first time, tell us a little bit about yourself. And obviously, this is still in the primary stage for this congressional seat. So as you kind of tell us about yourself and what you're fighting for, how are you going to differentiate yourself in this primary?
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
Amazing. And where can people find out more information about you?
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
That's good. Beth Davidson, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate you. We hope you'll come back.
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Dem County Legislator Beth Davidson on Flipping NY-17
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
what it means to be a leader in the age of Trump authoritarianism, and how a leader needs to stand up to Donald Trump and not kiss the gangster ring. Folks, election is right around the corner in Canada Monday. April 28th, there's already been a record setting turnout in the advanced polls.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
And over time, Charlie Angus started talking about how the boycott was impacting Americans and that he and Canadians knew that they were now outmaneuvering Donald Trump, that Canadians were taking the initiative. Here, play this clip.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
Here, Charlie Angus talks to me about what deeper issue is going on that Canadians are like, whoa, whoa, whoa. We see America falling into totalitarianism.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
And then most recently, when I had Charlie Angus on, he said, thank you, Donald. It's the only time I'm going to say this. He goes, you united Canada better than anybody. You taught us why we need to be together to stand up against bullies like you. Watch this.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
And also when we look at the underlying polling data, there's been a complete reversal of who is expected to win this race from where the race was two or three months ago. Previously, Pierre Poliev and the conservative party was expected to get a majority and win in the election. Now,
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
Pitch perfect. There's so many other clips I could show you. If you want to go on YouTube, just search Angus Midas, Charlie Angus Midas, and go and watch all the other interviews I've done with him. It'll be a fun hour and a half, two hours of your time. I really mean it. If you go just search Midas Touch Charlie Angus, watch the series of interviews I've done with him.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
But I thought that now that Charlie's retired, no longer a member of parliament, as we head into Monday's election, I don't know what the results are going to be. Make sure you vote if you haven't yet. But I'm just so proud and honored to have been in this with all of you. I really mean it from the bottom of my heart.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
The Maple Midas forming and growing together, it's been one of the most rewarding things of my entire life. You mean so much to me, Canada. Thank you so much. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
It's completely flipped as the conservative party led by Pierre Poliev has demonstrated that, well, Poliev at least has demonstrated that he is Maple Maga, that he has been an agent of Trump, that he's worked with people like Daniel Smith, the premier of Alberta, to try to have Trump interfere and tamper with the Canadian elections. As Pierre Poliev has used that rhetoric of,
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
woke this, woke that, woke mind virus, as he's invited Elon Musk and right-wing podcasters to try to amplify their dangerous ideas as he's basically proposed. Poliev has a version of Doge in Canada to gut the healthcare system and all of the social services there. I think people in Canada woke up and said, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
We see what's going on in the United States and we don't want Doge Canada, Musk in Canada, Trump in Canada. And we've seen Prime Minister Mark Carney after getting the baton passed by former Prime Minister Trudeau.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
taking that baton and showing what it means to be a real business person, a banker versus the bankruptor in Donald Trump, a builder in Carney, someone who has helped Canada and the United Kingdom through difficult periods as a governor of their major banks to Donald Trump, someone who has bankrupted company after company. And we're seeing Donald Trump bankrupt the United States right now.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
But folks, let me be very clear. Polls don't vote. People vote. In this case, Canadians vote. You can't take anything for granted. And no matter what, wherever you are in the world, you need to vote to support democracy. I'll just leave it at that. To protect and defend and to support democracy and to stand up against Trumpism everywhere. But you know what?
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
I really got to give a hat tip to one person in particular who I think is a real hero here. Charlie Angus, a former member of parliament in Canada. He served with distinction for 21 years. And he was always Charlie Angus. People would always speak so highly of him. And in his last year, over the last several months, he got to show the world what he has fought for his entire career. And folks,
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
Elbows up, Canada. Elbows up, Maple Midas. Canada on the front lines of preserving and protecting democracy internationally. Canada showing the entire world the roadmap for how you stand up to an authoritarian like Donald Trump.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
It has been the honor of my lifetime to become friends with Charlie Angus, to get to be a member of your community, the Maple Midas. It has been the honor of a lifetime to fight for democracy with you. And I know I'm right here in... the territory of Donald Trump.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
We're fighting from within here, but we stand in solidarity with democracy and everybody in Canada who's on the front lines, preserving and protecting it, not just in Canada, but across the world and showing the world the roadmap for how you stand up against the Trump regime. So in giving my hat tip to Charlie Angus, who's retired, he's no longer a member of parliament.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
On his own terms, he's left, but he's got an incredible career ahead of him. And trust me, I'm working behind the scenes to have him lead the Maple Midas Network that I want to further build out in Canada so y'all can tell him and pitch him, Charlie, you got to do that. But in honor of Charlie and all of the work that he's done, let's go back a little bit on memory lane.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
And I want to show you some of the highlights that I've had with Charlie Angus here. So I first saw Charlie Angus give that incredible speech in the House of Commons when nobody was speaking up against Donald Trump, when everyone was scared and nervous and rightfully so. I get it. Angus stood up and he gave the first emphatic international public speech calling out Donald Trump.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
I watched that here and I was like, who is this guy? That was incredible. I reached out to him. He responded. And here is one of the first interviews I did with Charlie Angus where he talks about, you'll see the evolution here. You're going to love this. So here, Charlie Angus starts talking about, look, He goes, in Canada, we have a tradition of not wanting to be openly confrontive.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
That's just not who we are. But Donald Trump is a different kind of animal. So this was from several months ago. And you'll see over the weeks and months till the present how things evolved in Canada. And I'll show it to you through the lens of Charlie Angus. Here, watch this clip right here.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
Canada showing not just how you play defense against an authoritarian like Donald Trump, but how you go on the offense, how you inflict real pain on Donald Trump and his regime for even proposing the idea of Canada becoming a 51st state. Donald Trump's rhetoric about annexation and taking over Canada is and calling the prime minister a governor backfired in Donald Trump and his regime's face.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
All right. So a few weeks after that, I had Charlie Angus back on the program and he said, you know what? Something's happening, Ben. Something's happening. The message I'm hearing across Canada is they're not afraid of Trump. Something was happening. Something that looked different. Charlie was telling me, watch this clip.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
Mr. Angus, what's the latest? What do you want to say to Donald Trump?
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
Then Charlie Angus talked about in this next interview I did a few weeks later, he talked about how when he would watch the U.S. media and CNN talk about, oh, Donald Trump's just teasing this, teasing that. Watch what he says here. Play this clip.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
And then, folks, the gloves started coming off even more. started going over the boards, elbows up started coming into the, well, it's always been in the parlance there, but in the context of elbows up against Donald Trump, here's what Charlie Angus then told me a few weeks after that play this clip.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
The boycott in Canada going strong, boycotting American products, boycotting American tourism. And as I said, Canada provided the roadmap to the world in Europe, in Australia, and elsewhere. They're seeing how Canada did it. They are copying it as well. And Canada also showing that
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
Had another interview with Charlie Angus where he then said, here's how it's going to go down, Donald. Here's how Canada is going to stand up to you. We're going to boycott you. This clip right here is the early stages of Canada's boycott against the U.S. Play this clip.
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Canada Delivers Fatal Blow to Trump…Inspires World!
Then when Donald Trump first threatened the tariffs against Canada and then Donald Trump pulled back those tariffs, watch what Angus said. He goes, you choked, Donald. You choked. Play this clip.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
state regime media known as fox is in a collapse mode they're panicking they don't know what to do because trump's main issue immigration the american people by and large disapprove of now poll after poll including the fox poll this is the new york times sienna poll show the majority of americans disapprove of donald trump On immigration.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
Now, folks, I'm doing a lot of other takes on this situation. involving Judge Hannah Dugan. Donald Trump posted about it. Pam Bondi, Trump's Attorney General, posted about it. FBI Director Kash Patel posted, then deleted, then posted back up. This is horrific, folks, to have a state court judge in Milwaukee County. That's her courtroom.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
for the feds to try to launch an operation to arrest a migrant inside her courtroom who showed up for his court date before the judge. And all Judge Dugan said is like, you want to arrest the guy? Go. You could arrest him outside at his home somewhere else. This is my courtroom. I'm trying to administer justice right now. Stop interfering. You're obstructing with my court proceeding.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
It would be unheard of. before this Trump regime to send the feds to launch sting operations inside judicial proceedings, state court proceedings, where the state judge is trying to hold an individual accountable under state law. And here's Pam Bondi, who's basically at this point, just another Fox host. I mean, her title is attorney general, but she doesn't really even do that.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
She just is a host of Fox every day. Here's what she says yesterday. Play this clip.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
And again, it's the lawlessness of this administration. I want you to think about it like this, though. Now, this specific migrant in Milwaukee County, he showed up for his court hearing. The judge, state court judge, was administering justice, whether that individual would go to jail. Individual was charged with, I think, domestic violence. He showed up for his court hearing.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
Now, Americans disapprove of Donald Trump on every single issue. And his approval is the lowest of any modern president at this point under 100 days by far. But on that issue of immigration, that has Fox in panic mode. What are they going to do? So Fox strategized and their plan was just to go extra gutter, extra disgusting.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
If the Trump regime is going to do stings in state courthouses, you think that people are going to show up for their court hearings in the future? No, you're going to cause more crime by doing it this way. Stop interfering with state court proceedings. And as the judge said, as Dugan said, you want to arrest him, go arrest him at the house somewhere else. This is my courthouse.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
What are you doing here? Here's Pam Bondi again, play this clip.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
And I think Jessica Tarloff put the argument into the right context here during the show, The Five, play this clip.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
Here she is again. Play this clip right here.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
But on Fox, they have these legal analysts like this guy, John Turley, like the worst law professor ever. And he's out there saying, of course you should be able to arrest state court judges. You can't use your office to shield somebody from law enforcement. Hey, Turley, the judge, the state court judge, wasn't trying to shield anybody.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
She was trying to go about her duty as a state court judge and going about proceedings without having our courtroom raided by the feds while she's under her judicial immunity and while she's under her judicial duties. Here, play this clip. You can't use your office to shield someone from law enforcement. And you become part, obviously, of the law breaking.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
So you may know this about me, but I'm a new father. And with everything that's going on in the world, if I wasn't already in protect my family mode, I'm particularly so with all the uncertainty taking place right now. So look, I'm focused on life insurance. So I don't just protect my family now, but I protect them in the future.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
And so for me, when I go think about life insurance, I want to make sure that I'm getting the best. That's why I go to Select Quote. Select Quote is one of America's So you got this guy on Fox right here who's trying to basically take the role of Jesse Waters. So he's like auditioning because Jesse Waters was off for the day. And this guy's like, oh, you know what? I don't like due process.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
I'm an American. I don't like due process. And then he uses the name. This is what they always do. They use the name of people who have died, who have been murdered by migrants to basically say, that's why we need to throw out due process. What due process did the victim get? They didn't get due process.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
So Greg Gutfeld, one of the Fox hosts, basically accuses the judge, Hannah Dugan, who Trump's FBI arrested. and charged with obstruction of justice. A Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, the feds busted into her courthouse, into her courtroom, and arrested her. I'll talk a little bit more about it in a second.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
And we said, hell no. So is your point that the United States government should be like a murderer and not give people due process? You know, the purpose of due process is the idea that our government is above that, that people have certain presumptions of innocence and that the government needs to show evidence because the government is not supposed to be barbaric.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
The government is not supposed to be a murderer. The government is supposed to evaluate justice through a legal prism. The fact that you even have to lecture these people on it, that they're beyond due process, right? They just go right past due process, to me, tells you everything you need to know.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
Hat tip right here to our friend, Democratic Congress member Jake Alkencloss, who went on one of these Fox shows, The Will Cain Show, and he schooled the host, Will Cain. Watch this. Play this clip.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
But now the Fox hosts are accusing her of, to use Grette Gutfeld's words, banging, having sex with immigrants. That's how they're going with it. That's how they're doing this on Fox right now. Here, play the clip so you can see for yourself.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
I thought here was an interesting moment, too, where on the Fox Business Show, the Varney Show, Varney asked the MAGA Republican Congresswoman from Michigan, Lisa McClain. All right, Lisa, has Trump done any deals? Like, has he brought manufacturing to your district? Are you aware of that? She's like, no, but he's brought back hope. We feel hope now. Hope. Play this clip.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
No, you feel like you're in a cult is what it feels. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plans Backfire
Well, there you have it, folks. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. You saw it for yourself.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
I mean, just take a look at him. He is an addled, fatigued, cognitive glitching mess of a human being who is dangerous. He's been lying about fake conversations he claims he's having with China's President Xi Jinping. The embassy from China had to say, stop making up fake conversations. We're not having any communications with the United States about tariffs.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
And he brags about war plans, placing our fighter pilots and troops in jeopardy. By the way, while Houthis are shooting down our drones, like seven drones have been shot down over Yemen. Is this something that, you know, you're focused on here? Play this clip.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
Did you hear what he said? He said, I don't view that as even important. I think it's fake news. As one commentator wrote, using a private email server, the worst intelligence catastrophe in history, leaking classified war plans, not important. Got it. Blatantly just leaking our war plans on purpose.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
When we know that Russia, we know that the Houthis, we know that China and other people are gaining access to this stuff. So then another reporter asks him. And again, when I say like adult having cognitive issues, I mean, look at this person. Like this is not normal behavior. And for all the media talking about, oh, former President Biden's old. What the hell are we watching here?
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
So a reporter asked Donald Trump, what would you consider a substantial concession from China in your trade deals with China? What do you want them to do? And Trump's response is, I want them to free it up. Free up China. They got to open up China. They got to open it. That would be big. I'm not sure if they can open it, but open it. What are you talking about? Here, play this clip. Absolutely.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
Open it. We were doing like $2 trillion annually in trade with China. Now, the government officials in China, they are baffled by the United States' behavior. Now, they are taking advantage of it. They're reaching out to Europe and Canada and Australia. They're holding meetings in Africa and in South America and in Mexico. They are reaching out across the globe to assert themselves
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
As a counter to the United States saying, look, we're more stable than the United States is. But like they're like, why is the United States want to bring in like manufacturing jobs that we do in China when China is trying to emulate what the United States does? Donald Trump is not even paying attention to any world news at all.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
And Donald Trump just the whole day was inventing, oh, we're having productive conversations. We're speaking about it. So then Donald Trump gets on Air Force One. He's on his way to Rome. where he's going to be there for the funeral of Pope Francis. And a reporter asks him, so like, have you spoken to Xi Jinping? And then Donald Trump's like, I don't want to discuss that. I'm not discussing that.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
He had no clue that there was an assassination of a Russian general today in Moscow and the guy's car exploded. I don't want to even play this other clip of Trump, so let me just read for you. The transcript. Mr. President, there was a car bomb in Moscow this morning that killed a Russian general. Do you have any reaction to that? Who killed what? Who killed what? Question.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
A Russian general was killed in a car bomb. Trump. Well, well, you're just telling me that for the first time. Where did that take place? I'm not sure why I'm doing a southern accent for Trump there, but whatever. Question. It took place in Moscow. It was a Russian general. Trump. Whoa. Whoa, that's hitting close to home, right? Whoa, that's a big one. Yeah, I'll look at it.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
If I hear anything, I'll let you. If you hear any, this would be in your daily brief. Do you even open it up? No, because you're too busy golfing and prancing around Mar-a-Lago or the White House, throwing around whatever the most ridiculous conspiracy theories are here. A reporter asked Donald Trump, and I'll just play the audio of this. Are you taking Melania to dinner? It's her birthday.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
Or have you had time to get her a present? And Trump goes, I have not had time to buy presents. It's been busy, but it's working out. People are loving the tariffs, he says. They're loving it. They're loving it. Play this clip.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
Okay, are they loving it? Let's take a look at the New York Times Siena College poll. By the way, I can show you the Reuters Ipsos poll. I could show you the Fox poll. I could show you the Pew Research poll. They're all in this range right here. Trump's approval rating, 42%, 54% disapprove. Pew Research, I think, was 40% approve. And then it was, I think, like 57 disapprove, right around there.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
When it comes to immigration, Donald Trump is negative four, underwater immigration. Managing the federal government, negative eight. The economy, negative 12%. Trade with other countries, negative 11. Foreign conflicts, negative 14. The war between Russia and Ukraine, negative 21. The case involving Abrego Garcia, negative 21.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
Donald Trump was asked by Time magazine in an interview that was published earlier yesterday, Donald, you said you would end the war in Ukraine on day one, but you didn't do it. Trump goes, well, I said that figuratively. This is actually Trump's response. I'm not paraphrasing. I'm reading word for word Trump's response.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
Well, I said that figuratively, and I said that as an exaggeration because to make a point, and you know it gets, of course, by the fake news. Obviously, people know that when I said that, it was said in jest, but it was also said that it will be ended. It was said in jest. I think we have the clip of you talking about it. Everybody, do you think this was in jest? Was this one big joke?
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
Because that's what we expect, right? The presidents of the United States to make jokes, to do funnies about creating peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. I must have lost the thread of humor here, Donald. Here, play this clip. You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, I could. How would you do that?
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
Here, play this clip. Okay, well, what do you want to discuss, Donald, a reporter asked Donald Trump. So do you have any updates on Hegseth? And Donald Trump's like surprised by the question, like, what? Well, what do you mean Hegseth? I don't know that your defense secretary. continues to have classified communications on signal and on text threads.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
And then on all the other fronts, as you're looking at the poll that I shared with you, and again, it's very similar to the other polls that are out there. You have, let's just take a look at the data. Now, lots of reporters are talking about it. Remember what we've been talking about on Midas? Freight volumes, trucking volumes, down, down, down.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
The Wall Street Journal headline today, finally, cargo shipments from China to U.S. slide toward a standstill. Cancellations accelerate. Shipments out of China for major retailers and manufacturers has ceased. The impact is staggering. As Carl Quintanilla says, summer of scarcity. That's what we've been saying. Summer of scarcity.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
Folks, we're like a few weeks away from things not getting on shelves. Remember how in COVID? There was no toilet paper and there was no things because the supply chains are broken or broken. It's worse than that right now. If you look at the freight volumes and the shipping volumes and the trucking volumes, it's worse than COVID levels right now.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
But folks, Donald Trump's focused on all the important things like what is wrong with this is what he posted. What is wrong with the NFL owners? Are they stupid? Deion Sanders was a great college football player and was even greater in the NFL. He's also a very good coach, streetwise and smart. Therefore, Shador, his quarterback son, has phenomenal genes and is all set for greatness.
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Fatigued Trump Loses Control as Term Collapses
He should be picked immediately by a team that wants to win. Win is in capitals. Good luck, Shador, and say hello to your wonderful father. By the way, I'm sure that inspired teams to pick him earlier on. I should talk about these two other stories. Number one, we're learning about a federal judge who raised the alarm on Friday that the Trump regime appeared to have deported a two-year-old U.S.
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citizen to Honduras with no meaningful process, even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. As the judge said, in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the government just deported a US citizen with no meaningful process. The court wants to know more.
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The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father's efforts to keep her in the United States. And then, of course, Donald Trump and his regime are bragging how they sent in the FBI to arrest a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge named Judge Hannah Dugan. She's a state court judge presiding over a case of an individual in her courtroom.
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Last week, the feds wanted to arrest the guy in her courtroom. Judge Dugan said, if you want to arrest the guy, do it outside, do it at his home, do it in the parking lot. I am a judge. You don't come into my room and break in and run operations out of my courtroom. I have to administer justice as a state court judge. And then she said, I'm not going to help you do that.
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We can coordinate with court services. The feds said no. She opened up her door. The individual named Eduardo Ruiz went out. He walked out and the feds arrested him later, but they charged the judge with with obstruction for helping him escape her courtroom when in her courtroom she was administering justice. The guy was accused of crimes in her courtroom. She's a judge. We have a process.
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We don't have FBI do raids in buildings and send people to concentration camps. And she's like, don't do this in my room. Go do it somewhere else. And the Fed said, nope. And now they are on Friday. They cuffed the judge in her courtroom, which I could tell you as a lawyer, is absolutely unprecedented. The Trump regime is going to lose that case in federal court by far. It's just a matter of time.
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I can't even imagine what the federal judge is going to say to the Trump DOJ lawyer when they show up. Horrific, horrific stuff. Oh, finally, Trump is also throwing his other lawyers under the bus when he was asked about what's his reaction to the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling saying facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. Trump said, that's not what my people told me. They didn't say it was.
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They said it was 9-0, something entirely different. My lawyers never said that to me. And then a reporter from the Time magazine said, well, why haven't you asked Bukele to send Abrego back? And Trump goes, well, no one's asked me. That's why nobody's asked me. Going back to what I said at the beginning of this video, folks. I mean, there's a reason why. What is it?
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Only 27% of independents support this guy. People are rising up. People know what's going on in the economy. People see that the economy was doing well in January before it was passed over to Donald Trump. People know. You know, Trump thinks that he can just go ahead and lie and say all of this crap. I mean, look, he's got his magamush brain zombified Fox regime watching people. He's got them.
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But there's like 65, 70% of America now that is livid, livid, and rightfully so. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more. All at store.midastouch.com.
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The biggest mistake first was bringing Donald Trump in the first time. Donald Trump's policies were an utter disaster. His isolationist policies and weakness even allowed China to establish diplomatic ties with
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nations in central america south america africa and across the world let's not forget that china established diplomatic ties with panama during the first trump administration and panama rejected its relationship with taiwan so for donald trump to now be complaining about oh well panama is being so influenced by china well donald trump that was
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all happening during your administration trump administration one that america brings trump back what does trump do instantly he starts attacking all of our allies threatening the sovereignty of nations like denmark which greenland is part of the kingdom of denmark donald trump continues to say he wants to make canada the 51st state or else donald trump threatening to invade and attack panama
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Donald Trump threatening to punish and tariff Mexico. Donald Trump pulling the United States out of critical international organizations that look to the United States as the leader. The United States has withdrawn from the World Health Organization. The United States has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States is weakening NATO as it threatens its NATO allies.
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Who is this all benefiting? It is benefiting China. When you see maps like this of the World Health Organization map right now, and America is like the only country that's not part of it. It is deeply humiliating and China knows what's up. They're putting out statements that are just going above and beyond to say, we believe in all nations' sovereignty.
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We support the sovereignty of this nation and that nation. We want to establish real, respectful, diplomatic, international relations to empower the cultural significance of these nations. And they're also saying, we are so committed to the World Health Organization and we're so committed to building bridges across the world, both literally and figuratively.
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And they're doing that because it is the perfect juxtaposition to how erratic and harmful Donald Trump is being with the sledgehammer he's using to try to harm international relations. This is the exact moment China was waiting for and they're taking advantage of it.
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So for example, China responds right away when Donald Trump withdraws from the World Health Organization and says China is committed to leading the World Health Organization. Quote, China will as always support the WHO in fulfilling its responsibilities and work towards building a shared community of health for humanity. said foreign ministry spokesperson.
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Quote, for China, the role of the WHO should only be strengthened, never weakened, he added. And then China's minister says, quote, climate change is a common challenge faced by all of humanity. Quote, no country can remain unaffected or solve the problem on its own. China will work with all parties to actively address the challenges of climate change. You see that language right there?
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Now you may go, well, that's just CCP propaganda. Well, China is at least playing the game. However you want to view it, China understands the importance of international relations, to be very careful with your language, to be respectful of other nations, and to not look like a barbaric, ignorant, zombified nation. imploding from within the way the United States looks right now with Donald Trump.
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So however you view these statements, they're speaking the language of diplomacy and international relations, and they're doing in a profoundly overt way. to also stick their thumb in the faces of the United States, who's losing international credibility. Look, right now, China is leading the world in green energy production. President Biden saw what was going on.
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That's why we have the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS Act, which brought the semiconductor industry here to the United States.
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Under Biden, the United States economy was actually growing faster than China because we were focused on alliance building and bringing these industries here and growing them, unlike the MAGA Republicans and Trump, who, if anything, has the word green in front of it. They go, oh, that's socialism, that's Marxism, green this, green that.
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That's big business and it was actually helping red states almost more than blue states as well. And so Trump's policies are going to screw up red states.
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Let me just show you the language of diplomacy right here so you can see it. So this is China's minister right here, foreign minister. And here's what foreign minister spokesperson. And here's what she had to say about the Panama Canal. So as Donald Trump is threatening to invade and take over Panama.
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Listen to the language of China, which, by the way, established diplomatic relations with Panama during Trump's first administration. This is what they're saying. The Panama Canal is a great creation of the Panamanian people, and China has always supported their just struggle to maintain sovereignty over the canal. Chinese Foreign Minister spokesperson Mao Ning said.
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on Monday, commenting on President-elect Trump's claim that the canal is an important national asset of the U.S. China will continue to respect Panama's sovereignty over the canal and recognize it as a permanently neutral international passageway, Mao said. Let me show you this. Donald Trump said he hoped that China will play a major role in ending the conflict in Ukraine.
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Donald Trump bizarrely ceding authority to China and saying Xi Jinping should do it. So when asked about it, this was the response. Dialogue and negotiation is the only viable way to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. Meanwhile, as Donald Trump is doing that, Xi Jinping says,
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is having conversations, private conversations with Putin while Donald Trump was being inaugurated with Xi Jinping and Putin announced 24 hours later. Remember Donald Trump said that within 24 hours of the election, he said there would be a peace deal in Ukraine. He said he would call up Putin and he would call up Zelensky and he would get them to do a peace deal. Well, he lied about that.
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But 24 hours after the inauguration, you know who made a deal? Xi Jinping and Putin reinforcing their relationship as their favorite trade partners of each other and talking about strengthening their relationships into the future. So what do you think message, what do you think the message that they're sending there
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That they are trying to build a new world order without the United States where they're going to be the power players. And again, going back to that Sun Tzu quote I talked about at the beginning, don't interrupt your enemies when they're making mistakes. And then Donald Trump's like, well, let Xi Jinping negotiate with Putin.
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While Donald Trump is out there saying that he's going to have zero tolerance of Iran and all of these things, guess what's also happening? Putin makes a deal with Iran for a 20-year alliance, military alliance, power, powerful weaponry, drones, all of these things. That just happened as well since Donald Trump was elected. Now I want to show you these two things so you can see them side by side.
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So right here, I want to share with you, this is what the foreign minister spokesperson for China says about Donald Trump threatening trade wars on China and other nations. Just watch the language of diplomacy used here. Here, play this clip.
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Right. And that's in response to Donald Trump saying, you know, we're going to tariff China. We've got a big weapon against China. We're going to hurt. We're going to make them some more, you know. And they're like, well, we believe in diplomatic relations, but if you're going to come after us, we're going to come after you. I got to show you this so you can see it for yourself.
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Right here, this is Trump saying that he thinks that Xi Jinping should be the person who negotiates the peace in Ukraine. He says that he told Xi, you need to get the war settled in Ukraine. So that was Trump's plan. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah, and while all of that's going on, you have Donald Trump going back to his social media posts in all caps, erratic, chaotic posts. Who's the beneficiary of all of this right now? Why do you think it was that President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico was photographed with Xi Jinping at the G20 summit when she wasn't even supposed to meet with him recently?
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Why do you think she wanted to be photographed? What do you think the overall message being sent is that China is going to fill these voids? And they're going to try to build these relationships when United States does whatever it's doing. And as Trump's alienating and isolating the United States from everyone. Who's a friend of the United States right now? I mean, seriously.
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I mean, it's just different degrees of alliances against the United States. Well, judge for yourself. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Right now, China is outmaneuvering Donald Trump so thoroughly, so completely. I would say brilliantly, but really what they're just doing is listening to the advice from the legendary Chinese philosopher and military strategist Sun Tzu, who said, don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake. And boy, is the United States making the biggest mistake ever.
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Well, He's gone. He lasted, what, half of a half of a Scaramucci? Look, better than Vivek Ramaswamy, who got forced out of Doge, the other supposed leader. It was Elon Musk and Vivek. Vivek got pushed out. Vivek lasted negative Scaramucci's. He didn't even make it through inauguration before Elon Musk pushed him out. But McGinley at least lasted two days or three days. And then he left. He quit.
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He resigned. He left. And he said, I'll make some announcements about what I'm doing in the private sector soon. But I'm not dealing with this. I'm going into the private sector. This was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and others like The Independent and us picked it up. Getting out of Doge, government efficiency agency sees another top leader bolt as lawyer follows Ramaswamy's exit.
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Bill McGinley, who was appointed as Doge's legal counsel by the president in December, announced his decision on Thursday, right? So he lasted, what, three days, maybe? Now, I just want you to think about this. This is not normal, right? Imagine if President Biden appointed somebody to an agency or a cabinet position. I get Doge is not really a...
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Although Donald Trump's trying to rebrand some existing digital administrative thing as Doge. I know he's trying to do that. But could you imagine if President Biden appointed somebody to a top position and they quit right away or they were forced out or fired before inauguration or they left three days after? Yeah. You know why that didn't happen? Because President Biden was a leader.
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Former President Biden picked people who would last and then they behaved normally. But all you have to do is go back through Donald Trump's various failed businesses, his current failed businesses, his current crypto grifts, his meme coin grifts. Everything is a grip. He is an awful business leader. People left all the time. It was always chaos. That's how he ran things into the ground.
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It was one of my biggest complaints. His moral character is so low. Yes, he's a felon. He's a sexual assaulter. The worst of the worst. But he sucks as a business. He's the worst. He can't lead things because real leaders wouldn't let this happen. And so we previously reported as well that Vivek Ramaswamy was fired and he was forced out again before day one.
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Think about the chaos within this Doge thing. But what are they focused on? Elon Musk came up with a plan, everybody, about how he's going to cut the $2 trillion. You want to know what his plan is? He's going to kill the penny. Yeah, you heard that right. This is Doge's big, brilliant idea. They're going to get rid of the penny.
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But you see what that would actually do is maybe that would cut 0.02% of Musk's trillion dollar goal. I should mention they're no longer talking about two trillion, although the magazine, the House of Representatives haven't got that memo yet. They still are lying to the American people and saying it's $2 trillion. Elon Musk is now saying $1 trillion.
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And eliminating the penny would be 0.02% of that. This is real. They want to eliminate the penny. Doge said on X... Let me just think about this sentence. Doge said on X that penny costs over three cents to make and cost U.S. taxpayers over $179 million in the 2023 fiscal year. Quote,
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The mint produced over 4.5 billion pennies in 2023, around 40% of the 11.4 billion coins for circulation produced. The Post read in part, the U.S. Mint in 2023 reported it circulated around 4.1 billion pennies. In fiscal year 2024, the U.S. Mint said its annual report that the U.S. penny cost about 3.7 cents to produce and distribute up more than 20% from the previous year.
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So what are you talking about? I'm not like a lover of the penny, okay? I don't know one way or the other. I don't have like strong feelings, but $179 million doesn't even make a dent in a trillion dollars, but they promised $2 trillion. But as I've said before, this is WMD, Weapon of Mass Distraction. And I think when it came to Vivek and others, They just didn't get that memo.
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I mean, Vivek said the quiet part out loud. Vivek said the American culture is a mediocre culture. Remember when Vivek said that? And by the way, Elon agreed with Vivek, although Elon just got a lot more money than Vivek. So for Donald Trump, and he basically paid for Donald Trump's campaign. So Donald Trump's not doing anything with his puppet master, Elon Musk.
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But remember what Vivek said a few weeks back, American culture is mediocre. We focus so much on Boy Meets World or Zack and Slater over Screech, and the culture is dumb. And therefore, because Americans are too dumb to do STEM jobs, science, technology... Engineering and mathematics that we need labor from India to fill the STEM jobs and therefore the H-1B visa program needs to be expanded.
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By the way, Donald Trump has said over and over again, I love H-1B. H-1B is the greatest. My waiters, my maitre d's. H-1B, there's some great staff. Okay, that's not what H-1B is, Donald Trump, number one. But number two, your whole campaign promise was to do the opposite, was having these jobs filled by Americans. But with Donald Trump, it's always promise broken.
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Donald Trump's staff is furious at Elon Musk as well. for further fueling this broligarch war taking place. Remember one of Donald Trump's first announcements that he had in the Oval Office? He brought in Sam Altman. He brought in Larry Ellison. He brought in Masayoshi Son, these three big broligarch AI people.
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And they said, we're going to announce Stargate and we're going to do this $500 billion that we're going to put into AI technology. And then Elon Musk started reposting crack pipes and crack and saying, okay, Altman and all these people, you don't have $500 billion. This is a made up number.
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You may as well say $1 trillion because you are just standing in the Oval Office and lying about investments. that are being made in AI. You just don't have that money. So then Altman then tried to show that these investments were being made. So he posted, he's trying to appeal to Donald Trump. Altman posts, look at this big, beautiful building. This is what we're building right now.
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OK, and as I posted this in response to the response to this guy, I'm like, OK, that factory was probably built three years ago. A factory doesn't get built in 24 hours. So you're just what you're doing is you built this thing when President Biden was in office. And now you're trying to pretend that you somehow are investing this money now for Donald Trump. I mean, it's utterly, utterly pathetic.
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And then you have the Steve Bannon crew and that contingency within MAGA World saying that Elon needs to go and Elon's undermining Trump's agenda. by attacking the AI program. And then Donald Trump said, you know, Elon can say whatever Elon wants to say. But I mean, who would have predicted this? I mean, this video right here, I'm being sarcastic, of course.
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This video right here is Ann Coulter and Vivek Ramaswamy. And remember what Ann Coulter said to him? Here, play this clip.
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And that's why I brought on today somebody who I think has some thoughtful perspectives on the future direction of our country, of our conservative movement, and on this question of nationalism and national identity, somebody who I've been fascinated by for a long time and have interacted with on social media, but for the first time we're having at least a live-form conversation in the offline sense of it.
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It's Ann Coulter. So, Ann, thanks for coming on, and I'm looking forward to our conversation today.
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When we geek out for a minute on something, I think it's going to be helpful for you. It's called Fatty 15. Its co-founder, Dr. Stephanie Van Watson, discovered C15 as the first essential fatty acid to be found in 90 years while working with the U.S. Navy to improve the health and welfare of aging dolphins. It's pretty simple. Essential nutrients keep our cells healthy, which keeps us healthy.
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So if you want to get science-y about it, studies show that C15, it works by strengthening our cells, improving our mitochondrial function, and protecting us against damaging free radicals.
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So if you feel like, how could I stop aging faster, or I'm sleeping poorly, or feeling sluggish, the bottom line is that many of us are deficient in C15, which results in weaker cells, which results in those things. So fatty 15 is the Science Fact Award winning vegan and pure C15 supplement that steps in and helps. It works in multiple ways. It repairs age risk.
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So it comes in these gorgeous reusable glass bamboo jars and refill capsules. that are shipped to your door quarterly in pouches made from recycled materials. I love that. Fatty 15 is on a mission to replenish your C15 levels and restore your long-term health.
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And while all of that's happening, Donald Trump's out there selling his scammy meme coins from the White House. I mean, which is just which is just utterly pathetic. The Patriot takes account, though, posted this, and I think it's important. It goes, Trump promised to rapidly drive prices down starting day one to make America affordable again. But egg prices are now skyrocketing.
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Look at the side-by-side image that Patriot takes posted here. Play this clip.
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So left and right, people quitting, people getting fired, total disarray. This is not what's supposed, this isn't normal stuff. But let's not forget, Trump promised to lower prices. That's not happening. He promised to make housing more affordable. That's not happening. None of the things he said are happening are happening. He is a... L-I-A-R, but you all know that. Thanks for watching.
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This is a sign that William McGinley probably felt very, very uncomfortable about the things he was seeing happen there. And this is a kind of guy who would want to protect himself. That's my opinion why he left. This is a guy who's been at big law firms his whole career. His name is again William McGinley. Donald Trump sent this message saying this guy is going to be the main lawyer of Doge.
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Donald Trump is brutally screwing over his own voters. Those in the red states are going to be hit the hardest based on Donald Trump's schemes and scams. Don't trust me. How about 2017 J.D. Vance? Play the clip.
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And she's like making selfie videos, whining over water and that she has to pay $7 for what, I don't even know what she's whining about, but let them eat cake, huh? Here, play this clip.
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That's what they're doing. I mean, you just can't make this stuff up. And also, Donald Trump last Thursday had his meeting with his meme coin wallet holders. Most of them are from foreign countries. And here, Donald Trump's... Press Secretary Chief Propaganda says you're not going to get to know who was there because this is his personal time.
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He's on personal time, so we don't know the people who have paid millions of dollars to buy access.
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You're welcome. Thanks for being here. Garrett, go ahead.
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Well, as you know, Garrett, this question has been raised with the president. I have also addressed the dinner tonight. The president is attending it in his personal time. It is not a White House dinner. It's not taking place here at the White House. But certainly I can raise that question and try to get you an answer for it.
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Let's bring in Molly Jungfest, friend of the Midas Touch Network. And Molly actually gave the introduction to the Webby Award that we won. It was a beautiful introduction. Thank you, Molly. Molly, you've been a writer. You've been covering different administrations. What I just showed you, let them eat cake. Let them eat cake.
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you talk about the people who are going to be hit the hardest from this budget bill or frankly, everything that Trump does, you know, the, the people who feel we all are feeling pain, but it's often people, even in the red States though, who are dependent on Medicaid, who are dependent on food stamps, who are dependent, not to say it's just unique to that. But if you look at it yet, uh,
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The propaganda, whether it's the racism, the propaganda, the hate, you know, the lies seem to still kind of permeate. Don't get me wrong. We're seeing polls right now showing that Donald Trump's the least popular at this point in presidential history, but still his support, depending on poll to poll, is 37 percent to 42 percent.
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That's still a lot of millions of people who are suffering who vote for this guy.
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Democrats have also been. We all know under the new GOP budget scam, 13, 14 million Americans are going to lose their health care. They're going to lose access to supplemental nutrition assistance program food stamps. They're going to lose access to programs that provide cost of living and rental assistance. But. There's no longer regulation on silencers and silencers get tax exemption.
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Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans
A lack of responsibility is Trump being Trumpy, right? You go back and just look at everything this guy's done in his life. When he went into Atlantic City with daddy's money, three casinos he bought right next to each other, and everybody's saying, the amount of debt you're taking on with three of your own casinos that are going to compete against each other.
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Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans
You're going to cannibalize your own casinos. So you may have this flashy opening with Michael Jackson and fake gold plated this. You're going to bankrupt it. What does Trump do? Threatens the whistleblowers. They get fired. They sue him. He settled at least with one big prominent case.
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Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans
the atlantic city casinos go bankrupt over and over again he makes money but the contractors there and the workers uh lost their life savings in atlantic city was destroyed we see this with a lot of his endeavors and now he's doing this with the united states of america now one of the things that i've talked about to combat all of this is i try to say
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Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans
let's not get too political and let's focus on the people. I said, politics has a way of gamifying humanity and people. And sometimes you just have to listen and hear the life stories of just what people are going through. And every dot comma period period,
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Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans
red line of a budget bill is actually impacting families and all families have stories to tell you know which is why i find it interesting also that you know your latest book is a personal memoir it's a daughter's memoir where you at this moment want to tell a story about just your own family um you call it how to lose your mother a daughter's memoir it's a great book and i just think that um what's important about this is that
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Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans
we have to always reflect on, we all have unique and interesting family dynamics with complexities and drama and love and all of these issues. And not to use a cliche, but nothing gold can stay. We're all here for a fleeting moment of time with our families and we just want what's best for them as we struggle through complex worlds. So I wonder if you wrote this book also now because of,
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Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans
kind of the uncertainty? I guess I should just ask you rather than telling my hypothesis for why you write it. Why now for a book like this?
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Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans
So I guess silencers were a big winner. Also, of course, billionaires and oligarchs were a big winner, getting trillions of dollars in tax cuts from stealing from the poor. Then you've got these like Trump officials like Jeanine Pirro. making these like selfie videos of herself, like Jeanine Pirro, that yes, the Fox host is now the top federal prosecutor in Washington, DC.
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Molly Jong-Fast reacts to Trump’s Attacks On Americans
Molly Jungfest, everybody, check out the book. And I appreciate you sharing this heartfelt story, How to Lose Your Mother, a daughter's memoir. It's available wherever books are sold. And thanks for taking the time to chat with us through some of the ways this Trump policies are impacting families across the country.
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And for everybody who knows, I'm making a hard pitch for Molly to join the Midas Touch Network. So I'm just putting it out there.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Your priority is your home and the money should be reaching your states. But Donald Trump's FEMA is MIA. And that shouldn't surprise us because Donald Trump has stated and his Homeland Security Secretary, cosplayer, dog killer, Kristi Noem, has also stated that they want to get rid of it. I mean, they've made those statements.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
also seeing headlines like this trump undermine biden's fema in north carolina now the cleaning now the cleanup is lagging under trump's watch after trump spread all of these lies about what fema was doing in north carolina and saying that they were prioritizing immigrants over people which was which was false and we're seeing this play out across the country arkansas sarah huckabee sanders
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
I can't get much more trumper than that. She was getting her aid delayed. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz, who led emergency management in Florida before becoming a member of Congress. This is an issue near and dear to your heart. And you're out there raising these calls each and every day. First, talk to us about what's happening, how big of a disaster this is.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
What are you doing, Congressman? Yeah.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
They say they want to push it to the states that are not capable alone of handling these things. And we've seen with over 900 tornadoes that have touched down this year so far and disastrous storms in areas like Kentucky and Illinois and Missouri and Arkansas and Mississippi and elsewhere, FEMA has been slow to react if it's reacted at all.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Congressman, as the former head of emergency management in Florida, dealing with disaster relief at a state level, you know this more than anyone. So when you said that FEMA is going to fail in a way that we've never seen before, based on the way the Trump administration has been handling things so far, does that mean mass casualty events that can otherwise be avoided?
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Also, you have FEMA rejecting supplemental assistance requests or just delaying it in states like Georgia, in North Carolina, across these areas that have been really, really harmed significantly. Now, let me just show you this longer clip that CBS put together of other people who have been impacted in very bad ways by the Trump regime. We're talking about red states, purple state, blue state.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
You know, it's a segue into talking about this disaster budget because FEMA was completely under attack in this disaster budget bill. There's a lot of things that we've highlighted here that makes this bill very dangerous. It's attack on Medicaid. It's attack on Medicare. We're learning. Although silencers and suppressors, they were the big winners along with the billionaires.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
So you have unique observational perspectives on all sorts of things, but particularly this budget bill, reflecting on that you and I are recording this on a Friday. This video is going to drop on Friday. What do you make of it? Where do we go from here?
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
You know, look, I think that what's going on with FEMA is unfortunately gonna be the biggest story of this summer and in hurricane season. So I'm using this platform every day, just warning as many people as we can get ahead in front of. I know this is not the sexiest issue to talk about right now, but I just- Well, that's usually what happens in emergency management, right?
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
It doesn't matter. We're Americans and FEMA should be working for us. Here, play this clip.
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Congress member Moskowitz, thanks for joining us as always.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
A federal judge from Maryland, Judge Ellen Hollander, just sent a blistering letter to the Trump regime telling them to cease and desist from misrepresenting her order, which stated that the Doge Group headed by Elon Musk, is not entitled to access broad swaths of private information held within the Social Security Administration.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
And this is the pretext that they're trying to use. Let me show you the letter that was just sent by Judge Hollander. Here's what she writes to the counsel right here, the Department of Justice, who's representing the Trump regime.
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Dear counsel, I write with respect to the temporary restraining order issued yesterday afternoon in the above caption case, among other things, except under conditions described in the order.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
The temporary restraining order enjoins and restrains the United States Social Security Administration, SSA, Leland Dudek, and Michael Russo from granting access to non-anonymized, personally identifiable information in any SSA system of record to the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE,
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the United States Doge Service, the United States Doge Service Temporary Organization, members of the Doge team at the SAA, Elon Musk, Amy Gleason, and Doge affiliates as defined in the order.
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Conversely, paragraph two of the order expressly allows the SSA, the Social Security Administration, to provide access to redacted or anonymized data and records to the Doge team subject to proper training and the like. Notably, paragraph three of the TRO permits the SSA to provide non-anonymized data to the Doge team subject to certain conditions.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
The court is aware of several news reports claiming that acting Social Security Administrator Dudek believes that virtually all employees of the Social Security Administration fall within the scope of the order, including his IT staff and his anti-fraud team.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
And according to the news reports, Mr. Dudek apparently believes he is required to terminate their access to SSA's IT systems in order to comply with the order. Such assertions about the scope of the order are inaccurate. Employees of SSA who are not involved with the Doge team or in the work of the Doge team are not subject to the order.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
A Doge affiliate is defined in the order inter alia, which means among other things, as a person working on implementing the Doge agenda. Moreover, any suggestion that the order may require the delay or suspension of benefit payments is incorrect.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
However, if the government has any concern about the text of the order or otherwise seeks clarification of it, I instruct government counsel to contact chambers immediately to arrange a telephonic conference with counsel. Despite the informal nature of this letter, it is an order of the court and the clerk is directed to file it on the docket as such.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
The Trump regime, through its acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration named Leland Dudek, is saying that as a result of this order, Social Security is going to have to be shut down, that they don't know how to act. They have to give all of their documents to Elon Musk. And because of this federal ruling, they may have to shut down Social Security immediately.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
So now we're seeing federal judges have to come out with letters, this is unprecedented, to stop the fire hose of disinformation, misinformation, and lies from the Trump regime, from Elon Musk and others, especially as the acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek is using it as pretext to do what they wanted to do all along, which is shut down Social Security.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
Now, how do I know they want to shut down Social Security and the Social Security Administration? Well, listen to what they're saying. Look at what they are posting. Look at what they are doing. Even right now, regardless of this order, the Trump regime is shutting down 47 Social Security Administration offices. throughout the country.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
So if you need to show up at a Social Security Administration office and have an in-person meeting, and usually it's gonna be people who need the office to be closer to them because they're older, usually, It's going to be hard to travel. And thus, if you can't get there, you're not going to be able to get your benefits efficiently or at all.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
And also, they're gutting thousands and thousands of people who work at the Social Security Administration. Look, even this MAGA Republican Congress member, Mike Lawler, who serves the Hudson Valley in New York, he knows that he just screwed over his constituents by giving a blank check
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to Elon Musk to gut Social Security because Elon Musk is now getting rid of the Social Security hearing office in his district and he's a MAGA Republican and it's a swing district. I want to share this with you as well. This is Trump's Commerce Secretary from this past week, Howard Lutnick, saying if Social Security skipped a check, His mother-in-law, who's 94, wouldn't complain.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
And if you complain that you didn't receive a Social Security administration or your Social Security check and you missed a month, that would indicate in his mind that you're a felon, that you're a fraud. Because only frauds, he said, would complain about not getting their Social Security check. Look at what he says. This is what he says. Play the clip.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
And the judge is saying, that's not what I said. I just said, don't share it with the Doge Group, Elon. and big balls and whatever that group is. You can still function and do the same job you've always done at the Social Security Administration under the Privacy Act. Stop compromising people's privacy by giving them sensitive data to Elon Musk.
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And here he is saying that, no, no, no, no, no, we should not be more empathetic. to the people who are being hurt by Doge, no way we should be more empathetic. Play this clip.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
I can keep showing you these, but I think you get the point. Here's Elon Musk who runs Doge, even though he and the Trump regime now claim someone named Amy Gleeson is the person who runs Doge. So here's the richest man in the world saying that social security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time when he's on the Joe Rogan show broadcast. who launders this filth and oligarchy. Play this clip.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
Going back to the initial order from the federal judge, federal judge Ellen Hollander. Here was the initial order that the Trump regime tried to use as pretext to shut down the Social Security Administration. Here's how it was described by the federal judge, and this is from March 20th of 2025.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
There's headlines like this from the Washington Post. Acting Social Security head consults with Justice Department on threat to close the agency. Leland Dudek argues that a ruling blocking Elon Musk's cost-cutting team from access to sensitive taxpayer data could apply to all employees unless they need to shut it down. We know their plan is to shut it down. They've been saying it.
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The judge goes, this case is one of a dozen of lawsuits filed since the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump on January 20th, challenging a wide swath of executive orders as well as implementation of them.
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In particular, this case concerns the decision of the Social Security Administration to provide 10 anonymous individuals affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency with unfettered access to the Social Security Administration records of millions of Americans. We've just never seen anything like it, proclaimed plaintiff's counsel at a motion hearing held on March 14th.
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Defense counsel acknowledged at the hearing that the Social Security Administration has indeed provided Doge affiliates with access to a massive amount of records, but counsel claimed that such access is needed so that the Doge personnel can search for improper or fraudulent payments made by SSA.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
Ironically, the identity of these Doge affiliates has been concealed because defendants are concerned that the disclosure of even their names would expose them to harassment and invade their privacy.
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The defense does not appear to share a privacy concern for the millions of Americans whose SSA records were made available to the Doge affiliates without their consent and which contain sensitive, confidential, and personally identifiable information.
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As used here, personally identifiable information means information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity either alone or when combined with other information that is linked or linkable to a specific individual.
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In particular, the information the SSA's records includes social security numbers, personal medical and mental health records, driver's license information, bank account data, tax information, earnings history, birth and marriage records, home and work addresses, school records, immigration and or naturalization records, healthcare providers contact information, family court records, and employment and employer records.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
That information is being given to Elon Musk. And what the court says is that this is inappropriate. And that's why the court issues an injunction. And the court goes through the attacks on Social Security and includes, you know, posts like this by Elon Musk, where Elon Musk goes on February 11th.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
At this point, I am 100% certain the magnitude of the fraud in the federal entitlements, Social Security, exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by far. It's not even close. Elon Musk then goes on February 7th. Yes, there are far more eligible Social Security numbers than there are citizens in the U.S. This might be the biggest fraud in history.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
And then Elon Musk says there are hundreds of millions of people or something like that getting Social Security who are dead. And that was utterly false as well. And the judge ultimately concluded that there should be an injunction, a limited and narrowly tailored injunction to block all of our private information from going in the hands of Doge. And then Doge used that to say,
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
Look what the judge is doing. She's going to force us to shut down Social Security. And then preemptively, Trump's billionaire commerce secretary already preparing people not to get their Social Security checks by saying, if you complain about not getting your check, that means you probably are a fraudster. There's good reason why the judge sent that letter and posted it on the public docket.
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter
Now, as I mentioned before, that's not a normal thing that judges have to do. But in the age of the Trump regime, the judges realize that they're being publicly defamed and attacked by the Trump regime. Tell me what you think in the comments below. I wanted to give you all of that data so you can see for yourself. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thank you for watching.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
French President Emmanuel Macron is rallying the free world to help Ukraine and alas, the United States is not included in that. Emmanuel Macron's actually calling out this propaganda farce being perpetuated by Donald Trump and Trump's buddy, Putin. Emmanuel Macron saying, we're not even in serious peace negotiations right now.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
We will finalize our work to support the Ukrainian army and build a sustainable and resilient military model to prevent future Russian invasions. We will also define the security guarantees that European forces can provide to protect peace is what we want. And it's not what Vladimir Putin wants. President Macron posted this as well.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
Once again, last night, Russia showed that it sincerely does not want peace. Full support for the Ukrainian people is where France and the rest of Europe and Canada and Australia and elsewhere stand. Sadly, the United States now in an access of evil with Russia and North Korea. It is embarrassing to be here in the United States under this despicable Trump regime.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
But we here at the Midas Touch Network stand strongly. with Ukraine and with the free world, not with this authoritarian Trump regime. Let me show you what Emmanuel Macron said when he was asked by reporters about the discussions. I did an AI translation for our English-speaking audiences. Apologize to our French-speaking audiences, but let me play the clip.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
We are in a situation where Putin and Trump are essentially trying to carve up Ukraine or trying to help Putin's underlying agenda to take over Ukraine. We're not even having serious discussions. And once we have serious discussions, then we'll be at the table with Ukraine.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
And here's Macron again saying that we need actual guarantees and we need serious discussions. Right now, it's basically just a gong show with the United States and Russia and Saudi Arabia trying to carve up Ukraine for themselves. We know what's going on here. Play this clip.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
Then you have Emmanuel Macron standing with his air force and he's talking about the strength of the French military, projecting strength. Play this clip.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
Here's French President Emmanuel Macron again. Let's play it. We want to protect peace.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
But we here in France, we here in Europe, other than Hungary, we here joining with Canada and Australia, we stand by Ukraine when there are serious discussions. We're ready to have a serious ceasefire. President Zelensky of Ukraine has already said an unconditional ceasefire is something that he would agree to. On the other hand, Putin and Donald Trump are out there talking about what?
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That's ramp.com slash Midas, R-A-M-P.com slash M-E-I-D-A-S, card issued by Sutton Bank. So while that's going on, you want to know what Putin's propaganda networks are saying. You want to get insight into where they're at. Again, I did an AI English translation for you. And I think it's important that you see what's going on.
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in the Russian propaganda because it's controlled by Putin, what their state of mind is and how Russia is now using, we said this is exactly what was going to happen, using Donald Trump's threats to annex Canada and Greenland and Panama for Russia to be like, great, you could take those. We could help you take some lands. We're going to take these lands. We could help with Canada.
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Here's what they're saying in Russian propaganda TV controlled by Putin.
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And throughout Russia, you're hearing that as well. The Russian people in the Kremlin are basically saying that the U.S. is far more aligned with Russia than Europe or anywhere else, which is something that Russia always wanted. It's how Russia wanted to use these discussions right here. Let me just also...
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contrast what I just showed you there with a real tough president, a French president, Emmanuel Macron, standing up. to Putin. Here's what Donald Trump said on Friday, again, threatening to annex Canada. Let's play it.
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hosting hockey tournaments and opening up economic channels and economic deals. While it's also being reported, the United States is not even enforcing sanctions really anymore against Russia. Like what the hell is going on? And I'm glad you have Emmanuel Macron calling it out.
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French President Macron Destroys Trump and Pushes Him Aside
Here's Donald Trump in an interview with American state regime media known as Fox spewing Putin's propaganda here about how Putin has encircled the Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region. And as a result, Trump and Putin, they need to carve up Ukraine. so that they could save the Ukrainian forces. Just a bunch of bogus Russian propaganda play this clip. So that's where we are.
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By the way, in a strong show of the alliance with Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron, there was this moment where Zelensky was addressing the press. He was speaking on video, and then Macron called him. Watch this moment.
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Yeah, I love that right there. I mean, by the way, you're seeing as well, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Kjer Starmer, also all about projecting military strength. The message is clear right now. Kjer Starmer goes to the men and women working at home and abroad to secure a just and lasting peace to Ukraine. Thank you. The UK's nuclear deterrent is the cornerstone of our national security.
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I'm incredibly proud of everything our submariners do to keep us safe. And that's why I wanted to be there in person to say thank you and welcome you back to our shores. Now you have the nuclear submariners in the United Kingdom also doing missions as well.
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Emmanuel Macron posted the following next Thursday in Paris, we will hold a summit of the coalition of volunteers in the presence of president Zelenskyy. Notice who will not be there. The United States. This meeting follows last week's gathering of military chiefs of staff in Paris and today's meeting of operational deputy chiefs in London.
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And again, no doubt in response, in my view, in response to a projection of strength now by Europe with the weakness and isolation and Putin obsequiousness by Donald Trump and what we're seeing with Russia. Proud of what Canada, Europe, Australia, you know, and others are doing to help Ukraine.
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I think really meeting the moment and kind of putting politics aside when it comes to supporting Ukraine, as everybody should. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.
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Trump Runs to Golf Like a Coward as USA Rises Up
Can we just be normal and fight for people? Help people? Show empathy? Handle ourselves with dignity? Not with this Trump regime. The people are pissed. The people are rising up. Peacefully protesting people are pissed. I'm pissed. This is your network. We're going to build this together. We're going to highlight the things that you want us to highlight here. Thanks for watching. Have a good one.
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only allow men and they were shipped back to Venezuela, it's believed, where they already fled from the Maduro regime. She's out there doing cosplay and she's dressed up in her different outfits. Once again, the American people are suffering. The American people feel the pain and these maggots just party it up in Mar-a-Lago. They couldn't be more removed from our reality and they couldn't
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Care less about us. Headlines like this. A list of Social Security offices across the U.S. expected to close this year. Over 47 Social Security offices closing. And I'll show you a clip in a little bit of Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying that if you complain about not receiving a Social Security check one month, you're probably a fraudster and a criminal.
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And Doge should come after you. I'll play for you the clip. Headlines like this, as Trump broadens crackdown, focus expands to legal immigrants and tourists. We've seen travel advisories issue from some politicians in Canada, but we've seen travel advisories from Canada. UK and Germany and all throughout the EU and other places.
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They're like, look, if you travel to America, you could get thrown in an ICE detention center. Or worse, you can get sent to concentration camps in El Salvador right now and you may die and nobody hears from you ever again and you'll be denied due process. This happened on Friday. The acting Social Security head, someone by the name of Leland Dudek,
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says that he was consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the entire Social Security Administration because Leland claimed that they would be unable to administer Social Security based on a federal judge from Maryland's court order that said that Elon Musk and Doge should not get access to our Social Security information. and our medical records, and our private health records.
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The federal judge just said Doge shouldn't have access to it, but the Social Security Administration and administrator can still function. But on that basis, where do they go right away? Shut down Social Security. The judge had to post a public letter on the federal docket, which is unprecedented, saying,
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I never said that you can't continue to administer Social Security like it has been for decades on decades. I just said people should not be having their privacy breached by Elon Musk and Doge. No wonder Donald Trump's support is in the gutter. Just compare Trump's approval or disapproval to that of other presidents at this time.
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I mean, he is so far below Biden, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and his 2025 is starting to crash and it's getting to those 2017 levels right now. I told you about Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick. telling seniors on Social Security that if you complain, if your checks don't come, you're a fraudster. If you didn't believe me, you're like, there's no way he said that.
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He went on a podcast called All In, which is run by these like tech oligarch billionaire people. And they brag about how much money they have in their fancy yachts and cars and mansions and all of that. That's what they do on it. And here's what Howard Lutnick says. You can hear for yourself. Let's play it.
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That's how Americans feel right now. That was in Nebraska, by the way, at a town hall by MAGA Republican Mike Flood. Whether you're Democrat, Independent, Republican, you're getting hit hard by Elon Musk and Donald Trump and the Trump regime and their oligarchs and families. They're just rubbing it in our faces. You see posts like this.
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And I'll play this clip for you as well. Here is Howard Lutnick being asked, do you think you should show though, should Doe show a little more empathy to people and not be so cruel? And Howard Lutnick, like, no, no, no, we should be cruel. And if you're like, Ben, there's no way he said, no, no, no, no, no. And he said that they should be more cruel. I'll play it for you.
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Here's the clip right there.
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This was a week where Donald Trump staged a fake classroom in the White House to announce an executive order that he was going to get rid of the Department of Education. Trump is picking on seniors. He's picking on veterans. He's picking on disabled and poor kids. This was him announcing the elimination of the Department of Education and that everybody supports it, he says here.
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That is very popular. Let's play it.
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Elon Musk, meanwhile, is trying to buy another election, this one in Wisconsin. There's the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. There's a vacant seat that will decide who's going to control the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And there's a pro-democracy candidate, Judge Susan Crawford. There's a far-right extremist MAGA candidate, Schimel.
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Elon Musk is offering $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of that Supreme Court election. Do you see what the oligarchs are doing? Do you see why we needed campaign finance reform and why the right-wing Supreme Court overturning campaign finance laws in the Citizens United case has been so destructive and has opened up the floodgates for a lot of this oligarchy?
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We need checks and balances, and here's a prime example why. So on Friday, Donald Trump says that he never signed the executive order for the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which then led to the kidnapping of about 300 individuals who the Trump regime claimed were were terrorists. Venezuela gang member enemy combatant terrorists is who they were labeled, shipped them to El Salvador.
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The Trump regime made an ISIS-style video where they basically tortured the individuals on video, saw their faces, and they were treated like dirt. never to be heard from again. We know some of the backstory of these individuals. There have been court hearings. A federal judge in Washington, D.C.
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seems very close to holding Trump and his regime in contempt for what they did, violating a court order saying you can't ship these people without due process until we figure out what the hell is going on here. You're declaring there's a war? What war are you declaring? And you have to give the people some rights.
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How can people have the ability to challenge if you're saying that they're a gang member? What are you basing your criteria on? Here's Donald Trump saying that he did not sign it. Play this clip.
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Ivanka Trump shows off her impressive jujitsu moves with Gisele Bundchen's boyfriend's brother. I don't even know what the headline's talking about, but... They're bragging about all of that while we hear and we see headlines and stories about Social Security offices being closed and Elon Musk calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme. They're going after Medicaid. They're firing veterans.
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And obviously he's trying to distance himself from the Alien Enemies Act right now because I think they sent a lot of people to El Salvador concentration camps who were not gang members. I know they sent some women there because we've seen some of the declarations by the ACLU. Women were sent there and the concentration camp is only for men.
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Then those women were sent back, I believe, to Venezuela again. where they fled in the first place the Maduro regime. What do you think Maduro is going to do to those women who are shipped back to Venezuela who are asylum seekers? There was another story of the professional Venezuela soccer player. Came to the United States lawfully under our asylum laws. Registered himself.
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That's how he was in the system. But he had a Real Madrid tattoo for the football club Real Madrid. And on that basis, the Trump regime said that he's a terrorist, gangster, enemy combatant and shipped him to a concentration camp. By the way, here's Trump's signature on the Alien Enemies Act. Later, the Trump regime tried to say, oh, Donald Trump didn't say what you heard him say.
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He said he never signed the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. He never said he was on a time machine and went back to 1798. So ridiculous. Donald Trump posts April 2nd as Liberation Day in America. For decades, we have been ripped off. Just more tariff threats. And then the same old stories come out. He threatens Liberation Day where he's going to tariff everybody. But then he'll be flexible.
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And so he does the tariffs. He pulls off the tariffs. He does the tariffs. He takes off the tariffs. The boy who cried tariffs. It's embarrassing. And countries are fed up. Europe's not playing this game anymore. They're like, go F yourself. We're going to form our own alliances. Do what you want to do. We're going to act like adults and behave maturely. If you want to trade, trade.
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But we'll build up without you. Same thing, Canada. Shout out to our Canadian supporters. Boycotting all things American. 85-90% drops in tourism in certain areas. Really hitting America where it's hurt. Not buying American products. Let's take a look. Remember that video I showed you at the outset? You know how all the MAGAs, by the way, credit to PBS. They ran a great piece on that.
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Remember how all the MAGAs are saying, oh, all these people who show up, they're like George Soros funded. They're paid for by the Democrats. These are all just activists. These are people who live in the district who want answers, who are suffering. who are living paycheck to paycheck, who are constituents, who want to be treated like citizens and constituents.
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These are some of the people outside of that rally or the town hall by MAGA Republican Representative Flood. Play the clip.
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Isn't that in such stark contrast to what's been going on with the Fight the Oligarchy tour? With Bernie Sanders and AOC, 34,000 people showed up to watch them in Denver. Another city in Colorado, close to 12,000. Arizona, 15,000. These crowds are growing in size. People are pumped. Take a look at this. This was the speech in Greeley, Colorado.
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They're treating veterans like crap. And they're gutting the federal government. And there's Donald Trump goes golfing again, off for another vacation again.
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They went right to the district of a MAGA Republican Congress member, Gabe Evans. Watch this. People were pumped. People were pumped. Here was Senator Sanders at a speech in Denver. Let's take a watch.
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While all of this is taking place, Trump's defense secretary is doing Twitter or X polls. Better name? What should we call the Department of Defense? Department of Defense? Department of War? The People's Pentagon? As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, he's really into renaming stuff. Deleting black people from military history and attacking our veterans. But he loves the rename.
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Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Secretary, who's responsible as well for the kidnapping of people who were here in America, sending them to concentration camps in El Salvador without due process, including women who were rejected from the El Salvador concentration camps because those camps were
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Rename this, rename that. Can you please just allow the federal government to function? Can you not attack veterans? Can you not steal people's Medicaid and not steal people's Social Security? Can you not continue to talk about... annexing or taking over Canada or Panama Canal or Greenland? Can you stop with this tariff crap? Can you stop tanking the markets?
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A truly bizarre and unhinged morning for Donald Trump, but what else is new with this Trump regime? Donald Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office where he and his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host, announced that they were going to be having a successor to the F-35 jet, which they were going to call, surprise, surprise, the F-47. So as they're gutting Medicaid,
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And now our allies as well say that the United States is retreating from its push to enforce Russian sanctions. So these sanctions against Russia are not being enforced by the Trump regime right now.
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Horrific, horrific stuff, or a lot of them are not being enforced, allowing Russia to move its money and to do deals, which it wasn't allowed to do under the Biden administration based on the sanctions regime that is in place. What else was Donald Trump doing? I'm not even going to read this one. Attacking judges. Oh, these injunctions are unlawful.
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It's unfair that judges are saying that we can't kidnap people and then send them to concentration camps and that they're delaying it. And it's just him whining over and over and over again about it. all caps. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Look, he couldn't be more clear about what he's saying. And as I've reported before, Canada's responding in kind. They are boycotting America. They are boycotting tourism, boycotting American products. And they are now doing military deals with Australia and Europe to start building up its defenses against Canada. The United States.
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I mean, it's a horrifying thing that I even have to say that, but that's what the Trump regime has done to the United States. Also, bizarrely, Donald Trump posted this this morning. He goes, I love King Charles. This sounds good to me. This is a real post from Donald Trump. This isn't AI. And he's posting an article saying, From the Sun, which says King Charles makes secret offer to Donald Trump.
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And the secret offer is to make the United States of America part of the Commonwealth and to make King Charles the king of the United States. I mean, I don't think this is like even like... a real article in terms of the veracity of the claim that that's actually the secret offer. But Donald Trump says he loves this idea.
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So I guess make America first or make America great means make America a monarchy again. Hey, Donald Trump always loves kings. And I guess that's I don't know. How bizarre is that? That's what he's posted this morning. Then Donald Trump is asked, you know, Russia continues to attack Ukraine. You claim that there was going to be a ceasefire over energy infrastructure. That's not happening.
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Putin's not doing anything that you said he was going to do. And so what's your response to that? And of course, Donald Trump's like, no, no, there's a ceasefire. He goes, there's a ceasefire over a lot of areas. Here, play this clip.
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You know, Donald, the people living in Odessa and other cities throughout Ukraine would disagree. You're being played by Putin, but you know that you are Putin's puppet. You are Putin's pawn. And it's just so obvious. Donald Trump is then asked.
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As they're calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, they say they're putting a lot of money into an F-47. But then Donald Trump started talking about his favorite topic, which is conquering Canada. He talked about how it was an artificial line that separates the United States and Canada, and he wants it, and he wants to take it now. Play this clip.
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about whether or not he's extorting law firms and basically attacking law firms in executive orders like Paul Weiss and then making them do deals to give him free legal services or pro bono services. And Donald Trump says law firms like to make deals. So yeah, they want to do deals. Play this clip. Up the lands, et cetera, et cetera.
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Well, the law firms all want to make deals. By the way, shame on Paul Weiss, that horrific law firm, and any associate or partner who works at this law firm. And I know a lot of people there may be watching this or people who work at Big Law watch this. I used to be a lawyer at a boutique law firm. I used to do cases, though, a lot with Big law people. I went to Georgetown Law.
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I have a lot of people in my class who work at big law. The conduct by Paul Weiss, in my view, is absolutely pathetic. And it is embarrassing that they made a deal with Donald Trump because he put them in an executive order where they attack their own partner who worked for them. and then said they would do $40 million of pro bono legal services. Shame on Paul Weiss. I had to say that.
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What a despicable law firm. And anybody who works there shares that shame right now. Here, Donald Trump is asked about deporting people who tamper with Teslas to El Salvador. And Donald Trump says, I view you, if you do anything to Teslas, he goes, I view you as a terrorist. And yeah, maybe, maybe play this clip.
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By the way, Donald Trump also was making posts earlier in the day and last night saying that if he goes, I look forward to watching these sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla, perhaps
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they could serve them in the prisons of el salvador which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions the trump regime is now making isis style videos where they're taking people who they call gang members because they fit the trump regime's view of what a gang member is and throwing them into concentration camps in El Salvador.
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We've heard stories, for example, a professional soccer player who fled the Maduro regime as political exiles, asylum seekers who were here, who was here lawfully. He had a Real Madrid tattoo and he had given a hand signal that meant peace and love. And the Trump regime took him from his family, sent him into a concentration camp in El Salvador.
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And who knows if he's even alive anymore or what's happened to him That is the state of the United States of America right now under the Trump regime. No wonder people like Charlie Angus in Canada and in the UK and Germany and elsewhere are issuing travel advisories for their citizens. Be careful if you go into the U.S. or we recommend you don't go to the U.S.
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You may end up in concentration camps in El Salvador. J.D. Vance was in the room during this bizarre press conference and he was asked what his thoughts were. And JD goes, ooh, planes, pretty cool. I like planes. Here, play this clip.
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Pretty cool. I like airplanes. The hell is even going on here? And by the way, you know why he calls it an F-47, right? As opposed to F-36 would be the one that goes after 35. Then Pete Hegseth just starts glazing Elon Musk. Elon Musk is an innovator. Elon Musk is the greatest. We love Elon Musk here. We love him. to help play this clip.
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Donald Trump is then asked if he believes he has the authority to round people up and deport them and not give them process. And Donald Trump goes, yeah, that's the law. I can do what I want. Play the clip. It didn't happen.
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Then Donald Trump calls Tim Walz, Governor Walz, a loser.
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great group but i would i would probably put him at the bottom of the group politicians fundraising and campaigning against your policies i hope so i hope so and then pete hegseth after all of that has the audacity to say under the previous administration we looked like fools but we don't look like fools anymore i think you look like the biggest fools the world is our enemies are laughing at you our allies are
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horrified at you. Play this clip.
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Thank you. While this is going on, what else is going on throughout the nation? Just take a look. People get that these Trump tariffs and these Trump disastrous economic policies are going to hurt them. For example, Take a look at this Pennsylvania butcher. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump continues and says, look, no, no, I really mean it. I want Canada to become a state. I'm not joking. I want to take it over. Play this clip.
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Also, Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, billionaire Howard Lutnick, the guy who was yesterday on the news saying people need to buy Tesla stock to pump up the stock. And he goes, everyone should also consider buying in the future $30,000 Tesla robots.
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Yes, Trump regime, as you're gutting people's Medicaid, as you're calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, as you're firing veterans, as you're engaged in cruel and inhumane treatment of American citizens and of others in general, as you're throwing people in concentration camps as well, yes, buy $30,000 robots.
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But here Howard Lutnick is asked on this podcast, this bro podcast on like finances called All In, where they talk about how rich they are or like, well, how much money are you making? You got millions of dollars. Whatever they're talking about. Howard Lutnick is asked, do you think that you should be more empathetic about how you talk about Doge and Doge destroying people's life?
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And Howard Lutnick goes, no, no, no. Why would I be more empathetic? This is what the American people want. They want to be treated like this. Play this clip.
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Watching these oligarchs, watching these billionaires say, this is how people want to be treated and you shouldn't be more empathetic. These people are disgusting humans. These people are vile people. These Trump, there's no other way to say it. Let's not mince words. These are disgusting people. He or Howard Lutnick talks about, yeah, if a Social Security check doesn't come, whatevs.
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My mom wouldn't care. My mother-in-law wouldn't care. Play this clip.
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Seriously? Seriously? They're also doing things like this. This news broke, I'm sure you've heard about it. How a promising advance in the fight against Alzheimer's could be threatened by Doge cuts. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump is now claiming that he did not sign the invocation of war powers under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Despite the fact that Donald Trump's name is on the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, you see right there it says, by the President of the United States of America on March 15th, 2025. And there's his signature saying, in witness whereof I have signed this,
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Here's Caroline Levitt. Shortly after that, she goes on state regime media known as Fox News. with Maria Bartiromo. And she says Donald Trump signed this proclamation. And then she goes on to say, and as a result, she says like over 200 or 300 Venezuelan gang members. And she says our terrorists, the most dangerous, violent people, she said, have been sent to El Salvador. I want to play this.
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Then I want to fact check it. Let's play it.
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Now, one of the things that we are learning and why I think Donald Trump's claiming that he did not sign this invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is that a lot of the individuals who ended up being kidnapped by the Trump regime and sent to El Salvador to be placed in concentration camps were not actually gang members.
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They were not given due process to prove that they were not gang members in the first place. We're learning, for example, that political exiles of Venezuela professional soccer players who were coaches who were here lawfully under our lawful asylum process because they may have had Real Madrid tattoos or because they were giving the peace or love sign.
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The Trump regime said their gang members picked them up, found them in the database because they were lawfully here seeking asylum, shipped them to concentration camps in El Salvador. We're also learning that there were women who were sent to El Salvador And those concentration camps there are only for men. And so they had to be sent back to Venezuela.
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And who knows what happened there if they're political exiles from the Maduro regime. We learned a lot about this over the past few days. And then there was a hearing in the federal courts in Washington, D.C. today, where the federal judge, Jeb Boasberg, looks increasingly inclined to hold the Trump regime in contempt.
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So I think what's happening here is Trump is throwing his own Department of Justice and his own DOJ lawyers under the bus now to try to blame them. Because even the Department of Justice lawyer, when getting grilled by the chief federal judge in Washington, D.C., Judge Jeb Boasberg said, You were aware, right, that my order meant that you couldn't ship these people.
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It's in the Federal Register, dated Thursday, March 20th, 2025 under presidential documents. Trump is claiming he didn't sign it. He said other people handled it and he didn't know how it was signed. Here's what Donald Trump said moments ago outside of the White House to reporters. This was truly a stunning moment. Here, play this clip.
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You could have put them through the regular process that we had. You didn't have to release them into the general population of America, but you could go through the regular immigration processes that have always existed until we can assess things like the validity of this order. Was this order signed? What's the war that Donald Trump is claiming exists?
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What's the process if an individual wants to contest that they're not a gang member? Tell me about that. To which the Department of Justice lawyer said, I'm not prepared. I don't know. I wasn't given information by the Trump regime. I'm just a lawyer for the government. To which Judge Jeb Boasberg said, you best be prepared. When you come into my courtroom, that is not an excuse, counsel.
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Do you understand? Let's go back to some more of the receipts. I just wanted to give you the context. Why is this going on? Why is Donald Trump claiming that? I know nothing about this because we think a lot of people sent to El Salvador were not the bad guys. or potentially innocent people lawfully here who are now in concentration camps.
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This is a massive, massive crisis, folks, that is developing, and we called it when it happened. Here's Donald Trump on Air Force One right here. And Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Alien Enemies Act and whether we're at a war. And Trump said, yes, we're in a war. This is an invasion. Here's what he said. Let's play it.
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Thank you, Miracle Made, for sponsoring this episode. Now, it's always projection and confession with Donald Trump, right? Donald Trump has been spending, what, the last two weeks coming up with this bizarre auto-pen conspiracy involving former President Biden, and Trump said, you know, look, all of Biden's pardons are not valid because he uses an auto-pen, and therefore...
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Nothing that he's done is actually signed by him. He didn't know any of this was taking place. When former President Biden knew what was taking place, this whole auto pen conspiracy thing made no sense, but it's typical Trump projection. It seems that Trump doesn't even know what's being signed on his behalf.
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A few days back when Donald Trump was at the Kennedy Center posing in front of nobody on the balcony so he can get his Mussolini photo up, Donald Trump was asked, have you ever used an auto pen? He's like, only for very unimportant matters, only unimportant matters, let's play it. And you'll make your own determination.
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Terrible. So Donald, was this one of those unimportant matters where the Alien Enemies Act was invoked? Where you invoked war powers that have only been claimed in the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II? That just your people auto-pensigned this?
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And now what you're terrified because you realize that you probably sent a lot of innocent people potentially to their deaths or to never to be heard from again from their families in El Salvador concentration camps. Or now that other countries are issuing travel advisories that if their citizens come to the United States, they may end up in El Salvador concentration camps. Now you're scared.
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So you need to find people to throw under the bus. Is that what you're doing? Well, guess what? There's new independent media in town, and we're calling it out, and we're going to hold you accountable with the receipts. This is Donald Trump, by the way, in the Oval Office in the past 10 days or so, where Donald Trump says, who uses an auto pen? Who doesn't know what they sign?
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It's always projection and confession with this individual. Play this clip. What you have to do is look and take a look at he signs by auto pen.
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Nobody's ever heard of such a thing, so should have never happened. Or you know what? You know who Donald Trump's probably also trying to blame? Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Huh, where did we hear Donald Trump say that he would blame things on his own Secretary of State Marco Rubio? Oh, at the joint session. Isn't this convenient? Remember this? Play the clip. And we have Marco Rubio in charge.
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Well, there you have it, folks. We're going to keep you posted every step of the way here. We come with receipts at the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers together. Thank you for watching.
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Now, we come with receipts here at the Midas Touch Network. Donald Trump's chief propagandist, who claims she's a press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, held a press conference in the White House shortly after Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. And she says President Trump signed the proclamation. Play this clip.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
The lawsuits are here. One, two, three, four, at least five major lawsuits that are being filed by state attorney generals throughout the country. Five filed by the state attorney general of Arizona, Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays. Let's welcome her onto the Midas Touch show. Attorney General Mays, five lawsuits.
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So what do you do when there's a coup that is violating the structure, the express language, the spirit, all of that of the Constitution? And we pro-democracy law and order people are playing by the rules. They're not playing by the rules. And they're the federal government and they run the Department of Justice.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
So if a federal judge orders them in contempt, what are they just going to pardon their people? I mean, how do you combat a situation where, as in your words, a lawless coup is taking place?
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
Tell us generally what these are about, these lawsuits against Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
One of the aspects of fighting in the context of litigation after a lawsuit is filed, after a TRO is or isn't granted, you get into the discovery phase and document requests, depositions, interrogatories. Can you tell us a little bit about that? I know a lot of people who speak to us say, why isn't Elon Musk being deposed? We want to see him subpoenaed. He's running around.
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at these conferences with chainsaws, talking about how he's a meme and mocking the American people and posting all of these lies on social media. And people are like, get this guy under oath. If spineless Republicans in Congress aren't going to bring him before their own Doge subcommittee, what are the attorney generals going to do there?
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Let's talk about something you mentioned there too, because the Federal State Drug Task Force to stop the cartels relies on federal grant money that was part of this freeze. So when Trump and MAGA Republicans talk about stopping the cartels,
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What they were doing in your state, and I think people in Arizona very much know this, was they were actually promoting the cartels while hampering federal resources. Do I have that about right?
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What do you say to them or what does your office communicate to them? I mean, look, everyone knows your background. You're a former Republican. You left the party because Trumpism no longer represented your values and views, especially with the abandonment of law and order, you know, a Democratic prosecutor. And so for you, yes, you're a Democrat. Obviously, that's your party.
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But I would say, and correct me if I'm wrong, when I think about Attorney General Chris Mays, I think about law and order as the kind of primary foundational principle. So when people are, then when I think about Arizona from being there, litigating cases there in my past, privacy, privacy, privacy, and kind of keep the federal government away from these things.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
So now they're giving billionaires access to people's data and tax records and medical files across the country. And then they're saying out loud, Trust me, bro. We're billionaires, billionaires. We don't do anything. We're so rich. Why? Why would you not trust us? So what do you tell the people of Arizona? What's being communicated about what's being done?
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You're hearing it from everyone. I mean, I want to make sure I'm not living in my own bubble. You tell me from Arizona, because what I'm seeing are town halls across the country in Republican areas, too, with people saying, what? And I see Republican members of Congress communicating back to them like they're on the platform X or like a social media. And in the real world, people are like,
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No, no, no, I'm not OK with this. Tell us about, you know, as we conclude this interview, like, what are you seeing? Is it bipartisan at this point in terms of the people? What's going on?
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Attorney General Chris Mays, we hope you come back on and keep us updated on the status of these lawsuits. And if you do take that deposition of Elon Musk, maybe break that news here. But I don't want to get into your legal strategy. As a former practicing lawyer, I get it. You can't reveal the strategy. Thank you so much for joining us.
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Trump Stunt Backfires in His Face as Past Resurfaces
Look, Trump needs a distraction. His approval numbers are tanking fast. Americans, whether they're Democrats, Republicans, or independents, are showing up at town halls and letting it be known how much they despise this administration, how much they despise Elon Musk. So Donald Trump and his administration, what do they do?
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I don't know if that's true or not, but that's one of the things that Epstein said. Epstein knew intricate details. They're at parties together in Mar-a-Lago. I mean, there's a lot of data here. The Trump's all over Epstein's flight log. So they dangle this thing and just expect that their base will not know those facts. But guess what, Donald?
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Your base, a lot of them are now starting to watch this show because they know you're full of shit. So for those who are first watching the Midas Touch Network, too, and of course, all of those who have been here. We come with receipts here on the Midas Touch Network. So let's come with receipts. So first, let me show you the distraction.
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Donald Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi goes on Fox as our markets are crashing on Friday. And she goes... Epstein, right? I'm going to release that and maybe MLK and maybe RFK files. And what else? The JFK files. I'm going to release it here.
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Not yet. Well, we'll check back with you. To be clear, what she said is she was reviewing it. Do you think for a second this fascist authoritarian Trump regime is going to release it with Donald Trump's name in it? Do you think so? We know Trump's name is on things to begin with. I mean, look, Trump's name is all over the flight log of Epstein's Lolita Express. We have it here.
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Let's talk about Epstein and let's say we're going to release the Epstein files and the Epstein client list. Maybe that will distract the American people and maybe they won't remember that Donald Trump was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein. Maybe the American people won't remember that Jeffrey Epstein would find the girls to traffic.
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Almost no one's flown as many times on that jet than Donald Trump. Trump, heck, Trump liked the jet so much that when Epstein died and... You could form your own opinions about the circumstances of how that took place. But Donald Trump was flying around during the election, during the campaign, in Epstein's jet. You go, what do you mean he was flying around in the jet? I thought Epstein's dead.
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Yeah, Epstein died. Then his estate sold the jet to somebody. And then Donald Trump was given that jet for the campaign. He rapped Trump 2024 on the Epstein jet and flew the same jet around to go to places when he was not flying his other bigger plane, because his other bigger plane was slower and more expensive and a pain in the ass, so he would fly on that Epstein jet a lot. Also,
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Epstein would fly on Trump's plane when Epstein was alive. Here is one of the articles from New York Magazine. Quote, they did board Trump's jet with a young woman of indeterminate age. I wouldn't be able to tell if she was 15 years old or 20. She was quite dressed up and quite made up. So it was hard to tell.
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During the first Trump administration, Epstein's trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was on criminal trial for trafficking. She was found guilty, thrown in jail for the rest of her life. Trump was asked about Ghislaine Maxwell during her trial when Trump was in office the first time. Do you think Trump said, oh, she's disgusting. I condemn it in the strongest terms. She's a trafficker.
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I wish the worst for her. He wished her well. He wished the best for her.
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Trump Stunt Backfires in His Face as Past Resurfaces
And just so you can see it for yourself, here's a direct quote from Donald Trump to New York Magazine 2002. Quote, I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It's even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do. And many of them are on the younger side. Epstein liked girls, underage girls that he would traffic, you sicko, you disgusting person.
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I mean, Trump is filthy. This is a disgusting individual who, by the way, was found liable for sexual assault. We should not forget that. And at his trial for sexual assault, Trump fled and went to Scotland and Ireland because he was too chicken shit to sit there as E. Jean Carroll's lawyer deposed him or cross-examined him rather during the first trial.
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Here's Donald Trump is with his kids and Epstein here. Trump is partying with Epstein. Here's a deposition transcript where a woman Epstein was trafficking. This is what she said at our deposition while they were on Jeffrey Epstein's plane. Jeffrey said, great, let's call up Trump and we'll go to, I don't call the name of the casino, but let's go to Trump's casino.
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Also at Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, the one where Donald Trump wished her well, wink, wink. One of the things we found out there was Jeffrey Epstein introduced a woman. At that time, she was 14 years old when she testified she was a woman. Jeffrey Epstein introduced this person, Jane Doe, to Trump when she was 14 years old, Ghislaine Maxwell accuser says.
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at Mar-a-Lago like Virginia Giuffre who was homeless and then got a job at Mar-a-Lago and then Ghislaine Maxwell who was trafficking for Jeffrey Epstein found her working at Mar-a-Lago and brought her to Epstein and demanded that she massage Epstein and then Epstein started trafficking her.
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Testifying at Maxwell's criminal trial in New York City, the woman, identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe, said she met Donald Trump in the 1990s at his Mar-a-Lago resort. By the way, it's not unique to Donald Trump. RFK Jr., Lolita Express, friends with Epstein. His wife was friends with Ghislaine Maxwell. This is what these people do. Here he is right here. RFK Jr. talking about it.
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Maybe the American people will forget that Donald Trump said that Epstein is a great guy who likes women on the younger side. Maybe the American people will forget that Donald Trump's name is all over depositions involving Jeffrey Epstein, is all over Jeffrey Epstein's plane log that Jeffrey Epstein audio with the reporter emerged before the election.
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All right. Now you want to hear Donald Trump in his own words, where he said that the most courageous thing he's done in his life, according to a general, was when he referred to grabbing women by their genitals as locker room talk. Donald Trump said that was the most courageous thing he did, according to this general who saw wars. When Donald Trump said locker room talk,
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That was the most courageous thing, according to this generalist, what Donald Trump's saying. And Donald Trump told the story I'm about to share with you in New York City before the young Republicans in front of kids. Donald Trump told the story you're about to see in front of kids, high school students and college students. He's a sick play the clip.
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And here's Donald Trump at his deposition at the sexual assault trial where he was found liable. And Donald Trump was asked about his comments about grabbing women by their genitals. And here's what he said. Play the clip.
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Here's Donald Trump talking about Lindsay Lohan. I believe she was either 18 years old or 17. I think she was 18, maybe just turned 18 at this time. And Donald Trump said that he wanted to have sex with her because he thought that she was mentally ill. And he says that having sex with the mentally ill is the best, he says. Here he is. You can hear him in his own words. Play it.
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And it seemed like we in the Daily Beast were the only people who were covering it, where Epstein knew intricate details about the first Trump administration and talked about how Donald Trump and Melania, the first time they did you know what, was on the Epstein jet. And Epstein talked about how Donald Trump liked to have sex with his friends' wives is one of the things that Epstein said.
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I mean, this is a sicko. This is a sicko who's destroying our country right now, who's destroying our economy, who's having Elon Musk and other and guys, 19-year-old guys who call themselves big balls go access your private data. They're looking at your social security information, your medical information, your tax information, and they're admitting it.
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They were just saying because they're billionaires, they can do it. When you're rich, they can do it. That's what they're saying. And they're saying, why wouldn't you trust us? We're billionaires. Billionaires should be able to do this stuff.
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Here's Donald Trump, a billionaire, saying that one of the reasons he bought beauty pageants is so that he can inspect the girls naked at his beauty pageants without their consent. This is him in his own words. Play this clip.
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Now, may I share with you some of the beauty pageants that Donald Trump ran? Donald Trump hosted this one, the look of the year competition. Here are some of the people in his beauty pageants. And they would go on yachts. traveling around New York. The Guardian wrote a whole story about this.
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Describe the girls gyrating on men old enough to be their grandparents as the men said, bring me another, bring me another. It's called the look of the year competition. So why don't we do this? I know they're trying to distract us with the Epstein stuff, but let's check back. Let's see if they really release The whole DOJ files. All of them. Let's see them all. I know what's on the files already.
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I know what's on the ones that have been released. So release them. Release them, Pam Bondi. Put them all out there. And I want you all to see this because I want you to know the sick degenerate in the Oval Office. I want you to know what a despicable person he is. As he does all this other crap right now to our country. I just want you to forget this is a evil, awful person.
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And sometimes you're like, why would these people do it? Because they're evil, awful people sometimes. Cruelty is the point. And they've lived disgusting, vile lives forever doing the sickest shit to people. Sickening stuff. And we will stand up to it here and we will call it out fearlessly.
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Trump Wakes Up in a Panic as He Loses All Control
Donald Trump woke up and called Fox in a panic and said, everybody stop blaming the economy on me. It's not my fault. It's not my fault. Here, watch what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip.
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Just so we're all clear here of the Donald Trump bait and switch. This is his new line. You can't blame me on the economy. You can't blame me. It's Biden's fault. It's Biden's fault. Here's what he said just earlier in the week when he was on Hannity as well. Play this clip.
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trying to cover up what a horrific and disastrous presidency this is already. Take a look at data. We like looking at data here at the Midas Touch Network. From the University of Michigan Consumer Survey, long-run inflation expectations rose over the course of the month and climbed from 3.2% in January to 3.5% in February.
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This is the largest month-over-month increase since May 2021, exceeding expectations. Lots of Americans believe inflation is going to hit in the mid-fours or even higher pretty soon. Economists expected that Donald Trump was going to cause massive problems to the economy, but this soon is even exceeding their expectations. More emails from Donald Trump last night and this morning.
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well it takes a period of six months to a year really donald and by the way this follows last night donald trump trying to email his supporters with the following message they want me to fire elon musk and when you open it up i subscribe to this so you don't have to It says urgent stand with Elon. Doge is tearing through Washington's corrupt bureaucracy like a tornado.
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Elon Musk is dark MAGA. Ben, are you ready to join him and go dark MAGA? I don't know what the hell are you talking about? Am I ready to go dark MAGA? No, I'm ready for you to lower the prices, make housing more affordable, make healthcare more accessible, make education more accessible. assault the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Russia's unlawful invasion, which you did not do and not attack Zelensky. That's what I'm ready for. Not going dark MAGA. More grifty emails from Donald Trump about immediate, immediate action required. Click this link right now. By the way, Donald Trump made this post last night of the Team USA versus Team Canada game. Everything Donald Trump touches dies.
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Of course, Team Canada won after Donald Trump intervened and tried to make that game about himself the same way he did with the Kansas City Chiefs. Donald Trump reposting Matt Gaetz. And now we all know the report on Matt Gaetz and the underage girl. And we know about Matt Gaetz and drugs. But Donald Trump wants to post Matt Gaetz as his hype man.
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But of course, Donald Trump was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein. And Epstein recruited girls from Mar-a-Lago to traffic. So we know this crew. And there's a reason why I don't think you're going to see those Epstein files released anytime soon. Here's what Matt Gaetz says. From cutting bloated budgets to renaming the Gulf of America. Oh, yeah. The Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Yeah.
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Who cares if Donald Trump is destroying our economy, destroying the federal government, making people less safe, less healthy, destroying our alliances. All that matters is Gulf of America. Yeah. And by the way, this is what currently at CPAC, they've gone from Project 2025, the right wing people from Project 2025 to now they're calling it. You want to get this? The third term project.
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This is from today at CPAC. Trump is speaking at this conference tomorrow, but this is what it looks like today, where attendees there are promoting the, quote, third term project, which calls to override the Constitution to let Trump hold on to power indefinitely. Their signage depicts Trump as Julius Caesar, who declares himself dictator for life. Going back to Donald Trump's call with Fox News,
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this morning here's donald trump uh during his call and he refuses to say that the invasion was putin's fault of ukraine he says that he's not going to go there i'm tired of hearing people blaming putin hear it for yourself let's play it but look what you have you have a man who's led a country that had the most beautiful cities that they demolished
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Democrats are in full meltdown modes. First they sued me, then they threatened to impeach me, and now they want me to fire Elon Musk? Well, let's be clear. You're firing hardworking government employees now. You're firing disabled veterans.
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Then Donald Trump says he doesn't believe Zelensky is very important in negotiation meetings with Russia. To be honest with you, he says. Anytime someone's like that says to be honest with you, you know they're a liar. Play this clip.
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And then what was Donald Trump doing at 6.32 a.m. this morning? This is what James Carville really got in Donald Trump's head. So James Carville went on Hannity and had the facts. And James Carville's like, let's be clear. Donald Trump's approval rating right now is the lowest it's been In the history of polling groups at this time in the presidency, he said that Americans hate Elon Musk.
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Americans are aggravated as hell over Donald Trump. So what did Donald Trump do? He goes, I won the election in a landslide, which he didn't. All seven swing states, the popular vote. All 50 states shifted Republican, a record. And now I have the best polling numbers I ever had.
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The Democrats run by broken down losers like James Carville, whose weak of mind and body are going crazy and just don't know what to do. Weak of mind and body are going crazy? You may want to look in the mirror, bud. I I think you're talking about yourself there. It's always projection and confession with these guys. Donald Trump's poll numbers are horrific.
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As I said, the worst in American history right now. But let's let James Carville say it. This is what is getting Donald Trump all worked up right now. Play this clip.
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You're firing people who have dedicated their life to helping because you and Elon Musk want to give $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to billionaires and other billionaires. And so it's not just Democrats who are upset at what Elon Musk is doing.
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That was pretty good right there. Well, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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It's Democrats, Republicans, independents are upset that they're invading our privacy, taking our tax records, our medical records, our social security information, getting access to tax payment systems. People are pissed. Your approval rating, Donald, is absolutely plummeting right now. The worst in Gallup polling history for this term or this time in the presidency. Horrific stuff.
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But let me just bring some receipts, Donald. This is before the election, just to be clear. When you said that you will immediately bring down prices starting on day one, play this clip.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
So does Maga Mike even have a majority at all? Could we be ushering in soon somehow? Majority leader Hakeem Jeffries, still doubtful, but Maga Mike needs Hakeem Jeffries desperately here. Otherwise the government would be shut down. Maga Mike's being attacked from within. Other MAGAs, MAGA Republican Andy Biggs posted on December 16. He goes, government funding expires Friday.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
We're now expecting to vote on a 1500 page short-term omnibus on Wednesday. We still don't have the text of the bill. The DC cartel loves to operate in the shadows. The swamp is deep and must be drained. that you controlled a majority, bigs. Who's the cartel? Is MAGA Mike the cartel? Y'all literally run the government and you're soon to run, unfortunately, all three branches.
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Yet all y'all do is whine that it's the Democrats. It just to me goes back to when they were all like, oh, the Democrat deep state on January 6th, Trump was in power. It was his FBI director who was a Republican. But you have Andy Biggs now attacking MAGA Mike Johnson right there. And so now you get headlines like this because by Friday there would be a government shutdown.
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A government shutdown would usher in probably a depression. And because MAGA Mike can't pass an actual budget, they do this with what's called stop gap measures to basically stop the bleeding versus actually function and do their jobs because they can't form a coalition to actually govern. So Congress is scrambling for a stop gap sprint. Why? Just do your job the right way.
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And by the way, what is it like 75, 80% of Americans don't approve of the work of Congress yet because of gerrymandering elect the party that they hate back into power? Make that make sense. gerrymandering. Here is Melanie Zanona's post. Johnson's Mike Magamike says at the presser, they are almost there on a continuing resolution deal. We'll go until mid-March.
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Said initially it was intended to be a clean stopgap, but said other events intervened, such as hurricanes, struggles in farm community, et cetera. So we have to add that So it's no longer a clean continuing resolution. And now they just push the goalposts a few more months until March. And can I ask an honest question here? I mean, this is a question for Akeem Jeffries and the Democrats.
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Look, I definitely understand. I hate the... I don't like the F around find out stuff where we the people suffer. Friends, family suffer. Community members suffer. But...
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democrats have bailed republicans out over and over again on these continuing resolutions why why just they're in charge they have all the branches of the government why don't you just show them why help them they didn't help you they stopped a bipartisan immigration bill and then ran on immigration when y'all were trying to solve the problem so
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Why help them when they already are saying they want to inflict economic hardship on the people? Shouldn't we just expose them? Am I being petty for asking that question? I don't know. You could tell me in the comments right there. This is what Politico is reporting. Congress strikes a deal on $100 billion in disaster aid and punting funding until March. They're punting the funding until March.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Just do your freaking jobs. Just solve it. Pass a budget. What are you even doing all day? What do you do with your day in Congress? And the ultimate irony here, right, is that the MAGA Republicans...
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attack federal workers we want to slash these jobs we want to get rid of these jobs we're gonna you don't do your own job have you ever looked at a congressional calendar before like these people don't really work or they work like like half the year if that a quarter of the year maybe you work maybe all of you who mock people who work from home but are actually working i don't know
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
Maybe I'll work from home and you could go through like an Excel spreadsheet or whatever you got to do, do a Zoom meeting and perhaps you can, I don't know, pass a budget. But instead, you'll probably go with your cowboy hats to the border and say, look what we're doing here. Look how tough we are versus actually doing your damn job.
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GOP Reps BLOW UP House Majority…MAGA Mike TERRIFIED
So I like that Congress member Robert Garcia out here from California. He talks about this exactly. He's like. So you want to bring in a conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr., who's going to cut jobs at the National Institute of Health. Just think about it. Cut jobs that help people's health while the Republican members of Congress can't even get a budget. Here, watch this.
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Mega Mike, why help this guy? Why help him in March? I mean, I mean it. Why bail him out? Democrats have bailed them out over and over again. Let them sit in their own stew of dysfunction, disorder, and denial. I don't know. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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MAGA Mike Johnson getting more terrible news. I mean, the dude can't even pass a freaking budget, the most basic function of Congress. And now he's getting attacked from within. A day after, by the way, another MAGA Republican from Indiana, Victoria Spars, says she's out. She's not caucusing with Republicans. She doesn't want to be on committees. She may not even vote with Republicans.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
The stock market absolutely hates Donald Trump, his erratic behavior, his threats, the ridiculous cabinet picks. I mean, what? There were eight straight days where the Dow has been down. That hasn't happened since, oh, wait a minute, when Trump was in office in 2018. And if it's the ninth straight day, what's that like since the 1970s? Great work, Donald.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Even when Donald showed up at the New York Stock Exchange last week, He had his whole propaganda crew. His cabinet was there. All of the major indexes were down when Trump was there. I thought he said that he's got the golden touch. Nope, he's got the Midas touch, not the Midas touch at all.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
let's just take a look at what's going on here so you can see for yourself and this happens at a time where treasuries 10-year yields may climb to six percent for the first time in more than two decades As people like T. Rowe Price and other financial analysts are saying that they expect the United States fiscal woes to accelerate and that Donald Trump's policies will keep inflation elevated.
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This comes at a time where the Wall Street Journal's main headline is Americans are stockpiling to get ahead of tariffs. Consumers are snapping up computer parts, vacuum cleaners, coffee and olive oil before the levies take effect. Folks, you realize You didn't have to do this to yourself. I mean, do you enjoy the pain? You wanna inflict pain? It didn't have to actually be this way.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
And so now you have to stockpile your toilet paper and all of these things because the prices are gonna go up. But wait a minute, I thought your whole central premise was that on day one with his accordion hands, like a miracle, it was all gonna go away. Well, didn't he say that before? That was about COVID. He said it again like a miracle. He's going to get the prices down.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
And now he goes on Meet the Press and goes, oh, it's very hard. He tells Time magazine, very, very hard. Not sure I have the ability to do that. Remember, he went to the New York Stock Exchange and he was given the softball of softball questions by propagandist, bogus business host Jim Cramer. Should the American workers, Mr. President, invest in the stock market?
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Should they be putting their money in the stock market? You're at the stock market clearly he wants you to say yes your entire campaign was even though biden's stock market 60 better than your first term that you were going to miraculously what make it even better than it was trump's response is i don't know if workers should invest in the stock market huh
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Trump goes on to say, well, what if there's a dip and then people lose their money? You're talking about a dip in losing their money. You're also telling Kristen, Kristen Welker that you don't think you can get the prices down. You also don't have a healthcare plan. Huh? I don't know, maybe this should be what corporate media is focused on each and every single day.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Dow heads for the ninth straight loss. Stock futures fall as Fed meeting kicks off. Yeah, the Fed's looking at inflation and go, wait a minute. All of Donald Trump's threats to Mexico and Canada and the BRICS block of Brazil and...
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india um and south africa you know the china that's gonna make inflation high we can't lower interest rates um if inflation's gonna keep on rising just think about that um let's just take a look at what tiro price is saying about the treasury yields may climb to six percent here's what tiro says they say the following
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Treasury 10-year yields may climb to 6% for the first time in more than two decades as U.S. fiscal woes worsen and Trump's policies help keep inflation elevated. The benchmark yield may first reach 5% in the first quarter of 2025 before potentially climbing further. Arif Hussain, chief investment officer of Fixed Income wrote in his report,
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Hussein is doubling down on calls for higher yields, citing persistent U.S. budget deficits as Trump cuts taxes during the second presidency, as well as potential tariffs and immigration policies that would sustain price pressures. Is a 6% 10-year Treasury yield possible? Why not? But we can consider that when we move through 5%, wrote Hussein, who helps the money manager oversee $187 billion.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
The transition period in U.S. politics is an opportunity to position for increasing longer term treasury yields, he says. So I told you the other Wall Street Journal headline, right? American stockpiling to get ahead of tariffs. Consumers snapping up computer parts, vacuum cleaners, coffee and olive oil before the levies take effect.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Tariff conscious consumers are stockpiling goods and rushing to upgrade old cars and appliances to get ahead of potential price increases. A quarter of Americans surveyed said it was a good time for major purchases as they expect prices to go up next year, up from 10% a month prior and a record high, according to the University of Michigan's monthly survey of consumers.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
And a third of the 2000 people surveyed recently by creditcards.com said they were buying more now because they feared tariffs. Y'all voted for the guy to inflict suffering on you, and you said you were voting for him for the opposite reason. Now you put him in charge, and now you're saying that you're suffering, and you're upset about that, and now you have to stockpile.
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Can someone please somehow make this make sense to me? But it's okay, everybody. Guess what? Because Elon Musk, oh, he's going to fix it. I'm being sarcastic. Elon Musk writes, there is a large graveyard filled with my enemies. I do not wish to add to it, but will if given no choice. Those who pick fights with me do so at their own peril. But maybe this is their lucky day. What the hell is this?
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
That's someone who's acting as a co-president right now, just out there making threats like that each and every day. But guys, guess what, everybody? Republicans are optimistic for 2025. To me, the biggest red flag is that Republicans are optimistic for 2025, where it seems prices are going to go up.
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Trump's mass deportation plan could hurt the country more than the Great Recession report says. Mass deportations could lead to a 7.4% drop in the GDP, meaning the U.S. economy would not grow at all during Trump's second term, the report says. I don't know. What is something that hurts more than a great recession? I don't know. Does it start with a D? Could it be a great depression?
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Is that the words that you're trying to say? Let's just take a look at some of these reports. The American Immigration Council estimates that if the US deported 1 million people each year until the country no longer had an undocumented population, it could lead to a 4.2% to a 6.8% loss in GDP. To put this in context, the economy shrank by 4.3% during the Great Depression. Here's another one.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
Estimates from the Peterson Institute for International Economics showed an even grimmer economic consequence after analyzing how the deportation of 8.3 million undocumented immigrants would impact the US economy. The think tank found that the GDP would be 7.4% lower by 2028.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
This 7.4% reduction in GDP over four years would likely mean that the US economy would not grow at all during the second term. Employment would also be 7% lower. By the end of Trump's term, the Institute found and 44,000 U.S.-born workers would lose their job.
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So if you want to talk about specific industry sectors like construction, agriculture, healthcare, and hospitality, Trump's proposed mass deportations would remove up to 1.5 million workers from the construction industry, 225,000 from agriculture, 1 million from hospitality, 870,000 from manufacturing, and 461,000 from transportation, warehousing. Seriously? Seriously.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by Stock Market PUNISHING HIM
So I wonder why Wall Street looks at this and goes, wait a minute, things may be grim. But then why is it that they're saying all these things and trying to pump it up? Because they want to pump it. They want to dump it. They want to tax shelter it. They want their tax cuts. And they want to keep us in this loop. Have a Democratic administration fix it.
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But then blame the Democratic administration that fixed it. Blame the firefighter for putting out the fire. Bring back in the arsonists. Plunder. Pillage. Rinse. Repeat. That is the strategy of the oligarchy. And that's what we call out here on the Midas Touch Network. People are pissed, but direct your pissedness in the right direction. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Just think if you're an adversary of the United States and you're watching someone melt down like this and handle it so much like just a freaking toddler. Here's what Donald Trump writes. He goes, breaking. What do you like? You're a news source? Breaking.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
In a completely illegal, psychotic order, the deeply conflicted, corrupt, biased, and incompetent acting Justice Juan Merchan has completely disrespected the United States Supreme Court and its historic decision on immunity. But even without immunity, this illegitimate case is nothing but a rigged hoax.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Mershon, who is a radical partisan, wrote an opinion that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and if allowed to stand, would be the end of the presidency as we know it.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Mershon has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your president and president-elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family's disqualifying and illegal conflicts. I am the only political opponent in American history not allowed to defend myself, a despicable First Amendment violation, exclamation point.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Mershon took the Manhattan DA's witch hunt that, according to all legal scholars, including Jonathan Turley, Eli Honing, Andy McCarthy, Alan Dershowitz, Greg Jarrett, David Rivkin, Elizabeth Price Foley, Andy Tchaikovsky, Paul Ingrassia, so all Fox hosts, other than Ellie Honan.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Great job, Ellie, by the way, in lending your name to that because you're a federal prosecutor and were apparently jealous of the New York District Attorney's prosecution. Barred by the statute of limitations, the case was and should never have been brought. through his fraud and misconduct gave it a semblance of life.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
While deranged, Jack Smith was sent packing back to the Hague after losing all of his politically manufactured cases against me. Mershon, who is far worse and even more corrupt than Smith in his fight for my hopeless political opponents, just cannot let go of his charade. Is it because of his conflicts and relations that he keeps breaking the law? This has to stop, exclamation point.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
it is time to end the lawfare once and for all so we can come together as one nation and make america great again the whiniest message in the world i mean for real we should all be embarrassed by this message first off the special counsel jack smith cases were not dismissed on the basis of the merits he's a federal prosecutor donald trump is now the head of the federal government
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Therefore, it is DOJ policy to dismiss the case. And Jack Smith made it clear, not at all on the merits, but simply because of the election. The conviction in New York predates the election. You are convicted on 34 separate felony counts.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
The United States Supreme Court issued its order on absolute immunity, which said core constitutional functions, official acts, and evidence relating to official acts cannot come into play when it comes to the executive branch. The case in New York involving the 34 separate felony counts against you, Donald Trump, as found by Justice Bershon and found by a jury involved hush money felonies.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
That was what the case was basically called. It was a fabrication of business records case. And then there was a cover-up thereafter. That's what Justice Vershawn put in his ruling. That is essentially what the jury's finding was in finding 34 separate felony counts. The conduct preceded predates when you are in office.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
What Justice Merchant said in his 41-page order is, he said, look, I've reviewed what the Supreme Court has said on absolute immunity. I've reviewed what the Supreme Court discusses in terms of what the outer limits are.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Justice Merchant says, if there is a hypothetical example of something you should not get absolute immunity for, it is essentially making hush money payments to an adult film actor. and a quid pro quo payoff. That does not constitute absolute immunity at all. That's what Justice Mershon put in his very detailed order.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Justice Mershon also said in his ruling that your lawyers fail to assert on most claims the appropriate objections to even assert absolute immunity in the first place. But he goes, look, even though your lawyers did not do their job the right way, essentially, if you wanted to make these claims on most of the claims, he goes, I'll analyze the absolute immunity claim regardless.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
So he analyzes the absolute immunity and says, no, this does not fall within the Supreme Court's ruling, does not fall within the outer limits.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
And then he goes on to say, even if you did get absolute immunity for certain testimony regarding Madeline Westerhut, Michael Cohen, some of your tweets and ho picks, what Justice Merchant said, the evidence of criminality was so overwhelming that any introduction of any of these other facts would be harmless error such that you should be found liable anyway for the crimes that you were convicted of.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Regarding your whining about a gag order and saying that, oh, you're not allowed to defend yourself, you're literally posting a whiny message attacking the judge. In this message, you're attacking the judge's family. You're attacking the judge as a radical partisan. Let's be very clear. The judge himself is excluded from the gag order.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
You can attack the judge, which you are doing now, and you are a convicted felon, according to the judge. There are some limitations. The fact that you think that you need to attack a judge's daughter when you are a president-elect, again, shows the depths of depravity that exists with you. You could go on and read this order. I could debunk more of this stuff.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Completely illegal and psychotic order. So you're saying what, Justice Merchant, a New York state court judge, committed a crime by following New York state law? Weren't these MAGA Republicans, weren't they all states' rights people? But now they're not for states' rights when it doesn't involve a ruling that they like. He goes on to call it a rigged hoax, really?
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Because a jury of your peers in New York found you guilty on 34 separate felony counts. Regarding the reference to Ellie Honing, didn't Ellie Honing say that Michael Cohen blew the case? I thought Ellie Honing said that you were going to win the case, the juries hated Michael Cohen. So I guess Ellie Honing was wrong again there.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
You say that Mershon has so little respect for the Constitution, he's keeping an illegal gag order. I mean, you could essentially say whatever you want. I just read your freaking statement that you said right now. You said this is a despicable First Amendment violation. Well, by the way, the United States Supreme Court, the federal United States Supreme Court, they've said the gag order is valid.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
So what do you say about that? New York's highest court, United States Supreme Court, all said the gag order is valid. And on the Supreme Court side, those are judges who you appointed. Then your statement about Jack Smith losing his cases, he didn't lose the cases on the merits. He dismissed the cases because you won. Your Supreme Court justices, the same ones who say the gag order is fine.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
They made a ruling that delayed justice in time, and then you won the election, and now the case gets dismissed. I mean, it is what it is. Jack Smith had to dismiss the cases under DOJ precedent. That's just what the DOJ does, because you're going to be appointing Pam Bondi to lead the DOJ. So clearly she's not going to pursue the prosecution against you.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
And then you go, is it because his conflict and relations that he keeps breaking the law? This has to stop. So you're again saying that Justice Mershon is a criminal. You're talking about lawfare, but you're out there literally saying, suing everybody. You sued the Iowa pollster because they wrote a poll that you didn't like under Iowa consumer protection statutes.
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But you're upset about lawfare where a criminal jury in New York convicted you on 34 separate felony counts. And then he goes on and just, again, mostly it's just whining. It's whining and it's using the presidency as a pulpit not to lead, but to be a whiner in chief, a little baby who behaves like this. Anyway, let me know what you think, but that's Donald Trump's freak out. Hit subscribe.
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Trump LOSES HIS MIND over Immunity Order
Donald Trump is losing his mind right now after the New York judge, Justice Mershon, ruled that Trump does not have absolute immunity following that Supreme Court ruling. In other words, the 34 felony count conviction against Donald Trump in New York stands. Here's what Donald Trump posted the opposite of presidential as he has a public meltdown, a public freakout.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
I want to show you how President Biden has outmaneuvered Donald Trump in the closing days of the Biden administration with grace and dignity and a patriotism and love of our country that's quintessential Biden. So just take a look at this. These are the types of posts that Donald Trump has been making over the past 24 hours.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
Donald Trump goes, if there's going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now under the Biden administration, not after January 20th, under quote Trump. This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will, exclamation point.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
And this says Donald Trump and Trump's boss, Elon Musk, are telling bag of Republicans to kill the continuing resolution, as they did earlier in the week, that would have prevented a government shutdown. Donald Trump wants the debt ceiling to be totally abolished. so he can enact his Project 2025 agenda. Donald Trump creating chaos during the transition to himself.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
And of course we know the chaos that Donald Trump caused during the transition to President Biden. Trump is also posting the following. Congress must get rid of or extend out to perhaps 2029, the ridiculous debt ceiling. Without this, we should never make a deal. Remember, the pressure is on whoever is the president. In other words, blame, blame, blame.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
In a moment, I'm going to contrast this to President Biden, but I think it's important to show you the contrast. So hang in there. Don't worry, I'm not showing Trump video content. Or audio, you know that's my latest policy we've enacted since the election here on my hot takes.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
Trump goes, I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large-scale purchase of our oil and gas. Otherwise, it is tariffs all the way! Exclamation point. Threatening our allies in Europe with some nebulous blackmail. Who made this coin? He posts. Then on his social media platform as well. This is what's being sold.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
This is what he's profiting off of because these are ads on his social media site. Get your ivermectin from All Family Pharmacy. Allfamilypharma.com. Ivermectin hydroxychloroquine. And it's RFK Jr. pitching Donald Trump's selection to be the Health and Human Service Director, pitching products like that.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
Meanwhile, Donald Trump's boss, I think the actual president-elect, Elon Musk, is mocking the physical appearance of female Congress members. Turns out that Washington, D.C. swamp creatures are real. And he's mocking Rosa DeLauro right there. And he has spent the morning mocking her because she criticized him. How dare you criticize Elon Musk? So he's out there using a social media platform to...
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
mock her physical appearance. So that's Donald Trump. And I've referred to Donald Trump as having the small stick or micro stick policy, which is use the accordion hands, threaten, huff and puff, but when it comes down to it, have no real power and just being obnoxious.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
On the other hand, when I interviewed President Biden, I believe that not only did he reflect grace and dignity, but also I think that's what real strength looks like. We did the interview in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing of the White House. named after FDR and Teddy Roosevelt. Now, Teddy Roosevelt said, his famous expression is, speak soft, but carry a big stick.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
It's called the big stick policy. In other words, a true leader doesn't go and make all of these threats all over the place. Their true leader is dignified. is a true statesman, but when it comes down to it, exercises real power when necessary. And I think that's what President Biden is and Biden reflects.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
And I know that doesn't fit into a nice cute sound bite for TikTok or whatever, but to me, that's what real leadership is. So contrast Donald Trump making all of these threats, the bluster on his social media, and contrast that to President Biden here. So when I asked President Biden, hey, you know, Donald Trump's going to try to take credit for all of your stuff. What are you going to do?
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
Watch this response from President Biden. And by the way, you can watch the full interview on our YouTube channel. It is a must-see. And sometimes I get asked by you how you can help the Midas Touch Network. If you can share that full interview with 10, 15, 20 people, you know it helps us so much.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
And if you could put in the comments that you shared it with 10, 20, 15, however many people you shared it with, Let me know in the comments. It goes a long way to help us out and have more people see that video. Here's what President Biden responded. Play this clip. What are you going to do when the other guy goes out there bragging about accomplishments under you?
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
The Medicare $2,000 cap is going to kick in in 2025. He's going to be out there saying, I did this. How is that going to make you feel when that happens?
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
That's ProlonLife.com slash Midas. Check it out. Then I asked President Biden what he wants his legacy to be. And here's what he said. Let's play the clip. When history is all told, how do you want to be remembered? What do you want your legacy to be?
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
And finally, I'll show you this one clip where I asked President Biden, what do you say to Americans who are nervous right now? Here, play this clip. What do you say to Americans who are understandably very nervous right now, who didn't vote for the other guy, who are fearful of the threats, the rhetoric, the idea of retribution?
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
What do you say to them who are looking at you, who admired your work? What do you say to them right now who are watching?
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
So take that and contrast that to this NBC report that Trump is unconcerned about government shutdowns because it doesn't matter to him because he's not in charge yet. Play this clip.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
Now, judge for yourself what true leadership is. You know, go watch that full interview with President Biden. I think it will stand the test of time. I do. I would love for you to watch it. Check it out. Hit subscribe now. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. We appreciate you as always, Midas Mighty.
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Biden OUTMANEUVERS Trump in Powerful FINAL INTERVIEW
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
I want no bills passed until I take over, unless, remember what Donald Trump's position was this past week? unless you attach to the continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown, a provision that says the debt ceiling will be abolished, or perhaps the debt ceiling debate will be pushed to 2029, or perhaps 2027, or perhaps can you just give me something so I look like a winner?
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But it was totally ignored. The final continuing resolution looked a lot like the original one that Donald Trump and Elon Musk said was terrible. But this is a pattern with Donald Trump. He goes out there, bluster, bravado, and then folds. Our enemies know that Trump is not a good negotiator. This is the pattern. Let's watch what this pattern is because it's ingrained in his very weak pathology.
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
So the government's going to be funded. Elon Musk and Donald Trump folded like a cheap napkin and Democrats held their ground. You heard it there. What ended up happening on this continuing resolution to stop a government shutdown The House passed a bill to avert the midnight shutdown. The bill passed 366 to 34. One person voted present. 170 Republicans voted yes. 196 Democrats voted yes.
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So Donald Trump makes posts like this. Congress must get rid of or extend out to perhaps 2029, the ridiculous debt ceiling. Without this, we should never make a deal. Remember, the pressure is on whoever is president.
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34 Republicans voted no. Zero Democrats voted no. Once again, as Jake Sherman reports, Democrats saved Republicans. Another big point after Donald Trump has been saying that he would not support a continuing resolution to stop a government shutdown unless the debt ceiling was abolished or unless the debt ceiling was increased or unless an extension on the debt ceiling for several years was done.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
was his post by the way weird post to uh extend out to perhaps 2029 who negotiates like that then donald trump also posted the following if there's going to be a shutdown of government let it begin now under the biden administration not after january 20th under trump this is a biden problem to solve but if republicans can help solve it they will
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
And so do you remember when Donald Trump was bragging that he forced Maga Mike to have a continuing resolution that included pushing the debt ceiling back a few years or raising the debt ceiling right now, but Republicans didn't support it?
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
That did not happen in this continuing resolution. In other words, what Donald Trump and Elon Musk were asking for, all of the theatrics, all of the drama, all of the wild behavior ended up being for naught. None of that happened. No debt ceiling was even addressed in this continuing resolution. After all of that,
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Republicans rejected it and it failed earlier in the week before they basically brought back the same resolution that Elon Musk was like doing samurai sword pictures with and saying, kill the bill. Donald Trump posted this. Success in Washington. Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come to a very good deal.
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House Republicans weren't at all moved by Trump's demands to lift the borrowing cap to add more debt, which increased the deficit. Trump effectively asked for one thing. He didn't get it. Now on to the Senate, which is expected to pass. this continuing resolution.
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Then it goes on to say a very important piece vital to the America First agenda was added as well. The date of the very unnecessary debt ceiling will be pushed out two years to January 30th, 2027. Now we can make America great again very quickly. Do you remember when Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans were like preventing President Biden for raising the debt ceiling and they said,
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As Mr. Capra puts it, on Wednesday, here's the post, Trump threatens, I'm going to primary any Republican who votes for a clean, continuing resolution without a debt limit extension to keep the government funded. Let's get ready for a shutdown, Trump said. But then on Friday, moments ago, 170 Republicans voted for a clean continuing resolution without a debt limit extension.
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how fiscally irresponsible. Well, Donald Trump wants to do precisely that now when President Biden is still in power. Sounds a bit contradictory, doesn't it? But this is when Donald Trump thought that he was going to get this, but Republicans voted against Donald Trump's provision and what finally went into the bill that was ultimately passed in the House of Representatives had none of that.
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The bill passed overwhelmingly defying Donald Trump. But in Donald Trump world, you got to take credit for things. You got to act like, oh, this was all part of the plan, exactly what I wanted. This is why Donald Trump is the biggest pushover ever. When it all comes down to it, he always folds like a cheap paper napkin from a fast food restaurant with filthy grease on it.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
And what did Donald Trump do? Like the weak and pathetic loser that he is, nothing. He just accepts it. He has his proxy, Mark Wayne Mullen, the MAGA Republican Senator from Oklahoma, go on Fox and say, He's not thrilled about it, but he understands that this is what you're supposed to do. Here, play this clip.
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Sorry, I extended that one a little bit longer. MAGA Mike Johnson, here's what he goes. He goes, I was in contact with Trump through all of this. This is what we wanted. Y'all got bailed out by the Democrats because Democrats essentially got everything that they wanted. Here, play this clip.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
So after all the bluster and bravado, Elon Musk posting kill bill memes, Elon Musk saying just close down the government until January 20th. defund everything. We'll be fine for 33 days. No bill should be passed until Donald Trump takes office. All of those memes, by the way, that are out there by Democrats like Jasmine Crockett with the showing Elon Musk as the puppet master of Donald Trump.
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
By the way, the Democrats posted this AI image right here. This isn't real. In case you were wondering, this is an AI image. Just want to be very clear. This is what the Democrats, the official account opposed to they're enjoying trolling Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The White House says that President Biden supported this because Democrats got mostly what they wanted.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
And then the official Democrats account putting this one, Elon Musk walking Donald Trump like a dog. That's a That's an interesting one right there. But Democrats called Trump's bluff and they said, bet, okay. We're just gonna go back and pretty much do the continuing resolution that does not include raising the debt ceiling or moving the debt ceiling out. Trump, we're going to ignore you.
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
The Republicans removed a few things from it. I'll tell you what the Republicans removed from this continuing resolution to make themselves feel good about it. But Biden got what he wanted because Biden's actually playing chess while Trump is playing, I don't know, checkers with M&Ms or something. I don't know. This is what the White House says.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
What you gonna do about it, tough guy? What you gonna do about it? And Trump did nothing. Here's Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, calling him out. Play this clip.
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While it does not include everything we sought, it includes disaster relief. The president requested for the communities recovering from the storm eliminates the accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires and would ensure that the government can continue to operate at full capacity. In other words, Democrats held their ground.
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
As Jeff Stein from The Washington Post reports, six bipartisan policies taken out of the spending bill after Musk torched it. So this is what Trump and Elon Musk removed from the original bill. Otherwise, it's virtually identical. Let's take a look. Provision aimed at ensuring food stamps are replenished for Americans whose benefits are stolen, possibly as many as 300,000 affected per the CBPP.
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A series of changes to the operations of pharmacy benefit managers, middlemen in the medicine business that negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. For example, an attempt to end spread pricing where PBMs charge a health plan more for a drug than what they pay for the pharmacies that dispense it. Three, pay hikes for members of Congress, 4% or so increases.
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Four, transferring control of the land in Washington, D.C., where RFK Stadium sits, to the district. No new funds here. The Ted Cruz-Klobuchar bill aimed at cracking down on revenge porn and deep fakes.
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
republicans took that out of this a bipartisan bill aimed at cracking down on revenge porn and deep fakes that's no longer in this great work republicans for getting rid of that i'm being sarcastic six new and expanded restrictions on u.s investments in china yes the bill is much shorter about 900 pages or so shorter
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
It funds the government and provides aid to farmers and natural disaster victims. It does not include the debt ceiling lift that Donald Trump said had to take place. Also, the pediatric cancer funding did not make it in this bill as well. They removed pediatric cancer funding. Ted Cruz using this as an opportunity to plug his podcast.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
On my podcast verdict, I answer for you the questions and explain what the heck is going on. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, naturally, Ted Cruz views this whole shit show as an opportunity to promote his podcast. And then on Fox. They are trying to spin this like Trump got what he wanted when quite literally the opposite took place.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
reminding Donald Trump, this was a brilliant moment, okay? So I guess if you shut down the government, idiot, she didn't say idiot. I guess if you shut down the government, you know you're not gonna be able to have a transition. You know that you're not gonna be able to certify the results of your election. You know that the inauguration will not be able to be funded.
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Watch this guest on Fox go, yeah, this is what we want to do the whole time. Here, play this clip.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
You know that all of that will shut down as well. Here's what she said, and that shut him up pretty quickly. Here, play this clip.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
Okay, well, to pretend they had a victory though, you know what Elon Musk and Donald Trump and the Republicans took out of the prior continuing resolution? It's virtually identical, but what they did take out right here is a provision aimed at ensuring food stamps are replenished for Americans whose benefits are stolen. affecting up to 300,000 people. Let's go after the food stamp recipients.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
Also, they got rid of a bill aimed at cracking down on revenge porn and deep fakes. They took out that bipartisan piece of legislation, and they also took out pediatric cancer care. But ultimately, the bill passed and what Trump wanted in it was not in it at all. Trump was ignored. MAGA Republican Tim Burchett was filmed leaving the Capitol building for the long weekend as we head into Christmas.
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
And finally, you had this MAGA Republican, Mark Alford, give this night before Christmas rhyme. Here, play this clip.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
And MAGA Republican Burchett's like, I kind of think we lost here. I think the Democrats just outplayed us once again. Here, let's play this clip right here.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
Anyway. You think, oh, and here's MAGA Mike saying, no, I was in touch with Trump. Trump likes this. This is what Trump, Trump really wanted this. Here, play this clip.
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
Let me just, I don't know what that was. Just let me say this though. This is one of the things I point out about Donald Trump over and over again. He goes and he makes these demands. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. And then he folds. It's a constant behavior in his pathology. It's all bluster. It's all bravado. He's not a competent operator.
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Republicans QUICKLY FOLD on Bill…Dems FIGHT BACK
He was just exposed again right here as all bluster, all bravado. I'll do a whole other hot take on that. But he said, I'm not going to support this unless you extend the debt ceiling limit, expand it. That didn't happen and he supports it. What does that tell you? He got nothing that he wanted in this. Wait, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thank you for watching.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
Okay, let's zoom out, if we will, for a second on a broader concept right here. Now, when Donald Trump threatens tariffs on foreign countries, when Donald Trump posts these things, don't you realize that both our allies and enemies alike view him as a paper tiger? that he's basically all bark and no bite.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
He's the ultimate example of the loud, obnoxious person who wouldn't even throw a grape in a food fight, right? Like that's Donald Trump. He's a weak, weak person when you really break it down. And he showed yet again, all the bluster and bravado and social media posts was for nothing. No, I still think he's a very dangerous individual. I'm not wanna minimize the threats that he poses,
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
But I just want you to think about what a weak negotiator that is. And you see in his social media posts, all right, let's do it at 2029. All right, let's do it at 2027. All right, I'm not thrilled, but I like it. Okay, actually, whatever, I don't care. Let's pretend that I wanted this. Anyway, tell me what you think. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers together.
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Dems CALL Trump’s BLUFF… Trump SURRENDERS FAST
All of the bluster, all of the bravado, all of the social media posts by Donald Trump, didn't work yet again. Democrats called Donald Trump's bluff when it came to the continuing resolution, and once again, Donald Trump folded. It's a pattern with Donald Trump. Remember, Donald Trump said, I am ordering Republicans, you shut down this government.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
MAGA Mike Johnson, what happened? You were on the airplay with Donald Trump and Elon Musk. You were at the UFC events and you even pointed at Donald Trump. You thought you were a cool kid. Well, now you're getting booed at the big MAGA Republican conference in Arizona. It's referred to as AmFest, American Fest. It's one of these right-wing events put on by Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
And Mike Johnson was supposed to speak at the event, but after Donald Trump and Elon Musk undermined his bipartisan compromise with the Democrats earlier in the week to pass a continuing resolution and threw MAGA Mike under the bus, the MAGA Republicans, duh, spies MAGA Mike Johnson at this point. They want MAGA Mike Johnson gone.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
So MAGA Mike Johnson was afraid to even show his face at AmFest, at this big MAGA Republican convention. But that didn't stop the MAGA Republicans in attendance from booing MAGA Mike Johnson. He got booed ruthlessly over and over again. Here is a MAGA Republican, an actress named Leigh Allen
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
Baker, and here she is saying a bunch of things that aren't true about the continuing resolution, but going after MAGA Mike Johnson, who again refused to show his face at this conference where he was actually supposed to speak. And you'll hear the people in the crowd going, boo, here, watch this.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
You know, one of the interesting things is that Maga Mike Johnson tried to act all tough.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
He tried to act like when the Republicans brought back up the continuing resolution that did not include anything to do with eliminating the debt ceiling or putting an extension on when the debt ceiling would have to be addressed, which was exactly what Donald Trump was saying that he wanted in the continuing resolution, or else he said, shut down the government.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
And MAGA Mike Johnson said, look, I was speaking with Donald Trump the entire time. Trump absolutely loves this new continuing resolution. He loves it. He says that this is a great thing. Look how weak MAGA Mike Johnson is as he basically brings right back to the floor the thing that he withdrew. He removed certain other things from this ridiculous stuff.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
But Trump's main thing that he wanted in this bill never made it into the bill. Here, watch this.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
And again, MAGA Mike looking so weird and just so weak. I meant to say weak, not weird, but weird also works as well. Meanwhile, all these MAGA Republicans on social media are just ruthlessly trolling MAGA Mike Johnson. If you just look at the replies to any of his posts, they all look like this. MAGA Republicans posting AI memes like this one. I was bitch slapped yesterday on X.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
Mike Johnson has betrayed the American people. Gosh, I would be so embarrassed to show my face if I was you, another MAGA Republican influencer goes. Speaker Johnson, my first reply was trying to be nice. I realized my mistake afterwards. We don't want you as the speaker. We want someone who will listen to the people also. MAGA Republicans posting polls like this one.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
Has Mike failed us as the speaker? 85% of the MAGAs who respond say yes. Other responses to MAGA Mike Johnson's social media posts like, you already failed. The best for America is a new speaker. Just take a look at these photos one more time. Maga Mike with RFK, Maga Mike with Kid Rock, Maga Mike giving the pointy finger to Donald Trump next to Dana White as well at the UFC match.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
Fox is already basically writing the speakership obituary. for MAGA Mike Johnson. Take a look at what Fox is posting. Names floated to replace Johnson as speaker. Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy. Nothing says man of the people like unelected billionaire bureaucrats or Jim Jordan, Byron Donalds, or Tom Emmer. Right there. Let's take a look here. Let's take a look at this one.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
This is Tommy Tuberville basically saying the problem with MAGA Mike is he's been flying on these planes in first class with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and he hasn't been doing the work of MAGAs. Play this clip.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
Next up, you have Victoria Spars saying, and again, I'm not really even sure what she's saying. It's really hard to actually understand what she's saying with such a thick accent. But she goes, Megha Mike Johnson dragged Donald Trump into the circus. It's Megha Mike's fault. Play this clip.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
See how Donald Trump threw Meg and Mike under the bus? Like, Meg and Mike already had a bipartisan deal worked out, no drama, but then Elon Musk started posting, kill the bill, kill the bill, this bill is criminal. And Musk started posting things with himself like samurai swords next to the bill. and all this ridiculous performative stuff.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
And then Donald Trump said, under no circumstances do we allow this to be passed unless we attach a elimination of the debt ceiling to the continuing resolution. Well, that didn't happen either. Here is MAGA Republican Senator Mike Lee saying, look, MAGA Mike's lost control. It's time we bring in Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to be the Speaker of the House. Play this clip.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
Marjorie Taylor Greene echoing those sentiments at well. She says that she supports Elon Musk to be the Speaker of the House. I mean, folks, these are not serious people. They really are not serious people. Here we have MAGA Republican Dan Mouser. And here he's saying, look, here's the thing. What we need.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
in the House of Representatives, even though we're a co-equal branch of government, is we should just be the board of directors that rubber stamps what the chief executive does. We need to make sure that we're like a board of directors who reports to the chief executive. Newsflash, Mr. Mauser, maybe a little lesson on corporate governance. That's not the way it works.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
The board is superior or senior to the chief executive, but who cares about facts? Here, play this clip.
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Speaker Johnson BOOED ON STAGE by GOP…He RUNS AWAY
So there you have it folks, MAGA Republicans booing MAGA Mike Johnson, even when he doesn't show up, even in his absence, MAGA Mike Johnson gets booed. Tell me what you think in the comments below. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching and have a great one.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
As Donald Trump's failures continue to mount, as his regime is showing what an utter disaster it is, Donald Trump's plan now is what his plan usually always is, which is just attack the data. Remember what he said back in 2020 with COVID, which he completely mishandled, didn't handle at all? If you don't do the testing, then you don't know, you don't have to know what's even going on.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
Yeah, just entirely false. U.S. egg prices have increased to record highs going into Easter. You know, literally, if you look at the remaining data that we have, you can see that. But they want to get rid of all of that data. And to me, it's a throwback, as I said at the outset of this video, to what he was saying in 2020. Don't do the testing. Then you don't know if there are cases.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
Remember this. We made this video a few years back at the Midas Touch Network. Here, play this clip.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
Come on now. That was tongue-in-cheek. Please.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
I don't know that it was tongue-in-cheek at all. I know it was tongue-in-cheek.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
He has said testing's frankly overrated. We absolutely need to significantly ramp up the number of tests.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Chris Pappas, who's also running for the Senate seat in New Hampshire. Congressman Pappas, first off, welcome to the Midas Touch Network. Your first time on the network. Hopefully we get you back again. What do you make of all of that, though? Trump's attack on the truth, on facts.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
So here's what we know from today, a great article out from ProPublica. Trump's war on measurement means, losing data on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, and more. He's just going to try to erase the data gathering from the various agencies. And I'll just give you an example right now. There was a deadly E. coli outbreak that hit 15 states. but the FDA chose not to publicize it.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
Let's talk about that hostile takeover of the federal government by Trump and Musk. Even in the data that we've seen, federal spending is actually up right now. There's more federal spending than under former President Biden, and they've wrecked
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
the federal government in the process what are you hearing from your constituents um with all of these cuts to the programs from shutting down social security offices the attack on medicaid the attack on the department of education the attack on veteran services and basically every other essential service and service in general
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
And then you have Donald Trump declaring a trade war against the world using a made up cockamamie formula that was based on deficits to claim what the reciprocal tariff rate was. And then he put him on and then he put him off and then he put him on. against adversaries and allies alike.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
I mean, constantly attacking Canada, saying he wants to conquer it and annex it and saying that about other countries, picking fights against the EU, fights against Australia. And now we're seeing real impacts of this. I mean, we're seeing the tariffs starting to impact the cost of goods, affecting businesses. What's going on in New Hampshire with these tariffs?
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
That would normally be something that would be publicized. This is from NBC, which found out about it. The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a nine-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure. That really didn't get reported anywhere until now. And had we known about that, people could have taken safety precautions.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
Tell us about your Senate race for that seat in New Hampshire. You announced that you were running. You have long roots in New Hampshire, 100 plus years, your family dating back in New Hampshire. But tell us, what does the fight look like to you against the Trump regime? And what are you telling the voters about what your candidacy means if you were to win?
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
I was also thinking about that press conference that Donald Trump did in the Oval Office on Friday, where he tried to claim that the real issue with eggs and egg prices are that they're too cheap and there's too many eggs. Just play this clip of what Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
Congressman Chris Pappas running for the open Senate seat in New Hampshire. Thanks for joining us. We hope you come back. Great to be with you. Thanks. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
And the egg prices are down 87%. But nobody talks about that. You can have all the eggs you want. We have too many eggs. In fact, if anything, the prices are getting too low. So I just want to let you know prices.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
Donald Trump is panicking on Saturday morning that his actions are going to cause a 1929-style Great Depression. There are leaks from his inner circle saying Donald Trump is running around the White House right now fretting about 1929 and causing a 1929 event. Now, folks, when I label the titles of these YouTube videos, Trump panics, It's because he actually is panicking.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
try to keep Navarro away. And then this article from the Wall Street Journal talks about how they try to say, hey, Donald, we don't want to cause a 1929 either, Donald. We don't want to do 1929. So that's why you need to pause the tariffs and listen to us, not Navarro. This is how the Wall Street Journal reports it.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
So the morning where the tariffs were paused, when Navarro was in a different part of the White House, Besant and Lutnick made their move. They rushed to the Oval Office to propose a pause. They stayed until Trump actually typed it out on a truth social post hovering over them. As Aaron Sojourner says, this is the policy process in a Trump White House.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
Rival factions jockey for access to the Oval Office. They race to get in front of Trump to run their thing up the flagpole publicly first before another faction can shoot it down. This is not a healthy policy process. It's not a process at all. It is panicking. It is how weak, unqualified people who should never be near positions of power handle things.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
And during the campaign, Donald Trump would be on stage and he would be projecting his own fears about 1929, 1929, this 1929, that now he would try to frame it as strength. You need to vote for me. And we'll avoid 1929. We'll avoid it. But in reality, it was him saying that he is a scared little pathetic human. Here he was from August 8th. I could show you hundreds of these clips.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
I'll show you one from August 17th, 2024. Here's Donald Trump saying that if he's not elected, there will be 1929. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
Now, Donald Trump may try to project the image of a strong man, of an authoritarian, but he is not. And the rest of the world leaders know how weak and pathetic he is. You don't want to believe me? Take a look at the headline from the New York Times after we've been reporting about this for weeks. Risk of financial panic tempers Trump on firing Powell.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
Well, Donald, now that you're in office, you've been a disaster to the markets. You've been a disaster to people's life savings, pensions, 401ks. There's a reason, Donald, why people are out there protesting again in the United States. Shout out to 5051 for helping organize those protests today. We dissent.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
There's a reason, Donald, that all of your poll numbers are underwater, that people view you severely unfavorably and the Republican Party as well when it comes to the economy. And you know what panicked people do? People who have unsteady demeanors and unsteady hands. You know what happens, Donald? They make mistake after mistake after mistake. As my wife says, mistakes are made.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
They don't just happen or something happened. but mistakes are usually made. As Mark Elias said, if we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity. How many times have you all heard me say on the Midas Touch Network that their corruption is matched or exceeded by their incompetence?
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
Because here's another major breaking story today. Trump officials blame a mistake for setting off the confrontation with Harvard. An official on the administration's task force told the university that a letter demand had been sent without authorization.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
So this whole fight with Harvard that Harvard's hired top lawyers to fight back where this letter sent by the Trump regime said they wanted to take over the admissions process of Harvard, the hiring and firing of faculty at Harvard. that the Trump regime wanted to audit the political viewpoints of students at Harvard.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
So now the Trump regime, after Harvard fought back, they're saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, this was a mistake, Harvard. We didn't mean to send this letter. This was like a draft. We didn't intend to send this letter. We're not sure who sent it, but this wasn't actually meant to be the final version sent to you. Not only that, But now they're blaming. This is typical abuser personality.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
Trump's an abuser, right? He's a sexual predator abuser. He was found liable for sexual assault. He's a malignant narcissist. This is what abusive personality people do. They say, Harvard, though, even though the Trump regime made a mistake in sending you this letter, it's your fault, Harvard.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
You should have known how ridiculous this letter was and not believe that the Trump regime really meant it. So we still blame you, Harvard.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
for fighting back you should have just given us a call you should have apologized to trump and then we could have all sorted through this really we expect that the regime that's disappearing migrants to concentration camps in el salvador without due process accidentally sent a letter
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
To Harvard, to which Donald Trump thereafter made social media post after social media post attacking Harvard and its faculty and confirming that he agreed with this letter. One of the most pathetic things about the Trump regime, honestly, is the panic. and that they will push these crazy, brazen, awful policies, right? And they'll be so sure of them.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
President Trump again attacked the chair of the Federal Reserve this week, but advisors say the president has turned more cautious on policies that could that could stoke extreme financial volatility again. And it goes. And if you read the article, it says for months, Mr. Trump has privately financed
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
And then when it's proven to backfire, because if you follow the science and data and all of the things that the Trump regime hates, you know these things are going to backfire. boom, the Trump regime blinks. They cause the chaos and pain that they've inflicted with the policies. Maybe it's not as bad as it was going to be, but it's still really bad.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
And then they go and try to blame other people so that they could So that Trump can throw people under the bus and then they move on to the next crisis and that's a perpetual world of chaos and that's precisely the reason why Donald Trump is a destroyer and not a builder and if you go back in his history. He's bankrupted so many things.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
I don't know if the Guinness Book of World Records keeps a list of who's bankrupted the most companies, but Trump would certainly be up there with the amount of things he's bankrupted before politics, because this is what he does when there's a mistake. He doesn't address it. He compounds mistakes into catastrophes.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
and catastrophes into bankruptcies, and he surrounds himself with the worst people who are panicking right now this weekend. There's a complete meltdown in the Department of Defense right now. Pete Hegseth's team are either resigning or being fired. He is a complete and utter disaster.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
Right now, the changes that have just taken place, like over the past few days at the Pentagon, will leave Hegseth without a chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, or senior advisor in his front office. Quote, there is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary's leadership.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
As Philip Bump says, look, if morning talk show hosts can't manage the Pentagon, it's probably just unmanageable. And let's be clear about what Doge is. Elon Musk knows the incompetence of a Trump the same way a Putin or any world leaders, allies, adversaries, they all know how weak and pathetic Donald Trump is.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
So if you think for a second that Doge was about federal cost cutting of waste, abuse and fraud, Oh, I've got some data to sell you. Oh, you don't have to purchase the data for me.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
Wherever your data is right now, that's the data that you can go and buy because what Doge was about was stealing your data, was stealing your social security information, stealing your medical files, stealing confidential corporate information. And we're hearing from whistleblowers, like whistleblowers at the National Labor Relations Board and others,
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
who say that Doge has taken this data, they were trying to hide it. And get this, within 15 minutes of Doge accounts being created, attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new credentials, according to this whistleblower.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
fretted about the prospect of a Great Depression scale event happening on his watch, a scenario he shorthands in conversations as 1929. Scott, am I going to cause a 1929? Howard, am I going to cause a 1929? And so Besant and Howard Lutnick have to try to wall off one of Donald Trump's other economic advisors, Peter Navarro, because Navarro wants to push more tariffs and Besant and Lutnick
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
So is it any surprise that in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveils plans this weekend, and he's been doing it throughout the campaign, frankly, to Trump-proof Canada? Is it any surprise to you that page one in the UK's Daily Telegraph, it says, it is foolish that we cut our ties with China.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
Is it any surprise to you that any of these things are happening and that people are turning away from the United States? It is not. And Americans need to wake up and see what is happening clearly and call it out like we are. He is panicking. He is weak. He is pathetic. Don't be afraid to say it because that's what's the truth. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Has Massive Panic on Saturday Worrying Cabinet
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk have unleashed their wrecking ball in the United States of America, Michigan has been impacted significantly. And it's notable because Michigan flipped back in the 2024 election to vote for Trump. There were obviously red flags during the election, like when Trump would go to Michigan and have fake union workers at fake union shops pretend to be union workers.
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
MSU faculty joining calls for a Big Ten mutual defense compact with other universities to stand up. And we're just hearing tragic individual stories, you know, like this. I mean, and this story is repeated over and over again. A Michigan car repair shop owner detailing how the Trump tariffs are impacting his business. Let's play it.
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
You have the tariff threat to business, and then you have the fact that the Trump regime is disappearing people off the streets and sending them to essentially extermination camps in El Salvador. Here on WWMT-TV, a West Michigan business owner talks about the impact on his various businesses and how the Trump immigration attacks are devastating to Michigan players.
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
At first, he was going to deport the criminals, but it seems like he didn't find enough criminals to stay busy. So now he's going after the good ones.
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
I don't know. That may have been a But now you have real Michigan auto workers and union workers who are saying, look, you're playing poker with people's lives. This from a recent Guardian piece. Residents in the auto industries, Heartland, are responding to the chaotic start. to Trump's signature economic policy.
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
I think it's a privilege that we have in the United States that we have people coming from all over the world to come here and work and contribute to the American dream. Be proud of yourself. Know your worth. Stay strong.
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
know your worth stay strong let's bring in dr abdul el say ed doctor you're running as the democratic candidate one of the democratic candidates for uh the senate race there senator bernie sanders just uh endorsed you a big endorsement right there you just recently announced your candidacy when you see those videos you're on the ground in michigan you previously were the director of the largest health department in the state of michigan
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
You know, I saw Senator Sanders rally in Michigan and then he was in Wisconsin and then he went to lots of ruby red states. He went to Utah. He was in Idaho, then red areas in blue states. Lots of people showing up and he's talking about issues that hit home to people. Education, health care, you know, things that are at the center of their lives. So do you see hope, though, right now?
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
Do you see change? Because Michigan went in the opposite direction in the 2024 election.
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
I think we've seen Donald Trump's polling when it comes to his handling of the economy right now, lower than it even was during COVID. That's supposed to be the strong issue, I guess, for the Republicans, although I never knew why that was viewed as a strong issue for Republicans. There's other issues in Michigan that need to be highlighted as well. Like this, 70 international students
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
You said something earlier in the interview about how Trump almost tries to normalize the suffering and make people feel they're not worth anything. And when people feel so beaten down with no hope, that's when authoritarianism can really fester and prey on people's just lack of rising up and caring about these issues. So as you look forward, though, to your campaign,
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
What's your message right now to Michigan? What's going to set you apart from the other Democratic candidates to restore that sense of hope? And why ultimately do you think you're the right person to go against the Republican candidate who seems to be Mike Rogers, MAGA Republicans?
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
Well, everybody, check it out. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate you.
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
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facing deportation in Michigan, and the Trump regime refuses to say why. The ACLU is challenging the Trump regime's decision to revoke international students' legal status. Representatives from the various universities are saying they're not given any reasons why, and it's harming their university's cohesiveness and ability to function. Stories like this, a lab that helps forecast
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Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Trump’s Attacks
Severe weather in Michigan is crippled by Trump staffing cuts. Essential functions at the Federal Great Lakes Research Lab that monitors toxic algae blooms and helps forecast Michigan weather have been crippled by the Trump regime's wave. federal firings of 30,000 federal workers in Michigan. We're seeing resistance as well.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
Elbows up, Canada. Canada is furious and Canada is having its voice heard. We're under 10 days from the big election in Canada. We had the big debate take place this past week. The first one in French, then a debate in English. And Canadians are letting the world know that they are the front lines of resistance to the Trump regime.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
You know, to think about as an American, in a Canadian debate that that would be the biggest threat. That's where we are right now under the Trump regime. Here's what Carney said as well. Let's play the other clip.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
So how do you think Maple Maga is responding? Pierre Poliev, who leads the Conservative Party in these federal elections, he was in Montreal on Friday, as Rachel Gilmore says. It seems like Poliev is courting the F the Turtles vote in Montreal today. This is what Maple Maga is talking about. By the way, this is straight out of the Trump playbook. the groceries.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
And Trump was like saying, you know, oh, we, you know, they're going to go after the plastic straws. They're going after the plastic. We're plastic. We're pro plastic straw and made that like a centipede. Look at Poliev, the right wing MAGA Maple guy from the conservative party. Play it.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
It's like an exact image of how Trump ran the campaign. Let's bring in resistance member Charlie Angus, former member of parliament. You all know Charlie Angus. Charlie, before getting into the election, you and I haven't had a discussion on the Midas Touch Network in about two weeks. You've been busy with the resistance elbows up tour, and you've been going area to area.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
So tell us, though, what's going on in Canada? What's the sentiment?
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
And now it's just it's kind of funny that like the media in America's first kind of picking it up right now. I saw this on CNBC. Canadian small businesses are taking Trump tariffs personally. You think we're also seeing the tourism numbers, not just in Canada, which have plummeted to almost like zero at this point with the boycott of all things American, boycott American products, boycott tourism.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
What do you make of Trump's recent behavior? Now, you and I have been talking about this for several months. The first time Trump announced the tariffs many, many months ago and then withdrew it and then paused it and continued his rhetoric about 51st state annexation. I mean, just this past week, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt,
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
again, used annexation conquest language about Canada. Then Trump tariffed the world, and then he paused some, and then he kept the 25% on, which he's saying is a fentanyl tariff and this and that. I'm not even sure they can keep track of what they're even doing. But what do you make of the recent behavior?
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
And look, the Maple Maga crew led by Pierre Poliev, I mean, I showed the language there about, you know, plastic straws, plastic bags, but, you know, which, by the way, is just insane.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
But then you move towards some of the other things that they've been talking about, planning to suspend the rule of law, the same types of ideas of disappearing students and, you know, and promoting a doge version in the North, basically, huh?
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
But Canada has set the example for the rest of the world. Those international tourism numbers have dropped as Donald Trump attacks Canada. our allies now, I guess, former allies based on how Trump's treated them. And also people don't want to end up in detention centers or concentration camps in El Salvador.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
We know the Trump regime watches these podcasts. They watch our interviews, and they're not too pleased when we have you on. What's your message right now to Donald Trump if he's watching this?
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
Resistance member Charlie Angus. Charlie, we've loved following your Resistance Elbows Up tour. We've been featuring it here on the network, so we look forward to seeing some more.
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Charlie Angus on Canada Holding the Line Against Trump
Elbows up. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump’s Nightmare Returns as Mass Protests Are Back
And we've seen Democrats going into red districts and purple districts and just speaking to people about issues that are not being covered enough that need to, that people are suffering from. We have to talk about education. We have to talk about health care. We have to talk about the oligarchs taking all these tax cuts for themselves while screwing over others. We have to talk about wages.
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Trump’s Nightmare Returns as Mass Protests Are Back
There's got to be not just a living wage. There's got to be a wage with dignity. And right now there's a minimum of minimum wages while the billionaires get richer and richer. We need to talk about why it is that in the richest country in the world. Right? The richest country in the world. People struggle to get healthcare. Those are the types of issues that are on people's mind.
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And of course, the fact that the Trump regime is disappearing human beings without due process and sending them to concentration camps in El Salvador and then just saying, oopsies, there's nothing I can do about it. I want to share with you some of the sites of these protests, but I think it's important to note the very significant drop in
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in Donald Trump's polling as well and in the Republican polling as well. And to me, though, that speaks to people getting out there, talking to your neighbors, your friends, your colleagues and letting them know about these protests. I want to talk about where these protests are as well today. And I hope you will attend if you can or if you can't attend.
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because you're unable to, just let people know about them if there's protests nearby. Let me just show you Donald Trump's polling data recently. It's really, really bad. It kind of looks like his signature going on a downward angle at this point. If you ask Americans, is the economy getting worse?
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Most Americans by significant margins say it's worse or much worse now than under former President Biden. If you look at the Trump-regime statistics, Das war es immer, aber... Hier, wie G. Eliot Morris, der große Politiker, schreibt, Trumps Job-Approval-Ratung auf die Wirtschaft ist jetzt auf einem allzeit hohen Niveau, noch schlimmer als während Covid-19.
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Seine Meinung auf sein Handeln von Inflation ist auf negative 18 auf der Average. Er hat jetzt das einzige beste politische Asset der letzten Dekade verloren. Und es sollte es nie gewesen sein, weil die Demokraten von den 52 Millionen Jobs, die in den letzten drei Dekaden geschaffen wurden, wurden von Demokraten geschaffen. 52 Millionen Jobs.
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Und Trump war der einzige Präsident außer Herbert Hoover, den ich Trump-Pervert-Hoover genannt habe, weil er einen sexuellen Verbrecher ist, der Jobs in seinem Termin verloren hat. Schauen Sie sich einige dieser anderen Probleme an. Trump ist unter Wasser in der Wirtschaft, negative 9,3.
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Die Proteste gehen nicht weg, Donald. Sie werden nur immer größer und größer bleiben. Schaut auf die 5051, die heute mehr Mass-Proteste organisieren. Es werden über 400 Proteste über die USA geplant, auch Proteste in Mexiko und in Europa. Wir werden sie alle besprechen.
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Wenn Sie sich die Daten hier anschauen, während es zeigt, dass er über dem Wasser ist bei der Frage der Immigration bei plus 4,7, wenn Sie sich tatsächlich in die Frage eintragen und Sie über die Frage sprechen, Sie deportieren Leute, die hier seit zehn Jahren waren, ohne Kriminalrechte oder kidnappen Leute und senden sie in El Salvador-Konzentrationen.
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Trump ist sehr unpopulär, wenn man über komprehensive Immigration spricht. Der Typ, den, ehrlich gesagt, Demokraten unterstützen und former Präsident Biden unterstützt. Amerikaner in einem Vakuum sind in Ordnung mit Deportationen. Sie sind in Ordnung mit Grenzen. So bin ich.
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The issue is kidnapping people without due process throwing them to concentration camps recklessly rounding up migrants destroying the economy of people here working and contributing and providing no process at all and going after people without criminal history. I don't like that and neither do the American people when you really break down the issues.
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If you just take a weighted average also of these polls involving Donald Trump, even if you add all of these right wing like Rasmussen, where Trump has 51% disapproval from Rasmussen, which is like as pro Trump as you can get right now. You still have 51.6% of Americans disapproving them.
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Then when you go into some of the crosstabs, in month three of the second term, under 100 days, Trump's average approval rating is under 40% among the following groups. Black people, people ages 18 to 29. Black people only support 23% support. Ages 18 to 29, Trump only has 34%. Independents, 37%. Moderates, 37%. Women, 39%. Latinos, 39%. And when you go to ages 30 to 44, 41%.
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White college grad, 41%. Urban, 41%. And houses, 50k household incomes, 42%. College grads, 42% approval. all underwater there. Here's the Rasmussen poll showing that Donald Trump 51% disapprove.
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And as Adam Carlson says, I think the argument that D should talk about immigration, that D, that Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration because Trump and Republicans currently poll better on it off its base. I get the logic, but when you go through asking people, do you agree you should deport undocumented immigrants who have lived in the US for more than 10 years? That has negative 37%.
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So you go through all of Trumps Policies of like revoking temporary protected status is not popular. All right, let's talk more about the protests. But I wanted to show you that the protests are working. People are, it's forcing people not just to take to the streets, but now it has this, it's a solve problem. Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017
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A wave of protests is set to sweep across all 50 states on Saturday, April 19th, organized by the grassroots group 5051 in opposition to Trump's policies and executive orders. Organizers cite concerns over civil liberties. Vielen Dank. And these protests continue to grow. And one of the things 5051 is focused on is really trying to get that 3.5% of the US population to show up and get out there.
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In addition, there is expected to be over 525 broader events in connection with 5051 being run by We The People Dissent, a 5051 affiliate listing all of these events. So the movement continues and of course this follows the massive hands-off protests That took place earlier in April when you added up all of the towns and cities where those protests took place.
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And hopefully more than that. But they understand that it's growing it, protest by protest by protest. And I've always said I expect there to be a democracy summer. So you take a look at where these protests are and you should all check out the 5051 website as well to see if there's a protest near you. You spell it out 50 F I F T Y F I F T Y. So it's 5050.1 5050.1.
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And then you go and check it out. They're everywhere, these protests. From Montgomery, Alabama, to Maui, Hawaii, to Lexington, Kentucky, to Quincy, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, to Las Vegas, Nevada, to Rutherford County, North Carolina. There's the locations and all these other cities and towns. So search the one nearest you if you wanted to go out there today.
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And let me just, here's a map so you can see on the map what it looks like. This is being called the People Dissent event today. And you can see on the map right there where all of the protests are going to be virtually everywhere. You can see right there. And let me just share this with you as well. This was from April 5th. This is what it looked like in Chicago. Let's play this clip.
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Powerful stuff right there. I really want to give a shout out to the 5051 organizers. I want to give a shout out to the Indivisible organizers. I want to give a shout out to all of the organizers, the unions. Everybody who shows up, you know, y'all are the real heroes in this.
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And it is an honor that we at the Midas Touch Network can just play a small role or any role at all in helping to amplify these peaceful protests. I know corporate news wants to suppress this. I know that they don't want to air any of it. That's why.
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The Midas Touch Network has become the main destination for these protests and it is an honor to be able to share the data with you, share the protests with you, let you know how you can attend and for us to uplift the real heroes right now, which are those organizers and those showing up to these events. It's an honor for us to play a part in that. Thanks for watching.
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There were several million people by some estimates, about 5 million people protesting when you added up all of the protests. Big protests in Chicago, big protests in Boston, big protests in Salt Lake City. And one of the things we're seeing too is with that momentum growing, running parallel. We've seen the fight the oligarchy tour by Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC.
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Complete and utter weakness, complete and utter lunacy. The Trump regime is an utter mess. As protests continued today, the 50-51 protests spreading once again across the nation. Donald Trump began yesterday by posting memes and posting altered images of the New York Times cover that talks about Abrego Garcia.
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But Donald, you're not fooling people. If you want to take a look at the latest Atlas Intel poll, they were one of the, if not the, best pollster in 2024 on all of the issues Donald Trump's underwater in the Atlas Intel poll, meaning Americans disapprove of him on immigration, negative six.
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And as you start asking questions, not just about deportation and strong borders in general, which most people support as an abstract theory, but taking people without due process, sending them to prisons or concentration camps in other countries, those are not favored at all by wide margins by the American people. But Trump's negative six on immigration is
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Negative 14 on the economy, negative 12 on democracy, negative 17 on health care, negative 8 when it comes to dealing with China. China is just making a total buffoon of Donald Trump, but that's not that hard because that's who Donald Trump is. Remember Donald Trump's promises, though? I said I would talk about Russia on day one, that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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He said it would be so easy. That he knows Zelensky and he knows Putin and it would be very easy to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. Well, yesterday we learned a few things. First, the U.S. basically proposed a plan that gives all of the territory that Russia's taken over in Ukraine. to Russia, a total capitulation would be part of Donald Trump's plan.
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And to have the United States recognize Crimea as being part of Russia, in other words, rewarding Russia for its genocide of Ukrainians and its unlawful invasion, we knew that was Trump's plan all along. And Trump quickly lost patience in the negotiation. And in fact, he and Marco Rubio said, look, If the parties don't accept this, we're done. We're done with this.
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We're not going to stick around to do peace. It's too challenging. It's too difficult to do. I thought, Donald, it was going to be easy. So yesterday, Donald Trump looked like Big Bird in the Oval Office, this big yellow tie. Donald Trump speaking about peace negotiations. And let me show you what he said. Play this clip.
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And Donald Trump's like, we're never going to return him, despite a nine to zero ruling from the Supreme Court saying facilitate the return of the migrant who you kidnapped and threw in an extermination camp in El Salvador without due process. And as the day progressed,
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Think of it. So at the Midas Touch Network, we made this video of Trump's promises versus what Trump and his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, are saying right now. Here, play this clip. It would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, it would. How would you do that?
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When you go into the crosstabs of some of these polls that show Donald Trump's approval plummeting to lowers, to levels that are lower than his first term. and you poll certain groups, in month three of his second term, Trump's average approval rating is under 40% among the following groups. Among black people, 23%. Among people ages 18 to 29, his approval is 34%. Independents, 37. Moderates, 37%.
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Women, 39%. Latinos, 39%. And so what's Donald Trump doing as all of the data is bad, as it's obvious that his trade war is causing not just a recession, but a great recession or even something worse? What Donald Trump said he did in the first term, you got to stop the testing, stop the data. ProPublica did a great report. I'll do a video today that goes into more detail about it.
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I'm going to interview Congress member Pappas about it as well. Donald Trump halts data collection on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, and more. Donald Trump's basically in gutting these agencies. By the way, federal spending's up. Just want to give you the objective data. There's more federal spending now under Trump than there was under former President Biden.
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Also, salaries for federal workers up right now more than it was under former President Biden. So it was never about cutting government waste. It was about stealing your data. It was about stealing your social security information, getting your medical records. getting all of the sensitive information, tax information for the Trump regime to hoard and to use against people.
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Donald Trump continued to try to project the image of a strong man because he knows deep down inside how weak he is and how the whole world views him as a pathetic fool. Donald Trump posted this yesterday. It's a interview of him on Fox. And this is Trump's recap of it. Trump on Fox. We didn't need legislation. We need a president. In other words, what he's saying is we don't need due process.
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I mean, that's what this was about. Because if it was actually about government efficiency, the exact opposite took place. Let me be very clear about that. So A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to report it. Donald Trump now claims that egg prices are way down.
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At yesterday's press conference, Donald Trump said that the big issue with eggs right now is that they're too cheap. And so many people have too many eggs. You don't know what to do with all of your eggs because you have so many eggs. And of course, it's a lie. But there is this complete detachment from reality. This is what fascist authoritarian regimes do.
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Here, play this clip of Donald Trump saying, eggs and everything is so, so cheap right now. Here, play this clip. And the egg prices are down 87%.
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So I just want to let you know, prices are down. Because what's really going on right now, as Barron's reports, there's a global rebalancing underway as investors continue to sell off U.S. bonds. Yes, there'll be up days in the market, down days in the market, but the trend is now down. And unfortunately, it's a trend that is... seems to be here to stay persistently.
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From this article, it explains, the rest of the world has crossed a red line and they will try to reduce dependence on the U.S. on trade, on defense, on everything. There just ain't going back. The U.S. is viewed as unreliable, capricious, arbitrary, vindictive, fascist under the Trump regime. It's going to take a lot of rebuilding, folks. And what does Donald Trump do?
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He aligns himself with people like Nayib Bukele. That's who Donald Trump worships or looks up to. $35 billion GDP in El Salvador. Trump loves Viktor Orban of Hungary. Huge inflation. Failed state, essentially. Donald Trump loves Javier Millay of Argentina. Massive poverty. He likes North Korea, Kim Jong-un. He looks up to failed dictators.
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And so perhaps the least surprising news of this all, Alex Eisenstadt, I think he's a good writer. He got the scoop. Scoop, Trump revamped Schedule F, making it easier to cut federal workers. And it talks about how, this is what we talked about, right, with Project 2025. They were going to recharacterize the workers so that they're all at-will employees. That's what Schedule F is. But
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Look, while that is serious, at this point, Trump's gutted the federal government. I mean, he's fired so many people. He's destroyed the ability of agencies to function. From the National Oceanic Institute's work to the Forest Services to NIH and CDC. You've got RFK Jr. giving these speeches online.
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and saying the most horrific things about autistic people, and saying that people who are older don't have autism, and it's only in younger people, and just spreading all of these medical lies and disinformation. You know, it is a kakistocracy, which means a regime staffed by the worst of the worst. That's what it is now. But folks, I do feel hope within all of this. I feel hope when I see...
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Senators like Van Hollen going and speaking with Abrego Garcia, standing up to the Trump regime. I feel hope when there's protests like the protest today. After this video, I'm going to do a whole other video on the protest where I'm just going to focus on the protest today. I know it's important that we cover that here. I feel that the Trump regime looks weaker.
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They're unable to implement a lot of their agenda. They're good at breaking things. They're bad at building things. And I think the rest of the world knows how to counter it and check it. I mean, I'll do a whole other video on Canada as well. I think Canada's cornered the Trump regime. Europe is, you know, and they recognize that Donald Trump's an extortionist. And he's a felon.
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He's a sexual abuser. He's a predator, right? I mean, extortionists like him. If you give him an inch, he takes more. So they come back to you again. They hit you up more extortionists. So you just, you can't negotiate with extortionists. Anyway, that's where we're at today. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers. We've got a lot of videos today.
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We need a dictator. We don't need laws. We need a dictator. If you look at this and you're okay with him posting this, then let's just face it. You hate America. You don't like democracy. You don't like law and order. You don't like our system. Perhaps you'd like to live in Russia. More on that in a moment.
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And as the day winded down yesterday, Donald Trump started posting torture videos, ISIS-style torture videos of Americans handing off migrants to the government of El Salvador to be tortured in extermination camps. And Trump posted video after video of that. Again, Donald Trump giving the middle finger. to the federal courts, and to the United States Supreme Court.
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Donald Trump knew there was going to be a very teeny tiny crowd at his inauguration outside. And Donald Trump now canceling the outside portion of the inauguration on Monday and blaming it on cold weather has rubbed the MAGA base who traveled to be there outside the wrong way. We've received video. Of a lot of these MAGA people saying what it's cold, but OK, we can wait outside in the cold.
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One more time, go to policygenius.com slash Midas. Make sure you spell Midas correctly, M-E-I-D-A-S. And by the way, here's Donald Trump when he was bundled up in Aberdeen in Scotland. I think he was pretending to build something there. But let's remember the crowd size from, say, 2009, former President Obama's inauguration, 2017, Donald Trump's inauguration.
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Remember Donald Trump had to pretend it's the biggest crowd size ever. Can we talk for just a second, though, about the weather? Yeah, it's going to be cold, okay? It's cold in D.C. in January, and it's particularly cold. But you take a look at the forecast for Monday. It's 24 degrees Fahrenheit. It's going to be a low in the evening hours of about 9 degrees Fahrenheit.
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But when John F. Kennedy was inaugurated and sworn in many, many years ago, It was 22 degrees Fahrenheit, negative six degrees Celsius with a wind chill of seven degrees Fahrenheit, negative 14 degrees Celsius right around noontime. And take a look at John F. Kennedy right here. He didn't even wear a jacket.
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Democrat senators are trolling Donald Trump for canceling the outside portion of the inauguration and bringing it inside the Capitol at the Rotunda. Democratic New York Senator Chuck Schumer uses this photo and said, It took place outside. It was so big. There was so many people right there. It was wild.
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You have Democratic governor and former VP candidate Tim Walz has this photo of himself from Minnesota. He goes, There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. Here's another photo right here of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy walking from the White House to the Capitol for his inauguration, whereas Donald Trump moved the inauguration into the rotunda because it's too cold.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene and a lot of other MAGA people think that there must be some conspiracy going on here. Maybe Donald Trump's safety is being threatened. no, I just think Donald Trump can't handle the cold, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene posted.
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She goes, I've personally attended countless rallies where President Trump spoke in extreme weather conditions from cold to rain to heat. Is there a security threat other than extreme cold temperature, not only for him, but for the people? Our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski goes, father time is undefeated. Trump is not in any shape to stand out there in the cold.
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Got to give the old geezer some credit for understanding his limitations. Filipkowski also wrote. Trump claims he's moving his inauguration inside from the cold because he's worried about the health of attendees.
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Meanwhile, he had people dropping like flies at his outdoor rallies over the summer in places like Arizona and Nevada and other locations because he didn't want to spend the money to do them inside. Also, Donald Trump held events at very cold places like in Nebraska, I think in 2020, and left people stranded there as well.
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Aaron Parnas, who works with the Midas Touch Network, posted this photo of Amy Klobuchar in the snow. And Parnas goes, Donald Trump is afraid of cold temperatures. Democrats aren't. David Axelrod, Democratic consultant, posted the photo of John F. Kennedy from 1961 inauguration and says in 61, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated on the Capitol steps in wind chills of seven degrees.
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It was almost as cold for Obama in 2009. In fairness, Trump is more than three decades older than JFK and Obama were, or did he just fear the very small crowds? Again, one of the things that we knew as well is that when Donald Trump held other events like in Omaha that I was telling you about, hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally.
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What do you mean you're canceling the inauguration? Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, though, puts it best. He goes, folks, this is a metaphor for the next four years. Yeah, the weather made it worse. But it was going to be an embarrassing crowd size no matter what. So Donald Trump had to cancel it because of his ego.
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Seven taken to the hospital. This one account goes, Trump supporters, we don't care how cold the inauguration is. We're used to being left out in the cold. Donald Trump to Trump supporters, well, I don't want to be too cold. I got to keep my billionaires happy on the dais inside. We'll do it inside the rotunda. You just take a look at Donald Trump's ridiculous statement right here.
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He also tries to say, look, I'm doing this to protect all of the people. I want to protect the first responders and the canine dogs and even the horses. I'm trying to protect the horses, everybody. Donald Trump goes, everybody's going to be celebrating this. There's going to be so much people who are going to be there.
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And now you can watch it at the Capital One Arena on Monday for live viewing, he says. Don't worry, all the parties are still going to be taking place, he says as well. He goes, this is an Arctic blast sweeping the country. I just don't want to see people hurt or injured. Sure, Donald, that sounds like you. You don't want to see people hurt or injured.
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By the way, Donald, I know you've been talking a lot about annexing Canada and Greenland. You are aware that those locations are much colder than what it's going to be like on Washington, D.C. throughout most of the year. Like you are aware of the way the weather patterns work. But I go back to what I read at the outset of this video, folks.
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And it's from the Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who says, we know what this is all about. We know what this is about. Trump and the billionaires inside warmth. All of the supporters who show up. Yeah, you ain't getting in. You ain't going to Mar-a-Lago. You ain't getting into these events. You ain't the Mar-a-Lago oligarchs. You ain't them. By the way, guess what?
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Trump ain't lowering the prices. He ain't making housing more affordable. You ain't getting those jobs that he promised you. But he will talk about changing the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America because America, right? Yeah. We will try to distract you while he breaks every single promise. But we told you so. We told you so. I'm Ben Myselis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe.
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But the billionaires, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and others, they're going to get the indoor seats. And the regular people who paid thousands of dollars to travel to be in Washington, D.C., they're going to get screwed. So let's show you this right here. Here's a video from NBC. This is the MAGA people in Washington, D.C.
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They're being told in this clip that Trump just said the inauguration outside is canceled. It's going to be inside. Watch their reaction. It's priceless. Let's play it.
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When you do a deep dive of the backgrounds of the state regime media known as Fox hosts like Laura Ingraham, you find some commonalities there. We spoke to Laura Ingraham's brother, and here's what he had to say, Curtis Ingraham had to say about growing up with his sister, Laura Ingraham. It explains a lot. Let's play it.
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Media Matters Fellow Matthew Gertz Reveals Fox Study
And now they're trying to do it again with Trump right now in 2025. Here, let's play this one.
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The heck is she even talking about? You know, Charlottesville, January 6th, the way she says it. Let's bring in Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters. You do deep studies on propaganda media, what's taking place. You call it out, you expose it. I was fascinated by, and we cover Fox here every day, and you do every minute.
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Media Matters Fellow Matthew Gertz Reveals Fox Study
And so I was really interested in the study that you all did at Media Matters, where you focused on how basically all of the Trump regime cabinet people are like essentially 24-7 on Fox, the revolving door that's taking place. Talk to us first about your findings, then let's talk more broadly about the implication there, Matt.
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You know, that's why we call it here state regime media, because there's this merger. Now, this template, we see it like that exists in other authoritarian countries like in Russia, their state regime media. The people are the oligarchs who are also like the hosts on the show and they speak to Putin. Putin tells them what to put on, and then they program around what the regime says.
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Media Matters Fellow Matthew Gertz Reveals Fox Study
I mean, we see this in North Korea, but y'all have been covering media for a long time. In America, this is very different, and it's very alarming. And talk about the implications of having essentially a cosplay cabinet that goes and plays dress up and they show up in their different outfits and they're not like rolling up their sleeves and doing the work. They're too busy putting costumes on.
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Media Matters Fellow Matthew Gertz Reveals Fox Study
And now when you see her behavior these days, and it's been over the course of a decade at this point, the state regime, North Korea style behavior, it's accelerating. It's getting worse, if you could even believe that. So now they're at the stage where we don't care that Donald Trump's Polling is now in like the 30s. Screw it. Just whatever. He's having fun. Kim Jong-un's having fun.
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Media Matters Fellow Matthew Gertz Reveals Fox Study
I'll show you this other clip right here of Laura Ingraham. And this is just an example of kind of carrying out the Trump policy where she goes and she looks at the migrants who are speaking to the camera of people who the Trump regime is disappearing to concentration camps in El Salvador. And she's like, you better self-deport. I'm telling you what to do now.
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See, you got to follow what I'm saying. And then... The Trump regime puts in, what, hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising on Fox in English to then kind of repeat the message to self-deport. Like, that's where our taxpayer dollars go. No wonder Doge has done nothing to actually lower federal spending and federal spending's up. But here's an example of her then carrying out policy.
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Just that sentence. Being the bad guy. I gave a speech about this earlier this week at the Milken Institute where I'm like, just pull back for a second. What the hell are we talking about here? What am I listening to here? Self-deport or you'll end up in a concentration camp in El Salvador without due process. And Matt, I think one of the dangers here.
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I think corporate news, by and large, presents debates that really aren't debates. Should there be due process? You have someone on the left and someone on the right, and then they argue, should there be due process? As I say, I'm not debating somebody. There should be due process. Shut up. That's it. I'm not having a conversation. But on Fox, there's...
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They're spreading to their audience, and they've got a lot of viewers. That due process isn't even a thing, and that this whole way of thinking of authoritarianism is normal. What do we do to fight it? What are you doing to combat it at Media Matters? Because you're both descriptive at Media Matters. You identify the problems. But then you try to fight the problems.
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And I won't get into all the other stuff, but that's why y'all are frequently under attack by Trump and people very close to it because you identify it and you solve the problem. So tell us, what are you doing to solve it? How do we fight back?
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He's posting photos of himself dressed as the Pope. This is fun, right? Are we having fun? It doesn't matter if he's destroying your lives here. Play this clip of her right here saying he's happy. Happy Trump. Play it.
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Media Matters Fellow Matthew Gertz Reveals Fox Study
To your point, and I'll just give our audience an example before we wrap up, you know, the Republicans held a hearing this past week on United States fencing. And they were obsessed about they brought in like the president of USA Fencing, who, by the way, doesn't get any federal funding. But if you followed your reports and other people who were showing what was going on on Fox,
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Media Matters Fellow Matthew Gertz Reveals Fox Study
Fox spent all of this time talking about a transgender fencing person and that that was like their big issue. So the whole hearing was based around this Fox fencing story. And the witness gets up here and there's asked, so do you get federal funding? Like, why are we even here? And like, no, we don't get federal, don't get federal funding. And that's because it originates on Fox.
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They give the target points. Anything else you think we're missing, Matt, while we got you on here? Anything you're focused on that worries you that you think is not getting enough attention while we have you here in front of this huge audience?
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Matt, we got to have you on more. I love the work that you guys are doing out there. And, you know, we're on our way to five million subscribers here. So for real, you know, when you have your big research studies, whether it's you or your team members, come back and just and let's let's let's get that data out, you know, to this. I know you all have a big audience, too.
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But, you know, here on YouTube, it's a big audience. People love data here. And I know you're coming with fax data receipts all the time. So thanks, Matt.
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All right, everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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stupid polls. He's having a great time. He's doing deals with the Qataris, doing Trump resorts. They're fun. The Abu Dhabi fund is using crypto. Are you not having fun? This is fun, everybody. Then she goes back and she's like, the Democrats are doing what they always do. I want you to think about Watergate. And I want you to think about the January 6th hoax, is what she calls it.
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While Americans are suffering, you are in a palace with a royal family begging for personal gifts for you, acting like you don't know the word groceries. Here, play this clip. Das heißt Jobs, weil für mich die wichtigsten Jobs sind.
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Das hat nicht funktioniert. So it is not a surprise when we saw the results today that the University of Michigan consumer expectations are showing that right now consumers have the lowest expectations, are more miserable essentially than ever in the United States history. and believe that inflation is going to be the highest essentially ever.
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Because of crap like this and because of his reckless behavior. I mean, here Donald Trump then says, well, we're still working on deals with 150 countries and my tariffs against the world. But if they don't agree to deals... then I'm just going to impose the deals myself. That's not a deal, Donald.
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If you're just imposing it, because you're unable to negotiate things with anybody, because no one wants to do business with you. And what you did with China is not a deal. You just capitulated. Here, play this clip.
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Ja, und andere Länder wollen nicht aussehen, wie es in den Vereinigten Königsländern passiert ist, wo es überhaupt keinen Deal gab, sondern nur einen Vorteil für Jaguar und Land Rover und Rolls Royce. I was like, what was this? What is this? What is this thing right here?
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Let me set the stage of this disastrous press conference that Donald Trump had in the United Arab Emirates. He's sitting there in a royal palace with an authoritarian regime. And he's attacking the United States court system and talking about how he wants to get rid of migrants in the United States. And he's using the United Arab Emirates royal palace as the backdrop for it in Abu Dhabi.
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And then here Donald Trump says, you know, just in his own kind of just like cognitive declining stewing in whatever the hell he's wearing. He's just like, there's never been anything like what's happening in the US. Never in the history. There's never been anything like, like actually never been anything like this. Here, play this clip.
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There's never been anything like this. You mean like the biggest disaster ever? The biggest manufactured economic crisis? Sure. Sure, Donald. By the way, that follows Donald Trump leaving Qatar. And when Donald Trump was in Qatar, he was saying to the troops in Qatar, in Doha, Lying about the 2020 election, saying that he won the 2020 election, which he didn't.
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And then talking about how he wants to potentially run again in 2028 and be a dictator. And he's doing it in front of our freaking troops. Here, play this clip right here.
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It's been an amazing period of time. Now, I just wanted to see, by the way, how this trip was being covered by sources on the, quote, left, right and center. And so the research tool I use for this is something called Ground News. Let me just show you how it's being reported generally out there. Trump's Mideast trip splashes out on deals and diplomacy, but is quiet on human rights.
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Now, this is why I love Ground News, because I can actually get Okay, wie ist es mit dem linken, zentralen und rechts? Und sie besprechen es alle falsch. Das ist das, was mein Forschungsgerät mir sagt. Er fließt nicht auf Verhandlungen. Er verliert auf Verhandlungen. Das sind falsche Verhandlungen.
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Du machst keine 1,2-Trillionen-Dollar-Vergabe mit Cutter, wenn die GDP jährlich 200 Millionen Dollar ist. Okay? And yes, he is quiet on human rights. If by quiet you mean he's complicit with the regime that's funding Hamas and complicit with another regime that was funding Al-Qaeda in terms of Saudi Arabia. Yeah, you are complicit in terrorism, is what we're trying to say here.
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So let's use the language accurately. By the way, it's why I use the research tool, because I'm like, okay, I know, here's what I'm reporting on Midas Touch. What the heck are they reporting there? I use their feature called Blindspot, by the way, which tells me, am I missing anything? Oh, just a quick shout out to Ground News, who's a sponsor of ours.
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And if you want to use the research tools that I use, go to ground.news.mtn or scan the QR code right here. We're giving our viewers 40% off Ground News' top tier vantage plan. which will get you unlimited access to everything I've shown you and more. One more time, ground.news.mtn. Ground News is subscriber-funded, so they don't rely on ads. That could also introduce bias.
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Subscribing supports our channel and their independent team working to keep the media transparent. I just wanted to show you the research tools that I'm using here. Also, let's talk about what Donald Trump was doing in Qatar as well. Here, Donald Trump, again, just like... Ranting and raving and he looks like literally an orange-green color.
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And here Donald Trump kind of like mocks France in this speech. Let's play it.
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riding a bike that was occupying Donald Trump's attention apparently. Let's play it.
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Donald Trump lies and says that, speaking in Qatar, and he claims that 100% of ISIS is gone now, which again is just simply, just like a simply false statement, play this clip.
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Loser. Donald Trump sagt, dass wir 1 Trillionen Dollar für China verlieren und jetzt verlieren wir es nicht, weil er eine Verhandlung mit China für 30 Tage hatte, was völlig falsch ist. Lassen Sie uns den Clip spielen. Der Fund ist nur eine Verhandlung. Wir machen, wir machen viel Geld.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser as Trip Implodes
Hier ist Donald Trump mit der Vereinigten Araben Emiraten-Royal-Familie. Und er denkt, dass die Olympischen Spiele in Queens werden, die in Los Angeles sind. Und Queens ist nicht sehr nah an Los Angeles. Ich meine... Just look at him. He can't even hold a conversation with these people. He can't even speak in sentences. He doesn't even know where he is. Here, play this clip. ...to our airline.
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That's what you are talking about there, attacking our court system. And then while Donald Trump was with the royal family in the United Arab Emirates, he was saying the word groceries is such an interesting word. You know, it's an old fashioned word, groceries, groceries.
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Ich denke nur, wir haben einen Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten, der das Verkauf macht.
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That's why our country is doing so well. And it's people like this that we appreciate. Great job at Cleveland Clinic.
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OMG! Trump Rages With Fear in AM as His Term Collapses
Donald Trump is having a disaster morning. He's attacking the United States Supreme Court after an oral argument regarding birthright citizenship, where it appears the Trump regime is going to lose. Donald Trump is attacking Taylor Swift this morning. More on that in a bit.
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simply because Democrats are asking for answers about what the hell is going on in these migrant detention centers. Donald Trump is right here intimidating the United States Supreme Court. He knows what he's doing. And in fact, the Supreme Court have reflected and have discussed Donald Trump's intimidation of the court. That's what he's doing.
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And this is what he's spending his morning focused on as well. Donald Trump also posts the following. Has anyone noticed that since I said I hate Taylor Swift, She's no longer hot. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the United States president right now making a utter fool of our country. That's seriously a post. That's not AI. I'm not making that up.
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Right before he attacked the Supreme Court, he attacks Taylor Swift. Has anyone noticed that since I said I hate Taylor Swift, she is no longer hot? There are serious world matters taking place right now. As I said earlier in this video, Turkish and Ukrainian officials say that peace talks with Russia ended after less than two hours.
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Also, the discussions between Ukraine and Russia, as we predicted, blew up right away as Russia came in with ridiculous demands for Ukraine to basically fully surrender. We told you this was going to happen after Donald Trump refused to show up to the negotiations in Turkey. Putin refused to show up to the negotiations in Turkey.
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And one of the things that we note from a senior Ukrainian official, that Russia was making unacceptable demands for Ukraine to fully surrender. We told you that what Putin was doing in Istanbul was going to be a total setup from the outset, even when Putin made the announcement last weekend that he said, I want to go to Turkey and I'm ready to have peace discussions.
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Remember all the videos we've made about it? We said, look, the reason Putin is doing that is because the European Union is about to impose sanctions. And Putin's trying to delay, delay, delay. And Putin wants to manipulate Donald Trump into saying that he is trying his best to do peace negotiations.
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But what really is happening here is that Putin and Trump are trying to figure out how they meet just them two.
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to try to go back to their original plan which in my opinion was putin takes all of ukraine donald trump steals the minerals of ukraine for a sovereign wealth fund so donald trump can frolic in the middle east with qatari and saudi and emirati royal families because that's really what makes donald trump feel the most comfortable when he's in his authoritarian uh element right there as carl king tania describes this coverage of donald trump's trip to the middle east
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Peak bromance coverage, right? You know, the media kind of normalizes this behavior, which is nothing short of despicable and disgusting. I mean, take a look at the headline from Bloomberg. Gold palaces, jet deals, and McDonald's. Trump is at home in the Middle East. Look at Donald Trump and Crown Prince MBS during a signing ceremony when what? They signed fake deals with each other.
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They signed fake deals with each other. It is not normal to see United States president frolicking around in gold palaces, having mobile McDonald's move to him while he tries to cut bribes for himself in the form of $400 million gold-plated 747 jets from the Qataris, okay? That does not make any sense at all. And the headline should reflect it.
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I mean, the headline should say, you know, Donald Trump sells. If I was in Bloomberg, here's my headline. Donald Trump sells out the United States in the most humiliating foreign trip in American history. That's how I would have wrote that headline. Here's the headline from Wall Street Journal. He calls them handsome, attractive, tough. Trump's bromance with Arab leaders.
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What is this, like Us Weekly right now? The president has used a trip to the Middle East to strengthen ties with Arab world leaders. He's not strengthening ties with Arab world leaders. He is taking bribes from Arab world leaders. And you're the Wall Street Journal. Why don't you do an analysis, a very simple one, Wall Street Journal. So let me help you here.
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Like in Qatar, their entire annual GDP is $200 billion. So when Qatar signs a deal, which you're calling it a deal, which it's not a deal, I'm putting it in quotes, for $1.2 trillion, I can pretty much guarantee you that they're not giving away six times their annual GDP to the United States. And then after you report that headline, Let's follow through with what actually is taken.
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I'm really curious to see how that money is helping a factory worker in America. How is that money helping the American who psychologically tortured living paycheck to paycheck during this moment right now? How is that helping any American right now who can't afford a home? Those are the questions that I think you should be asking.
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Also, we're getting the new consumer sentiment data from the University of Michigan, the lowest in American history since the pandemic, or the second lowest in history. The only time it was lower, rather, was since the pandemic. And we're also learning from both Japan and the European Union
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But I guess that's why people are coming to the Midas Touch Network. Regarding Donald Trump's claim of 90 deals in 90 days. Again, as I told you from the outset, when Donald Trump said that, what did I say? It's all BS. It's all going to be phony fraud stuff. So what Donald Trump's now said on his trip in the United Arab Emirates, he goes, they're coming back.
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Trump indicates he will set tariff rates for other countries who have not done the deals with him over the next two to three weeks as the U.S. lacks capacity to negotiate with all other countries, per Bloomberg. As Carl Quintanilla says, I don't think we're getting those 90 deals in 90 days. And as we said on the Midas Touch Network, just wait another two weeks, everybody.
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Because here's what Donald Trump said in Abu Dhabi. By the way, the Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund is using $2 billion of Trump family money. back crypto in their transactions, the same way the Qataris are building resorts in Qatar for Donald Trump and giving him a $400 million jet. And the Saudis are building resorts as well in Oman and other places for Donald Trump.
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But here, Donald Trump says, we have 150 countries now. He But you see, if they don't make deals, I'm just going to set the deals myself. So that's going to be the deals. I'm going to make them myself because nobody wants to do deals with you, Donald. Here, play this clip.
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that they're just going to be holding out and waiting Donald Trump and trying to get better deals regarding the tariffs that Donald Trump placed on them because they see that Donald Trump always caves. Donald Trump is a coward who always taps out in these negotiations. Let's just go through it one by one, folks. So Donald Trump posted the following this morning.
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Then again, here's just another moment right here where if this was Biden or anybody else, the media would probably make this a front page story. So I want to at least cover it. Donald Trump thinks Queens is near Los Angeles or either that or doesn't know that the Olympics are going to be in Los Angeles.
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So Donald Trump asks the Abu Dhabi royal family who are bragging about, you know, helping to build a soccer stadium.
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uh in queens uh for uh you know for for a major league soccer team and then donald trump's like are the olympics going to be there are the olympic first off you're the president of the united states you should know where the olympics are why are you asking the abu dhabi royal family but here play this clip to our airline and finally uh mr president we just signed also the naming rights of the new york city football club oh good and we are spending over 800 million
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It'll be a state-of-the-art stadium, you can see. And I don't want to neglect the fact that Donald Trump also said that he would bring peace to Gaza in 24 hours. And Donald Trump lied to all of the Arabs for Trump and the Palestinians for Trump and
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the Arab and Palestinian community and Muslim community in general, at least 82 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Friday alone, today, as Trump wrapped up his regional trip. And we're seeing those numbers every day rise and rise and rise. And Donald Trump said that he was going to bring peace. If anything, Donald Trump has enabled Netanyahu to engage in worse conduct.
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The Supreme Court is being played by the radical left losers who have no support. The public hates them, and their only hope is the intimidation of the court itself. We can't let that happen to our country, exclamation point. He puts that all in caps as Trump's DOJ is literally threatening Democratic Congress members who have been assaulted by private security, hired by the Trump regime.
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Anyway, CNBC says the following right here. Trump's military parade cost up to $45 million. for DC. The event coincides with Donald Trump's 79th birthday. You think it's going to be $45 million? It's going to be more like $150, $200 million. Watch what the final receipt is going to be when all is said and done.
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We reported on this yesterday, but let me just read you this Wall Street Journal headline. Department of Homeland Security is considering a reality show where immigrants compete for citizenship. This isn't the Hunger Games for immigrants, says the producer behind the pitch. That's really what they're doing. And they said they've got the pitch. They said they're not sure they're doing it yet.
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The hell is going on here, America? Michigan, is it surprising to you then that the Michigan consumer sentiment is at 50.8, the second lowest on record? The University of Michigan year ahead expected inflation is at 7.3%, the highest since 1981. Consumer moods are in the absolute trash right now. Absolute trash right now. So what's Donald Trump doing about that?
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He's sending emails like this to his supporters. Ben, Ben, is this your personal email? I need to make sure you're receiving my messages. You want to donate to me? You want to give me some money? Ben, Ben. That's what he sends to all of his supporters. I subscribe to his listserv. so that you don't have to. I want to show you what he's sending his supporters. And then there's this one also.
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Ben, congratulations. You just won the gold medal in Trump World. Honoring you with the Golden Trump Award is my way of saying thank you for your unwavering support. And then when you click it, you have to give him money for a fake award. Fake award, fake deals, fake person. I mean, the whole thing is a fraud. Call it out for what it is. It is a fraud. And consumers recognize what's happened.
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American people are suffering. And our idiotic media keeps talking about former President Biden. The hell are you doing me? Doesn't it just show you how in the tank the media is for Donald Trump? And with everything I just shared with you, what's the media's big story? Was former President Biden, were Democrats covering up former president? What the hell are you even talking about?
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We had a normal foreign policy, normal domestic policy. America was leading the world under former President Biden. You want to take a look at what's going on with Donald Trump? Look at any of these speeches, okay? If you're going to say there was something with Biden, Trump is 10,000 times worse every freaking hour of the day.
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And not only that, it has a real world of impact on people with his recklessness and whatever the hell is going on with this. Well, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Supreme Court Torches Trump in Major Oral Argument
It certainly did not seem like a majority of the United States Supreme Court was buying what Donald Trump and the regime were selling on the issue of birthright citizenship. A major oral argument was held today before the United States Supreme Court
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Then let's talk more comprehensively about what took place today. Here is Justice Kagan, a liberal justice.
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where the Trump regime was challenging the right of federal courts to issue nationwide injunctions and specifically in the context of nationwide injunctions, blocking the regime via executive order to eliminate the constitutional right to birthright citizenship. Donald Trump believes that
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Now, I think this is notable here. You had Justice Barrett, Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, seeming to side with Justice Kagan here, and really asking the Trump regime, so you think you're not bound to follow circuit court decisions? You're not gonna follow it? You just think generally? Wow, that surprises me. Play this clip. And opinions and judgments here.
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Supreme Court Torches Trump in Major Oral Argument
Okay. And here is a moment at the Supreme Court where Trump Solicitor General John Sauer admits to Justice Kavanaugh, another Trump appointee, that Trump has no idea how to actually enforce his birthright citizenship. Author Max Burns was there reporting. Play this clip.
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that he could execute an executive order overruling the Constitution, and that federal courts can't issue nationwide injunctions to block him. So this case before the Supreme Court was more surgically dealing with the issue of nationwide injunctions, but some of the issues between injunctions, meaning like a single court being able to block an administration or regime's ability to
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Supreme Court Torches Trump in Major Oral Argument
Now, let's take a look at what went down inside this hearing as well. We'll give you some of the details directly from Midas Plus right here. Supreme Court torches Trump administration during birthright citizenship argument. In a pivotal moment of Trump's second term, the United States Supreme Court has turned skeptical and
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and at times a blistering eye towards the regime's stance on nationwide injunctions. While the central question of the case doesn't address the constitutionality of modifying the 14th Amendment, a long shot goal of Trump, the real issue at stake is just as critical. Can federal judges block executive actions on a national scale?
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This seemingly procedural question could have massive consequences if the Trump administration gets its way lower federal courts would no longer be able to issue rulings that halt policies nationwide. Instead, any injunction would only apply to plaintiffs directly involved in a given case.
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Now, as you heard from some of the portions of the oral argument that I played, as Justice Kagan says, y'all keep on losing over and over again. So what the Trump regime wants to do is because it knows its cases are losers.
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If you can't enforce a nationwide injunction and it only applies to the plaintiffs, they can push forward their authoritarian policies until the case goes to the United States Supreme Court. During oral arguments, the justices across ideological lines showed deep reservations about such sweeping restrictions on judicial power.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor cut to the heart of the issue with a dramatic hypothetical. If the government were to suddenly order the confiscation of all civilian firearms in direct violation of the Second Amendment under the Trump view, courts couldn't stop it with a nationwide injunction. We couldn't stop that, she asked. Justice Kagan was even more blunt. The government keeps on losing.
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This is happening right now. Every court has ruled against you. That's the clip I played. That comment wasn't just rhetorical flourish. It pointed to a pattern of losses the regime has racked up in the lower courts, particularly when rolling out controversial immigration policy. If courts are stripped of the ability to issue broad injunctions, critics argue,
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institute something on a nationwide basis. That was what was mostly addressed, but because it does relate to the merits as well in birthright citizenship, you heard a little bit of the merits argument made there. The case was consolidated of multiple cases, Trump versus New Jersey, Trump versus Washington, and Trump versus Casa Inc., the solicitor general.
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The executive branch could continue implementing unlawful policies unchecked, avoiding scrutiny of the Supreme Court altogether until the case goes before the Supreme Court. And is that just going to result in more shadow docket decisions of people trying to rush to the Supreme Court or the Trump regime trying to game the system? Justice Katonji Brown Jackson was especially pointed.
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She compared the administration's proposal to a catch-me-if-you-can approach to governance, one that would allow illegal policies to remain in effect until a perfect plaintiff in a perfect jurisdiction brings a challenge that finally makes its way to the top. Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Neil Gorsuch also appeared critical of the regime's arguments.
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Barrett echoed Alito's earlier skepticism. What's the point of this? And Gorsuch notably praised Kagan's line of questioning, often a signal of alignment during oral arguments. Meanwhile, New Jersey Solicitor General Jeremy Feigenbaum argued for a middle ground. Yes, judges should be able to issue nationwide injunctions. but only under narrow and specific conditions.
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That prompted a key question from Chief Justice John Roberts, who seemed to be probing whether a narrow principle limitation could guide the court's ruling without fully endorsing the regime's extreme position. The significance of this case cannot be overstated, though framed as a procedural matter, the ability of courts to issue nationwide injunctions
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has become one of the most potent checks on presidential power in the modern era. Strip it away and you open the door to a more aggressive, less accountable executive. As of now, it appears likely that there were at least five votes against the Trump regime position. Gorsuch, Jackson, Barrett, Sotomayor, and Kagan. More may join. Chief Justice Robert remains a wild card.
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But his pointed questioning suggests he is weighing a compromise approach rather than a full endorsement of the regime's request. Now, anything is possible is here, so we have to wait until the Supreme Court decides. So when will we know the outcome? The court typically hands down decisions in argued cases by the end of June, and there's no reason to believe this case will be an exception.
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Depending on how sharply the court wants to signal its stance, we may even see a decision sooner. What's clear, however, is this. The Trump regime walked into the Supreme Court hoping to disarm one of the judiciary's most powerful tools. Instead, it may walk out with a historic rebuke and a precedent that affirms the court's ability to check presidential overreach for years to come.
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Stay tuned, folks. This one matters. I'm Ben Micellis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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For New Jersey, the top law enforcement attorney general, rather, in New Jersey was the person who argued this case for all of the states. And for Trump, you had his solicitor general of the United States, John Sauer, who was previously Donald Trump's personal attorney. So let me go through some of the highlights of what went down today.
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Interest rates go up everywhere. That means mortgages, business loans, credit cards and so on. All that gets more expensive. Die Aufmerksamkeit des US-Finanzsystems wird weiter erweitert, was eine Weak in Dollar und noch höherer Inflation führen könnte. Das ist ein großer Warnsignal, ein großer Warnsignal, der zeigt, dass die Dinge in die falsche Richtung gehen.
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Und ihr wisst alle, dass es immer einen Tweet gibt und wir immer die Rechene bringen. Also schaut euch das von Donald Trump in 2012 an, als Barack Obama Präsident war. Trump hat gesagt, dass ihr das, was ihr wählt, bekommt. Die US-Kreditrate wird wieder einmal untergradiert werden.
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Well, Trump-Voters, let me echo Donald Trump here for a second when I say, you are getting what you voted for, and we are all paying the price. And get ready, because in a few moments I want to show you Trump's complete and utter meltdown over a brutal loss he was hit with by the Supreme Court. But first, that so-called big, beautiful tax bill I mentioned.
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That's what Trump likes to call it anyway. Well, as of now, it is a big, beautiful bust. The Republican Party rebuked Donald Trump's demand yesterday for Republicans to unite and push the bill through, and instead the party plunged into chaos. Trump had posted the following. I'll pause there just to say, that is a complete and total lie. That is not happening.
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And this bill is going to strip away Medicaid from Americans who actually rely upon it. Trump fortsetzte. Das Land wird mit dieser Legislaturperiode großartig leiden, mit ihren Steuern um 65 %, bla bla bla. Ich werde nicht den Rest seines Propagandas lesen, aber ich will nur zeigen, wie die Republikaner ihn komplett verabschiedeten.
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Das Gesetz wurde im House Budget Committee blockiert, mit fünf Republikanern gegen es zu wählen. Das sollte die leichteste Wahl gewesen sein, auf jeden Fall. Nun, ich glaube nicht, dass die Republikaner plötzlich eine Veränderung des Herzens hatten und plötzlich schön kamen.
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Einige von ihnen denken, dass das Gesetz tatsächlich noch mehr Medikamente auslösen muss, während einige Angst haben, was die Auslösungen für ihre Re-election-Chancen bedeuten können. Einige sind traurig über die Ausgaben der Salz-Deduktionen.
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Man hat im Grunde alle diese wachsenden Faktionen in der GOP und es sieht so aus, als würde das noch messiger und komplizierter werden, wenn es an den Senat geht. The House Budget Committee meanwhile is scheduled to reconvene on Sunday night at 10 p.m. Eastern to give this vote another shot. And as Trump was blowing up our economy, what was he worried about?
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Well, Trump was posting that because of him, Taylor Swift is no longer hot. You heard that right. Trump wrote the following. Has anyone else noticed that since I said I hate Taylor Swift, she's no longer hot? I mean, she just finished the most successful tour in history, like literally in history. It brought in billions and billions of dollars.
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And then these MAGA influencers like Clockwork have to come out of the woodwork and Trump boosts these people. Losers like an account named Cat Turd, who's like an older guy who spends by his own admission, by his own admission, 15 hours a day on X or Twitter, whatever people call it. They pile on and they say things like this. Just so you know, she was never hot. Okay, cat turd.
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Wow, Trumps Mourning is off to an awful start. Maybe one of his worst ever and his failures are catching up to him fast. Now Trump is in full meltdown mode, desperately trying to do damage control as the world around him crumbles. My name is Brett Meiselis with the Midas Touch Network. Remember to hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump was also whining about and threatening Bruce Springsteen after the boss delivered powerful remarks against the Trump administration during his European tour. Trump hat geschrieben, dass er sieht, dass der hochwertige Bruce Springsteen zu einem anderen Land geht, um schlecht über den Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten zu sprechen.
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Er hat ihn nie gefreut, nie seine Musik oder seine radikalistische Politik gefreut. Und wichtig ist, dass er kein talentierter Kerl ist, sondern nur ein hübscher, obdachlicher Arschloch, der furchtbar Joe Biden unterstützt hat, ein mentaler Unbekannter und unser schlimmster Präsident jemals, der nahe an unser Land zerstört wurde. If I wasn't elected, it would have been gone by now.
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Sleepy Joe didn't have a clue as to what he was doing. But Springsteen is dumb as a rock and couldn't see what was going on. Or could he? Which is even worse. This dried out prune of a rocker, his skin is all atrophied. Ought to keep his mouth shut until he gets back into the country. That's just standard fare. Then we will all see how it goes for him.
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I don't know about you, that seems like a threat to me. A threat from a whiny, petulant baby, but a threat nonetheless. Und weil ich weiß, dass es ihn so sehr interessiert, und weil es ein mächtiges Message ist, lasst mich euch Springsteins Anmerkungen in England noch einmal zeigen. Es ist mächtig. Schaut euch das an.
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Powerful. Powerful stuff right there. And if you thought Trump's meltdown over that was bad, I still gotta show you his reaction to his brutal loss to the Supreme Court. But first, let me talk about a story that's not getting nearly enough attention, in my opinion, and this relates to Trump's budget proposal.
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Denn die Zuschauer von MidasTouch wissen, dass Klimaschäden sehr wichtig für uns sind, und deshalb möchte ich darauf achten, dass wir immer wichtige Geschichten auf dem Thema beibringen. Und gerade jetzt, während wir sprechen, kümmern sich die House-Republikaner um Billionen von Dollar in Finanzkosten für die Biden-Zeit-Klima- und Umweltprogramme.
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Das betrifft übrigens die Biden-Klein-Energie-Tax-Kredite. Umweltgruppen kümmern sich um die Alarm. Sie sagen, dass diese Vorschläge für mehr Öl- und Gasindustrieaktivität auf öffentlichen Landen aufbauen würden. Das würde die Öl- und Gasemissionen erhöhen.
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Oh, and add the Midas Touch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. So yesterday, Trump's lies met their match when reality struck back hard. For the first time ever, Moody's downgraded the credit rating of the United States, citing the deficit and debt that is about to explode to record highs under the Trump and GOP plan.
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We're going to keep you posted on all the developments related to these climate policies as Republicans continue to work on this bill, so check back in. Okay, back to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court yesterday blocked Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans in a 7-2 ruling, with Alito and Thomas dissenting.
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They sent the case back to the Fifth Circuit for a new decision. Well, Trump did not take that news well, to say the least, and he made an all-caps post saying the following. The Supreme Court won't allow us to get criminals out of our country. As legal reporter and editor-in-chief of All Rise News Adam Klassfeld wrote,
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Dann hat Trump einen anderen Post geschrieben, der folgendes schreibt, und das ist so verrückt. The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members and even those who are mentally insane who came into our country illegally are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted and expensive legal process.
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One that will take possibly many years for each person and one that will allow these people to commit many crimes before they even see the inside of a courthouse. The result of this decision will let more criminals pour into our country, doing great harm to our cherished American public.
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I will also encourage other criminals to illegally enter our country, wreaking havoc and bedlam wherever they go. The Supreme Court of the United States is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do. Sleepy Joe Biden allowed millions of criminal aliens to come into our country without any process. But in order to get them out of the country, we have to go through a long and extended process.
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In any event, thank you Justice Alito and Justice Thomas for attempting to protect our country. This is a bad and dangerous day for America. Okay, let me pitch you an idea. Maybe you follow the law, okay? Maybe you don't make up that we're being invaded and are at war with Venezuela. Maybe, like the Supreme Court said, you just give people due process or hire more judges.
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You know, things like what the Democrats were trying to pass with that bipartisan bill, that border bill that you torpedoed last year, remember that? Oh, und ich wette, ihr habt es noch nicht gehört, aber Ken Delaney berichtet jetzt, dass die Trump-Administration besagt hat, die Verkaufe von Geräten zu ermöglichen, die regelmäßige Feuerwaffen wie Maschinengunner zu erzeugen.
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Eine Bewegung, die eine Person, die sich mit dem Thema bekannt macht, berichtet hat, war auf jeden Fall die gefährlichste Sache, die diese Administration bei der Anwendung von Geräten gemacht hat. So, all the stories we just went through. Is this a stable person that we're dealing with? I mean it. I'm not being facetious here. I mean it. Objectively asking.
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Or is this a person actively destroying our country day by day? And while some of the media want to focus on Joe Biden being old for some reason, we're laser focused on the issues that matter to you. To your family. The disastrous GOP tax scam bill. Our credit rating being downgraded. The one-year inflation expectations soaring to 7.3%. The climate crisis.
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Since 1917, 1917, Moody's has given the United States the coveted triple A rating. And now, for the first time, the US has a double A1 rating. Moody sagte folgendes. In anderen Worten, die GOP-Tax-Scam wird durch unseren Defizit ein Loch durchlaufen, mit seiner erhöhten Spende und Tax-Cuts für die Reichen.
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The destruction of due process of our laws, of our entire legal system. The corruption and bribery that is currently taking place. Corporate Media is all about these distractions. But that's why independent media is more important than ever. So thank you for staying focused, for understanding the moment that we are in. And so let's continue to set the narrative.
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Moody sagt, dass er erwartet, dass die föderalen Defizite um fast 9% des GDPs von 2035 erhöht werden. Das ist von 6,4% in 2024. Stockfutures fell and treasury yields rose after the downgrade. Let me just tell you the real world implications of all this. When the US loses its AAA status, it's not just symbolic. Higher treasury yields means the government pays even more interest.
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After wrecking our economy this past week, Donald Trump once again now is taking a vacation in Florida at his resort where he lives in Mar-a-Lago. He's making numerous psychotic and delusional posts this morning, like this one right here. President Trump has revolutionized the new American revolution. And when you open up what Donald Trump posts, here's what it says. And rightfully so.
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Let's take a look at the headlines this morning from the Wall Street Journal. I could show you headlines from a lot of sources. Let me show you, though, from the journal, right? Because it's right-leaning. It's owned by Rupert Murdoch. I'll give you that perspective of it. Here's what it says. Consumers and businesses send distress signal as economic fear sets in.
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Cancelled trips, fewer dinner parties, and falling sales. Quote, we are cutting back on virtually everything. Another headline from the Wall Street Journal. Eggs are so expensive, people are smuggling them in from Mexico. The contraband is yet another sign of how far consumers will go to battle soaring egg prices. Another headline from the Wall Street Journal.
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Here's where to look for early signs of a recession. Also, as Donald Trump attacks our allies, guess what? Our allies are not buying stuff from America. Yes, consumer products. Yes, people in Canada and Europe are canceling their trips to America. America's tourism industry is suffering. But even like the military supplies that the United States used to sell, that's suffering as well.
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Look, Portugal debating to not buy F-35s from America. Mark Carney, the new Prime Minister of Canada, one of his first actions was to review whether or not Canada should be buying F-35s and other military equipment from the United States or if they should be looking elsewhere. Other countries are now stepping in and pitching their equipment and supplies elsewhere. Instead of America.
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And as Donald Trump continues to make all of these delusional and psychotic posts, so does his co-president or puppet master, however you want to refer to Elon Musk as an unelected billionaire bureaucrat.
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whose team of 19 to 25 year olds has destroyed our government and has taken our data, our medical records, our social security information, our tax records, and other private information they now have. And the Trump regime says, trust the billionaires. They're so rich that they should be trusted with everything. What would they do wrong with your data? Here's the headline from moments ago.
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Elon Musk shared, then removed a post absolving dictators for genocide. The post falsely claimed that Stalin, Hitler, and Mao were not responsible for the murders of millions, but rather public sector workers were. Here's what Elon posted. Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn't murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did. He then deleted that, but he reposted that.
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As has been reported, Donald Trump has done more in his first month than any other president in history. And just who is in second place? Only the father of our country, George Washington. Give that just one moment of serious thought.
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And again, this becomes what? A half a day news story? On the Midas Touch Network, we're going to keep on covering it. We're going to keep reporting on it. We're not going to sensationalize it. We're just going to say what it is. That should make you very angry, would be putting it mildly. Let me show you what should also make you very angry. Have you seen this?
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Donald Trump's latest interview where Donald Trump was asked, hey, you said that you would bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. You have not done that. And Donald Trump says, I didn't really mean it. I was being sarcastic, he says. Here, play it.
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So horrific. He's just a liar. He's a con artist. You want to call this the rug pull regime? You want to call this the Ponzi scheme regime? They just move the goalposts, lie, lie, lie. There's no lie that they won't tell. Another headline right here. I covered this earlier this morning as well. U.S. is now begging Denmark for eggs because U.S. doesn't have eggs anymore.
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And the price of eggs in the U.S. is surging. And you see the lines. So now after the United States threatening Denmark with war, right, the United States says it wants to seize and annex Greenland, which is part of the kingdom of Denmark. Secretly, the Trump administration's begging Denmark in private. for eggs and for other supplies.
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I want to give a shout out to all the veterans who were protesting over this past weekend. And I want to tell you that our heart goes out to you here at the Midas Touch Network. My grandfather was a tail gunner on a B-29 in World War II. And I remember all the stories that he would tell us growing up. And y'all are the real heroes. And what the Trump regime is doing to all of you by gutting
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During his first several weeks in office, Trump eclipsed the first president of our republic and the man assigned with the Herculean task of standing it up after a brutal but victorious revolution. That's what Donald Trump is posting this morning. It's why I say he's psychotic and I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. He then sends this email out to his supporters. Are you in the 1%? Ben, Ben, Ben.
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70,000 jobs at the VA, making it difficult to get in touch with the crisis hotline, firing federal workers, many of whom are former veterans or spouses of the military. This is from the Dallas News. Dallas veterans rally against firing at the VA, and there were protests like this across the country. I want to share this with you as well.
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Every year, right around this time in Basel, Switzerland, they hold this parade in Basel. This year's parade, again, Switzerland known for being neutral, right? That's kind of the reputation. But I would say they're very pro-democracy, but, you know, that's... Here is a great protest that they gave to Donald Trump. So this is what was going on in Switzerland this past week.
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So here's what Trump is seeing right now, how the world feels about him. Here, play this clip.
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Yep, the Parade of Middle Fingers, as it's called, the Parade of Middle Fingers. I'll show you here just some other photos of some of the veterans, whether it was in Albany, in D.C., in Minnesota, in Vermont. Shout out to all of them making their voices heard. We stand in solidarity. with you. All of this is going on.
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Trump's chief propagandist, Kellyanne Conway, is saying consumer confidence is up. Everything is great. Here's what she says.
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Yeah, she's the queen of alternative facts, meaning lies. They just, they lie. They're liars.
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They lie about everything. Consumer confidence is almost as low as it's ever been in terms of consumer sentiments, the worst since 2022, but inflation expectations, the worst since 1993. Job loss expectations. I think that's the worst since 1987 or so. And what does Trump do? He goes into the DOJ yesterday and he talks about the word groceries. He goes, it's an old fashioned word.
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The word groceries. Here, play this clip.
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And then they send their MAGA Republican senators like Senator Sheehy from Montana. Montana used to have a good Democratic senator stood up for the people. Now they've got like a private equity hedge fund guy. And what they're trying to pitch is that Americans were... I've showed lots of videos like this, so I'll just show one quick one. That Americans were on a sugar high. We need to suffer now.
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It's for the long-term good, but we have to suffer. And I just want to fact check that one. They act like the economy was horrible under former President Biden. It wasn't. We had record GDP growth. We had low unemployment. We had 16.4 million jobs were created. Our GDP was higher than China. We were energy independent. Inflation was hitting 2%, which is exactly where you wanted to be.
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Today I'm announcing the first ever Trump Platinum Club election. After my election, only the top 1% of Trump supporters are even receiving this message. Will you join the top 1% of Trump supporters? And then you click the link to join the Platinum Club where he grips off of his supporters. What? So they can feel like they're in the 1%.
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So interest rates were going to be cut. The Wall Street Journal called it the envy of the world, the economy. Let me just show you this clip.
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We all love a good stock market, but the reality is that stock market imbalance didn't necessarily benefit the smaller mid-sized companies and average shareholders across the country. It didn't necessarily benefit Main Street that much. So I think we are going to see a correction there. But the reality is the stock market is not the economy. The economy is not the stock market.
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It's not uncommon for uncertainty to cause disruptions in that as they digest a new environmental, a new economic landscape that the president's created.
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Trump Gets Rude Awakening in Morning as Life Collapses
like the billionaires who hang out at Mar-a-Lago who are the ones getting all the tax cuts and all of the benefits while we, the people, suffer, while the people are having Medicaid gutted, while veterans are being fired, while the Social Security Administration is being dismantled. You can join Donald Trump's Platinum Club if you give him... Money? What is he even campaigning for?
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
The end of last week, the University of Michigan reported the kind of worst data it had on inflation expectations since 1993. In addition, consumer sentiments, the worst since 2022. The big news from this data was not inflation expectations by itself, but also if you look at what people are saying about the jobs market, the expected change in unemployment is the worst.
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
And his whims and his kind of madness is often directed at the most vulnerable, right? I mean, attacking Social Security Administration, veterans, poor kids, getting rid of the Department of Education. I mean, it seems that this is also very cruelly tailored to attack the people who need help. help the most or the people who have sacrificed the most for our country.
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
Since the 2008 recession, Donald Trump had his surrogates on at the end of last week. The first clip I'm going to show you, though, is from Howard Lutnick, Trump's Commerce Secretary. And here's what he has to say about the Federal Reserve's prediction of a 2.4% contraction. Let's play that one first, then.
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
You know, I think this headline deserves more attention as well, despite everything that that Doge has done, the cruelty, shutting down the government buildings, firing all of the veterans, getting rid of 70,000 people who work at the VA, shutting down the Social Security Administration buildings and all of that.
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
Last month, there was more federal spending than any prior month in the history of the United States of America, $603 billion last month. And so As they're cruelly cutting those salaries, I mean, they're doing these ridiculous PR stunts where they send these military planes to Guantanamo Bay to bring 180 people there to the cost of tens of millions of dollars.
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
And then they bring the people back because they actually don't have the facilities at Guantanamo Bay. And they realize also they can't do that. And Trump flies Air Force One in circles around NASCAR tracks. Who knows how much that costs and all the other waste that they're actually are spending. So Well, don't forget all his golf. And golf all the time.
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
Are you seeing, you know, a change, a vibe shift, though, out there? I mean, not just in your district, but as you speak to other members of Congress. I mean, are we reaching a different point right now in the kind of resistance and opposition to Trump?
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
You know, it's cartoonish villain stuff manifested in the real world right now. And you talk about that, too. And like when they fired all of these people from the federal government, they like defamed them, too. And they would say that these people were fired.
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
for cause and for performance, which also had implications also depending on what state they are and their unemployment, their ability to be rehired if they're fired for cause. And a federal judge in California Northern District, Judge Alsup, I used to appear in front of when I was practicing back in the day, he looked at these, no nonsense judge,
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
This federal judge, like you were a federal prosecutor. I mean, Trump's sending these DOJ people who don't have the facts, don't know who runs the agencies, who are staring at these judges. And these judges are like, well, who runs that? Who's doing that? And these DOJ lawyers for Trump are like, we're understaffed. We don't know. And these judges are issuing scathing rulings.
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
So the federal judge is like, you know what? rehire them all in various departments, bring them back. And I may have them all be rehired, but I'm going to focus on certain departments now. So today, on Friday rather, the Trump administration, they're out there whining. They're whining. Let me show you. They're going, it's unconstitutional. It's unfair. Here, play this clip.
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
What's your response to that?
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
Right here. Right now. I have Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman. What are you what are you what's your reaction to that? What are you hearing from your constituents, Congressman?
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
uh ruling but take it up with the appeals court that's how our system works yeah and also send elon musk to go in front of you in congress so send him in front of the senate so y'all can ask him questions right oversight uh anyway i want to have you back on soon i appreciate you i appreciate uh the stand you took against that uh cr the horrible cr really appreciate um you know everything you're doing so please come back thank you congressman
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Rep. Dan Goldman is Fighting Back as Trump’s Plans Backfire
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
The article goes on to say, the request from the US Department of Agriculture coincides with a raft of new US tariffs on countries including in Europe and the threat of more. Donald Trump has threatened economic sanctions unless Denmark hands over control of Greenland to the United States. U.S.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
wholesale egg prices are shattering records as an accelerating outbreak of bird flu in laying hen slashes supply. Trump promised to lower egg prices on his first day in office, but prices have increased 59% on a year-on-year basis in February, the first full month of his administration. A letter reviewed by Reuters showed that a representative of the U.S.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
Department of Agriculture in Europe had sent formal inquiries to egg producing countries like Denmark in late February, seeking information on their ability and willingness to export eggs to the American market. The shamelessness, the audacity that Trump administration is begging for. foreign countries for eggs that it is attacking.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
Like here was Donald Trump this past week telling the NATO Secretary General how the United States needs to annex Greenland and really wants the help of NATO to go to war, essentially, with a NATO country, Denmark, by annexing Greenland. Play this clip.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
For all of Donald Trump's bluster and bravado and attack on our allies, Donald Trump is now out there begging world leaders who he attacked in Europe and elsewhere for eggs and help. He's sending others to do the begging.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
And just so you can see right here, the chairman of Denmark's Defense Committee responded to Donald Trump's comments on Greenland in the presence of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Here's what Rasmus Jarlow says. He goes, we do not appreciate the Secretary General of NATO joking with Trump about Greenland like this. It would mean war. Let me repeat that.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
It would mean war between two NATO countries. Greenland has just voted against immediate independence from Denmark and does not want to be America ever. Now, let's just fact check that with what we know. And one of the things that just happened is there was an election in Denmark and the results of that election, the kind of center right pro-business party won.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
And their new leader is saying that the annexation of Greenland by the United States is never going to happen. Take a look here. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loke. Rasmussen snapped back at Donald Trump's recent comments suggesting that Greenland's latest election results are somehow good for the United States.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
Danish foreign minister to Trump, Greenland's flag can't be painted with stars and stripes. It goes on to say that Trump somehow claiming this election in Greenland was good for the Trump administration's plan of annexation, quote,
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
is a misinterpretation of Greenlandic elections to conclude that we'll have an independent Greenland tomorrow flying a white flag that can then be painted with stars and stripes, Rasmussen said. The center-right Democrats defeated the governing left-wing coalition in the recent elections. And it goes on to talk about how
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
The winning party's leader, Jens Fredrik Nielsen, said that it ain't happening. We don't want to be Americans. No, we don't want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders. And we want our own independence in the future, Nielsen said. And we want to build our own country by ourselves. Making it clear, though, we do not want to be part of America and their process for independence from Denmark.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
They call it very gradual independence. and cautious approach, but they go, we don't want to be a part of the US at all. Stay away. Let's talk about the new prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, who was sworn in at the end of last week, an incredible ceremony in Canada. Here is Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada. This sound familiar? Let's play this clip.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
And that follows Donald Trump like a psychopath from the Oval Office earlier this week with the NATO Secretary of General saying this, play this clip.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
while he bashes these world leaders in public press conferences. So I'm not exactly sure that's a great strategy. Let me show you what's going down. This from Reuters. How many eggs can you send? The U.S. is currently asking countries abroad, many countries in Europe, especially including Europe, Denmark to help lower the soaring egg prices and the lack of egg supply in the United States.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
Let's take a look at what's going on in Australia as well as the ambassador to the United States and former prime minister of Australia, Kevin Michael Rudd. He was the 26th prime minister, held office as the leader of the Labor Party in Australia. He was on ABC Australia recently, and he was asked about his approach in negotiations with the Trump regime.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
I want you to watch this, but I also just want you to see, just in my view, just the kind of calm, thoughtful response here. You'll never see anybody in the Trump regime ever talk like this. Logical, calm. Here, play this clip.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can please export eggs as Americans are facing surging egg prices. The Nordic countries egg association said on Friday, as Donald Trump is telling Denmark that the United States wants to annex Greenland, which is part of the territory of Denmark. Let me get this straight.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Secretly Begs
The United States is out there begging Denmark to send the United States eggs as America is tariffing Europe 25% on aluminum and steel and trying to crush the economies of Europe and elsewhere. Let me get this straight, Trump sending people to beg? Is that the art of the deal or the art of the beg, Donald Trump?
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
not surprisingly donald trump's approval is plummeting with the plummeting market with the plummeting economy it seems everything is plummeting right now in this trump regime let's just take a look at the latest ipsos poll trump's approval on the economy which for reasons that were unclear to me were previously
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Do you consider Canada an ally, a neutral country, or an enemy? 59% of Americans say an ally, only 2% say an enemy, which is interesting because now if you ran that poll in Canada, I think only 25% to 30% of Canadians still view the United States as an ally, even though the American people stand with Canada because of the Trump regime's policies and Trump's unfavorability policies.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
continues to soar, his favorability plummets. And I mean, look, he brought the NATO Secretary General into the Oval Office on Thursday. And what Donald Trump was talking about was invading Los Angeles. to take the water and turn on a faucet. Here's what Trump talked about in front of the NATO Secretary General and the world press.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
I guess he's a psychotic individual. I live in Los Angeles. What he's saying is not true. What he did do is send the Army Corps of Engineers to invade and break into reservoirs in Northern California, nowhere near Southern California, after the fires were already out. And then he dumped over 2 billion gallons of water
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
I don't know why, but now 51% of Americans disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the economy. On this question, the U.S. should make Canada the 51st state because the – this is the stupidest question that we even have to mention. that the U.S. should make Canada the 51st state because the two countries are already so intertwined. 80% disagree, 17% agree. It's a good idea for the U.S.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
onto farmland in central and northern california nowhere near where the fires were previously which were put out and he destroyed the farmers livelihoods going into the summers and those were some of the areas that were reddish in california those were the republican voter farmers and he destroyed their he destroyed their summer so It's a bunch of insanity.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
If you heard some of those laughs as I was going through this segment, I'll bring in Democratic Congress member Raja Krishnamoorthy. I mean, you hear these questions and I'm with you. I mean, they're the fact that we have to even ask these questions is is outrageous. But here it is. And your colleagues, these spineless MAGA Republicans are like, oh, things are going really good.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
You know, there's also now, I mean, I showed the one stat where Americans rightfully view Canada as an ally. Trump is treating Canada like an enemy. And so the people of Canada... are boycotting tourism. They're not showing up in the vacations. They're canceling their conferences here. They're taking American booze off their shelf. They're buying Canada.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And that aspect, not just the retaliatory tariffs, the world is now boycotting America. I don't even know who America under Trump regime is allied with I can't make I'm sure one of the things you're hearing too is like people can't even make sense of what he's doing that's why I'm saying like I'm not trying to be hyperbolic when I say it's psychotic it's psychotic
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
to charge higher tariffs on imported goods, even if prices increase. 53% disagree, 32% agree. Trump's moves to shake up the economy are too erratic. 57% agree, 32% disagree. The U.S. should take over the Gaza Strip and develop the area for tourism. 84% disagree, 12% agree. Expanding U.S. territory will help the nation prosper. 68% disagree, 29% agree. I support Ukraine's use of U.S.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Right. And federal spending went up. last month it didn't go down with all of this happening it was the highest month of federal spending ever in history 603 billion dollars like 15 or 30 billion more than than the prior month with all of this going on so it just seems
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
that cruelty is the point, lay off 70,000 people from Veterans Affairs, 10,000 people from the Social Security Administration, half the staff at the Department of Education, get rid of the national parks, while Elon... helps himself with his contracts while Donald goes around the NASCAR racetrack while half the country was suffering from severe weather events.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Like they're not, they're not doing the things. And then your Republican colleagues are just like, trust me, bro. Trust me. You need pain. That's their line. Their line is you need to experience this pain and suffering while
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Finally, tell us some of the things that you're doing. I mean, reaching out to your constituents, what you recommend other Democrats to be doing. I mean, your constituents aren't just Democrats. I mean, we're Republicans, independents, people who were not political until politics just whacked them. What are you doing now to kind of reach out?
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
I'm sure you're hearing, Congressman, we want you to fight. And what does that mean to you? What are you doing to fight?
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthy, thanks for joining. Thank you so much, my friend. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
supplied arms to strike inside of Russia. 54% agree, 42% disagree. The problems of Ukraine are none of our business and we should not interfere. 57% disagree, 47% agree. Net favorables, Trump, negative 9%. Vance, negative 20%. Elon Musk, negative 21%. Trump's approval on handling the cost of living, 57% disapprove, 32% approve. Trump's approval on foreign policy, 48% disapprove, 37% approve.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
Right now, it's the time to fight for the people. You're either on the side of the people or you're on the side of the oligarchs. I like to see Democrats who are fighting. Let me show you what Governor Walz did in Des Moines, Iowa. He spoke to the people there in a reddish area and he said, let me explain to you why the Trump regime is going after public education. Play this clip.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
Next up, Governor Walz talks about what you see on Fox News over and over again.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
Let me show you what went down in one of these MAGA Republican town halls. I at least give this guy, Chuck Edwards, somewhat credit, MAGA Republican, for holding the town hall. I think this showcases, though, just how pissed people are. Here's a veteran who's got kicked out of the event.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
This is someone who fought for our country, who got kicked out of this event for saying, you don't care about us. You're destroying the lives of veterans. Here, play this clip.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
Let me show you this moment on Saturday where Democratic Senator Wyden of Oregon questioned Dr. Oz, who's leading Medicaid right now. Yes, Dr. Oz is leading Medicaid. Let's play it.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
Go to selectquote.com slash Midas today to get started. That's selectquote.com slash Midas. See how Dr. Oz couldn't answer a simple question. Here's Governor Wallace from that same town hall in Des Moines. Here he's saying, there's nothing conservative about what Trump and MAG is doing. Let's play it.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
know what i mean how they think to cut the government this is wrong and your member of congress is there to be your voice is there to push back there is nothing conservative about let me just show you like in contrast to that you've got mager republicans like tom emmer going on cnn and here's what he had to say play this clip do you think it should be illegal to criticize the judge and also
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
Let me ask you, how could you not expose that and call out that crap. Again, just look, listen, see where the people are. Look at these veterans outside of the VA Medical Center in St. Louis, for example. Here, play this clip.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
You got to listen to the people, see where the people are right now. Here is MAGA Republican Senator Joni Ernst. Here she is just like lying about Doge saving $115 billion. Everything she says here is a lie. Let me just show you the lie. Let's play it. From Iowa.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
Yeah, I mean, quite literally, these people just make things up. The true stat is that last month there was more federal government spending than ever in the history of the United States. That's the fact. So not only is Doge cruelly destroying our government and destroying people's lives, there was $603 billion in spending, most ever.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
I had the opportunity to interview Democratic Congress member Raja Krishnamoorthy. He's fighting for the people. Here's what he says is going on in his district in Illinois. Let's play it.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
Couldn't agree more with him. Then in this public town hall event that he was holding, he asked the crowd, what do you want to see Democrats doing? Not surprisingly, it's fight. It's fight back. And not just what you want to see Democrats doing. As human beings, we need to fight this regime right now. Here, play this clip.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
And while all of that's going on, contrast that to what Trump was doing yesterday. Like this is, Trump was at the DOJ, and here's what he was whining about. Let's play it.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
The ball's in your court, Dems. You want to fight or you want to be complicit with the oligarchy? You want to fight for the people or you want to do nothing, which is hoisting up this oligarchy? There's no longer. I mean, right now, this isn't a government by the people for the people. It's a government by the bullies for the billionaires. The government's already shut down.
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Uh Oh! Dems Torch the GOP in Their Own Turf
The Trump regime is being run by billionaires, Elon Musk, who are just doing whatever they want to do. There's no checks and balances. It's already being destroyed. It's already destroyed. So Democrats, you've got to fight for people. This is a moment. where courage will be rewarded. And it's the right thing to do. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
You see what your colleagues are out there saying now? You've got Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio. He's out there saying, well, I'll just show you what he said this morning moments ago. Let's play. What do you want to say about the Tara fight?
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
So that's where they're going with this. Your 401ks may end up being in the tank. Your pensions are done.
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
What do we do when he's attacking our military though, when he's attacking our veterans? Let's talk about the attack on the veterans first. I mean, You have disproportionately these doge terminations affecting veterans who work in the federal government, the VA cuts, you know, people not being able to work even at things like the crisis hotline.
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
I mean, it seems that there's like an intentional malicious nature here targeted at veterans. What are you hearing?
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
I'm joined by Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. Senator, I want to share with you Donald Trump's top advisor, Peter Navarro, just said the following about the last 50 days. Let's play it.
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
And spending was up last month, right? I mean, I saw a report from the Financial Times. Last month, $603 billion spending was up more than any other previous month. So they're not even cutting things, they're just cruelly harming some of our most vulnerable people. It's not even work. What they claim to be doing isn't what they're doing. Anyway, let's talk about this, though.
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
The Trump White House today, according to NBC News, is actually asking the military for plans about potentially invading the Panama Canal. That's what the United States military is spending time to. There's a range of plans, but one of the plans is involves U.S. troops seizing it by force. That's being reported by NBC News.
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
And also, when Trump uses this language, this Putin language of annexation, of taking over land of allies like Canada, you know, that means young men and women dying and fighting in wars against their allies. Like as a veteran, what do you make of that language from someone like him who took five deferments for bone spurs and now he's out there speaking like Putin?
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
You know, I think that's one of the issues that lots of people have. They go, look, Republicans have decided they're not going to play by the rules. I mean, look, you've got Elon Musk. I mean, you've answered this question before. I mean, he calls you a traitor because you go to, you know, you know, because you're in Ukraine and you're doing your job.
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
You got Musk posting this morning, Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn't murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did. And your colleagues just are, you know, whatever, you know, Republican colleagues are like, whatever, it's Elon being Elon. And I just think the American people across the board, and I'll be hearing this in Arizona, are just like, can we just fight back against this shit?
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
Can we just fight? What can we do other than be told, oh, point a parliamentary inquiry? Like, what can we do?
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
You know what I think most revealing too is when your Republican colleagues quash any attempts to subpoena Elon Musk so he could actually be transparent and testify before the Senate or even before the House about what he's doing. Finally, what are you hearing just from people in Arizona? Are you seeing a shift?
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
I mean, Arizona, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, about one-third, one-third, one-third Used to be reddish, now purplish. I mean, you're a Democratic senator, you know, in that state, purplish state. What do you make of the vibe? I mean, I know from when I used to practice law there, a strong view. I practiced in California, but I had a few cases out there. Privacy was always a big issue.
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
So not wanting people to go through their social security records, medical records. not have the federal government and Elon Musk and billionaires take it. I've heard that's a big issue. What are you just hearing generally? Is there a discernible shift that you've seen?
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Sen. Mark Kelly on Trump’s ‘Worst 50 Days’
Senator Mark Kelly, thanks for joining us. We hope you come back. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Gets Smacked in Face as He Runs Away to Golf
As Donald Trump headed back to Mar-a-Lago for yet another golfing vacation after crashing the American economy again this past week, he was taking questions from the press and got smacked in the face by a microphone. Here, watch as that happened.
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Trump Gets Smacked in Face as He Runs Away to Golf
Anyway, we'll keep you posted throughout the day. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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Trump Gets Smacked in Face as He Runs Away to Golf
Lots of people are expecting that we're either already in a recession or we're heading into a great recession or even a depression as a result of Trump's chaotic and disastrous economic policies, if you even want to call him making posts on social media policy. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said,
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Trump Gets Smacked in Face as He Runs Away to Golf
says the u.s recession odds are now nearing 50 by the way do you remember those headlines like the one from business insider heading into 2025 with the trump regime where they said a zero percent chance of a recession remember the headlines when former president biden was taking office and uh business journals or business uh newspapers like bloomberg were saying 100 chance of recession
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and that the 100% chance was a massive blow to then President Biden, and then Biden navigated out of that. There was no recession. There was a soft landing, and the economy was actually booming. Just take a look at the market. Stock tumbles last week. They call it a correction, but I call it a crash.
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As investors sour on Donald Trump, if you looked at your 401ks or your pensions or whatever over the past few weeks, It was a disastrous thing to look at. It seems like every day Donald Trump would wake up, post something crazy, and the markets would tank. Right now, we're seeing from University of Michigan, which takes the consumer sentiment surveys, it's the worst consumer sentiment since 2022.
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Also, it is the worst University of Michigan inflation expectation since 1993. But the big news in the University of Michigan data was not just the inflation expectations. If you look what people are saying about the jobs market, it's expected change in unemployment.
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People's views of the expected change in unemployment is the worst since the 2008 Great Recession, and it's perhaps even getting worse than that. But Donald Trump's regime has to have on Fox their propaganda network, Kelly and Conway, who says consumer confidence is up because what's down is up. What's up is down. War is peace. Yeah, I think we've heard that from 1984. Here, play this clip.
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Everything is turning up Trump and now- I mean, everything she says is just absolutely false. Those are those alternative facts. Trump, meanwhile, is sending out surveys like this to his supporters on his email list. Do you still support Doge? I'm launching the presidential fundraising blitz before my mid-month fundraising deadline. And it's like, please help me, Ben.
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I need money for my fundraising blitz. Fundraising blitz? For what? And as you're destroying even your own supporters' pensions and 401ks, and as you haven't done anything you promised, prices are up, housing is less affordable, as you screwed the economy, you're fundraising, you're asking for money for you who's enriched himself billions of dollars since you've taken office.
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As I was mentioning before, Donald Trump on Friday held that press conference inside the Department of Justice in their grand ballroom. And Donald Trump, again, was mystified, stupefied by the word groceries. Groceries, he's like, that's an old-fashioned word, groceries. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump declares at the DOJ that CNN and MSNBC are illegal. Here, watch this.
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Yeah, that's called karma. At the same time that was happening, there were protests by veterans across the country, but also in front of the VA Medical Center in St. Louis. I want you to watch it. Shout out to the veterans who were protesting. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump brags at the DOJ about pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists, who he calls political prisoners. Again, he's doing this at the DOJ. He's making the DOJ prosecutors in D.C. who were involved even in the prosecution, if they haven't already been fired, but he's asking law and order people to watch him brag about
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about letting on the street some of the most vile and despicable crooks, criminals, people who beat cops, freaking terrorists, a lot of them. But here's what he has to say. Play this clip.
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Then the propaganda state regime network known as Fox brings on Sean Duffy, Donald Trump's secretary of transportation, who got famous on a real world road rules challenge a few decades ago. That's how he made a
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name for himself it's the reality show dystopian reality show presidency and here he keeps talking there's all these plane issues i remember a plane caught on fire in the past two days as well in denver he's like we're looking into this dei i think it's the we got it we got to look closer there must be all this dei everywhere just so just so stupid here play this clip
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Then the Trump regime brings on Howard Lutnick or puts out Howard Lutnick on state regime media known as Fox. And Howard Lutnick is apparently hearing for the first time that the Atlanta Federal Reserve is predicting a 2.4% contraction of the GDP in the first quarter, whereas it was expected before 2020. to grow at around 3% if Donald Trump literally just did nothing.
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Former President Biden had GDP higher than China and hitting record levels and leading the world. Now it's expected to be a negative 2.4%. Watch Howard Lutnick's response. He's like, what? What is this?
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Let's also talk about the five things that Donald Trump did this week. You know how Elon Musk is demanding that the federal workers provide the list of five things or else. Take a look. Donald Trump tanked the stock market some more. He hosted a Tesla product placement event at the White House. He said that CNN and MSNBC are
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Take a look as well. The red flags popping up at supermarkets across Canada as they continue to boycott all things American, as they boycott American tourism. They're indicating which are Canadian made products. Also, yesterday was the swearing in of the new prime minister, Mark Carney. Here's what he had to say. Let's play it.
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And Donald Trump continues to talk about America conquering Canada, Canada becoming the 51st state, oh, Canada becoming an anthem of the state in the United States. I mean, just the most heinous and despicable things. Shout out, by the way, to all of our Canadian supporters. We here at the Frankly, more Americans than people who support Trump. Stand in solidarity with you.
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Do your thing if you've got to boycott tourism, if you've got to boycott American products, to stand up to the Trump regime. Do what you've got to do. We totally understand what you're going through, and we don't support the attacks on your sovereignty. It is despicable, despicable stuff by the Trump regime. The Trump regime continues to suck up to Vladimir Putin. First thing yesterday morning,
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Donald Trump literally posted verbatim Putin propaganda. He posted a total lie saying that Ukrainian troops were surrounded by Russian forces who are about to massacre the Ukrainian troops. And then Ukraine had to respond, no, this is Putin propaganda. Putin's giving you false information. There's been no material change.
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on the battlefield where Russia previously said that it would be able to take Kyiv in three days and wasn't able to. We've been discussing Russia's inability to take the territories that it's been trying to. Ukraine courageously pushing back against Russia. Donald Trump literally regurgitating those Putin talking points.
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And then basically saying, so as a result, that's why we think Ukraine needs to give up all of this stuff in order to have a ceasefire. And Ukraine said, look, we're willing to have a ceasefire, but treat us like a sovereign nation. And we want security guarantees to make sure it's meaningful and peaceful. Putin doesn't want a ceasefire. And on Russian propaganda TV, their version of Fox.
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Their hosts are basically saying, here's our response to your ceasefire. Why would we want to agree to a ceasefire? That's what we're seeing out there as well. Also, it is worth noting that the Doge team working at the Social Security Administration appears to be among the largest Doge units deployed today. to any governmental agency.
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are illegal in front of the Department of Justice during that same press conference he held at the Department of Justice. He also praised the January 6th insurrectionists at the DOJ kind of main grand room. He got hit with a microphone, which you just saw, and then he went to play golf even more.
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We know that the Trump regime is firing lots of people who work in the Social Security Administration office. And we know that Elon Musk has said Social Security is a Ponzi scheme from the Republican budget. They're getting $880 billion of Medicaid. We know that they're firing you know, all of these veterans, all of these government workers.
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And, you know, one of the things, though, that we're going to see what the outcome ultimately is, but two different federal judges, one in a federal court in Maryland, another in a federal court in the Northern District of California, ruled that Trump's terminations of these probationary employees, the tens of thousands who Trump fired, those were unlawful terminations.
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And both of these courts were in kind of somewhat overlapping consensual circles kind of orders, said that these probationary employees need to be rehired by the Trump regime, which the Trump regime is saying, no, we fired them. We want these government workers gone. We try to get rid of them. And the federal courts are saying, nope, They have to be rehired.
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You didn't conduct a reduction in force analysis, an RIF, and you lied and defamed these workers and said you were firing them for cause. You can't just lie and defame and say you fired people for cause for not doing their job who were doing their job. So bring them back. And ultimately, if you want to fire them,
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You have to go through the process and actually provide cause and justification for what you're doing. So we'll keep you posted with that and more. Trump's now on vacation, again, at taxpayer expense. Every time he does this, it costs millions and millions of dollars. And that's why I've showed you this data before.
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But last month, there was more federal spending at $603 billion than any month in the history of of the United States of America. So for all that Doge was saying, we're doing this, that, and the other thing, which was all lies, more federal government spending last month than ever, than any month in former President Biden's administration as well. So it's all BS.
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Fierce, powerful, popular, everything that Donald Trump isn't, that's Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum. Let me share with you the strong message that she delivered, that she will be going after American companies or anybody who is aiding and abetting the problems that are being caused in Mexico. She's standing up to Donald Trump's defamatory statements about Mexico.
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This was a little bit earlier in the week where she talks about Donald Trump's ridiculous premises of renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America. And she goes, hey, Google,
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As The Guardian reports, Mexican president blasts the United States for harboring drug cartels. She's saying, look, Donald, you're coming after us. We're coming after you. The lifeblood of cartels, which you want to label terrorist organizations, are your weapons that are getting into the United States. And also, it is your people who are consuming the fentanyl.
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It is Americans who are bringing the fentanyl abroad. So if you want to come after us, then you're basically coming after yourself. So you come after Mexico? Well, then we'll go after the gun manufacturers. Here's what she goes. She goes, quote, there is organized crime in the United States and there are American people who come to Mexico with these illegal activities.
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She goes on to say, otherwise, who would distribute fentanyl in the cities of the United States? She goes, it's the Americans who are fueling this. So don't blame it on us, she says. Her comments follow a report published on Monday, which showed that arrest of U.S. citizens for offenses related to organized crime had increased by more than 450 percent during the tenure of her predecessor, Obrador.
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Scheinbaum called on Washington not just to help crack down on cartels in Mexico, but for the United States to do its job in the US to make the arrests that need to be made in order to halt the trafficking of drugs in its own country, she says. And what I like about this is she's going on the offense here, and she's not just allowing Donald Trump to control the narrative.
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in quintessential Claudia Scheinbaum fashion. Play this clip.
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She also says, okay, let's take a look at some of the entities that we will sue. She goes, a lot of the guns are coming in from American gun manufacturers. So why don't we go after and sue Smith & Wesson, Beretta? Why don't we sue Colt Manufacturing Company? Maybe Mexico takes action against these American gun manufacturers. If you want to come after us, two can play at that game.
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It's not just retaliatory tariffs as a threat in response to Trump's tariffs. It's Canadians are saying, OK, you want to come after us. We're not going to visit the United States. See what happens when we boycott your goods and your groceries and your products and your stores.
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See what happens when we don't travel to the United States and we contribute $22 billion to the United States in tourism alone. We'll crash that and then we'll help crash your economy if you're going to keep saying we should be the 51st state. People are fighting back. Countries are fighting back in different ways. And here we see Claudia Scheinbaum saying, okay,
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You're labeling Mexico with all of these horrific labels? Okay, well, guess where those guns come from? Guess where the fentanyl problem really is? We've showed you some of these clips before of Claudia Scheinbaum standing up for the sovereignty of other nearby countries like Panama. Here she is talking about stop saying that you want to conquer Panama. Belongs to the Panamanians here.
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And here's Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum clapping back at Donald Trump from using a map from, and she uses a map from 1607 to say, if we really want to understand your history, Donald, then you should know that actually the United States belongs to Mexico. Remember when I showed you this clip? At every step of the way, she's been going on the offense. Play this clip.
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And her going on the offense started right after the election. As soon as Donald Trump started using the anti-Mexico rhetoric, gets you a bam. She went right into it. She said, okay, you want to go after us? Guess what? Your auto manufacturers are in Mexico. You want to talk about the big American auto companies? Their factories are right here in Tijuana and elsewhere.
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So you tariff us, you're tariffing yourself, idiot. Basically what she said. And by the way, You are the one who negotiated the trade deal between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. The USMCA, United States, Mexico, Canada agreement, which followed NAFTA, which you said you didn't like. You said the USMCA is so big, bigly, beautiful. That was your deal.
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And now you're saying you're getting ripped off based on your own deal? Uh-uh, not happening, she says. So we had Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum clapping back at Trump with that map. Then we have over here, we have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada. Also, I just want to show you, the world leaders are fighting back. They smell weakness with Donald Trump.
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The same way Putin smells weakness, now even our allies are like, this guy is weak and pathetic and cognitively not there. Play this clip.
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It was great to see President Claudia Scheinbaum again fighting back against Donald Trump. As Donald Trump says this about Putin, play this clip.
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Now, it should be noted as well that President Claudia Scheinbaum has about an 80% approval rating, something that Donald Trump wished that he had. She's been standing up to Donald Trump at every step of the way. Here she is earlier in the week as well. That last clip I showed you was end of the week.
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Well, here's some instant karma. The Republican governor of Georgia who said that he was supporting Donald Trump in the 2024 election for business reasons. He thinks Trump would be good for business. Of course, I'm talking about Brian Kemp. Well, he just got handed.
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led by Republican governors, are the most dependent states on federal aid, where the blue states are the ones that contribute most to the federal government.
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So the states that are contributing to the federal government, Trump attacks them verbally, you know, with his theatrics and his immaturity, but then his policies are screwing, in many ways, red states more than the blue states, although he's screwing all Americans, as you can see. Let me know what you think. Shout out to Ground News, our sponsor. Check them out.
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So it's an extension of what Biden agreed to immediately. You specifically requested an extension of the 100% federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance to 180 days. And you reiterated your request for an increase in the federal cost share for permanent work to 90%.
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Based on our review of all of the information available, it has been determined that the increased level of funding you have requested for major disaster FEMA-4830-DR is not warranted. Therefore, I must inform you that your request for an extension of the period of 100% federal funding for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance to 180 days, is denied.
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some instant karma when the Trump administration denied necessary FEMA aid to Georgia that former President Biden was providing to the state of Georgia. Let me just show you the letter that Brian Kemp received from Donald Trump's FEMA as Trump's trying to gut FEMA.
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It says FEMA will monitor the situation, but it is otherwise denied. Going back to what Brian Kemp said in 2024, look, You may not like Donald Trump personally, but you like his policies a lot better than Kamala Harris, Kemp said at the Republican gathering. Quote, it's a business decision. You're making a business decision.
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Okay, well, our economy was doing well under former President Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris. 16.4 million jobs were created. They brought inflation caused by Trump, one administration under control. never a month where jobs were lost. Consumer sentiment was feeling better.
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We were talking about a Goldilocks economy, a soft landing with no recession when every economist in 2021 predicted because of Donald Trump's conduct, there was going to be a recession. And the stock market was up about 55% to 60%. Regardless, Brian Kemp and these Republicans, Donald Trump's policies were way better. He was destroying your state.
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Look, take a look back at November 21, 2020, three days after asking Trump for disaster aid to recover from a tropical storm in 2020. Republican Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia enraged Trump by certifying the results of the election. Trump, who had been urging Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to
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To declare him the winner in Georgia, assailed the governor as a moron and a nut job after the certification. Trump sat on the disaster request for 55 days before finally approving it. But he waited 55 days. Did Kemp not remember that? How about this? This is from September 30th, 2024. Donald Trump was lying that President Biden refused to talk to Georgia's Governor Kemp.
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And you see Franklin Graham and all of these people out there lying about the great results that FEMA was actually providing. And they were lying and saying that Biden was not giving aid. Of course, corporate media was not fact-checking this. They just played it. But let me show you what Trump said. Play this clip.
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Okay, now contrast that on the same day to what Governor Kemp said, that Biden had given everything, everything he wanted. And notice this is from September 30th, 2024. This is, if you remember the letter that I showed you, Governor Kemp was requesting an extension of what Biden provided for debris removal, help from the federal government. And Donald Trump said, here's my middle finger.
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Go F yourself to all of the people of Georgia. Play this clip. So.
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Now, you would think also, if you're Governor Kemp, Donald Trump calling you all of these names, attacking you, attacking your family, attacking your wife. I don't know, maybe that would be a reason to say, maybe I'm not gonna support that guy, but no with these Republicans. They like love the abuse.
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Then I want to show you some videos where previously Brian Kemp talked about how former President Biden was giving him everything he needed regarding Hurricane Helene and any other disaster, which Donald Trump did not do in 2020. Huh? I might add.
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It's very strange that none of them can stand up to this and they put our country in this situation. Here was Donald Trump back in August of 2024, attacking Governor Kemp.
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Now, I'm going to show you more on Governor Kemp in just a moment. I want to let you know, though, a question that I get, about a question I get asked a lot. which is, Ben, how do you do the research for these videos? Like how do you clip it and how do you find it? Well, one of the resources I use, they sponsor the Midas Touch Network and they're called Ground News.
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And one of the things that they do, it's like for me having x-ray vision for news bias. So they post a story and then they show how How are right-wing media? How's right-wing media covering it? How's left-wing media covering it? Who's covering what? And so I can kind of get a sense of how the different sides are focused on an issue. Are there blind spots?
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They actually have a section called blind spots. And this is one of the sections that I use to see, wait a minute, it seems that right-wing media is 100% covering this issue. What's going on? Do we have a blind spot to the type of propaganda that is spreading out there? And I'll give you an example of a blind spot that I want to protect against.
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So one of the things that we've seen is that like every time James Carville gives a speech that it's being used by the right wing media to kind of attack Trump. opposition to Donald Trump. So 100% of coverage of this story, James Carville acknowledges Trump's fast pace is posing challenges for Democrats. No one on the left is covering it. No one in the center is covering it.
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And then Donald Trump was lying about it and saying Biden was not giving the aid and Biden was being rude to Georgia and he was betraying the people of Georgia. Meanwhile, Trump's first act was to literally give the middle finger to the people of Georgia. And you see over and over again, these Republican governors, because of their spineless nature, destroy their own states. Because of what?
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100% of the people on the right are covering it. And that helps inform me, why do they keep using Carville statements over and over again? And look, there were things in the past that I liked that Carville said, but he keeps on kind of relentlessly attacking Democrats over and over again. And so I have to understand, is this useful? Is it harmful? How does it impact my coverage?
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So you take a look at what Governor Kemp is talking about as well. So here's Governor Kemp interviewing with Caitlin Collins as well. This is April 23rd, 2024, where he talks about how Donald Trump should not be given absolute immunity for his crimes. So Kemp is recognizing that Trump is engaged in criminality. Here, play this clip.
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But the wild thing is he could recognize Trump engaged in criminality. Trump can call him all of these names. Trump can deprive Georgia of all of the of all of aid that they desperately needed in 2020 during a tropical storm because Governor Kemp refused to break the law. And Governor Kemp still supports Trump. And then Trump responds by cutting off the FEMA aid to the people of Georgia.
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And I'll show you this as well. This is Trump, October 4th, 2024. The lies just keep coming without fail at Governor Kemp's press conference in Evans, Georgia. So Kemp holds this press conference. Then Trump says the jobs report for September was bad. It was very good. He says the economy was bad. It isn't. He said the federal government isn't helping, while it is, with hurricane relief.
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Continues to lie over and over again. Hat tip to Chris Borkowski for just writing that. Here's Trump saying it. Here, play this clip.
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Mean tweets by Donald Trump? Mean truth social posts by Donald Trump? It's so pathetic. Let's go through the facts detail by detail here. This is from FEMA in response to the request by Governor Kemp. This is in response to your January 24th, 2025 request for an extension to the cost share waiver under major disaster FEMA-4830-DR that was declared on September 30th, 2024 due to Hurricane Helene.
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Well, now look at what's going on. Households are bracing for another bump in inflation. Americans right now predict inflation will go to 4.3%. Over here, we see inflation surging in Donald Trump's first month in office. And Trump's asked, so, you know, your tariffs are likely going to increase inflation, isn't it? Here, play this clip.
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Nobody really knows what is going to happen other than... And so then a reporter says, well, maybe are you going to direct agencies to study if the tariffs are going to be harmful or cause inflation? It's like, no, I'm not going to do any of that. Here, play this clip.
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And folks, I can go state by state. I can look at how Donald Trump is harming Oklahoma as they're prioritizing buying his Bibles and other things and screwing over Oklahomans' education. You can talk about the Texas school voucher program, which is just destroying the education system there. You can talk about
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In Alabama, where there's a Republican governor, how the people in Alabama are getting screwed. I mean, University of Alabama is the number one employer. Their aid's getting cut off by the Trump administration and a lot of social service. The red state's
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This is what they want to distract you with, stuff like this. This is from the official White House account. Roses are red, violets are blue. Come here illegally and we'll deport you. And it's Donald Trump and Tom Homan, the border czar. But let's talk about what's really going down, the ultimate instant betrayal by Donald Trump of all of his
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So we're 100% conclusive that Donald Trump said that immediately day one prices would get lower, just so you can see for yourself. Here, play the clip.
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Then last week in the Oval Office, Donald Trump said the prices may go higher, they may go lower. I don't know. Here, play this clip.
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promises, at least that were pushed by the media, that instantly prices were going to drop. Egg prices soar. This is from Fox, up 267%. Just go try to go around and try to find eggs, number one, and then try to find eggs that are in any way affordable or any grocery prices. Grocery prices are up. Gas prices are up. I think there's only a handful of states now that have below $3 gas.
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Now, you also remember that after the election, when Donald Trump gave that interview with Time Magazine, he said that it's hard to get prices lower. And he tried to act like he never promised that prices were going to get lower. Then he went to the New York Stock Exchange and he was asked by a reporter, should people be able to, do you want workers to invest in the stock market?
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He goes, I wouldn't. Or I'm not sure because there may be a bad dip is what he said. Let's just just take a look at the headlines right now. Right. What were the headlines saying when former President Biden was in office when they were talking about the economy? They called it a Goldilocks economy. They called it a manufacturing boom. Forty thousand infrastructure projects taking place.
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It seemed every day there were records being set. But now we get headlines like this. This is from The Washington Post. Trump's inflation challenge in seven charts. Gas prices are rising, mortgage rates are falling, and Americans are feeling worse about the economy. I think it's deceptive to say mortgage rates are falling. It's not like 6.97%. So it's actually up in the aggregate.
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But anyway, here are some of the stats to think about. Inflation is heating up. Prices are on the upswing. Annual inflation rate, consumer price index. You see inflation now starting to spike up. We got a horrible inflation report for Trump's first month. Americans are down on the economy again. Americans across political parties are souring on the economy.
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Retail sales fell more than expected in January. Households are bracing for another bump in inflation. Americans expect inflation to worsen in the coming year. Expected changes in prices during the next year. I mean, just look. Take a look at this chart right here. Like, look at that, okay? That is a massive jump that...
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People were told through these media narratives that inflation was going to get lower and now it's spiked. Now people believe it's spiking. It's because of all of the chaos that's being caused. But what's the Trump spin on this? So you know what they're saying. This is what they're going with.
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We're in a cleanup phase with the last administration's economic policies, said Kush Desai, a spokesman for the White House. Some of the things we'd like to do are really quick, like deregulation and energy policy. But as far as cutting government spending to reduce aggregate demand, That takes a bit more time to kick in. Again, you saw the clip I shared with you at the beginning of this video.
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Trump said it would happen immediately. But you want to talk about energy policy? We were energy independent under former President Biden. There was more drilling than at any time in history. And we were exporting more gas and oil than ever before. It was actually a boom of what was taking place there.
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Then you want to talk about as far as cutting government spending to reduce the aggregate demand. I looked at the Republican budget. I mean, you are looking to have a $5 trillion tax cut for the billionaires. you're going to propel us into a recession or a depression, and you're not in a cleanup phase.
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Biden was in the cleanup phase when you handed over the economy in a COVID chaotic world, and Biden turned it around. You added $8 trillion of debt, and by adding $8 trillion of debt, that's what caused inflation as well as the destruction of supply lines in Trump's mishandling of the PPP program, which went to lots of rich people as opposed to regular folk as well.
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With former President Biden, it was almost a majority of states having below $3 gas. States, red states are getting hit hard. Red states like Alabama are finding out that some of the aid that was being provided by the federal government as well as being cut off, some subsidies being cut off. So people are just having $100 here, $50 there, $100 there added to their bills.
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And Donald Trump just destroyed the economy. Here's what it says. It goes on to say that the latest snapshot of prices released this past week showed an unexpected rise in inflation last month. And it goes notably, grocery prices also picked up steam, growing at their fastest rate in more than two years. Grocery prices, not just eggs.
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Grocery prices in general, high food costs were a key part of the Trump's campaign as he traveled the country promising to slash prices on bacon, eggs, and apples. Like a total betrayal right there. Then it says after a burst of post-election optimism, consumers are back to feeling crummy about the economy.
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It was manipulated optimism because outlets like you, Washington Post and New York Times and whatever were saying, this is great. This is amazing. Things are going to be great. And I'm like, no, they're not. His policies are destructive. They're inflationary. They're recessionary or depressionary. That's what they are. And here's the thing, folks. Some of the economic data lags.
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What respected economists who I speak to, what they were saying is they expected the bad economic data to hit more like May or June, not like right away. Trump's been so bad, he's basically propelled us into like COVID-level chaos already, and it's not even being talked about yet. with the right words.
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I mean, we are here on the Midas Touch Network, but what do you think happens when 50% of Canada or more boycotts tourism? If it's 10% that boycotts our tourism into the United States, that costs 144,000 jobs and $2 billion in economic damage. Now let's talk about that times five. Do the math. And then what about the retaliatory tariffs? What about when Canadians don't buy American goods?
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What happens when Europeans feel the same way after J.D. Vance shows up in Germany and attacks every European country? You think they're going to buy American products? No, it's a scarlet letter to buy American. So in addition to retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump's
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tariffs that'll hurt by itself but they're not even factoring in the international boycott and corporate media isn't talking about it they're covering it up the way they cover up the protest that's why we need to talk about these things so when it happens we're not like oh where'd that come from you know we're giving you the facts here about what's really going down
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It goes on to talk about how economists at the University of Michigan, which administers their consumer sentiment survey, noted the decline in sentiment has been pervasive across political parties, ages and wealth groups. So it's not like with Biden, where all of the Republicans, because they lived in their toxic right wing rage algorithm, believed everything was horrible.
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And Democrats and some independents had a normal perspective on the economy of what the objective data showed. No, all Americans right now. feel terrible and people are spending less. Americans kept a tight hold on their wallets in January, spending less at car dealerships, hardware stores and clothing shops than they did the month before. That's a big data. And the tariffs are harming as well.
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Gas prices are going up. Americans expect, again, 4.3% inflation or more when it was going down to 2%. Americans believe 4.3%. And you have Trump like you saw him at the beginning of the video saying, I don't I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. They can try to spin this every which way they control corporate media.
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They control the propaganda machines or so they think, but we've got this network telling you the truth. Put in the comments below. If you've seen, I want to hear from you. If gas prices are going up in your area, let me know. If you're spending less, let me know. If you're Canadian or anywhere across the world and you're boycotting America or Let me know.
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This is from the Huntsville, Alabama utilities company telling people that the Community Action Agency and Limestone Communities has notified us that a grant that you receive for $100 is being pulled back by the Trump administration. And this stuff goes a long way to help people. I know the billionaires don't think $100 here or there is helpful for we the people, but it absolutely is.
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I want to hear from my European friends, my Australian friends, New Zealand friends, South America, wherever you're from, Central America, Mexico, wherever. Let us know if you're boycotting America. I want to hear your stories in the comments also. Maybe I'll do a video where I share your story. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million together. Thank you for watching.
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We're going to keep on telling the truth here every day. We're going to get through this together, okay?
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Let me share this with you so you have the full picture. kind of perspective of it. I want to get into some of the issues with the prices surging inflation, but let me just show this clip. So this is Donald Trump saying on the campaign, so we can be, I want to show you the receipts.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And to all of our Canadian supporters out there, you got to know that you got a bunch of us here who are with you. We support what you're doing. Stand up to Donald Trump and our authoritarian regime here. Keep standing up. Keep spreading the word in Canada about our network.
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That was Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus in Ottawa in preparation for National Flag Day. Charlie Angus has been rallying Canada, rallying its people, its artists, its entertainers, its politicians, its consumers to stand up to Donald Trump. I want to show you That full speech, it's about three to four minutes long. You're going to want to watch the whole thing.
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Charlie Angus refers to the Trump regime as gangsters, says that they are no different than Vladimir Putin, calls for unity amongst the Canadian people to continue to stand up against the Trump-Musk authoritarian regime, folks. Charlie Angus does not mince words. A legend is born. Here, play this clip.
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By the way, in Canada, they continue, you know this from our Canadian viewers, continue to boo the American national anthem at all of their sporting events. You probably have seen this to our Canadian followers and supporters that at the Canadian sporting events, the announcer will come on and they'll be like, please, everybody do not boo. Show respect to the national anthem. Please do not boo.
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And that wasn't even at the United States-Canadian game. Get ready for that one. As Marley, one of our supporters, says, over 80% of Canadians are purposefully shopping Canadian-made products. 56% are avoiding travel to the U.S. Undetermined if for pleasure or work, hopefully work, we're doing our bit. Canada is united, hoping Trump is banned from entering Canada. We should not entertain Canada.
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the enemy. I think those numbers are actually going to get higher. Hard to imagine why any Canadians would want to buy American unless they're forced to or travel here. What I hear from all of our Canadian supporters is they've canceled all of their trips. It is a scarlet letter to vacation, to travel to the United States.
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People have canceled their trips to Florida, Hawaii, throughout the United States of America, devastating our tourism industry here in the United States. Because let's face it, Donald Trump keeps talking about conquering Canada and annexing it and has made it clear, as you heard Charlie Angus said, that America, unfortunately, under the Trump authoritarian regime, isn't a friend of Canada.
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Instead, you have Elon Musk and his like kids holding these meetings with people like Prime Minister Modi. You see Prime Minister Modi's team right there. And then you see Elon Musk and like his children while the Kremlin laughs at the United States. Laughing Kremlin insiders say Trump has given Putin the green light to expand the war. I mean, heck, we heard what Trump said. He says.
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basically give Putin anything he wants and Putin can join the G7, make it the G8. He doesn't think Ukraine should join NATO, that Ukraine should not be able to get its land pre-2014 borders, you know, and more. By the way, but when Donald Trump says this, he also does it and attacks Canada. So when he's asked about Putin, Donald Trump's like, I don't like Canada.
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They don't pay their fair share for NATO, which he lies about. Canada has been one of the fiercest allies of the United States ever. And Canada has stepped up more than almost any nation, if not any nation, to fight for people's freedom. And then Donald Trump says, well, that's why they need to become a state. He still keeps talking about annexing and conquering Canada. Play this clip.
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And then, of course, there was J.D. Vance's horrific speech at the Munich conference, one of the most awful speeches in American history, foreign policy history for sure, where J.D. Vance attacked all of the democracies across the world, but especially European democracies, and promoted Russia interfering with elections And I think Canada takes note of that.
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I think Canadians realize, got it, Elon Musk, Putin, they're just going to try to interfere with our elections and prop up people to turn it into Maple Maga. It's why the Liberal Party in Canada, though, is now gaining momentum. They were not predicted months back to be able to form a government with the snap elections coming up, but it seems that they will.
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And you got people like Mark Carney and others who are vying for that leadership position who are doing quite growing, getting quite popular. Here is J.D. Vance. Let's play it.
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This was an important moment where the German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said, I may not be the most famous negotiator out there, but even I know you don't give away all of your negotiating chips before the negotiation like Trump and Pete Hegseth did. Here, play this clip.
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And speaking of Pete Hegseth, here he is right here saying, you know, And it's such a contrast, right, to Angus's speech. Because Angus is like, here are our principles. Here are our values. Here's what we're fighting for.
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And then Hegseth, the former Fox News host, I put news in quotes, who is now our Secretary of Defense with zero experience because our spineless Republicans let Donald Trump pick the most amateurish, weirdest, strangest, unqualified individual for this position. Hegseth goes... You know, why do people talk about values? Can you take a gun and can you shoot values?
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And then as I think about Hegseth saying there, there's this video that's gone mega viral on TikTok. You may have seen it of a Canadian saying, let me tell you what we think about America and Canada. Here, play this clip.
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The fact that Donald Trump as a convicted felon was elected is actually not unique to the Republican Party in this election cycle. There have been other felons who have been found criminally responsible for serious crimes, people who have pled guilty.
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who have been elected in other states as well for example in monroe county a commissioner who was elected there pled guilty to serious felony drug charges in indiana a republican who won a county seat has pled guilty to sexually assaulting his own daughter a guy by the name of john jessup
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And in Missouri, they are introducing a law, the Republicans are, it's called the Trump Law, to allow felons to run for office in the state of Missouri. So the fact that Trump as a convicted felon was elected, that's now par for the course for MAGA Republicans and they are normalizing it and encouraging it in their laws as well.
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The same way they are passing these abortion laws to take away women's right to choose, they're also passing pro-felon laws to allow individuals who say sexually assault their own daughters to run for office and win. I'm not making this stuff up, folks. Let's go to what? Let's go to Indiana first. Take a look at this article from The Guardian.
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Republican who won county seat pleads guilty to sexually assaulting his own daughter. John Jessup to resign as commissioner in Hancock, Indiana, and faces prison after guilty plea over incident in Las Vegas. And while this was all known to the Republican voters, they voted for this guy anyway. who's pled guilty to sexually assaulting his own daughter in Las Vegas.
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I'm gonna show you what went down in Monroe, Michigan as well in just a moment, but let's take a look at this story first. Days after winning elected office, a Republican politician in Indiana pled guilty to trying to sexually assault his own daughter in Las Vegas and now must resign his position.
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John Jessup, the commissioner of Hancock, Indiana, was charged in Nevada in June in connection with a sexual assault that occurred in January. reported the local Greenfield Daily Reporter's newspaper and KLAS. But he remained in office as county commissioner.
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He ran as a Republican for the seat on the Hancock Council after people knew the allegations against him, a distinct elected body, and he emerged as one of the victors after collecting about 15,000 votes. Records show that Jessup 49 pled guilty in Nevada court on November 13th to attempted sexual assault, which is a kind of felony that can carry multiple years in prison, according to state law.
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Indiana prohibits convicted felons from serving in state or local elected offices, though a decisive majority of its voters on November 5th helped vault Donald Trump to a second U.S. presidency just months after Trump was convicted of felonies. Therefore, Jessup must resign, unlike Trump, who has also faced multi-million dollar civil penalties for a rape allegation that a judge determined to be
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Substantially true. That's why now in these Republican states, like in Missouri, they are enacting laws to allow people like Jessup to run for office, even if they are felons, say convicted of sexually assaulting their own daughters. It goes on to say Jessup on Monday told the Guardian that he must fill out certain paperwork before he can step down.
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The county council chair had mailed him those papers, but they had not immediately arrived, said Jessup, who is awaiting a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for April. According to what Jessup told the Daily Reporter, he was prepared for prosecutors to argue that he deserves between eight and 20 years in prison.
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Jessup reportedly said his attorneys were going to seek a sentence of probation. Quote, it's been my greatest honor serving the people of Hancock County.
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and i'm deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry for the shame i brought to the county jessup told the daily reporter an affidavit obtained and reported on by the outlet said jessup's criminal charges came after he flew to las vegas with a woman in january the affidavit did not identify the woman but in an article on tuesday the daily reporter wrote that jessup was charged with assaulting his youngest daughter rachel on a trip to las vegas intended to celebrate her 21st birthday
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I never dreamed it would have ended up the way it did, Rachel Jessup reportedly told the outlet. Multiple witnesses allegedly told authorities that John Jessup got Rachel, his daughter, intoxicated. Allegedly, as Jessup repeatedly said the slogan, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, she became so intoxicated she needed a wheelchair to get back to her hotel room.
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There, she said she recalled showering while clothed and her next recollection was waking up naked as Jessup, her dad, sexually assaulted her. Authorities wrote in the affidavit cited by the Daily Reporter, should be noted as well, in states like Indiana based on the abortion bans in their states, you would also not be able to get abortion care in situations like this in many red states.
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The woman reported the assault to police in just a few days and authorities arrested him in Indiana in June before extraditing him to Nevada. According to the Daily Reporter, during an interview with investigators, Jessup acknowledged that he, quote, and spoke of suicide, yet also said he had not done anything criminal.
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Jessup posted a $100,000 bond to await the outcome of the case against him under house arrest in Las Vegas area. In a statement to the Indiana News outlet, a Republican Party official in Hancock County denied that her organization had any role in Jessup's case until the legal process concludes or he resigns. In other words, the Republican Party was like,
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I guess it's just gonna have to be up to him to resign. We're not involved in that decision. We take no position. Rachel Jessup, now 22 years old, told the Daily Reporter she was disappointed voters elected her father despite the charges against him. She reportedly said she spoke out publicly because I want it known it's okay to come forward. And while it's hard, it's good to share what happened.
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She also discussed her plans to pursue graduate-level degree work in social work. Hancock County is part of a region that includes Indianapolis, the state capital. It has a population of about 80,000 people. The purpose here of sharing that one story with you as well is that when you're saying, How could this be? They elected Donald Trump.
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This is what they're doing, the Republicans, across the country as they've been radicalized to this Taliban style, okay with sexually assaulting behavior. It's horrific. By the way, we wish the victim
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well and um you know we're so sorry for what happened to you it's absolutely horrific we wish you well in your graduate studies all right let's go to michigan in the republican area of monroe county who elected a convict and here the republican convicted felon is going to be serving his term as an elected official from behind bars he pled guilty he's receiving
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An 18-month sentence for renting out land to an area that illegally grew marijuana and was selling it against the law there. Pled guilty but ran while a convicted felon, was elected with 90% of the vote after being a convicted felon, and will be doing his job from behind bars. Here's the article.
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Newly elected County Commissioner Mark Brandt says he's eager to serve his constituents in Monroe County, Michigan, but first he has to serve time. Brant is scheduled to report to federal prison in Morgantown, West Virginia on Friday, making this a Thanksgiving he will always remember, even if he'd rather forget.
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Brant was sentenced to 18 months in a federal prison, fined $500,000, and agreed to give up more than $300,000 to the feds found in his Monroe home after he pled guilty to maintaining a drug-involved prostitution. premises. It goes on to say that he was elected in 2012.
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He basically hid from the other commissioners what was going on, but it says this Republican was still elected with a staggering 90% of the vote. His popularity contributed to his decisive victory, but he also benefited from running in a district that's so overwhelmingly Republican that no Democrat dared challenge him by trying to get on the ballot before the filing deadline in April.
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Add to the fact that Brandt had been elected three times before and that most folks had no idea he was in the Fed's crosshairs, but apparently didn't care at all. He goes on to say, while I'm gone, he goes in jail, he goes prison, my phone will be available.
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I have somebody who will be taking my messages and my fellow board members have all volunteered to handle all of my constituent concerns that I won't be able to handle. As for his salary of about $15,000, Brand said he had no choice. By law, I have to take the payment while I'm in prison, while I'm not there. So he's gonna be making money while in prison as well.
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Finally, let's go to the state of Missouri. Proposed Trump law seeks to allow felons to run for office in Missouri. And this is the type of laboratory for autocracy my friend David Pepper talks about where they are cooking these horrific things to say, look, we're the pro-felon party now. Let's call this law the Trump law. For real, this is what they're calling it.
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The Trump law says, if you're a felon, you should be able to run for political office. A Missouri representative is proposing a repeal of a state law that currently prevents citizens with a felony history from running for a local and state office Republican. It's a Republican, of course. Representative Michael Davis of Belton, a suburb of Kansas City, pre-filed House Bill 318 on December 3rd.
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The bill named the Donald J. Trump Election Qualification Act would make it possible for those who have been guilty of a felony charge to run in a Missouri office if otherwise qualified. While Missouri allows convicted felons to vote, After completing their sentence and to run for federal office, it prohibits them from becoming candidates for local and state offices.
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Davis calls this discrepancy within the qualifications of running for different offices. I believe that we should punish those who do wrong, but once they've completed the terms, we should allow individuals to reintegrate into society. They are citizens. They have the ability to work and pay taxes.
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And one of the aspects of being a citizen is being represented by your government and deciding who should be who should represent you. Then it goes on to talk about Donald Trump's felony conviction. So let's be clear, folks. This is who the Republican Party is now. This is going on across the country.
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They're electing felons while they go and say they're the party of family values and while the evangelicals support them. They are electing people who have pled guilty to sexually assaulting their own daughter. I mean, just think about that while then also passing abortion bans to prevent access to reproductive health care.
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And you see these men who are pushing these laws, what's actually going on behind the scenes as well. And it's despicable and disgusting and something that we need to call out and we will call out here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together.
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Go figure, after all of the demeaning language Donald Trump has used about Mexico and Mexicans and people south of our border. But overwhelmingly still, Americans don't support tariffs on Mexico and Canada. which Donald Trump says he will do on day one. Next question. Do you think martial law could be necessary under any circumstance in the United States?
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40%, 45% say no, 20% say yes, 35% are unsure. Donald Trump has threatened that he's going to invoke the Alien Seditions Act and invoke martial law to do his bloody mass deportation. So,
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americans there again don't support something donald trump said during the campaign he was going to do next one do you support eliminating the cfpb the consumer financial protection bureau 44 of americans oppose it 19 support it 37 are unsure so still here in this poll the majority people oppose something
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that Donald Trump and his Doge committee and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and other Republicans say that they will do, eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Approval for the Affordable Care Act, something Donald Trump says he will repeal. You'll recall that over the weekend, last weekend that is, Donald Trump went on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker.
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She asked him, do you have any plans when you repeal the Affordable Care Act of what you're going to replace it with? Trump said that they have concepts of plans and Republicans throughout the past few weeks have been attacking the Affordable Care Act over and over again, which prevents insurers from
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from discriminating against people on the basis of pre-existing conditions and it brought tens of millions of people health care who didn't have it before now look there are serious flaws in our health care system that need to be fixed But having healthcare versus not having healthcare at all is the difference between life or death. How can we improve the system?
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Something that President Biden was focusing on. Here, 54% of Americans approve the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare. 38% disapprove, according to the Gallup poll. Next one, this is big, right? Donald Trump's whole thing is cryptocurrency. His SEC director is gonna allow anybody to do whatever they want with cryptocurrency. We've done all of the reporting.
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Donald Trump owns a crypto company, World Liberty Financial. He cut that deal with that guy, Justin Sun, who runs the Tron blockchain, which has been under the investigation by the SEC for engaging in fraudulent trading, Justin Sun.
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denies all of the allegations justin's son was that guy who bought a 6.2 million dollar banana at an art show and then ate it to flaunt his wealth cryptocurrency should it be more regulated no change less regulated or unsure the you gov poll says 42 percent of americans think cryptocurrency should be more regulated 18 say no change 10 less 30 percent unsure
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Donald Trump's plan would make it far less regulated or not regulated at all. Next poll. Echelon Insights, support for deporting a grandmother who has been in the U.S. for 20 years after originally entering illegally with children and grandchildren who are U.S. citizens. 51% oppose, 30% support, 13% are neutral out of 1,001 people who were asked this question.
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So overwhelmingly people oppose bloody deportations or deportations of your grandma who's illegally here. Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Tom Homan have made it clear that precisely what they're going to do is not just get rid of grandma, but also potentially get rid of the whole family and revoke birthright citizenship.
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So again, Americans not in line with what Donald Trump says he's going to do. Look, I'm going to protect my family and I'm going to protect my family safely. That's why I use Stopbox. Let me tell you what Stopbox is. Keep your loved ones safe while ensuring instant access to your firearm. It's one of the biggest challenges that gun owners face. Most storage options force you to fumble with keys or
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They're also going to give you a buy one, get one free offer on their Stopbox Pro. That's 10% off and a free Stopbox Pro when you use code MIDAS, M-E-I-D-A-S, at stopboxusa.com. That's stopboxusa.com. Use the code MIDAS. Yeah, we could be gun owners too. How about approval for Congress, right? Congress, House of Representatives in America, previously controlled by Republicans.
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75% of Americans disapprove of Congress. Only 17% approve based on this Monmouth poll. Well, okay, you literally put the same party back in power next term that you disapprove of by 75%. That's a factor here in our country of gerrymandering and how Republicans have carved out these districts in a way so that they never lose and screw Democrats. Just wanted to read this, too.
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This is according to a Joint Economic Committee report. Trump's mass deportations would reduce our real GDP by as much as 7.4 percent by 2028. reduce the worker supply for agriculture and construction, push prices up to 9.1% higher by 2028, cost 44,000 Americans their jobs for every 500,000 immigrants removed from the labor force. Think about that.
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So they're not even really giving you the top line number or the bottom line number there. They're just giving you one data point. So if Trump says he's going to deport 20 million migrants, do the math of how many jobs that would cost Americans, right? It would be a massive, massive hit on our economy. Here's the next question. Under Trump, prices for food and gas
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Most people believe it will increase. 41% of the applicants say the prices will increase now under Donald Trump.
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And wait a minute, the whole point of the election that you all claimed, not you watching this, but that they all claim was that this was about the price of eggs and the price of gas and inflation that was, by the way, caused by Donald Trump's first term where Trump added over $8 trillion in debt, screwed up our supply chain,
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ran our country into the ground during COVID, which was the cause of inflation, and printed money recklessly during the PPP program where he forgave the debt of people who were already rich whose debt was forgiven, whereas student loan debt isn't forgiven under Donald Trump, but his wealthy millionaire friends get their debt forgiven. No problems, no one's angry about that.
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I'm angry about it, you're angry about it, but no Republicans are. So people believe that Trump will increase the costs of goods. Okay, great, I'm being sarcastic. Support for eliminating the Department of Education, which Trump says he's going to do. 54% of Americans oppose it. 30% support it. 10% are neutral. Donald Trump's position is eliminate the Department of Education. Next one.
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Americans who were not paying attention at all during the election are now responding to some polling questions and they are shocked at what Donald Trump says he's going to do. And Americans, by and large, do not support almost anything that Donald Trump says he's going to do. Still, Americans simply don't believe he's going to do the things he says he's going to do.
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Do you approve or disapprove of Elon Musk serving as a close advisor to Trump? The majority of Americans, 50%, disapprove. What about approval of Trump granting pardons to the January 6th rioters, which Trump says he's going to do in the first nine minutes? 62% disapprove, 34% approve. And then this is the question that I wanted to show you.
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Do you think it is likely that Trump will invoke martial law? 48% say unlikely, 34% say likely, 19% unsure based on the YouGov poll. When you say unlikely, what are you basing that on? Trump says he's going to do it. And I think with a lot of these questions too, people are like, yeah, I just don't think he's going to actually do it. This is all fantasy world.
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Until it actually happens because there's this collective amnesia when Donald Trump told people to inject bleach in their arm during COVID. And like a miracle, he said everything was just going to go away and everything was just going to disappear. Now, one other data point I'll give you as well. When Donald Trump rang the bell at the stock market earlier last week,
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He was asked by Jim Cramer, a business propagandist, a basic softball question, as softball as you get. Should American workers put their money in the stock market? That was what Jim Cramer asked Donald Trump. Trump was there at the New York Stock Exchange. You would think the answer would be, I have a lot of confidence in this economy. Yep.
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Donald Trump's response was, I don't know if the stock market goes down and there's a dip that people can lose their money. Donald Trump went from in his campaign saying he was going to make the stock market the greatest ever, even though the stock market is now up 60% with Biden than it was when Trump was in office. Wait a minute, now Trump's saying there's going to be a dip?
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Donald Trump's saying the prices are going to be higher? Or he's not guaranteeing he'll make it lower, which is what he guaranteed? Trump's saying with healthcare, he only has concepts of a plan? That's what he's out there saying? I don't know, corporate media, maybe this is something you should be covering. Don't you think that's kind of what... Your job is, I guess, forget it.
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We'll just cover it here on the Midas Touch Network. More people watch us anyway. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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but they don't support the things he says he's going to do. They just think he's making it up, apparently. What does that say about our country and the electorate right now? Take a look at this YouGov poll, for example. The net support for imposing tariffs on Mexico, negative 9%, on Canada, Negative 18%, so more Americans appear to be okay with Mexico.
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Trump voters are regretting what they did, especially individuals in the market who are or who are looking at their pensions and 401ks right now or those in the investment community. You had people like Geiger Capital who had previously posted no one other than fairly stupid partisans on the left think that Trump is truly going to implement 20 percent tariffs on everything across the board.
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As of we're recording this, you never know with kind of the pump and dump meme coin economy that Donald Trump has turned our markets into. So I want to be careful what I say. But as the markets are once again in a crash mode right now, Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting and he talked about the big day we had the prior day. Here, play this clip.
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Very happy with the way the country is running. Let's call in Democratic Congress member Jimmy Gomez. Congress member Gomez, he's very happy, very happy with it. Transition problem, very happy with it. What's your response to that?
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Maybe didn't predict 145% tariffs against China or whatever cockamamie formula they use. And then Geiger Capital responded to their own post recently. I won't delete this tweet because I am a man of honor. But yes, I was wrong on the tariffs in November. He has indeed put blanket tariffs on every country. Trump 2.0 is very different. Also, seeing a lot of posts like this.
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You lead the Congressional Dads Caucus. There were overall, still in the last election, a lot of men who voted for Trump. Men, dads, all Americans, but are feeling the pain. What's your vantage point from the Dads Caucus about what you're seeing?
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And a big part of that is health, making sure they're healthy, their families are healthy, their parents are healthy. One of the things about this budget, in addition, the MAGA Republican Trump budget, in addition to giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the billionaires, is it's gutting Medicaid, but they almost pretend that they're not doing it. Not that it could...
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even get worse, but it does in the sense that then they're deceitful about it. Like, that's not what we're doing when they're doing it.
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Here's what Speaker of the House, Maga Mike Johnson, said earlier today after pushing forward the Senate blueprint, which, by the way, looks nothing like the House blueprint, but they're just pretending that they're going to go along with this until, I guess what, we hit a debt ceiling and then we're in another crisis mode. But here's what Maga Mike says, then I'll get your response to it all.
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Congressman, your response to that?
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I've lost $208,000 since Trump became the president. I should have voted for... And of course, the person can spell Kamala Harris's name correctly. It says Camilla and other statements like this. It's no secret I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote for a global trade war. He better fix this strife immediately if Republicans want a chance to keep the House or Senate.
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Finally, I got to ask you about this because LAUSD is in your congressional district and LAUSD is sprawling in the Los Angeles area with schools all over, but the headquarters is in your district. So on Thursday, LAUSD confirmed that plainclothes federal agents
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tried to question kids at two elementary schools in los angeles monday what but were denied entry by administrators superintendent carvalho said the agents claimed they had parent permission to question the kids but it wasn't true carvalho said the agents were seeking to talk to five children who came to this country as unaccompanied minors
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and are in the care of legal guardians la usd's legal team is responding the agents did not have warrants to access the campuses and especially where we're seeing the trump regime disappearing humans without due process and sending people literally to concentration camps in el salvador i mean i want to get your reaction to this breaking story today and just generally of the disappearing of human beings with no due process
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71 million Americans have a 401k. We are the world's largest consumers. Our trade deficits could have been ironed out with a phone call. I believe this is a huge miscalculation. Democrats should be jumping up and down tonight celebrating. Actually, we're not jumping up and down celebrating. This is a horrible time generally.
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Congress member Jimmy Gomez, thank you for joining us. We need you to come back soon. You were here in the early days of the Might and Spence Network. I remember we did an interview when the audience wasn't quite this size. So I'll always remember.
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Thank you very much, everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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for the country i mean the pain that donald trump is inflicting other posts like this i'm a small business in a small town 99.9 of america's small businesses we cannot survive the tariffs i voted for trump so don't come on here and calling me a liberal i i can go on and on and on headlines like this market turmoil puts bro sphere support for trump under strain and uh while
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Another weekend where Donald Trump is yet again golfing and vacationing in Florida on the taxpayer dime after once again imploding the economy, causing extreme volatility, crashing the bond markets, crashing the dollar, bringing mortgage rates above 7%. And moving the Treasury yields for the 10- and 30-year yields to significantly high and alarmingly high levels.
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Notably, and this includes China as well, apparently the U.S. is now excluding computers and and smartphones and other electronics from the tariffs, despite Trump and all of his state regime media saying the iPhones and the electronics and the laptops and all of those products would clearly be subject to the tariffs. I mean, you remember Jesse Waters from state regime media known as Fox News.
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Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, that Jennings guy on CNN. They're like Americans don't care about more expensive goods. Americans don't care about more expensive iPhones. This is a trade war. This is what we need to do for our national security.
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Remember, Lutnick said millions and millions of human beings will be screwing those little screws in the iPhones made right here in America. I got receipts. I'll show you that in a minute. But just another part of the lies and chaos from the Trump regime. Here's the headline from the Washington Post from moments ago. Phones, other electronics exempt from new tariffs.
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Trump administration says the announcement comes after Beijing and China responds to President Trump's escalating trade war with a 125% tariff on all U.S. goods early Friday. They also said in China they don't need to raise tariffs the tariff amount anymore because they've effectively shut the United States out of the Chinese market.
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And they said that Donald Trump's conduct is foolish and embarrassing and humiliating. The Washington Post writes the exemptions by Trump announced this morning are appear to undermine Trump's, quote, economic revolution that seeks to move high-tech supply chains and parts suppliers inside the U.S. They still kind of adopt a Trumpian framing of it. I mean, just say that he's lying.
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He has no clue what he's talking about. This is about feeding his ego. He thought that Xi Jinping was going to fold and he was going to show, look, I made China submit. He didn't do that. He's backing down like the little coward cornered rat he is. No offense to cornered rats. This from Bloomberg over the past week. China has already trade war-proofed its economy.
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Companies and consumers will feel the pain from tariffs much less there than Americans. For Xi Jinping, Trump's self-inflicted wound is an opportunity. China can present itself as a better representative of the rules-based international order. I did a video about this earlier this morning. That's what they're doing. They're going to Europe saying, buy our electric vehicles.
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But Donald Trump is waking up to headlines like this from the usually reliable Wall Street Journal. Trump wants to be impeached again. It's already in the cards, thanks to his ill-founded trade war, no matter how that war plays out.
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They're going to Australia and they're buying the beef there. They're creating alliances and relationships across the world as the United States attacks friend and foe alike. And they're saying, look, we support free trade. We support your economy. Maybe we should talk.
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And that is after the United States from prior administrations spent a lot of time focused on deterrence of precisely that taking place. In a short period of time, Donald Trump has tanked the American economy, put us on a trajectory towards a recession or even worse, and destroyed all of our alliances. The mighty dollar sliding sharply as Donald Trump's turbulent trade agenda has battered U.S.
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credibility in global markets. and fan fears of a self-inflicted economic downturn. We've seen the dollar crash and we see the credit markets freezing. As Spencer Akeemian reports, the weekly share of home mortgage refinance applications that were rejected was the highest since October 2008, the great recession then after the housing bubble.
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These things are very hard to reverse once they get going. As Hakimian says, and I agree with, we must stop all the economic madness immediately. It cannot wait another day. Also, he posts that the benchmark gold auctions in London are seeing record demand because the United States is increasingly being viewed as an unreliable global actor, right? What we're seeing here is the dollar crashing.
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We're seeing foreign entities and foreign buyers not buying United States bonds. So we're seeing the 10 and 30-year United States Treasury yields go to higher levels that they should not be going at, reflecting an instability. People don't want to buy our notes, so they're looking elsewhere, and they're looking at London's gold auctions now.
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One of the things we're learning about as well is that furniture producers in China, who are not subject to that exemption, they've seen a complete halt in orders from U.S. importers. We're hearing the same across toys, apparel, footwear, and sports equipment. Almost everything is on hold as it relates to China business. And this is an article from Laurieann LaCroco.
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What this article says is that Donald Trump is using powers that he doesn't have because the power to tariff is actually the power of Congress and that Trump is unlawfully using emergency war powers, in essence, to declare this trade war.
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Trump tariffs on China will soon bring irreversible damage to most American businesses. And of course, tourism down, travel down into the United States, both because our allies don't want to visit a hostile nation like the United States that tries to bully and extort them. And also, it's just not safe. People are saying, am I going to end up in an ICE detention center without due process?
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Are you going to send me to El Salvador? What's this fascist authoritarian Trump regime going to do if I travel there? It's not a safe place to go. Apollo reports that arrivals at the top 10 airports in the US have shown a rapid decline since Apollo.
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late february travel from canada is now expected to plummet 20 this year costing the united states 3.4 billion you've got uh big canadian tourist destinations like palm springs and others say please come back please come back we need you to visit but as long as donald trump's in charge who threatened to conquer it who to take it over to actually do a real war and a trade war
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ain't coming back while there's a hostile regime located to its south. Just some other news to report as well that we're learning about this morning. The CDC's cruise inspectors are being laid off as ship arrives in Florida with norovirus outbreak. The people who test for norovirus to make sure that it doesn't spread to the general population because on cruise ships,
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Neurovirus is known to spread quicker because of the conditions there. All of those people are basically being fired. So the Trump regime pro-measles, pro-neurovirus. Also Trump's EPA plans to stop collecting greenhouse gas emissions data. Trump's tariffs are also crushing the oil industry.
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Ain't no drill baby drilling because the oil industry is getting crushed and they don't even have the resources to buy new facilities. Just to show you some of the receipts now that we know about these exemptions that Donald Trump linking and backing down to Xi Jinping, because Xi Jinping is like, get out of here. I ain't submitting to you. So Trump's submitting to Xi Jinping.
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Remember when Jesse Waters last week said this?
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And remember on CNN when that Jennings guy, that right-wing propagandist who goes on, says this?
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that is crashing the united states economy and sending the united states into a recession so what's donald trump doing today though while he's golfing what kind of important messages is he posting to try to address what he's doing Well, he's posting photos and videos like this of Hillary Clinton from the golf course, also from his social media app.
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Lynn, of course you had Howard Lutnick say this.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. That's what's happening this morning in the United States of America and elsewhere. I'm Ben Micelles. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more. All at store.midastouch.com.
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You get ads like this as you click through his post. Trump's $150 trillion gift to America. And it has a photo of Trump next to Bitcoin. Notably, in the past year, Bitcoin is down close to 10%. What we just learned this morning as well is that the United States published tariff exclusions for specified products that are subject to these exclusions.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
Yes, Wall Street and the financiers are turning against Donald Trump with another week of economic chaos, market volatility, the dollar crashing, the bond market imploding, treasury yields going to some of the highest levels in a very long period of time, consumer confidence at the lowest levels in about 45 years, but In turning against Donald Trump, we're now trying to throw him under the bus.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
But here's what to worry about instead. Nothing about a recession. So where are we now? Well, You have JP Morgan believing that there's about a 60% recession call despite Trump's 90-day tariff pause, which is not really a tariff pause. He's basically just moved the effective rate of tariffs from 27% to 25%.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
And now you have people like BlackRock CEO Larry Fink saying, we're probably already in a recession right now. And you've got people like Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan, who previously said, suck it up when it comes to a little bit of inflation, saying Donald Trump's inflationary measures are likely to cause a recession.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
You know, we come with receipts here at the Midas Touch Network, so let's bring those receipts one by one and let me make the case for you. First, I'm going to show you, of course, that all of these hedge funders and private equity people and Wall Streeters are turning against Trump, but I also want to call them out because they're doing it for self-preservation right now.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
This from The Independent. Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn't have a tariff plan and that he might be insane. Some fund managers concern that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear this may not even be ideology, that it's just his utter insanity causing this all. How about this headline from The Wall Street Journal? Wall Street sounds an alarm.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
The economy is at risk thanks to tariffs. Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink, and the big bank executives say cracks are already showing following volatility in markets and policy. By the way, the way I think about it right now to give you a visual, you know how the shore recedes when there's a tsunami about to hit and you know the danger is coming?
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
Well, what's happened in the American economy already is we've got a tsunami that hit us already sooner than people expected.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
And you have the waters receding for the bigger tsunami that's about to happen when there's going to be a ripple effect when these tariffs start to impact businesses where what you'll end up seeing is bankruptcies, which trigger more bankruptcies and more defaults, which then cause bankruptcies and more defaults within the lenders.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
And what we're seeing right now with the dollar crash and with the treasury yields surging is that foreign markets or foreign governments and people in other countries no longer trust the United States as a stable economy at all. They view the United States like an Argentina economy. huh, doesn't Donald Trump love the leader of Argentina? Yeah, Javier Millet.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
Or kind of like El Salvador, where the economy is about a $26 billion GDP. So we've attacked our friends, Canada with trillion dollar GDPs, Europe, one of the biggest markets in the world, Australia and others. And we've made friends with... Hungary and El Salvador and North Korea. And I'm not sure they're even the friends there.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
These Wall Street execs, these hedge funders, they're also kind of telling on themselves, aren't they? Because weren't these the same people who teamed up with corporate media when former President Biden was in charge? And we got headlines like this. Forecast for U.S. recession within the year hits 100% in blow to Biden.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
They probably look at us, you know, as kind of weak and pathetic based on Donald Trump as well. Let me bring some receipts right now. This is Larry Fink. Here he is on CNBC where he says that he thinks we are either very close to a recession or in a recession right now. Play this clip.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
Let's speak of being petrified. And here's Larry Fink again, CEO of BlackRock, saying, most CEOs I talk to would say we're in a recession now. Let's play this clip.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
All right. Well, now let me go to Jamie Dimon. Remember when Jamie Dimon was attending this fancy event? You see him right here. And he said, you know, Americans just need to suck it up when it comes to a little inflation. Here he is right here on Squawk Box on CNBC. He goes, just get over inflation. Play this clip.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
Well, then on April 7th, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said Trump tariffs will boost inflation and slow an already weakening U.S. economy. And here earlier in the week when Jamie Dimon was asked, do you personally expect a recession? You can listen to what he says. Play this clip.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
A 100% projection of a recession that never happened under former President Biden. How about headlines like this? Why a U.S. recession is still likely and coming soon. This was from Bloomberg. The government is staying open for now, but Bloomberg Economics sees risks ahead from strikes to higher rates and oil prices. There was no recession under former President Biden.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
Also, Jamie Dimon is now saying that he expects, and Spencer Akimian reports, Spencer Akimian does a good job reporting this, saying he expects the Fed, Jamie Dimon, who you just saw in those clips, expects the Federal Reserve to have to step in and rescue the bond market because the bond market is imploding. unprecedented times. We had a 3% real GDP a quarter ago.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
JPMorgan and Chase CEO Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said he expects a kerfuffle in the U.S. Treasury market that prompts a Federal Reserve intervention. There will be a kerfuffle. You know, like these languages, a kerfuffle. I guess to billionaires, a kerfuffle. You're going to be kerfuffled.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
I mean, when people are suffering, your 401ks are being destroyed, your pensions are being destroyed to these billionaires. That's a kerfuffle. And then the Fed, we're going to have to intervene. You know, a kerfuffle here and here and there. Larry Fink was at that same event where Jamie Dimon was. Here's BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. This was January 23rd, 2025. It was the same day
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
Jamie Dimon was there in the early days of the Trump regime, literally the earliest days. And here BlackRock CEO Larry Fink just said he wants the SEC to rapidly approve the tokenization of bonds and stocks. Play this clip.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
Isn't that what it was all about anyway? They all thought, oh, it's going to be all this deregulation. We don't have to follow the rules. We can get under Biden, even though the stock market was up 50% to 60%. We want bigger returns. We're so greedy. We need to make more money than even that. Come on. Seriously?
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
How about this headline from the New York Times back in January 2024? The U.S. seems to be dodging a recession, but what could still go wrong? Economists have become increasingly optimistic about the odds of a soft landing. But as 2024 begins to unfold, the risks remain.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
You know, and I'm not just singling out Fink and Jamie Dimon. Frankly, I'm glad they're calling out the Trump regime now. I just wish others in the business community earlier would not have gone with this farce that Trump was going to be good for the economy. It's a guy who's bankrupted multiple of his businesses in the past. He's like the worst business person ever.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
He's always run things erratically and with chaos and with destruction. He bankrupted multiple casinos. He's bankrupted multiple businesses. You don't have to be a whiz kid economist hedge funder to see that the guy doesn't know how to run businesses. He doesn't. He was born with a lot of money because his daddy was a billionaire or whatever and gave him all this money.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
And if he did nothing with his money, he'd be richer than he was. And then he found a way to build this BS story about himself being a good businessman and exploit people. I mean, that's the history of Trump. I mean, it's a guy, he's a sexual predator, found liable for sexual assault. He can't normally, he's not liable for sex assault. okay, in a civil case.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
He's been found criminally liable or he's been criminally convicted for fraud, for business records fraud. And then he's been found civilly liable for making the fake valuations. And we all have the transcripts. We saw the questions he was asked and his kids were asked. We know what a bad business person. We've been covering it the whole time.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
So the fact that the business community wants to throw him under the bus now, great, okay, whatever. They're even going to do that. But we knew, right? We knew just, you know, that's why it's hard to trust when all these people are like, oh, you should do this, you should do that. It's like, y'all were pretending that this guy was going to be good for the economy when we knew he was.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
Now, what do you think those same corporate media headlines and economists and hedge funders, what were their projections of recession under Donald Trump? Let me take a look at it right here. This from Business Insider, and I could show you half a dozen more, but you get the point. The probability of a U.S. recession in 2025 is 0%, according to a top economist.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
State regime media known as Fox is in free fall as it tries to brainwash its audience into not blaming Donald Trump on the economic collapse that is now taking place. Bond markets are collapsing. The dollar is crashing. The 10 and 30-year treasury yields are rising to levels that we haven't seen in quite some time. Now, state regime media known as Fox wants to blame it on former President Biden.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
So let's look at what the Atlanta Federal Reserve actually predicted and projected previously before Donald Trump imposed tariffs against the world and then took them off and put them on and took them off and put them on, then raised the tariffs against China to 145% and created an effective tariff rate when you blend the entire world together now at somewhere around 25%. Take a look right here.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
Originally, if Donald Trump did nothing and just let former President Biden's economy go on overdrive where there was GDP growth quarter after quarter, we were expecting 3.9% GDP growth in quarter one under Donald Trump. Then Donald Trump started messing with things and it was a lower to 2.3%, but still growth. Donald Trump started messing with things and then the Atlanta Federal Reserve projected
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a 2.8% contraction or negative 2.8% GDP. And now they projected negative 3.7% GDP or somewhere between negative 3.7% GDP and negative 2.8% GDP. Those are the facts. That's the objective data. Had Trump done nothing, he could have taken credit for former president Biden's economy and gotten like 4% GDP growth. He crashed it. And you can see it right there in the chart, how he crashed it.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
That's why you got to fact check what they say. Then Laura Ingraham continued this theme. Trump's fixing Biden's chaos. And she watched what they do. Look at the Chiron. They always try to flip what's really happening into their dystopian Orwellian framing. Play this clip.
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Trump's trying to clean up Biden's chaos, and it ain't easy. And on top of that, Trump's trying to reset the American economy after decades of economic chaos forced on our working class. Of course, the media's understanding of all of this is very limited, and frankly, at times sounds pretty condescending.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
So then Fox brings on Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt, who's basically the Trump version, I think a more ridiculous version, of Pink Dress Lady, the chief propagandist for North Korea. As we wrote on the Midas Touch network account, I'm not sure if this is or isn't a real picture. I'm just joking. It's not a real picture, but it could be a real picture.
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There's so much good news flowing out of this administration every day. It's hard for the media to keep up with. There are wins after wins every single week. By the way, that's actually what she said. She went on Sean Hannity's show and here's what she said. Let's play the clip.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
Let's deconstruct the propaganda machine that is Fox, aka state regime media, and show you what they were doing last night, for example. Laura Ingraham devoted basically her entire show to blaming the economic collapse on former President Biden.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
Here she is again. Let's play this clip right here of Caroline Levitt saying everyone's a rock star. Win after win. Everything's so great. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, it's absolutely outrageous, right?
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Sean Hannity, who again, why I call it state regime media is that they are an arm of the regime, right? That's what Fox is. So Sean Hannity gets his message from the regime and he's fed the talking point to feed to Caroline Leavitt. And that's what he does. He goes, I hear you're doing a deal and this is going to be a great deal.
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She brings on people who masquerade as economic specialists, and they say, yeah, well, we actually can see that the Atlanta Federal Reserve predicts GDP contraction in quarter one, but obviously that's because of former President Biden.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
Again, so utterly pathetic. I'm going to show you one more clip of Caroline Levitt, and then I will not show you any others right now because I can't tolerate it. But I got to fact check it. I got to show you what they're doing right here. Here, Caroline Levitt's like, our phones are ringing off the hook as countries are calling us. Play this clip.
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Remember what Donald Trump said, why he's doing this? He said he was doing this because he wants countries to kiss his ass. Remember, that's what he said when he was speaking before the National Republican Congressional Committee, the NRCC. Remember, he was doing that dinner and he was, everyone's calling me to kiss my ass. That's what this is all about. The authoritarian playbook.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
Break the economic order down. Create disorder. Create suffering here. Make corporations beg you for exemptions. Make people beg you for breadcrumbs and handouts. Make the world come and beg you. But I'll tell you what's happening. The resistance and opposition here in the United States is growing. Corporate America is getting very pissed at Donald Trump, finally.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
And we're seeing countries across the world unite with each other, forming alliances that isolate and alienate the United States, viewing the U.S. as this pariah state, a weirder version of North Korea that still has a lot of economic power based on its history, but is volatile. That's why you see the 10 and 30-year treasury yields going up.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
Our notes are not worth a lot anymore like they used to because people see it's an incredibly volatile market based on the whims of an authoritarian leader in Donald Trump and an idiot one at that. Sorry. Kayleigh McEnany right here, Donald Trump's former press secretary. She is a host on Fox. And again, this is the type of North Korea style crap that you see play this clip.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
And then on that same morning show, they then have all of their hosts glaze Elon Musk. Where's the thank you? We should be praising him. Please, let's thank him. This is what this is exactly. This is crazier than what you see in North Korea. Let me refresh. Let me reflect on that. It's crazier. Play this clip.
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And then they criticize Governor Walz for criticizing Elon Musk. The audacity. How do you criticize Elon Musk, one of our dear leaders as well? Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
And then they bring on Jameson Greer. Jameson Greer is the top U.S. trade representative, and he's asked this question about... The question is, they say tariffs are going to cost the American household $4,800. What do you say to those households that are now going to be taxed because Trump's tariffs are taxes? Here's what Jameson Greer says. You're playing this clip.
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And by the way, that data comes from the Yale Budget Lab. It doesn't come from Wall Street. It comes from the Yale Budget Lab, which by the way, if you watch some of the other videos I've done, that's one of the reasons they attack Yale. Fake data, fake news, everything's fake. You can't believe anything other than what dear leader Donald Trump says. But by the way, Jameson Greer, our tariffs...
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If tariffs are great, then why are you pausing some of them? If tariffs are bad, then why are you still implementing some of them? There's no consistency at all because there's no even ideology. It's honestly that Donald Trump is a malignant, narcissistic head case and he's got issues and he doesn't know what he's doing.
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And they're entertaining the whims of like a crazy person who's out there just thinking about his own ego and how it's going to benefit him. And he's like, oh, maybe I can make money if it dips. Maybe I should say bye bye bye and then go. It's based on nothing but sheer lunacy and Donald Trump's greed to enrich himself. That's it. That's the motivation.
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It's the lunacy of his greed, his desire to have people kiss his ass and lunacy. Anyway, let me know what you think. I wanted to break that down for you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Fox News Can’t Hide as Trump Collapse Accelerates
You know, you see how they say it with this degree of certainty and they present themselves as though they're experts. You know, here on the Midas Touch Network, we come with receipts and we want to provide you with objective data.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
China is putting on a clinic right now in standing up against Donald Trump. They are checkmating him over and over again and humiliating him in public. They've got a multi-pronged strategy to checkmate him. On the retaliatory tariff side, China's raised their retaliatory tariffs to 125%, effectively shutting down the China's market from United States goods and products. So that's step one.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
from getting into other markets so china's been doing this i think in a very smart and sophisticated way you have xi jinping uh kind of inspired by you know sun tzu's the art of war donald trump the art of the deal which he didn't even write which we know from donald trump's past is bankrupting essentially everything that he touches so let's just go through this one by one methodically and let me just give you the data points
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
So we know that China raised its retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. goods to 125 percent. China's leader, Xi Jinping, put out a message. We're not afraid. We'll go until the end. We're not going to go out and reach out to Donald Trump at all. We're not going to beg. China is a proud country. The statement that was also issued from China's foreign ministry is, quote,
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Given that the current tariff level U.S. exports to China are no longer even commercially viable, China's not going to respond to any further tariff hikes by the U.S. on Chinese goods. China's Ministry of Finance said in a statement to the media on Friday. Let me give you some additional data points though here.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Here is China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson or Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson. I want you to listen to what he says as he announces the 125% tariff on US goods. Let's play it.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Then I think there's a number of data points from this well-known China analyst and business person, Victor Gao, saying that China will fight to the very end in any trade war after Trump hit China with 145% tariffs. Play this clip.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Yeah, and China will lose the U.S. market, which, as I've said, is 15%.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Then on the public relations side of things, they are just continuing to mock the United States with memes and on social media, they're putting out this AI footage of American, overweight Americans in factories putting together iPhones as the Trump regime says that he wants Americans to start building and assembling iPhones and things like that.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Here's Gao again saying that China will never kiss Trump's ass. Let's play it.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
And here Victor Gao talks about building relations with Europe. And also what I like that Victor Gao says here is he goes, look, why don't we just view this just based on the facts and evidence and view it dispassionately, he says. He goes, look, We are supporting a free trade. What he's saying, I just want you to see, you know, whether you believe that China is doing this or not.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
The problem is, if you're trying to say that you want to create deterrence against China's expansion, it sounds a whole lot more rational than what Trump is spewing. And that's a problem when, you know, if you're trying to
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
If you believe that there's an adversarial trade relationship between the United States and China, Trump is opening up this kind of gaping hole in leadership for China to fill this void, both in terms of the expansion of the BRICS bloc, but also China reaching out to Canada, Australia, which they're doing, Europe and elsewhere and saying, you can't rely on them. We want to step in.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Let's figure out how to work together. So what Victor Gao says here is he's like, look, We support free trade. We support sovereignty of nations. We're not going to tariff you. We only want to be supportive. On the other hand, you've got Trump behaving like a bully.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
And then on the diplomatic side of things, China's been reaching out to former allies of America here. and they've been building relations there trying to open free trade agreements for example with europe the china electric vehicle manufacturer byd for example we've seen their shares their stock surge and china's byd now gaining a foothold
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Should also be noted too that, as I mentioned, China and Europe growing closer together. Great work, Donald, making that happen. European tourism to the United States is free falling. Remember I said this is, we of course know about the Canadian boycott of all things American and boycott of tourism. And I said what Canada is doing there is going to spread to, it's going to spread to Europe.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
I said they're going to do the boycotts in Europe also. Just watch. And that's what we're seeing happen right now. Europe boycotting tourism to the United States. And also not just because the United States has declared trade wars on them, but also because it's dangerous. You go to the United States, you may end up in an ICE detention center or be sent to El Salvador without due process at all.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
I showed you before that China's commerce ministry said that the United States has become a joke. The ministry said Washington's repeated use of excessively high tariffs has become a little more than a number game, economically meaningless, and revealing its use of tariffs as a tool of bullying and coercion. Also, US told China, can you please have Xi Jinping call Donald Trump?
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Trump is caving left and right. He's begging for a call. like a desperate person, as Geiger Capital puts it. It doesn't have to be one gender or the other. And then I told you about the Chinese officials trolling Trump with memes as the US tariff battle with China rages. It's less of a battle and more of China clobbering the United States right now. There's images like this.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
This is China's attitude. Chinese netizens mock US tariffs with memes. You see there Trump and Musk. And J.D. Vance and that AI meme, this Make America Great Again hat made in China that's going to cost way more money. Here's China's meme war with the U.S. U.S. after Trump to make America strong again. Apple made in the U.S.A.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
Um, as, as this account, Adam puts it, the Chinese are trolling America with memes on America re re-industrialization. The Chinese embassy in the U S are posting videos of Ronald Reagan. Why don't I leave you with this as well, though? This is, um, uh, this is the, the CEO of, of Apple, of course. Um, and here he talks about, um, why Chinese labor and why it's such a reliable market.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
He goes, because the labor's smart. Play this clip.
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Trump Trade War Backfires as China Checkmates Him
In Europe, which used to be kind of the home where Teslas would thrive. See you later, Teslas. People are not buying those. BYD, a car that many people actually say is superior, but had previously been prevented based on regulatory machinations in Europe and the United States.
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Trump Rushes to Leave DC as He Tanks Everything
So Wall Street fund managers are now telling the press that they believe Trump is actually clinically insane. The New Republic highlighted recent statements made from fund managers who think that Trump's behavior indicates that he might have lost his marbles.
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Trump Rushes to Leave DC as He Tanks Everything
China and their foreign ministry and Xi Jinping have made statements that they're never going to bow or submit to Donald Trump. This is what Donald Trump was doing yesterday. This was one of the big things he did. He took the portrait of President Obama in the White House and he got rid of it and he replaced it with an image of him in the Butler, Pennsylvania incident with his fist up.
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tacky, disgusting, despicable, weird, you name it. And then the sources close to Donald Trump were telling CNN that Donald Trump's been telling people at Mar-a-Lago while he's vacationing and partying that he loves this shit, he says. He's loving all of this, the chaos, the suffering. He says that he loves this shit.
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You take a look also, by the way, at Doge and its quote unquote attack on government waste, fraud and abuse. OK, right now there's more federal spending under the Trump regime by Democrats. significant amounts. Then under former President Biden, Doge is a complete and utter failure. And when Donald Trump says, I'm loving this S, what are you loving, Donald?
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You think you're just coming around to realize that now he's someone who continued to brag about cognitive exams and man, person, woman, elephant or whatever the heck the exam was. By the way, he was doing that again yesterday when he went on Air Force One. Which, by the way, he struggled to get into Air Force when we've got the video here.
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You're loving that the people are suffering. You're loving that our former allies that you've alienated are working together isolating the united states they're coordinating strategies to dump american treasury bonds to cheapen it they're coordinating strategies
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to retaliate against you and you're too busy talking about cognitive exams and how you love this s-word and vacationing while attacking our allies that you have no clue or former allies i guess based on what you've done that you have no clue what's going on what is it that you love donald do you love the fact that the atlanta federal reserve is now predicting
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a GDP contraction in the first quarter of somewhere between 2.5%, so negative 2.5% GDP, and negative 3.7 GDP, when if you literally did nothing and let former President Biden's economy go on auto drive, It would have been 3.9% or even 4% growth. What are you loving, Donald?
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That there was a helicopter crash in the Hudson, another incident involving the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration. Two planes clipped each other's wings at Reagan National Airport. There was another plane crash in Palm Beach. I mean, is this what you're loving? You're loving this S-word? Consumer confidence is falling to its lowest point in 45 years.
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The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey shows Americans across all political cohorts believing that there's going to be 6.7% inflation. As I mentioned before, mortgage rates are surging.
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The Social Security Administration, in addition to gutting 90% of its regional staff, is now going to be shifting all of its public communication to Elon Musk's social media app, X. So if you're on Social Security and you need to... know about your benefits or have issues. You can't go to a regional office. You have to go on Elon Musk's social media app. That's the plan.
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And by the way, are you all hearing about that on corporate news or are they too busy still talking about former President Biden's cognitive, whatever they want to talk about. I remember under former President Biden, there were 16.2 million jobs created. There was record low unemployment. I remember there were 40,000 infrastructure projects that GDP in the United States beat the entire world.
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I remember the Wall Street Journal under former President Biden said the United States economy was the envy of the world and that other economic analysts said America had a Goldilocks economy that was being passed from former President Biden to Donald Trump. But you called them sleepy. He was sleepy. He's too boring for you. Well, are you not entertained now?
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He didn't know how to put the umbrella back to its original position and he couldn't get into the door and he got stuck pulling the umbrella through a door where the umbrella didn't fit. Then he goes on Air Force One. I don't want to play a lot of Trump clips on this video, so indulge me. I'll tell you what he said. He goes, I just took a cognitive exam. It was a hard one. I took the exam.
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Is this the type of entertainment you wanted as the Trump regime crashes our economy? As Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackstone, said, we're already in a recession, he believes. And the CEOs he talks to already believe we're in a recession. As JP Morgan, MetLife, and others believe there's a 60%, 70% chance of inflation.
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Let me just take a look at what the White House claims that their major victories were this week. This is what the White House posted. These are their big victories.
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la dodgers and racing champions that was your big victory la dodgers and racing champions bilateral with netanyahu bilateral what you met with netanyahu again as you talked about ethnic cleansing of gaza taking the people and moving them to other countries that that's your celebration 145 tariffs
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on china where china has now retaliated and imposed 125 tariffs shut the china market down so no u.s products could get in it's economically non-feasible both ways that's that's the win here as china mocks you as china's foreign ministry spokesperson calls you a barbarian that that's the that's the win by the way china's cutting deals with europe China electric vehicles are going to go to Europe.
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They're working on free trade deals together. Australian beef in higher demand than ever. People just aren't buying from the U.S. Europe, Europe, tourism to the United States going down significantly. Canadians boycotting the United States. Oh, by the way. Canadians on Vancouver Islands were out for the resistance tour, packed house in the Vancouver Islands, watching Charlie Angus give a speech.
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And we got a nice shout out at the Midas Touch Network here. Watch the crowd at Vancouver Islands. Charlie Angus gave a shout out to the Midas Touch. This was a cool moment, though, from last night. Shout out Maple Midas. That's the Midas Touch supporters. They know this in Canada. You're the Maple Midas. Here, play this clip. Ben Masialis, anybody watch Midas Touch?
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Ben Masialis wants to say, he said to say hi. So why don't you say hi to Midas Touch? Midas Touch. Oh, and by the way, I'm sure you know this by now, but store.midastouch.com, 100% made in Canada. You know we wouldn't do it any way differently. 100% made in Canada, maple Midas gear at store.midastouch.com. And then there's also a bunch of other gear on store.midastouch.com.
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But for the Canadians, maple Midas, 100% made in Canada. So Donald Trump went on the plane there. Air Force One to go back on his vacation. I don't want to play the clips. I just don't want to hear his voice this morning. So let me tell you what he said. I took a physical exam. I took a cognitive exam. I aced the exam. He said the bond market is going good.
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It had a little moment, but I solved the problem very quickly. I am very good at that stuff. It's actually up 20 basis points since he claims he solved that stuff. It's higher, meaning it's worse right now, the treasury yields than when he said I solved it. He doesn't know. I don't think he knows what a treasury yield is, a 10 year, a 30 year.
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I don't think he knows how the treasury bonds are auctioned. I don't think he understands how any of This works. Then he goes, we're always going to be the currency choice. As long as you have somebody smart, the dollar is going to be the currency choice. When people understand what you're doing, I think the dollar will go way up. It's going to be stronger than ever.
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Currently, the dollar is crashing. Then Donald Trump just says a bunch of odd stuff. We're making a lot of money as a country now. We were losing billions of dollars a day now, and we're making billions of dollars a day. We brought it down to 10%. So that made it a little bit less. I did that because I wanted to be fair to other countries. A reporter asks him, can you tell us about the test?
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Did you take the man, woman, person, camera, TV test? And then Donald Trump can't recall what his cognitive test was. He goes, it was a pretty well-known test, whatever it is. I got it right. I didn't play the clips. Okay. RFK Jr. gave a speech in front of the FDA on Friday.
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And during the speech in front of the FDA, it was a 40-minute tirade during which he made disability slurs, calling people the R-word. He spread deep state conspiracy theories and accusations that agency employees were becoming sock puppets for industries that they regulate.
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I did well on it. I did great. I did better than Biden on the cognitive exam. This is what he was talking about last night. So he goes on Air Force One, flies to Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayer dime, charging we the people, the taxpayer, literally tens of millions of dollars so he could go back to Florida and vacation again, over and over again. Every weekend, this is what he does.
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Also, the Trump administration has ordered the State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying anti-Christian bias as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith. That's what they're focused on here. And let's just take a look at what Republicans in the Senate voted against as part of what's called a vote-a-rama.
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This is where Democrats introduced amendments to the budget bill on the budget plan. And this is what Republicans voted against. So literally, the Democrats said, We wanna introduce an amendment blocking the Trump regime from using text messages to talk about war plans. And the Republicans in the Senate said, nope, we're okay with that. We are good with that. As Don Winslow says,
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CNN is not telling you, but you can say any corporate news. They're not telling you that the U.S. dollar is crashing. The euro is rising. U.S. consumer confidence has plummeted to the lowest point since 1952. And U.S. retailers are suspending orders and halting shipments as the global supply chain grinds to a near halt.
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We're telling you about it on the Midas Touch Network because those are the facts. I think when you watch the Midas Touch Network when the news happens, you're not surprised because we're telling you, here's the data, here's the charts, here's what's actually going on. So it's not like all of a sudden, breaking news. No, we're following this. We know what's happening.
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We'll keep you updated every step of the way. Hit subscribe, help us get to 5 million subscribers. We've got a lot of videos coming out today, some great interviews with senators and other people. I think you're going to enjoy the programming that we have on schedule today. Remember, check out store.midastouch.com and go to midasplus.com as well. M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. Thank you.
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Now, before he left, as the bond markets are continuing to implode, as the dollar's crashing, as the 10 and 30-year treasury yields are going to levels that they should never be at at all, showing stability as they continue to go up, reflecting great instability with the American markets as mortgage rates are now over 7%, as the euro and yen are rising, as I mentioned, the dollar is crashing, as
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Mexico Prez DESTROYS Trump with PUBLIC HUMILIATION
So as Donald Trump is trying to denigrate Mexico and act like Mexico's a horrible place to live, by the way. My wife's Mexican. Her family's from Mexico, from Guadalajara. When I visit, it's beautiful. The people are incredible there. President Scheinbaum's appealing to Mexico's pride in their country and saying, okay, you want to go after us? We're going to go after you. Watch this.
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I think it's brilliant. I want to know your thoughts. Let's play it.
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You see what President Scheinbaum is doing there? It's very tactical. She's not just doing that for no reason. She's essentially saying, all right, Donald, you're saying that we're a crappy place to live? We think that the United States is right there. Let me show you what she did as well.
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Again, earlier in the week, I referenced this in the video where she showed that map from 1607 saying, actually, the United States is Mexico. You can't conquer us. The United States belongs to Mexico. So we're doing this game.
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Mexico's president, Claudia Scheinbaum, continues to outmaneuver Donald Trump. I had played earlier in the week a video where she showed a map from 1607 where the United States was actually labeled Mexico-America. And she said, all right, Donald, you want to talk about real territorial boundaries? You want to try to troll us? Well, perhaps the United States should be renamed Mexico.
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Now look, the key message that President Scheinbaum has been pushing is for countries, specifically the United States, to respect the sovereignty of other nations. that independent nations should not be bullied, coerced, militarily, economic, or otherwise, by other nations.
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Respect our sovereignty, and respect the sovereignty of other nations, and President Scheinbaum, in this next video I'm gonna play for you, Sticking up for Panama, because Donald Trump says that he's considering and not ruling out military action against Panama to conquer the Panama Canal or to acquire the Panama Canal, which, by the way, was a lease. It never belonged to the United States.
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But here, President Scheinbaum says, look, people of Panama, we stand in solidarity with you. Mexico stands in solidarity with Panama. Let's play this.
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There's a broader geopolitical situation taking place here. A realignment situation.
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of power if you will so one of the most important things that you need to remember and i've been covering this a lot is that china has been increasing its influence whether it's in mexico or go further south to central american countries go further south to south america or you talk about just other countries throughout the world in africa and elsewhere in europe
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China has its second Silk Road program, its Belt and Roads program, where they go around and they say, look, we respect your sovereignty, we want to invest billions of dollars in your industry, and we wanna be a reliable ally with you. Now it's CCP propaganda, but President Xi's been pushing this and trying to undercut
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One of the things that President Claudia Scheinbaum also did this past week is she showed the people of her country a video of the people in the United States who are addicted to fentanyl, the people here whose lives have been ravaged by fentanyl.
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America by saying, look, you can't rely on America as an ally because just look at the things that they're doing. So One of the things that happened is that President Xi Jinping, before the G20 that took place about two months ago, requested a meeting with President Scheinbaum of Mexico.
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President Scheinbaum at first declined to have that meeting because it would be viewed potentially as a slap in the face to the United States of America. But after Trump won the election and after Donald Trump started doing all the Trumpy things, Not only did she agree to meet with President Xi Jinping during the G20 summit, but she was photographed with him in multiple photographs.
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And if you know the message that's being sent, if you understand the geopolitics here, she's sending a message to the United States saying, okay, you want to abandon us? We'll find other allies abroad who we can work with and who we can export our products to. Okay, you want to put tariffs on us to try to harm our industries? Look what happened with...
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soy farmers in the United States in the first Trump administration when Trump imposed tariffs on China. China retaliated by shutting down imports of soy from soy farmers in the United States. And what happened? Brazil became the beneficiary as part of the BRICS bloc. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and this really screwed over the soybean farmers.
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So what did the Republicans have to do? You know, they all say, oh, we hate government handouts. Well, What ended up having to happen is massive government subsidies from the Trump administration had to go to farmers, not just soy farmers, other farmers as well, to basically pay them to basically destroy their own crops for the surplus that they couldn't sell.
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So quite literally a government handout because otherwise the farming industry would die. And then the government, the Republicans say, okay, we want to cut social security, Medicare, Medicaid, all of these programs, veteran stuff.
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but you don't want to cut the subsidies to the farmers in your red states that you had to create and give the government handouts because you prevented the farmers from exporting their goods abroad with your tariffs. Just think about what's going on here. So President Xi Jinping's
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The point President Scheinbaum was powerfully making is that, Donald, you can go and attack Mexico for all of these things, but 99% of the consumption of these synthetic drugs It's taking place in the United States. The consumer of these drugs are in the United States. And the country that's largely responsible for distributing fentanyl, well, that's in Asia, right?
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Meeting with Claudia Scheinbaum, but met with the leader of Panama, met with the leader of Honduras and all these countries, Panama in 2017, Honduras in 2023. They're cutting off their diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of Beijing. And they are developing these relationships. And so it is emboldening these countries to stand up as well to the United States.
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I finally want to play you this one right here. This is President Scheinbaum as well. And here she is with her initial response when Donald Trump started threatening tariffs against Mexico. Remember this? This was the original response from Scheinbaum where she's like, Donald, we're not playing around here. Remember this one back from a few months ago? Let's play it.
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Hit subscribe. Look, President Scheinbaum's not taking crap from Trump, right? Hit subscribe. Help us get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.
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That's China and other countries, not Mexico. So you've got your facts wrong. And she played this video in the context of a public service announcement to Mexico and to Mexicans saying, You got to be careful here. We don't want to be like the United States. Look at all of their problems. We need to make sure we don't fall victim to what's going on there. So as you notice what's happening here.
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Well, there you have it folks. Powerful stuff by Gavin Newsom. Say to my face, in other words, is what he's saying. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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This is how you have to deal with Donald Trump. You have to stand up to him. You have to call him out. And you have to be willing to have these very public discussions. debates and discussions and show that ultimately Donald Trump backs down. Have you ever seen Donald Trump in a deposition? He's scared of the lawyers who aren't Governor Newsom. Trump backs down.
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Have you seen Donald Trump in any type of setting with other world leaders? Trump is scared of them. don't even get me started on seeing Donald Trump next to Vladimir Putin. He like shrivels up. He is a scared person because he's got imposter syndrome.
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He knows that this whole thing is a fake shtick that works on, as he says, I love the uneducated Americans who he lies to, but he knows that he is a complete fraud. Let me just read for you the letter of Governor Newsom right now. Sorry, I went on that rant, by the way. I wanted to read.
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i wanted to read you this letter here's what it says it's from governor newsom the office of the governor to donald trump dear mr president-elect it was just six years ago that we toured the devastation of the campfire in the town of paradise the deadliest wildfire in california's history that day you also visited the woolsey fire near malibu which took the lives of three residents and displaced tens of thousands
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communities, traditions, places, wiped out in a matter of hours. You witness firsthand the heartbreak and destruction that all too many places across this nation have faced from more frequent and more severe natural disasters, fires, hurricanes, and floods. Now, California is again facing one of the most destructive fires in our history.
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On Tuesday, January 7th, a massive windstorm hit Southern California with hurricane force gusts nearing 100 miles per hour in Los Angeles County. Southern California has seen virtually no rain this winter. And when those winds swept through the parched landscape, tiny ignitions became raging wildfires.
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Those fires, including the Palisades, Eatonhurst, Lydia, Woodley, and the Kenneth fires, have devastated the greater Los Angeles area, even in the face of Herculean work by legions of experienced firefighters. Tens of thousands of acres have burned. Thousands have lost their homes and businesses. At least 10 people are reported to have died. The loss and devastation are horrific.
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We are thankful that President Biden has swiftly approved our major disaster declaration, a strong indication of the partnership California needs and appreciates with any federal administration. However, the threat to lives and property remains acute.
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Higher than normal winds of up to 70 mph are still forecast for the next several days, and more extreme winds are likely early next week, with no change to dry conditions. As you prepare to assume the presidency once more, I invite you to come to California again to meet with the Americans affected by these fires.
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Gavin Newsom is telling Donald Trump, you want to talk about me? Say it to my face. Come to California, stand up here and say it to my face, Donald. Governor Gavin Newsom of California knows that when it really comes down to it, Donald Trump is a paper tiger. And Gavin Newsom's willing and ready to debate anyone. So he's like, let's do it in public. You want to brawl? You want to come after me?
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See the devastation firsthand and join me and others in thanking the heroic firefighters and first responders who are putting their lives on the line. In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines.
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans displaced from their homes and fearful for the future deserve to see all of us working in their best interest to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild with respect and an open hand. That's exactly what you gotta do, folks.
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At the same time Governor Newsom was doing that, he was also thanking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada. Justin Trudeau said, I spoke with Governor Newsom last night. We both know that Canada and the United States are more than just neighbors. We're friends, especially when times get tough.
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And then Justin Trudeau went on to talk about the close relationship between California and Canada and Canada offering some of its incredible firefighting resources to the state and to Los Angeles. Within the state, Governor Newsom responds, grateful for our Canadian neighbors as they lend a helping hand.
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our time of need because that's what you do with allies you don't threaten them and say we don't need them or we're gonna make them the 51st state you work with your allies I want to share with this with you as well this was during our the fire.
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As the fires were raging, Governor Newsom was asked by Anderson Cooper to respond to Donald Trump's various lies and attacks, where Donald Trump right away was saying, this is all Newsom's fault. Newsom didn't sign a water restoration act. Note, there's no such thing. Newsom did not agree to sign anything like that. It was total and utter BS by Donald Trump.
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Trump kept on referring to Newsom as new scum, said that Governor Newsom cares more about smelt than people's lives. All total BS. But then you saw all the right-wing trolls and even like right-wing people parroting the disinformation while Governor Newsom was just trying to do his job. I want you to watch this moment right here. Let's play it.
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I'm here. Say it to my face or shut up. And here's what Governor Newsom wrote. He posts, Okay, Donald Trump, as you prepare to assume the presidency once more, I invite you to come to California.
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Governor Newsom has never shied away from a battle. He's never shied away from a debate. He goes on Fox. He goes on and speaks to Sean Hannity, and he gives it back. I want to show this moment to you because to me, you know what I've been saying a lot lately, right? You know my acronyms. I go ABC, always be campaigning. And one of the other ones I use is DBD, Democrats be Democrats.
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And progressive policies work. While all these MAGAs want to attack California and attack other states that are led by Democratic governors, they usually have better education, better quality of life, lower mortality rates, longer lifespans, much more wealth.
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And one of the things that Gavin Newsom talks about here is, look, Sean Hannity, first off, you know, what are you trying to, you realize that blue states pretty much fund the red states? Here, I want you to watch this moment right here because this is what we're going to need in the next four years. Play this clip.
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The hundreds of thousands of Americans displaced from their homes and fearful for the future deserve to see us all working together in their best interest, not politicizing a human tragedy and spreading disinformation from the sidelines. That's brilliant right there. That's how you handle it.
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I'll show you a few other portions of, I think, highlighting Governor Newsom's debating skills. Here, Governor Newsom, this is, you know, this was back in November of 2023-ish. And here he is in this debate with DeSantis defending Biden's policies that actually worked And, you know, and Biden fixing the issues that were caused by Trump. Watch this.
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Let me move on. That was a lightning round.
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And when Governor Newsom was asked during this debate and saying, oh, well, you know, there's all this crime in California, watch his response.
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Donald Trump making all of these false and defamatory statements about Gavin Newsom focusing on smelt fish over dealing with fires, all BS, all bogus internet troll behavior, and Governor Newsom saying, I'm not an internet troll, okay? I am someone who is a leader. And you want to say this stuff? Say it to my face in front of the people of California.
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You put up the... And finally, after Donald Trump was elected, Governor Newsom was very quick to come out with a statement and say, California is not going to sit by if Donald Trump tries to threaten our state rights. If he's going to violate the Constitution, California is going to stand up. I'll play for you this clip. I want you to remember, too.
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that Governor Newsom held a special emergency session of the legislature in California to approve funds to file lawsuits and to ensure that the Constitution is protected against Donald Trump and that the people of the state of California are protected. Watch this.
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What have I said about Donald Trump? WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Let me give you exhibit A. Just take a look at what he's posted over the past 48 hours. And just a reminder, I don't show Trump video or audio anymore on this channel, but I will tell you what he's doing and saying because corporate media wants to normalize his behavior. not here on the Midas Touch Network.
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Oh, Trump voters, you thought you were voting for lower prices, more affordable housing, and better jobs. No, you're voting for someone who's out there embarrassing the United States. He looks like he has dementia-like symptoms, in my opinion, and he's out there talking about making Canada the 51st state. He's making posts, oh, Canada, and painting the map of North America in the American flag.
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So anyway, I'll reserve what I'm about to say. Focus, Ben, focus. Okay. Then Donald Trump just posts this map. of Canada, U.S., Greenland. You see Mexico there as well. He wants you to know that the capital of the United States is Washington, D.C., and the capital of Greenland is Nuke, although he probably doesn't know that. So he's posting that map. Why? Oh, because he wants to conquer it.
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They're calling it the Don Roe Doctrine, Trump's vision for the hemisphere when he conquers all of these places. Greenland will now be known as our land. Canada will be known as the 51st state. The Gulf of Mexico will be known as the Gulf of America. And Panama, it will now be known as Panamaga, according to Trump propaganda media.
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Total normal behavior to annex our allies in Canada, to annex Greenland, which he says he's not going to rule out using military force to take over Greenland and make it part of the United States, even though Denmark is a member of NATO and then NATO would have to declare what? Oh. War on the United States for trying to invade Greenland. This is what Donald Trump's posting.
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Oh, and by the way, Trump's buddies in the House of Representatives, the MAGA Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, this is what they posted. They deleted it. after they were criticized, but this was their original post. They go, our country was built by warriors and explorers. We tamed the West, won two world wars, and were the first to plant our flag on the moon.
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President Trump has the biggest dreams for America, and it's un-American to be afraid of big dreams. Oh, David J. Reilly, you didn't know that according to Maganow, it's un-American if you don't want America to conquer your NATO allies and go on this imperial quest where he sends our troops, our soldiers, to attack our NATO allies? You didn't know that?
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I mean, by the way, could you imagine if President Biden made any posts like this? Here's what Donald Trump posts as well. He posts this chart from Mark Andreessen and it says, this is a really remarkable chart of tariffs. as a percentage of total federal revenue.
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The Second Industrial Revolution, perhaps the most fertile era for technology development and deployment in US history, was 1870 to 1914. And you take a look at this, a lot of nations that use tariffs are developing nations, not developed wealthy nations that need to engage in trade with the world.
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By the way, Donald Trump gave a press conference on Thursday where he continued to talk about taking over Greenland. He goes, the people of Greenland would love to become a state of the United States of America. Now, Denmark, because Greenland's part of the kingdom of Denmark. Now, Denmark maybe doesn't like it, but then we can't be too happy with Denmark.
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And so what this chart is purporting to suggest or say is somehow that tariffs as a percentage towards overall revenue is an indicator of what, economic prosperity? So you're saying that post-World War II America, where America became the wealthiest nation in the world,
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And maybe things have to happen with respect to Denmark having to do with tariffs. I'm sorry, world. This guy's just an idiot. I'm sorry. When I report on this stuff, too, I do want to reflect on my concept of WMD, a weapon of mass distraction. And it ties into this video because Donald Trump's talking about all of these things and they should be taken very seriously.
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was a worse economic time than what you say the best economic time was, was sometime around our Civil War, or if you even look earlier, the late 1700s. You want our economy to look like the American economy of the late 1700s? What in the world are we even talking about here? More posts of Donald Trump talking about conquering Canada,
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But he's talking about all of these things to distract from the fact that. He never had an America first agenda. He had a billionaire first agenda. The billionaires at Mar-a-Lago who were all there dining on their caviar. Well, they have burnt steak at Mar-a-Lago. It seems like a pretty crap.
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He's talking about conquering Greenland and going after our NATO ally, Denmark. He's talking about using military force, not just against Greenland, but also Panama. And President Xi Jinping is loving this. It justifies his desire to take over Taiwan. Vladimir Putin's loving this. It justifies his imperial ambitions. And MAGA voters, Trump voters...
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And I fact-checked this stuff as well. So I was looking at Donald Trump's posts, and here's one of the things that he posted. Trump rings opening bell at New York Stock Exchange. I saw that. I was puzzled. I was like, why is he posting this now? Did he go back to the Stock Exchange and I just missed it? No, he's randomly reposting now, January 9th and 10th,
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I don't like caviar either, but it seems like a pretty crappy kind of cheap place to go and a very deal is place to go, even though. All these billionaires go there and do the kind of walk of shame to Mar-a-Lago, if you will. But it's a billionaire agenda. That's what they're pursuing. More Donald Trump whining about Canada becoming the 51st state.
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And then this right wing propagandist, Paul Ingrassia, says Donald Trump's reemergence on the world stage brings statesmanlike order. Donald Trump showed the world that peace is achievable. Decline is not inevitable. And a continent embattled by so many maladies can be revived so long as it reclaim faith. Okay.
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Take a look at what David Riley was saying to this other MAGA guy in the chat. The other guy's like, yeah, but Trump wants to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. So that's America first. And David Riley's like, I don't give a shit what the map says. We need to fix the country immediately. We are facing several existential crises.
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Are we observing the factual world or are you living in the kind of MAGA fan fiction right now? So do you want to say that peace is achievable? Let's address that first. Didn't Donald Trump say that within 24 hours of the election, he would bring peace into Ukraine? No. Well, that didn't happen. Well, what if I give him the benefit of the doubt? I shouldn't.
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Then this other account goes, he's deporting them or departing them because they can't spell. Day one with Tom Homan. than in other accounts like Shored, Jan. He stated that, sure, Karen. He's a liar. He won't do it. Seriously, Dave, we asked to make America great again. Controlling international shipping 100% applies. This is America first. America is more than a wall.
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But let's just say I did for a sumar guendo for the sake of argument that I did that. So 24 hours after Trump's inauguration, he promised that there would be peace in Ukraine. What Donald Trump says is he would go to Putin and say, Putin, you got to you got to you got to do the peace. Hey, Ukraine, you got to do the peace. I'm going to negotiate this peace, peace. We go with peace, peace.
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Then David responds, no, this is globalism rebranded as MAGA. Remember the North American Union Bush proposed in 2005? This is the same thing. If Trump put half as much bluster into his talk about deporting all illegal aliens as he is into this Greenland crap, people would self-deport. And then some other MAGAs are like, thank you.
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All right. I did it. I did it. Well, what we do know is that Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine just canceled his meeting with Zelensky and Zelensky's foreign minister. Donald Trump said that there'll be some meeting to take place with Vladimir Putin. Putin said that he won't agree to any terms unless Donald Trump comes begging to Putin.
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Then another account goes, I'm glad I am not the only one who finds this all ridiculous. Another account goes, this is what we were promised. When do we get it? Gas under $2, Trump promised. Lower grocery prices, Trump promised. A 50% decrease in car insurance. Landlords will reduce their rent. Home prices will go down. Sub 3% interest rates.
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and then Donald Trump somehow agrees that Putin and Russia should force a total capitulation on Ukraine, and Ukraine needs to basically become Russia. That's what Russia said their one term is, and that Trump needs to accept a new world order. So I'm just trying to get this straight, because there's no peace... Okay, what about Israel-Palestine?
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No tax on Social Security, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. He'll end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. He'll end the conflict in Israel in 24 hours. Lower taxes for families making under $200,000. He has no excuses not to keep every promise. The Republican Party has the House, Senate, and Supreme Court, so he can't blame Democrats for not keeping his promises. It's promises broken all the time.
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Well, Donald Trump recently said that if the hostages are not released immediately before he takes office, he will unleash hell on Gaza. hasn't hell kind of already been unleashed on Gaza so far? And aren't you going to hand, didn't you say you would handle this right away? Now you're saying it needs to be done before you take office. Why?
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I did a whole nother video on this, but... Trump's envoy to Ukraine and Russia canceled his meeting with Ukraine. Vladimir Putin's basically said that he's not interested in doing any deal with Donald Trump as it relates to Ukraine unless there's total capitulation by Ukraine. Your nighttime bedroom temperature has a huge impact on your sleep quality.
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Because you wouldn't know what you were doing there and you're going to unleash extra hell, extra hell apparently. Okay. Well, you know, you're not bringing peace there. So what are we doing? Oh,
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You're threatening to invade Greenland and Panama and annex Canada, sending our young soldiers to fight our allies who fought beside us, whether it was Canada in World War II and, of course, before and after, whether it was Denmark who put their soldiers side by side, risking their lives with Americans after 9-11. That's who you want to invade? That's who you want to attack?
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Are you going to attack Panama and bring China into this war? Because it seems all you're doing by talking about territorial expansion is now creating a more unstable world. Wouldn't that make sense? Isn't the logical thing by you threatening territorial expansion and annexing your neighbors? Wouldn't that seem to give credence to Vladimir Putin's desire to annex his neighbors?
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That seems to be a logical way of thinking about things. Aren't you empowering President Xi Jinping of China to take over Taiwan? and justify its one China policy. If you want to conquer Greenland and Panama and Mexico and Canada, don't these other countries go, well, America's going to do that. So how are we going to be held accountable? I want you to think about that.
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posts about when he rang the bell on December 12th, 2024, basically 30 days ago or so. Why is he reposting this now? By the way, the stock market was down that day and the stock market's been pretty volatile. And if you want to take a look at the bond market right now, very volatile as well. But why does he keep on posting? This is what he posted as well.
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This is some magical statesmanship. All I saw Donald Trump was go to the Notre Dame Cathedral in France, do some weird handshake with Macron. And then I saw President Macron and the prime minister of Poland mocking Trump's handshake. And ever since then, all I see is all these world leaders from France and from Germany and
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You didn't realize that this is what you were voting for to watch this guy talk about this stuff every single day here. Take a look at this if you can. This is what a Trump supporter saying. Nobody asked for Greenland. Nobody asked for Canada. Nobody asked for Panama. We just asked for a wall. We asked to deport them all. We asked for America first. Hello, Bueller. You asked to deport them all.
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Chancellor of Germany, the Foreign Minister of France, now saying that they're prepared to invoke the military alliance from the European Union against the United States if you threaten their sovereignty.
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Remember when Elon Musk was promising that Doge... By the way, I haven't heard a lot from Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy recently. Where did those guys go? Elon Musk now says that Doge might not be able to cut $2 trillion, actually. Do you remember... When all of these MAGA Republican Congress members are like, oh, we'll be able to do $2 trillion. We'll be able to do $2 trillion.
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Absolutely, we'll be able to do $2 trillion. Okay, you're not doing $2 trillion. In this article by Politico, Musk is quoted as saying that he probably wouldn't be able to even do half as much as $2 trillion. So less than $1 trillion, or maybe Doge isn't going to do anything at all. Maybe Doge is just going to be an extension, an agent of the billionaires.
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so that they can get what they want in and out of bills from their MAGA Republican friends for their global agenda. Maybe that's what this actually is all about for people like Elon Musk. For example, when it came to the continuing resolution, remember what was removed from that bill, from the continuing resolution?
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Ultimately, what was removed after Elon Musk threw his temper tantrum was some additional cancer research funding, tens of millions of dollars more that would have went to pediatric cancer research. And then also, it removed restrictions on billionaires and big corporations in America from doing certain types of business with China. So it was pro-cancer and pro-China.
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Huh, that's an interesting one. Also, we're seeing that some of these farmer groups and the trade groups that represent farmers, many who were very supportive of Donald Trump, they're now running ads like this. Some in Congress want to cut conservation funding. Farmers need. Dude, you voted for. This is what you voted for. Leopards eating your face? Are the leopards eating your face?
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Donald Trump calling Governor Gavin Newsom new scum during a fire. Donald Trump posting random videos of people from Greenland wearing MAGA hats. The reporting from Denmark's DR, their very respectable paper there out of Copenhagen, saying that Trump handed out these hats, Don Jr.
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Okay, this is from the Globe and Mail from Canada. Beijing says it's willing to deepen economic ties with Canada as Trump brings trade chaos. What did I tell you? What have I been telling you for weeks? Donald Trump's threats against China and Mexico and everybody just plays into President Xi Jinping's hand for President Xi's Silk Road to...
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handed out these hats to people there, and a lot of them were like impoverished people, and they promised them free meals. A bunch of other posts of Donald Trump whining about losing court cases over and over again, whining, whining, whining. Another post here of Donald Trump attacking former President Barack Obama for commanding the CIA to overthrow the Syrian government.
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his belt and road strategy, where he's like, okay, you don't need the United States. We'll be the new US. We'll help you. We're not going to threaten you. We'll respect you. And it's CCP propaganda, but it's effective when American propaganda, when it's coming from Donald Trump, is the Don Roe Doctrine. What would you rather do if you were a nation?
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And American media covered for him, and it's an account Wall Street apes. What's your point, Donald? What's your point about Syria? You're just going to attack Obama. Do you want to articulate what your foreign policy is? Because I distinctly remember what you promised people is you scared them and said that we're on the brink of World War III, which we're not. But you scared people and said that.
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Would you rather be conquered under the Don Roe Doctrine Or would you rather go with someone who's going to promise to invest billions even if it's BS? Huh. I wonder which one you'd go with. So this is an article that talks about how China says it's willing to deepen economic relations with Canada as this country's trading relationship with the United States hits a rough patch.
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You said you alone would fix this situation and stop a World War III. And you said you would do it by bringing peace to Ukraine in 24 hours and bringing peace to Thank you for watching. I'm just trying to think here rationally, folks, about what's the game plan? What's the end game here? It's a total disaster. And again, just contrast this with President Biden's post.
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The People's Republic of China is Canada's second largest trading partner after the U.S. in 2017. Ottawa came close to starting talks with Beijing on a trade agreement. In 2019, China restricted imports of several Canadian products, including canola seed, an apparent retaliation for Ottawa arresting a Chinese tech executive.
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The value of the economic fallout, billions in lost sales, pales in comparison to the threat US President-elect Donald Trump has made to Canada. vowing 25% tariffs on all Canadian goods when he takes office. Canadian exports to the United States in 2023 exceeded $592 billion.
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He keeps on posting about this December 12th visit, by the way. Trump rings opening bell at New York Stock Exchange in front of Time Person of the Year cover. He's going to keep posting this just every day, just randomly post this. Oh, by the way, as you're scrolling through, His posts, his social media platform has ads like this. Get new permanent teeth in just 24 hours.
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China's embassy in Ottawa said in a recent statement to the Globe and Mail that it's willing to talk about increasing trade and ties. It was responding to a question about whether China would be interested in resuming talks on a trade agreement with Canada given the trade threats from the U.S., quote,
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President Biden's post, and I've strengthened my alliances, photos with him in NATO, photo with him and some of our competitors, you know, whether it's India or Other countries. Photos with him at the G20 summit. Photos of him with our EU allies. Photos of him building alliances. What is this crap right here? But anyway, judge for yourself.
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China is willing to work with Canada to create a good environment for China-Canada economic and trade cooperation based on the principles of correct understanding, mutual respect, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and mutual benefit and win-win results, the diplomatic mission said. I mean, did they literally craft that sentence to be the exact same?
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I want to show it to you because, again, you may be on the fence. Maybe you don't know. To me, this really shouldn't be political, right? Like, I'm not going, oh, I'm a Democrat, so it's this. I'm an independent. I'm a conservative. I mean, I just look at this stuff and I'm like, why are you posting things from December 12th? It's mid-January almost already.
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The leopards are eating your face, Mr. David J. Riley. It's the Associated Press puts it. Trump, the America first candidate, has a new preoccupation. imperialism, and Donald Trump's propaganda outlets, owned by Australian-born Rupert Murdoch, sure loves it. Take a look at his rag, the New York Post.
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opposite of donald trump mutual respect correct understanding economic and trade cooperation seeking common ground mutual benefits win-win results right literally they're they're they're somewhat trolling us as well and they're doing the exact opposite of what donald trump is saying quote this is in line with the fundamental interests of the two countries and their people
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Why are you talking about conquering Greenland all the time? That's freaking weird and dangerous. Why during the heart of a fire are you calling Newsom new scum?
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have some heart maybe be productive rather than be an internet troll why are why are you whining like a freaking baby who whines like this i mean seriously i mean i mean you can't even see it i'm even i could have my editor just post it up i'm not even sure why i'm sure if you have posts like that with all caps all over like who talks like this could you imagine if your boss or someone you worked with just behaved like this you'd be like yo
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China has always advocated trade liberalization and facilitation and actively participated in Asia-Pacific regional cooperation and economic integration.
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By the way, did you see when we reported on what was going on in the Copenhagen news recently, in the Copenhagen paper, where the Danish news outlet DR reported that sources told them that Trump's people bribed homeless and socially disadvantaged people with hotel dinners to play Trump supporters during Don Jr. 's visit to Greenland? I like this by Adam Kinzinger right here.
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person weird. It's a big problem. There you have it, folks. Judge it for yourself. I'm just giving you the facts. Judge it for yourself. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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It's always something interesting. that I want to remind our viewers of. Remember Donald Trump saying, I'm going to rename the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America. As Adam Kinzinger says, this is the Gulf of cheaper eggs. You didn't promise that you were going to do all this stupid crap. By the way, we warned. We warned you that the leopard was going to eat your face to all the Trump voters, but...
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This isn't what Trump promised, but now he's talking about all this stupid stuff, and Kinzinger is bringing it back to, I think, the fundamental point. You said you were going to have lower prices. You said you were going to make housing more affordable. You said you were going to have no tax on all of these things, tips, overtime, et cetera. You made all these promises to union workers.
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You made all these promises, better wages. You made all of these promises, and now you're not going to be fulfilling that. You're already walking back all of those promises. I think that's what we gotta do. We gotta call them out. Remember, weapon of mass distraction, WMD. Bring it back always.
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When people start talking about all this stuff, I think it's important that we talk about what Trump's doing. We should take his threat seriously, but bring it back to, okay, but how is that gonna lower prices? Okay, well, how is that going to lower the price of eggs? Okay, how is that gonna make housing more affordable? Okay, how is that gonna lower interest rates?
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Okay, how is that gonna lower mortgage rates? Okay, how is that gonna help people's health? Okay, how is that going to help our veterans? Okay, how is any of this gonna help Americans? Bring it back to that over and over again. Oh, we're just gonna help your billionaire buds over in Mar-a-Lago, right? Right? Right. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Witnesses Unravel Under Cross Exam at Hearing
Let's take a look at this cross-examination by Democratic senators of Donald Trump's cabinet and Donald Trump's administration. Right here, you have Democratic Senator Merkley cross-examining FBI Director Kash Patel about whether or not he intends to launch an investigation of reported violations of due process of several hundred individuals who were put in concentration camps in El Salvador.
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While all of that was going on, you have the MAGA Republicans, like Congressmember Ogles, MAGA Republican Congressmember Ogles, basically saying, you know, at this point, why are we even doing trade with Europe and our traditional allies? We should be rewarding El Salvador for its concentration camps. Here, let's play this clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Some good cross-exam there by the Democratic senators. We'll keep you posted with more, but wanted to share that with you. You see how the Trump people just don't even answer the basic questions. It's like basic competence. Just answer the question. Well, hit subscribe.
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Next up, we have Democratic Senator Murray, cross-examining FBI Director Kash Patel. about why he has not even produced what his FBI budget is going to be when coming before a Senate committee about that budget. You'll see Kash Patel looks like a little kid who hasn't done their homework. It's just so incompetent playing this clip.
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And then, of course, Kash Patel gets way too emotional. These Trump MAGA guys can't control their emotions at all. So Kash Patel got angry that he didn't do his homework and didn't even submit the basic budget documents. So here he gets mad at Senator Murray and says he's not going to tolerate her. Here, play this clip.
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That's what we call a sociopath right there. They all have that Trump sociopath, malignant narcissism right there. And you just see how triggered he gets, how angry he gets so quickly. Next up, you have Democratic Senator Murphy. Here he's cross-examining Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, about, have you even read the Supreme Court decision where you're a defendant?
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Yeah, no, Senator Murphy is very good at this. Here he is again. Let's play this clip.
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Next, I want to show you over here, Democratic Senator from Maryland, Van Hollen. Cross-examine, Kristi Noem. Let's play this clip.
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Here he is again asking cosplay dog killer Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem another very basic question. Let's play this clip. I'm asking questions of law.
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And then yesterday, the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives were spending their day passing legislation to rename the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America. So here, Democratic Congress member Steny Hoyer mocks that. Let's play this clip.
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Here's a Democratic Congress member, Huffman, after Congress member Hoyer mocked it. Here's Democratic Congress member Huffman mocking it. Let's play this clip.
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And finally, here we have Democratic Congress member Hakeem Jeffries laying down the law. Let's play this clip right here.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
Donald Trump just gave the middle finger to all red states, purple states, and frankly all states in general that are suffering from major disasters and need relief from FEMA. You probably know our reports here on the Midas Touch Network where we've talked about how the Trump regime's FEMA has denied emergency aid for
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They want all the FEMA services to be dealt with by the states. The states don't have the money.
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to deal with federal emergency relief our whole system relies on the federal government helping the states in certain situations so acting fema director cameron hamilton was fired by donald trump and this shows you the trump regimes move where they're going to dismantle and destroy fema they fired this guy i'll show you the testimony that he gave it was the most kind of innocuous testimony also.
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It was still very obsequious to the Trump regime, but it was not obsequious enough. So here's the Wall Street Journal headline. Acting FEMA director Cameron Hamilton has been ousted from his position by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a day after he told lawmakers he didn't support eliminating his own agency. Yes, you heard that headline right.
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Let me show you the moment right now where he received a question from Congress he didn't want to answer. You can see him asking the chair, do I have to answer this question? And the chair kind of laughed and said, I'm not going to let you off that easy. He knew the writing was on the wall. It was the one question he didn't want to have to answer. He got it.
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To his credit, he answered that he did not want to destroy FEMA as the FEMA director. Right. Could you imagine saying you want to destroy your own agency? And that got him fired. I want you to watch the moment he gets fired. You can see him in real time processing that he knows that him answering this question under oath accurately was going to get him fired. Here, play this clip.
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Arkansas, despite MAGA Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders being a close ally of Donald Trump, Donald Trump's denied emergency FEMA supplemental aid for Georgia, which voted for Donald Trump, denied it to Governor Kemp. He needed supplemental assistance for debris removal, even though North Carolina voted for Donald Trump.
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And just so you see that this guy has called himself a MAGA before, just so you know what we're dealing with. Let me show you this clip of Cameron Hamilton when he was running for Congress. Here, let's play this clip.
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Okay, now, a day before Cameron Hamilton testified in Congress and answered that way, Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, dog killer, cosplayer, Kristi Noem testified before Congress. This is how you were supposed to answer the question in the Trump regime. This this was the talking point that FEMA should be eliminated. And when Cameron Hamilton did not answer this way, bye bye.
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This is how Kristi Noem handled the question here. Play this clip.
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Now, when Donald Trump was elected, remember he visited California suffering from the wildfires. Donald Trump shows up and Donald Trump says he wants to get rid of FEMA. Remember Donald Trump said that? I'll show you the clip where Donald Trump went to California and said he wanted to eliminate FEMA. Let's play this clip.
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Now, as I mentioned at the outset of the video, since then, FEMA has been denying pretty much universally a lot of the relief that was being requested by states, especially supplemental emergency stuff. Arkansas and Kentucky and Georgia and North Carolina. Rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection. Like they need emergency debris removal. The states are asking the federal government.
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When they requested disaster assistance through Governor Stein, FEMA recently rejected the relief there. We're seeing this, frankly, Kentucky, though they have a Democratic governor in Beshear. It's overwhelmingly a red state with all of the flooding and natural disasters that have occurred in Kentucky. Trump has rejected FEMA emergency relief there. Donald Trump wants to destroy FEMA.
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Former President Biden would just say, sure, of course, of course, we're going to give you... FEMA aid. This is what the federal government is there for. And for Donald Trump, it was deny, deny, deny, and deny. Now, folks, here at the Midas Touch Network, we anticipate these issues in advance, how they're going to harm the states here, how they're going to harm our country.
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So you may have been wondering why when I had Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz on Friday, Five or six a day. Over the last weekend, I had him on. Remember, I was asking him about FEMA because we were anticipating this issue arising, especially as we get into hurricane season.
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Now, Congressmember Moskowitz, he ran Florida's state emergency relief, which worked with FEMA before he was a member of Congress. So he's very well versed in this area. Here's what Congressmember Moskowitz told me. It's so particularly relevant right now. Let's watch this clip.
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That's undisputed. He said it over and over again. Now, Donald Trump has had appointed as the interim FEMA director a guy by the name of Cameron Hamilton. Now, Cameron Hamilton is someone who considers himself MAGA. He ran for Congress. He goes, I'm a MAGA Congress member. But earlier this week,
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Now, here's the governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear. This was about two months ago where he was talking about the importance of FEMA back then. And this was before a lot of the denials of FEMA aid that we're seeing right now. Let's play this clip.
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So I think when you see in real time how Cameron Hamilton answered the question correctly, but that got him fired. You see the message that's sent to any Trump person who testifies. But setting aside his termination, this is going to hurt red states. Like, again, remember the example that I give of the movie Don't Look Up?
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The asteroid or the comet's hitting is going to come and hit Earth and no one's focused. And they're the administration in that show saying, don't look up, don't look up. And they do a whole thing. Don't look up. And it's like, look up. I'm telling you what's going to happen.
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Cameron Hamilton, the FEMA director, testified before Congress and he said it was his own personal view. He said he would have to defer to the administration, but he said it was his own personal view that FEMA should not be destroyed. Although Donald Trump and Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, have said they want FEMA destroyed.
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There's so many examples of this, whether it's Donald Trump's disastrous trade war, whether it's Donald Trump's gutting of health and human services, whether it's, you know, again, here cutting FEMA as we head into hurricane season. What's going to happen when there's a hurricane? And there's no FEMA. Like, don't you see that's in the horizon of what's going to happen? And then what?
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He's going to blame it on someone. I mean, the reality is for Cameron Hamilton, him getting fired may actually be the best thing to happen to him because he would have been the fall guy for sure of the disasters that can happen around the horizon. This is why I say I don't care if you're from a red state or a blue state or a purple state. There shouldn't be a Democrat or Republican issue.
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As Congress member Moskowitz said, sure, you want to enhance the efficiencies of FEMA. There's ways to do it, but you can't just get rid of it. And that's what the Trump regime legitimately wants to do. And you saw the receipts right there. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Idiocracy was too charitable to the United States of America. Hat tip to Aaron Rupert for that quote right there. Yep, the Trump idiocracy just made Jeanine Pirro, the Fox host, the interim United States attorney for Washington, D.C., At the same time, Donald Trump fired his own interim FEMA director because the FEMA director said that he wanted to keep FEMA running as an agency.
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so donald trump issued massive tariffs against the uk again the united states has a trade surplus with the united kingdom we only do about two percent of total trade with the united kingdom and so donald trump removed about 10 or 15 percent supposedly of that tariff so there's still 10 tariffs against uh uk and some of the tariffs were removed against like range rover and land rover
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And so the arsonist really didn't even put out his own fire, but kind of pretended to. And we're all supposed to go, yay, Donald, good boy, Donald. And the whole thing is so utterly ridiculous. And then they go through the whole charade where he lies and he goes, the deal I made today with the United Kingdom is great for our farmers and ranchers. It's also wonderful for the United Kingdom.
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Everybody benefits. That's the way it should be. You know, about 30 days ago or so, there was no restrictions with the United Kingdom. You place them on, and now you partially remove that. That's not a deal. That's not even a sub-deal. It's not even a sub-deal within a sub-deal. This isn't a free trade agreement which takes three years to negotiate. Why does corporate news baby this guy?
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Oh, good job, Donald. You did a deal. You did a deal. It's not a deal at all. By the way, I mean, this is what we're learning about it, too. The full and comprehensive trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. is no such thing. They were rushing to try to get it through. They didn't even know what the terms were. Lots of people don't even know what the terms are now.
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The rush to demonstrate progress on deals reveals rising desperation within the administration to roll back tariffs before they hit GDP growth and inflation. I mean, they already are. Take a look at these three names side by side. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister, and right now, Robert Prevost, Pope Leo XIV.
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All of them together, lots of people are saying beats a reaction to Donald Trump, even Donald Trump's own top religious advisor, this bishop.
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said that an american pope if one were to ever be announced would indicate the united states political decline and i think the vatican was sending a strong message here that's my theory right here and hat tip for the courier for posting it with us over there and they did great research at the courier so this guy bishop robert barron sits on the white house's committee on religious liberty and here's what they said
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Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors. And he said, look, until America goes into political decline, there won't ever be an American pope. And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously.
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So a sign of America's decline would be the moment the Vatican selected an American pope. An American pope who shows empathy, supports migrants, supports equality. Now, the brother of the new pope, a guy from Chicago, you know, because the pope was from Chicago, he worked in Peru, said, no, no, my brother hates Trump's migrant policy. Like, he's really against it.
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He goes, I don't know how far he's going to go, but I can sure as hell tell you that my, maybe I shouldn't use that language there when I'm talking about a pope, sorry. My bad. But he said, my brother certainly doesn't support it. That certainly doesn't support these policies at all. I'm sorry. OK, so let's talk about the FEMA director, the interim FEMA director who Trump fired.
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In the Trump regime, if you try to defend your agency at all, you get fired right away. And that's what happened here. Also, MAGA was having a meltdown about the new pope. now known as Pope Leo XIV, was Cardinal Robert Prevost. He was from Chicago, is from Chicago, worked in Peru. Magus saying, this guy's so woke. He's the wokest pope ever.
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I'm going to do a whole video on that this morning. The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Cameron Hamilton, a big MAGA guy, too, is out the day after he testified. And he said that the agency, FEMA, that he led was vital and should not be eliminated, disagreeing with President Trump. and Homeland Security Secretary dog killer Kristi Noem.
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As Waldo Jack Queeth says, one thing that Trump will not tolerate is the heads of agencies saying publicly that their agency should exist. As I said, idiocracy is charitable to the United States of America. But folks, Ted Cruz and the MAGA Republicans were hard at work. Ted Cruz proposed a bill to help military hurt by the vaccine mandate. That's the title. That's what he's focused on right there.
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Hurt by the vaccine mandate, you know, to be vaccinated for troop readiness. I mean, what in the world is going on with our country right there? And by the way, I'll talk to you more about the Surgeon General Casey Means in a second, but I often get asked, Ben, where do you do your research from and how do you find these clips and how do you find stories like this?
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Like, take a look at this one right here. I found this one on Blindspot, which is run by Ground News, who happens to be a sponsor of the Midas Touch Network. I can see here on their Blindspot feature, which I use all the time, that this is being almost exclusively covered by right-wing media and some center media. but no left-wing media is covering this.
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So I want to bring this to our attention so you see what's going on there. So it's a great research tool, by the way, Ground News. I think it's essential nowadays to see through some of the double standards that exist in the media ecosphere. So if you want to know, if you want to access it yourself, we got a great discount for you too. Just go to ground.news.mtn or scan the QR code right there.
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My brother Jordy for negotiating that deal. Ground.News. You get 40% off. Ground.News slash MTN and get 40% off Ground News' top-tier vantage plan. Sweet. All right. Let's talk about should we talk about Jeanine Pirro? Should we talk more about Casey Means? Let's first talk about someone else who Donald Trump fired just to show you how despicable and dastardly this regime is.
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Trump just fired the first black person to serve as the Librarian of Congress. She has been in that position since 2016 and is the first professional librarian
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to hold the position since 1974 so a qualified black woman librarian of course that checks the boxes for donald trump to say termination as joe morrell says congress member says today trump fired a patriotic public servant servant the librarian of congress spent her entire career serving people from helping kids learn to read, to protecting some of our nation's most precious treasures.
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She is an American hero. And apparently that's just a threat to Donald Trump. And look, I think the American people see it. I gave a speech this week at the Milken Institute. One of my main messages when I was asked, How is the Midas Touch Network connecting with audience? I says, because we're speaking to human beings about human beings.
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And we can say this behavior by Donald Trump and Musk and Vance is just not right. I will not stand by idly to watch human beings here in America treat other human beings so cruelly. As I've said, it's not a debate whether there's due process or not due process. There's due process, damn it. This is the United States of America. It's simple to me.
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We don't bully marginalized communities in the United States of America. We shouldn't do that. We shouldn't hate. We shouldn't spread all of these lies all the time. We shouldn't attack our allies. We shouldn't just engage in this reckless and disastrous behavior. The lack of accountability, the immaturity, that's not okay at a human level. That's not okay.
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He's too woke for them because he's made public statements in posts before that said that migrants should be treated with dignity. He said that J.D. Vance and Nayib Bukele, their statements about concentration camps in El Salvador and treatment of migrants was unacceptable to him. He came out in support of the black community after the murder of George Floyd.
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And that's what I was telling the audience at the packed crowd I was speaking in front of. We just got to remember, we got to treat human beings nicely and just try to be good people. By the way, that's why Trump's net approval rating continues to plummet and plummet and plummet. Because as he treats people cruelly, as he harms the economy, as he harms people's lives,
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What are they focused on in the House? I mean, I showed you what Ted Cruz was doing on that ground news research I was doing. But yeah, the U.S. House is voting to all the Republicans vote to approve the legislation to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. Yay. Yay, everybody. Yay. I don't want to show any Trump videos in this today. I don't want to hear his voice this morning.
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I'm not going to play the clip, but I'll tell you what he said. I just don't want to hear his voice this morning. Okay, Donald Trump said, you better go and buy stock now, manipulating the market.
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And then Donald Trump said on port traffic, the lack of ships coming into Seattle, Long Beach, even on the East Coast and Boston, he goes, when you say that ship volume slows down, that's a good thing, not a bad thing. That means we're making money and we're not losing money. No, Donald, it means the opposite. Going back to what I said before, it's like, what are we talking about here?
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We know tariffs are bad. We know when ships don't arrive, that's bad. Can we use common sense? Like, let's just be real. This is Donald Trump saying about COVID, like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Inject yourself with bleach. He's doing it again. in this manufactured recession that he's created. He's doing it again. He's always done this though.
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If you go back to how he destroyed Atlantic City and he bankrupted his casinos back then, remember he built three casinos right next to each other. He took out a huge loan. And he was over leveraged. Everybody was saying, what are you doing? Why are you building three casinos? You're going to bankrupt them. No, the biggest, most beautiful. I've got to be three.
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And he bankrupted and everybody lost their jobs. Then he blamed the city and he blamed the workers and he makes money and he goes on to the next scam. That's why I call him the Ponzi scheme presidency. That's why I call this the rug pull presidency. Finally, again, the theme of this video, idiocracy was charitable to the United States of America. The movie Idiocracy.
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I'm like, where idiocracy meets like Kim Jong-un meets the worst season of The Apprentice. I've said it before. We're all non-consensual participants in this dystopian reality, weird TV show, the worst episode of The Apprentice that's never aired. that we don't wanna be a part of. We just wanna go about our lives. We wanna spend time with our families.
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We wanna be able to just go out and not think about this maniac making posts and behaving like a malignant narcissist at all times. That's what we want. So here's Laura Loomer, one of Donald Trump's top advisors, calling Donald Trump's pick for Surgeon General, Casey Means, witchcraft, witchcraft. Trump nominated a witch doctor for Surgeon General, according to his other top advisor, Laura Loomer.
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You see the theme of this video? Idiocracy was charitable.
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laura loomer goes this is arguably witchcraft i want to know which one of trump's geniuses chose a woman who literally talks to trees and spiritual mediums and who doesn't even have an active medical license to be the u.s surgeon general she's right there it's rfk jr but that's what the surgeon general believes i would call her a witch doctor but she doesn't even have a valid medical license so i'm not going to call her a doctor
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You have no idea how many texts I received from doctors who are members of Mar-a-Lago and Ben Minster who are like, what the F is this? It's honestly insane. I do not believe for one second that Donald Trump made this decision. I refuse to believe it. So let's end this video with that. I refuse to believe it. She refuses to believe it. MAGA cult members with mush brains refuse to believe it.
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I think they do, but they have this cognitive dissonance. Everyone, I refuse to, he didn't post. Yes, it was posted on his account, but he didn't post it. You say, what do you mean? Like, when have we allowed a human being to behave outwardly like a freaking baby with shit in their diaper?
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running around and behaving this way and we're like well you know it's a baby no it's an adult it's a grown human being it's the lead it's the presidency what are we doing what are we doing Judge for yourself. Shout out to Ground News too. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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So statements like that have Matt got very, very, very upset. But of course, yesterday began with Donald Trump announcing a fake trade deal with the United Kingdom, who the United States already has a trade surplus with.
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And now you have Stephen Miller and Donald Trump talking about suspending habeas corpus, invoking martial law and not following the Constitution at all if the Supreme Court rules against them. I'll show you that clip in a little bit. But here is a very addled, a very disoriented, a very fatigued Donald Trump getting handed an executive order on Friday.
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And he literally doesn't know what the hell he's even signing. He's like, what do they do? We're talking about refrigerators or freezers. Here, watch this. Let's play it.
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I mean, the day before he was sleeping when he was speaking to the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he was falling asleep. I mean, you don't believe me. I'll show you the tape. Let's play it.
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And the only statement that Donald Trump has made about the raging war now by two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, Donald Trump said the other day, they've been fighting for a long time. Maybe this is going on for a long time. And I don't know. Hopefully this ends soon. Hopefully this ends soon.
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They all went from blaming former President Biden for literally everything and anything to now as a war rages between two nuclear powers. Donald Trump says, well, I hope it just ends soon. Here, play this clip.
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Now, as two nuclear powers are at war with each other, as war rages, also Ukraine. being unlawfully invaded by Russia, Russia rejecting Donald Trump's social media post. Hey, you want to cut it out? Like the fourth time Donald Trump said, I'm going to sanction you, Russia, if you're being naughty. And Russia's like, yeah, we're just going to ignore you, you little weak guy.
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That's basically what they said. While Ukraine said, we're good, unconditional ceasefire. And Donald Trump's like, both sides are causing me issues right here. There's also a figurative nuclear situation happening with the budget and with the debt ceiling. Debt limit measures could run out by August, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says.
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And when he was handed executive orders, he looked at them and he was like, what am I signing? What is this? But as I said at the outset, the war, India and Pakistan is intensifying. Indian missiles are striking in air bases that are increasingly closer to Islamabad. I mean, they're attacking areas in Pakistan like Lahore, which is the second largest city and one that is fully undisputed.
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He says some of the accounting tricks that he's using right now currently are not going to be able to work by August. So that means, as Spencer Akimian explains, this tax bill has to be completed by July the latest. We've gone through eight weeks and zero progress has been made on that front. I've been showing you already that.
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All of these clips from senators, MAGA Republican senators like Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, say no way we're ever going to pass this. And so as Hakimian notes, China is going to take it real slow in Switzerland this weekend. Time is on China's side, not ours.
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So does it shock you that there are shock polls now showing that like rural voters, rural voters, which was kind of Trump's base, only about 40% of rural voters now support Donald Trump as Trump's approval continues, continues to plummet. Because I think we all see it. This shouldn't be political.
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As Donald Trump lies and claims that there's no inflation, as he lies and claims gas is $1.98, as he lies and claims everybody in America is rich now, he says. We're all doing great, he says. He says that everyone's able to afford homes. Things are amazing. We're all doing perfect is what he says. We all know that's a lie. We can look at our bank accounts. We can see what has actually happened.
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We can look at the store shelves. We know inflation is raging. We know housing is not affordable. While Donald Trump and his family have made $4.5 billion worldwide, off of meme coins and crypto and doing deals with Qatar and Abu Dhabi's fund and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. So a reporter asks Trump's top propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, about Trump selling meme coins.
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He keeps doing meme coin posts. She goes, ah, that's fine, that's fine. Here, play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump gaslights us all by posting, you know, the problem with even a tiny increase for the rich, which I would graciously accept in order to help people, is that then radical left Democrats would say, Read my lips, read my lips. I'm not going to give you any tax cuts or I'm not going to tax the rich.
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I'm going to tax the poor and I'm going to do the largest tax, regressive tax cut with my tariffs. I would have done a tax on myself, but you know, I don't want anyone to say, read my lips. You literally don't pay your taxes, Donald. It took the Democrats years to get your tax returns before. And what it showed was that for like many years, you were paying $0 in income tax or or $750.
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Yes, zero or $750. Here was Donald Trump announcing an 80% tariff on China earlier. He said he was thinking about lowering it to 145%. Then later in the day, Donald Trump said, actually, now I'm thinking about doing it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, maybe 37%. I I think this guy, Justin Wolfer, is an economist that Michigan says it best.
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We need to stop referring to what Trump is doing as deals like they're not deals. He's the arsonist who set things on fire. And now he wants to somewhat put out fires that he created. Those aren't deals. So stop buying into this framing that these are deals. Here, play this clip.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan has announced through their state run television that that it is launching retaliatory strikes against India. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, so when does the winning start? Wars are still raging in Ukraine and Gaza. A new war has broken out with India and Pakistan. We're bombing Yemen.
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So I want to show you two things right now. First, here's the clip of Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's top advisor, saying that he's considering suspending habeas corpus. So you can see this clip. Let's play it.
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The war between India and Pakistan is intensifying while Donald Trump is posting on social media about his dislike of MSNBC's coverage of his awful tariff war against the world. That's what Donald Trump is doing. If he's even able to stay awake, it looks like he was falling asleep over the past few days in the Oval Office.
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Now, let me share with you, just so you see, this is footage of Pakistan's military firing on in India while Donald Trump is out there, you know, posting music. Many trade deals in the hopper. All great, everybody. Here, play this clip. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
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Nares! And finally, Donald Trump's top propagandist was asked during the press conference as well. So Donald Trump's going to the Middle East to meet with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, the people who invest in his personal businesses. Like, do you think that's an issue? And then Caroline Leavitt snaps on the reporters like, no, no. How dare you make the implication?
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He's sacrificing. What do you mean he's sacrificing? He's gotten so rich off of... off of the executive office, off of selling access to himself. Here, play the clip.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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We're losing multiple F-18s over the past month and not getting explanations why we're losing them in the Red Sea. We've had about seven or eight Reaper drones shot down by the Houthis. Our allies and trading partners hate us. Our economic growth is negative. Prices are going up. Iran is close to a nuke.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
I'm joined by California's Governor Gavin Newsom. Governor, you are taking the fight against Donald Trump's disastrous economic policy to Trump's turf on Fox News. Tell us about what you're doing, Governor.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
What do you think they should do? I mean, obviously, this UK deal, to your point, the auto manufacturer is saying it's a disaster. I mean, they did this trade war against the world right now, and they seem to be a total mess. I don't even know what they're – do they think tariffs are great? They want to remove the – I don't even know what they're doing. What are they doing? What do you understand?
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
Going back to this ad buy that you're doing on Fox, let me just show our viewers the ad, then let's talk about it. Let's play it.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
Governor, how serious is this scarcity issue? You know, I don't want I don't want to fear monger my audience and say there's not going to be things on the shelves. But I'm hearing from the Long Beach port director, the Seattle port director, that that ships aren't coming in, at least at the quantity they should be. What's really happening?
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
efforts to distract and deflect. I don't want to fall into his distraction trap where he talks about Alcatraz this, Alcatraz that. But I think it's important to call it out for what it is, which is look there. distraction. What's his next trip? He's going to the Middle East to meet with sovereign wealth funds that he has deals with in Qatar, in Oman, with the Abu Dhabi fund for his crypto.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
It's kind of, look there, here's what I'm doing. What do you think about it?
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
Let's talk about CaliforniaFacts.com, why you've launched it. I mean, I saw kind of firsthand you dealing with the deluge of lies as you were trying to deal here, where I live in Southern California with the disastrous fires at the beginning of the year.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
While you were out there, sleeves rolled up, literally on the front lines, ordering the trucks and the fire department here, they were lying about you relentlessly. And I think even, I could be wrong here. I even think that you were slightly for that first day caught off guard a little bit that they would go after you right then and there where you were in the thick of it.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
And then to me, there was a moment where it clicked. You go, oh, I see what they're I have to deal with this now if I want to be effective in helping. So was that the genesis of this? And what's California Facts?
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
Governor Donald Trump saying that if you're a little girl, you just got to be fine. You get one doll, you get one pencil, you're going to pay more for it and and just shut up. I mean, that's what he's saying. What do you think about that?
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
Yeah, I want to just talk to you about that briefly. When these starts with Trump, but these MAGA Republicans constantly attack California. California is leading the United States of all economies, fourth largest economy in the world. Yet this MAGA narrative is out there. And why you need a California facts is sometimes this narrative, which is false, takes hold, and then it just gets repeated.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
And then we exist in that framework. So just your overall response, in addition to California facts, like just your defense of California, you know, and the pushback to all that crap.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
Final question, Governor. You know, when I have the opportunity to speak with people like you, I know with humility as a reporter, there's just some things that I'm not thinking about that I know weigh heavily on your mind. I mean, your perspective as the governor, fourth largest GDP in the world. You're seeing things. You're hearing things. You're thinking about things. I'm lucky.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
I've got an audience. 5 million subscribers on YouTube and beyond that on this platform of people who just want to know what's either keeping you up at night? What are you thinking about? Do you have hope? In general, what do you just want our audience to know and take away right now at this moment, May 9th, 2025?
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
California Governor Gavin Newsom, thanks as always for joining us. Thanks for having me. Everyone hit subscribe. Let's hit that 5 million subscriber mark.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
I'm joined by Maryland Governor Wes Moore. Governor Donald Trump's creating a ton of uncertainty, would be putting it nicely. Perhaps the word is calamity with respect to the American economy while he and his regime try to gaslight us that this is normal, that we're just detoxing is the word that they're using. Are we just detoxing? What are you seeing, Governor?
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
But also, I just see a weak and pathetic man, whatever we're going to call him, from the White House just oozing weakness. What do you make of it all?
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
As a veteran yourself, as someone who served the way you did, I gotta get your take on Donald Trump's attack on veterans, on the armed services. His layoffs in the federal government are disproportionately impacting veterans who work
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
30 to 40% of the federal government was made up of veterans, cutting 70,000 jobs from Veterans Affairs, which means that veterans are not going to get the services that they need. I know that Donald Trump previously called veterans and people who sacrificed their lives suckers and losers. I think he's showing that's how he feels about it. What do you make of what he's doing?
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
There was a story in the New York Times on Friday that there was this heated cabinet meeting where these cabinet officials really started to voice objections to Elon Musk. I think that you're seeing also MAGA Republicans across the country hearing this in their town halls.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
you know, allowing Elon Musk, this unelected bureaucrat, although Donald Trump said at the State of the Union that he's gotten rid of all of the unelected bureaucrats, except the person, I guess, who's now pulling his puppet strings and running the government. But I think MAGA Republicans are hearing about
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
uh how much people they want to abolish any government entity or thing it's it's doge and how much doge is causing uh destruction i mean do you think we're gonna see this fracture continue um i mean what are you seeing in in your state i mean i'm sure you hear not just from democrats i'm sure you also hear from independents and republicans about their views of what doge is doing
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
Let's talk about the humanity, values, and other priorities in your budget. Let's talk about what you're doing in the state, one, to kind of, as much as you can, Trump-proof Maryland, but two, contrast your budget, your priorities to what you're seeing now with this kind of chaos and mess at the federal government. I mean, let's show what you're doing.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
I want our audience to look at the answer you just gave, and I want to contrast it to when Donald Trump was asked the same question by our competitors at Fox about predictability, about not creating instability in the business markets. Just watch this, Governor. I think you'll get a kick out of it. Here, play this clip.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
I got one more for you, Governor. I got one more for you, Governor. So in the Oval Office on Friday, Trump was asked about large-scale federal government layoffs. Let me show you his response.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
A president who doesn't know what he's talking about says, what? I mean, how could you, like, what? Like, what is that? What in the world is that? Let me get your final remarks. You know, we know that the Trump people watch these views. They have their rapid response. Trump 47, who's watching all of our
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
There's a trend here, right? Beating down on marginalized communities, beating down on people who serve, beating down on our allies, but trying to suck up to authoritarian regimes and strong men who really aren't all that strong. I mean, to me, if these past 60 days feels like in eternity, have shown anything. I mean, to me, it's actually shown complete and utter weakness, incompetence, yes.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore Calls Out Trump & Elon in Exclusive Interview
Maryland Governor Wes Moore, thanks for joining us. Thank you. And subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
MAGA Republican leaders in red states are starting to get more vocal about how Donald Trump's policies are hurting their states. Yep, Trump's policies are not only hurting blue states, they're also hurting red states where former President Biden's policies were actually contributing a lot to the economies of these red states.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
I want to share this with you. This is from the Kentucky Distillers Association. And here they're talking about how Kentucky bourbon. is getting hit hard. You know, Canada is not only or not only put on retaliatory reciprocal tariffs. Canada also has a boycott of all things American. If you look at some of the provinces, they've been removing all of the American booze from their shelves as well.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
And we're hearing from some MAGA Republican leaders who you might find somewhat unexpected. For example, MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, MAGA Republican Senator Tillis. Let's hear what they have to say. Let's play it.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
And also Canadians in general are not buying American. Here's what the Kentucky Distillers Association's president put out. Kentucky bourbon is a great American success story. Distilling is a $9 billion signature industry in the Commonwealth responsible for more than 23,000 jobs and $2.2 billion in salaries and benefits. Unfortunately,
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
The return of retaliatory tariffs on American whiskey will have a far-reaching consequences across Kentucky, home to 95% of the world's bourbon. That means hardworking Americans, corn farmers, truckers, distillery workers, barrel makers, bartenders, servers, and the communities and businesses built around Kentucky bourbon will suffer.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
As a distinctive product of the United States, bourbon cannot be made anywhere else in the world. It truly is America's only native spirit. Bourbon jobs are American jobs, and we grow bourbon jobs by opening markets across the globe. Retaliatory measures against bourbon harm these markets and jeopardize growth for years to come.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
including unjust and disproportionate removal of American spirits from retail shelves and prohibition on new purchases of alcohol from American companies. Kentucky Bourbon brings people together and we hope it can be a uniting force in this situation.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
In the meantime, the Kentucky Distillers Association will continue to remind leaders of the far-reaching impact of our signature spirit and our concern for the loss of American jobs. It should be noted that that the KDA, the Kentucky Distillers Association, gave a lot of money to the Republican Party. You can see it right there.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
And by the way, they are still too cowardly to call out Donald Trump by name. It's not hypothetical leaders who are doing it to you. It's Donald Trump's chaos, Donald Trump's grievances and grudges, and his decision to unilaterally start attacking our allies that is doing this to you. So why don't you step up and actually call out who's doing this to you?
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
Because it's not some amorphous hypothetical leadership entity. It's Donald Trump. Jack Daniels makers are also saying that The fact that the Canadians are boycotting American products and American booze and taking American booze off the shelf, in many ways, that's even worse than Canada's reciprocal tariff.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
The CEO, Lawson Whiting, calls Canada's move a disproportionate response to levies imposed by the Trump administration. Seriously, Jack Daniels, you're whining about Canada responding to the fact that Donald Trump essentially declared war on their country. Canada didn't decide to impose tariffs. Donald Trump and his regime decided to impose those tariffs.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
Canada didn't start talking about annexation. Donald Trump talks about making Canada the 51st state, calling their prime minister a governor, consistently threatening Canada over and over again. That's why Canada responded the way it did. And you're lucky Canada is not responding even stronger than it is, quite frankly.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
And millions of Americans support what Canada is doing, including me right now, because we are disgusted by what the Trump regime is doing. By the way, take a look at some of these Wall Street bankers. who were very supportive of Donald Trump, were now seeing headlines like this. The recession trade is back on Wall Street.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
Bank stocks and the Russell 2000 have slumped on growth concerns, while treasuries and gold have rallied. Wall Street is having another growth scare. Investors entered 2025 optimistic that an already strong U.S. economy can get an extra boost from an administration pushing market-friendly tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks instead.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
Trade tension and signs of slowing growth have driven major indexes lower in recent weeks. It goes on to say the declines accelerated this week as Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports. They continue Thursday, even after the White House paused tariffs on a large portion of those imports until April 2nd, with investors still uneasy about the broad direction of U.S. trade policy.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
You think? Since February, losses in the markets have been particularly acute in sectors that investors view as sensitive to a slowdown, such as banks and smaller companies. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite has fallen around 10%.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
from its recent peak oil prices have slipped havens including gold and u.s treasuries meanwhile have rallied quote i think a lot of people were just assuming the tariffs were just a bluff and now there's more uncertainty around that said keith lerner co-chief investment officer at truest advisory services the move show investors struggling to gauge of the conditions
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underpinning two straight years of near 25% stock gains have deteriorated significantly. Let me answer the question. The answer is yes. And by the way, the International Chamber of Commerce, a right-leaning think tank usually, Tariff war risks sinking the world into new Great Depression.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
The ICC, the Chamber of Commerce, warns the world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. You think maybe if they're doing the exact same things, that's what's causing it? But look, folks, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, he's got a plan and his plan is just to say that Donald Trump is doing it hard. He's hitting them hard. You got to love how hard he does it.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
Here, play this clip. And Donald Trump is going to stand up for American families and he's going to do it hard and he's going to do it strong. And that's why we love him as our president.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
Next up, I want to show you MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy of Louisiana saying, look, Trump promised to bring down prices and what he's doing with these tariffs, it seems to be causing inflation.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
Well, all of that's taking place. Donald Trump gave that whatever you want a speech at the joints before a joint session of Congress. And here Donald Trump talks about you need to get rid of the CHIPS Act. MAGA Mike, get rid of that CHIPS Act. Here, play this clip.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
Okay, get rid of the CHIPS Act, the act that invested over $50 billion in America, bringing the semiconductor industry back to America in red states and blue states. You're going to cause the loss of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of jobs made possible by the CHIPS Act.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
As former President Biden had previously written, the CHIPS and Science Act invests $52 billion to supercharge our efforts to make semiconductors here in America. Our actions have attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in private sector investments across the country. It is a game changer.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
I'm going to show you this clip right now, and I think you're going to get a little emotional when I show it to you. Here was a speech by former President Biden when he was saying how strong our economy was, talking about his accomplishments and warning what Trump and MAGA was going to do with the Chips Act. Play this clip.
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Red States Freak Out as Trump Royally Screws Them
Well, there you have it, folks. I told you you were getting it a little emotional when I showed you that. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers together. Thank you.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
Some new data out, young voters are one of the largest groups turning against Donald Trump. Almost a 70% disapproval rating for Donald Trump among young voters. And maybe it's because Donald Trump is stealing their hopes, dreams, aspirations, future. Education. I mean, Donald Trump's out there every day attacking education.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
You know, look, and she's talking about the draft executive order to abolish the Department of Education that the Wall Street Journal got their hands on. There's also just a cruelty element. They're like enjoying taking away billions of dollars of educational resources that help people and lunch programs and things like that. Like this is MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy saying, you know,
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
Brandi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, thank you for joining us. Please come back. We're in this together. Thank you.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
Better get used to it. We're going to be coming for you even harder. Here, play this clip.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
And then I think this is catching a lot of voters by surprise, Trump voters, too, who are saying, whoa, I didn't vote for this. Here's just an example of a Trump voter who said, wait a minute, I'm going to lose my job now. Here, play this clip.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
Let's bring in the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingarten. When you see video clips like that, what goes through your mind?
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
This was him recently in the Oval Office saying Linda McMahon, who has recently been confirmed as secretary of education, should use her job to get rid of her job and to gut and destroy and abolish the Department of Education. Here's Trump saying it.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
No, I teach a law class to undergrads in Southern California. And one of the topics we were discussing was a topic involving Title IX. And I got a question that was very different from questions in any other year that I taught, which is, well, what happens if the Department of Education is abolished?
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
And what's the point of everything you're teaching us about this and any other aspect about what the Department of Education does? So I don't necessarily want to focus this interview on the title.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
aspect but just generally when we hear them talking about though abolishing the department of education you talked about some of those programs there what does it mean not just for blue states but for red states and all americans like you saw that clip there the lady from the red state in kentucky who said i didn't realize this was going to happen to me what's going to happen so essentially um
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
That's a good call to action also to everybody watching this. Go there. Go to your school boards and ask them those questions. Two more questions for you. First, about your Union American Federation of Teachers. What are... Are you filing lawsuits? I mean, you issued a powerful response that I saw. Do you have the lawsuits ready?
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
What happens the moment that executive order drops as it relates to you first?
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
Fact check, states already run schools. Donald Trump has no clue what the Department of Education does. Here was Linda McMahon earlier saying that she does intend to abolish her own department. Let's show you that.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
know just finally you know i i've seen some other union leaders the lesser than the other ones go to mar-a-lago and try to normalize what trump's been doing and saying you know actually this is going to be good for labor and then trump right away fires national labor relations board member then the supreme court reinstated her in this past week.
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
Then they say, hey, look, the labor secretary, she's going to be great. Then she testifies and she walks back all of the things that may have showed that she had sympathy for unions before when she refused to endorse them when she was asked questions by Republicans. So
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AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education
You know, it's always shocking to me when I see other – I mean, you're a fearless labor leader who represents your unions and the workers, and you're not being fooled by him. But, you know, I'm not asking you to say negative things about the other people, but how do you deal with that? I mean, you know that's out there. How do you deal with that? How do you navigate that?
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
And he's off once again to Mar-a-Lago. Tough week for you, huh, Donald? You can't handle the heat, so you're vacationing again in Mar-a-Lago? You gonna play some golf, Donald? Let's talk about the five things that you did this week, huh? I'm gonna recap them right now. Number one, you tanked the stock market and the entire American economy.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
Then your supporters go, this will create jobs. Then you say, I'm removing tariffs. And then your supporters go, art of the deal. Then you say, I'm adding tariffs. Then your supporters go, this will create jobs. Then you say, I'm removing tariffs. And then your supporters go, art of the deal. Like, here is your press secretary, your propagandist, Caroline Levitt says, remember everybody.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
Donald Trump may be crashing the economy. He may be threatening these tariffs, imposing the tariffs, then withdrawing the tariffs when the economy is crashing. And in response to the Atlanta Federal Reserve now saying we're headed to negative 3% GDP growth in quarter one, when if Donald Trump literally did nothing, we would be at 3% to 4% actual growth in quarter one.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
And she goes, that's all part of the deal. That's the art of the deal. Here's your propaganda saying that. Play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
And I guess they figure if she just repeats that over and over again, you know, the MAGA people will buy it. Oh, that must be part of the art of the deal. Here she is saying it again on Hannity.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
Number two, you falsely claimed Honda was building a new plant in Indiana to try to cover up for the fact that you tanked the stock market and the entire American economy. Number three, you flip-flopped on tariffs. Again, both Canada and Mexico stood up to you, and you backed down, and now you have a new deadline for the tariffs, April 2nd, and you're super serious this time.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
So utterly pathetic. But what's probably more pathetic is this scene right here of the MAGA Republican members of Congress hovering over you, casting out demons and evil spirits in the Oval Office. Can't make this up. By the way, Donald Trump's approval is absolutely tanking right now.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
And one of the groups where it's tanking the most, Gen Z and young voters, Trump's approval with people ages 18 to 34, it's about 70% disapproval at this time. And that's sinking very, very, very quick. At this point in time in his presidency, Trump's like the least popular candidate. of any president basically ever, other than maybe himself during the first administration.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
Let me show you this right here. This is Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine. Here he's speaking in front of a serious group about foreign relations. And he's asked, well, what about Donald Trump's promise that he was going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours? And tell us about that, Keith Kellogg. By the way, Keith Kellogg was once a pretty proud military guy.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
He was someone who was taken seriously. Let me show you how Trump be clowns people like this and how, just look at this person. He's a defeated man now. Just watch this stupidity as the audience laughs at him, not with him. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
And just to give you a flashback here, remember when Donald Trump says he was going to end the war in 24 hours? Remember when he said this here? Play the clip.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
Number four, you suggested that the stranded astronauts could fall in love. Then you flew to Florida to go golf after you sent a message to Hamas saying, Shalom Hamas, and that all hell was going to break loose if they didn't release the hostages, which you threatened to do back on February 10th, and then which you threatened to do before that on January 7th. You're all bark, no bite, Donald.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
Yeah, I remember that. Here's what Donald Trump was posting yesterday morning. Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely pounding Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I'm strongly considering large-scale banking sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and final settlement agreement on peace is reached. Ooh, you put it in capital letters, Donald, to Russia and Ukraine.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
Get to the table right now before it's too late. Thank you. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, explains, Ukraine is pounding Russia on the battlefield. Russia is pounding civilian targets in Ukraine and infrastructure indiscriminately. Trump has made it easier for Russia to do that because of the actions he has taken.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours, but all he does is these capital letter posts. One of the things that Donald Trump did do, though, like the coward that he is, is he shut off the United States giving intelligence to Ukraine about Russian attacks. This is causing Ukrainians to die as Russians. Russian drone swarms and missiles are more easily able to find their target.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
By the way, Maxar Technologies, one of the people who were providing GPS to the Ukrainians, they admit that this is what Trump and Pete Hegseth, the former Fox host, demanded. Maxar's statement on media reports regarding access rights to Maxar imagery.
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government program that provides access to commercial satellite imagery that has been tasked and collected by U.S. government. The U.S. government has temporarily suspended Ukrainian accounts in GEGD. We take our contractual commitments very seriously. There is no change to the way we support our other customers, nor their programs or contracts. Max, you have blood on your hands too.
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I understand you take your contractual obligations seriously. How about you take your humanity obligations seriously because you are causing the deaths of Ukrainians. And of course, I understand you're being ordered to do so by Donald Trump, but it is absolutely despicable. As Jay and Keeve explains as well, none of us wanted to put this story out there, but it seems like it's happening as well.
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Many are saying that the United States is actually helping Ukraine. Russians with intelligence against Ukraine at the same time the United States is stopping Ukraine from getting intelligence. A suspicious pattern alarming the Ukrainian military. A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia's long-range strikes have been aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S.
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companies to Russia right now. Absolutely, absolutely despicable. Let's take a look at what's going on on the home front as well. The Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says inflation expectations are rising, driven by tariffs. Yesterday, there was a brutal jobs report.
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The jobs report came in under what the expectations were, and the report only went through February 15, so it didn't include all those government jobs that were lost as well. I think that the next jobs report is going to be absolutely devastating. We're seeing headlines like this, this from the New York Times.
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It says how President Trump inherited an economy that was by most conventional measures firing on all cylinders. Just weeks into Mr. Trump's term, the outlook is gloomier. Trump's policies have shaken a one solid economic outlook. Economic forecasts have deteriorated in recent weeks, reflecting the upheaval from federal layoffs, tariff moves, and immigration roundups.
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That's from the New York Times. Now let me show you the Wall Street Journal, right-leaning. Tariff war risks sinking the world into new Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce warns. The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. So right-leaning paper, Wall Street Journal, citing right-leaning group, International Chamber of Commerce.
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And everybody knows how pathetic and weak you are and how in any given moment you're going to change your mind. Tariffs today, tariffs tomorrow. You panic and you fold like the coward that you are. Here's a very simple graph.
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From Reuters, Trump wants to kill $52.7 billion in the semiconductor industry subsidy. And just take a look at what they're saying on Fox, Fox Business, Maria Bartiromo, saying, yep, we're heading into a recession, but it's Biden's recession. Play this clip. And you have Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant saying, yes, you're feeling pain and suffering. But he goes, that's just detox.
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That's a detox period. And here Scott Besant is as well talking about how really Americans don't want access to cheap goods. Americans shouldn't get cheap goods. Here he is at the Economic Club of New York saying, no, no, no. Americans don't want cheap goods. Play this clip.
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I mean, these billionaires, Scott Besson's worth hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars. I mean, they're so utterly disconnected from what we the people are experiencing. It's so utterly despicable. Let me just go to Canada for one more second. Shout out to our Canadian followers and supporters. In Canada, you have a major shift in the election polling data there.
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Now the Liberal Party, with the handoff from Prime Minister Trudeau to either Mark Carney, as one of the people who's running, or to anybody else in the Liberal Party who's running. 41% is where the Liberal Party is polling, five points ahead of the Conservatives. This would be the best result for the liberal party since the 2000 elections. I mean, very impressive stuff right there.
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But while all of this is happening, where's Donald Trump? Donald Trump is back at Mar-a-Lago hanging with the crypto bros and bragging about the money he made rug pulling the crypto from China. His supporters, I think the Trump meme coin is down to what, like 12 bucks now. I think it was at like 70 or 80 or more. But, you know, he got all the transaction fees on it.
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Donald, if you're playing along at home, you make stupid decisions, something really bad happens, you then convince your followers that the problem is now magically solved, then you reverse your decision, and then you rinse and then repeat. Donald, is that one not good for you? You want me to show you another graphic? Take a look at this one. Here you are saying, I'm adding tariffs.
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So he made a lot of money off of it. So utterly pathetic. I mean, this was someone who's not a good businessman. He's someone who's destroyed most of the businesses he's touched. And he's doing that with the economy right now. Then he runs and hides in Mar-a-Lago like the piece of trash that he is. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Holds Disaster Meeting on TV as He Tanks Economy
As our markets are tanking, as Americans are terrified about what is going to happen with their 401ks and what the economy is going to look like the next day, and Donald Trump's own meme coin, dollar sign Trump, is in the gutter, so is Melania's. What is Donald Trump doing in the White House today? Well, nothing says man of the people like bringing a bunch of billionaire billionaires
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And of course, as Donald Trump's tanking your 401k, of course, as the markets each and every day are utterly chaotic, here's Donald Trump talking about whether there should be a FIFA coin, a FIFA coin. Yeah, here, play this clip.
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Anyway, thank you. And here's Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant at this crypto conference. And he's saying, look, we're going to make everything better with crypto. Basically, don't you worry about that we're now hearing about stagflation. That means surging inflation and low GDP. In fact, GDP contraction.
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I think the Federal Reserve out of Atlanta expects it to be, what, negative 2.8% GDP in quarter one. The jobs that were created this past month, just through February 15th, did not meet expectations. The markets are frazzled, but here's what Scott Besant has to say. Play this clip.
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crypto bros into the White House to hold a crypto conference. Here's Donald Trump at this crypto conference with the billionaire Bitcoin bros. And he's saying that there were big problems under the former Bitcoin administration. Was he mean to say the Biden administration? Here, play this clip.
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And again, while Americans are just looking for there to be lower prices, high paying jobs, you know, the things that Donald Trump actually promised when he was campaigning. Here, Donald Trump says, from this day forward, America will follow the Bitcoin rule that all Americans care about, which is never sell your Bitcoin. What are they talking about here? Play this clip.
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Who knows? But so far, it's been right. Now, I want to remind you as well about the post that Donald Trump made back on March 2nd, where he talked about a U.S. crypto reserve. And he mentioned a lot of crypto coins, XRP, SOL. and ADA, which kind of form the backing from some of these like shit coin, meme coin things, including Trump's.
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And it should also be noted that Donald Trump's crypto czar, Dave Sachs, surprise, surprise, has a major holding of those specific coins that are going to be in the crypto reserve, everything. I mean, the corruption is so utterly flagrant. Here, Donald Trump talks about how the Treasury and Commerce Departments will also
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figure out ways to accumulate new Bitcoin, everybody, because I'm sure that's what you're thinking about over this weekend. That's what you're talking about over the kitchen table. I'll hear play this clip. Who knows?
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We don't want any. One more time. Here is Treasury Secretary Scott Besant saying that we're going to keep the U.S., the dominant reserve currency in the world, and we'll use stable coins to do that. Here, play this clip.
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No, before that crypto conference, you had the head of FIFA in the Oval Office and someone from NBC was asking Donald Trump a question and Donald Trump says, you're NBC, you're not allowed to ask that question. Let's play that clip right there.
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Now here is Howard Lutnik, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, who would make Kim Jong-un's propaganda network look, well, pale in comparison to this. Let's play this clip.
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Yeah, this was an incredibly odd conference. Again, as our economy right now is suffering from the effects of Donald Trump's policies, Donald Trump has David Sachs in his crypto czar who talks about how some of the crypto bros there thought that they may be in jail, that they may have been in prison. But here they are in the White House, everybody.
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Thank you very much. Thank you, Howard. Here's MAGA Republican Congressmember Tom Emmer, as Aaron Rupert says, taking his turn in the Trump kiss my ass club. Again, just so embarrassing watching this here play this clip. Well, Mr. President, I want to say thank you.
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Donald Trump then says, thank you, media. And then he gestures to exit here. Watch this. Thank you very much.
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Trump is asked about competing against Canada and Mexico at the World Cup. And Trump says that tension is a good thing. Here, play this clip.
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All of this is going on as well. Federal Chairman Jerome Powell has said that inflation expectations are now rising, driven by tariffs and Trump's policies. young voters, which I suppose is that what this crypto conference is meant to appeal to. Trump's approval with 18 to 34-year-olds is tanking quick. Close to 70% of 18 to 34-year-olds no longer support Donald Trump.
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And I think they're seeing the flagrant corruption as well, right? While Trump's own meme coin, dollar sign Trump and the dollar sign Melania which read Smolania is failing. The Trumps still made $350 million from their failing meme coin. Good for them. They're the ones getting rich in the Trump economy while the rest of Americans are getting screwed. The billionaires are doing well. The
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If you want to know what Trump's treasury secretary, again, Scott Besson says is that this is all going to be good for us. The pain, the suffering, Trump getting rich off of meme coins. This is called detoxing and we're all detoxing right now. So we should all just feel great about ourselves. Here's what he says. Play this clip.
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I know, just so utterly pathetic. Anyway, let me know what you think about that Bitcoin conference, because I'm sure the optics of having a Bitcoin conference while economists are predicting recession, great recession, or even potentially worse. That's what Americans want to see heading into the weekend. So utterly despicable. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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And thank you all so much for watching.
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Yeah, I'm sure this is exactly what's top of your mind right now. Here, play this clip.
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You're very shy in front of the camera.
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Trump Holds Awful Presser on Friday
Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office here. He says that the United States is doing very well with Russia, and he says they're bombing the hell out of Ukraine, and Ukraine doesn't have the cards, and that's why the U.S. is doing well with Russia. It's horrifying. Here, play this clip.
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Absolutely despicable. Here, the reporter asked Donald Trump, you said Russia is pounding Ukraine harder. So why not provide Ukraine with any air defenses? Watch Trump's response.
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Donald Trump is then asked if he's concerned about the large-scale federal government layoffs weakening the labor market. And Donald Trump says, large-scale fentanyl? Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump is asked how much longer Americans should expect things to cost more. And Trump says, look, there are some disturbances. There may be disturbances. That's what they're calling it here. Play this clip.
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They were they called me, they asked me, they said, could they have a little bit of just so you see also earlier in the day, one of the new phrases that we're hearing from the White House and the Trump administration is a detox that we all need to experience a detox. which is kind of short term pain, but it will be for long term good.
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Here is Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant using that term detox here. Play this clip.
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Just so you see also how Fox is spinning this all before Trump's disastrous Oval Office appearance. Here's Maria Bartiromo calling what's about to happen Biden's recession. Let's play it.
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Here, Bartiromo is again talking about that. Let's play it.
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All right, let's go back to the Oval Office for Donald Trump's disastrous press conference. He says, actually, things are fantastic. Labor markets are fantastic. Everything is great, he says, even though the jobs report was far lower than expectations. Let's play it.
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It'll be. Then Donald Trump lies and says that the United States of America is in for 350 billion for Ukraine and Europe only did 100 billion. Those numbers are just false. Europe's given more money than the United States to Ukraine. And it's easy to find out how much money the United States gave, which is like $150 billion. Still a lot of money, but Trump always uses the false numbers.
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I mean, you can literally see how much Congress appropriated by just looking at the numbers. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah, now it's just a bizarre scene in the White House as Donald Trump says that Putin is hitting Ukraine harder. He keeps on saying that, but he says that's how you know Putin wants peace. He's doing what he should be doing. He's hitting them harder, he says. Here, play this clip.
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Then Trump touts job gains for native-born Americans. Let's play it.
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Right over here, Donald Trump talks about what we're really doing here is we're freeing up our forests from environmental nonsense. Here, play this clip.
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Actually, Donald Trump is firing the federal workers who actually deal with forest cleanup in states like California and elsewhere.
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And also Donald Trump is directing like the Army Corps of Engineers to dump reservoirs into farmland, which basically is owned by Republicans in California in kind of the central northern areas, not reaching Southern California where the fires are because Trump wanted to say he turned on a faucet. can't make this stuff up.
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And by the way, the Federal Army Corps engineer workers knew that they were going to flood the land of people having nothing to do with the fires, nowhere even close to where the fires were, and the fires had stopped at that point. Anyway, here's Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Agriculture.
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She's the one in the clip that I showed you a few days back who said Americans should start buying chickens because there's no eggs, and that's the way to deal with The surge in egg prices, every American needs to own a chicken. And here she says, look, folks, we're in a revolution. This is what we should all expect when you're in a revolution. You'll have to experience this detox and this pain.
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the hell are they talking about? And here's Donald Trump speaking with Maria Bartiromo in a fuller interview that will air later, where she's like, can you just give us some clarity for the business community? Can you just maybe speak in a sentence to which Donald Trump does not do that? Here, play this clip.
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And then finally, you have Trump's treasury secretary, Scott Besant, again, going on CNBC and saying, look, stock market's going down, good thing, good thing. People don't like good stock markets is what, that's, if you're like, no way they're arguing that. Yeah, I will show you that that's the argument. Here, play this clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. I want to give a shout out also to our friends at Snapstream. Thanks for everything that you do. So the way we get these clips is through Snapstream. And it's a software that lets us go in and we can, you know, goes into the cable network so we can kind of clip it. So Asin does that. Aaron Rupert, who doesn't work for us, but he's incredible.
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I know he uses Snapstream as well. Asin uses Snapstream. So shout out to them. And if you all are interested in how you can use Snapstream, I'll put a link below as well. And you can click it and reach out to them because they do a great job. Thanks, everybody, and have a good one.
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Yeah. Yeah, that was an interview between Kanye West and Tucker Carlson from 2018. It's resurfacing now because Kanye went back on Twitter, or I guess it's now called X, and started implying that he had certain relations with Ivanka. And this is as seems like Donald Trump is just kind of constantly humiliating Ivanka. The thing to know about Ivanka is she was a major player in USAID.
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And they are also now saying all these other celebrities were getting paid when that literally probably came from Russia. It's like 100% false. Here are just some photos of Ivanka showing what USAID actually does. Wheelchairs for sick kids, work for vulnerable women. If you actually go through the USAID records, you'll see that a lot of money was spent for her initiatives.
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And you can make this stuff up, folks. Back in 2019, Ivanka Trump loved USAID. Here it is right here. Here's a video of one of her initiatives. Let's play it. As you can take a look at the spending, $265 million from USAID to Ivanka's causes. USAID helped fund Melania Trump's Be Best program and Ivanka Trump's Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative during the first Trump term.
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And each woman traveled with the agency on separate trips to Africa where they praised the investments it was making on the continent. Ivanka Trump traveled with the then USAID administrator Mark Green to Africa. in April 2019, where they met with women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia and rural cocoa farmers on the Ivory Coast.
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USAID oversaw get this $265 million per year in spending Ivanka Trump's Women's Business Initiative and an associated anti-poverty program. Just so you see it one more time, and don't worry, I'm going to connect the dots with Kanye, his posts, and all of the, I think, kind of Ivanka humiliation that Donald Trump is initiating.
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But here is Ivanka promoting the work of USAID to uplift women around the world. Here, play this clip.
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So it's interesting that that's the main first agency that they're going after. And they seem to be going after a lot of the types of programs that she was involved in or was related to. All right.
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And that's what Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been attacking over and over again. The irony, if you want to call it that, is Donald Trump and Elon Musk and MAGA spread all of these lies saying that Ben Stiller and all of these entertainers got millions of dollars visiting Ukraine and for doing all of these things, which is quite literally Russian propaganda disinformation.
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So then Kanye goes back on Twitter, now X. Remember when the MAGA Republican Judiciary GOP account, like the official judiciary account for all of the GOP in the House of Representatives, they went Kanye, Elon, Trump, right? Like Kanye was like the hero. of the GOP.
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So he goes back on X, he's been off for a little bit or back on Twitter, whatever you call it, and says, George Farmer, I did not F your wife, rest easy. Jared Kushner on the other hand. So the timing of all of this is, you know, I just think very interesting.
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You may have seen the report I did yesterday where Elon Musk seemed to be bringing up Jeffrey Epstein a lot, showed a video of Donald Trump's attorney general. saying that, well, Trump's connection with Epstein was not as much as Clinton's, which, by the way, I think is personally false. But you had Elon bringing that up. Also, Elon amplifying posts about how the Epstein file should be released.
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And Dick Durbin, Democratic senator, was calling for them to be released. By the way, I thought Trump was going to release them. Didn't he say that was one of his campaign promises? All Donald Trump's campaign promises are total lies. Prices are not getting lower. Housing is not more affordable. Inflation is not going down.
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The jobs report recently was weaker than expected in Trump's first month in office. And there has not been peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. America's weaker. The world is less stable. But now let's take a look at some of these things, though, because we've been digging back up some of these posts from 2018, 2019. Remember when MAGA Republican influencer Benny Johnson posted this?
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Get you someone who looks at you the way Ivanka looks at Kanye. Well, hmm. How about this post? Did Jared Kushner already know? Take a look at some of these posts with Kanye hanging out with Ivanka. How about this headline from Bustle in April of 2018? These theories about why Ivanka keeps following and unfollowing Kanye are absolutely wild. Or how about this?
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The hug between Ivanka and Kanye West in the Oval Office. How about this? Trump, Kanye West, and Ivanka at Trump Tower in 2016. Let me just play for you now that little bit longer clip, about 23 seconds of that Tucker Carlson and Kanye interview. Here, play this clip.
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There is zero truth to it. It is quite literally all lies. When Ivanka was working in the first Trump administration, or I wouldn't say working, whatever the heck she was doing, initiatives related to her got paid about $250 to $300 million. She was pushing a USAID Women's Empowerment Initiative.
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You know, while I'm at it, I think I should share with you as well. Just so you can see, I'm going on a slight tangent here, but I think it's important. This is Marco Rubio over the years. CNN did a good job compiling these clips of Marco Rubio. So Marco Rubio right now, who's also attacking USAID, which again, Ivanka actually had a major part in. Marco Rubio used to love USAID.
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Republicans loved USAID. It's like a major... thing that when the Republicans were like Republicans, they liked it. It was fairly bipartisan giving aid abroad. It was a major part of America's soft power. But look at all the things that Marco Rubio said about USAID before he put on the knee pads and kissed the ring of Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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It's just not true. While we're talking about, you know, this, the Kanye, Ivanka, and Kanye saying all that about Ivanka, the attacks on USAID, I mean, just think about the closeness of Kanye to Donald Trump. I mean, Been to Mar-a-Lago, Oval Office, was like a major part of kind of Donald Trump's like campaign, his events, just in general, a big supporter of him.
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And by the way, this is what Kanye was posting. There are other ones where he's like promoting Hitler and a bunch of people today. I don't want to show you those. They're so disgusting. But a ton of posts from Kanye were like, Elon stole my Nazi swag at the inauguration. Yo, my guy. Get your own third rail. There's other more direct ones of him saying positive things about Adolf Hitler.
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The whole thing is so absolutely gross and disgusting. And speaking of gross and disgusting, you've got Donald Trump making weird posts like this with Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk wearing massive MAGA hats. The whole thing is... This is just utterly humiliating to the United States of America, I guess, and to Ivanka. Here's just the fact check I want to give you.
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No, Chelsea Clinton, Ben Stiller, Politico did not get millions from USAID. These are all doge hoaxes that are being spread and seeking to destroy the agencies, but also going down on Trump's enemy list. as ways to attack people, as ways to attack Zelensky by just spreading it. And people like Ben Stiller to spread this like zero truth to it. False. They paid all out of their pocket.
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where they would launch these initiatives in Africa and across the world, and it was a major part of her priorities. Now, it should also be noted that she and Jared Kushner made about $650 million personally, and that doesn't include the $2 billion that Jared Kushner got for his own fund by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund,
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But again, $300 million was spent on like Melania and Ivanka initiatives. So I wanted to do the fact check here. But I also wanted to show you that this was like one of Ivanka's proudest things in the first administration was talking about U.S. aid. And now they're attacking it this way and depriving people who rely on it, who literally are going to die if the aid is cut off. Cruelty is the point.
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And it is worth noting that a federal judge at least temporarily halted the terminations of 2,000 or so employees or putting them on leave at least through next week. We'll keep you posted on the outcome of that court case. But Put these connections together, okay? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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After he left office, remember, during January 6, Kushner was negotiating his own personal deals in the Middle East at that time. But this was a major part of what Ivanka was doing. And now Donald Trump, Elon Musk are basically calling the main initiative that Ivanka was part of. a total fraud.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
To the people in the country of Georgia rising up against the Putin-backed regime called the Dream Party in Georgia, I want all the people to know who are there in the streets of Tbilisi, we support you here in the United States of America. We hear you. And we're going to be sharing your stories here. And what we're seeing in Tbilisi is the nightmare of fascists.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
The people endure as the Putin-backed Dream Coalition regime there continues. continues to try to turn Georgia into a complete Putin autocracy. And just to refresh your recollection, if you haven't seen the past videos that I've been doing on the country of Georgia, what's been going on there is that since 2012, the governing party is a group called the Dream Party.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
They align, very dystopian name, I know. They align themselves with Vladimir Putin. They want to move the country forward. closer to Putin. The people overwhelmingly, it seems, want to move the country to the European Union in the Georgia Constitution itself since Georgia became free. It says in the Constitution that they will become part of the European Union and to take steps to do that.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
So what happened was in the past month or so, there was an election that was held in Georgia that most observers believe was completely riddled by fraud and kind of the Putin types of tactics to suppress people's votes and to manipulate the vote count. Most honest observers say it was not a free and fair election.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
Then also the governing party in Georgia, the Putin-backed party, said they will not be moving the country in the direction of Europe. Then these massive protests from the people of Georgia started. Now we're on day after day of these protests. And now the regime backed police forces, we see them in the street trying to intimidate people. rounding up the leaders of youth movements.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
Just take a look at this. Yet another arrest today. Youth movement Dapiani founder and the leader Zeviad Tachkaladze was also detained. Searches and arrests also of opposition offices and leaders today. The regime is repressing with lightning speed sanctions right now.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
Just in, another co-founder of one of these groups, Detav, a Facebook self-organized group, Nancy Wolland, is also having her home searched from this morning on activists, political parties, two Coalition for Change offices, Alai Gershidra and UNM Youth, are being raided. What we're hearing is going on there as well is that the regime-backed police is planting Molotov cocktails
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
in the opposition headquarters, then saying that they found him to arrest people and lock them up without their rights. Just in, the police is searching the home of Ilya Gonti, one of the founders of this self-organized Facebook community and activist. As Marika says, from what I hear, he will be charged with organizing group violence, but she will be providing more updates.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
It's the nightmare of authoritarians and wannabe authoritarians. And Donald Trump better realize that If his cabinet picks and his agenda that he wants to be rolling out is going to be taking away the rights of we the people, destroying our democracy, doing mass deportations, let me be very clear, the streets of Washington DC will look like the streets of Tbilisi.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
Just in yet another search today, they came after activist Saba Jandiz. Previously, they broke into the home of his wife's mother, pretending to be gas inspectors. Wife Anna confidently reports her mother has a heart attack. Her children were present. We're also seeing in Georgia, though, defections from people associated with the Dream Party. Here's a major story. Police defection right here.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
A senior instructor of vocational training from the Ministry of Internal Affairs has resigned, citing inner convictions. He stepped down in protest. Marika also reports out of the 320 who have been detained, 256 have been brutally beaten to date right now. after an absolutely horrifying day of arrest, searches, and intimidation.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
There are even more people, though, who are now out tonight than before, as if the capacity of protesting, mobilization to population ratio could even be higher. And again, folks, this is why I say this is Donald Trump's worst nightmare right here. to see that the people power is ultimately what will prevail.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
And again, as this account says, but this is not a reaction to the unfolding developments. This was the plan articulated before the election campaign to go after the enemy from within. Does that sound familiar to you?
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
And now one of the things that we're seeing as well being developed there, and again, I think this needs to be developed a little further, are some apps that actually track some police dislocation and ambulances live on this website to show where the police locations are. So as all of that's going on and the people are saying, whoa, what is going on in Georgia?
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
You're taking us to a Putin style oligarchy. We the people will not stand for it. Well, now Donald Trump has chosen yet another billionaire to join his administration. He has nine billionaires on his cabinet or close cabinet.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
uh in his administration eight billionaires for top positions he's now chosen a ninth billionaire to serve as deputy defense secretary and this one enjoys lucrative contracts with the pentagon so the person who does deals with the pentagon now gets to do deals with themselves i guess that's That's what you thought you were, but no tax on tips, right? Come on.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
And let me also be very clear that the tactics and things that we are seeing being used by the brave and courageous people of Tbilisi who want to move their country
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
Okay, I want to show you this clip right here though, because this shows you, and this will look very similar to the MAGA brainwashing. So this right here is a group of Russian, and by the way, on X and Twitter, they've removed this video multiple times. So here's a group of Russian pensioners listen to a lecture about the difference between Putin and Trump.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
but they ultimately say Trump is a clown, a little younger than the last one. But notice their language that they use, how Trump's gonna go after the trans, Trump's gonna go after... Just take a look at this, because you'll see a group of people here
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
In Russia, they're in a decrepit house, they're wearing coats inside, they're listening to a lecture on the decadent West, while they quite literally are in a tiny room with no heating, with no heat. Just watch this, though, because this sounds so similar to the type of rhetoric used by MAGA politicians. Play this clip.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
closer the people of georgia who want to move their country closer to the european union their voices are a guiding post right now to us all here is marika marshall lee and here's what she says they threw tear gas in endless crowds and as the people rushed to the side streets to breathe the police ran up from those streets and began beating them and detaining them
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
When we talk about the laboratories of autocracy that the MAGAs want to create, and you wonder how can people accept, like in Oklahoma, for example, right? They're like the worst in education, income, quality of life, like every category, they're like the worst, but they vote red all of the time when compared to all of the states. And then you compare that to a state like Massachusetts,
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
which is, you know, top in education, top in wealth, top in health, the exact opposite of Oklahoma. They vote totally blue. So the question is, and I've addressed this in a lot of the posts that I've done on MidasPlus.com, how is it that these authoritarian regimes get people like in that room you saw in Russia, to like accept that, accept that that's their life.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
And that's what they want to create here now in the United States, because they figure that people will just blame the trans and gay people and all of these other things. Which brings me to this point that the word of the year from Oxford is brain rot.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
brain rot is defined as these supposed deteriorations of a person's mental or intellectual state especially viewed as the result of over consumption of material now particularly online content considered to be trivial or unchallenging also something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration they're fed this over and over and over again and told to blame this blame this person blame that person for your condition but it's the person who's
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
in that room with them who's doing it to them it's the it's trump who's doing it to you it's the billionaires who he's now appointing in his cabinet who are doing it to you so let me be very clear and tie this all together as we watch what's happening in georgia and you see the people fed up with that we must be inspired by that we need to make sure we acknowledge the heroism of what's taking place by the pro-democracy people who are standing up against repression in georgia
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
But we should also draw inspiration internationally that we, the people, will not want to be subjugated by Putin and Putin-style puppets like Trump and others. It's just my view, just my opinion. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Trump NIGHTMARE SCENARIO grows in Georgia…BAD OMEN!!
Those people suffer torture in detention cars, heavy beating, pepper spray nowhere, rape threats. Previously, the police tactic was to crack down later into the night with fewer people. Now it seems like they simply want to catch and torture as many people as they can. Hashtag Georgia protests. But the pro-democracy protests in Tbilisi, Georgia continue.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
Now, let me give a shout out to a bunch of the other protests taking place, like the protest in Fort Lauderdale. Let's talk about the protest taking place in Germany. Let's talk about the protests in London.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
We could talk about the protests in Portland, Maine, the protest in Cincinnati, in Buffalo, in Winchester, Virginia, in Columbus, Ohio, in Asheville, North Carolina, in Duluth, Minnesota, in Pennsylvania, in Brussels, Belgium. I could go... There are protests. Obviously, I'm going to be missing cities and countries and locations and towns.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
But I want to highlight all the people who have been tagging me on those. And we'll be doing more coverage, of course, in the morning on these protests. But shout out to everyone everywhere protesting the Trump regime. So what's Donald Trump posting while he's golfing right now? The following.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
Big business is not worried about tariffs because they know they are here to stay, but they are focused on the big, beautiful deal, which will supercharge our economy. Very important going on right now. Then Donald Trump posted this this morning. China has been hit much harder than the USA, not even close. They and many other nations have treated us unsustainably badly.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
We have been the dumb and helpless whipping post. but not any longer. We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already more than $5 trillion of investment and rising fast. This is an economic revolution and we will win. Hang tough. It won't be easy, but the end result will be historic.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
now we're seeing millions of people in the aggregate in the united states and across the world protesting the trump regime that is what trump is waking up to today as he is once again golfing in florida as americans are out there on the streets protesting donald trump Bunker Boy is golfing away. This was the front page of the Wall Street Journal this morning. Market carnage worsens.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
We will, then he puts this all in caps, make America great again, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. Literally a demented individual, right? Demented Donald there golfing, saying it ain't gonna be easy. Hang tough, everybody. Well, I inflicted me and Elon Musk inflict pain and suffering, but business is going to love this.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
By the way, as the MAGA Republicans in the Senate were working overtime to bring $5 trillion in tax cuts,
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
to billionaires as donald trump is tanking our markets hey donald you promised that on day one you are going to bring prices down there are going to be so many jobs you're not going to know what to do with them you also promised that there would be peace in ukraine in 24 hours that housing would be affordable right away also no tax on tips no tax on social security no tax on overtime you promised all of those things right away and all you're doing is crashing the economy and making the world far less stable and destroying america's alliances abroad
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
By the way, Donald Trump sent the following email to his supporters. I subscribe to this email list so you don't have to. Do you want a Doge check? Tell me here. Would you take a check, Ben? I'll even sign it. I'm proposing something completely unprecedented. 5,000 Doge dividend checks. Tell me you want one. It's your money anyway. I'm just giving it back to you.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
It's why I call this presidency the rug pull or Ponzi scheme presidency. just pull the rug over you. And like a Ponzi scheme, they just do it again and again and again. Now that they know that they're tanking people's pensions, life savings, and 401ks, I'm going to give you a $5,000 check. You want me to give you some money? Will you beg for it, Ben? Please beg for it.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
And maybe I'll give you a $5,000 doge check that I'm never going to give you. And then I'm going to come up with my next Ponzi scheme as I pick pocket you and give the money to the billionaires. Yeah, we know what you're doing. That's why there are millions of people protesting in the United States of America and throughout the world. By the way, why?
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
Now that the Midas Touch Network is the biggest and has the most views of any news network in the world, that's why we're covering these protests as well. Live all day here on the Midas Touch Network exactly as the people wanted, even though corporate news is not covering it the way they should. Okay, let's take a look at this also, this article from the Wall Street Journal today.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
Americans were souring on Trump's economic plans even before Trump's tariff bloodbath. A majority of voters opposed Trump's levies on important goods and disapproved of how he is handling inflation and prices. The polls suggest that the president who promised that tariffs are about making America rich again is facing unease. That's an understatement right there.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
What are the Trump influencers like Benny Johnson saying? Well, they're saying this. Losing money means nothing. Digital ones and zeros. In the end, you won't miss any of it. Seriously, that's the message from the Trump influencers. Digital ones and zeros, as Tom Nichols says, spoken like someone with money who won't retire for another 40 years anyway.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
No one hates the working class now like the Mag Worlds. Carl Quintanilla post the coming weeks. are going to be a big rolling crash of platitudes or we can say trump propaganda and lies versus reality we're seeing multiple companies that were preparing ipos now no longer preparing ipos we're seeing companies pausing their exports into the united states we're seeing
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
Factories shut down, as Carl Quintanilla reports as well, via Apollo's slide deck this AM. It's not just about the tariffs. The risks that we're seeing, the harm to the economy also includes consumer confidence, the lowest ever. Corporate confidence, almost the lowest ever. Negative impact of tariffs, earnings on our GDP as well.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
negative impact of retaliation, including less tourism into the United States. For example, the Canada boycott of all US tourism is now 75 to 85%. Canadians are not coming to the US. By the way, in addition to Donald Trump threatening to annex and invade it, Also, if you show up at the United States, you might end up in an ICE detention center or a concentration camp in El Salvador.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
And then once you're sent there, the Trump regime will tell federal courts in the United States like they did last week with Abrego Garcia. Oopsies, oopsies, nothing we can do. Go tell Nayib Bukele. Maybe he can help out. That's literally what the Trump regime's response is. After writing oopsies, we sent wrong people to concentration camps in El Salvador.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
elbows up canada elbows up world hands off donald of our country also don't forget the doge layoffs of federal workers how that's going to cause significant harm and make us less safe here and abroad negative impact of a six trillion dollar decline in the s p let me bring you to the protest in washington dc that we're covering here on the midas touch network over a hundred thousand people protesting in dc democratic congress member jamie raskin speaking at the protest let's take a look
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
You see a straight line basically down. That's the markets crashing right there. And then this photo. On the Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdoch, is a photo of Donald Trump golfing or heading to golf. Trump heads to golf amid tariff turmoil. That is what Murdoch even thinks about Trump right now as well.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
By the way, remember when we flagged for everybody as well two months ago the following, hedge funds are betting big that the stock market is going to suffer a devastating crash due to Donald Trump. Data from Goldman Sachs is sending shockwaves through financial circles revealing a dramatic surge in short positions against the US stock market.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
First reported in Daily Mail, we flagged that for everybody saying, Look at what they're saying. Also, remember, during the election, we flagged what Donald Trump and Elon Musk were saying privately. We were doing exposés on it while corporate media was saying everyone's going to get so rich under Donald Trump.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
Remember, we said privately in Mar-a-Lago, we hear they're saying that they want to inflict economic hardship. Remember, and they were also saying it publicly, too, on some clips. Yeah, hardship is necessary. Hardship is needed. But look, this was from The Economist before the handover of former President Biden to Donald Trump.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
That was one of the thousands of protests in the United States and across the world right now. Hands off protests against the Trump regime that was in Concord, New Hampshire.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
We were the envy of the world, America's economy, the envy of the world at that time. But, you know, who would have ever thought that someone like Donald Trump, who's bankrupted literally everything, not literally, most things in his entire life,
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
casino stakes, whatever, university, you know, someone who's been found civilly liable for fraud and making up financial valuations, someone who's a convicted felon for business records fraud, someone who is a sexual predator found liable for sexual assault. I don't know, someone who led an insurrection against the country, you know,
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
Who could have expected that someone like this hates our country and would try to inflict this pain on our country? But hey, Donald, while you're golfing, we the people are rising up. The place to watch it is here on the Midas Touch Network, the network for the resistance and opposition to your authoritarian regime. And until you take this very microphone from my hand.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
We will be making sure we do everything to oppose, resist, and stop what your authoritarian regime is doing. The people are rising up, Donald. Enjoy your golf game.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
Let me just take you here to Boston, where there's over 100,000 protesters in the hands-off protest there, courtesy of Rob Way. Here's about 100,000 protesters in Boston. Let's take a look at what's going down there. Let's play the clip.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
We are hearing a lot of stories like this and credit to More Perfect Union for capturing this one of these Trump voters who are either deeply regretting the vote that they made now that they're seeing their union rights absolutely gutted or. I'm just feeling very concerned and alarmed right now and really don't know what to do, feeling betrayed and confused. I just want to share this with you.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
a tragic story and it's a story that's being repeated millions of americans union members are are feeling that workers across the country are feeling that watch the full video by the way by more perfect union they did a really great job there let's bring in liz schuler president of afl cio i'm sure you're hearing These stories a lot as well.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
The AFL-CIO has 15 million members, 63 different unions. You're standing up and defending all these federal workers and litigation just generally. Liz, what are you hearing out there right now?
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
Yeah, you know, that's part of it too. I mean, the unjustified terminations. But then one of the things that I talk about a lot, it's like defamation too, because the people are being told that it's for performance reasons when it's not, and they're being lied to, and it takes the person's, rips the people's soul, right? I mean, it's soul crushing.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
Go watch the full video and more perfect union release, because I think they highlight this issue about the Trump regime tearing up the union contract covering forty seven thousand TSA workers. But that's a story that the Trump regime has repeated writ large across federal unions generally. invoking national defense and other warlike powers to union bust, gut unions. Here, listen to this story.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
Let's take a look at the approach by the AFL-CIO. There has been a lot of lawsuits captioned AFL-CIO versus the various departments and administrations. You didn't hesitate. to defend the union members, the various unions right away. Can you talk a little bit through the litigations at a high level that are taking place and the strategy to aggressively litigate? You weren't afraid.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
You didn't say, oh, well, then they may retaliate. You're like, they're already going after. And there was no hesitation with the AFL-CIO. That's what I appreciated right away from the jump. Talk to us about that.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
Yeah, I mean, those are all big cases with massive implications. And we could probably spend an hour if we wanted covering each. Although the good news is, is we have a show, Legal AF, where we do cover all of those lawsuits that you brought. But I want to just even talk about this. Like these are the types of headlines we see on a daily basis. Like on Friday, RFK Jr.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
says 20% of Doge's health agency job cuts were, quote, mistakes. around a fifth of the 10,000 jobs cut from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were done in error and need to be corrected. I mean, you're talking about 10,000 people losing their jobs and they're saying now these are human beings who have given their life
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
It's an interesting one. And then we're going to bring in a special guest.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
to work jobs who just want fair pay and to be treated with dignity. And then it's like, like, oopsies, oopsies. Have you ever say you've been leading this union and you've been in the labor movement for a while? Have you ever seen anything like this?
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
So the strategy is litigation. Strategy is rallying people publicly. The strategy is building coalitions with other unions. The strategy also that I'm seeing AFL-CIO promote, protests, peaceful protests out and about. I saw the post. We're covering this here all weekend, the April 5th hands-off. I saw a repost from AFL-CIO about that event right there.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
Can you talk to us about that, mobilizing people to peacefully protest? And is that going to be part of a bigger strategy that you think may need to ramp up?
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
When those stories get uploaded, they have a distribution hub here on the Midas Touch Network to our 5 million subscribers. You're always welcome here, Liz Shuler on the Midas. We're so grateful for the work you're doing and the work the AFL-CIO does every single day. Thank you so much.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Fighting Back Against Trump's Attacks On Workers
We appreciate you. We appreciate all the workers out there. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
Let's talk to two Democratic senators who are aggressively pushing back against Trump and Musk and Doge. Let's welcome Democratic Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, Democratic Senator from Virginia, Tim Kaine. Senators, welcome both of your first times on the show, but let's get right into it right away. Senator Murphy, your response to
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
Senator Murphy, Senator Kaine, thank you both for joining us. We'll be watching the taxorama and I think our audience now knows what it is that's going on. We hope you please come back and thanks for everything you're doing.
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
Well, you know, the authoritarian playbook is usually they don't care about the pain and suffering of the people. So, Senator Kaine, do you think this is a toolbook or part of the toolkit of the authoritarian playbook as Senator Murphy suggests?
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
All of the markets crashing right now, what Donald Trump's done with all of these tariffs against the world. He called it Liberation Day. We call it here Recession Day, Annihilation Day.
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
No, our viewers really wanted to hear from both of you and they've been asking for a while because you're both out there fighting aggressively and I think meeting the moment and people want to see that. So let's first start with Senator Murphy about your approach because you've been very public. You've been using a lot of, you know, digital means more than you had, you know, even before.
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
Where are you finding success? What's your recommendation to others in the party? And I'll just make it a multi-part question. What are you hearing from people right now as you go out there?
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
As I always say here on the show, ABC, always be campaigning, if not for an office, just for the hearts and minds of the people and letting them know and looking them in the eye and saying, I care about you. I'm fighting for you. I hear you. I think people want to hear you. that you hear what they're going through in this very difficult moment.
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
So, Senator Kaine, what are you seeing out there as you're speaking to people? What are you hearing? And then we're going to get a little wonky. We're going to talk Voterama. We're going to talk about why that's important and people need to pay attention. What are you hearing?
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
You know, I think sometimes the American people get lost in all of the parliamentary procedures that are taking place. They get confused.
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
Like we heard that the House of Representatives passed an outline of a budget that was going to cut for that was going to give four point five trillion in tax cuts to the billionaires, cut eight hundred and eighty billion in Medicaid, four hundred billion in cuts to like agriculture and education and all of these horrible things. Then that kind of. like disappears from the news cycle.
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
Trump, of course, crashes the economy. It's sitting in the Senate, the budget, the tax plan, voterama. People are hearing all these different words. And frankly, people are, I'm, I'm confused. I'm not sure what's going on. So I know there's a taxorama, which is Democrats go in, they introduce amendments to try to mitigate some of the bad effects of the Trump tax plan and budget. But like what,
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
What are you both doing in the Senate now? Can you break it down in plain terms that our audience can kind of understand? And why are you doing it? And what's the impact? And what do you want people to take away? So let's start with Senator Murphy. Then let's go to Senator Kaine. What's going on here?
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
So a way to think about it is the house passed its framework. Now the Senate tries to find one that kind of matches what this voter ram is about is really you all are kind of chipping away at it and showing the American people through an amendment process. Here's what they're doing. Here's why it's bad. You're calling them out on certain areas.
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
You're putting them on the spot and make them vote on issues to actually expose and smoke out how dangerous a lot of these plans are. where they may be trying to move in silence. Is that a decent description of it, Senator Murphy?
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Democratic Senators Murphy and Kaine Respond to Trump Crash
I know you both have a very busy day ahead of you. I'll get your closing messages just in general to the American people and from Senator Kaine. Also, you know, we're the number one podcast in Canada. So in addition to America, so they saw the what you did yesterday to try to block the tariffs against Canada. They were very happy, you know, to see people fighting for them.
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And, you know, we fight for them, too. We go, we're friends. What's going on here? So what's your message? People are worried right now. Senator, what do you say to the people right now?
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
Hands off. You know, it's interesting for all of our Canadian viewers. You know, the expression is elbows up in Canada. And here, as there's this hostile takeover of our federal government, it's hands off. It's hands off of what you're doing to Social Security and Medicaid, to federal government. Hands off of women's reproductive rights. Hands off of treating workers like crap.
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
And again, we are going to cover it here at the Midas Touch Network. I want to bring in Rana Epting, the MoveOn Executive Director. Now, Rana, your organization is one of many organizations that are going to be leading these peaceful protests today. I want to give all of our viewers all the information they need to know about this.
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
So can you tell us about today's protests and where they're happening, what this is about, and what they need to know?
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
You know, I think about these images we've been seeing internationally to Putin backed regimes, whether it's, uh, the Victor Orban regime in Hungary. And we've seen, you know, in Budapest, you know, started out tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and then literally millions of people in the street. We've seen that in Belgrade with the Putin backed regime there. We've seen it in Tbilisi, uh,
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in Georgia, country of Georgia. People there getting close to 200 days of protests against the Putin-backed regime there. I think authoritarian regimes want to quash all oppositions. Trump and Musk were talking about a shock and awe plan where they wanted to capture the media, where they wanted to capture all levels of government. You think about synchronization, which was what was talked about
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
You know, when Germany was taken over in the 40s, Trump wanted to take over everything kind of right away. But it seems now the resistance grows each and every day. And it seems he's golfing right now. As he crashed the economy, he's doing Saudi-backed live golf tournaments. And so it seems that it's growing. I mean, do you expect... This hands off to be the start of kind of many more.
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
I said I think we're going to see a summer of democracy with protests in the millions. But to me, this one today really kind of kicks off with all the energy we've seen and we sprint to that democracy summer. What are you seeing?
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
I'll show you a quick clip of it. The protest spirit has been growing week by week. And today, I'm sure you've all heard of it. It's the hands-off protest. It will be in Washington, D.C., but it will be in all 50 states as well. And so as you wake up and you're watching this, there may be a hands-off protest taking place right now near you.
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
So if someone's watching this right now this morning and they say, I really want to go, I want to get out there, I want to do something, what do they do? Where do they look up to find out if there is a hands-off protest near them?
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
You know, it's incredible that this is a grassroots movement, people starting their own chapters, letting other people know where to go. And I think this is only going to get bigger. So we'll be there throughout the day.
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
You know, we'll, you know, have people embedded with you, try to get us the content and we'll make sure we use our distribution hub here to show this country and the world what's really going on. I know a lot of people saying,
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wish corporate news covered this more we wish other people focus more on this because this is big and they feel that it's not being covered enough well the good news is is that this is a people power network that you all helped build and we're going to make sure we cover it here so rana epting thank you for the work in helping organize this thank you to all the other groups out there the labor unions and all the other non-profits and all the other grassroots groups and everybody out there who is
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on the ground. Y'all are the real heroes today. And thank you for everything. And thanks for joining us and letting us know what's going down.
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Everybody now hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million. Keep checking throughout the day on updates about the protests.
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So we've seen protests like that outside of MAGA Republican-led town halls. We've seen the protests growing across the country, each week getting bigger. We've seen protests outside of Tesla, for example, as Elon Musk, Doge, and Trump take a wrecking ball to our economy, to Social Security, to Medicaid, to our federal government. Just take a look at this one. This is the Tesla protest in Boston.
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Trump in Terror as Protests Erupt Today
I want to give you all the information we're going to be covering today. This today, and of course, you all know, I mean, the news on Friday and Thursday, of course, this is the headline from Drudge. Don crashing the markets. The Dow was down 2,231 points. Donald Trump was then making posts, bragging about crashing the market. And Americans have had enough. Americans are saying nothing.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
And they're using culture wedge issues as the wedge, as the tool to do that. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 4 million subscribers.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
This is actually harming us. So let's break it down. Let's talk about who Tommy Robinson is. Let's talk about what Elon Musk is doing. So among the 60 posts that Musk has made are posts like this. Free Tommy Robinson. Free Tommy. Why is Tommy Robinson a solitary confinement prison for telling the truth? He should be freed and those who covered up the travesty should take his place in that cell.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
And then he releases Robinson's hateful and false documentary. And I'm going to go over who Robinson is just so you understand what a
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awful human being this is that even the far right wing in uk want to distance themselves from this guy who's been found in contempt of court elon musk shares it and says worth watching right so it's obvious in my opinion that elon musk's whole purpose i don't think this is even controversial of purchasing twitter and making it x was because he wants to meddle in all of the far right wing
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politics and push them to create this instability across the globe here in the United States MAGA. In Canada, the Conservative Party there, Pierre Polivier. In Germany, I mean, this is a much far right wing in Germany, the AFD, you see him giving statements in support of the AFD there. In the UK, the Reform Party. This is happening across the globe.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
Elon Musk, a big supporter in Argentina, Javier Millet. And we see this kind of unity of far right-wing movements taking place. So this was the post that he made in Germany. Only AFD can save Germany. In UK, he's doing the same thing. Only the Reform Party, he says, can save the UK. So this is what he said about a minister in the UK. Jess Phillips is a rape genocide apologist.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
And he's responding to this account, Lord Talbot, that says, meet Jess Phillips. She is the safeguarding minister. She has refused an inquiry into Muslim grooming gangs. Can someone tell her she's supposed to be safeguarding children, not the gangs? And this account goes, Elon Musk is out of control. and a danger to British society.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
How long before some deranged lunatic acts on this kind of incitement? Keir Starmer must take a stand against him. This is from Bloomberg, how UK right-wing warns Trump ally, warns Musk and others that your posts are going too far. and it's harming us. And for example, Nigel Farage is out there saying, all right, dude, I think you have a misunderstanding. He's saying it in a British way.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
I think you have a misunderstanding about who Tommy Robinson is. So here's what the article on Bloomberg says. Several prominent Brexit-supporting politicians with links to Trump spent this past week warning their Republican counterparts against following Musk's endorsement of Robinson.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
Even the far right-wing politicians in the UK are contacting Elon Musk, who's Donald Trump's liaison, and saying... All the things that you're doing right now, all of your social media posts, you saying things like free Tommy Robinson, who is a far right-wing extremist, hateful person, who even the right-wing reform party in the UK distances themselves from. They're saying, Elon, Donald, stop.
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saying it was a step too far, according to people familiar with views of both the conservative and reform UK parties, who requested anonymity discussing behind-the-scenes communication. They declined to publicly name the British politicians involved.
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Musk, who is set to play a key role in the Trump administration, began 2025 with a volley of posts on his social media platform, X, stating that Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, should be freed from jail where he is serving a sentence after pleading guilty to contempt of court last year.
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The purpose of the conversation was to provide additional information to senior Republicans about why Robinson, an anti-immigration activist, I hate when they call people like that, activists, just call them an anti-immigration fear monger, who has a string of criminal convictions, was not supported by more mainstream British right-wingers, including the Tories and reform UK leader, Nigel Farage.
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The people said the conservatives and reforms declined to comment. Farage, a personal friend of Trump, whose own political career has been built on an anti-immigration stance, has sought to portray himself as the acceptable face of the British right. repeatedly distancing himself from Robinson.
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In 2018, he quit his former party, the UKIP, saying it had an obsession with supporting Robinson, who he condemned as entirely unsuitable for party politics. Robinson is currently in prison after admitting breaching a court order by repeating false claims about a Syrian refugee.
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He has previously been convicted of a range of other offenses, from mortgage fraud to assault and traveling to the US on another person's passport. Farage, who Musk has also repeatedly endorsed, would not benefit from being linked to Robinson, the British politicians told their US counterparts.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
According to people familiar, the reform leader in July finally secured a seat in the UK House of Commons at the eighth attempt and has promised to mount a credible challenge at the next vote due by mid-2029 in order to break up the historical stranglehold that Labour and the Conservatives hold on the UK parties of power.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
The outreach by British politicians to their US counterparts was triggered by the latest foray by Musk into British politics. Since Prime Minister Keir Starmer won the UK general election last July, the close Trump advisor has regularly criticized the new labor government, called for a new election, and urged Britons to back to reform.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
This week, Musk sent a string of posts about a child sex abuse scandal in British towns, in which many of those convicted were of Pakistani origins, including stating that a labor minister, who I mentioned earlier in this video, should be jailed over the government's handling of the issue. you see that he said much more than that.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
However, the talks between the British right-wingers and the Republican contacts shows Musk's posting is not just becoming a headache for Starmer, it's harming the right-wing people who Elon and I guess Trump are trying to prop up. From The Independent in the UK, they write, "'Kier Starmer must hold his nerve.'" It won't be long until Musk slips.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
Donald Trump's first buddy, Musk, has reignited his on-off feud with the UK government, accusing the prime minister of having failed to tackle a historical grooming case, demanding that Jess Phillips be jailed and a new general election be called. Fortunately, says John Rattal, most British people will resent this unwanted engagement.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
interference and so this is an important thing to point out as well reform party uk exposed post this elon musk has now registered a company in the uk called x ai london ltd they ask is this the newly registered company that musk is going to use to send money to reform uk through so let's show you this video right here this is of reform party member nigel farage
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
uh, saying that, I just don't think you understand who Tommy Robinson really is. Here, play this clip of Farage.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
You're actually hurting us. We know you're trying to prop us up, but by doing this, It is backfiring. So let's talk about what's been happening here. So Elon Musk has been sending a barrage of social media posts trying to meddle with UK politics. And many believe he's about to give a massive amounts of money to the right wing UK reform party.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
Here's a clip of Richard Tice, whose reform party may be about to be funded by Musk, condemning interference in British politics by foreign billionaires. Play this clip.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
Here's Tim Montgomery, who has defected to the Reform UK from the Tories, the Conservative Party. says he thinks Elon Musk is going to donate $20 million to the party. Now, he said that back on December 18th or so, 2024, and that kind of predates Elon Musk giving some of the posts that I just shared with you that Musk has made in the new year. Here, let me show you this.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
Tommy Robinson is in jail for contempt of court because he repeated false claims against Syrian refugees. It's not a debate, it's a lie, and he tried to use it to foment anger and hatred in British society for political gain. And it does appear that Elon Musk is doing the same. This says Stella Creasy as well.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
And when you go into Robinson's background, it is a history of racial hatred and violence against Muslims, against Islam. This is someone who's been convicted of assault dating back to 2005. with respect to his girlfriend. He was sentenced to 12 months then. 2011, convicted of assault for headbutting a man in Blackburn. 2010, convicted of using threatening and abusive behavior.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
In these 60 posts, he attacks the Labour Party prime minister, Keir Starmer. He defends an anti-Islam convicted individual by the name of Tommy Robinson. He accuses a finance minister or a minister in the UK of engaging in aiding and abetting pedophile gangs. I mean, horrific conduct where people in the UK are like, Musk is not a popular figure there. And they're like, stop it.
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2012, use of a false passport. 2012, mortgage fraud. 2017, convicted of contempt of court for filming inside the Canterbury Crown Court and making prejudicial statements during jury deliberations. 2018, jailed for breaching reporting restrictions. Financial woes in June 2022, admitted gambling away 100,000 pounds before declaring bankruptcy.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
In 2018, falsely accused a Syrian refugee boy of having attacked two schoolgirls after the boy was assaulted in a bullying incident. The 15-year-old refugee had been attacked and subjected to racist abuse while Robinson misrepresented these situations online. In 2021, he was found guilty of libeling the refugee in order to pay £100,000 in damages, along with an additional £500,000 in legal costs.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
And then he has the movie called Silence Film. The film continued to push defamatory claims about the refugee. And on January 1, Musk tweeted the full movie, endorsing it with the quote, worth watching. In July 2024, Robinson was arrested at the Channel Tunnel under the Terrorism Act of 2000, following his Unite the Kingdom protest in Trafalgar Square.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
He was later released on bail, but faced contempt of court charges for screening silence, despite the high court order, and then found in contempt. And supporting Robinson only fuels the cycle of hate division, undermining justice and accountability. So we see that's going on right there. But again, we need to think about pro-democracy in global terms.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
That's what we're trying to do here at the Midas Touch Network. Because the threat... of authoritarianism, of far right wing extremism. It's global in nature. We're seeing that across the world. That's why we want to provide that education here on the Midas Touch Network about what's going on. It's why I'm covering what's happening in Canada, what's happening in Germany.
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UK Right-Wing Sends URGENT WARNING for Trump to STOP IT
What's happening in the UK? What's happening in Austria? What's happening in the Netherlands? What's happening in Australia? I can go on and on. We're making that an important focus of our coverage here so we understand the links. This is all linked together. And do you see what's going on here? Billionaire oligarchs linking with right-wing authoritarians to entrench the oligarchy.
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Congressman Jim Himes on Trump’s Threats to National Security
Now it just feels like all about me, me, me, me, me, Donald Trump. Not, you know, the guy out there working in the trenches trying to make ends meet, trying to pay your mortgage, trying to pay the bills.
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Congressman Jim Himes on Trump’s Threats to National Security
You know, the secretary of defense. I don't mean to sound rude, but what kind of idiot puts his wife in a group chat that has access to military documents? You know?
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Congressman Jim Himes on Trump’s Threats to National Security
I was hoping he would do something that made sense regarding the economy, made some kind of progress in bettering, you know, the benefits of being a veteran. But, I mean,
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Congressman Jim Himes on Trump’s Threats to National Security
It just seemed like he actually cared about doing what was best for the country, but now it just feels like all about me, me, me, me, me, Donald Trump, not the guy out there working in the trenches trying to make ends meet, trying to pay your mortgage, trying to pay the bills.
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Congressman Jim Himes on Trump’s Threats to National Security
I was bothered by both of them. Because let's be realistic. If that was a military officer, they would have been destroyed. But because that's one of Trump's buddies, it's okay. We're not going to do anything about it.
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Trump Handed Crushing Defeat in AM…It’s Happening
As usual, Donald Trump's been attacking judges on his social media platform and attacking political opponents, calling them communists, leftists, spreading conspiracy theories and lies. But this morning, Donald Trump was handed yet another stunning rebuke from overseas. The election results are in from Australia.
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In Australia, it's the Midas mate. or the Midas Down Under. In Canada, it's Maple Midas. Tell me how you want Midas to be described in your country, wherever you're from as well. But congratulations, Australia, for showing the world how to do it. Canada for showing the world how to do it, standing up to the vile gangster piece of trash that is Donald Trump. Great work. I'm Ben Myselis.
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It's now officially being reported Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been re-elected as his Labor Party surged to victory. projected to form a majority government in Australia. And in a historic first, opposition leader Timu Trump, Peter Dutton, often likened to Trump, hence Timu Trump, lost his own seat in Dixon.
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Let's check in right now with the victory speech from Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese. And in this speech, he makes a powerful call to action for Australians to also feel proud about being Australian and to look to itself for strength and not to imitate, not to copy, not to try to ever be like the MAGA virus that has infected parts of the United States. Here, play this clip.
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The current prime minister, Anthony Albanese, from the Labor Party, which is their liberal party in Australia, is not just going to go on to win the elections in Australia. He has trounced their right wing party, their conservative party. far right leaning party, which is called the Liberal Party in Australia, just to make it a little more confusing.
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Yeah, it's just stunning again, right? Because if you take a look at the polling in Canada, where the Conservative Party was leading in Canada a few months back, and then all of a sudden the Liberal Party in Canada led by Prime Minister Mark Carney shot up, same thing we're seeing in Australia. And this is described simply as the Trump effect.
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Australia, Canada, we're going to see elections elsewhere soon as well. They're seeing what went down in the United States. They're seeing Trump and Musk and the wrecking ball as they've destroyed what used to be the world's strongest economy and. These other countries are saying not now, not ever. We need to protect our democracies here.
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Trump Handed Crushing Defeat in AM…It’s Happening
We're rejecting the Timu Trump, the Timu Maga-styled candidates and politicians here. Bye-bye, Pierre Poliev. but by Peter Dutton, although a footnote to that, and this is what a loser Pierre Poliev is. He basically forced out another conservative member from the conservative members riding in Alberta, which is nowhere near where Pierre Poliev's riding is when Pierre Poliev lost his election.
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So Poliev basically stole the seat of another conservative member because Poliev still wants to be in parliament and the other member forfeited it to him. I mean, Really embarrassing stuff. But that's a MAGA mentality. They just can't accept a loss right there. All right. Bringing things back to domestic affairs here in the United States.
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This morning as well, we're hearing more about a dire situation on the ports. How long have I been talking about the ports here on the Midas Touch Network? We've been talking about freight volumes, right? We've been talking about trucking volumes here. And I think it's very important because you can track...
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how this tariff war trade war disastrous liberation day which is really depression day recession day liquidation day whatever you want to call it how it has harmed trade into the united states remember we've been following the ports of seattle the ports of long beach in los angeles we've been following the ports in boston i want you to hear this morning
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And not only that, the Timu Trump candidate who leads the Liberal Party, again, Liberal in Australia means the Conservative Party. I just want to make that clear. A guy by the name of Peter Dutton lost his seat in Dixon, the same way Pierre Poliev, Timu Trump in Canada, lost his riding in the elections in Canada,
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from the head of the Port of Los Angeles, what he is seeing. Here, play this clip.
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Now, that's just facts. I want to bring you the facts here. And that is very dangerous. I mean, I've been describing it like this. Remember with COVID, Donald Trump said, like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Don't worry. There's seven cases, but the cases are going to disappear. It's never going to hit our shores. And then the lie started. Inject bleach. Then they blame Dr. Fauci.
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He's doing that again with this vaccine. disastrous trade war thing that he's doing right here over and over again. I say, when is there going to be that Tom Hanks moment? Remember Tom Hanks got COVID and everyone was like, oh crap, I guess this thing is real. There's going to be a moment. Is that five days? Is it 10 days?
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When things aren't on the shelf and then Americans are like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm like, yeah, we've been warning you here on the Midas Touch Network. Talking about other domestic affairs, dog killer, Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem was making her rounds on state regime media known as Fox this morning. She was saying that Abrego Garcia's wife.
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is lying that she wants her husband back from the concentration camp in El Salvador. This is how sick. these MAGA vile pieces of trash are. I mean, how else can I describe it? Kristi Noem is saying that Abrego Garcia's wife prefers her husband to be in a concentration camp in El Salvador. He has no criminal history. He's got three kids, three American kids.
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She's an American woman living in Maryland. Abrego Garcia worked for a union. He had a work permit given to him by the Trump administration in 2019. And here, Kristi Noem says that, well, she goes, I think Abrego Garcia's wife is an abuse victim. And I know victims. And as a victim, she says she wants her husband back, but she doesn't want her husband back.
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where the Liberal Party in Canada, which is actually the Liberal Party, went on to form a minority government. Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Liberal Party leader, went on to win there.
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She's better off with him in the concentration camp. You think she didn't say that? Here's what you're like. I'm sure Kristi Noem says that. I mean, these are vile people. Here's what Kristi Noem said. Let's play the clip.
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Now, I want to show you this as well, because you remember, was it last week where Donald Trump was lying and saying that Warren Buffett, this is what Trump posted. Remember, Trump wrote Warren Buffett supports. or help Donald Trump come up with the plan to tank the markets in order to rebuild better, to cause pain and suffering and destroy people's lives.
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Donald Trump actually made a video like this and said, Warren Buffett endorsed this plan. Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway two weeks ago had to come out with a statement and said, we don't know what this is. We don't endorse this plan. We don't like it. Warren Buffett was speaking though earlier and Warren Buffett said, Trade should not be used as a weapon. Okay.
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The Oracle of Omaha right here is making it very clear. What the hell are we doing? So maybe you don't want to listen to me. Maybe you don't want to listen to the head of the port of long beach or Los Angeles. We want to listen to Warren Buffett. I can give you more data points here this morning as well. Play this clip.
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Similar results we're seeing right in Canada and Australia, where if you look back just a few months ago, the right-wing MAGA-styled parties that use the language like woke this, woke that, enemy of the people, the news, all the Trump stuff, those parties were leading And then in a stark reversal, the left parties, the pro-democracy parties, went on to win.
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Now, this morning as well, or I should say yesterday, Donald Trump, last night, Donald Trump was posting AI images of him as the Pope. That's what Donald Trump was doing. Again, I think just like being incredibly offensive to the Catholic community. I mean, what is this? He's posting AI images of himself as the pope. By the way, after Lindsey Graham made a serious... This is real.
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Lindsey Graham made a serious post saying that he thinks that Donald Trump should be considered to become the next pope. And then Donald Trump said he would like to be the pope. He made public statements. I... barely got any attention. You know, we covered it here on the Midas Touch Network. I mean, you see Lindsey Graham's post right there.
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Finally, you have, in addition to Donald Trump posting AI images of himself as the Pope, you've got Pete Hegseth posting cartoons of himself holding swords. That's a budget cuts, even though they're now making the new defense budget one trillion dollars. It's going to be significantly more. The deficit is going to go significantly higher. Donald Trump has announced that he is doing a parade.
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He's on his birthday. He wants to do a military parade. Six thousand dollars. 6,000 soldiers, 50 helicopters. He's going to have jets flying over in the sky. It's going to cost like $100 million for Donald Trump's one-day birthday on the taxpayer dime so he can look like Kim Jong-un with a military parade in Washington, D.C. Are you absolutely kidding me? I want to leave you with this.
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Donald Trump got another strong rebuke in federal court last When a federal judge from Washington, D.C., Judge Beryl Howell, granted a permanent injunction and granted summary judgment in favor of a law firm called Perkins Coie against Donald Trump for Donald Trump's pass. patently unlawful orders attacking the law firms.
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And here's, let me read you a portion from the order from Judge Beryl Howell. Only when lawyers make the choice to challenge rather than back down when confronted with government action, raising non-trivial constitutional issues.
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Can a case be brought to court for judicial review of the legal merits as was done in this case by plaintiff Perkins Cooey, LLP plaintiff's counsel, Williams and Connolly and the lawyers firms, organizations and individuals who submitted amicus briefs in this case.
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If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and by so doing serve to promote the rule of law will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written. Be on the right side of history. And it is such a great thing to see Australia seeing what's going on, Canada seeing what's going on.
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Fox News is in meltdown mode as MAGA Republican senators are basically saying this budget bill that Donald Trump is calling a big, beautiful bill is an utter, utter disaster. Let me show you what went down when you had MAGA Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin on Fox Business yesterday play this clip.
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Biden is destroying everything right now. Even though former president Biden had record job growth, GDP increasing, 16.2 million jobs, record low unemployment. I can go on and on and on. There was a decent jobs report, not like a, didn't blow it out of the water, but the jobs report was fine, 177,000 jobs. Good, good. We want there to be jobs. Now, what do you think the response was on Friday?
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This is the Trump economy. This shows everything we said. Things are great. Here, play this clip.
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No, like literally at the exact same time you're doing that, your messaging is mixed, right? You have J.D. Vance interviewing with Brett Baer saying, oh, the economy is bad because of Biden, while they have other people on Fox saying the economy is doing great now because of Trump. Can you even? All they do is they lie about everything. They just flood the zone with lies. Watch this.
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Then speaking about flooding the zones with lies, you then have Janine Pirro, who I guess used to be a judge, but thinking about being in front of her court with her lack of ethics and her despicable behavior is a frightening concept in and of itself. And so she's like, of course, a Brango's MS-13. Look at his knuckles. It has marijuana, skull, cross, and Smiley face, smiley face, smiley face.
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As one commentator noted, got to avoid those dangerous neighborhoods where everyone has smiley face tattoos. Here, play this clip.
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I'm not sure if you saw this going viral. It says someone who was a tattoo artist for 30 years commented on YouTube that he's seen this tattoo many times and it means smoke weed to get high. Love God till you die. See, this is why due process is so important. I don't know what the tattoos mean.
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It doesn't say the letters MS and the numbers 13 on it, but you're entitled to due process even if he was an MS-13 member at one point in time in his life. The Trump first administration gave the guy a work permit in 2019. So clearly the Trump administration thought that the guy wasn't a gang leader. Why else would you give the guy a work permit and have him show up once a year?
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He checks into ICE. He was a member of a union. He's married to an American woman. He has three American children. You give the person due process. If it turns out that they're affiliated with the gang, you have to determine if there's a a crime that is committed.
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And then ultimately, if we're dealing with a migrant, yes, you could deport, but then also deporting to concentration camps is not the remedy, especially where there's a withholding order saying you can't do that. We're just a nation of due process, okay? You know, even by people in the Taliban, if they were here, the Supreme Court ruled in the United States, you got to give them due process.
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Because You can't just jump to the conclusion, oh, this person must be a felon. This person's definitely a criminal. Because taken to the logical conclusion, you point at anybody. You're a felon. You're a gang member. You're this. You go to concentration camps. You go to a court. You put forward the evidence. That's our system. If you think it's slow, if you think it's messy, too bad, so sad.
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We have a United States Constitution and we have still a Supreme Court that says you have to have due process. That's just it. It's not a debate. It's not a discussion. You know, there's no, some legal scholars say, no, there's due process in America. You don't like it, move to Russia. Okay.
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Here's Lori Chavez Dreamer, the fake pro-union labor secretary who hates unions, won't even support the PRO Act, was just a total liar when she was a congresswoman in Oregon. Here she is right here again saying the job numbers show we're doing great. The Trump economy is booming. After y'all were just saying that's the Biden economy. Play this clip.
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You know, good news. Let's bring on Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. Let's have him. Let's have Bernie Madoff. This guy is this guy is worse than Bernie Madoff. It's like Bernie Madoff level. And here he is lying and he's like gas prices are down one eighty nine gas prices down one eighty nine here. Watch this.
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You know, I saw some people speculate how Donald Trump even got to this number of a dollar and eighty nine cents. And it's possible that like people in his administration were just showing him data that talks about the price of gas before it goes through like the like the actual market price. And so, I mean, is that what was going on?
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I mean, as Ryan Cummings says, POTUS team seems to be showing him the cost of wholesale unfinished gasoline, which does not include the cost of oxygenates, ethanol and all the distribution marketing costs and telling him this is the price of gasoline you're paying at a pump. It's like when he tariffs the penguins. Right. It's like when he tariffs, you know, he comes up with these made up formulas.
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You have one job in Congress. It would be nice if you actually passed legislation that help people, but you can't do that. You pass a budget, not these ridiculous continuing resolutions that carry out the budget of Nancy Pelosi while you have Doge violate the Constitution. You heard Ron Johnson there in his own words, basically saying the entire budget process has been utterly, utterly destroyed.
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There's no logic to it. It's just stupid. And that's the thing with this. You know, I just want there to be some intelligence. And you want to know who comes with intelligence? Democratic Congress member Jake Alkencloss. I like that he goes on Fox. He stands up to them here. Here's what he says here. Play this clip.
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Then you have Office of Management and Budget Director, the author of Project 2025, Russell Vogt, who, by the way, right now is taking away one billion dollars in mental health and money for helping students address mental health issues in schools. They're getting rid of one billion dollars.
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They blame all of the gun violence on mental health, and then they just remove $1 billion for mental health treatment. Here's Russell Vogt talking about potentially giving Elon Musk big contracts. Play this clip.
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And finally, I go back to this right here. Remember Peter Navarro on Fox? What was this? April 2nd, April 3rd, whatever it was, April 5th, whatever it was. 90 deals in 90 days, 90 deals in 90 days. We have zero deals. No deal Donald is his nickname. It's ridiculous. Anyway, tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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But when you live in MAGA fake fantasy lie world all the time, the truth doesn't even matter. All that matters is you continue your Ponzi scheme, your rug pull until catastrophe strikes. So you remember how when the GDP numbers this past week came out and our economy was contracting, it was negative 0.3% GDP. Remember all of Trump and JD and everybody in Fox were saying, this is the Biden economy.
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Donald Trump is an international disgrace, an international embarrassment, and we're seeing the Trump effect take place today in Australia. It is in effect there where Donald Trump has changed the dynamic of the election in Australia. The MAGA party there, or the MAGA party leader, a guy by the name of Peter Dutton, Timu Trump, they call him in Australia was once leading in the polls.
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And look, the people of Australia, like the people of Canada, by and large, hate, hate, hate Donald Trump. I mean, just take a look right here. They had big hands-off protests in Melbourne, Australia, a few weeks back. Just a reminder, here's what was going on there. All right. Now, here is their MAGA candidate, Peter Dutton, in Australia. You can see him right here.
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He refers to the national broadcasters there as hate media, very similar to the way Donald Trump would call the media here, or calls the media fake media, an enemy of the people. Dutton, Timu Trump, as they call him in Australia, the leader of the Liberal Party there, would always talk about woke this, woke that. Here, let's play this clip right here.
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I'm looking at the YouGov polls right here. YouGov, as of this recording, predicting a 97% chance that Labor will hold on to its majority. On the eve of the elections in Australia, one of the things that was uncovered as well, although the Liberal Party in Australia... that this is taking place. But what can you say? I mean, this is what Chris Lasavita, Donald Trump's campaign manager is on tape.
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He's on a zoom saying it apparently that he was helping the liberal party in Australia. So a Trump campaign manager is, said you listen to you for yourself what he said helping the liberal party in australia the duttons so now dutton has to be like no no no we don't want anything to do with that here watch this clip from seven news australia great work seven news play this clip
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He's from the liberal party in Australia, which is confusingly their conservative party in Australia. He was expected to become the prime minister there months ago, but as Donald Trump has attacked the entire world and has caused devastation to our ally, caused harm to our ally in Australia, uh, The polls change there.
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Now, one of the things you'll notice as well in the debate that took place between the MAGA candidate, Timu Trump, Peter Dutton and the current prime minister, Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party. In Albanese's kind of closing remarks of the debate, he was asked a question about, you know, what do you think is some of the biggest threats? What do you worry about the most?
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And one of the things he said is that take a look at Dutton. This guy spreads lies about climate change. And then one of the things that Anthony Albanese also says is we have to focus a lot in Australia on our regional partners. And notice what he says here about China, too, that we have a good trading relationship with China, a good trading relationship with other Southeast Asian nations.
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And notice that he mentions that a lot. As being a priority. And he's like, you know, Albanese saying what climate change is woke and all of these. We don't need that in Australia. He goes because our trading partners in our region also recognize that climate change is real and it's a threat. Enough of this MAGA stuff here.
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The current prime minister, Anthony Albanese is expected to go on to keep a labor. That's like their liberal party, even though it's going to be the labor parties, their more left party there, the labor party majority in Australia. And no one expected that to happen. If you were looking at the polls, take a look here. This looks very similar to what we saw in Canada yesterday.
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Now, again, it reminds me as well, you know, you had Mark Carney since he's become prime minister. No one expected in Canada. the Liberal Party in Canada to go on to even hold a Liberal minority government there. No one thought that was, everyone thought Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party was going to go on and win.
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But the Trump effect in Canada, the Trump effect in Australia, and you see how people are standing up to Trump. This is Prime Minister Carney from yesterday saying, talking about visiting the White House, but on his own terms, and that never will he ever be agreeable to the 51st state or anything like that. He's like, that's not happening, period, full stop.
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Here, watch this clip of Prime Minister Carney.
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Now, one of the things I think is notable, too, to think about is There should be an easy trade deal to have with Australia. The United States does not have a trade deficit with Australia. There's an existing trade deal in place. The fact that Trump can't even do a trade deal in Australia, as of this point, tells you what a bad dealmaker Donald Trump is.
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And it could be that they're just waiting for the elections because they know that Donald Trump is... is a major factor in the elections in a bad way. But here's Justin Wolfer's economics professor at University of Michigan. And he's like, this was recorded on April 22nd, where he thought, come on, Donald's going to be able to at least announce some deal with Australia, right?
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Because there's no trade deficit with Australia. There's already an existing deal. You should be able to announce this, but Donald Trump has not been able to do so. Here, play this clip.
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Oh, also, going back to Canada for a second, the leader of the Conservative Party Their Timu Trump, their Maple Maga, Pierre Poliev, lost his seat, lost his riding, as they call it, in Canada. And he bullied a member. This happened yesterday. He bullied someone who has a riding in Alberta where there was an 80% conservative vote.
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You see the blue right there is the liberal block right there. And you see based on the latest polymarket estimation, at least as of this recording, their odds of holding on to or getting a majority now at 4.5%, the Labor Party, 95.5% chance there as voting is underway today, Saturday, May 3rd. record early voter turnout in Australia.
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for this other guy to forfeit his writing so Pierre Poliev could stay in Parliament, could stay in the House of Commons. So Pierre Poliev took somebody's seat, which you can do in Canada. I mean, which is fairly embarrassing right there. Let me show you this one other clip of Peter Dutton saying woke this, woke that so you can see it. Let's play this clip. How are you defining woke?
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So I think you see the dynamic. The Trump effect is the orange flag. stain of failure that is Donald Trump. And no one wants to have a whiff of that grotesque odor near them at this point. And so then we move on to the other elections, right? I mean, that's why I said Canada was so big because Canada is showing the world The way you stand up to Trump.
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Trust me, in Japan, they're looking at the Canadian elections and going, whoa, whoa, whoa. That whole dynamic changed. If Donald Trump disrespects and dishonors Japan on a trade deal, the governing party is going to get thrown. That's how they're seeing this across the world right now in terms of standing up to Donald Trump. We've got a Romania election. That's big. Wow. May 18th.
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Poland's election, May 18th. We got Portugal coming up in May 18th. We'll cover it all here on the Midas Touch Network. All right. Shout out to the Midas Down Under in Australia. The Midas Mate in Australia. We got a great Australia fan base at the Midas. We love our Australian Midas Mighty. Midas Mate. Midas Down Under. You tell me. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million. Thanks for watching.
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Donald Trump is posting AI images of himself as the Pope. This is a very unserious, unstable, vile individual. Meanwhile, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is posting AI cartoon images of himself holding a sword that says, budget cuts, and looking at a dog that says, wow. and posting cartoon AI images of himself that say 100% operational control.
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As Senator Bernie Sanders told me, sometimes the most important issues are what news isn't talking about. It's why I talk about these things here over and over again, because we can follow the data where these things are headed so it doesn't hit us like a shock. That's why we report on this stuff weeks in advance on the Midas Touch Network.
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We also learned yesterday that the Trump administration will not renew Biden-era grants worth $1 billion that were aimed at boosting mental health services in schools. A Department of Education spokesperson confirmed to ABC.
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As Travis Aker says, I do not understand why mental health programs are being defunded by President Trump when every school shooting is blamed on mental health by MAGA Republicans. I just want you to think about that. Every time there's a school shooting, the MAGA Republicans say it's not because of the guns. It's because of mental health.
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OK, well, now you're defunding mental health services to schools, right? Cruelty is the point, folks. This shouldn't be a political issue. I'm just giving you the data points. I'm not speculating what they're doing. I'm reading you statements that the Trump MAGA regime is confirming. Oh, another post by Donald Trump. Oh, he's doing the cartoon image of himself right now.
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Oh, what's he saying in this post? Oh, that he ended inflation and made America affordable again. Wow, I guess it must be done. So it's been said it must be done. Donald Trump says that he promised Americans that he would rapidly drive the prices down. And he says promise kept on this image that he posts.
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White House delivering emergency price relief for American families and they defeated the cost of living crisis. Folks, mission accomplice, the cost of living crisis has been defeated. Donald Trump, thank you. Thank you for doing that. Yes, I go to get my gas prices, $1.98. Egg prices down 87%. Whoa, you tell me that? My MAGA mush brain says, okay, Donald.
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Donald, I understand you have MAGA mush brain cult followers. Watch Fox. The rest of us, we can go to stores. We can see it. We know that prices are not going down. We know housing is less affordable, not more affordable. We see what you're doing to the economy. It's not good. It's very bad.
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Oh, Charlie Kirk, someone who's in Donald Trump's inner circle, also potentially saying that more firings are coming at the CIA. We'll see about that. One thing over here, too. Ryan Cummings said he did an analysis. Oh, my God. I think Garrett is correct. Garrett Golden goes, oh, man, I think someone is showing the president the RBOB charts and telling him that that's the price of gasoline.
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POTUS's team is showing him the cost of wholesale unfinished gasoline, which does not include the cost of oxygenates, ethanol, and all distribution marketing costs, and telling him this is the price of gasoline you are paying at the pump.
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So I guess the same way Donald Trump's people told him that he won at the Supreme Court with Abrego Garcia, nine to zero, that he won and he does not have to facilitate the return when the order was the exact opposite. I guess they're telling Donald Trump that the price of gas at the pump is one 98 because they're showing him, um, the cost of without oxygenates.
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Like that's really what they're doing. By the way, what are we on? What day are we on? Day 21, 22, 23, no trade deals, no deal. Donald, that's his nickname. Um, Now we're learning that Japan, an ally of the United States, should be easy to make a deal with Japan since Trump made a deal with Japan in 2018. Trump made the Japan deal in 2018, and now he hates his own deal.
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And when you zoom in on his hands, his sleeve is part of his hands. Why does his finger look like that? Then you have Donald Trump giving an interview with Kristen Welker of Meet the Press. And Donald Trump says that he is okay with a recession. He'd be fine with it. He doesn't care. Here, play this clip.
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The same way Trump made the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, the USMCA, and he hates that. He goes, whoever made this deal is the stupidest. You made the deal with Japan. You made the deal with Canada and Mexico. So you're the stupid one. Japan is preparing to use its role. As America's largest creditor holds one point one trillion in treasuries as leverage in Trump trade talks.
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This as Timu holds shipping direct from China as the de minimis tariff loophole is cut off. And you will now see if you were to buy a Timu or any of these stocks. stores in China, 145% basically added to the cost. So Timu is just saying, all right, we're not going to send anything to the United States anymore.
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By the way, when I think about Timu now, I think about Timu Trump in Australia, Peter Dutton in Australia, the leader of the liberal party there, which is their right-wing party, Peter Dutton, The Trump effect is real in Australia as Anthony Albanese soaring ahead to the Labor Party doing well in Australia. That's their liberal party there. It's confusing.
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The other left party is the Labor Party on his way potentially to another three-year term there. Shout out Midas Down Under, Midas Mate. Tell me which one you like better. More Donald Trump posting that the price of gasoline is $1.98 and egg prices are down, which is a lie. J.D. Vance saying Russia's war in Ukraine is not going to end anytime soon.
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Where Donald Trump said earlier in the week that it was a joke when he said that there would be peace in 24 hours. He said in a Donald Trump way, I was joking. I was joking. I know. And it's only the fake news that took me seriously. Your fake news. If you thought I really meant there would be peace, only the fake news. You're so dishonest. I was joking about making peace in 24 hours. Now, J.D.
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Vance saying it's not going to end anytime soon. OK, OK, J.D. OK, J.D. Also, a new poll from the Hill. Majority of U.S. Latino voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Really? I mean, the Venezuelans for Trump aren't happy that he's deporting family members back to Maduro and sending Venezuelans to concentration camps in El Salvador when he said he got your back.
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The Cubans for Trump, you're unhappy? that Donald Trump is taking away family members and sending them back to the Castro regime, sending them back to Cuba, separating mothers in Miami who are still breastfeeding their children to be homeless in Cuba, even taking away temporary protected status from 500,000 Latinos. He told you he wasn't going to do that, right?
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Trump Quickly Unravels as Catastrophe Approaches
You thought it was only the criminals. He thinks you're criminal. He thinks you're the criminal. We told you. We tried to warn you, okay? But don't get me wrong. Trump's been focused on making deals this week, not deals that benefit America. Don Jr. starting the Executive Branch Club, $500,000 to join his exclusive club called the Executive Branch. Imagine if Hunter Biden did that.
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Trump Quickly Unravels as Catastrophe Approaches
Donald Trump making a deal with Cutter. to have a new Trump resort in Qatar. UAE's minister met with Donald Trump. Trump gave them some AI chip exemptions. And Abu Dhabi then agreed to use Trump's crypto as part of their transactions. All in a week, all in a week. Oh, and by the way, while Donald Trump was gutting mental health services at schools, gutting PBS and NPR,
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He was focused on spending $92 million, maybe even more, to throw himself a military-themed parade in Washington, D.C. in the coming months, where he wants to have 6,000 soldiers, 50 helicopters, fighter jets, as he stands there like a Kim Jong-un-style dictator as troops march in Washington. front of him. Can we talk about that? He's posting AI images of himself dressed as the Pope.
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Trump Quickly Unravels as Catastrophe Approaches
It's like an, this is an unwell individual, but I don't want to use that as a way for him to duck accountability. Let's just call him what he is. He's a vile piece of trash. He's a felon. He's a fraud. He's a criminal. He's a sexual abuser. He's trash. I have zero respect for him. Period. Full stop. Zero. You shouldn't either. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Quickly Unravels as Catastrophe Approaches
I think we're going to do fantastic. As former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says, post this image from CNN, which is now finally reporting on this. the last boats without crippling tariffs from China are arriving to the US. The countdown to shortages and higher prices has begun. No, it's begun three weeks ago, CNN. But as Pete Buttigieg says, this isn't hypothetical.
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Trump Quickly Unravels as Catastrophe Approaches
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains. This time, not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president. How long have we been talking about freight volumes and trucking volumes and showing you photos of the ports here on the Midas Touch network?
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
Let's talk with a governor who's fighting back and winning against some of these Trump executive orders, freezing funds, which would have caused big problems in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Governor Shapiro, welcome.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
required to do and as a result the good people of pennsylvania are protected look you've got a lot of bipartisan support there in the commonwealth you visit blue areas purple areas red areas and you got pretty good support even in some of those ruby red and red areas They're being impacted by a lot of what we're seeing, though, from the Trump administration.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
And we've been following a lot of these town halls in ruby red areas where people, Republican voters, people who are at least identifying as Republican voters on camera and independents and others are just saying, you know, We're losing our jobs. This is hurting us. I saw MAGA Mike Johnson speak yesterday, Speaker of the House, and he's like, no, this is fake. This is all astroturfed.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
These are just activists. And it's not it's not really what the what Republican voters or independents are thinking. You got a beat on what's going on in the Commonwealth and what's what's happening.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
Thanks for having me back on. We will never forget. We appreciate all the work you're doing in the Commonwealth, and I appreciate that. Let's talk about the lawsuit that you brought against the Trump administration's funding freeze. There was about $2.1 billion that you identified there. That was in the lawsuit that you filed of funds that were supposed to go to the Commonwealth that were blocked.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
When I've been following some of these town halls and meetings and some of these red rural communities, one of the things I hear often also is why is Elon Musk and a group of 19 to 25 year old guys, some who refer to themselves as Mr. Big Balls,
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
going through our social security information, medical records, tax records, and doing it so cavalierly and then saying, hey, you should trust us because we're billionaires and billionaires are the most trustworthy people. So let us just have all of your information. And I hear people saying, look,
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
go then and testify in front of Congress, go under oath, and tell the American people what you're doing, but we don't want our privacy being invaded by these people.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
Let's talk about your budget. You've been posting on social media some of your priorities like this. This is a photo that you posted. Let's invest in our child care, teachers and staff. Now, as I said before, you've got bipartisan support, but but governor. Isn't this is this woke? Is this is this is this woke?
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
I mean, child care, Medicaid, health care, helping people, you know, being facetious, of course. But, you know, you're saying what the priorities are in the Commonwealth.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
That's why you brought the lawsuit and you've accounted for what all 2.1 billion now after fighting back. Tell us about that.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
You know, and finally, I know how patriotic the people are in the Commonwealth. Two very disturbing developments I've seen in the Trump administration on this. I mean, I could probably 2000, but number one, veterans being disproportionately impacted by the terminations within the federal government, 30 percent, 40 percent of federal government. Workers are veterans or the spouses of veterans.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
And then Donald Trump having the United States join in access of evil, like with Russia and North Korea, to vote against a resolution condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. We know that there's been a lot of hardworking factories in the Commonwealth who have been building some of the weaponry as well to defend Ukraine. So I know it's an issue that hits close to home. Yeah.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
Well, as your constituents say, I can say also the Midas Mighty is happy that you're out there, though, fighting back, pushing back. And we hope you'll come back on the show. Let us know everything that's going on in the Commonwealth. We appreciate you, as always. Governor Josh Shapiro.
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Governor Shapiro on Big Court Win Against Trump
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
I mean, Fox is more shameless than Russia state regime media. Fox is more shameless than North Korea state regime media. I mean it. I mean, Putin and Kim Jong-un must be like, hey Fox, can you maybe teach our state regime media what you're doing? Give us some tips. I mean, after Donald Trump disgraced the United States, humiliated himself with that despicable appearance in the Oval Office,
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
behave in in a way that brings shame on the way it's it's shameful as can be and to the rest of the world we're sorry for this these freaking maniacs here until they rip this microphone from my very hand we will stand with democracies across the world here in the united states and abroad at the midas touch network that's what we will do
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Yes, we're run by a maniac authoritarian regime here now in the United States, but we will use this platform to continue to spread the truth. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
He goes, we run the world. This is America's world. He's our proxy. I mean, these people are cartoonishly evil and pathetic and dumb. Like, I can't even believe what I am watching. I mean, I can, I guess, because it's Jesse Waters and Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity. But this is... So utterly pathetic. So then you have Laura Ingraham brings on the propagandist.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
She calls herself a press secretary, Caroline Leavitt. And she goes, oh, Zelensky was so rude. He was rude to Donald Trump. And you can't be rude to dear leader. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
I mean, she's the worst. Again, this is all so pathetic. And then they call on this guy who's like, when you're coming for a peace deal, put on a suit. Why wasn't Zelinsky wearing a suit? Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
I mean, y'all see the insanity here that this is what Fox is doing. You see the, you know, the sleight of hand. They're going to turn this against Zelinsky. But this seems like it was all kind of part of the plan to begin with. You know, try to provoke a fight. and then be like, well, that's why I guess we should let Putin do the genocide in Ukraine because Donald Trump got his feelings hurt.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
where he and J.D. Vance laundered Putin's talking points to attack Ukrainian President Zelensky in the Oval Office in front of the world media. And fortunately, Zelensky stood up to Donald Trump and pushed back. And apparently that made Donald Trump have a boo-boo that hurt Donald Trump's feelings. So Trump said, peace talks are now off because Donald Trump's a petulant little third-grade bully.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
For what reason, too? I mean, there's nothing that Zelensky did in the Oval Office that was wrong. I mean, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance were behaving amateurish, pathetic, undignified. I mean, they were behaving just so ghoulishly. And all Zelensky was like is, yeah, Putin's a bad guy and stop blaming Ukraine for Russia invading it. I mean, and Zelensky said thank you over and over again.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
What did you expect him to do? I mean, but this brings you into the psychology of these spineless MAGA Republicans who literally behave the way like North Korean politicians behave to Kim Jong-un. I never thought this could happen in the United States of America. These spineless people. Here's Jesse Waters saying, oh, everyone should be friendly. And what Zelensky did was undignified.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Here, play this clip. Shh.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
And they bring on these spineless MAGA Republican senators right here, like Senator Schmidt. And Senator Schmidt basically like, you do not disrespect America. That was disrespectful. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
I mean, I think all of these people are just straight up crazy at this point. We're watching a bunch of like maniacs. I mean, here is Senator Schmidt again. Here's what he has to say. Play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
No offense to petulant third-grade bullies. So Fox... calls itself Fox News, which it isn't, they had to cover for Donald Trump. They had to say Zelensky was bad and Zelensky was rude and dear leader was so strong. So let me show you what went down. You had Laura Ingraham say the following. Let's play it.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Let me bring you back to Caroline Leavitt. Let's play it.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Here Caroline Leavitt is again.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Then they bring in this guy, Scott Besant, their treasury secretary, who's just like the most arrogant guy ever, too. And he was like, oh, you know, the Democrats, they just watch this, let's play it.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Back to Jesse Waters right here.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
And by the way, give President Zelensky credit. He went on Fox and he defended himself. He defended his country. And he said, there's nothing I need to apologize for. I'm very thankful for the American people. I've told Trump I was thankful for him before. I've told J.D. Vance I'm thankful for him. I told former President Biden I'm thankful. I've said I'm thankful 100 times.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Just stop saying that Putin is a good guy and stop blaming Ukraine for Russians killing Ukrainians. That's all I'm saying. I, as a Ukrainian, am not going to accept that Russia is the good guy here. And that's all Zelensky's saying, so there's nothing I need to apologize for. Here, play this clip. ...fire during all these years, 10 years.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
And again, just the behavior like, oh, Zelensky, you need to, like Fox says, the propaganda network, you want to say you're sorry? Do you want, it's like, there's nothing I can say I'm sorry for. It's like insane.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
I think she's describing herself and other Fox hosts there, like Jesse Waters, who then said the following.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
And then they bring in Lindsey Graham. Let me show you what Lindsey Graham has to say.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Senator, thanks for popping on. Another clip of Lindsey Graham.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
And again, they're like, I need you to apologize. Apologize right now. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Senator, how does Moscow and Putin look at this? No, I think Zelensky demonstrated strength. And even when Donald Trump was outside of the White House, they were like, what do you want him to do, Donald? Like, what do you want Zelensky to do? And Trump was like, say, stop saying negative things about Putin. Stop saying bad things about Putin. It's Putin this, Putin that.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
Yeah, because Putin unlawfully invaded Ukraine, you idiot. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
He doesn't have- I'm telling you, this is the Trump's corruption and his evilness is matched by his idiocracy. We're watching the most pathetic Putin pawns in the White House.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
I'm joined by Alexander Vindman, retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel. Mr. Vindman, what do we just watch unfold in the Oval Office with Donald Trump attacking President Zelensky? It was maybe one of the most shameful moments I think ever in American history. You're Ukrainian. You have unique experience in this area as well.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
I'll show you. They're trying to spin this now on Fox a certain way. They had Lindsey Graham, Senator Graham, MAGA Republican, go on moments ago. Let me show you what he said and get your reaction to it. Let's play it.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Again, I'll ask you. Alex, do you think that Putin is more afraid than ever? Is China more afraid than ever? Is Iran more afraid than ever after watching what just happened in the Oval Office?
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Your background, of course, you were in the European Council. You were a leader in this area, United States National Security Council for European Affairs. Your background, being born Ukrainian, what's your message to Ukraine right now, to the people of Europe who are seeing this? Yeah.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
I'll show everybody the book right here. It's called The Folly of Realism, How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine. I read this before doing this interview. I'd encourage everybody to read it because it gives a roadmap of even how we got here.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
And I don't want to give away what you say in the epilogue, but literally you predicted exactly what happened today, almost word for word, It's in the epilogue, so I'd ask people to read this, and it's important to understand how we got here. Again, make sure you all check it out, Might is Mighty. I'll leave with this.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Obviously, this is a very devastating time right now if you're in Europe, especially if you're in Ukraine. We see Europe, you know, the new chancellor of Germany, for example, and others even talking about just pushing away from the United States, totally just building a Europe first security force and basically may not even show up at NATO in June when the next major kind of conferences.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
So what do you think is going to happen? And just what's your message to, I guess, our former allies in Europe and Ukraine?
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
You know, so Graham, other magas are saying what needs to happen is Zelensky needs to go to Mar-a-Lago and apologize and say, I'm sorry, that was a big misunderstanding. I don't know, doesn't that play right into kind of Trump's God complex? And has Trump doubled down or is that a smart geopolitical move to pretend and keep the folly going?
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Well, if Zelensky was watching now, what would your advice be?
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
Alex Vindman, thank you for joining us. I know a difficult day for for you and so many. Everybody, make sure you get this book, The Folly of Realism. I read it. I hope you read it, too. It's always right here, right on my right on my desk. Finish it up before the interview. Alex, thank you.
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Alexander Vindman on Trump Ukraine Disaster
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
I'm joined by Senator Adam Schiff. Senator, I want to get your reaction to that travesty in the Oval Office today where Donald Trump was attacking Ukrainian President Zelensky in the Oval Office with J.D. Vance laundering talking points, seems directly from the Kremlin. You had President Zelensky, in my view, kind of holding his ground, defending his country and, frankly, all democracies.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Your colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, he spoke after the meeting and he said that he thinks that after that, Moscow will be more afraid than ever. Let me show you what Senator Graham had to say and I'll get your reaction to it.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Senator Schiff, do you think Moscow is more afraid than ever after what they observed in the Oval Office earlier today with Trump and Zelensky?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
I want to get your reaction to what you observed.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
So what do you think is the reaction that's going to be? I'm not sure if you've heard anything from some of your colleagues, perhaps on the other side of the aisle yet. That's what Lindsey Graham had to say. There was, you know, tended to be bipartisan support for Trump. By and large, I mean, I would say there are a lot of Republicans in the House who are in support of Ukraine.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
But in the Senate, there was more bipartisan support of Ukraine and Zelensky. What are you hearing now? Are Republicans so afraid of Trump that they're afraid of his tweets and Elon Musk posting things on X and Doge? I mean, what's going on?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
So after that Oval Office meeting, Donald Trump canceled press conference that was supposed to happen and then announced that he posted on his social media platform that he was also just canceling the peace talks. I mean, it feels like what a petulant child would do in a situation like that.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Then he went outside of the White House and he was wearing the like the red MAGA hat and he was basically asked by the press. So what would Zelenskyy What should Zelensky have done in the Oval Office? And Trump is like, well, he shouldn't have stood there and been like, Putin's bad, Putin this, Putin that. Why was he talking about Putin that way?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
I mean, you could hear for yourself what Trump said. I'll get your reaction to it. Let's play it.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Trump's saying he doesn't have to say negative things, Putin this, Putin that. I mean, I'm watching that and I'm thinking to myself, this is crazy. This is crazy stuff.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Well, Senator, this week as well, Donald Trump said he would be selling Trump gold cards for $5 million a pop to Russian oligarchs. He said, yes, Russian oligarchs, they could buy into the United States if they wanted to be citizens. They didn't have to buy a Trump gold card. I won't get into that. I've covered that before.
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Final question, which is it's obviously a dark day, a day that's going to live in infamy in American history, world history, and especially in Ukraine. So first, as a senator from California, you know, as someone who is a leader in the United States Senate and generally in our body politic right now, what is what do you want to say to the people of America right now?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
And then what do you want to say to the people of Ukraine in the world?
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Senator Adam Schiff Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown
Senator Adam Schiff, thank you for joining us this evening. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Donald Trump has just abruptly canceled the press conference that was supposed to take place with President Zelensky after that Oval Office debacle. And even more, Donald Trump has canceled all peace talks with Ukraine. Donald Trump says he will be abandoning the peace talks after Donald Trump's meltdown in the Oval Office. We reported earlier today about the
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for peace. Let me say something because I know corporate media is not going to say this. Donald Trump, you shamed the United States in the Oval Office today. It is a shameful day right now in the United States of America for what you and J.D. Vance did. Your behavior was traitorous.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
And in my opinion, it was treasonous laundering those talking points of our sworn enemy, Vladimir Putin, into the White House. Let me be very clear and let me not mince words on the Midas Touch Network. Oh, and by the way, wasn't it you who said that you would be able to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours because you were such a good negotiator? You're the worst negotiator ever. You're emotional.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
You are disrespectful. You have no command of the issues. You set timelines that can't be met and you break them consistently. You've shown that you're not an honest arbiter or mediator of anything, but that you were just Putin's freaking puppet. By the way, let me show some receipts where you said that you would have resolved this war in 24 hours or even before that. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, I could. How would you do that?
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Horrific behavior by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance where they were attacking President Zelensky in the Oval Office like kind of petulant third grade schoolyard bullies. It was so odd to watch as they laundered Russian money. propaganda and talking points to attack Zelinsky, who was standing his ground in the Oval Office. And it was all there for the world press to see.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Now, here is where I think Fox learned that the, you know, or I think it was learned maybe on CNN or Fox that the press conference was going to be canceled. Here's where they learned that the, yeah, I think it's the CNN, the press conference was canceled. Let's play it.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Now, the White House is trying to frame this as some massive victory. They want to act like this was some grand gesture of patriotism. They're posting the American flag on the official White House account. America first with the American flag. Do not use our flag to spread hateful Russian propaganda. You despicable people in the White House. Marjorie Taylor Greene always with the American flag.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
What pathetic individuals these people are. Caroline Leavitt, the White House propagandist who calls herself a press secretary, goes, President Trump and Vice President Vance are standing up for the American people. No, you're standing up. For Vladimir Putin is who you're standing up for.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Ilya Pomerenko from the Kiev Independent writes, this will go down in history as one of the most unnecessarily shameful moments in the history of the White House. War always forces people to reveal their true nature. It has always been this way, and it always will be at every level, from the ordinary citizen to the powerful figures in high offices.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Today, we once again witnessed exactly how that works. Brian Karam, who's covered presidential politics as a White House press correspondent for over 40 years, said this was the most juvenile display by a president and vice president I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and dark day for the U.S.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Julia Davis, great reporter who covers all things Russia. She runs Russian Monitor. She writes. Trump already made it obvious he has no intention of supporting Ukraine with additional aid while blatantly siding with Russia and offering unwarranted concessions in advance. I'm glad Zelensky spoke out and didn't take Trump's and Vance's abuse. There was nothing left to lose.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Democratic Congress member Eric Swalwell writes absolute admiration for President Zelensky. The guy has balls. He went into the Oval Office and stood up to Russia's best negotiators. I couldn't agree more. Ben Rhodes writes. These are not political news cycle issues.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
As I said in the previous video I made, it is a date that will live in infamy forever. A sight we'll never be able to unsee in American history. One of the most shameful moments, if not the most shameful moment perhaps in in American history, certainly in recent American history. You saw the moments of what went down in the Oval Office.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Trump is transforming what the United States is as a country in the world into a far right, authoritarian, transactional, valueless oligarchy aligned with the world's autocracies. Back to Ilya Pomerantko here, who goes, Pomerantko goes, and so dear Europe, we are on our own.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Way too much time and opportunities have been wasted on false illusions and self-deceit, but we have to deal with what we have. There's always a way to go for those who don't give up and never accept surrender and death as an option. Ukraine has been more than a vivid illustration of the fact that we can do it.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
The heart of the free world gets back to the eastern side of the Atlantic, and we'll pull through this together as America unfortunately abandons reason for madness. Just to remind you, let me share with you what went down in the Oval Office. I did a whole longer video on this.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
This video is, of course, the follow up that because of what went down, Donald Trump's emotional, reckless, malicious behavior, Donald Trump called off the press conference that was supposed to take place and canceled all peace talks because he's a little petulant child who should be nowhere near positions of power, yet alone in that Oval Office. But here's what went down in the Oval Office.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
By the way, here's Marco Rubio while this was all taking place. And here was the ambassador from Ukraine. The Ukrainian ambassador had her head in her hand by this point as well. Here's the statement from Donald Trump moments ago, quote, Thank you very much. If America is involved because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations, I don't want advantage. I want peace.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
Then you now have at the Oval Office, as Donald Trump has banned a lot of the press from being there, but you have his right-wing propagandist minions like Brian Glenn, who is an individual who is with Marjorie Taylor Greene, is in a relationship with her.
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Trump Cancels Ukraine Peace Talks After His Meltdown
I don't know if they were with each other when she was with her husband, but Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, Brian Glenn, asked this question. Let's play it.
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Thank you. So there you have it, folks. And let me send this message to the world as an American. There are more Americans right now who disapprove of Donald Trump than approve of that behavior. on behalf of our country, to the international community that watches this network, we are deeply sorry. This is horrible.
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And we are kind of stuck in this horrible authoritarian regime led by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and J.D. Vance. I am confident that we will get out of this. I am confident that we will prevail. To the Americans who watch this, it is time, as I've said before, that we rise up and make our voices heard peacefully, of course.
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But this is a time where we stand up to this utter nonsense as this evil, malicious regime continues to poke and prod and take away the America that we all knew and loved so dearly. A shameful day in American history. Shameful. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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As there were two plane crashes this week, as the world braces for Trump tariffs, as Donald Trump's government funding freeze has put our entire nation into chaos, as Donald Trump literally tried to divert water in California to a wrong area that was already subject to flooding so he could somehow claim he turned on a faucet by further flooding an area. By the way, farmland
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with farmers who actually voted for donald trump and who tilt republican voters trump screwing their farms even more while all of this was going on as our nation in the united states as we are totally suffering and weaker than we've ever been as americans don't feel safe To even like fly on airplanes or to do anything relating to the government. This is what Trump was doing.
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He was selling his meme coins. So as prices continue to skyrocket, as housing is not more affordable, it's less affordable. As mortgage rates go up, as there's no peace in Ukraine, as Donald Trump promised, he's selling memes. meme coins once again. He goes, I love dollar sign Trump. Go get gettrumpmemes.com. The guy is selling meme coins still right now from the Oval Office as this is going on.
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As you see another plane crash two in one week from This one's in northeast Philadelphia. Earlier in the week, a United States military Blackhawk helicopter crashed into an airplane from Kansas, killing 67 people. As Donald Trump was selling meme coins, he then wrote this. So sad to see the plane go down in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More innocent souls lost. Our people are totally engaged.
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First responders are already being given credit for doing a great job. More to follow. God bless you all. First responders are getting credit? What are you even talking about? Here's what Donald Trump posted earlier in the day. Two separate plane crash posts. I'm not going to ever normalize this behavior. Meme coins, two separate posts about plane crashes. And here's what he wrote in the morning.
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The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That's not really too complicated to understand, is it? Look, folks, it's why character so matters, right? Donald Trump has zero character. This is a convicted felon, a sexual assaulter, a broken human being, a disgusting human being, someone who has bankrupted multiple businesses.
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He's a total abject failure as a person. And this is why you need moral character. Is that too complicated to understand? People are in mourning. Our nation is in mourning. Bodies are still being located. What the hell kind of post is this? And then he goes and posts the following weird lie.
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photo of beautiful water flow that i just opened in california today 1.6 billion gallons and in three days it will be 5.2 billion gallons everybody should be happy about this long fought victory i only wish they listened to me six years ago there would have been no fire and He's saying there would have been no fire. He was taking credit for the rain.
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He believes that in northwest California that we border Canada and that you turn on a faucet. You want to know what actually happened? Acting on Trump's orders, federal officials opened up two California dams. State officials were not part of the decision-making, quote, I don't know where this water is going, but this is the wrong time of year to be releasing water from these reservoirs.
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California is not missing water. That was not the issue. It was that we had hurricane-style winds with fire, basically a fire hurricane consumed California. So you can't fly helicopters and it's hard to bring water when you have that type of wind and that type of catastrophic event. As we wrote on the Midas Touch Network, wrong valve, Donald.
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Your action rerouted water to the Tulare Lake bed, not to Southern California, by the way, where there's not fires anymore and where there is water. The reservoirs are full. Trump stopped the pumping after concerns from farmers, many of whom are conservative Trump voters, who feared it would trigger new flooding in a region that's still recovering from the devastation of 2023.
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He was pushing water to the wrong area, further devastating farms and people who voted for him. You know what they say, you F around and you find out, but I don't like people suffering. So what else was going on? Donald Trump inflicting more suffering. Here he was from one of his ridiculous Oval Office interviews or press conferences that he holds.
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And here he says that there's nothing that's going to stop him from tariffing Canada, Mexico and China. Play this clip.
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And here and with respect to Donald Trump, just like firing all of the federal workforce, getting rid of all the federal workers like the head of the FAA. was pushed out. Safety committees for the FAA pushed out. This is across all government agencies, by the way.
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The same time we learned that Elon Musk pushed out the top Treasury Department person because Musk and Trump and others wanted to seize access
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to the payment system that releases trillions of dollars from social security and medical billing and payments they wanted access to this information so now the oligarchs have all of our information our payment information who gets the money they have access to the funnel of money being released and the head of the treasury the acting head who's a bipartisan person not a political guy
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He was forced out to resign, but you have Donald Trump saying everybody is replaceable. It doesn't make a difference. Everybody's replaceable. Here, play this clip.
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This also comes at a time where Donald Trump forced the FCC to initiate a investigation into CBS, which is owned by Paramount, because 60 Minutes did an interview of Vice President Kamala Harris before the 2024 election. Donald Trump didn't like. So now the FCC is retaliating against Paramount and basically threatening their merger that they're trying to engage in with another oligarch company.
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Donald Trump has a personal lawsuit against CBS. He wants them to pay him money the same way or pay for a library the same way ABC and Meta $15 million payment by ABC, $25 million payment from Meta. He wants CBS to pay as well. Using the FCC to chill First Amendment speech. And look what they're doing.
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They're painting over any words that have the word like fairness, leadership, compassion, diversity. They're literally painting over it. How Orwellian, how dystopian. Speaking of which, He then has all of his like the people who work for him like this is Kristi Noem, the puppy killer. And she now is the secretary of Homeland Security. And she like goes on Fox.
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Look at this photo of her cosplaying as though she's like, I don't even know what this outfit is, like a Halloween costume. It's not how you need to dress if you're the Homeland Security secretary. It's like ridiculous stuff right here.
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And at a morning meeting, Trump officials have told staff at the Office of Personnel Management to draw plans to cut that agency's staffing programs by 70%, expected to disable federal retirement services program, federal employee health benefits, and more. It's destroying the government and destroying our alliances and destroying our economy in two weeks. and making us far less safe.
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Donald Trump has caused a crash in the American auto industry with the tariffs. Even Fox News had to explain how the tariff announcement prompted a stock market sell-off when Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's 27-year-old press secretary, who wears shirts that like, MAGA blondes do it better. That's the shirts that she wears. MAGA blondes do it better. Here's what they said on Fox. Let's play it.
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Don't know. And this is what they're going with now. This is what this is what Trump's press secretary is saying. When you're flying with your loved ones, Do you pray that your airplane lanes safely and gets you to your destination? Or do you pray that your pilot is a certain skin color? Here, play this clip.
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When I used to get on an airplane in the Biden administration or the Obama administration or others, I would just – I wouldn't be thinking twice, is my plane going to crash? Now we have two crashes in one week in Trump's America and Trump's talking about meme coins and you've got the Pentagon now run by Pete Hegseth, a former Fox host. refusing to allow celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Day, Black History Month, Holocaust remembrance, refusing to acknowledge that at the Defense Department, Elon Musk sleeping in the White House in the Lincoln bedroom. Anyway, I'm reminded of this. Everything can kind of have a Freudian root, right? I'll just leave you with this. Gavin Newsom in high school, Donald Trump around the same age. Just leave you with that image. Sorry. Hit subscribe.
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So let's be clear, as egg prices are shooting up higher than ever, as groceries are going higher, as gas prices are going on, as unions are being screwed, as Elon Musk is taking over federal agencies, seizing potentially government data
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freezing federal employees out of their own systems, gutting key agencies, forcing out the head of the FAA as we're seeing like now what plane crashes happening almost on a daily basis. Donald Trump has now ordered the FCC to open up a formal inquiry against CBS and 60 Minutes, which is owned by Paramount, demanding they comply with a series of requests by the government.
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So Donald Trump is in a private lawsuit against CBS in federal court in Texas. He and CBS, which is owned by Paramount, asked that Trump, that pro-Trump judge in Texas to delay proceedings in Texas. while so-called settlement talks are taking place. So Paramount is trying to sell itself to another oligarchical company for tens of billions of dollars.
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And they know that that requires DOJ approval of a merger or acquisition Trump and the DOJ are likely indicating they will block that merger. And also CBS and Paramount think that if Donald Trump pursues investigations against them from the FCC, that will also work to stop the merger that the parent company of CBS that Paramount is trying to engage in.
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So while these private settlement talks are taking place, Trump has the FCC send a letter to Paramount ordering that they turn over information about the interview with Kamala Harris that Donald Trump was afraid to do. And what we're learning from the New York Times is that CBS News is set to hand over now the transcript of the 60 Minutes interview to the FCC, which it previously would not do.
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Now, obviously, Donald Trump has forced meta interviews. Previously, Facebook to settle a personal grievance lawsuit that Donald Trump filed against them for $25 million. Purportedly, $23 million is going to go to a future library. Trump got ABC to settle for $15 million. And now his latest target is CBS. and he's obsessing over Kamala Harris right now.
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So as again, planes are crashing, okay, as America is far less safe. We all feel less safe as a result of Donald Trump. He's having the FCC pursue some that he felt humiliated by Kamala Harris. What a pathetic, weak individual. But if you were following the campaign, As we were reporting on this, Trump consistently said that this is what he was going to do.
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October 21, 2024, Trump says he wants unchecked power to take CBS off the air because he doesn't like 60 Minutes. Play the clip.
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October 6th, 2024. Trump says he's going to make 60 Minutes apologize to him for fact-checking his lies.
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Here was an interview we played. This was of Howard Stern and Vice President Kamala Harris, where they talked about the 60 Minutes issue. This is October 8th, 2024. Here, play this clip.
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That was on the campaign, and former Vice President Kamala Harris said Donald Trump was afraid to do an interview with 60 Minutes on CBS. Donald Trump refused to sit for that interview. Kamala Harris sat for the interview. And then right before the election, Donald Trump sued CBS for $10 billion. Donald Trump judge-shopped for a pro-MAGA federal judge in Texas, a judge named
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And this is October 20th, 2024, Donald Trump played the clip.
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Now, one of the things that FCC commissioner who is livid at the fact that the Republican now the Republican led FCC is pushing a formal investigation of CBS. Here's what Anna Gomez says. Let's be clear, this is a retaliatory move by the government against broadcasters whose content or coverage is perceived to be unfavorable.
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It is designed to instill fear in broadcast stations and influence a network's editorial decision. This is an FCC commissioner, by the way, a whistleblower saying this is what's going on. During these last two weeks, the FCC has shown a concerning pattern of implementing the will of the administration on issues that go far beyond our core responsibilities.
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These actions disregard longstanding norms and ignore the mandate granted by Congress to the FCC to act as an independent agency. They also set a dangerous precedent that threatens to undermine trust in the agency's role as an impartial regulator. This latest action to weaponize our broadcast licensing authority is no different.
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It revives a complaint that had been previously dismissed by FCC experts due to lack of evidence and because it fell far short of the high standard needed for for agency action.
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She goes on to say, let's be clear, this is a retaliatory move and the Communications Act clearly prohibits the commission from censoring broadcasts and the First Amendment protects journalistic decisions against government intimidation. We must respect the rule of law, uphold the Constitution and safeguard the public trust for broadcasters.
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One of the things I believe that's happening behind the scenes is that the people who work at 60 Minutes are pissed that their oligarch bosses at Paramount that want to sell everything to a new company are forcing their editorial hand
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and making them look utterly pathetic, while Paramount wants to do the settlement, kiss the ring, so that they could make billions of dollars by selling to another oligarch. It's all about the money for these fools, for these pathetic oligarchs at the expense of we, the people, while prices go up, while we get screwed, and the oligarchs sit front row at the inauguration.
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Matthew Kaczmarek, Trump filed the case there. And then when Trump won the election, he pursued his petty grievances against CBS because he believes CBS embarrassed him by doing an interview with now former Vice President Kamala Harris. and then wanting to fact check Donald Trump.
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These are the tactics of authoritarianism meets oligarchy. This is what it looks like in Russia, folks. We're going to report here every day on the Midas Touch Network. Until they rip this microphone from my very hands, we will report fearlessly, unapologetically. It's why I ask if you can hit subscribe, help us get to 4 million subscribers. I want to try to reach that soon.
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Donald Trump claimed that CBS selectively edited their interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, which was and is entirely false. But Donald Trump filed the most bogus lawsuit saying that it was an unfair business practice in Texas, and that's why he was judge shopping there. Well, let me tell you what Donald Trump is doing right now, something I believe is in my opinion, entirely unlawful.
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That video was from June of 2024, so I'm shocked. I'm shocked I tell you that now Trump voters are learning that they are screwed. that these tariffs that Donald Trump's imposing on Mexico and Canada and Europe and Asia and basically everywhere. When Donald Trump gets bad, he imposes a tariff. And guess what? It's an economy killer. It's causing prices in the United States to skyrocket once again.
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It's inflationary. You know why? Because tariffs are inherently inflationary. They are a tax on United States corporations.
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that are importing things and they pass on the cost to consumers by increasing their prices also it results in retaliatory tariffs by foreign countries making the overall economic situation very very grim you didn't have to be a nobel economist to see this coming but 16 nobel economists during the election did say that trump would cause a quote inflation bomb
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But I guess corporate media told us that we weren't supposed to listen to experts. And I guess the MAGA Republicans have made experts like a curse word to even say the experts feel a certain way. So for whatever reason, voters didn't listen to them. Trump voters were like, that ain't gonna happen. We're gonna, let's tariff them and let's tariff them.
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Well, the inflation bomb has now come to our shores. Like a miracle, it ain't going away. and just take a look right here. If you could even get some groceries right now, because if you're going to grocery stores and you're trying to get eggs, to the extent you can even find them, the prices have reached all time highs. Gas prices are going up.
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Coffee prices are going up, reaching an all time high. We're seeing the automobile industry tanked down massive amounts on Friday after Trump said, nope, these tariffs are definitely coming. And when you listen to some of these Trump voters, and they're all on their conservative message boards trying to scramble and figure this out, and people are like, F, F word.
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I hope they get the deal worked out with Canada and Mexico. This is going to wreak havoc on everything. Hold on to your butts, everyone. This is going to be bad. Why? Tariffs are now taxing. Tariffs are taxes on Americans. This isn't what I vote for. This is what you voted for. We kept on saying it over and over again.
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When Donald Trump said America is at its wealthiest in the 1800s, we need to go back to 1870. I was telling you we're not at our wealthiest back then. By the way, Trump is still saying that now, that that's when we were at our wealthiest. Here, play this clip.
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Oh, you got people saying things like this. You've changed, Donald. F you. It's from some of the Trump voters. You have another Trump voter saying, you know, I like the Don, but I'm starting to get a bit worried about him. He's starting to act more like a dictator than a leader. Why does he think that threatening everybody is going to work? Is it just the America way or is he power tripping?
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I hope not because he's actually in a unique position to do some good, not only in the U.S., but the world. He's not going to do good. Do we realize what's happened over the past two weeks? America objectively has never been weaker. We've lost essentially all of our alliances. Our adversaries are in a stronger position than ever. Prices are not going down here. Our federal government is a mess.
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There were two plane crashes. This past week, one taking the life of 67 people as the tower control didn't have the appropriate staff, as the head of the FAA was pushed out and constructively discharged, meaning essentially fired, as Trump's gutted all the key safety committees, as Donald Trump has...
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utterly destroyed the federal government and now there's just complete and total chaos within the government as there was like a and this still is just no one knows what's even happening is there a government freeze what types of government aid can people access or not It's like the worst situation possible. And the only people who are loving this are the broligarchs, the oligarchs.
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They're loving this right now. You're seeing headlines like this. Trump tariffs stoke US food inflation despite pledge to lower costs. Y'all are still doing this, Reuters? You're still printing the, the pledge was to lower costs. Do Donald Trump lies about everything? His pledge was a lie. He said that he was going to bring down costs on day one, he said. Remember that? Let me play this for you.
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He said, day one, play the clip.
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Well, now we warned you. We said, no, that wasn't going to happen. Business shoppers brace for higher prices. NPR oil ticks up after hours on tariffs. Egg prices shoot up even more. Oh, by the way, there's Elon Musk dancing in his Wario outfit. The billionaires, the oligarchs, they think this is one big joke as we the people suffer. Do you feel, let me ask you this. Do you feel safe right now?
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Do you feel, in Trump's America, for real, like, do you feel safe? Like, would you want to, I mean, put this in the comments. Would you want to get on an airplane right now in Trump's America? I hate to say this, but like, he's broken the government. I mean, these are key positions. Donald Trump has caused a crash in the American auto industry with tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
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This is what the media was saying, though. For a brief second, the media was like, we're so back. We're back. We've got the access that we want. But by the end of these press conferences, the media is saying WTF. About 63% of all of our vegetables come from Mexico. When we look at fruits and nuts, about 50% come from there.
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If we look at Canada, most of the meat that we consume comes from Canada as well. A study this month by Warwick McGibbon and Marcus Nolan of the Peterson Institute for International Economics concluded that the 25% on Canada and Mexico tariffs and the 10% on China would damage everybody's economies involved. Consumers can now expect to see price increases on everything.
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Avocados, berries, tequila, beer, cooking oil, meat, and meat products. And consumers should brace for higher prices at the pump. By the way, are there going to be more plane crashes? In one week, we're seeing two plane crashes with the United States military Black Hawk copter. By the way, that's under Pete Hegseth's line of command. I was going to say, can you imagine if Biden was in office?
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But you get the point. By the way, the firefighters in Utah, they showed up to the Utah Senate as their Republican Senate voted to take away their collective bargaining rights. The National Labor Relations Board has been gutted by Donald Trump.
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So all those unions who voted for Donald Trump, union workers, the head of the Teamsters, Sean O'Brien, who's been like kissing Trump's ass, excuse my language, screwed over his rank and file. The National Labor Relations Board is gutted. Unions won't be able to be recognized. Grievances won't be heard ever.
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You know, Trump's using the FCC to destroy media that he doesn't like, that the FCC regulates. Also, the federal agents union that represents the FBI agents. They're pissed because Trump's fired any FBI agent who was involved in a January 6th case.
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And this is after the FBI agent union supported or said very nice things about all of Trump's new acting FBI heads who then turned around and fired them all. And we're just hearing these stories about leopard eating faces, F around and find out all over. Here's another one here. My cousin got let go and now my family is mad because I voted for it to happen.
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My cousin works at the VA as a specialized doctor and today got the letter to resign and get her pay through September. Because of this, I became an immediate target by my family because I voted for this to happen. I mean, as I'm watching all these people who are voting against this, their own interest over and over again. They screwed themselves. They screwed everybody else in this country.
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And these tariffs are going to hit everybody really, really hard. I mean, all Trump had to do was basically nothing. He could have just played golf, took credit for Biden's economy, put it on autopilot. It was all he had to do. But he's a maniac. He's literally a psychotic human being. F'd around and found out. Unfortunately, all of us have to feel that pain too. Hit subscribe.
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World leaders are ready to stomp on Donald Trump. They are prepared with detailed and meticulous plans to inflict pain on the United States of America as Donald Trump says that he is absolutely imposing those tariffs on Mexico, on Canada, on the European Union, on Taiwan. Noticing a trend here? Our allies, our friends.
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Now let me show you the response, a powerful response here, and a measured one as well, by Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Here he talks about a purposeful, forceful, immediate response to Donald Trump's tariffs. Let's play it.
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Next up, the very popular and powerful president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, talks about the detailed plan to retaliate against the United States of America. Let's play it.
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Next up, our friend, Charlie Angus, a member of parliament in Canada. He was in Ottawa on Friday, where he was bringing together political leaders, cultural icons, musicians, chefs, entertainers, you name it, bringing all of Canada together in solidarity against Donald Trump and the United States of America. Here's Charlie Angus. Let's play it.
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Next up is Mark Carney, who's looking to be the leader of the Liberal Party and to try to be the next prime minister, former governor of the Bank of England. Here he talks about how tariffs are no win for anybody. Play this clip.
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And here's what Donald Trump said when he was asked if there's anything that can be done at all to stop the tariffs. Donald Trump says no, nothing, and then proceeds to lie about the fentanyl deaths in the United States caused by Canada and caused by Mexico. Let's be very clear, fentanyl deaths are horrific. It needs to stop.
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We need to have the strictest penalties possible for those who bring it here. But you know who brings it here the most? Americans. You know who are the consumers of synthetic drugs? Americans. They don't have synthetic drug problems in Mexico or in Canada. It's happening here in the United States. And the United States is exporting its guns.
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Here's Trump attacking our EU ally, saying that he's absolutely going to impose tariffs. Let's play it.
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And you can tell that Donald Trump doesn't even really have a plan here. He's being asked, will the tariffs include Canadian crude? So is Donald Trump gonna make the price of gas and oil skyrocket? And Donald Trump's like, I don't know, I may reduce it to 10% here, play the clip.
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While all of this is happening, the oligarchs like Elon Musk are dancing and making a big joke about it. But just take a look at the way the market reacted to this. And folks, it's going to be a bloody market next week, that's for sure. And take a look at this. Donald Trump caused a serious crash in the American auto industry on Friday.
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following the announcement of tariffs against Mexico and Canada. Here's the press secretary for Donald Trump, Caroline Levitt, 27 year old, entirely inexperienced. Hey liberals, as she crashes the economy, Donald Trump was asked a very simple question though. Look, you promised Americans you would try to reduce costs. And then Donald Trump lies and says, tariffs don't cause inflation.
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Okay, they absolutely do cause inflation. By their very nature, they're inflationary. The fact that corporations were supportive of this guy or thinking, oh, he may not do what he says he's going to do, it's just utterly ridiculous. But listen in his own words, play the clip.
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There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. It's good to see across the world leaders stepping up. Again, you have Macron in France offering to send troops to Greenland against the United States, potential invasion. That's what we're talking about. United States in about two weeks, very isolated, as weak as can be. This has helped China. This has helped Russia.
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The European Union is going to have to form an alliance essentially without the United States, devastating to the United States power. All the goodwill the United States has built since World War II, trash, trash, done. Hit subscribe, let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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The MAGA Republicans who went on the weekend shows were just a total utter disaster, blowing up on live TV and saying the most ridiculous, dangerous, and outrageous things. For example, you had Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump's top trade advisors. He was asked, what's your message to the American people about these tariffs? Because people are getting hurt. By the way, this was on Fox.
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Now, again, while all of this is going on, Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, she's now a host on state regime media known as Fox. And she calls in Doug Burgum, one of Trump's cabinet secretaries, interior cabinet secretary. And here they talk about the things that Americans are really concerned about right now, like
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The efforts by the MAGA Republicans in the House and the Senate to try to get Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore. Here, play this clip.
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Now, finally, I'd like to share with you these clips. I thought they were quite interesting and illuminating. This is Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief from The Atlantic. He made his rounds on some of the weekend shows and Meet the Press particularly. And here, Jeffrey Goldberg was asked by Kristen Welker, what do you make of the Trump? You were on these text threads.
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They inadvertently put you on the text message thread. So, Jeffrey, what do you make about the Trump regime saying that? you know, all of these dates, locations of where the strikes were gonna take, F-18s, MQ-9s. They're saying it's not classified. So what do you say, Jeffrey, when they say these war plans weren't classified war plans? Play this clip.
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And then finally, you have Jeffrey Goldberg on Mike Waltz, a national security advisor. And Jeffrey Goldberg is asked, you know, what Waltz is saying happened, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, is that your phone number was... was sucked in to his signal chat. Sucked in, he says. That's what Mike Walls actually said, sucked in.
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James Lankford, he's asked about these tariffs and he knows the destruction the tariffs are causing to the economy and that it's a wrecking ball. So the way he tries to describe it is he's like, you know, when you're remodeling your kitchen or you're remodeling your living room, It's kind of like that.
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So, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of Atlantic, were you sucked in to this signal chat? Watch Jeffrey Goldberg's answer play the clip.
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Wow, wow, wow, folks. I think it's so important that I play these clips for you. That's kind of the catchphrase. Play the clip, play the clip. Because when I was once a trial lawyer, I would show the jury exhibits. I would say, here's what was said. Here's the evidence. Form your opinions. I have an opinion on my closing argument to the jury.
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I'd share with them, of course, my opinion and how I wanted the jury to decide because I have opinions. I'm human, right? But I want to show you the clip so you could assess this stuff. And I think we do a good job here of including the full context of these clips. I want to give a shout out to our friends at SnapStream.
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So one of our editors, his name is Asen, he uses SnapStream to help get those clips. He monitors all the news networks. He gets the clips on SnapStream. And in the description below, if you're interested in trying out SnapStream and seeing how it works, You should check it out. Click the link for Snapstream. Thanks to the team at Snapstream. Great technology.
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Helps us out a lot here as well at the Midas Touch Network. Anybody. Anyway, hit subscribe. Help us get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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It's going to feel messy at first and perhaps uninhabitable, but we'll get through this just like your kitchen being remodeled. Play this clip.
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Hey, James Lakeford, I don't think a lot of Americans can relate to even that reference of kitchens being remodeled. Because most Americans, James, can't afford a home right now because of Donald Trump's destructive economic policies. Donald Trump did promise that he was going to make things more affordable on day one, that he was going to drive down prices. Housing would be more affordable.
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There would be so many jobs, we wouldn't know what to do about it. He said there would be no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. But instead of doing all of these things, he's fighting for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires, destroying Medicaid, taking away $880 billion from taxes.
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Medicaid destroying the Department of Education, destroying Veterans Affairs, engaging in a hostile takeover of the federal government, and continuing to fantasize out loud about conquering Canada, Greenland, Panama, and other locations. Now, Howard Lutnick, you know, Mr. Sham. Wow. It's a shammy. It's a sham. Wow. Donald Trump's commerce secretary who literally would not avoid being on.
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The guy was on media appearance all day. every day the past few weeks. Well, he decides not to show up on the weekend, running away from the cameras like a pathetic coward right before Trump's liberation day, where all these additional tariffs are going to kick into effect. Here they are on Face the Nation on CBS saying we try to invite Howard, but he didn't want to show play this clip.
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And Navarro said, my message is that tariffs are a tax cut, that tariffs are great, that tariffs will make you rich, all lies. But here's Navarro. How do you know he's lying? He's opening up his mouth. Play this clip.
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Next up, we've got a video of Donald Trump's chief economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, who's been wrong about literally every single thing his entire career. career. This is the guy who said, buy, buy, buy right before the dot com crash. And the guy literally is a counter indicator. You do the opposite of what this guy says, a total fool. But here he is leading economic policy.
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And here he says, look, I don't really know what we're doing. He goes, he admits it. He goes, I can't give you any forward looking guidance on what's going to happen this week. Play this clip.
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Yeah, that was a direct quote. I can't give you any forward-looking guidance. That's literally your job to give forward-looking guidance on what's going to happen. Utterly, utterly pathetic. Then, as I said, they try to strut out their normie Republicans who aren't normal at all. They're MAGA Republican, obsequious, subservient, fascist clowns.
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No offense to real clowns because it's a real profession. These are fascist clowns like MAGA Republican representative Jody Arrington. And Jody Arrington goes, yeah. This is what we wanted, disruption. We're gonna get disruption, everybody. Disruption in your lives. It's gonna be uncomfortable, but guys, this is what we all voted for. We voted for hardship, right?
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This is what he literally goes on and says. I'll just show you in his own words, play this clip.
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Now I'd like to show for you, if I can, what some of the Democrats were saying on the weekend shows. For example, Democratic Senator Warner. makes a great point, simple point. He goes, Trump's crazy. This is a crazy foreign policy. What the hell are they doing? Play this clip.
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I had Democratic Congresswoman and Democratic whip Catherine Clark on the Midas Touch show this weekend. And here's what Congresswoman Clark told me about Trump's expansionist policies. Play this clip.
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Then you had Democratic Senator Bennett on Meet the Press, by the way, at the same time that Donald Trump called into Kristen Welker, not on Meet the Press, but Donald Trump talked about that he's not joking. He wants a third term. He wants to be a dictator, just another blip in the Trump regime news cycle that he's not going to leave office. He said he wants to conquer Greenland.
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He's going to take it one way or another and doesn't rule out military force. Oh, Donald Trump also said that he could care less that prices are going up. Doesn't matter to him. And he doesn't even know what signal is. That's what he told Kristen Welker. Anyway, here's Democratic Senator Bennett play this clip.
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Folks, I've said it before and let me say it again, a tariff is a literal tax on on the consumer, it is passed by the importer onto the consumer. And it is what is causing all of this destruction in our economy right now, which was very easy to predict it was going to happen because in the past it was the cause of Great Depressions.
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Well, here's Donald golfing again, spending the whole week and golfing vacationing on the taxpayer dime. So utterly, utterly pathetic. You know, an interesting interview I did this weekend as well. I hope you enjoyed it. It was
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an interview with the former ambassador to Japan, the former mayor of Chicago, and the former chief of staff to former President Obama, Rahm Emanuel, because I wanted to ask him, Do you think that Donald Trump is trying to bring about a recession or a depression? And what Rahm Emanuel basically says is, I think so.
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I mean, what else are Trump's actions saying other than he actually wants a recession? Because we worked hard to avoid it. Donald Trump's just like, I don't care. You think he actually has a desire for it? Does he want a recession?
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And Donald Trump is now bringing the United States not just into a Great Recession, but a Great Depression. So then CNN and other corporate news, they try to bring on the Republicans who pretend to be not MAGA, you know, the Republicans who pretend to be the normies, but they're actually MAGA through and through. For example, MAGA Republican Senator
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Ukrainian President Zelensky is showing strength, standing up to Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Zelensky's like, all right, you want to see what a real strong man looks like? You want to see somebody who knows how to actually defend their country and is not afraid to go on the front lines? Bet. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
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And so, for example, over the past 24, 48 hours as well, when Putin was going to arrive and be with certain troops of his, I want you just to watch what they have to do to ensure that the Russian troops aren't going to kill Putin.
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Watch as they search one by one the troops themselves who are supposed to be defending Putin to make sure they don't have any weapons or things that may spontaneously combust when Putin's there. Now, as I mentioned at the outset of this video, Zelensky is showing what real strength looks like. Now, in my view, he's always showed that.
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But if it needs to be made clear visually to pathetic people like Donald Trump. Zelensky is like, but OK, I'll show you. So the latest from the Trump regime is they tried to throw a new mineral deal at Ukraine. And by deal, it basically just means the United States wants to steal all of the rare earth minerals, minerals of Ukraine.
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And so Ukraine is separately formed an incredibly strong alliance with reliable allies in Europe. in Canada, Australia and elsewhere. And more on that in a moment. But Zelensky got handed this new, quote unquote, rare earth mineral deal where the U.S. would basically steal all of the minerals and provide no security guarantees.
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And so Zelensky held a press conference and he said, yeah, Ukraine received another U.S. variant of minerals deal earlier, pointing out that this is an absolutely different document also than the first one, quote, And this is what Zelensky says. And shout out to Anton Gershkochenko for doing a great job documenting all of this. There are a lot of things that were not mentioned.
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Also, some things appeared that, let's say, the parties had rejected before. In other words, you're not slipping in things into bullshit contracts and giving them my way, Donald Trump. Zelensky also stated that Ukraine will not recognize all the previous U.S. military aid as debt. In other words...
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And Zelensky did an interview over the past few days where he's like, and by the way, I predict Putin is going to die soon.
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You're not going to hand us a crap deal and you're not going to try to leverage our suffering in Ukraine to steal from us. Watch Zelensky in his own words.
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Now, this from the Washington Post as well. Europe now seeks leverage as Trump negotiates with Russia on Ukraine, if you even want to call it that. The sub headline is European officials say sanctions on Russia and plans for troops in Ukraine showed that they hold some cards, too. So
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It's been clear, I think, in the view of Europe, as I've predicted before, that when Donald Trump was talking about a deal in Trump's mind, that meant that Trump would extract. And I say Trump, not the United States. Trump would steal the rare earth minerals from Zelensky and put him in like some sovereign wealth fund to benefit Trump and then sell out Ukraine and give it basically to Russia.
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And I think Trump and Putin were discussing spheres of influence. The United States would want to annex and take over Canada and Greenland and Panama and areas in North America. Give Europe to Russia and then give Asia to China. I think that's what... Was discussed. It's my opinion. But then it seems consistent with what Trump's been saying about Canada and Greenland over and over again.
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But then Europe was like, are you serious? OK, you you want us to flex? Then we'll flex.
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And so Europe said, OK, well, we're going to build our own troops and our own defense support and we've got Ukraine's back. Now you got to contend with us. We're not going to let Ukraine just be taken over by Putin. He's coming to us next. European countries plan to send a military team to Ukraine this week.
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to determine how many troops would be needed for the reassurance force and where they should be stationed. The Washington Post reports and they will confer with Ukraine on beefing up its army to hold a future front line. It's being reported that the European focus has also shifted to air and sea power as army chiefs point out the limitations of a large troop deployment.
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And as other countries propose their capabilities for patrols in Ukraine skies or in the Black Sea. I think that this cartoon here sums it up perfectly. A helping hands with friends like these who needs enemies. And it is Trump's hand with MAGA on his on his shirt, shaking the hand of Ukraine, wearing a kind of a hospital bracelet SOS and a snake for our audio listeners.
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As the Fox headline reads, Zelenskyy sensationally predicts Putin will die soon. But was it so sensational? I think both in terms of Putin's health issues, as well as the fact that Putin really got to look over his shoulder because, yeah, those poll numbers may be high. but they're completely manipulated and the people really absolutely hate him. So this happened over the past 48 hours as well.
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A snake is coming out of Donald Trump's jacket going towards Ukraine. As Jay from Kiev points out, now that Russia has spent over two weeks totally ignoring the ceasefire that it claims it was OK with as it relates to energy infrastructure ceasefire, let's look at what Americans said the U.S. should do if that happened. 64% of Americans said increased U.S. weapons assistance to Ukraine.
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42% says U.S. airstrikes on Russian assets in Ukraine. 30% would even be okay with U.S. troops being deployed in Ukraine. Now, part of Zelensky's diplomacy as well, working with his European reliable allies, was working with the president of Finland, Alexander Stubb. Good looking guy, athletic, great runner, triathlons.
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I mean, the guy's like basically an Olympian for those who don't know this guy. So I think they thought that. he would make a good impression on Donald Trump. So they send him to play golf with Donald Trump.
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And by the way, that seemed to work and that Donald Trump was impressed by the president of Finland, kind of keep that going, keep Trump kind of entertained and occupied while the serious business is being done in Europe. Zelensky posted the following as well. Unfortunately, today has already brought more Russian strikes and shellings.
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The Cherkasy region attacked by drones, the Kershan region, artillery and drone dropped explosive on ordinary buildings and civilians in Donetsk region, guided aerial bombs and drones and arterial. It goes through the various regions. The geography and brutality of Russian strikes, not just occasionally, but literally every day and night, show that Putin couldn't care less about diplomacy.
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For several weeks now, there has been a U.S. proposal for an unconditional ceasefire. And almost every day in response to the proposal, there are Russian drones, bombs, artillery shelling, and ballistic strikes. Russia deserves increased pressure. All the tough measures that can break its capacity to wage war and sustain the system. That's what's nothing but war.
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Sanctions against Russia are essential. More air defense for Ukraine is essential. More cooperation and unity among all partners is essential. Zelensky goes on to say, I spoke with president of Finland, Alexander Stubb, I thanked him for all the support Finland is providing, and we discussed ways to strengthen joint efforts with our partners to establish a lasting peace and security.
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Alexander shared details of his meeting with Trump. We are ready to work with our American partners as meaningful and quickly as possible to bring peace closer. There is also a common understanding that the ceasefire must be unconditional and reliable. Right now, Russia continues looking for excuses to drag this war out Even further, Putin is playing the same game he has since 2014.
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This is dangerous for everyone, and there should be an appropriate response from the United States, Europe, and all our global partners who seek peace. We need to engage more with America, find ways to force Russia into peace, and work on security guarantees, which must become our next step after the ceasefire.
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Thank you for the support and for all the efforts to end the war and achieve a dignified peace. By the way, that's how it's done right there. Just want to mention this as well. Greenland has a new prime minister, Jensen Frederick Nielsen, and he said the U.S. will not get Greenland. Trump says the U.S. is getting Greenland. Let me be clear. The U.S. is not getting it.
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We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future. We must not react with fear. We must react with calm, dignity, and unity. It is through these values that we must clearly, distinctly and calmly show the U.S. president that Greenland is ours. Just wanted to show that to you for another leader standing up against Donald Trump.
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And, you know, then Donald Trump does these reckless and absurd Trumpian things. I mean, reckless, absurd is the definition of Trump. This from the Financial Times. U.S. tells European companies to comply with Donald Trump's anti-diversity order. Move signals pushed by American president to widen his ideological campaign abroad.
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The Trump administration has sent a letter to some large companies in the EU warning them to comply with an executive order banning DEI diversity, equity and inclusion programs. According to the publication, the letter said that Trump's executive order applied to companies outside the U.S. if they were a supplier or service provider to the American government.
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Companies that are potentially exposed to the U.S. demands include aviation and defense groups, consulting providers, and infrastructure companies. The letters were written by U.S. embassy personnel in France, Belgium, and the countries of Eastern Europe. The letter was accompanied by a questionnaire to assess compliance with U.S. government requirements in this area.
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A limo in Putin's motorcade blew up in Moscow. Putin wasn't in it. Nobody was injured, but I guess you can call it a spontaneous combustion. Now Putin, Putin is already incredibly paranoid about every single thing. So that probably didn't help. And the timing of it probably didn't help.
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A senior banker in Paris said he was shocked by the letter. It's crazy, but everything is now possible. The rule of the strongest now prevails." The French foreign trade ministry expressed concerns about the situation. According to the Financial Times, a number of companies have just chosen so far not to respond to the administration's demand.
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And I wanted to highlight that to you because I think what the banker said at the end, this is now the law of the strong or projecting strong. The world order of alliances and handling things a certain way based on what Trump has done is gone. The peace and assurance and stability that the United States brought to the world since World War II is gone.
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And everybody recognizes that now, unfortunately. And so what you're seeing is the projection of raw strength. What we're seeing Prime Minister Mark Carney deliver harsh messages to, and rightfully so, smacking down the Trump regime. We're seeing it with European leaders. meetings that are held as well, defense packs leaving out the United States.
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And ultimately, it's like, okay, Trump, you want us to treat you like crap? You want us to treat you like the little piece of orange turd crap that you are? We'll do that. Because apparently, when you do that, that's how Donald Trump's like, oh, I guess then I must do something. Oh, that's the only way you get this idiot to listen. So
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We're seeing that across the board right now, and you're seeing how Zielinski, I think, is masterfully and artfully navigating all of this as well. Well, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe, and let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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As I posted on my social media accounts, not a good sign that the weekend before what Trump calls Liberation Day on April 2nd, when all of his tariffs are going to go into effect, Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who has been on TV nonstop up to this point, acting like a sham, wow, infomercial salesman, all of a sudden goes MIA infomercial. and refuses to do interviews.
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You think he actually has a desire for, does he want a recession?
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And Lutnick's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, say that again. That's not going to happen here. Play this clip.
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There you have it, folks. MIA, Howard Lutnick. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Now, Howard Lutnick, for example, was at the cabinet meetings, and he would be glazing Donald Trump nonstop. This guy is the ultimate glazer. He just says whatever he needs to say to get in Donald Trump's good graces. So here is the most recent cabinet meeting, again, before he went MIA this weekend, where Howard Lutnick started talking about April 2nd, Liberation Day this, Liberation Day that.
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Here, play this clip.
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I got to show you quickly, though, what my ShamWow reference is. I may be dating myself here, but there was this infomercial ShamWow and the guy would say, I got a shammy. It's a wow. I know this guy reminds me so much of Howard Lutnick. This was the short clip of the ShamWow infomercial. Play this clip.
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Yeah, now Howard Lutnick once again was nowhere to be found this weekend to answer questions. heading into what Trump's referring to as Liberation Day, when all of these countries will start being tariffed even more, which many expect will further crash the economy. Of course, the markets are already crashing. People's 401ks and life savings are absolutely destroyed.
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But a few weeks back when Howard Lutnick was on Fox, he was asked by Maria Bartiromo, How much time is it going to take? How much time is it going to take? To which Howard Lutnick blamed former President Biden's administration. But to be clear, there was no mess that the Trump regime was left with. If you want to call it a mess, they were left with 4% unemployment, record low unemployment.
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So over the weekend, for example, on CBS Face the Nation, they said, we try to get Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnik on, because he's been the one talking about the tariffs and all of these things. He's been promising an economic boom, but our economy's crashing. But Howard Lutnik refused to show up and do interviews this weekend at a critical time.
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record highs in the stock market, about 16.2 million new jobs in the last four years, hundreds of billions of dollars in investments teed up and being pumped into the economy for infrastructure, the CHIPS Act, the PACT Act, Infrastructure Act, Inflation Reduction Act, American Recovery Act, things were doing great. And then these idiots screwed it all up.
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Here was Howard Lutnick before he went MIA, play this clip.
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Here's Howard Lutnick again being asked, hey, you know, does the president want the stock market to rise? Because confidence is being shaken, to which Howard Lutnick's like, the fact that the stock market goes down here, there, who cares? We don't care about the stock market. Seriously? That's what you're going with? This is what he said a few weeks ago, again, before he went MIA. Play this clip.
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Now, Howard Lutnick is also the guy who went on the All In podcast, like a podcast, a bro podcast thing of like rich guys. And he was saying that if you complain about social security, the reason that you complain is probably like not getting your social security check is because you must be committing fraud. So let's just say a social security check doesn't arrive here or there.
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And here, Howard Lutnick is asked on that Rich Guy podcast, do we need to, oligarch podcast, do we need to speak in a more empathetic way about what Doge is doing? Should we be more empathetic because, you know, they're firing veterans and all these federal workers, and then they're defaming them and saying that
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It was for performance related reasons when there was not performance related reasons and you're destroying people's lives and you're making people terrified to like fly on airplanes and travel or do basic things. Should we be a little bit more empathetic to which Howard Lutton is like, no, no, definitely no, no, no. Here, play this clip.
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This is what went down on Face the Nation. Play this clip.
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By the way, if you want to see what's going on in right-wing propaganda TV land, one of their shows, Mike Lindell has a show, Lindell TV. You just got to watch this because I was trying to find out where in the world Lutnik was over this past weekend. And he's in Mar-a-Lago.
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But one of the ways I found out was they apparently cover like where Trump's traveling and like the people who go on the helicopter on this like right-wing propaganda TV. I have to show this to you just so you can like literally see how crazy this stuff is. But this is what's going on on right-wing TV right now here playing this clip.
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In other words, Howard Lutnick refused to face the nation. Now, where was Howard Lutnick? A few signs of where he was. We saw him going into the helicopter and heading out to Mar-a-Lago. So he seemed to be vacationing with Donald Trump. You can see right there the arrow. That's Howard Lutnick right there. But as I said in the post, Howard Lutnick is like a ShamWow salesman.
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Now here is Howard Lutnick talking about taking over Panama and Greenland. Let's play this.
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Now let's just take a look to about what happened as Howard Lutnick was going on that helicopter to leave Mar-a-Lago. This is what Fox was reporting about the stock market last week. And folks, things are going to get even worse this week, in my opinion. Play this clip.
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Also on Sunday, you had Elon Musk attacking the Federal Reserve and saying, end the Fed, end the Federal Reserve. Why are there all these people working there? Yes, they're gonna try to attack the Federal Reserve at a critical time while they're sending the United States into a Great Depression. Play this clip.
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He's been on TV all this time, and he's been pushing and peddling the most ridiculous stuff by Donald Trump. For example, a few weeks ago when he was asked, hey, you know, The Atlanta Federal Reserve shows there's going to be a 2.4% contraction in the economy, and we're heading for a great recession, if not a depression. Howard Lutnick, how do you respond to what the economists are saying?
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Now, all of the indicators are showing just how unpopular the Trump regime is. You know, Trump's approval rating is sinking and plummeting. It's less than 43% right now. Only 24% of Americans say that their income is keeping up with inflation right now. All this trade war stuff is doing is moving alliances outside of the US. So China, South Korea, Japan strengthening their trade.
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Canada strengthening trade with China, Mexico strengthening trade with China, Europe strengthening trade within itself, and Australia, Canada, Europe, and just isolating the United States, icing the United States out as a result of this horrific, horrific policy. From Canada's The Globe and Mail, Trump's self-inflicted recession begins to take shape.
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I think America will be lucky at this point if it's a recession. I think we're heading into a great recession. if not a Great Depression, as a result of what Trump's doing right now. I mean, this is what's caused depressions in the past. It's not hard to predict what's taking place. And the fact that now you have Howard Lutnick not going on TV on the weekend after
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scaring the crap out of people with Social Security, saying that Doe shouldn't be empathetic, lying about the state of our economy, saying that, oh, it's not going to be that bad, doing his ShamWow infomercial routine, while the reality is, is that the Atlanta Federal Reserve believes there will be a 2.8% contraction.
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And it makes sense that there's going to be with all of their horrific policies. It's obvious that that's where this is headed. And then there's going to be successive quarters over. So this is not complicated. This is not complicated economics here. They're crashing the economy. They're crashing it right now. I'll show you this. This is Rahm Emanuel.
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I asked him, I said, do you think they're crashing the economy on purpose? You got to watch this. Rahm Emanuel, former Obama chief of staff, former ambassador to Japan, and former mayor of Chicago. Guy knows, guys know stuff. And he says, we worked hard to stop recession. These idiots like want to create a recession. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Has Disaster Arrival to DC as It All Goes Wrong
A very bumpy landing as Donald Trump headed back to Washington DC from his vacation in Mar-a-Lago. The headlines were as such, White House officials are quietly freaking out about Trump's upcoming Liberation Day tariff announcement. Trump says he's gonna tariff the entire world on April 2nd. This has caused our markets here in the United States to crash.
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Now, take a look at this chart right here from the Kyiv Insider reposted by Carl Quintanilla. While the United States is spiraling into Trump-induced chaos and our markets are crashing here in the United States, European equity markets are now outperforming the U.S. markets by a record margin.
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Also, as I mentioned before over the weekend, you have the Atlanta Federal Reserve once again predicting negative 2.8% GDP in quarter one. a 2.8% contraction. Now even Goldman's prediction went from 1.8% GDP Q1 to 0.2%. That's likely going to be in negative territory very soon as well. Also last night, the futures market for the Dow, NASDAQ,
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and S&P started to absolutely crash from this Trump-induced chaos. Donald Trump on Air Force One was asked about what he thinks about all of this, and Trump said, the United States is respected again. We've done it. This is a great success, he says. Here, play this clip.
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continues to talk about how he wants to have a third term as a dictator. He says there are many ways to do it, but he says everybody's telling him that he's the greatest there is, that this is the greatest presidency in history, and that he needs to be a third term president, even though the Constitution doesn't allow it.
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In other words, Donald Trump's saying that he's going to try to continue to seize power and rule like a dictator while destroying the United States of America. Play this clip.
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Now, on this descent into Washington DC on Air Force One, Donald Trump was asked about stagflation. That means very low GDP and it also means surging inflation. Donald Trump says he's never really heard that term stagflation. Play this clip.
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Look, anybody who is supportive of this, all of the people in his inner circle are beneath redemption at this point, frankly, before this point as well. But these people are enabling some of the biggest travesties, the biggest stains in the history of our country. This is horrific, horrific behavior. Donald Trump is asked by a reporter on Air Force One,
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about the tariffs because the reporter is trying is like being fed lines by others in the trump regime to talk about oh so we hear you're only going to tariff 10 to 15 countries is that true to which donald trump says no that's not true i'm tariffing the world the entire world has treated us badly then he calls out asia and europe and basically everywhere and says the entire world has treated us horrifically the whole world gets tariff play this clip
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And as I mentioned before, the NASDAQ futures, all of the futures markets are absolutely crashing as of last night. It's going to be a
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shellacking in the market as well but what were they talking about on the propaganda state regime network known as fox well lara trump was asking the interior secretary doug bergum about whether or not their intention is to make sure that donald trump's face goes on mount rushmore i know absolutely pathetic let's play here is in charge of the national park service
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Last night, Elon Musk trying to buy votes in Wisconsin for the Supreme Court race scheduled for April 1st between a MAGA Doge candidate named Brad Schimel, who Trump and Musk want so that Wisconsin can be destroyed like the federal government. They want to inflict disaster and misery, even more misery on the people of Wisconsin. Brad Schimel, Mr. Doge, Mr. Misery, Mr. Disaster.
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On the other hand, there's the pro-democracy candidate, Judge Susan Crawford, law and order, good lifelong judge, prosecutor. She's the pro-democracy candidate. There were protests outside of Green Bay where Elon Musk was speaking last night and he was like, giving people $100 or these million dollar checks, which are highly suspect, would be doing an understatement.
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Now, Elon Musk, during his speech, talked about how he wants to abolish the Federal Reserve. And he says there are 20,000 people working in the Federal Reserve. Those people need to go here, play this clip.
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Also, Elon Musk continues to attack Social Security, and he said that there were 20 million dead people on Social Security. This is false. This has been 100% debunked. By the way, Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, who refused to go on network news over this weekend to talk about Liberation Day, he was a chicken, he's a coward. He's hiding from Face the Nation and other media.
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You see him in the back right there in the Air Force One shots that I was showing you. But this is the guy who would go on all those blah, all those podcasts, bro stuff. And he would say, if you complain, and he does it with his hand, it's like a hand motion. It's like, if you are complaining that you get your social security check late, then you are a fraud.
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Then on Air Force One last night, Donald Trump again started attacking Canada, saying we don't need Canada. We don't need anything from them at all. Attacking the sovereignty of Canada once again. Here, play this clip.
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The people who complain about not receiving their social security check, they're the ones who are committing fraud. Let's say social security didn't send out their checks.
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Also, we learned over the weekend, a new ACLU filing shed light on how Andre, the gay makeup artist sent to rot in the prison in El Salvador, ended up being labeled Tren de Aragua by the fascist Trump regime's ICE. Documents filed by ICE show the only evidence that they had is that he had a tattoo that said mom and dad on it. You see right here his tattoos.
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Here are the tattoos that ICE declared were evidence that Andre, a gay makeup artist, who came to a port of injury seeking asylum from Venezuela, was a member of the vicious gang Trende Aragua. The tattoos literally say mom and dad. I previously reported over the weekend also that Donald Trump said that he could not care less if prices surge.
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He said that he wants a third term to rule as a dictator. He says he's going to take over Greenland. that military force is an option. He's not afraid to use military force against our own NATO allies, Denmark and Greenland. He said he doesn't know what signal is as well. And he claims that he's not gonna fire anybody over the fact that classified information was sent on text messages.
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We're learning from a Wall Street Journal story last night as well, that the Trump Department of Defense and National Security apparatus consistently, as we predicted, not a big shocker, consistently had class discussions about war plans and classified information over unclassified channels like Signal and other text threads. That's where we're at right now.
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Donald Trump is panic posting on Monday morning. He's attacking pollsters since Donald Trump's polls are the lowest in modern presidential history. They're actually the lowest going back probably about 80 years. He refers to pollsters whose polls he doesn't like as, and this is a direct quote, negative criminals. He then calls them frauds.
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I mean, this is some of the most despicable behavior imaginable right here. And it just goes to show you just, again, how immature Donald Trump is as well, and how vile and dangerous he is. And of course, everything he's saying here is false and fraudulent. I mean, Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the United States, and Donald Trump wants to see Canada destroyed.
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And the fact that Donald Trump wants to make Canada's election about himself is just... Again, there's really no words for it other than it's just it's humiliating for the United States. So then Donald Trump sends out his Treasury Secretary Scott Besant for this interview on Fox.
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Brian Kilmeade this morning asks Scott Besant, Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, if he's worried about empty shelves in stores since shipping from China has essentially come to a halt. And since products are not reaching the United States of America, listen to what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says in his typical arrogant and smug way. Play this clip.
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Did you hear what he said right there? He goes, I'm not worried about it at the present. At the present, I'm not worried about it. Are you going to be worried about it in the future?
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Are you going to be worried about it in the next few weeks when products are not on our shelves, when there's a summer of scarcity, when someone's air conditioning breaks down and they can't fix it, when kids can't get school supplies, when People can't buy gifts for people for Christmas. At what point, Scott Besant, are you going to be a little bit worried about it?
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He says they are sick and that they are truly the enemy of the people and implies that they need to be imprisoned. So as Donald Trump's first post this morning, he then interferes with Canada's election today. and asserts that Canada should be the 51st state. Again, he talks about annexing and conquering Canada. And he says that he should be Canada's leader, implying that they should vote for him.
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Because it seems that your job as the Treasury Secretary should be not to engage in trade wars that destroy the United States of America's economy and strengthen the rest of the world, by the way. And so here, Brian Kilmeade asks Treasury Secretary Besson some more questions about China. And you see Scott Besson goes, you know, maybe, maybe they'll call me someday, China.
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Maybe they'll give me a call. Here, play this clip.
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And again, the level of arrogance here, how kind of nonchalant he is about this while America's economy is suffering and we can see, again, trucking volumes and freight volumes coming to an absolute halt. You know, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson overnight said the following. Let me make it clear one more time. China and the U.S.
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are not engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs. China's been making it clear over and over again, despite Donald Trump over the weekend once more lying and saying that he's been involved in direct negotiations with China's President Xi Jinping and that there are all these conversations taking place and deals are imminent. China's saying there's no conversations taking place.
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Let us be very, very clear. And by the way, how do we know that's accurate? Because we can see trucking volumes. We can see freight volumes. We can see that there's no movement at all on any of the on any of the trade war issues. So then the White House held a press conference early in the morning. They brought in their border czar. They call him Tom Homan.
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In front of the White House, they had placards of mugshots of migrants set up in the area where reporters do their media hits. You can see them right there, these placards and the mugshots. So the whole White House lawn had these mugshot placards on it. So what were they talking about at the press briefing earlier this morning? Caroline Leavitt, the chief propagandist,
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took credit for the Colorado College quarterback, Shador Sanders, getting picked in the draft. Four rounds after Donald Trump made a post about Shador Sanders saying he needs to be drafted now. Four rounds after. Tell me you know nothing about sports without telling me you know nothing about sports. And why are you talking about this? Here, play this clip.
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I mean, this is the most despicable election interference imaginable. And it's just embarrassing and humiliating. Donald Trump trying to make Canada's election all about himself today. Donald Trump posts the following. Good luck to the great people of Canada.
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Then Donald Trump's chief propagandist talks about having 18 written trade proposals. There's no holdup. Even though we said 90 deals in 90 days, we now have 18 written trade proposals here. So things are moving smoothly here. Play this clip.
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But Caroline, didn't Donald Trump say in the Time magazine interview
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that he's already done 200 deals oh but then treasury secretary scott besant said no donald trump was not referring to deal deals he was referring to sub deals we should have known that these were sub deal uh conversations oh by the way scott besant uh in that interview he talks about doing he was asked about the deals as well and he goes yeah we're doing bespoke deals bespoke deals
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What are you doing? Bespoke deals? What are you talking about? What does it even mean? Here, play this clip.
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elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power for free to the highest level in the world, have your car, steel, aluminum, lumber, energy, and all other businesses quadruple in size with zero tariffs or taxes if Canada becomes the cherished 51st state of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago.
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They have alternative facts, bespoke deals, sub deals. It's all a bunch of BS. Caroline Leavitt, speaking to the press this morning, also says, we love Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense Hegseth. We see no issues with Signalgate, no issue with sending classified information over text messages. He's got the full confidence of the president. We think he's doing a great job. Here, play this clip.
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Just so you see the type of things that Tom Homan, the border guy, the border czar, was saying during this press conference. Tom Homan was saying that Mexico's paid for the wall. In a roundabout way, they paid for the wall. Here, watch this.
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We're saving millions of dollars every day. Go back and look. I think there were 20,000 troops at the border when former President Biden was in office. I think there's actually less troops. Troops at the border, by the way, while you're at it, Tom Homan or Donald Trump or anybody in the Trump administration, do you want to acknowledge the two American troops who died that you sent to the border?
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You don't do that anymore. You don't, you know, express your. When our troops die, you don't address that anymore. That's not something that you talk about. Okay. Just cover it up. Okay. You're not going to talk about the four Lithuanian soldiers, American soldiers who died in Lithuania. Nope. I understand. Y'all are very busy people. Like.
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Over the weekend, you all were holding an event during the White House correspondent dinner, which Trump didn't show up to. The big event was at the Willard Hotel. Donald Trump Jr. and White House crypto czar David Sachs held an after party and launched a club for the ultra wealthy called the Executive Branch. That's what they're calling their club.
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That costs more than a half a million dollars to join. Normal stuff. normal stuff. Oh, and by the way, just as an aside, unlike the horrific things this Trump regime does every day, the Smithsonian is now removing exhibits and artifacts from the African American History Museum a month after President Trump's executive order to remove what he calls improper ideology from Smithsonian museums.
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So they are erasing African American history. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Look how beautiful this landmass would be Free access with no border. All positives with no negatives. It was meant to be, exclamation point. America can no longer subsidize Canada with the hundreds of billions of dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a state. I'm sorry, Canada.
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So what's he going to do? He's got to defraud his base even more in the American people. So now what he's saying is, look, I think we're making so much money from the tariffs. He says, I don't even think we're going to need taxes.
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I think we could pretty much eliminate or lower taxes for everyone because, folks, we've got the external revenue service and that's working so you're not going to have to pay taxes anymore. That's how Donald Trump strings along his base, previously his investors, when he would bankrupt companies. He's doing it again.
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I'll show you what Donald Trump said when he landed after that disastrous trip he took in Rome, where he was wearing the blue suit. He was the only person violating the dress code at Pope Francis' funeral. He was like sleeping and he looked like gross there and all of the attendees were like repulsed and disgusted by him.
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flies back to the US and here he is, one of his first interviews when he gets back, saying, I think we're going to be able to do a complete tax cut because these tariffs are bringing in so much money. We're rich, like we're winning right now. No, we're not, Donald, but watch a fraud in action. Play this clip.
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Now, part of Donald Trump's fraud is stringing people along with fake deadlines. He did it in his businesses when he bankrupted casinos and other businesses that he would run. He does it again. I want you just to think back to his first term in office. What would he say about his healthcare plan? Two weeks away, just you wait. It's coming in two weeks, I promise.
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It would never arrive in two weeks. And that's what he would say about all of his plans. That's a big, beautiful plan. Just give me two more weeks. Erinnerst du dich an die 60-Minuten-Interview mit Donald Trump während seines ersten Termins? Er hatte einen blanken Binder mit blanken Teilen von Papier, um zu zeigen, wie sein Gesundheitsplan aussah.
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Aber dann hat der Unternehmer Leslie Stahl es geöffnet und sah, dass es alle blanken Teile waren. Das ist einer der Gründe, warum Donald Trump 60 Minuten hasst und wirklich auf sie fokussiert ist. Hier hat ein Reporter Donald Trump über seine Diskussionen als Teil seines Friedensplans in der Ukraine gefragt. Erinnere dich, Trump hat versprochen, dass er in 24 Stunden...
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Er würde Frieden in der Ukraine bringen. Er sagt, er wusste Zelenskyy gut. Er kennt Putin. Es wäre einfach, einen Friedensvertrag zu machen. Er sagte, es sollte in der Tat weniger als 24 Stunden dauern. Sobald er ausgewählt wurde, hat er gesagt, es würde passieren. Offensichtlich sind sie nirgendwo nahe an einem Friedensvertrag. Trump hat Dinge tatsächlich wesentlich schlimmer gemacht.
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Und Donald Trump sagt diesem Reporter, gib mir zwei Wochen, ich werde diese Sache in zwei Wochen durchführen. Und der Reporter sagt diesem Reporter, gib mir einen Tag, zwei Wochen zu was?
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Das ist Teil der Ruckpull. Das ist Teil der Ponzi-Scheme, richtig? Du drückst Leute an. Das Problem ist, dass es genauso mit Covid geht, wenn er sagt, wie ein Wunder, es wird alles weggehen. Es geht nicht. Und dann compoundieren die Probleme. And then there's destruction that takes place when it could actually be avoided if you just address the actual issue versus lie about it.
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Like someone who's like responsible would deal with the situations, not Donald Trump. Here's what we know, folks, which is getting underreported. But you know now we've been talking about it here on the Midas Touch Network for weeks. It's freight volume and it's trucking volume. Die Schiffe, die wir in die Vereinigten Staaten bringen sollen, liegen in den Städten in China, wie in Shanghai.
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Sie gehen nicht aus China in andere Bereiche, nicht in die Vereinigten Staaten. Wenn man sich die Städte im Westkosten der Vereinigten Staaten anschaut, wie in Long Beach und anderen, sind sie im Grunde nicht da. So what this means is that in the next two or three weeks, we're going to run out of products on the shelves.
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So the damage has effectively been done already, even if Trump were to now try to reverse course or come up with some deal, which he's not able to do anyway. What are we, day 16, no deals, when they said 90 deals in 90 days? The damage has been inflicted. And so it's going to start to happen. Then corporate news is going to be like, oh my God, where did this come from?
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If you're following freight and trucking volumes, you know what's happening right now. And that's why these big company CEOs like Walmart and Target and Home Depot and then the airline industry and the car industry, they're all saying, Donald, you have to stop this. You're about to... cause a depression. And Trump's not stopping it. He's just defrauding us all.
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So the reporter asked Donald Trump when he lands any movement on China. Donald Trump says a little bit. They obviously want to make a deal. Here, play this clip.
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And again, more lies right there. And I think Donald Trump's MAGA-mushbrain audience, that 35% of Americans who are MAGA, they'll never be convinced otherwise. Trying to even appeal to them, I think they're a lost cause. But that's about 35%, maybe slightly less of the country. Independents understand what's happening now. Of course, Democrats do.
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And people who were not politically engaged and weren't like MAGAs, they're looking at this like, what the heck is going on? I mean, take a look just at a poll among independents for April. Fox has Donald Trump's approval at 26% among independents. New York Times, it's 29%. CNN, 31%. YouGov, 30%. CBS, 36%. ABC Washington Post, Ipsos, 33%. So he's underwater in all of these categories.
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Let me just show you this as well, how Donald Trump uses the two weeks thing as like fraud. This is from April 4th, what I want to show you right now, when Donald Trump was, or April 3rd, when Donald Trump was on Air Force One. And remember, he said in two weeks, he said he was going to roll out the Trump gold card that he was going to sell for $5 million.
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He said to Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs and all these billionaires would buy citizenship in the United States. Remember what he said two weeks away, two weeks away. Play this clip.
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No deals Donald strikes again. There's a reason why we call this the rug pull presidency or the Ponzi scheme presidency, because as he gets less popular by the day, he resorts to more fraud. But what would you expect? The guy is a fraud. He was found liable for fraud. He's a felon. He's a sexual abuser. He's behaving consistent with his despicable low character.
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Ready for some questions? Anybody want to buy one? who's basically become Bernie Madoff at this point. Besant starts the weeks by teasing conversations with China, manipulates the market. The markets go up temporarily on Besants news that there are these discussions.
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And Besant, I think, realizes he can manipulate the markets by injecting, I think, false information into the markets, in my opinion. Er wurde über den Wochenende gefragt, Scott, erzähl uns über Trumps Strategie, Tarife zu erneut zu erneut zu erneut zu erneut zu erneut zu erneut zu erneut zu erneut zu erneut. Warum glaubst du, dass das eine gute Strategie ist?
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And Besant goes, we're doing strategic uncertainty, he says. This is all part of the plan. Strategic uncertainty. They're calling Donald Trump's malicious recklessness strategic uncertainty because they think we're all stupid. Strategic uncertainty. No, Donald Trump is just taking a wrecking ball to the economy. Play this clip.
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What are these deals? There hasn't been a single deal announced, Scott. So what are these 200 deals that Trump claims that he made? And Scott Besant, as I've said, he's like Bernie Madoff at this point. Besant goes, oh, oh, oh, sub deals. He's done the sub deals. The sub deals? What the heck are you talking? What's a sub deal? You either did a deal or you didn't do a deal. Sub deals, everybody.
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And finally, as Donald Trump was ranting and raving like a lunatic yesterday and this morning, what was he focused on? What was he talking about? Columbus Day. I'm bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes, he said. Democrats tried to destroy Christopher Columbus. They tore down his statues and put up nothing but woke this, woke that. Do you see Donald Trump's Ponzi-Scheme moves?
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Do you see the fraud that he does? You see his tactics, right? Think about like the way spoiled little petulant brats, no offense to them, how they behave and they react, you know, if they're confronted and seen to be lying, right? You try to change the topic. You go back to familiar ground. Yeah, but you're woke. Aber du bist wach.
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Donald Trump, seeing his poll numbers like this, historically unpopular, 39% approval in the Washington Post, ABC, Ipsos poll, the lowest 100-day score in 80 years. The CNN poll had his approval at 41%, the lowest as well in decades, pretty much dating back to the beginning of CNN even doing these polls. So what's Donald Trump going to do? He's a Ponzi schemer. He gets desperate. He's a fraud.
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Oh, ich verspreche dir, dieses Mal werde ich jedem sagen, dass jeder reich wird. Oh nein, du machst den Wachstum. Christopher Columbus, lass mich eine Kulturwahl machen. Ich weiß, dass ihr mich alle jetzt hasst, also lass mich Kulturwahl machen. Sollen wir über trans-Volleyballspieler sprechen? Wie soll ich das machen, Trick? Es ist verrückt. Ich möchte nur, dass ihr es sehen könnt.
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Um diese Bewegungen zu verstehen, die er und sein Regime von Fraud machen. Because it's ridiculous. Regardless of what political party you are, you should not stand for this. And it should be obvious. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe, help us get to 5 million subscribers and thank you so much for watching.
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fraud, waste, mismanagement, and now apparently the MAGA Republicans in the Senate and the House think there should be no guardrails at all. Trump should do whatever he wants.
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Next up, I want to share with you MAGA Republican Senator Lindsey Graham also justifying anything, essentially saying, yeah, Donald Trump should be able to fire the inspectors general, despite the fact that there is a law that quite literally prevents Trump from doing it. The law states that Donald Trump would have to provide 30 days notice to the House of Representatives and the Senate
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prior to a termination of the inspectors general. And in that notice, give a very detailed reasons why there's a termination with specific instances, what the inspectors general did to justify a termination. Now, if you are a Senator or a House of Representative member, you are a co-equal branch, co-equal.
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And our founders expected you to protect your turf, not with these MAGA Republicans, watch this.
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So as you see, folks, there is no law, no anything that they actually care about at all. In my opinion, they're fine with dictatorship, authoritarianism. Speaking of which, here's Tom Homan, Donald Trump's border czar, and here he's asked about these raids that are taking place in schools. Mass deportation raids in elementary schools, high schools, middle schools.
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That we're now learning about across the country. And what Tom Homan says here, Donald Trump's borders are as well. They may be MS-13. They may be gang members, these people. Here, play this clip.
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Look, we all agree that gang members should be deported, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That was the Biden policy. Donald Trump killed a bipartisan border deal that would have provided more funding two cops, more funding to border patrol agents to deal with this. They killed it because they wanted to say that there's this emergency and that there's all of this chaos.
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By the way, border crossings were down under President Biden. Objective data. We still care about that at the Midas Touch Network. Just as low, if not lower, than they were under Trump's first term. Trump's border crossings down the lowest in the Trump term, April 2020, because of COVID. Otherwise, Biden had lower border crossings than Trump at the end of the Biden administration. I just...
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I gotta show you this and perhaps it's me being a little bit petty. But this is a Latino who voted for Trump, saying that he's against Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric and his mass deportation. But he still was rooting for Trump even though he doesn't like mass deportations and he may get deported. Here, watch this.
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I mean, you're going to have to explain that one. You're going to have to go down to the depths of psychiatry to explain that one pathology. Going back to this mega Republican Senator J.D. Vance. Here he justifies the pardoning and commutations of. January 6th, insurrectionists, many who tried to kill police officers. And J.D.
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Watching these MAGA Republican senators and Congress members over the weekend shows try to justify Donald Trump's unlawful orders and Donald Trump's unlawful behavior, it just goes to show you there's no depth to their depravity. they will justify anything for their cult leader. I want to give you some key exhibits here to show you what went down.
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Vann says, look, violence against police officers is not justified, but... He has a but. And if you're law enforcement and you're watching this, but... But there may be sometimes if it helps Trump, but here, play this clip.
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How, I mean, how pathetic is that? Then as part of this interview with JD Vance on Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan did a good job in this interview. She said, okay, well, your campaign promise was lowering prices. Are you going to do that, JD? You're going to lower the prices? And what's JD's response? JD goes, we've done a lot. And she's like, like what? I don't see any executive orders.
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And JD goes, it's going to take time. We need time. It's going to take time. Here, play the clip.
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So now the goalposts are changing because Donald Trump said it was going to happen on day one, right away, instantly. Just so we all know, I mean, here's what Trump said about that. Play this clip.
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Oh, but I guess just like peace in Ukraine, that's now pushed some indefinite timeline in the future. Lowering prices, that's pushed to some indefinite timeline in the future. But like Donald Trump has time to sell meme coins. Isn't that what y'all wanted, meme coins? And Donald Trump has time to post weird AI images of himself. Also, you have J.D.
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Vance attacking the Conference of Catholic Bishops. And J.D. Vance says that, oh, the fact that they're out there trying to protect LGBTQ and marginalized community and migrant rights, that really what they're doing is that they're greedy and they're money hungry, the Conference of Catholic Bishops. And J.D. Vance goes, he converted to Catholicism.
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For example, MAGA Republican Senator Tom Cotton justifying Donald Trump terminating the inspectors general from the various agencies and departments, many of whom Donald Trump appointed during the first Trump administration. These are the watchdogs who are supposed to guard over crimes,
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He goes, as a devout Catholic, I am ashamed of these groups that are saying that we need to show mercy. Here, play this clip.
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And finally, right here, JD Vance has asked, okay, well, you've always said that big tech needs to be broken up and big tech needs to be stopped. but you had all the big tech broligarchs there after they gave money to you and Donald Trump, hundreds of millions of dollars, they're there. So you're with them now and watch J.D. Vance's word selling.
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And folks, I want to highlight these videos. I could have showed you more, you get the point. Because these are promises broken by MAGA Republicans, and they're not looking out for the interests of we the people, objectively. Their focus is on the broligarchs. Their focus is on authoritarianism. Their focus is on breaking our constitution. And we need to highlight what they're doing here.
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We're hearing stories like this. Now, guess what? They are saying that the countries Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti that were allowed in the U.S. through the Biden humanitarian parole program are at risk of being deported, too, even though they technically came in legally. It's just that most don't have their resident card yet, which can take years, by the way.
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and this makes them at risk of being deported or detained. Also, ICE is even trying to detain immigrants who are legal. My dad, since he became an American citizen, thought he was safe. No, sweetheart, you're still not white. This feels amazing.
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because he thought this would never happen i warned them this is what happens when you backstab la raza latinos for trump more like latinos for discrimination and we're seeing even within maga a lot of the white maga members are trying to get ice to deport hispanic maga members and just hispanic people in general this was a major story that was just reported on this is in the new york post
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Texas teacher invites ICE to raid his school. Quote, I have many students who don't even speak English. Y'all should come to Fort Worth, Texas to Northside High School. I have many students who don't even speak English and they are in the 10th to 11th grade. They have to communicate through their iPhone translator with me.
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And he says, basically, the United States government should totally overhaul our school system in Texas as well. This video right here went viral of a Latino woman who voted for Donald Trump breaking down. She says, now I'm so scared. Why did you do this to me? God, please protect us. God, protect me, please. Here, watch this.
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Well, I can't speak for God, but I can show you a video clip of Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, who says that they're going into elementary schools, they're going into middle schools. He says because there are a lot of MS-13 members in elementary schools, specifically many of them, he says, are in these elementary schools. And again... They're using criminals and terrorists as pretext.
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Criminals and terrorists were never allowed to be here. The Biden administration was very strong on that. Biden's border policies actually led to the least crossings since April of 2020 when Trump was in office. The reason why it was low when Trump was in office was because Trump mishandled COVID. So Biden got it lower than that. There was no chaos with trade wars and tariffs.
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Things were normal, not chaotic and utterly just disastrous as they are now. But here's what Tom Homan has to say. Play this clip.
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And as I think about what the borders are, Tom Homan has to say, I'm always reminded of clips like this, like this Latino voter who voted for Trump. but says that he was really against Trump's immigrant policy and his policy of mass deportation, but he disliked him and so that's why he wanted to vote for him. Here, play this clip.
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Well, all of this is going on to what's Donald Trump doing. Trump was golfing and selling meme coins, making posts like this one of a sandstorm sweeping over a city. With the dollar sign Trump, which is the ticker to his meme coin, which by the way is crashing down about 60% over the past 70 days or so. I'll show you this clip right here. This is from Sherry. This video is going viral.
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This is her message for the Cubans in Miami who are now being targeted as well by ICE-related raids and by Donald Trump's policies. Here, let's play this clip.
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Here's a report also talking about some of these workplace raids that have begun. None of these people are the criminals or the terrorists. Here, play this clip.
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Well, we tried to warn these Latino voters for Trump. Again, F around and find out videos are a very difficult thing because I hate seeing people suffering, even if they voted for Trump. We're all suffering now under Donald Trump is the reality.
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But you need to take a hard look in the mirror at what you did, what you enabled by voting for this sicko, by putting in this authoritarian regime that hates you. And now the rest of us have to deal with this because you... You made a horrible decision for the rest of us.
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And so it's shameful that you would do such a thing and support such an idiot, criminal, felon, sexual assaulter in Donald Trump. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thank you for watching.
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Latino voters are feeling utterly betrayed by Donald Trump. Well, we told you so. We're hearing stories like this of a MAGA dad sending a text message to his daughter saying, Hi sweetie, keep a pic of your passport in your phone. And this lady goes, A text I got from my dad today. He's a Latino who voted for Trump. I'm just numb at this point. I really tried to tell him.
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This also follows Donald Trump's pick to be the ambassador of Israel, Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas. who said that he also holds a biblical view that he believes that Palestine should never exist, that it never existed, and he considers himself to be a Christian Zionist, is how he refers to himself. Also, Donald Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, holds views like this as well.
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Also, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was previously quoted as saying that he would be OK or he would encourage basically all of Gaza and the West Bank to just be totally demolished so that condominiums could be built there.
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Also, this follows Donald Trump saying in the Oval Office last week when he was referring to Gaza, he was referring to it as a great piece of land where things can be built. And he was talking about it as though he was considered building condos or apartments there. He says it's got great waterfront properties. That's how Donald Trump was talking about it.
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So now with all of that, we have a lot of Muslim voters who voted for Donald Trump who are now regretting their vote. But you effed around and you found out this is who Donald Trump has always been.
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And also there were Muslim voters who said, look, Trump and Kamala are basically the same and there's really no difference, despite the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris would say things like this, like this was the statements that she was making. She would go, the UN reports that no food has entered northern Gaza in nearly two weeks.
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israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid to those in need civilians must be protected and must have access to food water and medicine international humanitarian law must be respected and then you would have palestinian voters and muslim voters here in the united states who would whether they voted for trump or her they would say things like
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If you think that your activism is doing nothing, just look at how these hypocrites' messaging changes as November 5th approaches. And then they said, well, at the end of the day, they're both the same and there's not really going to be a difference between either of them at all. I mean, take a look at this post right here.
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On March 6, 2024, Kamala Harris's, quote, six-week ceasefire stunt right before Super Tuesday failed. The hypocrisy is astounding. They are determined to continue aiding, abetting, and committing a genocide. And you would see all of the people who would be booing Vice President Kamala Harris and protesting her. And you never really see the protest when it came to Donald Trump.
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On the other hand, you had, for example, leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, Muslim leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, standing with Donald Trump and strongly endorsing him during the campaign. Remember when this took place? I'm just going to show you a short clip of it. Let's play it.
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You know, and now again, we're hearing from a lot of Muslim voters, oh, you picked Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth got drunk and he was in a bar and Hegseth was saying, you know, to kill Islamic people. And that's what he was saying, to kill Muslims when he was drunk in a bar. That's what he was saying. And all these people are so bad. Yeah, well, this is who the people are. Let me do this.
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Let me first show you what Donald Trump said. You can hear it for yourself aboard Air Force One, where he said, you know, we need to clean that whole thing out. Just let me play it for you. Let's play it.
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Now here's Elise Stefanik at our confirmation hearing at the end of last week saying that she holds this biblical view that really the West Bank and Gaza just don't exist. Here, play this clip.
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And I should also let you know, while all of this is going on, Donald Trump also is bringing back a Muslim ban that's going to be worse than the one in the Trump administration won. His executive order already indicates that it's going to be far more expansive. Donald Trump rescinded.
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Quote, we just clean out that whole thing. We just need to clean that whole thing out. That's what Donald Trump said aboard Air Force One flying from Vegas to Miami about Gaza. He said that he's going to be calling his friends in Egypt and in Jordan and basically ask them to take all of the Palestinians so that there's no prospect at all of a Palestinian state.
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an executive order by President Biden and rescinded sanctions by President Biden, where President Biden imposed sanctions on Israeli settlers who would be blocking aid into Gaza and those Israeli settlers who would burn down homes. of Palestinians. And so Biden imposed sanctions on that group of Israelis, this group of settlers, and Donald Trump allowed those individuals to not be sanctioned.
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And a lot of those individuals then started burning down homes and blocking aid fairly soon thereafter. And also, while I guess the media is pretending there's a ceasefire. I mean, we're seeing still a lot of death and destruction in the West Bank. We're seeing a lot of death and destruction in South Lebanon as well. 11 killed, dozens wounded in South Lebanon.
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So it doesn't even like... I guess the corporate media is pretending there's a ceasefire still, but I guess that they're limiting it to just... Hamas in Gaza, but there doesn't really seem to be a ceasefire at all taking place. There seems to be kind of a war zone and they're pretending it isn't happening. Let me just share this with you as well.
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This is Mike Huckabee, so you can hear it for yourself, Donald Trump's ambassador. Let's play this clip.
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And look, folks, the thing that I was saying is President Biden was trying to get the ceasefire deal about a year ago, a year and a half ago, a sustainable ceasefire. And Netanyahu said, didn't agree with it. And Netanyahu said he had his own reasons, but Netanyahu was visiting Mar-a-Lago.
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And if we know anything about Trump, we know that Trump killed a lot of bills and a lot of things that would have been beneficial and beneficial to Biden, like the bipartisan border deal, because Trump viewed those as winning issues for Trump. So just think about that you had Netanyahu hanging out at Mar-a-Lago,
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All of the, you know, multiple times he was there, the same way Victor Orban would visit Mar-a-Lago, the same way Javier Millay would visit Mar-a-Lago to undermine Biden's foreign policy. I mean, it was so obvious. So for all of these, you know, Muslim Trump voters or. voters who said Kamala and Trump were the same. They were not the same on this issue.
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It wasn't even a close call, in my opinion, of where they were on these issues. But here we are. Here we are. And I mean, that call from Trump was just horrific. I mean, he's literally saying ethnic cleansing in the phone call. So in such clear terms, but we don't really hear corporate media saying it like that. Like that's what he's calling for. It's horrific. Hit subscribe.
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This should not be surprising because This is what Donald Trump has always felt. This follows Donald Trump's pick to become the United Nations ambassador, Elise Stefanik. She said during her confirmation hearing last week that she holds, quote, a biblical view that the West Bank and the Palestinian state should simply not exist.
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You need to show Colombians dignity and respect. We're a sovereign nation. If you want to send Colombians via commercial flights, as had been done before, not in handcuffs, but done with at least a modicum of dignity and respect, Colombia would be open to that. Colombia stopped two American military planes from coming into Colombia. So what does Donald Trump do in response?
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Donald Trump then declares economic warfare on Colombia, and he basically says he's going to impose war. a 25% tariff immediately, and will raise that to a 50% tariff. He also says that he will have a visa ban, kicking out any Colombian leaders and Colombian nationals and Colombian politicians and diplomats and business people from the United States.
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Essentially what you would do when you're in an actual war with a country. And then Donald Trump also talked about other sanctions against Colombia, Bank accounts of Colombians. And so Trump escalated this pretty much to the highest form of economic warfare right before you get to like an actual war. So then Colombia responded. Its president basically said, look.
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All we said was that we don't want military planes, so we will send a presidential jet. Our presidential plane will go and pick up the nationals, and we will deal with it ourselves, to which Donald Trump viewed as wrong. I guess, a win and him being a tough guy. So then Donald Trump posted an image of himself in AI form looking like a mafia person, like looking like a gangster.
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And then it says F-A-F-O, F around and find out. Folks, the only people who are F-ing around and finding out is the American people. This doesn't make you look like a tough guy. And as all of these MAGA people like Matt Gaetz were saying, don't F with us on this dude, referring to the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro. You will be taking your criminals back the easy way or the hard way.
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This is not the fight with America you want. We want friendly relations with our neighbors, but friends don't leave their own shit in each other's homes. referring to the migrants as trash, as shit, as subhuman is the language that Gates and other MAGAs were using. I think it should be clear that we all agree that criminals, terrorists should indeed be deported.
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I don't think that's who Donald Trump is actually focused on as well. He's doing worksite raids and raids of schools and others. We've learned, for example, that in Brazil, Donald Trump put people on commercial flights to be sent to Brazil. But there, the people were treated who were sent to Brazil horrifically.
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And Brazil's President Lula found out that Brazilians were being handcuffed, treated like criminals. And President Lula of Brazil was saying, these aren't criminals. I'm not sure why you're treating these individuals this way. were launching a national investigation into the way these individuals were sent back on commercial flights into Brazil.
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And Brazil actually intercepted the Brazilians on their trip back. There was some issue with the flight as well. It was supposed to stop somewhere else. And Brazilians are absolutely livid right now. This also follows President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico telling Donald Trump, you will not be allowed to deport Mexicans using military aircraft into Mexico.
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If you want to engage in bilateral discussions, I'm open to having discussions, but I'm We will not be okay. Mexico's sovereignty is too important with you in America taking unilateral action, sending military planes filled with Mexicans and not respecting the dignity of this country or the human dignity of the people that you are deporting. Who is being benefited by all of this?
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It's not the United States of America. These deportation flights cost about $852,000 for Trump to use these military planes and to – and that doesn't even include all of the propaganda videos – Donald Trump has sent United States military armed American military to the southern border. He's got these, you know, very expensive helicopters flying all around, which really aren't doing a lot.
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But he's taking video of them. So it looks like there's a war taking place. And he's got these massive military airplanes who are taking like 80 people on these massive planes. Now, it would normally cost. about $8,000 an hour to transport individuals, how it used to be done. So you figure three to four hour flight, $25,000, $30,000. It's now costing about $850,000.
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And the Trump administration doesn't care about the prices. They care about the optics looking like an authoritarian, looking all powerful. That's what they want people to see. So again, who's benefiting from this all? The biggest beneficiary is China. First off, China is trying to expand the BRICS block. The BRICS block is the lead countries are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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Brazil being one of them. In the Trump administration one, when Donald Trump tariffed China, China responded by stopping its Chinese companies from accepting a lot of American farm products like soybeans and other products. And then China enhanced its relationship with Brazil.
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American farmers were getting screwed as a result because they had all of these surplus crops that they now couldn't sell anywhere because they They would export it to China, but China wasn't accepting it. So then the government had to come in and give massive handouts, massive subsidies, many of which still exist today. And so that's the type of thing we're going to see happen.
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China strengthening its relationship with Brazil. China strengthening its relationship with Colombia. China strengthening its relationship with Panama. A lot of the changes that we saw happened. in diplomatic ties of Central American and Latin American and African countries away from Taiwan towards Beijing, the acceleration of that happened a lot during the first Trump administration.
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Colombia Prez THROWS Trump into TOTAL TANTRUM
So Donald Trump sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama as Rubio's first diplomatic visit, although I wouldn't call it diplomatic, after Donald Trump has repeatedly talked about conquering Panama, taking it back, even though Panama's never actually belonged. To the United States, there was a lease over the Panama Canal. Panama is a sovereign nation.
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But just think, if you're Panama, America's threatening to conquer you and take you over. What has Panama done in advance of this? And we've seen this with a lot of Latin American countries. they've enhanced their relationships with China. In 2017, they established formal diplomatic ties. 2018, Xi Jinping went to Panama, big diplomatic visit.
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Colombia, big diplomatic visit in the past year and a half, where Xi Jinping was in Colombia, for example, and the Colombia's enhanced its relationship. And in November, Colombia announced right around after the election that Colombia was accelerating its process to become a full member as part of the BRICS bloc. Let me just show you this, for example. This was the meeting between Xi Jinping and
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the leader of Columbia. So you can see for yourself the difference here. While Americans under Trump and people like Gates and others are saying, don't F with us, dude, don't F with us. China, the CCP, although it's propagandizing things, they're out there saying, we respect the sovereignty of these nations. We're here as part of a way to build together. Can we invest?
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Colombia Prez THROWS Trump into TOTAL TANTRUM
We respect the cultural heritage. They're using the language. They're playing the game of diplomacy while Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to America's leadership in the world. Let me show you this clip right here. of Xi Jinping and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro. Play this clip.
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And in terms of kind of the cultural and heritage celebrations that China is focused on in places like Colombia, Brazil, Panama, go down the list. Peru, we're seeing this all over. I'll just show you an example. Like in Brazil, they have these parades with... with Chinese people and Brazilians celebrating each other and their relationship.
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You've got the Chinese flags, the Brazilian flags waving side by side because they're trying to build versus destroy. At least that's the language being communicated, is playing a diplomatic game at a high level while Trump is posting AI memes of himself. Here, play this clip.
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You know, and then I'll give you this example right here as well. You've got Marco Rubio making posts like this. This is what he posted over the weekend. He said, There should be retaliation on the Taliban. No one likes the Taliban here in the United States. I should take that back. Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo seem to like the Taliban.
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They invited the Taliban to show up at Camp David on the anniversary of September 11th during the first Trump administration, and they freed the 5,000 Taliban soldiers who ended up taking over all of Afghanistan.
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Colombia Prez THROWS Trump into TOTAL TANTRUM
The country of Columbia caused Donald Trump to freak out over the weekend like a petulant two-year-old. No offense to petulant two-year-olds, nor is it that hard to get Donald Trump to freak out like one. So here's what went down. Columbia told Donald Trump, You cannot land military planes in Colombia when you are deporting Colombians in America to Colombia.
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And then Donald Trump did not withdraw, as he said he was going to, and President Biden then had to withdraw from Afghanistan after the Taliban took over as a result of Donald Trump releasing the Taliban terrorist prisoners. But like what Rubio is saying here, this again is their social media diplomacy. I mean, he's saying if this is true, we will have to immediately place a very big bounty.
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Colombia Prez THROWS Trump into TOTAL TANTRUM
You're the secretary of state, dude. Are you waiting for Twitter username Jack159733462 to inform you whether this is true or not. Does Daddy Elon Musk need to explain to you if it's true or not? What do you mean if this is true? You're the Secretary of State. Use your resources.
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And also, as the Secretary of State, are you going to try to get us back into a war with Afghanistan that Biden got us out of? Is that the way y'all are handling these things right here? So, look, I think it's important that we reflect on this awful, awful diplomacy or lack thereof by the Trump administration.
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But ultimately, this is, you know, Trump posting memes, FAFO, look what we did to Colombia. I mean, Columbia just said don't send military jets and you're going to screw we the people. I mean, like Columbia provides a lot of coffee and a lot of other goods, too. So let's just say you tariff Columbia. OK, yes, it'll hurt them. It's also going to make coffee prices here go up.
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significantly because a tariff is a tax on the importer. So all of the coffee shops that got their coffee beans from Columbia, they're going to be the ones who have to pay more for it. And then they're going to raise their prices on their menu. That's what Americans would end up seeing. So this is the ordeal with Columbia. And this is what's going on.
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Trump's just creating a greater sense of solidarity amongst Americans. Latin nations. We're seeing that and their further push to be allied with China. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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MAGA Mike Gets Bad News as Bill Blows Up on Live TV
Yesterday was catastrophic for Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson. He had a cataclysmic, awful, terrible appearance or appearances when he did the Sunday news shows, but also the MAGA Republicans in the Senate. were saying that this budget bill is a disaster. And these Republicans in the Senate said that they were going to block it. So it's going to be interesting to see what MAGA Mike does.
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Y'all remember the example that I give. It's that movie on Netflix. It's called Don't Look Up. Leonardo DiCaprio is in it with the asteroid that's coming down to hit Earth. They discover the asteroid, all of these experts. And they're warning it. They know the asteroid's going to hit Earth. And they see it coming. They see it coming. They see it coming.
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And because of all of the disinformation out there and the propaganda networks and The regime in the White House in the movie is very similar, has similarities to the Trump regime, and they want to distract people. And so anyway, there's a whole campaign of don't look up. Just don't see the asteroid that's about to hit and destroy the Earth.
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And to me, that's kind of like the moment that we're in now with the MAGA Republican Congress members and regime media, which I don't just consider Fox, corporate news in general, that wants to cover up for Donald Trump. They're like, Don't look at it. Just don't look at it. And we here at the Midas Touch Network, we are the look up network. Look at the asteroid. See what's happening.
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That's why I keep on talking about FEMA, FEMA, FEMA over and over. How many times do you hear me talk about FEMA? Because I'm like the Trump regime gutted FEMA. We're what, a week away from hurricane season. It's going to be a disaster. bigger than average or there's going to be more hurricanes this season than normally, that's going to be a problem where you gut FEMA.
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The National Weather Service, Trump's gutted. The National Oceanic Administration, Atmospheric Administration, Donald Trump gutted. They forecast these things. Our weather balloons are not going up anymore. We've gutted critical people, critical groups that study infectious disease.
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The Trump regime is not letting Americans under the age of 65, if they deem you to be healthy, you can't get COVID vaccines starting in the fall. They're going to block you from getting COVID vaccines. They are spreading disinformation about measles. You know what they've gutted with the FAA. And now our airports are an absolute mess. We have missing air traffic controllers.
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We have radar that's going down. You know, there's systemic issues. Then the Trump regime, on top of that, they want to go after student loan debt delinquencies.
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And now we're seeing student loan debt delinquencies the highest ever, which means that as people who can pay back their student loans, if their credit's getting harmed, then they're not going to be able to participate in paying back other types of loans. That's going to be a shock to the system. Auto loan delinquencies are at an all-time high.
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And so the question, I'm following all of these things because just one of these things, as we saw with the housing crisis in 07, 08, can have a spiral effect. And we've created so many traps, self-inflicted traps, that any one of these is an issue. So it's why we're talking to you about it. We're trying to get ahead. We're trying to explain what's happening with all the disinformation out there.
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Then you had MAGA Republican Johnson from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, and he says that the budget bill is immoral. It's going to bankrupt America, that he will derail it in the Senate, which is an interesting point. Here, play this clip.
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Back to Rand Paul. Rand Paul said. I'll tell you how I'm MAGA Republican Rand Paul from Kentucky. He goes, let me just make it very easy for all of, you know, how we know this is going to add at least $4 trillion to the deficit. He goes, they're raising the debt ceiling in the budget bill by $4 trillion.
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He goes, that means what they're preparing for is to at least have $2 trillion in deficits each year for the next two years. Basically he goes, that's guaranteed here. Play this clip. When March 11th,
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Also, MAGA Mike was mumbling and stumbling when he was asked questions on the Sunday shows. He tried to attack the Congressional Budget Office, but we all showed you here on the Midas Touch Network the literal talking points that he was passing out to other MAGA Republicans earlier in the week. He had to admit that he was just straight up attacking his own constituents in Louisiana.
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All right, so now the MAGA Mike Johnson disastrous appearance right here. MAGA Mike Johnson is confronted with the fact that Goldman Sachs You know, they want to call what Goldman Sachs, a lefty organization.
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He goes that Goldman Sachs says that any potential growth that could come from this budget bill will be eliminated by Trump's disastrous tariff policy and by Trump's disastrous economic plans to date. Here, play this clip.
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And by the way, folks, Goldman Sachs, of all of the kind of banks out there, they've been the most kind of bullish and only recently. Have they really gone bearish? I've been reading their reports, you know, in the morning.
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Sometimes I want to read you their reports, not because I'm like, love reading Goldman Sachs reports too, but it's just important to see, okay, what are like the bankers out there saying? So here, MAGA Mike Johnson is confronted with the fact that in his state, people depend on a supplemental nutrition assistance program, food stamps, and that he's going to destroy his own state.
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Louisiana has the second most Americans on food stamps, supplemental nutrition assistance program, and they've got millions of people on Medicaid as well, and there's Hundreds of thousands of people on Medicaid in Maga Mike's district who are going to lose their Medicaid.
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Next up, you have MAGA Mike Johnson here claiming that he has no knowledge at all about Donald Trump going to that scammy or hosting the scammy Trump meme coin dinner where the top 220 holders of Trump's meme coin got access to Donald Trump, which they said was in Trump's personal time. And MAGA Mike's like, look, I don't know anything about it. I've just been too busy here playing this clip.
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So Maga Mike had to admit during his appearances that he thinks that the people living in his district, mostly we're talking about Republican people because it's a safe Republican district. are fraudsters, are basically all criminals, and that's why they're getting Medicaid and he's going after his own people. Let me break this all down for you because this was a sight to behold.
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As Mehdi Hassan says, top congressional Republicans are back to I'm pretending not to know about the huge Trump scandal that everyone is talking about. So I don't comment on it. Deflection strategy that they deployed in the first Trump term. And I guess our media will let them use it again. Well, Mehdi, you know and I know. We're the captains of the ship now. We're the media now.
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Your independent media company is the media now. And so we're able to point it out to bigger audiences than corporate news. Here's another clip of MAGA Mike Johnson here. Let's play this clip right here.
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And the Democratic Congress members, you know, I think that they were on a roll. They were fighting back pretty hard on the weekend shows. Here's Democratic Congress member Himes. You've seen it before on the Midas Touch show.
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Here's Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
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So you had MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul saying that somebody's got to stand up against this atrocious, ridiculous, horrible budget bill. And then he described Donald Trump and MAGA Mike as the emperors with no clothes. Watch this.
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Here's Congresswoman Crockett again. Let's play it.
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Finally, MAGA Mike Johnson saying that he believes the CBO report is just inaccurate. We can't trust a nonpartisan CBO, even though MAGA Mike Johnson consistently cited it before. But he's like, we can't we can't look at it. Just don't look at the numbers.
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Democratic Governors are Leading the Fight Against Trump
Democratic governors have been on the front lines of defending our democracy from Donald Trump and Doge. They've been laying the smack down to Donald Trump, and we've been highlighting some of their efforts here, but They've been speaking direct. They've been speaking to the American people. And I think they have been meeting the moment. Let me highlight a few.
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And here's Governor Shapiro of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the Midas Touch Network.
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Governor Pritzker of Illinois, when he's asked a question by Joe Galena of Call to Activism, if you could speak directly to Donald Trump, what would you tell him about what he's doing with Putin? Here, play this clip. If you could speak directly to Donald Trump, what would you tell him?
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I could keep showing you more of these. I'll do one more. Governor Gretchen Whitmer, incredible governor from Michigan.
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Democratic Governors are Leading the Fight Against Trump
I'm joined by Ophiria Heskel. Ophira from the Democratic Governors Association, welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. So I showed that incredible group of Democratic governors. Frankly, I kept on going on. I feel bad. I wanted to keep going on, but I want to get your take on it. Tell us about the governors right now standing up in the face of the threats by Donald Trump and Doge and Musk.
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38 races in the next, what, year and a half, two years? I mean, what, there are two this year, right? Two this year. And then next year, there's going to be 36. So that's most of the states right there are going to have these elections. And what do you think the main issues are that these governors are
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He's not mincing words. I think that's what the American people want to hear right now. Here's Pritzker again in the recent speech he gave for the Center for American Progress. Let's play it.
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You know, one of the races that I'm very focused on is Abigail Spanberger's race in Virginia. Former congresswoman from Virginia, worked in the intelligence agencies, worked her way up through that. Incredible congresswoman. now running for governor of Virginia. I had her on the Midas Touch Network a few weeks back.
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Here's what she had to say when Glenn Youngkin, who's basically a trumper there, but he wears a vest versus a long red tie, says that he's good with all of these federal job cuts. He's fine with Virginians losing jobs. Here's what Congresswoman Spanberger told me.
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Can you talk to that race in Virginia? And just in general, it does seem like all of these Republican governor candidates are fully embracing the most extreme elements of MAGA, cheering on cuts to Medicaid, cuts to education, cuts to all of the programs in their state that rely on state federal partnerships.
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Ophir, where can people find out more about the various races if they wanted to be helpful to your organization? Where do they go?
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Well, we'll keep having the governors on because, you know, I want to highlight people who are fighting for the people. I mean, from my perspective, really, regardless of what political party you're from, I want to see people leading the state who aren't cheering on people losing jobs and losing health care in the state. I don't know. It feels common sense to me in this moment. And you're right.
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I mean, that image of the Republican governors cheering on the gutting of the Department of Education, where kids in their states are going to suffer. Then I go back to what I showed at the beginning of this video with Governor Whitmer and others talking about delivering services to people and giving lunches and helping people. Such a contrast. A real contrast. Thank you for joining us.
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Powerful words. Look, I had the opportunity to interview Governor Andy Beshear, for example, of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Here's what he told me.
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Fox News Implodes on Air as Guests Backfire
State regime media known as Fox is spiraling. Things did not go as planned this weekend when Fox brought on to its morning show a Democratic Congress member, Greg Kassar. Now, Fox was sharpening its knives. They had their MAGA talking points ready to go, and they were gonna be aggressive with this Democratic Congress member, Kassar. But the Democratic Congress member was ready
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It's brilliant right there. And then Democratic Congress member Kassar knew that he had Fox on the ropes, so he kept on swinging. It was awesome. Watch this.
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I'm going to show you more of those clips in a bit. But contrast this when that same Fox weekend host brought on MAGA Republican Senator Joni Ernst. And she was asked about those. So she got the softballs. The Democratic Congress member got like the fast pitches or what Fox thought was fast pitches. And she whiffed at this.
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So MAGA Republican Senator Ernst, she's like, yeah, you know, mistakes are going to happen here and there. Things may fall through the cracks, but that's normal. No, it's not normal to do these things. Play this clip.
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We know that there have... And that's part of what Fox... They're trying to condition their audience that this is just normal stuff. People try to go after your Social Security all the time and go after your Medicaid and treat veterans like, no, that's not the case. That's how this demented and deranged authoritarian Trump-Musk regime is doing it. That's not normal in the United States.
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and humiliated Fox on live TV. Watch what went down when Fox was trying to spread disinfo and Greg Kassar said, let me explain actually what Musk and Trump are doing with social security and why they're destroying it. Play this clip.
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But you know who makes that case better than I can? Democratic Congress member Greg Kassar played this clip right here.
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Well, to be clear, you... And here one more time, I have to show you one more clip because this guy's awesome. And I've had him on the show before. Democratic Congress member Kassar goes on Fox here and makes the case against GOP and Musk pushing to gut Social Security.
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So now contrast that with let's show you the clip of Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia. A guy, Witkoff, Steve Witkoff, goes on. And this whole thing was a glaze fest. for Vladimir Putin. I just want you to think about the state of the Republican Party right now, where they have state regime media. And this is Trump's lead negotiator. Prior to this, no negotiating experience on foreign policy.
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And here he goes on Fox. He goes, I think Putin wants peace. Putin's great. Here, play this clip.
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And then Witkoff, Trump's lead Russia negotiator, is asked, so do you think there's a misconception about Putin? Maybe he's not a tyrant. Here, play this clip.
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So utterly embarrassing right there. And here's Witkoff one more time talking about Russia. And here he goes, I don't think Putin wants to go after Europe. I trust him.
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then Fox has on Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi, and she refers to the individuals who were kidnapped and put in El Salvador concentration camps as, she goes, they're not even immigrants. They're like scum. She's like, these are like the worst of the worst. Let me fact check you before I play this clip. We already know that there were asylum seekers, non-gang members, whores,
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women who were sent to the concentration camps in El Salvador. The concentration camps don't even take women. And we know about people like a gay barber from Venezuela, asylum seeker, repressed under the Maduro regime, had a court hearing coming up, was kidnapped before his hearing, sent to Venezuela, brutalized in those ISIS, sent to El Salvador, brutalized in those ISIS-style videos.
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Another professional soccer coach here, lawfully asylum seeker, had a Real Madrid tattoo, kidnapped, sent to concentration camps in El Salvador. Here, play this clip.
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And here, Pam Bondi says that right now we are in modern day warfare. And all these people who had to be kidnapped and sent to El Salvador, they're enemy combatants. They're they're the enemy in a war. But the regime, the Trump regime, is not going to tell us what crimes they committed, who they are. Just trust me, bro. Trust me.
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Whatever Donald Trump says, if he says they're Trend de Aragua, then they're Trend de Aragua. Here, play it.
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And then finally, Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi says that people are using weapons of mass destruction against Tesla. Weapons of mass destruction? What the hell are they even talking about? Here, play this clip.
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That's what went down in the morning on Fox. Shout out to Congress member Greg Kassar. That was awesome. And you can see that they were off their game that whole morning after Kassar did his thing. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Canada strong. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney powerfully pushing back against the Trump regime, putting the dagger in and announcing that April 28th will be general elections in Canada. Mark Carney on Sunday called for a snap general
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Oh, I want to show you this last moment where Prime Minister Carney stood up to this right wing reporter in Edmonton who was like grilling him kind of like you would expect. I don't know, like a like a Fox or Newsmax or something. And just watch how Prime Minister Carney handles this here. Play this clip.
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And I think that clip alone doesn't do it justice. Although you saw the mic drop moment at the end. Let me show you this part where Prime Minister Carney first gets the question. He's like, well, that's an unusual question. But you see how good on his feet Prime Minister Carney is here playing this clip.
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Yeah, no problem. I'm a pretty tall guy.
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Prime Minister Carney then posted the following. I have just asked the governor general to dissolve parliament and call a federal election on April 28th. We need to build the strongest economy in the G7. We need to deal with President Trump's tariffs. Canadians deserve a choice about who should lead that effort for our country. Prime Minister Carney also posted the following. Let's go.
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Powerful stuff right there. Let me know what you think. Elections have been called. April 28th is the day. Prime Minister Carney off to a great start. And I would say Pierre Poliev off to doge boy, off to a bad, bad, vichy doge boy, off to a bad, bad start. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million. Can't get enough Midas?
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Hashtag Canada strong. He also posted the following, I'm asking Canadians for a strong and positive mandate to deal with President Trump and build a stronger economy here and at home. By the way, at MidasPlus.com, we were covering those protests, Detroit and in Windsor, where Americans were showing solidarity with Canadians. I want to show you, though, from over the past few days as well,
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Prime Minister Carney is coming with a plan, a plan to invest in Canada to ensure that Canada's sovereignty is protected by bolstering the military and by standing up to the Trump regime. Here's what Prime Minister Carney said a few days ago before announcing the snap elections, which he did on Sunday. Play this clip.
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and in his speech announcing the general elections will be taking place and parliament will be dissolved, Mark Carney had strong words about Donald Trump's abysmal conduct.
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Now, as that's taking place, the right-wing Conservative Party in Canada, led by Pierre Poliev, got some unwanted news, but news of their own making, as the National Post reports, how a two-week-old interview by Daniel Smith, the Conservative Premier of Alberta, drove day one of election coverage of the campaign.
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For Pierre Poliev, who would rather focus his comments on the record of the liberal government, it was an unwelcome development. Well, it was a development of your own making. And the development is that on Breitbart, a podcast from about two weeks ago has now resurfaced where the Alberta premier, Danielle Smith, Oftentimes people refer to her as Maple Maga.
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She's one of those people who went to Mar-a-Lago to really kiss Donald Trump's ring. All the other premiers were, you know, united with this Canada strong mentality. She was trying to do like a divide and conquer approach. But as Courtney Theriault says, here's the audio expert with Daniel Smith on Breitbart confirming that she asked,
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the Trump regime, to basically help Poliev in the election and said, hey, can you just temporarily pause the tariffs and Trump's attacks on Canada? We need Trump to help Poliev and the Conservative Party win so we could help you, Donald Trump. And this right here just kind of opened the floodgates for everything we and others have been talking about, how we all knew that Poliev is maple maga.
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Here's that Breitbart interview. You'll hear again the conservative premier, Daniel Smith of Alberta, saying that she was involved in election interference with Donald Trump and the Trump regime to help the conservative party win the upcoming elections. Play this clip.
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And this is from Steve Mehar, a longtime journalist writing in the Toronto Star. Here's what he says. For weeks, the Trump problem had been top of mind for conservative insiders.
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Two unrelated sources close to the Conservative Party's war room tell me that Poliev's team had even floated going so far as trying to get a message to the White House in an attempt to persuade Trump to distance himself from Poliev. In recent weeks, according to the sources, Conservative Party operatives talked about trying to get Conservative Member of Parliament, Jamil Javani,
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to ask his former Yale roommate, vice president JD Vance to talk some sense into Donald Trump. Poliev's office did not reply to messages asking about those internal conversations or whether Giovanni has spoken to Vance recently, but the timing of all of that needs to be noted. You had those discussions between, uh, Poliev's, uh, you know, Lieutenant Giovanni and J.D. Vance.
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And then all of a sudden Donald Trump goes, you know what? I think I'd rather work with the liberal party than Poliev. I'm not sure I like that guy, Poliev. And then Poliev was like, you see, Donald Trump doesn't like me. Now you should vote for me.
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Despite all the times I was acting like a Donald Trump stooge, despite the fact that I'm Maple Maga, you see Donald Trump's, it was obviously also coercion. It wasn't at all just so totally obvious. By the way, this is from CBC. This conservative MP is best friends with Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance, July 17th, 2024.
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And here you see conservative member of parliament, Jamil Javani, who is, you know, the right hand basically of Pierre Poliev. And he was going there to kind of arrange this election interference to have Donald Trump help the conservative party win.
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The election, but the polls right now are showing the Liberal Party run by Mark Carney, Prime Minister Carney, taking the lead, which is a complete flip of what was happening a few months back. And just to show you that Poliev is maple MAGA through and through. I mean, you know, he was doing the whole right wing podcast bro routine that Donald Trump did. Poliev is doge boy. He's a doge boy.
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You know, you see him right here. Elon Musk amplifying Poliev on his interview with far right wing podcaster Jordan Peterson, where he was talking about how he didn't think health care was a right that Canadians should have. And they were privatizing health care. And then he would say, oh, the woke mind virus, the woke this, the woke that. Here is a video that I think really kind of sums it up.
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Are Trump and Pierre Poliev the same? This account posted at Guy Felikella. Play this clip.
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And remember, by the way, three months ago, Donald Trump said he was looking forward to working with Pierre Poliev because they're close. Poliev, Trump, Poliev, Musk, Musk, Poliev, Dogeboy. That's what's going on here. Here, play this clip.
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And here's what Pierre Poliev posted last week. Last night, Donald Trump endorsed Mark Carney. It's so stupid. Donald Trump didn't endorse Mark Carney. This is what the Maple MAGA in the conservative party arranged. And you saw the Alberta conservative. Premier Daniel Smith's outreach. You heard that on The Bright Part. You see Jamil Javadi from the Conservative Party meeting with J.D. Vance.
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And then Donald Trump's like, ooh, I would rather work with the liberals. I think I'd be scared to work with the Conservative Party. And then the Conservative Party leader, Pierre Poliev, goes, you see? Donald Trump's endorsing Mark Carney. It's so ridiculous. By the way, take a look at this here. Can you imagine Donald Trump ever doing anything like this? The answer is it's a rhetorical question.
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Here's Prime Minister Carney going out for a wheel with the Edmonton Oilers before speaking to the press and what I showed you here playing this clip. By the way, I like that he went to Edmonton also. I think that was a powerful statement to make. What's Donald Trump been saying, though?
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And now here's the moment where Prime Minister Carney officially calls for the snap election. Let's play it right here.
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Even with this Jamil Javadi outreach to Trump and even with this whole plan hatched by Daniel Smith and Pierre Poliev to try to have America interfere in the Canadian elections to help the Conservative Party, and undermine the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Carney, previously Trudeau, who's actually standing up to this heinous Trump regime. Like, Trump wants to conquer Canada.
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He wants to invade it. And he keeps on saying it over and over again, like this here. Let's play the clip.
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And got to love this. Prime Minister Carney over the weekend posted this video with Mike Myers, Canadian. This this cracked me up here. Watch this.
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And I've said it before, when I think about Prime Minister Carney and I think about Donald Trump, Prime Minister Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, helped Canada through the kind of great recessions in the mid 2000s. Then Prime Minister Carney was the governor for the Bank of England, dealing with the fallout from Brexit.
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I mean, a true like economic genius, as I like to say, the banker and like the banker who knows his stuff. Then Donald Trump, the bank ruptor. So you have the banker and then you have the bank ruptor. And and there you have there. And then when it comes to Pierre Poliev, I mean, the question, are you Vichy or are you Vimy? And Poliev is clearly as clearly Vichy as Vichy as you get right here.
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I'm showing you this photo of Donald Trump with no hair transplants and no bronzer, not to mock him, but to show you the absurdity of it all. As part of Donald Trump's late night meltdown on Sunday, he kept on posting these photographs of himself to show what good photographs and good portraits of himself look like. And he wanted to make it very clear that there's a
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It is a weapon of mass humiliation. Then after that, at 9.49 p.m. his time, or 8.49 p.m. his time, he goes, why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes do a puff piece on George Clooney, a second-rate movie star? What in the world? Look, there are real issues right now. Real suffering taking place in this country caused by this maniac.
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People don't know if they're going to get their Social Security check next month. As Donald Trump's puppet master, Elon Musk, says that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, says if you complain about not getting your Social Security check, you're probably committing crimes and fraud.
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People don't know if Medicaid is going to still be around tomorrow. In the MAGA Republican budget, it calls for basically the total obliteration of Medicaid. Donald Trump has signed an executive order to try and eliminate the Department of Education. Donald Trump has attacked veterans, cut tens of thousands of jobs at the VA, fired veterans, dismantled the federal government.
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You know, and he's just posting stupid crap like that as well. To me, it compounds the cartoonish villainousness of this regime. To our enemies, they're a laughingstock. To our allies, they're just completely horrified by this. And the behavior just continues over and over in the morning he posts stuff. I love dollar sign Trump, so cool. The greatest of them all pumping up his meme coin.
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And by the way, you can see like a blip in the meme coin went up after he like did a kind of like a pump and dump on the meme coin. By the way, the meme coin like has utterly crashed. Remember when it was like, I think in the 70s or the 80s or the 100s, it's now at like $11 or $10. Just horrible stuff.
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painting of him in Colorado at the State Capitol building put up by the governor of Colorado. And Donald Trump says it is a distorted portrait of himself. And he said that the artist must have lost her talent as she got older because he says it's very bad.
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I know there's a lot of news about Donald Trump firing government workers and gutting federal agencies. I think this one needs a little bit more attention as well, especially as we look to be headed into a great recession or even potentially a depression and stagflation, crashing low GDP while inflation surges. This was on Friday from Politico.
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It got some attention, but we gotta give it more attention. Bad sign, purge of data experts raises alarm over economic reports. The removal of advisors supporting closely watched monthly releases may mean trouble for agencies that provide vital information on jobs and inflation. So from that Politico report,
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It mentions how the experts serving on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Technical Advisory Committee, the BLS, were informed this week that they were no longer needed, leaving the BLS without a panel that has long advised the Labor Department how economic changes can impact data collection. So remember during COVID, during the first Trump administration, where Trump would say, if you don't test,
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then you don't know if there are X amount of cases, right? He was telling on himself, of course, and here he's doing the same thing. You get rid of the experts, get rid of the analysts who tell you, is the GDP up, is the GDP down? what's going on with inflation, and then you just start making up numbers.
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I think we kind of saw this even last week when the Trump regime was claiming that the price of eggs had now dropped to $3 a dozen. And they were like, look, it's dropped like 80%. And we're like, we know it's not $3 a dozen. We can see that either eggs are not on the shelves or Or in some states, it's still $8, $9, $10 a dozen. I'm sure there are places where it's $3.
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But I think they were referring to the wholesale price in some areas, not the retail price. And they're going to start manipulating all of this data the way they do in authoritarian regimes. And as Trump wants to distract us, with all of those weird portraits and pictures that he's posting. It's why I always want to bring it back to... Donald Trump said he was going to lower prices on day one.
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He didn't. He said there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. That didn't happen. He said housing would be more affordable. Housing is less affordable right now. Literally everything he said was a lie. There's nothing about no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.
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But the oligarchs and the billionaires are getting massive, massive tax cuts, $4.5 trillion tax cuts as Medicaid is being gutted. Just take a look at this. This was from Donald Trump's interview with Laura Ingraham that they've been re-airing these clips. He's asked the most basic question about his son. Like, do you think your son's going to focus on business or tech?
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and needs to be taken down immediately, and then he shows what the portrait of himself looks like, and then he just starts posting photos of himself, and portraits of himself, and memes of himself. I mean, folks, we're not talking about running for the class clown of third grade, and no offense to class clowns of third grade, but this is the presidency.
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Donald Trump can't even answer a question so simple. Like, what is your son like? And his response is that Barron can kind of open up a computer, and it's very impressive how he opens up a computer. Here, play this clip.
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I reported on this yesterday, but it's worth mentioning again that the White House is trying to sell corporate sponsorships for the White House Easter egg roll this year. Are they going to try to make up for the fact that it's now being projected that tax revenue will drop by 10% or over $500 billion amid turmoil at the IRS? Staff cuts and disruptions related to U.S. Doge service?
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is now causing the IRS to be unable to kind of take in the revenue that it even needs. By the way, if you look at the way Trump runs his businesses, 400, look at Trump media. Last year, $400 million loss only brought in $4 million in revenue. This guy's bankrupted things over and over again. So now all the billionaires are not gonna pay their taxes.
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or they're going to use loopholes and think that the IRS isn't going to go after them because Trump's firing all the people who deal with enforcement there. The rest of Americans are going to pay our taxes, pay our fair share, and Trump's going to go and we're not going to collect tax revenue that's needed.
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So Doge is going to cost trillions of trillions of dollars in what they are doing in gutting the IRS. And then what's the IRS doing as well? Well, they're cutting a deal with ICE to give over the private data of people who are non-citizens who have been paying their taxes so ICE can target them. The taxpaying migrants who don't have their citizenship.
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Can we grow up and not normalize this behavior? This is the leader of what was once the leader of the free world before Donald Trump in under 70 days squandered that. He squandered that, frankly, really in the first week or so. And then this is what he kept on posting last night over and over again. So this was like 9.30 his time online.
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As Donald Trump's revoking the citizenship of over 500,000 people here lawfully. Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Guatemalans, Haitians. A lot of people, by the way, who are Trumpers. So he's going to find their data in the IRS system.
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Also, just in general, people who may not be here lawfully, not have like a lawful protected status, but may be here but paid their taxes, like hardworking people, Trump's going to use the database to target them and find them and then do what he's done, which is kidnap them and then send them to concentration camps.
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concentration camps in El Salvador or send them back to the country where they may be political exiles, back to the repressive regime that probably will kill and torture them. I mean, literally, the Trump regime, they have blood on their hands. There's no other way around it.
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I'm going to do a whole other video about some of these individuals who Trump kidnapped and sent to El Salvador, like Andres, a gay barber. from Venezuela, came to the US lawfully, asylum seeker, fled the repressive Maduro regime, had a court appearance in the next week as an asylum seeker. Trump kidnapped him, sent him to El Salvador concentration camp. No one's ever heard from him again.
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There was a Time Magazine photojournalist. in the El Salvador concentration camps who saw someone crying and saying, I'm a barber, I'm just a hairdresser, I'm not a gang member. And the fear on this, we believe that that's Andres. But now Kristi Noem, Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, she does this whole cosplay thing. She goes place to place and she dresses up in the different outfits.
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So she's now going to go to El Salvador and let me tell you what she's going to do. They're going to go take photos and videos next to people with tattoos who look like horrific gang members. And then she's going to go, see, this is the type of people we're locking up here. This is the type of people. My whole point is people have due process in the United States of America.
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You can't just kidnap people and send them to El Salvador concentration camps. If people are engaged in crimes, then put a list, say what their crimes are, say what they did, and don't just show me random people with tattoos.
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Okay, I want to know the people you kidnapped, what was your criteria for saying that they were terrorists, enemy combatants in a war to send to a concentration camp in El Salvador? And then when their retort is, well, you know, what type of due process do murderers give their victims? You heard that one? The victim didn't get due process from the murderer. Well, guess what?
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The United States of America is supposed to be better than the murderer. We're supposed to have due process so we can make sure the bad guys get found. In my view, as a law and order person, take the book and throw it hard at any criminal. Port them back to their country or put them in jail.
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The failing New York Times insists on using little Peter Baker, a bad writer, Obama biographer, to write long and boring fake news hit pieces against me. The only people with less talent than Peter are his wife and, of course, maggot Hagerman. Hagerman is stupid. Again, this would make a petulant third grader, no offense to petulant third graders, look mature. It is humiliating.
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Criminals should be prosecuted to the fullest extent imaginable or possible under the law within the confines of our constitutional system and what it allows. Not cruel and unusual punishment. Let me be clear about that. But if people are innocent... innocent people should not be being sent to concentration camps in El Salvador. Let me share this with you. Former President Biden posted this.
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picture with the former first lady, Dr. Jill Biden. And former President Biden posted this as well. 15 years ago today, I stood with President Obama as he signed the Affordable Care Act into law. It was a big deal then and still is today. Under my administration, we focused on building the success of the Affordable Care Act.
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I'm proud that we helped a record number of Americans sign up for marketplace coverage and significantly lowered the cost of prescription drugs and premiums. I believe that healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and we should always protect it. We should always protect it. I couldn't agree more with that. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Notable as you look at that Chiron right there, you see the market tanking once again for a lot of Americans, especially when you ask them at a local level as well. That means their pensions are getting destroyed. Their 401ks are being destroyed. Their life savings suddenly disappearing. In addition to a lot of people.
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being affected in lots of different ways by what's going on in the government i mean take a look at this you have a promising advance in the fight against alzheimer's now being threatened by doge cuts
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You know, finally, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, a billionaire, Howard Lutnick, he's been the one who's been on TV telling people to buy Tesla stock, and he wants everyone to, in the future, buy Tesla robots for $30,000 a piece. Must be nice. He went on a tech bro podcast called the All In Podcast, where I guess they just talk about
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like rich people problems and like their mansions and their stock portfolios, like whatever, their Bitcoins. I don't know what the hell they talk about. But here they ask Howard Lutnick, should we be speaking in a more empathetic way about Doge destroying people's lives? The official answer from the Trump regime. Let's play it.
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No, no, no, we shouldn't be more empathetic. Let's just be the way we are and just destroy people's lives. I want to bring in Heather Williams. She's the president of the DLCC, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. You focus on the state races. All things are local, Heather. You watch that. Some of the data that we have shows that this is permeating some of the local special elections.
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I want you to speak about that. But state Democrats are now overperforming by an average of nine points in state legislative special elections. Can you can you speak to what you're seeing at the state level and how important it is at these state races?
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You look at red states like Iowa, a recent town hall that was held there with Senator Chuck Grassley, who's been representing that state for like literally decades and decades. Here's what happened at that town hall in Ruby Red, Iowa.
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Big race in Pennsylvania, as you mentioned, majority control in the statehouse there in Pennsylvania and the Commonwealth will be determined by this race. A Democrat passed away. So right now it's 101-101. And this race right here features an individual by the name of Guggenhauer, who's the Democratic candidate. against the Republican Davis.
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Guggenhauer is a police officer who supervise detectives, and he serves on the school board. And then he's running against a guy who's a fire chief. And, you know, this one's been, I guess, nationally a little bit under the radar. I think people in the commonwealth you know, know about it.
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In my view, I think it was important to share all of those clips at the beginning because, you know, I think the strategy, and correct me if you think I'm wrong here, is the Republican candidate, the fire chief, he's trying to go under the radar. He's trying to disconnect himself from the ramifications, which would be the Doge-ification of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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A vote for the Republican in this race means all of those things that Elon Musk is doing at the federal level, they're going to wreck the Commonwealth and it's just going to become Doge all over again. So the protections that Governor Shapiro has been able to fight for, that may be in jeopardy now if you tip the scales to the Republican. Tell us about that race.
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
Can't dodge doge. It's right in your face. They're calling social security a Ponzi scheme. They're taking away your Medicaid. You feel it in your 401k and every day you wake up and it's like, what new drama are these people going to be inflicting in our lives? It feels like, as I like to say it, we're kind of non-consensual participants in their dystopian reality show.
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
And all we want to do is just try to take care of our family and
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
and get on with our day and make an honest day's living what else should people know about your organization and it's very important everyone always talks about how one of the ways democrats have been outflanked in the past was that republicans focused on local they focused on the states and so i want to highlight what you're doing because democrats are now focusing on the states and local and you're the person leading that i mean you're an official it's an official arm of the democratic party
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
at the local level. This is what people have been asking to see. So I want to show them this is what's happening. So what should they know? What can they do? Anything else you want to tell the people?
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
the lives they wanna live, the opportunities they have, and just treat people right. I said at the beginning, I was gonna go back to that first clip I showed you of that veteran. And I just wanna briefly close this video by showing people the types of individuals who Doge and Trump are picking on, disabled veterans. And if they're picking on disabled veterans, don't think that you're immune.
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
If they haven't already come for you, trust me, they're coming for you. So why don't we play out with this clip right here, just so we can see here, play it.
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
And that right there, I think, shows you the problem and shows you what the solution is. Heather Williams, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate you.
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
I didn't expect this. You know, they say all politics is local. And when you go and speak to people now at the local level, you're hearing stories like that individual, a disabled veteran who was recently fired from his job after glowing performance reviews. More on him in a moment, that three time Trump voter who now has regrets.
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How Democrats are Ready to Win Back State Races
Please stand up for what's right and just do your job. I'll take you to a Pennsylvania butcher who's commenting on how Trump's tariffs crushing their business. Let's play it.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
Yeah, we're past the F around and find out stage. We're kind of at the take to the streets and peacefully protest stage. Take matters into our own hands stage peacefully. Of course, you have all these people in red districts and red states up to Ruby red who are saying, what the hell is Donald Trump and Elon Musk doing? You betrayed us.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
And this is what he said on November 4th. It's time to take out the trash together and vote Trump. Trump 2024. And then recently, Rodney posted, thanks to Elon Musk, I am now out of work. I've had a tough time finding a job these past few years. I worked for a company for almost six years and was let go. They decided to reorganize their company after another company bought them.
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So I was unemployed between January 2023 and June 2023. And I was hired by another company. Eventually, he says he was hired by the IRS in October 2024. He started working with them. But Elon Musk and his, quote, Doge gang decided to enact the reduction in force for the federal government, and he was laid off. How about this one right here?
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
Voter doesn't believe in Project 2025, votes for Trump to get rid of the deep state, but he was employed by the feds for 29 years and now says bye-bye to his job, President Biden. Former President Biden posted the following back on December 12th, 2024. I pray to God that the president-elect throws away Project 2025. I think it would be an economic disaster.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
I believe the only way for a president to lead is to lead all of America, to which this guy responds, stop lying. And then Elon Musk gave one of his directives over this past weekend, although Trump and Musk claim that Elon Musk is actually not running Doge because Musk doesn't want to testify before Congress.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
So they say he's just a special advisor to Donald Trump so they could claim executive privilege, Presidential Records Act privileges, and other immunities to avoid having Elon Musk actually have to answer to you and we, the people. Then this guy responds to Musk, I voted for Trump. I'm a government employee working for 29 years. The disrespect has come over the years from both sides.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
This time it's out of control. We are political punching bags. We're not the deep state. We have been treated like crap, then he says to Trump. I voted for you three times. Why are you allowing Elon to abuse federal workers? Doge doesn't need to fire 200,000. They just need to fire one. We are not the deep state. We protect this country with technology.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
You promised us lower prices and you promised us making housing more affordable and peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. And you're doing the exact opposite. And Now they're losing their jobs. They're losing their Medicaid. They're losing their health care. They're losing their benefits. They're losing critical federal aid. They're losing the support that their special needs kids were receiving.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
If you continue down this path, this country will have no future. How about this Trump supporter who goes to Trump? We need to cut waste, but just because you or Elon have money doesn't mean you know how to do it if you're doing it wrong. You need someone with common sense, not money or ego. I voted for you to fix things, not do stupid things.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
By the way, should we check on some of those farmers for Trump? All of those farmers, by the way, who lived through the first Trump administration, so they knew the trade war that Trump started with China, then screwed them over, and now they are being brutally screwed by Donald Trump. With all of these cuts, it's hitting farmers in red areas very hard. Let's check in with them, shall we?
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Take a look at this montage, if you will. Play this clip.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
More comments, messages to Trump like this. I could show you literally tens of thousands of these, just showing you a few here. Janet McClure goes, I'm all for cutting government waste. My concern is the ramifications of people who have lost their jobs. They still have families to feed and support. The USA unemployment will skyrocket. What's the plan for them?
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Hey, Janet, you want to know the plan for them? The plan is to make them homeless. The plan is to screw them. The plan is to screw their families' lives. The plan is to make them suffer. You know why I know that? Because that's what Donald Trump and Elon Musk have said. They said they want to inflict hardship on Americans to destroy America.
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And this is what they said, to turn America basically into rubble. so that they can then rebuild it in their image. They need to destroy us all to then rebuild it. They said they want to inflict hardship. That is not a bug. That is the goal of what they are doing. Oh, and by the way,
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With a lot of those, with not a lot of those, with basically all of the federal employees who are being fired, they're being fired for cause, not being like just like laid off and then getting benefits or being able to get unemployment. They're being fired for cause. So they can't even qualify in many cases for unemployment based on the status for which they're being fired.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
They're losing it all. Trump is cruelly taking it from them. And they're saying, Donald, why did you betray us? Are you seeing these stories? I did a lot of videos on those town halls. A lot of those town halls were talking about, Oklahoma's fifth Oregon's Oklahoma's first Oregon's fifth congressional district. We're talking about the Ruby red areas in Wisconsin.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
It is heinous, cruel and disgusting stuff.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
from billionaires screwing over hardworking americans and that's why right now americans are taking matters into their own hands which we see happening at the town halls at the protests and i always say make sure you do this peacefully i always say that make sure you do it peacefully but people are peacefully showing up and protesting and these are growing i expect there to be a democracy spring an awakening i'm seeing
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happening right now. Here's an unhappy MAGA spotted in a news article comment section. Lori goes, I voted for Trump from Howell, Michigan. I voted for Trump and I don't like what's happening. My aunt also voted for Trump, but lost her government job. I'm on social security. Now I'm nervous about that being taken away. You should be nervous. He's going to take it away. I wanted a better America.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
My groceries are still high and people are losing their jobs. I didn't sign up for this. I did not vote for Musk. I feel my freedom is being taken away. I am not happy. Just take a look at this. Eggs are up 23%. Gas is up 17.4%. Price of sugar up 16.7%. Wheat up 8.4%. Lumber up 4.6%. Oh, that's going to soar when some of those tariffs kick in. The price of corn is up 3.4%. Gas is up.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
Electricity is up. Soybeans is up. Cheese is up. Is this what you voted for? The stock market's down. If we're talking about things that are down, stock market crashed on Friday. So that was not a good look. Stock market is very volatile and doing poorly right now under this Trump regime. Take a look at this one from Great Lakes Now.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
Dozens of workers focused on Lamprey control were among scores of Michigan federal workers fired without notice in the past week, including a Trump supporter. Let's find this guy in this article who I saw. This guy talks about how he voted for Trump and then now his life has been screwed. So
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It goes on to talk about how just months ago, Great Lakes fish advocates were celebrating a victory in a decades-long campaign to save lake trout populations from extinction at the hands of invasive sea lamprey. I know this stuff is very boring to Elon Musk and Donald Trump. This stuff bores them. They think that these aren't real jobs that actually focus on our Great Lakes and
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
keeping people healthy, not exciting enough for Mr. Rocket Man and Donald Trump, right? Too boring for them, too boring for their Mar-a-Lago lives. Now they fear the progress could slip away as Trump's vow to downsize the federal government threatens to derail all of their efforts. Then it says, Here's this guy, Graham Peters. He goes, I want to ask why, why are you doing this?
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And if they even understand what they're doing, because it doesn't seem like they realize who they're getting rid of and the impact it's going to have. Peter's job included replanting forests with young saplings. And he said he put in 100% effort all the time. Supervisors were apologetic when they called to fire him, but said, Trump wants to fire you. The Office of Personnel Management
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Peters feels betrayed by politicians he helped put in office. It goes on to say that he voted for Donald Trump and he says it's the ultimate betrayal. If I had known this was going to happen, I wouldn't have voted for him. Really? You didn't know that was going to happen? Okay.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
Elon Musk then posts, consistent with Trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. to which this account writes, great, I've been a skilled trade federal employee for over a month and I'm still unable to access my emails.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
We're talking about Georgia's seventh congressional district. I mean, we're talking about red areas where Republicans are showing up at these town halls and saying, well, What in the world are you doing to their members of Congress? You are just enabling Elon Musk to snatch up our private information and our private data and gut our country.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
I'm a conservative who voted for Trump, but this is just getting too much already. This is people's lives here. I get you want to get rid of all the pointless DEI stuff, But I now regret leaving my secure job for this rollercoaster of uncertainty. I had never been more excited for a job in my life. Now I'm suddenly worried about suddenly being jobless over an email that I just can't access.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
How about this person right here who's got the Trump 2024 is her logo, Pamela's logo. And then she goes, what in the whole wide world? Linny and Brinny both depend on these programs. I think our kids, teachers help me understand this. Is this the IEP program? The Trump administration is giving schools a deadline to end DEI programs, which guess what?
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
DEI, they consider IEP and helping special needs kids as well. And that's what they're eliminating too. Yes, they are. And then he has got a lot more stuff. I could go on for days showing you stuff, but I think you get the point here. As I said, though, I think we're past the F around and find out. People find out. The hatred of Donald Trump is massive right now. And again, it's not just liberals.
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Trump Voters Rise Up Against Him After Betrayal
It's human beings who are being treated like shit by Trump and Elon Musk, having not just their jobs taken away, their dignity taken away, their health care taken away, their rights, their freedoms being trampled on by billionaires right before their eyes. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Let's grow this channel. Let's keep the momentum.
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Y'all are forming alliances with Putin and you're throwing Ukraine under the bus and you're pulling America out of NATO. You're taking away our Medicaid. You're coming after our Social Security. What the hell are you doing here? Take a look at stories like this. This right here. This is Rodney in Nashville. Didn't expect his job to be trash that was taken out.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Well, Donald Trump's having quite the morning. He woke up finding that at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, they're playing AI videos of Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet. Very weird. Donald Trump then went on a posting tear to just post lots of things that have the number billions in front of him. So he goes, investments in the U.S.,
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Congress member, what the heck in the world is going on here? People are rising up, though. People are pissed, eh?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
You know, we've been covering these town halls of your Republican colleagues, and we're talking about in ruby red areas. We talked about like Georgia's seventh, Oregon's fifth, the really red areas in Wisconsin, Oklahoma's first. And, you know, there are Republicans, libertarians who are there and say, what the hell? Heck, why are you giving my medical records and my private data to Elon?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And it's so bizarre because these like MAGA Republican Congress members have been living in Elon's algorithm. They look like legitimately like frozen and stunned. This is MAGA Republican Representative Grothman. Just watch this and I'll get your reaction to it.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Under President Trump, $14.1 billion bid from Nippon Steel, $20 billion from Hussein Sajwani, $500 billion over four years from Apple, $500 billion over four years from Stargate, $600 billion from Saudi Arabia. I feel like it's...
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
You don't believe it. You can read it.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Congress member Grothman says he doesn't believe it. Do you believe it?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
You know, it's like these Republicans have been so entrenched in Twitter, which is now X. They like live through these memes and people need their Medicaid and their Medicare and their health care. And they want that.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
answers and people are not satisfied with the dumb excuse my language dumb that elon is posting on his social media they want oversight and they're just saying right why don't you just have this guy show up and testify then and even your republican colleagues are like nah nah nah it's elon he's a billionaire you know we wouldn't do anything wrong why would he testify i mean that's that's kind of like that's crazy
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dr evil one trillion dollar just putting up numbers while he's like crashing our economy taking away people's medicaid gutting our federal government uh taking uh america out of our alliances he's posting more about apple has just announced a record 500 billion dollar investment in the united states of america Look, Apple's an American company and invests billions of dollars all the time.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
I'm all over paper straw gate, so my audience knows I play that clip over and over again. But Congressman, walk through with us this issue about Elon Musk testifying before the Oversight Committee, because I hear a lot of people saying, then just have him testify, have him justify everything that he's doing the same way an FBI director does.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
What, at least in the Biden administration, we'll see what happens with Patel and Bongino, which we'll get to in a moment as well. You would have the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Biden Union, the AG Merrick Garland would show up. These people show up. So why can't Elon? Why? Why? Who's voting where? Why is this being blocked?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
And speaking about some of these controversial picks, Congress member, we learned on Sunday night that Dan Bongino, who's never worked in the FBI, is going to be the deputy director of the FBI. I'll just show you this quick clip of this guy.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
I mean, what, what, what in the world? I mean, just what, what in the world is this? I mean, you know, Americans who aren't perpetually glued to Elon's memes and I guess right wing podcast culture. I mean, you know, hardworking Americans who are working on the farms, working in the factories, you know, supporting their family, working for the federal government, you know, raising families.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
they watching this and they're like, it's a gut, it's a gut punch, right? Like it's, it's every day is like a, is like a, Oh, what, what, what do you, what do you tell the American people right now?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
Yes, Donald, Apple is a big company. And isn't this one of the biggest tells when he starts going down this route that he knows that people are pissed about the way he's handling everything? I showed a poll earlier this morning where it's like close to 80 percent of Americans feel the economy is heading in the wrong direction. Donald Trump grifting, of course, selling bizarre pens. Get your pens.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Krishnamoorthi on Trump Disasters
He then keeps on posting that Elon is doing a great job, but I want to see him get more aggressive, Donald Trump says. And then it's email after email to his subscribers and to his people on his listserv saying, you want to come to Mar-a-Lago? I don't invite anybody to my luxurious home, but I'll invite you. Let me bring in Congress member Raja Krishnamoorthy.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Germany's new chancellor, Frederick Meyers, did not hold back in his acceptance speech over this weekend in his condemnation of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance, and the American government under those individuals. There were elections held in Germany.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
And by the way, Russia loves all of this as Julia Davis, who monitors all things Russia propaganda, give her a shout out. She does great work. She goes, Trump and his team are gladly spreading Russian propaganda and Moscow is showcasing their subservience. Why blame Russia for its genocidal expansionist invasion?
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
when you can blame nato and that's what russia is showing that the trump administration's doing and playing the trump clips over and over again here's the special envoy whitcoff again talking about his great discussions with putin let's play it the meeting ended i looked at my watch and it was close to three and a half hours that we were in there and hopefully that uh that suggests that a lot of good things got accomplished
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
And then finally, here is Democratic Congress member Jim Himes, who I think has been stepping up a lot lately. And he says, when you watch the language of Trump and Besant and Musk and Vance and all of these magas, it's like watching a bad episode of The Sopranos with their shakedown. Oh, give us your rare earth minerals or else. Here, play this clip.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
US have some kind of guarantee or return on the billions of taxpayer dollars that have flowed into that conflict.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
One of the things also that we've been reporting on that's worth mentioning as well is that there have been lots of credible reports that the Trump administration, Musk and others have been threatening Ukraine to shut off their Starlink connection, even though it's already been fully paid for by Poland.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
the polish government has fully paid for ukraine's starlink but nonetheless you have the trump administration still threatening that elon musk will shut off their starlink if they don't submit and give america all of its rare earth minerals materials like seriously what the hell is going on here folks um
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Been seeing lots of polling lately as well showing how unpopular Donald Trump's attempted alliance or alliance with Putin is here in America. It's a shameful thing. It's embarrassing to be an American while Trump is sucking up to Putin like this and making America subservient to Russia, helping the Russian stock market soar while he crushes the American markets.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
This is a pathetic authoritarian regime we have here in the United States. Let's not mince words when we call it out. And again, powerful words there. Talk about not mincing words from Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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Musk, Trump, JD Vance, and the MAGA movement in America were supporting the German neo-Nazi party known as the AFD, which was also aligned with Russia. The AFD did worse than what they were expected to do in some initial polling. They came in second. The CDU, CSU came in first. They are going to be able to form a government forthwith.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Now, in this next clip, Chancellor Meyers talks about a united Europe that can no longer rely on the United States. He talks about his role leading Germany, a strong Germany that no longer has the United States as an ally or a friend.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
And Chancellor Maersk continued to reiterate as well that he doesn't know what's even gonna happen in June when there's supposed to be a NATO summit because it clearly seems that Donald Trump, Musk, and JD Vance are pulling the United States out of NATO such that there needs to be a new European Common Defense Alliance. Play this clip.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Folks, we are watching historic developments rapidly progress with new security arrangements where America under the Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance fascist regime is being isolated and now just pushed out rightfully so by Europe, also by other countries like Canada, Mexico, and elsewhere as Donald Trump tries to create alliances with Vladimir Putin, which most Americans don't want at all.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Embarrassingly, Donald Trump does not know anything about German politics because Donald Trump tried to act like this was a victory for him, even though he supported the AFD, the neo-Nazi party in Germany, because Donald Trump was like, look, everybody, The conservative party in Germany won, everybody. That's because of me. The CDU, CSU, conservatives, everybody, they won. It's like us.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Absolutely not. To be clear, the CDU, CSU is probably much closer to being like the Democrats in the United States of America, and Donald Trump again was supporting the opposite party, the Putin party, which did not win. But Donald Trump wrote the following, looks like the conservative party in Germany has won the very big and highly anticipated election.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
And over here, the new chancellor, which is the leader in Germany, Frederick Meyers, did not hold back. He lumped Donald Trump, Musk. J.D. Vance together with enemies like Vladimir Putin and Russia. He talked about the election interference, the malicious and wanted interference that was engaged in by Trump, Musk, J.D. Vance, and other magas in America, similar to what Putin was doing.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Much like the USA, the people of Germany got tired of the no common sense agenda, especially on energy and immigration that has prevailed for so many years. This is a great day for Germany and for the United States of America under the leadership of a gentleman named Donald J. Trump. Congratulations to all. Many more victories to follow.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
And again, it just shows you that not only is Donald Trump just dangerous, he is a complete and total idiot by claiming that as a victory. You clearly heard Chancellor Mayer's or future Chancellor Mayer's speech there, which was condemning Donald Trump and also condemning
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
In terms of like energy policy, for example, the policies embraced by the CDU, CSU would be more analogous to all of the things that are ridiculous MAGA parties here in America would call the Green New Deal scam or whatever it is. Now, Europe is uniting right now, and we're seeing people stand up to Donald Trump.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
For example, here's French President Emmanuel Macron saying that, look, Ukraine has had legitimate elections, and all of Donald Trump's statements about Zelensky not being legitimate is Putin propaganda and false. Play this clip.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
While all of this is taking place, the Russian propaganda shows, Russian state regime media is loving all of this. Here is a clip from Russian state TV praising Donald Trump and Musk and J.D. Vance for being, quote, in total alignment with Putin. Let's play it. Trump.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Going from Germany to France and now to the UK, the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, he gave a speech saying that Ukraine must be at the table for any talks on its future following the US-Russian alliance. Play this clip.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Chancellor Meyers also is providing a very strong defense of Ukraine and also spoke about a strong Europe. Let me show you this part of Chancellor Mayer's acceptance speech where he called out Donald Trump, Musk and Vance and compared them to Putin.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
And while this is taking place, the former Fox News host turned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked on Fox shows on Sunday, is it fair to say, can you just admit that Russia attacked unprovoked into Ukraine, to which Hegseth refused to call Russia the aggressor? Play this clip.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
But fair to say Russia attacked unprovoked into Ukraine three years ago tomorrow.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Okay, we'll leave it there.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
And everybody in the Trump authoritarian regime now refuses to call Russia the aggressor. Here is another US special envoy to the Middle East right here, Envoy Witkoff. And here he is asked a basic question and he says, the war didn't have to happen. It was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by Russia. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah, and as Sir William Browder says, this guy was also talking about his friendship with Putin after spending 3.5 hours with him at the Kremlin. He really should read Red Notice and learn about what happened to Sergei Magnitsky and me. Another comment right here from Anders Aslund says, the Trump administration and Musk are now the leading liars in the world, possibly even worse than Putin.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Ukraine did not provoke Russia's assault. Russia attacked Ukraine for no reason. There was no discussion about Ukraine joining NATO. Ukraine suffered from neutrality. By the way, here's Pete Hegseth again saying that the firing of top military lawyers was and top military brass was necessary to make sure that there don't exist roadblocks to anything that's about to happen.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
What the hell you're playing?
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For people who may not know, I mean, they give advice to the military about what is lawful and what isn't. Not surprisingly, there's been some backlash to those who are worried about their removal. One Georgetown law professor says this. Trump also firing the Army, Navy and Air Force Jags. In some ways, that's even more chilling than firing the four stars.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
It's what you do when you're planning to break the law. You get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down. Your response to her.
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New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
Then you had Donald Trump's treasury secretary talking like a mobster. Scott Besant, the treasury secretary, is talking about how he's really just doing his best with Donald and Elon to try to extort Ukraine for their rare earth minerals. Play the clip.
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Trump Loses Control as Approval Rapidly Crashes
Americans are rising up against Donald Trump. Trump's approval is tanking fast. Donald Trump, I think, realizing that he is a cornered rat. Let's talk about what happened over the weekend. Russian state regime media continued to talk about how Donald Trump and Putin are now fully aligned on their attacks of NATO, Ukraine, and Europe. Take a look at what happened on Russian state regime media.
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In his acceptance speech after becoming the next chancellor, the presumptive chancellor, Frederick Mayers said that Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Washington were now, quote, no less radical and outrageous than that of Moscow. Germany now views America basically no different than they view Putin. That's what Donald Trump has done to the United States and how Donald Trump has turned Europe and NATO
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and Canada and all of our traditional allies against the United States. Furthermore, over the weekend, Donald Trump appointed the podcast host and conspiracy theorist who never worked a day in the FBI as the deputy director of the FBI. I'm talking about Dan Bongino. FBI agents are absolutely furious at this appointment.
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Donald Trump posted the following, great news for law enforcement and American justice. Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our country, has been named the next deputy director of the FBI by the man who will be the best ever director, Kash Patel. As Ken Delanian of NBC writes, traditionally, the deputy FBI director has been a career FBI agent.
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That is particularly important when the director has no experience at the FBI. Donald Trump tonight announced he is appointing as deputy director Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and prolific conspiracy theorist. He has never spent a day working at the FBI, but he has spent many hours spouting baseless falsehoods about the bureau.
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such as that the FBI lied when they said they don't have a suspect in the pipe bombs as outside the RNC and DNC on January 15, 2021. Current and former FBI officials are appalled and extremely concerned for the national security of the country. And I would say the biggest reason, though, that Americans are pissed, even though those ones are young,
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Hugely, hugely a reason why as well is that Donald Trump has gutted the federal government, attacked people's Medicaid, tried to remove people's healthcare, and is doing everything he can to try to destroy our economy. We saw the markets crash at the end of last week.
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When you take a look at Trump's approvals from the latest Ipsos poll and the approvals of MAGA's, it is so underwater on just about every issue. Let's go through it. Here was a question in the latest Ipsos poll from February 18th. I imagine the next Ipsos poll is going to be even worse. Would you rather see the next Congress controlled by Democrats or Republicans?
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Voters by a 54% to 41% margin say Democrats. Next, voters were asked, Americans were asked about various policies that Donald Trump is pursuing like ending DEI or banning trans people from the military or making it easier for Trump to fire longtime federal workers. on basically every single issue Americans are against and strongly against.
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Everything that Trump and his authoritarian regime are doing and people are livid and pissed, especially at Elon Musk. Net support for ending DEI in government, negative 3%, meaning people don't like Trump's DEI policies. whatever that even means other than it's clearly racist pretext. Banning trans people from the military, negative 11%.
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Making it easier for presidents to fire longtime federal workers, negative 21%. Shutting down USAID, negative 21%. Blocking health agencies from communicating without approval from Trump appointee, Negative 43%. Describe the nation's economy these days. 52% of Americans say not so good. 21% of Americans say poor. Almost 80% of Americans believe we have a bad economy.
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Contrast that to the conclusion of former President Biden where consumer, rise Biden's term, where consumer confidence was growing, where inflation was supposed to shrink to about 2%. Former President Biden created about 16.4 million new jobs. There was never a month where jobs were lost. Unemployment was at record lows. Employment was at all-time highs. Wages were rising.
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Interest rates were being cut. The stock market was up 55%, 60%. Your 401k was doing great under former President Biden. And I'm sure if you even had the courage to look at it recently, It is in the tank once again, thanks to Trump, the same way it was in the tank in the first Trump administration. But it's getting even worse right now. Other polling questions from this Ipsos poll.
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Support for pardoning those convicted of violent crimes related to January 6th as Trump did. 83% of Americans oppose. Approval of Elon Musk shutting down federal programs, he decides are unnecessary. Only 26% of Americans approve. It has a net negative 26% rating. 76% of Americans say gas prices are too high and not good. The income of average Americans, 72% of Americans say not good or poor.
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92% of Americans say food prices are too high and not good. Only 35% of Americans say that Donald Trump can be trusted at all. While all of this is going on, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making posts like this. Trigger warning, Elon Musk frequently uses the R word over and over again. He posts memes like this. They always say, okay, retard. They never say, are you okay, retard?
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Then the United States Secretary of Defense, who has no experience to hold that position, former Fox host Pete Hegseth, who never commanded any military before holding this position, Pete Hegseth said that he refused to say whether Russia was the aggressor or not in Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine, quite literally spewing Russian propaganda. Let's play it.
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This is the type of person who is somehow controlling our government, who's gained access to your medical records, your social security information, your tax records, him and a bunch of 19 to 24 year olds who refer to themselves as Mr. Big Balls. They're getting your records, others from these 19 to 24 year old cohorts. saying all this like racist and horrific stuff.
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Why do they have access to your stuff? Why are they firing all of these hardworking government officials, dehumanizing them, lying and saying they're firing them for cause to prevent them from even getting unemployment and some of the most despicable stuff imaginable taking place right now.
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One thing to mention, too, is that Donald Trump's dangerousness is also matched by his incompetence and idiocracy. Donald Trump celebrated the fact that the conservative party, the CSU-CDU, won in Germany, even though Friedrich Merz, the new chancellor,
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hates Donald Trump and gave his acceptance speech saying that Europe is going to break away from Trump, that Trump can't be trusted, that Trump to him is no different than Putin because Trump's an idiot and he's like, oh, the conservative party. Donald Trump's preferred party was the AFD, which is the neo-Nazi party, and they were the ones that lost the election. But Donald Trump pretended that
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that he was the big victor in this, that Donald Trump got the conservative party that literally ran against him to win. This is how stupid it is also. You also had Donald Trump's special envoy showing up on CNN and other networks, again, spouting pro-Russian propaganda.
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Here's Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, who for some reason now has become the special envoy to Ukraine, apparently, because Donald Trump doesn't like Keith Kellogg, the original special envoy. Here, play this clip.
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by the way as a rachel matto posted this from the new york times one of mr trump's claims about ukraine offers a case study in his myth making he said that the united states has provided 350 billion dollars in aid to ukraine three times as much as europe but that much of money is missing and that mr zielinski admits that half of the money we sent him is missing in fact
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The United States has allocated about a third of what Trump claimed, even less than Europe, and none of it is known to be missing. Literally everything Donald Trump says is a lie. Donald Trump also posting memes like this, terrorizing the federal workers who he is firing and who he is treating like absolute crap. He mocks them.
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He mocks our federal workers like they're not hardworking people, like they're crappy people. These are hardworking Americans. that Donald Trump and Musk and these billionaires just treat like trash, dehumanize. It is despicable. Trump, this is a real post from Donald Trump. I mean, could you ever imagine that the president of the United States would make posts like this? It's a SpongeBob meme.
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And then it says, got done last week. and he's mocking the federal workers. Cried about Trump, cried about Elon, made it into the office for once, read some emails, cried about Trump and Elon some more. I mean, it's just nasty and despicable stuff right there as well. Also, Donald Trump sending emails like this. Buddy, have you seen the only official Doge shirt? Here it is.
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It's the Doge shirt right here. Let me show you this one other clip from Pete Hegseth here. He says the reason that he's firing all of the top military lawyers, in addition to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, C.Q. Brown, is because he wants to make sure there won't be roadblocks to anything that happens. Let's play this clip.
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So we're going to open. They're not even hiding anymore their fascist designs. Oh, and by the way, this clip resurfaced recently as well. This is Elon Musk ignoring his human shield child prop. You can see it right here. This was from an event that he spoke. I think this was the Madison Square Garden event. But here, play this clip. There you have it, folks.
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Over the weekend, folks, there were elections that were held in Germany. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, and the MAGAs supported Germany's neo-Nazi AFD party. The AFD party came in second. They did not win. the CSU-CDU party led by Frederick Mayers, who will become the next chancellor. They prevailed in the election. Mayers will become the next chancellor.
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Fox Viewers Freak Out Over Trump’s Early Disasters
OK, now they received like literally thousands of responses. And here's what some of the responses said. Turned a serious, respectable country into the Muppet show within days. I regret voting for Trump. This is way too cringe. Elon Musk just caught on a hype mic calling Donald Trump poor. Textbook definition of clowns. Effing cornball. Too drugged up to take his sunglasses off.
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LMAO, we are a joke. We are currently the laughingstock of the world. Some memes. Beyond embarrassing, our country is a joke with him as president and Trump as king. What the F is he even laughing about? Bro is zooted on Ket. Dog thinks he funny guy at school. And you as a quote news network think this is funny and okay. Sad. Lots of memes depicting Elon Musk as a clown. This is all pathetic.
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Fox Viewers Freak Out Over Trump’s Early Disasters
This was all a joke and I didn't think everyone would fall for it. But here we are. Is this a panel at Comic-Con? It is officially 1984. Other comments. This guy is a James Bond villain. I guarantee he and Trump will turn on each other eventually. Two egos like this cannot occupy the same space. I hope you saw him showing off with a chainsaw to cut the federal government.
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No shame, no remorse for all these people now without jobs, heartless. It was a joke to him. Remember, you may need these folks, especially the cancer and medical research. Because, of course, Trump and Doge are gutting cancer research and firing veterans and firing government workers at all levels and trying to get rid of Medicaid and trying to get rid of the Department of Education.
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A lot of bad indicators right now. And it is, I told you so, F around, find out, leopards eating your face. It just is very unfortunate that these brainwashed people ended up dragging the rest of us with them into this freaking mess right now. So sure, they're finding out. But y'all dragged us into this when we tried to tell you, yes, Project 2025 was real. Yes, they're doing these things.
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And you were like, no, he's not really going to do them. No way. He just says that he just he's a great businessman. No, he isn't. He bankrupted most of his businesses in the past. objectively, just look it up. He bankrupted most of his casinos and most of the companies he worked with went out of business.
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His current company, Trump Media, last year only did about three and a half, $3.6 million in revenue total. Total revenue was under $4 million on $400 million in losses. How do you even do that? How do you lose $400 million? earn in revenue, not profit, not net net, not EBITDA revenue.
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Fox Viewers Freak Out Over Trump’s Early Disasters
At some point, you can try to put lipstick on an orange turd, but the turd will always surface. In this case right here, Fox viewers are learning that Donald Trump is, surprise, surprise, a complete con artist. And Fox viewers are turning against Donald Trump. We're seeing that on the various Fox posts throughout social media as Fox viewers are flooding the comment sections
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So Trump's Trump media made less than, I don't know, your local McDonald's, not the company, the one franchise, your local coffee shop, your Boba spot, a small mom and pop restaurant does about that in revenue. Um, And probably earns a little bit of a profit to not losing this money like Trump's the worst businessman ever. And now he's doing it to our freaking economy. Inflation is growing.
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Fed is now not going to be cutting interest rates anytime soon. all of this while we learn that consumer sentiment's got like an all-time low right now when it's crashing. People aren't spending money because they're afraid of all of the chaos being caused by Donald Trump. Planes are like crashing every other day, it seems. Oh, and here's the new news.
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Trump plans to fire the United States Postal Service governing board, and he will merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department. I mean, How do you even do these things without legislation? I mean, what the hell are these spineless Republicans doing? Now he wants to destroy our mail, our medication.
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Yeah, they want us to just suffer so that they can have everything, I guess, and just make the people feel all of this pain for like no reason because they're freaking sick. You know what? It would disrupt 55 years of nonpolitical mail service and threatens to upend trillions of dollars of e-commerce and the 250-year-old U.S. mail system.
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As Congress member Dan Boyer says, the Constitution gives Congress power to establish the U.S. Postal Service, which it did by law during the Washington administration. Its status as an independent agency was also established by Congress and law.
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the u.s postal service is wildly popular with the american people and its service is essential and irreplaceable nobody voted for this it is brazenly illegal unconstitutional and corrupt we're seeing as i said inflation rise even new york post a murdoch property is telling donald trump Donald, they have to treat him like a freaking baby, like a baby book.
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Remember the baby books like See Spot Run? See Spot Run. See Spot Jump. See Spot Sit. See Spot Eat. Rupert Murdoch knows Trump is such an idiot. He has to communicate to Trump with picture books, the cover of the New York Post, which is a Murdoch-owned property because Murdoch's seeing people turning against Trump, especially with his support of Putin as well. This is a dictator.
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Dear Donald, this is what it says. Trump, this is a dictator and it's a photo of Putin. And 10 other Ukraine war truths we ignore at our peril. Big, bold letters because they know what an idiot Donald Trump is. Meanwhile, Trump is sending emails like this to his supporters. They want me to fire Elon Musk. They're the Democrats. They want me to do it. But Elon Musk is dark MAGA.
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So claim your dark, dark MAGA hat. I'm being flooded with requests for dark MAGA hats because Elon Musk has gone dark MAGA. The hell are we even talking about here? Gone dark MAGA. I mean, these people like genuinely, I don't want to say insane because it gives them like, oh, insanity defense. These people are psychotic though. This is at the conference where Trump's speaking, CPAC.
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Trump is speaking at a conference whose attendees are promoting the third term project. So they went from project 2025, which they're implementing. Now they call it the third term project, which calls to override the constitution to let Trump hold on to power and And their signage, this is what the Trump supporters want, depicts Trump as Julius Caesar who declared himself a dictator for life.
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Here was Trump on audio yesterday calling into Fox saying, please don't blame me for the economy. Play this clip.
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That are usually just overly complimentary to Trump and Elon Musk. To the point of being cultishly bizarre. And now we're seeing these comments saying, ugh, I regret voting for him. This is so cringe. Really, you turned America into some Muppet show within days? So people are getting the bad economic data right now. Inflation is surging. Grocery prices rising higher than ever right now.
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Thank you Miracle Made for sponsoring this episode. And here he is yesterday saying, yes, I know I'm hearing egg prices are going up, but that's not my fault. That's Biden's fault. Right. Right. Play this clip.
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And finally, I'll just leave you with this clip because it's hilarious. It's Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin saying, who's leading Doge? And that's what you see a lot of the people in the comments at Fox are saying, who's leading this thing? And Raskin's hilarious. He goes, is it this 19 year old kid who calls himself Big Balls? Is our government being run by a 19-year-old named Big Balls?
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Or the racist one? Which one is running Doge? Because no one's claiming that they run Doge. Here, play this clip.
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The market is crashing. And Fox is trying their best to promote Elon Musk. So they show this graphic right here and this video. Let me show it to you. Elon Musk's like, I'm a meme now. I'm a meme. And they posted this on their Instagram account. Play this clip.
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Gaetz Gets WORST NEWS of HIS LIFE…SECRET RULING Revealed
Very bad news for Matt Gaetz, which means very good news for the United States of America. The Matt Gaetz ethics report into his child sex trafficking allegations, obstruction of justice and other misconduct will be released. That's right. A secret meeting was held with the bipartisan ethics committee earlier this month. According to a new report by CNN, we're also reporting it on MidasNews.com.
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This is something that's going to be in that report once it gets released. You see it right here. What you're seeing right there is the web of the sex trafficking cartel that has been alleged against Greenberg and the association has been alleged by Matt Gaetz being involved in that. It should be noted Gates denies the allegations, but we will see that report soon.
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Also from the report, we will see, and this part of it has been leaked, the Venmo payments that were made by Matt Gates as part of this trafficking allegations. You see here these payments that were made, and it says things like he's paying the girls for joy, for cartridges, for love you, for refreshment, just because, for being awesome, for being here, for being my friend.
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Pretty despicable stuff, but... The Republicans were covering this all up until now, at least with the Ethics Committee agreeing to release it. Doesn't mean that we've now seen it's now been revealed that they've been exposed. The Republicans in the House of Representatives voting to block the release of the report before.
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You'll recall when a Democratic Congress member addressed the House floor and put up a vote before the entire House of Representatives to release the Gates Ethics Report, the House Republicans blocked its release, which looked into criminal allegations, including sex with a minor. You see right here, Republicans blocked it 206 and the Democrats who wanted it released. 197 wanting it released.
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So all of those Republicans just think about it now. And I think that Democrats should be loud about this. If you supported blocking this report before, and again, I'm not talking about the people in the Ethics Committee, which is a smaller group of people, all these other Republicans who are out there defending Matt Gaetz means you were defending child sex trafficking allegations.
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Gaetz Gets WORST NEWS of HIS LIFE…SECRET RULING Revealed
You should say the MAGA Republican Party is the party of child sex trafficking allegations and that they support it and they endorse it. Just say it loud and say it over and over again. Don't believe me? When Donald Trump appointed Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General.
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Here, for example, is Senator Kevin Cramer indicating that he's not particularly bothered by the credible allegations against Matt Gaetz. Play this clip.
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And in this secret meeting, there was a vote to release this report. This means that the ethics committee changed course from what it had decided last month when Matt Gaetz was first nominated and he resigned from the House of Representatives. You'll recall in a party line vote,
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Well, it would, Dan, if the FBI hadn't dropped the investigation, which tells me something about either the credibility of the testimony or not enough. For some reason, the FBI looked into all this and decided not to move forward. That said, And whether they release the report or not, it will certainly be reported.
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If not released, it'll be repeated by the Senate Judiciary Committee, because all those same witnesses, to your point, they're coming out publicly and many more and much more evidence will be just as available to Senate Judiciary investigators. And of course, they have subpoena power.
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remember while all of these credible allegations were known there's jd vance creepy jd vance along with marco rubio they were bringing matt gates uh senator to senator and just just defending the conduct is cool that's cool according to jd vance and marco rubio you see matt gates there as they were walking the halls of Congress.
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And then they would send people to do CNN interviews like this is Anna Paulina Luna. And she's like, I find it very interesting that these allegations are coming out right now. Very peculiar timing. These allegations were always known about Matt Gaetz. But this is what Anna Paulina Luna said. Here, play this clip.
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Here was MAGA Republican Representative Ralph Norman, who said that Gates was a brilliant legal mind and a risk taker. That's how he referred to the allegations. Play this clip.
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It was split evenly, and the deadlock means that the release of the report, the ethics report into Matt Gaetz would be blocked. The Ethics Committee decided not to release it then. Now, there was a secret meeting held sometime earlier this month. This means that Republicans joined forces with Democrats on that specific committee, on that ethics committee, and agreed to release the report.
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Perhaps the most cowardly at all, if that's even possible, is Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Now, Mark Wayne Mullen went on CNN and he was asked by Jake Tapper if he was going to vote for Matt Gaetz. And Mark Wayne Mullen, the Republican senator from Oklahoma, said, whatever Trumpy says, whatever daddy, whatever daddy tells me to do, here, play this clip.
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Coming up next, the reaction at the Justice Department. And why I think that he's the most cowardly is he's a witness to what Gates did. He's literally a witness to some of the stuff that Gates would do on the House floor. So this was Mark Wayne Mullen, just so you could see for yourself, like nine months ago, a year ago, he was playing this clip.
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No doubt former Speaker Kevin McCarthy probably had a hand in that convincing people over the past few weeks that that report needed to be released. And you'll recall that Kevin McCarthy basically has vowed to make his life's mission to destroy Matt Gaetz. A reminder that this report, this ethics report contains credible allegations, and again, allegations,
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So yes, the ethics report's going to be released. Matt Gaetz is in big trouble. We're gonna get to see all of the details. And as I've said this before with Harry Littman, I said, look, I'm not interested in seeing people's private sex lives. I don't care about that. That's not what this is about.
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This is about child sex trafficking allegations and allegations of unlawful conduct while in a political office. Okay, that's why the public deserves to see it, because he was a public official. doing this with the trappings of his public office and we pay for their salaries so when you're going about doing that and then there's allegations of child sex trafficking yeah
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I think we should know if there's a predator on the loose. I know Republicans are okay with predators on the loose. They're predators. I know that. They're okay with it. But I think we should know about that, don't you think? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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into Matt Gaetz child sex trafficking, Matt Gaetz using his position of power also to engage with prostitutes in other acts as well. There is an entire web of a sex trafficking ring that a Gates accomplice, Joel Greenberg, who was a tax assessor in Florida, pled guilty to and said that he was willing to testify against Gates. You take a look at this web right here.
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Major Update on NC Supreme Court Seat from Justice Allison Riggs
Justice Riggs won. That's the story. There should be someone conceding, the loser in this case, Jefferson Griffin, with dignity, but that's not what he did. And this is a playbook I think we're going to be seeing across the country. It needs to be taken seriously. Let's bring in Justice Allison Riggs to give us an update on the latest. Justice Riggs, You've been fighting for what the people did.
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They voted for you. And this has been a long, arduous, expensive process for you. So where are we right now?
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So what's particularly nefarious here and why this can be a playbook for autocracy across the country, what the MAGA Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin did, too, was after he lost the election, after he lost recount one, recount two, he then went on this process to challenge votes, but he targeted Democratic areas and he targeted only this race.
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Major Update on NC Supreme Court Seat from Justice Allison Riggs
So it wasn't like, oh, there are all of these issues. in North Carolina that affect all of the races. No, no, no. What we should just focus on are certain democratic leaning areas, certain groups and classes of people in this race only. Don't challenge the stuff relating to Trump or Republican Congress members who won. That was fine. That must be okay.
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But here, as it relates to an area where they lost, and otherwise, look, let's face it, in November, they had a pretty good election. I mean, they lost the governor's race, but at the national level, they won the presidency. But where they're challenging is you, Democratic areas. And if you can do that there...
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then anybody can try to reverse engineer elections, then rely on, you know, are people going to even hear about this news and the process, you know, and then just try to just pick off election after election after election. That was that was what stood out for me about and your election. You were a former election lawyer before becoming a Supreme Court. So what do you make of that?
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Major Update on NC Supreme Court Seat from Justice Allison Riggs
She won the first recount. She won the second recount. But you see, the MAGA Republican Jefferson Griffin wouldn't take the fact that he lost as a loss, that he filed lawsuits everywhere before the Court of Appeals, where he is a Court of Appeals judge. He actually won before his own court, the Court of Appeals, although he was not on the panel. Then it went to the Supreme Court very recently.
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Where can they go find? Where can our viewers find out more information?
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Last week, there was a mixed ruling there. You see Jefferson Griffin wanted to throw out 65,000 votes. The Supreme Court basically said that 5,000 are subject to Jefferson Griffin's ridiculous challenge after losing, and those were military votes. There's a recent update that it may be a less amount than those 5,000 that are actually going to be subject to the Supreme Court's ruling.
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Major Update on NC Supreme Court Seat from Justice Allison Riggs
You know, this is one of those stories that should be getting more attention than it is. It pops into the news when there's a ruling and then it ebbs and flows based on that. It's why we created this network here, you know, to be able to highlight important stories that are at the heart of our democracy. And this is, you know, top of that list right now.
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So Justice Riggs, thanks for all you're doing, fighting for real election integrity and making sure every vote really counts. We appreciate everything you're doing. Thanks for sharing the message.
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That right there was a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, for Justice Allison Riggs. You know, we've been covering this North Carolina Supreme Court race diligently here on the Midas Touch Network. This was the race back in November of 2024. that Justice Riggs, pro-democracy Democratic judge running as a Democrat, won. She beat Jefferson Griffin, the MAGA Republican. There were two recounts.
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Heard a few different things, but somewhere in the range of 1,675 votes that are now subject to the Supreme Court's ruling. So at least there are some positive developments there, but I don't think we should take anything for granted where you have a MAGA Republican congressman MAGA Republican justice and MAGA Republican people were all very focused on trying to take this election where they lost.
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Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Trump's First 100 Chaotic Days
No one's saying it's going to be done in 12 hours, but we want to see how far apart it is and whether those differences are can even be narrow. So we came here yesterday to sort of begin to talk about more specific outlines of what it might take to end the war to try to figure out very soon.
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Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Trump's First 100 Chaotic Days
And I'm talking about a matter of days, not a matter of weeks, whether or not this is the war that can be ended.
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Major Leaks Cripple Trump as Paranoia Spreads
Paranoia is engulfing the White House right now. Donald Trump can't stop the leaks. Pete Hegseth can't stop the leaks like the leaks that took place on Easter Sunday where we learned that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who has no business being the Secretary of Defense because he has no
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Tom Cotton, MAGA Republican Senator, wrote the following on Sunday. It seems like the leak investigation at the Pentagon needs to continue to find these latest leakers. Secretary Hegseth is busy implementing Trump's America First agenda while these leakers are trying to undermine them both. Shameful. This is what the MAGA Republicans are focusing on.
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That's what's actually shameful, that they're worried about the leakers versus our classified information being sent out to the Secretary of Defense wife, brother, and personal lawyer.
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As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, correctly points out, what is shameful is that your take is to hunt down more Trump appointees and hires who dare to tell the truth about the debacle happening at the Pentagon because of Hegseth, rather than taking a principal stand against that shitshow. But sadly, that would require courage, and you don't have courage, as CNN reported last
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And he was a Fox News host before becoming the secretary of defense in any event that he was involved in more classified communications using the signal text message app, similar to what we learned about several weeks ago. There was a whole other text message thread, this time involving Pete Hegseth and his wife. His brother and his lawyer, where they were also talking about F.A.
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These are his people. These are Trump people. These are their appointees. Let's be clear, although they'll probably say these are radical leftist deep staters. That goes on to say at one point, Hegseth even demanded the FBI probe into the leaks, which some of his aides advised against. Sources said. So more leakers.
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There was already an active Inspector General investigation focusing on Hegseth, and bringing the FBI might only invite more scrutiny, those aides advised. Should also be noted that his own spokesperson who quit last week, John Elliott, John Elliott just wrote an op-ed for Politico, and here's what it's called. Former top Pentagon spokesperson details the month from hell inside the agency.
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The total chaos at the Department of Defense is becoming a major distraction, writes John Elliott. And Elliott, again, who was Hegseth's spokesperson, says he expects there to be major, major bombshells that are going to be dropping this week in addition to what we are reporting right here. One of the things I want to point out about Hegseth is that
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That this was always his MO right here, which is to blame leakers and say it's everybody's fault. Even during the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth, when there was all this information that accused him of sexual assault, that accused him of being drunk on the job, that accused him of going to strip clubs and doing all of these just, you know, unprofessional things. Remember what he said?
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Leakers, leakers, leakers. Here, play this clip.
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So that was always his MO. And by the way, if you go back to what Hegseth had previously said when he was a Fox host about others, when he was saying, you know, if you if you are leaking, you should be held to the highest standards, you know, when he would spread conspiracies about people.
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But here's what he would say about like leaking when he would talk about like Hillary Clinton and others here play this clip.
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18 strikes against the Houthis, similar to that other text message thread where they included the editor in chief from The Atlantic. Yep, there were four separate sources. Lots of people want to leak information on you there. Pete Hegseth, who told The New York Times what went down. a blockbuster story on Easter. Here's what the New York Times reported.
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So it's obvious we all know what was going on here. Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin was on the Midas Touch Network on Sunday. He was with our own Anthony Davis on the weekend show. And here's what Jamie Raskin had to say. Let's play this clip.
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Here's the thing. The Democratic senators during the confirmation hearings, We're calling this behavior out about Hegseth in advance. Like here was Mark Kelly in 47 seconds, just completely demolishes Hegseth and makes it clear that Hegseth should be nowhere near any leadership position at all in the Secretary of Defense. Play this clip.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15th in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer.
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And here's Democratic Senator Gary Peters during Hegseth's confirmation hearing where Hegseth was talking about how he wants to go after DEI and that's going to be his main priority. And Senator Peters said, you know, it's interesting that you talk about going after DEI. You seem to be the least qualified individual to ever come close to the Pentagon, yet alone to be the leader of it.
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According to four people with knowledge of the chat, some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on Signal chat included the fights, the flight schedules for the F-A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen, Essentially, the same attack plans that he shared on a separate Signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of The Atlantic. Uh-oh, Pete Hegseth.
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Now, previously, when Donald Trump was asked about Signalgate, remember Donald Trump just said, I don't want to talk about it. We're done. Don't ask me questions like that ever again. This is what Trump said a few weeks back when reporters were trying to follow up on that story.
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This is the behavior of people who are unprofessional, who just shut down rather than address actual controversies and serious problems. Avoidance. Here, play this clip.
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There's an IG investigation into the Secretary of Defense's use of the signal lamp.
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Now, as we previously reported, the Pentagon's acting inspector general is already involved in an investigation into Pete Hegseth's use of the Signal messaging app to disclose the timing and other details of the U.S. fighter jet's airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen. The mission of the probe is to determine the extent of these types of communications.
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So I think one of the things we could probably expect this week, I don't think this is that that Bold of a prediction. They're going to try to go after that inspector general. Right. They're going to I bet you they're going to try to accuse the inspector general and all the people that he fired.
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And they'll probably accuse the former spokesperson of being the sources or facilitating this information to The New York Times. And they'll probably accuse all those people of that. You know, again, when I think about how unqualified Hegseth is, you know, I think about Hegseth's appearance in front of NATO also back in February. And here's what he said. Remember, he said this play.
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Remember, he said President Trump will not allow anyone to turn Uncle Sam into Uncle Sucker. Remember, we kept him like drinking the glass, too, and it just looked really bizarre as well. You know, I had the opportunity to interview recently Democratic Congressmember Jim Himes, the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee.
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And I asked him about Pete Hegseth's statements or Pete Hegseth's post in the first Signal chat. And here's what the, again, ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, Democratic Congress member Jim Himes. Here's what he had to say. I'm sorry.
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That doesn't sound too good. But also, Pete Hegseth has been firing all of his core staff recently. His chief of staff, senior advisor, deputy chief of staff, the deputy secretary's chief of staff. They were all fired on Friday. Why? because Hegseth is paranoid. He thinks everybody's leaking. But you fired those people and the leaks keep on happening, Hegseth. What in the world is going on here?
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And so, folks, we'll keep you posted as we learn more here. But clearly, this is going to become a developing story. And one of the things I think we're going to see more of are these types of leaks. You're going to see the attacks on the leaks versus the attacks on the conduct. The Trump, this is what happens in authoritarian regimes that go after its people.
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And one of the things that we've always said that these authoritarian regimes do first is they attack their own people first, right? Oftentimes. And so now their own people are in self-preservation mode. They're leaking information. So I look forward to what John Elliott's talking about. More bombshells this week.
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I'm sure there's probably going to be much more communications that we're going to learn about. Probably more people are going to be fired. John Elliott says it's utter madness, total chaos in the Department of Defense right now. And again, these are Trump people who are out there saying it. So we'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe, help us get to 5 million subscribers.
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Canada's break from American made wine and the Trump administration's global tariffs have compounded the struggles of the United States already stressed wine industry to the point that it may be difficult for much of it to come back from it at all. An American wine organization leader told NBC News. Canada is the single most important export market for U.S.
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wines, with retail sales in excess of $1.1 billion annually. Robert Koch, the California Wine Institute's president and CEO, said in a statement, and look, that's one of the reasons why California's Governor Gavin Newsom went out there and tried to sue Donald Trump for the tariffs, and he's trying to get Canada's business back into California, but Canadians are saying, look,
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We're not doing it because Donald Trump has threatened a war on Canada. He said we're going to be the 51st state. Canada strong, Canada united. The boycott persists. That's what Canadians are saying. I mean, take a look at this data as well as posted by Spencer at Kimmy. Chinese purchases of American oil down significantly. Canadian oil up.
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as international buyers of oil and other things are looking elsewhere other than the United States. I love seeing these Never 51 jerseys in these stands in Canada. I also love seeing in the 50-51 protests across America and the rest of the world that took place over this weekend, although... You wouldn't know from watching corporate news that there were millions of protesters out there.
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Elbows up, Canada. That was former member of parliament Charlie Angus speaking in Edmonton, Alberta to a packed crowd right there. And he was not mincing words. By the way, I've got my story of chat mania, the story of Chapman ice cream right here. You know, I love my chat. Canadian products and, of course, my Chapman ice cream.
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You would know that from watching the Midas Touch Network. I love seeing signs like this. Hands off Canada. And again, signs like that in the U.S. United States pro-democracy movement stands in solidarity with Canada. We understand you got to do what you got to do. the way we understand Europe and elsewhere.
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Got to do what they got to do to stand up to this guy right here who spent the weekend, Donald Trump, roaming around his golf course, pretending that he was going to Easter services, which he was not, and posting deranged message after deranged message, wearing a hat that says Gulf of America. By the way, did you catch this article from Politico? It chronicles a guy by the name of
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Jim Diodati right here. You see him right here. We didn't even see the border until now. How Trump has driven Canadians and Americans apart. Trump's punishing tariffs have big implications for the upcoming Canadian election. You think? You think? Here's what it says. The mayor of Niagara Falls in Canada is not American, but he's so close. Jim Diodati has an almost American accent.
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American cousins and American best friends. You go on to read it and it says Diodati's affinity for all things American was one so strong that he would have voted for Donald Trump. It talks about how he loved the art of the deal. He was a big Trump fan apparently. He even liked Trump winning the second time. I don't really understand that at all. Diodati, not going to lie. It's kind of lame.
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Kind of is doing a lot of work right there. Diodati's new posture towards the U.S. president is evident on the mantelpiece in his office, where Diodati has prominently displayed two hats. Canada is not for sale and 51 with a line through it. They sit next to some other decor cannonballs.
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from the War of 1812, the last time the United States tried unsuccessfully to conquer Canada in an armed conflict. Also, it should be noted that one of the other leaks that came out this weekend was Trump mulling a major overhaul of the U.S. State Department, where it would basically shrink all of its offices and diplomatic staff in Canada.
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And again, that's one of the precursors to the very adverse and hostile actions that the Trump regime is taking towards Canada. And elsewhere from the Globe and Mail home sweet home, tariff chaos has made many companies consider moving to the U.S., but these ones won't. are going all in on Canada instead.
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It's the Canadian businesses staying in Canada, ain't going to the United States, in other words. All right, let's take a look at that first video I played for you right here. This is Charlie Angus in his stop in Edmonton, Alberta for his resistance tour, Elbows Up Charlie. Here's what Charlie has to say. Play this clip right here.
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And I had the ability to interview Charlie Angus before this weekend. Let me show you what he said to me. Play this clip.
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Let's talk about some of the headlines, how Canada is just putting the dagger into the Trump regime, as Charlie Angus says, on the front lines of the resistance internationally. We see headlines like this. America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs, plus Canada's Canada's retaliation to them.
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Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said it would take at least a year, if not longer for my industry to recover. It's showing that Canada's boycott on all things American and boycotting American tourism is is working. And Canada set that example now for the rest of the world.
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Let me show you one more great moment from that speech of Charlie Angus in Edmonton, Alberta. Let's play this clip.
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I've talked to people from universities in Canada who, when they're holding talks... Then you had Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, who's running for the Prime Minister. He's during this caretaker period. Snap elections take place April 28th. There's already the early polling that's been open. He's in Nepean, Ontario, right here. And here he is talking about, you know,
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We don't like Donald Trump here in Canada. And you can hear how the crowd feels about Trump. Let's play it.
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I think we're seeing around a 90 billion plus dollar revenue hit to the United States from the boycotts caused by the Trump regime's maltreatment of the international community and our allies. And let's just call it what it is, threatening war and annexation of our allies. Just Take a listen to this.
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It's another great moment from that speech. Let's play it.
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As Charlie Angus says, elbows up. You hear the crowd there as well in Nepean, Ontario, how pissed people are at Donald Trump there. There's record early voter turnout in Canada already. It's breaking all records. People seem fired up.
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And I think one of the things that they want to avoid there, and you tell me what you think, is that the leader of the conservative party, this guy, Pierre Poliev, is maple maga. I mean, this was a guy who did all of the right wing podcast, the Elon Musk promotion tour, etc. You know, it's interesting that Angus is in Alberta, led by the premier, Danielle Smith.
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And she was serving as basically an emissary for Pierre Poliev. She's Maple Mag as well. She was the only premier who really wasn't united with all of the others. She went down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the gangster's ring. As Charlie Angus likes to say, she tried to deliver messages to have Trump interfere with the elections in Canada. She got busted for that, working with Pierre Poliev there.
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Here's a quick video that was just put out on Poliev. Let's play this clip. Could you tell us, like, can you point to some people who will be key in your administration?
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Trump Crumbles from Awful News… Panic Posts!
Donald Trump spent the day yesterday roaming his Virginia golf course, wearing a hat that says Gulf of America and making demented post after demented post. Let me read for you what he was saying on Easter. Apparently, Donald Trump got jealous that Easter was getting too much attention and Donald Trump had to post the following. Since our announcement of Liberation Day, and he puts that in caps,
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We were leading the world in green projects. We were taking the advantage and the initiative away from China. But you blew it all up, Donald, with all of your demented behavior, he continues to post. But for those who want the easiest path, come to America and build in America. Donald, if they come to America, what, you're going to send them to concentration camps in El Salvador?
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Come to America, what, where there's no habeas corpus or due process anymore under your authoritarian regime? What, come to America where you and your regime extort our allies and treat allies worse than adversaries? Where you cuddle up to Vladimir Putin? Where you roam your Virginia golf course on Easter wearing ridiculous hats that say Gulf of America? It's idiotic.
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Donald Trump then posts the following non-tariff cheating. One, currency manipulation. Two, value added taxes, which act as tariffs and export subsidies. Three, dumping below cost. Four, expert subsidies and other government subsidies. Five, protective agriculture standards. Wah, wah, wah. Donald, we understand issues that affect global trade.
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If you want to address it intelligibly, then perhaps that's what you should have done. Instead of calling reciprocal tariffs what you did and then using a formula that uses deficits and then incorrectly uses that formula to attack every country in the world with a trade war where you're now getting utterly outmaneuvered by everyone.
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Then Donald Trump posts this photo of Judge Boasberg in Washington, D.C., the federal judge who initiated contempt proceedings against the Trump regime. Trump posted a photo of Boasberg in this article that says, Judge who blocked Trump deportations took junket to event with anti-Trump whatever. And I opened it up. And I'm like, OK, what are they attacking Judge Boasberg for?
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And it says he attended a ritzy Sun Valley event. And then it talks about who else attended the event. And they said three judges appointed by Donald Trump attended that event. So there were, what, seven or eight judges appointed by Democratic administrations, three judges appointed by Trump, and that's why you're posting photos of Judge Boasberg. Then Donald Trump posts this on Easter.
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Radical, lunatic Democrats and their comrades in the fake news media are falsely making... Gilmar Armando Abrego Garcia out to be a very sweet and innocent person, which is a total blatant and dangerous lie. Garcia has been found by two separate courts to be a member of the violent killer gang. Ms. 13 was in our country illegally and, and is under deportation order.
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He was under a withholding order, Donald, in 2019, which says you can't send him to El Salvador. Also, when you look at the orders by those judges, it says no criminal history by the judge during your first administration in 2019. Also, Y'all gave him a work permit, Donald. You did. Your regime, your first administration gave him a work permit.
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The sentence, if it were to be truthful, is the markets tanked, the dollar tanked. America has been put in a position where it's heading into a recession or something worse. But what did Donald Trump say? He said the following. Many leaders and business executives have come to me asking for relief from tariffs. It's good to see that the world knows we are serious because we are!
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So, oh, this massive leader of the MS-13 got a work permit where he was permitted by your administration to check in once a year with ICE before he was deported somewhere other than El Salvador, which he was not to be deported. And he was able to work with his where he lived with his family. His wife's an American citizen. His kids, three kids are American citizens.
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And no one's vouching for Abrego Garcia as a human being. We're standing up for due process. If the evidence shows that Abrego Garcia is a bad guy who engaged in criminal conduct, then there can be consequences. And the consequences should be tailored to what the crimes are. Now, if he's going to get killed by going to El Salvador, he could be deported somewhere else.
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In 2019, the immigration judge said, deport him if you want to deport him, just not to El Salvador. You violated that. The Supreme Court 9-0 said facilitate the return. Oh, and by the way, did everybody know this? On Sunday, Nayibu Kelly, the authoritarian leader of El Salvador, sent a bizarre, unhinged, Trump-like message to the authoritarian leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
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And Nayibu Kelly said, we'll give you the 230 plus prisoners that the United States gave us in our concentration camps. But in exchange, we want you to release certain prisoners being held in The Venezuelan prison system. So great job, Donald.
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You now have Nayib Bukele talking about facilitating the individuals who you gave no due process to, to the authoritarian leader of Venezuela as part of a prison exchange, which, by the way, the authoritarian leader of Venezuela is not going to do.
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So you've just lowered the entire stature of the United States into a fight between El Salvador and Venezuela while China is eating your freaking lunch, Donald. Then Donald Trump posts this all in caps. The businessmen who criticize tariffs are bad at business, but really bad at politics. They don't understand or realize that I am the greatest friend that American capitalism ever had.
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to which Carl Quintanilla, a reporter for the business network CNBC, posted the disclosure from Donald Trump's SEC statement in connection with Trump Media, Trump's social media platform, which says the following. Entities associated with Donald Trump have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past. This is from Trump's own filing. Let me be clear.
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The Trump Taj Mahal, which was built and owned by Donald Trump, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991. The Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle, the Trump Plaza Hotel, all owned by Donald Trump at the time, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy also in 1992. THCR, which was founded by Donald Trump in 1995, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004.
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Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc., the new name given to Trump hotels and casinos after its 2004 bankruptcy, declared bankruptcy in 2009. By the way, that list there doesn't include all of the products that Donald Trump lent his name to in licensing deals, which also crashed, like Trump Stakes and Trump University and Trump Mortgage and all of the other Trump things that failed.
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By the way, as we start this week, the dollar is tanking. The dollar starting the week down against every major currency in the world, with the exception of the Turkish lira. But Donald Trump continues to post away. Hopefully Russia and Ukraine will. This is all in caps, of course, all in caps on Easter while Donald Trump's golfing with a hat that says Gulf of America.
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Yeah, Donald, I'm sure. Really serious people go around posting on social media in all caps how serious they are. Donald Trump continues to post. They must right the wrongs of decades of abuse, but it won't be easy for them. We must rebuild the wealth of our great country and create true reciprocity. Yes, Donald, reciprocity amongst the penguins.
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Hopefully, Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week. Both will then start to do big business with the United States of America, which is thriving and make a fortune. You can get super rich. I mean, Russia, Ukraine, listen to my all caps post. Do you both want to get rich? I will both sides this. I'm going to treat the country that did the unlawful invasion.
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Much better than the country that was unlawfully invaded. And I'll just hand out. Y'all are going to get so, so rich. He's a fraudster. He's a sexual predator. He is a criminal. He's found liable for fraud. Donald Trump goes on to say the golden rule of negotiating and success. He who has the gold makes the rules. Thank you. He who has the gold makes the rules.
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Meanwhile, the FDA makes plans to end its routine safety inspection sources say U.S. measles total climbs to 800 cases, 10 outbreaks across the country. Great job, Donald Trump and JFK and RFK Jr., rather. Then you have Donald Trump, Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegsip. We're learning through more leaks as like all of his staff at the Department of Defense.
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All his senior leadership is either resigning or getting fired or he's accusing them of leaks. We've now learned that Hegseth had additional signal communications on that signal text message app where he gave war plans to his wife, his brother, his personal lawyer. on signal. But the White House wants you to know, no biggie, not a big deal at all.
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This is the White House's official response after learning that Hegseth was giving our war plans to wife, brother, personal lawyer. Another day, another old story back from the dead. The Trump-hating media continues to be obsessed with destroying anyone committed to President Trump's
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This time, the New York Times and all of their fake news that repeat their garbage are enthusiastically taking the grievance of disgruntled former employees as the sole source for their article. They relied only on the words of people who were fired this week and appear to have a motive to sabotage the secretary and president's agenda. So they're doubling down, tripling down.
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all in on Pete Hegseth and sending our war plans via text message, what, to his wife, to his brother, and to others, and then blaming disgruntled employees. Trump people, Hegseth's crew, this is Hegseth's team who's giving this information out.
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But if you listen to what Apollo, what the private equity firm Apollo is saying right now, they're referring to the Trump recession as a voluntary trade reset recession. That's what they're referring to, the Trump recession. Could you imagine what they would be saying right now if former President Biden was in charge? It is so utterly, utterly pathetic. But let me all show you this right here.
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This is from Charlie Angus, former Canadian member of parliament, a good friend of mine now, a leader of the Canadian resistance. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip.
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Reciprocity amongst Madagascar and their chocolate, Donald. I mean, what in the world are you even talking about? America was the richest nation in the world by far. Under former President Biden, we had the fastest growing economy. GDP, we were producing the most oil here. We were energy independent. 16.2 million jobs were created. Record low unemployment, 40,000 infrastructure projects.
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Charlie says it as clear as can be. Also, what are we learning? Zuckerberg, Jamie Dimon, other billionaires, they are some of the top sellers of their stock ahead of the tariff stock route is one of the things that we're learning. All right, well, that doesn't come as a shocker. Anyway, we'll keep you posted throughout the day with more news. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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But then Melania or Smelania, Smelania gets in on the action. She releases the Smelania coin. And then, boom, kind of right when that happened, thud. The Trump meme coin, boom, crashes. The Smolania meme coin, not doing well. A cascading effect takes place where then even Bitcoin is going down. The crypto markets start to crash. The crypto markets look to be suffering as a result of this.
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And it is the oldest tale in the books for Donald Trump and Smolania meme. The greed, the greed, the greed. You couldn't even wait. You had to exploit that position before day one, you two freaking grifters. What else would you expect though with a convicted felon like Donald Trump and a sexual assaulter like Donald Trump?
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What else would you expect when it comes to Melania, who was out there saying, oh, this is just locker room talk. I'm not really sure what accent that is. This was just locker room talk when Donald Trump was bragging about sexually assaulting women and non-consensually grabbing their genitals. This is who they are. She would sell crypto stuff before. She would sell the scammiest things.
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And they're going to keep on. They're just going to sell crap. And trinkets, like Melania would sell like Christmas ornaments, Mother's Day stuff. Then she would say some of this stuff goes to charity. But there was no public indication, at least with most of this stuff, which charities this thing is going to. She would sell, she would use these symbols.
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She would sell like on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. She would use the image of our troops. and sell the photos of like our troops for $150, $200, $300 each. And it was just a massive grift that we would see. We saw this with Trump. I mean, you know, Trump with the NFT collection, the Trump sneakers, the The Trump, the watches that he was selling for $100,000. The Get Trump guitars.
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I mean, this stuff was so unbecoming of someone who held this august and dignified office. Yet it was so normalized. We have to deal with all the headlines from CNN. Oh, Donald Trump's just pushing the limits of the Constitution. The Washington Post, Donald Trump conquered Washington, D.C. All of these ridiculous headlines. This is just a grift, a whole grift and nothing but the grift.
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And using the White House, using the office of this is the presidency, people. This was the office held by George Washington, by Abraham Lincoln, by John F. Kennedy. And if you're Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, this was the office that was held by freaking presidents and Trump is using it to sell shit coins. I mean, there were so many people who said, wait a minute, all right, Trump must be hacked.
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Melania Trump had to get in on the grift. She had to drop her own Melania meme coin. When you look at it, it was dollar sign Melania, so it looked like Smelania. So she drops her own meme coin after Trump drops his meme coin. And if you looked at all of these allocations, they favored insiders so much.
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This must be a hack of Trump. And then they were saying, as it relates to Melania, Is this a hack? Melania is now doing one. Like lots of people in this space thought this was so grifty and so that they couldn't even fathom that Trump or Melania would do this. But then Melania drops her own meme coin and then Trump's meme coin starts to crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash.
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Melania SCREWS Donald and COST HIM BILLIONS at Inauguration
Her meme coin's doing terrible and it's impacting the whole markets. This is at the same time that Donald Trump is set to issue all of these executive orders about the crypto industry and one of the ones that he's going to do. And again, you want to talk about the conflict of interest when he signs the executive order
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that says that the treasury department will add to our strategic reserves massive amounts of bitcoins and solano and all of these you know crypto tokens to add to our strategic reserves trump's now going to try to artificially prop up this market that he's the poster child for what you don't do trump's rug pull what we're seeing here at least as of the recording of this video with trump and melania this is worse
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Then the Hak Tua, where the Hak Tua girl, the girl who got famous for talking about a sexual act, Hak Tuing, and then she became like a podcaster and then did the ultimate rug pull. No one's heard about her. really since December or no one's heard from her since December when she did her own shitcoin meme coin. Think about this, your business established in 2025. It has a nice ring to it, right?
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I remember what five years ago, me and my brothers had this audacious idea to start a media company called Midas Touch. And we wanted to have pro-democracy content and change the way
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Go to shopify.com slash Midas, lowercase, M-E-I-D-A-S, to start selling with Shopify today. One more time, that's shopify.com slash Midas. My opinion is that the Trump meme coin would crash regardless. It looked scammy. It had all of the markings of what you should not do.
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Melania SCREWS Donald and COST HIM BILLIONS at Inauguration
So you had Melania or Smelania and Donald Trump just grifting billions and billions of dollars using the office of the presidency to do it. They then had all these liability waivers. No one said, actually, this isn't about the presidency or politics or anything. Just if you want to show that you love the letters,
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This is exactly what the SEC commissioner under Biden, who all of the MAGA people hated and the whole business community hated because he was for regulation. He wanted to regulate crap like this that gives the entire crypto markets a horrible name where Donald Trump and Melania just say, oh, oh, you're just investing in dollar sign Trump and dollar sign Melania.
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And so therefore, this isn't a security, wink, wink. This isn't about increasing the net worth of the insiders. Look, the Securities and Exchange Commission has insider trading laws on the books for securities. Gensler, Biden's SEC commissioner, wanted to apply those to shit coins and meme coins and this whole grifty market. MAGA didn't want that.
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A lot of the business community didn't want that and said, oh, Gensler, how dare you do this? How dare you infringe upon our rights? This regulation is bad. Maybe, just maybe, Gensler had a point here. when it came to these shit coins and these meme coins that what?
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Because Donald Trump and Melania say these are not securities and that you're just showing your love of the letters Melania and dollar sign Trump that we can't be sued for insider trading. We can't be sued for, um,
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fraud we can't be sued for all of the types of things that you could for the stock market which is heavily regulated you just think about that the bitcoin crypto shitcoin crew was fighting to stop uh these shit coins from being regulated the way stocks are regulated you need to have efficient markets with accountability for things like insider trading
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Melania SCREWS Donald and COST HIM BILLIONS at Inauguration
But here, for this precise reason, the rug pulling, Melania comes in, announces her coin, boom, triggers this crash. All these people are losing their money. You know who made money? People who were tipped off about this from the outset.
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Melania SCREWS Donald and COST HIM BILLIONS at Inauguration
people who control the wallets that didn't even have to buy this, that just had the allocations as insiders given to them and having a vesting schedule that's favorable to them. I can't even begin to tell you how utterly despicable this conduct is. And the broader point I want to make here, though, because we should expect this. I mean, look, Melania did nude modeling before.
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Melania SCREWS Donald and COST HIM BILLIONS at Inauguration
No offense to nude models, but Melania claimed to have an Einstein visa. She came here under very odd and peculiar circumstances in terms of how she met Donald Trump and She met him at the Kit Kat Club, where rich Manhattan men would meet Eastern European women who were brought in from modeling agencies. That's how Donald Trump met Melania in the early 2000s. He would go to these clubs, right?
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Melania SCREWS Donald and COST HIM BILLIONS at Inauguration
It was around the time that he was hanging out with Epstein. It was around the time that Ghislaine Maxwell was finding Trump women. And then just separately and aside from that, but in this time frame, he would go to the Kit Kat Club and then there would be
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or if you want to show you love the letters, S symbol, S symbol, money sign, T-R-U-M-P, then be a part of this great community where we honor letters and symbols. Why are they doing that? Because they don't want to consider it a security. So they're trying to avoid getting sued for the ultimate rug pull. So here's what goes down though, right? So Donald Trump's meme coin
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separately modeling agencies that would make introductions, separate from Epstein, would make introductions to women from Eastern Europe and to these wealthy men. That's how Donald met Melania. Then she got an Einstein visa and boom, she accelerated here. She marries Donald and she gets citizenship here quicker than anybody else. Look,
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The final point I want to make is, is peace in Ukraine on day one? I don't think so. Lower prices on day one? I don't think so. Housing more affordable on day one? I don't think so. Donald Trump is a weapon of mass distraction. We should get pissed at what Melania is doing, what Trump is doing, but we got to always bring it back to weapon of mass distraction. What about the lower prices?
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What about anything you promised? And these freaking morons, they couldn't even wait until he was in office to pull this crap. Horrific stuff. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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is going high, it's increasing, it's increasing. We were warning everybody, this looks like a scam. This looks like the Haktua pump and dumpy thing. And 80%, 90% of the allocation is going to insiders, which means that Trump is probably making billions and billions of dollars. But we said, watch out, be very careful. And then, look, I thought that was going to dump and crash no matter what.
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I mean, President Biden said that he was not going to enforce any ban because he was leaving office. He'd leave it to Donald Trump. But TikTok wanted to deliver for Donald Trump a win so they can say Trump was our savior. Look what Trump did. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, points out, So TikTok shut down their app for one day, then turned it back on, thanking Donald Trump.
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What an obvious scam this was. Disgusting on the part of TikTok owners, Trump and all his sycophants who reversed their position on it one second after he did it for no other reason. then he didn't. So when you would access TikTok, when they took it down for the day, again, this is the Kim Jong-un CCP style propaganda that you've seen places, but this is what they put on TikTok.
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Um, when you, when you go on, it says a law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U S unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now, by the way, you could have still used TikTok. Again, Biden said he was not going to enforce the ban. He would leave it to Donald Trump to decide. But TikTok did this to play the victim and to say, look, Donald Trump saved it.
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Look, he's our savior of TikTok. Daddy Trump did it. It's ridiculous. This is what they wrote. This is when you signed on to TikTok, the 178 million Americans who signed on got this message. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned.
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Okay, let's take a look at what the headlines were in 2020 when Trump instituted the TikTok ban. So to be clear, where did this all come from? Where did this originate from? Whatever your view is on TikTok, let's just stick with the facts. Who was the arsonist who burned down TikTok originally? It was Donald Trump. Trump says he's banning TikTok in the U.S. These are all headlines from July...
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May, June, July, August 2020. Trump on TikTok. We're banning them from the United States. Trump says he intends to ban TikTok from the United States. Here are all the right-wing headlines too from like Breitbart. Trump says he'll ban TikTok. Fox. Trump says he'll act soon and make sure TikTok is banned on Saturday. Trump will ban TikTok. And then there's an ABC headline.
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Trump threatens to ban TikTok. Let's take a look at some other just posts from Donald Trump and Don Jr. So this is less than two years ago what I'm about to read. Trump bragging that he tried to ban TikTok three years before, but Democrats stopped him. Look, this is March 8th.
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of 2023, March 8th of 2023, Trump goes, has anybody noticed that everyone wants to go after and destroy TikTok due to China influence in national security? When I wanted to disable TikTok three years ago, I was met with opposition from rhinos to Democrats to everyone else. They actually went to court in an effort to stop me. Now they realize I was right and have changed their tune.
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How utterly pathetic. TikTok has announced that dear leader, Supreme Leader Donald Trump has saved TikTok, even though Donald Trump was the one who declared that it should be banned. Let me really break down this whole TikTok thing so you understand it. Donald Trump was the person who demanded that TikTok be banned. He issued an executive order back in 2020 when he was still in office.
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Sadly, I've been right about everything. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes, Trump gets in bed with the Chinese owners and suddenly TikTok isn't evil CCP compromised anymore. These people believe nothing. MAGA, the Trump influencers. What Trump decides today is what they believe in today, which changes tomorrow if Trump makes a deal with someone else to enrich himself. Case in point.
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I could show you dozens of these, more than dozens of these, but you'll get the point.
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Charlie Kirk, one of the big MAGA influencers, writes, President Donald Trump just announced on Air Force One that he will be banning the evil CCP-compromised app TikTok. America can't continue to allow our citizens to be surveilled by Xi Jinping and his terroristic cronies. I have long advocated for this. Fight back. July 31st, 2020."
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evil CCP it talks about surveillance on the United States of America but then here's what Charlie Kirk just posted two or three days ago TikTok is officially banned for all users in America Biden had a chance to keep it alive but he wanted this to happen to overshadow Trump's inauguration Trump could bring it back online then broker a historic deal let's see what Trump does on Monday
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And then the CEO of TikTok posted a video of Charlie Kirk in a very favorable way. So the guy who was saying that this is an unlawful surveillance tool by the CCP, the CEO of TikTok is now posting videos of Charlie Kirk promoting Kirk in a favorable way as someone who's helping TikTok because Donald Trump said that that's what should happen. Take a look at Don Jr. 's post.
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Don Jr., this is February 5th, 2023. Again, this is less than two years ago. Don Jr. writes, if you guys think the Chinese spy balloons was bad, just wait until you find out about TikTok. While I understand the outrage about someone violating our airspace, the Chinese government has been doing this, for years on millions of phones throughout our country. Wake up, America. This is March 7th, 2023.
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All of the Republicans in the Senate pushed for TikTok to be banned. They asked for some Democrats to join him. They made findings. that TikTok could be conducting counter surveillance against United States citizens. They could be breaching data security, that the algorithm posed a danger. I'm just giving you the facts. That's the findings that were made by the Senate.
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Again, less than two years ago. While we're going hardcore on TikTok regulations, how about no American data flowing through China for any social media company? No letting Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or anyone else off the hook for data security and privacy and whatever ends up happening.
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And then he also wrote, while we're worrying about the communists in China manipulating people with TikTok, let's not forget about the communists that Facebook and in the White House doing it here right now. That was July 29th, 2023. You take a look at the lawsuit that TikTok had to file against Donald Trump. TikTok v. Trump, December 7th, 2020 was when it was decided.
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And this is the federal court. Why is it TikTok v. Trump? Because Trump was the one who started this. And this is like everything that they do. And again, it's one of the things is that our corporate media is just the worst. whether it's the Washington Post or CNN or New York Times, right? They are Trump fanboys. I'll show you here.
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I mean, the Washington Post headlines, Donald Trump has conquered D.C., the CNN headline. Donald Trump pushes the boundaries of the Constitution. Push the What are we doing here? By the way, that's why sign up for MidasPlus.com right now. We're going to grow this media company bigger than those. M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com, MidasPlus.com. Sign up right now. Here's the court opinion.
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On May 13, 2020, the president—this is referring to Trump in 2020— renewed the declaration, stressing the unique threat posed by China-based technology firms with close ties to the government of the People's Republic of China. TikTok, a short-loop video sharing app presently used by over 100 million Americans, was identified by Trump as a technology firm that posed a risk to national security.
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Trump, the president, determined that TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including internet and other network activity information, such as location data and browsing search histories.
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Trump concluded that because TikTok is owned by a China-based company, ByteDance, the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, might be able to access Americans' personal and proprietary information, potentially allowing China to track the location's federal employees and contractors build dossiers of personal information for blackmail and conduct personal espionage on Americans.
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Again, I just want you to think about that. So what are Trump's posts leading up to, you know, TikTok takes it down for a day and even though they didn't have to take it down for a day because Biden said he wasn't going to enforce anything, so that people would be like, oh, man, TikTok's down. I can't believe it. Biden this, Biden that. We need you to save us.
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TikTok then sends the message, don't worry, we're working with Donald Trump to save this. We're going to have him save this. And then Trump says, save TikTok. He posts that on his social media account.
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And as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, as I've predicted every day for the last two weeks, a prearranged scam between Trump and the CCP to deceive the American people, enrich himself and fool users. And it will work because there are plenty of rubes and suckers in this country. And Trump has had their number for years. TikTok goes along with it. They then post, we're back up.
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This was pushed by Republicans. And as recently as about a year and a half ago, You had Donald Trump and Don Jr. again saying that TikTok needs to be banned. It should be banned. And now somehow Democrats were getting blamed for it and Donald Trump was being praised by TikTok for saving it. This is incredibly dystopian. This would make 1984 George Orwell. Be like, what are we talking about here?
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Thank you, Donald Trump. And then Donald Trump posts this. I'm asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark. And he goes on to say, I would like the United States to have 50% ownership position in a joint venture. By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands, and allow it to stay up. Without US approval, there is no TikTok. Without our approval,
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It's worth hundreds of billions of dollars, maybe trillions. Therefore, my initial thought is a joint venture between the current owners and our new owners, whereby the U.S. gets 50 percent ownership in a joint venture set up between the U.S. and whichever purchase we so choose. And so what Trump's saying there, too, is replace the word U.S. for Trump.
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or replace the word one of Trump's oligarchs for US. Trump sets it up with an American company. And the American company is then the one. And Trump picks who it is. And we'll see what he's going to do. But based on the meme coin stuff that he did, which is now valued at like $55 billion, where he's enriched himself, now he's going to insinuate himself and likely figure out a way
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to benefit himself and make himself additionally wealthy here. And so I just wanted to break it down what went down. They took it off for a day, not because they had to, in my opinion, but because they wanted to say, look what we're delivering for Donald Trump and look what Trump gave us. Thank you, Trump, for saving this thing. I hope you're smarter than that. I hope you see what happened.
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I hope you know the hustle. And one of the things we're gonna do here over the next four years, we're gonna explain these things to you and you can let other people know what's up. And then ask yourself, are your prices lower? Is there peace in Ukraine? Is housing more affordable? Are you getting paid more for your jobs? Is your healthcare better under Donald Trump?
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Let me just break down what happened here. OK, so this is what TikTok posts. They go, thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump's effort, TikTok is back in the U.S. You can continue to create, share and discover all of these things that you love on TikTok. So TikTok basically took itself down for 24 hours. even though there was no reason to do that.
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What are you doing then, when you totally capitulated to China? What's the strategic uncertainty, where you impose 145% tariffs, only to then take it to 30% and get nothing in return? What's the strategic, what's the value there? No, what's going on is that Donald Trump... Wakes up. What should I post today? Oh, I'm going to post 37 million percent tariffs. Okay, what else am I going to post?
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Oh, I'm going to post a photo of myself holding a sword. Okay, now 30 percent tariffs and 75 quadrillion percent tariffs. It's just stupid. It's just stupid stuff and that's why the rest of the world sees this as utter weakness and recklessness. And they go, why would we do a deal with the United States? They don't know what the hell they're doing.
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Trump, Besant, these clowns, these goons don't know what they're doing. They're like, we'll wait. We'll wait. Why even do a deal with them? You can't do a deal with these people. I want to share this with you as well. Brigitte Brink, who recently quit her post as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine, shared with Face the Nation what really went down.
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And I think it's good to see Democrats fighting back. But you've seen what these MAGA Republicans are saying. They're like Bernie Madoff. Worse than Bernie Madoff. These are the biggest con artists, the biggest hucksters, the fraudsters. But they work for a felon. This shouldn't be a shock. They work for a felon. Trump should be in prison for the rest of his life right now. Okay, he should.
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He's found guilty of 34 counts of fraud. He's been found for business record fraud. He's been found civilly liable, criminally liable. He's been found to be civilly liable for sexual abuse. He bankrupted Atlantic City and bankrupted multiple because he was bankrupted like six or seven of his businesses. ten or twelve other businesses have gone out of business. He's the worst.
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None of this is shocking. This is who he is. He's a loser. He's a criminal. He's a sexual abuser. He's a vile piece of trash. That's what it is. Just call it out. The rest of the world sees it. What are we scared about with this idiot? Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. New Midas Merch Drop.
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During Trump's first administration, he added more to the deficit than any president ever. By a lot. 25 to 30 percent of our deficit was caused by Donald Trump. Now, with their horrible budget bill, where they're going to cut Medicaid, cut SNAP, Das ist ein Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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Sie werden Unterstützung für Low Income Menschen, die Häuser haben, so dass sie Tax Cuts für Billionäre geben können. Wir sprechen von mindestens 6 Trillionen. Ich erwarte, dass es mehr als 15 bis 20 Trillionen Dollar sein wird, die zum Defizit gelegt werden. Hier, spiel diesen Clip.
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We're trying, the Democrats, to stop these MAGA Republicans from basically transferring the remainder of the money that low-income and middle-class Americans have so that the billionaires, the Mar-a-Lago billionaire class, can literally steal your money. That's what's going on here.
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Democrats came to fight and finally they're going gloves off, calling out these MAGA Republican leaders. Let me show you what went down on the weekend shows so you can see the dynamic here. I want to see more of this from the Democratic leaders pushing back and punching back. Like here, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy.
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And it wasn't just Senator Murphy, you have Senator Van Hollen from Maryland. I thought he did a great job here, let's play this clip.
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Now, contrast that to MAGA Mike Johnson. Here's MAGA Mike Johnson addressing the fact that Moody's, the credit agency that's been around since 1917, for the first time in its history downgraded the United States credit score.
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But even though Maga Mike and his bill with Trump is going to add six trillion dollars to the deficit, which is why Moody's downgraded America's credit, he goes, we're doing what Moody's wants us to do. That's why these people are malignant, narcissistic sociopaths here playing this clip.
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Now going to Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. He talks about how he tried to shake down the Walmart CEO and tell him to eat the tariffs. But I thought that China was going to eat the tariffs. Oh, so China is not eating the tariffs. So now the Trump regime is imposing price controls on businesses. That's what Republicans are doing now.
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... to try to temporarily cover up the damage that they've done. Play this clip.
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Here's how he described Donald Trump's trip of grift and bribes to three Middle East nations and what an absolute disgrace it was. Take it away, Senator Murphy. Let's play it.
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Here's the thing, too. You may be able to get... Like Walmart, which has already destroyed a lot of small businesses throughout the country. To temporarily do certain things with your Trump-Regime, fascistic central planning. But you're destroying also medium and small size businesses. Like...
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It's exactly what they did during COVID, except here they've manufactured it themselves now, where it's like if you don't test, then there's no issues, right? How do you know if there's cases if you don't test? They're just covering up the problem.
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I'll show you this next clip right here, where Kristen Welker, meet the press, asks Treasury Secretary Besant about Trump accepting bribes. And he goes, no, they're not. He said they're gifts to Americans. Americans want Donald Trump to have a $400 million gold-plated jet. No we don't. No we don't. What are you talking about? Play this clip.
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In another absurd clip, I don't even need to play it, Besson's like, this is just like the Statue of Liberty. When France gave us the Statue of Liberty in 1877, it's just like Qatar giving us 400, it's not us, he's giving Donald Trump, Qatar, who funds Hamas, is giving Donald Trump 400.
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A four hundred million dollar gold plated jet, which then goes to his library, which isn't built, which means Trump's getting a private gold plated jet with the maintenance paid for by the United States taxpayers. That's what this is. It's not the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty was also accepted as a gift.
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via a formal congressional resolution and the United States helped in the funding. If you don't see the difference between the Statue of Liberty and Trump getting a gold-plated jet from a country that helped to fund Hamas, and if you're cool with Trump getting that, you need to, I think, reflect on it a little bit more deeply.
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Hier haben Sie Besant darüber gesprochen, wie sie keine Verhandlungen mit anderen Ländern gemacht haben, also werden sie nur wieder Tarife gegen die Länder machen, wie sie es am 2. April gemacht haben, was die initiale Verletzung war, dass sie 90 Tage pausierten. Hier spielt man diesen Clip.
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Then Scott Besson says that his whole strategy is actually to create strategic uncertainty. So if small businesses and medium-sized businesses are getting screwed, Besson says this is the point. Strategic uncertainty is their goal. Play this clip.
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And again, this was an obvious repudiation of the Trump MAGA candidate. And again, we reported yesterday how in Romania, the far right wing candidate Simeon was expected to go on and win originally. The odds were that the right-wing candidate was going to win. You then had the centrist candidate, who was the mayor of Bucharest, went on to win in Romania. We did a whole video on that as well.
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One of the things that I think was very important in this Polish election was Mayor Rafal Trusowski ran on a strong pro-Ukraine platform, anti-Putin platform. as well as building the military forces up in Poland, creating a first-class military to stop Vladimir Putin.
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I want to share with you, I thought this was an important moment, because the views of Rafal Trusowski mirror the Prime Minister Donald Tusk. I'll explain how the Poland government works. A very confused prime minister, president. But here was Donald Tusk recently. Let's play this clip. I mean, here he is talking about, you know, standing up to Putin.
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And when Putin didn't show in Istanbul, Turkey, I think it was a big sign that impacted this election as well. Remember how I reported on how Putin and Trump said they were going to go to Istanbul to negotiate with Zelensky. Zelensky showed up in Istanbul, but Putin and Trump didn't. Here, let's play this clip of Donald Tusk.
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So in Poland's parliamentary system, they have a prime minister who's the head of government and a president who is the head of state. I would say the prime minister has more day-to-day power. The president as head of state kind of functions as a veto power over the prime minister. So currently the prime minister, Donald Tusk, very similar political background, I would say, to Rafal Truskowski.
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And then when it comes to this MAGA candidate right here who did not win this round, although let's be clear, there's a second round, Carol Naraki, I think his views mostly align, I guess, more closely with Duda, who's the current president, although Naraki, the guy who's running right now, is an independent candidate.
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Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzasky is going to go on to win that first round against the far right wing candidate, Nowacki, who many people expected the far right wing rival, who's a MAGA candidate, who sucks up to Donald Trump. He calls himself like the Trump of Poland. People thought Karola Nowacki was going to win that. Now we go to this second round on June 1st.
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But the party of the current president, Duda, is supporting, is aligning with this far right candidate, Narwaki, right here. I want to show you this as well, just to show you the positions of the current government in Poland that I think. especially with the threats being posed by Donald Trump. I think it's very effective. Here we have Poland's foreign minister Sikorski.
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You probably have seen some other speeches I've played of foreign minister Sikorski before. But here he is about two or three weeks ago talking about how, look, If Ukraine stops fighting, there's no more Ukraine. If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. And that's what we have to remember. And he said we need to prevail on the rest of the world.
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And he said Donald Trump needs to recognize what's really going on here. Play this clip.
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And about two or three weeks before that, you also had this moment for both the EU and from Poland's foreign minister. Let's play this other clip.
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So if you think about the kind of right-wing MAGA crew, right, whether it was Maple MAGA lost in Canada, you had Timu Trump lose in Australia, Peter Dutton, Pierre Poliev in Canada, Maple MAGA, he lost, he lost his seat, Dutton lost his seat. They lost in Romania, as we covered yesterday, and now they lost in Poland first round. We're going to go to the second round on June 1st.
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And I think people are now seeing how dangerous this far right MAGA strain internationally is. We're seeing this across the world. I want to remind you of this incredible speech that Foreign Minister Sarkowski gave at the United Nations. Remember in February or so?
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when Donald Trump had the United States side with Russia and North Korea and Iran against a resolution condemning Russia for its unlawful invasion of Ukraine, not even abstain. The United States voted with Russia. Remember that? Then you had Foreign Minister Sikorsky gave this impassioned speech in the United Nations. Let's play this clip.
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We're going to, of course, be paying a lot of attention to that here on the Midas Touch Network. Let me just share with you what Karol Nowrocki had campaigned on. You'll see he's just constantly talking about Trump this, Trump that. I'm the MAGA candidate. So here was a speech that he gave. Here, play this clip. And the most powerful man in the free world, Donald Trump.
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And here he is again. Let's play this other clip.
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Thank you very much. So there you have it, folks. Oh, let me play this as well. Former President Biden, very popular in Poland. February 2023, he gave this incredible speech. Let's play it.
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Yeah, that speech was in Warsaw. And now, you know, the Warsaw mayor is currently running for the presidency. And you saw right there that the that he did win the first round mayor election. Rafal Stravowski. All right, so where do we go from here? June 1st is the second round. It'll just be a runoff now between Rafal Stravowski and Karola Narocki.
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We'll be following it every step of the way here, but I want you to be able to make these connections internationally about what's happening. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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May I show you Exhibit B? Dan Bongino on his podcast before going from right wing nutjob podcaster to deputy FBI director. Here, play this clip.
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Now, folks, we've been reporting on this over and over again on the Midas Touch Network that Donald Trump's Department of Justice is covering up the Epstein files. We believe this is the case because Donald Trump was close friends with Epstein and Epstein would traffic girls who worked at Mar-a-Lago like Virginia Giuffre Morales.
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der jetzt durch Suizid gestorben ist, unter bedrohlichen Umständen in Australien auch. Gehen wir kurz über die Fakten. Ich habe viele andere Videos darüber gemacht, aber lasst mich kurz über die Fakten gehen. Trump ist Doe 174 in einigen der Epstein-File, die noch nicht veröffentlicht wurden. So wurde er identifiziert.
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Also veröffentlichte die File über Doe 174 und Donald Trumps Beziehung zu Epstein. Wir wissen, dass Donald Trump bereits gesagt hat, dass Epstein ein toller Typ ist, der Mädchen liebt. auf der jüngeren Seite. Ich glaube, er hat gesagt, er mag Frauen auf der jüngeren Seite. Das ist der gleiche Quote von Donald Trump.
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Wir wissen, dass Epstein Mädchen aus Mar-a-Lago durch Ghislaine Maxwell verabschiedet hat. Wir wissen, dass Donald Trump Ghislaine Maxwell gut an ihrem Sexverabschiedungsverfahren wünscht. Donald Trumps Name erscheint mindestens sieben Mal auf der Epstein Flugzeuge, die bereits ein paar Jahre hergestellt wurde, aber das war nur eine kleine Teil der Flugzeuge.
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Donald Trumps Head of FBI is Kash Patel and the number two is Dan Bongino. These are both right wing nutjobs who had these bizarro podcasts where they spread lies and dangerous conspiracies. But they gave a sit down interview, both of them together. Oh, by the way, didn't they attack Trump?
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Wir wissen, dass Epstein auf Trumps Jet verabschiedet hat und Mädchen Vielen Dank. Und wir wissen, dass Donald Trumps Name überall über diese Epstein-Depositionen erscheint, wo Epstein Frauen, die er verabschiedet hat, oder Mädchen, die er verabschiedet hat, zu Trump-Hotels und Trump-Properten. Das sind die Fakten.
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Wir wissen, dass die White House bereits versucht hat, es zu öffnen, indem sie die Epstein-File veröffentlicht haben. Und sie hatten diese rechten Influencern, die sich aufhören. Diese Bindern, das sind die Epstein-File, und das waren nicht wirklich die File, das war die Anrufliste, die gedreht wurde.
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Und Pam Bondi sagte, dass sie diese File veröffentlichen wird, dass sie einen Truckload von Filen hatte, und sie hofft, dass das einfach weggeht und dass die Leute es vergessen. Hier bei der Midas Touch Network, ich weiß, dass die Corporate News darüber nicht spricht, wir sprechen darüber hier.
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I think it's important to know Donald Trump's connections with Epstein, because we know a lot of the public ones already. Here's what they're saying on right-wing podcasts though now for several months. They're accusing the FBI of destroying and deleting Epstein files. This is a right-wing podcast called The Benny Johnson Show. Maybe he'll be a future FBI director or Homeland Security Secretary.
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Who knows? Listen to what his witness says here. Play this clip. Somebody's worked very hard to make sure that this data that you're talking about can be deleted and destroyed forever.
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And we here at the Midas Touch Network got the exclusive with Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman, who wrote a formal letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, demanding that she provide responses if she's covering up for Donald Trump. Is she redacting Donald Trump's name? Is she having the FBI and DOJ officials destroy and shred the Epstein files that contain Donald Trump's name on it?
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former Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz for doing a sit-down interview together, like two of them, whatever, there's nothing really consistent with these magas. Anyway, you had Bongino and Patel doing a sit-down interview together, and here's what they were asked by Fox's Maria Bartiromo.
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Now you go back to March 4th, 2025, where Bondi said that she had truckloads of evidence on her desk. Then before that, they claimed it was going to be released. And then they had that fake release event at the White House where the influencers like very just like grotesquely were holding up the binder and like celebrating it.
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I had Michael Wolff, who had interviewed Epstein before on the Midas Touch podcast. I interviewed Michael Wolff. No corporate media would interview Michael Wolff other than me, because they didn't want to get into these subjects. And Trump had basically told the media, do not have Michael Wolff on. That didn't scare us. And Michael Wolff said that...
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Epstein believed that he was like Trump's best friend, not just like close, like best friends here playing this clip.
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Watch this. People don't believe it. Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was.
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Ich glaube, wenn man sie zusammen partiert, waren sie beste Freunde. Ich bin ein Arbeiter, also gehe ich auf Beweise. Hier sind Trump und Epstein zusammen partieren. Lass uns diesen Clip spielen.
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You see for yourself the behavior and I'll let you decide what's going on there. But we'll keep you posted every step of the way here at the Midas Touch Network. And hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Again, you want me to, I've seen the whole file. He killed himself. Which is very interesting for their response, because who were some of the big purveyors of the conspiracies regarding Epstein? Oh, may I show you Exhibit A, what Donald Trump said to Tucker Carlson?
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Trump Gets Nightmare News as World Elections Crush Him
The first round, no one had really predicted that there would be this type of commanding victory for the pro-democracy, pro-EU centrist candidate, Nikusha Dan, going on to beat the MAGA-aligned Simeon. You go to Poland, we reported on this before as well, the liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski,
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went on to beat the MAGA Republican-aligned candidate, Karola Nowrocki, in the first round of the presidential elections in Poland. June 1st will be the second round there. Let me just show you the respective celebrations very quickly. Here in Romania, the mayor of Bucharest, the next leader of Romania. Here he is. You'll see him right here. Nicosia, Dan, here he is right here. Let's play it.
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And here we see in Poland, Trzaskowski, the centrist. Let's play the crowd right there.
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Now, in addition to just these elections, one of the things we're seeing as well is the world recognize how much of a bad negotiator Donald Trump is and how weak he is and how Donald Trump has just been capitulating and or announcing fake deals.
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When Donald Trump got outmaneuvered by China, that was a watershed moment where Trump claimed he had a deal with China last week after meetings in Switzerland, but obviously there wasn't a deal. They reached a consensus where the United States completely caved and withdrew and 145% tariffs that Trump said was going to make America so rich and moved it to 30%.
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Also, you dig into the fine print of, not even the fine print, just the big print of Trump's purported deal with the UK. Not a real deal at all. It actually says it's not an actual binding deal, but what it would do is give significant advantages to Jaguar, Land Rover, and Rolls-Royce over American car manufacturers. So the whole world is seeing that.
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Also, Moody's, the credit agency, downgraded the U.S. credit score for the first time in Moody's history since 1917. The world sees all of that. And right now, China-U.S. trade truce That's how Bloomberg calls it. More like capitulation by the U.S. prompts all of these other nations to consider tougher tactics against Donald Trump. Quote, Now,
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Right before the markets open this morning, we see that the Treasury futures are in a steep decline after Moody's cut the U.S. credit rating. Bonds getting drilled right now, as Spencer Akimian puts it, at the open. 4.53% is the 10-year yield. Is that going to hit a five-handle soon? That's what I'm gonna be focusing on. When I say five-handle, I mean 5%.
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Also, I think that it is not a coincidence that Pope Leo was someone who was very critical of Trump's position on, or I should just call it torture, of migrants with J.D. Vance and that the Vatican... elevated a new pope, signaling, I think, the belief that with Trump in charge, America is on the decline such that an American pope could be selected. Let's break all of this down.
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And this is gonna impact everything from causing mortgage rates to skyrocket. It's gonna make it very difficult for the United States to refinance its debt. And this disastrous budget deal, or this budget bill, rather, that Trump is pushing through. It's going to add about $6 trillion to the deficit.
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And it just last night, very late last night, was approved by the Budget Committee on a vote of 17 to 16 with those four previous no votes abstaining and just not voting. But it passed the Budget Committee by one vote. It now goes through the next steps. But we're seeing as well
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the markets, at least the futures, which is when I'm recording this, showing a steep decline as well on the news of Moody's downgrading the United States credit. Now, this would be something, this would be a time where you'd want real leadership, right? Nope, not from Donald Trump.
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All throughout yesterday, he was posting weird memes of himself holding swords that he reposted from QAnon death cult accounts like SpiritualStreetFighter17. That account says, I support QAnon is basically what it says. So Trump keeps reposting QAnon death cult stuff. He also was posting weird videos of himself holding
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I guess he was so self-conscious of the fact that Bruce Springsteen was mocking him or criticizing him for the disaster he's caused to Americans. Trump was posting weird AI images of himself playing fake music in front of a fake crowd. Very bizarre behavior indeed. And then Donald Trump was posting calls for military tribunals to put former President President Obama on military tribunals.
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The Trump effect is real all across the world. We're seeing the MAGA Trump aligned candidates getting upset by the pro-democracy candidates. On Sunday, we saw this take place in Romania and Poland. And over the past few weeks, we saw the Trump and MAGA-aligned candidates get upset in Canada and Australia.
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Also repost from those QAnon accounts. I mean, look, this is a demented sicko, a vile piece of trash, a felon, a fraud, a sexual abuser who behaves like a maniac. You know, would you be like, oh, my God, Jeffrey Dahmer? He's eating people. He's a mass murderer. Well, he's a disgusting, vile murderer. That's who he is. When you look at Donald Trump, he is a criminal, felon, fraud, bankruptor.
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He behaves as such. There's a reason that people like Donald Trump should be locked up in prison for the rest of their lives, in my opinion, and not running a country. We're seeing the effects of this right now.
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And then surrounding themselves with other violent, despicable individuals like the Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who's worth basically a billion dollars, who previously lived in a... This is how weird these people are. in a real world, a real life version of the Pink Barbie mansion. That's where he lived.
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And here he was doing the morning shows yesterday, blaming former President Biden for the reason that Donald Trump was taking bribes from Qatar. Play the clip.
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Now, also on the morning shows, though, you had a former vice president, Mike Pence, who was actually very critical of Donald Trump taking gifts from Saudi Arabia, which supported 9-11, Qatar, which supports Hamas. Here's what Pence had to say yesterday, play this clip.
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I want to also talk about Donald Trump's unhinged responses throughout the day. But I think this post nicely sums everything up. They lost in Canada, they lost in Australia, Romania, and Poland. And I think we're going to be seeing more of this throughout the world.
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And here Pence talks about how despicable it is for Donald Trump to be in Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates questioning the attacking United States leadership in the world in Saudi Arabia. Here, play this clip.
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Now, let me just show you what the Democrats were saying. Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen, here's what he had to say. Play this clip.
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I did a whole other video about this, but let me just say it at the end of this video. Of course, our heart goes out to President Biden and his family after that horrible, horrible cancer diagnosis. We... We did a whole bit. It was a very tough one for me to get through that video I did yesterday. And, you know, our deepest heartfelt, you know, sympathy.
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Just send positive thoughts to the Biden family right now. I had the opportunity to be one of the last reporters. I may have been the last reporter to interview former President Biden inside the White House in December 2024. Here, play this clip.
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And again, if you looked at the results in Romania and you compared it to what was projected just a few days ago, or especially even earlier in the month, where the far right-wing candidate there, Simeon, George Simeon, was expected to go on and win, and he actually won the
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I do. I am hopeful. Powerful statements from former President Biden, indeed. And just to show you this kind of MAGA reality dystopia, Kid Rock is now with Lauren Boebert. That's like the full completion of MAGAville. Lauren Boebert and Kid Rock together. I mean, and taking photos together. So odd. Folks, we'll keep you posted every step of the way today. Today's my 40th birthday.
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I turned 40 today. I really appreciate all of your support all throughout these years, Midas Mighty. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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few days ago george simeon had a 75 to 80 chance of winning after all he won the first round of romania's election back in early may then right before uh the elections were to take place we saw george simeon's odds of winning slide to about 54 two hours ago there was a complete reversal now
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You may be used to seeing the polling look like this, although it looked a little bit not as all of a sudden fashion like this. But when we showed you how the far right-wing party in Canada lost after leading in the polls, same thing in Australia, their far right-wing party lost after leading in the polls. More repudiation of MAGA, more repudiation of...
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anyone who doesn't support Ukraine and any in a major repudiation to sympathizers of Vladimir Putin. Let's take you to the scene of Bucharest right here, where the people are celebrating. Let's watch this. Let's play the clip. So what happened in this election to lead Nakusha Dan to go on to beat George Simeon? How did the centrists pull off this upset right now?
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Well, there was a surge that we just saw today in Bucharest and other areas of young voters. They saw what happened in early May during the first round, where although Simeon didn't get a majority, Simeon still got the leading vote total. And I think the young people said, our future is going to be absolutely destroyed by this MAGA Putin candidate. Romania will be lost permanently. to Putin.
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So you saw this surge of young people voting. You saw this record turnout that nobody expected to see in Romania. And this led to the centrist pro-democracy, pro-EU candidate pulling off this important upset and an upset that was a further repudiation of Trump and Putin. Let me show you how France 24 was talking about this election just days ago.
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Here's how they described George Simeon from the AUR, the MAGA Putin candidate, the far-right-wing extremist. Play this clip.
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We need to take care of our own interests and of our own citizens.
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95% of the vote has been counted and Nikusha Dan is taking a commanding lead with 54% of the vote to George Simeon's 45% of the vote. Romania has spoken. They want closer ties within the European Union. They want democracy. They want to support Ukraine. This is a massive loss for Donald Trump. and MAGA, who supported George Simeon, who modeled himself as Romania's Trump, as Romania's MAGA.
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Now, on the other side, here's how they described Nikusha Dan. Here, play this clip.
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The country is turning to the extreme right, away from the European Union and towards the influence of Russia.
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Let's take a look at how the local Bucharest coverage has been describing this surge in young voter turnout today. Here, play this clip.
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I also thought one of the defining moments of this election was this clip that went viral right here of a Romanian woman singing the national anthem after casting her vote.
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A powerful moment unfolding at this polling station in Romania as a woman broke into song after voting, proudly singing the national anthem, recognizing that if the vote went for George Simeon, Romania would likely have been fully lost. to Vladimir Putin. It would have become another satellite country of Putin. And fortunately, fortunately, Romania said not today. Here, watch this clip.
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This is a massive defeat for Vladimir Putin and for far right-wing autocracies across the world. Now, George Simeon modeled in the kleptocratic, despicable, vile model is not conceding. Instead, he's declaring victory despite losing. He has posted on social media in Trumpian fashion, I am the new president of Romania despite losing.
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Now, here's the iconic fountains in Bucharest lighting up the colors of Europe and the European Union to celebrate their hard-fought victory over fascism. Long live Romania. Long live Europe. Slava Ukraini. Play this clip. Now, it's also worth showing you as well this clip from earlier in the day of Bridget Brink, who recently quit her post as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
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Romania has spoken in their major presidential election. They have rejected the Trump and Putin backed far right wing candidate George Simeon. Instead, the pro-EU, pro-democracy centrist candidate who's currently the mayor of Bucharest, Nikusha Dan, is going to go on and win this election.
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And here she talks about how. What Trump was doing was basically sucking up to Putin and selling out Ukraine and treating the victim, Ukraine, suffered the unlawful invasion by Putin as the aggressor. Here's why the ambassador to Ukraine quit her post. And I think this all ties into what we just saw in Bucharest with the Romania election. Play this clip.
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So, folks, a major upset, but an important one for the sake of democracy, for the sake of rejecting Putin and MAGA. Romanian voters showed up despite the far right wing candidate George Simeon of the A.U.R., winning the first round of elections early in May, which scared a lot of people into thinking that Romania was lost to fascism, to MAGA, to Putin.
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Young voters and other voters stood up for democracy, cast their votes in favor of Nikusha Dan, the centrist mayor, soft-spoken man from Bucharest, who will go on to win this election. Now, we're going to follow up, of course, of what's going on with this election
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claim this lie, this kleptocratic playbook that's now being utilized by Russia and George Simeon, claiming that they won when they lost, trying to incite violence. Romanians are not going to stand for this, but this is textbook Trumpy Putin loser behavior. Great work, Romania. You stood up for the world. It's a great day for democracy. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Now, this has also been amplified by RT, the Russian propaganda network as well. But let's be very clear. Nakusha Dan is going to go on and win this election. As I mentioned, the mayor of Bucharest, a centrist, a math Olympiad, has a PhD, a brilliant soft-spoken man who supports democracy. Now, if you looked at the odds of
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Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, just gave a disastrous press conference at the White House. She was unprepared, she was sloppy, and she was promoting Donald Trump's fascist agenda while being both sloppy and unprepared. Here she was asked a question about Donald Trump claiming to void all of former President Biden's pardons, including pardoning people
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I'm a fan. You're the one saving Trump. You're doing more important work than me.
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Well, that's the Trump regime for you. Despicable stuff going on at the White House. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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Again, unprepared, sloppy, and very, very dangerous. Here, Caroline Levitt is asked, what criteria is the Trump regime using when it invokes the Alien Enemies Act to take so-called gang members who are Venezuelan and send them to concentration camps in El Salvador and then make these brutal ISIS-style videos where they are treating these human beings like trash? What's the standard?
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How do you know that they're actually gang members if you're not giving people due process rights? And here's what she says. Let's play the clip.
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who were part of the January 6th committee because according to Donald Trump, former President Biden used an auto pen and did not give consent to any of the pardons himself. Listen to how Caroline Levitt responds, let's play it.
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That's her response, just intelligence, just trust us. Just trust Donald Trump when he says someone's a gang member, that they're a gang member. It's not like Donald Trump doesn't lie about everything. And by the way, those videos that they're making of treating human beings like absolute trash. I mean, to me, as I said, they're like ISIS style videos. And I wanna be very clear about my position.
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gang members need to have the book thrown at them i am a law and order person gangs people who commit crimes need to be brought to justice absolutely we have processes in the united states called due process though where we don't just pick people off the street say they're gang members and throw them into concentration camps in countries that are run by authoritarians. I don't know.
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That's something that I believe in, and the Supreme Court has previously believed it. Then Caroline Leavitt attacks France. Here, play this clip.
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Kelly. You know what she said? She goes, the French would still be speaking German if it wasn't for the United States. I mean, I guess after the United States declares trade wars on countries like France and Canada, and then these other countries stand up for themselves, then the Trump regime says, you should be more grateful for us engaging in trade wars against you. So utterly despicable.
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Then here, Caroline Leavitt talks about how we want the DOJ that focuses on fighting law and order. They want to fight law and order. A nice Freudian slip right here. Let's play it.
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Caroline Leavitt then brags about how Donald Trump is now the chairman of the Kennedy Center. Trump fired everybody from the Kennedy Center, made himself the chairman and replaced it with a MAGA board. And here she is saying, look how great it is. We're going to bring the real culture back to the Kennedy Center. Here, play the clip.
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Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia says, donations are plummeting, shows are canceling, staff are fleeing, but yes, I'm sure Trump will fix it by booking the MAGA musical of Ted Nugent and Chris Rock. Next, Caroline Leavitt on Putin's invasion of Ukraine. She blames it on former President Biden and says it's actually Biden's fault.
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No, it's Putin's fault and Trump enables Putin to play this clip.
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Then Caroline Leavitt gives her theory. She's never been to law school before, but she gives her theory that a court's verbal orders, what need not be complied with, they don't carry the same weight and effect of the written order that is subsequently given.
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Thus, you think you can just violate the court's order and just start taking people off the streets and throwing them into concentration camps without due process where a court order said you can't do that. Here, play this clip of Caroline Leavitt. Let's play.
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Hey, so on Friday- Then Caroline Levitt says, oh, don't you love those fun videos that we're making of the migrants? Ha ha ha, don't you like our fun videos? She goes, so we're encouraging people who are here illegally to self-deport themselves. Or she goes, or maybe you'll find yourself in one of those fun videos. Here, play this clip.
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Sure. John, good to see you. They're absolutely despicable that she's referring to these videos as fun videos. As I've said, they look like ISIS videos. And the fact that they're being produced by the American regime, it's not a government by the people for the people. It's by the bullies for the billionaires and for the fascists.
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Arrogant and totally unprepared there, and what a unhinged conspiracy, but a conspiracy that is typical of Donald Trump. Next up, Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, has asked about the United States withdrawing from the International Center for the Prosecution of Crime Against Ukraine, which investigates Russia's crimes against humanity.
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This is the video from the official White House rapid response account. And then Trump posted this video. This is official White House videography right here, where they show the migrants that they sent to El Salvador to put in concentration camps in El Salvador. And the videos show the El Salvador police force or military being fairly brutal with these people. Play this clip.
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And again, let me make my position clear again. The train de Aragua, the gangs, they absolutely should be fully prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We don't want gangs in the United States. We don't want criminals in the United States. Throw the book at them, deport them. There is a process for that. There are laws on the books.
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Donald Trump declared a phony war against Venezuela to invoke the war powers of a dictator. These war powers have only been invoked before in the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II. So Trump's saying this Venezuela war requires that he be invoked. a war leader and then pick whoever he wants based on what tattoos and trust me, bro.
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And then send people to concentration camps in El Salvador. I'm sorry. That just, that doesn't sit right with me. And I'd like to see these gang members locked up, throw it in jail, but you have to go through a process to make sure they're actually the gang members and they've actually committed crimes. Call me old fashioned, but I believe in the United States constitution is a thing.
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And that you don't just get to, you know, you just go get to say, oh, you're a gang member, you're a gang member, and then just send them to concentration camps. Then a reporter to Levitt says, I think this reporter frames it correctly.
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So you're saying criticizing judges is illegal, but all Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing are attacking judges like every day and saying that judges should be impeached and the judges who rule against Trump aren't real judges. Here, play this clip.
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Mary. Then Fox loses its audio and has to cut away, play the clip.
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All right. So we're having some clearly. Technical problems there, we're doubling up on the audio circuit. We will get- Then Donald Trump has his other chief propagandist, Alina Haba, go on Fox, and she brags about she's dealing with her own personal portfolio that deals with human extortion and human sex trafficking. Play this clip.
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including raping and murdering and kidnapping Ukrainians. The United States was the biggest supporter of this international center. It's now being widely reported that the Trump regime to help Putin is pulling the United States out of that international center support. Here's what Caroline Levitt said. Let's play it.
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Oh, really, Alina Haba? Because this is a video of you and Andrew Tate from a few months ago, from January of 2025, where you seem to praise Andrew Tate, who was arrested for engaging in sex trafficking and trafficking minors abroad. And he's made statements where he basically brags about trafficking people. We hear him on audio saying how he takes girls and women and doesn't pay them
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and then sells the... I don't know what I'm going to go into. But anyway, here's Alina Haba fawning over Andrew Tate to play this clip.
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Dropkick Murphys Lead Singer Stands Up To Trump at Shows
my favorite punk band the dropkick murphy's been making headlines across the country as they are touring and they are not afraid to call out maga when they see that occasional maga hat that's still in their crowd look the dropkick murphy's has been making music for working class fans now for about three decades.
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Let me show you another incredible moment from another show recently where the lead singer, Ken Casey, just showed the crowd and an audience member who was wearing a MAGA cap the difference between made in America versus made in foreign countries. Here, watch this.
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And I think they're seeing firsthand, though, what Donald Trump and what MAGA has been doing to some of these people. I want to share with you this video that we exclusively broke at the Midas Touch Network. This happened on stage in the past day or so in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. Watch this.
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A proudly made in America Dropkick Murphys shirt. Let's bring in the lead singer of Dropkick Murphys, Ken Casey. Ken, how you doing? Tell us about your tour. We're big fans of Dropkick Murphys here at the Midas. Tell us about the tour, what you're seeing with your audience and your ability just to call out MAGA for what it is.
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Yeah, look, in this particular moment, too, we're seeing with Project 2025 and Trump's other agenda, how, you know, these billionaires are gutting our government. We're seeing veterans being fired at Elon Musk, calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme.
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uh while destroying government agencies and then kind of just mocking working-class people i think elon musk says that and trump has said before i think that they don't even believe in the concepts of unions or trump's laughed when elon musk you know fired striking workers and trump found that uh hilarious and so look this is a major uh topic of conversation right now are you seeing though at your shows
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a different reaction now than maybe you saw even a year ago or two years ago. Right now, specifically with all of the things that Doge and Musk are doing.
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So that's how we feel. One of the things that they do, though, to try to ingratiate themselves in the culture, as you say, like how do people buy into what they're saying, though, is they take a lot of cultural moments and songs and music and they pretend that they're endorsements of them.
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You've seen this recently as well, where someone like Don Jr., as of what, last week, was posting your music online. He was posting your song, Returning to Boston. And then you responded as follows to him. This was the DM. This is a cease and desist letter if I've ever seen one right here. He posts your music and you go, take down our music, you nepo dictator crackhead.
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And he was posting, I'm shipping up to Boston. He was playing the music. So tell us about your version of a cease and desist letter and what went through your mind when you heard him playing your music.
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Absolutely. I want to tell everybody about your live show this evening. You can go find the live show right there. It's at veeps.events.com. Starts 9 p.m. Eastern time, 6 p.m. Pacific. So tonight, the Midas Touch podcast goes live at 5 Eastern, or rather 5 Pacific, 8 Eastern. And so right after the Midas Touch podcast ends, you can go and tune right into the Dropkick Murphys concert.
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We didn't plan it that way, but as soon as our show ends, go and watch it. Anything else you want to say before we go, Ken, just to your fans and to the American people in general?
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Well, appreciate you we got ken casey from the dropkick murphys on saint patrick's day on the last day of the dropkick murphys tour ken great to see everybody check it out veeps.event slash dropkick murphys as soon as the midas touch podcast ends tonight go check out the dropkick murphys concert thanks ken thanks ben you too everybody hit subscribe let's get to five million subscribers
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Canada Making Trump Pay
we've been telling you for a long time that canada is going elbows up they are not going to be bullied by the trump regime and now we're finally seeing corporate media start to recognize this for example the headlines for the past few days From Politico, what other countries are taking away from Trump's battle with Canada?
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I want to share this with you as well. This was a protest recently in Basel, Switzerland. Just shows you when the people in Switzerland are pissed at you. I think this tells you where the Trump regime is right now. I'm here with now Charlie Angus, Member of Parliament in Canada. Now, Charlie, you have Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, says, look, It's a disagreement.
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On the one hand, Donald Trump wants to annex and take over Canada. On the other hand, Canada does not want to be conquered and taken over. You know, just a disagreement while he's out there in Canada. What's your response to all of this?
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This from USA Today, Canadian cold shoulder, Trump's antics anger our otherwise polite neighbor. You think? From the Washington Post, these Canadians are canceling US trips as Trump sours relations. In notes explaining why they're not coming, Canadians say farewell for now. And by the way, we told you
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One of the things you had told me going into this, as you and I have been talking now for several months, is that Canada was prepared to They were ready, but the United States wasn't. We were being fed a lot of disinformation, and our media was parroting Trump's line that tariffs are just going to be great. In your assessment, any surprises that you've seen? Is it going as you thought?
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Is the Canadian unity even more than you expected? Is the boycott stronger? What's your assessment as you do this resistance tour?
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that while the u.s tourism bureau was expecting that the canadian boycott would be around 10 i was saying no way i said it's going to be closer to 50 to 75 closer to 100 percent i said most canadians are not coming to the united states unless they absolutely had to and even if it was 10 it would have made a massively devastating impact on the united states so just
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Did you see Donald Trump's one of his top advisors, Peter Navarro? He's been going on TV and he's been saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, Canada, tone down that rhetoric. Tone it down. What are you what are you doing? You know, show us a little more respect when you hear things like that. What do you think?
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Finally, Charlie, I always ask you at the end of these interviews to direct a message to Donald Trump. We know that the Trump team goes through these interviews and they clip them and they cut them. So if he's watching this or his team's watching it, what's your message, Charlie Angus, to Donald Trump?
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Imagine what actually is happening right now when those numbers start to show themselves in economic reports. Or how about this headline? How Trump united Canada against him and flipped its election upside down. But despite all of this, the Trump regime is not changing its tone or tune.
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Charlie Angus, Member of Parliament in Canada, always a pleasure and honour to have you on the Midas Touch Network. Thank you so much.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Canada for the G7 summit, and he was asked about Donald Trump's desire to annex Canada. And he Here's what the American Secretary of State said.
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Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C. today after vacationing and golfing once again at his resort in Mar-a-Lago. Donald Trump awarded himself the golf championship of his own golf tournament this past week and then had state-regime media known as Fox blast the following headline,
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went further to trying to provoke military conflict with Iran Donald Trump made the following post let nobody be fooled the hundreds of attacks being made by Houthis the sinister mobster and thugs based in Yemen who are hated by the Yemeni people all emanate from and are created by Iran
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Any further attack or retaliation by the Houthis will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that the force will stop there. Iran has played the quote, innocent victim of rogue terrorists from which they've lost control, but they haven't lost control.
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They're dictating every move, giving the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated military equipment, and even so-called intelligence. Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon from this point forward as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of Iran. And Iran will be held responsible and suffer the consequences. And those consequences will be dire.
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And this is how Donald Trump, I guess, conducts international affairs. He just makes social media posts attacking foreign countries via social media posts. And then he says, look, we're going to go after you. We're going to do this. All hell is going to break loose. And then most frequently, Donald Trump then doesn't do anything.
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Trump wins golf championship a day after ordering strikes on terrorist Donald Trump and went on Air Force One to go back to Washington, D.C.
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And they're generally kind of looked they look upon him as kind of like a clown. Next up, you have Tom Homan, Donald Trump's border czar. Here he is talking about how do you determine whether someone's like a gang member? So when Donald Trump takes.
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the um these migrants and says they're gang members he sends them to el salvador he doesn't give them due process then what does um you know what criteria do you use here's what the border czar says tell me if you find this convincing let's play it what we did we removed terrorists that should be a celebration we removed terrorists from this country i stand by what the president did how do you determine whether somebody is a gang member what criteria do you use
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Here's what Donald Trump said on removing migrants from the United States using the Alien Enemies Act and not giving people due process and then sending these individuals who he's claiming are gang members, but these people do not have the process to deny such allegations. And Donald Trump says, well, I am doing it because we are now in a state of war.
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Then you have Tom Homan say, you know, we're look, the bottom line is I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're going to basically do whatever we want. Play this clip.
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And just so you see what they're doing, and I've made my point clear before, I think that gang members need to have the book thrown at them. I think that we need to make sure that gang members go off the streets. I support law enforcement. I want to make sure... that if you are a gang member, if you are committing crimes, regardless if you're a gang member, I'm a law and order person.
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I also believe in our Constitution. I also believe in due process. I don't believe that Donald Trump is just going to say, you, you, you, you're gang members. I hereby declare you gang members. And Donald Trump's going to be telling the truth. I just want you to, I want you to see the treatment of these people that Donald Trump, under the Alien Enemies War Powers Act,
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deported over this past weekend and sent them to El Salvador, to El Salvador concentration camps. Here's Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist and press secretary. She goes, the American people voted for this. And you can see over here this video that she's posting. This is from the official White House account. It's a three-minute video. Frankly, it's horrific.
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And in many cases, what's going on is worse than war. Here's what Donald Trump said on Air Force One. Let's play it.
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Also, as Donald Trump was landing into Washington, D.C. from Air Force One, he talked about how he calls April 2nd Liberation Day. And he says it's Liberation Day because then he's going to impose more tariffs on foreign countries. So thus, he says. It is a liberation day for the United States of America. We're seeing headlines like this. CEOs say they're losing faith in Trump.
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I don't trust what he's saying. What he says today is going to be what he says tomorrow. Just take a look at the S&P for the first 100 days in office and compare Obama, Biden, even the first Trump regime to what he's doing right now. And here, Trump on his unconstitutional assertion, that Biden's pardons are null and void.
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Donald Trump is claiming that all of President Biden's pardons were done by an auto pen and therefore they're null and void. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. He also says here in this post that the January 6th committee destroyed all of their records, which is 100% false. You can go and find the archives right now from the committee. They're posted online. They're posted publicly.
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So check that out if you don't believe me. And this is what Trump's been saying when he said, I'm hereby declaring all of Biden's pardons void. Here, play this clip.
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We had Charlie Angus on earlier this morning, a Canadian member of parliament. Here's what Charlie had to say about all of the attacks emanating from the Trump regime against Canada. Let me play this for you right here.
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Well, and there you have it. We'll keep you posted with more updates here from this morning. I'm Ben Mysalis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Donald Trump was asked on Air Force One if he's going to comply with the order by federal judges requiring the regime to rehire the federal workers they unlawfully terminated, many of whom are veterans. Here's what Donald Trump says. Let's play it.
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Donald Trump's approval has plummeted to the worst approval of any president in modern history other than Donald Trump during his first administration. Let me give you some data points, of course, why. This weekend, unusually vicious and damaging weather storms hit the United States Midwest. Violent tornadoes, I think over 54 tornadoes.
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Also, as part of the festivities that were taking place as Rome burned and Donald Trump played the fiddle, or should I say, walked around with a Diet Coke in his hand, barking orders at people and displaying Mount Rushmore statutes that have his face on it.
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You had the fashionistas post posing in Mar-a-Lago in their glamorous gear, all getting ready for the big Birkin bag crock parties where they were displaying. handbags that are for sale for the price of $447,000. Yes, that's what the Trump regime is doing. Just so you can see the data of Trump's approval plummeting. Let me share this with you. This is from NBC who did this poll.
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And here's what Steve Karnacki has to say, play this clip.
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By the way, if you actually read the corporate media headlines, you would think that Donald Trump's poll numbers were soaring. I mean, I was reading headlines like a headline from the Daily Beast that was like, Trump's polls are, Trump's poll numbers are super high. And then I saw Axios, Trump soars and Democrats are in the gutter. By the way,
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The Democrats polling, not good at all, but Donald Trump's polling, very bad. You see it right there. Also, if you look at the polling, I mean, Donald Trump is just getting absolutely crushed among independents in the poll. According to the NBC News poll, just 30% of independents approve of Trump's performance in office, 67% disapprove.
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Immigration now drops to fourth place among voter concerns with cost of living and political corruption taking the top two spots on voters mind. And let me share this with you as well. This is from Fox. And just to show you the sentiment on Fox here, they are just talking about how. They're not even at this point looking at the stock market.
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were taking place, blinding dust storms and fast-moving wildfires left at least 37 people dead. What was Donald Trump doing? Well, he was golfing and vacationing at Mar-a-Lago, running around his resort with Diet Cokes and playing in a golf tournament where he claims he was the winner. And this is what he posted while Americans were dying. This is what Donald Trump posted.
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And the host here says that he's more watching Silence of the Lambs because it's Trey Gowdy used to be a MAGA Republican congressman because Silence of the Lambs is less scary than looking at the markets right now. Play this clip.
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You know, as we are watching these horrific storms and the horrible, awful death count, and by the way, our, you know, we stand in solidarity with everybody who's been impacted by those storms. Our hearts go out to everyone. I wish I could do more than just expose what Trump's doing and then just saying that my heart goes out to you. But you're on our minds right now.
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But if you just take a look as well, some of the Doge layoffs. were predicted that they would threaten people's lives. Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal, national, oceanic, and atmospheric administration employees, NOAA employees on probationary status were fired back in the last week of February. Lawmakers and weather experts talked about
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the dangers that these cuts could be happening. There were multiple rounds of cuts. Experts warn that the cuts will impact forecasts for tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, and aviation safety, while Elon Musk defended the layoffs, calling them common sense reform of the federal workforce. I think this analysis that was also conducted by the New York Times is an important one to look at right here.
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how the retaliatory tariffs and Trump's economic policy is impacting these states here and a lot of red states and purplish states as well. The retaliatory tariffs target industries employing 9.5% people in Wisconsin, 8.5% people in Indiana,
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8.4 percent of people in iowa the shares are also relatively high in arkansas alabama mississippi kentucky and kansas also you take a look at what's going on in nebraska mark cuban posted this nebraska is going to get crushed between tariffs and medicaid cuts they have to balance their state budget and it looks like at least a 200 million shortfall this year that's before the tariff impacts
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And of course, that is a red state. We're also seeing the U.S. Department of Agriculture just doing the most cruel things under the Trump-Doge directives, canceling $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks. That's who they're going after while focusing on giving tax cuts to the richest. By the way, what happened to no tax on tips? What happened to no tax on Social Security?
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What happened to no tax on overtime? Oh, the MAGA Republicans don't care about those things. What happened when they said there's not even going to be taxes, right? There's just going to be an external revenue service. You don't even need the IRS. They said everyone's going to get so rich from tariffs. Doesn't seem that way at all.
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But by the way, the architect of Project 2025, one of them, Paul Dans, the other is running the OMB right now, says Project 2025 is doing beautifully. It's way beyond our wildest dreams what's going down, they're saying. They could not be happier with the way things are happening in our country.
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Donald Trump is also posting this as Americans are suffering his portrait from 2017 to 2021, his presidential portrait in 2025, which is basically the same photo as his mugshot in connection with Trump. Felony charges brought against them. And then Donald Trump mocks former President Biden by doing a photo of an auto pen as former President Biden's portrait.
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At least under former President Biden, we would wake up to record breaking stock market announcements every day, not having Fox hosts say that they can't even look at it. because it's scarier than silence of the lambs. We don't have social security being called Ponzi schemes, Medicaid being gutted, veterans being fired, 401ks and pensions taking.
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By the way, Trump and JD Vance have fired more veterans than any administration in the history of the United States. And one of the things I noticed, I'm not sure if you've noticed it as well, and we see this a lot in authoritarian regimes, it's a phenomenon called authoritarian mirroring, where people in the cult try to make themselves look like their authoritarian leader.
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And while Americans are suffering, while Americans pensions and retirement and 401ks are now in the gutter, Donald Trump is having the time of his life. Apparently he posted the following. I just won the golf club championship, probably my last at Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach County, Florida. Such a great honor. The awards dinner is tonight at the club.
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So I just noticed that like when Dr. Oz was at a hearing recently where he refused to say that he won't totally get rid of Medicaid, He kind of looked just like Trump. Same hair, same tan face. He dyed his face Trump. And by the way, did you catch MAGA Mike Johnson over the past day or two in the disastrous appearances he made on the weekend shows? He had the crazy Botox going.
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He dyed his face Trump also. He's got the weird tan. And he was like, the grownups are back in town and we're going to take control of this economy. We've got it all figured out. Play this clip.
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Oh, really, Megan Mike Johnson? Because let's hear from Scott Besant, Donald Trump's treasury secretary, who literally bought himself a home in Charleston, South Carolina, that is valued at about $23 million. That looks like Barbie's mansion, this pink, massive mansion valued at $22 million. This guy is worth half a billion, maybe a billion dollars. And he's there.
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He shows up on all the weekend shows lecturing people about, oh, Americans don't care about their TVs. Americans don't care about these products and lower products. Here's what Donald Trump's treasury secretary has to say. Here, play this clip.
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Do you acknowledge? I mean, the level of arrogance, the level of arrogance there. Also, you had Elon Musk mocking the fact that he's basically fired almost everybody at Voice of America. And this is what he says. He calls it dope. And he goes, while winding down this global government propaganda agency. It has temporarily been renamed the Department of Propaganda Everywhere.
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Dope, much more accurate name. And the new logo is a big improvement. I mean, just the cruelty every day with these folks. And also, I reported this over the weekend. I'm doing a whole other video on this as well. But a federal judge blocked
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Donald Trump's invocation of war powers under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, where Trump said he was immediately declaring certain people as basically enemy war combatants, as foreign combatants who are Venezuelans, who he claims are gang members. As part of a hybrid war, he says that Venezuela is declared war, so he must act as a war president.
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And this act, Alien Enemies Act, had only been invoked 1798, since 1789 in the War of 1812, World War I and World War II. The federal judge said, don't do any deportations under this until we have briefing and we assess this issue. But the Trump regime seems to have ignored that order.
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I want to thank the wonderful golf staff and all of the many fantastic golfers that participated in the event. He spells it wrong. I think he meant event. Such fun. Can you say Kim Jong-un awarding himself? victories of his own tournaments and celebrating while Americans suffer.
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They sent a group of Venezuelans, about 200 people or so, to El Salvador to the President Bukele's concentration camps there. And I want to make my point very clear, which is that gang members, people who are engaged in horrific crimes, need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They should go to jail. But we have laws on the books in the United States. The U.S.
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has one of the highest incarceration rates in the entire world. You know which one has a higher one? El Salvador, which incarceration rate is about 1,800 people are incarcerated for every 100,000 people there. By the way, about 25% of people in El Salvador or more, maybe it's like 28%. are impoverished. About 8.8% are extremely impoverished.
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The entire GDP of El Salvador, which Trump and Musk and the regime wants to emulate, their entire GDP is like $35 billion. So as Marco Rubio and Trump praises El Salvador and attacks
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Canada, the European Union, UK, Australia, and other places, isn't it notable that they admire the places like El Salvador and Argentina and North Korea and Russia where the economies are in the gutter and people are living in poverty? I just find that notable.
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And so Donald Trump has declared that people should not get any due process if he declares you a gang member, he sends you over there, and he made this horrible propaganda video with Bukele where he shaved these people's heads.
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And again, I have no sympathy for people who are gang members who engage in violent crimes at all, but I do have sympathy for the concept of due process in the United States under our constitution. A lot of these people say they're not gang members. I just wanted to flag that. I'm going to do a whole other video on that.
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But I think it's important that I discuss this war powers and I'm going to do a whole other video. So as America is suffering, Donald Trump's declaring that there's a war and he should have war powers. And just like Kim Jong-un, he's saying that he won his own golf championship while in the background they're doing a crocodile Birkin bag challenge.
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pink color, I don't know, Playland festivities where they're celebrating half a million dollar handbags and purses and pocketbooks that they're buying or they're giving out to people. Do you see what's going on there? And then you have corporate media saying Trump's polls are soaring when they're absolutely not soaring at all. Anyway, we'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe.
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This morning, Donald Trump posted this photo of Argentina's leader, Javier Millay, with this quote attributed to Millay. If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity. Well, let's talk about stupidity. First, the stupidity of this post because the breaking news is that Javier Millay
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This private project will be dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economy by funding small Argentine businesses and startups. The world wants to invest in Argentina. Dollar sign, Libra. Long live freedom. Damn it. Dollar sign, Libra. And then this, remember how Donald Trump pumped his coin? How Smolania pumped her meme coin? This was the meme coin. Here's a recap of what went down.
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Here's the following that happened over this past weekend. Javier Millay promoted dollar sign Libra in that tweet Friday, said it was to stimulate Argentina's economy. It rose to a $4.4 billion market cap, then collapsed 95%. He has since deleted the tweet. Now Malay could face impeachment trial. So that happened over the weekend, and Donald Trump is posting the Malay image today.
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That's kind of why you have to say, is it stupid? Is it reckless? Or does Donald Trump just want to destroy everything by promoting this? Now, even Malay is deleting the post, but Donald Trump is promoting Malay? Here's someone who writes, Argentinian President Javier Millet promoted the Libra shit coin in a now deleted tweet claiming it would stimulate growth in the country.
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is currently embroiled in a massive scandal for a crypto pump and dump scheme with a coin known as libra that crashed it was a massive rug pull that has led to lots of people in argentina and elsewhere losing a lot of money And it was advertised as a get-rich-quick scheme for Argentina. Sound familiar?
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Shortly after its promotion, more than $4.4 billion in the market cap was wiped out. The coin was created by the same group behind the Smolania coin. This is a good recap of everything as well. Argentinian President Javier Millay faces impeachment now over the crypto fraud allegations.
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On February 14th, Millay promoted the meme coin Libra on X, claiming it would boost Argentina's economy, small businesses and startups. The coin's market cap soared to $4.5 billion, reaching a peak price of $4.50, only to crash to $0.50 within minutes.
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Crypto analysts suspect Libra was a pump and dump scam where developers cashed out at the peak, pocketing around $87 million while investors lost everything. A few hours later, Millay deleted the post and denied involvement, saying he shared the project like any other entrepreneur's initiative. But investors didn't buy his explanation.
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Former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner accused him of misleading thousands of people who trusted him with millions. Argentina's anti-corruption office launched an investigation and the financial technology chamber labeled Libra a likely scam.
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So here's the guy Hayden Davis right here who goes, no, I'm Millay's advisor.
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And here was Javier Millay trying to distance himself from all of this. A few hours ago, I posted a tweet like so many other countless times supporting a supposed private venture that I obviously have no connection with. I was not aware of the details of the project. And after becoming informed, I decided not to continue giving it.
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That's why I deleted the tweet to the filthy rats who are trying to take advantage of the situation and cause harm. I want to say that every day they confirm how despicable these politicians are and they increase our conviction to kick out their asses. Okay. Do you get a sense why this guy is beloved by MAGA, this Javier Millay? He's a MAGA scammer. He's built in their style.
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And then he plays the victim of it all. Let me share this with you. This is actually a good interview over here. And here is this Hayden Davis guy again. Let me show you two. Again, Kelsier Ventures, which worked on the Smolania coin.
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Because the same group, Kelsier Ventures, that made this meme coin or was involved in this meme coin, that Javier Millay is now embroiled in this scandal. that are leading to potential charges against him, massive lawsuits, and possible impeachment. Well, that group, Kelsier Ventures, they were also involved, it appears, in the Melania meme coin.
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I mean, again, you're talking about, let me just show you a longer clip of that guy, Hayden Davis. This is the video he made about his connection to the coin. Play this clip.
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Lawyers in Argentina have now filed fraud charges against President Javier Millay for promoting this cryptocurrency, which quickly collapsed. Libra token key figure Hayden Davis, though, he denies it's a rug pull. He blames this was just a plan gone wrong. Davis also admitted to being a part of the Smolania meme coin launch, but asserted that his team did not profit off of it. Okay, sure.
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So let's talk about these other meme coins, the official Trump coin and the Smolania coin. How are those coins doing right now? Let's take a look right here. The official Trump coin down, what, the last month, 45%. At one point it was $75 and now it's $17.25. It's lost massive amounts of market cap. There are so many people who have lost their life savings on Donald Trump's meme coin.
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Oh, that's down 82% over this past month. So a total rug pull, it seems, with the Smolania coin right there. But, you know, there you have it. I think here's the photo. Here's a video of a Malay and Trump here play this clip.
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You know, and look, you know, there is a reason that birds of a feather flock together. And I mean, just think about it. With this news breaking, with all the stuff about Javier Millet on President's Day, does Donald Trump make any, you know, well, what was Donald Trump posting on President's Day? He was posting his mugshot. That's what Donald Trump posted on President's Day.
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The S, remember, Melania, dollar sign, Melania, and that meme coin crashed the same way the dollar sign Trump meme coin also appeared to be a rug pull, and that coin crashed, although that wasn't Kelsier Ventures, but that was a Solano coin, but that crashed. Do you see a pattern here? Well, let's talk about what is happening here. By the way, here's the guy who is Javier Millay's advisor.
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Photos of his mugshot. And then he wanted everybody to see that his mugshot was also in the Oval Office. And then Donald Trump goes, they're not after me. They're after you. I'm just standing in the way. And then he shows that his mugshot's in the Oval Office. It's the same rhetoric. It's the same language.
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And as I've always said, these people, their corruption, which is peak, is matched by their incompetence as well. These are just bad. These are bad people. Like, again... I know we actually have a wide variety of viewers here who aren't just like Democrats and liberals and progressives and people who aren't all that political. Look, these are just bad people who are ripping you off, okay?
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Just think about the scam with the budget. Just look at the American budget, okay? $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires. $4.5 trillion in tax cuts while they gut $880 billion of your Medicaid, $250 billion cut for farmers, $350 billion cut for education. There's nothing about no tax on tips, nothing about about no tax on overtime, nothing about no tax on social security. They just lie.
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They're liars. They lie to you about everything. And then Donald Trump takes the beast, the motorcade, and goes around in the Daytona 500 and then uses our symbols. He goes, yeah, America, yeah, while he's screwing you over and just lying to you about everything. It's all a lie. Just think about it. Malay, Trump, all these freaking people. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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And this is the group that worked with Smolani allegedly as well. This guy's name is Hayden Davis. Just take a look at this guy. I'm gonna show you his video in a bit where he goes, I'm Javier Millay's advisor. Well, here's the post that Javier Millay made. Here was the pump that was done. Javier Millay posted, Liberal Argentina grows.
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america's psychopathic and cognitively addled president donald trump just posted the following on the morning of president's day it's his mug shot side by side with his official white house portrait and then his president's day message is quote they're not after me they're after you
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So if you're on Donald Trump's email list, you got that message. I subscribe so you don't have to. And here's what it says. Present from Trump. Just released. This is my inaugural swearing in photo. Signed. And I only signed a few of these. So this present is only going to a few of my most loyal supporters. And that's you. I can only hold on to your signed swearing in photo until midnight.
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So please claim yours ASAP before someone else grabs the one I have on hold for you. Take a look at some other news that Donald Trump received this morning. Donald Trump learned that there was some major trouble in his polling numbers, which are going down, down, down. Are voters feeling exhausted after just three weeks of Trump 2.0? The answer seems to be absolutely yes.
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In a New Economist YouGov poll, Donald Trump has a 46% approval rating, while 48% of those polled disapprove of the job that he is doing, and he is losing younger American support very quickly. Two weeks ago, 50% of adults under 30 had a favorable opinion, while 46% had an unfavorable opinion. Today, only 39 percent have a favorable opinion and 57 percent have an unfavorable opinion right there.
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i'm just standing in the way happy president's day that's the official message from donald trump on president's day from the official white house account it says happy president's day mr president he then wishes himself happy president's day donald trump then posts a photograph from the white house account which shows that his mug shot is hanging on the wall right outside the oval office you see it right there and i've showed you that in other photos when world
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And you may be going, hey, that's still pretty high, though, after all of the disaster that he has caused. And I would say I absolutely agree with you, although this is the honeymoon phase in America. After you win, your approval should be super high. I mean, Biden's was in the high 60s. Obama's was in the mid to high 70s. Go back to Clinton, George W. Bush. Go back to Obama.
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Go back to, you know, go back to anyone in recent history other than the first Trump administration. And you're supposed to be super high approval ratings at this stage. Because why? Because while Donald Trump is doing laps and declaring victory while circling at the NASCAR track, he is not lowering the prices. And he's basically given up on that. Prices are going up. Housing is less affordable.
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Egg prices have never been higher. Gas prices are going up. There's chaos and havoc in the international front. Donald Trump has cut out Europe. And Ukraine from negotiations with Russia and Donald Trump, even though he said he was going to bring Zelensky and Putin into a room and they were going to cut a deal in 24 hours, that didn't happen.
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And now Donald Trump's falling right into the trap of Vladimir Putin and Putin's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. And so Trump's having Rubio negotiate directly tomorrow with Lavrov with cutting Europe out. Europe, meanwhile, is having an emergency meeting today in France. Even Keir Starmer from the UK is going to be there.
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And Europe's talking about a common defense plan in response to Donald Trump. Just remember, Donald Trump said that when he wins, he will immediately bring down the prices starting day one.
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Well, that was a lie. And here, Donald Trump said on day one, he would have peace in Ukraine. I just want to bring out the receipts for you right now. Here, play this clip.
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But no, what's Donald Trump doing instead? He's just making posts about himself over and over again. Donald Trump posts all this like propaganda stuff from like wacko right-wing media like this. This is the actual headline that he's reposting. After just 17 frenetic days, Trump has already delivered a big part of his agenda. After 17 frenetic days, he's already delivered. First off,
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It's more than 17 days. That's what I say. This guy's cognitively addled. It's been more than 17 days. So he's reposting this article. that he delivered his agenda? What agenda? What agenda? To raise the prices? To make the world less stable? And to be Putin's you-know-what?
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Leaders and dignitaries now show up in the White House. They are reminded once again that there is a criminal and a felon resigning in that Oval Office, and Donald Trump wants to brag that he is a gangster, but he looks so utterly weak and utterly pathetic.
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But folks, it's okay, because Donald Trump's pick to be the next FBI director is posting on Trump's social media platform right underneath Donald Trump's post. Kash Patel, Trump's pick to be the FBI director, he's selling right here Clover and Kennedy t-shirts. He's selling based T-shirts, the based apparel brand being sold by Cash Patel.
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Donald Trump then reposts Javier Millay, the leader of Argentina, where they have about a 54 percent poverty rate. Let me repeat that 54 percent poverty rate. which I assume Donald Trump wants for the United States. And here's what Milley says. If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.
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I mean, all I know is that you have a 54% poverty rate right there, right now in Argentina. And I do not want a 54% poverty rate in the United States. I don't know. I preferred when President Biden was creating 16.4 million jobs, having the lowest unemployment in American history, never a single month where jobs were lost, bringing inflation under control better than any nation ever.
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Essentially, in the entire world, 40,000 infrastructure projects going up, bringing the semiconductor industry here, having things like the PACT Act that actually helped veterans. Unlike Donald Trump, who's taking away veteran services and even limiting services like the hotline, the crisis hotline for veterans. veterans and other veteran services.
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By the way, he's cutting them in red states and blue states veteran services. And here's what we learned as well. The Trump administration was firing several hundred FAA probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union.
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the move comes not even three weeks since the deadly midair collision over washington dc i feel like there's been a plane crash now like every week or every other week but folks even as they are firing some of the most competent and qualified people from the faa and it's hard to retain employees don't worry because the secretary of transportation sean duffy he's got a plan he says
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He goes, America deserves safe, state of the art travel. And President Trump has ordered that I deliver a new world class air traffic control system that will be the envy of the world. To do that, I need advice from the brightest minds in America. I'm asking for help from any high tech American developer or company. That is willing to give back to our country.
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As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, "...so the first day after a major storm disaster in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, which was yesterday," with fatalities and destruction across multiple states. What did Donald Trump do? He went to a car race in Florida and had his motorcade go around in circles on the track.
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Tomorrow, members of Elon Musk's SpaceX team will be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in VA to get a firsthand look at the current systems. So he's inviting Elon and then he's just sending out what a mass notice to everybody. Meanwhile, Donald Trump at Daytona using his grandkids as props. As I wrote, new fascism hack unlocked.
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kids and grandkids as props to which i was reminded that's an old fascism hack right there oh donald trump selling or people selling in his name image and likeness whiskey glasses patriots for america get your trump whiskey glasses now donald trump emailing the following elon musk is dark maga elon musk is dark maga ben are you ready to join him and are you ready to go dark maga
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I've been flooded with requests for my dark MAGA hat ever since Elon wore one on stage. Now even he decided to wear it when he came to visit me in the Oval Office. We'll keep you posted with more. As I said earlier, Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio are set to meet tomorrow. Separately, Europe's holding that emergency meeting in Paris today amid concerns that they're being frozen out of the deal.
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Sergei Lavrov, a Russian foreign minister, says he sees no role for Europe at the table, adding that there will be no talk with Marco Rubio about any territorial concessions to Ukraine. In other words, let's be clear, giving Ukraine its land back, around 20% of which is controlled by Russian forces.
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So what seems to be taking place in Saudi Arabia tomorrow is exactly what Donald Trump did with Mike Pompeo and the Taliban, but at a grander scale. Remember, Trump and the Taliban negotiated directly. They cut out the Afghan government. Trump had the Taliban prisoners released. Afghan government got nothing.
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Taliban took over Afghanistan and then Trump left the entire place in chaos, which was, by the way.
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a big win for russia donald trump wants to cut europe and ukraine out of the negotiations with putin and he wants to give putin basically everything so we'll keep you posted every step of the way here but i wanted to give you all of those facts hit subscribe let's get to four million subscribers and thank you for we're at four million let's get to five million subscribers thank you for helping us get to four million let's get to five thanks for watching
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We are now in the second day after that major disaster with fatalities. Trump is playing golf in Florida. He's made dozens of posts about himself this morning and yesterday during all of this time while he's vacationing and not one word about the disaster. But he is sending emails like this to his supporters. I have a present for Ben.
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A secret meeting between an ABC executive and Donald Trump's team seems to have precipitated the awful settlement whereby ABC engaged in a total capitulation, giving Donald Trump $15 million arising out of a defamation lawsuit. Donald Trump filed a $15 million to go to a future presidential library of Donald Trump's and also ABC and Disney agreeing to pay, Disney's the parent company,
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agreeing to pay Donald Trump's attorney's fees and costs and issue a written apology. More on that in a bit. Let's talk about the secret meeting that took place last week, the Monday before ultimately that settlement took place that following Saturday. Here's what's being reported and ABC and Trump's team want us to believe, oh, they weren't discussing the settlement at that point in time.
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All right, sure. Add insult to injury and try to treat us all like we're stupid. That's what corporate media thinks about us anyway. Here's what we're learning from the New York Times and reporter Michael Greinbaum. Deborah O'Connell, who oversees ABC News, dined with Susie Wiles in Palm Beach on Monday, per two people briefed.
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Greinbaum goes on to say in his report, the meeting was part of a visit by ABC News execs to meet with the Trump transition team. Another person familiar says the purpose was to talk transition, not the defamation case. Okay, sure, we're supposed to believe that the ABC News exec, who shortly thereafter settles for $15 million to a future Trump presidential library,
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When the ABC News exec is going to Palm Beach to meet with Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, to kiss the ring to obey in advance. Oh, I'm sure they didn't talk about that settlement. Oh, I'm sure that's not what happened. But what if I told you this?
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that actually all of this, all of what you're seeing now with Mika and Joe from MSNBC kissing the ring at Mar-a-Lago, with Zuckerberg going there, with all of these people showing up at Mar-a-Lago, Tim Cook from Apple, what if I told you that this was all part of a broader plan that we had reported. And frankly, Politico had wrote about who was there.
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They didn't talk about the conspiracy that was taking place. Well, I don't want to even use the term conspiracy because that makes it seem like a conspiracy theory. Just what actually was happening, the collusion that was going on in front of all of our eyes back during another secret meeting in Milwaukee on August 23rd, 2023.
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right around the time when there was a Republican primary debate, which Donald Trump refused to participate in, but Do you remember our reporting back from August 23rd of 2023? It was after Politico wrote the following in its Politico playbook. There was a secret meeting that took place at a restaurant at a steakhouse in Milwaukee. Super fancy steakhouse.
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The Trump team invites all of the media there, buys them steak. gives them all of this lavish stuff right there. They were plotting, they were planning, they were whining and dining and devising this then. Here it is, August 23rd, 2023, spotted in Milwaukee. Team Trump whining and dining with a number of top reporters at a steakhouse called Rare and passing out pudding snacks.
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A swipe at Ron DeSantis' pudding finger story. as well as debate bingo cards to troll the Florida governor. Squares included dismisses polls, wipes not, red ears, de-Santis, de-Santis, flip-flops on social security again, woke and pudding mentions. See the pictures here and here. So who was at this meeting? Reporters, Dana Bash,
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Shane Goldmaker, Kristen Welker, Bob Costa, Finn Gomez, Dasha Burns, Rachel Scott, Rick Klein, Josh Dawsey, Rob Crilley, Mario Parker, and David Chalian. Basically, all of the top reporters and execs from all of the major networks meeting, colluding. in front of our eyes at a fancy five-star steakhouse called Rare in Milwaukee.
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And they were there with Chris LaCivita, one of Donald Trump's campaign managers, and Jason Miller, and Stephen Chung. Politico goes, we're assured. the reporters picked up their own tabs. Isn't it funny how the people we love the most are often the hardest to shop for? You know what I mean. Luckily, there's one gift that everyone on your list and my list is sure to enjoy.
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That's A-U-R-A frames.com. Promo code Midas, M-E-I-D-A-S. This deal is exclusive to listeners of the Midas Touch podcast. So get yours now in time for the holidays. Terms and conditions apply. One more time, that's AuraFrames, A-U-R-A-Frames.com, and then use the promo code Midas at checkout. Sure, well, that's what they're being reporting, that they were picking up their own tabs there.
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I'm sure that's what was going on. and across the restaurant, feet away, members of Team DeSantis. In other words, the media believed the cool table was with Donald Trump and they were talking and plotting and doing everything right there in front of our eyes.
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By the way, now that we know about this meeting between Deborah O'Connell, who oversees ABC News, a few days later, five days later, a $15 million settlement happens. I wonder how the people who work, what are the employees at ABC, what do they think about this, right? Because you know, there have been budget cuts and layoffs and things like this.
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Well, according to Yashar Ali, ABC News talent and staff that he's been talking to over the past few hours are stunned and furious about the settlement. Their anger primarily stems from the fact that they have faced repeated budget and compensation cuts in recent years, experienced layoffs, and yet the network even if insurance paid it, has paid this huge sum of money to settle this matter.
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And I'm not quite sure that insurance paid it because why would insurance pay it if they're classifying it as a political donation to a future library, which sounds like a tax deduction to me or a tax write-off to me. And often if you're admitting to engaging in defamation and issuing taxes, an apology like that publicly.
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Insurance doesn't necessarily cover intentional acts where you're apologizing for what you did like that. But you know what's interesting here? Look, it's true. Significant layoffs have hit ABC News. For example, $19 million in cuts were made to Good Morning America last year. Think about that.
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19 million in cuts, people lost their job, dozens of people get fired, and all of that money that would have saved those jobs was now given to a Trump presidential, a future Trump presidential library. So I understand that, but it's still, when you think about it, the ABC News and Talent, what made them most pissed
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is the compensation issue and not the obeying in advance to authoritarianism issue, because to me, that's the bigger issue right here. I mean, look, if you're talent, if you're a journalist, I understand your compensation is important, and I understand how frustrating it must be if your company's reducing it, but don't you want your integrity first? more than anything here.
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I mean, just think about it over here. When you have Mark Zuckerberg, who Donald Trump has called, you know, I'm coming after you, Zuckerbucks. And Trump's called him all these names standing there at Mar-a-Lago next to Donald Trump. By the way, Tim Cook of Apple went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring as well. Joe and Mika, we've reported, I just realized this now, in that political playbook report.
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Guess who it's brought to you by? Zuckerberg, it's brought to you by Meta, The signs, the stamps of the oligarchy all staring us in the face. But remember all the statements that Donald Trump would make about the media and that he would post over and over again during the election and over the past four years and when he was in office. The media is the enemy of the people.
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The media is the enemy of the people. These long all caps. They're almost all dishonest and corrupt, but Comcast, with its one-sided vicious coverage by NBC News, in particular MSDNC, often correctly referred to as MSDNC, Democratic National Committee, should be investigated for country-threatening treason. They're the enemy of the people. Fuck, the fake news is the enemy of the people.
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Posting memes like this of the news networks holding Vice President Kamala Harris up and saying enemy of the people. Post after post, enemy of the people. So all you gotta do is go on social media, call people enemy of the people, just threaten the media, and the fourth estate, boom! Folds like that, folds like that. And you see talent, they're worried about compensation over integrity.
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You've got the corporations, the oligarchical corporations that run these media networks want to kiss the ring. It's all a money grab, it's a race for money. Put your integrity first over all of this. You could have integrity and make money too. And if they come after you, if they go after you, so be it. That's life, stand up for yourself.
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But no, secret meetings at lavish steakhouses behind our backs, focusing on their bottom line, not the bottom line of our democracy. And you see it right there. You can go and look at the hot take that I did, you know, about the settlement where I've been very critical of this settlement.
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You know, just the worst settlement that makes zero sense, in my opinion, other than if you're kissing the ring. Go watch that. The Legal AF I did, I did another video about it that I'll post. Go to the Substack. I wrote a whole article. I call it Shame on You, ABC. Go to MidasPlus.com or just go – that will take you to our Substack or just go on Substack and then take a look at –
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search Midas Touch on Substack and then look for it and you'll see the article I did on it where I'm very critical and I break down why the settlement legally makes absolutely no sense. If you're ABC, you had Donald Trump cornered, in my opinion, in that litigation. Trump was set to have his deposition taken this week.
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It would have been under oath, where Donald Trump's whole position would be, you defamed me because you used the word rape, when in fact a jury found me liable for sexual assault. In other words, using a finger to do digital penetration without consent versus genitals. And Donald Trump says, therefore, that defamed me and harmed my reputation and character.
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That was the thrust of Donald Trump's case. And you settle that case before Trump's deposition? Like it literally is inexplicable. Go look at the broader recap that I do on it. I think you'll appreciate it. Anyway, thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Fortunately, we still have this platform here on YouTube and at the Midas Touch Network. to tell the truth, and we're going to use our voices loudly and proudly here. So let's use the United States Post Office as our first example, and then I'll show you some other examples of what's going on here.
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So who is the Postmaster General of the Postal Service who has utterly destroyed its ability to function? Oh yeah, it's a guy named Louis DeJoy. Louis DeJoy was appointed by Donald Trump, and back in May of 2020, When Donald Trump made that appointment, we and others were calling that out.
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We were saying, look, Louis DeJoy has never worked for the United States Postal Service before, but he is or at that time was an investor in numerous entities and contracting companies that competed directly with the United States Postal Service. In fact, Louis DeJoy's entire job was basically to compete with and bring down the United States Postal Service before becoming the postmaster general.
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We discussed that and what did he do as soon as he got that job? Oh, what were his qualifications other than wanting to destroy the entity he would lead? Well, he was one of Donald Trump's biggest donors. Surprise, surprise. Donated a lot of money, contributed a lot of money to Donald Trump. So what does he do when he takes over? He systematically rips it apart from within.
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Frankly, even Republicans have called out the way Louis DeJoy has handled the Postal Service. But that's not a quirk. That was the actual purpose of it, and it was the purpose to do that, to then privatize it, and then to hand it out as a favor to one of the oligarchs who show up at Mar-a-Lago and kiss the ring.
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I wonder, are people like Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg and Tim Cook and others who go to Mar-a-Lago, give $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration, are they lining up and trying to position themselves, for example, to be a privatized version of a postmaster general and to take a billion dollar contract or more as a favor? The way it exists, for example,
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in oligarchical countries like authoritarian countries like Russia. Is that one of the things that is taking place? So you take a look, for example, at the post service where Trump's guy destroyed the post service from within, used that as pretext to privatize, hand it over to the oligarchy, let the oligarchy run it and profit from it and exploit we the people.
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But take another example of it, right? The IRS. Look, nobody likes the IRS. Nobody likes the time when they have to go and pay taxes. But we all recognize that's something that we just do. And we want the IRS to be efficient and to go about its job correctly. And we don't want the decamillionaires and billionaires to cheat on their taxes.
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and pay less in taxes, not just even as a percentage, but less actual dollar for dollar in taxes than a teacher, a bus driver, a construction worker. And that's what's going on as the very wealthy create all of these tax shelters and hide their money overseas and do all of that.
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The MAGA Republicans work for the oligarchs, so they want to help the billionaires do that and break down and crush the IRS. So President Biden tries to hire more people at the IRS. Republicans say, oh, all these people are going to knock on your doors. The IRS is coming for you, you, you. which is not what actually happened at all. The efficiency of the IRS increased greatly.
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In addition, the new IRS commissioner who was hired by President Biden and picked by Biden, he's a bipartisan guy as well, just coincidentally went to my high school many years before I graduated. He graduated many years before that. And then they created efficient systems like free tax filing online so people don't have to use
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software or go to like super pricey accountants if they can't afford it or they don't want to because there's an efficient online system. Think about that, bringing technology to bear on government. One of the things that the IRS also did was improve the call time.
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So if you had an issue with the IRS, you could resolve that right away, get a hold of an IRS agent or operator right away, fix things, deal with things because people were frustrated that You couldn't even get a hold of someone while they were making demands. The Biden administration fixed that. But take a look. Who does Trump bring in to run the IRS?
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A former Congress member named Billy Goode and former Congress member Billy Goode's job before being at the IRS was he was a sorry, Billy Long. Billy good, Billy bad, Billy Long. Billy Long's job was a member of Congress, MAGA Republican. And one of the things that his whole purpose was is abolish the IRS and replace income taxes with a 23% sales tax. That was MAGA Republican, Billy Long.
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So Trump is gonna fire a guy at the IRS now who's pretty efficient in doing what he, the guy's name is Danny Werfel, pretty efficient operator running the IRS efficiently. No one likes the IRS, but he's running the entity efficiently. Trump's gonna fire that guy and replace him with Billy Long, who wants to abolish the entity that he's now going to lead.
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Also, you've got MAGA Republicans reaching out to Donald Trump and saying, look, you need to get rid of On day one, the direct tax filing system, because TurboTax, which is owned by Intuit, is lobbying the MAGA Republicans to stop this free tax filing system so that it could be always done with private software and private hands, because this is hurting the bottom line for Intuit.
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By the way, if you want to use TurboTax and Intuit, great. It's a good software. No one's saying don't use. But at the same time, it's great that the government is creating an efficient way for people to do the same task for free themselves online and save themselves some money. Not a bad thing. MAGA Republicans want to stop that because they want people to be pissed off and hate government.
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And here's where the media oligarchy comes into place because they don't report on any of this crap. So people are frustrated at things. They're angry, they're pissed, but they don't know where to vent it. And so they're being told by Fox to vent it at the Democrats, vent it at Deep State, vent it at these people. Here's who's doing it to you. Trans people, migrants are doing it to you.
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Libs are doing it to you. And people start to believe that. Then corporate media in general doesn't report on these things. So you have this loop. You have this cycle taking place. Now, why? Who is it internationally that Donald Trump and his team looks up to? Who are some of the main people? Vladimir Putin, right? Who else?
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Viktor Orban, who's Vladimir Putin's stooge, who is the authoritarian leader of Hungary, who visits Trump frequently at Mar-a-Lago, right? Viktor Orban of the Hungary, the entire GDP is under $200 billion a year. That's less than some American corporations. So why are you looking up to a country who had like 17 to 20% inflation and its entire GDP is $200 billion? Like, think about that.
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It is now being reported that Donald Trump wants to privatize the United States Postal Service. These reports don't really cite to the United States Constitution, which says that Donald Trump couldn't do that on his own by way of an executive order. Congress has the authority and is the only entity charged with the authority to regulate the post office.
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Who does MAGA attack? California, which would have like the fourth largest GDP, not in the United States of any country. So attack California, which is funding the United States, the fourth largest GDP. If California were to be a country in the world, attack California. But let's prop up The new Argentinian leader, Javier Millet, right? They love that guy, Javier Millet. Why?
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He poses for photos with chainsaws. He literally says, his quote is, my contempt for the state is infinite, meaning rip down everything, rip down all these regulations, rip it all down, tear it down, and prop it up with an authoritarian style austerity measures where people are kept down. Right. Just look at Javier Millet's Argentina right now. This is objective data right now.
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The brutal austerity measures has deepened Argentina's recession, with consumer spending falling 20% in the past year and poverty rates soaring to a two-decade high of 52.9% in the second half of last year. So the Argentinian austerity measures have led to poverty rates soaring to 52.9%. Think about that. That is who Trump wants to bring here. Now you go, Ben, back that up with facts.
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You say Midas touches fact base, back it up. Okay. Well, here's Vivek Ramaswamy who runs the Doge, which is in charge of the Trump austerity measures. imposing Trump austerity measures on us. Vivek Ramaswamy says the following, the American version is called Doge. In response to somebody saying, at Mar-a-Lago last week, I spoke to Javier Millay.
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He's a leader on a mission to free his country from decades of socialism and mismanagement. And Vivek Ramaswamy goes, the American version is called Doge. Let's be very clear under President Biden, 16.1 million new jobs have been created. That's fact one. Our GDP is the fastest growing GDP basically in the world. Our inflation is like one of the lowest inflation in the world right now.
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Unemployment is at an all time low. We're energy independent, more oil drilling under Biden than under Donald Trump. Our stock market is up 50% under Biden than it was under Donald Trump. 40,000 new infrastructure projects created under President Biden. So you take all of those facts, but they're saying the guy who goes, my contempt for the state is infinite.
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And I've described this before on a Substack post at MidasPlus.com as the authoritarian loop is what I call it.
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I call it the authoritarian loop, which is how is it that in a state like Oklahoma, which is 49th in health, that's not a good stat to be like almost last, 49th in wealth, 49th in education, or close to that, you know, the worst stats in health, wealth, education, standard of living, all horrible. but they vote red, they vote Republican, all of like, why wouldn't they go, huh?
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If we're last in everything, maybe we'd wanna get better. Maybe it's the people who are running this that are keeping us down. In contrast, a state like Massachusetts, one of the top in wealth, health, education, standard of living, they were basically voted totally blue. So how do you see this disparity here kind of happening? And I've described that as the authoritarian loop.
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So it would require a bill to be introduced and that bill to become a law. But corporate media will propagate Donald Trump's wannabe authoritarian propaganda. But there's a broader issue that I think we should discuss here with Donald Trump saying he wants to privatize the Post Service, citing financial losses.
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We see this, for example, in authoritarian countries where if you can train your people to believe they're worthless, if you take away their education, if you take away their healthcare, if you take away their rights, if you take away their freedoms, if you take all of that away, And then you start handing out breadcrumbs. When people feel worthless, they accept the breadcrumbs.
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And then, you know, you come in as the authoritarian, I alone will fix it. You create the boogeyman. You have this being pumped out on the media. And then you say, I'm going to fix all the things where you're the arsonist.
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you know that's one of the things here that i always talk about like if you want to know the source of inflation where do you think it came from trump added eight trillion dollars in debt the most ever uh you had trump mismanaging coven mismanaging supply lines uh printing money recklessly the ppp program that he oversaw gave money to billy to millionaires printing money let millionaires get their debt forgiven but how dare you ever forgive the debt of students who are
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under an economic cap threshold as well so you do all of those things that creates inflation that creates the economic problems that have to be solved but the trick is and the right wing is great at this trick and this is this goes back to the post service the irs all of this thing they become the arsonist you break it down You burn it down.
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And then when the firefighters come in, you then blame the firefighters. The oligarchy tries to get their bailout on the way out. But then you blame the firefighters and you call them the arsonists. That's the sleight of hand. That's the trick. You call the firefighters the arsonists. You make the people believe that. And then the people reelect the arsonists back into power to burn it down again.
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And we have this authoritarian loop and this cycle that's taking place that we need to finally once and for all break out of. That's what's going on. How do we break out of it? We have to connect. We have to get these messages out there. One of the things that we're trying to do here with this YouTube channel is get the message out. We're hoping we do that, but we'll see. We're doing our best.
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Donald Trump and the MAGA playbook is to destroy the agencies, to destroy the institutions, and then use their own destruction as a pretext for privatization and then enriching their fellow oligarchs. end blaming Democrats or deep state or whoever, and then using those oligarchs like those who control Fox and other corporate media to propagate the lie.
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A member for Timmons, James Bates.
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There he is once again. That's Member of Parliament Charlie Angus, just speaking truth to power right there. He was calling out the Conservative Party in Canada for getting an endorsement by Alex Jones. That's how you do it. I frankly would like to see more of that combativeness style in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. which you see there in the House of Commons.
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Let me just, by the way, that was from a few months back. And of course, we've been profiling Charlie Angus here. I did a one-on-one interview with him after we did a report on his previous House of Commons speech where he appealed to Canadians' pride in their country and said, do not let Donald Trump bully us here in Canada.
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Do not let America export disinformation and lies and authoritarianism here in Canada. And I saw that speech that Angus gave a few days back. It's getting close to 2 million views here on our YouTube channel. What you just saw there was another House of Commons speech by him recently that, again, I wanted to applaud and highlight.
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because that's the type of courage I'd like to actually see from politicians right here in the United States. Now, one of the factors that Charlie Angus and I talked about that is corrupting, eroding, destroying our politics here in the United States, which is not the case in Canada, and I think it's important
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to have this international perspective on things is that number one, they don't have big money in their politics. People who run for their congressional races, their version to become members of parliament in their communities, It's like $100,000 at most. There's not huge billionaires funding campaigns. There's no political action committees there. That's number one.
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Number two, their Supreme Court is not politicized. They are kind of nonpartisan people who are focused on the interests of Canada. Watch how Charlie Angus describes the contrast between those bulwarks that preserve democracy in Canada and preserve their system there and stop the authoritarian encroachment as compared to what we have in the United States. Watch this.
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Now, there was another part of the interview that I think is important. It's what I say here all the time on the Midas Touch Network, that the threat of authoritarianism is international in its scope.
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And to combat it, the pro-democracy community, we all need to be international in our scope because these authoritarians, regardless of what their ideology is, their ideology they recognized is a mere pretext for what they truly care about as authoritarians, which is their wealth. The oligarchy, right?
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So whether you are an authoritarian wannabe in the US, whether you're Putin, whether you're Kim Jong-un, whether you're President Xi in China, whatever it is, ultimately at the end of the day, it's power and wealth. And the ideology is a subterfuge that is used by these authoritarian leaders as a way to kind of control the people.
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So they go to themselves, hey, let's all unite at the money, wealth, power level and repress the people. Let's join together. So we need to combat that with a pro-democracy movement of the people. Here, watch this.
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You know, and then finally I asked a member of parliament, Charlie Angus, about what's your message to the people of Canada as they're hearing this horrible stuff from the United States? And he's like, think about what our ancestors did. Think about what our elders did for us. Here, watch this incredible moment. Let's play it right there.
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I thought that was another great part of that interview with Charlie Angus. And, you know, here at the Midas Touch Network, we are expanding our coverage internationally because I think we truly need an international perspective to appropriately have the framework of how to deal with Trumpism. MAGA, and recognize that these ideas are ideas that permeate the international zeitgeist, right?
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I mean, we see this over here, for example, with people in Argentina, like Javier Millay, 52% poverty right there. He's like, we need to end the state in total. He's propped up in kind of this MAGA triumvirate mindset. You've got Viktor Orban over in Hungary. You've got Lukashenko in Belarus. You've got Vladimir Putin.
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You've got Kim Jong-un giving troops, by the way, to Russia to fight in Ukraine, right? You have all of that. And you have Donald Trump not saying negative things about Putin. Has Trump said one negative thing about Putin ever, yet alone in the transition? No. But who does he attack? Trudeau, Canada, who does he attack, Mexico?
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So he attacks our allies, says nothing about our literal enemies, and that tells you all that I think you should know about this too. And so we're gonna highlight international perspectives, by the way. Feel free to tag me on Blue Sky. If you have other international speeches in your home country that you want me to see, hey, here's a member of our parliament. Here's a politician in my country.
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This is the type, send it to me. That's how I found out about the Angus speech. Someone tagged me on it. I'm like, oh, this is pretty tough stuff right here. So tag me on it as well, okay? Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Donald Trump just held a disastrous meeting in the Oval Office with El Salvador's autocratic president, Nayib Bukele. I am not being hyperbolic when I say that this was one of the single most shameful meetings to ever take place in the Oval Office in American history.
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Trump then said that he was going to raise prices on pharmaceuticals by implementing a tariff. Watch this.
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So was I lying or being hyperbolic when I said this was possibly the most shameful Oval Office meeting in American history? This was some deranged, psychotic, evil, anti-American filth that we all just witnessed. But we cannot close our eyes or cover our ears to the reality We need to continue to grow this community and keep up the pressure.
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Trump spread Russian propaganda, said he'll be defying a ruling from the Supreme Court, and said he's looking into sending American citizens to concentration camps in El Salvador. What we are witnessing right now is a full-blown constitutional crisis, and we must not avert our eyes to the reality unfolding in the United States of America. My name is Brett Mycelis with the Midas Touch Network.
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So then the El Salvadoran president said that he doesn't have the power to return Abrego Garcia to the United States either.
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So suddenly all these people who like to consider themselves so powerful, all of a sudden they are just powerless to do anything here. You see what's going on here? And did you notice, by the way, what he said? Quote, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists. Listen, if they can call a wrongly deported, innocent man, a terrorist and sent him to a foreign gulag, then nobody is safe.
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Caitlyn Collins then asked Trump about his own comments that he said the other day that he would listen to the Supreme Court. Trump naturally insulted her. Watch this.
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Please go ahead. Then Stephen Miller and Trump said that the Supreme Court's ruling was actually unanimous ruling in favor of the Trump administration. This is one of the most heinous, bald-faced lies that we have witnessed yet. I promise you, if he was your neighbor, you would move right away.
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Your questions about it per the court can only be directed to him. So that is of course the opposite of what happened. That is utterly Orwellian and anti-American. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Trump must facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. There was no gray area here.
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The court wrote, quote, the rest of the district court's order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.
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Stephen Miller then called it, quote, arrogant for the press to ask about Abrego Garcia and lied about the Supreme Court ruling some more. Watch this.
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Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel. We are on the way to 5 million subscribers. So Trump gave Bukele a very warm greeting as he entered the White House. I gotta say, the difference between the respect that Trump shows to autocrats compared to our allies, like Ukrainian President Zelensky, for example, is striking.
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Here, Trump said that he's open to sending American citizens to El Salvador and torture camps.
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And by the way, Bukele did not wear a suit, but that did not seem to bother Trump and his administration this time. As Midas Touch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski said, quote, In this moment, Caitlin Collins asked Trump if he plans to ask to return Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, that's the man the Trump administration admitted to sending to an El Salvadoran prison camp, by, quote, mistake.
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And by the way, here's footage that was captured on the El Salvadoran government's live stream. This did not make it on the cable networks in the United States. The quality isn't great, but you could hear Trump endorse the idea of sending what he calls, quote, homegrowns. That means American citizens to El Salvadoran prison camps. Watch this.
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It's not big enough. Marco Rubio, a man who has completely sold his soul, jumped in during the meeting to lie about Abrego Garcia's immigration status and play dumb as to why anyone would be upset about the situation.
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By the way, this is not the only court order that Trump was defying today. The Associated Press reported that their journalists remain blocked from the Oval Office despite a court order demanding their reinstatement. The AP said, quote, our journalists were blocked from the Oval Office today.
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We expect the White House to restore AP's participation in the pool as of today, as provided in the injunction order. Speaking of the media, Trump attacked CNN as fake news and said that they hate our country. Watch this.
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The El Salvadoran president told Trump that he has 350 million people to liberate in the United States. But in order to do that, Trump must imprison people. Watch this.
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You have to imprison them so you can liberate 350 million Americans that are asking for it. Trump then spread Russian propaganda and refused to condemn Vladimir Putin after the horrifying attacks we witnessed this weekend in Ukraine. A Russian missile attack had killed 34 in Sumy and Ukraine on Palm Sunday, including two children.
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But Trump has refused to say a single bad word about the attack or about Putin, and instead he's ramping up his attacks on Zelensky. Trump on social media this morning wrote, quote, President Zelensky and crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin. blaming Zelensky and Biden for Putin's illegal invasion.
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Trump earlier also called Putin's attack simply a, quote, mistake. He was asked about that during the Oval Office meeting, and he ended up attacking Biden and Zelensky for, quote, letting the war happen.
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Trump attacked the press and then Attorney General Pam Bondi lied about Abrego Garcia's past and immigration status. As a reminder, he was here legally and said that it's up to El Salvador if they want to return him to the United States. Watch this.
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Trump then blamed Zelensky for starting the war and scolded him for asking for weapons. Trump said, quote, when you start a war, you got to know you can win a war. Parroting Russian propaganda yet again and refusing to acknowledge that it was Putin who invaded Ukraine. Watch.
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and then hope that people give you some missiles. Trump then bragged about passing another cognitive test over the weekend. Trump then bragged about passing another cognitive test over the past few days. This is one of those tests that are designed to detect signs of dementia. And he bragged that he got the highest marks of anyone ever. Watch this.
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Trump has Awful Landing to DC as He Loses It
It's just pure lunacy in the Trump regime. So Donald Trump just returned to Washington DC after taking yet another vacation in Florida on the taxpayer dime where he golfed and partied with the billionaire oligarchs As he was landing in Washington, D.C., he started making deranged social media posts after deranged social media posts.
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I would say it was a good golf match. Congratulations. But I don't know, Donald, maybe you should be addressing, I don't know, the fact that the Jewish governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was targeted for an assassination attempt, and his residence was burned in an arson attack. And now we're learning that the arsonist brought a hammer to try to kill Governor Shapiro.
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You don't address that, huh? No thoughts on that, Donald? Well, actually, when Donald Trump was on Air Force One heading back to Washington, D.C., he was asked about the assassination attempt against Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania. And Donald Trump doesn't say anything about it other than I just heard about it.
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So Donald Trump has spent the weekend watching the Masters, talking about the Masters, talking about his bogus health report. I'm going to do a whole hot take.
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on that where it says he weighs like 230 pounds and that uh as evidence of his good health he wins all of these golf tournaments that's literally what it says on his physical that was just released but here's what donald trump says when he's asked about shapiro play this clip reaction to the governor of pennsylvania his mansion set on fire give any reaction i just heard about him now i have to look into it
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Here was Donald Trump's post at 9, 12 a.m. this morning. He goes, the war between Russia and Ukraine is Biden's war, not mine. Just pause there for a second. What a deranged thing to say. You are the leader, unfortunately, right now of the United States. You enabled Putin to do this in your first administration. But who goes, that's someone else's war, not mine.
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That's the mind of a malignant narcissist. Donald Trump then goes on to say, I just got here and for years during my term had no problem in preventing it from happening. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, you know, that you have to be the president of the United States. You were the one who ran on that you were going to create peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Now, it's not my war. I just got here.
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He also attacked President Zelensky of Ukraine and former President Biden. This as Donald Trump sent his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to go to St. Petersburg and put his hand over his heart and essentially pledge allegiance to Vladimir Putin. Let's take a look at what Donald Trump's just been posting. He posted the following.
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This is, again, no offense to petulant babies. This is not the behavior of a leader himself. at any level. This is not leadership at all, yet alone the biggest position of leadership, which is in the White House. And it's not to mention that Donald Trump's a sexual predator, a felon, and someone found liable for fraud. But don't even get me started on that rant.
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Then Donald Trump goes on to say, President Putin and everyone else respected your president, right? So Trump's saying positive things about Putin. I had nothing to do with this war. This is all caps. But I'm working diligently to get the death and destruction to stop. Pause. You promised on day one that it was going to be solved. Peace in Ukraine.
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You said as soon as you won, there would be peace in Ukraine. And you've made things worse, exponentially worse. Then Donald Trump goes on to say, if the 2020 presidential election was not rigged, and it was in so many ways, that horrible war would never have happened. Pause. So here we are, April 14th.
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Donald Trump's regime is kidnapping and disappearing migrants on the street, sending them to concentration camps in El Salvador. While then Trump takes vacations every weekend to Florida. He's whining about the 2020 election, saying that it's rigged. which it is not, saying, it's not my war. I have nothing to do with any of this.
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And then he goes on to say, President Zelensky and crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin. There are so many ways of preventing it from ever starting, but that is the past. Now we have to get it to stop and fast. So sad. What a despicable, vile piece of crap Donald Trump is. I mean, truly a piece of trash. who deserves none of our respect.
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He is a piece of freaking trash, period, full stop. You're blaming President Zelensky and Ukraine from having their country unlawfully invaded, you despicable, vile thing, you. You get no respect from democracy-loving Americans, you piece of crap, you. Sorry, that just makes me absolutely livid.
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But what Donald Trump did want to talk about on the airplane while he land was that the masters, he loves the masters. He loves watching golf. He loves why he's so healthy. He loves watching golf. Here, play this clip.
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All in caps, he goes, the best definition of intelligence is the ability to predict the future. I mean, literally, it's the ranting and ravings of a madman.
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Let's talk about what Donald Trump did when he landed. He invited Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian leader from El Salvador, to the White House today. Gave him a grand old welcome, a hero's welcome. One of the poorest countries in Latin America with a GDP of 20 billion. $8 billion, a poverty rate of about 25%, extreme poverty of about 10%. Oh, by the way, Nayib Bukele, where's your suit?
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But if you want to talk about intelligence, Donald, now, when European Union ambassadors and diplomats show up in the United States, they're all using burner phones and they're preparing as if they were in an authoritarian regime, like when they visit Europe. China or when they used to visit Russia, they're getting burner phones and they're taking steps as though the United States is an adversary.
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I thought all the MAGA Republicans say you got to wear suit and tie in the Oval Office. You're not exactly a wartime president. I mean, Zelensky is a wartime hero. You're showing up there, what, bringing kidnapped Americans into your concentration camps? And this is who Donald Trump respects, one of the poorest Latin American countries. So it's like him and Donald Trump loves Javier Malay.
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But yeah, we screwed over wealthy nations in Europe and our allies in Canada, wealthy nations. allies in Canada and Australia. We attack them. But it's good to know that Donald Trump is bros with Nayib Bukele, who has the highest incarceration rate per capita any country in the world and is an impoverished country. But let's go and pretend that El Salvador is exactly what America should be.
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In fact, that's what Trump is turning. America into. So Kristi Noem, Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, who kills her dogs, who does all the cosplay photos when she remember she showed up also to El Salvador with her $60,000 Rolex in front of like the half naked men. And she was like, just like, we'll put you in these jail. We'll put you in this concentration camp.
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Here she is talking about the partnership with Bukele. That's the partnership with Bukele in the concentration camps. Here, play this clip.
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All right, Christie, if it's a partnership then in these concentration camps, then partnership should be bring back the migrants like the Supreme Court ordered with Abrego Garcia. The Supreme Court ordered, I've done a million hot takes on a million. I've done several hot takes on it. We talked about it on Legal AF.
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It was a nine to zero ruling from the Supreme Court saying return Abrego Garcia, one of the migrants who was kidnapped, who has disappeared to the El Salvador concentration camp, who the Trump regime admits in their filings was sent to El Salvador in error, which now the Trump regime says they're not going to do. And here they have Stephen Miller today. This is their messaging.
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And I talked about it earlier in my hot takes this morning and the videos I did where they're saying we're not following the Supreme Court's ruling saying return to Brego Garcia in the most dystopian Orwellian way. They're now saying the Supreme Court didn't actually rule that. The Trump regime says, we won.
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It was a nine to zero ruling that we won saying Abrego Garcia stays in El Salvador when literally the ruling said the opposite. It said, return Abrego Garcia, facilitate his return immediately. The district court said, do it immediately. Now the Trump regime's like, what are you talking about? The Supreme Court said we were the winners. They said, keep Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
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Here, watch this. Your argument is that you don't have to bring him back home, but will you?
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That's how they're treating their visits right now. Then Donald Trump posts the following. Congratulations to Rory. What a great job he did. Tremendous courage and talent was on full display at yesterday's Masters. What a win! He's referring to Rory McIlroy. who won the Masters golf event. I wouldn't exactly say courage. I mean, courage, I would use that word for somebody like President Zelensky.
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Totally, totally deranged. You want to see what's going on, though, in international diplomacy? You have China and Vietnam with a major diplomatic meeting today. Xi Jinping met with the leader of Vietnam. They signed dozens of cooperation deals on Monday, including on production and supply chains, as well as railway cooperation.
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As Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Southeast Nations, footage of the signed documents seen by Reuters showed. And then Xi Jinping talked about how they need to stand up against other unilateral bullies in the world. Goldman Sachs is saying the prospects of a recession have increased. Goldman CEO says hearing a greater sense of short-term concern from CEOs outside the U.S.
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Oh, and one other thing that I'll mention too is you have, Donald Trump's post last night where he attacked 60 Minutes and CBS and then directed his FCC commissioner to take away CBS's broadcast license. He said he's directing Brendan Carr to take away CBS's broadcast license.
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because he didn't like what 60 minutes was playing last night the 60 minutes show you know what the 60 minute show last night was on it had president zielinski mourning the deaths of ukrainian kids who were killed that's what was on 60 minutes that's what triggered donald trump to write that message. An utterly despicable, vile, trash human being.
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And I'm not going to hold back my words about what I think about him and what I think about the people who surround him. Seriously. I mean, you judge for yourself based on the facts. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Furious Canada Leads World to Destroy Trump
That is Canadian legend Charlie Angus, who served as a member of Parliament. He was speaking there in Cumberland, British Columbia, gave an incredible speech there as part of his resistance tour. More on that in a bit. I want to talk, though, about generally how Canada is striking back.
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Something I want to point out as well is that earlier in March, Canada began selling some of the United States Treasury bonds that they were holding. Prime Minister Carney is a banker. probably the top economist in the world.
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He previously led the Bank of Canada, got Canada through the Great Recession with the soft landing in the mid-2000s, and then also helped as he led the Bank of England as the governor of the Bank of England after Brexit and really helped the United Kingdom then. And so Carney understands the way the treasury markets work. He understands how dependent it
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the United States is on its bonds being viewed as a safe haven for money throughout the world. Right now, as of this recording, United States Treasury yields are going through the roof, showing significant instability. In other words, our bond markets are imploding as others appear to be following the lead of what Canada did in early March. Now,
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I've seen some reports out there that there were these secret meetings held between Prime Minister Carney and leaders in Europe when Carney went to Europe back on March 17th. I can't independently confirm that there were secret meetings or that Carney specifically instructed European leaders and the rest of the world how to dump bonds there.
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in a way that wouldn't be seen as kind of so obvious, but that would have the intended effect of causing pain. But nonetheless, there was Canadian bond sales or there were Canadian bond sales in early March. So I'll let you do with that data what you want to do, but I think that's important.
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And then, of course, end of March, you had Prime Minister Carney in one of his speeches talk about, though, how European leaders like Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the UK were reaching out to him and saying, you know what, Canada, you're right. We're going to go gloves off here. We're going to go elbows up here in Europe, in the UK and other places. And we got to follow your lead.
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Just here's Prime Minister Keir.
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Just to share some other stories with you here, like this one from Global News, the Maple Leaf belongs, U.S. tourist locations desperate for Canadians to return. I mean, it's talking about how, you know, here in Palm Springs in California, They're heavily dependent on Canadian tourism, and they've seen like a total drop.
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They are tip of the spear in the fight against the authoritarian Trump regime, and they've really inspired the entire world. in the international resistance against the Trump regime. So elbows up, shout out to the Maple Midas out there. And also, thanks for the shout outs we've been getting in that resistance tour. We greatly appreciate it.
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Whatcom County, Washington, basically saying, you know, nobody, no Canadians are showing up at all. It's like a ghost town right now. You also have Prime Minister Carney announcing something called a strong pass. Again, a further kind of fueling Canadian unity. And it goes on to talk about how with Trump threatening our economy and sovereignty, it
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Canadians are uniting to find new ways to discover and celebrate our beautiful country. So many Canadians are cutting back vacations to the United States and instead making memories here at home, showing our Canadian pride. Today, Mark Carney's Liberal Party announced a new Canada Strong Pass. so kids and young families can better discover and celebrate Canada over the summer.
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This builds on our announcement to connect Canadians with nature by making access to national parks and historic sites free for everyone this summer. The Canada Strong Pass will provide children and youth under the age of 18 with free access to Canada's incredible national galleries and museums.
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and free seats on the rail system when they travel with their parents and they're gonna work with provinces to extend this as well. It's not uncommon if you are traveling in Canada to see something like this, like this is from the Toronto Public Library. It goes on to say, buy local, support Canadian small businesses, victory loan, every dollar spent in Canada.
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By the way, take a look at what Elon Musk's brother, Kimball Musk, is saying about the sale of U.S. treasuries, of U.S. bonds. Foreigners are selling U.S. treasuries. The trade war must end and soon. The yen, the euro, and the Canadian dollar growing in value interest rates. for our debt is going higher. This is not the goal.
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We have a massive deficit and higher interest rates means higher debt payments, and we're trying to refinance our debt, America is. In April and May, we want our interest rates to go down. I talked about Whatcom County, what's going on there as well. And also, I think this is an important point to note, the bi-Canadian movement is not only causing pain on the U.S., it's great for Canada.
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A BMO economist saying that the buy Canadian movement could serve as like $10 billion in stimulus to Canada and add $10 billion to the Canadian economy. All right. Let me show you a little bit of Charlie Angus's speech in Cumberland now, because I think it ties all of that together. Here is Here is Charlie Angus right here. And here he calls out Rogan and the propaganda machine.
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Good, you Putin troll. Here's Charlie Angus again. Let me play this clip.
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Let's talk about how Canada has been leading the world in the international resistance against the Trump regime and cornering Donald like the little cornered rat that he is. No offense to cornered rats who behave far better than the way Trump is behaving. A few things we should chat about. And then I want to talk a little bit more about Angus's speech.
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Finally, here's another great part of Charlie Angus's speech in Cumberland. Let's play it.
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I mean, the first is Canada really showed the way with the boycott of all things American, the boycott of American products, the boycott of American tourism. And there are, you know, the towns that rely on Canadian tourism. They're really getting hit. But overall, The American tourism industry is getting crushed. Vegas is getting crushed.
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I always like highlighting Charlie Angus. His resistance tour is going great. That was in Cumberland, British Columbia. I know he's going to, he'll be in Alberta soon as well. Great. It's a great, great tour that he's running right there and appreciate. He's given us a few shout outs there. So thanks, Charlie. Thanks Maple Midas as well for the love in Canada. We appreciate you also.
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Furious Canada Leads World to Destroy Trump
I've seen various reports that tourism from Canada to the United States is down anywhere from 40% to about 85% depending on the area and which study you review. I think it's towards the higher end of that, more like 85% is my view, but definitely more than 50%. But what we're seeing right now is the number of Europeans traveling to the U.S. also cratering. They are following the lead of Canada.
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who were injured by the way 60 Minutes interviewed former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election because Trump didn't like the way it was edited because they took out some of her ums and ahs when Trump was too afraid to show up for that interview himself. And only former Vice President Kamala Harris did the interview.
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So Donald Trump and Ronnie Jackson, the pathetic fools they are, are suing 60 Minutes, guess this, for about $20 to $25 billion because they say their feelings were hurt from the 2024 election. And that's why Donald Trump is whining this evening, by the way, or last night, as he's imploding the bond markets as the 5, 10, 30-year treasury yields are reaching heights, demonstrative of this.
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genuine and real chaos in the United States markets in an unprecedented way. Let me just share with you that crowd size one more time so you can see what 20,000 people in Salt Lake City rising up to fight the oligarchy looks like. Play this clip. And by the way, here was Senator Bernie Sanders the day before. First, he spoke in front of a huge crowd in Los Angeles, 36,000 people.
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Then he gave a speech at Coachella in front of 125,000 to 150,000 people. Let me show you a short clip of Bernie Sanders in Coachella. But take a look at this photo of him staring at a crowd of 125,000 to 150,000 people on the main stage. Now we got a president of the United States who...
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Yes, people are livid at the oligarchs at the Trump regime, which has destroyed democracy. We're past the constitutional crisis phase. I mean, Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate who gave Donald Trump all of their authority as well. Trump is ruling like an authoritarian, like a dictator, a deranged one.
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one that's even weirder and more dangerous than a Kim Jong-un, a pariah state. The United States has become alienated and isolated from our allies and the rest of the world who are forming alliances with themselves and leaving the United States and saying, what the heck is this mess? As Donald Trump puts tariffs on, then exemptions, more tariffs, no tariffs, yes tariffs, no tariffs.
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The insanity, the delusions, The ranting and ravings of a madman. This is what Donald Trump was posting yesterday as well. Letitia James, this is what Trump posts. A totally corrupt politician should resign from her position as New York State Attorney General immediately. Everyone is trying to make New York great again, and it can never be done with this wacky crook in office.
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And then after that, Donald Trump posts a torture video of people unlawfully being sent to El Salvador, migrants who the Trump regime made disappear from the United States without due process, threw them in concentration camps in El Salvador. And now Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian leader of El Salvador, is visiting Donald Trump today and this week.
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And then Donald Trump posts a torture video, an ISIS-style torture video being posted by the leader of the United States. I wonder why people from other countries are not visiting the United States anymore. I wonder why tourism from Canada, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere is dropping 30%, 50%, 75%. Maybe people don't want to be disappeared to concentration camps.
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Like last night, Donald Trump was posting this while that event was taking place in Salt Lake City. He goes, almost every week, 60 Minutes, which is being sued for billions of dollars for the fraud they committed in the 2024 presidential election with their interview of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris, mentions the name Trump in a derogatory interview.
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and ICE detention centers and then have ISIS style videos made about them and posted by a deranged lunatic leader of the United States. Donald Trump posts the following. We look forward to seeing President Bukele of El Salvador tomorrow in the White House is what he posted last night, along with this torture video. It should be noted.
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that even though the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 against Donald Trump in connection with the Abrego Garcia case where Trump disappeared Garcia, a El Salvador individual who was living, a migrant who was living in Maryland, and he sent him to El Salvador despite the fact that he had protected status and was not giving due process and Trump threw him in a concentration camp and the Supreme Court ordered Abrego Garcia be returned and that Trump facilitate the return of
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On Sunday, Donald Trump filed paperwork in the federal courts with a declaration and a motion saying that his facilitation is done, that the courts can't dictate what he does. He gave him to Bukele, and now it's under the sole custody of Bukele in El Salvador. And Trump says, I'm done. I'm not bringing him back. I'm defying you, Supreme Court. I'm defying you, district court judge.
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What are you going to do about it? So Trump throwing the United States into both a financial crisis as well as a constitutional crisis all at once and layer in there an international crisis as well. As we saw over this weekend on Palm Sunday, what was taking place? You had the Putin regime, one of Trump's buddies, the Putin regime,
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bombed Sumy, the city of Sumy in Ukraine, two ballistic missiles killing at least 34, injuring 120 innocent Ukrainians. And right before that happened, Donald Trump sent his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who put his hand on his heart, looked like he was pledging allegiance. uh, to, uh, to Putin. Oh, by the way, this was also posted on Donald Trump's social media app as well.
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Um, the kid's guide to Doge discover for kids, how Doge's efforts to cut government waste are paving the way for your children's prosperous future. Donald Trump also posted videos of himself golfing, posing in front of gold statues, going to UFC matches. Other MAGA people over the weekend, the MAGA rappers like Forgaccio Blow, whatever this guy is, posting videos of himself with stacks of money.
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Must be great, your stacks of money as people have lost their life savings, as their 401ks are in the gutter. As their college accounts for their kids are in the gutter, as homes are less affordable, as the bond market is imploding, as the dollar is crashing, you're walking around with stacks of hundred dollar bills. That's what it means to be MAGA today. What in the heck is that?
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So no wonder Republicans fear that Trump's trade wars, tariff policies and overall reckless behavior. It could cause them a wipeout in the midterm elections. This from the Hill. Republicans fear Trump's trade war could lead to political wipeout.
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And remember how it was reported this weekend that the Trump regime was going to provide exemptions to the tariffs as it relates to electronics, laptops, semiconductors, and iPhones. Then Trump posts, nobody is getting off the hook. for the unfair trade balances and non-monetary tariff barriers that other countries have used against us, especially China.
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There was no tariff exception on Sunday or Friday. These products are subject to the 20% fentanyl tariffs. So just in case you're losing track, there were reciprocal tariffs, but actually not reciprocal tariffs on everyone but Russia. Then the tariffs went down to 10% on everyone but China for 90 days.
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and defamatory way, but this weekend's broadcast tops them all. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. This goes on with an alternation between all caps and lowercase and incoherent sentences. But then at the end of Donald Trump's post, he goes, they, being CBS and 60 Minutes, should lose their license.
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except actually 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, then 50% more tariffs on China, then 50% even more tariffs on China, but not computers and electronics, but maybe on computers and electronics. Also due to a system glitch, a lot of the tariffs haven't been collected at all. Also separate other tariffs on steel pharmaceuticals and semiconductors maybe will be happening.
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Efron wrote a really good one right there. Also, there's this post right here of Donald Trump waiting for Xi Jinping to give him a call. But Xi Jinping of China is not giving him a call. Also, if you go on TikTok, you have all of these Chinese influencers who are just mocking the United States and MAGA and Trump's behavior. And they're like, oh, you're calling us peasants? Really?
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You're calling us peasants when we hold your debt? I mean, you think about it. China holds what? Close to a trillion dollars in treasury notes of the United States. What if they just start dumping those as well? and the rest of the world does. You know what that's going to do to the bond market here in the United States?
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Do you know what China can actually do based on Trump's reckless handling of this trade war? I mean, we're talking about, as this GS Desk Pasquarello statement goes, judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing trade a comprehensive turn away from U.S. assets, stocks, USTs, corporate credit, dollars, bonds.
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The single most theme to monitor over the coming days, weeks, and months is that the United States is no longer viewed as a stable economic market. Oh, and by the way, you want an update on Doge? Elon Musk now says his group will produce only 15% of the savings it promised, but even that estimate is inflated with errors and guest work.
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So at most, you're going to be talking about $150 billion in savings, but that's probably all made up too, so it's no savings at all. Also, if you actually look at the federal spending taking place on the Trump regime, where they want to spend $1 trillion on the military-industrial complex, Trump said $1 trillion
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Also, all of this money for Trump's authoritarian machinations and all the terrorizing of immigrants and all of these things that Trump's doing there and also Trump's vacations to Mar-a-Lago. There's way more federal spending right now just objectively based on the data than under former President Biden. Everything this regime does is an utter failure and an utter mess.
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Look what you did there, Donald. That's in Salt Lake City, Utah, where 20,000 people or 10% of the people in the city showed up to protest you to fight the oligarchy and rally behind Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman AOC on Sunday. The people across the country are fed up and pissed off at you and Musk. You're deranged. and dangerous behavior.
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Let me leave you with this right here. This is Ray Dalio. He predicted the Great Recession. In 2008, he's a billionaire investor. This is not a liberal guy by any stretch of the imagination. It's not a lefty by any stretch of the imagination. I mean, this is, in my view of Ray, he's a right-leaning financial guy. He goes, I'm worried about something much worse than a recession.
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He's referring to a depression. He's saying that Donald Trump is bringing us into a depression right now.
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And if you look at what Trump is doing to the bond markets, if you look at the 5, 10, 20, 30-year treasury yields right now that are skyrocketing, which they're not supposed to, if you look at mortgage rates going up to about 7%, if you look at the fact that the American bond market's imploding, The conditions are here.
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Hopefully, the Federal Communications Commission, FCC, as headed by its highly respected chairman, Brendan Carr, will impose the maximum fines and punishment, which is substantial for their unlawful and illegal behavior.
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The issue is going to be which entity, which institution is going to now default. And will that create a domino effect?
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Because that's the type of downward pressures that the Trump regime is putting on the economy here in the United States, not just with the tariffs themselves, but with the chaos and the volatility that on the whims of an authoritarian leader in the United States, all of a sudden there's fundamental shifts and changes in the economy. based on his tweets or social media posts. Here's Dalio.
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Well, there you have it, folks. A lot left, a lot of other things to report as well. But you do have Republicans worried about the wipeout. You do have people standing up in Salt Lake City. You have Donald Trump, a deranged, lunatic, sexual abuser, sexual predator, felon, fraud, engaging in this horrific conduct. And then you have the MAGA Republicans basically saying, what can we do?
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That's what Donald Trump is doing on Sunday, engaging in his authoritarian fantasies on social media and directing his FCC commissioner to attack 60 Minutes, who, by the way, Donald Trump sued in the Northern District of Texas with Ronny Jackson because they claimed they were consumers
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This Vulnerable GOP District Just Got Blown Wide Open (Mike Sacks Interview)
A MAGA Republican Congress member from New York just revealed the entire game plan in a stunning admission on MSNBC. He said that Social Security cuts, maybe, maybe happens, probably needs to happen. Listen to MAGA Republican Congress member Mike Lawler in his own words, saying it's not realistic to rule out cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Play this clip.
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It was a very odd moment where this MAGA Republican Congress member Lawler continued to try to interrupt the Democratic Congresswoman Hayes from Connecticut as she was trying to make a point. And I guess he just didn't like the truth. So he kept on, it was just very odd and honestly kind of creepy. Here, play this clip.
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It reminded me of that debate with Hillary Clinton and Trump, where Trump was like kind of creepily looking over her and then interrupting her. One more thing I want to share with you about Lawler, who, by the way, once kind of claimed he was like a centrist. But I think he's revealed his true colors. This is from the Democratic majority pack right here, House majority forward.
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Actually, here's what they're running this ad about Lawler. It's brutal. Here, play this clip.
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Tariffs are part of the president's economic policy. I do believe the economy is going to boom. Tariffs is a tax and it will be passed on consumers. An exceptionally brutal day on Wall Street. Millions of retirement accounts took a beating today. The economy is going to boom. Expected to increase the cost of everything from clothes to electronics to alcohol.
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It's going to push the US economy, the global economy into recession. An all out recession. The economy is going to boom.
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And Lawler says Americans need to experience pain. I want to bring in Mike Sachs, one of the Democratic candidates for that seat in New York's 17th Congressional District. Hey, Mike, what do you make of all of that? I mean, you know, he branded himself originally when he first ran a while back as centrist, moderate, but he's shown that he's maga through and through.
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Basically, defense spending, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, that's about 90 percent of it right there. You can't cut from the rest of the budget to balance things.
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You know, I grew up in Long Island. You know, I know the ROC. You know, I had people who went to George Washington University where I went to undergrad from from the area. Also, you know, they elected Lawler. I mean, Republican Republican. And they've reelected him a few times. Are things shifting there?
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I mean, do you sense that there's an actual dynamic that's changing there because of what Doge has done? Or, you know, a lot of people, you know, a lot of people look at these races and, you know, and wonder, how is it that, you know, still there are people who are like voting to gut their own Social Security and voting to gut their Medicaid?
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This this this has been the whole challenge, right? Because we're blocking off roughly 87, 90 percent of federal spending and saying we can't touch that. Can't touch it. So we're arguing over roughly 13 percent of federal spending, you know, in terms of trying to find savings. And it's just not realistic.
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They're chainsawing through real people's jobs, real people's livelihoods.
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And Lawler's a part of it. We heard something also. The Congresswoman said that they're burning down the House. Trump, Musk, burning down the House.
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So the issue long term that we all have to grapple with, Republicans and Democrats, and we have to get serious about is how to tackle our national debt. Most of our debt is accrued by mandatory spending. There are savings to be had in the Defense Department. No question about it. There are savings to be had across every agency and department in the federal government.
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There you have it, Mike Sachs. Thanks for sharing the wealth of knowledge about that district and what I see as definitely someone pretending to be moderate, but as MAGA through and through. We appreciate you. Thanks, man. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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You know, the last time I checked, Donald Trump is proposing a $1 trillion spending bill for the military because he likes the number trillion. And also the last time I checked, MAGA Republican Congressmember Mike Lawler, who you saw there, wants to give $4.5 trillion, yeah, that word trillion again, tax cuts for the billionaires. And there was that town hall on CNN.
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Former Canada PM HITS Trump Where IT HURTS THE MOST
But, you know, we've been featuring a lot of Canadian politicians here on our show because the pro-democracy movement is international in scope. in order to combat the anti-democracy, pro-authoritarianism movement, which is international in scope, where you see Elon Musk and MAGA also having their tentacles in Canada with their right-wing Pierre Poliev, with Germany and the
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AFD, in the UK with the Reform Party, whether it's in Austria, in France with Le Pen. I can go on and on here, but an international effort is what's called for right now. Let me read for you first Jean Chrétien's incredible op-ed. You're going to love this. And then I want to share with you connecting Chrétien to Prime Minister Trudeau had actually
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actually a pretty powerful appearance on some of the weekend shows. You're going to love that. And then I'm going to show you some of the Canadian voices we had recently on the Midas Touch Network. So here's the op-ed by John Cretchen. Canadians will never give up the best country in the world to join the U.S. Today is my 91st birthday.
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It's an opportunity to celebrate with family and friends, to look back on the life I've had the privilege to lead, and to reflect on how much this country we all love so much has grown and changed over the course of the nine decades I've been on this earth. This year, I've also decided to give myself a birthday present.
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I'm going to do something in this article that I don't do very often anymore and sound off on a big issue affecting the state of the nation. and profoundly bothering me and so many other Canadians. The totally unacceptable insults and unprecedented threats to our very sovereignty from US President-elect Donald Trump. I have two very clear and simple messages to Donald Trump.
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From one old guy to another, give your head a shake. What can make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world? Make no mistake, that is what we are to join the United States. I can tell you Canadians prize our independence. We love our country.
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We have built something here that is the envy of the world when it comes to compassion, understanding, tolerance, and finding a way for people of different backgrounds and faiths to live together in harmony. We've also built a strong social safety net, especially with public health care that we are very proud of.
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It's not perfect, but it's based on the principle that the most vulnerable among us should be protected. This may not be the American way or the Trump way, but it is the reality I have witnessed and lived my whole long life. If you think that threatening and insulting us is going to win us over, you really don't know a thing about us.
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You don't know that when it came to fighting in two world wars for freedom, we signed up both times, years before your country did. We fought and we sacrificed well beyond our numbers. We also had the guts to say no to your country when it tried to drag us into a completely unjustified and destabilizing war in Iraq.
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On his 91st birthday, former Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien, wrote an op-ed directed at Donald Trump. He says, What could make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world? And make no mistake, that is what we are, to join the United States. Now, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was the Prime Minister of Canada, member of the
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We built a nation across the most rugged, challenging geography imaginable, and we did it against the odds. We may look easygoing, mild-mannered, but make no mistake. We have spine and toughness. And that leads me to my second message to all our leaders, federal and provincial, as well as those who are aspiring to lead our country. Start showing that spine and toughness.
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That's what Canadians want to see, what they need to see. It's called leadership. You need to lead. Canadians are ready to follow. I know the spirit is there. Ever since Mr. Trump's attacks, every political party is speaking out in favor of Canada. In fact, it is to my great satisfaction that even the Bloc Quebec is defending Canada. But you don't win a hockey game by only playing defense.
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We all know that even when we satisfy one demand, Mr. Trump will come back with another bigger demand. That's not diplomacy, it's blackmail. We need another approach, one that will break this cycle. Mr. Trump has accomplished one thing. He has unified Canadians more than we have ever been before. All leaders across our country have united in resolve to defend Canadian interests.
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When I came into office as prime minister, Canada faced a national unity crisis. The threat of Quebec separation was very real. We took action to deal with this existential threat in a manner that made Canadians, including Quebecers, stronger, more united, and even prouder of Canadian values. Now there is another existential threat. And once again, We once again need to reduce our vulnerability.
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That is the challenge for this generation of political leaders. And you won't accomplish it by using these same old approaches. Just like we did 30 years ago, we need a plan B for 2025. Yes, telling the Americans we are their best friends and closest trading partners is good. So is lobbying hard in Washington and the state capitals, pointing out that tariffs will hurt the American economy too.
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So are retaliatory tariffs. When you are attacked, you have to defend yourself.
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But we also have to play offense. Let's tell Mr. Trump that we too have border issues with the United States. Canada has tough gun control legislation, but illegal guns are pouring in from the US. We need to tell him that we expect the United States to act to reduce the number of gun crossings into Canada.
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We also want to protect the Arctic, but the United States refuses to recognize the Northwest Passage, insisting that it is an international waterway, even though it flows through the Canadian Arctic as Canadian waters. We need the United States to recognize the Northwest Passage as being Canadian waters. We also need to reduce Canada's vulnerability in the first place. We need to be stronger.
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There are more trade barriers between provinces than between Canada and the United States. Let's launch a national project to get rid of those barriers. and let's strengthen the ties that bind this vast nation together through projects such as a real national energy grid. We also have to understand that Mr. Trump isn't just threatening us.
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Former Canada PM HITS Trump Where IT HURTS THE MOST
He is also targeting a growing list of other countries, as well as the European Union itself. And he is just getting started. Canada should quickly convene a meeting of leaders of Denmark, Panama, Mexico, as well as the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, to formulate a plan for fighting these threats. Every time that Mr. Trump opens his mouth, he creates new allies for all of us.
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Former Canada PM HITS Trump Where IT HURTS THE MOST
So let's get organized to fight back against a big, powerful bully. You need strength in numbers. The whole point is not to wait and dread for Donald Trump's next blow. It's to build a country and an international community that can withstand those blows. Canadians know me. They know I'm an optimist. that I am practical and that I always speak my mind.
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Liberal Party from 1993 to 2003. He first became a member of the House of Commons, get this, in 1963. So he's coming with a very strong historical political perspective right here. And he penned this op-ed to the Globe and Mail in Canada on his 91st birthday. Now, You know, we here in the Midas Touch Network are expanding to Canada. You'll hear more about that over the coming weeks and months.
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I made my share of mistakes over a long career, but I never for a moment doubted the decency of my fellow Canadians or of my political opponents. The current and future generations of political leaders should remember they are not each other's enemies. They are opponents.
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Nobody ever loved the cut and thrust of politics more than me, but I always understood that each of us was trying to make a positive contribution to make our community or country a better place. That spirit is more important now than ever as we address this new challenge. Our leaders should keep that in mind. I am 91 today and blessed with good health.
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Former Canada PM HITS Trump Where IT HURTS THE MOST
I am ready at the ramparts to help defend the independence of our country as I have done all my life. Viva la Canada. So let me show you this right now. First, let me show you Prime Minister Trudeau over the weekend during one of his appearances. Let's play it. Radio reporters.
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I wanna ask you about- Okay, next, let me show you, again, Liberal Party, Prime Minister Trudeau, let me show you New Democratic Party leader from Ontario, Merritt Stiles, here on the Midas Touch Network. Let's show you.
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And now let me show you Doug Ford, the provincial leader and the current provincial leader in Ontario, Conservative Party member, what he has to say about Trump. Play this clip.
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And folks, I could show you, I did a video on one of the Green Party members as well, but we're running out of time in this video and you get the point. Whether you're the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party, the Conservative Party there, they're all basically saying the same thing. And you connect it with that historical precedent and perspective that I just read for you. Canada is pissed.
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As I said many months ago, we are expanding. The Midas Touch Network is expanding into Canada. We have a lot more Canadian coverage. And I think it's important that they know that they have allies here also in the United States. We're not all MAGA. Less than 50% of voters voted for Donald Trump. I think that's an important fact.
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There are lots of Americans who regret voting for Donald Trump now that he's talking about invading Canada or annexing Canada and invading Panama and Greenland or whatever. They thought they were voting for lower prices, I guess. I'm not sure why they would think that, because Trump lies about everything, essentially. But whatever.
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So it's important that we form alliances here that can withstand generations. That's what we're going to build for the future. That's one of the things we're building this platform to do, thanks to your help. I thought it was worth reading, again, that incredible op-ed on Prime Minister Gretchen's 91st birthday. There you go. Thanks for watching and hit subscribe.
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Donald Trump just held a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office where he attacked members of the press for bringing up the fact that Qatar is giving Trump a $400 million private 747 jet. Also, Donald Trump announced his latest price controls that he wants to unilaterally impose via executive order instead of actually systemically addressing our broken healthcare system.
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Donald Trump then lies and claims that he has 11 committed massive car factories that are being built, which is easily verifiably false. Play this clip.
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I'm going to do a whole nother video about Donald Trump caving and blinking to China. But if you just think about it, China got all the demands it wanted. America removed the tariffs on China that America placed on it because our bond markets and overall markets were suffering and jobs were being lost. So Trump blinked and capitulated.
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And just ask yourself, for all of what we've been through since Trump announced his Liberation Day or whatever you want to even call it, which is actually Liquidation Day or Recession Day. What did we gain from this at all other than ships not coming to the port? And wasn't Donald Trump saying that that's a great thing? And so if all these tariffs were great, why are you reducing them?
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There was no sense to this at all other than to cause chaos. But guess what? Donald Trump takes his $400 million Qatari jet.
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Donald Trump then claims that he does not intend to use the plane, but that he will just simply put it in his library, he says. He goes, it will go directly to the library. I never intend to actually use the jet that you're getting as a gift. I don't think I believe that. Let's play that clip right here.
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I wouldn't be using it, no. Trump then says that it would be utterly stupid for him to reject a $400 million gift from a Middle East country. Let's play this clip.
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And of course, Donald Trump needed a new distraction after completely caving and capitulating to China and the negotiations that took place over this weekend, removing his tariffs on China from 145% to 30%.
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No, I think it's utterly stupid and in fact a crime, in my opinion, to be accepting a $400 million 747 jet that actually goes to your own library, which essentially means you're getting it as a gift for yourself. not to mention these serious security concerns that come along with it.
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Donald Trump is next asked about his executive order, which Trump claims will bring down the cost of health care and prescription drugs by 50 to 80 percent. Donald Trump just makes up these numbers recklessly. The Ponzi schemer, the rug pulling president just makes up things to get people's hopes up. And people go, well, aren't you just setting price controls also? of healthcare.
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Here, play this clip. They have to, we have to equalize.
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Now, folks, I've made another video about this earlier this morning. And look, I would like to see prescription drug prices go down 50 to 80 percent. You're not going to achieve it the way Trump is by doing it via an executive order for price controls. The way you would do it is you would actually pass legislation to lower prescription drug price.
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but you see what actually happens is, is that when Democrats want to pass that legislation, the MAGA Republicans block it, the Trump supporters block it. So I think that every American should have healthcare and very cheap and affordable healthcare. That's my view of it. So why don't we actually address the issue versus doing these gimmicks that are just intended to get people's hopes up?
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Because what it seems the Trump regime's actually doing here is using this as a way to attack European countries and actually make the price of prescription drug prices go higher. A reporter asked Donald Trump about, what do you say to people who think it's not great that you're getting a luxury jet as a gift? And Donald Trump then makes some golf analogy. Play this clip.
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and essentially getting nothing in return from China, just unleashing a trade war against the world that has shattered consumer confidence and has harmed businesses across this country, essentially all for nothing. Let me show you what went down. Donald Trump here talks about how the European Union is now his big target. They are in many ways, he says, nastier than China.
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It's going to be very interesting.
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More distractions from Donald Trump here as he claims that there is a, he goes, reporters are not covering the genocide against white people in South Africa. And he accuses the South African government of doing a genocide to white people, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump claims that his executive order, which does not have the force of a law and is not a law, is going to allow the Republicans to do health care better than
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obamacare i don't know why don't you actually do what's called legislation which is the way our system works and if you want to expand obamacare which i think that we should we should make prescription drugs more affordable then do it through the process you're supposed to do it but no actually you and the mega republicans block that because you want to take away people's health care but then you do this gimmick which is really just a stunt
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That puts people's hopes up and ends up screwing them. Here, let's play this clip.
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My doggies, Takito and Chiquito, tell me that your doggies will love Sundays also. Donald Trump then claims that he knows Obamacare and healthcare better than anybody. He'll play this clip.
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Let's play this clip right here. The European Union
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Then Donald Trump says that he's going to, he just starts making up numbers. We'll lower prescription drugs 60, 70, 80, 90%. We'll just lower it all. Here, play this clip.
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But actually more than that, if you think about it in the way, mathematically, and Farmer has- Then he just goes on this word salad about somehow, if you add up all of the money that's coming in from tariffs, which by the way, you just remove the tariffs that you say are so great. If they're so great, why are you removing it? It makes no sense. That's going to pay for golden domes, he says.
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Then he just randomly starts talking about Medicare and Medicaid. You know he doesn't know the difference between either. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump then talks about a friend who he says is very fat. and a neurotic, brilliant, fat businessman who takes the fat drug. And this really rich billionaire who takes the fat drug is happy about Donald Trump's executive order. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump then says that as it relates to India and Pakistan, the way he negotiated a ceasefire, which he didn't do, he says, I'll do trade, you do trade, but I'll just do trade.
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They don't take our products. Next up, Donald Trump attacks members of the press and specifically an ABC reporter for bringing up anything having to do with Trump getting a $400 million 747 jet from Qatar. Let's play this clip.
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So I'm very proud of that. And by the way, India today issued a statement directed at Pakistan saying that we don't appreciate nuclear blackmail. We'll respond to you on our own terms. Trump's had nothing to do with any of this, but let him take credit for things. Don't, but I mean. That's what he does. The corporate media lets him take credit for things.
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Secret Video Exposes Trump DOJ Cover Up for His Past
Wow, so undercover video of Donald Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi has just been released and it shows that Bondi, likely on behalf of Donald Trump, is trying to cover up the release of the Epstein files. It's what we've been saying now over and over again, but a right-wing reporter named James O'Keefe
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And he said that he was going to release the video. So he had a series of questions that he posed to Attorney General Pam Bondi and said, why were you just telling a random stranger about those acts by Epstein and not the public? You've never cited that before as the reason for delay.
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Don't you think you should tell the American people that over some random stranger who says that they're a nanny at some place that you're eating lunch? What's your response?
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So then Pam Bondi gives a press conference and she tries to get in front of the undercover recording by bringing out this information in public to try to preempt the release by James O'Keefe, the right-wing reporter, on what he uncovered through these secret recordings of Bondi. So here's what she then says to the public. Let's play it.
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So then this caused an entire stir in the right wing kind of media far, far right MAGA ecosystem. Now, I would never normally play you a clip of Alex Jones. I'm gonna play a very short clip, don't you worry, because I wanna show you now that all of these MAGA influencers are now saying Bondi is covering up the Epstein files. And is she covering it up for Trump?
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was the one who launched this undercover sting operation against the right-wing Attorney General Pam Bondi, believing that Bondi was involved in this cover-up of the Epstein files for weeks and months and with respect to Trump for years. We said he was going to release it. He said he was going to release it. He blamed everybody else for being with Epstein.
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They're getting very close to what's really going on here. Here's what Jones said. He goes, Bondi's covering up the Epstein files.
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Now, I want to remind you all that this was just two months ago when Bondi said the files were on her desk. She said they were going to be released. Remember when she said that? We've got the receipts for that as well. Play this clip.
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To say that after she brought in all of those MAGA influencers to the White House a few months back and she handed them a binder that said the full Epstein list, the full Epstein files, and it wasn't. MAGA influencers made a mockery of these serious crimes with real victims, helping the government hide the Epstein files so many Americans demanded.
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They tried to gaslight even their own followers, and they got exposed because it wasn't the Epstein files. It was Jeffrey Epstein's call list that was released in like 2018 and 2019. That was already public. By the way, Donald Trump was spotted in Jeffrey Epstein's personal address book call list with a full list of contacts.
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We have it right there because Trump was one of Epstein's closest friends. But all the other files have not yet been released. Now, Do you remember when Donald Trump went on Fox during the campaign and he was asked, so you said you're going to release it. Are you going to release it? And remember Donald Trump's response, how weird it was? He's like, yeah, I'll release the JFK.
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I'm not sure so much so about the Epstein. He's like some of the stuff in that world. I don't know if it's true or something like that here. Watch what he says here. Play this clip.
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But we know it's always projection and confession with Trump and MAGA because Donald Trump was, of course, very close with Epstein. So I want to share with you what James O'Keefe released. Again, he is a right wing reporter and he's the one who launched this undercover sting operation against Bondi because he's pissed off.
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And folks, a lot of unusual things, sad things rather, you know, have been happening recently as well. Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's most high-profile victims, who is living in Australia. She died by suicide in the past two weeks. Tragic, tragic situation. Marjorie Taylor Greene posts, Jeffrey Epstein accuser, Virginia Giuffre, died by suicide.
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The truth needs to come out more, no matter who is responsible. You have people like Nancy Mace out there saying, you know, we want to know more about Epstein. I mean, obviously, you know that this is coming from Donald Trump, but listen to what MAGA Republican Nancy Mace says. Play this clip.
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May I posit something? May I give you my hypothesis, my opinion, me things? I think that Donald Trump is telling Pam Bondi to slow roll and deep six the entire Epstein thing. Look, folks, I've done a lot of videos on this, so I won't recap all of the things that I've you know, done deep dives into this. But just look at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. She was the sex trafficker for Epstein.
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She's in jail for the rest of her life. Donald Trump wished her well when she was going to trial when Trump was asked, I wish her well, he said. Also at the trial, testifying at Maxwell's trial in New York City, a woman identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe said she met Donald Trump in the 1990s at his Mar-a-Lago resort when Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump at the age of 14. Release that.
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that he feels that he and other right-wing influencers have been lied to by Bondi. So they send somebody in when Bondi was basically out at lunch a few days ago, and the person said that they were a nanny, just like a random stranger. shows up, kind of sits down next to Attorney General Bondi and starts asking questions about the Epstein files.
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Make that public. She's using a pseudonym. There's grand jury testimony. I want to know what went down there. Why do you think Donald Trump doesn't want this stuff released? We know from the other cases where things have been released, Donald Trump is on Epstein's flight logs at least seven times. That's only a partial flight log. There's way more flight logs out there.
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Um, Donald Trump's all over the deposition, uh, transcripts of Epstein sex trafficking victims. Um, Epstein was on Donald Trump's flight. Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes girls on the younger side or women on the younger side. Let's show you right here. This is a compilation that shows you just a small glimpse into the Trump-Epstein connection. Here, play this clip.
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Now, you know, we do our own independent research here at the Midas Touch Network. So I had Michael Wolff. who spoke with Jeffrey Epstein when Epstein was alive, before Epstein died by suicide, as it's alleged. And Michael Wolff said that he's got hours and hours of tapes with Epstein. And Epstein said that he was like Trump's closest friend, like they're as close as can be.
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And Trump said Epstein likes young women. I mean, which I think he means girls. Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide, worked at Mar-a-Lago. Epstein would find the girls at Mar-a-Lago. Ghislaine Maxwell would show up at Mar-a-Lago. Virginia Giuffre was homeless. She got a job at Mar-a-Lago. Ghislaine, in the 90s, went there, brought her back to Epstein, and that's how Epstein found her.
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Now, Bondi says things to this nanny that she's never even told the public to a random stranger. Bondi says the reason that it's being delayed is because there's 10,000 videos of Epstein with children. Now, why wouldn't you tell that to the public? Watch what happens in this undercover video. Let's play it.
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So let's use some critical thinking here. So now two things have either happened. Either one, Pam Bondi has been covering up from the public that there exist tens of thousands, tens of thousands of Epstein tapes. Or Bondi is saying that in order to cause further delay, which would be disgusting and vile. Or both. You tell me.
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But, you know, it's strange for me to have to say this in a video, but James O'Keefe got a good video right there, I think. This stuff should be released to the public. Absolutely 100%. You tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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The MAGA Republican leaders had a series of disastrous appearances on Sunday news. Let me just break down for you what took place. And it's just shocking the audacity of this corruption and incompetence, for example. Here you have Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on air traffic control systems. He says the lights are blinking. This is like an emergency moment, folks.
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That's what he actually posted. Here is Sean Duffy again talking about how concerned he is about all of the airspace. Play this clip.
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Here's what Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar had to say, play this clip.
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And so you can contrast that for yourself right there. But that was the weekend appearances. It's wild. I mean, look, I want you to look at it. I just want to exert common sense here, right? I mean, we see what's going on. I just want to follow the truth. I want to follow the facts. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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By the way, you know who spent his time actually working and doing things and making things better and not whining and complaining and panicking on TV? I don't know. Maybe the last transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, who now all the MAGA Republicans and before want to attack all the time. I don't know. Maybe that was a better style of leadership than whatever the hell this is.
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And speaking of whatever the hell this is, MAGA Republican Congress member Michael McCaul addresses Donald Trump and Trump's top advisor, Stephen Miller, threatening to suspend habeas corpus. In other words, shred the Constitution so they can throw anybody they want in. in concentration camps without the federal courts by claiming fake invasions.
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This is Congressmember McCaul, who seems to think it's a good idea.
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We may be in serious trouble. This is the Transportation Secretary saying, I don't know, fix it. Do your job, maybe.
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Shifting gears to MAGA Republican Senator Barrasso from Wyoming, he's asked a question about Donald Trump and the regime statement that little girls should now just have one doll, one pencil, and pay more for it, that the Trump regime is imposing central planning on Americans and American children, telling them the amount of pencils and dolls that they can have. And Barrasso's like...
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He's a master at messaging. This is how you do it. Here, play this clip.
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Well, at the same time, Donald Trump is saying, little girls, you get one pencil and you get one doll. Donald Trump's accepting gifts from Qatar in the form of $400 million airplanes that he's going to fly around in. And the gift is such that Donald Trump gets to keep it after he leaves the presidency. It belongs to Donald Trump through his presidential library is what they're calling it.
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The corruption is, is astounding. And the incompetence is as well. Here's one of Donald Trump's top advisors as well as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who again lies about tariffs and says that tariffs don't make things more expensive.
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You've got Senator Barrasso asked another question. He's the senator from Wyoming. And here he's asked, what's your message to the people of Wyoming who have to pay more? And Senator Barrasso's like, people love it. They love paying more. Whatever Donald Trump tells us here in Wyoming, we do. He says, you pay more, we pay more. He says, one doll, one doll. Whatever dear leader says. The hell?
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Next, you have MAGA Republican Senator Tom Cotton. He talks about he's asked a question here about Trump's special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff, using Kremlin interpreters and not going through the U.S. embassy. And again. If you're MAGA, you got to be in the cult. So according to Tom Cotton, this is brilliant.
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If Trump says use the Putin interpreters, use the Kremlin interpreters, show up with cough with no one from the embassy and no one who knows Russian. Just show up on your own and use a Kremlin interpreter. Here's what Cotton says. Play this clip.
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That's what they're going with here. Here's Lutnick again. Again, some call this guy Nutlick. Some call him Lutnick. You could call him whatever you want to call him. Here he is on what his message is to dock workers who are losing their jobs. His message to the longshoremen is enjoy it. You deserve it. You deserve not to have your job. You don't believe me. This is what he says.
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This is his own words.
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I don't know. Maybe we shouldn't be getting our transportation secretaries from the real world road rules challenge. Maybe we should have people working to actually fix things instead of people like Sean Duffy, who are posting like bachelor photos of himself saying hashtag Latino wife, saying that his wife made him carne asado tacos. I mean, what the hell are we talking about here? He
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Now, could you imagine for a second if this was the type of thing that was coming out from a Democratic administration? I mean, could you imagine it for a second? So why are we here not? Well, we're calling it out here on the Midas Touch Network. Over here, we have Kristen Welker speaking to Sean Duffy, interviewing him.
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And she's like, but I know you're complaining about your staff at the at the FAA, but you're the transportation secretary. Like, weren't you and Musk like firing these people? And now you're complaining that you don't have enough staff. Maybe should you not have fired him? Here's what his response is.
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Also, I don't want to even show this clip because it's so disgusting, but on OAN, the other right-wing propaganda network, Matt Gaetz and MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Ogles were doing interviews in front of the Seacott prison cells, which is a violation of the Geneva Convention to parade yourself in front of prisoners like that for the purposes of spreading propaganda.
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They do the interviews while the people are in the jail cells behind them. I mean, what... It is cosplay fascist theater right there.
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And now can I just contrast this here to what I think are actually good interviews, like from Michigan University economics professor Justin Wolfers, who talks about what these quote unquote trade deals that Trump's doing really is about, like for like the deal with the U.K.,
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One of Donald Trump's top supporters is speaking out now against him after it was announced that Donald Trump has accepted a $400 million 747 jet from Qatar as a direct gift to Donald Trump. Not only that, and Trump says he's going to use the new Qatar plane as his Air Force One. It has gold-plated walls, gold this, gold that, golden beds.
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recently held a conference with all of these Middle East sovereign wealth funds, where they told the funds how you do business with Mar-a-Lago. They called it the Mar-a-Lago economy, how foreign sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East can inject money directly into the Trump family. I kid you not. They held an actual conference that dealt with that.
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Let me just read for you what Laura Loomer, one of Trump's top advisors, is saying about Trump doing this deal. Then let's go through the facts and let's unpack this. So fact number one, undisputed, Trump is accepting this gift from Qatar, $400 million, gold plate and airplane. So while Americans can't afford homes as prices are going up,
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as Donald Trump manipulates the markets with on and off again trade wars. This is what Trump is making deals for himself. Laura Loomer says, so not only will the president of the United States be flying around on a $400 million jet paid for by Cutter,
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But don't forget, our own United States Attorney General Pam Blondie, that's what she calls her, was once a registered foreign lobbyist on behalf of Qatar. Blondie was compensated $115,000 per month by Qatar. Qatar has given over $1.8 billion to Hamas over the years. That's an incredible amount of influence for Qatar, a country that harbors
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Islamic terrorists who have with our most senior officials, especially given the fact that Islam is completely incompatible with Western civilization and the Judeo-Christian values in our constitution. That's again, what Trump's top advisor, I'm just reading you what she's saying. She then goes, I love Trump.
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I would take a bullet for him, but I have to call, I don't like this expression, a spade, a spade, but that's what she says. I'm just reading, but I don't like that expression. If you know its roots, she, well, I don't like a lot of things that she says. Let's be very clear. Most of the things she says are But here she's at least calling Trump out.
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We cannot accept a $400 million gift from jihadists in suits. The Qataris fund the same Iranian proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah who have murdered U.S. service members, the same proxies that have worked with the Mexican cartels to get jihadists across our borders. This is really going to be such a stain on the administration if it's true. And I say that as someone who would take a bullet for Trump.
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I am so disappointed. Pull up right here, the consultant agreement, Pam Bondi, or as Laura Loomer calls her, Pam Blondie, is indeed a foreign agent or was a foreign agent doing consulting services for Qatar. Here you see the agreement, consulting services agreement, embassy of the United States.
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You take a look here and you look at who is involved in consideration of the mutual promises set forth herein. The term of the agreement shall commence on July 1 and expire Appendix A. Additionally, consultants shall provide services. The following consultant personnel shall be designated key personnel, Ms. Pam Bondi and Mr. James Rubin.
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but the way it is being gifted to him, Trump is going to get to keep it after he leaves the presidency because they're saying it's also going to be a gift for his presidential library, his hypothetical library, which basically means the plane becomes his and his family's. This is the most blatant corruption in plain view. Add to that the fact that the Attorney General, Pam Bondi,
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Key personnel shall be personally and substantially engaged in the delivery of the services. So that, I think, is to comply with the Foreign Agent Services Act. So Bondi was indeed a agent, a consultant for Qatar. As Ned Price says, just take a look what happened in the past few days. Trump is negotiating truce deals directly with the Houthis, covering only the United States.
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Trump is speaking directly with Hamas, declining to add Israel to his Middle East swing. met face to face with Iranian officials, accepted a $400 million plane from Qatar for personal use. And Ned Price goes, some of this has potential to be good, I guess. Some is quite bad. Some is hideously ugly.
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But critics at home, including in Congress and around the world, would be howling from rooftops had just about any other president done any of this. How about a fraction of this? Instead, we have a collective shrug. Well, you don't have a collective shrug here at the Midas Touch Network. This is something we call out and talk about daily.
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Let's talk about some of the other deals that have been made. The Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund using $2 billion of Trump crypto to make purchases, basically being able to funnel the service fees to Donald Trump that way and Trump's family. Through that, you've got Qatar building resorts and villas for Trump. You've got Saudi Arabia building resorts for Trump in Oman. But you can go back.
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Y'all remember the origin of this, and Just Security did a good job researching this. Remember the timeline on Jared Kushner, Cutter, and 666 Fifth Avenue? Y'all remember that story? I'll just remind you of it right now. This was published March 11, 2020. It goes on to talk about this timeline right here.
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When the Kushner companies purchased 666 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in early 2007 for a record-breaking $1.8 billion, it was supposed to be the center of their real estate portfolio. Instead, the Kushners struggled to cover their debt on the troubled building since shortly after its purchase on the eve of the financial crisis.
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As Jared Kushner's father-in-law, Donald Trump, was running for president at the time, the Kushners were pitching Qatari investors to help bail out the building.
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was previously a consultant for Cutter, making about $115,000 per month. Add to that the fact that Cutter was the group or the country as part of a group that bailed out Kushner when his building 666 building, interesting numbers, in Manhattan was about to go bankrupt during the first Trump administration. And by the way, Do you hear Donald Trump talking bad about any Middle East countries?
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And just weeks after his father, Charles, reportedly failed to reach a deal with Cutter's minister of finance, Jared Kushner, in his capacity as a senior advisor to Donald Trump, reportedly played a central role in supporting a blockade of Cutter's by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Kushner never disclosed his meeting with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the blockade to then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the time. Later, a financial company tied to Qatar brokered an especially valuable deal to rescue the Kushner company's property at 666 Fifth Avenue. So that's the timeline there. So there are deep roots here.
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I want to also share with you some of these comments from people who are reviewing the story at the New York Post. I mean, the New York Post is a right-wing paper. So the commenters usually on New York Post stories are Trump and MAGA or Trump and MAGA adjacent. I looked at the story that they published on this where they talked about the gold-plated walls,
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And you get things like this, enjoy, you earned it, MAGA trust but verify, wired up from the enemy prime to spy, preloaded with listening devices, and apparently illegal, we have no business accepting this gift, buy him his own damn plane, but not a hand-me-down rigged with listening devices. Wow, imagine what we had to give up to receive a gift of this magnitude. Doe sure is great. Yay, America.
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Never, ever would he fly on such a plane. People don't even believe this story is true. Never would he ever fly on such a plane. The security issues are just insurmountable. I wouldn't trust them. Meanwhile, in the U.S., people are starving, hoarding, screaming, shooting, but good to know that this is what Donald Trump is focused on. Other Trump supporters just can't believe this.
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Anyone who believes this story, I have a bridge to sell you. Fake news, fake news. And there you have it. Now, here is Donald Trump's press secretary, chief propagandist. When she was asked about Trump's trips that he's about to take to the Middle East, she got very defensive and she's like, how dare you ever make decisions accusations that Donald Trump is in quid pro quos.
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He's just going to the Middle East to say hello to them. There's nothing to see here. How dare you make such accusations? Here, play this clip.
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We know Trump is talking crap about Canada, about our allies in Europe. But when it comes to Saudi Arabia, when it comes to Qatar, when it comes to the United Arab Emirates, Donald Trump doesn't have a negative thing to say about them.
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Add to that the fact that Donald Trump will be taking a trip to the Middle East, meeting with all of these countries whose sovereign wealth funds are directly invested in Donald Trump and Trump's family businesses. Add to that the fact that Trump's kids...
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Exclusive: Rep. Dan Goldman Demands DOJ Answers on Epstein Files
This is the letter that Donald Trump fears the most. A top Democratic Congress member is alleging that there could be a potential cover-up that may be taking place between Attorney General Pam Bondi and maybe even Donald Trump to cover up the release of the Epstein files. Now, this letter by top Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman goes into detail about the very suspicious timeline here.
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Well. It's a lot there, a lot there to look into. And, you know, I'm sure when Democrats, you know, get that majority, it's going to be some important investigations to bring sunlight to all of this.
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I think it's a great point because, you know, you're almost programmed at this point to be like, well, the Republicans don't give a crap about anything, but it's like, you're right. You should be calling them out right now. Yes, they are in charge and they should not be complicit in this. You're absolutely right, Congressman. Thanks for being on and thanks for that letter.
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It's a powerful one indeed. And keep us posted on what you hear back.
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Any dates? No. You know what it is? There are tens of thousands of videos. Yeah. And it's all with little kids. So they have to go through every one. So she says that to a random nanny and not in public. It's just excuse after excuse. This is the letter right here from Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman that we've exclusively got here on the Midas Touch Network. It says,
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February 27, 2025, to much fanfare, the DOJ claimed it was releasing the Epstein files after the underwhelming what they called a phase one release. They said they were going to release these files. And then the letter goes on to say it's now 74 days past the issuance of both your 24 hour demand and 14 day deadline deadline.
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for a comprehensive report, yet you have provided no additional materials nor an explanation of a delay. And this is written, again, by Congressmember Dan Goldman, who's a former 10-year DOJ prosecutor. And he goes, I remind you that as Attorney General, your oath of office requires you to represent the United States' interests without fear or favor, not Donald Trump's personal interests.
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The letter then goes on to basically say, if you're redacting Information. If you're deleting information that has Donald Trump's name on it or that has his name, image and likeness on it, or if there are videos with him on it, you need to tell us right now what the hell is going on here. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman, who sent this letter.
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And Congress member, I give you a lot of credit for sending this letter. It's an important issue that people are talking about that it seems Trump and all the magas no longer want to talk about anymore. Tell us about this letter, why you think it's so important and why you're sending it.
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from when the MAGA Republican influencers were invited to the White House to hold up phony binders, claiming that they had the Epstein files, which it was not the Epstein files. It was like an Epstein call list that was released years ago. By the way, Trump's phone number and the phone number of people related to him were on that.
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Now, you're a former federal prosecutor before being a member of Congress. So you've seen in many cases documents that have redactions in it, documents that need to be filed under seal, even documents that could potentially have classified markings on it and how you go about handling it. And you've dealt with cases that have voluminous discovery of the type or even more.
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and what we're dealing here within the Epstein file. And as you gear up for trials and you have teams of people, you go through it, you're able to look through it and you're able to produce the thing. So from a federal prosecutorial perspective, I think it's interesting also that you have the background in how you do big document reviews.
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And this to you strikes you as very unusual because the initial deadlines that were set based on all of your experience, should have been met fairly easily. And now you bring in this massive team and they should have been met within days. Am I wrong about that? Or maybe speak to that.
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When the MAGA influencers and the White House and Bondi were called out on that, they then said they were bringing in more FBI agents and DOJ lawyers.
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to go through the files and actually produce it they've blown deadline after deadline after deadline and they're making up new excuses each time there was undercover footage recently by a right-wing influencer james o'keefe where they sent someone like into a restaurant to talk to pam bondy and this is like a random individual who said she was a nanny
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Because here are some of the facts, too. We know, based on prior document productions, where Donald Trump's name has already appeared. It is on a call list with Trump's number, bodyguard number, and people affiliated with Donald Trump's numbers. We also know that Trump was identified as Doe 174 in one of the releases that happened a few years back.
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If we were prosecutors or we were doing a document request, release all of the information relating to Doe 174, you know, and to see what's there. We know that Trump's name appears on the flight logs at least seven times because that had been released. But that was only a partial release of the flight logs. We know that Epstein had been on Trump's plane at least one time before.
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We know that Trump said that Epstein is a great guy who likes women on the younger side. There are videos of them hanging out together. We know Epstein's victims like Virginia Giuffre were actually found at Mar-a-Lago and she died by suicide recently. But Ghislaine Maxwell found her working at Mar-a-Lago and then brought her to Epstein.
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So there are all of these, like it's not a minimal connection. There are all of these things here And I think with this letter, you're saying, look, this is not only fair game to be asking these questions about Trump's connection. This is actually very, very, very important stuff. Release it. Tell us why you think it's so important before we go.
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shows up, speaks to Bondi and says, hey, when are we going to get the Epstein files? And for the first time, Bondi's now saying, well, actually, there's 10,000 like videos or tens of thousands of videos of like child pornography. And that's why. But she's never said that to the public.
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Congressman, one more question while I got you here. Unrelated. The news broke on Sunday about Trump getting a 400 million dollar jet plane. from Cutter that not only will he get it after he leaves the office, it's like bequeathed to him in perpetuity. They're saying through his library. What's your immediate reaction to that?
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And she's saying it to like a random nanny who's undercover and working for a right wing influencer who wants to see the files. Just to remind you, I want to go through this letter. But let me just show you that undercover footage quickly. Do you know when the Epstein files are going to get released? We hope soon.
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Trump Freaks Out Bad as Massive Bribes Surface
In normal times, impeachment would be the worst of the worries of a vile and pathetic president who engaged in the behavior that is happening in our plain view. The felon, the fraud, the sexual abuser, Donald Trump is bragging on social media about getting a $400 million gift from Qatar in the form of a 747 jet that
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So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a gift free of charge of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40-year-old Air Force One temporarily... in a very public and transparent transaction so bothers the crooked Democrats that they insist we pay top dollar for the plane? Anybody can do that. The Dems are world-class losers. MAGA.
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As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, Trump's, quote, very public and transparent transaction on the Qatar jet grift only came to light after confidential sources told ABC and others not. about it. So Donald Trump then needs to distract from the fact that he's done another deal to enrich himself. And by the way, we could get into it as well.
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In addition to the $400 million plane, Donald Trump is building resorts in Qatar. Donald Trump is building resorts in Oman. paid for by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund using $2 billion of Trump crypto, Donald Trump Jr. creating a club called the Executive Branch, which costs $500,000 to join, which Don Jr.
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leads with the quote-unquote crypto czar, a guy named David Sachs, and they throw parties at five-star hotels for access. With all of that going on, how's Trump going to distract? Well, his next one is claiming that he is lowering prescription drug prices by 30% to 80% based on price controls that he is unilaterally implementing. So here's what went down yesterday. First, he posts the following.
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My next truth will be one of the most important and impactful I have ever issued. Enjoy! And by the way, we should not ever neglect how Orwellian is to call his lies truths. I just want to point it out there. And then he sends this big blob of a paragraph.
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I'll go through some of it, which he basically says that he's going to implement something called an MF and a most favored nation's clause against pharmaceutical companies. He says that if a pharmaceutical company is selling a drug at a price that is lower and then in the United States, that pharmaceutical company has to do that not just abroad, but also in the United States.
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Now, in theory, that is great. In practicality, Donald Trump said he was going to do that in 2020, but did not do that. And rather than addressing, I think, the systemic issue first of making sure there is access to health care, ensuring universal health care, that everybody gets the best health care. What I see is this is another gimmick where Donald Trump, via an unlawful executive order,
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with gold-plated walls, gold-plated toilets, gold-plated beds, not just for Donald Trump to now use as Air Force One. Can we say massive security threat and massive security breach? Oh yeah, as part of this gift, Donald Trump gets to keep the 747 after he leaves office as part of his hypothetical presidential library.
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is going to do more Ponzi scheme, more rug pulling, where his people believe, oh my God, if I just wait a little longer, 30% to 80% off my prescription drug prices, that's going to be incredible. I think that would be incredible. Like, let's be real. I think that Trump is a vile, fraud, felon, sexual predator. He is all of those things.
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If he got 30% to 80% reductions in prescription drug prices and health care costs, I would celebrate that. That would be incredible and a massive accomplishment. But what Trump is doing with price controls via an executive order is he's dangling hope and carrots in front of his base. That's never going to actually occur, but they think it is.
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And then he's just going to drag it out, drag it out and blame others for not achieving it. So let me just show you what it is that he posted. He goes. For many years, the world has wondered why prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals in the United States of America were so much higher in price than they were in other nations. I agree with that.
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Sometimes being five to 10 times more expensive than the same drug manufactured in the exact same laboratory or plant by the same company. I agree. That's insane. It was always difficult to explain and very embarrassing because, in fact, there was no correct or rightful answer. So stipulated. I agree. But pause there.
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Then why did all of these MAGA groups and right-wing groups sue former President Biden when he tried to implement policies to reduce prescription drug prices? Why did your people... Your MAGA Republican leaders block this stuff from being implemented if you're being genuine. But go on.
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He goes on to talk about how he goes, how he's going to implement these price controls, he says, by implementing a most favored nations clause, he says. And he goes prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices will be reduced almost immediately by 30 percent to 80 percent. They will rise throughout the world in order to equalize. And for the first time, bring fairness to America.
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I will be instituting a most favored nation's policy, by the way. Do I think that if you can reduce prescription drug prices and make them lower in America than they are in the rest of the country, it would be great. The MAGA Republicans are the people who say that they're against price controls. All of this stuff. is price controls.
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My view is if you want to repair our healthcare system, you have universal coverage. You make healthcare a human right. You make it accessible and affordable. The reason why healthcare costs are cheaper in the rest of the world is because mostly all other countries other than the United States have a form of universal healthcare coverage.
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where the prices are low because the government negotiates with the healthcare providers. If you want to enter the market, you have to make your drugs cheaper. That's what Let me be very clear. That's what President Biden did to have the government negotiate down Medicare prices. He wanted to do that across the system, and the Trumpers voted against it.
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It's why I know this is a gimmick, and it's just one of those things where he goes, I'm going to try to do it 80%. And what's the timing of this? The timing of this is the Cutter jet. So Trump wants to distract from his $400 million jet. Look what I'm doing. I'm going to get you 80% off. And the problem is it's not true and people are going to hold out hope and it ain't going to happen.
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Although I hope it happens. Let's talk about this other, I think, big piece of news from the weekend. Although I think it is important that we... Always have to look at what the details are with everything. And then we have to also ask, what is the policy behind it?
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So just a $400 million, at least, I think that's understating a gift from Cutter directly to Donald Trump to use as Air Force One. Are you kidding me? If that doesn't make you pissed. Well, then Donald Trump goes around and says, we fixed inflation. Everything is great. Prices are so much lower. Aren't you rich now? Don't you feel great again? No, Donald, you're a scammer. You're a Ponzi schemer.
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So there were two days of negotiations between the United States and China over the 145% tariffs that the United States imposed on China. And America imposed tariffs on the rest of the world as well. After day two, the United States issued kind of two different statements, one from Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who said substantial progress was made.
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Then the United States Trade Representative Jameson Greer said, said that there was actually an agreement reached. Separately, China's Commerce Department and their lead negotiator in China described that there was some consensus that was formed to lead to other talks. We'll see what develops today. But here's my overall question. right?
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The Trump regime says that tariffs are amazing, that they're incredible, that everybody's going to get rich. That's why over the past, you know, whatever, since that liquidation or Great Recession Day, which Trump calls Liberation Day, he said that solves everything. We get rich. So I'm just trying to be logical here. If tariffs are great,
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and makes everybody rich, and everything's amazing, then why would they be negotiating in Switzerland to remove the tariffs? And why is the media referring to this as a deal when it is simply Donald Trump removing either all, or some, or pausing the problem that he created? We need to speak
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accurately on these events and stop acting like these are some five-dimensional chess deals when it's Trump as the arsonist creating the fire. Everybody recognizes it's a fire. He puts out some of his own fire. That's not a deal. It's not a comprehensive trade policy at all.
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And if you want to just take a look, for example, at what the S&P looks like over the past year or so, you'll see that it is still trading down still overall with all of this. That's not what winning looks like, okay? And if we remove and pause the tariffs, what was the point of doing all of this?
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Stopping the ships, stopping containers from getting here, causing longshoremen jobs and truckers jobs. Americans suffered because of this. Americans are suffering because of this. Inflation is not going down. Inflation is going up. The economy's not doing good. The economy contracted in the first quarter. What was this for?
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Oh, lots of market manipulation so the rich can get richer and the rest of Americans can get screwed over in this chaos. And amongst all the chaos, Trump and his oligarchs can feast and exploit we the people. As I've said before, keep this simple. If setting aside, if you're a Democrat, an independent, whatever, keep it simple, okay?
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Americans are getting screwed over by decamillionaires and oligarchs and people who want to hoard their wealth. If you are working a job, you should be paid with dignity. You should be able to afford a home. And you should not be worried that you're going to get kicked out, that you can't pay your rent. To me, that's what we should be focusing on.
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Rather than gimmicks of, I'm issuing an executive order on health care, we should make sure every American has health care, that health care is cheap. When it comes to education, education should be a right. Every American should get top-notch education. Not see a Trump regime cut education. and cut libraries and cut universities and cut things that really matter to help people.
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I'm not okay with that. And we should feel safe when we get on an airplane. We should feel safe in our country. We shouldn't have to hear stories like this. Breaking, a new air traffic control equipment outage was at Newark again. FAA advisories show the ground stop lasted for about 45 minutes. This comes after a 90-second long radar and radio outages on May 9th and April 28th.
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And I don't want to see a public servant. That's what a president is, a public servant. The word is servant in there. Serve the people. That's your priority. Doing deals with... Country after country, the Trump branded projects have 20 open or in progress deals with various countries across the world to enrich Donald Trump. Donald Trump and his family got over $4 billion richer.
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over the past 100 days. Meanwhile, they've destroyed the lives of veterans. They've destroyed the lives of hardworking Americans. They've ripped apart our government. And now we have to wait till what, hurricane season? And then find out that FEMA is understaffed.
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And what you're doing with your trade war against the world, reckless and careless, going around and disparaging... The United States' reputation across the world while enriching yourself is obvious for all to see. Take a look. Donald Trump's posting about it. Here was his post last night.
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We have to see other natural disasters take place only for the Trump regime to deny emergency relief like we saw in red states and blue states. We're going to have to see a budget prepared where Medicaid gets cut and people can't access health care. But I'm glad that I'm being sarcastic here that Donald Trump gets a golden opportunity. Seven forty seven airplane paid for by Cutter. OK.
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We're going to have to what in a normal times you would have to rip that plane apart. Check for bugs. Do you think they're going to do that? No, because Donald Trump doesn't even think it's a big deal. when his Department of Defense head, the Secretary of the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is having conversations about classified information on Signal. And they don't think that's a problem.
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And there's at least 20 other communications like that taking place that we know of, while Predator drones are getting shot down over Yemen, while two F-18s were lost in the Red Sea. That's the status here. Let's keep this conversation simple. And that's what we try to do here at the Midas Touch Network each and every day. Thank you so much for watching.
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
Another day and Donald Trump is tanking the markets. Yes, he's starting the week again by crashing our economy once again. And here's what he's sending to his supporters to try to con them even more as most Americans realize What a con artist he is. Donald Trump sends the following message. Please answer before this poll closes tonight. Would you accept a Doge dividend check signed by Trump?
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One of the things we're seeing as well, as Luke Cower writes, last week was the first time since 1988 that U.S. stocks fell 3% while global stocks decreased. that are not the US related stocks rose 2.5%. So the market's actually doing well outside of the US, but the US has become a toxic cesspool because the White House is a toxic cesspool. I mean, just take a look at this right here.
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A whole bunch of themes are getting absolutely destroyed today, as George Perks writes. And it's not just AI adjacent stuff. Banks are down even more. Private equity is getting crushed. You name it, American companies are getting destroyed.
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right now and that means my 401k your 401k our pensions our life savings is getting destroyed like we told you it was going to because donald trump is an idiot and he's bankrupted every freaking thing essentially in his life
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so yes he was going to bankrupt it again the guy who has bankruptcy after bankruptcy who's the worst business person who's a destroyer who somehow convinces people that he's a good businessman even though he's bankrupted all of his companies yes guess what he's bankrupting the united states again and now he's panicking and lying and saying oh here's what's really going on here's what's really going on just front page today from the usa today
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
A theme, though, that we've been talking about, as you know, front page on the Midas Touch Network now for, what, several months. Canadian backlash. Stores pull wine, whiskey from shelves over tariffs. Now, we told you, we said... This Canadian boycott is going to sting and hurt the United States far more than anyone has predicted. And how do we know that?
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Well, there's a reason why the Midas Touch podcast is the number one podcast of all podcasts in Canada. We speak to Canadians. We speak to the Canadian leaders. We speak to the Canadian people. all of the time. We knew that the tourism boycott was gonna be more than 10%. I said it would be closer to 50 to 100%. People in Canada ain't traveling to the US anymore.
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
People in Canada ain't buying US anymore. And they were our biggest trading partner. So of course it's going to impact us beyond even the retaliatory tariffs from them. And so as the markets keep on crashing, what's Donald Trump saying?
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Well, Donald Trump's saying that while he guts Medicaid, while he guts all of these programs that actually are vital to Americans, as he like shuts down National Park Service Rangers, as he screws Americans, he does say, though, he's moved on to his next target. He's now he's now trying to defraud the people of Greenland. Greenland.
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
Should Trump give Doge savings back to American citizens via check? Then Donald Trump puts his top national economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, on CNBC. And here he says that the reason that we're seeing GDP contraction and likely a recession is it is Biden's fault. He says this is Biden's economy. Biden's doing everything wrong.
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I mean, we know he said this before, but this was the post that he's made. And Elon Musk is reposting because Donald Trump has like just one or two tricks, right? He's got to go on and say, OK, maybe I'm taking the United States. Greenland, you want me to make you rich? You want me to make you rich again? I mean, these posts are just ridiculous. What the hell are you talking about?
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Former President Biden invested billions of dollars in the United States with things like the Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act, and what are you doing? You're reversing all of those policies that invest in America so you can invest in Greenland or tell Greenland you're going to make them rich?
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
Oh, and then by the way, it now turns out also that the guy who's serving as the acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, one of Trump's most senior State Department officials, as Andy Kaczynski points out, has now been deleting all of his tweets, spreading the unfounded rumors that his boss, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, attended gay foam parties and called Marco Rubio low IQ.
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
But folks, as Donald Trump was heading into D.C. today, he did his usual kind of con artist schtick. We're going to be so rich. You're not going to get to know or you're going to be so rich. You're not going to do it all your money. You're going to be so rich. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, so ridiculous. Oh, by the way. That Jeff Bezos relationship with Trump, the Bezos-Trump connection. We know that Bezos, what, bought Melania's documentary for $40 million or $41 million. Now, guess what, everybody? The Apprentice is coming to Amazon Prime Video. Yes, Bezos did a deal with Donald Trump to bring Apprentice Seasons 1 through 7 to stream on Amazon Prime.
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So while your 401ks and your pensions and your life savings is going absolutely down the drain right now as America's economy is in the toilet bowl, it's okay because Donald Trump's selling Trump meme coins and Trump did a deal.
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yeah not the deal to create peace in ukraine in 24 hours not yeah not not that deal the deal he did though was to get the apprentice seasons one to seven on amazon prime good job donald good job i'm sure all the republicans are so proud they think you're so strong for doing that Here's the Wall Street Journal headline from today. Tariff wars are often short. Their legacies aren't.
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
The Trump administration, the Trump regime is absolutely panicking today. Let me share with you this clip of Trump's national economic advisor. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
Economists fear that Trump's tariffs, once they take hold, could have unexpected effects long after he leaves office, meaning even when he's gone, he's going to screw us for the foreseeable future. Oh, and then Donald Trump spends his time as well attacking the former prime minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull. That's how Donald Trump's spending his time.
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i went not attacking trudeau anymore now now turnbull the former prime minister of australia trump goes malcolm turnbull the former prime minister of australia who was always leading that wonderful country from behind never understood what was going on in china nor did he have the capacity to do so i always thought he was a weak and ineffective leader and obviously australians agreed with me by the way this is what uh former prime minister of australia macum turnbull
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
Is that about Donald Trump? Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
And you want me to show you how Turnbull was right? This was Donald Trump last night being asked if you believe Putin is disrespecting you by attacking Ukraine. Let's play it.
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
Yeah, there you have it, folks. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Goes Silent After Market Tanks
As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, here's the Trump recession timeline. One, this will be a golden age on day one. Prices will come down and the economy will boom. Two, these policies won't cause a recession. We know what we're doing. Three, okay, it will cause short-term pain, but it will be good in the long term. Four, this is Biden's recession. That's the pattern that we've seen.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
The MAGA Republicans having a disastrous weekend, as I previously reported. They're canceling all of their town halls because they know that they're going to get asked difficult questions or they're going to get booed, so they're avoiding those. Also, they rolled out what they claim to be a continuing resolution, a CR to keep the government funded.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
And here MAGA Republican Representative Rick Scott acknowledges that there will be disturbances in economic policies. Rick Scott got rich working for a company that pled, that issued, that reached a settlement with the government. He invoked the Fifth over 75 times, the biggest criminal case of Medicaid fraud. That's how he got his money.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars, engaged in the types of fraud allegations that Musk and others were saying are the main problems. That's how this guy got rich. And now he's just saying, well, Americans will just have to deal with it. Here, play this clip.
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By the way, there's nothing in there about no tax on tips, nothing in there about no tax on Social Security, nothing in there. about no tax on overtime, more lies from the liar in chief, Donald Trump. Then you have the MAGA Republicans going on TV to try to justify all of these things like MAGA Republican Nancy May. She's like, Elon's a genius. We need more cuts.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. And I like some of these Democrats fighting back. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And thanks for watching.
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I'd like to see the whole government get destroyed. This is what Nancy May says. Listen to her say it.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
And you've got MAGA Republican Brian Fitzpatrick claims that Trump cutting off intelligence sharing with Ukraine is actually part of the art of the deal. It's escalate to de-escalate. Help Russia, but then that helps reach a peace deal. The hell is he even talking about? Play this clip.
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But when you actually look at this 99-page document, it's actually not a continuing resolution. It's part of Trump and Musk's plan just to destroy the government. I mean, take a quick look, as Jamie Dupree says, a quick look at the GOP, quote unquote, continuing resolution. There are 22 different instances in the bill where funding for certain programs is set at zero dollars.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
I want to give a shout out to Democratic Congress member Alkin Kloss, who's you've seen him here on the Midas Touch Network. Here he calls out the panel that includes Republicans as well, saying, look, Republicans are not even saying the most basic statement. Ukraine is right. Russia is wrong. Here, play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
And then... Democratic Congress member Alkin Kloss looks at MAGA Republican Representative Tony Gonzalez after Gonzalez claims that Doge is popular and Alkin Kloss brings the receipts. That's why I love having Alkin Kloss on this show. Here, play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Then Donald Trump brings out his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, who says, yes, the tariffs will go back on April 2nd unless we end the fentanyl. End the fentanyl? You're ending programs that help combat fentanyl. By the way, what about the bipartisan border deal? You're not doing that to stop fentanyl.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
You're just going to talk about it and say we need to end fentanyl and then just defame Canada? Here, play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Just look, for example. For example, for the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, $0, $0, $0 on major pieces of funding, $116 million here, $38 million there. And why this is so deceptive as well is a continuing resolution usually just means you take the existing budget and you continue it because you can't pass your own budget.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
And you've got MAGA Republican Congresswoman Laurel Lee from Florida attacking the district courts for issuing injunctions against Trump's unlawful conduct. Let's play it.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
I often get asked, what's the secret to how Midas Touch has grown so fast? I said, it's easy. To the community, the Midas Mighty, number one. Then we have to make good content. Number three, we got to have the business behind the business, the nuts and bolts that make it all work. And we use Shopify here at the Midas Touch Network. Nobody does selling better than Shopify.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
By the way, shout out to Democratic Congress member Jake Alkencloss. Again, this is a great line, I thought, where he goes, Zelensky flew into Washington, but he walked into the Kremlin. Here, play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Now I want to contrast this for you. Here are some of the Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate leading some rallies. I like to see them out there speaking to the people the same way we've been covering what Senator Bernie Sanders has been doing. But let's play this clip of Democrats in the House and Senate. Let's play it.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
The MAGA Republicans have been using continuing resolutions over and over again. Because they're so incompetent, they can't pass a budget. And usually when you talk about CRs, you want it to be clean. So there's not all this other language in there that you have to parse through.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
And then contrast that to over here, the MAGA Republican Congress member Hudson, who leads the Republican Congressional Committee, campaign committee. And he's out there basically saying, look, we have to cancel all of our town halls because of George Soros. Here, play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
So utterly stupid. Here's Democratic Senator Adam Schiff. Let's play it.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Because then if there's other language, you would say pass an actual budget versus a CR, a clean one that just takes the budget and rolls it over. So this is really just a way to kind of be deceptive while gutting. I mean, look, agriculture. This is a way to be deceptive and gut education and all of these things that Americans that Americans rely on.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
And then you have Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, who shot and killed her dogs in her past. That's one of the things she was known for. And here she talks about when it comes to reviving the policy of family separations. Here's what she says.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
That was Ukrainian President Zelensky addressing his nation and the world. Ukraine is not going to be bullied by the United States into submission to Russia. As Ukrainian President Zelensky has stood up to Donald Trump, his approval in Ukraine is actually soaring right now. Article sums it up nicely from Reuters. Zelensky's approval rating rises in Ukraine after Trump spat.
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And here's what Anna from Ukraine posts. By the way, check out her YouTube channel as well. Anna from Ukraine official. Shout out to her. She's doing some courageous reporting on Ukraine. Let's play it.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
And over this weekend, Donald Trump was demeaning Zelensky during his interview with Maria Bartiromo that aired on Fox. Let me show you that.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
And folks, all across the world, we're seeing countries uniting against Donald Trump. I mean, just take a look at what's going on in Quebec. Anti-Trump demonstrators rally in cities across Quebec for women's rights. Thousands of women across 16 cities in Quebec, including Montreal, formed a human chain to protest Trump and Elon Musk chanting shame on you.
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show of unity in Mexico behind their popular president, Claudia Scheinbaum as well. Let's play this clip. You know, and so I think you see right here Donald Trump and his authoritarian regime in the United States revealing their cards. I think you see Zelensky standing strong. And the people of Ukraine clearly do not want Zelensky to break or bend the knee without security guarantees, for sure.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
And then you have Donald Trump, an impatient person. horrible negotiator revealing his true intentions all along was to annex parts of Ukraine. He wants to steal it. He wants Putin to have half, him to have half. And that's kind of what I believe their plan to be. I mean, how else can you interpret what their actions are? And I'll say this too. I mean, you heard from Anna in Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
Look, Trump and Vance have blood on their hands and the whole Trump regime. They're directly responsible, in my view, my opinion, for killing the Ukrainians who have died since the United States has shut off intelligence, shut off satellite imagery and actively encouraged the escalation by Russia. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
Now we see Zelensky's support here in the United States as well. You know, yes, there is a hardcore MAGA kind of brain dead cult group that's going to listen to anything Donald Trump says, including the Trump regime, making alliances with the United States and the access of evil, joining Russia, Russia,
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North Korea, Belarus and Hungary in United Nations declarations, basically in opposition to Ukraine, opposing condemnations of Russia. But take a look this from this weekend in Denver. And we saw protests like this and rallies like this across the United States. I know a lot of corporate media is not covering it. We cover these here in the United States. Denver stands with Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
Now, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the Trump regime have cut off intelligence to Ukraine, cut off military aid, and it does seem that the Trump administration, or I should say the Trump regime, may be providing intelligence to Russia. We've seen an increase in the attacks on Ukraine, significant escalation by Russia being cheered on, by the way, by the Trump regime.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
Although the Trump regime promised peace in 24 hours, they are now trying to, or they immediately tried to do a deal with Ukraine to steal Ukraine's rare earth minerals, to steal the minerals belonging to Ukraine. And there's no peace in Ukraine, if anything, an escalation by Russia because of Trump's conduct.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
One of the things that we saw, for example, over the weekend, as reported by right here OSINT Defender, between 80 and 100 Russian special forces operators were eliminated earlier this weekend in the Kursk region of Western Russia after attempting to infiltrate Ukrainian frontline positions using tunnels linked to a nearby underground gas pipeline.
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Russian special forces carried out a similar covert operation there. during an earlier battle in Ukraine, which had been successful then. They are really gearing up and Ukraine is just so courageously defending itself from Russia's unlawful invasion. Now, one of the things we saw as well is the foreign minister of Poland, Foreign Minister Sierkowski, saying the following, responding to Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk posted, I literally challenged Putin to one-on-one physical combat over Ukraine, and my Starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army. Their entire frontline would collapse if I turned it off. Doesn't Elon Musk speak like a cartoonish villain? And then Foreign Minister Sierkowski goes,
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Starlings for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish digitization ministry at the cost of about 50 million per year. The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart. If SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider. we will be forced to look for other suppliers. To which Elon Musk then responded to the Poland foreign minister, be quiet, small man.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
You pay a tiny fraction of the cost and there is no substitute for Starlink. And I think that's a Stark warning for any country that uses Starlink that Elon Musk will do this to you and behave this way. And by the way, could you imagine Elon Musk or Donald Trump talking like that to Russia, to Putin, to Kim Jong-un, to Xi Jinping? No. That's how they talk to our allies. Why?
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
Poll shows it says how President Zelensky's approval has now gone up by 10 percentage points since the White House attack on him in the Oval Office by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. This according to kind of the leading pollster in Ukraine. The poll was done by the Kyiv International Institute. of sociology, and it showed that 67% of respondents now trusted Zelensky in March.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
Because Musk and Trump seem to be more allied with Russia and Putin at this point. Let me just share with you Foreign Minister Sarkowski's recent speech, small portion that he gave in the United Nations. I think he's a strong advocate right here for the defense of Ukraine. Take a look at what he said. Let's play this clip.
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Now, as Ilya Pomerenko from the Kiev Independent writes, Russia, one of the largest military powers in history with active support from Iran and North Korea and the benevolent neutrality of China, has been unable to erase Ukraine from the world map for 12 years and now requires U.S. assistance to somehow choke it to death immediately. after three years of a failed full-scale war.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
Garry Kasparov writes, Trump and Musk are now fully representing Russia and Putin regarding Ukraine. They're demanding Ukraine surrender unconditionally, offer nothing but punishment, and Russia is to be rescued and rewarded for its aggression by the Trump regime.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
That's up 57% a month earlier. Now, this is significant because in Donald Trump's speeches as well, Donald Trump said that Zelensky had a 4% approval rating. Of course, everything Donald Trump says is a lie, but let me remind you of what Trump said. Let's play that clip.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
And this is in response to breaking news by Samuel Romani that the Trump regime has indicated that the mineral deal signing in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia will not be enough to restart military aid or intelligence sharing to Ukraine. It's why I always said this military, this minerals deal was always a red herring. What Trump and the Trump regime wanted is you get Zelensky to hand over their minerals.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
You carve it out. You basically annex parts of Ukraine. And rather than provide security guarantees, you guarantee that this is what Trump wants to do. Remember, to Greenland and to Canada. This is what he's trying to do in Ukraine. Trump wants a deal with Putin. not with Zelensky, where they carve up Ukraine and half of it goes to the Trump regime. This is Trump's conquest dream.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
And half goes to Putin. That's what, you know, Zelensky needs to, you know, be worried about. And I know that it's top of mind right there. You know, it's so interesting. You have Lindsey Graham, this cowardice traitor that he is. He now says the following. Senator Graham suggests providing Ukraine with intelligence and weapons until a ceasefire.
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Quote, if we cut off Ukraine, it will be worse than Afghanistan. I don't think President Trump wants to do that, said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham earlier. It was reported that there is pressure being applied by these Republicans. As Anya writes, that's not the goal, Senator moron. The goal is to, I wrote, I said moron.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
The goal is to bleed Ukraine dry and serve it to Putin on a silver platter. Trump wants to do it, and you are helping him, as Jay and Keeve writes. If Trump throwing Ukraine to the wolves means losing allies, huge industrial manufacturing deals, With former European allies, U.S.
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defense industry kissing billions in deals goodbye, countless other forms of long-term collateral damages and polls, the GOP may reconsider its position. That's why it's our best route to pour on heavy negativity every angle. Regular Republicans want to keep their jobs come midterms, and standing up now will give them time to recover. lost credibility before it goes off the rails.
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Zelenskyy Punches Back at Trump Hard After Sell Out
Let me show you Zelensky's address to his nation though. Let me, the longer version, play this clip.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
Another day and Donald Trump is tanking the markets. Yes, he's starting the week again by crashing our economy once again. And here's what he's sending to his supporters to try to con them even more as most Americans realize What a con artist he is. Donald Trump sends the following message. Please answer before this poll closes tonight. Would you accept a Doge dividend check signed by Trump?
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One of the things we're seeing as well, as Luke Cower writes, last week was the first time since 1988 that U.S. stocks fell 3% while global stocks... that are not the US related stocks rose 2.5%. So the market's actually doing well outside of the US, but the US has become a toxic cesspool because the White House is a toxic cesspool. I mean, just take a look at this right here.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
A whole bunch of themes are getting absolutely destroyed today, as George Perks writes. And it's not just AI adjacent stuff. Banks are down even more. Private equity is getting crushed. You name it, American companies are getting destroyed.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
And that means my 401k, your 401k, our pensions, our life savings is getting destroyed like we told you it was going to because Donald Trump is an idiot and he's bankrupted every freaking thing essentially in his life. So, yes, he was going to bankrupt it again.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
The guy who has bankruptcy after bankruptcy, who's the worst business person, who's a destroyer, who somehow convinces people that he's a good businessman, even though he's bankrupted all of his companies. Yes. Guess what? He's bankrupting the United States again. And now he's panicking and lying and saying, oh, here's what's really going on. Here's what's really going on.
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Just front page today from the USA Today. A theme, though, that we've been talking about, as you know, front page on the Midas Touch Network now for what? Several months. Canadian backlash. Stores pull wine, whiskey from shelves over tariffs. Now, we told you we said. This Canadian boycott is going to sting and hurt the United States far more than anyone has predicted. And how do we know that?
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Well, there's a reason why the Midas Touch podcast is the number one podcast of all podcasts in Canada. We speak to Canadians. We speak to the Canadian leaders. We speak to the Canadian people all of the time. We knew that the tourism boycott was going to be more than 10%. I said it would be closer to 50 to 100%. People in Canada ain't traveling to the U.S. anymore.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
People in Canada ain't buying U.S. anymore. And they were our biggest trading partner. So of course it's going to impact us beyond even the retaliatory tariffs from them. And so as the markets keep on crashing, what's Donald Trump saying?
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
Well, Donald Trump saying that while he guts Medicaid, while he guts all of these programs that actually are vital to Americans, as he like shuts down National Park Service Rangers, as as as he screws Americans, he does say, though, he's moved on to his next target. He's now he's now trying to defraud the people of Greenland. Greenland.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
Should Trump give Doge savings back to American citizens via check? Then Donald Trump puts his top national economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, on CNBC. And here he says that the reason that we're seeing GDP contraction and likely a recession is it is Biden's fault. He says this is Biden's economy. Biden's doing everything wrong.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
I mean, we know he said this before, but this was the post that he's made. And Elon Musk is reposting because Donald Trump has like just one or two tricks. Right. He's got to go on and say, OK, maybe I'm taking the United States. Greenland, you want me to make you rich? You want me to make you rich again? I mean, these posts are just ridiculous. What the hell are you talking about?
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
Former President Biden invested billions of dollars in the United States with things like the Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act, and what are you doing? You're reversing all of those policies that invest in America so you can invest in Greenland or tell Greenland you're going to make them rich?
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
Oh, and then, by the way, it now turns out also that the guy who's serving as the acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, one of Trump's most senior State Department officials, as Andy Kaczynski points out, has now been deleting all of his tweets, spreading the unfounded rumors that his boss, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, attended gay foam parties and called Marco Rubio low IQ.
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But folks, as Donald Trump was heading into D.C. today, he did his usual kind of con artist schtick. We're going to be so rich. You're not going to get to know what you're going to do. You're going to be so rich. You're not going to do it all your money. You're going to be so rich. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, so ridiculous. Oh, by the way. That Jeff Bezos relationship with Trump, the Bezos-Trump connection. We know that Bezos, what, bought Melania's documentary for $40 million or $41 million. Now, guess what, everybody? The Apprentice is coming to Amazon Prime Video. Yes, Bezos did a deal with Donald Trump to bring Apprentice Seasons 1 through 7 to stream on Amazon Prime.
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So while your 401ks and your pensions and your life savings is going absolutely down the drain right now as America's economy is in the toilet bowl, it's okay because Donald Trump's selling Trump meme coins and Trump did a deal with Yeah, not the deal to create peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Not that deal. The deal he did, though, was to get The Apprentice seasons one to seven on Amazon Prime.
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Good job, Donald. Good job. I'm sure all the Republicans are so proud. They think you're so strong for doing that. Here's the Wall Street Journal headline from today. Tariff wars are often short. Their legacies aren't.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
The Trump administration, the Trump regime is absolutely panicking today. Let me share with you this clip of Trump's national economic adviser. Play this clip.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
Economists fear that Trump's tariffs, once they take hold, could have unexpected effects long after he leaves office, meaning even when he's gone, he's going to screw us for the foreseeable future. Oh, and then Donald Trump spends his time as well attacking the former prime minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull. That's how Donald Trump's spending his time.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
i wasn't not attacking trudeau anymore now now turnbull the former prime minister of australia trump goes malcolm turnbull the former prime minister of australia who was always leading that wonderful country from behind never understood what was going on in china nor did he have the capacity to do so i always thought he was a weak and ineffective leader and obviously australians agreed with me by the way this is what uh former prime minister of australia macum turnbull
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
Is that about Donald Trump? Play this clip.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
And you want me to show you how Turnbull was right? This was Donald Trump last night being asked if you believe Putin is disrespecting you by attacking Ukraine. Let's play it.
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Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash
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As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, here's the Trump recession timeline. One, this will be a golden age on day one. Prices will come down and the economy will boom. Two, these policies won't cause a recession. We know what we're doing. Three, okay, it will cause short-term pain, but it will be good in the long term. Four, this is Biden's recession. That's the pattern that we've seen.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
i'm here with canadian member of parliament charlie angus charlie last week donald trump back down he was trying to bully canada he imposed the tariffs the american markets started to crash then donald trump withdrew the tariffs canada didn't budge canada still has retaliatory tariffs on right now charlie what's your message to donald trump and his regime who may be watching this now
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Do you feel that what you said back then when you and I started talking a few months ago now seems to be pretty prescient, doesn't it?
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
What are you seeing in Canada right now? You and I had previously talked about Canada being united. It seems that the kind of Canadian spirit has only solidified since we last talked. And it seems when I look at it, I go, how could a nation be even any more united? And except for a few stragglers here and there, it seems to be pretty united. What's your take on the ground?
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
I guess are fortunate in the sense that you are getting a preview from the ghost of Christmas past telling you what the ghost of Christmas future could actually look like if you went down a Maple Mago road, you'll have entities like Doge destroying the government,
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
ripping away health care ripping away all of the hard-fought rights and freedoms right so you can kind of see that and i think the public sentiment is changing uh as well you know this maple maga which prided itself the kind of right-wing pierre poliebs and people like that i'm going on the right-wing podcast like uh jordan peterson and spewing the exact same types of rhetoric we saw here there's been a big change in that and uh
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That may be their undoing. What do you think?
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
One of the things we've seen too, a lot of American corporations, especially those in the booze related industry are saying, you know what? These retaliatory tariffs are harmful, but what's even worse is the fact that in Canada, they're taking off the booze from the shelves. They're removing it. People are boycotting, not just booze, but all American products.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Canadians have canceled their trips to the United States. And that's a little bit of a lagging indicator. But the fact that American markets are taking already once we see, I think, the impact of the Canadian boycotts in March, April, May and beyond. I mean, you're talking about tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
I think tourism, hundreds of billions of dollars would normally take place. So what are you seeing with the boycott? Is the boycott growing, weakening? staying about the same. What are you seeing?
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Canada MP Destroys Trump as Canada Resists
Well, it's either the height of negligence or seeming more as Donald Trump moves closer or is already moving the nation to the access of evil. It feels intentional, wanton, malicious about why you would go and do that if you actually want to inflict harm.
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Charlie, your final message right now to the Trump regime as we start another week with Canada staying strong and Donald Trump and his regime flailing. Your final message.
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Member of Parliament, Charlie Angus, and of course, a Midas Mighty favorite. Great to have you on. Thanks so much. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Help us out.
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Charlie, you talked about in previous interviews how the Canadian people were prepared if Donald Trump imposed tariffs, that they understood it could be tough, but they were ready for it. And you said, what I'm warning the Americans, though, is that you aren't prepared. You aren't being told the truth about tariffs and the markets are going to crash.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane as He Suffers Bad
As Donald Trump departed from yet another vacation in Mar-a-Lago to go back to DC to make things worse and screw over America even more, the White House issued the following press release. This is real. I'm not making this up. The White House issued this. In just over one month, illegal border crossings have plummeted by numbers. that nobody has actually ever seen before.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane as He Suffers Bad
I'm going to make you so rich, he says. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, seriously, you're going to be so rich you're not going to know where to spend the money. I don't understand the psychology of somebody who watches that and goes, oh, I'm going to get rich again. This guy always tells me the truth. I mean, the guy lies about everything. He said prices.
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would go down on day one there would be peace in ukraine in 24 hours housing would be affordable and he said by now that there would be all of these jobs oh yeah what about no tax on tips no tax on social security no tax on overtime what about all of those promises lie lie lie lie but then he just makes up a new lie and then the kind of brain dead maga cult members go oh i guess i'm gonna be rich
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane as He Suffers Bad
It's so stupid. Meanwhile, in Canada, where they are standing up to this bully regime in the United States, the Liberal Party has selected its new leader, Mark Carney, who will go on to replace Prime Minister Trudeau as the Prime Minister of Canada. He will hold that position for a short period of time pending the elections against the Conservative Party led by Pierre Poliev.
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And if Carney wins that, when the Liberal Party rather wins that, and they're expected to win that, Carney would go on to stay as the prime minister with a new government being formed. The Liberal Party months ago, no one would ever expect it, would be able to pull this off and actually win an election.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane as He Suffers Bad
But it seems like they're headed to do just that, especially as the right-wing party in Canada, the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poliev, went Maple Maga and really went in on all this Trump stuff before Donald Trump did all of the things that we told you he was going to do. Let me just share this brief portion of Mark Carney's victory speech for the Liberal Party leadership position.
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I think it's such a perfect contrast to those idiotic clips I just played of Trump. Watch Carney right here. Let's play it.
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It's much more than 100%. Yes, it defies all of the rules of mathematics and grammar. This is the most idiotic authoritarian regime in the history of mankind. Let me show you exhibit B. That was exhibit A. This is exhibit B. Donald Trump is asked a question by the reporters on Air Force One. Do you believe Putin is disrespecting you by attacking Ukraine?
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canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves so the americans they should make no mistake in trade as in hockey canada will win also as donald trump was uh heading back to dc from his vacation to screw everything up once again it's like he comes back he wrecks the country even more than goes back and golf wrecks the country more goes back and plays golf but
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane as He Suffers Bad
Here's a big part of Donald Trump's platform, right, everybody? This is what you want. And I'm being sarcastic, of course. Trump posts the following on his social media. As I made clear during my joint address to Congress, the United States strongly supports the people of Greenland's right to determine their own future. We will continue to keep you safe as we have since World War II.
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We're ready to invest billions of dollars to create new jobs to make you rich.
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and if you so choose we welcome you to be part of the greatest nation anywhere in the world the united states of america i like that i'm being sarcastic so trump's priorities let's now make greenland rich and let's just not care about the people in america greenland first and you know he's just lying about greenland this whole thing as i said before it's just freaking weird It's strange.
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It's dangerous. And the world just sees how pathetic he is, right? It's just like whack-a-mole idiocracy, right? It's like he goes from, I'm going to put tariffs on you. I'm not going to put tariffs on you. I'm going to put tariffs on you. I'm not going to put tariffs on you. Hey Hamas, I'm going to unleash hell. I'm not going to unleash hell. I'm going to unleash hell.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane as He Suffers Bad
I'm not going to unleash hell. Yeah, I'm unleashing hell. I'm not going to unleash hell. Hey Greenland, I'm going to conquer you. I'm not going to conquer. I'm going to conquer you. Hey Panama Canal, I'm coming for you. I'm not coming for you. It's the same cyclical idiocracy over and over again. And it's just ridiculous. Here, Donald Trump is asked about all these plane crashes recently.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane as He Suffers Bad
There was another plane crash on Sunday, another lethal plane crash. And Trump's like, yeah, sometimes things happen more. That's just life, you know, recessions, plane crashes, whatevs. Listen to this guy. As Tom Nichols says, this guy has the codes, the 1500 strategic nuclear weapons. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Meltdown on Plane as He Suffers Bad
And then a reporter says, you know, Donald, Russia, China, Iran, they're doing military exercises together. You realize you have no, this is me paraphrasing, you have no geopolitical understanding of the way these alliances are being formed. Like as you're sucking up to Russia, Russia is then forming its alliance, not with you, but with China and Iran. Then you're saying you're against Iran.
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and you're attacking them but supporting Russia, but Russia's not supporting. You have no clue, Donald, what's going on. Does it bother you, Donald, that all these other countries are forming alliances against Europe and against the United States, and now the U.S. is going to be out of all of these alliances? And then Donald Trump's like, no, it doesn't matter. We're stronger than everybody.
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Look, even on Fox, they have one of Donald Trump's former economic advisors on, Stephen Moore, to try to talk some sense into Donald Trump. This is Trump's former economic advisor, top former economic advisor. And he's just like, yeah, you know, what Trump's doing with the economy, with tariffs is bad, bad, bad. Consumer confidence is crashing. Other indicators are not positive. This is bad stuff.
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This is on Fox. This is Trump's former guy playing this clip.
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And then Donald Trump's response is to attack the reporter and say, what did he do? Who are you with? Who are you with? Here, play this clip.
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So then Donald Trump has to send out Howard Lutnik, and Howard Lutnik then articulates, that's not the right word, says, uses words to talk about what Trump's tariff policy is. And Lutnik says, look, no tariffs if fentanyl ends. Once fentanyl ends, no tariffs. What is it, if fentanyl ends? What are you even talking about? Here, play this clip.
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Well, all of this is going on to you have Elon Musk attacking the foreign minister of Poland. The foreign minister of Poland just made a very basic statement, which is Starlink should not be cutting off access to satellites to Ukraine since Poland has paid the bill. Simple premise, right? But what's Elon Musk's response?
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Well, earlier in the day, Elon Musk wrote that America needs to leave NATO immediately. That was what Elon Musk said earlier, that America shouldn't be protecting Europe and NATO shouldn't exist. That's what Elon Musk said. And here Elon Musk attacks the foreign minister of Poland, our ally, and goes, be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost and there's no substitute for Starlink.
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Tired of winning? Tired of winning? Here's the headline, Trump won't rule out recession in 2025. That's what he said in the interview with Maria Bartiromo. Here, play that clip.
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And while all of that's taking place, you have Elon Musk continuing to make posts like this. Democrats are demented genocidal war sluts. Well, no wonder we're seeing massive protests now take place across the country. You have Senator Bernie Sanders drawing huge crowds in Wisconsin and Michigan in reddish and purplish areas.
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You have people who voted for Donald Trump, like veterans for Trump, saying that they feel betrayed. And I think the momentum against Donald Trump is growing. Although he's continuing just to crash. I mean, he's crashing everything. I mean, the stock market's plummeting. People are losing their life savings now. This isn't hypothetical. It's happening. Anyway, thanks for watching. Hit subscribe.
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As I said, it is an authoritarian regime. It is also incredibly idiotic. Donald Trump conducting more interviews on Air Force One, taking more questions from reporters. He was asked if he's worried about a recession to which Donald Trump said, we're going to just be so rich. You're not even going to know how rich you are. So even if there's a recession, don't worry.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Let's talk about the most important election taking place in the country right now that if you don't live in Wisconsin, you may not know about. It's the race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat where currently liberals maintain a four to three majority on the court. I like to refer to that more as pro-democracy. But you have Elon Musk now spending a huge amount of money, I mean millions,
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Now, if you're asking how MAGA is this guy, Brad Schimel, well, Brad Schimel says that the Wisconsin Supreme Court screwed Donald Trump over. by not overturning the results of the 2020 election.
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As Judge Susan Crawford, who's circuit court judge from Dane County, who's running for that seat, says, Schimel is all about partisanship, politics, and special interests, not being fair and impartial in the court. And here's the Washington Post article. It says, in a meeting with supporters last month, Schimel said the court had treated Trump unfairly.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
quote, I think the odds of an endorsement are probably pretty high because, you know, one of the things he doesn't do is forget people that screw him over and the Wisconsin Supreme Court screw him over. So as Donald Trump is crushing our economy, as Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to federal workers, you got Schimel really wanting this Trump endorsement.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
So why don't we bring in Judge Susan Crawford, circuit court judge who's running for the seat. Judge Crawford, Musk is spending, millions against you. Why do you think that is?
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
So let's do this. Paint a picture, if you can, for us of what it would look like if Brad Schimmel gets that seat. Paint that picture first. Then I'm going to ask you, of course, to paint a picture of what it looks like if you get on. But first, broadly, Brad Schimmel wins this. What should the people of Wisconsin be prepared for?
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
In that state, it tells you how important MAGA and Musk and Trump think this state is. And they're running the playbook that we saw during the 2024 election, which unfortunately they had some success with, with these deceptive ads. But I think it's important that we now call out what they're doing.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
You know, I also think that what Doge is doing is terribly unpopular now across the country. We're seeing in town halls, Republican town halls in ruby red areas, by the way, ruby red areas in Wisconsin as well, where some of these Republican politicians are canceling the town halls. People are pissed.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
That Doge and Elon Musk's crew of 19 to 25-year-old guys with these horribly misogynistic and ridiculous nickname, whatever, they're going into people's private data, their medical info, their social security info, getting access to tax info and transaction data. And so, I mean, look, one could assume if Elon Musk was Donald Trump's backer and Trump's doing the Musk agenda.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Musk's doing this with Schimel. So all of the things that I think people in Wisconsin hate about Doge and what Doge is doing to their lives, invasion of their privacy, will get 100 times worse. It'll be a rubber stamp on Doge. What do you think about that?
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
So the strategy by Musk and the MAGAs is they create these political action committees with kind of deceptive names that make it seem like They're supportive of a Democratic candidate or a liberal candidate or a specific candidate. And then they push certain messaging that they poll test to make voters not want to vote for that candidate, believing that it's actually that candidate
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Look, you're a former prosecutor, you're a circuit court judge, law and order person. I'm sure having to go through sometimes some of the campaigning stuff and talking about yourself is, you know, not your day-to-day stuff that you do. You know, that's what you got to do. And, you know, that's part of it all.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
So if you can, though, you know, paint a picture for our audience, for our listeners and viewers about what it looks like if you are able to prevail. What are you telling voters as you tour the state?
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
People want to learn more about you. Where can they go to find out more information?
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
The election's right around the corner, April 1st, right? It's right around the corner.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
And it'll fly like that. Although I'm not sure if I'm aging in dog years or something else under this Trump administration, but we will leave that for another conversation. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Judge Crawford, thanks for joining us.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
sending that message. If you watch my reporting during the 2024 election, you would see that like in Pennsylvania, Musk would create these packs and they would push these things that they know would try to push voters away. So Elon Musk just dropped another million dollars to buy off this guy, Brad Schimel.
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Judge Susan Crawford on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
He's the right wing MAGA candidate who wants that Wisconsin seat because that would turn the Wisconsin Supreme Court into pretty much a far right court. So if you're upset at the way our United States Supreme Court looks like, they want the Wisconsin Supreme Court to look just like that.
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Trump Voters Get Destroyed by his Latest Order
Well, I guess for all of these red states, medicine and health and science is just too woke for you. And now you're going to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs because Donald Trump is gutting the National Institutes of Health and the CDC and other groups that help fund the major universities in red states.
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As the Tennessee Holler account, which I like them a lot, which they said, Trump is cutting billions in biomedical research funding, which will have a large impact on Tennessee, including and especially Williamson County. So, you know, I wonder just how these red counties and red states and red areas are going to be responding to this. Eric Feigelding then goes, torpedoing medical research.
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NIH indirect grant funding just got slashed to 15%. What does this mean for you? Colleges and universities won't be able to support students. Tuition will increase, especially graduate students and researchers who find cures and preventions for diseases that kill people.
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Democratic Congressmember Jamie Raskin explains this is yet another deep wound inflicted against American medicine, science, and health by Trump and Elon Musk's juvenile night crew of data thieves following the Project 2025 playbook, which Trump disavowed in the campaign.
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Democratic Congress member Jerry Nadler says Trump's drastic NIH cuts will set back the promise of life-saving cures and cost American jobs, especially in the 12 mostly red states where universities are the largest employers. Democrats have a better way, fund science, protect jobs, and put progress over politics.
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But I guess there's another way they're doing it in Texas, where measles has now had a major resurgence and outbreak in Texas's least vaccinated counties. And this county read 91% voted for Trump. I think their vaccination rate is the lowest in the state. They have measles there, and it is spreading. This is from the local Alabama paper.
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Red states are going to be hit the hardest by this move that we learned at the end of last week. that NIH says it's cutting about $9 billion in federal research grants supporting medical research ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's disease. Quote, I think it's going to destroy universities in the short term, and I don't know after that is what most people, university leaders are now saying.
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NIH cuts threaten the University of Alabama-Birmingham and beyond. It just got real in Alabama. This is from the local journalism in Alabama. The National Institutes of Health on Friday night announced huge cuts to biomedical research grants.
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a move that would deeply impact the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a huge Alabama employer, not to mention Birmingham and its suburbs and healthcare across the state, not to mention human lives.
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received more than a billion dollars in NIH funding in recent years and relied heavily on those and other federal grants for its rise to prominence in bragging about setting a $774.5 million budget federal funding record in 2022, more than a $400 million of it from NIH.
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UAB issued a press release boasting that it remained in the top 1% of all NIH-funded institutions, public or private. Furthermore, it said, all six of UAB's health-related schools are in the top 15 public universities in NIH funding for fiscal year 2022. These cuts, if they stand, will be devastating.
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The cuts target indirect grant costs, which provide funds above the amount of the grant for things like administration, equipment, or other items needed to make the actual project work. NIH announced Friday night that it would limit that indirect amount to 15% of the grant. It is unclear exactly what UAB's indirect rate has been.
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I've been told everything from 30% to 56%, and honestly, I don't know, but it appears to be much higher than averages. NIH funding. According to the Daily Nebraskan, could cost Nebraska taxpayers $27 million.
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University of Nebraska President Jeffrey Gold, in a late-night announcement to faculty, staff, and students Saturday, said new guidance on how the National Institutes of Health awards grants could cost NU and the state nearly $30 million. The NIH announced that it would set a standard indirect cost rate of 15%, it said. Molly Jungfast, good reporter, great reporter.
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She explained, I don't think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research. To which Elon Musk then responded, I'm not. What the F are you talking about? To which she responded, the Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars. in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their university medical centers.
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On the Reddit message boards, I'm seeing this posted right now, conservative message boards here. This is a three-time Trump voter freaking out about the NIH cuts. And this Trump voter says, why is no one discussing this here? I work as a, this is on the conservative message board. I work as a scientist, PhD level, and my colleagues are term.
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It's not overhead or indirect costs, as you would expect, but things like utilities, building maintenance and servers for data. To make a long story short, summary is that the newest Doge idea is capping indirect grant funds at 15%. Most universities are 30 to 55%.
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This would result in mass job loss, halting of science, tech, engineering, PhD training, and would start to threaten the closure of research universities and medical school research wings. If you want to lose to China, India, or Europe in science and medicine, this is how you do it.
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I dedicated my life to the pursuit of genomics, genomics work that helps others and has application in cancer, dementia, and more. Now my jobs and others are in danger because Doge can't read and assume that indirect costs somehow equate to DEI. and that they are not needed. This is a terrible idea, and I'm wondering why no one here seems to be discussing it.
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These things take effect Monday and were shadily announced Friday night after business hours. This does nothing to curb DEI woke jobs. It will actually kill college towns in medical scientific research in America. We scientists will start losing our jobs or closing labs if colleges can't get funding. Expect that we will lose the tech arm race and medical research centers to other countries.
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Trump Voters Get Destroyed by his Latest Order
So yes, indeed, the NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, which has now sent shockwaves through universities and science research centers. As Eric Fagelding explains, these great public universities and GOP states will lose at least $1 billion each or total due to the Trump NIH cuts. I wonder how their senators feel about decimating They're universities of innovation.
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Expect our country to start dumbing down. Well, 60% of our country has below a fifth grade education. But look, Tell you what the big priorities are of the Trump administration, allowing immigration from white South Africans. That's the big priority right now.
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Trump signs an executive order prioritizing US settlement of white South Africans for discrimination, trying to get all the white South Africans here. I wonder why that policy is in place with Elon, given Elon Musk's own immigration background. Can we geek out for a minute on something? I think it's going to be helpful for you. It's called Fatty 15.
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Its co-founder, Dr. Stephanie Vinh Watson, discovered C-15 as the first essential fatty acid to be found in 90 years while working with the US Navy to improve the health and welfare of aging dolphins. It's pretty simple. Essential nutrients keep our cells healthy, which keeps us healthy.
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So if you wanna get sciency about it, studies show that C15, it works by strengthening our cells, improving our mitochondrial function, and protecting us against damaging free radicals. So if you feel like, how could I stop aging faster or I'm sleeping poorly or feeling sluggish? The bottom line is that many of us are deficient in C15, which results in weaker cells, which results in those things.
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So fatty 15 is the science fact award winning vegan and pure C15 supplement that steps in and helps. It works in multiple ways. It repairs age risk. age-related damage to cells that protects them from future breakdowns. It boosts mitochondrial energy output and activates pathways in the body that help regulate sleep, mood, natural repair mechanisms that support our overall health.
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So deeper sleep, smoother functioning joints, healthier hair, skin and nails, that's essential. And the C15 helps here and Fatty 15 delivers. So it comes in these gorgeous reusable glass bamboo jars and refill capsules. that are shipped to your door quarterly in pouches made from recycled materials. I love that.
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Trump Voters Get Destroyed by his Latest Order
Trump's Venezuelan supporters, they have lost their TPS, their temporary protected status, while the Trump administration's cut a deal with Maduro to send the Venezuelans who were here lawfully with TPS either back to Venezuela or at concentration camps in, uh, Guantanamo Bay, or even perhaps to El Salvador, because why, why not?
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If you're the Trump administration, just send different people to different countries. So El Salvador's a possibility as well. Um, Got one person right here, a Trump supporter. What a shit show MAGA has become. Remember once I supported them. It's turning into white propaganda led by J.D. Vance, who's openly promoting anti-India hate. Not sure if it's becoming. It's kind of always has been.
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And then saw this on some of the message boards. Dog, I wouldn't have voted for Trump if I knew all this. So this is actually true. Why would you vote for someone you didn't research? Dog. This is my first time voting, and I thought politics was just fun like sports. Well, the leopards are eating your faces now, and unfortunately, you've inflicted this on the rest of the country. And, you know.
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We prefer to live in a peaceful, productive, strengthening our alliances type country, not whatever the hell this is, but where we are. Hit subscribe, get to 4 million subscribers, and thanks for watching.
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So you take a look, for example, at University of Texas Southern Medical Center. The reduction in their indirect costs, about $160 million. They're funded by about $400 million of the NIH. University of Alabama, $300 million. University of Florida, $500 million.
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vanderbilt university 250 million dollars university of oklahoma health science center 200 million dollars university of kansas medical center 150 million dollars university of kentucky 350 million dollars university of mississippi medical center 100 million dollars university of nebraska medical center 180 million dollars University of South Carolina School of Medicine, $120 million.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Watching these MAGA Republicans on the weekend shows, supporting Elon Musk and private individuals, taking your private data, seizing control of the Treasury Department's transaction payment system as well as medical records and other private information.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
And look, now's the time where you need Democrats to fight back. Now's the time you need like Hakeem Jeffries. Talk about prices and how grocery prices are not going down. Here, play this clip.
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Next, I want to show you the Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem. And here she justifies why Elon Musk and private individuals now have access to all of our government information. And she says, because the government can't be trusted. As Dana Bash points out, I think she did a good job here. Dana Bash says, but you are the government now. Here, play this clip.
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And here's Hakeem Jeffries again. Let's play this clip.
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Well, anyway, thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together. Thanks.
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seeing them support the construction of concentration camps like in Guantanamo Bay, seeing them support the dismantling of the NIH, the dismantling of FEMA, the dismantling of core government agencies that keep people safe, it shows you there's no depths to their depravity. What gives me some hope, though, is to see some Democrats pushing back and saying, we will not fund the government.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Going back to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, he or she dismisses concerns about the legal rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Now I want to show you some Democrats. Democratic Senator Andy Kim from New Jersey says he's prepared to support a government shutdown to Trump administration's lawlessness. Play this clip.
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Next Democratic Congress member, Connolly, let's play it.
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Here's Democratic Congress member Connolly again. Let's play it.
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We will not support any government funding the way we've bailed you out before in the past, because the way the government remain funded was because Republicans got Democratic support. Otherwise, the government would have shut down. I think Democrats are now saying Republicans should. You're on your own here. So let me just show you what went down over the weekend.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Going back to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, he or she says that Donald Trump can and should unilaterally shut down FEMA, get rid of FEMA emergency disaster relief, and should just give block grants to states for disaster relief and that there should be no FEMA at all. Again, the insanity of these ideas, the dangerousness, get rid of FEMA, get rid of NIH, get rid of CDC, gut the FAA.
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Do you see what they're doing? Play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
I mean, literally, the playbook that you're watching is something that you would do if you were working to destroy the country. You would gut these entities. They also want to gut or trying to gut the FBI, the CIA, whatever. They got rid of the kleptocracy unit in the Department of Justice, which would stop Russian oligarchs from tampering with United States interests.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
So here's MAGA Republican Mike Turner, member of Congress. And here MAGA Republican Congress member Turner says basically Palestinians are dangerous wherever they go because they are inherently dangerous people, the Palestinians in general. So. For all of the Palestinians for Trump or Arabs and Muslims for Trump, let me present to you Mike Turner. Play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Anyway, here's Kristi Noem dismissing concerns about Elon Musk having access to personal information of Americans through FEMA. Play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
And here is the National Security Advisor, Mike Walls, here saying that he does think that the Canadian people want to be annexed by the United States of America. Here, play this clip.
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The New York Post has reported... Here's MAGA Republican Senator Hagerty lying about Americans promoting sex changes in Guatemala. And again, they want to... Make up any lie imaginable to distract from their lawlessness right here. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
oof donald was not looking good at the super bowl you're seeing these photos of him then when he went on the field he was like totally lost it seemed like he didn't even know where he was going and then he left early as the kansas city chiefs were losing and then as soon as he left the kansas city chiefs got their first touchdown cause effect i don't know but the team he was rooting for the kansas city chiefs did not do well trump left early
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
You know, when Donald Trump was headed to the Super Bowl, of course, he had to make the event all about himself. And so he already was like off to a horrible start. So on Air Force One, he said that what's really important about today is that I am hereby pronouncing today Gulf of America Day. And it's even bigger and more important than the Super Bowl, what I'm doing. Me, me, me, me, me.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
Here, watch this moment right here. Let's play it.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
It was just so weird, like all of the MAGA people were making posts like this, like Juanita Broderick who goes, Trump's headed to the Super Bowl and it's Air Force One with like golden balls on him because one of Elon Musk's 22-year-old guys who he's sending into the various... government departments to take our data, refers to himself online as like Mr. Big Balls.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
So they're like, we got big balls going here, there. And then MAGA's like, what if Trump's actually big balls? It's very weird stuff, folks. I know when Donald Trump was also on Air Force One and he was headed to the Super Bowl, of course he had to again make it about himself and start a trade war again. Here he announced 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum coming into the U.S.,
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
Apparently, Trump and all of MAGA was hating that halftime show by Kendrick Lamar, which was quite good. By the way, here's Donald Trump on the field just looking like totally lost here. Watch this. So, yeah, Kendrick Lamar during the halftime show said, quote, the revolution is about to be televised. You pick the right time, but the wrong guy.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
So Canada, Australia, I mean, any country, they all started scrambling after Donald Trump announced that. And Trump also said aluminum as well. This is the kind of chaos that follows this guy, this maniac, wherever he goes. But folks, for all of the kind of MAGA world, they love the Gulf of America thing. You had Eric Trump going, it's official, proclamation signed aboard Air Force One.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
It's now the Gulf of America. Then you had Secretary Doug Burgum who goes, It's official. Congratulations, POTUS, on the Gulf of America. Interior Department has implemented your instruction and we're calling it the Gulf of America. This is America greatness. So it's open. The level of pathetic is, you know, the guy is dangerous, but this stuff is so pathetic and humiliating.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
Then other countries got word of his tariffs. Trump promises 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada. Australian government scrambles to secure exemptions from Trump's 25% tariffs. While all of this was going on as well, In retaliation to Trump's erratic behavior, China announced it was opposing tariffs up to 15% on U.S.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
energy imports and certain vehicles starting Monday, according to the Financial Times. Donald Trump was then asked aboard Air Force One, about his plan to occupy Gaza with military force. And Trump said, we're going to make it into a great development site for real estate. I'm committed to owning it. I'm going to own Gaza. This is what he said headed to the Super Bowl. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
Yep, folks. And all of MAGA again continued to flip out over that halftime performance by Kendrick. Lamar, you had MAGA influencers like Benny Johnson saying the halftime show should have been the village people with President Trump doing the Trump dance center stage. And you know, it arena would have gone berserker mode would have made most viral halftime show in NFL history. Read the room, NFL.
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Share if you agree. Aboard Air Force One, Donald Trump was also asked about Elon's financial disclosure and why Trump is keeping those a secret. Here is what he had to say.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
And then finally, I'll share this with you right here. Remember when Donald Trump was asked about, and this was in the White House, when he was asked about Patrick Mahomes or Donald Trump said, oh, you know, Tommy Tuberville coached Patrick Mahomes, which was a lie. And then Tommy Tuberville said he recruited Patrick Mahomes, which is a lie.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
You also got to love Samuel L. Jackson dressed up as Uncle Sam introducing Kendrick Lamar. That couldn't have gone over well with Donald Trump and MAGA. One of the things I liked as well, though, is you had Donald Trump just coming. glazing the Mahomes family and saying, oh, they're the MAGA family and the chiefs are all MAGA.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
And then Patrick Mahomes said, I don't even know the guy. Just endless lying here. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
So, yep, the curse of Donald Trump continues, folks. Not a good night for the Kansas City Chiefs. Go Eagles. Great night for the Eagles. And there you have it, folks. Humiliating experience for Trump. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Seriously, subscribe right now. It's free. Also, check us out at MidasPlus.com. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Is Humiliated at Super Bowl… Leaves Early
Here is Donald Trump with the Mahomes family and Margo Martin, one of Donald Trump's advisors, was bragging about it. Well, I think it's the everything Trump touches dies syndrome over here. And just here was the moment where Donald Trump picked the chiefs to win tonight, which did not happen. Here, play this clip prediction.
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Trump holds Disaster Presser During Market Chaos
During a day of massive market volatility, Donald Trump held a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by his side. With Netanyahu sitting there, Donald Trump again talked about controlling and owning the Gaza Strip and moving Palestinians out to different places, he says. Donald Trump also says that he's not looking at pausing tariffs.
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Trump holds Disaster Presser During Market Chaos
I think I saw the stat from Fortune magazine that did a breakdown that if all aspects of the supply chain for Apple were brought to the United States, a single iPhone would cost $30,000 per iPhone if every part was made here in the United States versus the way things are sourced through the international supply chain.
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Trump holds Disaster Presser During Market Chaos
Ken Langone, the Home Depot founder and owner, said that these tariffs are the most idiotic thing. This is Republican right-wing guys. You get Ken Langone. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. I wanted to bring you what went down in that Oval Office disaster. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump holds Disaster Presser During Market Chaos
A freedom zone. You call it the freedom zone. Trump is asked about mixed messages coming out of the White House about tariffs and about other economic policy. Then Donald Trump randomly says, we need open borders. Yes, we need open borders, says Donald Trump. Play this clip.
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Yes, Donald Trump is now the we need open borders president. And I'm sure the MAGA base won't care whatever the hell he says, because literally he can say anything to their MAGA mush brain. Here, Donald Trump then falsely says that the richest period for the United States of America was 1870 to 1913. And we have to make America in 2025 look more like 1870 America.
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Well, there was indeed a massive financial panic in the 1890s that nearly destroyed the country, as Sparrow's Ghost points out. J.P. Morgan had to bail America out. Yes, Donald Trump is truly a historically illiterate imbecile, as the account says. Next, Donald Trump says, the price of groceries. And then he keeps saying, I like that word, groceries. They call these things groceries.
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Let me show you what went down in the Oval Office. Here, Donald Trump is asked about being open to pause the tariffs. Trump says he's not looking into that. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump continued throughout this Oval Office meeting to show how demented he is by continuing to say the word groceries and what an interesting word and old fashioned word it is, he says, play this clip.
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Donald, it's not an old fashioned word, the word groceries. Again, could you imagine anybody in that position sitting in the White House saying groceries? It's kind of an interesting word, groceries. I can guarantee you it would be all over Fox 24. 24 hours a day, it would be on the front page of the New York Post. They would be mocking just that, right?
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Trump holds Disaster Presser During Market Chaos
But here we've got Donald Trump crashing international markets, creating insane market volatility here in the United States. Over the past, what, a few days, Donald Trump's caused $10 trillion in the market to be wiped away. Um, it's unclear from one moment to the next. I mean, where, where the market's going. I mean, it looks literally like a Trump meme coin at this point.
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That's not the way it's supposed to look, but here Donald Trump then lies and says, we don't have any American cars that are sold to the EU zero. He says, play this clip.
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Wait a minute, are we not selling cars to the EU? I mean, who would just make something up like Donald? Of course, America sells cars to the EU. In fact, Tesla, prior to Elon Musk engaging in a hostile takeover of the United States and showing what a heinous individual he is, Teslas were selling well in Europe. But I guess Donald Trump just tell another big, ridiculous lie over and over again.
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Donald Trump then says no one wants to actually do deals with China. And the Chinese, he says, play this clip.
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Donald Trump continues to whine about China's massive surplus, play this clip.
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They'll be fair deals. In this next clip here, Donald Trump talks about moving the Palestinians to different countries and controlling and taking over Gaza himself. Play this clip. Mr. Reverend, from the Times of Israel, the IDF is fighting to get into Gaza Strip.
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Trump holds Disaster Presser During Market Chaos
Then Donald Trump brags about the economy. He says, things are going great. He goes, this is the best. Everything is down at levels that nobody thought was possible. Yeah, what do you mean? People's 401ks? You mean people's retirement and life savings, Donald? Is that what you mean? Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump says what he's inflicting on the country is an honor. He goes, it's an absolute honor for him to do this. Here, play this clip.
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Trump holds Disaster Presser During Market Chaos
Let me just reflect for a moment, too, and just remind you what this is all about as well. In my view, this is intentional by Donald Trump. As I've said, authoritarians don't care if their people suffer. I mean, just think about it. You think Saddam Hussein cared about the economic well-being of his people? You think Putin cares if Russians, the general population, is doing well?
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Trump holds Disaster Presser During Market Chaos
No, you think Kim Jong-un cares if if the people of north korea are doing well no they actually want their people to suffer what trump wants is right out of the authoritarian playbook once he crashes the economy then people become dependent on him right and then countries become dependent on him So then you have to beg. Can I get an exemption? Can I please get this? Can I please have that?
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Please, pretty please. I need your help. I need your help. It's right out of the authoritarian playbook by crashing people's hopes and dreams, by destroying their lives, by reengineering the economy. So it's just oligarchs doing well and the people are suffering. Then he's hoping that everybody has to beg him for everything himself. Please, Donald, that's what this is all about, in my opinion.
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Here's MAGA Mike Johnson being asked about Donald Trump's destruction of the American economy. Play this clip.
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Here, Donald Trump is asked about the American hostages taken by Hamas. And Trump says that, I asked the hostages, does Hamas love you? I said to the hostages, does Hamas say like they love you and they show you signs of love and happiness? What the hell are you talking about? Here, play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump is asked this question right here. You know, America tariffs Israel at 17%. So what are you going to do about those tariffs? And then Donald Trump, probably the first time he even knew that, play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump threatens Iran. Play this clip. About this.
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You know, it's not a complicated formula. Should also be noted while that was taking place, we saw some headlines like this. European Union proposes 25% tariffs on U.S. goods. Apple plans to source more iPhones from... India, not Indiana, from India.
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
Republican members of Congress and in the Senate are giving Americans the middle finger as the markets look like this, down about 4%, the Dow, the S&P is down about 5%, NASDAQ down about 5% on Friday. This was on top of similar losses on Thursday. So I want to show you what are these MAGA Republican members of Congress, state representatives, senators, like what is their message?
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
We're seeing massive GDP contraction, massive layoffs in factories. We're the opposite of what he said. Up is down, down is up when it comes to these MAGA Republicans. I at least give, I can't believe I'm even saying this, Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of credit. At least he says, I'm concerned about what's happening right now.
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At least there's a modicum of saying something semi-accurate on Fox. Listen to this.
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
Let's talk about what the people are saying right here. This from Cap Action speaking to small business and families across the country. Let's play it.
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
Let's bring in Executive Director of Swing Left, Yasmin Raju. She's been the Executive Director since 2022. Yasmin, you run an organization, People Powered, a million people across the country, chapters across the United States. I've been fortunate enough to be invited to speak at a lot of them here in California. What are you hearing from your membership and your different chapters right now?
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to the people right now. Well, let's go to Arizona, see what this state legislator has to say. Maga, of course, here, play this clip.
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
You know, I think these protests that we're seeing, like the hands-off protests this weekend, are growing in strength. We're seeing the coordination of labor unions, people-powered movements all together. These protests are growing in strength. They're growing in size. I predicted we're going to have what's going to be known as a summer of democracy or democracy summer.
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
So on the one hand, you have these protests. Now, one of the things that I love about Swing Left is
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is you say in our backyards we have these events they're literally sometimes these events are held in people's backyards and so the different chapters hold events in their backyards where they draft postcards and they do canvassing together and just exchange ideas and you know someone will be the designated person in a specific town to host it at their house this time and then it's their house this time and they bring in good food and it's
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
A fun way to have civic engagement with people and to take the concepts that we talk about here in the digital world, bring it into the real world and be warm and welcoming and empathetic. And so that was my experience going to these events. So let people know where they want to join a Swing Left chapter or start a Swing Left chapter or be a part of one. What does that look like?
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
Yeah, that's that's real. I mean, she's really a state legislator, senator, state senator from Arizona. I will go to D.C. How about MAGA Republican Senator Jim Banks, who says we all knew this was going to be disruptive. That's what we wanted. The goal of this is what we promised you. Disruption, pain, suffering. So this is a win. This is actually what MAGA Republican Senator Jim Banks is saying.
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
What do they do if they see those clips at the beginning of the MAGA people selling Trump sneakers or whatever? And the MAGA Republican senators are like, you know what? I'm going somewhere today. Where do they go? What do they do?
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
Yeah, I always get asked from our viewers, well, what can I do now? What can I do? I think this is a step that you can take Go to the website. Take a look at what chapters are nearby. Think about starting your own chapter. And then, you know, share the photos and videos online. Tag us. I'm sure there's a place where people can post the photos and share the ideas.
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Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy on Fighting Back
They'll get to me, you know, and Midas will do our best to also kind of share what's going on out there, you know, in the field. Now's the time to start. And so I thought it's important to highlight all of that. And Yasmin Raji, Executive Director of SwinLift, thanks for joining us.
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You too. And everybody hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C. It was absolute chaos and mayhem this morning. Initially, the markets opened and started to tank more than we've really ever seen in modern history. Then there was some unfounded rumor that Donald Trump was going to be pausing the tariffs for a 90 day period. The stock market then shot up very quickly.
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
Here was the moment where there was this unfounded rumor about this 90 day tariff pause to which the Trump response team said wrong fake news. You'll see here this account, Unusual Whales, which covers the market, says this is absolute comedy. I wouldn't really refer to it as that.
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
the market was blood red today then an unattributed rumor was starting on x that there was consideration of a 90-day tariff pause the market turned green then five minutes later the white house denied the rumor the market became red again then donald trump posted that he was going to impose additional tariffs on china and not have any further discussions with china
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
would basically mean if you add up all the tariffs on China over 100%. Donald Trump posted yesterday, China issued retaliatory tariffs of 34% on top of their already set record setting tariffs, non-monetary tariffs, illegal subsidization of companies. And it goes on and on and on. And then it says, therefore, if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above,
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
They're already long-term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025. The United States will impose additional tariffs on China of 50% effective April 9th. Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us will be terminated. Negotiations with other countries, which have also requested meetings, will begin taking place immediately.
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Trump Has Disaster Monday AM as Shock Sets In
Thank you for your attention to this matter. This would bring the tariffs to China above 100%. You see right here this cartoon. I always think these political cartoons encapsulate the moment Trump on Fifth Avenue shooting the economy. Also, as Axios reported over the past few days, and we talked about this when the Trump tariffs were initially announced, which he calls Liberation Day.
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We refer to it as Recession Day, Annihilation Day, Great Depression Day, Liquidation Day. You pick your name. The Trump tariffs were based on a massive error in just the underlying formulation. And what Axios went on to report is how this conservative think tank shows that the formula that was applied was incorrectly applied and also
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As we've said before, the tariffs are not reciprocal, despite the Trump regime referring to these as reciprocal tariffs. He kind of made up the numbers that he claimed were the tariff rates against the United States based upon the deficit with specific countries. So a country like Vietnam, when you calculated the deficit there,
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Then the Trump rapid response team said fake news, and then the market began to crash again. You know, normally on these videos, I would put up where the market is, but right now it is going down, up, down, up. The volatility is so unprecedented in its nature, not the way a stable market is supposed to look.
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Trump would include kind of the delta and the deficit as part of what he considered to be a tariff against the United States. So countries like Vietnam and Cambodia and others would be viewed as being high tariff rates against the United States. even though the US was getting cheap products from those countries. Orange Monday is the new Black Monday. That's at least when the markets were opening.
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You may be seeing billboards like this across the United States that are being paid for by Canada and others. Tariffs are a tax at the gas pump. Tariffs are indeed a tax. That's what they are. Tariffs are taxes on the American consumer. And the American consumer is ultimately going to be the one to pay for this.
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And the American consumer is paying this volatility, the hit that our 401ks and retirements have been taking. This is not the way the markets are supposed to work at all. And you can tell even here, like when you've lost your CNBC MAGA host, this is the CNBC MAGA host right here. And you'll just see that, you know, they're pissed. Play this clip.
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So then you had Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's top economic advisor, was going on Fox. You see the market there on the right. At least that was the snapshot in time. Then here, Kevin Hassett talks about he's being asked about a pause on the 90 day tariffs. Here's what he says. Play this clip. Will you do a 90 day pause? Would you consider that?
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I don't want to even share it because in 510 minutes after I post this video or a half hour after it's posted, it may look entirely different. Suffice to say, I think to be a responsible reporter in this moment, I need to say it is just absolutely chaotic with volatility like we've never seen before. When I have a bigger snapshot, I'll, of course, report on what that is.
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And it was based on that where he didn't say that there would be a pause on the 90-day tariffs. It was incorrectly, erroneously reported that there was a pause, which was just false information. Take a look. Did you watch 60 Minutes recently? 60 Minutes found that there was no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to El Salvador. Yes, 75%.
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We've been highlighting a lot of those stories here on the Midas Touch Network. People who just had autism awareness tattoos or people who had tattoos of Real Madrid, a soccer club or...
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This story particularly is of significance today as there was a major ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man, migrant, who in 2019, an immigration judge during the Trump administration, said that he had a protected status here and could not be sent to El Salvador. No criminal history at all, never committed a crime.
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Working in Maryland, would check into ICE regularly. The Trump regime kidnapped him, sent him to the El Salvador concentration camp. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed the district court order saying you need to return him immediately by midnight. Donald Trump is appealing the Fourth Circuit ruling to the Supreme Court.
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It was a particularly powerful ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming what the district court said, get this guy back to the United States. He had protected status. He's not a criminal. You can't kidnap people and send them to concentration camps. This is the ruling from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. It says the following.
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The panel unanimously agrees that the district court's order requiring the government to facilitate and effectuate the return of plaintiff Kilmore Armando Abrego-Garcia to the United States by no later than 1159 p.m. on Monday, April 7, 2025, should not be stayed. The government's motion to stay is therefore denied. I write to explain my view. The United States government has no legal authority to
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snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The government's contention otherwise and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene are unconscionable. Donald Trump immediately appealed that to the Supreme Court. That's where we stand right now.
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I'll give you more updates, of course, as I get more data. Thanks for watching and hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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But I don't want to in this moment in any way cause signals that could be problematic in any way. But let me just share with you what happened as we all woke up to the opening of the market. It officially became the worst three day performance of the S&P 500 since October of 1987, with the S&P falling more than 20%. from its February closing high on pace to confirm a bear market.
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Elbows up, Canada. Canada is fighting back. They're showing how you lead the resistance and opposition at an international scale against Donald Trump. They've showed the rest of the world how it's done. Take a look at this right here. How about them flights from Vancouver to Phoenix or really anywhere from Canada into the United States? Well,
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By the way, we have 100% Canadian-made maple Midas gear, 100% Canadian-made Canadian manufacturing. If you go to store.midastouch.com, store.midastouch.com, 100% made in Canada, store.midastouch.com. Check that out as well to all of our Canadian viewers and listeners. Thanks for watching and have a good one.
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You know, and when I read these Financial Times articles, These are the same people who were saying, oh, we still expect that under Donald Trump, there's going to be financial growth. We there may be a little bit slumpy. You know, all of these people's financial predictions are always like so inaccurate and incorrect here.
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But, you know, you take a look right here and there's like, who is this person right here who's quoted Trump? This guy from the travel industry was like, well, we expect there to be about a, Adam Sachs, we expect there to be, you know, maybe a $9 billion drop, a 20% decline in travel from Canada. It ain't going to be a 20% decline in travel from Canada, okay?
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It's going to be a 75% to 80% decline in travel, at least. Right now, the Canadian boycott is going so strong. I think you want to take these numbers and probably 10 to 15x them in terms of the loss that's going to be felt by the American tourism industry, whether it's, you know, I mean, Vegas is getting crushed right now. Florida getting crushed right now. We've heard from people.
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Places like Maine and others, business down 85 to 90 percent. This article from Axios, Canadian snowbirds are selling their U.S. homes right here. And Canadians are saying we ain't going there. You know, in addition to the fact that Donald Trump is threatening war. So good reason not to come here. If you show up here, there's measles outbreaks. Another person died of measles in the United States.
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So you get these new pandemics coming back that were treated with vaccines based on an anti-vax head of the health department here. Um, or you've got here in the Trump regime, they may, uh, send you to ice detention centers or, uh, send you back or send you out to, uh, El Salvador concentration camps. You never know what's going to happen with the Trump regime.
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You have a tattoo, you know, maybe you have an autism awareness tattoo and they go, Ooh, autism awareness tattoo that equals six points. They like make up these weirdo formulas, six points. I guess that makes you trend day, Aragua, no due process. Um, It's the most insane regime that we have here in the United States. By the way, take a look at the bread aisle right here.
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all the passengers boycotting, going elbows up, going over the boards, throwing the gloves off. They ain't coming. They ain't coming. You know why? Because Donald Trump's threatening annexation. Donald Trump's not just engaged in trade war, but using language of real war. The Putin denazification language where Putin used that as a pretext for his unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
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This person goes, I sell bread. Is this a little overkill with all of the baked in Canada? That ain't overkill right there. That's fantastic. Take a look at Canadian sharing this as well. Not an American strawberry in sight, Mexican and Canadian only. I want to share with you this. Prime Minister Mark Carney gave an incredible speech in Oakville, Ontario.
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Here he was speaking and outlining skilled trades workforce right here. Great speech. But here are the portions where he talks about the United States. He lays out here the retaliation against the U.S. He makes it clear since they're in this transition kind of state with the pass off from Trudeau to Carney, what the powers and authorities are.
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But Prime Minister Carney saying, no, we're retaliating and they're going to feel pain. Watch this.
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Hear Prime Minister Carney in giving the speech. By the way, the snap elections you all know are April 28th. And for our other international viewers, the system in Canada is you vote for the party. It's the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party are the big parties there. You also have the New Democratic Party, Green Party.
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Other parties in Canada, you know, as well, but the two biggest parties right now, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, many expect Liberal Party is going to win based on Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party going full like maple MAGA before all of this, you know, before Trump gave the ultimate FU to Canada and threatened war. Poliev was following the Trump playbook.
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He sent Danielle Smith from Alberta to Florida even recently to work, you know, try to interfere with the elections. The whole thing's horrific. Anyway, here's Prime Minister Carney right here talking about how, look, this isn't going to be easy for Canada, but America will feel more pain. Here, watch this.
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You know what Donald Trump's saying about Canada? Oh, they're smuggling the fentanyl to kill the Americans. Total lies, total defamation against Canada and Canada standing up. By the way, sit back and relax, Canadians. Enjoy your Chapman's only ice cream. Some Chapman's only Canada's finest right here. Ice cream bars. Take a look right there. Got some other Canadian snacks right here.
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Another powerful part of Carney's speech, let me show you this.
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And this is from Carney's speech as well. Let's play it.
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Buying Canadian. Take a look at the headline from the Financial Times. U.S. vacation hotspots brace for slump. As angry Canadians cancel trips, Trump's threats of annexation and tariffs hit the country's largest international tourist market. I think we're past the part of bracing. I think we're now at the part of the film where the pain is being felt because of Donald Trump's deranged regime.
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Now let me share with you this as well recently from Canadian foreign minister from the Liberal Party. Here's her forceful statement responding to the Trump tariffs. Play this clip.
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For no reason other than Donald Trump hates this photo, I'm sharing with you the portrait that was hanging in Colorado of Donald Trump. This is Kinzinger, former Republican Congress member, Adam Kinzinger, courageous Adam Kinzinger, standing up to Donald Trump, posting that. And while Donald Trump is imposing these tariffs, crashing the world markets right now, this was him returning to D.C.
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last night on Sunday night. And here he was bragging about how great he was at golf over the weekend. So as the markets are tanking and crashing, Trump's saying he's great at golf. Here, play this clip. Hello, Mr. President. Are there any questions? No. There you have it, folks. Deranged, demented, dangerous. Canada, we stand strong with you here at the Midas Touch Network.
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Maybe putting a felon, a fraud, a sexual predator in the Oval Office and someone who led an insurrection against the country, not a great idea. I would say I told you so, but most of you watching knew that. And for those who are now coming to your senses, well, we talk about data here on the Midas Touch Network. So why don't we take stock today?
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soldiers who died during training exercise they did yesterday. an incredibly moving ceremony in Lithuania, but Donald Trump cannot be bothered. And in fact, Donald Trump leaked to Fox, and I put this in quote, news, which I call state regime media, that he doesn't give an F about how people feel about him anymore.
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He says, I don't give an F. He says, I couldn't care less if people suffer, if prices rise. That's what Donald Trump's saying. Over the weekend, rather than talk about people suffering, rather than talk about American troops who died overseas, Donald Trump posted videos and photos of himself golfing over the And over again, he posted this. Hang tough, we can't lose, he posted this.
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This is actually a post from him. Trump is purposely crashing the market. That's what Donald Trump is posting from his official account, I would say. Can you imagine if Biden or Obama or... But you get the point. What are we even talking about here, folks? Donald Trump is posting from his official account that he's purposefully crashing the markets.
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We have a demented individual in the Oval Office. And as I said at the outset of the video, this is a felon for business records fraud. This is a fraud. Someone who was found civilly liable for for falsifying valuations in a very detailed order spelling out that this guy lies about the valuations of his properties. This is a sexual predator, someone found liable for sexual assault by a jury.
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This is someone found liable for defamation. I mean, what? We're not supposed to talk about that? We're supposed to just ignore that the way corporate news wants to ignore the growing protests across the country? But guess what? You can't ignore it.
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We ain't going to ignore it here at the Midas Touch Network now that we're the biggest news network and get the most views in the country and the world. I should highlight this story as well. What's Trump focused on while all of this is happening? You know what Trump is focused on? He is preparing a massive military parade that probably will cost hundreds of millions of dollars in Washington, D.C.
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set for June 14th. He's preparing a massive military parade where he wants to bring out tanks and weapons and fly jets overhead. As Americans are suffering. So to recap, Donald Trump is posting videos and photos of himself golfing and he's planning Kim Jong-un style military parades through Washington, D.C. on June 14th. Seven months ago, this was the headline.
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This morning, pun intended, of where we're at since Donald Trump declared Liberation Day, which is really self-inflicted Great Depression Day, Annihilation Day, Liquidation Day. So stocks have now lost over 15% in two trading days. About $10 trillion or more of market value just wiped away. Bitcoin crashing.
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Seven months ago, this was the headline. Yep. Remember when under former President Biden? We would hear on Fridays, the Dow Jones set a new record today. The S&P set a new record today. What? The markets were up 50% to 60% or so under former President Biden. But remember how upset Fox was when they had to report on the job numbers? Well, the reports came out, but...
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It's a little underwhelming, even though it's a record. Even though the market is up 50% since when Biden took office, it's a little underwhelming. Or they would get angry when they had to report the good data. Under former President Biden, 16.2 million jobs were created. Unemployment was at record lows. Every single month was a month of job creation.
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There were 40,000 infrastructure projects that were going up in the United States. Under former President Biden, we were energy independent. Our GDP was leading the world. We were number one in every world economic category, and our alliances were stronger than ever. NATO brought in new members to stand up to Russia's aggression. We were strong on the domestic front, on the foreign front.
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And all we heard from corporate news and MAGA Republican influencers and right wing propaganda media was attack after attack after attack. Well, here are some facts, some data, some objective information right now. Here are the markets that hit circuit breakers today, meaning they shut down because they were tanking so fast. China, Taiwan, Japan, the Russell Futures, Australia, Singapore.
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As we wake up today, markets shut down because they're tanking and they hit a point where the markets literally have to shut down. The question is, will America's markets hit that today? Are we heading there today like those other markets? By the way, if the S&P today falls more than 4%, It will be the first time it's done this since the Great Depression. Since the Great Depression right now.
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As Spencer Akimian also writes, if the market opened right now, the NASDAQ would be down 29% since February 19th. The second fastest 30% drop in history. But folks... The oligarchs are feasting. The oligarchs are happy. Take a look. Mark Zuckerberg bought a $23 million mansion to be right next to Donald Trump. Cool, Zuckerberg. Awesome, man. You're going to do your jujitsu?
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You're going to do your jujitsu, Zuckerberg? Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Here was Donald Trump flying back on Air Force One when he was asked about... By the way, this Bloomberg reporter, she's amazing, this Bloomberg reporter. She was the one who was speaking to Scott Besson. So Trump's asked about the markets and Trump says to the people... Really, he's like, I don't care.
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You got to take your medicine, Americans. Just deal with it. Take your medicine. It's like a stupid question. Americans need to eat their medicine right now, and I'm feeding them their medicine. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump bragged about his golf game and said he had a very low handicap.
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Didn't Donald Trump and all the Bitcoin bros say, this guy's the Bitcoin president to the moon? Well, Bitcoin is crashing. Over the past few days, we saw 18 dead as significant severe weather flash floods were tearing through parts of the United States and Tennessee and Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Bet you didn't hear Donald Trump talk about the 18 people who died yesterday.
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Then Donald Trump sent his treasury secretary, Scott Besant. Scott Besant was asked on Meet the Press about what do you say to people who are retiring right now or about to retire who have lost their life savings? What's your message to them, Scott Besant? Now, Scott Besant is almost a billionaire. He's worth over $500 million now.
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And Besant used to live in a pink mansion that looked like Barbie's dream house. He called it his pink palace in Charleston, South Carolina. And here Scott Besant says, I don't think Americans are going to be worried. He goes, I think he does it with this like arrogance. I think Americans have all this money saved up. I don't think Americans are going to care at all. So I'm sorry.
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I don't know what to tell them. I think they're fine. Here, play this clip.
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That's my Scott Besant impression right there. Not sure if it's offensive or a good impression or a bad impression, but that's my Besant impression. How horrific. How out of touch are you? Right. These are the same MAGA Republicans who tell us, look, you're going to feel pain. But we but we told you we campaigned on pain and suffering. No, you didn't.
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You said on day one you were going to lower prices, even though former President Biden had inflation going down to two percent thanks to the. Inflation Reduction Act interest rates were being cut under former President Biden.
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If y'all idiots literally just did nothing, like if you literally just had a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump in the Oval Office and let this demented, perverted weirdo go and play golf and you literally did nothing, GDP would have grown about 4% for the first quarter instead of taking it like you're doing and causing a global recession, if not a Great Depression. I self-inflicted one right now.
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Y'all said lower prices, housing more affordable, peace in Ukraine in 24 hours, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. Y'all lied about it all. Y'all are liars. And now you're a rug pull Ponzi scheme presidency where it's like, oh, you want your Doge rebate check? Maybe I'll give you a doge rebate check. Or you want me to make you rich?
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Elon and Donald are going to go to Fort Knox. Maybe we'll find some gold. Welcome to Shotgun Falls. We'll find you some gold out there. What do you think people are so freaking dumb? You think everybody in America has a MAGA mush brain, you idiots? What are you even talking about? These people. I want to share this story with you. Use our platform to uplift it as well.
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A mother and her three children were snatched by ice from a dairy farm in Sackett's Harbor, a rural town in northern New York. But the location is no coincidence. Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, lives there. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable, as Betty Hassan says. Our fascist government put a third grader in handcuffs. I want to read this from you.
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The principal of Sackett's Harbor, Jamie Cook. Here's what Jamie Cook. Message from the Sackett's Harbor principal. As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, And we're following the legal process.
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They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby Old McDonald's Petting Zoo and Dairy Farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a... home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable.
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Over the past few days because of horrific storms. Also, you haven't heard Donald Trump really mention the four U.S. soldiers who died in Lithuania. Donald Trump was too busy to even greet the families and meet the bodies when it was returned, when the bodies were returned to the United States. But Lithuanians bid farewell to the four U.S.
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The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock. And it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students release. We are in direct communication with our students.
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Let me be clear. They are not being medically evaluated. They are not being questioned as potential victims. Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
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The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. As Rick Pearlston says, do not look away. Do not look away. The protests are growing. The resistance will not be televised. It will be here on the Midas Touch Network. That's why you need to check out MidasPlus.com where we're covering all of the protests.
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You need to subscribe here to this YouTube channel as well where we're covering the protests. We're covering all of these updates. Now that we have the biggest news platform in the country, we will be using it exactly how corporate news did not want us to use it. how they refuse to use it. We're going to cover all those protests. We're going to cover the rising resistance.
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We're going to do it truthfully. We're going to do it relentlessly. We're going to do it fearlessly. Please subscribe right now to this YouTube channel. We appreciate you. Shout out Midas Mighty.
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I'm sorry if I missed your protest. Sorry if I missed it, but I can't have this video go on forever. But we are going to cover all this stuff here at the Midas Touch Network. Now, you may recall the recent article that Vanity Fair wrote about the Midas Touch Network, and here's what the title was. This was from March 13th, 2025. The Trump resistance won't be televised. It'll be on Midas Touch.
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The progressive network is thriving in a second Trump term, recently dethroning Joe Rogan and becoming a destination for prominent Democrats. The resistance will be on Midas Touch. We've made this such an important point of ours as we grow this network to make sure that we have these rallies on. We knew corporate news was not going to cover it.
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and or the way they should be covering it and now that we had this huge platform it was vital for us to share it with you and show you it this is what elon musk posted by the way he responded to this account amuse soros funded indivisible is admitting they are behind the 1300 paid protests happening today in all 50 states.
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Democratic billionaires are funding uprisings and they should be held legally accountable for violence. Musk responds, they will be. Folks, these were peaceful protests, unlike Musk and Donald Trump, who are destroying the lives of veterans, destroying Social Security and Medicaid. As we responded on the Midas Touch account, Keep downplaying the protests at your own peril, Elon and Donald.
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Keep threatening Americans. The protests will only get bigger. Trump is hated. Musk is hated. The political winds have shifted. People are fed up. This is only the beginning. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network. Great work to all of the organizers of the protest. Everybody who showed up loved all the people wearing the Midas gear as well.
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These protests will continue to grow in times that are certainly filled with doom and gloom news as Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the regime continue to take a wrecking ball to the United States of America and the world. It is great to see people rising up. People will rise up. People will take back our freedoms. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe.
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Now I want to show you the massive, massive protest that was taking place in downtown Chicago as part of the Hands Off movement. Let's play the clip.
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Americans are fed up. The hands off protests on Saturday took the nation by storm. Thousands of protests in cities and towns in states across the United States of America and internationally as well. Millions of people in the aggregate were out there protesting in different cities. We saw hundreds of thousands of people, and these numbers are only going to grow as we head into democracy summer.
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Now, just so you see here as well, and credit to Marco Foster for putting a lot of these together and aggregating it from groups like Our Revolution, this is an aerial view of the massive protest taking place in New York City yesterday as part of the hands-off rally against Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Just look at how massive it actually was in size. Play this clip.
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And here is the massive crowd that continued to grow yesterday at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for the hands-off rally against Musk and Trump. Let's play the clip. We had Midas Touch correspondent and TikTok superstar Aaron Parnas in Washington, D.C., embedded in the protests yesterday. Here's what he had to say earlier on as the numbers continued to grow.
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When he was there, it was 50,000, 100,000. I think the full count in D.C. is going to be significantly higher, but this was yesterday when Parnas was there. Let's play it.
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Parnas then had the opportunity to interview Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin. Let me show you what went down. Let's play it.
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Now, I just want to also go back and share with you the massive scope of that Boston event. Take a look right here, the aerial view of the massive protest in Boston yesterday. This was incredible. You see how many people were there. The official count was around 100,000. I think it's actually more than that. I think that's a conservative estimate. Let me show you this right here.
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This was also from the hands-off protest. Senator Cory Booker joining a hands-off protest in Montclair, New Jersey, with a message for us all. We achieved great things in this country because average citizens stood up and said enough is enough. And this is one of those moments. Play this clip.
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Now, the Midas Touch Network was there broadcasting all of it. We partnered with MoveOn and some of the other grassroots organizations who were leading the protests. What you saw at the beginning of this video was part of our coverage. That was from the New York protests. What I want to do now on this video is highlight some of the protests that were taking place across the country and the world.
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Take a look at another one of these huge protests taking place in Kansas City, Missouri yesterday. Play the clip. Also, massive protests in Salt Lake City, Utah. Let's play it. Now, here was a huge crowd that gathered in Denver, Colorado yesterday. Let's play it.
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In Washington, D.C., Congress member Eric Swalwell delivered a speech in front of the huge crowd right there. Let me show you what went down. Let's play it.
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And here's Congress member Eric Swalwell again. Let's play it.
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We've seen a lot of... Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin also gave an incredible speech in Washington, D.C. Let me play that clip for you as well.
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I want to highlight some great signs that we saw at the protest yesterday. We saw a sign like this in Kalispell, Montana. IKEA has better cabinets. Here's another great one in Illinois. They are eating the checks. They are eating the balances. Here's another one. People dressed up as penguins because Donald Trump's regime tariffed penguins for 10 percent tariffs on penguins.
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The penguins showed up to protest at a hands off event and they had the photo of Donald Trump, the portrait that Trump hated in the from the Colorado Statehouse. And it says traitor in chief. Another A-plus protest sign at a hands-off protest in Rockford, Illinois. It says, pretend where Melania Donald hands off. Some other great photos and protest signs of Donald Trump and Putin.
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I also want to share with you what our correspondent Aaron Parnas was seeing on the ground in Washington, D.C., as he was interviewing some of the top Democratic leaders for the Midas Touch Network. All right, let's take a look at Boston where there were over 100,000 people protesting. I want to show you what that scene looked like. Let's play it.
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Here's Donald Trump, the complete and total slob. Another very creative sign of Donald Trump as a little baby. Here's one that says, we are not okay. One says Trump's a little B word. Then there's another poster that has a photo of President Zelensky. It says not a dictator. A photo of Putin that says dictator. A photo of J.D. Vance that says dick.
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And a photo of Donald Trump all in the same poster that says traitor. Here's another one, another great sign I want to share with you. Honk if you've never drunk texted war plans. Here, a grandma had a sign that said, I'd call Trump a C word, but he lacks depth and warmth. So a lot of signs like that.
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We don't really curse here on the Midas Touch Network, but I want to highlight what some of those signs are. Let me just share with you some of the other protests where we were either tagged in or there were so many. So if I didn't capture your city, I may have done it in an earlier video.
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The ones I did yesterday, but I'm going to do my best to highlight some of these protests like this one in Helena, Montana. People coming out in Montana, in Gurney, Illinois. A lot of people coming out. Kalispell, Montana. Loads of protesters in San Diego, Omaha, Nebraska. What's up? Fresno, California, which actually went Trump in this last election. Lots of protesters there.
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In Las Vegas, Nevada, protesters are showing up in force. This was in Austin, Texas, where Democratic House Representative Greg Kassar made an appearance. And here's what he had to say. Let's play this clip.
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protesters in Rockford, Illinois, protesters in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in Hawaii. This was an interesting one from Philip Gorvich, a writer from The New Yorker, responding to more nomen. I've never seen anything like this in New York City. Fifth Avenue covered from 42nd Street well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets.
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No police in sight. Philip Gorvich then responds, I asked one high ranking policeman I saw on Fifth Avenue why there were so few police. He said, quote, We did not expect anything like this. Don't tell anyone, but I've only got 44 officers out there and it's a great crowd. No event incidents, which I think is very important. These were peaceful protests. peaceful protests across the country.
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Despite there being peaceful protests, Elon Musk was calling for the arrest of people and threatening people as these protests are growing. Clearly, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, very, very scared about the size and scope and growing nature of these protests. Go to a place like San Luis Obispo, California. 10,000 people showed up there in San Luis Obispo. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hands-off protest.
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Macon, Georgia, huge protests there. Asheville, North Carolina. Illinois State Capitol. Akron, Ohio. Iceland, we had lots of people dressed up, whether they were in New Hampshire, other areas in the New England region, wearing the Midas gear and showing up with Midas gear. Huge turnout in Houston as well. I mean, folks, people were out and about with force.
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Try to show you some other ones right here. Atlanta, what's up? Pennsylvania, Lancaster, what's up? pronouncing it right this time, Duluth, Minnesota. What's up? Asheville, North Carolina, Columbus, Ohio, Portland, Maine, Cincinnati, Ohio, going internationally, London. There were also protests in Canada, Concord, New Hampshire, Richmond. I could keep going on and on and on.
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Taxes would go way down and they would be totally secure from the threat of Russian and Chinese ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great nation it would be. Trump's writing that on the same day that Prime Minister Trudeau officially resigned. And now there will be a process to pick a new Liberal Party leader in Canada.
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Angus goes on to say, again, the member of Parliament who we've had on here, who has been very critical of Donald Trump and very strong in a way. I think we all wish more politicians were like, especially here in the United States. Angus says, what struck me about the latest Trump's tweet is that he's just seriously not fit for public office. His nemesis, Trudeau, resigned.
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I was expecting him to do a victory dance. Instead, we got fed this moron slop that not even MAGA dimwits could take to the bank. Putin must be thrilled at the state of America. And again, Trump is doing this on January 6th, the four-year anniversary of the insurrection. Not only that, but Donald Trump has also sent Don Jr.,
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to go to Greenland, which Donald Trump has also expressed a desire to conquer and take over Greenland and make that part of the United States. Again, reflecting this kind of imperial conquest. And you've seen other videos I've done on this. Russia is thrilled about this because for Russia, they're like, well, That's what we want to do with Finland. And that's what we want to do with Norway.
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Donald Trump is getting absolutely wrecked by a Canadian member of Parliament after Trump went on this bizarre social media spree attacking Canada. You've seen this member of Parliament from the New Democratic Party, Charlie Angus, on our program before. Here's what his message was to Donald Trump on the day the electoral votes were certified on January 6th. Charlie Angus writes the following,
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And that's what we want to do with Poland after Ukraine. So, you know, this is an age of conquest, I guess, again. And Trump is saying he just wants to do the things that Putin wants to do with his neighbors. So they're loving this disarray, especially as Donald Trump is attacking NATO allies. So Trump sends Don Jr., to Greenland after talking about conquering it.
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And it was a particular slap in the face to the Kingdom of Denmark and Denmark because the leaders in Denmark actually had a meeting that was going to be scheduled on Wednesday with the ruling party in Greenland, which is a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. And so this move right here by Don Jr. was intended, this was a message to piss off our allies in Denmark who are, was a member of NATO.
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I mean, it's intended to piss off our NATO ally that we're going to conquer one of your territories. That's the message that's also being sent on January 6th. As Niels Fester writes, confirmed, Trump Jr. is on his way to Greenland to meet key Greenlandic politicians, shortcutting Copenhagen. This could be seen as pretty hostile by the Danish government, but certainly delicate to handle.
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The leader of Greenland's government was scheduled to visit King Frederick of Denmark on Wednesday, and that has now been postponed because of Don Jr. flying into Greenland. So really giving the middle finger right here to Denmark, again, one of our key allies in NATO.
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At the same time all of this is going on, you have Elon Musk making posts as well regarding the territorial expansion and also just making a bunch of other horrific remarks. Elon Musk, Donald Trump's closest advisor, says the people of Greenland should decide their future. And I think they want to be part of America. And he's responding to this post by a MAGA account that says Trump Jr.
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is reportedly in Greenland. It's a population of 57000. What's stopping Trump or say Elon Musk from creating economic relations and nudging the entire population towards demanding annexation by the US like Texas did? This needs to happen. And again, Elon Musk is one of Donald Trump's top advisors and aides and is running a fake cabinet post. So this needs to be taken very, very seriously, folks.
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As I've said before in other videos that I did, if President Xi Jinping of China said that he was going to take over Japan and said it would be great for Japan to be part of China and then started posting AI photos of himself on top of
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buildings in Tokyo with the Chinese flag, and then if he made posts that leaders in Japan should be members of the CCP, the whole world would be taking that very seriously. They wouldn't be saying, oh, that's just President Xi Jinping being a troll. That's why it needs to be taken seriously. But also, when Donald Trump does not back up his threats of conquest,
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I think he means they're people found liable for sexual abuse, but... abusers, don't get to lead our nation. We're decent folk. P.S. Button up. We're sending frigid cold your way. Love, Canada. He's responding to Donald Trump's post that says the following. Trump posted again on a day which should have been celebratory for somebody where the electoral votes were being counted.
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The story in the Washington Post, quoting so-called anonymous sources which don't exist, incorrectly states that my tariff policy will be pared back. That is wrong. The Washington Post knows it's wrong. It's just another example of fake news. And so the message he's also sending right now to Mexico, to Canada, are those 25% tariffs, massive tariffs on our allies in the European Union as well.
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And I think what we'll see a lot more is America will become increasingly isolated and This plays right into the hands of Vladimir Putin, who wants America to become isolated and weaker. Vladimir Putin is not interested in doing any peace deal in Ukraine. Putin made that extraordinarily clear over the past few weeks.
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I've covered Putin and Sergei Lavrov, his foreign minister statement saying there's no deal that doesn't involve total capitulation by Ukraine and, you know, just utter destruction like that's. what Russia sees as the deal, and Donald Trump's not going to be able to get that done.
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While all of this is going on too, Donald Trump on January 6th was posting photos from the January 6th insurrection back in 2021. I mean, just think about that. He's celebrating what happened on J6 2021. And then he's lying in post and he's saying, Biden is doing everything possible to make this transition as difficult as possible. I'm not even gonna read the rest.
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If you wanna go read the rest, read it yourself. But Biden invited Donald Trump to the White House, offered all of the resources to Donald Trump that Donald Trump could have, gave every resource imaginable to make the transition smooth.
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Unlike Donald Trump, who not only led an insurrection to overthrow our democracy, but refused to sign the General Services Administration paperwork to even allow just like basic things to happen, like the supplies to be transferred over, the offices to be transferred over responsibly,
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He did not allow any communications between cabinet positions and and wanted to create a situation to cause chaos on day one when Biden. would take over. It should also be noted as well that on January 6th, you have Donald Trump filing motions in a case where he was criminally convicted.
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Michael Popock, our friend at the Legal AF YouTube channel, and a Midas Touch contributor, he did a hot take on it, so I'm not gonna go into much more detail other than to say that Donald Trump filed an emergency motion to try to stop his sentencing, which is scheduled to take place in New York on Friday by New York criminal judge, Juan Merchan, who presided over the criminal case of Donald Trump.
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And Trump saying that the transition period confers him absolute transition immunity, that presidential immunity applies to even before you are inaugurated. That's essentially his argument right there. Should be noted that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned earlier in the day. Now we are in a process where the Liberal Party is going to try to pick a new leader.
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And I think Prime Minister Trudeau did that, resigned. His popularity was very low, was like under 20%. And I think he wanted to give the Liberal Party an opportunity to try to find a leader in order to take on the Conservative Party in Canada, led by Pierre Poliev, who is more sympathetic or very sympathetic to Trump.
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In the past, Poliev just did that interview with the far right wing podcaster Jordan Peterson, where they even talked about things like getting rid of health care in Canada and getting rid of the kind of public health support that kind of defined in many ways kind of the Canadian way of making sure health was a human right. I think Poliev wants to take that away. There you have it, folks.
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Here's what Donald Trump wrote. Many people in Canada love being the 51st state. The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this and resigned. If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no tariffs.
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
By now, I'm sure you all saw the clip of this weekend of Donald Trump saying he doesn't know if he needs to uphold the Constitution. But in all of the chaos and disaster that Donald Trump has caused in the federal government and the constant crises each and every day, I don't want us to lose sight of one of the biggest stories that's not being reported.
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And Donald Trump talks about how he wants, you know, he's now he's doing, you know, he does that. He always test bubbles things with the jokes. Oh, third term, third term. Ha ha ha. I'm being funny. Oh, he's trolling. And then it starts to become real and real and real. And then before you know it, you've got MAGA Republicans saying, let's reopen Alcatraz.
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
Let's tariff the world dictator on day one. Let's do it. So the gutting of the FEC, I believe, and the destruction of all of this, its natural conclusion is the kind of oligarch king authoritarian system is what they want. I think the resistance has been strong. Groups like yours have stepped up. Nonprofits and other spaces have stepped up to push back, but that's where they want to go.
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So what are you doing to stop this? What's the plan?
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
Now, let's rewind to 2007. The late, great Senator John McCain, Republican, because this stuff didn't used to be political or partisan. John McCain was on all places, Fox News at the time. And he was asked in 2007, do you still support this bipartisan piece of legislation you did with Russ Feingold, a Democratic senator?
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
Well, good to have you on, Tiffany Moeller from End Citizens United. Where can people find out more about the work you're doing?
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Keep us posted. And there's always an open invite to use our sub stack, MidasPlus.com. If you want to get out information to the public, we've got a great distribution group there as well.
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to try to remove all of this dark money from politics and to create a system that really checked some of the most damaging aspects of corporate influence and oligarch influence in the elections. This is McCain 2007 on Fox. Play the clip. If you had it all to do over again, would you still go for McCain-Falcon?
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
Then comes the Citizen United decision by the Supreme Court in 2010. And lots of people were warning what a disaster this decision was going to be. It essentially said that, look, corporations and all these dark money groups, they're like people. They have a free speech right to say whatever the hell they want in the elections. And people were warning, you know what they're going to do?
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
They're going to use that as a license to deceive and interfere with elections and trick people. And billionaires who have amassed all this wealth are going to buy their power, exactly what McCain, Feingold bought. Bipartisan legislation was created to stop. So what did we have in the 2024 election?
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
And that's that Donald Trump has worked to systematically dismantle the FEC, the Federal Elections Commission, which no longer even has a quorum for it to conduct business, evaluate complaints and act on it. So with all of this, dark money coming into politics and specifically hoisting up Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.
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Elon Musk spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the role that we've now seen is what he wanted to do. Doge. Destroy the federal government and take your data. And how they do it with everything these groups warned against. The RBG PAC. Remember that that Elon Musk created? He was claiming that RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, actually supported Donald Trump.
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And they ran ads that great minds think alike. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Donald Trump.
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were of the same people were on the same team i mean that's what they were doing to the legacy of ruth bader ginsburg who would have been someone standing up and she was someone who stood up to donald trump then elon musk would announce on stage i'm giving one million dollars play this clip i have a surprise for you uh which is that uh we're going to be awarding a million dollars
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
They ran that playbook, deceitful playbook, with success in the 2024 election. And then they tried to run it again in all of these state races. Fortunately, wasn't successful in the Wisconsin judicial race. But here's what they were doing in Wisconsin, where they were talking about, how if you voted for the Republican MAGA candidate, you'd get a million dollars.
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
This was someone named Ekaterina Deisler, who said she got a million dollars from Elon. Watch the ads they were putting out. Let's play it.
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What? Let's bring the president from End Citizens United here, Tiffany Mueller, out to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of your group. All of this can be traced, right, to the Citizens United decision. This has been going on for a long time. But when you see all of that, what's your reaction to it?
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
And then I want to pivot and talk about what's been going on even more with the Federal Elections Commission.
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
Tell us about what's been going on with just the composition of the Federal Elections Commission and what it means. Obviously, I mean, we've reported before Donald Trump has fired one of the Democratic members, a strong advocate just for fair processes and democracy, Commissioner Weintraub. But then we saw a lot of Republican commissioners resign. And now there's no quorum.
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
They've been making moves behind the scenes to dismantle even more an already dismantled Federal Elections Commission. I want to analyze how we got here. First, let me share with you the clip that you've seen this weekend. I want to take a little historical detour.
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
There's only like three people on the panel. So they're not even able to meet and make decisions. So they have all these backlogs of complaints and they can't even make advisory opinions like they literally shut like they're doing nothing. Like, can you talk to that?
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When I do interviews of international leaders, whether it's in Canada, Australia, or many places in Europe, they're very just kind of confused at our system in general, that our election system, these commissioners, that they are part of a political apparatus, like just conceptually, that's not a thing.
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in many other democracies that that are working you know in in canada the elections commission is the least political has nothing to do with politics and it wouldn't even be considered a political thing that a prime minister has powers to influence like that and in other countries as as well and and here in the united states we we like that's imbued in the system and you've seen even where
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
I want to show you McCain-Feingold's bipartisan legislation passed in 2002, which was, again, systematically dismantled by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case and another horrific voting rights cases. But first, let me show you the Trump clip from this weekend. And let's go back to the future, then into the present. Let's play.
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
You have a Republican like McCain and a Democrat like Feingold in 2002 identify the problem because they did their jobs. They predicted in advance exactly the clips that I then showed what was going to happen. Then we have a political Supreme Court right wing where no one was even talking about it the way they are today. In 2010, still a Roberts court saying, you know what?
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That bipartisan effort violates the freedom of speech rights of corporations to deceive. Gotcha. So we're going to stop the legislation when finally Democrats and Republicans work together to do something. The Supreme Court goes, nah, screw it. I mean, that's crazy.
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President of End Citizens United Tiffany Muller on Trump’s Attack on Elections
I'm gonna guess it is a whopping zero burger.
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You know, I think about the song that was used for The Apprentice, money, money, money, money, money. And then I also think about the Supreme Court. They do this over and over again. They did it here with campaign finance. They did it with the absolute immunity ruling when people were saying, you know. Donald Trump's going to abuse it if you give him absolute immunity.
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He's going to start doing illegal things and claim it's in the interest of national security. And the Supreme Court, the same way in Citizens United, said, we don't think money's a corrupting factor. They said. We think that's hypothetical. Our bigger concern is, are we going to chill the legitimate functions of the executive branch if he doesn't have absolute immunity?
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We're not worried that it'll be abused. And then you had the liberals on the court saying, hello, he's saying he wants to be a dictator on day one. And the majority is saying,
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we just we don't we don't see it and it's like how out of touch are you clearly rich people are going to try to buy elections like and they do it over and over again i want to talk about though the dictator part of this because that's where this is heading right i mean where it's it's there but the question that our viewers have on their mind is are there even going to be elections in the future
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's been on a tear, expressing a great deal of displeasure and anger about things that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans have done recently. She is pissed that Donald Trump entered into a minerals deal with Ukraine. Notice that this minerals deal was being talked about before all of the time, but now
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That's not getting a lot of attention except here on the Midas Touch Network. Marjorie Taylor Greene then posts the following. I represent the base. And when I'm frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear. The base is not happy. I campaign for no more foreign wars. And now we're supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran.
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I don't think we should be bombing foreign countries on behalf of other foreign countries, especially when they have their own nuclear weapons and massive military strength. And on top of that, now we're told that we have signed a deal for mineral rights in Ukraine.
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in order to pay us back for the hundreds of billions of dollars that we gave Ukraine and they used for money laundering, sold the weapons we gave them to our enemies and their leader is a dictator who canceled elections, was involved of the first impeachment of Trump and campaigned for Biden. Pause. Even when I'm sharing with you Marjorie Taylor Greene turning against the GOP
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and attacking the GOP and without saying Trump's name, also attacking Trump. I got a fact checker because all of these things are absolutely false. The money's not being used for money laundering. It's been used to defend Ukraine, which stands as a bulwark on the front lines of protecting the free world from Russia invading other areas in Eastern Europe.
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And then taking Europe, Ukraine has bravely defended itself and by proxy has defended the entire free world. They're not selling weapons to our enemies unless Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks that our enemies include Ukraine. NATO. President Zelensky is not a dictator. Vladimir Putin and your dear leader, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump is. And then she goes on to whine even more.
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She goes, didn't we learn our lesson when we went to war in Iraq and killed Saddam Hussein because of weapons of mass destruction? Did we ever find any? And did any of that oil over in the Middle East make us rich? The answer is no. We are $36 trillion in debt today. Pause. Donald Trump contributed to 25% of that Marjorie You and the MAGAs are responsible for most of that debt, but I'll go on.
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Nobody's talking about this minerals deal at all because President Zelensky of Ukraine totally outmaneuvered Donald Trump and the things that Donald Trump was trying to shake down Zelensky with. Ultimately, Donald Trump didn't get in. Zelensky worked out a great deal. for Zelensky and, frankly, for the free world. But you notice that MAGA's not talking about that?
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So why on earth would we go over and occupy Ukraine and spend an untold amount of future taxpayer dollars defending and mining their minerals, as well as potentially putting American lives at risk at war? Why don't we just mine our own rare earth minerals that are tied up on federal lands that the government confiscated years ago?
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I also campaigned on accountability for the communist and tyrannical acts made by the government during COVID. Yet the COVID vaccine still has FDA approval, even though there were millions reported injuries and deaths. And this mRNA vaccine is known to have horrific side effects and does not stop people from catching COVID. Let's pause there for a second again.
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Even though this video is showing you Marjorie Taylor Greene attacking other MAGA Republicans, I have to fact check it. The COVID vaccine is effective. We've seen that in cohorts where the vaccine's been used versus cohorts where it hasn't been used. It has massively, massively helped people.
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And in unvaccinated communities, the rate of deaths and serious issues is at multiples of multiples of multiples. The vaccine does work. She goes on to talk about how she wants to revoke the FDA's approval. They spread all of these lies about the vaccine over and over again. And here we are, April, I mean, May 5th, and she's still doing the same thing, whining about this stuff.
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Then she goes on, I also campaign on accountability of the lawfare that was waged against the American people the past four years. What about all the people that were locked up in jail and the abuse they went through? And when are those vicious attorneys and judges ever going to be held accountable for the lives they ruin? Pause there.
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Hey, Marjorie Taylor Greene, you are out there calling the despicable and disgusting human beings who invaded the Capitol, the insurrectionists, the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys. I know you call them heroes, but Donald Trump released them and he pardoned them or commuted their sentences. They're out. These dangerous, horrific humans are out there running free, but that's not enough.
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You want to throw in jail the Trump-appointed judges and the Reagan-appointed judges? And don't get me wrong, there are Biden-appointed judges and Obama-appointed judges. There's George W. Bush-appointed judges. A lot of those judges in D.C. who warned Donald Trump not to pardon the January 6th terrorists who were involved in some of the most horrific acts, the violent offenders.
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Were Trump appointed judges? Were Trump appointed judges? But go on. Then she goes, and I campaigned for an end to waste, fraud, and abuse of the American people's harder tax dollars. Harder tax dollars. You may want to spell check this, Marjorie, but okay. I believe the Doge mission is one of the most important things happening today in our government.
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And yet, where are the rescissions that we should be voting on in Congress? You lead the Doge committee, Marjorie. You You had it. Maybe you put Elon Musk, your other dear leader, on the committee and ask questions. I've never heard of somebody ever leading an initiative in our government who's too afraid to go before Congress and answer questions. But Elon Musk is being protected?
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I thought you said he's so smart. Let him testify. Then she goes on and says, and one of the biggest issues in the nation that I fought for, and early on I was one of the only ones that took a loud screaming stand against, is the evil transgender assault against our children. She's got to be transphobic and punch down to marginalized communities.
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Then she goes, most normal people in this country can't even, I mean, again, could you just, I mean, how rude of an individual this is, calling most normal people. You think you're a normal person, Marjorie Taylor Greene? And what is your inclination and people of your ilk that just want to bully marginalized communities and beat people who are already having to deal with a lot on their own?
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Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene's pissed about that. She's pissed at the other MAGA Republicans in the House. And there's a civil war brewing within the MAGA Republican ranks. Let me just show you what's going on here. And then I want to also talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene's market manipulation and what her stock trades are showing, in my opinion. Here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene just posted.
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But, you know, you're a bully. You're a classic bully. You know, your daddy started a real estate company. You're living off the money of daddy, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Your ex-husband, who you then went on and really the family values party. Didn't you do that? Well, Weren't you out there with the yoga instructor and then the other guy?
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But your ex-husband was the guy who was running daddy's company for you. And so you got to go out there, spread your QAnon conspiracy theories, run for Congress, the ultimate definition of privilege. And there you are punching down on communities. You really are a despicable, despicable human being. Then she goes, and look at the extreme nature of our rogue judicial
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system is so defiant that they're a judge that defy our nation's laws and block the deportations of literal enemies of the United States of America? What are you even talking about? The Supreme Court ruled nine to zero that an individual with zero criminal history who the first Trump administration gave a work permit to, who worked in a union, who has an American wife and three American kids.
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You just believe these people should be sent to concentration camps with no due process at all? I know you don't know what the Constitution is, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and you prefer to live in a kind of fascist country.
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where you have a dear leader doing whatever extermination campaigns that you all think is the right thing to do while obliterating equality, obliterating the Constitution and screwing over. I mean, is that what you are looking for here? And she goes, when you are losing MTG, they speak about themselves, you know, like that.
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Like if you are losing Ben, if you are losing MTG, you are losing the base. And Trump isn't on the ballot in the future. So do the math on that. I'm not going to show you the other ones, but it's post after post after post after post from her. But hey, Marjorie, why don't you didn't you say to release the Epstein files here? Play this clip. I support all the lists being released.
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I want to see the list of the sexual misconduct slush fund. Okay, so release them.
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Oh, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, let's take a look at your trading history from Benzinga right here. Look at all the trades you did right before and after Donald Trump's tariffs against the world. And didn't you buy Palantir, which was about to do a contract with the Department of Homeland Security and you're on the Department of Homeland Security Committee?
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We don't want the rare earth minerals in Ukraine that will bind America to never-ending spending and military defense. We have plenty of our own rare earth minerals we can mine right here at home, creating American jobs and wealth. But the federal government needs to allow it. I'm not sure she really has an understanding of anything, yet alone the way rare earth minerals work.
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Did you know about the AI Palantir contract? Because you've seen while Americans are suffering, you seem to be buying the dip and picking all the stocks that are making a lot of money, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Play this clip. Go ahead and let us know who you want to see next. And just take a look at this unusual trading activity right here. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir on April 8th.
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On April 17th, a $30 million deal between Palantir and ICE was announced. Greene sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security. That stock has now risen 48%, then 43% right there. Oh, Marjorie Taylor Greene also bought, what else did she buy here? Dollar General right before it went up. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought RH Restoration Hardware, what went up 18% since that.
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I'll just leave you all with this right here. Someone who Marjorie Taylor Greene is incredibly jealous of, AOC. Here's what AOC has to say about Marjorie Taylor Greene buying the dip. Let's play it.
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So Marjorie Taylor Greene attacking Trump, attacking the GOP. You see her right there doing it right there. You tell me what you think about that. What a mess these magas are. What a freaking mess these people are. Shameful, shameful humans. Vile, vile. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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Also, it's probably not a good idea to attack Canada and Donald Trump continuing to use war language against Canada when there is a huge amount of rare earth minerals in Canada. Also, we should reflect upon the fact that Canada has placed a total embargo on rare earth minerals and its possession reaching the United States, which is critical for components in most of our electronics.
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I just want to make sure I have this correct. Donald Trump is suing CBS and 60 Minutes for $20 billion because he's claiming that back in October of 2024, they aired an interview of former Vice President Kamala Harris that had some edits in it, although the full interview was separately accessible. But then Donald Trump's interviews are always frequently heavily edited by Fox.
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We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. So what Donald Trump's saying is that entire thing that I just read should have all been just like that. But because it was a little bit sliced and diced and not all of that was in there, that's his injury. That's his damage.
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I'm reading you from his lawsuit, page 63. That's the claim for $20 billion in injury. So if you take that and then you take a look at what I just said was edited by NBC, maybe it's $1 trillion. Maybe my lawsuit should be for $1 trillion gazillion. I mean, at this point, folks, there's the Turkish proverb, and I've heard this in other cultures as well.
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which is when you bring the clown into the palace, the palace doesn't make the clown a king. The palace becomes a circus. No offense to clowns and circuses. Real professions and circuses can be enjoyable. Not in politics, though, and not with fascist clowns, fascist circuses. That's what's happening here. What are we talking about?
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This isn't going to be a Democrat, Republican, independent political. What are we talking about, people? Well, there you have it. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe and let's get to what? 5 million subscribers together. Can we get there in May? Let's get to 5 million subscribers and check out MidasPlus.com.
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Well, we've got the footage here at the Midas Touch Network. Shall we look at what NBC deleted on Meet the Press? It was on their website, but it was not shown publicly on Meet the Press. Let's take a look, shall we? We did a whole report on this on MidasPlus.com. Subscribe to our sub stack and on MidasNews.com as well. What did they take out?
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Maybe a reference to Jeff Bezos and how Donald Trump basically shook down Bezos. Bezos and Amazon were going to include the additional price of the goods being sold on Amazon. that are now caused by the tariffs. There was going to be a tariff line item, why your products cost more money. But Donald Trump, who says that the foreign countries eat the tariffs, he goes, they eat it.
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They eat the tariffs. Okay, well, if they're eating the tariffs, then why are you worried about Jeff Bezos and Amazon putting tariffs on the receipt of the consumer? Well, anyway, this clip got edited out by NBC. I wonder why they edited this one out here. Play this clip. What did you say to Jeff Bezos?
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They edited that clip out. Twenty billion dollars. Please let me take your 20 billion dollars. Okay, folks, how many yachts should I buy with that? How many jets should I buy with that? Okay, the next clip NBC did not include on the broadcast to the public was when Donald Trump said that egg prices are down 87%. Then Kristen Welker, the host, tries to help Donald Trump and goes,
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Look, Donald, we know that eggs were high because of she like tries to give him the answer. Bird flu. That's why. Blame it on bird flu. Even though former President Biden never got the benefit of the doubt on anything. And Kristen Welker and others would just destroy Biden on literally every issue. And by the way. When's the NBC story going to run on how cognitively declined Donald Trump looks?
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If you have people in your life that you know who have dementia or suffer from cognitive issues, I'm not a doctor. I don't know what I'm observing with Donald Trump, but I can tell you that it certainly looks like people I know that do. So you tell me. But anyway, she tries to help him. It goes, it was because of the bird flu. Now, Donald Trump.
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whatever it is, he doesn't even understand she's trying to help him. So he attacks her and he goes, why would you say that? Why would you say that? We had the same bird flu as he had. She's trying to help him there. I wonder if that's why they cut this clip out from what was aired to the public. Here, play this clip.
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And then when Donald Trump just did an interview this weekend with Kristen Welker of Meet the Press on NBC, massive portions of the interview were deleted and edited out. From what ultimately aired to the public, if you went on the NBC website, which our editorial team did, they did post the full interview there. And some of the most damaging clips of Donald Trump were not aired publicly.
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The next clip that they edited out on the NBC interview that the public didn't get to see unless you went to the NBC website, not a lot of people do that, is when Donald Trump whines about the 2020 election. For a long time in this interview, that all got cut. Donald Trump was saying the election was rigged. And Kristen Welker again tries to help him. And she goes, I don't want to look back.
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Let's look forward. Donald said, I want to look back. It was rigged. It was unfair. She said, all right, Donald, let's move forward. It was rigged. I wonder why they deleted this clip. Here, play it.
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I think you get the point now of which clips they're deleting. And again, as a consumer, Donald Trump says he's a consumer and Ronnie Jackson. So Ronnie Jackson's a consumer and they suffered serious emotional distress. That's why they're suing CBS for $20 billion in paramount. I don't know. Are you distressed? I'm distressed. $20 billion. $20 billion seems about right.
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Thanks for creating that precedent for me, Donald. And then over here, Donald Trump, this is where he goes. What people don't understand is that the countries eat the tariffs. They eat the tariffs. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating the tariffs, apparently. Here, play this clip.
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Well, if you want to know my opinion, why NBC edited that out, because if you take that clip- With the Bezos clip, it shows that Donald Trump is the most generous thing you can say about Donald Trump is that either he's an idiot, he has major cognitive issues. That's the nicest interpretation of him, honestly, right?
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Because the alternative is that this is just an insane monster, which is probably all of the above right here. So the countries are eating it. OK, but Bezos is putting it on because the countries are eating it. And then you're calling Bezos to say, hide the tariffs. Doesn't this seem a little bit like like a miracle? It's all going to go away. Stop the testing. Stop the testing.
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I've given this example before, and it just bears repeating right now. I saw that movie was with Leonardo DiCaprio and others called Don't Look Up. The asteroid is about to hit the earth and people see it coming. They see it coming. And then there's a whole movement of just don't look up. Don't look up, which to me is like a miracle. It's all going to go away. Don't look at the ports.
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So I want to get this straight. can I become a billionaire now? Because Donald Trump sued CBS for $20 billion, claiming that his injury, and by the way, Ronny Jackson, MAGA Republican Congress member from Amarillo, Texas, was added to the lawsuit so Donald Trump could forum shop to have the case heard in the Northern District of Texas before a judge that Donald Trump likes
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Don't see that shipping has come to a complete halt in Seattle, in Long Beach, in Boston. Don't look up. Don't see that the ships are all in Shanghai and in Chinese ports and they're not coming here. Don't look up. Don't see that this is having a disastrous impact systemically on our economy. And we know what the next several quarters are going to look like if we go down this path. Don't look up.
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I want to tell you to look up. See it. Let's look at it. Let's try to solve it. Let's try to fix it. The parallels there are uncanny. It almost feels like the current moment is a parody of Don't Look Up. What does the future hold for business? You ask nine experts, you get 10 different answers. Bull market, bear market. Will rates rise? Will rates fall? Can someone please invent a crystal ball?
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One more time, go to NetSuite.com slash Midas. Thanks, NetSuite. All right, let me just show you what Donald Trump's lawsuit's all about because you may go, Ben, he's saying that he's a consumer who suffered $20 billion of damages, him and Ronny Jackson, for what they observed with, they said, the former Vice President Kamala Harris interview being edited. By the way...
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They like took out and CBS took out like some ums or ahs when it was, look, it was probably like 45 seconds where Kamala Harris wasn't bad. She was just like a little bit non-responsive to the question and it just slowed down the answer. So they put it on the full one and they like removed it. There was nothing substantive that drastically or that even materially changed any of the answers.
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Here, just take a look at the lawsuit. This is the amended complaint filed February 7th, 2025. And then this is how it's written. In plain English, freedom carries with it responsibility even for the press. Freedom of the press is not freedom from responsibility for its exercise. Then it says Paramount and CBS disagree. They believe in unbounded freedom to harm media content competitors.
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including President Trump, by misrepresenting the nature, characteristics, and qualities of their broadcast and digital services, deceive consumers, including plaintiffs, Donald Trump and Ronny Jackson, through advertisement and commercial promotion of substantially distorted broadcast and digital media content masquerading as news."
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C, freely disseminate such substantially distorted broadcast and digital media content to the detriment of competitors and consumers. D, brand their distorted broadcast and digital media content as legitimately edited news, all for profit without any level of responsibility. Commensurate with their influence over the American public. That's what this lawsuit is about.
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And it says in October 2024, one month before Trump's landslide victory, it wasn't a landslide, defendants consistent with their modus operandi of advertising and disseminating false election related content for commercial benefit.
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They're alleging that they are consumers who were injured because it hurt their eyes as consumers to take in what they said was an edited interview of former Vice President Kamala Harris. They said $20 billion is the damage. Okay, so... Folks, $20 billion. Maybe I'll buy us all yachts and jets or whatever the oligarchs get because I think I've been injured. $20 billion. What do you think?
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advertised and promoted their CBS News 60 Minutes election special show, which was to air in prime time on Monday, October 7th, 2024, and feature interviews with then-candidate Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Walz. By the way, Trump was too chicken shit, excuse my language, to even do the interview. Trump refused to interview at 60 Minutes because he was too afraid. What
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Remember the 2020 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl where Donald Trump brought a fake binder with blank pages and claimed it was his health care plan? And then she asked to take a look at it and it was all blank pages. And Donald Trump just walked off and said, you're just being nasty to me. He was too scared to do it. Kamala Harris did the interview.
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revealed that the advertised Harris reply and the manipulated Harris reply were both part of a single answer mangled beyond recognition by defendants tampering. I just want to show you what the whole lawsuit's based on. I'm reading Trump's lawsuit. So the bold portion aired on Face the Nation on October 6, 2024. The underlying portion aired during election special on October 7, 2024.
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The remainder is unused. OK, so this is what the lawsuit's about. Everything is in this paragraph. And Trump says that if you were to see this entire paragraph, that would have changed what you won the election. Whitaker from 60 Minutes. We supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid, and yet Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course.
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The Biden-Harris administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire. He's resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon. He went in anyway. Does the U.S. have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu-Harris? The work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles. Whitaker.
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But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. Harris. Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel. Now, we're very much prompted by our result to many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. And we're not going to stop doing that.
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He looks beaten down. He looks utterly fatigued as he panic posts throughout the day in his dumpster fire of a presidency. The worst ever post after post oddity after oddity. Dangerous, vile trash after dangerous, vile trash posts like this yesterday. Rebuild and open Alcatraz. For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat criminal offenders.
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And therefore, a national security threat, he says. It is in addition to everything else messaging and propaganda. Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any and all movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands. We want movies made in America again.
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In other words, if you make a movie, in another country 100 tariff i was how's that gonna even work when the director shows up uh back into the united states you're gonna tariff the director what in the world is this guy doing um and then you have howard lutnik um who some people refer to as nutlik
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Here's why he goes, we're on it, as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, who coined the name Nutlick, says, because of course he is. Donald Trump then posts, it is time for Howie Kurtz to retire. Every woke anchor in the business, people that no one watched from CNN, MSD and others are plastered all over his show. with all really negative and fake statements.
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And then I am weakly defended by Howie and his group, although Ben Dominick has been strong. The case Howie makes for me is so pathetic that it would be a lot better if he didn't say anything at all anyway. That's the way it is. Also on Trump's social media platform, lots of advertisements for Trump knives these days.
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Everywhere you look there, there's a Trump knife for sale with Trump's name on it. Donald Trump then posts late last night, I don't need to have Karl Rove of Fox News tell me what to do. That guy's a total loser who's been wrong about almost everything. Now, of course, this follows Donald Trump posting AI images of himself as the Pope,
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deeply offending the Catholic community and just anybody who has a shred of decency, regardless of if you're Catholic or even regardless of your religious. It's like, what the hell are you doing, Donald? And then earlier today, the official White House account posted the following Donald Trump AI that looks nothing like him with bulging muscles and the red Sith lightsaber.
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And then they go happy May 4th to all, including radical left lunatics who want to, to, to, they say to all over again, fighting hard to, to bring Sith Lords, murderers and drug Lords, dangerous prisoners and gang members to the U S Hey, Donald, you know, you have the red Sith lightsaber right there. So then Donald Trump took a flight back from vacationing again on the taxpayer dime, right?
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Donald Trump was in Mar-a-Lago partying it up, lavish parties. There was an RNC spring retreat at Mar-a-Lago. So Donald Trump double dip in, triple dip in, quadruple dip in while he's doing deals with Qatar for Trump resorts, while the Abu Dhabi fund is using Trump's crypto to As you have Don Jr.
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The dregs of society then goes on to say, this is why today I'm directing the Bureau of Prisons together with the Department of Justice, FBI, Homeland Security to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt prison. Alcatraz. That's what he's talking about. You know, Donald Trump waste, fraud and abuse that Alcatraz was something that was overly expensive and really wasn't doing anything good.
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doing clubs that are called the executive branch, $500,000 a member to join the executive branch with Dave Sachs, the crypto czar. You have Donald Trump doing lavish parties at Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayer dime where Trump's staff is. is being housed. And then you now have the RNC spring retreat. So they're paying Donald Trump as well. A massive, massive grift going on there. So Trump vacations.
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He comes back to Washington, D.C. And he spends his time on the flight back, like attacking reporters, specifically the Wall Street Journal, because the Wall Street Journal's reporting on the failure of Trump's trade war against the world. So here Donald Trump looks at the Wall Street Journal reporter and goes, you're rotten. You're a rotten person. Your newspaper is rotten.
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Watch a severely demented and dangerous and vile Donald Trump attack the Wall Street Journal reporter. Let's play it.
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Now, this is a line that Donald Trump's been repeating over and over again. It's one of his main talking points where he goes, little girls, beautiful little girls, he says, which is creepy in and of itself. He goes, I don't see why they want $35. They should have $2 and they should pay more money for their dolls. And why do they want 250 pencils? Use five pencils. What are you doing?
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What are these little girls doing? You take your two dolls, you take your five pencils, and you shut up, little girls. That's what Donald Trump's been saying over and over again. Here he is saying it on the flight last night. Play the clip.
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And just so you see, I'm not making it up, but this is a talking point he repeats over and over again. Here he was on the Kristen Welker interview saying it as well. Play this clip.
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So on that flight last night as well, Donald Trump, essentially was conceding that none of his trade negotiations were going well. So Donald Trump's new talking point, I want you to listen to it very clearly here. What he's saying is, even if I don't do any deals, I don't need to do deals. He says, because I'll set the deals myself.
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He goes, I'll just look at the country and I'll say, here's your number. Here's your number. And that becomes the deal. So why do I even negotiate? Because I make up the number, he says. Here, listen to what he says. I don't need deals. Play this clip.
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That's why it was shut down. It's part of the national park system right now. What are you doing? Talking about opening up Alcatraz. Oh, and then Donald Trump is posting photos of Alcatraz right now. Then Donald Trump posts the following. The movie tariffs. on foreign movie production. That's what Donald Trump's thinking about. I don't even know how that would work.
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But what he's most focused on now is the military parade on his birthday in June. It'll cost us at least $100 million, 50 helicopters, paratroopers, 7,000 soldiers, Kim Jong-un style in Washington, D.C., tanks. This is what Donald Trump wants to happen. Here he is talking to Kristen Welker about the military parade that he wants to have play this clip.
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And lastly, I could keep going on, but you get the point. Here's Donald Trump telling Kristen Welker that he doesn't know if he needs to even follow the Constitution anymore. He goes, I don't even know if it applies to me is the reality. I don't know. And I don't think I need to follow any due process. Play this clip.
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Now, there's a bunch of other clips that I played yesterday. Go back and watch my recap video. But let me just summarize some of them for you right now. I don't want to hear his voice anymore. He told Kristen Welker that he will demand Canada become a 51st state if he meets with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada. He says he wants to conquer it. He wants to take it over.
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When it arrives on the ship, when the movie arrives on the ship, Donald, he goes, the movie industry in America is dying. That's all in caps, a very fast death. Our other countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States, Hollywood, and many other areas within the USA are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other nations.
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and he will tell Carney that he wants Canada to be his. He doesn't rule out invading Greenland. There may be a military invasion of Greenland, he says. He attacks the courts over and over again. He goes on to say that he's fine attacking his political enemies. He then goes on to, what else does he talk about? Attacking specific people from his past administration, etc.
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And then he talks about how he wants to make a big ballroom. He wants to build a big ballroom in the White House. That's one of his focuses as well. I don't need to play any more of his clips. It's the most deranged, demented thing imaginable. But you get the point right there. I've got a lot of other great videos coming this morning. Check those out. And thanks for watching.
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser and Crashes Markets
Donald Trump just wrapped up a press conference where he literally crashed the stock market based on what he was saying. Donald Trump threatened Canada and Mexico, said tariffs will indeed take place tomorrow. Then Donald Trump posted on his social media platform, tariffs will be fun, he told the farmers. Have fun based on what?
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Yes, this press conference was an absolute disaster. Donald Trump then decides to attack our ally, Taiwan, and he says all these horrible things about them. Play this clip.
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It's awfully suspicious, eh, that Donald Trump seems to always just be attacking our allies and never saying anything negative about our enemies. What does that tell you about him, huh? Here, Donald Trump doesn't answer a question asking him if he's bringing U.S. policy in alignment with Moscow.
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all of the greatness he's going to bring when he's actually going to devastate them. At the close of the day, the markets were down as such. The Dow was down 1.48%. The S&P 500 was down 1.76%. The Nasdaq was down 2.64%. You can literally see the market crashing as Donald Trump is speaking at this press conference and talking about the tariffs. Play this clip.
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You can watch this also over here. You can literally watch the stock market tank in the bottom corner of Fox's broadcast as Trump keeps talking about the tariffs. Play this clip.
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Here, Trump doesn't deny that his foreign policy is in line with Putin, but instead rants about Biden, he says, Biden, here, play this clip.
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As the market is tanking, Fox then reports White House will suspend or may suspend or cancel all Ukraine aid. Well, that's not really a shocker based on the fact that Donald Trump is essentially doing Putin's bidding at this point. While that's taking place as well, you have a Melania Trump holding a press conference with Ted Cruz, who Donald Trump bullied Ted Cruz and Ted Cruz's wife.
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But Ted Cruz loves to take it like that. And here Melania Trump said, really, the widespread abusive behavior online is a big problem that she's working on. Here, play this clip.
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Yes. As Aaron Rupert points out, she says this while sitting next to Ted Cruz, whose wife was the target of the Trump tweet below. Also, Donald Trump consistently posts deep fakes of women. Like, I don't know. I mean, how ridiculous is this?
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That during the campaign, Donald Trump posted these fake AI images of Taylor Swift and fake Swifties pretending that the Swifties and Taylor Swift supported Donald Trump. We called it out. during the campaign. I know corporate media was like, oh, that's just Trump being Trump, everybody. We're like, no, he's doing deep fakes and AI of Taylor Swift, who he's mocking at the same time.
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I mean, it's despicable behavior. Then you have Melania there with Ted Cruz. Like, are you kidding me? I'm not, though. Also, the crypto markets crashing as well. Crypto markets plunging right now. And this follows Donald Trump announcing that he was creating a crypto reserve with A lot of shit coins.
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It was his announcement that he's going to use your taxpayer dollars while cutting your Medicaid, while cutting critical social services to buy meme coins and stuff like that. But even after announcing that, he's now tanking the crypto market, as CNN and others have reported. The stocks tumble, as Trump's confirms. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada are coming. Just hear Donald Trump is saying it again.
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And at one point during his speech, the Dow was almost down 1,000 points. Donald Trump was then speaking about President Zelensky. He praised Putin again. He talked about how, yes, America is aligned, essentially, with Russian foreign policy, with Putin policy, and said Zelensky should be more appreciative of him. Here, play this clip.
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More Donald Trump rambling about tariffs.
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Then you have Donald Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnik, as Shashank Joshi says, these Trumpers are toddlers with scissors. Play this clip.
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Welcome to the situation. And then finally, you have Ducey on Fox. Here, he's talking about how the issue is that Zelensky needs to go on TV and say how sorry he is to Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump, as I said, was posting on social media for Americans. Have fun, everybody. Have fun. And by the way, this is a funny AI image that we posted here on the Midas Touch social channels. It's J.D. Vance saying, have you said thank you to me once? These people are literally screwing our economy. They're crashing our markets. They're tanking our 401ks. This stuff is outrageous behavior.
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Congressman Jim Himes on Trump's Disaster Policies
I'm joined by Democratic Congress member Jim Hines, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.
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It's like, why is this even a question? How is this even a close call? Like Russia wants to destroy us. Ukraine is our ally. Like, what the heck are we even talking? Like, do you have that reaction sometimes? I mean, look, your committee in particular was a... was a very bipartisan community.
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Intelligence don't care if you're a Democrat, Republican or Independence, it's about keeping Americans alive or whether people are gonna be dead. That should be a bipartisan issue. But how are some of your colleagues? I mean, you gotta be looking at some of these people and being like, what are you doing? What are you doing?
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and you know it makes for a much apart from what it does to us our ethics our morality our values it makes for a much more dangerous world how do you exist in a bipartisan intelligence committee environment where the director of national intelligence is tulsi gabbard who goes out there every day and i mean this is what this is what peskov said yesterday And this is what RT wrote. The new U.S.
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authorities are changing political configurations in the world. Voting together with Russia in the U.N. was previously unimaginable. The U.S. foreign policy largely matches Russia. And for those who don't know, Peskov is like the Caroline Leavitt, basically. Their press secretary is PR person. But then you have Tulsi Gabbard goes on Fox right after.
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That would be exactly what Peskov and Russia would be saying.
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Talk to us about what you're seeing across the country, though. We're seeing these town halls in even ruby red Republican areas. People are pissed at what they saw in the Oval Office, how Donald Trump and J.D. Vance treated Zelensky. They're pissed that America right now is looking like an authoritarian regime supporting other authoritarian regimes.
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They're pissed that their Medicaid is getting cut. They're pissed that Elon Musk and a group of 19 to 25-year-old guys who call themselves big balls or whatever are going through their private information, their social security data, their medical records, and they're being told billionaires are the best people to give all your private information to. And they're hearing about tax cuts for...
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billionaires and they're getting screwed and prices keep going up. Trump posted this moments ago. Paid troublemakers are attending Republican town halls. It's all part of the game for Democrats. I just want to get your overall take on, I guess, first, the vibe that you're seeing in the country right now.
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Congressman Jim Himes on Trump's Disaster Policies
Congress member, given your position, the sensitive intelligence you see as a ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, I got to ask you your reaction to what we saw last week and frankly over the weekend with President Trump and his administration's attacks on President Zelensky of Ukraine.
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I always get asked, people say, look, we get that Democrats aren't in control of Congress. We understand they don't control the Senate or the executive branch, but they still want to see a fight. They still want to see, I mean, what can you do? Is Elon Musk never going to be testified before any committee because he's going to claim that he's a super secret puppet master?
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What do you tell the people, though, who are saying we still want... You see you see some of those polls. People say they want Democrats to fight more. And I guess a lot of people say, well, what does that look like? Because we don't have the control. But people say we don't care. Do something. Go get out there and do it. What does that look like to you, Congressman?
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You know, I'm not going to talk about the intelligence community now because I get you want to... As much as you could take politics out of that, let's just focus generally, though, on the members of Congress. You know, you've been a member of Congress since, what, 2009. So you've grown from a freshman member of Congress to now a ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee.
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But you've grown with a lot of, you've seen a lot of these members now for, you know, what, 14, 15 years. So you've seen them shift, though. And I'm sure you've seen people who you consider, you know, you could grab a
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coffee with, you could hang with, you could play some ball with, you could whatever, you know, and all of a sudden they're out there and you probably think, wait a minute, like, this is like a, what are you doing? Like, do you have those moments? Like, how does that work when people who I'm sure you're friendly with are like, Dear leader.
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I remember Jim Himes. Thanks for the chat. We appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thanks for having me. Everybody hit subscribe and let's hit 5 million subscribers this week.
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World Leaders Destroy Trump at Emergency Meeting
UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer held an emergency meeting in London over the weekend and invited world leaders to support Ukraine. President Zelensky was there. You had the Prime Minister of Canada there. Prime Minister and presidents throughout Europe and the European Union were there. It was a powerful meeting.
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Also, President Zelensky met with King Charles III. King Charles didn't have any issues with the way Zelensky was dressed as a wartime president. Of course, we know that Winston Churchill, when he visited the White House, was dressed in the war attire during
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Here is, again, an incredible video that Prime Minister Keir Starmer put out talking about how we are at a crossroads in history. It is time to act. I mean, his speech was incredible. This video was incredible. Keir Starmer is stepping up right now. This is statesmanship at the highest level.
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I reminded of this video right here by Marco Rubio or this photo of Marco Rubio from the meeting, the horrific meeting that will go down in infamy between Trump when Trump was attacking Zelensky from the Oval Office. And then finally, you know, after showing you that incredible statesmanship or statespersonship from from the from these incredible world leaders that I was just sharing with you.
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I want you to contrast it with how petty and weird American Secretary of the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is, who here says, this was on this week, ABC's This Week on Sunday, where Rubio's like, you know, look, The issue is that Zelensky is too busy Ukraine-splaining to Trump. Why is he Ukraine-splaining? I don't know, maybe because he's the leader of Ukraine, you idiot.
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Maybe that's why he's Ukraine-splaining that Russia is bad. Russia is bad, okay? Here, play this clip.
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Well, folks, there you have it. Let me know what you think. Powerful world leaders stepping up. Would love to get your take. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and have a wonderful day.
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Here's a video as well that Keir Starmer posted. He wrote, we must meet this moment together to guarantee the best outcome for Ukraine to protect European security. and to secure our collective future. It's a video of all of the world leaders who Prime Minister Keir Starmer has now been referring to as the new coalition of the willing. Also implying that not only is the United States unwilling.
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I want to show you what they were doing to show support for Ukraine and also how they've at this point just
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But at this point, Putin's puppet, part of the access of evil, essentially what Donald Trump's doing by voting with Putin and North Korea to oppose something as simple as a United Nations resolution condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. Let me share with you this powerful speech that United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave.
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And he said, look, as part of any deal with Ukraine, he says that the United Kingdom would be willing to put boots on the ground to serve as peacekeepers. to secure a lasting peace, to give these security guarantees. And that was an important term that was used over and over again at this emergency meeting, real security guarantees, because they know what's Donald Trump trying to do.
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Trump is trying to carve it up and give it to Putin. Watch this incredible speech by Keir Starmer. Let's play it.
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isolating the united states of america you know although their language is still careful the message has been sent ukraine we have your back donald trump and the trump regime is utterly pathetic i mean while this emergency world meeting on how to fight back against russia and protect ukraine was taking place courageously organized by united kingdom prime minister kier starmer
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Also, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a powerful speech. And in answering questions from the press, Prime Minister Trudeau talked about how, I stand with Zelensky, I stand with the people of Ukraine. Watch this.
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Donald Trump was golfing and he was doing weirdo events at Mar-a-Lago like he was doing this. Play the clip. Back to the serious world leaders who are protecting our ally Ukraine and President Zelensky. Take a look at this photo right here as the Associated Press reported.
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More from Prime Minister Trudeau right here. Let's play it.
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From the European Union, here's Ursula von der Leyen. Play this clip.
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And President Zelensky posted the following as well. He said, as a result of these days, we see clear support from Europe, even more unity, even more willingness to cooperate. Everyone is united on the main issue for peace to be real. We need security guarantees, real security guarantees. And this is the position of all of Europe, the entire continent.
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the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Turkey. Of course, we understand the importance of America. We're grateful for all the support we receive from the United States. There hasn't been a day when we haven't felt gratitude. It's gratitude for the preservation of our independence. Our resilience in Ukraine is based on what our partners are doing for us and for their own security.
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told leaders gathered for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine that they need to step up and continue to support Kyiv and meet a once in a generation moment for the security of Europe. Here is a full list of all of the prime ministers and presidents who attended. You can see right there a list of these leaders. You saw the photograph there as well.
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What we need is peace, not endless lore, and that's why we say security guarantees are the key to this security guarantees. And then President Zelensky posted these photos of the summit in London that was very successful. And here's how Zelensky says it. The summit in London was dedicated to Ukraine and our shared European future.
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We feel strong support for Ukraine, for our people, both soldiers and civilians, and our independence. Together we are working in Europe to establish a solid foundation for cooperation with the United States in pursuit of true peace and guaranteed security. Europe's unity is at an exceptionally high level, one that has not been seen in a long time.
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We are discussing with our partners security guarantees and the conditions for a just peace for Ukraine. A series of important meetings and decisions are being prepared for the near future. I am grateful to all of our friends and partners for their efforts in bringing about a stable and guaranteed peace in Ukraine. Joint strength can protect our future.
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And I think that's kind of the key message over here. Security guarantees and joint strength and negotiating from a power of strength where Donald Trump just wants to wag his finger and bully. Here's a video of Zelensky as well, just so you can see it. Let's play it.
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Democratic Leaders Destroy Trump in Red Districts
Democratic leaders are finally pushing back aggressively. They seem to be getting their footing now. We're seeing Democrats also go into areas that are like plus five or plus 10 Republican districts that have voted for Trump before. And they're speaking to people who are They're pissed off because their Medicaid's being taken away.
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Next, I want to show you Democratic Congress member Garcia, who goes on Fox, calls out Trump on Fox in enemy territory. Here, watch this.
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And then let me just reinforce what Elon said there with – I'll show you Mike Johnson's interview from this weekend where Mike Johnson says that, you know, there's all this fraud and social security, which, by the way, they're they're they're. isn't really all this fraud.
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I mean, I think it's less than 1%, which needs to be addressed, but you don't address it by getting rid of your FBI agents and your Department of Justice and replacing your FBI with UFC fighters, which is what the plan is from Kash Patel and Dan Bagino, whatever the guy's name is. But here's Maga Mike Johnson saying it. Let's play it.
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So there you have it. I mean, it's pretty clear what their agenda is, is it not? That's why people are pissed. Democrats need to keep speaking loudly about what's going on. Americans want fighters right now. Americans want people who are fearless right now. So be fearless. Be a fighter. Don't hold back. Go into red districts. Go into purple districts. Speak to the American people. Hit subscribe.
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Now take a look at the interview I did with Senator Schiff. This was a powerful moment. Let's play it.
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They're seeing veterans get fired and having their services taken away. They're seeing the cruelty with which Elon Musk and Trump and Doge are gutting the federal government, are patrolling. propping up the billionaire oligarchs, let me show you some Democrat leaders who are standing up and getting standing ovations doing so as well.
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Here's Governor Josh Shapiro.
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Next up, you have Senator Chris Murphy, who's been doing, I think, a good job pushing back against the Trump regime. Let's play it.
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Talking about Democrats going on Fox, Democrats going into Trump districts. Take a look at this. Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi over the weekend got a huge standing ovation in in a Trump plus five congressional district at Hofstra University in Hempstead when he was talking about Trump's despicable behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky. Let's play this clip.
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Here's Congresswoman Crockett again.
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Now, can we just contrast for a moment what you're seeing there with which MAGA Republican Congress member should we do? Let's do a clip of Ronnie Jackson, MAGA Republican Congress member from Amarillo, Texas. Here's what he has to say about Zelensky. Here, let's play it.
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Now, contrast Ronny Jackson to Democratic Congress member Levin. Let's play this clip right here. This is Mike Levin from California. Let's play it.
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Let me show you one more clip right now of Senator Chris Murphy. Powerful moment right here where he said, look, I shouldn't have supported Marco Rubio. I thought Rubio would act normal. Rubio clearly isn't acting normal. Here, play this clip.
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Just so we can see, too, what Rubio said this weekend. Rubio attacked Zelensky this weekend because he said Zelensky was too busy Ukraine-splaining Ukraine to Donald Trump. He said, you can't Ukraine-splain. Trump knows more about Ukraine than Zelensky. This is what Marco Rubio, America's Secretary of State, shameful I even have to say that, is saying. Play this clip.
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And by the way, while all of that was going on, what was Donald Trump doing? Donald Trump was doing some weirdo dance things in Mar-a-Lago as he was, again, destroying people's lives. Play this clip. And finally, I want to share this clip with you. This is Elon Musk from this weekend. Joe Rogan, I think, is trying to compete with our podcast. It's beating Joe Rogan's show right now.
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So Rogan had Elon on. And when Rogan had Elon on, Elon called Social Security a Ponzi scheme. And Elon then also posted that we need to get out of NATO. So just these are their own words. So when people say, oh, you're just fear mongering and saying they're going for your Social Security. Well, we all agree that Elon is wrong. Running the government right now.
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I mean, Trump email, you know, Trump puts emails, Elon this, Elon that. I'm telling Elon. And Elon's saying Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Here, play this clip.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
I'm joined by Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus. Since we last spoke, Donald Trump says these tariffs are going to happen. Charlie, they're supposed to happen on Tuesday, although now you've got people in the Trump administration saying, well, it's possible that if Canada does this or that, what's going on? What's the vibe in Canada right now, Mr. Angus?
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Charlie, paint the picture. If these tariffs were to be implemented, what are you hearing on the ground in terms of factories closing, businesses shutting down? What kind of economic devastation do you anticipate would be inflicted on America? I mean, I know that Canada is prepared, has been preparing. This is part of the national discourse there because of the threats.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
In America, I don't think people are taking it as seriously. So what do you think will happen?
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Well, it seems like that's why Trump's secretary, Scott Besant, Trump's commissary, Howard Lutnick, they seem to get it. But of course, they're spineless, so they're not going to ever stand up to him. That's why they say things like, oh, well, this is a fluid situation. And to your point, well, can't you just make it seem like Trump's got a win here? But I think the point that you're making is,
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as this happens again, here we go again. We were here 30 days ago and here it is. It's like at this point, the Canadians are not buying American stuff, right? The Canadians are not traveling to America. I mean, also it's like a measles outbreak in Texas and Musk has gutted our agencies, but like almost regardless of what's happened, a lot of the damage has been done.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
I mean, not quite like if the tariffs are implemented and retaliatory, but right, a lot's happened already.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
You and I have talked about some Canadian phrases, and I think as you are adopting me as an honorary Canadian for purposes of our pro-democracy stance, we talked on a past interview about going over the board's And what that means when Canadians go gloves off and they're saying we're peaceful people.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
But once you poke us like that, there's a point where go look at the history of when Canadians fight, Canadians win. There was this moment on SNL with Mike Myers where he was wearing the Canada is not for sale shirt. But then he also gave a gesture that Canadians understood what it means to
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
pointing to his elbow and whispering, elbows up, which I know our Canadian audience saw, and it may have been lost on the American audience. Tell us about that rallying call and what you're hearing in Canada.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Finally, I want you to send a message right now. You know that the Trump administration and their team are watching this show. They're probably watching it more now, given a lot of the coverage that you've seen out there, that this show is beating the Joe Rogan show. We're also the number one podcast in Canada and America right now. So a lot of people are listening and watching this.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
So what is your message to Donald Trump, Charlie Angus?
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
Charlie Angus, Member of Parliament in Canada. Appreciate you as always.
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'Elbows Up!': Canada MP Charlie Angus Torches Trump Over Threats
We stand in solidarity with the people of Canada. There's more of us in America than Trumpers, and I want everyone in Canada to know that. We're here in America fighting back against this authoritarian regime, but we know you've got to go elbows up. We know that you've all got to do what you've got to do, and we don't blame you for it. We don't blame you for it here. Elbows up.
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Sickly Trump Hides as His Entire World Burns
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Donald Trump golfed at Mar-a-Lago with his limpy leg. Take a look at what Donald Trump was doing over this weekend as he set the world on fire with his disastrous behavior. Play the clip. And we could have had her. We could have had Vice President Kamala Harris. Here she is and her husband, the former second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, goes Oscar watch party prep.
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Look, Donald Trump's basically an 80 year old person. Donald Trump is elderly. I understand that he paints his face orange because he would really look like this if he didn't paste his face orange. Yeah, I had to see that. So you have to see it, too. That's what his face would actually look like, at least according to that rendering right there. But OK.
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Remember when Donald Trump dressed up like a garbage man during the campaign because he called Puerto Rico garbage? And so then he dressed like a garbage man. Maybe that was a sign you shouldn't have voted for the guy when he called Puerto Rico garbage and then dressed like a garbage man. But anyway, take a look at his walk during the campaign. Play this clip.
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But yes, folks, as the markets were tanking last month, as I'm sure your 401ks are probably down like mine are, although they were up significantly under former President Biden. As Donald Trump's gearing up to put the tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as Donald Trump is kissing Putin's ring and attacking our allies, Ukraine and Europe and NATO.
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As Elon Musk is making posts, America needs to get out of NATO, is what Elon Musk is basically reposting, messages like that. As there's an emergency meeting that took place over the weekend in Europe called by UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer,
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He's done an incredible job as a statesman bringing all of the European countries, or most of them other than Hungary, and bringing Canada into the fold, although Turkey showed up as well, and showing solidarity with Ukraine, having President Zelensky there. Donald Trump was dancing around at Mar-a-Lago to like the YMCA. That's what Trump was doing over the weekend. Here, play this clip.
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But folks, all the right-wing influencers want you to know that what Donald Trump was doing there was an absolute boss move. That's what bosses do, yo. Absolute boss, man. That's what Benny Johnson wants you to know. Benny Johnson wasn't one of these MAGA influencers who were at the White House on Friday who got the fake Epstein binder, but he's of that ilk.
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Like Donald Trump brought a bunch of like ridiculous, dumb MAGA influencers to the White House and they were given binders that said, transparency, these are the Epstein files. They were like the call log from 2021 that was already released back in 2021 during the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. And they were like dancing with it. We got the files. We got the files. the hell is even going on?
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Aren't the files number one? They're clearly not going to turn over the files because I'm sure Trump's name is likely on them. It was on a ton of other documents, depositions, flight logs, call logs. Trump said Epstein's a great guy. I do the Epstein takes a lot, so you could watch the other videos I do there. But people are making their voices heard.
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Also, in a stunning display of strength, protesters arrived at Elon Musk's Tesla showroom in New York to protest his and Trump's efforts to dismantle our government. Play this.
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Even Marco Rubio's like, what the F? More on him in a moment because he's a spineless coward. Donald Trump then at Mar-a-Lago as his poll numbers continue to crash. His support among independents is almost in the 30s. I think it's at 41 based on a new poll that CNN just released. Here, Donald Trump is again dragging his leg at Mar-a-Lago. Let's play it.
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You also saw it in Tucson, Arizona. Let's play it. So while this is going on, what else is what's what was Trump posting about as he was frolicking on stage with his orange pasty face? He was posting this. A U.S. crypto reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden administration, which is why my executive order on digital assets today.
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directed the presidential working group to move forward on a crypto strategic reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA. I will make sure the U.S. is the crypto capital of the world. We are making America great again. Notice in that, there's no, he didn't even list Bitcoin in the first iteration. So he's talking about a lot of these like shit coins.
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I'm not saying that all crypto is scammy, but a lot of it is. We've seen that repeatedly. But isn't it just so interesting that Trump has his crypto, the Trump coin and the meme coins and all of this, and now he wants to use our taxpayer dollars? which can't be spent on healthcare. Like they were like, you get what's going on here, right? Like they're cutting your Medicaid.
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They want to go after your social security. I've showed you a lot of videos where Elon called it a Ponzi scheme. I'm not going to play it again. Go back and watch the video. I'll do more videos on that, but he called it a Ponzi scheme. They're cutting essential government services. Like they're firing people who are doing the research to create the next flu vaccines and,
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They're getting rid of NIH, CDC. They're getting rid of FAA people. They're getting rid of people who work at national parks. They're getting rid of government workers. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of government workers are being fired. Your Medicaid's getting gutted. Farmers are getting destroyed. But they want to use your taxpayer dollars. to buy up shit coins.
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As Armin Domoluski says, Trump, we simply can't afford to pay park rangers and cancer researchers. Also, Trump, we must spend billions on shit coins. You take a look here in terms of a lot of these coins and as Deva Hazarika goes, wow, what a lucky coincidence that Trump's crypto czar is part of this company Bitwise that has a lot of these meme coins or whatever the hell it is.
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Sachs company Kraft Ventures has been investing in a startup called Bitwise since 2017 and And it goes on to say Bitwise is celebrating because the main crypto coins going into this crypto strategic reserve fund, as Derek Martin points out, just so happened to be Bitwise's top five crypto holdings, would you? Whoa, oh my gosh.
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So you're telling me the crypto czar is now doing a strategic reserve with the coins that he owns while you're like, again, how could you be? Unless you're like an evil billionaire, how are you rooting for this? Like, they are screwing you.
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No matter what party you are, in the ruralist red area, are you, yeah, they're gonna buy up Solano Bitcoin while they're getting rid of your freaking jobs and gutting your Medicaid and taking away your healthcare and taking away the programs that help you live? Like, what are we talking about here? Even this guy, Jason, who's... One of the co-hosts with the Crypto Czar guy. He's one of these.
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This is like a pod bro. These are like pod bros. Everyone talking about the pod bros. This guy. Only one conservative Trump supporter has come out and said what an insane grift the crypto strategic fund is as far as I can see. But 99% of them are thinking it but are too scared to disagree with Trump. Let's pause.
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If you're too scared to challenge the president when he makes a mistake, where do you think that will lead us? What does that say about you? Any other Trump 2.0 supporters want to stand up against this grift? Or is it just me and this guy JT Lonsdale who went, Taxation is theft. It should be kept to a minimum. It's wrong to steal my money for grift on the left.
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It's also wrong to tax me for crypto bro schemes. Efficient defense courts, national parks should fund themselves, prisons, etc. Fine. Cut it out with these schemes, guys. What the hell is going on here? What's this guy even talking about? I mean, you don't want national parks? What are we even talking about here? I like this from Justin Wolfers, who makes a great and easy point.
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It was reposted by Carl Quintanilla. So you know how Trump and Musk are saying they found all of, Doge has found all of this fraud, right? They're calling it fraud. Fraud is criminal. If people are engaged in these crimes, who's being arrested for the fraud? Huh, right? Show me the Doge arrests. Who's been, you're saying all this fraud. Well, who's the crime? Zero, right?
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Number of arrests attributable to Doge uncovering actual fraud within the federal government, zero. Love this as well. J.D. Vance showed up in Vermont where he got a nice Vermont welcome, the two-finger salute. They called him an effing traitor and he left his vacation early. You know who is not vacationing? The Prime Minister of Canada and the leaders in European democracies.
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But by the way, everybody, this community note on Twitter now X wants you to know that this is how people walk all the time. It's called turning. While Trump doesn't lift his leg very high, he is doing a maneuver known as turning. He does this to face the person he is talking to. Whoa. OK, you know, I always come with receipts here. It's look, it's OK.
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer held an emergency gathering in London to support Zelensky, to support Kiev, to support Ukraine. Take a look at this list of dignitaries, presidents, prime ministers who attended. Meanwhile, RT, Russian state-run media, is quoting Dmitry Peskov, who's their chief propagandist. He's Putin's Caroline Leavitt. And he said, this is amazing. The new U.S.
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authorities are changing political configurations in the world. The U.S. is now voting with Russia in the U.N., which was previously unimaginable. The new U.S. foreign policy largely matches Russia's. Donald Trump, meanwhile, posting photos of Elon Musk in emails that he's sending to his supporters.
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Dancing on stage with Elon Musk while they gut your Medicaid and destroy your lives and destroy our government. And I'll just leave you with this. I always love these political cartoons. You see this one right here? Trump. The art of the kneel with Putin's boots on Donald Trump's head. I think the next image would be Trump licking those boots. Traitor. Hit subscribe.
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Can't Be Saved
As Donald Trump's approval continues to plummet, as prices continue to surge, Fox, which is state-run regime media, they need to cover for Donald Trump. So let's use the same old playbook, eh? Bring in MAGA Republican James Comer. Maybe he talks about, I don't know, Hunter Biden? Hunter Biden. Let's talk about Hunter Biden, everybody. Here, play this clip.
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Then Hegseth claims that the information that these migrants who were sent to concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay were actually not violent people. He goes, that's BS. That's fake news. We know, though, that they weren't. These weren't gang members at all, even if they were gang members. Just, I don't know, maybe you be transparent about that. Why don't we know their identities?
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I mean, what's going on here? Like, you should still reveal their identity. If they're gang members, then don't you want to say who they are or show it? I don't know. Here, play this clip.
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We got to remove them from the roles here at Play This Clip.
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And here he attacks the ACLU. Let's play it.
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And then finally you have Brett bear asking Howard Lutnick that wall street is unimpressed with the Trump administration. And here's what Trump's commerce secretary says. Let's play.
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It's such a lack of understanding for how Medicaid helps individuals, how there's a reason why certain Americans are working or not working. It's just cruel. These are very cruel and detached people who are not tethered to reality. Yeah. Here's Alina Haba, by the way. Here she is on Laura Ingraham. And here she says, look, this is exactly how we should be running the country.
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Exactly the way Donald Trump runs his company is how he's running the country. Here, play this clip.
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OK, well, let me just take a look at Donald Trump's own financial filings from Trump media stock, which is tanking, by the way, in my opinion. I mean, it's went in the 20s right now. It's down like what, 26, 27 percent in the past year alone.
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I'm not going to read every company that went bankrupt that Trump ran because it'll take me 10 minutes of the video, but if you want to take a screenshot of this, take a screenshot. A number of companies that were associated with Donald Trump have filed for bankruptcy. There can be no assurances that Trump media will not also become bankrupt. It talks about Trump Taj Mahal bankruptcy 1991.
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Trump Plaza, Trump Castle and the Plaza Hotel bankruptcy 1992. THCR founded by Trump bankrupt in 1995. Trump Entertainment Resorts bankruptcy 2009. I mean, just like casino after casino, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. And then a number of companies that had license agreements with Trump failed.
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And then it goes and talks about Trump shuttle, Trump vodka, Trump mortgage, Trump university, Trump stakes, go trump.com on and on and on. All are out of business. So, I guess Donald Trump is running our country the way he runs his businesses, tanking them. By the way, again, what I just showed you, just so you know, that was what Donald Trump wrote about himself in his own filings.
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Those were the words of his lawyers about him. So let's go to Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, who says that you don't have to worry about them. They're going to go after your Medicaid. That's for sure. But when it comes to Social Security and Medicare, they say they're only going to go after people who deserve to have it taken away. Here, play this clip.
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Now, I wonder how they decide who deserves to have their Social Security taken away. Who's deserving of that? Well, we know how they treat federal workers and believe that they don't deserve to have their jobs and they get rid of them. So we'll see what he means by deserve. Laura Ingraham then brings on Tommy Tuberville, who doesn't know the shape of a triangle and calls a triangle a trigon.
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Then you bring back on Alina Haba on Laura Ingraham's show. And Alina Haba says, well, look, when Donald Trump says that Putin is bright and really smart, that doesn't mean he's praising Putin. Play this clip.
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And then Alina Habba brags about how 230,000 federal employees will be fired. And she says, probably more. She goes, I think we'll do better. Play this clip.
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Oh, then we bring on Caroline Levitt, the worst press secretary in American history. And she goes, this is transparency. This is everything that you always wanted, right? This would make Kim Jong-un blush. It will make Kim Jong-un blush. Like, what the hell is this? Play this clip.
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It was announced that they were doing an investigation as part of Trump's retribution tour on James Comey, and one of the things that right-wing media is pushing is that James Comey tried to set up Donald Trump with a honeypot operation back in 2016. They always want to go back to 2016. Americans want to know why the hell are prices going up so much? Why are you destroying our economy?
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Why can't we even find eggs? Housing's less affordable. The job market's not great right now. You keep firing people. It seems like planes keep crashing every other day or there's some incident every other day. But they're going to some honeypot. It's always like sex with them, right? They always do weird sex stuff is how they get their people all animated. And then Pam Bondi's like...
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I don't know what you're talking about, Jesse. I don't know, Jesse, what you're talking about. I mean, it's just so the whole thing's so weird. Play this clip.
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I mean, so utterly pathetic. And then you have Maria Bartiromo then brings in MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Barr. And he says the reason that MAGA Republicans will be taking away your Medicaid is because you're lazy. It's what he says. He says, look, Americans just are lazy people who aren't working. And we got to make sure that those people are not getting Medicaid.
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Again, it's like a bad movie that has like 20% on Rotten Tomatoes and you give it a try, but the dialogue is just so stupid. It's kind of what this is. And then again, as I say, they always got to go into sex and stuff like that. So here now she goes, I'm going to break some news, everybody. I'm going to release the Epstein files. But here's what I'm going to release, everybody. The flight logs.
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I'm releasing the flight logs. Wait a minute. You mean the flight logs that were released in 2021 that are already out there that we have? Donald Trump's name is on those flight logs. We have them. They were in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. Why don't you release the rest of all the files unredacted? Isn't that what you said you were going to do?
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Of course you're not going to do that because I'm sure you're afraid that Trump's name is going to be all over him. Here, play this clip.
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Then you go to Laura Ingraham, who's with her former Fox host colleague, Pete Hegseth, who's now for some reason, the Secretary of Defense. And then Hegseth is asked about the legal cases are trying to force the administration to give more access to information to migrants. Listen to what Hegseth says.
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and maliciously, in terms of our geopolitical interests, right into the hands of China. So take a look at this. The Philippines president offers a deal to China, stop sea aggression, and I'll return the missiles to the United States, the Typhoon US missile system. So the Philippines president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., offered at the end of last week on Friday to remove U.S.
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missile systems from Philippines if China halts what it called aggressive and coercive action. The U.S. Army installed these Typhoon mid-range missile systems in the northern Philippines in April last year in the Biden administration to support what the longtime treaty allies described as a training for joint combat operations.
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Now, however you feel about it, this was part of a geopolitical arrangement of the United States and frankly of NATO. in Asia as also part of America's support of Taiwan and in an effort to try to check the growth of China, which was also building a lot of bases in the nearby areas. This is what the US geopolitical policy was or geostrategic policy was.
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But now one of the things that we're learning is that Trump's new Pentagon appointee on Southeast Asia has argued for negotiating a, quote, cooperation spiral with China, whereby the United States will unilaterally, quote, remove U.S. military forces or weapons systems from the Philippines in exchange for CCG executing fewer patrols. One of the things that's being asked, can the U.S.
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and China forge a cold peace right here? Well, the interesting thing about this is that it undermines everything Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at his confirmation hearing. What's interesting, if you listen to Rubio in the clip I'm about to show you, it actually kind of echoes what the Biden policy was in a prevailing view.
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there's very little consistency with anything donald trump is but if you take a close look the one thing that seems clear is he is attacking and weakening our alliances and strengthening our adversaries let me give you another case in point with these tariffs you notice that the 25 tariffs Well, that's what our allies get hit with. But the 10% tariffs, those are for our adversaries, right?
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amongst international strategists, those in the State Department, those in the Defense Department, that what you have to do is to kind of check China's expansion, you have to make your own kind of maneuvers. Military bases, military maneuvers, and diplomatic maneuvers, U.S. aid maneuvers, to various countries and then, you know, enhance kind of military support.
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But already America's so weak, Philippines is going to China. Hey, can we do a deal? Let's make a deal, Xi Jinping. As America's Pentagon official who has to report to Hegseth, Pete Hegseth, who's never led any military thing before, really, other than a nonprofit, which pushed him out. but never led a large organization. This is what's going on. Here's what Marco Rubio said.
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Secretary of State Rubio, let's play this clip.
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So when you see that, you can see how Trump's actual policies undermine what Rubio is saying. But that's what Trump wants, right? Trump will have his attorney general, Pam Bondi, at the confirmation hearing say, we're going to respect the rank and file FBI directors and FBI staff. Everybody's going to get due process.
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And then Donald Trump fires any FBI agent who had anything to do with investigating January 6th insurrectionists and terroristic acts on January 6th and Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. So Trump pardons All of the January 6th insurrectionists, they get treated like heroes. But then law and order, the FBI, they get fired. My point, though, here is that Pam Bondi said the opposite.
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So my point about Marco Rubio is that Marco Rubio said one thing and then the policy was undermined.
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Now, how else was the policy undermined as well? Let me give you other data points. So Donald Trump's recent press conference, he says that he's going to put tariffs on Taiwan. Taiwan's our ally. So Trump's talking about putting worse tariffs, more damaging tariffs on our ally Taiwan, while then having this cooperation with China against Taiwan.
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So less tariffs on our adversaries. As some have said, the administration is demented. But I think there is something deeper going on here. You take a look at the ripple effects. For example, the president of the Philippines has now offered a deal with China. You want to talk about deal-making. It's deal-making that weakens the United States' geopolitical interests.
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And then when Donald Trump was asked about DeepSeek, which is China's AI that really destroyed America's AI industry, was so far more advanced. One would look at China's foray into AI as a direct economic attack and assault on U.S. industry. One would think, did China steal? Did China take the billions and billions of dollars in development from U.S.
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AI companies and basically appropriate it for their own use, undercutting U.S. interests? But Donald Trump's like, actually, you know, maybe a good thing. Here, play this clip.
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And remember how I said before that, you know, the U.S., internationally as kind of the quote unquote leader of the free world. It was post-World War II exercised in a lot of ways. So one of the ways it was exercised was through aid, supporting other countries, building bridges, alliances, and the other way was military. Now the United States is pulling out all of its aid.
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We're attacking everybody, threatening countries. Donald Trump's arbitrary, capricious, malicious mind. You don't know what's going to happen one day or the next. Threatening everybody, saying America doesn't need anything. We don't need allies. We don't need anybody. I mean, you couldn't be weakening us more if you tried. That's why it feels intentional. And also from a military perspective,
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We are enhancing the power of China. We are enhancing the power of Russia. We are weakening Taiwan. China may not have to fire a single shot with all of the kind of former American allies. They just start making deals with Xi Jinping because... They can't rely on America and America is so weak. They see the writing on the walls.
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Look, even the president of Mexico, the very popular and powerful Claudia Scheinbaum at the G20 summit a few months back, she was not supposed to meet with Xi Jinping. She met with Xi Jinping, took photos with Xi Jinping. Why to send a message? We could try to find other power structures outside of the United States if you force us to.
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But even without Claudia Scheinbaum, I mean, the head of the president of Panama, Peru, Honduras, Colombia, all had state visits with Xi Jinping over the past Five, seven, eight years, Panama established strong relations with China during Trump's first term. China's giving billions of dollars in aid.
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They're giving statements about respecting sovereignty of nations, the types of statements that used to emanate from the United States. And what's Trump doing? Just acting like a blabbering fool. That's my point. My thesis here is that either he's the biggest idiot and moron ever, which could be true.
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The most incompetent, dumbest, you know, I'm not trying to name call, just trying to be objective. Or this is intentional to help China, to boost China, to help Russia. China and Russia are talking. They're making deals with each other. Russia and Iran are talking. They're entering into alliances. and America's breaking all of its alliances.
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So if you wanted to execute a plan, how do you weaken America? It's this, and this example in the Philippines is a perfect exemplar of it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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And I'm going to show you this first, and then I want to show you what Marco Rubio was saying about the Philippines. And you can see how China is outmaneuvering Donald Trump quite easily. But either Donald Trump is the biggest idiot ever, which may be the case, or he's playing right into the hands, intentionally,
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I think he's signaling to January 6th insurrectionists who he pardoned. I'm going to need your help now because I am despised and detested and I'm going to need your back right now. as I am hated right now here in the United States and abroad. So I think this is a message in my view that he's signaling to his extremists, to his gang, the same way authoritarians in the past have done that.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think about all of that. That's what Donald Trump's doing, posting day six stuff. Crazy. Oh, he's also posting this. He's making more posts about claiming that he turned on California's water. By the way, he did it. What he did was he diverted water from an area not to where the fires were, but to a flooded area, harming farmers.
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Many of them were right wing farmers as well. He did that, screwing them over. Then the water management had to stop because he was about to further destroy farms, not even. And he ordered the federal government to move water to areas it didn't belong. It rained a week and a half ago, two weeks ago. So he's taking credit for the rain. This is an insane, delusional individual.
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And you know who I'm talking about. Then Donald Trump makes posts like this. Anybody that's against tariffs, including the fake news, Wall Street Journal and hedge funds is only against them because these people or or entities are controlled by China. or other foreign or domestic companies, anybody that loves and believes in the United States of America is in favor of tariffs.
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They should have never ended in favor of the income tax system in 1913. The response to tariffs has been, and he puts this in all caps, fantastic. This is how psychotic this individual is. This is an individual who, if he wasn't in this position, would need to be wearing a straitjacket right now, an involuntary psychiatric 5150 hold. And we need to talk about it in those terms.
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This is a psycho-demented individual saying the response has been fantastic, by the way. Rupert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal, which supported Donald Trump. For Donald Trump to now say the fake news Wall Street Journal, notice that Donald Trump has made all these other media corporations and media companies wear their knee pads and bend the knees.
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And now he's saying fake news, Wall Street Journal. Why? Because Wall Street Journal is literally providing definitionally what a tariff is, which is inflationary and an economy killer. And then Donald Trump's talking about we need to go back to 1913 before the income tax system. Look, I know that Donald Trump didn't pay his taxes. We know that. that he is a tax cheat. We know that he is a fraud.
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We know that he is a convicted felon. And so Donald Trump says 1913, Let's be clear. All you've inspired right now is to unite the world against us, to isolate the United States, to unite former allies of the United States against us, to unite enemies against us, and to look like the pathetic weak loser that you are. By the way, Donald Trump's
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A meme coin because he's out there still selling meme coins. While all of this is going on, he's selling meme coins from the Oval Office. Well, his meme coins are crashing right now. As of this recording, they're at $17.91. I'm sure they will go lower. The Melania, which has that dollar sign in front of it, the dollar sign symbol. So it's Melania, Melania coin. That's at $1.44.
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That's basically crashed to almost $0, a complete crash. So many people have lost, Trump supporters have lost their life savings with his scammy meme coins that we tried to warn you about. And as predicted, as of last night, the stock futures were a train wreck. The Dow was down 1.5%. S&P down 2%. NASDAQ 2.6%. The Russell down 3.2%.
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Donald Trump's psychotic meltdown and psychotic behavior is accelerating. He's making post after post on his social media, bizarre posts about January 6th insurrectionists, reposts of Marjorie Taylor Greene. This says Donald Trump has initiated a trade war that has crashed the American economy.
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Obviously, more carnage today would be an understatement about what's going on. But you see it right there. The futures last night were down 662 points. By the way, Donald Trump, the Bitcoin, he's called him the Bitcoin president with all of these Bitcoin people and crypto people saying Trump's going to be great.
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Well, the volatility in the market right now is in an already volatile market, especially with Trump hawking meme coins. For those who actually say there's a legitimate place in crypto, Trump's showing why people who believe crypto is scammy. He's validating people who have those views for those who are like, there's actually a good place for crypto.
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$2 billion was liquidated in 24 hours from the crypto market. This was more than the COVID crash, more than the FTX collapse, a massive record in a bad way. Bitcoin slid towards $90,000 after Trump's tariffs. But what else has Trump been focused on during all of this time period?
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Well, an individual by the name of Darren Betty, who was fired as a speechwriter by the first Trump administration when it was revealed that he had spoken at a conference tied to white nationalists, is now the acting undersecretary of diplomacy and public affairs. in the State Department.
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This is somebody who said back on May 24th, 2024, so not that long ago, this is someone who's got a top leadership position at the State Department. Taiwan will inevitably belong to China. It's a matter of time. It's not worth expending any capital to prevent it. A visionary statesman will recognize this and make a deal in exchange for acknowledgement of this basic reality.
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Get some serious concessions on Africa and Antarctica. Big deal to be made. You have to wonder, too, though, why Donald Trump's tariffs on China were less severe than than his tariffs on Mexico and Canada, by the way. You wonder what Donald Trump, by the way, we knew that Donald Trump previously had secret bank accounts in China. Remember that was discovered after the first Trump administration.
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By the way, Trump's new State Department appointee in a leadership position said, the following on December 7th, 2021, our staff at the Midas Touch Network, we have an impeccable research team that digs this stuff up. This is what Darren Betty said then. Imagine the whining from the globalist American empire if Putin invades, and he puts that in quotes, Ukraine.
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I love it when our national security bureaucrats fail. That's a Trump appointee right there. By the way. This individual spent January 6th telling various black people, including Tim Scott, to learn their place and take a knee to MAGA. This is what Darren Betty said. Tim Scott needs to learn his place and take a knee to MAGA. Black Lives Matter must take a knee to MAGA.
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that is crashing global economies and this says donald trump continues to threaten to invade nations he threatens the sovereignty of canada he's threatening to invade panama and greenland Here's what Donald Trump is reposting now on his social media. He's reposting a post from Marjorie Taylor Greene from two weeks ago. It's a drawing of a January 6th insurrectionist in prison.
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They must learn their place. You get the point. Donald Trump talking about Panama talks about we will either take it back or something very powerful is going to happen. This is what he said last night threatening to invade Panama. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump whined and said Canada is very abusive to the United States of America, which literally nobody thinks other than Donald Trump and perhaps his deranged cult of MAGA followers. Psychotic individual. Play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump talks about inflicting pain on Americans, and he wants Americans to feel the pain, he says, and then it will get better. But we need to feel pain now, he says. Here, play this clip.
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Now, we previously reported on October 29th of 2024 what the plan was. We dug up tweets and reposts from Elon Musk and Trump. Wasn't all that hard to dig it up, to be honest with our research team. But Elon Musk talked about necessary economic collapse that he and Donald Trump.
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wanted to inflict and they claim what they needed to do was they needed to that markets will tumble to kind of crush the economy to just make people feel so much pain and then once everything is destroyed and everything is devastated then they want to rebuild it in the image of musk and trump once they destroy everybody's lives and then make all of us beg for them.
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By the way, right now, as we speak, Trump's, he wants to talk about hedge funds. They supported Trump, okay? The oligarchs literally sat front row. Donald Trump's Treasury Department Secretary, Scott Besant, who previously stated that tariffs would be devastating and inflationary and now is going along with the tariffs, he was George Soros' hedge fund manager. He then started his own hedge fund.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote, tomorrow as promised, President at real Donald Trump will sign a significant number of January 6th pardons. Soon the nightmare of the politically weaponized government will end. And the healing can begin. So why is Donald Trump reposting this right now as he started a cataclysmic trade war? Why is he posting this now?
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Trump's whole team is made up of hedge fund guys. His commerce secretary, you name it, they're all hedge fund people. And by the way, other hedge fund people and these private equity people, they are shorting the American economy. They shorted the economy, meaning... Trump's friends betted the American economy would crash. Why? Because you see, they're talking about economic collapse.
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That's what we were trying to say here at the Midas Touch Network. That's what they're calling for. So all these Trump billionaire oligarchs, they bet against the American economy in favor of a crash. So when it goes down, they make all of this money. Then they take that money and they buy it when it's low. And then they try to make money on it again. That's what the Trump oligarchs are doing.
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By the way, here's audio that was unearthed months ago that we tried to show you all of Elon Musk's talking about inflicting hardship on we the people.
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And by the way, who's loving this? Who's benefiting? In addition to Xi Jinping in China, Putin. Here's an interview that Putin gave on Russian TV talking about how Trump's going to make Europe submit. And by the way, I want to be clear, when Putin is saying this... He knows how to psychologically manipulate Donald Trump. Putin knows Europe is going to stand up to Trump.
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He wants to pressure Trump to now attack Europe, which Trump, by the way, says that he's going to now do tariffs on Europe. So Putin knows what he's doing here and how to play Trump like a fiddle, by the way, as Hillary Clinton warned in 2016. But play this clip.
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Finally, I'll leave you with this. Here's a clip of Kamala Harris talking about what she would have created. Americans could have gotten $25,000 to buy their first home, but instead they're getting tariffs that will make homes even more unaffordable and harder to buy, all to feed Donald Trump's ego.
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Or Donald Trump's intent and desire to destroy America because he is a broken, disgusting, despicable, convicted felon, sexual predator, sexual assaulter, someone who's a horrible businessman who's bankrupted a ton of his companies. Anyway, play this clip.
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Meine Omi hat endlich ihr erstes Smartphone. Dann habe ich ihr natürlich direkt die Shop-Apotheke-App gezeigt und wie sie bis zu 10 Euro mit ihrem ersten E-Rezept sparen kann. Schon schickt sie mir ein Meme mit feiernden Katzen. Darunter steht Beste App Ever. Einfach Shop-Apotheke-App öffnen, Krankenkassenkarte mit E-Rezept dranhalten.
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But forging teachers to post the Ten Commandments violates the most important commandment. Love thy neighbor. Beautiful. Play this clip.
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Und hier Talarico in einer Rede, in der er spricht zu seinen Hatern und sagt, stoppe, Jesus' Namen zu benutzen, um deinen Hass zu unterstützen. Die Menschen, die Jesus verurteilt hat, waren diejenigen, die Religion verurteilt haben, um andere zu schaden. Spiel diesen Clip.
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Here's how Tallarico describes it with Wolf Blitzer on CNN.
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And finally, our very own Katie Fang from the Midas Touch Network breaks it down. Go, Katie, go. And by the way, subscribe to Katie Fang's YouTube channel. Let's listen.
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Great stuff right there. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. I thought I would go a little local into Texas and show you what was going on there. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Schon liegt ein verschreibungspflichtiges Medikament im Warenkorb und wird direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt Shop-Apotheke-App runterladen und mit dem ersten E-Rezept und dem Code 10REZEPT bis zu 10 Euro sparen.
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Now here, Representative Tallarico cooks these MAGA Republicans again on a bill that forces every teacher to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom in Texas. Play this clip.
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You know, as a former litigator, I love a good cross exam. I love when a Democratic House member or Senate member looks at the MAGA Republican Congress member, House member or Senate member and just destroys their idiocracy live in front of the world on camera and just exposes it, exposes the scam, the stunt, the grift. No one does it better than Texas State Representative James Tallarico.
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Now I want you to watch Tallarico again cross-examine these MAGA-Republican state representatives on the voucher scam in Texas. That's widely unpopular amongst Democrats and Republicans, but these MAGAs are pushing it. Here, play this clip.
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Now here's another great cross-exam by Tallarico to the author of the Ten Commandment bill, asking a simple question. Sometimes the simplest questions are the best cross-exam. Is there a separation of church and state? Play this clip.
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And whether he's exposing the Republican MAGA scam about putting the Ten Commandments throughout schools or exposing the voucher system, the scam. Watch James Tallarico cook. So here's Democratic Congressmember James Tallarico going to work this past week in the Texas House. Watch how it's done when he goes after their book, the MAGA book burning plant. Let's play this clip.
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Boom, boom, boom with Shopify on your side. Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at Shopify.com slash Midas. Go to Shopify.com slash Midas one more time. That's Shopify.com slash Midas. Now, Tallarico also recently exposed the furry act that the MAGA Republicans in Texas have pushed through banning students from using litter boxes. And what Tallarico points out is.
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There's not a single instance where this is taking place. So maybe there's more important things that Texas legislators should be doing, like fixing the power grid, ensuring that people get healthcare and education, versus making up stupid conspiracies about kids using litter boxes when the bills author can't give one example. Can't give one example. Play this clip.
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I think when you have a great cross-exam too, you'll see that what you can show is that Texans from both political parties are against the voucher bill and against some of this nastiness in the state. Play this clip.
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Now, one of the things to know about Tallarico as well is that he's a very religious guy. He's in seminary to become a Baptist minister. But he recognizes the importance of the separation of church and state. And here's where he goes, look, I love the Ten Commandments. I built my life around the Ten Commandments.
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BREAKING: President Biden Announces Major Pardon Sunday Night
President Biden has just announced that he will be pardoning his son Hunter Biden arising out of the two federal criminal prosecutions from a Republican appointed special counsel. Let me read for you President Biden's statement where he just announced moments ago that he will be pardoning his son Hunter Biden. Here's what it said. Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.
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There has been an effort to break Hunter, who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me, and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough. For my entire career, I have followed a simple principle. Just tell the American people the truth. They'll be fair-minded."
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Here's the truth. I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice. And once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a president would come to this decision.
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And this follows President Biden previously stating that he was not inclined to issue a pardon for Hunter Biden. Now, President Biden has issued a formal pardon to Hunter Biden on two federal criminal prosecutions, one arising out of Hunter Biden checking a box that he was not under the influence of drugs,
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in connection with the purchase of a firearm, a criminal prosecution that, frankly, has never been done before on anyone in a similar situation. The other for paying back his taxes late. Again, another prosecution that has never been done before. President Biden announcing that he is formally pardoning Hunter Biden.
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I'll remind you when Hunter Biden showed up at the MAGA Republican hearing in Congress and he was prepared to testify. He just wanted to do it publicly. The MAGA Republicans refused to have a public hearing requesting that it be done via private deposition, which later occurred. This is when Hunter Biden approached the hearing and said, let's do this in public. Remember this moment?
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Let's play this clip.
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From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases,
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And I'm sure you may also remember where Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz asked his Republican colleagues to give a show of hands who wanted to hear from Hunter Biden right now during the hearing where they simply wanted to engage in the performative mocking of Hunter Biden. Here, play this clip.
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or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.
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I think it is also worth noting when we talk about Hunter Biden to contextualize things. While MAGA Republicans spent all their time attacking Hunter, They did not go after people like Don Jr. or Jared Kushner because the MAGA Republicans weaponized Congress against President Biden and Biden's family.
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Exactly what they accused Democrats of when, in fact, the United States Supreme Court justices appointed by Donald Trump ultimately gave Donald Trump absolute immunity. So here's an example of Don Jr., for example, recently. bragging about his first class accommodations on his flight to Dubai and Oman, where the Trumps continued to rake in millions from foreign governments.
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But I guess to MAGA Republicans, no conflict of interest here. Here, play this clip.
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And here is Jared Kushner at a recent event where he was invited to speak about his investments. When he was asked about the Saudis investing billions of dollars in his fund, Jared Kushner said, are we really even talking about this? This is really even a thing? Here, watch this.
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Well, there's clearly a selective prosecution going after Hunter Biden for quite literally fractions of fractions of fractions of the corruption of Don Jr. and Jared Kushner. But there you have it. President Biden announcing the pardon moments ago of his son, Hunter Biden. Make sure you go to MidasPlus.com for more updates. And please hit subscribe right now on this YouTube channel.
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The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then a carefully negotiated plea deal agreed to by the Department of Justice unraveled in the courtroom with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process.
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Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter's cases. No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son and that is wrong.
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I thought Donald Trump put out a press release saying that he got rid of the imaginary DEI boogeyman on January 22nd. He said it was restored. Excellence was restored. He fought with his imaginary DEI boogeyman. He claims he won the fake battle with the DEI boogeyman, and now he's blaming DEI still. Do you see these Putin-esque tactics here? I know, Brett, you do. I know, Jordy, you do.
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I know the Midas Mighty, you do, Brett.
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Yeah, I mean, they could not be more out in the open when you see these clips. The irony, of course, of the DEI thing is that Donald Trump's, all of his nominees and candidates, everybody who he surrounds himself with are DEI. They didn't earn it. They are all the worst people that you could possibly see filling these roles. I mean, it's just laughable when he uses DEI excuse.
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And then you have Pete Hegseth, who has his history of allegations against him for sexual assault and his history of all the photos of him drinking on the job and his reports of alcoholism and reports from his own mother about abuse and all of these various things.
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Never led anything in the military.
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Never led anything in the military, and you have him speaking down and trying to remove the stars of respected generals like Mark Milley. It is the complete flip where you now have a kakistocracy in place in addition to the oligarchy. That is a government that is led by the most incompetent among us, and that is what he tries to act like DEI is and what diversity is.
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He tries to act like that means you have incompetent people when we're seeing what Donald Trump's hiring process is like.
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it's bringing on the most incompetent people imaginable because he just wants lackeys the same way vladimir putin just wants lackeys the same way kim jong-un just wants lackeys it's the same thing different country happening right here in the united states and i feel like nobody like defends diversity anymore because they're too afraid because republicans have made such an offensive
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So let me defend it for a second, because what diversity with the Republicans want to act like it is, is it's you're picking people for their skin color and that's it. And you're trying to fill quotas, but that's not what it is.
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If you actually want to speak about what diversity is, it's saying, instead of just looking at this narrow group of people that you surround yourself with, like the Pete Hegseth, like the guy from the real world MTV show, you know, those people.
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Maybe reach out outside of your bubble and see all these other groups out there, all these other people who have these lived experiences who may actually be a lot better than those people. But the fact is there are a lot of people who are far more qualified than the people who have Donald Trump have chosen. And so they have to look down on them.
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So what Trump is now saying in all these press conferences is basically, and this is going to happen every single incident. If there is a woman who's flying the helicopter or the plane, that's going to be what they try to make the story. If there's an African-American who flew the plane who's involved, that's going to be the story.
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If there's someone in the LGBT community, that's going to be the story because they need to deflect blame from what is really happening here, from their own failures.
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Absolutely. Diversity is their new buzzword, too. It's like, during COVID, what was it? It was experts, doctor, activists. Those are the things that they attacked. Now they're attacking the word diversity.
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They've evolved, right? They used to be CRT. And then they've slowly gone, honestly, at a pretty quick pace. But they've gone more towards from these words that were code words for it to now they're going closer to it. And the further we get, the more it's going to get really,
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Well, when you look at the Hegseth comments, I mean, he just flat out said, I don't want women in the military is basically what Hegseth had said on tape there. They say the quiet parts out loud. It's disgusting. When you look at Donald Trump during these press conferences, does he work? Or is he just holding court for corporate media and they just eat it up? They go, yeah, Donnie.
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point guys on tv all day and then they broadcast them all day like from from morning till evening he's in a press conference he's in the oval office and i get that reporters like the access they like being in there with the cameras but at some point is somebody going to ask like dude do you do work or do you go from this to the golf course and then you let elon musk and his crew just cause chaos throughout our government
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Donald Trump engaging in Kim Jong Un like conduct and Putin as conduct as well. He had Meta, which used to be Facebook, enter into a settlement agreement with him to pay him $25 million for some ridiculous lawsuit Trump filed back in 2021 because Facebook exercised its discretion with a platform that it controlled to block Donald Trump back then.
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Corporate media is having the time of their lives right now. They don't want to do anything to get in trouble with Donnie over there, B. They're having so much fun at the expense of people's lives. Again, it's disgusting. When you see Donald Trump up there talking to these reporters, This isn't a person who wants to lead for all Americans. It's just so obvious.
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Up there blaming Biden and Obama, DEI. Ben, weapon of mass distraction. Exactly that phrase. He's up there just spewing utter nonsense that... Again, the corporate media and his mega followers just eat it up time and time. He doesn't want to lead for Americans. He wants to lead for the oligarchs while grifting off of the American people. It's like the reverse Robin Hood, right?
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He wants to give money to his oligarchs at the expense of Americans and American livelihood. It's disgusting.
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What do you think MAGA Republicans were focused on today? What do you think their top issue was? Of course, what all Americans are worried about right now is their prices are going up as eggs, if you can even find them, are skyrocketing as your coffee prices are.
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going through the roof as you're worried because of the war that's taking place in Europe and Ukraine that Donald Trump said he was going to fix in 24 hours and the war spreading to Europe as people are worried that Trump's going to impose these tariffs on Canada and Mexico and we're going to be embroiled in a devastating trade war against countries that should be our closest allies as people are worried Donald Trump's saying he's going to impose tariffs on
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on the semiconductor industry in Taiwan, our ally playing right into China's hand. Americans, I know, are very focused on whether or not Donald Trump will appear on Mount Rushmore. I'm being sarcastic, of course, but that's the MAGA Republican's priority. MAGA Republican Anna Paulina Luna introducing legislation to put Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore, quote,
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His remarkable accomplishments for our country and the success he will continue to deliver deserve the highest recognition and honor on this iconic national monument, Mount Rushmore. It's a timeless symbol of our nation's freedom. He deserves to be remembered along the greats like George Washington. Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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That's what they're doing at the same time of this national tragedy, while Donald Trump is also making QAnon posts and reposting QAnon accounts. Donald Trump posting the, yeah, this is the QAnon one. And it is like if you go and look at Spiritual Street Fighter 17, WWG1GA where we go on, we go all. Donald Trump is reposting her. Donald Trump is also making – there it is right there.
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Watch the water by the way. There was a Q drop this week. I saw this. It was Q occasionally, the mysterious figure who leads QAnon released a drop and they said, watch the water. It was about Donald Trump turning on the rain in California, the big faucet in California that all the water came from.
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I mean, the stuff is like – They think that Canada borders California on the north. That's what they think. And that right there in the northwest where California borders Canada, this is what they think. There's a faucet. And Trump turned the Trump order.
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This is what Trump's followers, this is what 35 percent of America, at least 35 percent of America believes, sent the military and they turned on the faucet. And then there was rain and the water was delivered and the fires were put out. By Donald Trump, you know, 60% of Americans have under a fifth grade education. And I guess they're into Donald Trump making posts like the goat, the G-O-A-T.
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They're making posts like this totally and utterly absurd. This is what they're focused on. And it's important that we point out that this is their behavior and contrast it with what we need to be focused on.
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So they're now paying him $25 million, $23 million purportedly, to a Trump presidential library, right? It had a double price. what ABC was paying and then $3 million for legal fees. I guess this is a bribe by another name. Some may have an opinion of that, but I'll leave it to your opinion ultimately to make that determination.
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we go to the oval office next and let me show you what was going on there and brett to your point i know corporate media you know they salivate uh for this this is what they live this is what they live for it's a great point by me it was definitely my point Well, by the way, I mean, you know, Brett's new TikTok emergence as- Really good. As one of the best TikTokers out there.
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By the way, we have a lot of TikTokers who are now coming to YouTube to watch the show. So we should say what's up to TikTok. If you hear from TikTok, let us know in the comments, in the live chat, if you're watching live. Love seeing you here. This is awesome.
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Let me show you what went down. So Donald Trump needs to be explained the things that he's signing, which is kind of just a weird thing in general too. They need to tell him what it is. He's obviously doing it for theatrics.
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Or maybe he needs it actually explained to him because one of the things that we were learning as well was that the White House was blaming the Office of Management and Budget, which is now also kind of controlled by Elon Musk as well as Russ Voth, the author of Project 2025 for the government freeze memo. Right. They said and the Atlantic reported it so odd.
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They were like the memo that shocked the White House. OK, the memo that shocked the White House. I mean, Donald Trump's plan was Project 2025. The directive from the Office of Management and Budget that froze most of federal funds on Monday had not gone through the usual approval process. Now, look, I the Atlantic is usually they're usually on the Fed.
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I think they usually write better articles than most, but what's the usual approval process? The usual approval process for Donald Trump, let me post QAnon all caps letters.
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It was an informative article.
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What's the usual approval process? What does that even mean? It was an informative article that had a lot of good information in it and I think the biggest issue was the headline and I want to be clear about that. It's not Ashley Parker.
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Ashley Parker probably didn't write the headlines.
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Yeah, oftentimes they're different, the people who write the headlines. But here's the underlying thing with that and with what Trump does and what we see every single day. What was that?
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I said, sorry, Ashley. You wrote a good story.
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It was informative. She did a good job. Yeah, that was good. If you wrote the headline, I have some notes. But I'm sure you're great. But no, honestly, the thing, though, is there's always like, this has been a thing with Trump going back to like 2015. It's always been like, not Trump's fault. It's always someone else. And he often blames somebody else.
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And oftentimes the media goes, oh yeah, it was this guy, it was that guy, it was that guy. It's never a buck stops here moment to bring this episode full circle to the beginning. And that's what drives me crazy. And so anytime that the media gives credence to that idea of like, oh, it's just this person who went rogue and destroyed the entire system.
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And again, to me, whether you're from a red state, blue state, Democrat, independent, Republican, whatever, you should want qualified people, not Hegseths or Gabbards or RFKs or Kash Patels. dangerous incompetent people also the federal reserve did not lower interest rates given all of the uncertainty right now in the economy caused by donald trump and that government freeze
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I'm like, okay, so is he the president or is he not the president? Like, what are we doing here? We need to hold them to the same standards that we'd hold anybody else to, not less standards, that's for sure. And that's why I want to make sure that everyone's doing that.
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So to them, President Biden was responsible for absolutely every single thing, everything, no matter what. Local Trump issues. Donald Trump responsible for absolutely nothing, literally nothing. He could be in office, but like we're still going to pretend that it's Biden and Obama and somehow Buttigieg is involved in it as well. And Trump can never be. It's absurd. But that's why.
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You know, more people are watching this network now than any other cable network, including Fox. I mean, that's just why we crave the facts. I'm intellectually curious to know what's really happening. And that's why I don't read other corporate media at all.
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I just go to the source documents and I look at the clips and I watch it and I read the orders and I form my own evaluation of it because I'm just trying to read and grapple with what's before me. So that's why I showed you earlier in this episode about all of the things that Donald Trump did to the FAA, the federal government forcing out the FAA head, gutting these key safety committees.
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So what does Trump do? And this is part of his playbook. You go on the offense and then you blame others. And normally that would just mean you go on Fox. Well, now Trump goes on Fox in the Oval Office. And then signs an executive order declaring, declaring like this. This is stuff that Kim Jong-un would be like, ooh, I should maybe learn, take some lessons here.
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Declaring that the plane crash was the result of Biden and DEI. And that's what caused flight dangers. Here, watch it for yourself.
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Elevating competence over... In other words, what you're trying to say here is... competence huh like corporate media is so stupid that they you know like the tricks look like like they're out of like a like a 1945 like like disney cartoon where like the good guy or the bad guy tries to set the trap for a good guy you know and trump's like you know it's just it's such corny crap
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In other words, competence. Sir, we've got an order here. We're going to remove the woke from it that you've already said you've eliminated two weeks ago, but now you're blaming it because you were the one who gutted the FAA. So now let's blame Obama and Biden and Buttigieg. So what you're saying is competence. And then the corporate media reports it.
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How not to handle a national tragedy, Donald Trump rolling out the playbook after gutting government agencies, telling government workers to resign and take this fake buyout package after Elon Musk forced out the head of the FAA. What is Donald Trump now doing? Donald Trump is blaming the horrible tragedy that took place in Washington, D.C., when an airplane that came from Kansas into D.C.
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executive order eliminating you know it's like come on stupidest stuff in the world the biggest argument against everything they say is themselves like the biggest argument is exactly the way they run these things and you could even go you could go person by person of the people who they're bringing on i mean i keep going back to pete hegseth because he's like one of the most important people now in the country controlling our military controlling our budget uh he's responsible for that helicopter being uh wherever it was that day and that's his helicopter
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And so Pete Hegseth just wants the people to forget that he's in charge of this now. They're going to try to blame other people. And the giveaway is when they go, and we're not going to look at these other factors, but we're just going to look at competence.
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And then you look at who they view as competent, people like Pete Hegseth, and who they look at as incompetent, people like General Mark Milley, people like Lloyd Austin.
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lloyd austin is like the former secretary of defense under president biden one of the most decorated military generals like of all time um this guy like has a military career that is to be revered unbelievable human being and they view him as incompetent why because he's black that's it like the dei this all all this language that they use it's all just another way of them to get around saying racial slurs
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even though it was blocked by a federal judge, another federal judge in Rhode Island after Trump purported to rescind the OMB memo. But then his press secretary said, no, we were just rescinding the memo, not the freeze. So Caroline Levitt, 27-year-old Trump press secretary, had to say the judge was like, so you mean you're not rescinding it?
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That's the big, not so much of a secret, but it's the whole thing. We're seeing this white supremacy in action, and you see it whether it's Elon Musk doing the gestures that he's doing or the way they're running the White House. They use all these other words, and they use all this other framing to try to play it coy, but it's very obvious what they're doing.
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Let me show you this. Donald Trump in the Oval Office was asked about those 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Here's what Donald Trump says is going to happen. Let's play it.
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You know, I should note that Donald Trump is making those threats at the same time that Howard Lutnick, who is his pick to be the head of the Commerce Department, says Canada and Mexico can avoid tariffs before Saturday's deadline and basically comes up with a way to try to create a fake deal with Donald Trump. And during his testimony, he blamed Canada
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for killing 100,000 Americans a year with fentanyl and saying, Canada is shipping this in. Again, that's just false. There's literally nothing. There's no aspect of that statement that is true. So they basically want Canada to admit that it will stop doing something that it's not doing
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And the plan would then be, I guess, to make a fake deal and say Donald Trump made Canada submit and bend a knee and kiss the ring and then hope our media propaganda reports it the same way they kind of did with Colombia, which was a test run for that, where Donald Trump threatened to 25, 50% tariffs. Then Columbia said they're retaliating against it. And then Donald Trump said, we made a deal.
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And the deal is basically the exact same thing that happened when Biden was in office is now happening still. But he acted like they're agreeing to take people back, but they were taking people back under President Biden. What Columbia said is they didn't want military planes with people from Columbia being shackled like prisoners. And
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It's like there was no problem with the deportation. No problem. You caused the problem and then you came up with your fake solution and now you're spiking the football and the media is like, oh, look at how tough he was. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. Nothing happened.
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And by the way, Canada – has been reaching out to its european allies by and large other than the premier of alberta which she's like maga maple canada is ready to impose very harsh retaliatory tariffs against america to try to cause pain mexico's wildly popular president claudia scheinbaum has been rallying not just those in mexico but all throughout
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Latin America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, they held a meeting today as well. They're ready to go and they're going to be turning more towards China for help, who's the big beneficiary of this all.
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You have France meeting with the leader of Denmark and France and other European allies within Denmark are committed or floating at least, but likely committed to sending ground troops into Greenland to protect it against an American invasion. The world is uniting against Donald Trump. And the thing there, too, is those populations have been prepared for the assault on them by Donald Trump.
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So we're going to issue a restraining order against you. But chaos has ensued across the country. This is the Midas Touch podcast. I'm joined by Brett and Jordy.
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So they're ready for shared sacrifice because they've been learning about this. They understand the threat by and large. in america because our corporate media has bent the knee kissed the ring put on their knee pads what have you people here are not ready i think by and large those who watch the midas touch network are for what's about to take place the mere threat
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of Colombia's retaliatory tariffs and tariffs on Colombia led to a skyrocketing of coffee prices and also gas prices. And the tariffs didn't even happen. Trump made a fake deal. If these tariffs get imposed and we're in a massive trade war, and then we impose tariffs on Taiwan as well, this is going to have massive economic impacts. And Brett Jordy, might as mighty,
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What is Donald Trump gonna do when that happens? Three letters, D-E-I, and one name, Biden. Donald Trump, they're all gonna roll out there. We're going to have to sign. This is the executive order, sir, sir. And this says that the economic catastrophe that just occurred was caused by Biden. I hereby decree DEI and Biden caused a depression.
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And at some point, let me be very clear, we the people are not gonna take it. And it's happening rapidly. It's happening rapidly that we the people at some point when this shit keeps on happening, It's going to be enough, enough. And that's what he wants, though, right? He wants the people to have a reaction to this.
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And he is what he said he was going to do before, martial law, and I'm going to declare the Insurrection Act. This is part of the Project 2025 agenda. Elon Musk said, we, this was during the election. I did, how many reports Brett and Jordy and MidasMoney did I did on this? I said, folks, they're saying that they want to cause economic hardship.
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Crazy week. I was going to say, how far through this week are we? Okay, it's Thursday, at least. But it's been a crazy week, and this week has really highlighted the incompetence of the administration. I mean, the willful, malicious incompetence.
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They're saying, literally the quote was, we want to inflict economic hardship. Hey, union folks, Elon Musk's literally saying he doesn't believe in your existence. He said unions create a Lord peasant environment and that they should be abolished, period. Sorry, Brett, for that one.
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No, Ben, real quick. There's only so many times Trump could really go to the Biden well, at least so I thought. And then all of a sudden today he was rolling out that it was Obama's fault, that the plane crash was somehow Obama's fault. So it doesn't look like they've advanced their talking points at all, at least Trump and these MAGA Republicans, on how they're going to deal with disaster.
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They're sure as heck never going to take accountability. But to your point, Ben, there's only so many times you could really blame Biden and DEI. Again, when you are the party in charge, when you have the House, the Senate and the presidency before corporate media, hopefully one day pushes back on him and say, uh-uh, not going to take it. Because, you know, unfortunately, it's not up.
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We can't wait for corporate media to do that. That's why we're doing it here, the Midas Mighty and the pro-democracy community. And it's freaking working. But I just, you know, I just want to see somebody have the stones one day to finally push back on them.
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Here's the thing. You're assuming an electorate that uses common sense. You're assuming a rational electorate. And it's just not what we're dealing with. It just isn't. So yes, they're going to go back to the same well every single time. And the same people are going to parrot the same shit every single time. And they're going to try to play this like it's football or something.
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They're going to play it like it's sports. They're going to just... do exactly what they've been doing. You're gonna have all these people, the Charlie Kirks, the Tim Pools, the you name it, they're all going to be spouting this BS and turning everything into these same wars. It's the same game they play every single time.
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And so our goal is to be louder megaphones than them and to find the people who aren't so entrenched in that cult
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and to pull them out of it gradually right so we already saw because there are a lot of people who voted for trump this time who aren't just the maga cultists and we have to understand that there are people who voted because you know like a lot of young men this is something that we were raising the alarm on quite a lot a lot of them voted because they viewed their lives as they were getting stiffed you know in their life that they had this promise of america of the american dream that
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We've said on this show numerous times throughout Biden's administration that when crises happen, you want somebody in charge who's able to handle them appropriately, who's able to manage the situations, who's able to look at them clear-eyed and be honest with the American people and make the right decisions about how to actually make these situations better.
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you are going to live a better life than your parents and you are going to be richer than them and you are going to have more opportunities and they grew up in an environment where that's not the case and turning to donald trump sounds counterproductive and i agree it's the opposite of what you want to do if you want to solve those issues but they found some sort of camaraderie in this that made them feel powerful
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That made them feel like, okay, I, this is a community that accepts me and they actually make me not feel like a piece of crap, right? There are people out there who are still persuadable who voted for Donald Trump. So I think it's the goal of, of us, uh, of this entire community to be in full persuasion mode every single day and highlighting the chaos.
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And we already see the more people see what Donald Trump's action cause campaigning is different than governing. And the more people see what Donald Trump is actually doing, especially now because his actions are not going to only be seen by his people. They're going to be shown on these networks, right?
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Whether the networks give them good coverage or bad coverage, people are going to be seeing these crazy actions every day. But we saw in one week, his approval rating go down like quite a bit. And we saw a big backlash to like all of his signature policies. We saw this right off the bat. And so, Ben, I don't want to step on you because I know you wanted to get into this also.
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So let me know if we should show some of this data or if we should hold on it. But the point is, when people actually are seeing what Trump is doing, a lot of people will not like it. But they will only not like it if we don't give up, if we don't quit. And there are so many people right now, I'm not saying this community, but like a lot of people in the Democratic Party are out there, right?
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Who just sort of seem defeatist or seem like, oh, in order to win people over, we need to be more like them. And we need to make our policies more MAGA and things like that. And it's just such the wrong way to work about it. Have your values speak loudly and proudly about them and actually fight for something. That's what people want. People want fighters.
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And we all need to be fighting for our country. If that cavalry is not going to come from this party infrastructure and from leaders like that, we're going to be the ones who have to take it on.
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Let's take our last quick break of the show. Ben, I can't hear you right now.
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I'm not sure if you're on mute. I just wanted to add this there, Brett. Dem leadership needs to step up, like to your point exactly there. Dem leadership needs to figure out a way to combat the Biden, the DEI, which is strong frigging messaging. This community is doing amazing. The pro-democracy community is doing great speaking out and putting that down. But I need to see it out of Dem leadership.
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Unfortunately, we have a guy right now in the Oval Office who does the complete opposite of that, who rushes to judgment, who tries to blame the other side. It's the complete opposite of what we always liked about our presidents throughout our history. I mean, I think to Harry Truman, what was Harry Truman's famous line? The buck stops here, the buck stops with me. I think it's the buck stops here.
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Yeah, you're good now. Perfect. Well, why don't we take our last quick break of the show? Brett, we'll go over that data. We'll go over Donald Trump being asked a question about, well, you said you were going to, what, cleanse or clear out or just get rid of the whole Gaza situation, that you were going to cut this deal with Egypt and Jordan. But it turns out that they're saying, There's no deal.
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We're not doing that. We don't know what he's even talking about. And Donald Trump's like, they're going to do it. Just trust me. They'll do it. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about some data. Reminder, patreon.com slash Midas Touch is where you get to do Zoom. meetings with us, secret links, get to meet with us. And then MidasPlus.com, led by our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski.
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Let's take our last quick break of the show.
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And Donald Trump is the opposite of Truman in that regard and the opposite of what a leader is supposed to be. I mean, blaming President Obama about What are you talking about? Blaming President Biden, blaming diversity for this horrific tragedy that we watched unfold last night. I mean, my heart is absolutely breaking for this. It is such a horrifying scene.
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So Trump's ambassador to the United Nation, Elise Stefanik, was asked at a confirmation hearing whether she espouses a biblical view that Palestinians and Palestine should simply not exist. And she said she agrees with that biblical view.
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You had Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel, say the same thing, that he has a Christian Zionistic view, as he refers to it as, and a biblical perception that Palestine should not exist. And then Donald Trump Also said that he wants to clean it away or get rid of it and just get rid of the whole damn thing.
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And then he said he's got a deal with the King of Jordan in Egypt where that's where he's going to move all the Palestinians. Then he implied that he was going to. build like condominiums. He says it's a great place for building great waterfront property. And by the way, several years ago, Jared Kushner made very similar remarks.
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I still remember where there were these Muslim leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, and others who were saying that Donald Trump was going to be just great. He was going to be great for all
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of the muslim issues well donald trump is now going to be imposing a muslim ban that's worse than the first one perhaps when he banned your entire people i don't know that may have been a rat flag red flag the first uh administration um and we were saying that donald trump is very is it's not the same thing when it comes to trump and kamala when it came to issues of palestine
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And to see Donald Trump take that and try to blame Trump. Biden and Obama and diversity. It just honestly, it makes me so angry to see. And it makes me so angry that there are Americans who could look at this and support this evil guy. It really, really, really disgusts me. I know we're going to get into it all. We got a lot to discuss. So I'll toss it over to you, Jay.
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And Kamala wanting a two-state solution and Donald Trump not. But Donald Trump's being asked about – he says he's got this deal. But the president of Egypt and the king of Jordan say that we know nothing of this deal. The same way Donald Trump made up a lie that he was going to have a peace deal in Ukraine in 24 hours that he now –
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WMD, weapon of mass distraction, wants us to forget about as Putin and Russia are literally mocking him on Russian state TV every day. But here's what Trump had to say about Gaza. Let's play it.
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I mean, it's literally the stupidest loop of timeline that they're going to do it. They're going to do it. They're going to do it. Now, the question should have ended after he said the Egypt president and the King of Jordan said that they're not going to do it. Did you notice the reporter though there, if you were listening carefully, like, are you going to use things like tariffs?
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The question almost implies tariffs. It doesn't. It doesn't almost. It is embedded with the fallacy that these tariff threats are having an impact and are going to make Egypt and Jordan change their behavior in a material way and it's loaded with this idea that tariffs make sense. Tariffs are. a tax on American corporations. You need me to say it again slow.
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Tariffs are a tax on American corporations that import to try to disincentivize them from bringing in foreign goods. And sometimes it does that. And the tax is then passed on to the American consumer if the American company still imports from the foreign country. The foreign country gets pissed because it's an economic weapon against them. So then they impose retaliatory tariffs.
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Then a trade war starts. Donald Trump believes that America was its richest in the 1870s, which is just the blatantly most stupidest thing you can possibly say. We were not the most powerful in the 1870s. And so this whole concept that we should be more like 1870 America is quite literally the dumbest thing. But also, just going back to that video,
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You've got Donald Trump, again, this is his latest lie. They're gonna do it. Why? Okay, they're gonna do it. We do a lot for them. He has no sense of the geopolitical environment while Russia and China are feasting. They could not be happier right now. For similar end dip, they could not be happier. China's reaching out to all these countries saying, let us help you, let us invest.
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Yeah. I mean, Brett, just building on that real quick, it's just beyond pathetic, right? I feel like we talked about this earlier in the week, or maybe last week too, when I'm like, all Trump and these Republicans keep doing, but Biden did this, but DEI, here's the issue. Donald Trump is president. Biden's not president. Obama sure as hell isn't president. DEI, Trump, you're the president.
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We'll be the new leaders. WHO, let us help you, let us help you, let us help you. And Russia's like, This totally justifies all of our territorial ambitions to take Ukraine and to take Europe. Putin doesn't believe for a second that he's going to broker any deal that is in total capitulation, and he thinks that Donald Trump will allow that to happen.
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ukraine is banking on and i've been reading a lot of stuff from uh from kiev journalists out of this is that somehow donald trump just gets so frustrated that he looks like a bad negotiator that maybe he will get frustrated with putin that's literally what ukraine is banking on now finally let me show you this clip though where donald trump says that um
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So they announced at another event that they were going to launch a Guantanamo Bay concentration camp. Let's call it what it is, a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay as like a point where migrants will be sent and I guess potentially Americans too because they're rounding up people who aren't even migrants and people who are here lawfully.
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Donald Trump says he's asked about it, and he goes his concentration camp is not going to cost anything. It's not going to cost a lot of money. Here, watch this.
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You said that confidence may have played a role. Are you
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As you know, I don't know. A lot of the structures there, look, I think you could probably ask Donald Trump any question about any topic and he will respond with a ridiculous answer. I mean, I think you can literally ask him, There have been reports that Russia has highly trained unicorns that are – what's your view on that? And he would respond, I think we have unicorns. They have unicorns.
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I think you can ask him anything and he will respond with some sort of lie that is – utilizing the framing of the question. It's absurd what he's saying there, that it's not gonna cost anything. Like a miracle, it's all gonna go away. Was this COVID? All of this is like, what we predicted here conservative estimates were that Donald Trump was gonna add five to $7 trillion in debt.
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I was saying, well, that's what he did last time, $8 trillion. So this time I'm putting a five X multiple on it. So I was saying between 30 and $50 trillion. in debt that he's going to add. Just think about it. One of these flights is like a million dollars with 80 people on them that he uses the jet and he makes the films about it.
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He is the most reckless with the spending and wait until they push forward their billionaire tax cuts. That's going to be their main thing that's working its way through right now, Brett.
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You got rid of DEI when he walked in the door. He signed all those executive orders, big guy. These excuses just fall on deaf ears when all of a sudden you are the party in charge. You control the House. You control the Senate. You have the presidency. It's gross to say. I hate saying it, but you do. It's not Biden. It's not Obama. It's not DEI Trump. It's you, Republicans.
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Everything that he's lining up right now with the tariffs, with the spending, with everything he's doing, it's setting it up for honestly just like an economic disaster. That's all designed to funnel money obviously to the richest people in the country and the people who operate private prisons and things like that.
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Who do you think is going to – and I can't believe we even have to speak about this crazy Guantanamo idea in the realm of reality, but we have to. But who do you think is going to be going down there to create these massive prisons in Guantanamo Bay? It's going to be some Trump lackey who runs private prisons, some billionaire who's going to get all this money.
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And just to put it in perspective also, I think Guantanamo Bay at its peak. And Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba. It's an area of Cuba that we've taken control of. And we put a lot of people who are dangerous war criminals. But a lot of people have also been there because they've been in the wrong place, wrong time. These are people who haven't got a due process.
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At its peak, there was like 700 prisoners that got to Guantanamo Bay, 700 at its peak. Currently today, the last time I checked, there was 15 people in Guantanamo Bay. So he wants to go from 15 people, and right now the 15 people who are there are like the most dangerous people in the world who did 9-11 and things like that. He wants to go from 15 people who are prisoners of war.
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And he wants to now, in a place that shouldn't exist, quite frankly, he wants to now bring in 30,000 migrants and treat them as war criminals, basically, and bring them into this area designed for up to like 700 people. There's no way to do this in a way that's not going to be absolutely just dehumanizing. And it's really, Guantanamo has been a stain on our country since it's been open.
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This takes it to a whole other level. It's just completely abhorrent. And it's just another step in this crazy kind of Trump chaos where he's just showing us that there is no bottom.
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So here's their... way to cover up the government freeze, right? So everybody was pissed, red state, blue state, Democrat, independent, Republican, government freeze, it probably impacted you or somebody you knew in some material way, the chaos.
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I mean, I had friends who were saying that they had procedures and they weren't sure if they were gonna be able to have a life-saving procedure taking place. And whether you were talking about any of these government programs, people were impacted. I saw statements from the governor of Louisiana, a far right-wing governor, the governor of West Virginia, far right-wing governor,
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saying that they were caught off guard and they're like 45, 50% of like their budget comes from the federal government, which by the way, blue states help fund them. Think about Tennessee, for example, all these red states are funded by the blue states with federal funds because they can't really fund themselves by and large. And then they want to rail against the federal government.
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What's Trump's current version of they're eating the cats and dogs? What red meat can he throw to his base knowing that a lot of people who support him have less than a fifth grade education and that there are about 50% of our country or 60% has under a fifth grade education and that's the electorate. So what they came up with
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was that they needed to do this because Biden was putting $50 million or tens of millions of dollars and sending it to Hamas. So Hamas can build bombs made with condoms. Condom bombs, devastating condom bombs by Hamas, $50 million worth. I kid you not, this is what they went with. And it's so outlandish, it's so out there. Condom bombs, $50 million to Hamas.
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It's you guys that are causing this chaos and hysteria, and it's getting people killed. Benji, where do you want to start?
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So even when I heard it at first, you have to think to yourself, okay, maybe they're not condom bombs, but were we sending $50 million of contraceptives to Hamas? Were we sending, were we doing that? Like you start trying to go down. Okay, there's a lie, but some of it must be true, right? Because people don't lie about everything. No, they lie about everything.
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Like literally from USAID of the $60 million of a much bigger budget that was sent internationally
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uh regarding contraceptives because you don't want internationally the spread of aids to occur in hiv for example which then finds its way back to here pandemics as we've learned are global in nature so the fact that they may start in country wide doesn't mean they end up back in the united states but none of that went to gaza None of that went into the West Bank. None of that went there.
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Why don't we start with Donald Trump posting a fact sheet? Let's start with last week. where Donald Trump posted a fact sheet on January 22nd, 2025 about the Federal Aviation Administration. And Trump says, fact sheet, President Donald J. Trump ends DEI madness and restores excellence and safety within the Federal Aviation Administration.
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So literally, this whole concept of condom bombs, why? But Trump's supporters feast on this stuff. They love that this hits them. And then they're enraged. And then they're so pissed about condom bombs. Here, play the clip first of Trump talking about condom bombs. So people are like, man, what are you talking about? Here, play it.
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How about that? It's a lie. How about none of it is true? But that's the thing. Like, when I... When MAGA people reach out to me, if you want to even call it that, they send me memes. Like they don't engage in actual discourse. Like they have a meme that they send you for everything. And then they start, then the new meme is like a photo of Biden with Hamas and then condoms.
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And then it's like a meme like that. And this like really hits them. I don't know, in their reptilian brain or whatever. And people run with this thing. And it's literally all a lie. And as I said, it's a WMD, weapon of mass distraction. So you can ignore the fact that none of Donald Trump's promises are true.
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But perhaps when he said he was going to free all the January 6th insurrectionists, by the way, to have the episode come full circle when Kash Patel was testifying at the confirmation hearing and California Senator Adam Schiff was asking him, hey, Patel, You were bragging that you came up with the J6 choir song with the most dangerous insurrectionists, many of who tried to kill police.
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Patel goes, I didn't do that. Senator Schiff goes, well, you went on Bannon and you said we produced this and you talked about all the things that we did, meaning you. And then Patel goes, yeah, but I said we. And then Senator Schiff goes, so you don't include yourself in we, meaning you and Trump and others? Yeah, I don't know what that was referring to. That's where they're going with this.
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They created songs with the insurrectionists. They created musicals and choirs about this. But this is the WMD weapon of mass distraction that they're deploying to get you to forget about all of these things that none of Trump's promises are true. Brett.
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One of the strategies also, and whether you call it a distraction or not a distraction, one of the moves that he does is just flood the zone with shit. That's literally a phrase taken from Steve Bannon from Donald Trump's first term. That's a coordinated strategy by them to do so much chaos that it's hard to even keep track of it all, even in the way that they handled
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These hearings today where you had Tulsi and you had Kash Patel and you had RFK today, all going at once, the three most controversial nominees. That's designed to put a lot of shit out there in order to divide your attention and make it so it's hard to focus on any one of them. It's hard to cover him and all of that. So we are going to see a lot of this flooding the zone from Trump.
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We are going to see more chaos. But I think the one bright spot of this week was that it showed that our voices matter. When it came to this funding freeze and the rescission of the funding freeze and the chaos around it, the judge ultimately ruling against them, the reason for all that chaos and uproar was because people made noise.
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And so we have to understand that we still need to use our megaphone and make noise at these things. and do what we can to ensure that people realize how dangerous Donald Trump's policies are, how dangerous these funding freezes are, because they're going to try to position all these as good ideas, right?
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The same way they try to position their attacks on diversity as good ideas, the same way they try to frame all these attacks on staffers who deal with our airline safety as they were just cutting the budget. Don't you want a more efficient government?
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sure i want a more efficient government i don't want to get rid of the person who controls the air safety for our planes that's for sure um i got a i got a plus symbol in my video um so you know just keep eye on this where did that come from keep keep your eye on the ball everybody and understand that your voice your voice has power got ben and jordy not making fun of me making the thumbs up for the audio listeners
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Your voice still has power. Our voices still have power. It's why we need to continue to spread these messages. It's why we need to continue to speak out. And it's why we can't let them get us down and drive us into like this submission and this like, okay, well, it's just so much. I got to tune out because I can't focus on it. That's exactly what they want you to do.
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And that's exactly why we're going to do the exact opposite of that every single day.
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Folks, whether you're a Democrat, Independent, Republican, Red State, Blue State, Do you see excellence over the past 24, 48 hours? Or do you see tragedy? I see tragedy when an airplane, a commercial plane struck a military Black Hawk helicopter flying over Washington, D.C. What else are we learning? The FAA administrator had to quit on January 20th because Elon Musk forced him out.
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That's why this community is getting defeated, busting their butts every single day, coming out, sharing the videos, talking about it, making noise in the right way. And I just want to say thank you guys. It doesn't go unnoticed. None of this reach is possible without y'all here. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Also, Donald Trump put in place a very dangerous FAA hiring freeze such that the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the ranking members who are the Democrats on the committee before this incident, put out a statement how dangerous this was. Donald Trump
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also cut back and removed key air safety committees as well i'd also just like to jump in for a quick second to explain briefly why uh elon musk forced out the head of the aafaa right there It was because the FAA was trying to fine Elon Musk around $600,000 for safety violations committed by Elon Musk's company, SpaceX.
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I just want to bring that up because it is the complete problem with having this oligarchy set up right here and having these billionaires who have these other interests that they have to deal with because it makes their decision making by its inherent nature corrupt. Because Elon Musk cares about his companies. He doesn't care about the country.
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So Elon Musk had a personal tiff with this guy because this guy wanted to enforce what? What's the issue that we're all talking about right now? Air safety, aviation safety. And Elon Musk pushed back and made this guy quit because of that, pushed him right out. I just wanted to bring it up because it is like the epitome of the entire issue with this administration, Ben.
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I think it's a great point. Also, Donald Trump appointed Sean Duffy as the Secretary of Transportation. He got famous because he was on the Real World and then competed on the Real World Road Rules Challenge. You see him right there. He then parlayed that into a career as a MAGA Republican Congress member and then a Fox host who was hawking crypto a few weeks ago.
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crashed into a helicopter, taking the lives of more than 60 Americans. Donald Trump actually in the Oval Office signing an executive order blaming diversity and blaming President Biden for it, even though Donald Trump's gutted federal agencies will talk about that.
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Let's talk about some of the facts. Some of the facts that we're learning is that staffing was not normal at the airport tower in Washington, DC, where the crash took place, according to a preliminary FAA report. While that news was breaking earlier, it was not shocking. Donald Trump and his administration have been torturing
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federal employees that's what project 2025 is all about to destroy their morale to break them and to force them out that's why they did a government spending freeze and then they did what i think is a fake and also likely unlawful severance package telling government employees all of them
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that if you resign immediately, you will be eligible for a buyout of your contract through next September, which I don't even think is a lawful use of appropriation expenditures, number one. Number two, do you trust that Donald Trump is actually going to pay that? And three, when you look at the fine print, it seems to suggest
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that all that really does is say that you can still work remotely, but not that you're not allowed to or that you can stop working, period. So there's a lot of shadiness there to begin with. But the overall point is you have all of this strain and chaos and pressure being exerted on the federal government.
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And, you know, a buddy of ours, Brett Jordy, said, you know, when Elon Musk was destroying Twitter, and there would be outages and delays and problems with it, it was Twitter. At the end of the day, it's a social media app. But when you do that with the federal government, which regulates railroads and airplanes and food safety and health, well, then you get global pandemics. You get air crashes.
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You get railroad derailments. You get food shortages. And that's what's at stake. I want to show the clips, Brett, but I want to reflect on that for a moment.
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Yeah. And, you know, there's this whole kind of The playing field is not even when it comes to these sorts of things. Because last night I saw a whole lot of these MAGA Republican types, these MAGA influencer types. When people started to bring up and realize, oh wait, Trump got rid of this aviation safety board last week. Oh wait, Trump pushed out the head of the FAA.
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Trump did all these things to intimidate staffers and drive staffers out. And now there are shortages at all these organizations where we need them. Like there was one individual who was in charge of both the helicopters and all the planes that were coming in at that airport. We normally have multiple people monitoring both.
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And when people started to bring that up, you saw these MAGA influencers online who were like, how dare you? These are these liberal scum scum. How dare you speak like that? And how dare you rush to politics? And I agree, you shouldn't rush to politics in these situations. There are people's lives.
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It's important that you reflect on what is actually happening and that you are trying to act in the best interest of humanity. I agree entirely. But these are the first people out there, every single tragedy, to try to exploit it and take advantage of it. If someone as little as farted on a plane or a train during the Biden administration, these people would blame Pete Buttigieg. They blame Biden.
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They blame DEI every single time. That was their whole shtick. That's what they did for the past four years, blamed Biden for everything, including the things that he managed very well. So now people bring up legitimate points about what is going on and what do they want to do. They know the effectiveness of calling him out. quite frankly, this is honest information. This is real information.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump's been reposting QAnon accounts, taking credit for the rain in California, saying, release the water, watch the water, over and over again. No, Donald, what I'm watching
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This is information that could have truly had an effect on this situation and led to this incident. So they want to what? It's a threat to Trump. They want to silence you. So they want to try to mock you. They want to try to deride you. They want to try to act like you're a horrible human being. And that's part of their strategy as well.
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And so you have this uneven playing field where the second you start to speak out, these people are like, how dare you? How could you do it? And even, you know, a lot of kind of journalist types and And, you know, people like that speak out like it's too soon for that. It's too soon for that. I'm sorry, it's not. We need to be speaking out about these issues.
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We need to be clear eyed and we need to understand that the actions that Donald Trump takes, it's not just a TV show. This ain't reality TV. This ain't the real world, Sean Duffy. I'm sorry. This is real life. This affects people's lives. And that's what enrages me so much.
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You can't just willy-nilly go, I'm going to get rid of the people at the FAA because those people watch the planes and ensure that this doesn't happen. And this is going to continue to happen in various industries. There's going to be food incidents with health safety. It's going to affect everything because Donald Trump is incompetent and all he cares about is his bluster in front of the camera.
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And so we have to be calling it out every single day and we can't let people silence us.
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So now he uses his position in the White House, the biggest microphone in the world. and the history of mankind to spread his vicious lies, his blame game. The irony is that he's speaking from the main position of power while taking zero accountability and blaming others. Dude, you are in charge. You're in charge. And not only are you in charge, your actions actually led to this.
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So let's take a look at what happened. So here is Trump during a press conference on the helicopter plane collision, blaming Biden and others. Let's play this clip.
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is you i'm watching the fact that prices are not going down they're going up housing is not more affordable it's less affordable there's not peace in ukraine in 24 hours and your threats of tariffing anybody on any given day based on your arbitrary, capricious and downright dangerous emotions has led to things like coffee reaching records high and other commodities are getting there as well.
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As he's putting politics at levels that nobody's seen, do you see the gaslighting right there? And doesn't that give you the vibes of his COVID press conferences? Folks, you've got nothing to worry about. Like a miracle, it's all gonna go away. Actually, It's actually great. Things are good. Did you see the stock market? It bounced back. Just inject yourself with some bleach, everybody.
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This is all good. All good. It's China's fault, everybody. It's the China virus. Remember when he would do that routine? It's just the same iteration. Perhaps worse. So then a reporter goes, so are you saying that this crash was caused by diversity? Because Donald Trump and his office were saying DEI, DEI, DEI did this. Then Donald Trump goes, it could have been here. Watch this clip.
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WTF?! Trump Threatens NEW WAR…with MEXICO?!
So we've heard a lot recently about Donald Trump starting a trade war with our allies, but that may be the least of our worries. We are now hearing reports that Trump is thinking of starting an actual war with Mexico. You heard that right. Donald Trump is debating a full-scale invasion of Mexico, allegedly to stop the flow of fentanyl.
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In 2023, Trump ally Republican Lindsey Graham said he couldn't think of a better use of our military than to bomb Mexico. Watch this.
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WTF?! Trump Threatens NEW WAR…with MEXICO?!
And if you remember, back in 2022, there was a whole lot of reporting out there saying that Trump frequently asked about bombing Mexico while he was president. There was this piece about reporter Maggie Haberman's book that said, quote, Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico after he mistook advisor, new book shows.
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Then there was Trump's former Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, who came out with a book called A Sacred Oath. And in that book, he also mentioned that Trump spoke about attacking Mexico. Per Esper, Trump wanted to bomb Mexico and then lie about it.
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Esper wrote, quote, on at least two occasions in the summer of 2020, once in the Oval Office and a second time in his private room just off the Oval, the president approached me about a sensitive issue. Slightly hunched over with his hands motioning in front of him,
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Like a quarterback gesturing for a long snap, he asked me if the military could, quote, shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs and take out the cartels. Standing close to me as he spoke, the president complained that the Mexican government isn't doing enough. getting irritated as he spoke and adding, quote, they don't have control of their own country.
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This could include sending troops, firing missiles, you name it. And these reports are corroborated by some of Trump's closest advisors past and present, not to mention comments Trump has made himself. My name is Brett Mycelis with the Midas Touch Network. Make sure to hit subscribe and help us get to four million subscribers. This is the new reporting out of Rolling Stone headline.
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If we could just knock them, the drug labs out, he said, this would do the trick. What do you think, he asked. These conversations were quite troubling to say the least. On one hand, I shared his concern about illicit drugs, being trafficked into our country and respected his passion for wanting to stop this dangerous trade.
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But asking the US military to shoot missiles into a sovereign country, and worse yet, our friend and neighbor, definitely was not the way to go about it. Working hard to conceal my shock at this idea, I said, Mr. President, we could do that. And as much as I want to stop these drugs too, shooting missiles into Mexico would be illegal. It would also be an act
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I recommended that we look for more ways to help the Mexican government deal with the problem, such as increasing the training, intelligence, and equipment we are providing them. We should also take another look at ideas that were tabled in the past, but to simply launch air or missile strikes into Mexico would not only violate international law,
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It would also destroy our relationship with Mexico and damage our global standing, I said. Trump took these objections in, pursing his lips as he listened. He then suggested we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs quietly, adding preposterously that, quote, no one would know it was us. He would simply deny that we launched them.
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I had seen Trump spin his own reality before, so I had no doubt he was confident in his ability to persuade people we had not launched the attacks. However, we did not live in a world where the United States could strike another country and no one would believe the missiles were not ours. I also couldn't imagine the president would resist taking credit for the attack anyway.
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It was nonsense, plain and simple. If I hadn't seen the look on the president's face, I would have thought it was all a joke. He wanted to get this planned and done by Labor Day around then, he said just a few months away. I was speechless. Trump thought this was the only way we could really stop this terrible trade.
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I took a long pause and then said again, quote, this would be an act of war, Mr. President, and there would be no way to keep it quiet. Esper then went on Fox, and Fox host Brian Kilmeade of course tried to justify these comments by Trump, and Esper again reiterated that what Trump was suggesting was illegal and an act of war. Watch this.
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Team Trump debates, quote, how much should we invade Mexico? In Trump's government in waiting, the only question is how massive the US assault on Mexican drug cartels should be. I want to emphasize here, that's not if we should invade Mexico, which would be crazy enough, but quote, how much should we invade Mexico? I'm going to get into this new reporting in just a minute.
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The caption to this video here reads, At Bedminster, Trump said he, quote, did not want to deny the leak that he wanted to fire rockets into Mexico and was gleeful, saying that, quote, people loved it. Let's dig back into this new reporting from Rolling Stone.
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They write, within Donald Trump's government and waiting, there is a fresh debate over whether and how thoroughly the president-elect should follow through on his campaign promise to attack or even invade Mexico as part of the war he's pledged to wage against the powerful drug cartels. Quote, how much should we invade Mexico, says a senior Trump transition member. That is the question.
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It is a question that would have seemed batty for the GOP elite to consider before, even during Trump's first term. But in the four years since, many within the mainstream Republican centers of power have come around to support Trump's idea to bomb or attack Mexico.
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Trump's cabinet picks, including his choices for Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State, have publicly supported the idea of potentially unleashing the US military in Mexico. So has the man Trump has tapped to be his national security advisor. So has the man Trump selected as his border czar to lead his immigration crackdowns. So have various Trump allies in Congress and in the media.
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Trump, who has routinely and falsely promoted himself as the candidate who would stop endless wars, now wants to lead a new conflict just south of our nation's border. But at this moment, it is, in the words of one Trump advisor, quote, unclear how far he'll go on this one.
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The source adds, quote, if things don't change, the president still believes it's necessary to take some kind of military action against these killers. Another source close to Trump describes to Rolling Stone what they call a, quote, soft invasion of Mexico in which American special forces, not a large theater deployment, would be sent covertly to assassinate cartel leaders.
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Indeed, this is a preliminary plan that Trump himself warmed to in private conversations this year. For this story, Rolling Stone spoke to six Republicans who have each talked to the twice-impeached former and now future president about this topic. Some of these sources have briefed Trump on these policy ideas in recent weeks.
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These proposals of varying degrees of violent severity include drone strikes or airstrikes on cartel infrastructure or drug labs. sending in military trainers and advisors to Mexico, deploying kill teams on Mexican soil, waging cyber warfare against drug lords and their networks, and having American special forces conduct a series of raids and abductions of notorious cartel figures.
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In some of these private conversations, including during this presidential transition period, Trump has told confidants and some GOP lawmakers that he plans to tell the Mexican government that they need to stem the flow of fentanyl to America somehow in a span of several months, or else he will send in the US military.
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But first, I want to remind you that this is not the first time Trump has suggested this. Here's a clip from 2023 of Republican James Comer saying that we should have our military on the border and troops in Mexico. He also said that Trump ordered the military to bomb meth labs in Mexico, but they refused to follow orders. And he said that that was a mistake. Watch this.
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As Rolling Stone has reported since at least last year, Trump has solicited specific battle plans and different military options for attacking Mexico. Senator Marco Rubio, whom Trump chose to serve as Secretary of State, has endorsed the idea of sending U.S.
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troops to Mexico to combat drug cartels under the conditions that, quote, there is cooperation from the Mexican government and that such operations are done in coordination with the armed forces and the Mexican police force. Fox News commentator Pete Hegseth, whom Trump chose to lead the Pentagon,
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said last year that it could be in the national interest to deploy the military against Mexican drug cartels, which he has referred to as, quote, terrorist-like organizations poisoning our population. Quote, if it takes military action, that's what it may take eventually, said Hegseth. Obviously, you're going to have to be smart about it. Obviously, the precision strikes.
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But if you put the fear in the minds of drug lords, at least as a start, and they can't operate in the open with impunity, it changes the way they operate. You combine that with actual border security, now you're cooking with gas and you got a chance.
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Trump's pick for national security advisor, Representative Mike Waltz, last year co-introduced legislation to create an authorization for use of military force to target Mexican drug cartels, asserting it would, quote, Trump's incoming border czar, Tom Homan, recently pledged that Trump would use the military against drug cartels in Mexico.
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Quote, President Trump is committed to calling them a terrorist organization and using the full might of the United States Special Operations to take them out, he said. Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Trump's top allies on Capitol Hill, similarly introduced legislation last year to, quote, designate Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations as foreign terrorist organizations.
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He did so after promising that America would, quote, unleash the fury and might of the US against drug cartels in Mexico and that Congress would, quote, give the military the authority to go after these organizations wherever they exist.
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Meanwhile, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has responded to Trump's tariff threats, basically saying that not only are Trump's accusations against Mexico false, but that the drug trade is driven by the demand from America, and that 70% of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico actually come from the United States. This is a video of her with subtitles responding to Trump.
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So can we agree, folks, that this is absolutely insane, that we don't start wars with our closest allies and invade our neighbors? And can we finally put to rest this MAGA lie that Trump stands for peace? Anyway, we are going to continue to call this new administration out every single day, but we can't do it without you. Remember to hit subscribe, help us get to 4 million subscribers.
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When you wake up in the Trump regime and you see headlines like this this morning, worst consumer confidence since November 2022 in the Atlanta Federal Reserve predicts a negative 2.8% GDP, so a 2.8% contraction. You see headlines like this, China's President Xi Wu's global business leaders as Trump intensifies trade war cause... Let me show you the effect. Let me show you the outcome here.
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So be very, very careful of it. But you can see what a cornered rat he is. Again, no offense to cornered rats. Take a look at this chart right here because we're getting this data this morning from the University of Michigan Consumer Expectations. Heather Long, a very well-known and respected economist, says the following. This is one of the scariest charts I've seen in a while.
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When Americans are asked, do you think your financial situation will be better off in a year? They increasingly say no. In the vibe session under former President Biden, people gave the economy poor grades, but they were generally optimistic about their personal finances, especially the rich. Under Trump 2025, people at all income levels are worried that they will be worse off in a year.
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This is the type of situation that causes people to really pull back on spending. This is what is different than 2023 or 2024. She also posts the following, a huge drop in consumer sentiment among all income groups. Wow, even the rich are worried now. Sentiment is down more than 30% since November. People are worried they will lose their jobs.
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Two thirds of consumers expect unemployment to rise in the year ahead. This is the highest concern since 2009, a great recession. People are fearful tariffs will drive up prices. Even high income consumers are concerned. About their personal finances, only 26% of higher income consumers expect to be better off financially in a year, down from 42% in August 2024.
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Donald Trump is panicking for a lot of reasons this morning as well. He continues to lose in the federal courts. As we reported recently, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld federal judge
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Boasberg's ruling stopping Donald Trump from kidnapping migrants in the United States and not providing them any process and then shipping them to concentration camps in El Salvador and then making ISIS style videos of the brutality inflicted on the individuals involved. in the concentration camp, right?
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We've been sharing you stories of individuals who were here lawfully from Venezuela, asylum seekers who had court appearances coming up, who never engaged in any crimes in Venezuela or here. These were people who were bakers, hairstylists, soccer coaches. They had tattoos. And as a result, the Trump regime said they're Tren de Aragua gang members, they're terrorists, they're enemy combatants.
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Off you go to concentration camps. never to be heard from again, perhaps for the rest of their life, dying in the El Salvador concentration camp system. And then the Trump regime makes cartoons and mocks those individuals. And what we just saw happen this morning, the Trump regime went to the United States Supreme Court right away. and said, hey, you have to overturn what the D.C.
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Circuit Court of Appeals and what the federal court has done here. Here is what the Trump regime has said. As Kyle Chenney says, the Trump administration uses its petition to vent about courts enjoining his policies on a fairly regular basis. You see, when you break the law, you're going to have a lot of court rulings against you.
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Trump's adversaries and some judges have said this is a reaction to the unprecedented assertions of executive power Trump has mounted since taking office. Yeah, I mean, that would mean that Trump has violated the law over and over again.
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Donald Trump is panicked. He's posting the following. I just finished speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada. It was an extremely productive call. We agree on many things, and we will be meeting immediately after Canada's upcoming election to work on elements of politics, business, and all other factors that will end up being great for both the United States of America and Canada.
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And when you don't provide people due process and we learn stories about, say, you know, a gay hairstylist from Venezuela who's not a gang member who fled and is a political exile and is now in a concentration camp or the soccer coach who had the Real Madrid tattoo. Yeah. that starts to cause serious concerns, especially when you're kidnapping human beings and sending them to concentration camps.
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But for all the law and order bluster, remember we've been reporting on how the Trump regime, remember all during the election, we would report on all these stunts of the Trump regime. Oh, and they would have, remember they had like the rapper Chef G in the Bronx. Remember Trump did this event in the Bronx and he was trying to get the black vote. So he had Chef G who had like a grill on his teeth.
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And then so Trump could say, you see, look, black people like me. So black people should vote for me. Look, this guy, Chef G, this rapper likes me. So therefore, I'm good to the black community. That was basically Trump's pitch. Well, this morning, that New York rapper, Chef G, who joined Trump at the campaign rally, pled guilty to attempted murder.
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He's a gang member, and he pled guilty to paying other gang members to go out and kill people from rival gangs. Remember how I was like, why isn't any corporate media talking about that? Trump literally has like actual gang members who kill people on stage and they're just treating it like that's normal behavior. Right.
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And isn't it interesting that Donald Trump is kidnapping people who are not gang members and sending them to concentration camps like the people who I talked about? The gay hairstylist, the soccer coach and women who don't even know that the El Salvador concentration camps don't even take women. But Donald Trump at his events have gang members who are actually terrorizing New York and the Bronx.
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Thank you for your attention to this matter explanation point. So there's really no mention there of 51st State, no calling Prime Minister Carney a governor, no attack on Canada there. Because when you show strength to Donald Trump and you push him into a corner like a little cornered rat, by the way, no offense to cornered rats. Trump is a weak and pathetic individual who backs down like that.
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And that those are keynote speakers at Donald Trump's event. By the way, you remember like. how he had like sexual assaulters at a lot of his events too, or like people who engaged in like statutory rape speak with him at the events. Remember like Lawrence Taylor, who was convicted of, proposition with a minor spoke at one of his events. And like that seemed to be a through line.
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And by the way, Trump was found liable of sexual assault. Oh, by the way, Attorney General Pam Bondi. Hey, where are those Epstein tapes? You're never going to release the Epstein tapes, the Epstein files. Weren't those supposed to be released like, I don't know, 65 days ago? Y'all are liars about everything. Also just reported as well, Bank of America economists
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now believe that we will be in what they call modest stagflation, although the word modest and stagflation should not be used to qualify. Stagflation is horrible. Stagflation means crashing GDP and surging inflation. So when Bank of America economists say there will be stagflation, and these are fairly conservative economists who want to try to paint a cheery picture,
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Hence the use of the word modest before stagflation. They said this is the outcome that's likely going to happen this year. That's bad. The reason that we're a little bit prone to stagflation right now, especially the inflation part, is the starting point has been not very favorable.
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They use all these euphemistic terms to be like, you know, to be like Donald Trump is crashing the freaking economy is how they can basically say it. Just so you can see, we did report on this. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Fulipkowski, this was months and months and months ago at Trump's Bronx rally. We tried to warn you.
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Sleepy Hollow and Chef G were indicted last May, along with 30 other gang members on a 140 count. criminal indictment, including murder and at least 12 shootings. Chef G then posted a 1.5 million cash bond. And then he was invited right away to speak at the Trump rally. And Trump was like, I like your grill. I like your grill. So utterly stupid and dumb. Senator Duckworth says the following.
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She's posting this article from the New York Times. Signal chat leak angers U.S. military pilots. Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States pilots express bewilderment after the leak attack plans. You're going to kill somebody, one pilot said. As Tammy Duckworth, Senator Duckworth says, for the safety of our troops, Hegsith has got to go.
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He's putting the lives of our troops, of our pilots, of our armed forces in jeopardy. And then he does those weird press conferences where he like licks his lips and lips, his cheeks. The whole thing is really strange. This guy never led anything in the military before. He was a Fox News host. He should not be the defense secretary. And you see the stupidity in these text messages where he
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and the National Security Advisor create the Houthi PC small group chat where they are giving war plans, and then they act like this is a great thing. American people aren't stupid. Like, we know that's bad. Oh my gosh. Oh, and by the way, to all of the union workers for Trump, that's kind of like being, you know, pigs in favor of the slaughterhouse.
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Basically, Trump signed an executive order last night, illegally canceling union contracts for about 67% of the federal workforce and 75% of unionized federal employees, roughly 700,000 union workers. Where where's Sean O'Brien, the head of the Teamsters there? I love the Teamsters. I am a big fan of the Teamsters Union. But Sean O'Brien said Donald Trump was going to be great for labor.
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He said Chavez Doremer, the labor secretary, said she was great, even though she doesn't even support the PRO Act. What are you doing? So where's where's your comment about this? This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history. Some better news to report, I suppose. The Midas Touch Network, the podcast, the network's beating Fox.
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And Canada is showing strength. What Canada should realize, though, is that Donald Trump and his chameleon like ways, he'll then say what needs to be said to try to then re-endear himself to you. And then he will try to screw you over again. Again, and so that's what we see from Donald Trump as he kind of shows weakness. He goes through strength to whining to victimhood.
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We're getting, on a day-to-day basis, more digital views here than on Fox. And the Midas Touch podcast is getting now double the monthly downloads. Double the monthly downloads as Joe Rogan. Double. And so the White House has responded by creating what they call Podcast Row to try to help their right-wing podcasters right now.
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So that's what they've created, Podcast Row, to try to have them beat us and get more views than us. Ridiculous. Go to MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com for more news. I wrote a whole article about this Podcast Row thing that the White House is doing to try to get more views than us. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Donald Trump's leaked war plan scandal gets worse and Donald Trump's cover up blows up. We'll discuss Democrats win big in Pennsylvania's special election this week. They flipped a plus 15 Trump district in Lancaster County and captured a state Senate seat that did not go blue. since 1889. Also, Democrats officially reclaimed the Pennsylvania State House.
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Consumer expectations are looking elsewhere as well here in the United States as they plummet. Trump's support is plummeting. Americans expect there's going to be a recession, a great recession, or even something worse on the horizon based on Donald Trump's reckless and disastrous policies.
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Going back to that disastrous press conference in the Oval Office, Jordy, to your point of Donald Trump saying, I don't know, I don't know. A reporter asked Donald Trump, do you still believe nothing classified was shared? Let's watch what he says. But I don't think. Do you still believe nothing classified was shared?
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You have to ask the various people. I really don't know. You're the freaking commander in chief. And Brett, to your point, that's an unforgivable answer. You're literally the commander in chief. You're supposed to answer that question. I know for Donald Trump, it's about hosting pink Birkin bag alligator skin parties at Mar-a-Lago and golfing and attacking judges.
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Donald Trump also had to pull the nomination of Elise Stefanik as the ambassador to the United Nations, fearing that the GOP would lose her congressional seat, a plus 21 or so Trump district no longer safe in the world of Trump and Doge and Elon Musk's.
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But quite literally, this is your freaking job. And if you're not capable of doing it, step aside, you idiot. Then Donald Trump is asked about Signalgate again. And he goes, Hegseth doing a great job. Why would you say he's doing a bad job?
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could be a defective platform. Why are you asking about Hegsith? Pull up the text thread where Hegsith does the war plans on it, just so people can see. Houthi PC small group, Hegsith text messaging, classified war plans. And then you've got Hegsith
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I'm giving these bizarre press conferences in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he like does this like weird thing with like his tongue and your side of his mouth and like licking everywhere. And he's like angry and he's like making like, what are you talking about? I'm watching this. I'm like. this is exactly the type of person who my dad told me to avoid.
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If I ever saw out of like a bar or at a restaurant, like walk, walk away from that individual. That's what it visually looks like. I mean, he, he's like, um, like rabid. I'm like, it's like, like rabies. Like, it's like looking at like a, it's like belligerent drunk at a dive bar.
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And you're like, I guess that's like, like a rabid animal that just, that you find out like, I mean, watch this guy ask the most basic questions. No one's texting war plans. We don't know what we're talking about.
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Like, terrifying to see this guy. I have a lot more to discuss about him. I think my impression was pretty spot on.
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wrecking ball to social security medicaid firing veterans people are pissed elise stefanik's appointment to be the ambassador pulled she went ultra maga and it backfired some might call that karma Also, we're learning more about the identities of a lot of these migrants who were kidnapped in the United States by the Trump regime.
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It ties everything together, as I mentioned before. That's also why it's sticking. It's beyond the leaking of the war plants. It's clear that this is what they do all the time. And it's this cavalier and just dumb way of running things that have destroyed the lives of so many people. And again, it's just such on display here. But it highlights all those other aspects that we've seen.
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And that, to me, is one of the reasons that it's sticking. It summarizes what we've experienced in these past two months or more at this point. I want to remind everybody about Patreon.com. slash Midas Touch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash Midas Touch. We don't have outside investors, so it's one of the ways you can help grow our platform. Also, MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com.
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We're actually finding out that a lot of these people were here lawfully, lawful asylum seekers who are now in concentration camps in El Salvador.
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The Trump regime is the only government in the entire world where something like this would happen and nobody would get fired right away or perhaps ever, right? Obviously, if it came to our allies, they would fire everybody. whoever was involved right away, right? I mean, this is the biggest breach ever.
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I mean, in my opinion, this is a clear-cut criminal violation of the Espionage Act, which should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I mean, essentially everybody on that chat in normal times would be looking at about 20 years ago
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as Donald Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security and dog killer, Kristi Noem, stood in front of said El Salvador concentration camp prison wearing a $60,000 Rolex and threatening others in the United States here lawfully that this will happen to you as well. We've got a lot to discuss here on the Midas Touch podcast. I've been my solace, joined by Brett and Jordy. A lot there to unpack.
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uh in prison those who created the chat that is the department of defense officials mike walls and others and in my opinion there would at least be an investigation into that well now um we know that the department of justice who's not releasing the epstein files apparently ever led by attorney general pam bondy who was the attorney general by the way when epstein was in florida there may be a reason why she's not releasing those epstein files and by the way and i'm not i'm not going to let go of that one i'm just going to bring it up every time i bring up
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Pam Bondi. But she and Kash Patel said no investigations will be taking place. They've said they're not even going to look into it. They think that actually everything that happened was perfect. It was the perfect text message, they say. They will not be looking into it.
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Now, if this happened to our allies, there'd be criminal investigations right away and obviously terminations of whoever was involved right away. Regarding our enemies, how do you think Kim Jong-un or Vladimir Putin would have dealt with someone who leaked war secrets on signal chats, by the way?
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The Trump regime, the kakistocracy combines idiocracy and dangerousness in one, and then the cover-up makes it even worse, makes the situation horrible as they double and triple down. As you saw before, Donald Trump was like, what the heck's that do? Heck's that's great. Why are you dragging this guy into it? I don't know, maybe because he was the guy who like...
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wrote a lot of the messages, like with the war plans, which is, in my opinion, very problematic. And lots of legal people would say that that could be criminal by doing that in that format because that information, war plans, attack plans, it's probably even more classified than war plans because it was operational and in the moment.
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But look, the Trump regime has its idiotic state regime media fox. People like Jesse Waters and Laura Ingraham and others, and they basically say, eh, no one cares about this story. It doesn't involve sex. It doesn't involve fraud. This is a DC story. None of you should care about it, viewers. Here's Jesse Waters saying no one outside of DC cares about it. Let's play that.
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By the way, the chyron for our audio listeners is White House goes from defense to offense on group texts. And then he goes, oh, Trump just has to throw another touchdown. What were the touchdowns that were thrown so far that people have lost a lot of their life savings? Their 401ks are in the gutter that were headed towards a great recession.
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Was that the touchdown or were the touchdowns when the veterans were fired, when there was a hostile takeover of our federal government, when Medicaid was gutted, when Social Security Administration offices were shut down? when Trump did an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education. Were those the touchdowns? Was that the celebratory Super Bowl moment for Donald Trump?
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Or was it when he went to the Super Bowl or when he drove around the racetrack at a NASCAR race while there were devastating weather events that were killing dozens of Americans? Because I seem to not be understanding what the touchdowns are. And Jesse, yes, we the people, the American people care about these things.
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we care that our war plans and classified information is being leaked we care that vladimir putin and our enemies want to take over europe and they want to destroy the united states of america while donald trump in this stupid trump regime is out there saying oh i don't know i don't know what's going on then you have laura ingraham she goes on her show and and notice what they they try to do here what they try to do is
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let their audience know based on their fake experience as long-time news reporters that this is actually normal behavior so what they try to do is one they lie and say they're a news organization but number two they say we've been on the hill for a long time this is one of those bs stories that none of you should care about and why are they doing this
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They're trying to continue to brainwash their audience who trusts them, who actually believes this shit is news, and they want to keep their people angry and pissed at the leftists and trans issues and all of these things while Donald Trump is engaged in this horror show. Here, watch what Laura Ingraham says.
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She's saying Iran-Contra wasn't a big deal. Iran-Contra, January 6th, Nixon, I mean, come on. What are you going to do, you know? But the thing is... Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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The Trump regime was going to try to do a show of force in Greenland to intimidate the Greenlanders. They were sending J.D. Vance's wife, Usha Vance. Then J.D. Vance said that he was going to be joining his wife, Usha. Then Mike Walsh, the leaker in chief, the leaker himself, Mr. Leakey. Mike Walsh was going to go to Greenland.
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Mr. Leakey, and they had their advance team knock on doors of the Greenlanders because they were just trying to stage one of their propaganda stunts. Apparently, they couldn't find a single family in Greenland. that wanted them to be in their house. And then the Greenlanders were having this huge protest that they were gearing up for, and it was going to be absolutely historic.
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And as a result, the Trump regime got scared. And this is one of the things that we've seen with them before. If you stand up to these idiots, they get scared. And they pulled out and they withdrew their trip. So a big hat tip right there to the Greenlanders for doing that. By the way, I'll share with you this poll that Rasmus Jarlav, a conservative member of parliament for Denmark,
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Greenland's a territory in the kingdom of Denmark. He published a poll that says, do you want to leave Denmark to become part of the USA? 85% of Greenlanders, and this is from a reputable polling group in Denmark and Greenland, 85% say no. Only 6% said that, yes, they want to be part of the U.S. This is a wildly unpopular thing that the Trump regime is pushing.
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And we've seen the people of Greenland unite against the Trump regime. I got to give a hat tip.
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to the maple midas out there all of our canadian supporters the midas touch podcast is the number one podcast in canada um elbows up to all of our canadian uh supporters because i think they've really showed the way right trump's first line of attack was canada annexing it taking it over and canada did not bend canada did not break canada united
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They strongly and powerfully stood up their boycott of American tourism. Now I'm seeing numbers like what I predicted, 75 to 80% of tourism stopping from Canada to the United States. I mean, those are massive numbers.
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We're talking about tens and tens of billions of dollars that that's going to cost the United States because this was the most prolific and important alliance and travel relationship ever. We're seeing some places that are saying cancellations from Canadians in the 90% range. In Canada, their boycott all thing American products is also surging right there.
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If you go into a convenience shop or a grocery place in Canada, you'll see the American stuff on the shelves not being sold at all. and the Canadian stuff going off the shelves quickly as Canadians want to just buy Canada. So you're seeing all of that there as well.
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I'll share with you this as well, a powerful speech that was given by Prime Minister Carney and his Liberal Party is surging ahead in the polls in this snap election that he just called last weekend scheduled for April 28th. If you looked at this a month or a few months ago, the conservative party run by Pierre Poliev was in the lead.
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Now Democrats eye the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. That race has an election coming up on April 1st, and they've got some special elections in Florida for the House of Representatives. Also, the Trump regime's Greenland trip just got canceled. The Greenlanders stood up to the Trump regime.
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But Pierre Poliev was Maple Maga, sucked up to Donald Trump, actually sent special emissaries via the Alberta premier, Danielle Smith. into the United States to try to interfere in the Canadian elections with Donald Trump. J.D. Vance's roommate is a member of Pierre Poliev's inner circle and a member of parliament. So they had this whole scheme.
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Also, Elon Musk was boosting Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party there in Canada as part of the same plot that they did in the United States. And now Canadians are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do not Dogeify Canada. We do not want the Doge wrecking ball. And Pierre Poliev is the Doge MAGA candidate. So he's sinking. And here's a data point as well.
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The conservative premier from Ontario, Doug Ford, he's distancing himself from the conservative federal party. The provincial party in Ontario distancing itself from Poliev at the federal level. Poliev wanted to link arms with Doug Ford, and Doug Ford's like, uh-uh. Don't come here. But I don't want you're toxic. You're Doge. You're MAGA. Get the hell away.
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So I thought that was an excellent data point. Here's Prime Minister Mark Carney from earlier in the day as well, saying the relationship we've had with the United States is basically done.
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By the way, when he gives that speech, he does it in English, and then he does it in French while standing up there. And that's what a leader sounds like. Like, that's a real leader, right? He's a banker versus Donald Trump, the bankrupter. And I mean, those are powerful words. I mean, could you ever even fathom in previous eras where that's being said? Just think about that. Think about that.
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And meanwhile, in Europe, you had this meeting earlier in the day in France called by President Emmanuel Macron of the Coalition of the Willing standing up with Ukraine. President Zelensky of Ukraine was there as well. And they're uniting and saying, we're not going to let the United States and Putin bully Ukraine. We've got your back.
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If they're going to come after you, they're coming after Europe, Zelensky. A powerful statement. And this, as we learned, that Donald Trump's new proposed mineral deal to Ukraine is basically we want to steal all of your minerals. Give us all of your minerals. No security guarantees. Give us your minerals. So, Brett Jordy, no peace in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Prices have not decreased on day one, as Donald Trump said. Housing is not more affordable. It's less affordable. Consumer expectations are now at basically all-time lows, all indicators of a great recession on the horizon. It's been an unmitigated disaster for Donald Trump, Brad Jordan.
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to bring attention to the things and the people the individuals the ideas that matter most to you the wisconsin supreme court race with the pro-democracy candidate judge susan crawford versus the maga doji boy candidate uh brad shiffle um that is april 1st So make sure you tell everybody in Wisconsin so that they are aware of that race, because there's a lot on the line there.
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And the special elections in Florida, April 1st as well. You know, tying this whole episode together, as I said, the signal gate. is symptomatic of the cacistocracy, idiocracy, dangerousness that pervades and prevails in this Trump regime. It also shows the emperor has no clothes, right? It shows how weak they are. All the bravado and bluster.
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Look, Jordy, the Trump regime is taking their ball of MAGA orange feces. They're throwing it against the wall. They're seeing what sticks right now, and none of it is sticking. The international community is grossed out. Americans are disgusted.
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These idiots are having war plan chats with stupid emojis on a text thread. They don't know what they're doing. They're dumb. As Donald Trump said, they're stupid people. Yeah, you're stupid people. That's who they are.
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and they do all of this propaganda they have billion dollar propaganda networks like fox to pump this stuff up and we've got to call it out and i'll just share this with you too because it's important that when they try to say look we got rid of these venezuelan terrorists the trend de aragua terrorists we got rid of them you should give us you should be grateful for all of us about what we're doing
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Let me share with you what went down. Here is Kristi Noem right here, the Secretary of Homeland Security. Here she is. Let me play this clip for you right here. Let's play.
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Were you able to hear me there at all? There was fighter jets that went over the house. Oh, God.
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Yeah, I was like, something's going on over at Ben's. There was, I think, a Dodger game earlier, but the planes since the game have been – I have dinner, you know, right around. But did the clip play? Did people hear?
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I didn't even see the clip. I didn't even see the clip. Yeah, no, all of a sudden. Worry on your face. I got concerned. I started shaking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, those are fighter jets over the house. But what I want to share with people, though, is that what we're learning about and, you know, hat tip to a lot of great journalists for breaking these stories as well.
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And the lawyers who are representing these migrants is that A lot of these people who were taken to concentration camps in El Salvador were lawful asylum seekers who were put in concentration camps in El Salvador. So this was an article from Mother Jones. And as Mehdi Hassan writes, I, for one, will never forgive or forget the people who ordered this, nor the people who voted for this.
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And the Mother Jones story is, the men disappear to El Salvador because of their tattoos. And it highlights people like this. Neri Alvarado, working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neary has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
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An ICE agent told Neary Alvarado, we're finding and questioning everyone who has tattoos, and that's why you're being arrested. Stunningly, after Neary explained his autism tattoos meaning, the ICE agent said he was clean. He's also a lawful asylum seeker. And yet he stayed detained and he was shipped to El Salvador where he was sent to a concentration camp.
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And this signal scandal, signal gate, as it's being called, it highlights the cacistocracy, the idiocracy, the fact that the Trump regime doesn't give a crap about our troops. They don't focus on any details. And it just highlights, whoa, whoa, whoa. So you've all been focused on
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Another man sent to the El Salvador concentration camp is Arturo Suarez, a Venezuelan musician who first entered the U.S. at a port of entry, not illegally, lawful asylum seeker, no criminal record at all here or in any country. He had tattoos. He went by the stage name Suarez Vizla. And he's been performing since 2019.
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Like many others, he left Venezuela when their country's economy collapsed, seeking better opportunities. He has a wife and a baby back home. His family recognized him in a picture of the detainees. And again, he was here lawfully. Third man identified by Mother Jones is Fitzgerald Cornejo, who also entered the country at a port of entry.
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Lawfully, not illegally, he owns a streetwear clothing line with his brother. Like the others, he has no criminal record here or elsewhere. And also like them, he has tattoos. We also highlighted the story of Andres Cornejo. He's a gay hairstylist who fled Venezuela where he was being persecuted.
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A Time magazine photojournalist actually saw what went down with this individual and it talked about how he was basically being beaten and he was calling for his mother. He said, I'm a gay hairstylist. I have nothing to do. I'm not part of a gang. Why are you doing this to me? He goes, I'm not a gang member. I'm gay. I'm a barber.
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The photojournalist said I believed him, but then they basically threw him to the ground as he was sobbing and then threw him in a concentration camp. No phone calls, no visitors, never to be heard from again. And we also know about women who were sent to the concentration camp where the concentration camp doesn't take women, so they had to be sent back or sent to other locations.
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And then the story of the professional football player, soccer player from Venezuela who had the Real Madrid tattoo. And he was, again, lawfully not a gang member. He was called Tren de Aragua. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Boasberg's ruling in a two to one decision.
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keeping in place the injunction blocking the trump regime from sending more people to concentration camps but the trump regime violated the initial order and had sent people to the concentration camps and you're seeing you know these stories there's many more stories like it and literally taking migrants here lawfully and sending them to concentration camps
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It's something that we have to highlight, put a spotlight on here using our platform and just call it out for just being absolutely wrong. And especially just to see the United States government making ISIS style videos in El Salvador. And then you have Kristi Noem with her Rolex watch. I think we did some research and it looks like the $60,000 Rolex watch that she was wearing.
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I think that sums up the Trump regime right here. Folks, keep up the momentum. Keep the hope, though. And I think that the tide is turning. I feel it in the streets. I feel it internationally. I wish that this pain was not being inflicted on our country, but we are banding together in the pro-democracy community here and abroad. Brett, anything else you'd like to say?
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on firing veterans and engaging in a hostile takeover of the federal government and falsely defaming people and saying you're firing all these hard-working americans for cause saying they're doing a bad job you're attacking people's medicaid and me and getting rid of social security administration offices and meanwhile y'all are having chats about war plans on
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text message group chats called the Houthi PC small group. And then you invited a reporter named Jeffrey Goldberg, who you also claim that you hate, which makes it even worse in my opinion, that then you invite the person that you hate onto the group chat.
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I'll tell you what insinuates that they do this all the time. Yes. unique to the Houthi PC small group that they probably conduct all classified business using signal chats like this. And just think about it, you're Jeffrey Goldberg, like you're just hanging out one day and you're like, huh, what am I invited to? And then as you're just like looking at these messages, you're like, this is odd.
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And then someone, and then it's like, Just so we all can see it. Pull up Houthi PC Small Group so everybody can see what Jeffrey Goldberg saw when it says Houthi PC Small Group, right? Then it says Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz added you to the group. So this isn't exactly a massive Scooby-Doo mystery here of how was he added. Mike Waltz added you to the group.
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They prepared a massive protest after it was announced that Usha Vance, JD Vance's wife and JD and national security advisor and chief leaker Mike Waltz were going to be showing up in Greenland. Not a single Greenlander would invite them to their homes when they were trying to stage a PR stunt. And so the Trump regime had to cancel the trip because they knew that they would be brutally humiliated.
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That's how he got added, everybody. And then on Fox. Mike Walz goes, I don't know how it happened, but you know this technology.
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Mike Waltz goes, team establishing a principles group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. My deputy, Alex Wong, is pulling together a tiger team at deputies agency, chief of staff level, following up from the meeting.
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Imagine you're Jeffrey Goldberg. You're the editor in chief of the Atlantic. You're like, huh, this was interesting. And then you get this message from Pete Hegseth, team update. Time now, 1144 Eastern Time. Weather is favorable, just confirmed with CENTCOM. We are a go for mission launch. 1215 Eastern Time, F-18s launch, first strike package. 1345, trigger-based F-18 first strike window starts.
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Target terrorist at his known location, so should be on time. Also, strike drones launch, MQ-9s. 1410, more F-18s launch. Second strike package. 1415, strike drones on target. This is when the first bombs will definitely drop pending earlier trigger-based targets. 1536, F-18 second strike starts. Also, first C-based Tomahawks launch. So you're Jeffrey Goldberg. You get put onto this chat.
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then you report about it and the instinct first from the trump regime is to say that you're a hoaxster and a liar and then like petulant third graders and no offense to petulant third graders the trump regime then goes he's a sleaze he's a sleaze bag this is a scum this is a scumbag sleaze bag first off who uses that type of language other than like again petulant third graders know if it's sleaze bag scumbag what was sleazy and scummy
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Donald Trump held a disastrous presser yesterday in the Oval Office where he was announcing the 25% tariffs on automobiles from everywhere in the world, which will tank the automobile industry, make automobiles basically unaffordable. automobiles will at least cost five, 10, $15,000 more, which basically means people are not going to be buying automobiles.
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But at that press conference, Donald Trump was asked a bunch of other questions. And so one of the tragic things we learned in the past 48 hours was that four American soldiers died tragically in Lithuania. They died overseas. This is something that you would expect the Secretary of Defense, National's Security Advisor, Director of National Intelligence to brief the president on.
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And you would expect a statement to be made by the president immediately, letting the people of the United States know about what happened, sending a heartfelt message to the family and to our troops who are certainly going to be struggling as a result of this horrific event. Trump is asked about the four soldiers who died in Lithuania. and he didn't know anything about it.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech today after Trump imposed 25% across the board tariffs on automobiles across the world. Prime Minister Carney said, essentially, the United States is not a friend anymore. They're not a reliable partner. Canada has moved on. Canada is looking elsewhere.
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Had no clue what the reporter was even talking about. Let's watch this clip.
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are missing no i haven't so by the time he said that the public knew about it trump didn't know about it trump never put out a statement about it as of this video he still as of this live he did not put out a statement on it he didn't put out a statement wouldn't you let's just assume you found out right there right wouldn't you go and say what happened
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And then as the president of the United States put out a statement, four American soldiers died. You're not going to say anything about it. And one of the reasons he doesn't want to say anything about it is because he doesn't give a crap. about it and he wants to cover it up. He wants to ignore it. He sees it as, oh, that's going to just be somehow used against me.
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So I'm going to cover it up like a miracle. It will all go away. If you don't test, you don't find out what the outcome is. If I don't address it, I'll pretend it didn't really happen. and people will just move on to the next story. And that's what he's trying to do. Four American soldiers died, and the commander-in-chief, one, isn't briefed on it.
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Meanwhile, what has he been posting over the past 24 to 48 hours? He's been attacking District Court Judge Boasberg in Washington, D.C., who issued the injunction blocking him from further kidnapping migrants and sending them to concentration camps. He's made posts threatening Europe and Canada, saying if Europe and Canada joins together, I'm going to hit you hard.
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So he's talking about that, Brett and Jordy and Might is Mighty, not mentioning once anything about these soldiers who died. He's also posting April 7th, all caps like a maniac at 2 a.m. Liberation Day is coming. Liberation Day, April 2nd. And he calls it Liberation Day because that's when he's going to impose more tariffs. So he's doing all of that.
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Could a ruby red congressional district in Florida turn blue? Momentum seems to be gathering for the Democratic candidate in this special election. His name is Josh Weill. This from, of all places, Florida Voice. Democrats putting up a fight in Florida congressional district. Six early voting data shows where Republican, a very unpopular candidate,
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flame emoji when leaking our war secrets and war information on a group text thread with others in the department of defense and within the uh department of national security um now let me show you over here just some uh videos of randy fine so you can see who he is randy fine is someone at uh at a here and why is also so unpopular at a there's a lot of reasons
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At a hearing over women's reproductive health, he looked at the women and he said, if you dare even breathe, I'm going to have you arrested. Here, play this clip.
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Don't test me. I'm sure you won't like the outcome. I'm a big tough guy who hides under my desk when process servers try to serve me with paperwork. This is a guy. He got like a public records act like deposition. It's like, okay, you're a public official. You're going to get those from time to time. The dude was hiding under his desk from the process server. Here, watch this.
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Come out, come out wherever you are, Randy Fine. Let's bring in the Democratic candidate for that seat in this special election. Probably have heard about this guy, Josh Wheel. Josh Wheel, you're making news in Florida and across the nation right now in this race. What are you seeing on the ground, my man?
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Ultra MAGA Doge extremist by the name of Randy Fine is facing Democrat Josh Weill, who is a public school teacher. A massive cash disparity we're seeing as well as people are
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
You know, Randy Fine, this guy, I mean, he's a really loathed individual. Like, if I guess there's something that brings people together, it's like, other than Donald Trump and Elon Musk loving this guy and Trump posted, Randy, Randy, Randy, we love you, Randy. Because, you know, he's a doge rubber stamp. He's a...
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
get rid of the social security, Medicaid, screw over the older people in your district kind of guy, destroy people's lives the way Trump and Elon wants to do. But even DeSantis doesn't like this guy.
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
DeSantis hates this guy. Tell us about the hatred that's there as well.
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
that's pretty much everybody randy fine is one of these guys who is like he just wants to party at mar-a-lago with the the pink birkin bags for 450 000 like this is a guy trying to like i don't know live the high school years he didn't have as like a a member of it's it's a total weird mega mutation for this guy randy fine And he's a very dangerous guy.
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
really going to uh josh wheel's side here people are very nervous that uh this uh randy fine is going to dojify uh florida six congressional district we're seeing even people like steve bannon terrified this is what steve bannon said on his podcast the war room the other day let's play it was it florida six waltz's district trump won that district by 30 points in november
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
I mean, when he takes to the floor of the state legislature, the types of things that he talks about is like he goes, we need to erase. He said, what, the entire LGBTQ community or words to that effect? He goes because he connected the community to drag shows. And even if it means getting rid of drag shows, if I have to erase all the gay people, I said something. I think we have the clip here.
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Play that clip, Salty, if we got it.
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
I mean, dangerous, weird dude. But here's the thing, Josh. You know, we cover before some of these movements in Florida where there seems to be hope. And look, the early voting data is very good for you, leading in the first two days. If you factor in some independence, you know, there could be, I don't want to get people overconfident.
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
So I'm not even going to go through necessarily what the data is reflecting other than people need to go out and learn about you. But how are you really feeling? There are some people who go, we always get our hopes up thinking about a red district. I'm sure you get asked this before. What do you say to those people who were like, yeah, but it's still Florida. It was a plus 30 Trump area.
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
It's not possible. What do you say to them, Josh?
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
Yeah, Randy Fine has a pattern and practice of hiding under his desk like a little dogey coward, hoping that his daddy, Elon, and Donald Trump will bail him out. And they're trying, but I think the people in your district are seeing what doge means to the services that literally keep them alive. I see back there it says April 1st is the day of the election.
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Early voting is taking place right now, right? What else do people need to know? Where could they find out more? When's the voting period? What do you tell them?
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The Florida Special Election That Has MAGA Terrified (Josh Weil Interview)
There you have it. Josh Wheel running for Florida's sixth congressional district in the special election April 1st. We'll be following it closely. Thanks, Josh.
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That issue he's talking about is, again, Randy Fine is a state senator in Florida. The seat being held by Waltz, who he was referring to, is Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, who you probably know best right now for the individual doing the fist bump emoji, American flag emoji thing.
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Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
Here's another clip from that first interaction that I showed at the start of the video. Let's play it.
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A shameful moment in American history, a day that will live in infamy, where Donald Trump and J.D. Vance laundered Russian propaganda directly into the Oval Office. where Ukrainian President Zelensky was a guest. And Donald Trump and J.D. Vance started yelling at Zelensky with Putin's talking points.
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Here's more from that Oval Office interaction. Let's play it.
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President Zelensky stood up for himself, for his country, for democracies around the world, and powerfully pushed back at Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. Let me show you more of what unfolded in the Oval Office. Here is another angle where J.D. Vance starts spreading Putin propaganda and then President Zelensky pushes back. Then Donald Trump starts yelling at Zelensky. Watch from this angle.
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God bless. You don't know that. God bless. You will not have the war. Don't tell us what. Here, Trump doesn't even know what year the Russia-Ukraine war started. Let's play it.
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And by the way, this follows the meeting that Donald Trump had yesterday with the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, where Donald Trump did not even know what the AUKUS alliance is. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
Now, today started with... the way diplomacy is supposed to go down. You had President Zelensky visiting with a bipartisan delegation from the United States Senate. Here's what Zelensky wrote earlier in the day before that debacle in the Oval Office. Zelensky wrote, "...an important visit to the United States. In Washington, I met with a bipartisan delegation from the United States Senate."
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Our discussion focused on the continued military assistance for Ukraine, relevant legislative initiatives, my meeting with President Trump, efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace, our vision for ending the war, and importance of robust security guarantees.
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we take pride in having strategic partners and friends like the united states we are grateful for the unwavering bicameral and bipartisan support for ukraine throughout all the years of russia's full-scale aggression let me play this for you right here good morning thank you so much big team hello it's very good to see you how are you
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That was a video that President Zelensky posted. And just so you can see here the the contrast. Well, let me show you this clip as well here, though, where a reporter asks, what if Russia breaks the ceasefire? Let's play this clip. Let's play it.
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I mean, again, it is quite literally Russian propaganda. I wanted to show you this. This is what previously Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in his meeting with Zelensky. So you can just see the difference. Let's play it.
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Well, there you have it. Tell me what you think, folks. Again, a day that will live in infamy in American history. Shocking that I'm even reporting on what just went down. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Let's grow this. Let's rise up people right now.
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This is the Midas Touch Podcast. Let's get right into it. Earlier in the day, Donald Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office with UK's Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. Donald Trump was asked by a reporter if he still thinks Zelensky is a dictator, since Donald Trump's been repeating that over and over again while refusing to condemn Putin. Here's what Trump said.
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If you have retired but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so. Please consider doing so. So now they fire everybody. So he goes on his social media platform to then beg people to work who are retired.
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Do you think, he goes here, he goes, Starmer, do you think the UK could take on Russia on its own? Here, watch this.
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All right, one or two more. I mean, just absurd conduct there by Donald Trump. And then Donald Trump says that under no circumstances will Ukraine join NATO. And then Donald Trump blames Ukraine wanting to join NATO as the reason for Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
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Pull up that photo one more time. Yeah, there it is right there. That's Donald Trump before he paints his face orange. I don't even know. I mean, that is a rendering of what he probably may look like. This guy, David, that this guy, David posted. I'm showing you there for no reason. But what I do want to talk about when we get back is Donald Trump's and Epstein's connections, because.
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You're not going to hear about that on the corporate media. But this has actually become a big deal again right now. We've always been covering it here because the MAGA Republican Congress members led by Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna are saying, wait a minute, Donald claimed that he was going to release all the Epstein files. That's really all we've cared about.
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Apparently, that's like their big issue. And now all of a sudden you're not releasing it. And then the Department of Justice claimed that they were releasing it. But then they released like phone logs or like the phone log sheet that we know that Trump's name was already on the stuff that was released in 2021, like a very small portion. And now you have.
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Anna Paulina Luna, MAGA Republican, yelling at or attacking the head of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi. Attorney General Pam Bondi is attacking Kash Patel and saying, Patel, you're not turning over the records to me. I don't really have it.
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And then I wonder maybe the fact the guy who's in the White House is the guy who said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side, who partied with Epstein and who Epstein would find women to traffic at Mar-a-Lago like Virginia Giuffre. And others, oh yeah, and Donald Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell, who was the sex trafficker, for Epstein.
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Well, see, you're not going to hear about this in other corporate media. That's why independent media is the way to go. We'll talk about that when we come back from our first Quick Baker. I want to remind everybody, though, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. If you ever wanted to meet... Brett, Jordy, and myself, and ask us questions. A few times a month, we go on patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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It is incredible. Check that out and make sure you subscribe here. We just hit 4.2 million subscribers. We're on our way to 5 million subscribers. Let's go to the moon. We'll be right back after our first quick break. 2025 has been a pretty intense year for me so far, especially living here in Los Angeles and having a four month old baby daughter.
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Flashback, what, 24 hours? Donald Trump convened a cabinet meeting that was led by Elon Musk, not a cabinet member. Elon Musk wearing his dark MAGA hat and a T-shirt with a jacket over the T-shirt. And then Elon Musk was saying, you know, look, we're going to make mistakes at Doge. We're going to make the mistakes. Like, remember when we made the mistake recently about Ebola?
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Where to next? A place I've never thought I would go before. I'm actually going to read a post from Dave Portnoy of Barstool. What? I am doing it. This is what he said today. He goes, if I'm going to be fair, these questions need to be asked today. Why is the release of the Epstein list always a shit show?
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What's the point of booting out illegals and criminals while somehow becoming a safe haven for the Tate brothers, who are alleged to have engaged in sex trafficking, were arrested in Romania, they came back to the United States today, and there has been a lot of reporting that the Trump administration advocated for their return, and also Donald Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba,
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like fangirled over Andrew Tate on a recent podcast and said how much she like idolizes him or like looks up to him or thinks he's great. He goes, why is crypto in the toilet if Trump is the crypto king? Trump's literally been the worst president on everything, but also for crypto when his whole thing was like crypto, like it's in the toilet right now.
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How far does Tesla stock have to crash before Elon goes back to work? That means a lot of other questions to ask as well, which is why is inflation surging again? Why hasn't the war in Ukraine been resolved in 24 hours as Donald Trump promised? Why is it that they are gutting Medicaid? Why is it that Donald Trump said that he had nothing to do with Project 2025?
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And now Russ Vogt, who's the author of it, is running the show and running everything. Why? I can go on and on. You get the point, Brett.
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And we fired the wrong Ebola people. I mean, by the way, also fired like people who work at our new over nuclear material. He fired critical people who were focusing on the avian flu. And he fired, you know, tens of thousands of government employees who worked hard and sacrificed for our government. But it's all one big joke for Elon Musk.
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Let me tell you what actually does exist, though. What does exist is... millions of records from the Department of Justice investigation. Witness statement, I'll give you an example of what exists that hasn't been released. And if you were to release all of the files, would be released. There was a 14 year old girl.
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She testified at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial as a woman who said that Epstein brought her and introduced her to Donald Trump. We don't know really what that testimony was because a lot of it was under seal and then was classified, but we know that it took place because we're aware of Jane Doe, Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell. That's what was reported, right?
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So just for that one victim, for example, I'm sure there are pages of witness statements from police officers and investigators about what she told them happened. And then with all of the victims, there are police reports, phone logs, records, you know, statements, photographs, all of that, right? And that file...
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From my experience as a lawyer who dealt with big document production cases, I think you probably have terabytes of data that's out there. Now, if they claim they're Doge efficient, they should have been able to go through those terabytes of data. And if they had to redact a name of victim, I get that. But the people who are being accused,
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That's the type of stuff that you would assume that they would want released. That's what they're asking for, right? So to your point, Brett, the only lists that exist list Trump's name on them, phone logs, flight logs, right? But in terms of the data,
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I know, for example, that there was depositions released in part of these cases and Trump's names on the depots that have been public, where one of the victims that Epstein trafficked talked about Epstein calling Trump from the jet or before they went in the jet to go to a casino with her where they needed to reroute their flight. So, you know, that information is out there.
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And the question is, why don't they want to release it? And again, you have MAGA Republican Anna Paulina Luna. She posts, that's not the information that we asked for. Turn it over. I want to pivot and talk about the relationship between Andrew Tate.
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um and all of this uh with andrew tate who was accused of uh sex trafficking in romania um returning now to the united states but jordy let me have you comment first on on the epstein stuff no i just wanted to say this like if there and i don't want to be that but if biden but if but but in this situation if there if you were to google joe biden jeffrey epstein
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Donald Trump's top advisor is Alina Haba. She was his former lawyer who lost most of the cases that he was in and pretended that she won. She was sanctioned million plus dollars for filing frivolous lawsuits in federal court. Here she is a few months back, I believe. with Andrew Tate, who was accused of sex trafficking in Romania. And Alina Haba sees him, and she is starstruck.
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It's like she saw, you know, the most famous person, the most beloved person. Just watch for yourself.
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All you got to do is just go to doge.com. All you got to do is go to doge.com. I'm not going to testify. I'm not going to testify before Congress like I'm supposed to. But we may make mistakes like Ebola. It's a good joke, everybody. Good joke. I mean, what the hell are we watching? Let me bring in Brett and Jordy from the Midas Touch podcast.
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Now let me show you, I'm gonna show you a clip of Andrew Tate in his own words. Just, you can follow his own words. This is what he says, what his main line of business is, in his own words. Here, play it.
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Okay, now we learned that... The Trump administration, when they were in Munich attacking Europe, sorry, it's hard to even watch that sometimes. When the administration was in the Munich Security Conference attacking Europe, someone from the Trump administration approached the Romanian foreign minister about releasing some of the restrictions on Tate from leaving Romania.
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Andrew Tate, who faces rape trafficking charges in Romania, has left for the U.S. He was believed to be going to Florida. Even DeSantis was like, I just found out about this from the media. He can't come to Florida. I don't know what the hell this is about. I'm pissed off. Of course, Donald Trump is like denying. I don't know much about what's going on there. I don't know what's going on there.
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But when they talk about like the Manosphere podcasts and that bullshit, like they're talking about people like that. And let me be very clear. We may be beating the Manosphere podcast, but we wholeheartedly reject any of that disgusting filth.
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and crap that's not how you need to be a good podcast it's not what you need to do to get ratings that's what you need to be a trash disgusting despicable human being and just condemn that in the strongest of terms when we come back i want to show you some of the headlines from this past From this past 24 to 48 hours, we'll go through that.
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I want to show you what's been going on in Congress a little bit as well. I want to remind you, if you want to meet Brett, Jordi, and myself, now would be the time to sign up at patreon.com slash MidasTouch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash M-E-I-D-A-S-T-O-U-C-H. Also, check out MidasPlus.com. Just make sure you spell Midas correctly. It's M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S dot com, MidasPlus.com. Check that out.
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And I want to start with those clips right there because it is dystopian to say the least.
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Look, if you're not very handy like I am, just go trust them. They come into your house, they figure it out for you, and you're not going to regret it. I am so happy I have three-day blinds. Look, it's 2024. I have so many smart gadgets and gizmos in my house.
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I had the three-day blinds all throughout the house, but just not right there. And my neighbor, she's got that great green fence that you may have seen, and she loved her green fence in the videos. And so when the three-day blind, she goes, I love your blinds. She goes, but are you mad at me? Did I do something? I go, no, why would you say that? I'm not mad at you.
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And she was in the civil rights movements in the 70s. and she goes are you mad at me i said absolutely not i just you know i just got the blinds they were installed that's why so anyway Shout out to her. And shout out to Three Day Blinds. No shout out to Marjorie Taylor Greene. I mean, I'll show you this.
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This is what she was saying in Congress yesterday, two days ago, earlier this week, whenever. It's all the same with her. I mean, this is what MAGA Republicans are going with. And it's not just her. This is what they're saying. They're saying that these hardworking federal employees who are being fired, again, 30% of federal workers are like veterans as well.
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And then there's a whole other group that are spouses of veterans or spouses of people in the armed forces. When you go from base to base, the spouse will technically be a probationary employee because when you start a new job, even if you accrue experience, that technically makes you probationary. Listen to what she says about just federal workers in general playing.
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literally the stupidest person ever i mean oh my god oh my god she is wow but she's also really stupid like marjorie you're a federal employee you're not like like she literally is a federal you're talking about yourself marjorie taylor green that's who you're talking about because the federal employees i know the federal workers are super hard-working people
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Well, look, I mean, to your point, Jordi, you have MAGA Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House here. He's speaking and he's like, we really actually came up with something very incredible. So we put Elon in with his algorithms because in Congress, we couldn't do our jobs. And so you see Elon now has the algorithms that sift through all of your data and it's actually
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a quite revolutionary concept that we have uh going on here i mean like do you realize what you're saying mega mike johnson like i'm going to show you this clip and then i'll comment on it but just watch it and the congress we could have oversight the problem is for decades as we know we haven't been able to do that job well because even though we requested the data and requested the insight it was hidden
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If revolutionary, you mean creating a tech dictatorship to overthrow checks and balances and then to use Stalinist tactics to lie about fraud, to attack political enemies while getting rid of key functions that have
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literally destroyed our government making people less safe i guess that's one word rebel revolutionary but literally your job as a congress member is oversight not to give your job to a billionaire oligarch to put algorithms into our data and hand over our data and then not go call the individual to testify before Congress.
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Did I say that? Either severe cognitive decline, gaslighting, or just being malicious. I think it is all of the above, by the way. Here's what Donald Trump wrote where he clearly calls Zelensky a dictator. It was in a social media post that Donald Trump made.
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I mean, these are literally the most pathetic people and it gets more pathetic. I mean, you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Joe Wilson introducing the $250 bill legislation to put Trump's face on a $250 bill because he says the most valuable president needs the most valuable currency. And then I'll just show you this image one more time.
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Brett, pull up that photo of Donald Trump with the rendering without the makeup on.
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so we can just take a look at this because i because i because i think about and i don't know because look i mean just imagine you know it's it's it's like you know whatever late at night in the morning you've got the guy on my right hand side like on his phone and let me let me just let me let me reenact it for you right now you could you could show me now you know he's on the phone he's like you know and he's looking at it he's looking at it he's like hey
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What should I post? Trump, Trump, Trump Gaza. I'm gonna post Trump Gaza. Look, look, look, let's do AI. Look, Elon, Elon, look, it's me, it's me, it's me in Gaza. Here, pull up some of these photos if we've got them. This is a video that Donald Trump posted First image is him and a woman not really wearing a lot of clothes, dancing. Then him and Benjamin Netanyahu. Not his wife, by the way.
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Not his wife. Him and Benjamin Netanyahu, I guess, you know, what, post-genocide on a Gaza beach with Trump hotels. Then the third photo is... What do we got there? Men with bathing suits and big cleavage in bathing suits on the beach with beards and long hair. Is that what we're looking at?
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I'm sure they're all over this. And then a gigantic gold statue. And then Elon Musk throwing money in the air. Mm-mm. yeah i guess the palestinians for trump and the muslims for trump uh i don't know i don't i don't know you're distracting from though brett you know i want to show that you have to show that these people are um this is not normal behavior but then i think you have to quickly pivot
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Well, let me start off by showing you this photo right here of Donald Trump. If we've got a photo of him without the orange. Do we have that photo of him, Brett? Yeah, I got it. We'll pull it up in a moment. But let's first show you. There it is right there. This is a guy at Dave MMC posted this. This is what Donald Trump would look like if his skin tone matched the color around his eyes.
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Let me give us some legal news right now. According to ABC News, newly installed FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly proposed establishing a key partnership between the FBI and the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the UFC, whose CEO Dana White is a major donor.
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to develop programs to train the fbi agents integrating ufc into the fbi other important legal news i want to mention as well a federal judge in california earlier today ordered opm the office of personnel management to rescind memos
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calling for the mass termination of probationary employees saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies that lack the authority to issue such a directive the judge said he can't stop agencies from terminating those employees on their own but they cannot be ordered by opm to do so the judge wants opm boss charles ezel to testify under oath next month about his agencies about the termination
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So that could be a big deal if these probationary employees are now given all of this back pay and then are required, allowed to return back to the government, then what's going to happen? And they fire him again. We're talking about massive, massive damages and massive wrongful termination lawsuits that can be filed. By the way, shout out to Michael Popock.
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who started his own law firm, the Popock Law Firm. I think you can Google the Popock Law Firm. Maybe we'll drop it in the description as well. But he's been handling a lot of big kind of catastrophic injury cases, wrongful termination cases. He's representing a victim's family from the plane crash over DC. And so he's handling cases like that.
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I know a lot of Midas Mighty were reaching out to Popock. We'll post his link in the description. I'm proud of him for starting his own law firm. I digress there. But also earlier in the day, a separate judge ordered the Trump administration officials and at least one Doge staffer to sit for depositions in a lawsuit over the group's access to sensitive government systems.
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Judge Bates, who's a George W. Bush appointee, called Doge's activities, quote, opaque. You think, you think. So that's, that's your legal update brought to you by.
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Have fun sleeping. I think the hesitation there of Brett posting that photo is... Ben, are you really calling up this photo? Yes, Brett. I'm really calling up this photo because to me, one, I had to see it. So all of you might as mighty have to see it as well.
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There you have it there, Jordy. I want to thank all the members of the Midas Mighty because, you know, one of the things that I think is important to note about this show and this network is, look, it's it's it's great when they're like, oh, the Midas Touch podcast is beating Joe Rogan, but To me, it's not an individualistic achievement. It's an achievement for this community.
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And this community has been growing organically step by step. And really, it's a testament to the strength of the Midas Mighty. So thank you to all of you. Thank you to the people for beating the oligarchs. Thank you to the people for pushing back on those, whatever they call them, the Manosphere podcasts or whatever. I mean, we could win with the truth, with passion, with joy.
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And we can be hard hitting about it too. And we can have fun about it like we like to do here on the network. But let's be grounded in making our country and our world actually better and helping people, not hurting people. That's some of the core messages that we have here on this show. And so thank you to all of you. Make sure you subscribe on audio and the YouTube channel.
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Let's grow all of this together. Patreon.com slash podcast. Midas Touch if you want to meet Jordy, Brett, and myself at our next meeting. We do a few meetings every month on Patreon. And there's MidasPlus.com. By the way, that jingle at the end of the show, that's sung by Tennessee Brando, who's on the Midas Touch network. That's the Midas Touch anthem.
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And two, it highlights the absurdity of all of this, that we literally have a human being in the White House who paints his face like a orange and then just goes out and does things that are obviously destructive to every aspect of our country. And then you have these spineless MAGA Republicans like, oh, I guess you made a you made a boo boo when it comes to Ebola.
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I love you, Tennessee Brando. Absolutely. And thank you to all of our great hosts, our contributors, our staffs, the Midas Mighty, the mods, everybody. Thank you so much. Let's keep building. Let's keep growing. Keep the passion. Keep the hope. Keep the joy. And we'll take our country back. Jordy, take it away. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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Oh, you made another boo boo when it comes to the nuclear crisis. What are we talking about? Measles. This happens all of the time. Measles. You don't say. I mean, look, you have RFK Jr. at the cabinet meeting being asked. And Donald Trump's like, Junior, you tell me,
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Donald Trump is then asked, what would happen, Donald, if the UK would send peacekeeping forces into Ukraine and they were attacked by Russia? Would the United States help out its ally, the United Kingdom? Play this clip.
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I was going to say that they are pissing on their supporters, even though they're not on fire. And then the supporters are like, more pee-pee, please, Mr. Trump.
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Not the RFK Jr. impression. The Elon Musk impression.
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It's really good. For the record, we've built up this audience now to beat Rogan. I'm not doing an RFK impression. I'm going to show self-restraint, but I will show the clip of RFK, which is absolutely deplorable from the cabinet meeting. Let's play the clip.
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Yeah, that reporter with that question, you sound like you're under the... I mean, come on. Come on, reporter. I mean, but, but, but, let's not... Let's not get distracted here, brothers. OK, that's not true. OK, there's not nothing he's saying is true. And oh, my gosh, the conspiracy theorist who says that he wants an eight year moratorium on infectious disease research who attacked.
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who attacked vaccines over and over again and is maybe one of the leading spreaders of freaking measles and other pandemics from the past that we stopped with vaccines. It shouldn't shock you that he's out there spreading medical disinformation. And at the same time, a lot of these jobs that are being cut,
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NIH, CDC, working groups within Health and Human Services, which is under the purview of RFK Jr., these working groups that are responsible for kind of investigating and then coming up with the formulations for flu vaccines, right, for like next season. They've been gutted as well. So there's been a lot of reporting. Are we going to be able to have flu vaccines for next year?
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Right now, as America is less vaccinated because of idiots. Here's the article from Bloomberg. The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration Vaccine Advisory Committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming season, and that as they also get NIH and CDC jobs as well. And we know that flu deaths
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right now are very, very high. I don't even know if we're getting the accurate information of just how high they are because Trump's cut so much out of the government. And by the way, COVID cases are very high as well. And Trump and his administration are looking away. But these
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are the people who brought you inject ivermectin into your arm which you should never do that was not good advice like a miracle it's all going to go away it's never going to hit our shores i mean these people are liars about everything and of course donald trump is a liar in a way that's hitting you in your purse in your pocketbook in your wallet donald trump's promise day one
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Prices will go down immediately. Jobs will be, there'll be so many jobs, you're not gonna know what to do with all of your jobs, he said. War in Ukraine caused by Russia's unlawful invasion. He said it would be resolved in 24 hours. Know what Donald Trump is focused on though is a budget that cut $4.3 trillion in taxes
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for the billionaires and deca millionaires and then cut your medicaid 880 billion dollars of your medicaid it will add 19 trillion dollars to the deficit at least over 10 years and let me tell you what i think the real number that it's going to add to the deficit and let me give you my data points for it as well I think it adds $50 trillion to the deficit.
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Then Donald Trump, while sitting next to Keir Starmer, UK's prime minister, was trying to say, look, this is a great relationship we have with the United States. And then Donald Trump, like bullies him and humiliates him or tries to humiliate him in front of the world press by saying, I think Russia's been acting very, very well, Kier. What do you think? What do you think is happening?
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And you wanna know what I think is Donald Trump's top tell? You know those stupid Trump gold card things that he's selling where he's saying that if you are from another country and you want a visa and then to become a citizen, He goes, here's what you got to do. We're going to replace our immigration system with Trump gold cards. Russian oligarchs, you're welcome.
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He literally said, Russian oligarchs, you are welcome. Chinese oligarchs, you are welcome. You just pay $5 million. And he goes, if we can get 10 million of these Chinese oligarchs, Russian oligarchs, he said this, to become citizens of the United States through the purchase of the Trump gold cards, we can make up for 50, we can make $50 trillion.
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So to me, what I think they're doing as they gear up for the reconciliation process after passing the blueprint for this budget that will add $19 trillion, they're going to use Doge to come up with all of these phony numbers. They'll use the Trump gold card to come up with all of these phony numbers to claim there is a perfect offset.
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to the deficit that they are going to be creating by selling gold cards and snake oil because trump is a fraud the guy's been a con artist his whole life he's bankrupted every basically all of the casinos that he's run i'm not going to show it again because i show it in so many videos go read donald trump's annual financial reports in the reports
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Donald Trump has to list all of the businesses that he bankrupted. He's not a good businessman. He's not a builder. He's a destroyer. You go through it line by line. And I've read, I've never seen someone go bankrupt so many times over and over again or run businesses into the ground. And by the way, the business he's running now, Trump Media, that earned less than $4 million in revenue last year.
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So the Trump business lost $400 million, made less revenue than your local boba shop. Okay, this is not a good business person right there. Well, here he is at the cabinet meeting saying, blaming the current administration for the fact that eggs are a disaster. The prices are going up and he pretends that he's not the current administration. Here, watch this.
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While all of this is going on, remember Elon Musk's post from, I think it's January 28th, 2025. Fork in the road. The Trump administration's offering all of these federal workers buyouts, and then they're firing all of these people. This was Elon Musk's post today. Today this was his post. There is a shortage of top-notch air traffic controllers.
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why are you shutting the door? They use that exact language, shutting the door to other areas of challenging Donald Trump through other federal means. And they said, we're writing in protest of the majority opinion that said federal legislation is required. And they said, that's not in the text of the 14th Amendment, Section 3. In fact,
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Yeah, you know, and so, you know, there's really doesn't seem to be a whole great deal of disagreement, you know, anywhere there. It's just it's fraught with these issues. You know, is Maggie Mike Johnson and the Republicans going to join on, you know, to any objections? I mean, the answer is no. So then Trump gets a win there. Then it goes to the Supreme Court with the same composition.
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He gets a win there. To your point, though, you keep on fighting it. even if you keep on losing it, and even if you put it all on the line to lose it all, people can net out and say, where does that fit to your point on the kind of suicide mission, to use another term, but similar to that, and where are you pushing the boundaries of what the law is? And more importantly, though,
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you know, what, what can we do with our platforms systemically here? Because we talked about the 14th amendment section three, and I, and I'd love to have you on and I, you know, to talk about other issues too, but I think, and by the way, you and BTC are great together. I love seeing you there and I love all of the hot takes.
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So everybody's subscribed to Glenn's channel justice matters, and you do great takes with Brian Tyler Cohen. Just do that. I love those takes. But this is not unique to this issue.
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When we talk about Second Amendment jurisprudence, when we talk about women's reproductive rights, when we talk about the lemon test, which used to be a test that would govern the separation of church and state, when we talk about any of these issues, the role of agencies in the government,
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The Supreme Court, under its current composition, right, Glenn, has this tortured analysis similar to what we've seen here to come out with counterintuitive, illogical, and let's just call it what it is in many cases, unlawful outcomes that actually become the law of the land. And then as law professors and teachers in this area, we have to go explain this like Here's what they ruled.
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And people go, but that's not what it said. I go, I know. I'm just telling you, this is what they ruled and what can be done. But here's what they said. And that's frustrating as heck for law students. But that's just part of, you know, that has to change.
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14th Amendment Section 3 talks about that you would need 2 thirds of Congress to remove the disability. So why would you simply need a simple majority of Congress to disqualify, but 2 thirds to remove the disability? It makes no sense. But let's just start with the premise of what the Supreme Court ruled. You saw, Glenn, the 30 minute video that I did. Was there any kind of flaws in my logic?
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58 years. We don't have 58 years. You know, but the issue is when they create these precedents, the challenge of the precedent takes time. And that's very frustrating. I wish it could be done overnight. I really do. But exactly. We don't have 58 years, but we do have is our mics, our YouTube channels, our voice. And we have to create something here.
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I think, like a good, a pro-democracy version of what the Federalist Society was creating back in the 70s. And they built and went into universities and built the justices into this type of thinking that has, you know, by the way, I think it kind of became something even different than maybe they had set out and far, far worse and metastasized into something else.
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But this is a generational project. And I know that's frustrating because we need action now, too. But I wanted to make that point about the 58 years as well, because it wasn't the next year or within three weeks of the ruling or a year of the ruling. But Glenn, we got to have you back. These types of conversations, I think, are important. I think we just need to have more of them.
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And I'm grateful for your friendship and I'm grateful for everything you do.
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Was there any kind of disinfo? There's some suggestions out there or at least my recitation of what it is that the Supreme Court said. If I was lecturing, here's what they said. Did I get it right on what they said?
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I'm joined by Glenn Kirshner, former top federal prosecutor, the host of Justice Matters. Glenn, I want to talk about this issue, disqualification of Donald Trump under the 14th Amendment, Section 3. I've seen you do some videos of it. Brian Tyler Cohen do videos of it. I've seen a lot of videos that have gone into this issue, and I want to really kind of flesh it out as well.
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You and I both seem to agree that the Supreme Court got it wrong when they required that there be some sort of federal legislation from Congress that is required in order for there to be disqualification, that the Supreme Court went beyond even the question that was posed about whether Donald Trump could be on the ballot
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No, and look, what I think is so important because thought experiments can actually lead to action, but I think what's important and all I've been trying to do is basically say, look, everyone,
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Let me just explain to you what the Supreme Court ruled, what the five justices ruled, why there was such a vociferous protest by three other justices who were appointed by Obama and Biden to the overreach by the Supreme Court. Once we understand that that is what the ruling is, and that is undisputed, then we get to the next step of how can we solve for that? And what's the solution?
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Let me just pause there. And just Glenn, just on that piece, you agree with what I'm saying though, right there, right? Like we have to at least understand what it says and then let's solve for it. And then, or can we solve for the thought experiment? And then we go into other issues. Let me, I'll pause there.
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So so then we go to these other these propositions out there. I saw one in the Hill. That says Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now. And what they basically suggest here is that ethical dilemma you described, which is that Democrats ignore what the Supreme Court majority ruling is.
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object on january 6th and then under the electoral count though that would require a majority of congress the republicans would have to come in and basically be hey democrats we're joining with you so you would need maga mike and the republicans to lock hands with democrats and so while
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we go through these iterations of the thought experiment glenn it comes for me when i hear a proposition like that i may go huh that's novel that's aggressive but i go At the end of the day, MAGA Mike Johnson and Republicans in the Senate and Republicans in the House are not going to go along with that.
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in Colorado, where nine of the Supreme Court justices thought that Colorado did not have the right to disqualify Donald Trump. By the way, I want to get your take on it. I still agree. I disagree with those 9-0 judges there as well. The majority went even further and said that federal legislation is required to which the three justices, Ketanji Brown, Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan said,
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So I go, aren't you just going to hand Donald Trump a win that he's going to go post about and say, look, they tried to stop me. I won and now I have an extra mandate. Isn't he just going to isn't that going to like we have to think ahead. Isn't that going to backfire? And now he's going to declare an additional mandate and another victory.
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And it's sure to lose simply because of the numbers in the House. So that's not an effective one, in my opinion. There's no lawyer who can file this lawsuit because – If there was, I know you're aggressive as hell. There's a lot of aggressive lawyers. If lawyers thought they could file this and not lose their bar license, they'd probably file it.
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So I just go through the reps here and I go, you know what? The time needs to be dedicated to the cabinet picks controlling what I can control. making sure the Supreme Court composition changes, educating people on these issues. And so it's, you say a tough pill to swallow. It's a pill of nails and chalk and freaking poison for me to swallow it.
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But Glenn, I just feel I go through the reps and I'm like, I don't know what else to say. Just being blunt and honest. I'll give you the kind of final word on this.
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that on day one, he was going to lower prices of things. That was basically the winning message, which was all based on a lie. He didn't say how he was going to do it. He just said, like a miracle, this will happen because he said he's got all these magical powers and so many people just believe he knows what he's doing.
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And he claims he was a good business person, despite the fact that he bankrupted like literally almost every company he touched in the past, not all of them, but most of them. And he said he was going to fix it. Let's talk about what's happening right now. Mortgage rates are going up past 7%. At one time last week, they were above 7%. They're at like 6.85% now.
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Didn't you say that on day one you were going to fix this all and these were going to be American jobs? Are you lying to us? Is this the F around and find out stage right now?
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The Treasury yields 10-year note are reflecting a serious instability caused by Donald Trump's threats of tariffs and bloody mass deportations. That's already having a negative effect. We saw top real estate companies thought that mortgage rates would be going below 5%. And now they're saying that, nope, this is likely going to go up maybe even higher than 8% right now.
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We've got the Federal Reserve, which was... anticipating it would make numerous additional rate cuts in 2025, now saying that they don't think that's going to happen because they don't see inflation getting under control like it was going in a downward trajectory under President Biden because of Donald Trump's threats. So, oh, and by the way, the prices of eggs, that's all I heard.
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The price of eggs, the price of eggs, the price of eggs. Well, Donald Trump is unlikely to handle the avian flu the right way. I mean, heck, he wants RFK Jr., who basically believes that there shouldn't be
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um any type of vaccines um and and he's someone who like helped you know who's you know would be okay with polio spreading um so when you've got people like that out there and he wanted there to be what like an eight-year moratorium on research into serious infectious diseases so when you have all of that as background i'm just i don't think the prices of eggs are going to be going down and i'm sure you've seen already
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In your own experience, price is actually going up and not down. And also didn't Donald Trump say that before he even took office, all of these wars would end. And instead he seems to be starting new wars now with our allies. every single day provoking territorial sovereignty disputes.
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So at some point, this is going to boil over with the American people saying, wait a minute, this is not what you promised us. And I think we're already seeing that already. Before day one, we're seeing the F around and find out stuff as people start Googling the stuff that you probably should have looked into before.
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We will break that all down here on this episode. Also, you've got foreign leaders calling out Donald Trump for attacking the sovereignty of other nations and Hunter Biden gets his revenge on Matt Gaetz.
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before you actually cast that vote for someone who is a congenital liar, someone who literally basically has engaged in fraud and has lied over and over in his entire life. So one of the things we're seeing as well, though, and we saw this civil war taking place right now as well, MAGA Alliance, if you will, has these kind of far right-wing people who hate immigrants, all immigrants.
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And they're basically like they expect America to just be a white nation is their perspective on on America. And so they love Donald Trump's rhetoric about bloody mass deportations and his anti-immigrant rhetoric. On the other hand, MAGA is also made up of these tech bros kind of led by Elon Musk and then more behind the scenes, Peter Thiel. And this is like the PayPal mafia they've been called.
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And, you know, Musk and Thiel started at PayPal and then they've gone on to kind of spawn this whole kind of tech bro movement, which has turned kind of right wing MAGA. And now this kind of right wing tech tech bro contingent, by the way, they're the reason that JD Vance became the VP.
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I mean, that was Peter Thiel's pick and part of the, hey, we're going to give you all of this money is we want our guy, JD Vance, who worked for Peter Thiel to be your VP. So that was one of Donald Trump's first steps of submission to the tech bros and taking their money. But now the tech bros are out there.
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And by the way, those tech bros, especially with the platforms like formerly Twitter, they've been instrumental in amplifying hateful rhetoric against immigrants, against the other. I mean, you've seen Twitter, now X, turn into a cesspool
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But now what we're seeing are the tech bros, whether it's Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, who run this thing called Doge, just like made up entity, which is pulling the puppet strings for Donald Trump and the magas in the House of Representatives. They're now out there saying, actually, we need labor engineers from India. That's critical for us. We specifically need foreign talent.
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In other words, we need the type of immigrants who we think are helpful to run our tech companies. We don't want the other immigrants, the tech pro say, the ones that are instrumental in helping America's economy and agriculture and hospitality in construction. Now, yeah, you could do the bloody mass deportations there. We don't want them, but we need talent. from places like India.
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I wonder if... When Matt Gaetz was engaged in some of that illicit drug activity, which was found by substantial evidence in the bipartisan House Ethics Committee report, he was a gun owner. Did he fill out one of those ATF forms and claim that he was not a drug user when he purchased that gun?
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And so one of the people who Donald Trump just appointed to be a senior policy advisor, and he comes from that tech bro world, is a guy named Sri Ram, Krishnan, who was born in India. He's a venture capitalist, of course, because they're all venture capitalists who work for Trump now.
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And he worked at a company called Andrasen Horowitz, and they were largely supportive of Donald Trump as part of this tech pro support of Donald Trump. So when he was picked, and by the way, he worked at former Twitter when it was not owned by Musk, and he worked at Microsoft.
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Microsoft and Yahoo and Snap and all of these companies before working as a venture capitalist in Andrasin Horowitz, then Laura Loomer, who's big in MAGA, started saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, we don't want this guy. He believes in visa programs that we simply don't support. We can't have these visa programs here that bring in the HB1 visa programs. We can't have that, the H1B visa programs.
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We can't have that. We thought these were American jobs. Donald, weren't you going to build the schools here and universities and make these jobs the high-paying American jobs on day one? Wait a minute. You want to kind of further support the H-1B program and bring in more foreign labor to replace? I thought this was the exact opposite of what you said you were going to do.
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So now we saw this epic clash. within MAGA itself. I want to talk about that. And you have to see, this is something that I know corporate media is not paying attention to, but we here at the Midas Touch Network have been predicting that this was going to boil over and become a massive thing.
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Thought it may have happened at least a few weeks once Trump took over, but it's happening now during the transition. And people are out saying, Elon's gotta go, Vivek's gotta go. Elon and Vivek are saying, no, these guys gotta go. And people are saying, we're the MAGA base. No, we're the MAGA base. And all of that fighting is happening already right now. I want to talk about that and more.
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And don't worry, we're going to, all we need is me and the Midas Mighty for this episode. Let's get into it just right away, right away, folks. President Biden making posts like this on Christmas. He posts, there's a true selflessness in giving up a seat at your Christmas table to defend your country.
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before we took a break, between the MAGA tech bros whose interests are very different than the other MAGAs who want no immigrants and thought that Donald Trump's whole policy was going to be anti-immigration. So you have Laura Loomer, who's on the anti-immigration faction.
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of trump um and remember she was traveling with trump throughout the campaign and she's been with donald trump's or been by donald trump's side you know almost every step of the way for years and years and years so much so that like lots of other people in the maga world you know got jealous of their close relationship here's what laura loomer posted today the elephant in the room is that elon musk who is not maga
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This Christmas, Jill and I spoke with service members serving around the world to share just how grateful we are for their courage and sacrifice. President Biden posts a picture of a little kitty cat.
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and has never been MAGA, is a total effing drag on the Trump transition. He's a stage five clinger who overstayed his welcome at Bar-a-Lago in an effort to become Trump's side piece and be the point man for all of his accomplices in big tech. to slither into Mar-a-Lago. Shots fired. Laura Loomer calling Musk Trump's side piece for big tech to slither in to Mar-a-Lago.
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Let's take a look at what Elon Musk was saying, though, on his social media platform, where again, Elon Musk had encouraged a lot of this anti-immigrant, hostile, hateful rhetoric on his platform. So one of his followers and a MAGA person goes the following, There are over 330 million people in America. Surely there must be enough of them to build your ultimate team.
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Why would you deny real Americans the opportunity by bringing foreigners here when there's enough among the 330 million Americans to do these jobs, these tech jobs, these engineer jobs? Take a look at Elon Musk's answer. Your understanding of the situation is upside down and backwards.
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Of course, my companies and I would prefer to hire Americans, and we do, as that is much easier than going through incredibly painful and slow work visa processes. However, there is a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America. This is not about handing out opportunities from some magical hat. You don't get it.
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This is blindingly obvious when looking at NBA teams, as the physical differences are so obvious to see. However, the mental differences between humans are far bigger than the physical differences. So in other words, is Elon Musk
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calling americans genetically dumber than other people because that seems to be what he's saying right there um someone responds uh open a school we have brains come on elon bring it to america wasn't that the whole campaign american schools american factories american manufacturing
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One of my favorite Christmas tales, aw, so cute, President Biden posts, Rabbi Sachs said, a people that can walk through a valley of shadow of death and still rejoice is a people that cannot be defeated by any force or fear. That capacity for faith is the light of the Jewish people. As Hanukkah begins, May it shine from the menorahs around the world. President Biden sends this Christmas message.
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by the way let me just add all of the things that president biden actually did with the inflation reduction act the infrastructure act and the chips act investing i think like a trillion dollars in all of those things to build that up to make these things actually in america as president biden said to me he hopes his legacies I kept my word. I said I was going to bring it to America. I did that.
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I was investing in America. Red states, blue states, I invested in infrastructure. I invested in America. Elon Musk's response to this person saying, why don't you open up schools, Elon? You got billions of dollars, Elon. Open some schools up. Elon goes, if you need a school, you've lost already. to which a MAGA follower goes, incredible.
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At this rate, you're actually going to make me side with the leftists who want you treated like a hostile foreign agent. Laura Loomer then responds, don't worry guys, the divorce is coming soon. Referring to the divorce from one group of MAGA and the MAGA tech bros right there. DC Drano, a well-known MAGA account goes,
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How did Doge go from let's cut wasteful government spending to here's why we need to import more immigrants almost overnight? Did I miss something? What's next? Gun control? No more oil drilling? Back the truck up here and you'll get back to the main mission. Elon Musk continued on with this. He goes, there's a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent.
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It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley. So again, Elon Musk is saying, we need certain type of immigrants here. We need the immigrants from India. So they work the tech jobs, they work at the Teslas and for X and for the tech bros, for our companies, we need them, but not the immigrants that work the agriculture, hospitality, construction, and other jobs, right?
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Elon saying, this is what I need. So just when you see Elon and these tech bros talk about America, just replace America with I or me, and you see what their intentions are. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski said that as well. And then Elon Musk also posts, it comes down to this. Do you want America to win or do you want America to lose?
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If you force the world's best talent to play for the other side, America will lose. End of story. Now, this is the exact opposite message that Donald Trump was making during the campaign, quite literally the opposite. The opposite. Now I want to read this for you. And again, as Ron Filipkowski and I just said before, replace I or me with America when you hear these things from Elon.
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And he's saying that it's beneficial to him. And that's the thing with these tech bros. They're like, yo, Trump. We gave you all that money for that campaign. We bought this White House for you. So now pay up. This is what we want. And then the other MAGAs are like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't buy it. We're the real MAGAs. We're the real ones. And that's creating the civil war.
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I want to read for you what Vivek Ramaswamy wrote. He's the other co-head of Doge, this made-up agency pulling the House Republican strings and Donald Trump strings right now as well. Now, when I read this to you, I just want you to think for a second. Imagine if President Biden said this. Imagine if any Democratic cabinet member said this. Imagine if Vice President Kamala Harris said this.
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Imagine the outrage. Imagine what you would hear everywhere from Fox to CNN to MSNBC, all of the corporate media. They'd buy into the right-wing outrage. Oh my God, can you believe they said this? Now, because it's all hypocritical and just at this point controlled by right-wing forces and the oligarchy, they're not going there. But again, let me read to you what Vivek Ramaswamy says.
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He goes, the issue is the American culture is all about mediocrity and you need to bring in people from India and immigrants from India because they just work harder. than white Americans. White Americans are too busy watching Boy Meets World and Saves by the Bell, and they're not as smart and dedicated as the immigrant Indian families. So that's the problem. Let's be honest about it.
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And if you go, Ben, whoa, Did he really say that? That would seem to be something that would cause outrage in MAGA world. Let me read it for you. What Vivek Ramaswamy, who's like the key person in the Trump administration said, he goes, our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long, at least since the 1990s and likely longer. That doesn't start in college.
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Merry Christmas. For the last time as your president, it's been my honor to wish all of America a very Merry Christmas. My hope for our nation today and always is that we continue to seek the light of liberty and love, kindness and compassion, dignity and decency. May God bless you all. Here's his happy Kwanzaa message.
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It starts young. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ. or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates Corey from Boy Meets World or Zack Slater over Screech in Saved by the Bell or Stefan or Steve Urkel in Family Matters will not produce the best engineers.
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Fact, I know multiple sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates.
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More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of Friends, more math tutoring, fewer sleepovers, more weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons, more books, less TV, more creating, less chilling. more extracurriculars, less hanging out at the mall. Most normal American parents look skeptically at those kind of parents. More normal American kids view such those kind of kids with scorn.
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If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, then normalcy is what you will achieve. Now, close your eyes and visualize which families you knew in the 90s or even now who raised their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest. Normalcy doesn't cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent.
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And if we pretend like it does, we'll have our asses handed to us like China. Kind of sounds like, isn't that what they were referring to as globalists and globalism and all of these things? As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, goes, MAGA has suddenly realized that the tech bros are globalists.
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I'm not going to read to you some of the stuff by Nick Fuentes, Ashley Sinclair, John Cardillo, and some of these other kind of right-wing MAGA people because it's really kind of xenophobic about Indians and people from India and foreign cultures and things like that. Um, you know, but it's, it is interesting to see right now that Trump ran an entire campaign on attacking immigrants.
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And now you have at least the tech bro saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, we need him for us. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski says, Elon is just saying what every other Republican employer is about to say in 2025 deport everyone else's employees, but not mine because I am. really need them. Look, we're going to follow up more here about this civil war taking place.
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But again, could you imagine if what Vivek said AOC wrote or if what Vivek said Bernie Sanders said or of course Biden? Just think about it. It would be every single day, every second, the top coverage. You know, it's why it's important we have an independent voice to let you all know what it is that's happening and what is being said right there. Wild stuff, right? Wild stuff.
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I'm not quite sure as wild or comparably wild to this whole Matt Gaetz ordeal. I'm not going to go through the entire House Ethics Committee report, which made these findings by substantial evidence that Matt Gaetz engaged in statutory rape, illicit drug use, receiving gifts, obstructing the congressional investigation.
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President Biden writes, this week millions will gather with their families to light the seven candles and commit themselves to the seven principles from unity and self-determination to faith. Jill and I hope that your Kwanzaa is blessed with peace and light this season. Now, that's what President Biden's posting, but Donald Trump is posting, I just left Wayne Gretzky.
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Matt Gaetz's defense since this report has gone public is like it is the height of privilege. I mean, I just want you to think about what he's doing. So here's an example of what Gaetz is doing. He posts a selected portion of one of the depositions of one of the women. And here's what he writes.
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He goes, another one of the ethics witnesses who was an alleged, quote, prostitute claims she was indeed not when actually pressed in a deposition. This won't be in the ethics report because, of course. And this was a lawsuit, I think, brought by a Republican lobbyist, who was alleged to have been at a place where some of the conduct that was described in the ethics committee report was occurring.
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So here's the deposition testimony that Gates claims is like good for him. Question, were you escorting, working? What were you doing?
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a lawyer does an objection and then the answer from the woman was i wouldn't consider it any of those there was a lot of times where i did not get paid for being there in that time i thought a lot of these people were my friends question okay all right so you wouldn't characterize anything you did in 2017 as sex work objection you can answer and then she says no
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To be clear, what she's saying here is that there was a lot of times where I did not get paid for being there, which means there were times where apparently she did get paid. And this deposition transcript, if you were wondering, is not the 17-year-old statutory rape one. This is a different individual.
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What Matt Gaetz would do, according to the Ethics Report, though, is his close buddy Joel Greenberg, who ended up taking a plea for sex trafficking, And Greenberg would find the women or in the case of the girl, they'd find them on a website called Seeking Arrangements, where implicit in the relationship was that there would be payment for sex. So the woman wouldn't charge the money.
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It would just be part of what would take place is that you would make the payment.
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um and that was clear in some of the other text messages between greenberg and the woman where he would show the photographs of matt gates and he would even say all right the usual 400 for the meat they'd say 400 for the meat and then they'll go 400 for the meat and that's how they would call it but like gates is like looking at this like like these were my girlfriends like these were i was just giving gifts to girlfriends
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Just think about that as his defense. And this is another post that he made. Gates goes, giving funds to someone you are dating that they didn't ask for and that isn't, quote, charged for sex is now prostitution? There is a reason they did this to me in a Christmas Eve report. And here's what he claims is helpful to him. Question.
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So it wasn't that the amounts charged did not depend on how attractive a guy was. Is that fair to say? And then the woman responds, I never charged anyone anything. Like I said, it was just given. Question. Okay. Answer. And it wasn't spoken about.
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Gates views that as his strongest evidence right there, where the woman is saying, I didn't have to charge because the arrangement that was sought on seeking arrangement was just given what this was all about. Gates is like, dude, didn't do anything. Look, how great is this? Okay.
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Matt Gaetz was who Donald Trump picked to be attorney general, the top law enforcement officer in the United States, the most powerful legal position essentially that there is. Matt Gaetz was was a member of Congress entrusted with a public position. Again, I don't care about private sex lives of members of Congress or private individuals.
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The great one, as he is known in ice hockey circles. I said, Wayne, why don't you run for prime minister of Canada? Soon to be known as the governor of Canada. You would win easily. You wouldn't even have to campaign. He had no interest. But I think the people of Canada should start a draft Wayne Gretzky movement.
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By the way, with all of the stuff against Hunter, the stuff with Hunter was consensual sex while Hunter was a private citizen. He wasn't picked to lead a governmental agency or the attorney general or to run anything in the Biden administration. Hunter's conduct was when Biden was not even the VP and not the president. In between, he hit rock bottom because Beau, his brother, died of cancer.
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And he went into a serious drug addiction to which Hunter took full responsibility for. Hunter was not out there saying, well, they said this, look at the deposition. Hunter said, I did it. He said, I made mistakes in my life. I was at the lowest point in my life. I take full accountability for what it is I did. And what did the MAGAs do?
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They found ways to charge Hunter with things that nobody other than Hunter has ever actually been charged with. And the irony is that you have someone like Matt Gates, who's out there, abolish the ATF, the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Agency, abolish it, that there shouldn't be any of these ATF forms at all. Let weapons of war proliferate. There should be no common sense gun control as well.
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But Gates and the Magnus went after Hunter because when Hunter was under the influence of drugs or when he was suffering from drug addiction, he purchased a gun that he only had for a few weeks where he signed a form. That said that he was not under the influence or was not consuming drugs or was not addicted to drugs on the ATF form.
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Now, there was substantial evidence in the Congressional Ethics Report that Matt Gaetz was on drugs during the relevant time period. Matt Gaetz is a known gun owner. Matt Gaetz is someone who called Florida, not the sunshine state, the gun shine state. And so, you know, Gaetz is photographed with AR-15s.
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And so did Gaetz fill out that form that Hunter filled out, that Hunter was charged with, that nobody else but Hunter was charged with? Gates gets a pass there. Why is Gates getting a pass there? Wouldn't Hunter's ultimate revenge be that Matt Gates should ultimately be charged with the things that he's alleged to have done in this report that's made public?
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Also, I did a Google search of other people in Florida who were charged with statutory rape of a 17-year-old. And I saw the story of a former police officer who was, I think, 28 years old, I think younger than Gates was, who met a girl on Tinder. And she said at first she was 23, admitted she lied and said that she was actually 19, but it turned out that she was 17 years old.
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And this guy, Jose Robel Hernandez, who met someone who he thought was 23 years old on Tinder, He was a former police officer. He was prosecuted for statutory rape. Matt Gaetz wasn't. And I want you to think about the ultimate kind of, and Matt Gaetz is out there making posts with deposition transcripts about other women.
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would be so much fun to watch oh sure donald interfering with the sovereignty of one of our favorite and best and long-standing allies canada in an un in a border that does not have military they're an unguarded border yeah that's going to be fun just for you to interfere with their sovereignty and mock canada and call it the 51st state donald trump also posted the following he goes
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Although let me be clear, the 17 year old's a girl, but he's making posts about other people. And he's like, they didn't charge me anything. What are you talking about here? And then he's posting Donald Trump's support of him after all of this. Gaetz is saying, I got a great note from President Trump. And then Trump's like, Matt, very unfair exclamation point.
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After the ethics report came out, Trump had Matt Gaetz's back. So when you put all of this together, folks, though, you have to go and ask yourself. Again, one of the things we try to appeal to on this show, there it is right there for those watching, you see what Trump said to Gates. Matt, very unfair. We try to appeal to people's common sense right here.
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I try to take away the political tribalism that exists and I just try to appeal to logic. That's why I show you what Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are saying. I show you what Matt Gaetz is saying. We go through the ethics report in a strong amount of details. We go through what Trump is posting on Christmas, what the reaction to it is by the international community. what President Biden is doing.
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Because to me, one of the biggest corrosive plagues, the biggest corrosive forces in politics is treating politics as some game with different teams and both sides-ism and a horse race. And this team did that, that team did that. It elevates these things as one side's doing this, one side's doing that. You could watch the 30-minute interview that I did with President Biden.
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And President Biden had all the opportunity, if he wanted to, to say all of these things about the red states and the people who were effing around and finding out now who voted against their interests. And I asked President Biden these questions and he's like, look, He goes, if Trump took credit for my accomplishments and that meant American people were benefiting, go take credit.
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He goes, this isn't a credit game. My job was to deliver on promises I made. And if those promises are delivered, then I feel I did my job and my duty. My view and the view of the Midas Touch Network, I believe, is that that is a statesman with dignity in President Biden.
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To me, when we talk about Teddy Roosevelt, and it's fitting we did that interview in the Roosevelt room, the big stick policy, walk soft and carry a big stick. You don't have to go and be loud and obnoxious, but you should back up what you're doing by delivering results. If people get in your way and try to undermine your vision to be helpful, you respond with audacious power.
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You don't have to wield that power recklessly and carelessly. I've said you have the big stick policy from Roosevelt to Biden. Now, with Donald Trump, we've got that micro stick.
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policy he's got that micro stick complex or the tiny stick policy act loud and obnoxious but you're a paper tiger you're ultimately not backing it up with real force and real power and all you're doing is energizing the world against you and making you weaker i'm sure if we reflected on the lessons of machiavelli or sun tzu or whoever like trump does the opposite
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when we teach negotiations or I teach negotiations, I mean, everything that Trump's doing is what you don't do in a negotiation. It screws over your bargaining power and ultimately exposes you and just makes you look dumb. I mean, look what happened with the continuing resolution. Trump demanded something or else. And then when that thing didn't happen, the debt ceiling wasn't added to it.
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There wasn't a removal or elimination or extension of the debt ceiling. He didn't do anything. He just moved on and played golf and then moved on to attacking Canada or attacking
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greenland or attacking these moves on to the next one and people see that as weakness i promise you putin sees that as weakness president xi sees that as weakness our allies see that as weakness they know the force and power of the united states they know that it could be wielded they have to take trump's threat seriously But they view him like they would view like a mad king.
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Merry Christmas to all, including the wonderful soldiers of China who are lovingly but illegally operating the Panama Canal where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago. Always making certain that the United States puts in billions of dollars in repair money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about anything. Just pause there for a second.
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They view him as someone who's kind of crazy and unstable and illogical. And they have to deal with it in that way. And that type of instability in a global world order, as Charlie Angus, the member of parliament from Canada said, that allows Putin to feast. That allows President Xi to feast. That allows our adversaries to take advantage of that. And that's not strength. That's weakness.
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That's weakness. I think it's important that we point that out. We point out Trump's broken promises that are going to inevitably happen on day one that I've talked about already on this show with prices not going down but up, mortgage rates not going down but up. the tariffs and bloody mass deportations causing real harm, real problems.
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And I think it's important that our opposition to that be rooted in logic like this. And that's what we're going to do. We're going to be passionate. We're going to be ferocious. We're going to be logical. We're going to be fearless. And we're going to support democracy, not just here in America, but abroad. The ramifications of this are international in scope.
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that's why we're focusing a lot of our attention to what's happening in canada in the uk in germany as elon musk is supporting a party there that's known the afd which is known for supporting neo-nazi views and why that's so dangerous or elon musk potentially giving 100 million dollars to
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nigel farage and um in the uk and we need to focus on what's happening in australia what's happening in mexico what's happening in austria what's happening with all these far-right movements taking place and pro-democracy coalitions and government forming to try to stop that and ultimately a lot of these far right-wing parties they're supporting putin's agenda and then there are these pro-democracy alliances which are supporting
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or to the people. So we'll keep talking about that. Do me a favor. Make sure you're subscribed right now to our YouTube channel. I want to really get 4 million subscribers. So if you can help us, please hit subscribe right now. Also, if you want to check out MidasPlus.com, I think you'll enjoy the coverage there from Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chief.
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Such an honor, and I hope I really made you all proud in how we handled that interview and showed that, look, you can be tough in the interview, but also dignified and respectful and actually get answers. What a novel concept to actually get answers from the politician and not make it about you, the host, make it about the country and make it about what President Biden's responses was.
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Do you all know when Panama ditched its ties with Taiwan in favor of Beijing? It happened in 2017 when Donald Trump was originally in office and when Trump was too busy tweeting all caps things and too busy inviting Putin's top foreign advisors like Kislyak and others into the Oval Office. Yeah.
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We're so grateful for you and we'll see you next time. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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At around that time, that's when China established formal diplomatic ties with Panama and started investing in Panama. It hasn't taken control of the Panama Canal, but it has invested billions of dollars into the country. Also, President Xi's first formal diplomatic visit to Panama took place
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in 2018 when very weak Donald Trump was in office and allowed China to establish a foothold in Panama, which I don't believe would have happened if you had, say, Hillary Clinton or someone else who was actually being tough on China and not just saying that they would be tough on China. But let me go back to Donald Trump's statements. He also writes the following.
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Also to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose citizens' taxes are far too high, But if Canada was to become our 51st state, their taxes would be cut by more than 60%. Their businesses would immediately double in size and they would be militarily protected like no other country anywhere in the world.
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Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for national security purposes and who want the United States to be there, and we will. And then he goes on to say, then he goes on to attack lunatic leftists. And then he says to everybody, go to hell. And then he says, Merry Christmas.
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Now, unfortunately, here in the United States, with our horrific corporate media, we've become all too numb to Donald Trump making posts like this, where he goes, go to hell, left lunatics, I'm coming for you, in all caps. But now Donald Trump has done that, but also included foreign countries in those posts as well, sovereign nations in those posts as well that have their own trauma.
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For example, Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which was invaded by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany in 1940 when Denmark was just trying to stay neutral, which is why Denmark became part of NATO. Adolf Hitler basically used a Sharpie and he circled the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark and basically said da. In other words, it's the German word for it and said, this is our land.
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So when Donald Trump makes statements like this, attacking the territorial sovereignty of a place like Denmark that has a history of being invaded, they take it very seriously. And now Denmark is has to upgrade its defenses in Greenland against a purported NATO ally of it, the United States of America, which is supposed to be leading NATO. So I want you to understand the ramifications of this.
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Also, when Donald Trump attacks Panama, it has a reaction as well of other nations, whether it's Mexico or South American nations, all coming to the defense of Panama and saying, how dare you go after the territorial sovereignty of Panama? The Panama Canal belongs to the people of Panama. The fact that you even need someone like Claudia Scheinbaum to come out and have to say that
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Panama Canal belongs to Panama, I think tells you a lot. Let me show you first what Claudia Scheinbaum had to say on Christmas to rebut Donald Trump saying that Panama should belong to the United States. Here, play this clip.
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President Biden showing what a real leader looks like on Christmas, actually just also showing what an adult looks like on Christmas, contrasted to Donald Trump telling people to rot in hell and talking about conquering other nations. Meanwhile, MAGA is at war with itself. On the one hand, you've got the MAGA tech bros versus the right-wing extremists who don't like immigrants.
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The president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, saying our solidarity in Mexico is with the people of Panama. The canal belongs to Panama. It is a sovereign nation. By the way, did you hear President Claudia Scheinbaum like yelling or screaming or doing accordion hands? No. She was behaving the way a leader does. I mean, frankly, that's how President Biden talks.
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But I know for our corporate media here in the United States, you want to see a carnival barker, WWE wannabe fascist type character go out and just say the dumbest crap imaginable. And then I know you want to normalize that behavior the way the CNN headlines were like
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Well, this would be the largest purchase or the largest territorial acquisition since the Louisiana Purchase if we conquered the Canada and Greenland and Panama. That would be quite the acquisition right there. Donald Trump is teasing it. He's just teasing it. It's not teasing, okay?
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That's conquest language that's used by people like Vladimir Putin, that's used by people like Mussolini in history, that's used by people like Hitler. That's conquest language, and that language is very traumatic to sovereign nations who now have to beef up to defend against an entity, the United States, a country that's supposed to be an ally. Now,
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who benefits from this all obviously number one vladimir putin does because putin's on the ropes right now putin has to go to north korea in order to get their troops that just goes to tell you and he's putting them through the meat grinder in ukraine right now i mean we're hearing about fifteen hundred two thousand of these russian allied type of troops from north korea and others getting killed each day from russia's unlawful invasion right there but we see
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Pro-democracy protests everywhere from Belgrade to Tbilisi in Georgia. We see the Bashar al-Assad regime falling in Syria, which Putin propped up. We're seeing Putin actually looking very weak internationally right now. And notice that Donald Trump is not attacking Putin. He's not out there attacking President Xi. He invited President Xi to the inauguration. President Xi's like, nah,
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Nah, I'm not going to come to that thing. Kind of clowning Donald Trump. Donald Trump ain't attacking Putin, but Russian state TV, they were showing nudes of Melania and saying, oh, it's your body, your choice. I mean, they're punking Donald Trump on Russian state TV controlled by Vladimir Putin by showing nudes of Donald Trump's wife.
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I mean, just think about what Putin is sending a message to Donald Trump. And by the way, Donald Trump was like at that speech he gave over last week. And he's like, Putin has summoned me. Putin wants to speak to me. So I will be speaking to Putin soon. I mean, how cowardly and weak do you look? Trump's attacking our allies and not attacking our adversaries. So it's helping Putin.
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And it's also helping President Xi. Because President Xi goes around and says, hey, we've got this belt and bridges initiative, the second Silk Road, and we're going to go into countries in South America, in Central America, across the world, in Africa, you name it. America is not a reliable ally to you. Look what a destabilizing force they are.
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You don't know if one day you're going to wake up and they're going to make a social media post mocking you. But we here in China, we're going to help you. What can we invest? How can we respect your territorial sovereignty and help you grow? And even though that's CCP propaganda, of course,
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It certainly is more likely to appeal to nations being mocked by Donald Trump, who puts the American flag in the middle of the Panama Canal or in the Swiss Alps and pretends it's Canada. Think about what these nations who are looking for an ally are looking at. Do you want China's belt and bridges or Donald Trump's bluster and erratic behavior?
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Look, I had Charlie Angus, a member of the Canadian parliament on earlier today. Let me show you what Mr. Angus said about how he found out during his Christmas meal that Donald Trump was telling Canada to go to hell. And once again, talking about making it the 51st state here, let's play this clip.
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You've got Elon and Vivek trying to say why they need to have talented engineers from India work for their companies, but not other immigrants. Then you have others in the MAGA base saying, Donald,
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One of the things that Charlie Angus also said is, sure, we may pay a little bit more taxes, but we have universal health care here. We don't have to worry about sending our kids to school and there being mass shootings every single day. And he just said, respect our sovereignty in Canada. Remember all these MAGA folks who are like, Donald Trump's going to stop World War III from happening.
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Or Donald Trump would always say, Without me, there's going to be World War III. Immediately, all those people flip now and they're like posting maps that show America conquering Canada, Mexico, and Greenland and saying, wouldn't this be so great if we conquered all of this territory?
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So the we're going to stop World War III folks are now, we're going to become the bad guy in World War III and we are going to start conquering sovereign nations. Let me be very clear. There's over 70 plus million Americans and so many millions more of Americans who simply didn't vote, which frustrates me to no end. But Donald Trump came in by lying to the American people.
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Donald Trump continues to defraud the American people about the economy and basically everything else. Donald Trump is selling out Ukraine and being a Putin bootlicker. Donald Trump is bragging about building a 100-foot flagpole in front of the White House as he was wandering around the North Lawn earlier this week. Donald Trump is attacking Canada on the eve of their elections next week.
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Trump put out a notice on TrumpMemes.com or whatever the hell it's called that the top 220 meme holders of his meme coin or whatever the hell you call it gets to meet with him personally and that you get to sit with the president basically. So on that announcement, what happened to the meme coin? It went up 71% and then went back down again.
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And remember when that meme coin was announced right before inauguration? It went up crazy amounts. And Trump makes money on the transaction fees. They make money when there's transactions. They basically get commissions off the deals, whether it goes up or down. And so you had that take place. At the same time, our economy looks like a massive pump and dump right now, Brett.
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And what was Donald Trump saying over in the Oval Office meetings today and yesterday? What was he talking about? Attacking Greenland, attacking Canada. Let me show you the clip right here of Trump saying, we want Greenland. We want to take over Greenland. I think this one was from earlier today. Let's play.
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Here's Donald Trump saying that Canada would cease to exist. without the United States on the eve of Canada's election, which is basically a redo now of what the American election could have been had we had the data about how disastrous Trump was, right?
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This thing is kind of an up or down on Trump in Canada because the Maple MAGA Conservative Party was once in the lead and now they are not in the lead and people expect there to be a liberal majority led by Prime Minister Carney. This is what Donald Trump does in the Oval Office today. Here, play this clip.
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He's lying about everything there. By the way, that was from yesterday's Oval Office where he signed executive orders to further ban, I guess, diversity, equity and inclusion at universities and then had veterans there, you know, which almost seemed like he was using them as like,
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like props behind him and he was just saying the strangest things we'll talk more about that in a bit but but brett as you hear him say that on the eve of this election as you hear him attack greenland and you know that our tourism industry in the united states is if it's it's maybe in a depression at this point i mean we're now expecting 90 billion plus
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in tourism uh revenue to be impacted by uh the fact that canada's boycotting tourism to the u.s europe australia new zealand elsewhere south america everywhere is and also not just because of america's attack on their sovereignty brett but also because people don't want to end up in ice detention centers we're hearing stories of european backpackers and others who end up in ice detention centers for days and weeks
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They're strip searched and they're treated like terrorists or of course migrants who are disappearing here in the United States and sent to concentration camps.
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A few things I want to talk about as well coming up. I want to talk about Donald Trump being a Vladimir Putin bootlicker.
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I want to talk about how Donald Trump's been attacking Zelensky to try to get Zelensky to essentially totally capitulate to Putin, recognize that Crimea is a part of Russia, even though Russia unlawfully invaded it and annexed it the way Donald Trump wants to do with Canada's way. Donald Trump, by the way, uses that same type of Putin-esque language as it relates to Canada.
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It's why Canadians don't just view this as a trade war, but language of a real war. By the way, elbows up Canada. So I want to talk about that. And then Donald Trump saying that Putin wants peace, he was saying, as Putin was literally raining down like half a dozen ballistic missiles on Kiev, killing innocent Ukrainians.
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and similar to the way that he's been doing it over and over again targeting innocent individuals i want to talk about governor wall's incredible state of the state address in minnesota showing us what government is really supposed to do not be cruel and inhumane to torture people but to uplift and help people I want to talk about the Trump regime losing court case after court case.
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And they're so sloppy in court right now. The Trump regime is like even like filing internal memos in federal court cases where they say they're going to lose the lawsuit and they're filing the memos where they say they're going to lose instead of the actual legal documents. It's like some of the wildest, unfathomable things. But these are very sloppy, sloppy, incompetent people.
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And they're making us less secure here as well. Like we're also learning from a news story that the Associated Press broke that Defense Secretary Pete Hegsiff had an internet connection that was unsecured and bypassed the Pentagon security protocols set up in his office to use the signal messaging app on a personal computer. This is how he's been doing all of his communication.
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I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down. Okay, I'll give you an extension. Okay, I'll take away the tariffs. No, I'm going to put the tariffs back down. Okay, I'm going to take away the tariffs. All right, people just look at him like a psychotic madman because that's what he is. Let me tell you what he really is also. He is a felon 34 times over. He's a criminal. He's a fraud.
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So who knows what the Houthis know about us now and China knows about us and Russia knows about us. I had an incredible interview with Sabrina Singh, the deputy press secretary for the Pentagon. She explained how this stuff is extracted quickly, sold right away.
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on the uh dark web black market to these uh to these groups to use against us the trump regime putting our soldiers in peril and by the way donald trump not even recognizing when our soldiers are killed abroad for lithuanian soldiers donald trump four soldiers in lithuania who got killed donald trump said nothing two soldiers who died in new mexico american soldiers donald trump said nothing when we get back i also want to talk about donald trump continuing to deny
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FEMA aid, emergency aid, just to red states also, to Arkansas, to Kentucky, to Georgia, and then to a purplish state, North Carolina. We'll talk about that and more. I want to come back from our first quick break. I want to remind everybody, store.MidasTouch.com. Get your Midas Touch gear. I know lots of people are asking about it. store.midastouch.com.
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We just won the Webby for the podcast of the year. We'll talk about that and more. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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He was found liable in a fraud case civilly for just making up numbers, making up valuations. He's an abuser. He's a sexual predator. He was found liable in a civil case for sexual assault. He's on audio bragging about sexually assaulting women and saying because he's rich, they let you get away with it. They let you grab their genitals, he said.
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Welcome back. Thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors. The discount codes are in the description below. Hey, Brett, so Donald Trump earlier this week started making post after post attacking Zelensky, which to me gives the green light to Vladimir Putin, saying, go do what you got to do, Putin.
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And this was after Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, talked about what a great painting Zelensky
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that putin made for donald trump and how special it was to donald trump's heart and this was after whitcoff visited putin in saint petersburg and put his hand on his heart and like looked like he was showing allegiance to vladimir putin donald trump post ukrainian president zielinski is boasting on the front page of the wall street journal that ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of crimea there's nothing to talk about here
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This statement is very harmful to the peace negotiations with Russia and that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama. I could go and read more and more and more, but you get the point. You have Putin raining ballistic missiles on Kyiv, and Putin's been doing that over and over again in various cities throughout Ukraine. Crimea is Ukraine.
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It's a part of Ukraine. Putin stole it. Putin annexed it. He conquered it. It's what Donald Trump wants to do to Canada. Putin wants to take over all of Ukraine and Donald Trump's, what Trump calls his deal, his peace deal that he claimed he would get done in 24 hours, which Donald Trump has not done and nor can he do, is basically Ukraine, give up all of your land to Putin.
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You can never join NATO and you need to totally capitulate. Fortunately, European Union others are standing up shoulder to shoulder with Zelensky and not backing down to Putin and Trump.
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And it's just a travesty also when I have to watch people in the European Union Commission and politicians there, they have to now stand up to Trump and Putin and that Trump has allied the United States with an access of evil of Putin and North Korea.
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But then Donald Trump is so geopolitically stupid and dangerous that he doesn't recognize that the Shahid drones that are being used by Putin are from Iran. Right. And that Donald Trump is attacking Iran. but then trying to suck up to Putin.
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And so Trump has no understanding of the kind of geopolitical dynamics that are taking place here either, which just makes it kind of extra and utterly reckless, Brett. But then in the Oval Office, he was asked about what concessions, Donald, has Russia offered? We know that you want Ukraine to give everything. So what are you asking Russia to do? Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump is someone who has bankrupted company after company, casino after casino, product that he's attached his name to after product that he's attached his name to. So it's not a shock that the felon, the fraud, the sexual abuser, the bankruptor is doing it again. Who could have predicted? I don't know. There's a reason why people go to prison, right? Because they shouldn't be out, right?
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He buys right in there, Brett, to Putin's propaganda. They said they were going to take over Kyiv, Putin did, in three days. They did not. Ukraine is standing strong. They're on the front lines protecting Europe and the rest of the world and democracies from Putin. Frankly, the way Canada is now on the front lines of also protecting the world from Trump.
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But when you hear things like that, Brett, it's just so dangerous.
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That's why he's a Ponzi schemer. It's the Ponzi scheme president. He's a fraud. He doesn't look into the issues. He's not diligent. He just defrauds people and tries to bully people and tries to scare you with the yelling and with the all caps posts. I mean, this is the way he was trying to negotiate with China. This is what he said this morning.
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Boeing should default China for not taking the beautifully finished planes that China committed to purchase. That's how you're dealing very powerfully with China. Donald Trump posts, I'm not happy with the Russian strikes on Kiev. Not necessary. And very bad timing. People are dying. You're not happy with it? What else does Donald Trump post?
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The southern border is now the strongest and safest in history. Well, Donald, you've now basically shut the United States down from all tourism by taking innocent people, a lot of innocent people, and throwing them into concentration camps without due process and basically doing the equivalent by not listening to the Supreme Court's 9-0 ruling.
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You basically are like suspending habeas corpus at this point because people are not able to –
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um you know or a lot of these migrants who are in venezuela were not able to actually uh discuss or show any evidence nor did the government present any evidence uh against them you saw marco rubio though also i mean to me people like marco rubio brett are almost worse than trump because you know that trump's a vile piece of trash like he is scum marco rubio is but you don't get
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enabling scum like Donald Trump, vile pieces of garbage, felon trash like Trump without a circle of enablers like Marco Rubio. So Marco Rubio basically repeats the JD Vance line. Say thank you. You should be thankful. Trump's a hero. Watch what Rubio said today. Play this clip. Both very much looking to make a deal.
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Everybody should be thanking him. What's horrible is those missiles, those missiles landed. Who shot the missiles, you idiot? Putin shot the ballistic missiles. Who's agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, you idiot? Zelensky has agreed. Putin hasn't. Who actually wants peace, you idiot? Zelensky does. Who wants to take over and conquer the territory, you idiots? Who do you think is doing it?
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Putin unlawfully invaded Ukraine. That's what happened. So get that through your skull. I mean, these are dangerous, dangerous. But Brett, with all of this going on, I don't want us to forget, because this is part of the authoritarian playbook, to make us forget what government is about and what it's supposed to do.
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There's a reason why you need to hold people like this sick, disgusting, vile piece of trash that is Donald Trump. accountable because he's going to cause harm wherever he goes you certainly don't elevate that person to the position that now impacts the lives of the rest of us of all of the people who don't want this maniac there so let's go through what the felon what the fraud what the abuser
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So Governor Walz, who could have been one of our leaders right now, we could have had former Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz right now, reminding us and Governor Walz in his State of the State address in Minnesota, reminding us what governance is supposed to be about. And he gave a speech. It was a bipartisan speech about compromise, about putting together a budget, about
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helping people. Let me show you what went down at Governor Wall's State of the State Address this week. Let's play one clip.
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Here's another clip from that incredible State of the State address. Let's play it.
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And that is how it is done. You know, there's an expression. It's easier to con someone than to convince somebody that they have been conned. It's easier to defraud somebody than to convince somebody that they have been defrauded. It's easier to lure someone into a cult than extract them from the cult and convince them that they're in one.
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When I see Governor Walz give a speech about what government is supposed to be and what it's supposed to do, you have to wonder, how did America pick the other guy who was talking about, oh, it's 1789 to 98, we were so much richer and mass deportation, blah, blah, blah. Donald Trump lied, committed fraud over and over again. But I don't want us to forget that.
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What we saw right there from Governor Walz is what government's supposed to do, actually fight for people and uplift people. While he's doing that, Donald Trump's posting these photos. Trump 2028. They're now selling Trump 2028 gear at the Trump store. Eric Trump is wearing – they all find this funny. They all find your suffering funny. Little nepo baby brat. Eric Trump sitting over there.
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Look at him. Look at, look at that scum. And I mean it seriously. Look at that. Look at that. As you suffer, as your 401ks, your pensions, your healthcare, your Medicaid, your social security are being toyed with by pieces of crap like that. Wearing Trump 2028 gear.
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is doing so he's in the oval office today in these disastrous press conferences that he does and he does these meetings in the cabinet room also but here he is in the oval office and he's saying grocery prices egg prices are down the problem is he says things are too cheap right now he says 85 87 what last week he said egg prices were down 93 but here's the thing
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When we come back, I want to talk about Donald Trump's regime denying emergency disaster relief to red states like Kentucky, like Arkansas, like Georgia, and purplish states like North Carolina. I mean, how cruel can you be? I want to talk more about Trump's approval plummeting and some of the crosstabs across key demographics that led to his victory in 2024 are now turning against him.
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And shock, shock, Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, not just in the Pew Research poll, but in the most recent Fox poll. He's underwater even on the issue of immigration issues. in the Fox poll and his approval on the economy is like 37%.
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And I'm looking at the Fox poll here as well. I want to talk about Trump just getting demolished in court case after court case right now as the federal judiciary is asserting itself in the absence of the legislative branch run by the MAGA Republicans who so cowardly have kissed the ring of a gangster, Donald Trump. We'll be right back. I want to remind everybody, store.MidasTouch.com.
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They're at almost basically all time highs at this point. Like the highest they've ever been during the Easter period. They're not down, they're up. Housing's not more affordable. It is less affordable right now. Things are worse right now and the American people feel what's happening and he's out there just doing his Trump fraud routine. Watch him talk about groceries and egg prices earlier.
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we are back thank you to our pro democracy sponsors i love how our team has not yet replaced on the shopify ad where i go boom boom boom that's supposed to be a sound effect that's come from the top it stays it's just it's come from the founders it's come from the chief executive at least the two others let's do a quick review of some of the uh recent court decisions that have happened over the past 24 to 48 hours
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A Trump-appointed judge in Maryland named Judge Stephanie Gallagher has ordered the Trump regime to return another man who was improperly deported to El Salvador. This is in addition to Abrego Garcia. This is a different 20-year-old Venezuelan man who was improperly and unlawfully sent away.
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What's happening right now are there all of these petitions happening in the various courts right now to return the individuals because the Supreme Court said that everybody was due a due process right and being able to file a habeas petition, but that they had to be filed in individual jurisdictions.
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So now all of these cases are being filed in all of these jurisdictions, and the Trump regime is just unable to keep up. I mean, one of the reasons that the Trump regime is shaking down these big law firms is that Trump's DOJ is so bad that he's trying to get these private law firms to basically act as government lawyers right now. I mean, how bad is this Trump DOJ? Let me give you a few examples.
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First, it appeared and it actually happened to be that. that the Trump administration accidentally filed an internal memo in the congestion pricing lawsuit in New York explaining why the Trump administration would lose and why the Trump administration was violating the law and why the MTA was going to defeat the Trump regime in the lawsuit.
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So the DOJ had to admit that they filed a, quote, attorney-client document in error, and they were asking the court to please remove it from the docket after informing the court that they intend to lose. As a lawyer, too, if you think you're going to lose a case –
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and you concede you're going to lose, you could lose your bar license from then filing documents, knowing that you're going to lose by doing things in bad faith. So it's interesting to follow up what happens now that the judge and the court knows that the Trump regime believes it's going to lose and it's violating the law, yet it persists in its unlawful conduct.
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So I think those lawyers are in some hot water right there also. Ed Martin, Donald Trump's pick for the United States attorney in D.C., just issued an apology for praising a Nazi sympathizer in order to try to get Senate confirmation.
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Martin told the reporter Jacob Kornbluh that he was unaware that the views of the individual were that of a Nazi sympathizer, which he says he now denounces publicly.
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i hate that it happened as kyle cheney explains it is unfathomable that martin was unaware of the widely publicized allegations about this individual who he has interviewed for hours and different podcasts and different things and whose case made national headlines
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for years after january 6th ed martin got famous i guess or infamous and was someone who the trump regime wanted to hire because of his representation of january 6th insurrectionist he's someone who never was a federal prosecutor before has zero experience prosecuting crime and the trump regime picked him to be the main prosecutor in dc which again is just absolutely ridiculous and of course we're following up on all the other
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various cases. The Supreme Court still has that injunction in place stopping the Trump regime from sending the next group of Venezuelan victims to the concentration camp in El Salvador. So those individuals have not been sent to the concentration camps yet. We will keep you posted about all of the developments there.
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Should also be noted, as I said before the break, that one of the things the Trump regime has been doing over and over again as it has gutted and dismantled FEMA. It is denying the emergency requests by red states, blue states, but like Arkansas demanded or requested emergency relief for tornado victims. That's Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who used to work in the first Trump administration.
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The Trump regime denied aid to tornado victims. In Arkansas, Governor Beshear of Kentucky has said that additional counties affected by the February flooding in Kentucky, they've been denied flooding FEMA assistance. Georgia was denied FEMA assistance. North Carolina was denied debris removal assistance. This is happening time over time.
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Going back to what Governor Walz was saying, this is not the way
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government is supposed to work former president biden would call these states red states blue states texas you name it and biden instantly would go reach out to a governor what do you need governor when it comes to emergency assistance you don't shut that down what the hell are you doing right biden gave all these red states emergency assistance and trump shut them all down and brett right that's why trump's approval
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is plummeting and it's plummeting across kind of the key demographics also two major polls came out recently one was a fox poll and another poll was the pew research poll um in both of those polls he was doing terrible the fox poll shows that he has the lowest approval of any modern president
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In the first 100 days, it's lower than his first administration and about 10 points lower than former President Biden at this time. According to this Fox poll, Trump's approval of 44% and on his handling of the economy, only 38%. Also, more people disapprove of Trump's handling of immigration in that Fox poll. Then you go to the Pew Research poll as well.
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Trump's approval there is 40% with 59% disapproving. And then when you go to certain kind of crosstabs and demographics, like you look at Black voters, amongst Black voters, only 14% approve. Hispanic voters, only 27% approve. Asian voters... only 29% approved. And that 18 to 29 demographic, which Trump seemed to be gaining momentum in the younger voters, only 36% approved.
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Trump is 27% underwater as it relates to that group right there, Brett. So monumental shifts we're seeing.
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Leave us on a positive note as well. Earlier today, Judge Friedrich, a Trump appointee in the D.C. federal court, blocked the Trump administration's effort to pull funds from schools over DEI programming, saying the requirements are unconstitutionally vague. First reported by Kyle Cheney. But we've got our hands on the order by the court.
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It says this decision memorializes the oral ruling the court issued from the bench on April 24th. plaintiff, the NAACP, filed the instant suit on April 15, 2025 on behalf of its members who are black students across the country enrolled in educational institutions subject to the Department of Education's policies.
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In its motion, the NAACP requests that the court enjoin the department from enforcing various documents, a dear colleague letter, a FAQ document, a frequently asked questions document, and a certification that the department recently issued.
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These challenge documents purport to provide educational institutions guidance about the lawfulness of educational initiatives and programs as you go into the ruling by this Trump appointed judge. The most specific provisions in the certification prohibits the use of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to advantage one race over another.
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but it is unclear what it means to use such a program to advantage one race over another, and the Dear Colleague letter and FAQ do not provide the necessary additional clarity. The department argues any vagueness issue is easily resolved by asking the core questions that the DCLE foregrounds.
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Does an action treat a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of the person's race? But this core question hardly provides clarity
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Okay. The prices are at record highs right now. Notice he describes Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine as a war problem. And then Donald Trump just thinks that he can post away and go, oh, Putin. Can you be a little bit nicer than he like attacked Zelensky in social media posts? How dare you say that Crimea belongs to Ukraine, right? Like Trump is making post after post after post after post.
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sufficient guidance and then uh the court goes on to say basically it's just a ridiculous order so i think also about how this is going to impact the lawsuits that were filed by harvard and other universities also and i think this will be also a good sign that all these universities and everybody who fights back against this weak pathetic vile piece of trash that is donald trump and his minions are winning are winning i smell weakness in trump and his regime
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I smell desperation. So it really does make me sad when I hear, for example, how the executive producer Bill Owens of 60 Minutes quit because he said that there was no longer editorial independence there.
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that made 60 minutes 60 minutes because of the merger that one that they want to happen that sherry redstone who was the biggest shareholder of paramount wants to do with this company called sky dance for eight billion dollars to buy her share it's like What is that $8 billion going to do for you if you don't have democracy and your life is destroyed? And Trump's an extortionist.
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You give him an inch, he takes your leg, he takes your arm, and then he takes your life. The moment you give in, he asks for more. Ask those law firms that gave in and thought they were reaching compromises. And they said, oh, it's only going to be for charitable things. And then Trump's like, nope, I own you now. I control you right now. You're going to do what I want you to do.
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You can't give in to Donald Trump. Now is the time for courage, for fearlessness, and where we the people need to stand together. It's why it's important that the pro-democracy community stand together, not just within our own borders, but internationally. It has been one of the most incredible things of my life.
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The friendships and bonds we have formed here at the Midas Touch Network now with the Maple Midas, the Canadian Midas Touch fans and supporters and viewers. And that outreach is expanding to Australia. We've got incredible supporters there in Europe, in Africa. in Mexico, in South America, in Central America, in Asia, across the world.
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Pro-democracy people need to stick together and we need to support freedom. We need to support diversity. We need to support the environment. We need to support equality. We need to support the truth. We need to support science. We need to stand up with each other against racism.
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authoritarianism, against the Putins, against the Putin bootlickers like the Trumps and the Bukeleys and all the Viktor Orbans and the Javier Malays. We need to stand strong together against them. It's been an honor that we were picked by the Webbys as their podcast of the year. That's an award
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that we share with all of you, the Midas Mighty, the Maple Midas, all the Midas Mighty across the world. This is a shared achievement. You won Webby Podcast of the Year, and we are part of the movement that you all started. So thank you for having us be a part of that movement, this pro-democracy Midas Mighty movement.
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Also, other data came out that right now the Midas Touch gets more podcast views and downloads then basically all the right-wing podcasts combined when you had Rogan with Candace Owens and Tucker and Kirk and all those people, The Midas Show does better than all of those. And that's a testament to people wanting the truth, the facts, the reality.
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And that's what we're gonna give you here at the Midas Touch Network. So thank you everybody for watching. We miss Jordy for sure. Check out store.midastouch.com. Now get that maple Midas gear, 100% made in Canada, manufactured there, distributed there. Check that out. Also, you can get that stuff in the United States as well. Store.MidasTouch.com. Check it out.
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Thank you to our team, our staff, all those working behind the scenes. Thank you for all that you do, Midas Mighty. We are so, so grateful for you. And we'll see. Keep checking back. We've got videos, of course, on this YouTube channel every 90 minutes. And we will be back next week with a new episode of the Midas Touch podcast. Thank you, everybody, for watching. We'll see you soon.
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So no, Donald, let me just be clear. Egg prices are up. Groceries are not getting cheaper. When you say energy is $1.98, what are you even talking? What energy? What are you talking about? Gas price? That's not what it is. What number are you talking about right there? But it's a lie after lie. Now, one of the things that Donald Trump All of the things that he says are lies.
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How do you know Donald Trump is lying? He opens up his mouth. But Donald Trump has been saying, and we've been covering this over the past few days, that he's been having all of these conversations with Xi Jinping and China and that China is reaching out to him and his administration and they're having all of these talks. What that is doing is it is manipulating the market
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When you dig deeper into the cross tabs, he's doing horrible amongst young people and the Latino community, which he relied a lot on in the most recent election. Let's talk about that and more on the Midas touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellas joined by Brett. Jordy is not going to be able to be here today. He's on father duty, but you got Brett and myself today. Brett, how are you, sir?
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Because then Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besson tells a private room of bankers, the media is not invited, the public's not invited. Yeah, there's going to be a de-escalation with China, and we see things going in a better direction there, but there hasn't been any actual talks.
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China, through their foreign ministry and their commerce ministry, had to put out statements saying we're having no communications until the Trump regime lifts their unilateral tariffs. We have no interest in talking to them. It's fake news to suggest that we're involved in any communications at all, yet alone any actual deal.
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The Commerce Ministry spokesperson put that back up right one more time, said he who tied the bell on the tiger should be the one to untie the bell. There have been no consultations at all taking place. But what does Donald Trump say? when he was asked about it. He just goes and continues to lie. He goes, they were talking to us today. We were just speaking to them. What are you talking about?
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Here's Donald Trump saying that. Let's play this clip.
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We'll see you. The hell is that? Did you hear what he said there, too, Brett? He goes, they've been talking with us this morning. I'm not going to tell you who, I don't know who they are, and I'm not going to tell you who they are, but they've been talking to us.
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Look. Put aside China for a second. France's news agency, AFP News Agency, reported the following. U.S. President Donald Trump's promise of securing trade deals with major partners took another blow Thursday with a French minister saying an agreement with the EU was, quote, a long way off and China insisting talks had not even started.
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So what the French minister is saying is that any deal with the EU is not even close to being completed. Trade deals take several years to complete by their very nature, how complex they are. It is impossible to do a real trade deal
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in 90 days so for donald trump to say i want to do 90 deals in 90 days what trump is doing there is he wants to dominate the headlines for a day right because that was the headline 90 deals 90 days we're gonna do this let's go he manipulates the markets and then when he has to actually effectuate that He's unable to do it. Brett, might as mighty.
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The big problem that I see happening right now, lots of big problems, but as it relates to the markets, I see massive market manipulation taking place from the Trump regime, right? They put out these secret messages in private meetings with oligarchs, with the bankers, with their rich friends, and you're looking at the markets and you're seeing it like,
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Rise some days when the data is not reflective of good economic conditions. So you're wondering what's happening. And then the bottom falls and then it breaks and it goes down. So you're seeing this trend down. But the really rich people who are getting the inside tips.
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who are in these meetings that we aren't invited to, that you aren't invited to, that the media isn't invited to, they're buying at moments where it then goes up and then they're selling. All of these billionaire people sold a lot of their equities right before Trump declared the trade war against the world.
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And then they kind of wait for Trump to make one of these announcements, which are fraudulent announcements. that things are going great, things are happening, they're going well, and then the market bounces and it bounces, and then overall on a trend, it goes down. What we focus on here on the Midas Touch Network is I wanna look at what's happening with freight volumes, with trucking volumes.
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I wanna take a look at shipping vessels Trans-Pacific shipping vessels. And I want to determine what the blank sailing situation is, right? That's when vessels are being canceled. So when I see trucking volumes starting to hit COVID level situations, when vessels are being canceled, when freight volumes are going down, down, down, and then I'm listening to CEOs from Walmart,
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and target and home depot and others who are saying we're not going to be able to keep supply on our shelves i know that we're heading for a summer of scarcity your air conditioning breaks there's no parts for your ac you're not able to get school supplies you struggle to get the toilet paper again everyday products which we rely upon
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in the $2 trillion of annual trade with China stop reaching our shores. Now, corporations have stockpiled, businesses have stockpiled certain resources, not to even mention rare earth minerals, which power so much of our modern technology, which China has fully cut off. Corporations have something stockpiled, but that stockpile is getting less and less and less.
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And how do I know that they're saying it? The data that's out there, they are communicating red alert, red alert, red alert. If this isn't resolved right away, there's going to be massive issues. You know, you have Brett, the CEO of Southwest, saying the airline industry is already currently right now in a recession. Right.
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that's what they said in a recession right now and i've heard that on a lot of these investor calls that i listen in on and so right now the market which is down significantly since trump took office but when it has its days that go up it's reflective to me of exactly what trump did yesterday with his meme coin the parallels are right there right what trump do with his meme coin
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He did bring together Putin and Xi Jinping, who called each other and said they were going to strengthen their alliance. He also brought Putin closer to Iran, who announced a 20 year overall relationship to provide each other with military weapons and drones and other things. So great work there, Donald. But he did have time to attack Canada. during his speech at the World Economic Forum.
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And I want you all to remember, this is an international audience. So while I guess 30% of the American population's like, yeah, Gulf of America, yeah, man. This is now in front of an international audience. They don't take kindly to threats of annexation and reshaping of the world order. But here Donald Trump said, I'm going to have to tariff Canada unless they agree to become the 51st state.
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This is what he said at Davos. Here, play it.
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He gave this speech at the World Economic Forum where he was just like, you know what, we're probably just going to have to leave it to Russia. We'll see what Russia wants to do. He's been giving a bunch of these press conferences and these unhinged speeches. Each one looks worse than the next. I mean, this guy needs like a 5150 involuntary psychological hold.
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By the way, just a bunch of words, Sal.
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that would is referring to annexation or literal conquest but leave that aside we don't need their lumber um because we have forests etc etc etc we don't need their gas etc etc etc like it is the world's stupidest speech like if the corporate media had a shred of credibility which they don't and they're basically just completely irrelevant now you would be like i mean imagine if biden was like
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We need to annex Canada, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And we don't need Canada, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, they would go – it's like this is like crazy. The kid gloves they treat –
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If I didn't even know who he was, even if I know he was, I think he deserves one. Even Hannity, who interviewed Donald Trump, was like,
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I think it's a great point, Jordy. It's also why he picks on like Greenland because he views them as weak and vulnerable and he thinks that he can create disunity with Denmark. He tries to pick on peaceful people but he always sucks up to Xi Jinping. Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. It's why I always say you just have to stand up to Donald Trump. You cannot show any sign of weakness at all.
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You can't give him an inch. If you give him an inch, he takes your life. Look at the Alberta premier, Daniel Smith, who just looks ridiculous. She's right-wing conservative, maple MAGA. She shows up to Mar-a-Lago and she's just been trying to social media post through all of this. She's always like, We've made progress today. We've had some great progress. It seems that they really understand.
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No, they don't. No, they don't. Alberta, you're trying to protect your gas and oil industry. Trump's literally saying, we don't need you, Alberta. And then for her to be like, what can we do, Donald? What can we do? When he sees that weakness, That's when he takes advantage of you more. And he's like, oh, that person's weak. That person's going to break.
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What the heck are you even talking about when Donald Trump was boasting about pardoning the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and other violent insurrectionists and talking about how he likes to make sing songs with them and he likes to record songs that go to the top of the Billboard charts. I mean, how vile and weird. Also, federal judges already fed up at Donald Trump.
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It's why you just have to stand up to him and make this unified front. Want to share this with you as well. Donald Trump also in this Oval Office interview talked about how he wants to get rid of FEMA. He doesn't think FEMA should be a thing. He wants to leave emergency relief to the states, which
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By the way, states have their own emergency services, but then they rely on FEMA because that's literally the job of the federal government. To Trump and MAGA, the federal government's what, like policing penises and vaginas, right? Like for them, it's like, who's in the bathroom? Who's in the bathroom today?
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There was a story in the House of Representatives where Lauren Boebert was like screaming. She's like, oh, there's a guy in there. There's a guy in there. And like, there was just four women in there. And then she's like, I was wrong. There was a rumor that there was a rumor that there was a guy in there. You know, it's like, we've stopped the woke. I mean, okay, okay. Just shut up.
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Like literally what the federal government is supposed to do is like, I don't know, like help people, like do federal relief, you know, do things like that. Here's Trump basically saying, we're going to have to look very thoroughly at FEMA. We're going to have to look very thoroughly at it. Here, play this clip.
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49th in education, 49th in health. They're like the most impoverished of all of the states. I would say Oklahoma is the exact example of what it shouldn't be like, where meanwhile, a state like Massachusetts and California are on the higher end of income, health, wealth, education, you name the standard.
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But again, imagine if President Biden, in the interview I did with him, imagine if President Biden made a comment. It would literally be the front page everywhere. And because Donald Trump doesn't make a duty in his diaper or whatever, the MAGA people are all like – I mean the corporate media is like, what a day. It is a changed world, everybody. And there he did.
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He accomplished an incredible thing and it's like – What are we talking like any one of those things? And I could show you a thousand of them and I'm not because why you get the point would be the biggest crisis ever if it was any buddy else. But as the movie, Captain Phillips, my favorite quote, was when the pirates took over the ship and they said, we're the captains now.
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Well, we're the captains right now of the media. You, the Midas mighty. And we're going to shed light on what these things are. We're going to have the real headlines. We're going to have the real news. We're going to show you the facts. I don't want to show you a lot of Trump clips, but I feel like I got to show you some of these. So you're like, oh, oh, wow. He really did say that.
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Not that you don't believe me, but I feel like you need me to do that. A few things. We're going to go and have a Zoom meeting. You want to meet me and Jordy and Brett next Monday on our Patreon, patreon.com slash MidasTouch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash MidasTouch. Sign up. Just join there, and then you'll have access to the secret link that we're going to post soon.
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And then also we have MidasPlus.com. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, runs that. We have zero outside investors, folks. So subscribe. You can even test it out too. You can subscribe to MidasPlus.com for free to start out with. And just be like, am I into this? Is this good quality? Is this good content? I promise you, you'll think it is.
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Trump lost a major court ruling in federal court in the state of Washington, holding that his birthright citizenship ban is egregiously illegal and a violation of the Constitution, the most clear-cut example. This Reagan appointed federal judge said he's ever seen in his entire career of something that violates so clearly the United States Constitution.
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But just sign up at MidasPlus.com or help or subscribe because it helps us grow this independent media platform. Let's take our first quick break of the show. Midas Mighty, I'm pumped up. I'm pumped up. How about you? Let's do this. Let's do this. Let's take our first quick break. Your nighttime bedroom temperature has a huge impact on your sleep quality.
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Trump's billionaire tech bros are at war with each other. That thing they call Doge is falling apart. Vivek Ramaswamy was basically fired and pushed out. The top Doge lawyer quit. Donald Trump tried to distract us today by releasing a bunch of other files on Released in the MLK file, the John F. Kennedy file, the RFK file. What he was not releasing were the Epstein files.
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You know, Jordy, I think when Trump voters went to the ballot box, they were saying, you know what I really hope for? Meme coins. I hope that Donald Trump releases a Trump meme coin. I hope Melania does a dollar sign Melania that looks like Smelania. I love meme coins.
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I am Smelania, I am Smelania, I Smelania. I think the American voters really were like, we wanna meme coin rug pull, just make the price like $75, claim it's not a meme coin, then let's just crash it. And then we'll be like, cool, dude.
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And then everyone will be happy and great because, you know, look, it wasn't like, you know, while that's happening, by the way, Trump's rolling back efforts to lower Medicare and Medicaid drug costs and executive order halting an effort to cap the copayment of generic medications at two dollars for Medicare beneficiaries.
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trump's federal hiring freeze raises fears about medical care at the va i'm sure all those veterans who voted for trump are going to appreciate having far worse veterans benefits and care how about trump gutting key aviation safety committees firing the head of the tsa and the coast guard how about pulling us out of the world health organization
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So now the map of the countries that are part of the WHO is basically every country other than us. But it is a good way to find out which countries just entirely lost its mind. And look, the 2024 word of the year was brain rot. And I said 2025 is going to be rug pull. Brain rot equals rug pull in 2025. Trump's trade battle, spiking food prices, likely helping China as well.
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Prices are not going down. Food prices are going up. You know the cost of eggs have already been significantly higher, about 37% higher. But you know, look, Donald Trump's focused on the important things like demanding an apology from the bishop at the National Cathedral who simply asked him, can you please just have mercy?
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You say that you're a man of God, then okay, have mercy on those who are weaker than you. Turn the other cheek. Remember hearing those things? Have mercy on the LGBTQ plus community. Have mercy on the migrant community to which Donald Trump felt entirely offended and they made faces while the bishop was saying that. But let's talk about what's actually happening.
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Those weren't being released. His tax returns, those weren't being released. His medical records, those weren't being released. So in other words, Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, We've got a lot of news to discuss. Welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Myselish, joined by Brett and Jordy. And I don't know, perhaps it's just the optimistic side of me. I feel fired up.
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Well, Jordi, I think it actually turned out, though, that that was run by a right-wing group that was actually affiliated with MAGA. That's right. And they started saying, oh, wait a minute, like they were trying to appeal to us.
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And it was like a big backfire because MAGA got pissed, but it was actually a way to try to encourage people to be MAGA and to actually go against women's reproductive rights, I think was the arc that that one took. Oh, wait, wait, wait a minute. We're on each other's sides here? All right, all right, all right, all right.
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By the way, Trump didn't put his hand on the Bible when he took the oath of office. And it's also notable, too, that one of Donald Trump's defenses in the 14th Amendment Section 3 case was that he never actually took an oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution. He was like, my oath is actually different than the oath that's in the 14th Amendment Section 3.
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I remember reporting on it then. But Let's talk about the actual ramifications of these Trump initiatives. 75% of immigrant farm workers didn't show up yesterday in Bakersfield because of fears of ICE raids under the new presidency. America's rural and agricultural regions will be hit the hardest from Trump's immigration policy. Food prices, which are already increasing, are poised to skyrocket.
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He's wrecking the food industry. If you just want to know what happened today as well, we're just getting word of this high profile workplace raid that took place in the blue city, in the blue state in Newark, New Jersey. This comes from the mayor of Newark. Quote, today, U.S.
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immigration and customs enforcement agents raided a local establishment in the city of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens without producing a warrant. One of the detainees. is a US military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation question.
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This egregious act is in plain violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which guarantees the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and defects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized.
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I will be holding a press conference in alliance with partners ready and willing to defend and protect civil and human rights. Details to come. We're going to be hearing about a lot more high profile workplace raids, Donald Trump raiding churches, Donald Trump raiding schools, Donald Trump raiding all these places where people are just working hard to help our country.
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I don't think my optimism is coming from a place of naivety. I think I have a real politique vision of what this dystopian mess is but i just feel that this community this country the world pro-democracy communities are banding together and he's failing he looks weak he's gonna look tough his plans to distract not working i don't know that may be just me brett jordy how are you doing
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And again, for all of those Latinos who voted for Trump and said this wasn't going to happen, he was going to just go after the criminals and the terrorists. Wake the hell up. because President Biden was going after the criminals and the terrorists.
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Border crossings were down under President Biden to the low in the Trump administration, which, by the way, was in April 2020 during COVID, because people weren't crossing the border because of COVID. But it was at an all-time low under President Biden. Of course, he was going after criminals and terrorists, but you bought into the stupid, idiotic, brain rot rhetoric
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that, oh, Biden's harboring the terrorists and the criminals. Every time there was a terrorist attack or some natural disaster, these magas would flood the zone with all the lies and disinformation, and you bought into it, and now y'all are being deported.
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Your family members are being deported and basically put into freaking concentration camps like we warned you against the leopards eating your face. You effed around and found out. Whatever it is you want to say, y'all screwed up and screwed your family members up. Big time, because these workplace raids are happening now.
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The broligarchs and the people who own private prisons, they're sure as hell making a lot of money. Oh, and by the way, the oligarchs are telling us we shouldn't even care if this causes us inflation. Inflation's not a big deal, they're saying. First off, Trump was asked, and he goes, people don't care about inflation. He goes, people care about the mental institute.
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They care about how to belecter. That's what Trump was saying. And then he's got his oligarchs like the...
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a chair the ceo of jp morgan chase jamie dimon he goes on and he goes yeah who gives a crap if it's inflation or we don't really care about inflation get over it he goes he goes get over it here watch jamie dimon let's play this clip yeah look i look at tariffs they are an economic tool that's it
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I mean, look, to the American people, would you rather have your prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients capped at $2,000 a year, allow Medicare to negotiate to lower the overall price of prescription drugs, have the PACT Act, which helps veterans?
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Would you rather have 40,000 infrastructure projects across the country, 16.6 million jobs created, bringing the semiconductor industry here to the United States, thriving economy? GDP growing faster than China, our economy growing faster than China, never a consecutive month where jobs were lost. Or you get Donald Trump in the Oval Office going, half pipes. You see them all the time.
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The half pipes. People live in half pipes. You know? You know what I'm talking about? The half pipes? You got homeless people. They're in half pipes. I Call them half pipes. And it's like, dude, what the hell are you talking about? What is this? WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Don't get distracted every single day. Say, what about the economy? What about the prices? What about housing?
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What about education? What about health care? We're going to stay laser focused here as corporate media has made themselves irrelevant and swirling the drain. We are the captains of the ship now. And we're going to focus on what needs to be focused on. Reminder, next Monday, we're going to hold our live Zoom meeting. exclusive for Patreon members, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. Join us there.
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Ask us any questions, no questions off limits, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. Also join MidasPlus.com. By the way, it's free to join MidasPlus.com. There's paywalled content there though, once you start, but you can test it out. Do I like it? Do... We don't have outside investors. We got to grow this thing. I want to be bigger than Washington Post. I want to be bigger than the New York Times.
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I want to be bigger than Fox. Our ratings are better than most of them. Fox is slightly ahead now. We were always beating them before. We're going to get ahead again, but we need your help. MidasPlus.com. Let's take our last quick break of the show. We've still got a lot to discuss. It's 2025. Why aren't my blinds smart and automatic like the rest of my home? Are your blinds still from 2025?
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WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Everybody, Donald Trump's released the MLK files, the JFK files, the RFK files. Ooh, is there going to be some conspiracy hunters? You got what you wanted.
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Oh, no. Oh, you mean ones where he's all over the flight logs? You mean how- Epstein found the women at Mar-a-Lago. Yeah. Did he release those? Like Virginia Giuffre. I mean, you mean the fact that Donald Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side. You mean Donald Trump who was found liable for sexual assault. You mean Donald Trump who wished Ghislaine Maxwell well.
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You mean Donald Trump who hosted
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like preteen teenage beauty pageants you mean the guy donald trump who said that he would inspect women at beauty pageants naked without their consent i mean the guy who says he grabs women by their new you know what um because when you're rich they let you do you mean you mean that you mean the guy who's spoken and let me also specify because there are a lot of guy the guy who epstein's brother said was best friends with with jeff everyone says desire brett sorry
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I also would like to see those tax returns, his medical records, the records from the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. I'd like to see Trump's crypto wallet. That matters a little bit more to me than a concept of a plan to release other things. But I digress. Let's talk about the broligarque civil war taking place.
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Who would have thought that billionaires who hate each other, who are so greedy and selfish and are all suing each other, They're not getting along? I thought that Donald Trump says everybody's getting along swimmingly here.
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So Donald Trump has a bunch of broligarcs, including Sam Altman from OpenAI, the SoftBank CEO, Masayoshi Son, brings them into the Oval Office, and they roll out this program that they give a name, like a Space Force name, and it sounds like really cutting edge, and they're going to, they call it the Stargate Project. And also from Elon Musk's perspective, he's like, I'm Starlink.
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So you're calling it Stargate, right? And they're all just kind of petty with each other. And they say that they're going to be investing $500 billion or they intend to invest one day $500 billion into Stargate to invest in AI concepts of $500 billion. And Elon Musk's like, they don't actually have the money.
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soft bank has well under 10 billion dollars secured i have that on good authority and look elon musk's wrong about mostly everything but when you do look into these companies they really don't have 500 billion dollars to deploy on their balance sheet if you look at their cash flow like they don't have that money
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SoftBank has an investment in Alibaba that's worth a lot of money and another company, but they would have to divest literally everything and then they'd still only be one-fourth of the way to $500 billion. OpenAI is losing money. Then Elon Musk starts further mocking Trump's first major initiative in the Oval Office with these OpenAI people. Then he reposts
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leaked image of the research tool OpenAI used to come up with their $500 billion number for Stargate. And it's a crack pipe with like literal kind of crack, the photos are cracked. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Elon Musk's beef with OpenAI is look, You launched OpenAI as a nonprofit that was supposed to then help all of the other tech companies and you were not supposed to make money off it.
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I invested $100 million because you were gonna share all of your technology with us for the other tech companies, but then you converted it into a for-profit and then you didn't cut me in and Sam Altman did a rug pull. Then Microsoft helped them and others helped them. This is like a vicious billion, billion-dollar lawsuit that's going on.
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So now they're all like suing each other and then Elon Musk is basically insinuating that Sam Altman goes to Epstein Island and he dug up Sam Altman posts from 2021 that congratulated other people for going after Donald Trump. And he goes, oh, interesting, interesting stuff. So there's this whole civil war developing. Then the Bannon thing. kind of contingency within the Trump White House.
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They hate Musk. They think that Musk is basically giving the middle finger to Trump. But then there's nothing that Trump can do because Trump's afraid of Musk. Meanwhile, that whole Doge thing is like absolutely falling apart. The Doge top lawyer, Bill McKinley, like the general counsel for Doge, the top lawyer, like the person who puts this thing legally together. He quit. He departed.
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Vivek Ramaswamy got fired or pushed out. Elon Musk has a office in the West Wing now, like literally right there. And many just suspect Elon Musk really just wanted access to classified information. By the way, one of Donald Trump's executive orders gave Trump the ability to declare anybody having access. to top secret security stuff.
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So like just by Trump saying it, you can now have access to top secret security information like our nation's most highest and guarded secrets. So you have all of that going on. Meanwhile, you have Trump MAGA people like Andy Ogles They're suggesting that the Constitution should be amended. The 26th Amendment should be amended so that Trump could basically become an emperor.
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Not making this up, folks, literally. The MAGA Republican Congress members, this is what they're focused on. Again, stay focused, not lower prices, not ending the war in Ukraine, which Donald Trump didn't do. Literally, the MAGA Republicans are putting forward an amendment to allow Donald Trump to become a dictator. They're doing that in 72 hours.
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let me show you this too i thought this was a telling moment where even sean hannity was fed up at donald trump where hannity was saying so why did you pardon like the violent insurrectionists like why did you pardon the oath keepers and the proud boys like the people who try to kill the cops like you're being criticized and hannity tried to ask it in a very hannity suck up kind of way.
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But he's like, but the violent ones, you sure about that? You sure you should have done that? Because remember, Trump pardoned the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys. And then I'm not going to show you these other clips, but in other clips, Trump bragged about making musical songs with them and that they're great people. And he's thinking about bringing them to the White House.
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And maybe there's a whole ceremony for these people. But watch this moment right here. Let's play it.
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He goes they were very minor incidents. He claims the 2020 election was rigged. He said they've been treated very unfairly. He later in the interview brags about making a song with them, which he says gets better ratings than Taylor Swift. And again, corporate media wants to treat that as some normal thing, not here on the Midas Touch Network. What I heard was treasonous.
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What I heard was traitorous. That's my opinion that I'm sharing, but it's an opinion that's also shared by federal judges who are not just Democratic appointees. I mean, we're talking about Reagan appointees, Democratic appointees, Trump appointees, Obama appointees who are out there saying – in no uncertain terms that – and this, for example, comes from Amy Berman Jackson.
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Patriotism is loyal to country and loyalty to the constitution, not loyalty to a single head of state. Then you had Judge Chutkan basically saying, Trump, you may have done this, but you're not going to whitewash the blood, feces and terror that the mob left in its wake as these people tried to kill cops.
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Judge Beryl Howell blasted the decision saying this is a grave national injustice and talked about how dangerous and lawless these people are. And this sole justification was that these people like Donald Trump. And then also another federal judge struck down. Just think about this. As MAGA Republicans are fighting today to have Donald Trump be a dictator for life,
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and amend the 22nd Amendment, which has term limits, a federal judge in the state of Washington made the following ruling, temporarily blocking Donald Trump's order, ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship. This judge, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, Judge Koh-I-Noor, says, quote, I've been on the bench for over four decades. I can't remember the
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Another case in my entire career where the question presented to me is so clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order by Donald Trump and struck down Donald Trump's executive order. I think we're going to be seeing that with most of these executive orders as well. And again, that is a Reagan appointed federal judge from the state of Washington who made that ruling.
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And, you know, as Donald Trump tries to turn the United States of America into Russia, you know, Russia has a history with strongmen. Right. I mean, they've had kings. They've had dictators. You know, America doesn't have that experience. I mean, America was born a democracy and we've been a democracy. And thanks to corrupt democracy.
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um propagandist media like fox and corporate media owned by oligarchs they pushed americans to uh flirt with all of this stuff and now america is getting the shock therapy after flirting with this stuff and we're seeing it this is what they're trying to do yes the things he said he was going to do dictator on day one all the stuff he's he's doing it He's screwing up the economy.
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He's screwing up our international relations. He's not bringing peace. He's doing all of these awful things. You're feeling it at home. He's screwing you over. This is the find out stage. This is the leopards eating your face stage.
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And we here at the Midas Touch Network, though, need to be at the front lines of helping us all get through this with you, the Midas Mighty, and reminding people that this is not who we are as Americans and that we need to be better and we need to survive this period. We will survive this period together. And we never can ever go back to this ever again.
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It's only day three and a half at the time of this live video. By the time you listen to this tomorrow, it'll be day four. And the amount of carnage that he's caused on our country in a short period of time is really striking. But we're going to band together. We'll be in this together every single step of the way.
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His approval ratings are at basically all-time lows for someone who's just became the president. His ratings from the inauguration, 10 million less views than Biden, down 27% from Biden. He couldn't even hold it outside. He had to blame it on the cold weather because he wasn't going to be able to get a crowd that even looked anywhere near the 2020 results. won the 2017 crowd, rather.
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And so he said, oh, it's so cold out. This is a pathetic, weak individual. He is a criminal. He is a felon. He is a sexual assaulter. He is a horrible businessman. He's the worst dealmaker. And we just have to be very clear and precise with our language. Brett, I'll let you take the last strike now.
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And then MidasPlus.com, that's where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, leads the way. MidasPlus.com. I want to try to grow that subscriber base as well to a bigger subscriber base than The Times, The Washington Post.
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Look, they literally have a billionaire car wash where they try to take off the dirt of the billionaires. I call it Joe Rogan washing. It's like, all right, let's try to make Zuckerberg look cool. All right, Zuckerberg, do that perm with your hair. And then let's have Rogan ask you about hunting. And Zuckerberg's like, yeah.
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Trump's inauguration ratings were absolutely awful, the worst ever. His approval rating is abysmal, maybe even the worst ever. His loathsome executive orders are despised almost universally by Americans. His
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It's like, what in the world is even going on with these people? But I digress. I guess the point is they are the establishment. Look, I don't want to show a lot of Trump clips because you get the point, but he's so psycho, so demented. This is newsworthy stuff. The reality is that we can't cover our eyes or close our ears. We have to see literally what's happening.
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So I won't show too many, but I think it's important that we say this is ridiculous. Because I want to show you specifically the pivot of what happened. So even Hannity's like, All right. So let's talk about the economy. And Trump's like, I don't want to talk about the economy. Let's talk about Biden. Why didn't Biden pardon himself? That's pretty crazy, right? He didn't pardon himself.
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What about Biden? And Hannity's like, yeah, but it's time to talk about the economy. And Trump goes, I don't care. I don't care about the economy. I want to talk about Biden. Watch this moment. It's incredible. Play this clip.
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They wanted to take care of me. Yeah, but Sean, they wanted to, I don't care. They're yelling at me. This is more important. He goes, I don't care. When he even had it, he's like, let's talk about the economy. Brett, to your point. He said, this is more important.
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So then Donald Trump speaks at the Economic Forum. He appeared virtually. The forum takes place in Davos in Switzerland. So he's asked a question during the Q&A portion about when you're back here next year, do you think there will be peace in Ukraine next year? Because you promised 24 hours. Take a look at what Trump says. Let's play it.
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He goes, you're going to have to ask Russia? Russia's leading this? By the way, 24 hours ago, Donald Trump said that it would actually be Xi Jinping. who would be leading the negotiations. He said he was going to delegate it to President Xi. And then Trump rolled out his great plan, everybody.
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Remember, during the campaign, he said first it was going to be 24 hours after the election, but it was super secret. Super serial secret stuff, everybody. So just give him the benefit of the doubt. We shouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt ever, but just whatever. For the sake of, you know what, and giggles, let's allow him to say it was 24 hours after the inauguration.
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By the way, he had the audacity when he was asked the day of the inauguration, hey, This is what a big liar is. They're like, hey, you didn't do it yet. There's no peace. Should we expect that to happen? He goes, well, there's still – this is half a day. Like he still lies until the very moment that it's a lie.
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term is spiraling even quicker than we expected his attempt to distract us all has failed prices are not lower they're higher housing is not more affordable it's less affordable there's no peace in ukraine trump's plan to do uh social media posts as a way to uh handle the Ukraine lawful invasion by Russia. Just very odd.
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Yeah, then he has Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, start giving news appearances. And Rubio's like, actually, he did what he said he was gonna do. He goes, what Trump said was that he was going to say that there would be peace in 24 hours, not that he would actually do it. And so he said it, therefore, mission accomplished. Okay, Rubio, first off, that's why you can never work for Trump.
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just look like an absolute idiot having to even go and say that like you have zero credibility now on day one as the secretary of state by the way the same way pam bondi as attorney general has zero credibility right during her confirmation hearing she said that she would not be okay with pardoning the violent january 6th insurrections right she made that distinction
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She said that the other January 6th insurrectionists should be pardoned, not the violent ones. What does Trump do? He undermines her. So now she's not even speaking as an attorney general anymore. So he makes the people right away powerless around him. And now what Donald Trump is saying is you're going to just have to ask Russia.
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Oh, and then his secret plan that he released was a social media post. in in lots of all caps and this was his plan everybody he goes i'm not looking to hurt you russia i love the russian people and always had a very good relationship with putin and despite the radical left's russia russia russia russia hoax
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must never forget that russia helped win the second world war losing almost 60 million lives in the process let me just fact check it that's not true it was around 24 million lives actually a lot of those lives were ukrainian 60 million is the total loss in world war ii but he says to lie about every number and then he has his revisionist history where he ignores that russia was our sworn enemy
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every single year after World War II during the Cold War to the present. And then he goes, hey, Russia, you better stop it for real. This is literally what he's saying. You better stop it because it's going to get worse for you, Russia. And he says that we're going to institute tariffs on you, Russia. Well, you're going to institute tariffs on Russia.
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You realize that there are sanctions right now against Russia where there's basically zero trade, zero trade between Russia and the United States. Tariffs are a, he doesn't know what tariffs are. Tariffs are a tax on American companies importing. American companies can't import from Russia or else they're criminally prosecuted for felonies.
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So if what Trump is saying is he's going to loosen the sanctions by imposing tariffs, that would actually be a benefit to Russia since they can then have access to the American markets and then American citizens will be taxed by the American company that's importing the Russian goods. But it just shows in the most basic stuff he doesn't know.
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Let me show you this as well, because while he praises Putin, this was his strategy. I'm going to do not a semi mean social media post. And I was talking to others about this. It was like, What do you think Putin was like when Putin's, when like Lavrov, Sergei Lavrov goes to Putin, Putin, I've got bad news for you. Please don't tell me he did a social media post. Yes, yes, Mr. Putin, he did.
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Brilliant strategy by him. We didn't expect this, but he did unleash the all caps. It's like, what in the world? You want to know what Putin did? Putin called Xi Jinping the day of the inauguration when Donald Trump claimed that he was going to call Putin and Zelensky and bring them together.
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Senator Mark Kelly on Introducing Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading
I mean, people just make a reasonable decision as a family on whether or not they can come and move to Washington, have a residence here, a residence at home, and do all the things that are required. So the counterargument is, and I have some sympathy, look, at least let them engage in some stock trading so that they can continue to take care of their family.
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Senator Mark Kelly on Introducing Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading
Well, look, you know, the salary of Congress has been frozen since 2009. You know, when you adjust for inflation, a member of Congress today is making 31% less than they made in that year. It goes down every year. And over time, if you stay on this trajectory, you're going to have less qualified people who are willing to make the extreme sacrifice to run for Congress.
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Let me show you what kleptocracy and oligarchy looks like. Earlier today, Donald Trump setting up a prop stage using kids as pawns in the White House to announce the elimination of the Department of Education via executive order. Here was Trump announcing it.
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Then Obama did appoint him after, but he was first appointed by George W. Bush. And there was a time where these judgeships granted were political in the sense they were appointed by leaders, but it wasn't viewed as the way Donald Trump has attacked the
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uh the uh judiciary in jordan you talk about the glazing by howard lutnik and these magas of donald trump they go on state regime media fox where they spread these lies you called it glazing i call it lauren bobert at a beetlejuice concert is basically what it looks like what these magas are doing there but that that was the joke i was trying to tell before i had it locked
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Oh, you gotta be so mad that you didn't get that one out. I had it in and ready to go. I was debating sacrificing the joke, you know, because it was four minutes after I had it teed up. But you made a good point, Jordy, but I still had to do the joke anyway. And it's always great when you are self-referential about jokes.
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Those type of jokes is when you frame them as a joke. Let me share this with you, though. I had the opportunity to speak to the head of the teachers union, Randy Weingarten, a few weeks back when we anticipated Donald Trump was going to do this. And I just think it's important for everybody to know what the Department of Education does and doesn't do.
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The Department of Education does not set state-level school curriculum.
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the states run the school systems that's why certain states have better school systems than others usually the blue states happen to have better school systems than the red states and often because the red states don't adequately fund their education the federal government has to go more into the red states to help in the areas where the red states are particularly harming their students when it comes to like lunches and disabled students and poor students and things like that
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But I thought it was important to just show you this clip so we appropriately frame that this whole entire attack on the Department of Education from the outset, claiming that the Department of Education is running state-level education, is just false to begin with.
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And what they're really going at is to target the most vulnerable, again, to pickpocket from them the services that are needed to give them to their oligarch friends, I guess, so they could all buy Tesla robots for $30,000 a pop. I won't go back and make the Beetlejuice joke for what they... Anyway, go play the clip.
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One of the most disgusting things about this disastrous press conference that Donald Trump held in the White House was also that he was using the kids as props.
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he built a fake classroom in the white house and he had kids who were clapping for the destruction of their future um to set up that kim jong-un style photo op and as i said folks as long as i have this microphone and this platform with my brothers and this incredible network that you all at the Midas Mighty have helped build.
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Donald Trump's billionaire secretary, as part of his media tour, telling people to buy Tesla stock, pumping up. The price of Tesla.
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We will continue to speak truth to power, and we will not back down to discuss what is really happening here. And look, we're grateful. I'm sure you saw some of the stats that now the Midas Touch Network and the Midas Touch podcast specifically is almost basically double
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That's where our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, cooks his daily summaries, cover everything that went on in the day. If any of our YouTube, TikTok, Instagrams, you name it, miss something, Ron makes sure he covers it all on those daily summaries. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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When we come back, I want to highlight some of these powerful pro-democracy voices who we've had the opportunity to interview here, from Bernie Sanders to Abigail Spanberger to J.B. Pritzker to Andy Beshear to Wes Moore and more. We'll be right back and share with you some of these incredible interviews we've done.
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And we should talk about what's happening at this Bernie AOC Fight the Oligarch Tour, folks. It is getting interesting. bigger and bigger with those crowd sizes. We'll be right back after our first quick break.
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Are pulling away the opportunities from children while picking on veterans. Who is the Trump regime giving opportunities to Russian and Chinese oligarchs to purchase Trump cards for the price of $5 million per card to get automatic citizenship in the United States.
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Brett, you mentioned that the Trump regime appears to be heading towards being held in contempt by that federal judge, Judge Boasberg. And to be clear, That's in connection with an order that Boasberg issued earlier today, which is referred to as an order to show cause, essentially why the Trump regime should not be held in contempt.
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Judge Boasberg says that the Trump regime's response is woefully insufficient for the request that he made regarding basic information about the people who were kidnapped
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and sent to el salvador and he's saying look if you want to invoke the uh state secrets act if you're going to invoke special privileges then invoke them and then you have to make a special cause showing as it relates to the state secrets act but judge boseberg was the chief judge of the fisa courts and a very prominent position.
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So in terms of Donald Trump playing games over classified information or state secrets, you don't do that with anybody, but Boesberg has one of the strongest institutional knowledges on this topic of any judge in the country. So it was a good draw that Judge Boesberg actually got assigned this case, right? It's kind of the ultimate karma right there.
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And also Judge Boesberg's currently the chief judge of the washington dc federal court right this isn't just like a random judge not that they're just like random federal it's tough to become a federal judge he's the chief he's the main guy he's the chief judge of washington dc this is who donald trump and the AG's office, the DOJ, are relentlessly attacking.
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And trust me that, yeah, you have a few MAGA federal judges like Judge Kaczmarek in the Northern District of Texas. Look, Trump's going to appoint a lot of bad MAGA judges in the future. But the current makeup of the judiciary right now is not that deeply entrenched MAGA. So judges across the country, whether there's still some Reagan appointees, George H.W.
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Bush appointees, George W. Bush appointees, Obama Clinton appointees, even Trump one appointees are looking at this and they don't like this behavior by the Trump regime. That's why even Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court stepped in and put out a rare public statement saying that you should not be speaking bad about judges publicly, go through the normal appeals process.
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So that's what's going on there. It should also be noted that many countries are now placing travel advisory warnings on the United States, warning the citizens of their countries basically not to go to the United States. Or if you do go, you could end up in ICE detention or worse, Could there even be a worse? Yeah. Sent to concentration camps in El Salvador.
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Essentially, as you read these advisories, although they don't use this exact language, the United States has become a totalitarian regime that doesn't protect people's rights. And so be very careful if you are in this country. So there's a component of detention. There's also a component of safety as America guts essential government services. And then there's a basic component of health.
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There's like measles outbreaks, right? And just basic hygiene and sanitation that's now lacking in the United States as the Trump regime guts basic health services and basic sanitation services here in the United States. We put on the screen UK, Germany's issued travel advisory notices. I think we're going to start seeing that throughout the EU and Australia and elsewhere.
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I think it's just going to become kind of an international thing. And, you know, America, you know, as we know, Trump has placed the America in the access of evil with Russia and North Korea. and Hungary, and by the way, mass protests in Budapest there against the Orban regime there.
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And when Trump voted against a resolution condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine in the UN, I mean, the Trump regime is now viewed as how democracies would view travel to North Korea or view travel to Russia or view travel to an authoritarian nation. It's sad
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but that's the state of it let me share this with you um charlie angus you know one of our friends here at the minus touch network who's become a powerful voice uh in canada he's always been it's great to be able to highlight uh the great work that he's done so he held the press conference earlier where he gave his own travel advisory warning.
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Now, to be very clear, Charlie Angus is not a leader in the government. He's a leader among the workers there. So when Charlie's saying this, this is just his own personal guidance. I want to be clear there. By the way, I want to give a shout out to Mark Carney, the new prime minister, who I think is doing a great job. I call the way I call the dichotomy is you got the banker.
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And then you've got Donald Trump, the bankruptor, right? You've got Mark Carney, who led the Bank of Canada and Bank of England as the governor of both through very difficult times. And you've got Trump, who's bankrupted everything he's touched. And we'll talk about this interesting dynamic as snap elections have now been called in Canada, what the implications of that are, what that means.
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I'll explain that to some of our American audience. But first, let me show you Charlie Angus's travel advisory. Let's play it.
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Now, we just do five million dollars and you multiply them by a million oligarch cards and just think about how that's how we're going to get rich. Donald Trump has sold crap his entire life and his stuff has gone bankrupt over and over again. Also, we know that Donald Trump has referred to veterans as suckers and losers before. So how do you think Donald Trump's
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You know, hearing someone say that, Brett, from a foreign country like that is... you know, from Canada, from, you know, our ally. It's true. Everything he's saying is true. It's sad to hear as an American what the Trump regime has done to this country. It's humiliating.
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VA secretary, former MAGA Republican Congress member Doug Collins, who's now the VA secretary. What's his guidance and advice to all of the veterans out there who are losing their benefits, losing health care, losing their jobs? His advice is get over it. People get fired all the time.
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which was then promoted heavily by Elon Musk. And this was a few months ago. When he went on there, too, he talked about woke this, woke that. He talked about basically getting rid of health care for Canadians on it. Yeah, we don't really need it. Maybe we should privatize it. Jordan Peterson goes, Canada's next prime minister, Pierre Poliev. And Elon Musk goes, great interview.
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This was all part of Elon Musk's far right wing strategy. that he had. And, you know, the people in Canada know they see what Musk and Doge are doing. They know that PP is Musk's Doge boy in Canada and the wrecking ball and the disaster that's happening now in the United States will certainly take place in Canada if you have PP.
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pp doji boy to elon musk he's elon musk's doji boy right elon musk will walk him you know and and you'll see elon musk in ottawa and elon musk will you know do all the things he's doing in the us there and i think the canadian people you know get in it one of the biggest honors of my professional career in doing midas touch right at the top with a lot of you know with a lot of with a lot of other things but right at the top
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is the relationships that we've built with our Canadian fan base right here and the Canadian members of the Midas Mighty. And I take that trust that you have all placed in us here in the United States. I take that trust so seriously. I want you to know that. And we're so grateful for your support. And we stand with you here and we get why you're boycotting.
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We understand why you're doing everything that you're doing. And we just want to know that we fight with you here.
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we you give us strength also and you give the world strength showing that you how you stood up to donald trump it's impressive impressive stuff i'll show you some other people who have given the world strength and who are giving the united states strength the real fighters right now i want to highlight them and now we've had the opportunity to interview most of them here on the midas touch and the others are hopefully lined up and will be happening soon
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I'll share that with all of you. We're going to take another break. I want to remind everybody about MidasPlus.com. That is our sub stack. Check it out. It's where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, cooks his daily summaries. Truly a must, must read. So please make sure you subscribe to MidasPlus.com. Also check out Patreon.com slash MidasTouch as well.
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We don't have outside investors, so we try to do fun things like those Zoom meetings for all of you where we get to meet you. That's at patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Let's take our last quick break of the show.
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Doesn't matter. Well, just view it as an opportunity. They're all these like fast talkers, too. They all look like these these these Trumpers, these magas. They're all fast talkers. They look like they're people from infomercials. all you gotta do is . It's like, okay, what are you even talking about? How could you be so utterly cruel?
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Where to next? We've had the opportunity here in the honor to be able to interview some Democrats who have really been, I think, meeting the moment. I want to highlight some of that here. I don't want to spend the rest of this episode showing you Trump clips. Of course, I can do that. Let's show you the future leadership here. And I think people who are helping to fight back.
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um you know i always knew uh governor andy beshear of kentucky was a special type of leader i've always heard great things about him but uh when i left that interview with him you know i um you know i told my brothers and i told others at the network i said wow
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I said, here you have a Democratic governor in the Commonwealth of Kentucky who is not sacrificing any of his values, who's not afraid to talk about protecting marginalized groups in Kentucky. And he goes, you know, these are my beliefs. You don't like him, you don't like him. But I'm going to tell you how I feel about issues. I don't like bullies.
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I'm going to stand up for people who are being bullied. And I'm going to focus on getting jobs for workers. I want you to watch this clip right here.
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I want you just to think about a debate, intellectual debate, smart debate, one filled with empathy, one filled with fighting for the American workers. Think about it. On the stage, you have Governor Beshear. Standing next to Governor Beshear, you have Governor Pritzker. And here's what Governor Pritzker says. Let's play it.
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And speaking of the cruelty, when I said I'll show you what kleptocracy and oligarchy and authoritarian regime looks like, not surprisingly, we're learning about the identity now of some of the migrants who Donald Trump
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Then on that debate stage, standing next to Illinois Governor Pritzker, you have Maryland's Governor Wes Moore. And here's what he says. Let's play it.
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tipped off to concentration camps in el salvador where nobody is able to hear from them and we're learning that donald trump has just said oh because of this person's tattoo and because of the way they were holding up their hands that they are terrorists, that they are enemy combatants who should be thrown in concentration camps.
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Then on that stage, do we see AOC? Here she is at the Fight the Oligarchy tour with...
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senator bernie sanders and others they're in vegas 3 300 people are there watching this in vegas i know they're they're going to denver soon i think in denver they're going to have over 10 000 people uh in denver when i was interviewing senator sanders he was telling me the crowd sizes that they expect in some of these other states coming up and bigger crowd sizes than anything we even saw in the election with trump or kamala
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But anyway, here's AOC in Vegas earlier today. Let's play.
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we deserve better than this i want to show you in uh powerful stuff there i want to show you in a bit a portion of my interview with senator sanders but i think i showed a lot right there and uh you know brett i want you and jordy to be able to i think unpack What I saw there, I haven't interviewed Governor Whitmer recently or Governor Shapiro recently.
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There's a lot of other governors I'd want to highlight in this who I think will be on that stage. These are the people who I've been able to interview and speak with just over the past few days and highlighted them just in the past week.
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The lawyer of an individual who was sent to El Salvador saying that the tattoo was a Real Madrid tattoo, that their client, who they haven't heard from, was a professional soccer player from Venezuela who sought asylum in the United States the right way using the asylum app. That's how the Trump regime even got access to their identity, because they did it through the lawful
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One of the things that Senator Sanders said to me that resonated so much is that some of the issues that are most important in people's lives paradoxically are the least talked about issues in general. And I think one of the things about this network though and why that message hit me the way it did is I think we talk about those things.
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and then the hand gesture that the Trump regime said was a gang sign was actually the sign for peace. But on that basis, the Trump regime says enemy combatant, no due process, shipped to El Salvador, never to be heard from again. Now I'll show you the fight as I introduce Brett and Jordy. Take a look at this crowd right here for the audio listeners.
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And I think that's been kind of the link with the Midas Mighty. By the way, with our Canadian listeners and viewers, our international viewers in Australia and Europe, Africa, South America and Mexico, Central America and elsewhere, though, is that we've
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i guess our backgrounds aren't like political like we've we've tried to we've experienced this with everybody in the community we're members of the midas mighty community it's great we get to have the show we get to you know do this as brothers but like we're we're living this experience we're just saying how how we feel you know this isn't some ivory tower thing as i always say don't talk down
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talk to and listen. The most important thing I think you can do as a news network or just as a leader is listen and just hear people and listen to what they're saying about what it means to live paycheck to paycheck. Listen to what it means to
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Have billionaires say that their social security is a Ponzi scheme or that they're going to get cut off from Medicaid or that they're losing their jobs and they're being told it's for performance reasons and they know that's false or to bring this full circle that the Department of Education is going to be gutted and they rely on that. Listen to how people feel and talk to the people.
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Let them know how you're fighting for them. That's what I see AOC doing. That's what I see Bernie doing. That's what I see some of these other governors, you know, doing. So I'll play us out with Bernie Sanders on the Midas Touch Network, on the podcast. You can watch the full interview, download the full interview.
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Here is one of the parts that I found were most powerful about his interview with me.
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I'm showing a photo right now of the fight the oligarch tour of bernie sanders of aoc of other members of congress who are fighting the oligarchy 3 200 people turning up in las vegas bigger than the crowds that donald trump drew even during the election and we're going to talk about fighting the oligarchy on this show brett and jordy
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That's the issue that we're focusing on relentlessly here at the Midas Touch Network. That's the issue that we focused on when me and my brothers were just sending each other text messages and that became a show and that became a network.
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And now to hear this data out there from Podscribe and Playboard and others that the show and the network is beating Fox and now beating Rogan by almost twice, it means we're reaching more people. That's what's most important. As I said, a lot of the Times and the Journal and the
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A bunch of others have covered it, and I'm grateful that they've covered it, and I'm grateful for the thoughtful writers who have written about us. I know that it's not easy writing stories like this. They work really hard. As I always say to them, though, whether it makes it into the article or not, I said, But the reality for us is that this is not a spike the football moment that I go, yeah.
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I know how many people out there, as Bernie says, are living paycheck to paycheck. I know how many people out there are struggling and want people to fight for them. So I want you to know, whether you're listening or watching this, is that we're going to keep fighting for you. That we're not just doing shows. We're listening to you. We're reading your comments. We're hearing you.
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And we take this responsibility and trust that you've placed in us seriously. This is life or death for us because we know these issues are life or death for you. And that's how we approach this network. We're grateful for your support. We're going to keep on growing together. Please share this network and the podcast with everybody that you know.
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The word of mouth is one of the best ways that this show has grown. So you tell a few people that you know that makes all the difference in the world. If you can leave a five-star review on the audio podcast,
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please do that because all the rogan people are out there doing the one stars or the zero stars if they can and they say bad things about the show to try to harm the reviews so if you think it's worth five stars always be honest of course um give it a five star review audio listeners subscribe to our youtube youtube watchers subscribe to the audio podcast you just search midas touch wherever podcasts are available it helps if you're subscribed to both subscribe to our sub stack
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You go to MidasPlus.com. That helps a lot. A lot of the content there is free. There's some paywalled stuff. You can access some of the stuff free. We'd love for you to become a paid subscriber, but just check it out. Whatever you can do is great, but just check it out. And we try to keep a lot of that content open as well. But please subscribe there, patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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Check that out as well. We're going to do a Zoom meeting next week. We'll announce a time when we'll do that Zoom meeting. If you ever wanted to meet Brett, Jordy, and myself, we'll announce that time soon. Go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch. And again, just thank you, thank you, thank you. And let's keep growing this. Let's keep fighting.
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um we're in this together and uh we got your back and we know you have our back brett anything else
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Let me show you what oligarchy and kleptocracy looks like while they're gutting. the Department of Education, abolishing the Department of Education, picking on poor kids, disabled kids, kids who need a meal at school, kids who need an opportunity to go to higher education. What are their priorities? Well, Donald Trump's billionaire commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, has been giving a media tour
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One, selling Tesla robots for $30,000, right? $30,000, everybody.
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You know, the MAGAs are able to go right back into their whiny MAGA victimhood cocoon. And then they have, oh, so I guess you're saying that you support the terrorists. I guess that's what you're saying, right? I guess you're saying that you hate American companies, right? Oh, they hate American companies, American company. Oh, I guess you're saying that you support the actions of the gangs.
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That's what you're with. Or, oh, look, it's an unfair judge. Here comes the judge, these radical left activist judges. And it's like, okay, Judge Boasberg was first appointed by George W. Bush. But you see what I had to do there was say a sentence. I had to explain it.
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And what happens in the framework of the way corporate media works is when I explain it, the sentence has to be articulated, whereas the MAGAs just have a chant, right? radical left Soros, radical left Soros. And they repeat that over and over again. And then you get kind of a both sides. And I'm like, George W. Bush appointed this guy first.
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Donald Trump's approval is sinking as inflation is once again rising. The markets took a battering today as they were spooked over rising inflation and Walmart put out a pretty bad financial report as well. Trump's approval is specifically tanking as well with Black Americans, Hispanic Americans. young voters and voters overall.
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in the latest wall street journal survey that was april 14 2024 and the economy finished stronger referred to as a goldilocks economy during the handoff from biden to donald trump and trump immediately then started to gut and destroy the economy with tariff threats reckless and malicious behavior but brett and jordy Who could have warned us of this? Who could have told us about this?
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Perhaps in 2016, was it Hillary Clinton? Let's play that clip.
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Or how about former Vice President Kamala Harris? Now, when you watch the split screens of these debates, It is eerie how both of these powerful women who are so much more qualified and would have been incredible leaders, and we would never be in this mess, were speaking to the American people in logic, in full sentences. They were warning us and they were telling us what was going down.
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But of course, America was not going to go there in both cases because, well, I'm sure you know why. Play this clip.
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He is eating Donald Trump for lunch right now. During that event, that whatever you want to call it in Saudi Arabia, where they cut out Ukraine and Europe, Russian propaganda was through the roof with Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
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You had Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former leader, saying, if you would have told me that a United States president would be saying these things about Ukraine, I would have been laughing in your face. But, Brett, we see right here just complete utter weakness. Putin's eating Trump's you-know-what. And what do you make of it?
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So as Donald Trump destroys our economy, destroys our alliances, tries to establish alliances with Russia by sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to have direct negotiations with Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, cutting out Ukraine and Europe. What Donald Trump wants to distract everybody with is that he says that he and Elon Musk are going to go searching for gold in Fort Knox.
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Look, you've got the White House posting things like this. Congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan and all of New York is saved. Long live the king, President Donald J. Trump. And it's a fake Time magazine cover. with Donald Trump wearing a crown, and it says, Long Live the King Trump.
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Then Donald Trump was repeatedly posting, Long Live the King, because he tried to interfere with New York's congestion pricing plan, which New York just said, okay, we're going to keep our own plan that's actually helping New York City. You can't interfere with this. You can't retract a deal that's already taken place. But Donald Trump posting that he is –
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A king, also Donald Trump, further attacking Canada all day as well, saying that he invited Prime Minister Trudeau to the governor's meeting because he views Trudeau as a governor of an American territory. But as Donald Trump does all of this, I mean, again, Brett, to your point, and Jordi, the level of weakness that this shows, he is... positioning himself not from any power of strength.
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I mean, he looks weak, he looks desperate, and everything he's done so far has only been causing harm and damage to the United States of America, but he wants to distract you with all of these different stunts. Got a lot to discuss on this episode for all of our new viewers and listeners here. Welcome to the Midas Touch podcast.
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And it is I should just acknowledge the news you probably all heard, which is that, yes, the Midas Touch podcast is beating the Joe Rogan experience in downloads for the month.
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um but to me what that means while it's great to beat rogan yes it's important that we get the facts out that we get the truth out and that this pro-democracy pro-love pro-empathy pro-truth and facts movement is growing and to me that's what that data most reflect and this is a shared accomplishment and give a shout out to all the og mightiest mighties who were with us from day one
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a shout-out with the mod to the mods who keep things here civil, and a shout-out to all of you, the Midas Mighty. We know all of the hard work that you put in as well. Again, we have a lot of show. After this show ends, we're going to be holding our Patreon Zoom meeting at patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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If you wanted to meet me, Brett and Jordy, go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch, and we have the secret link there. Again, we have a lot to discuss on this show. Let's take our first quick break.
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They're gonna start investigating if there's gold inside Fort Knox, everybody. They're gonna go into the mountains with their shovels. This is how they wanna distract us. So ridiculous, play this clip.
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I just think it's important that we try to keep things simple. You've ever heard of KISS, keep it simple, stupid, right? Sometimes you just got to remind people Donald Trump made these promises, right? He promised prices were going to go down on day one. He promised housing was going to be more affordable on day one. He promised there were going to be so many jobs on day one.
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You weren't going to even know what to do with all of these jobs. He promised that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Even before he took office, he said there would be a deal because he's that good of a deal maker. That wasn't hyperbole. We shouldn't try to extrapolate. Oh, he really meant this. No, he's a liar. Period. Full stop.
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So you just can't get distracted by the whack-a-mole of all of the things that they try to say and do.
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They use USAID the way QAnon uses QDrops, right, where they try to distract you and get you focused on all of these things that are almost all false to get you to chase that so that you're distracted from the fact that they're breaking their promises, that they're hurting the economy, that they're hurting our alliances.
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top of it oh we're going to search for docs we're going to find all of this great gold for you or oh maybe we're going to give you these rebates when doge finds all of this money it's all part of the ponzi scheme scam and a ponzi scheme is you keep on lying and you stack lies on lies until basically you run out of time brett and then the lies catch up and then boom it implodes and that's the direction we're heading and i just want everybody to reflect on these lights guys give one example brett then jump in which is
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they go back and they'll say, even though it's been debunked, Hamas is not getting condoms, it's false by USAID. That didn't happen. It doesn't matter though. They'll just go and say it again, like 100% false, but Trump will say it's 100 million, 50 million, 50 million, 100 million. And the numbers don't even matter.
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They just make up numbers, 3 trillion, 5 trillion, 8 trillion, 100 billion, a quadrillion. But also because they're so rich, that the numbers don't matter. All that matters is that they're manipulating their sheeple. Here, play this clip.
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See, Donald Trump was asked, hey, what is Doge doing? Because we hear they're cutting critical FAA jobs. We hear that Doge is cutting critical jobs that are protecting against the bird flu. They are cutting funds that are going to 9-11 first responders. They accidentally keep firing people, like people who oversee our nuclear arsenal. And they are just firing, what, 4,500 people in the
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I was just going to say that many of the inspectors general were actually people who were brought in by Trump that former President Biden kept on because that's what the rules and norms usually call for. And again, Brett, as you said, those were the people who detected –
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the tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud there's a transparent process they prepare reports they actually show up in front of congress and they work with members of congress they don't try to hide behind executive privilege and they're transparent the thing about elon musk i want you to all know and you may be confused like why is it a big deal guys that elon musk
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forest services that work in our national parks and just gutting our government and people who work hard every day to keep us safe and to keep things running. But Donald Trump goes, I'm going to find some gold. Did you hear about Fort Knox? Did you hear about Fort Knox? Because he thinks people are stupid.
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is saying that he has all of these different positions. And on the one hand, they say that he's the administrator of Doge or a special advisor. Why are they doing that? Well, what they want to try to do is make him immune from oversight. They don't want him to be called into Congress. They don't want him to have to respond to FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests.
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So when they call him, and you see right here for those who are listening on audio, our viewers can see it. It was him, Elon Musk, running around at CPAC today with a chainsaw. They don't want this guy in front of Congress. So why they say he's a special advisor to Donald Trump and not the administrator of Doge, even though they said he's the administrator of Doge,
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is to claim that all of his information is protected by the presidential records act executive privilege and other immunities so he doesn't have to testify he doesn't have to actually make his numbers public he doesn't have to justify his numbers so he can just post different things on his social media platform you know like one of the things that he posted on his social media platform i'll just give you an example of today
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where the commander of the International Space Station called out Musk for lying about the plans to bring those astronauts who have been in space home.
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So Andreas Mogensen, who's the ISS commander, International Space Station, by the way, responding to one of the people at Midas Touch who was playing a clip where Elon Musk said that Biden left these astronauts in space for political reasons, the commander of ISS says, that's a lie.
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from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media so i want to just give you a trigger warning because elon musk uses the r word but then elon musk and i want to say it because i want to educate you on what's being said elon musk then goes to the commander of the international space station you are fully retarded and then he goes on to attack him more and then he says return was for political reasons idiot he
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to which the commander of ISS says, Elon, I have long admired you and what you have accomplished, especially at SpaceX and Tesla. You know as well as I do that Butch and Sunny are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home.
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They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on the International Space Station since last September. And then Elon Musk makes a post about him wanting to abolish the International Space Station after that, after getting into a fight simply because the commander was being respectful and said, what you're saying is not the truth.
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And as inflation is once again on the rise, Donald Trump is trying to blame it on former President Biden, Donald Trump and his puppet master, or should I say co-president or whatever you want to call Elon Musk. I guess they're trying to call him in the White House. the tech guy now. They went on Hannity and Donald Trump said it was Biden's fault why inflation is back right now.
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One other point I'll say as well, that press conference I was showing you with Donald Trump, where a lot of those clips were coming from, and this is Brett, to your point, like I call him the sheeple or NPCs, whatever, like Trump is giving this press conference from a Saudi Arabian financial event that he's hosting at like his resorts.
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So Saudi first, he's got the negotiations in Riyadh with Russia first, cutting out our NATO allies. And at this event,
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He thinks that he can distract you with that crap right there, when in fact the things that Trump and Doge are doing is taking away money from people like 9-11 first responders. Let's play this clip.
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Again, while inflation is rising, while our economy is now struggling once again after former President Biden got it back on track after the damage caused in the first Trump administration, objectively, Donald Trump is at a Saudi event at a resort bragging about how rich he is and how great his properties are with the United States presidential seal behind him. Here, let's play this clip.
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don't want to build units but they gave us permission to do it well you're talking about building units there that's how you're using your time and you are screwing over americans by the way brett you showed that clip before uh of the the video uh that she played of elon musk just running around with the chainsaw and i believe it was the leader of argentina javier malay yeah that's javier malay right there who's embroiled in his own crypto scam
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in argentina now people are calling for him to be impeached there's formal charges that are like being brought against him in argentina for telling people to buy the libra crypto which turned out to be a massive rug pull causing people to lose lots of money and it was actually the same person who was involved in the melania dollar sign smolania um coin as well and so for donald trump to say i don't really care about these things well
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You're selling like your own meme coins and you're doing deals. This whole event you were doing in Riyadh was a business event with the presidential seal behind you.
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I think that's why the story broke through about the Midas Touch podcast beating Rogan in the ratings because it shows that people want to hear the truth. And it shows that there's hope out there to get out this information. When I speak to people, when I see people in the chat, when I see people out and about, they say, Ben, just tell me where I got to show up.
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I'm ready to take to the streets and peacefully protest. You just tell me where and when. And we're seeing the protests start to grow organically. We cover them here on the Midas Touch website. network, unlike corporate media, which tends to suppress these. You're seeing a huge rally, tens of thousands of people over this past week in New York, and people took to the streets across the country.
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And one of the things that we're going to do here as we build this network and we get to 5 million
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and 10 million people subscribed and then we keep connecting our subscribers internationally standing in solidarity with peace-loving pro-democracy people in canada and mexico and europe and australia and new zealand and south america and africa and across the globe we're going to have to band together to stop these forces of disinformation
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That is one of our priorities, and we're going to be helpful in that process, especially as I think and I expect there to be a democracy spring, a democracy summer, where our voices will be heard in a massively historic way as people are mobilized and activated. We still have a lot to discuss. I want to remind everybody, if you want to meet Brett, Jordy, and myself, patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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There's a secret link there where we will have our Zoom meeting as soon as this episode ends. Give us a few minutes to sign on because sometimes it takes a few minutes, but then we'll start. Ask us any questions that you want. You could ask particularly tough questions to Jordy if you want as well. Let's do it. Remind everybody, subscribe on both the audio podcast and the YouTube.
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That was John Thiel, a 9-11 survivor and advocate, talking about how reckless and lacking in empathy it is. But before I bring Brett and Jordy in, let me just tell you all what the plan is, though, if you want to even call it that. So part of the meeting between the United States and Russia was about trying to form an alliance between the U.S. and Russia instead of the U.S.
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And look, we have a lot of other voices on the network as well. You know, we have people like renowned former prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who's on the front lines of handling some of the biggest cases in the country as we speak. We've got great hosts like Michael Popak, and I can go on and list all of our hosts. But you should check out the list also, you know, on our website.
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I mean, these are experts who have got the facts. They're former federal prosecutors, you know, former politicians, people in the weeds who deliver the information with a level of expertise. So we try to give you that perspective as well.
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You know, could you imagine what that testimony of Elon Musk would look like before the Doge subcommittee? I just want everybody to think about this concept, though, that every time the Democrats try to subpoena Elon Musk, it gets blocked by the Republicans in the House of Representatives. They won't even allow debate to take place to subpoena Elon Musk, to have him show up
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's traditional role in NATO and leading the free world. And then Marco Rubio says the quiet part out loud about how he's looking forward to prosperous economic relationships between the United States and Putin. That's what Marco Rubio announced from Saudi Arabia. Play this clip.
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his own quote unquote subcommittee that's being led by Marjorie Taylor Greene called the Doge Subcommittee. How do you not appear before your own subcommittee, right? Like the FBI director has to show up, right? Like the attorney general has to show up, right? The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has to show up and testify before Congress.
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It's called a public servant and you're doing public service because you have to be accountable. Being accountable doesn't mean spreading disinformation on social media and then saying, oh, there, and then calling people the R word and picking fights with people and having baby mamas appear and then attack.
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you on social media and then you block your baby mamas with 13 babies like musk or whatever like like that's not what being a public servant is about it's about serving the people so you should want to testify and justify it and let the congress or the congressional members ask you questions this is elon musk a little bit earlier today at cpac i truly can't understand what he's even really it's kind of just gibberish here play this clip
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So I just want you to remember, you go back earlier to the episode where I showed you the clip of Donald Trump when he was asked about Doge and he was like, oh, did you feel that bump? Oh, do you want to search for some gold in the mountains in Fort Knox? And the people were asking him questions like, but why?
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Are you firing FAA officials because there's been nine plane crashes already while you've been golfing in Mar-a-Lago seemingly every single day? Like, what are you doing with FAA officials? What are you doing with the people who work at our natural or national parks? What are you doing with Department of Labor? What are you doing with the crisis hotline that is so necessary for our veterans?
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What are you doing with 911 responders? And they're just there giving a bunch of gibberish because they know what they're doing is wrong. Otherwise, they would go in front of Congress and they would talk about it and they would do actual transparent reports and not this crap that we're seeing.
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And one of the things I've noticed that they've been doing as well, the same way MAGA Republicans have tried to normalize socialism. school shootings. And they're like, it's just part of living. You have to have school shootings. No, it's uniquely an American thing based on the warped interpretation of the Second Amendment by our far right-wing Supreme Court and Republicans.
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want common sense gun reform it's because these MAGA Republicans are in the pocket of gun companies and also I think just death I think they're in the pocket of it seems that everything they want to do is somehow you know they can have all the money in the world it just seems like sometimes they just want people to suffer too in addition to being in the pocket of the gun line they just want to see suffering because I think a lot of these people are just sick people but anyway the point I'm making
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It's the same way they've normalized weapons of war proliferating in school shootings. They're trying to now normalize plane crashes. And they're like, yeah, airplanes crash. That's just what happens. More happened under Biden, which is false. Also, Donald Trump's been in office now for just about 30 days, too.
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And there was never a commercial plane crash while former President Biden was running the country. Here, play this clip of Duffy.
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Do you sense the pattern here? Because when they were not in power at the executive branch level, Every day they blamed everything on Biden as Biden tried to fix the dumpster fire caused by Trump being the arsonist who imploded our economy. Now, if you just want to know the facts and the data, Donald Trump objectively added $8 trillion in debt.
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Donald Trump printed money recklessly, surprise, surprise, ran up the debt. and then screwed up our supply chains. He was not prepared for COVID. He said, like a miracle, it was all going to go away. And then Biden had to fix it. It took time to fix.
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And every time Biden tried to fix it, despite all of the media saying that there was a remember the Bloomberg headline, 100% chance of recession, Biden got a soft landing and then America's GDP surge. We led the world in GDP growth. We were beating China in GDP growth, 16.4 million jobs created, 40,000 infrastructures.
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The CHIPS Act brought the semiconductor industry here to the United States, bringing more jobs. The Inflation Reduction Act, the American Recovery Act. President Biden was not attacking veterans the way Trump is. Instead, President Biden had the PACT Act, which increased services to veterans. Former President Biden did not try to gut Medicaid and Medicare.
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Quite the contrary, he tried to make and he did make prescription drug prices more affordable. cap prescription drug prices. Every day was just fighting for how you help people and use the government to give people things, not use the government to bludgeon and hurt people. But now that the Trump administration's in power and they made all of these promises,
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and right away they're causing devastation with our economy they blame everything on biden biden biden there was not crashes every day taking place under biden we were headed for two percent inflation under biden which is right around where you want him interest rates would have dropped even lower and now interest rates are not dropping because inflation is back up and now the american people believe that inflation is going to rise three and a half four four point two
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or even higher. Americans have a very dim view of the economy. Americans are now spending less because they're hoarding money, believing, I think rightfully so, that America's economy is now on a crash course with Donald Trump's reckless behavior.
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And one of the patterns here we see over and over again is Trump is firing the smart, qualified people, and he's bringing in the worst of the worst, corrupt and stupid people. Case in point, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, is a former Fox News host. He's not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
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Former President Biden, we had a guy named Lloyd Austin, four-star general who was our Secretary of Defense, who respected our military. Now we have Pete Hegseth out there who talks about conquering Gaza, sending the United States military into Gaza and all of these countries.
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Bring in my brothers, Brett and Jordy. Did you ever think that you would see the day in your lifetime where a United States president would become a Russian bootlicker, send your secretary of state to Saudi Arabia to kiss Russia's ass and to capitulate to Russia and threaten our NATO allies and engage in that reckless and dangerous and malicious behavior?
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And now what we learned today, courtesy of NBC breaking the story, is that Pete Hegseth, again, a Fox News host with a history of alcohol and sexual assault allegations and never ran something, is considering firing a slate of military generals today.
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as early as this week including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who got overwhelming support from the senate cq brown and i'll show you this video right here just so you can see it just take a look you'll see cq brown sitting behind chairman of the joint chiefs of pete hegseth and this was from about a few weeks back over two weeks ago it seems like an eternity ago though this is when they were talking about occupying gaza
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which followed them occupying Canada and Panama and Colombia and other countries. This was the Gaza occupation day. But watch behind Pete Hegseth here playing this clip.
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Do you see the chairman of the Joint Chiefs stand behind him kind of like, like wince, like when he was saying that, like, oh my God. So they're trying to get rid of that guy. Kash Patel got confirmed today. So that's the new FBI director. by a vote of 51 to 49 percent.
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You have this United States attorney, this guy Ed Martin, who's now sending letters to Congress that he's using the United States attorney's office in D.C. to criminally investigate like Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia because he didn't like how Robert Garcia told that people should protest. So he told Garcia he wants clarification because Garcia's words may be criminal.
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I mean, that is it's corruption. Stupid sandwich is this Trump administration writ large with the dumbest people. Sean Duffy's who got famous on real world road rules challenge. Give me one point, but then I'll throw it over to you because I've got this train of thought right now. Even the person who they said was the pro-labor moderate person, right? Like Chavez Dreamer.
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a Republican congresswoman from Oregon. And her whole thing was that she claims she supported the PRO Act, which would help union workers. And so she branded herself as pro-worker. But now that she's in the Trump administration, when she testified to be the labor secretary, well, let me just show you the questioning by Bernie Sanders. Do you support the PRO Act?
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The question was, are you OK with the fact that Trump, you're the labor secretary? Are you okay with the fact that he gutted the National Labor Relations Board that recognizes unions and hears grievances? What's your view on a living wage? You're the labor secretary. What's your view that labor should be able to live? What's your view of the PRO Act, the right to unionize?
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Can't answer those questions, but I gotta tell you, You know, you got Sean O'Brien over at the Teamsters, you know, who's went to Mar-a-Lago. Thumbs up. He thought that was great. The leader of the teams. I don't know how the rank and file, you know, can deal with this guy. But there's a whole nother topic in a whole nother video.
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But Brett, sorry, I just wanted to show you even Doreem or Chavez who people like. Oh, she's when she goes there. These people are all spineless clowns.
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Well, what they're telling their people is on Fox and they're saying, why wouldn't you trust the billionaires? Look, billionaires – this is what they say. Billionaires are so rich. that they don't need your money. They don't need, they're doing this out of the goodness of their heart. Let the billionaires go through your shit. Let them have your social security. What are they gonna do with it?
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You think they're gonna do something bad with it? Let them have your medical records. What are you afraid to show the billionaires? Just give it to them. What your social security data, just what do you think they're gonna do? Give the billionaires that data. The access to your tax records and the payment processing systems of the IRS. What do you think they're going to do?
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Try to avoid paying taxes and then go after their enemies with the IRS? Come on. These are billionaires. These are the best of the best. That's what they're trying to sell to their audience. And Brett, to your point, that's why you say this shouldn't be a Democrat thing to say that's crazy. It should be a human being thing.
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If you're not a billionaire, even if you are kind of a billionaire and you're not the must type, whatever, even if you're just a worker and you're trying to support your family, you should not want these billionaires doing this crap. and hurting you and hurting your family. That's what they are doing. And that shouldn't be a partisan issue.
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So I think, Brett, to your point, power to the people is the mantra. And this is a people powered network. I think that's one of the reasons or the main reason this network grew is that it is people powered. And it's fueled by you, the Midas Mighty. And again, I'm humbled and honored that me and my brothers can host this program and speak to millions of people.
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I think it was close to 59 million downloads for the month or what the number was. That's incredible. But what really matters to me is the reach of growing people and having an impact.
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and making a difference and getting this information out to more people and then having all of you share this information with people that you know because I want an America that's caring and empathetic and loving and that cares about democracy and supports our allies, that cares about future generations and that where we have respect and we have our democracy back. That's what I want.
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And we're going to be in this with you every step of the way, shoulder to shoulder here. We will keep growing this network with you. For all of our new listeners and viewers, it's so great to have you here. I hope you like this programming and it's different than what you've kind of heard anywhere else. We're trying to re-envision, deconstruct and reconstruct technology.
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and what we think the media should be fact-based unapologetic pro-democracy fearless that's what we're going to stand for here each and every day make sure you're subscribed we're on our way to 5 million subscribers let's try to hit that 5 million mark soon and i can't wait to speak to you now at patreon.com might as touch p-a-t-r-e-o-n dot com slash might as touch We'll see you there.
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Thank you, everybody, for watching. Thank you, Mods. Thank you, Midas Mighty. Thank you, everyone. We're so appreciative and grateful for you. Jordy, shout out to the Midas Mighty!
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And then Fox tried to supplement that with a Chiron saying Donald Trump is bringing us out of the disaster. Here, play this clip.
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don't think of it inflation's back and they said oh trump and i had nothing to do with it oh i had nothing to do with it actually donald trump was the original cause of the inflation that former president biden fixed because donald trump added eight trillion dollars of debt he completely mishandled or i should even say not handled at all uh coven and then donald trump said like a miracle it was all going to go away in addition to saying that inflation's back donald trump also spent the past few days
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They treat people like they're stupid. I mean, the question was, what is Doge doing? And can you explain it, Donald? Like, let us know. And he's like, do you know about Fort Knox? We're searching for the gold. We're going to find the gold for all of you.
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And it just trying to distract and dangle. Maybe you'll get rich. I've got some snake oil. Maybe we'll find some gold. Then you all get rich. One of the other scams that I see them talking about right now is with all the money we're going to find from Doge. We're going to give you rebates. You want money?
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We're trying to find you your money right now, which, Brett, to your point is they're using all of these fake numbers and fake data. And then they're dangling over to people. You may get rich quick if you just let us do what we're going to do. And then they like publish things like this is one of the things that Doge published where they're like, we just saved you $8.
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billion from D&G Support Services, LLC. Me and my brothers actually reached out to D&G Support Services, LLC. Their government contract was for $8 million, not $8 billion. But then it looked like someone in the government systems then changed the number also. from 8 million to 8 billion after they were caught and they tried to change it.
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And they said, oh, there was just a mistake that was made in the system and it was everybody else's fault. And they keep repeating that over and over again. They say tens of millions of deceased people
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are getting social security the lie spreads it gets debunked but it doesn't matter donald trump just repeats the lie over and over again the same way he repeats that hamas is getting condoms to make bombs from usaid which is false even when you debunk it
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they keep on doing it over and over again because they know that they've got their supporters trapped in this kind of right wing disinformation echo chamber but i want to bring it back though to the facts i want to have the receipts i'll use donald trump's own words here for what i'm about to show you the first clip i want to show you is donald trump saying as it relates to russia's unlawful invasion in ukraine although trump never used those words that trump would end the war
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in 24 hours. I'll just show you two quick clips right here. It's back-to-back here, play it.
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It won't even take that long. Well, here we are, and your plan is to what, extort Zelensky? That's kind of what he was doing, right, in the first Trump administration. Now, definitely more overtly as he threatened Zelensky and said, you better act quick. You better watch out. He's a dictator.
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threatening President Zelensky, threatening our NATO allies, saying that he would not support any statements to go out by the G7, which calls Russia the aggressor of Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. But let's play this clip of what Donald Trump said about Zelensky. Play the clip.
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And Donald Trump was posting all on social media, referring to Zelensky as a dictator, saying that he's just some has-been comic who stole from the United States and he's parroting Putin's talking points. how Zelensky needs to hold elections right away. Trump's lying and saying Zelensky has a 4% approval rating.
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Zelensky's approval rating is above 50%, and I think the approval rating is going to rise as I think Zelensky's been standing up to Donald Trump and to Marco Rubio and the bullying and the intimidation. Ukraine is rallying as well. Let me show you this other clip as well. And here, Donald Trump says that immediately, Prices are going to go down. This is what Trump said during the campaign.
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Well, the prices were going down under former President Biden. It was anticipated that we would have hit 2% inflation. We were actually leading the world in inflation reduction. We were also leading the world in energy production. We were drill baby drilling, but also we were focused on climate change and our environment, and we were energy independent at the same time.
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You don't want to believe me. Why don't I show you a Rupert Murdoch property right here? The Wall Street Journal said that the U.S. economy was the envy of the world. U.S. economy expected to keep powering higher. Economists lift their growth forecast.
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An awful press conference just unfolded in the White House after a disastrous day on the market. It seems this press conference was called to try to distract the public from seeing Donald Trump crippling our economy, and they also wanted to dangle magical rebates, money that's going to magically enter people's pockets that won't be inflationary from the work that Doge is doing.
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Now here is Sean Duffy yelling at the protesters. Here, play this clip.
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Wild stuff right there. Going back to the press conference at the White House, here's again Mike Walsh, National Security Advisor. Let's play it.
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Let me just get you the fact sheet about California high rail, just so you know. Here's a reason or a few why Duffy was getting booed out of the building today. This project has generated more than 14,000 good paying jobs in California. The route from San Francisco to LA is fully environmentally cleared, meaning it's shovel ready. The track laying phase has begun.
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And of the $13 billion spent, $10.5 billion is has come from the state of California, and $2.5 billion has come from the federal government, not the exaggerated hundreds of billions that are falsely claimed in a lot of these jobs in central California, helping people who are there. So there you have it, folks. We'll keep you posted. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Next, you have the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz. And Mike Waltz here says that even though he previously said that Putin is to blame for the war in Ukraine because Russia invaded Ukraine. Here, Mike Waltz said, it shouldn't surprise you that my assessment has changed because now I do what Donald Trump tells me to do. He literally says that. I'm not using hyperbolic language.
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you some clips of kevin hassett kevin hassett is the uh national the internet the national economic council director and just so you know who kevin hassett is how he got famous well he wrote a book called uh dow 36 000 published in 1999 predicting the stock market boom Right before the internet.com bubble burst of 2000, this guy gets it wrong every single time.
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We literally have the worst people up there at this press conference and in this administration. Here he is being asked, well, if the goal of the spending cuts has been to reduce the debt, why are you imposing the deepest cuts on the IRS that collects revenue? Here, play this clip.
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Just don't be distracted on the havoc that they are causing to our country. Let me show you what went down in this disastrous press conference. Here you have Caroline Levitt saying that she looks forward to Canada becoming the 51st state.
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Here you have Mike Walz, the national security advisor, talk about, oh, we call it here, Trump warp speed. We're going into warp speed mode. Here, play this clip.
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Back to Kevin Hassett, the National Economic Council director. Here he says that now that inflation is surging, Once again, the way they're dealing with that is they've hired Elon Musk as their IT consultant, and he will make sure that tax cuts are restored and an inflation that's now surging because of their policies maybe will go away. Here, play this clip. How did they do that?
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Back to Stephen Miller again. North Korea is feeling that this is a little bit over the top. Here, Stephen Miller says, no president has done more than Donald Trump. Here, play this clip. No president comes close to what Donald Trump has achieved over just the last 30 days. Okay, Stephen Miller, bet.
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I guess no president has done more than Donald Trump to literally crater the United States of America, destroying our economy, destroying our alliances, destroying the bond between states in the United States, spreading lies, hatred, and just being overall disgusting every day. Let's continue to talk about what happens here in this ridiculous press conference.
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After all of that, you then have Mike Walz, the national security advisor, say, what Trump really is focused on is stability. We need to restore stability. Play this clip.
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And also Donald Trump sent a message inviting Prime Minister Trudeau to the governor's meeting in the United States saying that he should be a governor of a state in America. Play this clip.
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Restore stability. Every day it seems like there's another plane crash. The markets are crashing. Donald Trump is calling Zelensky a dictator and blaming Zelensky for Russia invading Ukraine. Donald Trump has destroyed our alliances with NATO. Stability is the word you really want to use right there.
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And here, Mike Walz says, look, there's no one who can stand up to Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong-un like Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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There's no one who is a bigger bootlicker of Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un than Donald Trump, who's turned America into some bizarro North Korea isolated country that is a pariah state to the world. Our former allies despise and hate America under Donald Trump. Massive boycotts have been underway and are underway. In Canada, I saw a recent poll out of Canada.
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Only 30% of Canadians still view America as allies. About 30% of Canadians view the United States of America as an enemy combatant, as an enemy state right now. And then the remainder just doesn't view the U.S. as an ally anymore. That's the state of Canada, to be clear, that only 30% view America as an ally. Going back to Kevin Hassett right here.
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Here, Hassett is asked, so Trump has spoke about replacing income taxes with tariff revenue. Is that something that you're really going to do? Try to not collect income tax, but try to raise money off of tariffs? Play the clip.
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I mean, these people are quite I don't know how else to say it. Like they are legitimately stupid, cruel, arrogant, every bad quality. And it is shocking to me that there are people who fall for this crap still to this day. But I'll tell you one of the plans that they have. It's this right here.
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This is part of their propaganda machine where they say that the government is going to give Americans $5,000 in rebates from Doge based on everything that Doge is collecting. And we all know that Doge ain't really doing anything. It's just lying about data and just making stuff up over and over again. But they say the government will not actually be spending this money. It will be Doge doing it.
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Make this make sense. Here, play this clip.
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So he says inflation happens when government spends money, but government won't be spending money to give money to people. And they just dangle this stuff the same way they dangle no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, the same way they say that they're going to do all of these things.
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And what they really do is they cut $880 billion in Medicaid, $250 billion from farmers, $350 billion in education. They go after Social Security. It should be obvious what they're doing. And $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires. That's going to increase America's national debt to over $25 trillion in debt over the next 10 years, according to conservative think tanks.
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They predict that if the spending bill goes down this way, increase the debt by $25 trillion. Bringing you down to this press conference that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was holding in California. Here, Sean Duffy, who got famous off of the Real World Road Rules Challenge, and now he's the Transportation Secretary, and he's overseen over nine plane crashes in the first 30 days.
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about four lethal plane crashes, some staggering numbers right there. He says that the reason that he's fired a lot of these FAA workers is because they're actually not the highest skilled members of the FAA. Here, play this.
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You take a look here as people in California were booing Secretary Duffy and he and the MAGA Republicans in California, they were showing up in California today to announce that they wanted to investigate the high speed rail project. and they want to dismantle it. And I'll talk about that project in just a second.
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But the same way Donald Trump posted about himself and showed that he said that I'm a king regarding New York, like he literally posted a photo of himself wearing a crown and said long live the king or something like that. And he's screwing with New York's projects to help congestion trapping there, which was actually working.
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Next up, you have Stephen Miller, and as Aaron Rupert says, Kim Jong-un thinks Stephen Miller is laying it on a little thick here. Here, play this clip.
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Trump wants to screw over the high rail project in California, which actually a lot of Republican people like red state. I mean, in California, the red areas, red counties, especially the Central Valley, has been helping their economy. Just watch the people boo and play this clip.
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wow democratic senator chris van holland just held a powerful press conference on his meeting with abrigo garcia in el salvador he stated how the leader of el salvador the authoritarian naib bukele tried to arrange the meeting in a way
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One of the things I've learned recently, too, about Rachel Morin's mother who's been out there, there's actually a lawsuit that's been filed by the children of Rachel Morin saying that their grandma, Rachel Morin's mother, took all of the GoFundMe money from the kids. So there's that lawsuit that I believe is still pending. And here is Senator Van Hollen.
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You see him right here again at the press conference. One of the things that was mentioned is he's no longer, Abrego's no longer at Seacott. He's been moved to another detention center where conditions are better, but still has no communication with the outside world. This was Naebu Kelly's post. Now that he's been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody.
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And then Naib also posted, Naib Bukele posted, Kilmar Abrego Garcia miraculously risen from the death camps and torture, now sipping margaritas with Senator Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador. You now know the propaganda being used by Bukele and the Trump regime, both fascist authoritarians behaving in this despicable way.
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Heroic, heroic stuff by Senator Van Hollen and a great press conference. Wow, wow, wow. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Senator Van Hollen talks about the conditions that Abrego Garcia was putting in a cell at Seacott with 25 other individuals. Play this clip.
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to make it look like they were drinking margaritas together to create this fake set, to create an illusion in the world that Abrego Garcia was not being tortured in Seacott, the extermination camp in El Salvador, which is where Abrego Garcia was being held. We also found out that Abrego Garcia was now moved to another detention center in El Salvador, still has
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Abrego Garcia asked to make a phone call so he could speak to his wife, Jennifer, and his family, but he was told no. Here's Senator Van Hollen telling us that. Let's play it. At that time.
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Senator Van Hollen then talks about how he told Debrego about the message from his wife, play the clip.
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More from Senator Van Hollen here.
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Senator Van Hollen makes it clear that, yes, this is about Abrego, but this is more than Abrego. This is about due process. And if the government is going to do this to Abrego, other migrants, and then Donald Trump says, I'm coming for the quote, homegrowns, Donald Trump will do this to his political opponents. That's the Trump regime's plan. Let's play it.
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Senator Van Hollen just, again, talks about what this situation's about. He talks about how an administrative error by the DOJ led to an individual being kidnapped, sent to an extermination camp, being abducted from the streets of Maryland, and now the Trump regime refuses to return Abrego. Play this clip.
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Bad conditions, not quite as bad as Seacott. Let's go to the press conference. I want to show you what went down when Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen talked about the fake staging of the meeting that was arranged by El Salvador's authoritarian leader, Nayib Bukele. Let's watch this.
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Notice what he said at the end there that doesn't get enough attention. The DOJ lawyer who admitted to the court, fulfilling his duty of candor to the court, that it was a mistake to send Abrego to the detention center in El Salvador, to the extermination camp. The Trump regime fired that DOJ official right there.
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Then you have Democratic Senator Van Hollen say, look, put up or shut up with your evidence. Look, the bottom line is you're in whether you're a good guy, a bad guy, whatever. In the United States, there's due process. You prove your case. You put up or shut up. You put up your evidence and then there are consequences. But we live in a law and order evidence based system.
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Play this clip where the case first appeared.
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Senator Van Hollen talks about his meeting with the vice president of El Salvador, where he was asking the vice president of El Salvador, were crimes committed? Why are you holding him here? To which the vice president of El Salvador said, the reason is, is because Trump is paying us to keep him here. Play it.
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Here's more from Senator Van Hollen about the staging of the scene in El Salvador that the El Salvador authoritarian leader, Nayib Bukele, created to try to mock Abrego Garcia and Democratic Senator Van Hollen by making it seem like they were drinking margaritas when they were not. Play this clip.
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And then you can see how that propaganda gets laundered into the White House from the right wing propagandist media, the other state regime media that Trump has in the Oval Office that launder the lies. Watch what happened in the Oval Office earlier today.
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We got to get some more of them. Senator Van Hollen was asked questions by the media about Rachel Morin, who was killed by an illegal migrant, having nothing to do at all with Abrego Garcia, but the Trump regime wants to use that incident. And then they have Morin's mom show up, basically using her as a prop to attack Abrego Garcia and all other migrants.
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Just so you know the data, Americans engage in far more violent crime than migrants do, if you look at the actual data. And again, the Rachel Morin situation is tragic. The killer was prosecuted, sent to jail, as you know, is getting the maximum penalties that exist. And as Senator Van Hollen says, he goes, well, look, I'm glad there's accountability there.
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We live in a system of law and order, so there should be justice for all. Play this clip. Right here and then I'll go right there.
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Democratic Senator Van Hollen talked about what Abrego Garcia told him, how Abrego Garcia was sad that he was in a prison because he said he did not commit any crimes. Let's play it.
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Another disastrous day in the Trump regime, more disastrous press conferences in the Oval Office, the first press conference with the prime minister of Italy by his side, Donald Trump attacking the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Then Donald Trump was signing some executive orders and then Donald Trump continued to claim that.
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on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Myselish, joined by Brett and Jordy. Guys, how are you doing?
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Here's the thing. There were deals with these countries that Trump broke all of them. Again, go back to his pathology profile. Trump is a deal breaker. Trump has always used contracts. as a way to be a predator. I don't know why I did that, but I had to be a predator. I did like a predator symbol to be a predator on people's good faith. So people who believe that's how he cheats, right?
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I'm playing by the rules. Oh, okay. You're playing by the contract. Screw you. I'm not going to abide by the contract. Well, then what am I going to do? Well, I guess we'll just sue each other. That's Donald Trump's profile. Eventually that stick runs out. And that's why Donald Trump goes bankrupt, because you fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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And as George W. Bush said, you can't fool me more than twice. And then people start getting it, and then it blows up in his face, because you can't actually run something that way. So I think the world gets it right now. You can't cut deals. There were deals with the world, right? One of them is the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement,
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where Trump basically renamed NAFTA, changed a few things to modernize it during his first term. And then he broke his own deal and said the deal was a stupid deal. Well, that's your deal. We have deals with Japan and South Korea that people like Obama negotiated or Biden negotiated or Clinton negotiated or George W. Bush. We have bilateral, trilateral deals
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that made America the leader in the world, right? All of the headlines when former President Biden was in office towards the end, when the media pushed him out, was we're the Goldilocks economy. Things are great. We're the envy of the world. Things are amazing. Trump's inheriting the apex of American economic power in the world, number one GDP in the world.
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And then Donald Trump took a wrecking ball and destroyed that. Broke deal after deal. I mean, you take a look. The S&P is record lows. You take a look at all these Federal Reserve surveys, and there's all these different ones now. Part of...
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observing trump and reporting on him you learn things that you never even knew before like all of a sudden you start having to like look at forward-looking indicators by the new york manufacturing survey and you have to compare that with the one from the philly survey and then you see all this data and it's like this is the worst it's ever been since 9-11 this is the worst can i tell you a new thing that i have to do every day that i never have to do under the administration futures
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yeah yeah that's exactly what i was going to say i know that i have the i have the profile you do the same thing yeah i i do the same thing with fred as i do it i got you all let's check the let's check the dow futures i gotta check the futures i gotta look at how the videos try i i just want to go and read a book at night before i go to sleep
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You know, I want to go and watch a TV show in peace and not go, oh, what's he going to do now? Is another person disappear? You've got the person in Leon County in Florida and an American citizen who's currently being detained under an ICE order. An American citizen who showed his papers and a judge, state court judge in Florida says we can't return.
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We can't do anything, and it's an American citizen. We got Trump with Bukele earlier this week, the leader of El Salvador. Trump's talking about putting the homegrowns in more El Salvador concentration camps. I mean, you've got American senators, Democrats now going there and being told that the leader of El Salvador does not want to meet with American delegations.
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While you've got MAGA Republicans showing up, they get the red carpet treatment when they go to the extermination camps. And they're doing the Abu Ghraib thumbs up photos in front of the extermination camps where we know from reporting, whether it was 60 Minutes or other independent reporting, that what, 75% to 85% of the migrants who were brought there have no criminal history at all?
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No criminal history. um in their home country or in the united states are are there with no due process so when we get back i want to talk about the order from the fourth circuit court of appeal one of the most scathing orders if not the most scathing i've ever read in my legal career on the abrigo garcia matter And as they said, and as we say here, because it's not just about Abrego Garcia.
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It's about Abrego Garcia. It's about the other migrants who Donald Trump put in extermination camps. It's about the next group. And then it's about, as Trump says, the homegrowns. It's about you.
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it's about all of us that's where this is ending next if it isn't stopped and the fourth circuit court of appeals acknowledges that in their order we'll talk about that and more i want to remind everybody after this show ends so right around 9 15 eastern 6 15 pacific or so maybe a little earlier because right when the show ends we then go live it's the state of midas touch address patreon.com slash midas touch
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You could ask us questions. We'll take as many as we can in the time period, but it's the state of Midas Touch address our growth, where we go from here, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Check it out. I'm so excited to see as many of you there as can be there. Also, don't forget, Store.MidasTouch.com. Get your Midas Touch gear, including the Maple Midas gear.
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Maple Midas gear at 100% made in Canada and a bunch of other incredible gear as well. I also put out a note. What should we call the Australian Midas Touch fans? What I think is winning is Midas Mate. Midas Mate. We got Maple Midas. Midas Mate.
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We will see. We'll be right back after our first quick break of the show.
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And y'all just pranked me in front of millions of people and had me go boom, boom. It was supposed to be ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching. That's what's supposed to happen. Why'd you leave that in there? It stays in the show. Gotta love the boom, boom, boom.
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I think I kind of... Ben, bring the boom. Bring the boom. Here comes Ben. Boom, boom, boom. There we go, everybody. All right, let's talk about some serious things though. So Judge Boasberg, Washington DC federal judge, he was the judge who made the initial order where the group of 200 migrants were sent to El Salvador originally several weeks back.
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And he said, stop the plane, stop it from going out. And the Trump regime knew there was an order. They could have stopped it, but they disobeyed the order. So Judge Boasberg just found the Trump regime in contempt, in criminal contempt. That means jail. That means I'm going to throw people behind bars. He said, but you can cure it.
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You can bring back the people and cure what you did by screwing up. And then I won't hold people in contempt. If you don't want to cure. then here's what I'm gonna do. I want a list of everybody from the DOJ who knew about the order, who disobeyed the order. Trump may have absolute immunity. I'm throwing the lawyers in jail.
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Yeah, I'm putting the DOJ lawyers, the people who worked at ICE, they're going into jail.
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and okay the doj doesn't want to prosecute it because it's run by pam bondi and the corrupt trump regime i know how to deal with that i could appoint my own special counsel so i'm going to appoint a prosecutor they're going to charge you with crimes and that case is going to be prosecuted if you don't cure it and what did donald trump say donald trump was asked about it in the oval office and trump threw the lawyers under the bus
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Trump didn't say, I'm gonna protect the lawyers. I'm gonna defend the lawyers. I think Judge Boasberg got it wrong. You think that's what Trump did? No, Trump said, you're gonna have to ask the lawyers. I don't handle any, I don't have anything to do with it. So let me get this straight.
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After having Boo Kelly with you, after talking about the homegrowns that you want to put in extermination camps, after Boo Kelly was like, what do you want me to do? There's nothing I can, you want me to bring back terrorists into the United States? Why would I smuggle terrorists? So after you do that show, after you order the DOJ to do that,
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xi jinping was trying to reach out to him which is just a total lie more economic turmoil we are seeing as donald trump's trade war against the world is backfiring everywhere countries throughout the world are out maneuvering him donald trump was smacked down by the fourth circuit court of appeals in the abrigo garcia case they're saying follow what the supreme court's order is
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Now that the DOJ has been found in violation of the law, I'm going to talk a little bit separately about the federal court in Maryland. Let's first start with what's happening in Washington, D.C., federal court. Those are two separate proceedings. Abrego is a different case, which I think those lawyers and those declarants are headed for contempt.
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State Department people, career people who are covering for Trump contempt. So let's show you Trump in the Oval Office today where Trump is asked about Boesberg contempt. And here's what Trump says.
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Let's be very clear. Let's take Abrego Garcia, for example, because I want to talk about him next. Abrego Garcia's immigration file says the following. No criminal history. No crimes. Zero crimes. Okay? There was a withholding order in 2019. Who was president in 2019? Was it Biden? No. Who was president? Trump.
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Immigration judge in 2019 issued a withholding order, which said, if you want to deport Abrego Garcia, Trump administration or future administrations, you can. You can do it. Not to El Salvador. You can do it to any other country. Otherwise, Abrego can show up to ICE, check in, work.
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live a productive life here your option trump administration biden administration new trump administration you can deport not to el salvador if this was the leader of the ms-13 in 2019 if this was a hardened gang member a terrorist a terrorist Why would the Trump regime in 2019 or the first Trump administration in 2019, 2020, after they got that order, just let the guy go to work?
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Does that make any sense to you? Or maybe, just maybe, the guy's not a terrorist. It says no criminal history. There was an accusation by a confidential informant laundered through a disgraced police officer who ended up pleading guilty to paying a prostitute for sex and giving confidential information to a prostitute.
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A crooked cop put in a declaration that he believed, and this disgraced cop known for lying, that he believed Abrego was part of the Western clique, which is in Long Island. Abrego never lived on Long Island. But the sole accusation of MS, I want to just be real. Where is there an accusation out there? Yes, it comes from a crooked cop based on a spurious source, but there's no criminal history.
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And in any event, there could have been a deportation, not to El Salvador, to another country. And he did not get due process to violate for the Trump regime to violate an order, a withholding order. Now, even if this person actually was a bad guy, our system in the United States is still you get due process. Even if you're a migrant, you get a process.
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after 9 11. there were multiple cases like this before the supreme court there was a case hamdi versus rumfeld and many others that talked about military tribunals and enemy combatants can't be held indefinitely in guantanamo bay in places there needs to be some sort of process in the united states of america
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You can't have people picked up, disappeared, sent to extermination camps, and then a regime say, we don't have jurisdiction. If they thought that this was a bad guy, then prove it, then show the evidence, show the things. The 2019 judge clearly didn't think this person was that big of a threat and a danger where it was an optional move if you wanted to deport.
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It was an affiliation not being directly in it, in the gang. It was based on a declaration that nobody really believes is credible. In any event, you can't send the guy to El Salvador. That was very, very, very clear because he said you're going to kill the person if you send him to El Salvador. Let me just read from you what the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals did.
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Because remember, the Supreme Court 9-0 said Donald with Abrego, return Abrego. Facilitate the return. Okay? So after that order is issued, it goes back to the trial court, the federal court. That judge, not Boesberg, different judge in Maryland. Judge Zinnis. Boasberg's a judge in D.C. Judge Zinnis is the Maryland judge.
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She has jurisdiction over the case because it's a federal issue, and Abrego's from Maryland. That's why it's in that specific case. So she says, I want expedited, aggressive discovery to understand what the Trump regime is doing to facilitate the return. Depositions, document requests, interrogatories. That's all she said. I need to implement the Supreme Court's order.
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So tell me what you're doing every day to facilitate the return. Right. Donald Trump worked to facilitate the return of the Tate brothers, you know, from Romania. He had people work, you know, you were helping out there. Apparently, you've got Trump. And our government has facilitated on an extradition basis like El Chapo, right? We've tried to even the worst people are extradited here.
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And there's a process about going about that. Abrego is not them. We've brought to the United States the top MS, the actual top MS-13 leaders to prosecute here, to extradite because of their crimes in the U.S., because our system of justice was supposed to be the toughest in the world, not a way to send people to El Salvador extermination camps. El Salvador has sent back people.
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to the United States already. Women who shouldn't go there, other people that they decided not to take. So it's not some new thing that El Salvador can send people back. Facilitate the return, nine to zero. By the Supreme Court, the federal judge says, tell me what you're doing. Trump appeals that. You are encroaching on the executive branch. Trump appeals it to the Fourth Circuit.
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Let me read for you. I don't want there to be ambiguity in the language. It's a three to zero decision. Three judge panel, unanimous. Judge Wilkinson, who wrote this, was appointed by Ronald Reagan. This is a Reagan conservative writing for a unanimous panel right here of federal judges.
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Upon review of the government's motion, the court denies the motion for an emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature.
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While we fully respect the executive's robust assertions of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision. It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all.
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The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims, in essence, that because it has rid itself of custody, that there is nothing that can be done.
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This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear. The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and member of MS-13, perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process.
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If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order. Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or mistakenly deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong right? Make it right. You said you did it wrong.
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The executive possesses enormous powers to prosecute and to deport. But with powers come restraints. If today the executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?
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And what assurance shall there be that the executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? the threat even if not actuality will always be present and the executives obligation to take care that laws be faithfully executed would lose its meaning now the branches
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Judiciary and executive are coming close to grinding irrevocably against one another in a conflict that promises to diminish both. This is a losing proposition all around. The judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy to which by dent of custom and detachment, we can only sparingly reply.
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The executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions. The executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time, history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph. Power, I mean, powerful, power, you know, powerful stuff right there.
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Yeah, that was... Sorry, go on. From a Reagan-appointed judge in that unanimous panel saying, this is it. You made Donald... Disobey the order. You may go and think it's a win. Over time, this will just show how lawless you are and it will destroy any legitimacy, a shred of legitimacy that the executive branch has. You're about to destroy the Constitution is what the judge is saying.
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That was a message also by that Reagan appointed judge to the Supreme Court, to Justice John Roberts, right? If you understand the subtleties with which judges writes to, the secret coded message there was, I can't believe you idiots gave this guy absolute immunity. And now he's bringing it to the point where you may not be able to stop him.
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So the best we can do is let him know that what he's ultimately going to create from a self-preservation standpoint is his own demise by ushering in the illegitimacy of his own reign. And Brett, one more point you make that I think is really important. How words matter when the media acts like this is all just part of deportations and strong border and things like this and conflates it.
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They are normalizing Trump's behavior the same way they did on the campaign. They're taking it and they're framing it through. We need strong borders. Shut the F up. We need strong borders. I agree. Americans, if you poll, agree. Should you have strong borders, you should have strong borders.
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That's why former President Biden did a bipartisan border bill that would have invested heavily in doing this the lawful way with dignity. By the way, you want to go over data on deportations with all of this even happening right now? Did you all know there were more deportations by a significant amount under former President Biden than Donald Trump at this exact time?
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during the month of Biden this time last year versus Donald Trump now. And you may go, well, how is that possible? Because Biden did it the right way using legal process where people with actual criminal records were removed quickly, efficiently, and it was dealt with. They'd go to the countries where they were supposed to and it would happen.
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Donald Trump is picking the people who shouldn't be going mostly and treating them cruelly and torturing them publicly to make a show of it, knowing that corporate media will act like that is strong when that is actually wrong. But guess what? Midas touch in town right now. We're getting more views because people want the truth.
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They want people who call it a regime when it's a regime, who call extermination camps, extermination camps, who talk about kidnapping and disappearing people. That's what's happening, not deporting them, kidnapping people. And we'll talk about it in the language because that's what's actually happening. It's easy to do it because that's actually what's happening.
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The hard thing, I think, is coming up with all of these constructs to try to act like what's happening isn't happening. That's why we're doing the state of Midas touch address after this. 6.15, I want you to join patreon.com slash MidasTouch. That's 6.15 Pacific, 9.15 Eastern, right around then. Whenever this show ends specifically, that's when we'll go on patreon.com slash MidasTouch.
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The parallels between this current economic disaster and the COVID disaster, Brett, as you mentioned, are uncanny because this is the Donald Trump decision-making tree. He turns a mistake into a catastrophe. He turns a catastrophe into a cataclysm. He turns a cataclysm into a complete and utter bankruptcy. That is the Donald Trump decision-making. He makes matters worse. He covers it up.
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We'll be right back after our last quick break.
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Check it out. Boom, boom, boom. Check it out. Boom, boom, boom. Discount codes are in the description. There are some other tells as well that don't get enough attention. And when I craft this kind of pathology profile and I try to understand, you can almost predict what he's going to do on a day to day basis.
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And you can build your reporting around it when you study him being a malignant narcissist, when you study his failures in the path, when you study his very flawed and demented decision making tree. You know, look, in the past, what did Donald Trump say about our troops who were killed or injured in battle? They're suckers and losers.
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Brett, as you said, there's this reality deficit, meaning he lies about everything. Think about COVID. Like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Well, doctor, that's what Donald Trump said. There's five cases that are happening. Don't worry. It's never going to hit our shores. Maybe you should inject bleach, right? And he would take you down the worst path ever.
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I never said that, but we heard him say things like that that were reported. We heard how he talked about McCain. He said McCain wasn't a hero. He would make a lot of statements like that. He would say the medals that are given to civilians are better than the medals that are given to people who are injured or lose their lives in battle. We've heard him say things like that. So we know how we feel.
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other than when he was asked a question and didn't know the status of the four american soldiers who died in lithuania trump say anything about the four soldiers who died in lithuania to this day no he did not did he make a message post anything was he there when the bodies were sent back after lithuania had this uh incredibly moving send-off was he there you know no he was not there
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Do you all know that two service members were killed near the U.S.-Mexico border in a vehicle accident this week, and a third member of the military was severely injured? This was as part of Donald Trump sending troops to the border as part of his war on the border, whatever he's saying, this cosplay. Two troops dead, one injured. Did Donald Trump make any message about that?
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Has he said anything and acknowledged the death of American soldiers? No, and that's not normal, okay? Former presidents would always acknowledge it. It's not merely symbolic. They're the commander in chief. That's what you're supposed to do as the leader. That's what you do. And when you don't do that, that's very revealing about who you are and what you perceive your role to be.
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Have you heard Donald Trump make any statements about any of these disasters that have been hitting, you know, there was the
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horrible storms in kentucky and and uh and in the surrounding areas recently i mean and have you heard him make any statements about the deaths the tornadoes things like about people like lots of people got killed with tragic weather events lately have you heard him say anything no i mean he was He was racing around. He was in the motorcade going around in circles on the racetrack.
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And he was golfing. And he was posing in front of gold statues of himself doing pink Birkenbag Hermes parties at Mar-a-Lago. Did he say anything about these storms and people who lost their lives? No. And again, that's not normal behavior for a leader. A leader would talk about those issues and express sympathy. Not Donald Trump, a governor.
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Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro was targeted with an assassination attempt at his residence where the attacker who wanted to murder, as an attempted murder of Governor Shapiro, got pretty far. He burned down a significant portion of the residence and he had a hammer and he was ready to kill Governor Shapiro. Donald Trump has not reached out to Governor Shapiro. Not once.
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And ultimately, who is the scapegoat? Who is the scapegoat for COVID? Dr. Fauci, right? So who does Donald Trump want to make the scapegoat now? Jerome Powell, right? The chairman of the Federal Reserve. He's Fauci-ing Jerome Powell. And what they're all trying to do now in MAGA is blame the economic cataclysm that's here right now, but will be really picking up soon.
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When Donald Trump was on Air Force One and he was talking about golfing and the Masters earlier this week, he was asked about Shapiro. And we have Trump's response from earlier in the week. No message about Governor Shapiro. It's a governor. Again, this is not normal. You put this all together and you can start saying. This guy's a bad guy. Not political. Not in a political way.
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This is a bad human being. This is a trash person. Here, play this clip of what he said about Shapiro.
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Everybody in the press wants to know this. How do you do it, Mr. President? I haven't said it. And do you see the propagandist media? How are you staying so healthy? How are you only weighing 224 pounds and saying that your health is based on the fact that you win golf tournaments? Because it's all bullshit.
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whole the whole thing is is is no offense to clowns which is a real profession fascist clownish kim jong-un stuff when i look at the cabinet meetings i've said this before but i want to repeat it trump's cabinet meetings look like the lost season of the apprentice that was so bad that nobody could actually put it on tv it's apprentice meets kim jong-un
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It's terrible, and frankly, the characters in The Apprentice would do better running the country than these clowns are doing every day. Trump was asked about the horrible shooting in FSU today, another shooting at a school. Watch how Trump answers it in the Oval Office. Play this clip.
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and i will always protect the second amendment that's his response that's you put those all together those clips that i just shared with you and again in a non-political way that's very very disturbing stuff so What's Fox doing? How is propaganda media treating this right now? Well, the first thing they want to let you know, and again, this is how I did it on our sub stack on MidasPlus.com.
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I said that they basically turn these people's brains who watch it into like red globular MAGA mush at this point, these zombified MAGAs who watch this stuff. I'll show you this first clip here of, this is what they had on this morning. A faith leader saying that everybody knows how religious Trump is and everyone knows that he's, you know, just loves Jesus, loves God. Here, watch, watch.
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This is what they're showing their audience every day. Here, play this clip.
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It's kind of like the way a tsunami, the shore starts pulling back before the tsunami actually hits. They want to blame it all on Jerome Powell for talking about the data, right? So Jerome Powell was in Chicago at an economic forum. He was simply speaking about the data. That's his job as the chairman of the Federal Reserve should be noted. You know who appointed him in 2017?
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Well, first, I think people need to know that President Trump has had faith in his life as an early in his early ages, going to Sunday school. One of his treasures books is the Bible given to him by his mother. And then fast forward into his adulthood in 2000 when he called Pastor Paula White and was watching Christian television.
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So remember, before he even thought about being president, he was watching Christian television. And so faith has been a big is watching the crazy.
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This is just the craziest stuff. It's again like North Korea, Kim Jong-un, let's watch that and go, wow, can we run that back? How do we do some stories like that here? And then I want to show you this other one they do. And yes, it's weird and it's gross, but there's a broader thing that they're doing here. And it's also a psychological thing that I want to share with you.
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But they've been getting extra weird on Fox. As the markets crash, as things go worse, you know how kind of like when you don't want to tell someone, you want to hide something from someone, right? And you behave strangely and then someone goes... Is everything okay? Are you trying to hide something?
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It's a version of that, that they don't know what else to talk about, because if they were talking about the issues that matter to the American people, it's all bad. So they turn their network because the propaganda is not working, and they turn it into like this weird gong show. And so what they focused on earlier was how they love eating things off the floor.
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And so they were talking about how Pete Hegseth, when he would work at Fox, in addition to not washing his hands for 10 years, he would take bagels with cream cheese, smear it on the floor, get the dirt on it, and then lick it and then start to eat the bagels. And then another Fox host dropped the banana on the floor on purpose and then said, watch me eat a dirty banana.
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Not just so you see that this is happening. This is what, I just want to show you what they're doing. And then the Magamush viewers are like, oh, okay, okay. I guess there's nothing else important. Here, watch this.
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It's like an army guy. You know, all the army guys who just eat trash off the floor. Brett? Jordy?
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Donald Trump appointed him. I've never been a fan of him. I've never been a big fan of him. Well, you were the guy who appointed him first in 2017. Jerome Powell's term ends in 2026 right now. So about 18 more months to go. And clearly Trump wants to get rid of this guy or wants to blame everything on Jerome Powell. So that's what we're seeing now.
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And while we're talking about him, they want you to forget about Signalgate. Right. Right. I mean, they want to act like that didn't happen. Signalgate, we said the story's over. Media doesn't cover it anymore. I'm still going to talk about it here on the Midas Touch Network. We talk about it a lot.
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fact that you're having classified communications on text message threads and inviting incorrectly reporters onto your chat while you talk about plans then you say they're not war plans it almost goes back to what the fourth circuit judge wilkinson the reagan appointed judge says like you may say the story's over but you have no credibility anymore you know what i mean like okay
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You've done that and now do you think that other intelligence services are going to be giving you information?
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do you think that you're viewed as someone who others can work with in nato and elsewhere no you can't so good work you've covered it up you said you're not talking about it i guess you have the authority to do that but you're looked as fascist clowns everything that everybody warned about you you proved why you don't have the character to be in that position so if you view that as a win
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that you've proved all of your detractors correct about how bad you are good good that's your that's your win congrats You know, though, what I like to see ABC always be campaigning, always be campaigning. That doesn't mean campaigning for office, campaigning for human beings, campaigning for humanity and basic values.
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And what I love about the Bernie Sanders AOC fight the oligarchy tour is that that's what they're talking about. They're talking about issues that aren't talked about. When I interviewed Senator Sanders, that's what he said to me. He goes, what's so interesting is that often the most important issues in people's lives are the least discussed issues by the media.
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education and healthcare and housing, equality, and then going into issues of climate and going into issues of freedom and going into these very, very important issues. So AOC and Bernie Sanders, they were in Idaho, they were in Salt Lake City, They were in Missoula and Montana. They were in red areas in Los Angeles.
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All of MAGA saying, oh, the markets are crashing because Powell's talking about it.
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Over the past five days or so, they took seven stops, four states, 146,000 people turned out. Four reps, four MAGAs we targeted announced they will not support reconciliations in the bill, the budget. That includes cuts to Medicaid.
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say about that because they lie about everything but i think the most important thing is when they're out there when they're speaking to people but not just speaking when they're listening to what people are going through and when you're letting people know that you care about them and you're showing that you care about them and you're not doing it because it's tied to an election you're doing it because you care about people
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then that ultimately pays dividends and you could win elections by doing that. As I said in our sub stack on MidasPlus.com, the one thing that Trump is great at, great at is fraud. Maybe the best fraudster in the history of humanity. Doesn't care, it's all a game to him. He lies like someone breathes who's alive. That's his ethos. So he can just say whatever to anybody. But if you show up,
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and you show people you care, if you're truly empathetic and you listen to people and you talk to people about what it is they're going through, what it means that people are living paycheck to paycheck, what it means that people can't afford health care, they need education, their education systems are bad. If you listen to what people are saying,
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you'll be able to build authentic relationships with people in the long run. So the fact that they did these five stops recently, or seven stops, five states, and then over the past month and a half, two months, they've been going state to state, that we've been seeing a lot of Democrats going into red states and purple areas and fighting. I think that's important.
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What Cory Booker did in the Senate, 25 hours of a speech. It brings attention to issues. What Senator Van Hollen did going to El Salvador. I think that is helpful to show what's going on. These things get covered. And people talk about them. It keeps things in the news. It keeps people engaged with these issues.
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And it's an honor that we here at the Midas Touch Network can use our platform here to cover the things that the news was never going to cover. They had their pact with Trump that they weren't going to cover the protests and this and that. We cover the protests and the shadow hearings and the Bernie AOC rallies, all of the stuff that corporate news didn't do. And guess what?
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We'll be by your side every step of the way. We appreciate your trust. Let's keep building. Let's keep growing. We got this. We got this. Thank you all so much. Jordy, shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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Donald, you lost nine to zero. Stop pretending like you won. Also, Donald Trump's regime was held in contempt, a probable cause finding by another judge. This one in Washington, D.C., federal Judge Boasberg found that the Trump DOJ was in contempt by not following the court orders when the court said return
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Jerome Powell is just talking about the data. He's saying, here is what we see. Here's how we can avoid it. And then the MAGA uses that to say, oh, you're causing the problem. It's what Donald Trump said. If you don't test, you can pretend that the thing is never there in the first place. And in the reality deficit, the Trump regime, the authoritarian swoops in. And what do they post?
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America is back. Things are great. Look at all the money we're bringing in. Like those are Trump's posts that he does in the morning. That's why I cover this stuff, because I have the pathology diagnosis of him. There it is right there for audio listeners. We're showing you the post that Donald Trump makes. America is back.
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and what donald trump says is i've got this commitment i've got this commitment i've got this i've got this the saudis are going to give me this everyone's and it's all lies and then you go back to the pathology profile of donald trump and he's a criminal he's a criminal okay he's a felon what type of felon a fraud He committed business record fraud for 34 felony counts.
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He was found liable for civil fraud. He makes up numbers. That's his whole thing. He makes up numbers, fake valuations of things. He just lies. He says they're bigger than they are. He makes up numbers. That's what he was found liable for. He's an abuser and his personality is abusing. It's a power thing for him. When he said why he's doing these tariffs, he told you why.
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He said it was because he likes people kissing his ass. He goes, all these countries are coming here. They got to kiss my ass. They got to kiss my ass. He's a sexual abuser. He's found liable for sexual abuse. He's a bankruptor. He's
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bankrupted company after company after company why because of all those other factors that i said when the thing goes bad he goes into how could i use the bad to help me and screw over all the other people we're seeing it now on the economy we're also seeing it in the law like you didn't view michael cohen as the red flag to be a lawyer for donald trump
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like michael cohen was saying hey i'm in otisville i became a felon for because i did this and then other lawyers line up and even big law firms at your service donald what can we do to help like are you a bunch of idiots and the thing is once you accept like think about the mafia too right or people who extort people right once you accept
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The plane returned the migrants who you are kidnapping before you send them to an extermination camp in El Salvador. Give me a list of the lawyers who were involved in that. If you don't plan on fixing what you did, I will hold them in criminal contempt. And if I need to appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute those people in the DOJ because your DOJ refuses to prosecute them, I will do that.
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and you become someone who gets extorted and you don't stand up to it, do you think the extorter stops there or do they go off? Let me come back and take a little more. Let me go back and take a little more. So even like with these big law firms and some of the universities, right?
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even if they are so selfish that they want to do things purely to protect themselves screw everybody else view it through a purely selfish decision-making tree lens you have to reject him even if you're being selfish because the moment you embrace his first deal which is extortion he comes back at you again the big law firms are seeing it now we thought we were doing pro bono work to help the world
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Really? That's what you think you were gonna do? You think you were gonna go what? And help Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, send seven more millionaires to outer space so they could brag about how you thought you were gonna be doing that work?
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Or do you think because Trump's DOJ is now filled with freaking idiots that he's gonna use your law firms to try to help him with his tariffs and to try to help him go after the migrants? Yeah, good luck trying to recruit more people for your law firm as he continues to go after you over and over again. I do want to talk later in this episode.
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I'm glad Harvard, MIT, some universities are forming defense alliances. pacts. If they go after one, they go after all. What a strange time we're living in where universities have to form defense pact alliances to stand together to push back against the Trump regime. And we can see in real time who's folding, who's standing up, which firms are folding, which firms are standing up.
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Shout out to Harvard. Shout out to MIT. Shout out to Georgetown Law for standing up as well. All right, let me go back somewhat to the outline, though, of what I'm talking about. I was getting very animated right there. Let's start off. I want to show you, though, Donald Trump's latest market manipulation today, the disaster in the Oval Office. Here, Donald Trump claims...
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Xi Jinping, leader of China, is calling Trump, but Trump is like, I'm too good to pick this up. Of course, he's trying to reach out to me. Lie, gigantic lie, biggest lie. Here, play this clip. We're talking.
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When he does that, when he does, when he does. I mean imagine playing with like poker with somebody who when they hold up their shitty hand, they go – I mean that's like watching – like he lies horribly. It's right there for you to see. So I'm trying to understand this, Donald. So Xi Jinping is calling you while you have Caroline Leavitt out there saying, please call us, Xi Jinping. OK, that –
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I'm not supposed to put those data points together. But yes, he's calling you. You're not making a deal because you like that China is now stopping exports of rare earth minerals, that the Hong Kong post office is shutting down, things being sent, that China is no longer doing business with Boeing. This is all part of the plan?
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It's like when they said before, right, that what they were doing with the tariffs was all part of the plan. We think tariffs are both the greatest thing and the worst thing ever. And that, yeah, we rolled out these tariffs against the world, destroyed people's life savings because it was all part of some plan that we had for him to announce a 90-day pause.
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Trump was asked about that. Trump threw the lawyers under the bus. I don't know anything about contempt. You're going to have to ask the lawyers. That's for Pam Bondi and the DOJ lawyers to figure out. Great work, lawyers. You got played and you're heading to contempt right now. You don't have absolute immunity the way the Supreme Court gave it to Donald Trump. Let's talk about that and more.
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These people, Brett, Jordy, they're moronic. It's moronic, dude.
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This time it's going to be worse, but we actually know the playbook. So what we always want to warn you about is do not get distracted by the shiny objects. Focus on what we need to focus about. It's why let's talk about what I think are some of the most important clips from some of these confirmation hearings that are actually not getting the attention they deserve.
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Look, we've covered the Hexeth hearing. Hexeth's completely unqualified. The guy's got a horrific past. His moral character is garbage. I would just describe it as just consistent, perpetual moral turpitude is what this guy's engaged in. He's unqualified. He's never led anything before.
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The fact that Republicans want to make this guy the Secretary of Defense just shows you there's no depths to their depths of depravity and frankly, in my opinion, hatred.
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of the united states of america if you're willing to make that guy the secretary of defense you hate this country because why else would you pick somebody who would do such damage to the country so stipulated we get it that's who the republicans are i can go on for hours about what how dangerous this guy is we've done other videos on i want to show you clips that you're not seeing though.
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We'll break down not just the Hegseth hearing, but we should talk about Trump's Treasury Secretary pick, Scott Besson. We should talk about Pam Bondi, who Trump wants to be Attorney General. We should talk about Russ Vogt, the Project 2025 architect, who Trump wants to run the Office of Management and Budget. We will talk about all of that. Also, we'll talk about the world uniting again.
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We should raise that federal minimum wage, right? Because you want to help the billionaires. How about bringing the minimum wage up from $7.25 to something a little more? Watch the exchange.
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Mr. Besson, just think about that answer right there and then juxtapose that to this clip where Besson says his top priority, the biggest priority, how he thinks he's going to be judged is by ensuring that the billionaires get their tax cuts. Here, watch this.
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that Trump has proposed that will increase prices for families. Hint, hint, tariffs. Hint, hint, bloody mass deportations. Hint, hint, and then Besant. By the way, let me give you Scott Besant's background. You know how all the MAGA Republicans are like, this is a George Soros plant, which it's never true and it's always like some –
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attempt at being like anti-Semitic to link people to like a Jewish banker and like that's the whole concept. This guy was literally George Soros' money manager. This guy ran George Soros' money and then launched his own hedge fund after rising the ranks for Soros. And then he became basically the tool of the oligarchs to implement their agenda. That's who this guy is here.
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So watch this next question, though. And then just listen carefully at the end where the senator says, so let me get this straight, though, because if the prices go up then, because we all know the prices will go up under Trump, they're already going up in anticipation. You'll agree that it was a failure, though, because you're saying that because prices went up under Biden, Biden was a failure.
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And then he goes, I just don't think I can say that. I don't think I'll be able to say that at all. Here, watch this.
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against Donald Trump? Who said Donald Trump can't bring people together? Well, here in the United States, he can't. But when it comes to the world, he's finding a way to unite countries against the United States. We're seeing that, for example, in Canada where a big meeting was held in Ottawa where mostly all of the premiers and the
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President Trump? I cannot respond to the hypothetical. It's a complete aggregate mosaic. It's a mosaic. Let's face it. I need to do the mosaic.
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at the provincial level and then the federal government regardless of the political parties joined together there was one premier from alberta her name is daniel smith she took the pilgrimage of shame to mar-a-lago where donald trump just further shamed her and said that 25 tariffs
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Hey, Brett, ask me a question. Let's pretend that I'm one of Trump's cabinet officials or picks who he's picking. Ask me a question about how I would handle matters in the administration.
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Well, I haven't spoken at this stage to the president-elect. I cannot answer a hypothetical of that nature. I will say that I have full faith that the president will engage thoughtfully. He will build a composite structure with the right team. There will be synergies in place. I am confident that Ultimately, a solution will be reached that will be complementary to the overall operation.
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But that's what they do though, right? It's a long bit. You're right. We got to go to our first hand.
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across the board no exceptions are happening on day one but other than her canada is fairly united against the united states ready for retaliatory tariffs ready to inflict pain on the united states in retaliation for the united states and inflicting pain on that also Mexico is ready. Europe's ready. Basically, everyone's ready to inflict pain on the U.S.
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Oh, and it was a long bit. We got to go to our first ad break. I want to remind everybody to check out patreon.com slash Midas Touch. In the next week or so, we'll hold another meeting. If you ever wanted to meet Brett, Jordy, and myself in a private meeting, sign up for patreon.com slash Midas Touch. We don't have outside investors, so it's one of the ways we grow. Let's take a quick break.
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on day one when Trump goes through with the executive orders he's threatening and promising. There's a MAGA civil war taking place. You have MAGA Mike Johnson basically firing Republican Mike Turner, who heads the Intelligence Committee or did head the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives. Turner had been
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They have seven minutes. And so you, but I was showing how it's, this is not like complicated stuff, but the funny thing is, is, and I think they've done this intentionally. It's not all that funny. Kash Patel, who the, who Trump picked to be the FBI director, I think the Republicans like that he's not going right away. They're having him watch all of these.
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And they're saying, this is how you do it. They're going to get asked these questions. When you get asked these questions, just don't give real answers. OK, that's all you have to do. Just don't answer the questions. Just say other crap or just say you don't know and you never heard about it or you can't recall or you don't remember, which, by the way, is pathetic.
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That shouldn't be the case, right? I think when our founders created our constitution, and I think over time, unfortunately, so much has been based on good faith and norms, the ability that co-equal branches of government will protect their turf. that even if you're a Republican senator, you will respect that you're a senator and not just do anything that the Article II president tells you to do,
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That's unfortunately, though, what this Republican Party has become. They gave Trump an inch and he took their life. Here's Pam Bondi, Trump's pick for Attorney General. She was asked a very basic question about, have you heard that audio recording where Donald Trump said, find me the 11,780 votes? As Trump's Attorney General pick, what do you think about that he was
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threatening and intimidating a Republican secretary of state in Georgia to commit fraud. And her response is, I've never heard that. I've never, I've heard of it, but I need to see the transcript. I don't know. Here, play this clip.
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a Republican congressman, represents the Dayton area of Ohio since 2003, a fairly respected guy on a bipartisan basis. He supported Ukraine. He supported NATO. So Donald Trump told MAGA Mike, you got to fire the guy. MAGA Mike fired the guy. The Republican conference is pissed. They like Turner. We're seeing it at the state level as well, where a MAGA Republican state senator was literally beat
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You need to listen to it. That is my understanding. That is not...
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he i mean it literally is what he asked him to it's it's on the audio recording and you know look i know that people aren't people are more focused on the hegseth one but i did think it was important to show you um scott besant and bondi and then also you had the head of the omb russ vote literally the guy who authored project 2025 who's put in the position to implement project 2025
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in terms of all of the budget priorities for the deca billionaires. I did a whole video on that. It's on our YouTube feed. You should go take a look at that as well. But I want to talk about this MAGA civil war taking place right now at the state and federal level. At the state level, like it's literally Republican on Republican violence.
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You had the state of the state speech, kind of like the state of the union, but within the state of Georgia. Republican Governor Brian Kemp was delivering the speech and he banned the pro-Trump state Senator Colton Moore. Colton Moore was always out there saying the most cultist stuff about Donald Trump, which is really weird.
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He's like a Marjorie Taylor Greene type guy, that same level of derangement. But Brian Kemp banned him from showing up. So what did Colton Moore do? He shows up and then he got pushed. But look at it. It looks like he took a dive.
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um watch for yourself as a republican on republican violence and then i'm not even going to show you after because then afterwards he gets arrested and then like he takes a photo a video of himself in the hospital and he acts like he like broke his arm and it's like all right relax dude like it looks like you literally just took a spill on the floor yourself like uh watch this
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vibes of nancy mace uh wearing a sling after she uh after she took a handshake uh rough hands but then they go around i mean the whole thing too is like oh the alpha bros like this is alpha i'm like okay i i i i that framing is so weird but this is like the least alpha ish stuff i've ever seen i mean he's like a big guy i just want to talk about one more time because he seems like like he seems like a big guy and then he just falls in the most hilariously awkward way
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beat down by other republicans because he was banned from showing up to republican governor brian kemp's state of the state speech he still tried to show up anyway and then he was like literally shoved to the ground and he got arrested republican on republican violence right there now we'll talk about president biden's farewell address to the american people from the oval office where he warned about the oligarchy
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And then this photo at the hospital. Anyway, you have a guy named Mike Turner, Republican Congress member from Dayton, Ohio, was the chair of the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives, had been a member of Congress since 2003. a respected guy on a bipartisan basis. He said a bunch of stuff that I disagree with.
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But overall, he was viewed as a very kind of competent guy, a competent actor. You know, you'd be happy that if any of these Republicans were the head of the Intelligence Committee, that at least it was this guy. But he was very pro-Ukraine. He was very pro-NATO. He was very anti-Tulsi Gabbard. So he had to go.
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Donald Trump gave the order to Maga Mike Johnson to get rid of this guy from the Intelligence Committee because Maga Mike is the Speaker of the House. He gets to pick who leads the committees. And Maga Mike takes his orders from Donald Trump. So he fired Turner and then replaced Turner with a guy by the name of Congress member Rick Crawford. Let me do it in reverse order.
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Let me show you Rick Crawford first. He's an Arkansas GOP Congress member. This is what he said on July 31st, 2021 about COVID. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, the fact that that's a political issue is the most ridiculous thing. The fact that that guy is now chairing the intelligence community, that was the least intelligent thing I've ever heard. He's also opposed aid.
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to ukraine and he's now leading the intelligence committee let me contrast him with mike turner and here rep turner says that it's absolutely true congress member turner says it's absolutely true that russian propaganda has infected the gop this is from april 7th of 2024 let's play it
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ukraine needs our help and assistance now and this is a very critical time for the u.s congress to step up and provide that so republicans got rid of that guy because donald trump ordered that they get rid of that guy he's still a member of congress but all his seniority his entire career right working up through the ranks to chair the intelligence committee trump just said not you i want the guy who thinks that covid is the same as the cold
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that's the problem i mean one of the biggest problems to me is just the basic facts right just the basic character basic qualifications and the fact that any of this stuff is political especially out here in los angeles the way they've politicized the fires and but that's not just unique to us not just politicized that lied about it the moment it started
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He warned about the tech bro industrial complex. And then he also talked about how he wants to make sure there is a constitutional amendment banning presidential immunity. We'll talk about all of that and more. This is the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellas, joined by Brett and Jordy. A lot to discuss, brothers and Midas Mighty.
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It was a hurricane of lies, as California Governor Gavin Newsom had said in the recent interview with Brian Tyler Cohen. That's what it was, but it wasn't unique to California. Any tragedy, any situation over the past four years, they pumped the disinformation. With Elon's acquisition of Twitter, now X, it just gets pushed out with such force that
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It's a full-time job of a governor who has to deal with a crisis to deal with the crisis of disinformation. That's the unfortunate reality that we inhabit in the MAGA world that's removed the norms and good faith, and we're all Americans, kumbaya, let's lock arms, let's do things together. That's not where we're at. And I think Democrats are playing by old school rules
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while the MAGA Republicans are playing an entirely different game built on lies and propaganda. I want to share with you when we come back President Biden's farewell address. I want to talk about the state of the economy. Brett will break that down as the handoff is made from Biden to Trump. And we'll talk a little bit about Canada uniting against the U.S. Let's take our last break of the show.
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One of the other things to mention is that on the dais next to Donald Trump during the inauguration, there will be the physical manifestation of the oligarchy. You're going to have Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos sitting together, the richest people in the country. They're sponsoring all of the events. They're going to be right there. Just you're going to see it.
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So if you want to know who is screwing you, it's right there. Then the cabinet basically that they bought and then the MAGA Republicans who they bought as well. Michelle Obama is not going to be there. Nancy Pelosi is not going to be there. Others will be there on the Democratic side. And we're not going to stream that there.
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The interesting thing is like when you have Charlie Kirk, who previously didn't like You know, these individuals posting like, this is great. Look who's going to be there. Even some of like the MAGA supporters are like, these are the billionaires that you told us that we were supposed to hate. Like, what are you talking about?
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You know, and I think it's important, again, WMD, Weapon of Mass Distraction, any time that Donald Trump tries to bring our attention to, oh, Mel Gibson, I'm appointing to become the ambassador of Hollywood. We go, okay, cool, bro, but what about egg prices? Okay, cool, bro, but what about the costs of groceries? What about making housing more affordable?
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What about all of your promises about workers and all of these things? Oh, wait a minute, you're not doing that? And look, I think on day one, here's the thing. And Brett, I'll let you do this economic update. President Biden had things in the right direction, just objectively. It's not like, oh, you like Biden, you interviewed him.
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I mean, just look at the charts and the graphics and where the market was. It was up 50 to 60 percent. from where it was under Trump. You had great job reports every month, never a single month where jobs were lost. 16.6 million jobs created. All Trump like actually would have had to do is basically nothing, just coast on it and take credit for it. But pathologically, Trump can't do that.
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And now we're already seeing before day one, the market reacting to it. Brett, take it away.
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Stay tuned. All right. WMD, weapon of mass distraction, one of the things that Donald Trump is promoting at his Palm Beach golf course. He's now doing, I guess, his mugshot, which is basically his portrait now. His portrait is his mugshot photo. That's where we are in the United States, international.
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It's the same exact pose. The same exact pose. That's what I meant. Here he is though. He's doing his face on burgers. If you eat the burgers, his face appears on your burgers at all of his properties now, which is very weird. It looks like Putin. Don't get distracted by that. Let me show you what's going on in Canada, though. This is Doug Ford. He was Maple Maga.
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You see right there projecting unity, the various different parties, provincial level, federal level. Ford is a conservative leader, the premier of Ontario. You see Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister, he's resigned. Canada's in the pro-Rogue period right now as they pick their new leader, their new prime minister for the Liberal Party. Then we probably will have a vote soon.
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I've seen a lot of people call for a unity government there. parties need to unite against Trump, but they're projecting unity as well. Here's what Doug Ford, again, this guy was maple MAGA. This guy was a Trumper. He said his support for Trump would never waiver. Well, not only has it wavered, he removed his MAGA hat and now wears the Canada is not for sale hat.
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And here he is describing this meeting where he says, You're never going to see what you see right now here in Canada. You'll never see Democrats and Republicans meeting in the Oval Office united on stuff. He goes, here we all are. He goes, I don't care if you're the Orange Party, Green Party, NDP, Liberal Party, Conservatives. We're united.
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The one wrinkle to that, though, is that the Premier of Alberta, she's still Maple Mag. Her name is Danielle Smith. She showed up at Mar-a-Lago with Kevin O'Leary. You see them right there. And then I mean, Donald Trump just utterly humiliated her. I think she like lied to the press too. And she said she was on a vacation with her husband, but she ended up being in Mar-a-Lago.
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And Trump said to her, no, we're doing tariffs on day one. You're not exempt. There's no Alberta exemption, 25%. Well, we're going to do it on crude oil as well. Screw you, basically. And she's been really odd. She's been like, attacking this unity government from Alberta saying, no, you're going to screw us over in Alberta.
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The issue with Alberta is that they have a lot of big oil companies there. And so she's a shill for the oil companies. That's what's taking place. But anyway, let me show you Doug Ford from Ontario. Again, this guy used to be a Trumper, but here he is now saying that we're united to cause pain to the United States and have retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. when they come after us. Play this clip.
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And by this done, he's talking about uniting to inflict retaliatory tariffs on the United States, which, by the way, Mexico would do on day one as well of Trump when Trump imposes the tariffs. You know, for all these people out there, too, you know, who are like, well, we still need to see what he's going to do. He's going to do it. He's going to do it on day one. He said he's going to do it.
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So like when all of a sudden all of these analysts are like shocked. You're like, oh, he did it, and then the markets are impacted by it. Yeah, he did it. He said he was going to do it. We warned you about it. What else is it that you need? What other things do you need to be shown? It's a wild thing. If you were to tell me, hey, Ben, I got a great investment for you.
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Over the next four years, we can increase your income by 50% to 60%. I would go, that's a great return on investment, right? That's good. That's what President Biden did with the markets. It was up 50 to 60%. But he was like excoriated and attacked by all of these so-called finance bros or finance people. Oh, we're gonna do it better. Are you gonna do it better than a 50 to 60% increase?
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Are you gonna do it better than 16.6 million jobs? I'm just so sick of this prevailing narrative that, Oh, the Republicans are better on the economy. Look, over the past three, four decades with 50 million jobs created, 48 million of those jobs were created during Democratic administrations. The big recessions that took place, right, were under Trump, were under George W. Bush, Reagan.
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I mean, it's such a strange thing to me.
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what what they're really saying is that these billionaires want deregulation so that they can basically rip people off and that they can have not just 10 yachts but 20 yachts and then they get bailed out by the government while we the people get screwed and we don't get the bailouts they get the bailouts and so there's zero risk and they just you know snatch up all the money and
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and view it as a zero-sum game, it's really screwed up. But it's what President Biden warned about in his farewell address. He gave a few warnings. And I thought it was great. I thought it was substantive. One thing he was very critical of is the Supreme Court, a ban on stock trading in Congress, and also he wants a constitutional amendment to say no to presidential immunity. Here, play this.
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Powerful, powerful stuff. And then Brett. He talked about remembering your oath. I know you wanted to share that.
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band of brothers together all those years ago powerful powerful stuff right there and brett as you said very deliberate and you know i'll i'll leave everybody with this thought because we see it with california governor uh gavin newsom right now who he wasn't ready for the at first for the deluge of the lies and disinformation right he just
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Then it hit, and he was about two days late, not because he was negligent or anything, quite the contrary. He was head down, focusing on the crisis. He was solving the issues. He couldn't fathom that as he was doing that though, there would be all of this disinformation and lies that were harming his ability to handle the crisis.
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Then he's like, oh, we need to create a whole website that debunks the lies. I got to be out every day. I got to do videos and highly produced pieces every single day. The thing is, He's doing such an effective job at it right now.
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You have even Speaker Mike Johnson, MAGA Mike, saying instead of making highly produced clapback videos with social media influencers, you should get work helping Californians, which he is. But you see how effective Newsom is, but you have to do it relentlessly. You shouldn't have to do it. Be clear. This was not – the country that President Biden grew up in.
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Well, it stands in contrast to Maple MAGA. The issue was a lot of the Conservative Party was overtaken by all of these MAGA extremist views, and they were kind of proudly declaring themselves as MAGA Maple or Maple MAGA. A lot of them stopped that because they felt betrayed by Donald Trump. They were like, dude, we were your team. What are you doing?
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Their homes to the land developers. So now you're screwing the people to which Gavin's like, wait, Ted Cruz said that. So now you're a shill for predatory land developer. It's they're not consistent things, but it doesn't have to be when it's a lie. It's just everywhere. And then whoever gets it gets it's easy to lie about everything. That's what it is.
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I mean, the person you see there on the left, Doug Ford, the Conservative Premier of Ontario, He would like wear MAGA hats. Now he's wearing hats that say basically Canada, you're not touching. I mean, United States, you're not touching Canada. Canada is not for sale. And so, you know, he's done a complete 180.
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when we do those zoom meetings also uh midasplus.com uh is the uh destination where ron philipkowski our editor-in-chief put some great content he does an incredible daily summary like if you miss the day of news just go get midasplus.com just read it all it's pretty incredible that's where that's where i go
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honestly, to consume the news and make sure I've done all of the videos that I need to do. I'm just going to be honest.
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But audio listeners, check out the YouTube site. Help us grow the YouTube site so we can do a trade, right? The video watchers, maybe do audio. Audio listeners, do video. All right. Thanks, everybody, for watching this episode. We covered a lot. Jordy, send us out.
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You still have this conservative premier from Alberta, Daniel Smith, who's very problematic. And she tried to divide and conquer, but got humiliated. But let's start here domestically in the United States where Donald Trump's Favorability rating is like the lowest ever going into an inauguration.
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Yeah, look, you've got Biden's approval rating heading in was about 65%, 70%. Donald Trump's approval rating is like 41%. I mean, just think about how underwater that is right there. And I think Americans are realizing... That Donald Trump is a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction. I don't know, like all of the crazy stuff that he's posting doesn't hit the way it did.
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I know corporate media wants us to chase it. The good news is that our platform is just as big, if not bigger than corporate media now. So when Donald Trump wants to try to distract us, we'll cover how serious some of these bizarre and dangerous and threatening statements that he make are.
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But we're going to always bring it back to egg prices are at record highs, mortgage rates at record highs, the price of goods record highs. We showed previously on the last episode that Trump's envoy to Ukraine.
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Keith Kellogg is saying that he'll need at least 100 days before even a framework is developed for trying to discuss a peace deal there, where Trump said it would be 24 hours after the election, or just even assume he meant 24 hours after inauguration, which is not what he actually said. That's not going to happen. So it's Lie after lie after lie.
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Trump's approval rating is in the toilet bowl right now. Some of the worst approval ratings in the history of pre inauguration, only 41% of Americans approve. This is supposed to be the honeymoon period. It's turning out to just be more of the same for Donald Trump, Donald Trump, the American people. hate you. When you take a look at those confirmation hearings, you get confirmation why.
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And Americans who have now been Googling what are tariffs, you probably should have done that before the election. And also Americans and corporations that rely on labor from foreign sources, including undocumented labor and construction and hospitality and agriculture and other areas.
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In red states like Texas and Nebraska and elsewhere, they're saying, well, wait a minute, so you're actually going to deport all of our workers and do workplace raids? Why are you going to do that? We need those workers. Can we do some sort of comprehensive immigration plan? I don't know.
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The one President Biden introduced that Donald Trump killed, which would have had the strongest border, as well as a comprehensive plan to make sure that the bad guys were prosecuted, which, by the way, they are. And those contributing have at least a pathway towards citizenship where they don't have to hide in the shadows. And we can actually fix a broken immigration system.
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Oh, yeah, but Donald Trump... intentionally killed that bill because he said it was a winning issue for him to create chaos at the border and to create chaos in our immigration system. So look, when Donald Trump makes a post like this, remember, he's just trying to do a bait and switch.
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Okay, really? I mean, you're creating, you're making up an ambassadorship to Hollywood, California. Okay, Donald, cool bro, but what about lower prices? Cool bro, but what about the prices of eggs and groceries? Cool bro, how are you gonna make housing more affordable when the 10-year yield on the bond market is pricing in the chaos you're about to cause, and now mortgage rates are up past 7%.
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Oh, and by the way, those billionaire oligarch bros of yours, the guys like Scott Besant who run hedge funds and private equity companies, yeah, they're the people who are scooping up the supply of housing.
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and making it so uh expensive because the supply is diminished because they are commoditizing housing and buying it up so regular folk can't buy homes oh those are your buddies what are you doing there donald trump says i am hereby creating the external revenue service
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Dude, what are you even talking about? This is a real post from an external revenue service. OK, tariffs are a tax on American companies, the importing company in America to try to dissuade them from getting goods from abroad. That's what it is.
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I mean, you got some of the most unqualified people avoiding answering the most basic questions, whether they'd follow the Constitution, whether they have basic competence and qualifications for the job. When they did answer questions, they made it very clear their priorities are to help the billionaire oligarchs And screw over, we the people.
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Well, you know, it's that first scene or one of the first episodes of the new Squid Games. I'm not going to try to ruin it on Netflix. And by the way, I really couldn't get through it because I really can't watch anything on Netflix in general. Like I can't – there's nothing I can – No attention span? Yeah, zero attention span.
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But to watch that type of stuff, like there's so much real world stuff that I just can't get into like – fake worlds personally I don't know that's my own thing but the guy who won the actor who won in the fictional character who won Squid Games 1 comes back to Squid Games 2 and then tries to like warn all of the people how the games work Look, here's what's gonna happen.
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They're going to shoot you if you do this. Hold the line and stop. Do not be distracted by what they're about to say. I'm telling you what's going to happen. And so in the scene, as he's warning the people about what's going to happen, For most of it, he's able to do it. He goes, you see, that's the hustle. I'm proving it. Look right there. This is what they did in the first season.
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This is what they did when I won it. And then as he's trying to tell people, the people still couldn't resist it. And they're like, I don't know about it. I'm going to go and try to run anyway. And then they would get shot basically. We've played the Squid Games before with Donald Trump or the Hunger Games. We've been through it once before.
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I didn't like Turner, but having Turner in the intelligence community... or in the Intelligence Committee and chairing it was something that was beneficial for all Americans, regardless of what your politics are. But now the MAGA Republicans are fractured totally. You know, what they keep trying to sell to their base to keep them going are the gimmicks, right?
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Like what Donald Trump say he was going to do in the past 48 hours. He goes, oh, oh. Now I'm going to create an external revenue service when I tariff all of these nations, even though tariffs are taxes on American companies. Donald Trump says, we're going to have the external revenue service collect that money. What are you even talking about?
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So you've got MAGA people like this guy on Twitter saying, Trump to abolish the IRS and create an external revenue service. This has huge potential for the American people to prosper. To which the comments, even from MAGA people were like, When are the eggs going down? You're not in his tax bracket. Other MAGA Republicans are waking up to this as well.
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For example, Charlie Kirk is out there bragging how on the stage with Donald Trump during the inauguration will be Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos sitting together right next to Donald Trump, right next to Trump's cabinet picks, to which MAGA people were like, what? These elite billionaires? What does that have to do with what Donald Trump promised us?
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We're seeing a lot of that happening. Take a look at this moment as well. This is on Fox. They bring in Charlie Kirk to talk about this, how everybody wants to be Trump's pal. And you're going to hear what goes down here. Listen to this.
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You hear the producer there in the background going, oh, S word right there. Wild. But folks, this is what's going on at Mar-a-Lago. Can't you all relate to this? I'm being sarcastic, of course. Trump is now selling Trump burgers at his golf courses and you can get Trump's face on your burger. That's completely normal. I'm being facetious right there.
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Take you to the floor of the House of Representatives, which this is what MAGA Republicans are talking about. During a hearing on telework, you have MAGA Republican Nancy Mace talking about penises and vaginas. Here, play this clip.
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Over here we have as part of the questioning of Martin O'Malley, who stepped down as Biden's Social Security Administration head. He's running to be the chair of the DNC. More questions from Nancy Mace about genitals. Here, play this clip.
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And then Marjorie Taylor Greene got in on the action because this is what Republicans are talking about. This is how they're trying to distract. Let's play.
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But while they're doing that, what are they doing? They're trying to condition aid to California on getting rid of the debt ceiling so Trump can hook up the billionaires with more tax cuts?
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The entire Republican House conference has been thrown into utter chaos. As I reported earlier, Donald Trump ordered Speaker of the House, Maga Mike Johnson, to fire Mike Turner, Republican congressman who chaired the House Intelligence Committee. Turner was a big supporter of NATO, a big supporter of Ukraine. Trump wanted him gone.
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This is Democratic Congress member Mike Levin. And here he's like, you know, conditioning aid to a disaster relief on Trump agendas. That's what's unheard of in American politics or just in our system. We help people who are going through emergencies. Here, listen to this.
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Thank you. And by the way, take a look at this. You may have seen this already. This was the sign behind the MAGA Republicans during the Senate confirmation hearings. D-E-I-N-R, military, M-I-L-T-A-R-Y. They don't even know how to spell. Let me show you this clip of AOC from the House floor here playing.
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All right, tell me what you think there, everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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This sent shockwaves throughout the Republican conference in the House of Representatives because for some reason they believed there was going to be this, quote, reconciliation agenda and bring the Five families of the Republican Party together. Turner being fired and pushed out. He's been a Congress member since 2003. Very well-liked, kind of a bipartisan guy.
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Wow! Trump Gets Humiliated as GOP Votes Against Budget
This is an unmitigated disaster for MAGA Mike Johnson, folks, and we've been predicting it here at the Midas Touch Network. Donald Trump's, quote, big, beautiful budget, end quote, was just voted down by members of the GOP in the Budget Committee. Yep, the GOP members shot down Trump's budget. They said it was going to increase the deficit by trillions of dollars. And get this,
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Well, there you have it, folks. We're going to keep you updated. But these are some major developments. Will Maga Mike Johnson now lose his job? This bill has blown up in the Budget Committee of Wow, wow, wow. A big morning. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thank you for watching.
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Wow! Trump Gets Humiliated as GOP Votes Against Budget
But the House budget's vote on that reconciliation bill has failed. MAGA Mike humiliated by MAGA Republicans, a major Friday disaster for Donald Trump. Now, we got wind of this as well when we saw Ralph Norman, MAGA Republican, and others kind of walking with a smile on their face earlier today. They kind of indicated what was about to go down.
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We thought this was going to happen, but MAGA Mike was lying and saying it wasn't. Here's what MAGA Republican Ralph Norman was doing earlier in the day when he was walking there and he's like, I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do. Here, play this clip.
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You'll recall yesterday, MAGA Mike Johnson was, surprise, surprise, lying. By the way, this guy is the worst speaker of the house ever. We'll see if he's going to lose his job now soon. I think MAGA Mike is indeed on the chopping blocks. But yesterday, MAGA Mike says, this big, beautiful bill, it's all going to plan. Yes, we have some issues around SALT. right? The state and local tax deduction.
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But that's not even the issue that ended up crushing it. It was the people, it was right-wing MAGAs on the budget committee who said this was adding trillions of dollars to the deficit. So they haven't got to the SALT issue and they haven't even got to the Senate where there's more opposition. Here's what MAGA Mike was saying yesterday. Play this clip.
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There is even more opposition to Trump's bill in the Senate than in the House. But this bill has been derailed in the Budget Committee. MAGA Mike Johnson yesterday was saying, nope, it's on track. Things are going great. Here on the Midas Touch Network, we were saying, nope. Remember what we reported earlier this morning as well?
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As I mentioned, there's even more resistance to this horrible atrocious tax bill that by its own very terms raises the debt ceiling by almost $5 trillion. There's more opposition in the Senate to this than even in the House of Representatives. So this thing still has to, this thing has to go to the Senate and senators have said, this is dead on arrival. Even if you pass this thing,
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which it didn't even get out of the budget committee. They said, we ain't passing this thing. This is why I like to show you the receipts. I don't want to buy media narratives. Let's just listen to what the people are saying, right? Here's MAGA Republican Ron Johnson from Wisconsin. Here's what he's got to say about this. Play this clip.
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He's a no vote. Then you've got MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky. He's a no vote. So Senator Johnson, Senator Paul, here, play this clip.
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So I'm really looking forward to Mother's Day this year. It's going to be a very special day. It's always a special day, but it's extra special this year because my wife, Xochitl, just became a mom to our beautiful baby girl, Ximena, who's seven months old. And my mom, who just became a grandma, is going to get to spend the day with us as well.
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We said that bill ain't going to make it out of the Budget Committee. And here's the moment where the House Budget Committee failed to advance the GOP tax and spending bill. 16 to 21. There were four no votes. Then there was a fifth vote that was made by someone in order to reintroduce this, perhaps in the future. Let me show you what went down. Let's play the clip.
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and I got Sochi and my mom the best gift, but shh, don't tell them what it is, I'm just gonna tell you. I got them an Aura digital picture frame where I was able to load some of the best memories from the past seven months of my mom's granddaughter and my wife's daughter, Ximena, and all of us together. Normally these photos would just be on my phone and I wouldn't know what to do with them,
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But now with this Aura digital picture frame, they get to display it at their house or in their living room or wherever, and they get to see these photos that I've personally curated for them. Aura Frames was named the best digital photo frame by Wirecutter. It's featured in 495 gift guides from last year.
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The promo code is MIDAS. Support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. That's AuraFrames.com and use that promo code MIDAS. And ultimately, what you got is these MAGA Republicans who also want to cut Medicaid. By the way,
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The MAGA Republicans who voted to block this bill in the budget committee, who derailed this thing in the budget committee, they're also the people who want Medicaid cut, like a lot of them. These are the people. So their view is that if their view is you have to cut Medicaid or else you're going to balloon the deficit. So how are they even ever going to solve this? I mean, take a look.
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This is MAGA Republican Buddy Carter. talking about ending Medicaid. Play this clip.
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Yeah, look, I mean, I'm sure there's a fair amount of waste to be cut as well. And this was yesterday as well when you had MAGA Republican Jason Smith go on Will Cain's show. Here's what they had to say. Let's play this clip.
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And folks, even Josh Hawley, mega Republican Josh Hawley from Missouri, even he was basically saying, look, one of the big problems about this tax bill is it cuts Medicaid. And he's like, I can't pay. I don't want to give Hawley credit for it much. But at least he says here we can cut Medicaid. And he admits that Trump's bill is going to cut Medicaid.
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And this bill is what failed to pass in the House today. Play this clip. Do you agree with the speaker? Is this bill not a cut to Medicaid?
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Last point I want to make too, there's so much nefarious things about this tax bill. It also cuts like 40% of homeowners assistance as well to low income people. It's going to make millions of people homeless. It's going to take away healthcare for millions of people. But here's HUD Secretary Scott Turner. Here's what he's got to say about it too. And he's talking about
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You know, I mean, under this budget, I mean, literally 40 percent of all rental assistance out the drain, homeowners out the drain. I mean, Donald Trump's whole platform, the fraud was lower costs, make housing more affordable. And of course, he's a fraud. He's a felon, Trump. He's a sexual abuser. He's a fraud. He's a liar. He's a criminal. Anyway, here, play this clip.
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So here's what was going down in real time. You had MAGA Republican Congress member Norman, a no vote. MAGA Republican Congress member Chip Roy, a no vote. MAGA Republican Congress member Brechin, a no vote. MAGA Republican Congress member Clyde, a no vote. And then MAGA Republican Congress member Lloyd Smucker changed his vote to a no vote. likely in order to try to, I guess, bring this back up.
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Trump Hijacks DOJ Presser and Goes Nuts
Donald Trump attended a Department of Justice press conference that was supposed to be about fentanyl, but Donald Trump hijacked it to talk about persecuting people. Here's what Donald Trump said.
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This is what Donald Trump was saying at the Department of Justice. He then name checks Mark Elias and others who he says are bad people. He goes, they're very bad, naughty people because they fight for the Constitution. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump brags about the crowd size at his press conference inside the Department of Justice building. Huh? Play the clip.
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Of course, you can't have a Donald Trump press conference at the Department of Justice that he hijacks without him talking about how rigged and crooked elections are in the United States, which of course is false. But this is what Trump is saying in the sacred legal halls of the DOJ.
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Whining and whining and lying about elections. That's Donald Trump, the felon, in the Department of Justice building. Here, Donald Trump then says that one of the greatest days of his life was when he fired James Comey, the former director of the FBI. Here, play this clip.
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Yep, this press conference at the DOJ was supposed to be about Pam Bondi and Donald Trump talking about confiscating fentanyl. Attorney General Pam Bondi brought fake packages of fentanyl. More on that in a bit. But Donald Trump hijacked this thing for himself. And then he started talking about how he believes CNN and MSNBC are illegal.
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Then Donald Trump brags about revoking clearances for special counsel Jack Smith, District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Attorney General Letitia James. And he says, and other crooked law firms, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump. says that the word, I don't know what this has to do with his speech, but he loves the word groceries because he says it's very old fashioned and he's never really heard that word recently.
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Thank you, Miracle Made, for sponsoring this episode. Southern District of Florida Judge Eileen Cannon, who went out of her way to help Donald Trump in his various cases. And she's the one who said that special counsels don't exist as it relates to Donald Trump's case and dismissed the case involving Donald Trump's taking of top secret documents that he was charged with.
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And Trump says she's a great person and anybody basically who criticizes her is He basically insinuates it's unlawful to criticize Judge Cannon, the corrupt judge who he appointed, who dismissed his criminal case and went against all legal precedent to do so. Let's play it.
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And Trump appears to continue to suggest that criticizing judges are illegal. And then he says that the New York Times basically is an unlawful entity, is what he implies.
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Then Donald Trump talks about the DOJ will be conducting, quote, far-reaching investigations into the corruption of our system. play the clip.
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In terms of who Donald Trump attacks and who Donald Trump praises, here Donald Trump praises Mike Flynn and says that Mike Flynn is a real patriot who had been through hell. Donald Trump pardoned Flynn. Flynn was, of course, someone who had pled guilty to engaging in some fairly egregious crimes. Here, play this clip.
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As I mentioned earlier in the video, Pam Bondi, the attorney general, she brought fake fentanyl with her on stage. This was supposed to be about confiscating fentanyl, I think. And here she talks about having fake fentanyl packages with her. Play it.
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That's right. So the fake Epstein file binder from a few weeks ago, where she lied and said they were, that the DOJ would release the Epstein files. By the way, no mention of that here, even though they said that's what they were gonna do. I wonder why they're not releasing the Epstein files. Hmm. And now they have fake fentanyl packages, fake Epstein binders.
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Here, Donald Trump then talks about how there could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the incident and reward the wicked. Essentially, the ultimate projection and confession. Play this clip.
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That's what Donald Trump did inside the DOJ building. It's absolutely horrific. to see a felon like Donald Trump, a sexual abuser like Donald Trump, go into the DOJ and give that horrific speech that he just gave, a sad day for law and order, a sad day, perhaps the worst day in the history of the Department of Justice. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Donald Trump continued to talk about who he wants to persecute and who he really loves and appreciates. And here he says that he should get way more credit for pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists and terrorists. Play this clip.
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Waking up in the Trump regime, it's like idiocracy, fascist groundhog day. You wake up, Trump makes a stupid offensive post, the markets tank, he then hosts some world leader, he says the most offensive things, then you rinse and repeat. So you wake up in the morning and Donald Trump posts the following, the US doesn't have free trade, we have stupid trade. The entire world is ripping us off.
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And then Donald Trump talks about, again, while the NATO Secretary General's there, he talks about how he's told Republicans to bring up the issue of bullying transgender people during elections. But once the election's over, you don't have to worry about talking about it because it's really only to get people mad during the elections.
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This is what he's talking about with the NATO Secretary General sitting by his side. Let's play it.
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Talk about saying the quiet part out loud. And finally, let me share this clip, Brett, where Donald Trump in front of NATO Secretary General has this delusional lie about how he invaded. Trump says that he invaded Los Angeles. He broke into it, he says, to take the water and then personally put out the fires in Los Angeles from about two months ago.
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Let's play the clip and then I'll just remind people what he's delusionally mentioning here playing this clip.
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So even if what he was saying is true, which it was not, he's sitting there with NATO Secretary General talking about invading and breaking in a crime, right? Worse than Watergate, if you will, into water and taking it and then doing something with it.
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What Trump's referring to though is that he had the Army Corps of Engineers go into reservoirs in Northern California after the fires were already put out in Southern California, in Los Angeles. There was really no other fires at that point.
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And then Donald Trump had the Federal Army Corps of Engineers dump reservoirs, 2 billion gallons onto farmland in kind of the Northern Central California area, nowhere near Los Angeles so that he can say he turned on a faucet. He then destroyed the land of farmers because he dumped out the reservoir into other land. people who were in the reddish areas too of California, like Trump voters.
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And then he got rid of the water in full reservoirs that were needed actually for the summer when you need that water. And it had nothing to do with the fires in Southern California as well. I just, I want to explain to you, because Brett, that's how psychotic what we just observed was.
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Well, now Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Wartime Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations. The act was last used during World War II to detain Japanese Americans and to put Japanese Americans into concentration camps. This wartime law of 1789 would allow Donald Trump to detain or deport people here, and citizens if he believes they are enemies to the nation.
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guy's literally a psychopath. I mean, just listening to him speak, his lack of a thought process, and again, declaring, in my view, not trade war on Canada, but actual war. Then Donald Trump's advisors start showing up one by one on the various propaganda shows to say, oh, he's so good He's the greatest dealmaker in the history. So Trump's energy secretary, Chris Wright, goes first.
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And this follows the Guantanamo Bay plan by Donald Trump falling apart. Remember, they said they were going to put 30,000 people in Guantanamo Bay. They ended up putting about 178 people there who were actually not from any violent gangs at all. They put nonviolent people there, and then they couldn't even keep, like,
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the basics of the infrastructure they're going and then tried to hide it and bring everybody back to the United States after putting those really expensive military planes on display for the kind of propaganda movie style photo ops.
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Remember they put Dr. Phil on the street and Dr. Phil was, this is real. Dr. Phil was questioning the migrants, why are you here? I mean, I'm like, what in the world am I watching? But by the way, that's why last month there was more money spent by the federal government than any month before in American history.
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We've got a lot to discuss when we're back, including a major order by a federal judge regarding the unlawful termination of those probationary employees. A federal judge says those probationary workers need to be rehired immediately And so we'll talk about that. We'll talk about what's going on in Canada now. We've got a lot more to discuss about Trump crashing our markets here. That and more.
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Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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welcome back thank you to those pro-democracy sponsors we don't have outside investors so we are grateful for our pro-democracy sponsors and while i'm at it let me remind everybody as well that a few times a month we hold zoom meetings with our supporters at patreon.com slash midas touch p-a-t-r-e-o-n dot com slash minus touch again we don't have outside investors so one of the ways we've built this has been through our patreon and we have so much fun
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The art of the deal. I'm going to take the economy, make you all suffer so you can suffer more in the future. Oh, and by the way, this past month saw the highest federal spending in the history of the United States, $603 billion in federal outlays more than any other month ever before, including any time during former President Biden's administration.
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what's going on in the trump regime he posted every day on midasplus.com go to midasplus.com you can subscribe there for free although we'd love for you to become a paid subscriber to help this network grow but go check it out if you like it you can then become a paid subscriber but that's midasplus.com let's talk about what else has been going on so you have howard lutnik
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who has really to me become one of the breakout clowns of the trump administration i mean this guy makes a snake oil salesman look dignified there's nothing that this guy won't say or do
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you know and and you know i'm not trying to mock the sham wow guy back in the day or some of those infomercials you know they did their hustle back in the 90s or whenever that was but howard lutnik is basically doing the same stuff but we're gonna do trump cards and everybody's gonna be so rich it's not a wow it's not a shammy it's a sham wow it's a trump card you know and that's what i'm watching i'm like what in the hell is this and it's why i think it's refreshing that we all go
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This is not normal. This is not normal. And then you go to your neighbor. This is not normal. And then they tell their neighbor, this is not normal. Let me just show you the evidence as I would.
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Back in the day when I was a litigator presenting cases to the jury, let me show you first exhibit A, Howard Lutnick, Trump's commerce secretary, saying, why are we even doing business with Canada in the first place? We don't need them. Here, play this clip.
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Why? Because they're our ally? Because that's the way trade works? Because they fought in wars with us before? Those are reasons, Brett.
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So next up, after Chris Wright, you've got Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump's top advisors. He says, this has been the best 50 days ever. Y'all love it. We love it. Yeah, we love it.
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That's why, though, I think we should just call it the crash mode, not correction mode, because that's their kind of right wing language that they go, oh, it's just a correction. No, it's a crash. Sorry, bro.
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Trump is a sexual abuser. He was found liable for sexual assault in a civil case. He said on audio, we all heard it, that he grabs women by their genitals without their consent. And he said they let you get away with it when you are rich. Trump was close friends with Epstein. By the way, where's the release of those Epstein files that they promised?
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Remember, they handed the influencers at the White House, the MAGA influencers, a binder that said those were the Epstein files. They were Epstein's phone list that was released many, many years ago in connection with other cases of Epstein, by the way, which has Donald Trump's phone numbers and lots of phone numbers on.
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But if you look at those messages, just pull them up visually, Brett, because if you've ever had an abuser in your life, These are messages that abusers send. The caps, the attacks on you, the gaslighting. He's an abuser and he surrounds himself with other abusers. And so they then go to the people that they are then abusing
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you need to apologize you need what why aren't you saying you're sorry you know what you did to me do you know what you did to me you hurt my feelings europe you're doing you're you're you're standing up to me how dare you why would you do that you do that to me i'm gonna have to inflict pain on you because you're doing it to me Trump is the one who started trade wars with Canada and Europe.
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Oh, it's been so good. You've got to see your pensions get destroyed. You got to see your Medicaid be destroyed. Elon Musk has called Social Security the biggest Ponzi scheme. They're firing lots of people who work at the Social Security Administration. 70,000 people who work at the VA get fired. Veterans are getting fired. Government workers are getting fired.
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They have to defend themselves. So they issued a combined $60 billion in retaliatory tariffs, which is dollar for dollar, match the United States tariffs. And then Trump's like, now you're abusing me. Why are you doing that to me? All caps frantic in the morning because he's an abuser.
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And he should be one of the things, one of the red flags that we tried to flag before the election was that his pathology was unfit to be anywhere near the proximity of power, not even in the position. He's got defective pathology. And you see it in how he's bankrupted.
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most of the things he's touched in the past i mean i show it in my other videos you go through his sec filings and you see bankruptcy 91 92 1994 2003 2004 2009 trump taj mahal trump resorts trump casinos trump this then you go through all the entities that went out of business the trump universities the trump vodka the trump this the trump mortgage the trump planes
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you know he can't run it then you look at his existing business trump media losing 400 million dollars and only earning four million dollars in revenue that's less than like your local boba shop earns in a year and it doesn't lose 400 million dollars and he's and he's the president and he can't make the thing make money i mean it's it's outrageous by the way
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It's why Canada's pick for prime minister, Mark Carney, is like the perfect person for the job, right? You've got the banker in Mark Carney versus the bankruptor and bankruptcy in Donald Trump. You have the banker in Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, versus the bankruptor and the bankruptcy in Donald Trump.
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You've got Carney, who was the governor of the Bank of Canada and led them out of recession. and then was the governor of the Bank of England during Brexit and really helped with a lot of the issues that were going on there. And you've got Trump who probably can't even read a balance sheet.
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And the Trump kids who, when they were under oath, they didn't know what the hell was going on with their businesses when we saw what was happening in the New York Attorney General case. And then they're scammers. That's the thing, too. So when they talk about this, Brett, you mentioned the budget, where they're going to give 4.5, if they pass it, who knows what they're going to do. Yeah.
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$5 trillion in tax cuts, though, to the billionaires while destroying Medicaid, $880 billion cuts to Medicaid, destroying the farmers, $350, $400 billion cuts to farmers and education.
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I mean, destroying people, infrastructure, getting rid of the PAC Act, getting rid of the CHIPS Act, I meant, but also attacking veterans another way, which essentially is getting rid of the PAC Act, but going after veterans and all of those things. So it's expected that at the least,
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will add 19 trillion dollars to the deficit trump regime won the first administration added about eight trillion dollars of deficit that was the cause of the inflation because he was printing money recklessly and running up the debt that's what happened that's that's how inflation gets caused the same way fires get caused if you light the match trump lit the match in the first administration he's lighting that times three
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And now one of the ways they're trying to pretend they're going to balance the budget is they have Mr. ShamWow guy. No offense. I don't want to meet the ShamWow. I don't know the ShamWow. For all I know, the ShamWow guy is a nice guy. So I'm not trying to pick on him. And for all I know, you liked your Shammy. Was it a Shammy or is it a wow? It's a ShamWow.
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Then he posts this. The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the world, it was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% tariff on whiskey. If this tariff is not removed immediately, the US will shortly place a 200% tariff.
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um and then you go back to howard lutnik who goes i think there are stories which uh negate that he may be a nice guy is sham wow a bad guy i think so yeah that's a horrible guy i think i don't know about the shamway i don't know i think he's done some dead yeah yeah i i that i dislike the show i haven't done like we don't need to get into it on this episode i won't get into this yeah we'll get into the guy i i probably ate him then i don't know much about it my point is that howard lundick's a con artist
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NIH, FAA, CDC, you name it, they're getting fired. The government is getting gutted. The economy is tanking. But this has been the greatest 50 days ever. Tommy Tuberville, MAGA Republican Senator from Alabama, He has a different take on it. I guess it's also the greatest, but also we're feeling a lot of pain, but also no pain, no gain. We need to feel this pain, everybody.
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That's what I'm going with. I won't do that reference anymore. Let me show you. Let's play the clip.
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with trump gold cards they're selling just to be clear what they're doing they're selling citizenship to russian oligarchs and chinese oligarchs and oligarchs five million dollars a pop which by the way is is under other united states code sections would otherwise be illegal you can't sell citizenship but they're selling the citizenship now with trump cards and when trump was asked russian oligarchs and uh and and uh
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what, Saudi oligarchs and whatever. Yes, that's what we are doing. And they say, and it goes, Brett, back to, if you followed the Trump fraud trials and all of those things, they just make up numbers. $10,000, $30,000, $50,000, $100,000, $1 million.
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Everything's going to be good. Why even say that? Because they've got great plans with, because these Trump tariffs have been A-okay.
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why we cover all of senator bernie sanders rallies right because we know corporate media is not going to cover they rather cover donald trump playing the j6 insurrection anthem and normalizing that in waco texas on the 30th anniversary of the waco siege versus watch senator sanders speak in front of a bigger audience about helping workers right but now
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that we have a platform that gets more views than Fox and more audio downloads than Rogan. I'm going to use that platform to showcase what had never really been showcased before.
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Speeches where Senator Bernie Sanders and others who want to follow in that way, which I think is the right way right now, going to areas, reddish, purplish areas, or just working class areas in general, and speaking to people about what they're going through and listening to people and letting people know and looking at people in the eye and letting them know you care about them.
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Because here at the Midas Touch Network, we care about our audience. The way this has grown, it's not because of Brett, Jordy, and me, although we enjoy doing the show together. It's grown because of you, the Midas Mighty. It's grown because we've listened. And we've never forgotten that the strength of the Midas Touch Network is the Midas Mighty. It is this community.
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And we know what we're fighting for each and every day. So I think that's important. We got a lot more show though. Do not go anywhere. We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show. It's 2025. Why aren't my blinds smart and automatic like the rest of my home? Are your blinds still from 2025? Look, there's a better way to buy blind shade shutters and drapery.
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No pain, no gain, everybody. No pain, no gain. You got to suffer for Donald Trump right now. Then you have MAGA Republican Senator Sheehy. Here he says, who cares about the stock market? The stock market isn't an indicator of anything. That's not how the Trump administration or the Trump regime keeps track of things. Here, play this clip.
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what's going on in these town halls. You had a MAGA Republican Congress member by the name of Chuck Edwards from North Carolina's 11th Congressional District. He decided to hold a town hall in his district. Let's show you what just went down. Let's play it.
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To promote American energy. You wonder why people don't want to do those town halls? Nah, because you're scared. That's why they don't want to do it. Look your constituents in the face when you vote against their Medicaid, when you say that their social security is a Ponzi scheme. when you promote anti-vax policies by RFK Jr.
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who again spread lies about the spread of measles while measles is now spreading and he acts like, whatever, measles parties and horrific things like that, spreading lies and disinformation.
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hurt and kill when you're so cruelly attacking veterans, attacking veteran affairs, attacking the spouses of military members while you're firing hardworking government workers and saying that you're firing them for performance-related reasons as you are destroying people's pensions and their 401ks as doge run by Elon Musk who's too chicken shit
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to go under oath in front of Congress to testify about what he's doing, right? Why doesn't he testify? Oh, he's scared. And why don't you, Congress member Edwards, say that he should testify? Isn't the role of Congress oversight? Isn't that what you're supposed to do? No. Look the people in the eyes and tell them You're the person who's screwing their lives. Tell them. Tell them.
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I understand why they're angry. And to the Democrats out there, listen to the people. Listen to what they are saying. If you do what Senator Bernie Sanders does, we'll cover your town halls. But Democrats too, just because you're a Democrat don't mean that I'm just going to Show your stuff. You don't get a Democrat pass on the Midas Dutch network. Listen to the people.
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People are pissed at what is happening right now. Doge going through their private information, their private data, their medical records, their social security information. You can't support that. No one should be okay with funding that at all.
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And by the way, you don't even have to govern by the polls. Govern by the people, right? Listen to what the people are saying. Listen to the pain that they're feeling. And don't be afraid. And just go out there. and fight for the people. That's why you should be doing this. Don't fight for your job. Fight for the people. Take a listen to this. Midas Touch broke this story.
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We got the audio first from Tom Barrett's phone town hall. This MAGA Republicans from Michigan's 7th Congressional District. It's a plus one and a half Trump district. So he was too scared to look people in the eye. So he said on this telephone town hall, if you support Doge, press this. If you don't support Doge, press that here. Watch what went down.
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And to think Montana used to have Senator Tester, who actually stood up for American people, as now you have she screwing over the people of Montana and the rest of the country. Speaking of which, you have the new MAGA Republican senator from Ohio, Senator Bernie Moreno. And here Moreno says, you know, look, yes, things are bad, but just think about it. It would have been much worse if Kamala won.
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By the way, even the framework to the question. That's what I was going to say. was misleading and people still saw through it. I want to play this for you too. When I say, listen to the people, this one really pulled at my heart and almost brought tears to my eyes when I heard this caller who called into C-SPAN. She's from Ohio.
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And you can hear in her voice the pain that she feels, how scared she is. And there are, I know, tens of millions of people who feel the way she does. This is why I say listen to what the voters, listen to what the people, it's not voters, people, human beings, listen to what the human beings who live in this country are saying when they're being treated like trash.
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worse than trash by the Trump regime. Here, play it.
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That's how people feel right now. And if you can't meet that moment as a politician right now, if what I just played for you doesn't make you want to fight for that person, you need another job. You shouldn't be doing your work. You shouldn't be representing people. You're unfit. You're unfit. The same way, frankly, Trump is unfit by far based on what I showed you before.
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If you don't listen to that and say that's who I'm on the side of, you're unfit in my view to be a politician regardless of what political party you're from, regardless of what political – and here, this is Caroline Leavitt. All of this is going on. This 27-year-old know-nothing who thinks she knows it all. The arrogance. She's like pink dress lady in America that like Kim Jong-un has there.
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Just watch what she says about the tariffs. Just watch how she says it. It's just – What do the kids say? It gives you the, what do they call it? The eek? The eek. The eek. What do the kids say? What do the kids say? They give you the eek and play the clip.
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So it's bad, but it's better than Kamala. Play this clip.
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And, you know, people would like cosplay different things. And sometimes you would just take the side of like the outrageous thing just to like debate it. And I guess high school kids found that to be fun and you would take these positions. And this isn't Met Monk, right? This is real life. They're real people's lives on the line. And it reminds me of incompetent Met Monk. kind of practice.
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And I'll leave you all with this, this important ruling that came out earlier in the day where a federal judge ordered half a dozen federal agencies to immediately reinstate probationary employees fired last month as part of the Trump administration's effort to rapidly shrink the federal workforce. The preliminary injunction issued from the bench by U.S. District Judge William Alsup
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from the northern district of california i used to appear in front of him when i was practicing law in california it requires the department of veterans affairs agriculture defense energy interior and treasury to rehire the employees and the judge said that he might extend the order to cover other federal agencies at a later time and this was a hearing where
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the judge just shredded the Department of Justice lawyers who were unprepared and didn't have the facts. And the judge talked about really just how just disappointed he was in the lawyering, in their behavior, in hiding the ball, in doing this to human beings. The judge was like, I have never seen behavior like this in all of my years on the bench, words to that effect.
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And the DOJ lawyers were just kind of incompetent. Didn't even know what to say. And so now, under this order, which I'm sure the Trump administration, the regime will try to appeal, they have to rehire the people that they fired. They're going to have to pay them for the unlawful termination as well, potentially other penalties.
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And now that they've shut down the systems, when these people go back for their work, assuming they want to go back for their work even at this point, it's going to create more mayhem and chaos.
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it's going to create more inefficiency because you in our if ultimately in our system let me be clear if in our system congress right now led by the republicans maga mike johnson in the house and the mega republicans control the senate and trump controls the executive branch if they want to pass something called laws right laws
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supposed to do laws that that guts and gets rid of agencies and does all of these things they can do that but they're not doing that right instead they're having elon musk an unelected billionaire bureaucrat the richest man in the world although i don't know how much longer he's going to hold that title with the way tesla stock is going
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go in and and just fire people and then lie about it and say it's for performance reasons that that's just not the way our system works you can't you can't just do that and it's not like i'm saying you can't i mean federal judges are saying you can't because you can't there's money allocated these agencies exist because congress passed laws enabling legislation to create them
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And if you want to destroy them, you have to go through a process. And it's messy in our democracy. It's hard to pass laws sometimes that didn't stop laws like the Civil Rights Act and Title IX and Voting Rights Act and lots of other acts, bipartisan, that now they want to destroy. With Elon Musk. And let me just show you this clip of MAGA Mike Johnson.
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And MAGA Mike Johnson's like, well, you know, I deal with Elon Musk, you know, and he's got quite literally the biggest platform in the world. And so sometimes he says things like, I don't know, like I fired the head of the Ebola research and I fired the nuclear people and, you know, and then I got to deal with it. Here, play the clip.
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That's not what your job is. I run it. What are you like? Like an intern? Congress has become us intern, right? I mean, what, what, what are they, what is he doing? Like he's, he's, he's, you know, by the way, That's not how I would even treat my – I would treat my interns far better. than how he described his internship for Elon Musk, right? He's like, what, getting Elon Musk his coffee?
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I mean, that's what a co-equal branch of our government has become, as Elon Musk and Donald Trump do product placement, selling Tesla vehicles in front of the White House, and Trump has a piece of paper listing the cost of the different Teslas, and Trump reads off what the Teslas cost so he can help Elon Musk, and then he and Hannity go, we bought Teslas, because Elon needs us right now.
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Where do these people come from? Where do these people come from? And we as Americans more than ever right now need to just say enough, enough, enough. We should have said it before, but I'm heartened by the fact that this network is growing. That tells me, yeah, look, it's great to beat Rogan. It's great to beat Fox. Sure. That's not why we're doing it.
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And as I've said before, this is not a spike the football moment for us. People are suffering right now. This is a time where all of us need to gather together, grow together, fight back together. Let's use this platform to highlight things that corporate media would never highlight. Let's do the things that you've always wanted to see corporate media do, but they've been too scared to do.
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And so that's our commitment to you every day, every hour, every minute together. Brett, anything else you want to say?
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Like screwing over the people in his state as well and screwing over the American people. The lies after lies. Former President Biden. handed Donald Trump an economy that was the envy of the world.
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That was the headline from the Wall Street Journal in 2024, the envy of the world, unemployment at record lows, job growth at record highs, 40,000 to 50,000 infrastructure projects that were being done across the country, record GDP growth. America was energy independent for the first time. Things were going very, very good.
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on all wines, champagnes, and alcoholic products coming out of France and other EU-represented countries. This will be great for the wine and champagne businesses in the U.S. Oh, Donald, tell me about all of those champagne businesses in the U.S. You know where champagne comes from? I think not. Then he posts, the globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are saying or doing.
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We were focused on things like lowering prescription drug prices, handed it over to Donald Trump. All Trump had to do, he could have went golfing every day. Just let the economy go on the track that Biden had it. The GDP in first quarter would have grown 3%, 4%. Trump could have said, look how smart I am. Look how smart I am.
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But no, Donald Trump engaged in this reckless, chaotic policy by social media post. I don't even know what to call it. poses a tariff, withdraws the tariff, imposes the tariff, says he wants to annex this country, that country, the other country, and he has caused chaos and havoc here. And in the rest of the world, by the way, other economies in the world are growing. I saw this chart, Brett.
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Carl Quintanilla posted. It was a great chart. And it just basically showed that starting at the inauguration, basically the rest of the world economies started doing good. And then the American economy tanked. This is an unforced error of a recession, but it's actually more than that. It's an intentional, malicious error.
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destruction of our economy brett micellus how are you jordy's still on uh family duty this evening he'll be back next week great to have you here brett what a good dad uh it's great to be here ben and it's great to be here everybody uh yeah you know everything that they do is just predicated on lies it's just one kind of giant
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They are owned by the polluted media. thinking of the European Union. Now, Trump says this as the leader of NATO, Mark Rutt, was set to come into the Oval Office. The markets then tank over Donald Trump's statements. Mark Rutt, the NATO Secretary General, comes in to the Oval Office, and Donald Trump, in the presence of the leader of NATO, talks about conquering Canada and annexing Canada.
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One of the things I think is important is that you all remember that politics is also very local, too. So one of the things that you can all do is go speak to your local school boards, go in front of your local legislators, go in front of your local community boards as well, and also reach out to your members of Congress and reach out to your senators. But also don't forget local.
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One of the things that I think is also very important that you do is let other people know that you're pissed off about this. I think because sometimes people feel so gaslit, they almost don't know, like, is this supposed to be normal? And you just have to say, this is not normal at all. This is dangerous. This is fascism.
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What this Trump regime is doing is idiotic, and that's what's causing the pain. Everybody here in this community, if you did that, if you spoke to people about it and the word spreads that no, this is not normal, just that alone makes a huge difference. I'm also excited to learn that a lot of Democrats are now going to be going into
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red districts and purplish districts as these MAGA Republican Congress members and senators are canceling all of their town halls. And the Democrats are going to be speaking in front of these reddish and purplish audiences of people who may not otherwise have voted for them.
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and to hear them out and to listen to the pain that people are feeling as they're no longer are even able to buy basic necessities for themselves. We have to listen, not just speak. We have to hear people and let people know They are being heard. And then we have to fight for them. We have to listen, though. It starts with listening and understanding what Americans are going through.
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I wanted to share this with you. I did an interview recently with Brendan Boyle, Democratic Congress member from the Philly area. And I think he summed it up nicely. He goes, Donald Trump's been a lifelong scammer. a lifelong grifter, a lifelong con artist, but he may have pulled off the biggest scam yet. I want you to watch this.
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And to arrest to the rest of the American cities out there, you know, that's what's going on. That's what's happening right now. Let's talk about what went down in the Oval Office earlier today with NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte. Donald Trump, you saw the clip earlier where he talked about annexing Canada. He then asked the NATO Secretary General for help in annexing Greenland.
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I want you to listen to the question because the question uses the word annexation. What are your plans about annexing Greenland? Literally stealing it. hostile takeover of territory that does not belong to the United States. And watch how Trump answers it in front of NATO Secretary General. Let's play it.
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We've got a our economy locally in the long run we're already seeing inflation starting to surge let's just take a look at everything he's saying let's break it all down so donald trump is asked about rising prices the recent inflation numbers not good here's what donald trump says let's play it mr president because of these tariffs who do you think voters should hold responsible
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Like even if you took the entire USAID and gutted it, I think it would be less than 1% of everything. If you gutted the whole thing, if you said we're just shutting it down, I think it would be less than like 1%. So while that's happening, they're saying $4.5 trillion that basically goes to the deca-millionaires, the billionaires, and the deca-billionaires. So they're hoping to fake people out.
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And it's, you know, by and large, with a large part of our population, it's working while they're picking your pockets, basically. And then they go, oh, but guess what? Gulf of Mexico is now Gulf of America. America, yeah. And while all of this is going on, they're also attacking our assets.
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allies, and they are weakening NATO, they're weakening the G7, they're weakening all of our alliances, and Donald Trump is propping up Putin. And so with some of the things that Trump's doing, the damage kind of has been done. Like economically, right now, Canada's boycotting the United States of America. That data is not going to show up overnight, but in a few months, we're going to see
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When our tourism industry in the United States is crashing, it'll start to show up. The economic data slightly lags. So the fact that we already got in a short period of time, inflation surging, which by the way, Trump is trying to blame on former President Biden. That's why it was a little unexpected for economists because they thought we'd pick this up more along the lines of April and May.
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The fact that it's already starting in January, February, they're like, whoa, that's sooner than expected.
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wasn't sooner than we expected i expect donald trump to cause a recession or a depression pretty soon based on what he's i mean just look at what he is actually doing i mean these reckless tariffs are going to cause complete havoc and by the way ben if donald trump came out and he said because if he was an honest broker of things and he said listen
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Inflation has been a sticky issue. You know, we're going to work on it may take months, may take some, but he didn't say that he explicitly said a billion times during the campaign and in writing on a social media on day one, they will come crashing down on day one. And the prices are going to go so quickly down. It's going to make your head spin. He made comments like this all the time.
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And now he's telling people that they need pain. And in that first clip, he was like, wait, I didn't say pain. You said pain. I didn't say that people were going to experience pain. No, you literally explicitly, like a week ago, said that people were going to have to experience pain.
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Before the election, Elon Musk, like a couple of days before, he said that it was your... While you were lying about it to people, Elon Musk admitted that people were going to have to feel pain under your agenda. So you have the pain agenda. You have the screw Americans agenda. That is it. And the whole idea here to give $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans...
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while you're taking away their Medicaid, while you're stripping away their Social Security, while you're gutting the VA and humanitarian aid. It's beyond what any villain could even come up with, anything. It's beyond villainous.
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Now, this is at the same time the MAGA Republicans released their budget resolution. They are going to add $4.5 trillion in new deficits for Tax Writing Ways and Means Committee, $4 trillion debt limit hike. In addition, $880 billion in deficit reduction as it relates to energy and commerce. That means Medicaid cuts. $330 billion in deficit reduction for education committee.
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What Trump and horrific human beings realize, and oftentimes they are authoritarian leaders, is that you can compound the lie with other lies, and people who get duped by the lies just keep getting duped by the lie and lie and lie until they're either just dead or broke. Part of the Ponzi scheme is that you bring the person along on the journey until you basically have taken everything.
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And then by the time they realize it, they're either too weak or they're dead to survive.
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who stand up to you like I want everybody to realize that that's what he's doing I don't want you to think that this is all doom and gloom though because in this episode we're going to talk about how people are fighting back we're going to talk about the resistance growing we're going to talk about the protests that corporate media refuses to cover and how I think we're going to see more people take to the streets peacefully protest in the coming days weeks and months we're talking about the international resistance and by the way
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We're talking about federal judges, both Democrats, Republican appointed judges, even Trump appointed judges who have been almost consistently and universally ruling against Donald Trump and his administration's unlawful conduct. And earlier today, we learned about even someone by the name of Daniel Sassone, who was the acting United States attorney in the Southern District of New York.
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kind of a MAGA-lite, a MAGA-esque lawyer, someone who took the oath to work in the Trump administration. So someone who MAGA thought was going to be loyal to them, she was running the SDNY. Donald Trump, through Emile Bove, the acting deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice, ordered Danielle Sassone to dismiss the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
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And she goes, no, I would be violating my oath as a lawyer. If you force me to do that, she goes in her letter, she goes, I attended a meeting on January 31st, 2025 with Mr. Bove, Adams counsel. And by the way, Adams counsel is Elon Musk's lawyer. I want you to know that connection as well. Adams and Elon Musk share the same lawyer. That's not a coincidence.
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And members of my office, Adams attorneys repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the department's enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed. Mr. Bove admonished a member of my team who took notes during the meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting's conclusion. In other words, the DOJ
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is destroying evidence of a crime whereby Eric Adams is essentially saying, if you dismiss the case against me, I'm going to help Donald Trump's priorities. Let's do a quid pro quo deal, even if I committed crimes. Let's do a bargain. Let's make a deal. By the way, what did we learn that also happened in New York immediately after that quid pro quo deal?
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Donald Trump used the federal government to literally steal money that was allocated for FEMA or by FEMA for shelters in New York to help vulnerable people. $80 million was literally stolen. from a bank account in New York by the federal. They just took it.
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They took the money, like literal theft is what was going on, or at least that's what was alleged by the New York comptroller, as well as Governor Hochul. But the Trump lawyer resigned, and then the Trump DOJ tried to give it to central DOJ to dismiss the case against Eric Adams. People in the public integrity section at the DOJ resigned.
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And now one of the things we're seeing is, is there going to be this mass exodus of DOJ employees basically gutting the entire Department of Justice? And look, Pam Bondi, the attorney general, she's out there making a fool of herself. She gave some press conference yesterday talking about how she was pressing charges against against the governor of New York and the attorney general, Letitia James.
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And so people are like, are you charging them criminally? Then it was like a civil lawsuit based on a law on the books in 2019 that was basically upheld over and over again against... the handling of migrants. And so it was just a civil action that was filed, not a criminal case. Anyway, Brett, I want you to talk about that all, Brett. We got to take our first break of the show.
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We've got a lot going on. I want to hear your thoughts on that. We'll talk about Donald Trump capitulating to Vladimir Putin. What a mess this Pete Hegseth Fox host turned defense secretary is. But when you lack experience and integrity, what else would you expect? We'll talk about the international resistance as well. Want to remind everybody to hit subscribe here.
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We're doing it, what, Brett, next week we're doing our Patreon chat?
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That means education cuts. $230 billion in deficit reduction for the agriculture committee. That means nutrition cuts. And then about a $4.5 to $5 trillion cut
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t trillion dollar tax cut for the billionaires so just so you know their priorities cutting medicaid by billions cutting education by billions cutting agriculture by billions but donald i thought you said you were helping the farmers and giving the billionaires 4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts let's go back to more of the oval office developments um you had donald trump with
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Let's get into the- Bearing the lead. Today, we spoke to former U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger. Had a great conversation about many of the issues that we're speaking to right now about basically Donald Trump's complete destruction of the global world order. Adam Kinzinger, a true patriot, a true fighter. It was great to speak to him.
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And you could watch our entire conversation that we had recorded live with Adam Kinzinger at MidasPlus.com. It's free to check it out. Just go to MidasPlus.com and check it out. And Ben, speaking of Donald Trump, blowing up the entire global order, the entire world order. What is the latest?
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Let's talk about it. Donald Trump in the Oval Office attacking Canada. Again, we've been used to this now. It's why Canada is boycotting. Here, play this clip.
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He already said at the end, that's why I feel they have to be a state. And let me be very clear. Canada has a very proud history as well of defending democracy and standing up to fascism and fighting in wars to preserve democracy and freedom. And so to just... The belittling and degrading treatment of Canada every day from Donald Trump just goes to what a psychopathic, demented, freaking idiot.
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the leader of India Modi in the Oval Office. And Donald Trump has asked a question whether he thinks that USAID was interfering in the 2020 U.S. election and the 2024 India election or the 2024 election generally. Play this clip.
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I mean, there's really no words to describe how contemptible Donald Trump is. So while Donald Trump was doing that, attacking our allies, or I suppose former allies now because Trump has alienated them all,
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pete hegseth was in germany there was the munich conference that was taking place and you had hegseth um saying that as a this is what he was saying so he goes as a start as a precondition of the negotiation with russia he goes we have to recognize that ukraine should not get its pre-2014 borders back and it should not become a member of nato we must start with that premise
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That would literally be the way Russia starts the negotiation, not how you start the negotiation, because you've now literally given Russia everything that they had asked for. Let's play the clip.
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Then Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office about the phone call that he had with Vladimir Putin before ever even speaking to Zelensky, where Donald Trump reiterated those points. We're learning more about that phone call, which I'll go over in just a little bit. But here's Trump blaming Ukraine. for Russia's unlawful invasion. Here, play this clip.
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Well, and then here's Donald Trump while saying that Ukraine shouldn't join NATO. Donald Trump says Russia should join the G7 and make it the G8, and that Russia should be welcomed back into the G7 as the G8. Here, play this clip.
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Notice he goes and attacks Prime Minister Trudeau again while saying all these things about Putin that are favorable. And one of the things that we're learning as well is that according to many Kremlin insiders who are now just laughing at this whole thing, we've been covering a lot of this. I want to give a hat tip to Julia Davis. She does a great job
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covering Russian media and what the Russian oligarchs are saying. Laughing Kremlin insiders say Trump has given Putin the green light to expand the war. And what this article says is that basically, you know,
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The thing holding Putin back was the belief that if he expanded the war and used more weapons on Ukraine, the US would continue to fund Ukraine and would continue to build the coalition that would then attack Russia. But that Russia has basically been given a green light if they want to, to just wipe, you know, just demolish it.
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And it talks about how that's sent European leaders into a complete panic. Although I you know, I think the the part of me, though, Brett, that is just kind of wondering here is that, you know, this was obvious that this was going to be the outcome. Right.
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Like like if you knew and followed Trump's relationship with Russia and everything that this shouldn't all of a sudden come as like a whoa, he's doing that. He wanted to do it the first time. He was held back, and now there's no one to hold him back. And Trump's weak, but Putin's going to go and do the things that we think he's going to do.
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Yeah. And watching this press conference, the one on Ukraine and Russia that Trump held yesterday, I couldn't help but be reminded of Donald Trump in Helsinki saying that he trusted Vladimir Putin more than he trusted our own intelligence agencies. And just like back then, this is a very much a history repeats itself moment, although this is possibly even worse.
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Donald Trump, quite literally everything he said, whether it was that Russia should join the G7 or the lies about how the invasion, which he blames on Ukraine, began, that was all quite literally word for word Kremlin propaganda. 100% of it was straight from the mouth of Vladimir Putin. So much so that in her confirmation hearing, and I'm sure everybody knows
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knows by now that tulsi gabbard has been confirmed as dni as the director of national intelligence she was asked to disavow those very same statements and was basically forced to during those hearings that donald trump then repeated verbatim from the oval office it's just such an absolute disgrace and such a abdication of our duty as the united states of america and
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retreating from all the promises that we have made to our allies. Why should anybody ever trust the United States of America's word? If there was one thing in the past that you could trust, it was that the United States would stand by its word, that we would uphold our values. And if we told you that we would offer you protection, if you did X, Y, and Z, that we would be there to do that.
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Now we're in a space, though, where I was looking through all the comments from the Ukrainians yesterday. My heart was breaking as they were speaking about the cowardice of Donald Trump, speaking about the betrayal of the United States of America for their country. Remember, they had to back in the day. meet a big list of preconditions for the United States to offer this kind of support to NATO.
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And that was basically disarming themselves and all these other things, only to get thrown under the bus by the United States. It's the ultimate betrayal. And I feel their pain. And it really breaks my heart to see those comments and to see that we have this guy right now who, instead of being allied with the free world, has turned the free world against the United States.
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And now the United States is in some weird alliance block with, like, I don't know, with Putin and who else? I don't even know. Hungary? Who else? All the dictators.
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Benjamin Netanyahu, maybe Putin. Yeah. I don't know about, I mean, does he like Xi Jinping? There's really no rhyme or reason to it. And just, you know, I guess there is whatever Putin wants is the rhyme or reason. But other than that, it's Donald Trump's psychotic madness mind of literally dismantling industry. I mean, this man hates America. We got to call it out. This man hates America.
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And this is the betrayal of all of these MAGA Republicans. The Republicans in the Senate, the Republicans in the House of Representatives who always were like, we need to be tough on Russia and we need to protect Taiwan and we need to support NATO. I mean, these people are just the the the ultimate traitorous human beings.
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who I hope when we all get through this together, history will scorn them and their families will be humiliated to even be affiliated with these spineless pieces of crap who masquerade as being leaders in a political party. I would love to see their faces spread out in history books, literally under the word traitor for what they've done to our country.
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And then they still go around and and gaslight us like this is some normal things that are happening. Oh, actually, I think that this no, it's going to happen is we know what's going on. By the way, where is Keith Kellogg, the special envoy to Ukraine? Right. There was a he was a former lieutenant general. He was the person tasked with the negotiation. Go back to my videos from two months ago.
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What did I say? I said, this guy is the first person they're going to isolate and they're going to kick this guy out. Why? Because the things he said actually were traditional U.S. policy vis-a-vis Ukraine and Russia. He was towing the line, knowing which administration he was working for as the special envoy. But he was, by and large, standing up to Russia.
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guy no way is this guy gonna make it and sure enough in trump's statement where he capitulated he mentions like literally like 80 names in the statement of like all the people who are going to be dealing with the negotiation not one of them was keith kellogg literally the person who was the special envoy so I'm just waiting for the news to drop that Kellogg's resigned or he's officially out.
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But I think by all accounts, he's really isolated. Just think about it, too. You bring Tulsi Gabbard in as the director of national intelligence. What that basically means is that America has no national intelligence anymore. There are no foreign government intelligence agencies that will share information with the United States, period, because they know it's a direct route to Vladimir Putin.
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So we've now cut off all of our intelligence. Trump's tried to do buyouts of all CIA members, the FBI and the counterterrorism division. Trump's attacked all the FBI agencies, gutted all of our government agencies while they're supposed to be an injunction stopping Trump's freeze on the government entities and agencies.
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We're learning from all of these entities that they're not getting the funding programs, whether it's Head Start or whatever. They're not getting the funding that they need. You had Governor Shapiro, for example, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He had to file a lawsuit because the federal resources
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We're not making their way to Pennsylvania, despite the fact that there's an injunction saying that the money needs to go to the places, that it can't just stop. So you have people having to file lawsuits. So the question is, because this is where we're headed, what happens when the federal judges, the Trump judges too, the judge, what happens when their orders get defied?
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one of the judges by the way who they attack more than almost any judge but they'll never list the name on fox and maga they'll just they'll act like oh it was so absurd that the judge allowed the websites to be put back on what websites hhs f
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fda nih like literally websites that people rely on to get services that save their life the judge ordered that because money's been appropriated for the purpose and the agency has to behave like an agency elon musk can't just take down web pages that's the judge that they attack relentlessly but notice they never really mention his name why because it's judge carl nichols
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the judge who donald trump appointed the other judge who they attack a lot is this judge john bates and they go this judge needs to be fired judicial dictatorship judge bates George W. Bush appointee. The Washington state judge who ruled against Trump's birthright citizenship ban or tried to overturn the Constitution, a Reagan appointee.
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Judge Lamberth who said, no, Donald Trump, you can't take transgender women in prisons who have female genitals and move them into the male cells and take off their clothes and force them to shower with the men. That was a Reagan appointee, Judge Lamberth.
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You can go around the country, almost equal amount of Republican judges as Democrat judges who are issuing these injunctions against Donald Trump. When we get back, I want to talk about the resistance, judiciary, internal resistance. People take you to the streets. Federal judges resistance. We'll talk about all of that and more.
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I want to call in my brother Brett right now. Jordy couldn't be on it today. Jordy's on daddy duty. You got me and Brett today. But, Brett, I think that shows, number one, you had the reporter manipulate him with flattery. And then number two posed just a ridiculously absurd question. You could have basically said, do you think that USAID was responsible?
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Prime Minister Trudeau, who's basically at this point a very popular wartime president in Canada because Donald Trump's using the words of annexation and Prime Minister Trudeau has stepped up to the challenge even as he passes the baton to the next leadership.
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in the Liberal Party in Canada, who, by the way, the Liberal Party's gaining a lot of momentum right now because on the Conservative Party, you had people like PP, Pierre Poliev, who had been MAGA Maple.
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right now imagine putting all your chips in the trump basket thinking you could cozy up to him and that it would end well for you but as the saying goes everything trump touches dies you have all those conservatives in canada right now with egg on their face and they are rushing most of them at least rushing to get away from the trump stench and to uh try to join uh with trudeau and others uh in order to unite because they realize oh crap
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Now we look weak. We look weak because we want to give our sovereignty up to Donald Trump. We're going to sell out our country to Donald Trump, I guess, other than what, Danielle Smith in Alberta. Everybody else has basically gotten on board with this. And it's just such a betrayal, honestly, by those people to Canada to do that.
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I truly wonder, I wonder if there's been, I'm sure there have been polls, if that vote was held today. would Trudeau remain as prime minister? I bet he would.
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I mean, she could have said anything at that point, right? She could have said, do you think USAID was responsible for COVID? Do you think USAID was responsible for the first one? And Donald Trump was like, yeah, I think so. I definitely think it has a role. It's so reckless, so dangerous. It makes McCarthyism look like a little ant, right?
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It's interesting. I've seen a lot of polls showing that the liberal party may be able to end up prevailing after the next snap elections and be able to form a government, which nobody thought possible before. Also, our Alberta fans want me to be very clear that it's Alberta, not Alberta, you American. Prime Minister Justin- We do our best.
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We got America, and we got the United States, and we got our New York accents, and we got whatever kind of oddly shifted from us living in California. So we got a whole mishmash of stuff. So bear with us.
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Prime Minister Trudeau saying, not a snowball's chance in hell will Canada become a 51st state.
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He is again talking about Donald Trump's threats of annexation and conquest to conquer Canada. Play this clip.
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Among the many reasons why Donald Trump is just a very stupid individual is he views that as weakness. Let's be clear, as our Canadian fans and friends and almost become like family at this point say, look, we're very nice in Canada, but once you push us a certain level, we're going over the boards, okay? Don't mistake our kindness for our inability to punch you in the face when we want to.
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And if you look at the history of Canada fighting in wars, when Canada fights, Canada wins. And as I've always said, American foreign policy used to be rooted in this concept of walking soft or speaking soft and carrying a big stick, not walking like a maniac, but ultimately being weak at the end. It's been an inversion of what this American policy should be.
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And so Trump looks at these bloviating, strong men, these Kim Jong-uns and these, you know, the guy Victor Orbans and Javier Malaise and people like that who were loud and obnoxious, whose populations, by the way, are suffering. And Trump views that as strength, when in reality, strength is power.
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being deliberative reflective and when you need to punch somebody in the face you freaking knock them out and that's what trump never really understood or he did understand but he's an idiot um and he prefers he's in the image of everything america you know wasn't again shame on spineless republicans and shame on everybody who's who's enabled this let's go to former british prime minister boris johnson
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who, you know, I'm not a big fan of, but he said something witty here every now and then. Here, let's play this clip if we got him.
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The way that Watergate doesn't even look like a thing compared to the massive criminality we're seeing every day.
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So the Egyptian president, al-Sisi, says he's not going to go to Washington, D.C., and sit with Donald Trump the way King Abdullah of Jordan did, where Donald Trump talked about conquering Gaza and occupying it. And King Abdullah had to, like, sit there and just be like, oh—
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We will have chats further, and you could see King Abdullah literally grimacing as Donald Trump was saying these things that Abdullah knows back in the Middle East. That could cause a coup, a violent coup, and Abdullah's life could be jeopardized by him even entertaining some of these ideas. So let's take a look at Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, what he had to say. Let's play it.
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It's so true, Ben. It's such a good point. And great to be here with you. Great to be here with everybody. And sorry, Jordy, that you couldn't make it to this one. We miss you. But yeah, I think it's stunning how quickly the United States has basically fallen from a democracy hanging on by a thread to basically flipping into an all-out oligarchy overnight.
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Yeah. And just I want to be clear what the international resistance is looking like, what's forming with America being this isolated pariah country, kind of like a North Korea. But even North Korea has some allies, at least in its region, like North Korea is least allied with like China.
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Russia, China to some extent, like Donald Trump attacks Mexico and Canada, and really, they're just kind of in a holding pattern as they're trying to figure out which alliances they're going to form with America now being this pariah state. So you have that going on. You have the federal judiciary, and then you have what's growing is, despite corporate media trying to, again,
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as we're experiencing this lie to us and gaslight us and, you know, pretend that, you know, oh, things are just fine and normal. And this is just crazy. You know, politics is crazy. No, no, no. This is a coup. This is authoritarianism. It's here, it's not will it be here.
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And people are being pushed to a point where I think especially as the weather starts getting a little better, you'll start also seeing as naturally happens in movements like this. I think you're gonna start to see the scale and scope of protests get larger, especially as a lot of the things that we're seeing The impact isn't going to be felt the day after or even a week after.
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But when you start adding up the economic data and you start seeing inflation go up, up, up, up, up in the wrong way, Trump will always make the wrong decisions in response to those things and make the things worse. You're going to see all this showing up, the Canadian boycott, the tariffs, the instability. You're going to see that. Yeah, the stock market's up.
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The level of instability in the market right now It's like the wild, wild west of just up days, down days, up, you know. And I think I saw the small business index has never been more volatile in the history of it, you know, than it is right now. And you know what? It's like every day Trump wakes up and talks about tariffing this, tariffing that, tariffing this, tariffing that.
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And we are seeing the results of that with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who throughout these past few days has honestly appeared to be acting more as the president of the United States than Donald Trump. Very odd visuals, very odd dynamics of power at play, but we'll get to more of that in this episode, but you see this weaponization of disinformation. We've never seen anything like this.
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what he set a deadline for Hamas, that if Hamas doesn't return all of the hostages, he's going to unleash hell on Saturday, which, by the way, is a holy day for the Jews in Israel as well. But that's the day Trump picked because he goes, why else? I'll just make it on a Saturday.
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But you've already just said no matter what, you're going to ethnically cleanse Palestine and you're going to force the people out and you're not going to let them ever return and go back. So you've made a ceasefire less stable. You've placed the hostages' lives at risk.
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You've disincentivized the counterparty to the negotiation of cooperating because even once they cooperate, you say you're going to do the same thing you're going to do if they don't cooperate. So that's the status of where we're at there, Brett.
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Yeah, no, it's chaos every day. People are going to get screwed as the world unites against us. But, you know, I think one of the interesting things is to see this, if you want to use the word resistance, resistance forming that's not just in Europe, but also amongst kind of governors in the United States. We are seeing kind of prosecutors.
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We are seeing various legal groups throughout the United States. And I feel like a lot of the countering of Donald Trump's autocratic movements are going to have to be in the courts. They're going to have to be these judges, whether they are Trump appointed, Bush appointed, Reagan appointed, Biden appointed, Obama appointed. I don't care who appointed you.
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Those are the people in the safest positions. It's going to be up to them to uphold our laws. That's why Elon Musk and Donald Trump are, uh, trying to destroy the judiciary. That's why they're making these threats. That's why they're saying that they want to impeach these justices. They want a world where they could just operate and do what they want without any repercussions.
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They are systematically destroying the United States, the very fabric of our government. And I want to remind everybody, too, It's a lot easier to destroy than it is to build. It's easy to tear things down. It's a lot harder to build them back up.
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And so at the end of the day, if we're able to get out from under this, and I think we will be able to, it's going to be very hard to repair the damage, and it's going to be a very lengthy process. But for now, we need to stem the bleeding. We need to work with all those out there, our true allies, to push back.
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And whether those allies are here in the United States, in the court, whether they're people in our Congress, whether they are international leaders or our friends internationally, we need to all unite as a pro-democracy movement to fight back against what we are seeing here. And it's great seeing those instances of people fighting back.
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And there are some Dems now also stepping up, doing some good things. I think Chris Murphy's been a very effective voice. I think Dan Goldman has been very effective. I think Jasmine Crockett's been great. I think there are a lot of folks out there right now who are pushing back. Let's continue to put those people on the front lines of this movement and have them unleash everything that they can.
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possibly unleash right now to protect us because people are afraid, rightfully so. This is a totally illegal encroachment on all of our personal rights. The party that likes to dub itself the party of small government is now leading the charge of the biggest government imaginable, the biggest big government takeover of our systems imaginable, destroying our checks and our balances in the process.
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And so we need to fight back and we need to make it clear.
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Yeah, I saw even to your point, Brett, during the confirmation hearing of Linda McMahon, the WWE co-founder, along with her husband, she and he are both under. And there were some investigations regarding sexual harassment cover ups there as well. her role, as Donald Trump said, as the Secretary of Education, is to destroy the Department of Education.
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And truthfully, one of the things that frightens me is that I don't think the public in the United States or overseas are necessarily equipped to handle this level of lying, this level of gaslighting, this amount of disinformation that is being flooded every single day. And you have to remember, most of these lies originate where? From Elon Musk or from Elon Musk's platform, ex-formally Twitter.
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Literally, Trump said the goal is to destroy it. But one of the things she said in her confirmation hearing on Thursday, which deserves to get more attention, is that she would like to see the government examine the different clubs that are at schools. So if there are schools that have Vietnamese clubs or African-American clubs or Asian clubs or
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clubs that are built around kind of helping minorities or marginalized groups, you know, just through the process that that would subject the school to losing their federal funding.
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And she said she'd like to investigate, use the government to investigate what it is that those clubs are doing, to which Senator Chris Murphy says, I find that astonishing that that's how you want to use the government to see what the African-American club is doing or what
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or what's being taught in african-american studies so i just wanted to bring that up as as well i want to say this too um we're going to be by your side every step of the way okay as i've said before until they rip this microphone from my hand we will never obey we will never kiss the ring okay i want to be very clear about that and we will be fighting by your side especially as the protests start to pick up especially as the international resistance starts to pick up
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That's where the Snippets of information without context, try to make organizations, actual hardworking civil servants look as bad as possible. They gather their algorithms to push everybody to content that smears these people and then they use these lies
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in order to attack them, try to prosecute them, and to continue to just beat them down as we see here with Donald Trump apparently accusing USAID of rigging elections and all this other stuff. amount of the population now that is believing this crap. It's one of the biggest dangers of our time that I don't think gets nearly enough attention.
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It's that we have this propaganda machine that is so outpowering what the corporate media is saying, is so outpowering any of the information people get. And there are a lot of people that are walking around right now thinking that these crazy things that we think are insane, what Donald Trump is saying, taking them at face value, taking them as truth.
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And there are a lot of people who maybe aren't as tuned into politics who don't believe that people would just lie to them in this sort of way. They would just tell these big lies every single day where there has to be, there has got to be a kernel of truth to this, right? There's got to be a little truth. No, there's no truth to this.
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We are now living in a propaganda regime that looks no different than North Korea, that looks no different than Russia, that looks no different than the Nazi propaganda of the past. And so that's why this independent community needs to remain vigilant at all times. And we need to be calling this out
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Every single day, because if we don't, what we've learned in the past is a vacuum forms, and that's a vacuum for more disinformation to flood the zone.
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Prices will go up short term, but then they also will go down and farmers will be helped by this. I mean, if you know anything about Trump's recent history of tariffs, the farmers got absolutely screwed. There had to be subsidies paid to the farmers because it led to foreign countries not buying America. It's exactly what we're going to see again.
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Even weirder and more of a pariah state than North Korea in many ways. North Korea condemned Donald Trump for this. talking about wanting to acquire, take over, occupy Gaza. When you have Kim Jong-un making statements that resemble a more moderating voice than the president of the United States, you know there are Major, major issues there. I'll show you this as well, though.
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Let's talk about Elon Musk for a second in the Oval Office. Elon Musk wears his little child like a prop on his head. It reminds me of, I forget that meme. Yeah.
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What is what is going on with that? And and by the way, the child's mother, honestly, it's one of the reasons why I don't like showing these clips, because it's unfair to the child, quite frankly. And I've seen the child's mother speak out and she's very upset.
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I think it's Grimes speaking out and saying that she's horrified that her son is being paraded around in the Oval Office and through all these things. So what's your take on like, do you think he's literally using this child as a shield during these various meetings and everything that he's doing?
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Well, you know, I saw Elon Musk's dad being interviewed for one of these podcasts and they asked Elon Musk's dad, do you think that your son is a good father? And Elon Musk's dad said, absolutely not. He's a horrible father. And Elon Musk's dad said, you know, their first Elon Musk's first kid died under the care of a nanny is what the father said.
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He goes, and all the other kids don't want to be around him at all. So he's got this kid who he wears literally as part of the costume to kind of prop up and prop around. You saw that moment where the kid was even like, seemed like he was trash talking Donald Trump and whether he was saying, shut your effing mouth or shush your mouth or something like that.
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It looked like he was saying things to Donald. And I think it was Lawrence O'Donnell who said it was one of the most powerful powerless images of the presidency he ever saw with Elon Musk dressed up just like in everyday attire, though.
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But with that, you know, black peacoat that kind of looked like Darth Vader as his five year old son is like taunting Donald Trump and Trump's like like looking away as the kids making all of these statements.
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It sounded like he was like, you're not the president. He was like yelling at him. The kid is pretty, pretty wild.
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So let me show you this from the Oval Office where Elon Musk is asked by a reporter. So you talked about, for example, giving condoms to Hamas because that was one of the ones that were repeated all the time. Right. And, you know, all of the senators and Congress members, MAGA Republicans, that is, they were out there saying, look how hard look.
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look what we uncovered and then they took it a step further and they were like oh hamas would use the condoms to make condom bombs and that's what was going on there look what we uncovered totally false and by the way you can go through all of these but at some point you have to realize essentially everything they're saying is a lie because otherwise you end up chasing these things like whack-a-mole and go that's not true that's not true that's not true that's not true
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And they're doing that while distracting you from the fact that inflation is once again surging, that egg prices are at record highs, that gas prices are up, that your groceries are up, that there's not peace in Ukraine in 24 hours, that housing is less affordable, that the business community feels that there's utter chaos. chaos right now. As Donald Trump wakes up one day, I'm tariffing you.
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I'm not tariffing you. I'm tariffing this. I'm tariffing this country. So let me just show you this clip, though, of Elon Musk being asked about the lies that he was saying. And Elon Musk's response is, I'm going to be wrong a lot. Like, I'm going to say things that aren't true. But whatever. Here, play the clip.
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We're already seeing farmers being screwed, not just in the form of Donald Trump's tariffs and the harm that that's causing, but by Donald Trump's destruction of government entities that help support farmers who voted for Donald Trump. I guess the leopards are eating their faces or they're effing around and finding out right now. Here, Donald Trump talks about prices going up.
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You notice the pivot right away, you know, again, and the gaslighting, which he follows up a lie with another lie as well.
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Yeah. Like he doubles down on the lie while saying we'll admit when we're wrong. And that's one of the most difficult things. And that's why they hide behind this kind of fake. Oh, look, we're just we're being honest. We're being transparent. If I mess up, I'll apologize. I'll gladly say I was wrong. But he's never apologized for that lie. He moves right on to the next lie.
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And then he goes right on his social media platform and he spits out 50 other lies that I guess he could be asked about three days later and make the same comment. And then this whole cycle repeats. So they're disingenuous people. And that's why it's incumbent upon... All the media out there and people not to take them at their word ever because their word doesn't mean anything.
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Their word means zero. So he says, oh, yeah, I'm never going to bat a thousand. Your purpose, the whole concept of what you're doing is, quite frankly, to spread disinformation, to create these false pretenses, to gut these agencies, to fire people. And and they're important things.
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Ultimately, we're already learning about people who have died overseas because hospitals have shut down because of their federal funding freezing cuts. We're finding out about all these ramifications throughout the government. We're finding out that the National Weather Service may may go under because of Donald Trump's.
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We may not have a weather service. It's like people know that like no weather. We won't be able to get weather anymore.
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Yeah, and I'm sure that'll be great for the farmers as well to not be able to have a public weather service to alert them of issues and stuff.
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Just all of this is going to have such massive effects because he is making these cuts and doing these purges, A, obviously without any regard to the rule of law or anything like that, but also with just complete disregard to the effects they're going to have on actual people's lives and on the country. And we're going to be feeling the rippling effects
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of this, I think, for decades and decades and decades to come.
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Yeah, you mentioned, for example, the Weather Service, because that's handled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the NOAA, which is one of the things that Elon Musk and Donald Trump also gutted and attacked. But NOAA also does things like
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you know if you're by the great lakes you know they tell you if the conditions are safe for you to go out in the water or are you going to potentially drown like is it safe to be out there and these are government workers who work very hard every day at kind of thankless jobs that just quietly in the background are saving people's lives and making our lives all better.
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It just may be a short term disturbance is what they say. Play this clip.
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And these are the people who are being attacked every day by the Trump authoritarian regime and their state-run regime media with Fox and with X and all of these other platforms. Now, let's pull up those budget numbers because this is what this debate and switch here is that what Republicans want to do is give people like Elon Musk and billionaires a $4.5 trillion tax cut. They want to run out.
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This isn't about fiscal responsibility. This isn't saving money. It's just making sure that the billionaires and the richest of the billionaires don't have to pay taxes. So what they're doing is they're saying, look, we saved you $8 million here. We saved you $30 million here. We saved you $9 million here, which is like 0.00001%.
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WTH?! Trump and Fox USING LUIGI to Repeal ACA?!!
So in Project 2025, it calls for repealing Obamacare, getting rid of the Affordable Care Act and throwing people on the streets and letting people die. That's in the Project 2025 healthcare section. Donald Trump's going to try to repeal it. He probably will. But let me show you how Fox is using the Luigi Mangione situation to try to do that. Sehen Sie sich Hannity an.
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Das war eine Botschaft, die ausgerüstet wurde. Und wenn Sie Fox sehen, und ich empfehle Ihnen nicht, das zu tun, dann mache ich es für Sie. Und ich werde Ihnen nicht viele Klips spielen. Ich will nur zeigen, was da runtergeht und wie sie ihre Zuschauer bemerken.
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Hannity hier während seines Programms in der Nacht, sagt im Grunde, dass all diese Probleme, die Luigi Mangione überrascht hatte, tatsächlich von der Verletzung von Obamacare kommen. Das ist also die Art und Weise, wie sie die Botschaft zu ihren Followern programmieren, dass sie bereits gebraucht haben. Okay, ich glaube, wir müssen die Obamacare entfernen.
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Sie erkennen, dass das Gesundheitswesen ein wichtiges Problem für Menschen ist. Und jetzt versuchen sie auf Fox zu sagen, indem sie die Obamacare an die Schüsse linken, wie gefährlich das ist. Aber schaut, was sie hier tun.
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So here was earlier in the day, they had a Fox senior medical analyst, that's what they called, Dr. Mark Siegel go on and watch what he says. You're kind of blaming it on like Hillary Clinton and saying, Erinnert ihr euch an Hillary Clinton in den 90ern mit HMOs, wo keine Ärzte mehr bezahlt werden? Schaut euch diesen Clip an.
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Okay, erinnere dich, sie versuchen hier das ganze Skript zu verändern. Hillary Clinton, der ehemalige Präsident Barack Obama, Präsident Biden, sie haben sich alles um die Verschärfung der Präzision von Drogenpreisen beschäftigt. Das war eine von Bidens Initiativen. Eine von Bidens Initiativen ist es, die Regierung auf behalf of Medicare zu negotieren, um Prescription-Drugpreise zu reduzieren.
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What's going on right now, though, on Capitol Hill? Over the past few weeks, Elon Musk, an unelected co-president right now, that's what exists, the wealthiest man in the world, he goes on Congress. And just listen to what they say here. Play this clip.
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Let me share with you the anatomy of Fox propaganda and how they are leveraging all of their resources to prop up Donald Trump's effort to try to repeal Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act. Let me explain how they're tying this to the murder charges against Luigi Mangione and somehow blaming Obamacare for those murder charges. I'm going to link it all together right now.
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They're going to put everything on the table.
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And by the way, the MAGA Republicans, while Fox pushes and tries to link this message with Luigi Mangione, think about, think about... Wie gefährlich das ist, was sie tun. Während sie das tun, haben sie auch die MAGA-Republikanischen Kommissare dabei. Und sie sagen im Grunde, wir müssen die Medicare, die Medicaid und die Social Security entfernen. Wir müssen uns das ansehen.
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Das ist MAGA-Republikanischer Kommissar Richard McCormack. Er spielt dieses Klip.
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You know, it's so interesting, or interesting is probably not the word. You know, Congressmember McCormick, he did that cross-examination of DeJoy and actually did a good job. So you're like, okay, McCormick, you know, did a good cross-examination of DeJoy, the Postmaster, but then McCormick says that? And McCormick's a former physician, like, how out of touch can you be?
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So here's what Fox is doing. So first though, over the weekend, you probably know by now based on our reporting and others, Donald Trump went on Meet the Press. Kristen Welker asked him the following. Do you have an actual plan at this point for healthcare? Donald Trump's response over the weekend. Yes, we have concepts of a plan that will be better. Kristen Welkers response. Still just concepts?
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Hier ist Maga-Republikan Marc Alford, der sagt, dass die Sozial- und Sicherheits- und Medikamente auf dem Tisch stehen, um gesperrt zu werden. Spielen Sie diesen Clip.
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Hier ist ein Post vom letzten Tag. Über 21 Millionen Menschen sind in die Medicaid eingeladen durch die ACA-Medicaid-Expansion in 41 Staaten, z.B. in D.C. Fast eine Viertel der Menschen sind auf Medicaid eingeladen. Ein möglicher Versuch, die federalen Finanzierung für die Expansion zu verhindern, würde den roten und blauen Staaten und so weiter beeinflussen. Just zoom in on any state here.
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Floridians. 453,000 Floridians, including 32,000 children, could lose health insurance if Republicans in Congress let the ACA subsidies expire. Families can't afford these devastating cuts. It's time to stand up for affordable healthcare. Trump's got no plan. He's trying to gut it. And now Fox is trying to link Luigi Mangione to Obamacare and they're doing that to try to get rid of Obamacare.
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That's how they operate and they try to program people with whatever the kind of current news is to undermine, you know, and use whatever it is to undermine programs that help people. I mean, it's really disgusting stuff right there. Love this video?
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Do you have a fully developed plan? And Trump said, no, we don't need one at this point. Remember, Donald Trump versuchte, Obamacare während seines ersten Terms zu verabschieden. Der alte, großartige Senator John McCain blockierte Donald Trump von der Verabschiedung von Obamacare.
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Hätte Obamacare verabschiedet, Obamacare ist der Ersatzschutzgesetz, um das sehr klar zu machen, hätte das verabschiedet, würden Tens von Millionen von Amerikanern keine Gesundheit haben und auch Sicherheitsunternehmen könnten wiederum freiwillig diskriminiert werden auf der Basis von vorhandenen Bedingungen und einfach die Menschen verletzen, die vorhandene Bedingungen haben.
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Governor Murphy Responds to Trump DOJ Threat
I'm joined by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. Governor, the interim United States Attorney in New Jersey, Alina Haba, went on Fox and she called you out by name yesterday. You may have seen that. I want to show you the clip and then get your response to it. Let's play the clip.
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Governor, a federal prosecutor, interim United States Attorney Alina Haba, says she's coming at you hard, and she announced on Fox a criminal investigation of a state governor. What's your reaction to that?
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And a lot of that has been built on a past of state and federal partnerships and task force to get the bad guys off the street. I mean, people need to realize that one of the most effective ways that you go after the bad guys in the states and the drug dealers and the cartels and people across the country are these relationships. So it's just so odd that the very first
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action when she's named interim United States attorney is to flip that upside down, go on Fox, in my view, kind of cosplay, and then be like, I'm going to go tough on the governor. That's not going to help crime.
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Let's talk about the economy. Every day seems to be more chaotic than the next. Tariffs on, tariffs off, tariffs increased. Are there tariffs? Are we tariffing penguins? What's happening the next day? I mean, here's what just happened in the past 24 hours. The euro and yen surging, U.S. dollar falling, stock futures were crashing yesterday, up and down, up and down. The bond markets are imploding.
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The 10-year treasury yields are soaring. You've got a business background. You were an ambassador, business background, two-term governor. What do you just make of all of this daily chaos? In my perspective, it's unlike anything we've seen.
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It must break your heart, though, as the former ambassador to Germany to now see the types of statements that are being directed at the European Union and how Germany has to defend itself, whether it's the new chancellor coming in, Friedrich Merz, or Chancellor Scholz saying, We've been betrayed. We have to stand up. We can't rely.
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I mean, as the ambassador to Germany, the whole thing was building the greatest relationship. There was great relationships there. And now you have them and leadership basically saying, publicly, America is not reliable. We need to live in a world without them. We don't trust them. Those are the statements coming out, not just there, but across the world.
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A lot of attention was on New Jersey during the 2024 election. Trump predicted he was going to win New Jersey. If we're being objective about the data, there were at least some shifts that turned a little bit more red than we're used to. I guess, one, why do you think that was? But two,
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With all of the chaos that's being taken place with the attacks on Social Security, Medicaid, the gutting of the federal government, attacks on veterans, I could go on and on. It would take an hour. Are you seeing shifts? What are you seeing on the ground there?
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You know, I do all these shows on how I've felt that a lot of disservice was done by corporate news and normalizing the chaos that took place in the first administration to make us have that men in black magic wand to pretend These things didn't happen. And I was like, wait, that first term was not a good one. So stop pretending that it was. But there was a prevailing narrative.
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But now with the chaos that's taking place, with all of that we've seen, have you seen when you travel the state?
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um whether it's democrats republicans independents people who aren't political are you seeing shifts just in your own observations knowing politics in jersey probably better than mostly anyone there right now what are you seeing the moment right now well as a democrat i'd say there's there's good news and bad news the bad news is the republicans are out registering democrats and they have been i think something like 41 straight months
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Governor Phil Murphy, thank you so much for joining us. First time on the Midas Touch Network. I hope not the last, Ben. Well, that's why I was going to ask you what you got planned after, but I figure that's how I'm going to get you on the next one.
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it was yet another brutal day in the markets today as donald trump continues to crash the united states economy this follows a day where early in the market at 9 0 7 a.m donald trump said now is a great time to buy exclamation point then he signed it djt which also happens to be the stock symbol for trump media Who knew what and when? Was there market manipulation yesterday?
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it looks like the trump meme so there are a lot of people saying that it seems that the market was manipulated you have democratic senatorship warren others calling for investigations uh on the house um led by leader jeffrey saying we need to investigate that i'll show you that in a bit but first let me show you what trump said this is why this is what trump said yesterday on why he instituted this kind of fake pause
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They say they're going to go about it in a different way, which I guess means what no due process and just send the individual to a concentration camp in El Salvador. This was after Fox did this whole big like screener on what was going down. We'll talk about that and more. Also, there was a leaked clip.
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And he said something about like, we got yippee. People got a little yippee, a little yippee. Here, play this clip.
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Also just surrounded by a bunch of like white dudes behind him. Do these champions right here? You see these champions?
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I call him Nutlick on beat down all the time. Do you? Okay. Maybe that's why it slipped down. It is agreed upon that you can call Howard Lutnick Nutlick.
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Brett, their talking points admit to the market manipulation. If you take their talking points, Their view was, this was the plan all along. So the plan was, we were going to crash the markets, we were going to implode the bond markets, we were going to create a situation where people had to tap into their 529 accounts for their kids' college savings,
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or their life savings we we crippled retail investors we we caused 10 trillion dollars to vanish from the market on purpose as part of a plan to get no concessions at all, to allow China to assert itself and seem like a very rational actor and a very level-headed actor across the world markets. We now see Europe
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From yesterday of Trump in the oval office with billionaire friends bragging about how rich he made them should also be noted that before we went live today, we also learned about two planes clipping their wings at DC's Reagan airport. And tragically six people were killed Thursday when a helicopter crashed into the Hudson river near lower Manhattan, another day in Trump's dystopian America.
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is this gross recklessness and gross negligence and as your thesis was at the beginning it's actually both it's like it could be all of the above and that's what we're seeing and it's not just on this issue don't forget everybody don't let this distract you from signal gate right No one talks about that anymore.
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We still talk about it here, that they're having classified war communications on a signal app. Don't forget that they're disappearing migrants without due process to concentration camps in El Salvador and then putting in filings to federal courts, oopsies, we made a mistake, but you have to reach out to Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador.
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Don't forget that Donald Trump wants to steal the minerals from Zelensky. Don't forget what that Oval Office visit from Zelensky and Trump looked like. where Trump shamed the United States for generations with Zelensky, a wartime hero, in the Oval Office. Don't forget that Donald Trump's been threatening to annex and invade Canada, Greenland, Panama. Don't forget these things. They're all...
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They're all things that we should be covering, and we can cover all of them at the same time here. The Trump regime wants to overwhelm me with all of this stuff. We're not overwhelmed. We're just getting started. We're just getting started on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. People always ask, what about the merch? We want Midas Touch merch.
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I'm Ben Mycelis. You're watching the Midas Touch podcast. I'm joined by Brett and Jordy. To say this has been a calamitous week would be an understatement. Of course, I see hope still with the opposition resistance rising. Trump looking weaker than ever, but certainly calamitous indeed.
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And spell Midas right, M-E-I-D-A-S. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome back. Thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors. The discount codes are in the descriptions below. Jordy is doing well. We're going to just take over from him. Jordy's very, very good. He's on dad duty.
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Yeah, Jordy was not getting yippy. He was not getting tricky. Don't give me that hashtag free Jordy stuff. He's free. Jordy was not a panicking. And Jordy did not feel. I know there's a lot of Jordy supporters. I was not teasing him by putting him on the spot and saying he doesn't watch the clips. I was just... objective truth, truth is golden. It's just the reality of it.
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You definitely does not watch most of these clips I play before I show them. All right, like this one right here. I do wanna give a hat tip to leader Jeffries. I know there was a lot of people who were saying, I want to see him fight. Leader Jeffries, I think, has been fighting a lot lately, right? He challenged MAGA Mike to a debate on the House floor. MAGA Mike chickened out of it.
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I love the leader Jeffries then saying to MAGA Mike, because the MAGA Republican Congress member named Congress member Stuby, Stuby Stuby Doo, he rebuked MAGA Mike Johnson. He goes, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. You're a liar. Still went, I think, and voted for this horrific budget to cut taxes to the billionaires for $4.5 trillion and cut Medicaid by $880 billion.
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The budget's now progressing to the next step after the House adopted a completely different budget outline than they had originally passed. They adopt the Senate's, which looks nothing like theirs. And so what they're going to do, because this is what they do with everything,
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is they like take it to the final day then create a controversy then like explode everything like we can't do it our budget has 1.5 trillion in cuts the senate budget has four billion dollars in cuts what are we gonna do oh no i guess the debt ceiling's approaching chaos panic market crashes isn't that what they do about everything but anyway at least for now they passed the senate's version of the budget outline and then stubi said i rebuke you to maggie mike johnson in the name of jesus then leader jeffrey's like look
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If we debate, Maga Mike, I'm not gonna rebuke you in the name of Jesus. We'll make it- Yeah, these people are some weird shit.
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So leader Jeffries is calling for an investigation into the insider trading. Let me show you what he announced earlier today.
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You saw from the graph that we showed you where you can actually visually see people buying before the announcement is made. In normal times, the Securities and Exchange Commission would look at that and it's fairly easy to trace. where that trading activity is coming from. Of course, now the SEC being controlled by the Trump regime is like all agencies being absolutely gutted.
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So don't expect them to do anything. Don't expect the DOJ to do anything at all. They're too busy disappearing people without due process to concentration camps in El Salvador. But Brett, what I said before is if you take the explanation of Trump regime propagandists like Caroline Leavitt, They admit that this was their plan. So they admit the plan was market manipulation.
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Here's Caroline Levitt, the chief propagandist. This was yesterday when she said, I just want you all to know we had always planned this. So Caroline Levitt, you're admitting the plan was to crash the markets with bogus tariffs, make corporations believe that they had to all of a sudden adjust their businesses to say, psych! Gotcha, gotcha, everybody. Here, play this clip.
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Well, could you imagine Donald Trump determining interest rates? I mean, could you imagine what he would do? The type and also one of the things that Doge is doing. So, yes, Trump wants control over the Federal Reserve. He wants to fire Jerome Powell. That's obvious, right? Then you have Elon Musk sending Doge into the FDIC, which ensures deposits.
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Do you see what they're doing while disappearing human beings? One of the things we shouldn't forget as well is that during the Oval Office press conferences that Donald Trump had yesterday, I don't even need to show the clip because I think I could describe it accurately.
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Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that he was targeting Miles Taylor, who used to work in the Trump administration, and Chris Krebs,
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who worked as an intelligence officer in cybersecurity in the first trump administration that he's ordering the doj to attack them to go after them to criminally investigate them and he said it is because they claim the 2020 election was a free and fair election he goes it was stolen because they are outspoken and saying it was a free and fair election
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He says this, that he's ordered the Department of Justice to go after them. I saw somebody say this, and it's accurate. We are all Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs. They're just the first line, right? You know, the migrants who are being disappeared, they're first. But if Trump gets to exercise the authoritarian playbook that he wants to do, everybody comes next.
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unless you're one of these people who are in the cabinet saying we're all a loving family we all love you we all love you dear leader please can i dear leader may i please have some breadcrumbs sir please that that is ultimately his vision his vision is the vision of the authoritarian that's what we are facing so i wanted to make that point second point i wanted to make it's like the line from the gladiator
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are you not entertained are you not entertained you sound just like him like russell crowe just like him entertained oh my god russell crowe's on the pod damn is this what the media want is this what you all want this is the the entertain i want my entertainment to be on tv To me, I don't want my politics to be entertainment.
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I want, call me old fashioned, I want boring when it comes to this stuff, right? I want to see a leader in the tradition of an American leader and leadership in general, which is to walk or talk soft and carry a big stick. You can back it up with power, but you don't need to, a real strength is not acting like a maniac. Donald Trump just waves his little tiny, pathetic,
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stick and then when it comes down to it he doesn't back it up because he had you know when donald trump goes they don't have the cards they don't have the cards it's always a tell on himself using the card analogy. The tell is he never has the cards to play. And all of the world leaders, allies, enemies, adversaries, whoever, they know that Trump doesn't have the cards to play.
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Where do you want to lead us off? Why don't I lead off in the Oval Office? This was on Wednesday after Donald Trump said you should buy. Now would be a good time to buy. And after all of his regime members said no chance that they're ever going to pause the tariffs on the rest of the world, that they would never do that.
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They know he's weak. They know he's fold. They know that his intellectual capacity is minimal. It's a caveman brain of just power, power. I want power, power, power. And they know how easily He can be defeated. You can't even write these scripts. They would not be believable, these scripts, if it was on Veep or one of these shows.
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I mean, while all of this was going on, you had Jameson Greer, the main trade representative for the United States, the guy who's in charge of the tariffs. That's literally his job. Tariff guy, right? Trade representative, Jameson Greer. He's testifying two days in Congress, first in the Senate, then in the House of Representatives.
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And he's testifying under penalty of perjury, day one in the Senate, then day two for about half the day until Trump announced that we're never stopping these tariffs. We're never going to press pause. I'm involved in every conversation. Then using my example of this wouldn't be believable on Veep.
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he then gets a text message or he sees a google alert that the tariffs are then paused or trump makes the announcement he's the guy in charge of that so then he gets asked by the democratic congress members like dude what the hell man like aren't you the guy like what happened one of the best questioning came from democratic congress member stephen horsford watch this incredible moment let's play the clip mr trade uh representative are you aware that the tariffs have been paused
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Who's in charge? Who's in charge? WTF? I agree. And then using my example of would you believe this if it was on on Veep? And this is real life, a dystopian reality show like The Apprentice, where we are all non consenting extras having our lives destroyed by this.
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There was another hearing in the Senate where they were looking to confirm or Trump putting forward the Senate guy named Jared Isaacman to be the leader of NASA. Now, we already know that Elon Musk's SpaceX has been awarded a $5.6 billion government contract. The FAA has awarded Elon Musk money. The government also awarded Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' company, billions of dollars.
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They announced that they're pausing the tariffs on all of the countries other than China. They were going to increase the tariffs against China, which we now know to be, as at least to this recording, 145 percent.
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And so one of the questions is, hey, Jared Isaacman, the head of NASA, Did Elon Musk handpick you? Were you in a room with Elon Musk when this deal went down to pick you? Because there are some serious conflicts of interest here. Take a look at what Jared Isaacman said. He refused to say. It's a parody of a parody of a parody. Just watch this.
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But then as you dug deeper into what the Trump regime was doing, it really still wasn't even what they said they were doing against the rest of the world because other tariffs seemed to be in place, but it was still unclear. clear to almost everybody, including the business community, like, wait a minute. So you went from having Canada and Mexico not on your liberation day list.
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Where next week, me and my brothers will be holding a state event. of the Midas Touch event on a Zoom chat. We're going to talk about all of that. And when we get back, we got to talk about the Trump regime dismissing charges against an individual they claim is the leader of MS-13 and Caroline Leavitt, Trump's propagandist. Because we do it differently here. We do it differently.
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We also got to talk about Elon Musk announcing that the Doge savings for 2026 will be $150 billion. billion when he promised $2 trillion. We'll talk about that and more. Let's take our last quick break of the show.
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I put that in quotes for audio listeners. It's annihilation day or liquidation day. But now you're doing what, 25% tariffs? What are you doing? You're tariffing the penguins. Are those on? What's going on? I think when you do a blended tariff rate, even after this quote unquote pause, the tariffs overall are still around 25%, which is actually devastating and disastrous.
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Brett, one of the things I wanted to chat about going back to this cabinet meeting for those just joining the show now, I described this as like a weirder, worse version of The Apprentice, just when you see the characters even here. I mean, like, why is Elon Musk even in this room? Like, he should not even be there. None of these people are qualified.
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Literally none of these people are qualified to be in this room. I think The Apprentice cast would be doing a better job because, frankly, if they just did nothing, they'd be doing a better job. So after Elon Musk and all the MAGA Republicans, what were they telling us with Doge? Doge is going to cut two trillion, at least two trillion. That was the problem.
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Two trillion, two trillion, two trillion. So now they're saying one hundred and fifty billion. So I just want to do the math, Brett. They've wiped out at least ten trillion or more from the market, probably more by now. There's more federal spending now. by far, than under former President Biden. Just look at the objective data.
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There's far more federal spending right now and way more is projected by the end of the year. Look at the government contracts to Musk, Donald Trump flying Air Force One and sporting events. I mean, just think of the stupid stuff.
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Donald Trump saying he wants a one trillion, because he likes the word trillion, one trillion dollar military budget, reckless spending everywhere, more spending than ever before.
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Was this a pump and dump? We will explore and I will give you the legal framework from which we look at the investigation taking shape here. at the Midas Touch Network. Also, the bond markets are again imploding mortgage rates above 7%. If Donald Trump thought by increasing the tariffs against China to what is it now like 145%?
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And also considering China is one of the main trading partners, although we're competitive in trade with them, that being 145% is crippling anyway. So Donald Trump says, buy, buy, buy. On that basis, the market surges, again, like a meme coin, like a crypto rug pull. That's what the American market looked like all of a sudden.
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fiscal hawks remember the book the anamorphs where people would turn into the different like what what the hell is a fiscal what are we doing here what are we talking about what are hawks what are there what do you what does it even mean these people are the most reckless spenders i mean that that there that there is so here's elon musk the scene i set up is just when you watch this
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think about apprentice because this is what it looked like think about you know who who who was one like carrot top was was carrot top on the show um i'm not sure if that's a good person i think i think i think he was uh i got it i got a look at my room no i think he's cool i think i haven't looked at the carrot top in a little bit i think tom arnold references i don't bet i don't vet my references so i'm gonna say carrot top this is like imagine carrot top
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And then Donald Trump's in the Oval Office with billionaire friends bragging about how rich they became on that day. I mean, setting aside just the optics, this is just reprehensible conduct. Here's what it is. Let's play that clip.
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Okay, it's the least funny thing. He's lying about everything. But doesn't it remind you like when like Carrot Top, like wasn't Carrot Top's thing like he would like, bring out like objects and like turn them into funny objects and like characters. Look what I've got. I've made a hat. Okay. Okay. And it's like a target rich hat that I've made with my cup. It's a cup hat. It's a cat. It's a cat.
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I'm just trying to pick a random character on The Apprentice. I'm just saying no offense to him.
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You got to do some research. But these are the people who are making horrific decisions and who are causing a lot of harm. You remember they rolled out on Fox almost like Apprentice style, right? Where they would have like their cosplay scene and they were like, we've busted the biggest MS 13 leader of all of the East Coast. A bad, bad guy. We did it. Mission accomplished. Name is Henry Santos.
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We arrested him. And okay, I remember Fox did a big story. You all remember the story of this guy, but Despite being called one of the top three MS-13 leaders by all the top Trump administration officials, they paraded him on Fox. The prosecutors are now moving to dismiss the charges against him. They're saying that the charges need to be dismissed.
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Fox felt like, well, we did the whole thing with you. We did the whole propaganda show with you. What are you doing? So the Fox host asked Caroline Levitt, so if this guy is the head of MS-13, like, why are you dismissing the charges? And she goes, we do it differently. We do it differently now. Here, play this clip.
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Wouldn't you want... to find out who the other gang members are through the pro like if you went to go if that was really what was happening we've tried el chapo here in the united states in march the trump regime was boasting in press releases about extraditing to the united states from other countries into the united states ms-13 people to be prosecuted in the united states because
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he's pointing to rich people for those audio listeners in case you couldn't hear he's pointing to rich people in the oval office and he's like he made 2.5 billion today and this guy made 900 million today one of them is literally charles schwab like the charles schwab that's that's who he's pointing to bragging about how much money charles schwab made in one day due to donald trump's pump scheme so then you had this cabinet meeting as i was watching this cabinet meeting i watched these things so y'all don't have to i was like what does this look like and it was clear
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Our system was always viewed as a system that was one of the strongest justice systems in the world, that we had the federal prison system to deal with that here. But now I suppose what they want to say is there should be no process. Just listen to what we say. And we say gang member. We say leader of the gang. And on that basis –
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we're going to send the person to an El Salvador concentration camp. Just show the evidence. Our system is a pretty basic one, although, yes, it has complexities, but just show us the evidence.
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If you are telling me, for example, that the gay hairdresser who fled Venezuela because of persecution, who was a hairstylist working here in the United States, who had a mom and dad tattoo, is actually the gang member, Just show it.
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And if the person's a dangerous and violent gang member who's committed crimes and there's a process for it – we had processes before Trump claimed that we're in a war with Venezuela falsely, that there could be deportation proceedings. The person can be tried. There's a process for it. If you are telling me, for example, that Abrego Garcia –
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The Maryland man who was shipped to the El Salvador concentration camp with no criminal past, no criminal record at all, who a Trump immigration judge in 2019 gave protected status to, is a bad guy, and you have the evidence to support it. Then put your evidence in a courtroom, and then we can see it and look at it, and it could be evaluated by a judge and a jury. That's our system.
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That's the way the country works. So if y'all are just trying to say that you don't like our country and you don't like our system and you at least want to be honest about it and say, no, no, no, we want to run the United States like Russia, like an authoritarian regime. We don't like actually the American system of law. We don't like the jury system. We don't like due process.
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We don't like the Constitution. We don't like these things. Then just say it. I would think you're despicable, but I would at least think you're at least intellectually giving me a strand of, okay, well, at least you're telling me how you feel. But Brett, in many ways, what this MAGA Republican virus that's inflicted our country makes it all worse is then it's the gaslighting. No, I'm MAGA Mike.
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No, we're not going after Medicaid. No, we're not. But it says that. It says you're going after Medicaid. That's literally what you're doing. No, we're not going to do that. And they do it. And it's like, well, well, well, we didn't actually do it. You literally just took away people's Medicaid. We're not going to go after Social Security. Well, you just shut down 47 offices.
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Yeah, but efficiency fraud. We're going to cut two trillion. You didn't cut two trillion. You're saying one hundred and twenty five billion. I don't even believe that number either. Well, you know what? It got complicated, and it was in the interest, and they go down these rabbit holes, and it's – honestly, it's anti-American. It's anti-our constitution.
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It's anti-our system, and it's causing systemic failure in our country, bro.
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a really bad version of The Apprentice. That's actually what this thing looked like. It's like Donald Trump assembled like C-list Hollywood people. Actually the C-list Hollywood people are more qualified than his actual cabinet. And it was a bizarre like glazing fest. And we'll show you more of those clips a little bit where they're like, We've become more than just a cabinet, Donald.
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The House of Representatives, in addition to the SAVE Act, Brad, also, they passed a bill yesterday that would deprive judges of their ability to issue nationwide injunctions, which is precise. It has to be passed in the Senate. They'll probably be filibustered and not pass.
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But that's one of the things that the House is working on, despite the fact that a Trump judge in the northern district of Texas would issue all these injunctions to stop former President Biden's initiatives that actually would have helped people extend prescription drugs to people, extend people's freedoms, help women's reproductive rights, helped on student loans.
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Trump judges issued injunctive relief. blocking the things that actually would have helped the people. And meanwhile, a lot of the MAGA Republican Congress members who got PPP loans, they got their debt forgiven and all these Trumpers did as well. But Brett, you know, the Supreme Court ruling from earlier today was something that I think should give some hope.
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It was a unanimous ruling, of course, to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The Supreme Court requiring this on a 9-0 resolution.
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requiring the trump administration to facilitate the return of abrigo garcia let me close out by just reading for you what the order actually says um the decision unanimous by the way and it's as kyle cheney says it suggests that someone held overseas can still be given due process it goes the application is granted in part and denied in part subject to the direction of this order due to the administrative stay issued by the chief justice the deadline imposed by the district court is now passed
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when the district court ordered by April 7th, Abrego Garcia returned. To the extent that the government's emergency application is effectively granted in part, and the deadline in the challenged order is no longer effective. The rest of the district court's order remains in effect, but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires
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Because of your leadership, we've become a family. We love each other under your leadership. I'll show you some of those clips in a bit. The first one I want to show you though, I want to get to the meat of it, then I'll show you some of that fluff or whatever you call it. Donald Trump today bragging about the market yesterday while the market was tanking today. But he's saying it was great.
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the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. Let me read that one more time. The order properly, meaning that there is jurisdiction for district courts to do this.
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The order properly requires the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term effectuate in the district court's order is, however, unclear and may exceed the district court's authority.
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The district court should clarify its directives with due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps. The order heretofore entered by the Chief Justice is vacated." So, return him
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But effectuate meaning you still have to find some compromise with the Trump regime to bring him back. So you can't it's it's a little there's some ambiguity in that order. But I think what they're saying is, do you say you bring him back in one day?
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You still have to at least they would say, understand what the process is to come up with a consent order to allow the executive branch the opportunity and time to get them and kind of bring it back. So to me, what this showdown now becomes is what I think we've been covering here on the network now legally for a long time, which is does the Trump regime now say, no, we're not following this.
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I know, though, by the way, nine to zero. Does the Trump regime say, no, we're not listening to this? And then we've kind of now escalated to that step where they're disobeying the Supreme Court order. What I suspect is going to happen is that the Trump regime will view that language of effectuate, try to stall a little bit, and then it'll go back to the Supreme Court fairly soon.
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That's my gut of what's going to happen, but we will see. But I think that's...
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at least some positive news um in in a day of otherwise doom and gloom and finally what i think is positive news as well is the fact that i think the opposition and resistance grows stronger every single day i mean i think the fact that the midas touch network continues to beat fox news put that in quotes on digital platforms every day is a big win
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the fact that the midas touch network continues to beat joe rogan now three times the monthly downloads as rogan 3x joe rogan's monthly downloads this podcast right here and to me that means we're reaching more people more people are getting exposed to the truth the data the receipts we bring every day and i thank you the midas mighty for sharing this the maple midas in canada we're the number one podcast in canada most downloaded most viewed podcast
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It was one of the best days in the market ever. It's because of me. Look how great it is. Here's what he said. Let's play it.
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We'll talk about what we're doing with protest coverage and what we're doing with shadow hearings, and we'll answer your questions. That's all I've got. Brett, any last things you want to say before we head out?
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So we're very, very happy with the way the country is running. Very happy with the way the country is running the biggest industry. It should be noted that during the times of some of the biggest crashes, whether it was the great recession of 08, whether it was the COVID crashes during Trump's first administration, they were often followed by some days because it would drop so much.
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The volatility is such that the markets would also go up a lot, but they were not a good sign.
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You got to track all these tariffs and what's even going on with all this Trump chaos. But China is not blinking at all. In fact, Xi Jinping through its foreign ministry spokespersons basically mocking the Trump regime. They're showing the MAGA hats made in China now costing more, literally mocking the Trump regime. Also the Trump regime worthy of being mocked as they continue to
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one of my favorite parts about this show is that jordy's so busy running our marketing operation that i know he hasn't seen a lot of these clips until we're literally showing him on the show reactions from you on the show so you get you get real authentic reactions from jordy and i get to do a gut check of maybe how the audience feels about it like if someone who hasn't seen these clips yeah jordy's seen this for the first time right jordy i'm gonna show you jordan now
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donald trump's secretary of agriculture brooke rollins at this cabinet meeting with elon musk by her side as well and i'll show you a clip of what elon musk talks about also where he's like and we're going to like reduce reduce spending by 125 billion dollars you said 2 trillion idiot you think we forget in fy 2026 it's going to be 125 billion in cuts so you just wiped out like 12 trillion from the market
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You claim you're going to recover $125 billion. You're going to lose trillions in collections of tax revenue. And then you have the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins. Let me play this clip, Jordy, then I want to get Jordy's reaction to it.
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None of this is normal. Jordi, the person sitting next to her was Sean Duffy. who's the Secretary of Transportation, he got famous and put into this MAGA orbit because he was on the real-world road rules challenge.
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So in this bizarro reality show, a worse version of The Apprentice, a far more dystopian version, where we the people are all non-consenting members or participants as extras of this American carnage, you got the real-world road road rules challenge guy on a day where there's not just a market crash.
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There was a devastating helicopter crash in the Hudson River in New York, killing six people and two planes clipped each other at Reagan National Airport. I want to share with you the next clip where Donald Trump's asked, OK, well, I know you want to talk about the market from yesterday, but Have you seen the market today, like now?
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Are you watching what's happening to get another meltdown in the bond markets that people are viewing American treasury notes like they would normally view like foreign to use Donald Trump's term third world country notes? Here's what Donald Trump says. Let's play it.
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to disappear human beings and migrants and by the way y'all remember we reported on this the big ms-13 bus that donald trump said went down where he found the biggest east coast leader of ms-13 well now the department of justice moved to dismiss the charges against the ms-13 leader
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I haven't seen it. So now here's what I want to do with our viewers and our listeners.
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let's go through the timeline of trump posting at 9 0 7 a.m that now would be a great time to buy signed d j t which is the stock symbol for his trump media company which then immediately got a bump thereafter then at 1 p.m donald trump announced that there would be a pause on the tariffs against the countries other than china but when you actually delved into it brett
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As you said, it's really not a pause. It basically takes a blended tariff rate against the world at 27 percent and moves it to 25 percent. Then Trump's thereafter talked about tariffing pharmaceuticals and other things, I guess, deprive Americans of essential medical services. One of the things that you'll note, I'll give you what Donald Trump said publicly.
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But when you look at some of these kind of these trading, they're like stocks, they're funds, they're exchange-based funds that basically are tied to the S&P or they're exchange-based funds tied to the NASDAQ. And they have these funny names like S&P.
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spy dollar sign spy that's tied to the s p and like the relative portions of the size of the s p are calculated in this you know uh trading fund um the sqqq and a dollar sign qqq and dollar sign tqqq are exchange-based funds that trade based on how the nasdaq is doing so right before the news
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that this was happening all of a sudden you see the most erratic volume that's happening on these types of funds basically indicating that people some people knew something was about to happen you could literally point with an arrow where some of these insiders that knew which usually when insider trading happens you got to figure out a little bit more than that because they're usually a little more careful and then as it relates
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to the djt stock djt call premiums explode right as donald trump makes that post and he signs it djt and you'll see today where the trump stock is where the the stock is not doing well by the way the overall trump media stock is just doing
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awful remember when it was over 100 and now it's at 18.53 remember when it was trading at like a hundred dollars or or more and it had a market cap of something crazy same thing with the with the trump meme coin but now our market the united states stock market where everybody had full faith and credit in the united states treasury looks like the trump stock
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so i was forced to be evacuated as a result of the la fires i'm not sure the status of my home right now but i'm reporting from you from a safe location my family is safe my dogs are safe That's really all that matters, and what matters to me is that as many people are safe as possible, that everybody is safe. My heart goes out to everybody impacted by the devastation that's occurred.
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And so when you're pushing back, you're like, no, that's not true. That's a lie. That's not happening. It already sounds like, well, so you're just saying they're making all of this up to undermine you? Yeah. Who does that? Who would make up such vile facts? They do. MAGA does on all of these things. No matter what it is, MAGA makes up this stuff.
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When it came to the hurricanes recently, MAGA said FEMA's not giving you resources. FEMA was. The migrants are taking all of your resources. They weren't. They blamed the Democratic governor at the time from North Carolina. The whole thing was politicized. during the recent terrorist attack in New Orleans. MAGA immediately said, migrants, it was Eagle Pass.
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When there was the thing on the Canadian border where there was like someone who crashed their car in like Buffalo, they said, oh, this is a terrorist attack. This is like, you know, like Muslim terrorists who are coming in through the borders and they would just, they'd make up things that are 100% false. So now you have to like disprove a 100% falsehood.
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And then you have to do things like, actually, let me explain to you the budgetary process and why it isn't true that Karen Bass cut $17 million. She actually increased. You're just looking at a budget item that shows one form of the appropriations, but actually she added $50 million to the budget. That's the truth, right? Karen Bass actually did not cut the budget.
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It was a complicated budgetary thing you have to look at. The budget increased. But I was getting comments even from my own wife saying, while we were escaping, how do I defend this? And it was all of the lies that MAGA was spewing and people in LA and people who she knew were reaching out to her saying, wait a minute, are Democrats causing this? Is this happening?
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And she's asking me, how do I defend? Like, you don't have to defend anything. Like, there's nothing to defend. Like, let's be safe. Like, I'm sure these are all lies. I don't even want to think about it right now. But then again, those lies are spreading while the fire is spreading. And people are trying to put out the fire and they're using it as a wedge issue to divide.
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And we see that over and over again with MAGA, not just as it relates to these fires and the devastation, but if there's a hurricane, if there's a terrorist attack, They'll blame Democrats. They'll blame migrants right away. I just want to talk about that because I'm not okay with that. And I can imagine the fear that my brother's going through, the fear of other people as they were escaped.
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I mean, take a look at Trump. I don't want to read all the Trump posts because it's like, why even give it that much?
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Let me just say this really quickly though. That video of Newsom, man, it breaks my heart every time I look at that and watch that video. I actually also get angry and angrier every time I see Newsom having to defend himself as he's trying to govern, as his... area is burning, is literally on fire. He's got to be asked questions about Trump and Trump's statements. And that's the thing too, Ben.
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It's not even just pushing back on the lies and then getting out the new information, right? All these leaders are doing this as... they're trying to do that, lead, right? They're trying to get their people safe. They're trying to get their resources there.
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And now there's an onslaught of just misinformation and lies that they have to react to in live time where that couldn't be the furthest thing from his mind at the moment. All he wants to do is get the truth out there and make sure his people are safe.
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And so just seeing all this information, Ben, and it breaks my heart too, what you just said about Soja, about your wife, that she's getting all these texts, how am I supposed to defend myself here? It's like, you guys are literally... on the move for your life. Like it's gotta be the furthest thing from the point.
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But again, there's just so much bad information out there that it's so intentional that it's actually deadly. Like it is, it is making the situation a hundred million times worse off than, uh, dude, it is just so frustrating to see play out. And again, just so helpless being on the other side of the country, watching you guys have to deal with all of this. It's nuts, man.
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This is not what the norm was in our country. When there were disasters, we used to unite together, whether it was a terrorist attack, whether it was a natural disaster. It was kind of an unspoken rule because it was basic human morality that we didn't have to speak at who we are as Americans. We would try to rally around each other in disasters, no matter what it was, pull through together.
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And we were all one America. That's what we were. And part of my frustration, would be putting it lightly, for this whole MAGA movement is that it's taken away that kind of fundamental fact of who we are even as a country, that everything, the moment it happens, it's used as a political wedge to divide, and then it becomes a political football, every single thing. And I remember when
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You had John McCain during the campaign when lies would be spread about former President Obama, that time candidate Obama, Senator Obama's background. McCain would take away the mic and say, that's not true. That's not who we are. If I'm going to win this, I want to win this on facts. You're not saying true things. And the fact that that's viewed as like weakness.
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When it happens from someone like the late great Senator John McCain, who risked his life in Vietnam fighting for our country, and it's being directed at him by someone like Trump who claimed bone spurs to get out of Vietnam to divide us. And I think, you know, we have to think through this though, because During disasters, people are at their most vulnerable.
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If you think about scammers, who do scammers go after most? Two types of people, elderly and people who are going through disasters. That's the two groups that are the most vulnerable to scammers. Why? Because they tend to be vulnerable. When you're going through a tragedy, when you're feeling all of these emotions, you are more susceptible to be polluted by lies.
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Every event, everything MAGA turns into a political thing. Every aspect of it, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. And you don't have to think about disasters. You don't have to think about, I mean, think about international boxing and the boxer from Algeria.
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who was a woman, who MAGA was like, oh, that's secretly a man and somehow Democrats, like Democrats and Bidens were somehow involved in the Algerian boxer. And you're getting mad at the Algerian boxer in the Olympics where there's an Olympic, no matter what it is, you can't go anywhere without MAGA doing these things. I want to check on Brett. We'll take our first quick break. We'll come back.
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Talk about more things. Remind everybody to hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Check out MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S, MidasPlus.com. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, does a great job curating that. So check that out. Patreon.com slash Midas Touch as well. We held a Zoom meeting earlier in the week. It was so great seeing everybody and meeting everybody.
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I know the fear that me and my family went through as we got an alert on our phones, escape now, your lives are on the line, whatever the thing said, get out of your house right now. And we got out just in time. And then to immediately, like immediately see Donald Trump and MAGA say, this is all Newsom's fault. This is all Democrats' fault. Democrats this, Democrats that.
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That's betterhelp, H-E-L-P dot com slash Midas. Shout out to our pro-democracy sponsors. Use the links in the description of the YouTube and the audio. Thank you all for sponsoring this. This is some great stuff right there. And let me just say this too, Ben. Shout out to the first responders. I think we mentioned at the top of the podcast, but let's just say it again. What's going on out there?
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And then they do these lies about, oh, it's because Karen Bass cut this from the budget. I mean, that's false. She didn't. That's not what happened. Actually, $50 million was added for firefighting. But we'll talk about all of that and more here. I'll talk about some other topics.
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in la is wild um unlike anything i've i think is i've ever seen quite frankly um and just shout out to the super brave and incredible first responders just helping out unbelievable
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Here's the thing, too. We've got first responders from all over Canada. First off, all over California. Then in Canada, they're helping out as well. In Mexico, they are sending support as well. And then neighboring states. So I just want you to think about that because while Donald Trump tries to divide and he threatens Canada and Mexico, all throughout Canada, they're giving resources to
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to help in California. Also, one of the things that Governor Newsom did as well in advance of the fires was he called into action firefighters from Northern California who also came to help and were prepared with their truck. So this is a monumental effort right now. And this is a fire the likes of which, you know, It's no longer once in a lifetime because of global warming and climate change.
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I wish it was once in a lifetime, but given the winds, given the dryness, given all of the conditions, it aligned to create this cataclysmic natural disaster. It didn't matter if you had... a bajillion gallons of water at that time. I mean, if you've seen those fires, it would be practically impossible to contain despite all of the best efforts.
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And so there are ways to try to deal with it and mitigate it, but to somehow blame that on um oh there's there's not enough water when there are literally millions of barrels of water and then one of the things you have to be careful with as well is that if you keep the electricity on and you don't shut down electricity
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you then become susceptible to additional fire starting based on the electric grid that's in place. And then it could spread even more rapidly and quicker. And that grid can serve as kind of a conduit to then force that fire to rapidly spread into additional residential neighborhoods that it might not otherwise do.
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So there are complex considerations of how you deal with it, but those need to be actively considered. discussed in a bipartisan way and dealt with. But the moment a tragedy strikes, boom, MAGA Republicans are there to blame it on Democrats, to blame it on transgender people, to blame it on migrants, to blame it on whatever group, but there's always a blame right away.
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And again, I don't want to read all of Trump's posts. By the way, I appreciate that our audience likes that I no longer play Trump videos or audios. It's a great, it's like a great policy that we don't share.
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It's a really good policy.
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Because here's the thing. I hope by now I've established enough trust over the last four years that you know he says when I say he says something, he says it. But also, if you want to go, you can watch the clips. It's still on our social media. It's just not on our YouTube videos. You can always verify. Wait a minute.
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Elon Musk, for example, said that Doge, that made up agency or cabinet position that doesn't really exist, that claims it was going to cut $2 trillion from the budget. Well, Elon Musk says it probably won't even be able to do half of that amount. So yet another lie. And when we talk about these lies, And also, I've been talking about with you this concept of WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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Let me check the Midas Blue Sky account or the Midas Blue whatever the account is and ultimately check it out. But here's one post where he goes, Governor Gavin Newsom refused to sign a water restoration declaration because he cares more about a fish called smelt. Like all of that's false. There's nothing true about it. There's no such thing as a water restoration declaration.
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So if you try to, what is this water restoration declaration that he refused to sign? That's not a true thing. He didn't prioritize smelt over the people in California. That's false. And he's not to blame for this, but that was one of their angles of attack. They also say that it was because of Ukraine. I mean, Don Jr. goes, oh, look, of course, the L.A.
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Fire Department donated a bunch of their supplies to Ukraine. They then go on to blame it on Ukraine.
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uh dei elon musk repost libs of tick tock and then this stuff gets millions and millions of views because elon musk amplifies on the algorithm himself and all this right-wing nonsense they prioritize dei over saving lives and homes and they show this thing which was like oh you karen bass cut 17 million dollars from the fire department she didn't There was actually $50 million added.
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They're looking at one budget item that was removed, but they didn't look at the full context of the budget that actually there was not a reduction. There was actually an increase that was made. And by the way, even if there was a reduction, I would still want to know you'd have to explain to me in terms, well, then how would that have impacted a cataclysmic fire?
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I mean, Republicans are the ones who cut fire departments, everyone. They're the first essential services. So even if you accepted their argument, which was false and accepted their premise, you have to then articulate to me how a cataclysmic fire would have been stopped with an additional $17 million? And the answer is it wouldn't, but it's BS anyway and just not accurate and not true.
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You have additional posts by Elon Musk who is amplifying Alex Jones posts. Alex Jones goes, destroyed by Biden, Los Angeles fires are part of a larger globalist plot to wage economic warfare and de-industrialize the United States before triggering total collapse.
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Alex Jones is the guy found liable for defaming the parents who lost their kids in school shootings by saying that the kids who died didn't really die and that they and their parents were crisis actors who made up the school shooting and are faking their kids' deaths. This is who Trump and MAGA and Elon Musk pal around with.
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And by the way, if you go and look at the post from Gavin Newsom's team that tries to correct the disinfo and you look at the bottom, you'll see like how many views that gets on X. And it's like, it gets like, 30,000 views, 25,000 views. Oh, this one from Brandon Richards, 6,000 views where he actually lays out the facts that all of this is a lie. Here's the fact, here's the budget item.
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Here's the amount of local government fire engines. Here's all of the things we did, right? So that gets 6,838 views. Look at the bottom right there. You can see that. But this Alex Jones post about a globalist plot to deindustrialize, take a look at that. 3.8 million views qualified by Musk. So the question is, is... When you have that thing taking place, you see how dangerous it could be.
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And by the way, there was once a time where the algorithm was neutral and actually truthful facts would do better. You can complain what you want. Was Twitter run perfectly before Elon Musk bought it? No, there were lots of issues with it, but it was a pretty... The best content rose to the top. Now it's artifice.
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Everything they accuse Twitter of doing is what Elon Musk's ex is now actually doing for the right-wing mob. It is absolutely bonkers. It is vile.
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to be spreading so much any at all but all of this misinformation right now when people on the ground there are literally looking for resources and facts and just trying to survive and what are you gonna do you're gonna you're gonna post on x oh the dems oh the libs oh ukraine what are you doing like it is absolutely bonkers and other countries must be looking at us like
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Y'all are politicizing fires? Y'all are politicizing natural disasters? And it's not even going to come as such a shock to them because, well, the right wing mob did it for the hurricanes not too long ago. This is what they do. They don't care about the citizens of this country. They really don't.
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What they care about is shitposting and spreading disinformation as long as it puts forward their agenda, whatever agenda, hate-filled agenda that is. It is bonkers. It is sad. It is disgusting. And frankly, it has to stop. And that's why I'm so glad that we get to do this show, Ben, and get people the facts and get the information out there.
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I think it's important that we take Donald Trump's threats and behavior seriously when he threatens Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, Mexico, you name it. We need to take it very seriously because... He does have the power and means with the United States military to attack and threaten. But I also think it's important that we not lose focus ever.
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So now the Midas Mighty in this community could take the information that you've shared, Ben, and thank you for sharing all of that stuff to their circles because I'm sure they're getting asked, oh, did they really donate all of that to Ukraine? Why are we even talking about this right now? People's lives are on the line, first of all.
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And just thank goodness that there, again, is this community that exists. Because, again, my head's a little bit all over the place thinking about Brent and thinking about you for this episode and everybody out there. And I just love and appreciate this community so damn much and just so grateful that we have this, the collective we. And so, Ben, what say you?
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There's just this brain rot, if you will, that has...
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really caused so many people who have perpetually lived in digital spaces and have not connected with the outside world and outside communities that their minds have been so wired into these conspiracy portals that move them deeper and deeper and deeper into this madness and hate and divisiveness.
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One of the crazy things that I was just experiencing too is even when I would type in the name of my town to try to get accurate information about what was going on, and it's not like a well-known town that's out there that lots of people talk about. you know, I would see people ostensibly who live in my town or near my town.
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And I would like look at their profiles because this is where I would have to go on X to look at it. And I would see the, where we go one, we go all stuff. And like all of this, like, like, like just wild stuff. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, I don't know. Is this my name? These people live near me. Like, like what, what, what is even, what is even going on? I mean, You're QAnon?
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How are you functioning? You're buying this QAnon stuff while the leader of your party was found liable for sexual assault, but you find that not believable? I mean, he hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, but like, that doesn't, that doesn't like bother you.
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Like women who were trafficked by Epstein were at Mar-a-Lago, like they worked at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump, DeWish, Ghislaine Maxwell, like that, like that doesn't bother you. Like there's the Matt Gaetz report, the ethics report, which talks about how they found substantial evidence of statutory rape of a 17 year old while he was on all these drugs. And,
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Trump appointed him to be the Attorney General, and then he backed out of Attorney General. But he's like a hero of the MAGA movement. I'm thinking to myself, are you reading these messages? All of the MAGA Republicans, other than those in the Ethics Committee pretty much, tried to cover up for Gates. I mean, they were the party that was going to try to cover up statutory rape.
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And it's like, you're okay with this? I just think about the double standards. If Democrats are getting, put it this way, Democrats are getting attacked for things that are made up and don't exist, like that aren't even happening. And that's like disqualifying.
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Yet alone, if Democrats actually did any of these, I mean, could you imagine if President Biden was out there posting about going to war with Denmark to use the military against Panama? put it this way, if President Biden said it, no one would be like, oh, he's trolling. People would be like, oh, he's ready to go.
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Because when a leader speaks, you should speak with clarity when you say things like that. It's incomprehensible to me that you would do that just to troll. It has real ramifications. When we talk about what's going on,
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in the international community, think about from the perspective of Russia and China, where Russia's territorial ambitions, not just of Ukraine, but of other neighbors, whether it's Finland, Poland, whatever neighbor. Donald Trump, by saying he thinks it's acceptable to annex Canada
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and take over Greenland and Panama gives by itself justification for Russia to say, yeah, we're going after this country, that country. Why is it wrong for us? Trump's going after Greenland and Mexico and Canada. This is just what you do. It's no longer the law of international law. It's the law of the strong.
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on the fact that Donald Trump wants us to just pay attention to these shiny objects every day and his personal immorality and his personal putrid behavior while he fails to deliver on promise after promise. Always ask yourself, okay, cool, but how does this lower our prices? Okay, cool. How does this help me get affordable housing? Okay, cool.
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And I'm telling you in a law of the strong international geopolitical realm, you need allies, idiot. You need allies. If you're going to go that way, you need allies. Okay. And in the law of the strong. The guy who claimed bone spurs to avoid fighting in Vietnam ain't going to win the law of strong versus a former KGB agent in Vladimir Putin. Let's be very clear there, okay?
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Donald Trump invited President Xi Jinping to his inauguration and Xi Jinping said no. I want to be clear. And don't you think that it justifies China's one China policy? And for all this talk that Republicans, oh, we're supporting Taiwan and we need to stop China. All their tough talk on China.
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Like y'all realize that by Donald Trump just spouting this stupid rhetoric and this dangerous rhetoric justifies China taking over Taiwan because they go, why don't we get Taiwan? You're saying Canada and Mexico and Greenland and Panama. So we say Taiwan and we say, think about what you're doing and the way you're destabilizing China.
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Yeah, let's talk about some of Donald Trump's threats internationally. When I do this, though... I want to go back to a theme I've been talking about, which is weapon of mass distraction. WMD is we always, we need to take what Trump says seriously when he threatens foreign countries, because it has serious implications and we're seeing serious reactions from serious people in foreign countries.
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Okay. It has a serious impact. And the fact that it's just a troll, I don't buy that, but I do think it's part, I think he's just reckless outrageous. Um, but it's dangerous. And I think you, how do you, you have to assume if you're a foreign country that.
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He may do the things he says he's going to do, which is why the European Union's joint defense agreement is essentially being triggered, right? They're saying, okay, they've had meetings.
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European leaders are basically saying, look, if Trump's doing this, we need to make clear that we will support each other in a war against the United States of America if he tries to take over the sovereignty of a nation, that we will go to war with America.
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Moments ago as well, we learned that a fire had broken out by Brett's home. brett's home had not been the subject of any prior fires but a fire broke out right near where his direct exit is and so he had to flee um and he had to escape and so our hearts are with brett right now during this chaotic moment as well and
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I can't even believe I'm saying those words, that our allies in Europe have to now think about using their military in a war against the United States because Donald Trump is threatening war against Europe right now while attacking Just all of our allies? I mean, this reckless attack on everybody? You're just going to go it alone?
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Don't you think that's going to play right into the hands of Putin and China? And then you just hear these MAGA Republican Congress members, and it's like,
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know do do they make this brand of idiot in a factory like a maga factory i mean who who uses language like that i'm not going to show you the videos but i'll just tell you what they said the imago republicans are saying things like this this is brandon gill trust me you don't want to hear this guy's voice anyway He goes, President Trump is bringing us into a golden age of America.
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This is the new manifest destiny, reacquiring the Panama Canal, acquiring Greenland, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This is the light of America expanding. If you all have an opportunity, watch the interview I did with Corey Hargraves. who, when he was 18 years old, he left the Native American reservation where he was living, grew up poor, single mom.
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And he was, he joined the army. He became an army sniper. He served two tours in Iraq in very, very serious war zones. And he shared with me one specific moment where he took another human's life at close range. And he shared what that experience was like. This is an individual who, as a sniper, saw things in war that I don't even need to say.
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And he came back to the home front and dealt with things that I don't even need to say, but you could imagine what he dealt with. Got in trouble with the law, but turned his life around. And I speak to him because he's the type of person, he shares with me a story, that will be going to wars that Donald Trump is starting on social media.
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Weren't you supposed to solve that one first, like you said? So I don't want us to ever lose sight about that. I want to also talk about some updates in the various Trump court cases. We'll talk about Donald Trump's emergency appeal to the United States Supreme Court after Donald Trump lost
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That Trump is picking these wars with Canada, with Denmark, Mexico, and he's going to send... This wasn't the whole thing from MAGA that he's going to stop a hypothetical World War III from happening. But no, he wants to be the bad guy in World War III. He wants to be the conquering nation in World War III. That makes sense to you, MAGA? But it does. For MAGA, they're into this.
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You take a look at Ansley Earhart on Fox. These are just exemplars. I could show you so many more of this, where she's like, it would make sense that we take Greenland for war purposes. Would it make sense that we take Greenland for war purpose? What are you talking about? Here's a meme that we posted. Voters, can we get lower gas prices?
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And it's from the pawn shop store, Pawn Stars, whatever it's called. Trump, best I can do is invade Canada, right? I mean, the whole thing was lower prices, egg prices, housing, all of these things, right? That's what corporate media was telling us. This is why they voted Trump.
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now but now if you notice too when democrats are going on like cnn and corporate media maybe you're even watching it anymore they'll be they'll be saying yeah but what is what about lower prices what about this and the corporate media is like but people like donald trump because he's braggadocious they like his bravado they like the negotiating it's like what are you talking what the hell is this invading greenland
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Again, imagine if Biden talked about invading Greenland. He would be impeached immediately by Democrats, may I add. I want you to think about that. And this is somehow a normal discussion even. amongst corporate media that this is something that's going to happen. There's all these articles about how Russian is cheering for Trump.
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He will dismantle the remnants of the old world order much faster and more effectively than we could. We do it from the outside, he does it from within. For Russia, they're like, great, now we can lay claim to Estonia, Finland, Poland, and other nations. The chancellor of Germany has to warn Donald Trump about taking control of Greenland.
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The foreign minister of France has to warn Donald Trump about attacking European nations. You have Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, kind of just trolling Donald Trump with the map of Mexico from 1608 and basically saying, maybe we should rename this Mexico and Mexican American or Mexico America, basically.
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And Claudia Scheinbaum knows that a lot of these nations, whether it's Mexico or if you go towards Central America or if you go towards – I'm getting this. We'll cut this show short soon, actually. Do you have to go? I could go for like two or three more minutes because I hope it's not coming into the area where I moved to, but everybody heard. uh, that one right there.
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Um, but I want you to just think about, you know, they'll, they'll lean towards China. They'll lean towards, you know, other nations and just new alliances, um, you know, are going to be formed, uh, as, you know, as, as a result of that. Um, We'll try to get you more clarity from Brett. I know Brett's been trying to leave. We'll post something.
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At the trial court, intermediate division, the appellate division, and New York's top court, which happens to confusingly be called their court of appeals. You would think New York's top court is called their Supreme Court. Actually, their trial court's called the Supreme Court. The highest court's the court of appeals. They just want to, I think, throw us off there a little bit.
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Maybe we'll post something on MidasPlus.com or Patreon. We'll post something there to try to give people an update there. And look, we appreciate you all for watching this. I'm going to go and figure out what this is. Go for it. Keep me posted. Anyway, everybody, we'll close the show anyway. I mean, I think we've said everything. I mean, the only updates on the court cases is that...
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New York's highest court rejected Donald Trump's appeal, and we'll see what happens ultimately with this sentencing. So we'll figure that out. But Trump lost over and over and over again. He lost at the trial court, the appellate division, and then the top court, which is called the Court of Appeals there. So he's a triple loser there.
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But Trump lost at all levels. So, of course, he goes to his buddies at the Supreme Court. And then Donald Trump called... Justice Alito, one of the right-wing extremist judges who flew an American flag upside down, showing fealty to the insurrection or showing sympathy towards the insurrection.
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So he calls Alito under the pretext of they're talking about one of Alito's law clerks who's looking for a job. in the Trump administration, right as Donald Trump's filing his brief to the Supreme Court before Justice Alito? Can we talk about a conflict of interest there? How is that being normalized?
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We'll talk about the international solidarity that's growing against Donald Trump, how the EU is now talking about its defense pact to protect its own members, that if America is actually threatening to invade, that Europe is ready to use its military to defend against the United States.
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So now not only is Donald Trump not solving Russia's unlawful invasion like he claimed he would do 24 hours after his election, but now we have our allies talking about using their military to stop us. from invading them. I mean, seriously, this is where we're at. Also worth noting, we talked about Trump's disastrous press conference earlier in the week.
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I don't want to give him more attention or time there, but we also learned that Fox, and I put this in quotes, Fox News gave Donald Trump all of their questions in advance. So everything that Donald Trump accuses what President Biden or Kamala Harris or Democrats are doing, which they don't. Trump's like just getting the questions and corporate media is like, Oakley, Oakley, we're cool with that.
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Anyway, that's what we're going to talk about today. Again, my heart goes out to everybody suffering from these devastating fires, everybody who suffers from natural disasters, whatever you're going through, my heart is with you. I wish there were ways I could help more than just having a show and having this network, but I think it is an important function
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we get out truthful and accurate news and um you know as i'm doing this intro my mind's wandering a little bit more than normal because i'm literally thinking about moments ago learning that brett has to escape for his life. So I'm thinking about Brett right now as well. So you'll have to pardon me perhaps during the show as my mind wanders in that direction.
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But thank you, everybody, for all of the wishes that you've sent my way. I have so many emotions right now. I'm thinking about Brett. I'm thinking about everybody who lost their homes, people who are still in the line of danger. And then I'm thinking about Trump's statements. Anyway, Jordi, let me bring you in.
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It's not the episode I wanted to be doing at the beginning of the year, but I want to be here with them.
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We'll do our best to keep you updated on Brett's status, but he had to go immediately when he learned about the most recent fire. I want to talk about Donald Trump's despicable, dastardly, and divisive conduct as it relates to these fires.
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No, Benji, great intro, man. And I hear you. My heart goes out to everybody being affected by these fires. And it was wild right before we did the show, but we just thought, go, like he's got to go. Man, I mean, it's just my heart goes out to everybody impacted by these fires. What's happening right now?
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You know, it's interesting perspective being out of state, Ben, and having you and Brett there and getting the minute by minute updates on how you guys are doing and what's going on and you families are safe and things like that. And, you know, try and find a place of safety. And it's such a feeling of helplessness. I don't know how much I'd be able to help even if I were there.
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But just being here in Pennsylvania right now, my heart just breaks for you guys and seeing what you've been through and just the bravery that you and your families have shown over these last 24, 48 hours. It's amazing. And then to see the devastation on such a large scale, it's brutal. It's brutal. And I know we have a lot of Midas Mighty out there, and I hope you all are safe.
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Genuinely, my heart aches for you guys right now. I can't imagine what you're going through. And just know it's times like these is why we have this great community of these pro-democracy warriors out there that I've always said it's the investment in this community which sets us apart from everything and everything. We're not just a stagnant network like the Midas Mighty.
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It's a real thing of people who are just truly like a family. And so to just know that there are so many being impacted who are a part of this community too, my heart breaks and just know that we are all here for you right now. And we're going to be here for you tomorrow and next week and next month. And so please, you know, keep us posted on your well-being and how you're doing.
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I'm excited to get into the show. We're going to update you guys on on Brett the second we know more and just keep everyone as up to date as possible on that. But Benji, great, great introduction, man. And I think I think you're excused if your brain wanders a little bit during this episode.
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look i i don't um i don't feel brave there's nothing brave that i did let me be very clear i'll tell you what bravery is are the first responders who are on the front lines risking their lives that's who's brave i mean my i i got a message on my phone. Like it kind of looks like when you get an Amber alert and it said evacuate now.
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So all, all I did was pack my stuff up, make sure my family was good. Make sure my three month old was good. Make sure my wife was good. make sure I had my dogs, took my laptop, a few other things, some clothes, and left. So I don't view that as bravery at all. I view it as trying to survive. I view what the first responders are doing as brave and I wish I could do more. I mean, this is my job.
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I think there is a usefulness to getting out accurate information, debunking falsehoods with the platform that we have. I was weighing, honestly, should I be going to some of the fire shelters and centers? And is it a helpful use of my time to do that? Or is it a helpful use of my time to do the show because I have to get out
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constant lies about the fires, constant lies about Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass and how it's the responsibility or the fault of DEI or ESG or wokeness and how that has been amplified on right-wing media, on ex-formerly Twitter. And I want to just talk about how Never before really in American history would natural disasters like this be used as wedge issues to divide we, the people.
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accurate info because corporate media is not getting out the accurate info or they're both sides in the issue. So I don't, I feel a lot of emotions. I feel I'm being as a human. So I'm not trying to act like I'm a tough guy or I'm brave. I feel guilty. I feel sad. I feel, I feel a bit nervous. I'm thinking about Brett. I'm wondering, should I be doing, I'm just being open with you.
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Should I even be doing this show in the first place? My house, I don't know what's... Last time I checked, and I'm not getting a lot of updates, but my house is still... You'll hear dogs. I'm in a place that's small, so we'll deal with it. My house, as far as I know, has not been burned down, but I've had friends whose homes have been devastated.
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And so there's a new set of winds that are coming tonight. hearing the news about Brett. So there's so much going on in my mind right now. I'll show you this. This is Gavin Newsom. Let me play you this clip of Newsom, though, because he was trying to marshal resources. He's marshalling the resources. He's on the front lines.
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He's doing what you expect of a governor while Donald Trump's attacking him. I want to share with you what Governor Newsom was asked by Anderson Cooper. And you'll see the fires right behind Newsom and Newsom's trying to govern from the front lines. By the way, something Trump would never do. Watch this interaction. Let's play it.
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Finally, your message. didn't play politics, didn't try to divide us, referring to President Biden. And when I interviewed President Biden in the Roosevelt room of the West Wing of the White House, President Biden said, I don't care if you're red state, blue state, I represent you. I'm going to get you the resources you need, whether that's infrastructure, healthcare, whatever.
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I'm the president of all Americans, even if you hate me, even if you don't like me, whatever, I'm going to deliver for all Americans.
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And the fact that during a crisis, while Newsom or Karen Bass and others are trying to govern, they're trying to be operators and deal with things, get this resource here, there, their goal isn't like, oh, I'm going to be an online troll and I need to start saying, oh, you're calling me new scum? Dumpy dump, the liar, dumpy. That's not what leaders do.
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But by not doing that, there is an information vacuum, right? Because the disinfo is coming in one direction, the governing is coming from one direction, but there's really no one pushing back on the disinformation. But then even when you're pushing back, Pushing back inherently means you're on the defense. There's already a narrative that you need to push back on.
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Donald Trump announced a fake deal with the United Kingdom today where essentially Trump partially removed tariffs that he put in place in early April. And he's calling that a deal while trying to manipulate the markets and telling people, I don't know, something good may happen with China. You may want to start to buy stock right now. We've seen this game with Donald Trump before.
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You want to go to the Persian Gulf, they want to call it the Arabian Gulf. Like that.
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but it is a big massive disaster and already mega republicans in the senate like ron johnson from wisconsin are already saying there's no chance that a reconciliation along the lines of what the mega republicans in the house are doing will ever pass the uh senate we'll talk about that we'll talk about a lot more and of course donald trump uh saying little girls you get one pencil one doll and shut up
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You know, and it's like whack-a-mole. There's so many things you kind of have to cover. Like at the same time, they're like destroying museums in the United States. Like they're like getting rid of artifacts from the African-American History Museum, the Smithsonian.
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They're going after the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles and also museums like that across the country that celebrate diversity and inclusion of other ethnicities and other cultures. They're getting shut down. And like attorney generals across the country have to file lawsuits to protect museums.
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One of the things that they're doing, too, I know we have a lot of supporters from Sweden here on the Midas Mighty. So this doesn't even get enough attention. So the U.S. embassy in Stockholm in Sweden is demanding that Stockholm itself, that the city stop all diversity and inclusion initiatives. The U.S. embassy is making an order to Sweden through the U.S.
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embassy that they don't support Sweden doing diversity and inclusion. And it just goes to show you like – I can go to different countries. But just think about what the people in Sweden are thinking. The US embassy is telling us in Sweden that we can't support diversity here? Who are you? No, we're going to do what we do in our country. And Brett, you talk about the renaming. of the Persian Gulf.
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They want to call it the Arabian Gulf. And by the way, you know, it probably went down like this. Trump was probably like on a call with MBS or the Abu Dhabi fund or someone in advance. And, you know, he was probably like, you know, which is like, you want to be funny? You want me to do that? I'm going to go from America, huh, MBS? I'm going to do, I'm going to call it the Arabian Gulf.
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And MBS is like, oh, no, you're not going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. And that's what our foreign policy has become. But what it really abstracts and obscures is what we should be focusing on. What's going on in the Red Sea right now? We've lost at least two F-18 Hornet jets. just fell off airplanes while the Houthis are attacking.
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I think it's the USS Harry Truman that's out there. We've lost at least, what, seven or eight, but potentially more Reaper drones over Yemen. And this is as we're all so aware that the Department of Defense and State Department are putting a lid, they're preventing any information about US casualties in Yemen from even being reported on at all. And we know that
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It was the communications about the Houthis and strike targets that were in the signal text threads between Mike Walls, the former National Security Advisor, and Pete Hegseth, the Department of Defense Secretary. And so do we have any trust or faith that... The Trump regime is not covering up what the hell is going on.
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Like, why are we losing a combined half a billion dollars to maybe a billion dollars in military equipment in the past 100 days? Could you imagine if former President Biden lost nearly a billion dollars in military equipment in just the Red Sea and there's no explanation really for it? Oh, then the plane just fell off the ship.
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Reaper Jones drones. They would go, you know, and they would make it a big deal. This is treason. And they would say just like right. And then that would be on Fox treason impeachment. And by the way, four Americans died in Lithuania. Trump and the regime said nothing about it. Two American soldiers died in the border of New Mexico. nothing about it at all.
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Trump regime central planning is telling you what you can buy and not buy while Donald Trump is getting ready for a trip to the Middle East to meet with countries whose sovereign wealth funds have put literally, what, $4 billion in Donald Trump's pocket in the past 100 days, whether it's a resort deal with Qatar, Abu Dhabi using Trump crypto, Saudi Arabia having Trump resorts in Oman, and more.
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You know, and also Donald Trump said it's also really weird, too, to like – very quickly enter into like a ceasefire agreement with the Houthis after talking so much shit. Like, just think about it. Like you're the United States of America, right? You're talking, we're going to demolish them. We're going to do, we're going to F them up. I mean, right. They want everything.
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And then eight Reaper drones go down. We lose two F-18s. And then Donald Trump said, he's like, He called the Houthis honorable people in a press guy. He goes, they're very honorable people. We trust them.
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And when we come back, I want to talk about this too, Brett, because we've covered a lot of topics, wow, in a short period of time already. But I want to bring this too, because we've gone from real, credible scientists, people like Dr. Fauci, who are out. to now you have people who are in, and Fauci wasn't the surgeon general, but we had top doctors who used to be the surgeon general.
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But right now, for example, Trump fired his prior surgeon general pick, who was a Fox News host, but she was actually somewhat qualified, but she was pro-vaccine. So that made her go. The same way Donald Trump fired the head of FEMA today, who was a MAGA guy, but he said that FEMA really needs to help communities.
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And so Trump fired the FEMA guy because the FEMA guy was too pro FEMA and the Fox host that he had as the surgeon general was too pro vaccine. So they bring in someone named Casey means now Casey means is not a licensed doctor. She quit during her residency.
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Donald Trump's family is the only person benefiting off of all of of these, what I like to refer to as the rug pull Ponzi scheme presidency. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy. Guys, how are you doing, brothers?
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She never made it through her residency, which, by the way, you know, as I've said before, as it relates to Jim Jordan, he never took the bar exam. And I said, does it look I took the bar exam? Does that make me a smarter person because I passed the bar? I mean, I. I would prefer a licensed lawyer with experience to lead the Judiciary Committee.
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So the fact that you have a not licensed lawyer in Jim Jordan, I don't like that. The Judiciary Committee, someone who never passed the bar exam, same thing to Surgeon General. Let's start with you passed your residency and you're licensed as a doctor. We could go up from there.
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But I also don't like when the Surgeon General said that the way she found love at the age of 35 was through shrines, full moon ceremonies. She talked to trees and then did mushrooms. And that was part of her plan. We've got a lot more to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast, although we covered a lot right there. We'll be right back after a quick message.
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But we may have to make some gear for our Australian supporters. Elbows Up in Anthony Albanese's honor. Elbows Up. Elbows Up. Let's take our first quick break of the show. It's 2025. Why aren't my blinds smart and automatic like the rest of my home? Are your blinds still from 2025? Look, there's a better way to buy blind shade shutters and drapery. It's called Three Day Blinds.
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You know, like Treasury Secretary Scott Besson is a guy who came from Wall Street. He knows what a tariff is. He knows that tariffs are bad. There are some things that we shouldn't even have to have debates over. We shouldn't have debates over is there due process or not due process. There is due process. That's the United States of America.
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If you are even having a debate over it, the debate is in bad faith because the answer is yes, there's due process, period. You don't like that, go to Russia, go to North Korea. We have due process here, even for really bad guys. They get due process and then if they're convicted, they get thrown in jail and we should be law and order. Law is the first part of it, and then order.
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Law and order, that's what there should be. We shouldn't have to have debates again over is a tariff a good thing or a bad thing? We know what a tariff is. A tariff is a tax, it is a levy, quite literally, on the importer in the United States, which is passed on the consumer. It's the biggest regressive tax In American history, that's what's taking place. That gets passed on to the consumer.
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That's what it is. Not a hard question. But people like Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who know better, lie. And the problem is it's this whole COVID mentality of like a miracle, it's all going to go away. It's not happening. Seven cases are going to go to zero cases while a gathering storm is happening, while the shores are moving back. And the tsunami wave is coming. We see it.
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And all that's happening in the interim is market manipulation, which sucks because that's helping regular folk. which is why there shouldn't be a Democrat or a Republican issue. We see what's happening at the ports. We know what's happening. I don't think we need to play the clip, but the guy who runs the port of Seattle saying he doesn't see ships.
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The guy who runs the port of Long Beach, which is in Los Angeles, I don't see ships, less ships. We're going to run out of supplies. They're telling us this. And Scott Besant is lying. Here was his testimony. Here's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant being asked a very simple question by a Democratic Congress member. Who pays the tariff? You don't get much more basic than that. Here, play this clip.
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We don't even know what he was trying to say. If the exporters dislike the tariffs so much, just a barrier for them to do trade based on the levy that's being imposed on the importer. So when they go, oh, well, they're going to eat the tariff. What do you mean they're going to eat the – what do you mean they're going to eat it? What are we even talking about? They're going to eat it?
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No, it's going to happen what happened in China, where there's now basically a trade embargo. No one's eating it.
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But let's face it, mainstream real people are suffering right now, unless you're in the 1% or the 1% of 1% inflations on the rise. Again, the deficits, trade deficits are actually getting larger. Our economy is shrinking. We'll talk about that on this episode. Also, a new pope was selected, the first ever American pope now named Pope. Leo the 14th was previously a cardinal in Chicago.
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In that case, wouldn't the importer be the one eating it if they didn't pass it on to the consumer? And by eating it, you mean the exporter would need to make their prices lower, so when you still add the tariff to the lower-priced good, it technically evens out what it was, but then you still have the tariff?
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Now, most... employment in America actually comes from small and medium-sized businesses, right? The big corporations are out there lobbying for their exemptions, but the small and medium-sized businesses are getting absolutely screwed. And so when Besant or Lutnick say, well, look, I've spoken to a lot of corporations and they've
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already built up the inventory to be ready for this situation, small and medium-sized businesses are not. And what this all leads us to head towards, I've said it before, I've called it a Tom Hanks moment. Because remember when Tom Hanks got COVID, and by the way, Australia took great care of him. After Donald Trump's lies, like a miracle, it's all going to go away. It's great.
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Everything's amazing. Tom Hanks got COVID and then everyone was like, whoa. This is real. It's not going away. And then we had Trump lockdowns. Remember, when is there going to be that Tom Hanks moment? Because Trump's entire life has been that. When the lies have caught up to him and then there's been a catastrophic event that's led to a bankruptcy, right?
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What did Donald Trump do in Atlantic City? He created three casinos right next to each other that cannibalized each other. He overleveraged it. He told everybody it was going great. And then one day, boop. Bankrupt. Everybody loses their jobs. Contractors don't get paid. Employees get fired. It devastates all of Atlantic City.
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And there were so many people saying, dude, if you open up three casinos next to each other and you take and you're over leveraged the way you are, of course, you're going to go bankrupt. And Trump would try to get those people fired. the experts fired, right? That's what Trump did during COVID. When the Ponzi scheme runs out, he blames the expert.
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And now he's trying to Dr. Fauci, the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. And so when things go bad, when it all blows up, they're going to blame Powell. And you're going to hear Powell did this. If he just lowered the interest rates, we'd be good. You would have figured it out. That's the campaign that they're running right now. Now, let me show you this. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant,
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Like all these Trump regime members, they go on TV and they talk about, because Donald Trump says Alcatraz, they say Alcatraz. Donald Trump says tariff movies, they say tariff movies. Donald Trump, it's just parroting what he's saying. Donald Trump posts AI images of himself as the Pope. Oh, that's so funny. You know, isn't this guy the funniest ever?
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And by the way, just let me address quickly the idea of like Trump, them saying that this is a joke and just, Donald Trump said that, when he claimed that he was going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, he told Time magazine that that was a joke. And he said it was in jest. And if the fake news took him seriously, they shouldn't have.
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So Donald Trump uses the concept of jokes, which, by the way, there's a time and a place for jokes. You know what time and a place for a joke in the presidency? The White House Correspondents Dinner that Donald Trump never shows up to because he can't take self-deprecating humor. There's places for it. But joking or saying you're joking about –
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bringing peace to ukraine in 24 hours that's not a funny joke we're not looking for you know offense to clowns because it's a real profession and circuses i don't want to offend donald trump we don't we're not looking for that in a leader you you're you be an adult be grown behave normally just to stop with stop with this crap anyway i digress treasury secretary scott besant
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It has to go out there and then say, so what Donald Trump, and it has this like arrogant face to it. What Donald Trump really meant, what Donald Trump really meant when he was saying that you get two pencils is that you're going to, your life's going to be much better, much better to the girls, little girls, little girls, you understand? Have your pencil and your one doll. Here, watch this.
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That's why you get one doll and one pencil and you pay more for it. Housing is less affordable right now, not more affordable. We're not moving towards a situation. And by the way, if tariffs are working great, then why are you trying to do deals that remove the tariffs? And of course, there's no intellectual consistency here because there's nothing intellectual going on.
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I'll show you this clip right here of the ultimate irony is let me show this video of these little girls that the Trump campaign and like the MAGA supporters put out there during the campaign. There's always a clip for everything with Donald Trump, right? Where these little girls were like, he's going to give us more Barbies and we're going to get Barbies cheap.
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And that's like the message that right wing media was pushing over and over again. We're going to get Barbies. And now literally Trump Central Planning says you get one doll and one pencil. Here, watch this.
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Tell me more about that. Have they gotten expensive?
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Speaking of a clip for everything, then you have Kash Patel, who's somehow the FBI director. He shows up for a Senate hearing today on the FBI budget. And he doesn't do his homework, right? He doesn't hand in his homework, which like literally you have to turn over the budget so that the Senate can go through it and ask you about your budget. So the senators are asking him, where is it?
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You know, it was due by law. It was due. And you violated the law. Are you going to follow it? Watch FBI direct. This is why this shouldn't be a Democrat or Republican thing, right? This is why this should just be an American people thing. And the American people think, wait a minute, you're not even doing your homework. You're not even submitting the budget.
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I was speaking at this conference this past week, and one of the things I was asked is, what do you think resonates about the Midas Touch Network to your audience? And I said, we try to just break things down, not at a political level, but just kind of basic common sense when it comes to people and facts and data. And we try to come with receipts, and we try to come with common sense.
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And then when he's asked, so are you just going to violate the law? He's like, I'll submit it to you when I want to submit it to you. Just think about that. Just think about where you work. Matt, you tell your boss. Did you hand in your thing? No. Why? No, I'm not going to do it. Do you plan on doing it? No. When? When I want to. Here, watch this clip. I have a timeline on that.
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I've given my response. Again, can you imagine if Pete Buttigieg, transportation secretary, can you imagine if the previous FBI director under Donald Trump, who was competent, showed up and did that? Can you imagine what we'd be talking about here? And again, what the hell is that? This is where, again, I don't care what political party you're from. You watch that.
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and you think about wait these are the people who are making economic decisions these are the people who are making decisions over war and peace these people have access to military these people are these people are idiots and they're dangerous and they're lazy and it's not a political thing and and they're they're just they're just there to dismantle They're not there to be efficient.
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If you want to be efficient, Department of Government and efficient, maybe efficient is submit the budget. It's the first part of efficiency. We've got a lot more to discuss. I want to talk about Cardinal Robert Prevost becoming Pope Leo XIV and his posts and MAGA freaking out after they've looked at his social media posts. They didn't seem to like that at all.
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I'll talk about the big, beautiful disaster that is the MAGA Republican budget bill. Reminder, everybody, go to store.midastouch.com. During the last break, there was a lot of people at store.midastouch.com. I guess everybody's gearing up for the summer gear. Go to store.midastouch.com. Also, midasplus.com, the fastest growing sub stack in these United States and the world.
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So we all know that when the ships are not arriving – ports in the United States, that's a bad thing, right? The ships are supposed to come in. We're supposed to have healthy trading relationships. So to me, when Donald Trump is out there holding press conferences and he's asked the most basic of questions,
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Are you concerned that ships are not coming into, say, the port of Seattle or the port of Long Beach in Los Angeles or ports in Boston? Or does that concern you that these shipping volumes are down significantly? Isn't that going to result in scarcity and supply shortages? And it's a lagging indicator. But does that worry you? And when Donald Trump's response is, no, I think it's a great thing.
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just look at his cabinet and look at his hires they're all fox hosts right i mean you've got pete hegsa secretary of defense was the former co-host of fox and friends weekend show and a fox news contributor since 2014. sean duffy who got famous from the real world road rules challenge
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was a former Fox co-host of the show called The Bottom Line on Fox Business, and he was a Fox News contributor since 2020. You have Pam Bondi, who co-hosts The Five on Fox News three days in August 2018, and she was a guest who frequently appeared on The Hannity Show and on Laura Ingraham and Jesse Waters. And then the other positions, whether it's Dan Bongino or – Tulsi Gabbard or you name him.
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I mean, these people are – he hires Fox hosts. It's why I call Fox state regime media because there is no separation between the regime media and the Trump administration. There's Sean Duffy right there. I mean, we've seen plane crash after plane crash after plane crash. This guy then takes selfies of himself and he'll be like, Ooh, so good to be home on Friday for the fiesta. Hashtag Latino wife.
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She's making me tacos. And by the way, Sean Duffy's wife, I'm not making that play word for word to tweet that he says hashtag Latino wife. And then Sean Duffy's wife is currently a host on the Fox morning show right now. You know, Lara Trump has her show on Fox. It's just a bunch of Fox hosts. And it's a bunch of people who cosplay and they, they like, they dress up like it's Halloween.
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um you know or i guess for duffy dia de los muertes and they and and they you know and and and and they're they're they're like pretending they're playing make-believe and politics has become so gamified by corporate news and we're like these people are not these aren't the people who should be in these positions again stop republican democrat i i don't really think that we should have wwe wrestlers
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become actual professional athletes. You know what I mean? What in the world's going on here? Anyway, there's nothing to say about Judge Zinn. This is ridiculous. This is an embarrassment right here. Maybe not quite as embarrassing of the secretary general or the surgeon general that Trump's picking. Casey Means not actually being a licensed doctor.
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and not passing her residency, but maybe it's tied or quite close. The big, beautiful budget bill, that's what Donald Trump's calling the stupid thing, which is going to gut your Medicaid, like $880 billion. One of their scams they're trying to do is shift the Medicaid financial burden to states. Many states already have trigger laws.
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because that means we lose less money. You think about that and you go, that makes no sense right there. So we can't normalize statements like this. Here's what Donald Trump said earlier to that extent. Let's play it.
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which would automatically stop state funding of medicaid if federal funding shuts off but then even states that don't have the trigger laws they don't have the funds to fund medicaid there's a role for federal government right like you need federal government to do certain things states don't have the ability to coordinate natural disasters themselves they can help
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They don't have those resources. States don't. That's why our system of federalism relies on cooperation between the federal government and state governments. So Trump fired the FEMA guy.
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is a mega guy because the guy said he takes his job but even he's always maga he says fema needs to do a better job reacting to the states see you later bye-bye that gets you fired they walked him in and they perp walked him out today maga fema guy just because he said he cares about fema you have to be like a linda mcmahon who runs the department of education who's willing to gut two billion dollars in mental health
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money for mental health treatment in schools. That's what they're doing. Because she's so rich, it doesn't affect her. And she doesn't give a crap about public schools. They care about private schools and helping businesses run private schools. So Linda McMahon gets rid of all mental health treatment in public schools. And she says, oh, she's so rich, nothing matters to her.
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And she's like, yeah, I'm going to fire myself. So they try to destroy the Department of Education from within. Moving back to, though, this budget, what they call the big, beautiful bill that gets Medicaid. And it's not beautiful. It's a big disaster. You have MAGA Republicans at war with each other, basically, because, you know, one group of MAGA Republicans want to get rid of Medicaid.
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The other group of MAGA Republicans want to get rid of Medicaid. They just don't want people to know about it. And because you all have made loud noise, we've all exposed it. Democrats have exposed it. The people have exposed what they're doing. They tried to hide it. They tried to say, no, this is actually $800 billion getting removed from the Commerce Committee.
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Everyone's like, okay, that means Medicaid. That means you're getting rid of Medicaid. So they got caught there. Now they're like, oh, crap, now we're going to get voted out for sure if we cut Medicaid. So we can't do that. So now you have this tension taking place.
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And then on the Senate, while this reconciliation is happening where the Senate has a bill and the House has a bill and they have to blend them together, through these markups and whatever. The MAGA Republicans in the Senate are already saying, we're not going to pass the House bill, zero chance, or we're all wasting your time. Don't believe me.
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Here's a pretty far right-wing guy, MAGA Republican Ron Johnson from Wisconsin. Here's what he's got to say.
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And again, this is like, don't look up, right? Like we know what's going to, you don't believe him there. He said it again today. Here, let me show you him saying again today. Here, play this clip.
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So as I was saying before, you know, the movie Don't Look Up, right? The comet or the asteroids coming and everybody's acting like it isn't. So we know what's happening at the ports. We know what's happening with this bill. We know what's happening with inflation. We know what's happening with the fundamentals of the economy. We know where that's moving.
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So as I said, this Tom Hanks moment where it's like, ah, That should never happen. Leadership should avoid that from happening. That may mean when you're a leader, you have to be honest. You have to confront the situation. You have to explain things. You have to let people know. You have to alter your strategies if they're not working. But Donald Trump's like a miracle. It's all going to go away.
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It's not what you're happening. Tariffs are the greatest thing ever. Things are amazing. Gas is $1.89 when it's not. Eggs are down 87% when it's not. We've solved inflation. Inflation's up. That's just not how you run things. And they just want us to use our logic and our basic humanity and common sense to say, we know where this is headed. We know where this is headed.
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Brett, I want you to talk about the Pope, if you can, because that was an interesting pick today when we found out that it was going to be an American Pope. There was a lot of people wondering, who is Cardinal Robert Prevost? He's someone who spent most of his time in Peru, but he is American. who was in Chicago for quite some time.
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When I see that, that means we lose less money. We lose less money. What are you talking about? It means we lose more jobs. It means we lose trucking jobs. It means we lose the jobs of longshoremen and longshorewomen. It means that
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We saw this from the guy who sits on the White House's Commission on Religious Liberty, someone named Bishop Robert Barron. And he said, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope. He was citing a Cardinal George of Chicago. He goes, because the Vatican doesn't want America to have a pope while it's running the world politically, culturally, and economically.
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They don't want America running the world religiously. But one of the signs of America declined by the Vatican would be to pick an American pope. And so it seems that the Vatican was actually sending a message here as well to the United States All right, we'll give you your pope now because – he wasn't the frontrunner.
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And by the way, this guy is – by all accounts, this pope seems like he's going to facilitate some of the good stuff that Pope Francis did. But he wasn't the easy pick. But then when you explain it like that, you're like, oh, and MAGA is freaking out for it.
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the products are not getting on the shelves it means americans can't access goods and that's a problem that that's causing harm to the economy and by the way the trade deficit is at record highs right now so if this whole thing was well we need to reduce the trade deficit because america is getting screwed over it's had the exact opposite effect
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as American companies have scrambled to try to import as much as possible before the supply chain completely breaks down. So that's what we're showing to our audio listeners. Just so you know, this is a headline from Newsmax. Don't get much more right wing than Newsmax. U.S. trade deficit surges 14% to record high of $140.5 billion.
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And again, if the tariffs are working so well against China right now and we're crushing it, why are we rushing to try to make a deal? Why is Besant even talking to them? Isn't this winning? Isn't this what they say is great? If tariffs were so great, why don't you do 500%? Why don't you do a million percent? If that's the correlation, obviously because the tariffs aren't so great.
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Then let's just assume there's a pause on the tariffs with China and that that's viewed somehow as a deal and a win. I just want everybody to think about just the framework
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and then you take a look not just at the trade deficit but our overall budget deficits here in the united states and you look at the gop budget that is going to explode the deficit by trillions and trillions of dollars like at a bare minimum like three to five trillion dollars just on this alone i think it's going to be more like 15 to 25 or even more trillion dollars because
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of the win for trump this is how much he's babied by corporate news that it's viewed as a deal or a win when he slightly backpedals on a disastrous decision that he made and whereas former president biden has to be perfect with everything
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And then even when he has 50% to 60% returns in the market, the 16.2 million jobs, 40,000 infrastructure projects, record low unemployment, energy independence, the most drilling ever while focusing on climate change, bringing the semiconductor industry here to the United States.
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Even when you do all of that, doing all of that's never strengthening NATO, two new nations joining NATO, countering Putin's aggression. You can do all of that. but you're viewed negatively. And Donald Trump can do the most disastrous things for corporate news and then slightly unwind a disastrous thing that he did. And then that's viewed as like, oh, look, wow, he did a deal. He didn't do a deal.
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Stop it. He didn't do a deal with UK. with all of these 90, a trade deal takes three and a half years to negotiate a comprehensive trade deal. So the fact that Donald Trump ripped up the USMCA, the United States, Mexico, Canada agreement, ripped up a deal he did with Japan, ripped up prior deals with the UK, ripped up a trading relationship with the European Union. I can go on and on and on.
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And then slightly adopts something that was part of a deal that was already in place a deal that does not make okay that's not called the deal the problem is the incentive structure though i think that's in our media and in our financial system which is completely backwards which is when donald trump does
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Jordy, take it away, bud. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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The Trump regime's basically fired all of the IRS auditors and they've gutted it to the point where I don't think we're going to be able to effectively collect tax revenue the way we did before. But while that's going on, here's what Donald Trump was doing at the same press conference. And again, he's using his position in the Oval Office and he's also using state regime media known as Fox.
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Because the chyron, did you all notice what the chyron said there? It said, Trump going to have a good weekend with China. That's what it said on the prior chyron. And this is all arranged together. Regime media works basically Fox, Trump. They're basically the same. Right.
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Jeanine Pirro, for example, from Fox, she's being looked at right now to be the next United States attorney from Washington, D.C., after the Trump regime dropped that Ed Martin guy after at least one MAGA Republican, Tom Tillis, from North Carolina, said they wouldn't approve. Ed Martin because he supported January 6th insurrectionists too much.
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One of the interesting data points is that the new pope had previously made lots of posts very critical of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, and also a bishop who was part of Donald Trump's Committee on Religion had made a statement that he does not expect there ever to be an American pope unless the power of America is in decline.
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There's a little bit of support for Jay Sixers is okay, but just too much for the MAGA Republican in the Senate. But here what Donald Trump then does with this press conference where he's announcing this fake UK trade deal is he goes and tells people, you better buy stock, you better buy stock.
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Then he combines that with using the term Palestinian as a slur to attack a Jewish senator, Chuck Schumer. Here, watch this.
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We'll have so much. First off, all UK trade is under 2% with the United States. Number one. Number two, the person laughing in the background there at what was just not funny at all was Commerce Secretary Howard Nutleck. I mean, Howard Nutleck. And you heard him laughing. Oh, he called him a Palestinian. It's not funny.
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um number two number three when you talk about this uk trade deal that they announced again it's another part of the ponzi scheme it's not a trade deal so any corporate news that refers to this as a trade deal it is not that first off trade deals need to be approved by congress number one
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Number two, Donald Trump declared an emergency, essentially war, against the UK and every country to impose emergency tariffs, which Trump never had the ability to do. He then reduced some tariffs on like Range Rovers and Land Rovers from the UK, basically from like 20% or 25% to 10%. And then they kind of encouraged the UK to buy American beef, which there's no guarantee of.
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That's what they're calling a deal. That's not a trade deal. Is that one of what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson calls a sub deal? This is not a deal that took place. Trump created a fire. He's the arsonist. He then tries to he doesn't even try to put it out. He pretends he shows up with a hose, doesn't even put the fire out. And then he just says, hey, everybody, I put the fire out.
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Look what I did with the U.K., and then goes and says, you better buy stock now so that the market goes up on that because the past times Donald Trump has said that, He's announced something where he can move the markets up and then the markets go down.
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You need to understand, though, systemically what's happening with our economy, what it means when the GDP is shrinking, what it means when mortgage rates are now 6.9% or 7% and housing is less affordable, not more affordable, and inflation's on the rise. I mean, you take a look at what Goldman Sachs, not exactly a lefty organization, Goldman Sachs.
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And if an American pope were to ever be appointed, it would demonstrate the view by the Vatican that America is in decline. So you can ask yourself if that's a correlation, but this bishop who's part of Donald Trump's religious council is the person who made that statement. Also, the MAGA Republicans at war with each other over the reconciliation of the
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You take a look at what Ken Griffin, the head of Citadel, is saying, what Mark Rowan, the head of Apollo Global, is saying. You take a look at these Republican donors and Republican business leaders. They're saying that Trump has destroyed the brand of America. Basically, the value of the dollar has essentially been irreparably tainted.
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Our bond market has been irreparably tainted, and the impacts are going to be felt for generations. And then you see the day to day market volatility. And again, it just looks like the Trump meme coin, our stock market. And who's going to get screwed? Not Trump, because he's getting Qatari money and Saudi Arabian money and Abu Dhabi money. you're going to get screwed. And you being the global you.
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Anyone who doesn't have private jets and yachts and people, including Trump supporters, they're going to get screwed, Brett and Jordy.
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You've got a lot of MAGA Republicans who want to gut Medicaid. Others are worried about the optics of gutting Medicaid and how that could impact their election in the midterm. They're calling this a big, beautiful bill because Donald Trump's making them call it that.
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Just another total meltdown from Donald Trump this morning, blaming air traffic control problems and massive delays at airports on former President Biden. Yep, we're well over 100 days now into this disastrous Trump regime.
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now i know a lot of his followers who still support him and they're getting less and less their magamush brain cult mindset goes oh donald tells me prices are lower we all know that inflation is rising why because If we go into the grocery store, if we're going to look for cars, if we're going out to buy whatever the products are, we see the prices going up.
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We know that mortgage rates are going up. We know that housing is less affordable now, not more affordable right now. By the way, we even hear Donald Trump and his Treasury Secretary Scott Besson saying that little girls should only be buying one doll and five pencils versus multiple dolls. And they should be paying more for their dolls and they should stop whining and complaining.
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That's what the regime is actually saying. We all know that tariffs are bad. We all can, if we have pensions or 401ks or we see that it's going down, we know that we're worse off right now under Donald Trump. So when he goes, enjoy, and then the juxtaposition of Donald Trump
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And here is what he's posting air traffic problems caused by the incompetent Biden administration as headed by, in this case, a total novice and political hack Pete B then he puts in caps. I will fix it! Exclamation point. You know, Donald, under former President Biden and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, you know what wasn't happening? Planes weren't crashing frequently.
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saying enjoy let them eat cake while he's out there doing deals with cutter in the middle east to build new resorts and doing deals with saudi arabia to build resorts in oman and he's out there doing deals with the abu dhabi fund to put money into his crypto the trump family's made to $2.6 billion in the past 100 days off of crypto schemes and market schemes.
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While we, the people, are suffering, we know what's going on. That's why Donald Trump's approval is plummeting. Donald Trump is basically straight out of that movie I've been talking about, Don't Look Up. Don't look up as the asteroid is coming. Frankly, little pieces of that asteroid have already of that comet have already hit the United States. He's saying, don't look up.
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I'm telling you, look up, look around you. Let's just recognize what the hell is happening in our country and say this is not America. Damn it. Oh, then Donald Trump posts this today. World War II, Victory Day. And he posts the statue of the courageous United States soldiers in Iwo Jima. Donald, Iwo Jima is not in Europe. Do you know what Victory Day signifies? Do you know Victory Day?
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It's Victory Day in Europe. You're posting Iwo Jima. Trump does not even have the most basic understanding of anything. geopolitics, American history, tariffs, economics, you name it. Spencer Akimian says the bottom half of the country, and I would say the bottom half of the country is anyone who's in the 99%, not the 1% or 1.1% of Trump. The bottom half of the country is already in a recession.
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And all Donald Trump is now doing is announcing gimmicky trade deals. What would Trump say today? He's going to do a trade deal with the UK, which will lower tariffs on Range Rovers from 25% to 10%. Even though it was 0% a month ago. So Donald Trump creates the issue. He's the arsonist. Creates a fire across the world. Puts out a teeny tiny tiny one in the UK. But doesn't really put it out.
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Deals with Range Rovers and Land Rovers. And then acts like he's done some massive deal. That's not even a trade deal. Gimmicks after gimmicks after gimmicks. So I'm reminded of the Trump propaganda during the campaign.
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where the MAGA cult members and the MAGA supporters and MAGA people in general would have their kids go out and they would say how much they wanted Barbies to be cheaper and how Trump was going to make things cheaper. Do you all remember this? Here, play this clip.
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So they went from the MAGAs pushing that to now Treasury Secretary Scott Besant wants to clarify what Donald Trump said about the little girls. He wants you to know, though, this is a wrinkle that Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, he goes.
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Even though your little girl is only going to have $1 and five pencils, she's going to be happy in the future because we're going to bring low paying factory jobs like screwing the iPhones together from China. We're going to bring those jobs to America and your little girls can work in those factories for the rest of her life. Don't you like that?
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There wasn't these massive, massive delays because air traffic controllers said that they're suffering from trauma as a result of radar shutting off because of the incompetence of your regime. So maybe just act like a leader. I know you can't. I know you only know how to behave like a petulant little three-year-old bully.
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Now, even former Vice President Mike Pence has been out there saying, what in the world are these Trump people doing? Y'all are killing the economy right now. And what are you talking about with little girls? Here, play this clip.
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So with all of this going on, with Trump harming our economy, with our GDP shrinking, You know, the MAGA Republicans in the House were focused on all the important things today. I'm being sarcastic, of course. The U.S. House voted 211 to 206 to approve legislation to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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Now, MAGA Republicans refuse to do anything to assert their authority when it comes to things like trade deals and tariffs, which they're constitutionally obligated to do.
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Their budget, which they call a big, beautiful deal, is a big, beautiful disaster with MAGA Republicans in the Senate, like MAGA Mike Johnson from Wisconsin, saying that there's no chance he's going to support what they're doing in the House and it's dead on arrival to reconciliation. It's good to know that the MAGA Republicans are focused on the renaming of things.
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I think there's 12 separate bills as well. circulating in the House to rename things after Donald Trump because these MAGA Republican sycophants are MAGA Republican sycophants. So Donald Trump goes and he talks about this agreement with the United Kingdom. We've reached a comprehensive deal. Look, Spencer Akimian says it right. After four weeks of negotiating with our closest ally,
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the UK, whom we run a trade surplus with, all we were able to accomplish was a continuation of the 10% tariff rate with them. How are we going to possibly negotiate anything substantive with China, Europe, Mexico, Vietnam, Taiwan, et cetera? The gimmick president is doing gimmicky things. And meanwhile, our economy will pay the price for his desire to see himself on TV.
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No offense to petulant three-year-old bullies, but just maybe try to act like an adult and take some level of accountability, you idiot. Oh, and then Donald Trump posts the following. He attacks the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. who Donald Trump appointed. Donald Trump goes, quote, too late, end quote. Jerome Powell is a fool. who doesn't have a clue.
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Max Kennerly explains rueful chuckle over how this trade deal will cement the relationship with the United States and the UK for many years to come. We already had a trade deal with the United Kingdom and the other countries to Trump through them all out the window. Nobody's going to believe these deals are permanent either.
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trump broke that also trump's approval plummeting and breaking trump's net approval job rating has dropped seven points since april 15th according to the cook political reports new political tracker the european union launching a wto world trade organization complaint against u.s tariffs and they're preparing counter measures
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on up to 95 billion of euros of US imports in response to US tariffs, while Moscow and Beijing intend to ramp up their cooperation in order to decisively counter US efforts to contain them both. That's where we are right now, folks. We'll keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. Now hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Other than that, I like him very much, exclamation point. Oil and energy way down, almost all costs, groceries and eggs down, virtually no inflation, tariff money pouring into the U.S., the exact opposite of, quote, too late, end quote. Enjoy, exclamation point. The golden age of America is coming.
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What makes that extra cruel is she knows what she's doing. Right? Like, Hannity knows what he's doing, Jesse Waters, Laura Ingraham. We've seen their text messages before about what they've been saying about Donald Trump behind their back in connection with the Dominion case. We know they hate their viewers. They call their viewers stupid when they're privately texting.
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So they are directing all of these lies at their viewers, and it is so utterly dangerous, pathetic,
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banana republic-esque breath it's why that trump's entire presidency everything he does is run on creating an alternate reality creating a a version of reality where reality doesn't exist where facts don't exist and where whatever donald trump says is the truth um they do that because uh the reality is not so good for him often and they need to be able to pump out this propaganda in order to set the narrative
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And so you have, and Jesse Water said this himself on his show about last week or a couple of weeks ago. He said, how could he even beat it? How could they even top this? Elon tweets something out and then we talk about it on Fox and then it gets pushed out. By the time they even fact check this stuff, I mean, we've already covered it. Millions of people have seen it. Like he said that out loud.
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And this is their strategy with everything. It's just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. It comes at people with such ferocity at such a rapid pace. And the people who are watching this stuff do not realize what they're watching is bullshit. And it is bullshit 100% of the time. You could track exactly what Maria Bartiromo is saying about the economy.
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Congressman, should Doge be firing veterans?
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You could see that about a month ago because they do this weekly, the Atlanta Fed. They do their predictions or their estimates as to what the economy is. You could look to a month ago.
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and see that in the beginning right when trump took over when it was actually biden's economy you know what they were predicting like four percent gdp growth for the quarter four like about four percent that's really damn good uh four percent you know what's happened since donald trump has actually started implementing his policies making these executive orders making these tariff threats implementing these tariffs you've seen things go down down down down each week to the point where we've seen a swing of about negative six percent in the quarterly gdp directly tied to donald trump
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So how dare they try to attribute this to Joe Biden? And this was, by the way, the same exact propaganda and lies that they pumped into people's homes every single day regarding Biden when things were actually doing quite well with the economy, when we were hitting stock market record after stock market record, when we were hitting months of record job growth after months of record job growth.
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they would pump the opposite lies. But now it's all now to protect Donald Trump, who is quite literally doing the things that they accused President Biden of when President Biden was in office.
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Let me read this for you. Federal Judge Beryl Howell just came out with a powerful ruling finding that the firing of the National Labor Relations Board member, Gwynne Wilcox, was illegal. This is what she says about Donald Trump in her order. She's a Washington DC federal judge.
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She goes, a president who touts an image of himself as a king or a dictator, perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article 2 of the US Constitution. In our constitutional order, the president is tasked to be a conscientious custodian of the law, albeit an energetic one,
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to take care of effectuating his enumerated duties, including the laws enacted by Congress and as interpreted by the judiciary. A powerful ruling there as Donald Trump continues to lose in the courts.
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He also lost in a 5-4 decision in the United States Supreme Court, which ordered that $2 billion, which was already appropriated by Congress to USAID and extended by these continuing resolutions by the... Republican Congress who can't pass a freaking budget because they can't even do anything right at all, even pass their own budget. The Supreme Court ordered that $2 billion go to USAID.
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And it was interesting because the three liberal justices were joined by Justice Amy Cohen, Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts. And now all of the kind of right wing influencer spear, as well as a lot of the MAGA leaders are saying Amy Coney Barrett, by the way, she was instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade. They're saying she was a DEI hire, a DEI hire, wah, wah, wah.
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because she ruled that money appropriated by congress should go to where the money was appropriated to go and that elon musk an unelected bureaucrat although donald trump said during that horrible joint session the days of unelected bureaucrats are gone
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You literally have a billionaire who has access to your social security data, your medical records, your tax records, who's basically unilaterally gutted key programs, destroyed the lives in such a cruel manner as well. of hardworking Americans, many veterans, the spouses of veterans. But according to Donald Trump, the days of unelected bureaucrats are gone. Snap the hell out of it, America.
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Stop living in right-wing frameworks where they want to rage bait you into talking about shit that doesn't matter to your life. Your money is being impacted. You're living probably... in a situation right now that is far worse than when Biden wasn't on.
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Ask yourself, are you better off right now with chaotic posts every day, with the markets crashing, and then Donald Trump saying, well, what do I do? I guess I'm going to
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stop the tariffs for another 30 days and then maybe it goes back up a little and then it crashes the next day again where donald trump threatens our allies where he humiliates the united states from the oval office where he attacks our allies on a daily basis he attacks nato i mean is are you you feel better off right now you think america is more respected right now absolutely not
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MAGA has perfected the reverse Oprah. Layoffs for you, layoffs for you, firing you, firing you. Here is Donald Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba, on veterans who have been fired from their government jobs. Here's what she just said. Starting to think about maybe some of those veterans who worked for the federal government and maybe what the administration can do to at least help salvage their lives.
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right now and it seems that the beneficiary of almost everything trump does is pretty much one person which is vladimir putin i guess maybe the other person is elon musk we've got a lot more to talk about want to take our first quick break of the show i want to remind everybody midasplus.com is where our editor-in-chief ron philip kowski cooks
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Thank you to those pro-democracy sponsors. We appreciate them greatly. And the discount codes are in the description below. Still got a lot to talk about. Brett, did you see the press conference that Donald Trump held in the Oval Office where he attacked Democrats?
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our NATO allies, where he said that farmers are going to love what they're experiencing, this short-term pain, these short-term disruptions. Let me show you some of the clips, Brett, from earlier in the day, then let me get your reaction. First, here's Donald Trump being asked by Peter Doocy.
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Notably, I think Fox stopped covering at this point, which is interesting, when Doocy asked a lot of these questions.
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They cut away, yeah. from NATO. But here it is saying, are you considering, you know, changes in how America deals with NATO? Let's play this clip.
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You said, oh, he's violating NATO. Also, during that Oval Office press conference, Donald Trump made a statement saying that he doesn't believe that the NATO allies would actually help the United States if the United States needed their help. I mean, quite literally, NATO has helped the United States and stood with the United States when the United States has gone to war over and over again.
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The Canadians have bravely fought with the United States historically, as well as all of these NATO countries. So
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trump has no historical perspective either um and his obsequiousness to putin and his attacks on nato are just so obvious and ridiculous and causing major disruption to our alliances but donald trump also says that um look short-term disruptions to our economy that's to be expected and farmers you're gonna you're gonna love it right everybody short-term disruptions yay
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by the way for our audio listeners he's standing by like a stupid poster board that says gulf of america i mean because right everybody that's what you really wanted google to change gulf of mexico to gulf of america while he makes things way more expensive makes housing less affordable tanks our markets arbitrarily and capriciously wakes up and says, you're tariffed, you're tariffed.
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I'm giving you a tariff. Oops, I changed my mind. I changed my mind. I mean, literally Prime Minister Trudeau and Canada did nothing. They just stood up to Donald Trump to make Trump even change his mind other than powerfully push back. It wasn't like they gave any concessions to Donald Trump. Trump on his own imposed this trade war, and then Trump first took away the auto tariffs.
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Then Donald Trump said that things that are covered by the USMCA, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, would not be subject to the tariffs until April 2nd, although energy, I don't think Donald Trump realizes, which is one of the major forms of trade between US and And Canada, for example, that's not part of the USMCA. So I don't think Trump realizes that.
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First, he started with auto, then said USMCA. And so he was asked about this conversation that he had with the big three auto manufacturers who were probably saying, dude, what the hell are you doing? You're going to make us all go bankrupt. So what Trump did is said, 30-day extension, 30-day extension on the tariffs, which he already extended once before.
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We've already gone through this gong show routine before, over and over again, but I'll play this clip.
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The official message from the White House to veterans, you are not fit for your job and you are not fit to show up to work. You may have sacrificed your lives for the country, then sacrificed it again to work for the government. But as Donald Trump says, you ain't fit, so you're fired. That's the message from the Trump administration.
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It's April 2nd now, okay? It's April 2nd. It was March and now it's April. And then before that, it was the other day. I mean, Brett, isn't this just the show's so much weakness over and over again? I mean, you're going through this routine. You just can't take him seriously.
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You can't take this guy seriously at anything. The entire world is laughing at us right now. We have a whole lot of Canadian fans. Shout out to all of our fans in Canada. Shout out to all of our fans in Mexico. Thank you for standing strong against all this BS. We're sorry. It's not me and Ben's fault, but we're sorry that you're dealing with this. But we stand in solidarity with you.
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But I think everybody's just laughing at us, judging from these comments also that I'm seeing. When Donald Trump plays these games, he doesn't necessarily realize the ripple effects that he's having also. He thinks that he could just toy with people and be like, okay, the tariffs are on, the tariffs are off.
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But guess what's happened since Donald Trump implemented this new round of tariffs before he pulled it? You had the LCBO, who's like the biggest purchaser of alcohol in the world in Ontario, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
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they pulled all american spirits from their shelves they're already gone they're gone not not happening anymore they're not selling any more american liquor no more american spirits and they also distribute to like all the various bars across the province uh same thing happened in manitoba we saw the premiere of manitoba uh it was very very funny video i don't have it right here but i did a video on our tick tock about it um he signed an order also to pull the american liquor from the shelves and he did it mocking trump like just laughing at him making fun of him
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Wab Kanu, I believe is his name, and he was holding up the big order the way Donald Trump does it. He goes, I got a big, beautiful, the best order you've ever seen in the entire world. He did a whole Trump thing and it was funny. And then you have Canadians boycotting American products, not purchasing anything.
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They've divided the sections in the Canadian supermarkets to put the American items on the side so people know not to buy them. You've got people checking labels in supermarkets where that's not the case. You have tourism greatly affected. People are saying they're not going to travel to the United States.
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So this is billions of dollars already just ripped straight out of the United States economy just based on Donald Trump's threats on a daily basis. And not to mention the threats of the 51st state stuff, which is just the most offensive thing that you could ever say to a sovereign nation.
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And, you know, the thing like, you know, you were talking about right wing framing before, Ben, and like, don't fall for it and all that stuff. I just think these people are so freaking pathetic. Honestly, everyone should just mock them because they like to position themselves as like, oh, we're the free speech party and the Democrats don't like free speech, but we're free thinkers.
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We are original thinkers. We all have original thoughts. We're okay having original thoughts. And then what's your original thought? Donald Trump says something and then you parrot it like a robot, like an NPC robot. Donald Trump says 51st state and then you go 51st state, Canada, 51st state. Donald Trump says fentanyl is coming in from Canada when it's like, what, 42 pounds, Ben, or something?
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But does it surprise you from a guy like Donald Trump who's literally spent his entire life
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I think more fentanyl goes from the United States into Canada than from Canada here. They go, we need tariffs because of the fentanyl to Canada. Like, you just spread this bullshit just because Donald Trump says it? I mean, how fricking pathetic, Donald Trump of the State of the Union. We're spending all this money on transgender mice, transgender mice.
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You then see all the various MAGA people on TikTok and on Twitter and on all these apps. going, I can't believe we're spending this money on transgender mice. Can you believe it? It's like, no, actually, that's transgenic mice, genetically engineered mice, so that we could test diseases and find cures for diseases like Alzheimer's.
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That's what Donald Trump canceled when Donald Trump ripped that money away from research that was going to actually cure diseases, nothing to do with transgender mice. These people simply cannot think for themselves. They just repeat and parrot everything Donald Trump says.
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screwing over contractors the your fire guy the guy who's run most of his businesses into the ground bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy is this really a shocker that he surrounds himself with the worst of the worst scum and this is what they're doing speaking of scum Marjorie Taylor Greene let's see what she had to say about our hard-working federal workers play it
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And it is so completely pathetic while Donald Trump is basically stealing their lunch every single day, while Donald Trump is ripping them off, while Donald Trump is laying off their relatives, laying them. The whole thing is just so embarrassing that they are kowtowing to this loser in the Oval Office. How do you live with yourself, honestly?
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They didn't know the difference between transgenic and transgender, but Stay with me. Assume for the sake of argument, there was transgender mice research being, I don't know what that would look like, but assume that's being done. Brett, whose budget are we operating under? Who controls Congress? Who has the power of the purse?
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Who continues to pass continuing resolutions where money's being appropriated? Because the last time I checked, despite the Republicans always pretending that they're the victims of things,
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don't they control the house and don't they control the senate and don't they control the white house and since 2022 wasn't it the republicans who were unable to pass a budget so instead they passed continuing resolution so let me get this straight They're Congress. They appropriate the money for the things.
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Then they claim there's fraud in those things, which, by the way, where are the fraud arrests if there are all these things? Then it's always like retracted because it's not actually fraud. But aren't we operating under their CRs and under their budget? And by the way, they're unable to pass a budget now. My question's rhetorical, by the way. We know it's the Republican budgets.
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These are their things. But I want you to realize that they're complaining about their own things throughout this process. And then, of course, they can't- So now we're operating with Donald Trump's post this week is we're going to do a big, beautiful CR.
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You mean you're going to take Nancy Pelosi's budget from back in 2022 and you're going to keep on passing that and then claim that your own budget is filled with fraud and then have Elon Musk go through people's data and then say, oops, oops, you know, I may have taken away the Ebola.
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I mean, you know, what the hell? That impression's getting really good. That impression's getting really good, Ben. I got to say, A++. I know you've been working on it, you know, offline. We're still waiting on that RFK impression. Maybe we'll get it later in the show.
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But... Just so everyone knows, we say that because Ben doesn't actually have one and that just messing with him. Oh, I have one. I got one. I was trying to save you. The fact that they're continuing to pass these continuing resolutions or even struggling to, And then you have Trump tweeting or posting whatever the other day. If the government shuts down, it's the Democrats' fault.
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It's the Democrats' fault. The Democrats don't have a majority in Congress. Pass a damn budget. Stop with those damn CRs. Pass a damn budget. What are you doing? It's like the most simple job of a Congress to pass a budget. It's literally your job. What the heck are you doing? It is so incredibly embarrassing what we are watching. And your plan is just to blame the Democrats on everything?
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Oh, God. Shalom, Shalom, Hamas. This is what Donald Trump posted. I mean, Shalom, Hamas. It means hello and goodbye. You can choose. It also means peace, by the way. Release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered or it's over for you. Only sick
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As Donald Trump is crashing the markets here in the United States and crashing our overall economy, as Donald Trump is capitulating on these trade wars that he's initiating with Canada and Mexico and then pausing and saying, I need 30 more days. The MAGA Republican proxies of Donald Trump are on the hill. Attacking our veterans today.
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and twisted people keep bodies and you are sick and twisted exclamation point i'm sending israel everything it needs to finish the job not a single hamas member will be safe if you don't do as i say i have just met with your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed this is your last warning for the leadership now is the time to leave gaza while you still have a chance
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Also, to the people of Gaza, a beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages. If you do, you are dead. Make a smart decision. Release the hostages now, all caps, or there will be hell to pay later. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America. This is how he does his view of diplomacy. He makes social media posts.
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Yes, the hostages should absolutely have never been taken in the first place.
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He just said shalom. It's an invitation to negotiate via shalom on Truth Social. We all know that's how we're, I mean. And by the way, of course, Hamas should turn over the, they should never have taken the hostages. What went down is one of the most dastardly acts in all time. It's despicable. It's absolutely despicable what went down.
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And also the travesty that we see in Gaza every day is absolutely, absolutely despicable. But this right here, when Donald Trump posts his AI images with like bearded men with cleavage hanging out, dancing in Trump Gaza, He says he's going to take it over. How many times has Donald Trump made this threat? Because I've counted them all.
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I think he did one on January 7th where Donald Trump said, hell will break loose if the hostages are not released by the time I'm sworn in. He made that threat. Then on February 10th, he made the threat saying, by Saturday, by noon, if you don't release all of the hostages, I'm unleashing hell. And then the day came and Donald Trump said, well, I'm going to let Netanyahu do what he wants to do.
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Then March 5th happened and he posted Shalom Hamas. And this message right here, you realize that every time you make fake deadlines for yourself, the same way you promised there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours, as we showed you at the outset, and then you don't execute or when you say there's going to be tariffs and then you backtrack when the markets crash.
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No offense to clowns, because I'm talking about fascist clowns right here. And no offense to cornered rats here, because I'm talking about Donald Trump here. But every time he becomes a cornered rat, he folds like a coward. And people just look at him now. World leaders look at him like, what the hell are you doing? And I think Prime Minister Trudeau knows the game.
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I think our allies know the game. And I think when they're meeting, whether they're meeting in Brussels earlier today with the French President Emmanuel Macron kind of giving an incredible speech to the to the nation, to all of France yesterday, what we saw in the UK with the emergency meeting called by Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the UK, the way we're seeing Prime Minister Trudeau.
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Now I think even our allies are like, okay, you know what? If you stand up to this guy, he backs down. So you stand up to him. You can't be nice. You give him an inch, he takes your nation, he takes your life. Okay, we get it now. And I think that's what we're seeing, but it's utter weak. I don't know how else you can view this as anything but weakness, weakness, weakness.
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It's absolutely pathetic. And Donald Trump believed that the fact that our allies were nice as weakness, that wasn't weakness. That's how allies are supposed to treat each other nicely, you idiot. And now it's like, okay, game on. We understand what this is. You're Putin's puppet. We'll get stronger together. We got Zelensky's back. We understand the game. Good luck with your markets.
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Good luck with all of this. I think that's what we're seeing right now. We'll talk about this some more. I want to take our last quick break of the show. A reminder, MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S, P-L-U-S.com. Check it out. Patreon.com slash MidasTouch as well. Check those out. We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show.
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This is what Donald Trump promised though, right? In his campaign, according to Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick, this is what Trump ran on. Federal workers, you don't deserve your jobs. Veterans, you're unfit to hold employment. Right. Right. Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania. I think you got a lot of veterans in your state. Say it to their faces.
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Thank you. Thank you. I just want to, I should come with receipts. Right. When I when I make bold claims, I got to back it up. It's the Midas Touch podcast. That's what we do here. So let me show you from January 7th, 2025, what Donald Trump said to Hamas. He didn't say shalom. He didn't go shalom, Hamas. But here's what he said on January 7th. Let's play it.
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all hell is gonna break out and i don't think they're gonna do okay you got y'all get the pattern here about what he does and then saturday came and then it didn't happen and then march 5th and then it's shalom Ridiculous. And he does this with everything. The threats with Greenland at that horrific joint session. It's Greenland. I'm taking over Hamas. I'm annexing you.
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It is a twisted, warped reality TV show, as I said, that we are now non-consensual participants in a show that we don't want to be. I just want to go about my life. I really do. I want to raise my daughter. I want to go through it. I don't want to think about... This stuff, when former President Biden was there, I wouldn't wake up and say, the markets crashed today.
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You know, are we threatening Ukraine today? Are we now revoking temporary protected status from Ukrainians or are we not? Because it's reporting that you did it and now you're not doing it and now you're doing it. is the United States, which they are doing, cutting off all intelligence to Ukraine.
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You all heard that the United States is stopping aid to Ukraine, has stopped aid and military aid, but they also cut off intelligence to help Russia with their drone swarms and strikes and to stop Ukraine from being able to block it. I think that's equally as significant as cutting off the aid is cutting off the intelligence. How cruel can you be?
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trump level cruel thinks he's a tough guy but here he is from the joint session we're taking greenland one way or another we're taking you over we're conquering you here play the clip and i also have a message tonight for the incredible people of greenland we strongly support your right to determine your own future
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We will keep you safe. People are laughing. They're laughing like it's like a stand-up routine as he's talking about annexing it.
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He's a sicko. Here he is calling Elizabeth Warren, Senator Warren, Pocahontas. Here, play this clip.
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Either way, let me just... Oh, sorry. I think you were about to say maybe exactly what I was about to say. You look behind Trump and see J.D. Vance and you see Mike Johnson with the smarmiest looks on their face, giving the fakest laughs anytime Donald Trump says everything. Like, they know better. Both of them are two people who know better.
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Both of them are people who have sold their soul for this guy. And it is just so incredibly pathetic to watch J.D. Vance in the background be like,
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good one Pocahontas great one Donald and you see Mike Johnson with his little smirk on it just like these people are just so pathetic they're so ideologically inconsistent like if this was a Democrat they would obviously be like this person's a maniac this person's like severely mentally ill and should be nowhere near the presidency but because they're getting their their power because they've made their sort of devil's bargain here they are okay with all this chaos and it's just like these people are a disgrace to the country quite frankly every
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single one of them yeah jd vance and maga mike johnson look like an elementary school student who's hearing one of their friends say a curse word in class for the first time and they're like
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you know i mean it's just so weird and then here he attacks like emasculates his secretary of state uh marco rubio in front of everybody and he's just like you're gonna do it right marco and then in the marco rubio's face is like the face of a humiliated and defeated man You know, he's got to just watch his face carefully.
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And for our audio listeners, the only best way I can describe it is the face of a defeated man. I apologize. I don't have better descriptive words than that.
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It's just a strange thing to even say. We're going to know who to blame if things go wrong at a joint session about your secretary of state. But by the way, that's how Donald Trump ran his businesses into the ground, because he would treat his management like absolute crap. And that's what he does with his people. He just makes them feel he degrades them.
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But here, Donald Trump says that what he's really going to be focused on is forging the most dominant civilization ever.
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Can you just start before becoming the most dominant civilization ever? Can we start with just lowering the prices, which you promised to do? And I don't know, making housing more affordable and maybe adding jobs versus reducing jobs. And I don't know, maybe not sinking our economy into a recession. I know you want to be the most dominant ever. I'm going to rip off my shirt like Hulk Hogan.
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Yeah, man. but maybe just i don't know have the gdp growth be like in a like in a positive direction like it was under former president biden maybe job growth you know the way former president biden added 16.4 million jobs maybe you can start with just positive job growth can we can we treat you like a toddler that yard maybe just We'll set the bar pretty low before that.
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But here he is during his speech, talks about getting rid of the CHIPS Act, which brought the semiconductor industry to the United States, $50 billion plus of investment in the semiconductor industry, which, by the way, is helping red states even more than blue states. It's creating hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of jobs.
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And during this joint session, Donald Trump says, get rid of it. Mega Mike Johnson, get rid of it. Here, play this clip.
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Standing ovation. The Republican standing ovation.
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We're taking our constituents' jobs. Yes. Yes, we're taking away your jobs. Yes, China will be a world leader in chips. Yes. Oh, great. We aren't we fantastic. You know, and the thing that really, you know, drives me crazy with all this is, like I was getting at earlier, if there was some ideological consistency, I would at least be able to say, well, they must really believe this crap.
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But they obviously don't because you're getting rid of these essential programs, many of them that don't even cost that much money in the span of a budget, like $8 million or something. That might sound like a lot of money. It is a lot of money. But in a budget, that's not a lot of money. But you know how these people are full of shit?
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Because what's the big thing that they are trying to push right now with their big plan? $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich. $19 trillion added to the deficit over 10 years. $19 trillion with a T. It's an unfathomable amount of money.
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that they want to add to our national deficit over 10 years because they really don't care about the deficit because they really don't care about the debt because this actually has nothing to do with government spending or being efficient it's all one big scam to redistribute wealth from the working people of our country to the richest people in our country you know what a ponzi scheme is
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You want me to show you what a Ponzi scheme is? You want me to show it to you in real time what it looks like when a government becomes an authoritarian Ponzi scheme regime? Well, here's Donald Trump at the joint session saying, here's how we are going to deal.
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with the fact that giving billionaires 4.5 trillion in tax cuts, cutting 880 billion in Medicaid, 400 billion from farmers, 300 billion, 400 billion from education, billions from infrastructure, you wanna know their plan? Here it is right here where they talk about the Trump gold card, everybody. The Trump gold card. Here, let's play it.
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I think the total amount of fentanyl from Canada is less than what would fit into a small backpack. I mean, to blame, to call Canadians killers and murderers as the subterfuge and protectual grounds to launch an economic war or just all outright war on Canada and threaten to annex them. That's very Putin-esque. But let me tell you what Donald Trump campaigned on, because we actually have receipts.
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There's going to be a gold card for Russian oligarchs, Chinese oligarchs. If you've got $5 million, you can buy citizenship in the United States. By the way, there's a U.S. code section which specifically actually says selling citizenship is a crime punishable by more than like 10 years, but I'm sure they've calibrated that somehow in the code.
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But the whole thing is like a Ponzi scheme plan where they're saying, look, the way we're going to do reconciliation and deal with the $19 trillion deficit is we're going to sell Trump gold cards to Russia and Chinese and other oligarchs.
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we're going to sell 10 million of them which is going to bring in 50 trillion dollars into the united states and then we're all everyone's you're going to be super wealthy remember they were doing this as well with doge but they kind of backed off it doge is going to find so much waste that you're going to get a doge dividend everybody and you're gonna you're gonna be rich or remember donald trump saying i'm gonna go into fort knox
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me and elon we're gonna go into fort knox and we're gonna find all of this gold gold gold gold it's a new gold rush everybody it's a scam it's a scam it's a scam to help the billionaires while harming you unless you are a billionaire this stuff is going to screw you it's transparent It's obvious. It's before us right now. We can see it all.
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And we're going to call it out each and every day here on the Midas Touch Network and on the Midas Touch Podcast. We have to keep up. with this frenzied pace of this fraud from this Trump regime. We have to call it out. We have to deconstruct it. And we have to remind everybody about what his play is. His play is to bring attention to himself, help the billionaires, and screw the workers.
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He promised that he was going to lower prices, not rise, not raise prices. They didn't talk about that. He said there would be peace in Ukraine. He lied. But his whole life is being a liar and a con artist. He's been found liable for fraud. He was criminally convicted for 34 felony accounts. We see it over and over and over again. We're not gonna back down here at the Midas Touch Network.
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Brett, I'll let you take it away, and if you have any questions, Final words before giving that shout out to the mighty. I'll just end it.
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Donald Trump said that he will lower prices immediately on day one, not short-term pain, not inflation surging. Here's what he said. We have the clip.
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We're going to drill. You know, not only are prices surging right now, but we're now heading into something called stagflation, where GDP growth is plummeting, according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve. Whereas if Donald Trump just did nothing and let former President Biden's economy roll on in autopilot, We probably would have had Q1 GDP growth of somewhere around three to four percent.
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Now the Atlanta Federal Reserve is projecting stagflation, surging prices, lower GDP, about negative two point eight to negative three percent. And they're expecting disastrous job numbers tomorrow. You know what? Donald Trump also promised though, by the way, that he was such a good deal maker and a negotiator, despite never actually negotiating anything good in the first place.
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Just listen to him because he said he negotiated the USMCA, which he says is the worst deal ever. And that's why he's doing all of these things. But he promised that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. In fact, he would get it done sooner than that. Here, play this clip.
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Let's bring my brother Brett in. Brett, how are you doing, sir? I wanted to start off with all of those receipts. Why? Because facts matter. Fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. That's how you have to deal with this climate, I think.
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Yeah, you got to show the receipts. You got to show that this is the things that they are saying. I am just so appalled. when I hear all those statements by these Republicans about our veterans, about our federal workers. And before I get started on this, Jordy is out on daddy duty. We all miss Jordy dearly, and he will be back next episode, don't you worry.
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But I've never in the history of living in this country have heard politicians speak with such disdain towards the citizens of this country and towards the hardworking of federal workers of this country and towards veterans. These were always positions that were revered. These were always a pathway to living the American dream.
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Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Brandon Gill on veterans getting fired by Trump and Doge. Let's play it.
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And to hear Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, say that these federal workers don't deserve their paychecks. It's Marjorie Taylor Greene who doesn't deserve her paycheck. She is the useless one.
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These federal workers work hard and do the tough jobs of our government, in many cases, even choosing to go into public service rather than going into into the private system in order to actually help our government in a way for far less pay. They deserve our respect. They deserve our admiration. And this push that I continue to hear, like we have the jobs report coming out on Friday morning.
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The Trump administration is already trying to get ahead of this. They are terrified about what these job numbers are going to be. And I've seen a lot of these people in the Trump administration and in the Republicans in Congress who are already saying things like, well, they should release a report that they should take out anything to do with government workers.
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Government workers don't count as jobs. They don't count as people. They don't count as... In what world do those not count as jobs? What are you saying? And I think this is the whole problem When people say our government needs to be run like a business, it's got to be run like a business. That's why we need Donald Trump.
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First off, if that's your businessman that you want to put in charge of this business, you have put the world's worst businessman in charge. And you're right. He is running it like a terrible businessman, which is absolutely terrible for our country. The government has a different purpose than a business. It's not about maximizing shareholder value. It exists to serve citizens equitably.
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It exists to provide people with the things they need to make sure that they do not fall through the cracks. Businesses are prioritizing shareholder value. Businesses are trying to do things as cheaply as possible. That's not what the federal government is. So when you are just going around slashing jobs without a care in the world, you're actually ruining people's lives.
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You are stripping away services from folks who need them, and oftentimes the people you are affecting the most are the most vulnerable in our society. The people with disabilities, our veterans, people on SNAP, people who need extra help. You are just screwing them in order for what?
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Like, what is the point of all these trade wars and Donald Trump's bluster and his actions and his constant pulling back? Oh, we're doing the tariffs. We're not doing the tariffs. All of that in and of itself is screwing up the economy tremendously, is causing prices to rise, is causing instability in the market, is causing people to lose their retirement savings.
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Every single day, it is a new disaster from Donald Trump when he could have just really sat there, rode this thing out, rode Joe Biden's economy to success and taking credit for it if he really wanted to. But instead, it's just destruction every single day, destroying everything our country was built upon.
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Look, Donald Trump has two objectives, and sometimes they're at odds with each other. They frequently are. You make the rich richer. You help the billionaires or the decamillionaires, and you try to benefit them. But even more important is to keep the spotlight on Donald Trump. And when he keeps on doing these trade wars and then sets the deadline 30 days,
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He kind of keeps himself in the news cycle and keeps the drama going. But at what expense? The expense is now our economy is crashing. There's instability in the markets. Consumers are not spending because this dystopian hellscape that Donald Trump has created for his sicko reality TV show that we are all nonconsensual participants in is is not a good way to run a country and not good behavior.
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And you see why he's crashed most of his businesses before. He was never a good deal maker. Just go through his own SEC filings. You'll see all of the casinos he bankrupted, all of the products he bankrupted before he ever got in politics. What, did the deep state Democrat Soros machine go into an actual time machine, go back in time and screw up? up all of Donald Trump's businesses.
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Is that why he bankrupted all of them before? Or maybe he's just a shitty businessman who was never good at making deals in the first place. Whose entire career was just based on you fired, you fired, you fired. Maybe that's not a good way to pick someone and put him in positions of power. But look, he's got state regime media trying to hold strong behind him.
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He's got Larry Kudlow, who used to work in his first administration as parting the revolving door of, you work at Fox, then somehow you become the Secretary of Defense. You work for the Trump administration, you then work at Fox. You're related to Trump, you get a show at Fox. You see the pattern right here. Here's Larry Kudlow saying, but we all know This is all Biden's fault, right?
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It's not like Donald Trump. We all know that what we're experiencing, it's because of Biden, right, right, right? Here, play this clip.
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nothing to do with the guy who's actually running nothing to do with him brookie brookie by the way that secretary of agriculture brooke rollins being called brookie she was the one who what this past week also said americans need to deal with the rising prices of eggs or the fact that eggs aren't available by all americans should buy a chicken buy some chicken we should
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buy some chickens and put some chickens in the backyard. That's how you'll deal with the situation and get eggs. Kind of reminds me of inject yourself with bleach, like a miracle, it's all gonna go away. The only time machine that's actually taken place is I feel like I'm right back into April of 2020, but potentially even worse.
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when Trump was running the country into the ground then, not actually running at all. But here's Maria Bartiromo. She was also chilling in the White House today. I think they gave Donald Trump an award. He signed an executive order today declaring that he's great for women. I'm not even gonna play that one, but they're like, We're giving you an order that hereby says you are great for women.
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And he goes, I'm great for women, right, Maria? And she's like, you're great for women, Donald. Like, what the hell is even, this is the weirdest Kim Jong-un stuff going on imaginable. But here she is earlier, again, basically saying, we know this is Biden's fault, right? This isn't Trump's fault. Here, play the score.
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There's a twofer right there attacking Social Security and our veterans in under 30 seconds. Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Rich McCormick from Georgia defending Doge and Trump firing veterans. Let's play it.
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Donald Trump just finished up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office. At the same time, he was crashing our markets. Donald Trump, during this press conference, talked about pulling the United States potentially out of NATO.
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He's asked again, and just to make the point very clear, here's what he says.
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He didn't use those exact words, but judge for yourself here when Donald Trump was asked if he thinks that NATO would help the United States if the United States was attacked. Let's play it.
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Then Donald Trump talks about short-term disruptions, meaning inflation surging, but Donald Trump says this is perfectly normal and farmers will be very happy about all of this inflation. Here, play this clip.
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let's just be very clear donald trump said that on day one prices would come down they were coming down anyway under former president biden inflation was going to hit about two percent which was the target by the federal reserve but now there are other targets by the federal reserve like targets involving recessions indeed the atlanta federal reserve said that the united states is
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Q1 GDP is likely to be negative 2.8 to potentially negative 3% GDP. Again, meaning we're heading into recession, great recession, and even potentially depression territory. But Trump's saying, just have fun, everybody. Here, Donald Trump is asked about removing the tariffs temporarily. on auto regarding Canada and Mexico, but then he also removed other tariffs when he backed down.
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But Trump says, I'm super serious this time. April 2nd, it's really going to happen. We're going to put those tariffs back April 2nd. Here, play this clip.
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You know, it's just yo-yo chaos with Donald Trump. I mean, how many times has he said, there's going to be tariffs, I reverse it. There's going to be tariffs, I reverse it. There's going to be tariffs, I reverse it. He's causing havoc to our economy just based on that, and he's declaring economic warfare, if not outright warfare, on our allies.
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Here in an unusual move, Fox cuts away from Trump as he's taking questions from reporters, notably the questions that followed were those ones you heard Ducey ask. about withdrawing from NATO. Here, play this clip.
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In perfect Kim Jong-un fashion, Donald Trump signs an executive order saying that he's great for women. Yes, Donald Trump, who's been found liable for sexual assault, who has bragged about grabbing women by their generals, sexually assaulting them. And then Donald Trump, who has been friends with Epstein before.
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Yes, he's saying that he's great for women and he signs a declaration proclaiming him great for women. Watch this.
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Then Donald Trump says the following about his cabinet members that he and Elon will be watching them closely. Play this clip. We want them to keep the good people.
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Then Donald Trump says that Elon and Doge have not been moving too quickly. He actually would want to see them move quicker in their termination of federal employees, getting rid of veterans, cutting social security, gutting critical infrastructure. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump suggests that the two stranded astronauts in space might fall in love. Here, play this clip.
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You got to get them out. Again, while this was going on, the markets were absolutely tanking today once again. Other news that just came out as he was doing that press conference, the Congressional Budget Office says Congress can't cut the $880 billion the House budget calls for. without taking hundreds of billions from Medicaid, which we told you they were cutting Medicaid.
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And I love Japan. Yeah, quite literally, NATO has very recently come to the defense of the United States. And that just gives you that Donald Trump's perspective of the world is perfectly aligned with Vladimir Putin's, our enemies. And that's why Donald Trump wants us to join the axis of evil and has already pulled us into it with Putin, North Korea, Belarus, and Hungary.
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That's what they were absolutely doing. And then a federal judge moments ago just issued an order. Federal Judge Beryl Howell says the following in her order, ordering the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board board member
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Gwen Wilcox, she goes, a president who touts an image of himself as a king or a dictator, perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role of Article 2 of the Constitution. In our constitutional order, the president is tasked to be a conscientious custodian of the law.
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albeit an energetic one, to take care of effectuating his enumerated duties, including the laws enacted by Congress and interpreted by the judiciary. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Here, Donald Trump is asked by Peter Doocy if he's considering changes to NATO or not helping out NATO. Watch his response. Let's play it.
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Another day and more countries Donald Trump is threatening war with. He then threatened to invade Gaza, send troops there, occupy it permanently. Then Fox tried to, I guess, cover up for it and say that he was part of some master negotiation that we just simply don't get. And also what he was doing with Greenland and Canada and Mexico and Panama.
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I mean, this shouldn't be a Republican, Democrat, independent, vegetarian, carnivorous, whatever. Like, whatever your issue is, you should not want billionaires to have your social security info and your medical records and your data. It shocks me that there are people – Yeah, we're owning the libs. Take my medical records and my social security and all of my information. Take my Medicare.
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Take that libs. We owned you. Really? You're rooting for billionaires to literally... You know, we do the segments on the leopards eating your faces, right? But often when the leopard like eats your face, you'd be like, ah, leopard. You know, sometimes while the leopard is eating their faces, they're like, yes, yes, I love the leopard. It's like they're eating your face.
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That was your eyeball, okay? And that was your nostril. But I don't need an eye. Okay, that's a little bit weird. Like stand up for yourself. Look, I'm not really sure where I'm going with that, but people get it. Is the point people get it is the point and people don't want that to happen. And one of the things that we, the people can do is, you know, we're going to get out all the information.
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We disseminate the information. We build this platform. This YouTube channel is almost 4 million subscribers strong. And I think our growth was something like close to half a million subscribers over the past 30 days or slightly less than, Thanks to everybody here.
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We can keep on growing this together, and then we can also activate when we need to be activated peacefully, of course, and to make sure we get these messages out. It's why it's important that we continue to grow. I mean, but who's... Who's the beneficiary of this?
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Because it certainly ain't the red state Venezuelan voter or the red state Cuban voter or the red state voter on food stamps or the red state voter on Medicare or Obamacare. Let's show some of those, shall we, though? Let's just show me first, Brett. Let's do the Venezuelan community that had a lot of people on TPS, temporary protected status, meaning they were here lawfully.
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leaving Venezuela because there's a dictator, Nicolas Maduro, who's trying to kill them. They were welcomed here into the United States, a lot under the Biden administration, which respected their TPS status as well. They rallied, though, not behind Biden, but behind Donald Trump and said, oh, Trump's going to protect us. Trump, Trump for Venezuelans and Cubans and everyone for Trump.
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don't be distracted folks prices are not getting lower they are getting higher that's if you can even find eggs at a supermarket houses are not getting more affordable they are getting less affordable there has not been peace in ukraine in 24 hours although trump has made vladimir putin and xi jinping more powerful than ever we're going to break this all down on the midas touch podcast today i want to start off though by showing a series of clips
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So what does Trump do? Trump's been making deals with Maduro to send them back to Venezuela.
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revoke their tps their tps is gone so now you have people in these communities especially communities too like where trump has resorts like doral the city council there's all cubans and venezuelans in doral that's a big populations there and they're like wait a minute now now you're sending us back to venezuela what you're doing deals with maduro biden didn't recognize maduro biden protected their tps status they rallied to trump and let's play the clip
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Well, I mean... What do you think he was going to do? I mean, let's be real. And I don't root for people. Let me be very clear. Even if they voted for Trump or supported Trump, I don't want to see Americans suffer. Because we're all suffering, too. It's not, you know, just unique there. But... You were so stuck in your rage algorithm that you were like – Trump had signs.
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It said mass deportations now. You think he was talking about deporting white southern men? Who do you think he was talking about deporting? You were holding the signs at his events. You were – I mean not her specifically. I don't know. But Venezuelans and Cubans and Latino Americans and others –
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saying mass deportations now and you and i were saying here and other hosts like he's talking about deporting you what do you what do you think that actually means and now they're like oh i've been so betrayed i've been so betrayed i i i want to show this though brent and jordy and my just mighty because it's not just unique to venezuelans or cubans or palestinians for palestinians for trump i could be a palestinian for trump muslims for trump what are you talking about he had a muslim ban he banned you
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He's going to be good this time. What does he go? Let's level it. Let's level Gaza. Let's just destroy it with Netanyahu by his side. Wait, what do you think he was going to do? That's who he is. What are you talking about? It's everyone, though.
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I mean, here you have the MAGA Republican representatives, Congress members right now, who are going out there, and they're basically saying, look, it's time you all feel pain. Americans, we're going to release a budget soon.
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you're it's gonna suck you're gonna feel so much pain you're gonna hate it you're gonna suffer but but shouldn't we all suffer for elon musk and donald trump shouldn't we suffer shouldn't we suffer for they they want us our dictators want us to suffer so let's sacrifice for them if you think that i'm making that up and that's not what they're saying Roll clip.
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Brett Jordy, I want you to react to these clips. The first clip I want to show you, Sean Hannity trying to say Donald Trump making these statements about Gaza. Brilliant, brilliant stuff here. This is part of Complex Negotiations. Everybody here, play this clip.
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Well, that's one of the reasons, too, you know, when they're doing all this stuff and they're throwing out the invasions language and then they're having Musk's team go in and destroy the government. Then they sneak in their culture war issue front and center, Donald Trump signing an executive order banning the nine transgender individuals. NCAA athletes from playing in sports.
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And then, you know, and then they basically push out kind of those talking points to, you know, literally impact. I think it's under 10, according to Charlie Baker, who runs the NCAA, the president of the NCAA. A lot to talk about. Brett, we actually did talk about the person you mentioned, Curtis Yarvin. About six months ago, Anthony Scaramucci and I spent about four minutes talking
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talking about the Yarvin J.D. Vance connection. And so we were saying this is who they follow, and we went through a bunch of it about maybe even more than six months ago. It may have been like May or June, however many months ago that is. Anyway, we've got a lot to discuss. We're going to take our first quick break. Trump losing in the courts. Loss, loss, loss. A ton of injunctions.
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Right-wing judges as well, Reagan appointees and others, basically saying that this Trump regime is lawless. And that these injunctions are necessary with things like birthright citizenship or sending doge people into the Treasury Department or cruel and unusual punishment by forcing trans women to go into men's prisons and to.
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be taken off medications and things like that banned under the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the united states constitution um reminder hit subscribe now we're on our way to four million subscribers four million subscribers everybody We can get there together. So please hit subscribe now. Also, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash MidasTouch.
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Finally, we've had that Jim Acosta collaboration you have all wanted, so you can watch that. And our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, has the best daily breakdowns in politics. Let's take our first break of the show.
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You know, there's like that DMX song where he like lists a bunch of like women or like kind of like a list of like ex-girlfriends who don't talk to you anymore, who like hate you. Like that's kind of like with what you'll say, Panama, Colombia, and Denmark, places where Trump literally lost in negotiations and Trump was made an utter fool. I could do the DMX voice with those songs.
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Here's Kayleigh McEnany though, trying to push these propaganda talking points. This is from state run regime media called Fox. Let's play it.
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Ready for this, Jordy? We don't really have a sound effect. What's the theme? Flashback alert. 2016 Marco Rubio debate with Donald Trump where Rubio says...
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and Colombia where he threatens things and then just basically either preserves the status quo or gives the other countries more than they had before. It's all part of four-dimensional chess, folks.
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If they even have a game board. Elon Musk and Doge are all in your government records. Everybody, do you even have a game plan? They're literally cartoonishly evil. By the way, that was the face of Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's chief of staff, as Donald Trump talked about permanently occupying Gaza. Brett and Jory, sorry for that long intro. I just had to show those clips right away. Brett, how
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He can't do a physical joke. I mean, what do you mean? What are you talking about? What? What? Bullying, bullying, and then making a physical appearance may cross the line. You were bullying him intellectually. Now you're going to call someone's ears? Someone's got to say it.
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Jordy bullying physical appearances. I'm not sure I can condone that younger brother, Jordy. There's a lot to criticize Marco Rubio. First off, his ears. Come on, Jay. You're getting a little too comfortable with this movie. All right. I want to remind – just because you're the number one podcast, Jordy, and you're beating Joe Rogan, we don't have – This is why the people come here.
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Okay, make sure everybody you hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers here on this show. We still got a lot to talk about. Maybe Jordy will bully more people's physical appearances. Who knows where the show is going to go. But in all seriousness, I'm going to break down some of what happened, the legal developments, what happened, where there are injunctions.
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Benji, where to next? I think our nation needs one gigantic tushy bidet just over our nation to – Yeah, just spray that full throttle. Spray that out. I mean I guess that's called an election in two years in Congress and then a massive tushy bidet in four years because – Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow. Let's talk about the courts. Let's talk about what's going on there.
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Multiple injunctions against the Trump administration and Doge, whatever Doge even is, seems like a bunch of private citizens and billionaires connected individuals who are just going in and raiding different federal agencies, a bunch of creeps. I mean, it's amazing. Creepy-looking, we could bully them. Definitely some creepy-looking. The Doge kids deserve some bullying.
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Before Chan was manifested in the human form, it would be the people that Elon Musk is sending into these government agencies.
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I mean, I will save it for... We'll save it for... RFK voice, fair game.
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No, you and I have to go stop it. Benji, where to next? I'm trying to talk about legal cases while you're trying to get me canceled, Jay. Let's talk about injunctions. I'm a law professor, Jordy. Let's talk about injunctions. An injunction was issued in Washington, D.C., purporting to stop Musk's access to the Treasury Department and to the payment transaction systems.
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I mean, this stuff is dangerous because Trump is isolating the United States of America, but it's also making America look so utterly weak and pathetic and detested across the world as Donald Trump backs down on his various tariff threats and his various conspiracies cries or claims that he's going to do all of these wars. He's also losing in the courtroom as well.
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The judge was inclined to grant this injunction and then basically ordered the parties to come up with a form of the deal of what that would be. But as with every Donald Trump deal, including the buyout, you can never really trust anything he's going to do because the person in the Treasury Department ends up
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who they agreed could stay there, is a Musk handpicked puppet who, it turns out, based on some new breaking news, a staffer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, whose access to Treasury payment systems was approved by the judge as the designated person, resigned today after links to a deleted social media account that advocated for racism emerged, specifically eugenics.
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You can't pay me any money to marry outside of my ethnicity and pro-eugenic immigration policies that this individual supported. So that was the Treasury Department person. But that injunction remains in place. It's unclear how much of our data they already have, how much access to your medical records, Medicare records.
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uh bank account informations that they have but that injunction was issued um an order uh donald trump wanted to ban birthright citizenship birthright citizenship is literally in the constitution um there's an order enjoining or stopping the trump administration from uh terminating the constitution Very strong words from the federal judge, who is actually a Reagan appointee, Republican, who goes,
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Hopefully, when history is written, we will look back at federal judges, including even Trump appointees, as those who have held the line. And I'll tell you, Donald Trump has pissed off all of those D.C. federal judges, including those who he appointed when he let out the January 6th insurrectionists.
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They had actually warned him in other sentencing hearings before he took office, do not release the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, but Donald Trump released the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Talking about more injunctions here, this buyout offer, which seems to be completely illegal.
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It seems to be an unlawful buyout offer because the appropriations process of Congress has not approved such a buyout offer. I guess it has to be in legislation. But
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And also one of the reasons that could render this buyout offer unlawful is that it also came with the threat that if you don't take the offer, you're going to be fired anyway, which would make the agreement coercive in nature and make it unconscionable as an agreement. That's one of the things that were argued. The judge in that case, I believe it was a Massachusetts judge, pushed –
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Until next week, at least next Monday, there's gonna be a hearing on whether there will be a more permanent injunction. But if you're a federal worker, you're under no obligation to respond until at least next week. There'll be more clarification next week.
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But one of the things we're even learning, for example, is like all of these IRS people who took the buyout offer because Trump's threatened that he's gonna fire all the IRS workers anyway. So a lot of IRS people took the offer. And, you know, they're one of the groups that took the offer.
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But then they were told you can take the offer after they took the offer because it's tax season and they're needed to process all of the taxes. And so Donald Trump, who said that the tariffs were going to replace taxes, we didn't need an IRS. We could just have the external revenue service. And he wanted to push out the IRS agents. Well, the IRS agents said, oh, bet we'll take the retirement.
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Well, we'll leave. And then guess what? fake offer we need you to work through tax season through march and april which just goes to show you trump's a con artist his whole life has been duping people he's gonna dupe you too so i like that uh by the way the people who are leading a lot of this litigation unions afl-cio seiu um retirement uh
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federation a bunch of groups who have been the ones pushing these cases so they've at least stopped that the government funding freeze there's a rhode island case in a dc case the funding freeze has been stopped although it seems that the trump administration is violating that freeze and still just saying well the memo's frozen but worst but we're just engaging in other action but that's under federal judge monitor right now and one that's not getting
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I think enough attention though just in its sheer cruelty was this executive order that would have forced the trans women population in prisons to just forcibly take trans women off their medication and then to put them back into the population with men where horrible things would happen. You got really horrific declarations like this one right here.
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I mean, this is what this guy, Aaron Melnick, who's been doing a good job covering this stuff says, speaking personally, one of the most horrifying things in the last couple of weeks was Trump's decision to order that trans women, including people who fully transitioned surgically, be taken off their medication, stripped of female clothes and thrown into men's prison.
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And you got declarations like this. That seems like a really bad idea that would have resulted in immediate sexual assaults consistent with the standard of care. Sarah has lived as a woman and has taken hormones for several years, including the entire duration of her incarceration. Prior to her incarceration, she had several surgeries, including
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since and then it's redacted since her arrest she has always been housed in women's facilities if sarah is transferred to a men's facility she will not be safe she will be at an extremely high risk of harassment abuse violence and sexual assault she may be subject to strip searches by male correctional facilities officers she may be forced to shower in full view of men who are in
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and her breasts and female genitalia will be exposed and vulnerable to sexual harassment, assault, and rape. The federal judge temporarily blocked that under the cruel and unusual punishment amendment of the United States Constitution. So people are fighting back. People are taking to the streets as well. We talked earlier in the episode about various protests, the 50-51 protests,
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that we're seeing across the country over this past week. I think those will continue to grow in size. As corporate media refuses to report on those, make sure you stay here on the Midas Touch Network because we're going to do that type of reporting. I want to share this with you as well. Democratic Congress member Jim McGovern, other Democrats are fighting back.
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Next, he talks about Trump wanting to invade Greenland and Panama. Here's Democratic Congress member Jim McGovern.
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Powerful words there by not like a warmonger, is a warmonger. But I like that. I mean, Congressmember McGovern's been great. We've been seeing, you know, whether it's Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Dan Goldman, Senator Schiff. Senator Murphy, if I keep listing, I'll leave out names.
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Democrats are fighting back, and we're seeing some even new Democrats emerge who are leading this fight. And I like Democrats going in front of the Treasury Department building, going in front of the USAID building. Those visuals are important. It's important to be there, but it's important to visually connect what's happening to we the people so we can see. Brett.
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Give it to the bully. Give it to the bully.
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You know, as Donald Trump and people like that, their one mission is destroy USAID. Okay. But the broader plot there was that was the first one they were going to go after. Right.
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So go after USAID, which provides all this aid to like vulnerable people abroad, like women who have HIV and AIDS to stop the transmission of the HIV AIDS to their babies and like stopping things that are like and harming agencies and organizations that like do things that like literally people are going to die. But
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There have now been multiple federal injunctions against Donald Trump and Elon Musk's various schemes. There was an injunction regarding the Doge access to the Treasury Department records, although the person who was appointed as the representative to go inside the Treasury Department apparently
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One of the things that we've learned, right, is that Elon Musk and Doge are now going to the other agencies right there. They put their people in the Treasury Department. We'll talk a little bit more about the legal maneuvering there. But there's now an injunction blocking that data from being given over to Musk and anybody but their designated person who works at the Treasury Department.
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But it turns out that that person was bragging about eugenics and saying that he wouldn't marry anybody outside of his race ever.
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and those posts emerged and apparently that person resigned from that position but we'll we'll get into that but then they've gone into um the department of labor department of education um it seems like every day they go into another like another entity to somewhere and they say like get the hell out of here and like walk in and then like have their 19 and 22 year olds like enter the systems and put their algorithms little like creeps they're putting their little kids
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I don't want to call them kids because I give them – that gets them like, oh, they're childhood. These are adults, but they're like – they look like creepy kids, but they're actually purportedly – I won't call them grown men, but whatever. So they go into all these areas. But like I need to remind us, perhaps we start this like – cleanse at the beginning of the episode.
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Like when JFK rolled out USAID, it was because this was viewed as like a major part of America's soft power, that America was the leader of the free world. And what JFK was saying is as the leader of the free world, it's not bombs and threats. It's sometimes medication and food and helping countries out that saves lives here when you can do that. Here, play this clip of JFK.
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resigned recently over making certain eugenics related comments and so once these were discovered the person resigned there's also injunctions regarding birthright citizenship there's also injunctions regarding the government freeze there's injunctions regarding donald trump's attempt to put
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trans women into the male prisons and to deprive them of the medication based on the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the United States Constitution. There's also an injunction that was issued by the court about that fake government buyout offer and more. We'll go into all of these major federal injunctions, but it's been loss after loss after loss for Trump.
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have protests taking place across the country as well the 50 51 protests 50 states 50 protests on one day i know that was not getting a lot of corporate media did anyone and was it on any channel at all you know i mean you would think about if there were protests literally in most cities across the country whether you were in los angeles san francisco whether you were you know in tampa or denver or wyoming wherever
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I want to talk about one of the most important elections that is still playing out right now that people need to talk about right now. And that is the North Carolina Supreme Court race. Let me break down what happened. I'm sure you heard about it because this really deals with issues of voter disenfranchisement of 65,000 plus North Carolina voters. And this is a playbook.
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So it is kind of reverse engineering an outcome that they wanted after the election, after the recounts, after voter ID. And then they're relying on people that they know, I think, on the courts to just affirm their outcome that they wanted before the election. So it's important that we highlight this. Say again where people go and if you can spell it out for people to-
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Recount two is held. Alison Riggs wins the election. Now, in normal circumstances, Justice Alison Riggs is the winner. Two recounts, voter ID, following all the election laws, race is over, right? Well, that's not what happened. Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate, said, no, I'm filing lawsuits. I'm a judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals judge. I'm filing lawsuits.
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Well, from one civil rights lawyer to another, as someone who was marching on the streets in Bakersfield with families of either political party who just wanted answers during the early stage of my career, really appreciate your career, everything you've been doing, and thank you for being on this network. We appreciate you. Justice Alison Riggs, thank you so much.
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So litigation was held. There was a stay that was issued by the North Carolina Supreme Court. Just so you know, the composition of the North Carolina Supreme Court, it's five Republican aligned judges, two Democratic aligned judges.
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because justice allison riggs is involved in the case she recused herself so it was a 5-1 ruling uh it stayed uh justice riggs being declared the winner staming pause stopped her from being declared even though she won the two recounts and then litigation brought by Jefferson Griffin, has played its way out through the courts.
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And then on Friday, the day I'm recording this, we got a ruling from a right-leaning, Republican-leading court of appeals. And remember what I said before, that Jefferson Griffin also is on the Court of Appeals. He wasn't on this panel, but he's a Court of Appeals judge. And there was a two-to-one ruling. You see it.
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This is how it's being reported on WECT6 News, saying Jefferson Griffin wins this election lawsuit. Now 65,000 ballots based on this ruling of voters who voted against are being challenged as not being voters, even though they went through all the steps and processes. Now, you may be saying, huh, what type of voters are these? What's even going on here?
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Well, one of the things that was discovered is that people like Justice Alison Rigg's own parents are part of that batch of 65,000 that are being challenged. What's being challenged are absentee ballots, members of the military overseas and other people overseas. And then there are other claims about the way the... the way the ballots are being made or whatever.
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No one really even knows what's even going on here, but just as Alison Riggs' own parents who voted for their daughter, they've been under this formula. They'll be disenfranchised as will 65,000 others. Here they are talking about it, what went down when they were shocked to learn what had transpired. Let's play it.
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that is being tested right now in North Carolina that Republicans and MAGA, in my view, want to bring to other states as well when they lose elections. So back in November, of course, there were general elections, but there were other elections, House races, Senate races, Supreme Court races and states.
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Let's bring in Justice Allison Riggs. I gave a long introduction there because I wanted to try to break down all the complexity before bringing you in. If I missed anything or misspoke, you could let me know. But I tried my best to summarize it in simple terms. But I just want to get your reaction first, I guess, to the ruling. And if I had any errors there, you can correct me also, of course.
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Remember how we've been covering the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin where there was a vacant seat there? Well, there was an election for a seat in North Carolina, and it was a seat that was held by Associate Justice Alison Riggs. She's the Democratic candidate. She was appointed in 2023, and her opponent in that race was a North Carolina Court of Appeals judge by the name of Jefferson Griffin.
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So there was this ruling today on Friday, two to one ruling that would attack those 65,000 votes, including the votes of your parents, people who followed the process in a state with voter ID, who gave all of the documentation that they were supposed to give
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who don't even understand how it's possible when they did everything right that their name was flagged as one of these votes that don't get counted. And now you have on the Court of Appeals, though, even though there was recount one, recount two, they're saying... We think that these 65,000 votes are going to have to go through, what, some other process.
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So what happens now, I guess, both in terms of the litigation, where does that go? And then people in North Carolina, what do they need to know right now and what message should they be getting out so that in an age where people are like, is this an election? What do I do? There's a lot going on. The markets are crashing. People don't know what to do. So can you address both of those?
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He's the kind of Republican slash MAGA candidate. So in North Carolina, also, you have voter ID. You know, Republicans talk about voter ID. There was an election that was held. The Democratic candidate, Alison Riggs, won the election by 734 votes or so. Jefferson Griffin, the MAGA Republican candidate, called for a recount. Recount one is held and Alison Riggs wins the recount.
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I think that's such an important point because you mentioned Jefferson Griffin didn't attack all of the absentee votes. He picked the 5,000 that were most likely leaning Democratic. And the Republican Party in North Carolina isn't challenging this issue for all the elections. They're taking the 65,000 votes and saying just vote.
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Apparently, as it relates to this one Supreme Court race, we're challenging it. But when it comes to the Republicans winning this congressional seat or Donald Trump winning, we're not going to challenge those. Those were fine, even when they're on literally the same ballot as yours. But we're going to just focus here on the Supreme Court race.
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One of the biggest market crashes in history happened today. Trump did that. We saw one of the biggest job cut numbers in a single month today. About 275,000 jobs were cut. We got those numbers, by the way, more than in March 2020 when COVID hit. Also, Trump was in office then, not surprisingly. Yes, Trump did that. Trump tariffed every country in the world.
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Trump took Laura Loomer's advice and fired them. With all of this chaos going on, there was also elections this week. Big election for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court seat. The Democratic-aligned candidate, Judge Susan Crawford, beat Brad Schimel, the Magadoge candidate, who was funded by tens of millions of dollars from Elon Musk. We've got a lot to discuss.
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I can give you the formula right now, James. Just figure it out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates plus non-tariff barriers as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit, other than the Taliban in Afghanistan, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
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That's what they did. Brett, to your other point, the overall weighted average tariff is 29%, the highest in over 100 years. That is bigger than Smoot-Hawley. And Trump says we were at our richest in 1789. America was the biggest, the most powerful in 1789. So we need to be what we were in 1789, which is the most ridiculous thing. And Brent, going back to Jordan, going back to that formula.
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That's why when you would say, wait a minute, Trump claims that Europe has a 39% tariff on the U.S. and thus this is what his tariff, which he's calling reciprocal, they don't. Like the European tariff is similar to what the American tariff was on Europe, like 1%, 2% max tariff. And that was reciprocal with each other.
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But there are free trade agreements that governed all of these relationships, whether it's the free trade agreement in North America, the USMCA that deal with the United States, Mexico and Canada, bilateral arrangements, trilateral arrangements. America has deals with Australia. America has deals with Asian countries. America has deals with Europe that are just being violated over and over now.
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And while all of this is going down, folks, Donald Trump, is he posting anything of comfort? No, the arsonist is mocking the people. Here's what Donald Trump posted. All in caps with exclamation points, of course. The operation is over. The patient lived and is healing. The prognosis is that the patient will be far stronger, bigger, better, and more resilient than ever before.
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Donald Trump is now, as I mentioned earlier, heading back to Mar-a-Lago to vacation and golf at the taxpayer's expense. And we previously reported also that whether it's with Donald Trump's travel being picked up at taxpayer expense or all of the other spending being done by the Trump regime recklessly, Federal spending is actually at record highs. Doge has done absolutely nothing.
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The objective data shows that the federal government is actually spending significantly more money now than it was under former President Biden. So even there, Trump is getting it wrong. But Donald Trump's the con artist, the fraudster, the felon. Right. That he is. He's got his next scheme.
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I've called this a Ponzi scheme presidency, a rug pull presidency because they got to move on to the next one. For those wondering, though, why does he say we're going to Fort Knox? Because to his supporters with magamush brain, they hear that and go, oh, wow. He's going to find us some gold and make us rich.
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Maybe that finds its way into Doge rebate checks and we get our Doge rebate checks and we get rich. So one of his other schemes, though, is the Trump gold card where he's going to sell Trump gold. like gold dollar bills or coins that have his face on it for $5 million each.
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And that oligarchs from Russia and China, I guess the Taliban with the money that they have, they can buy, I'm not making that up because Trump was asked, should Russian oligarchs be able to buy your gold card before? And Trump in the Oval Office said, yeah, why not? Why not? So Trump is selling gold cards for citizenship in the US.
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And he goes, if you just sell 10,000 of these, we'll be worth 50 trillion. That'll solve everything. It's the Trump gold cards. So here Donald Trump is on Air Force One, pitching his gold card with his face on it for $5 million. Here, play this clip. I haven't seen you in a while.
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For those listening on audio, Donald Trump is holding what looks like a gold dollar bill with his face on it. And he's like waving it creepily. And then he's asked, who's the first buyer of it? And he says, me. Is he saying that he was not a citizen? What is the implication? Why would you buy a $5 million golden bill? And again, he just has to literally lie about everything.
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But I want to talk to us all about the reaction from the international community. How is France responding? How is Canada responding? How is the EU responding? How's Asia responding? How's Mexico responding? I'll give you a hint. They are pissed. They are livid. And they're not just sitting back and taking it.
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are working through their own relationships and how they're going to retaliate which is going to cause further pain and suffering elbows up to our canadian viewers and listeners there's also the elbows up emoji for our members on the youtube channel becoming a member of this youtube channel also helps boost this youtube channel as well and jordy what are What are we showing right there, Jordy?
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Make America great again, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation As George Conway said, he's virtually psychotic. I think we could remove the word virtually and just say psychotic. Our foreign policy, our economic policy, everything we do is being run by a malignant, narcissistic, sociopathic psycho. who wants to cause destruction and is causing devastation to our country.
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We've got a lot to discuss on this day that will live in infamy in the history of the United States. No, it's not liberation day as Donald Trump psychotically calls it. It is annihilation day, great depression day. Donald Trump has done to the United States what he has done to his own companies over and over again. bankrupting it in record time.
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Elbows up, Canada. We're going to show you in a little bit what Prime Minister Mark Carney had to say. And by the way, a lot of our Canadian viewers and listeners said, can we get the maple Midas tea? And it was critical that we made sure it was 100% Canadian made, as Jordi said. We had to reach out to a Canadian manufacturer. and make sure it's all made there. So shout out to them.
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Shout out to the Maple Midas. And glad we were able to pull that off. And that's why I took a little bit of time. All right. Let's talk about, though, the international response to Donald Trump's trade war. You know, frankly, I think the way Canada sees it accurately is it's more than a trade war as well. It's a war. I mean, Donald Trump's threatening to take their land.
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He's threatening to annex them. And he uses the very same type of schemes that Putin does to invade Ukraine, right? For Putin, it's denazification. He comes up with the lie that Zelenskyy
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a jewish uh leader of ukraine um that president zielinski is actually a nazi that's what he says and people go that's so what are you talking about that's so crazy how do people believe it he convinced the russian people to to believe that that's the propaganda they use so what's trump's version of that with canada and the annexation talk trump says
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that canadians are drug dealers and they're bringing fentanyl to kill americans which is 100 false but that's what donald trump says over and over again as kind of pretext for what trump is saying which is invasion annexation that's war language that's why The boycott right now by Canada is strong. Tourism is down 75, 80% in the United States right now from Canada.
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And I think that number is growing. The elbows up movement in Canada is growing. We stand in solidarity with our Canadian viewers and listeners. It's an honor that the Midas Touch podcast is also the number one podcast in Canada right now as well, not just in the
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So let me just start off by framing this by showing you Donald Trump with this poster board that has all of the kind of fake reciprocal tabulations, as I described the formula before. Everything Trump is saying is false. There's nothing reciprocal about it. But even watching Donald Trump do this and talk about it like a C-list game show host. Oh, wait a minute. That's what he is.
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That's how he holds this board up. Like this is a game. Like he's toying with our life. Like this is fun. for him to inflict this type of suffering. I want you to watch this. Let's play it.
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Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, we indeed have a lot to discuss.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Donald Trump also tariffed an island near Antarctica that has only penguins and not humans. He also tariffed an area where the only occupants is a single American military base. So both dangerous, destructive and stupid all at once.
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That's why the story also of him tariffing an American military base and tariffing the penguins on an island near Antarctica where there's literally no human occupants. It goes to the fact that this is not just dangerous and destructive and harmful in what he's doing, but it's like idiotic. To your point, Jordi, it makes sense.
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Us all just look so stupid as a result of an individual who's so reckless, careless, and dangerous all at the same time. And speaking of all of those qualities, while all of this was going on as the markets are crashing, as the dollar is plunging, as... GDP is now being predicted, 4% contraction or close to.
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While all of this turmoil is happening, you've got Donald Trump in the Oval Office meeting with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, and she was pressing him to fire National Security Council staff members. that she doesn't like, and she has Donald Trump's ear. I mean, just so people can see some of the types of things that she's said before.
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I mean, I'm not going to do more than three, but I could pick three at random. Over 2,000 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean so far this year. That was from July 2017. She goes, good, with a clap hands emoji. Here's to 2,000 more, referring to more migrants dying. She posted on September 8th, 2024, if Kamala Harris wins, the White House is going to smell like curry.
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And then she posted 9-11 was an inside job. And then she continued to spread lies about 9-11 over and over again, calling it an inside job. repeatedly. After Donald Trump met with Laura Loomer, three National Security Council staffers, including Brian Walsh, Thomas Boudry, and David Feith were fired. Donald Trump was asked about it on Air Force One. So you're taking advice from Laura Loomer?
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In any other normal time, this would be the end of a presidency, just this alone. But here's Donald Trump in Air Force One being asked about it. And he said, yeah, I take her guidance. I take her recommendations. Yeah, I listen. I listen to what she said. Watch and listen for yourself.
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The Dow dropped nearly 4% or about 1600 points. The S&P dropped nearly 5% or about 275 points. The Nasdaq dropped over 1000 points or about 6%. Massive, massive drops. If you compare the United States to also the global equity markets, the United States is last. Remember when we would report under former President Biden that we were number one, number one in GDP, number one.
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Glazing Laura Loomer, saying she's done a great job. She's a great patriot. The president of the United States taking advice who to hire and fire. from Laura Loomer. Laura Loomer also handcuffed herself to Twitter headquarters in 2018 and said that because she was suspended or banned because of the horrific things she said, that this was like the Holocaust. She literally handcuffed herself to it.
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I'm not going to go through all the other things that she said. I think you get the point of how utterly ridiculous and no offense to clowns, which is a real profession, This clownish buffoonery of the Trump regime is horrific stuff.
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So Trump was also asked about Signalgate, especially as we're learning more, that it seemed to be par for the course, which Donald Trump probably gets that reference because he's vacationing and golfing again, that all of Trump's Department of Defense officials, or not all of them, but they and the national security advisors would communicate via Gmail,
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Mike Walls, the national security advisor, would do a lot of other text threads that involved war plans and classified information. So Trump's asked about this. And now the official position from the regime is you're not allowed to ask questions about it. That's what they say. You can't ask about it. Shut up. Here, just listen to him for yourself. Play this clip.
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You know, one of Donald Trump's things, being a malignant narcissist, a sociopath, and one of the things we see is when things also go wrong, that's how you react. Like you would never see French President Emmanuel Macron talk like that or Prime Minister Carney or Claudia Schein. It's just not normal behavior for leaders, especially in public. It's not normal behaviors.
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And the comments, I don't care. Don't ask me. I don't care about that. We're not talking about that. No, no, no. There's a pathology here that's fatal to leadership, why he should never be anywhere near the proximity of power. It's why he's bankrupted things throughout his life, multiple things throughout his life, almost probably close to setting again.
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I don't know what the record is, but probably a Guinness Book of Records for the amount of bankruptcies of things over and over again. That's not a good thing to be.
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Brett, let me toss it to you now on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Also, these protests on April 5th that we're going to be covering here on the Midas Touch Network. It certainly feels that there is a strong pro-democracy movement growing. I am happy as well.
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that I think a lot of this data showing the Midas Touch Network beating all YouTube channels, leading Fox, beating Joe Rogan in podcasts by double. Also, I think hopefully is reflective of people turning away from MAGA and Trump and wanting the truth. So I think that is a data point. But I'm not here to pat myself on the back.
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I'm here to thank the Midas Mighty here in the United States and abroad for empowering this movement that became a network. But Brett, let me toss it to you. Wisconsin and the protests.
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with our stock market, our equity markets, with record-setting job growth, over 16.2 million jobs created, record low unemployment, 40,000 infrastructure projects going up, former President Biden focusing on things like how can I make services provided by the government to the people more affordable? How do we lower prescription drug prices? How do we make things
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more accessible, which by the way, Trump and MAGA fought every step of the way. And now we see records like this, the US announced job cuts total $275,000 in March. That is a record high for the month of March. You don't want job cuts. to be record highs, as Richard Delavan explains.
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Just so we're clear, there were more job cuts in March 2025 than March 2020, the first month when US COVID lockdown started. That was under Donald Trump. So what's Donald Trump doing? Is he hunkering down at the White House to come up with a plan to solve this? Eh, no. He's going to Mar-a-Lago for another vacation to play golf at the taxpayer expense.
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You've made this possible to the Midas Mighty. Everybody watching,
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You can pretty much fill in those blanks every week on Mad Libs. Trump causes suffering. Fill in the blank. What happens next? He goes to play golf. I wonder if they're going to be doing more of those pink Birkenbag Hermes. parties that they're throwing that are all the rage at Mar-a-Lago where people are showing off their handbags that cost $450,000.
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By the way, one of the things that pissed me off so much, I don't know about all of you watching this or listening to this, when all the Trump people go on TV and they try to describe the devastation and the pain, like, This is pain. This is devastation. They go, you know when it's kind of like getting your house remodeled or your kitchen remodeled? You know when you do a remodel? No.
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Most people don't know what that means because they can't even afford housing because of you idiots. The arrogance with which they exude. We're going to show clips later in the episode of the Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who literally lives in a $22 million version of Barbie's dollhouse, a real life pink Barbie dollhouse in Charleston, South Carolina.
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And he's asked about how would you come up with the formula? for these tariffs? How'd you figure this one out? Because like, I don't know, why is the Taliban getting exemptions, but you're going after Europe the most? Why are you saying Europe has 37% tariffs against the United States when they don't? You're just making these numbers up.
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causing this crash to the american markets speaking about dangerous and stupid and destructive national security advisor mike walls we learned not surprisingly was doing more of those signal text threads where he was text messaging war plans also apparently our national security advising apparatus uses gmail to send classified information and state secrets. We're learning about that as well.
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And then he looks at the camera and goes, well, you know, we look at a lot of statistics and we figure this out. It's very complex. It's not complex. We're going to talk about the formula that they basically use, which has nothing to do with tariffs. And it's all about attacking our closest allies. I mean, sometimes Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is the answer.
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I mean, you look at all of these steps, what Donald Trump's doing with our alliances, what Trump is doing with NATO, what Trump is doing with our economy, what Donald Trump is doing with our veterans, what Donald Trump is doing with our health. Those would all seem to be aligned with someone who really hates this country and is trying to destroy it. I don't know how else you can describe it.
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Oh, by the way, the dollar is tanking as well. I mean, every stat
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right now is absolutely awful so i'll show you this video right here as the markets are way down donald trump is flying off to mar-a-lago he's asked by a reporter the markets are way down to which donald trump says i think it's going very well this is like that operation where the patient is getting the surgery that's how donald trump is describing it let me share it with you right now
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gonna boom it's gonna boom boom boom you know that's how donald trump speaks now should also be noted that donald trump was found liable fairly recently he's appealing it but in a civil fraud case guess what it was for for making up numbers We're just coming up with fake numbers and fraudulent valuations for his own properties.
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Shall I rewind a little more and talk about Donald Trump's history where he's like bankrupted like almost every business that he's touched? You want me to go through Trump magazine, Trump vodka, Trump airlines, Trump steaks, Trump water, Trump mortgage, Trump travel, Trump? The game, although I think we're all now non-consenting participants in Trump's dystopian game of trying to crush America.
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Trump casinos, Trump University, Trump Foundation, Trump now running the United States economy into the ground. So do you think Donald Trump like surrounds himself with like the best economists and good people? Or do you think he surrounds himself with people who are wrong about literally everything? Yeah, he surrounds himself with people who are wrong about everything. Shocker.
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Kevin Hassett, this guy was the person right before the dot-com crash. He said, boom, boom, boom. And he was wrong. He wrote a whole book about it. He was wrong. This guy's wrong about everything. And I'm going to show you what he said when he was asked about the market crashing. He said Trump ran on this. He said, this is what Trump said. This is what Trump promised. Here, let's play it.
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Then here's Kevin Hassett again, where he says, look, this is kind of like the art of the deal. There's nothing crazy about this at all. Because one of the things that Trump's
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But that news, I guess, is getting a little buried under the stock market crash that's taking place. Also, Laura Loomer, 9-11 conspiracy theorist, she went to the White House, had a big meeting with Donald Trump while the markets were crashing. Did it result in Mike Walls being fired? No, just some other National Security Council people who were probably actually competent.
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surrogates some of the the billionaire oligarchs went out there and said today is they said this is part of the strategy crazy this is how they're trying to spin this crazy is a great negotiating strategy so what trump is doing now is he's intentionally being crazy because when you're crazy, that makes you a good negotiator. I kid you not. That's what the Trumpers are going with.
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But then Kevin Hassett doesn't realize that that Trump's chief national economic advisor, the guy you just heard, he's like, no, he's not crazy. This is intentional. So like they can't even get their messaging straight right here. Just watch this. Let's play it.
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Well, it was tried and not true with Smoot-Hawley in 1930, which exacerbated the depression. Literally every economist, every economist knows that these tariffs would result in this, that Trump tariffing the world would cause a depression. This is not a shocker. I think what is shocking many, but it shouldn't,
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because we've been saying that this is what he's going to do, is they're like, oh my gosh, he's actually doing a self-inflicted recession. Why does it shock you that the person, or even worse, a self-inflicted depression, why does it shock you that, again, going back to what I was saying before, the person who does kind of fake and fraudulent valuations, who is found liable,
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is doing fake and fraudulent evaluations. Why does it surprise you that the person who's a felon for business records fraud, he's appealing it, but a felon for business, as adjudicated by a jury, would engage in this type of dishonest moral turpitude conduct? Why would it shock you that someone before who's done all these things would do exactly what they have done and they've said?
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Think about when you read a book or an essay or a paper, what is the least thing that you usually look at when you read? Probably the footnotes or the appendix, right? Usually, if you were gonna ignore something, maybe you ignore the little fine print footnote or the appendix at the end.
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Imagine though if the footnote or the appendix swallowed the book or the essay and it basically said, you know what? This whole essay is false. Everything you're reading is incorrect. Actually, the truth is Y and the essay is saying X. But you have to turn to the appendix after you read a 300-page book to then learn that literally everything is false.
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That's basically the equivalent of what a Musk community note is that comes in after the fact, after the news is digested, after 18 different narratives surrounding the initial false narrative is already created, essentially building a moat and reinforcing the false narrative. And then a community note gets dropped and is like, well, actually, none of that was true.
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Also speaking about that New Year's event, Donald Trump claimed that he's always been a supporter of the H-1B visa program. Well, Midas Touch dug up statements Donald Trump made in 2016 and 2020, where Donald Trump said, I've got a plan. I've got concepts of plans where I'm going to eliminate H-1B and I'm going to give all of these jobs to Americans. H-1B is very, very unfair.
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Brett, you talk about the need for a strong border and also all of these issues now that are arising about H-1B visas or H-2B visas or J-1 visas, the need for immigrants to work and or the need for our economy when construction, agriculture, hospitality, other sectors that rely on labor.
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All of these things were addressed in a bipartisan immigration bill, a bipartisan border deal that would have given a lot more money to Border Patrol, given a lot more money to asylum courts, would have given a lot more money for drug detection, and that would have comprehensively also addressed the labor needs
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that we hear people talking about with h-1b visas also talking about how do we help americans who have jobs in engineering get hired and not get passed over when they're clearly capable of doing those jobs and also addressing other labor shortages
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and making sure that we are very strong when it comes to criminals and terrorists and people who cross the border and commit crimes, but also when people are here and they're filling jobs that are needed and they're contributing to the economy and they're paying taxes and they're contributing to our country, can we create a pathway but also have the strongest border?
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These ideas were addressed through a compromise that was led by a very far right-wing conservative from Oklahoma, a Republican named James Langford, who cut a deal with Democrats. And Donald Trump and MAGA said, whoa, we can't give Biden a victory.
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We need the immigration chaos so we can do the things, by the way, like you're seeing them do right now, even when it doesn't involve a migrant and even when Biden has been able to secure the border on his own after Republicans blew up the legislation that Biden was trying to do.
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they wanted to inflict chaos they said that because they view the chaos as a winning issue for them again if you go back to what i said at the outset of this episode there used to be a time where that wasn't what would happen i mean think about it the civil rights act for example that was passed the voting rights act that was passed just think about major sweeping pieces of legislation that ultimately the right-wing courts have now gutted
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because of congress's inability to agree or do anything but the right wing then got uh their courts and getting federalist judges on to basically repeal the key portions of the civil rights act and the voting rights act and and all of those things but
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just think that there used to be a time even if you look at campaign finance mccain feingold there used to be ways to rein in the limits and then the far right wing and maga the precursor to maga and tea party and all of these groups got the citizen united case to basically destroy mccain feingold and to destroy all these bipartisan pieces of legislation and then right now
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We'll break all of that down, as well as the fact that President Biden on Thursday gave the Presidential Medal Award to Liz Cheney and Benny Thompson for their work on the January 6th committee and telling the truth relating to what happened on January 6th. That and more here on the Midas Touch podcast. Brett and Jordy, good to be with you both in 2025.
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You know, there's no bipartisanship and it's not because it's a both sides issue. I'm sorry. You have President Biden and then the right wing Republican from Oklahoma, James Langford, who's not MAGA, but so far right wing guy. And then MAGA destroys it. That's what's happening here because they want to say things like this. Don Jr. Going Biden's parting gift to America, migrant terrorists.
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Or a right-wing propagandist, Rob Schmidt, who hosts one of these right-wing shows on one of these propaganda networks, goes, great start to the year. Democrat open border policies welcome a horror show in New Orleans. Don't expect an apology. They'll respond with a middle finger, working tirelessly to block immigration reform.
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And our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, went through all of the incidents as well just over the past year or two. Remember like that car crash near the Canadian border? All the MAGA Republicans, the same suspects that I just showed you, were out there saying that's a migrant terrorist when it was actually just a guy coming back from the casino.
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And you look at all these other incidents from the Super Bowl parade shooting to bridge disasters to the Gonzaga hoops team buses. All being blamed on migrant invasions and migrant this.
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And again, this incident and these both of these incidents, the incident with the Cybertruck was like a guy who clearly seems to be MAGA, at least based on all of the posts that are out there, this Matthew Leibelsberger incident.
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he's got the american flag tattooed on his arm the daily beast article which generously borrowed from a lot of the reporting that we broke says suspected las vegas cyber truck bomber was a big trump supporter source um and uh we looked into the guy's facebook post and he was making all of these posts that seemed to be like oh there's like a like a clinton cabal out there and by the way did you see this brett and jordy
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the governor of louisiana within about 15 or 16 hours of the incident went in front of bonton prime rib like a super high-end steakhouse in new orleans giving the thumbs up and posing with the people at the restaurant about uh the incredibly expensive steak that he ate i mean how ghoulish can you you know can you get but that's maga and could have told you about that government.
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We were doing reports on that guy leading up to that election. It is just unqualified people and just lie after lie after lie.
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And of course, great to be with all of you, the Midas Mighty in 2025 as well. We are in this together. We are ready to fight.
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But the American people have to see it. Right wing has a massive propaganda arm in Fox and all this right wing media that exists out there. Then you have MSNBC, which if you just kind of watch it Maybe other than like Lawrence O'Donnell and maybe one or two other people, maybe. It's hard to even see a distinction or difference in some of the coverage and some of the both sides-ism.
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I mean, CNN's panels, it's freaking unwatchable. I mean, the reality to me is I just wish – what CNN actually does good is if they can just have foreign correspondents who actually try to cover what's taking place. But even when they send a foreign correspondent to a place like Syria, the correspondent is like making it about themselves and like –
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they have to become like the hero in the narrative and they need to go and like rescue somebody there it's like dude just to report on what's happening like just just show me what the heck is going on i don't need you to be the hero don't make it about you just report please on the facts and stick to the facts so that's what's important i've come up with the acronym abc always be campaigning
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So Democrats need to be in a constant year round, decade round campaigning posture where they're out getting these messages out, not just before an election. And they can't just hope that their C-SPAN speeches on the House floor or Senate floor are going to make it to the people. That's not what people are watching and consuming. Talk about that and more.
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I want to remind everybody about a good place you can go to get the news as well, MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. That's led by our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski. Also want to make a big announcement here. Brett, Jordy, and I will be holding our first meeting on Zoom of the new year at Patreon.com slash MidasTouch. P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash MidasTouch.
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If you've got questions for us, want to ask me about the interview I did with President Biden in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing of the White House and more, it's an open forum. No questions are off limits. Patreon.com slash MidasTouch. And we've got a lot more show, folks, a lot more show. We'll be right back after our first and only break of the show.
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so introducing prolon it's a revolutionary plant-based program it nourishes the body while making cells believe they're fasting research and developed for decades at the university of southern california longevity institute by the way i teach at usc law it's backed by leading u.s medical centers prolon helps promote healthy blood sugar supports cardiovascular health
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Is MAGA Mike Johnson gonna remain the Speaker of the House? Well, we'll find out shortly, but there are a lot of Republicans who are at least posturing that they don't want Mike to have that role. He's either not MAGA enough or too MAGA. There's infighting taking place. Look, Donald Trump has said that he wants to keep MAGA Mike as the speaker, but
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The reason Donald Trump wants to do that is Trump realizes that if MAGA Mike is not named the speaker and there is a protracted speaker battle, then the electoral votes may not be counted on time on January 6th. Could you imagine after Trump leading the insurrection back in 2020 to try to overthrow
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the counting of the electoral votes, that Trump actually causes the delay of himself getting the votes counted on January 6th because the MAGA Republicans have such incredible disunity that MAGA Mike can't gavel in the day because he's not the Speaker of the House yet. That's one of the things that we're actually confronting and dealing with right now. And the MAGA base hates MAGA Mike Johnson.
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Every time Donald Trump makes a post, the MAGA base responds that he's compromised with a photo of him. Traitor with a photo of him. Democrats little B word with a photo of him. Post that says, pack your shit, MAGA Mike. Another post that says fire. An AI image of him crying with tissues.
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You have Thomas Massey, a MAGA Republican who's come out strongly against MAGA Mike Johnson becoming the speaker. And that's really the only person who MAGA Mike can afford to lose. So if MAGA Mike loses another person, Thomas Massey has this whole – he's just writing diatribes about why Maga Mike is not fit to be the leader.
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One of the good points Thomas Massey actually makes is he's like, look, the only reason that we picked Maga Mike is because he never took a position on issues and we didn't know really who he even was. So when we kicked out Kevin McCarthy, we needed someone who didn't piss us off.
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So we found the only guy who kind of didn't piss anybody off because he never really did things and never had leadership positions. So we made him the Speaker of the House. Just pause there for a second and can we reflect on how ridiculous that concept is to begin with? Look, we picked the least qualified guy who didn't do anything because no one knows who he is.
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So we made that individual our leader. Just think about that for a second. And that's how you got MAGA Mike Johnson. And Massey's like, well, now that we know him, we shouldn't like him. And the reason Massey gives, though, which is like, well, look, he's been doing compromises with Democrats and Democrats have saved him. So he's not MAGA enough. We got to get rid of him. And ultimately,
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you know what, if we don't find the speaker in time, so be it. But we got to find someone who's even more MAGA than Mike Johnson, who can represent us in the House of Representatives. And a lot of other MAGA seem to be signing on with that now.
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that Maga Mike Johnson is using as really his only ammunition, the idea that a vote against him would mean delaying the certification of Donald Trump and potentially delaying the inauguration. So that's like Maga Mike's pitch. It's not like I'm great or I'm competent. It's, hey, Daddy Trump's going to be mad at you if we don't certify this in time, so therefore you have to pick me.
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Just think about that that's where the MAGA Republicans are right now at this moment. Brett, you alluded to this before. That's the Democrats coming up with kind of a new strategy, which is like, look, in the House of Representatives and the Senate – and by the way, this strategy was discussed by Democratic Congressmember Tom Suozzi from – New York's third congressional district.
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It's actually where Brett Jordy and I grew up in. I'm also Bernie Sanders' senator. And they're just like, look, and separately they said this in different ways. They're like, let's draft legislation that word for word says what Donald Trump promised
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to Americans during the campaign when Trump was trying to take democratic positions to steal our voters, to get the union workers to vote for him, to get the service workers with no tax on tips, to get people who cared about their healthcare and social security and things like that. Okay, let's use Trump's words. Let's make that into legislation.
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And then on the policies that are traditional democratic policies,
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and then let's show that donald trump was lying let's actually say look we agree we agree with this let's call his bluff on these issues and they're also saying look we need to be a strong opposition but if ultimately trump and maga agree to support democratic issues that should ultimately be a win for democrats if you know these programs are protected but they're also saying though is look
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We should call their bluff because we realize that they're actually not gonna go along with it. The no tax on tips was total BS. Donald Trump saying that he was going to cap interest rates on credit cards. We know that's total BS, but that's a great, let's cap it at 10%. Let's do that.
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You should remember when President Biden tried to cap credit card penalties at $8, the MAGA Republicans challenged that and a judge struck it down. Otherwise, you would have an $8 penalty on your credit card late fees. Just think about that. Just think about that. Did you even know that Biden did that? We have to communicate more effectively because that was one of Biden's policies that MAGA
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actually stop and so bernie sanders is like okay donald trump during his recent campaign he said that he was going to do 10 uh interest he's going to do a 10 cap on credit card interest rates great idea let's go let's do it you want to cap prescription drug prices and lower them let's do it it's an interesting strategy i think that the magas will ultimately block all of this stuff
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But the key thing, though, Brett and Jordy, the key pillar in this plan that Democrats have to realize, though.
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they're abcs they're always beat camping they have to get that message out and they can't just think that when they do these procedural maneuvers on the floor of the house and the senate that americans are paying attention to the nuances of parliamentary inquiry you know and and and what takes place there you have to then message it you have to say we're for health
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We're for housing, we're for education, and we're for lower prices. And just repeat it over and over again and talk about every promise that Trump and MAGA is breaking. Brett.
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And Jordy, going off the point that you just made right there. Where are you going with this? Well, I'm going with it pretty clearly because, Brett, when you said 2024 and some of these years have been difficult, that's because of political divisiveness that has taken place and it's not a both sides issue.
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happy new year's it's 2025 we've got a lot to discuss tragedy in new orleans compounded by lies and disinformation coming from donald trump maga and right-wing media we'll talk about that and also
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The two biggest issues for MAGA Republicans, if you listen to them, it's basically like the migrants, they're eating your cats and dogs and geese, which is not happening. And two, what you really need to be so pissed off. is penises and vaginas. You need to be really angry about the transgender volleyball player in San Jose State.
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It's clear where the bulk of the political divisiveness is coming from and it's coming from Trump. and MAGA and turning everything into a political wedge issue. But I do think it is helpful to reflect on the things that are also more important to us, our friends, our family, our loved ones, the Midas mighty community.
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What is more consequential to your life, factory worker in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, about whether or not there are 10 transgender athletes in the NCAA and one of the backup players on the San Jose State volleyball team is a transgender person? You want to even get more riled up? How about that there is a – Brett, was the boxer from Libya?
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I forget where the boxer – you don't care about international boxers from foreign countries that we're going to disparage and we're going to – Algeria. Algeria and Libya. We're going to – that's – female boxing from Algeria should be the most important issue. No. The reality is, is that the oligarchs, the billionaires are actually eating your lunch. They're actually taking away your wages.
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They're actually preventing you from buying a cat or a dog because you may not be able to afford one because they're giving themselves raises to the tune of
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thousands of percent increases while there's not even a living wage they have the golden parachutes and the best health care while you're struggling paycheck to paycheck or to even get the health care that you deserve so we got to focus on what the real issues are and brett and jordy it's sometimes so crystallized in like what's going on at mar-a-lago Right.
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I mean, can there ever even be more clear imagery than what used to be like the palace court than Mar-a-Lago right now where the billionaires and oligarchs go to play? And what's so crazy about this, all these events at Mar-a-Lago, too, is you've got these people, right? Seemingly. with all the power and all of this wealth, right?
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And it's almost like those movies where like you rub the magic lamp and the genie comes out and gives you a wish, infinite power and infinite money. But you go to this place and Lara Trump has to sing to you and you have to endure our vocals. Here, play this, but only seven seconds of it.
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The point is made. There's a whole song. But you have all these people now with all this power, with all this money, and it just is a room full of losers. It looks like a D-list event.
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you know at mar-a-lago with people who should have everything none of them no one looks happy you i mean ted cruz shows up and his like 16 year old daughter looks like she's like she's like tripping over herself and it's unclear you know i'm not going to say that she was inebriated or not inebriated, but she seemed to be struggled to like walk in the images that I saw. I'll just leave it at that.
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And this past year brought new micelluses into life from the Geordie family, from the Ben family. And stuff like that sometimes
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She didn't want to be seen as the same frame as him. His wife's not there and all of like the Mar-a-Lago kind of you know crew is is is like taking these photos with ted cruz the the whole thing is you know and also ted cruz's daughter was with him on the stage before um after the election and she was like don't clap for him regarding donald trump don't you know don't clap
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I mean you seem to have these – all these people just seem unhappy and miserable and you have like Vanilla Ice, like loser rappers from the 1990s. It's like what am I even – what am I even like watching here? You got Donald Trump out there right now. If you watch Fox Business, he's selling – now his new thing that they're selling with his name, image and likeness.
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is fake $2 bills with Trump's face on it for $19.95 that they're selling on Fox right there. And so you take a look at this and it's just like, I guess my overall reaction to this is like, yuck. But also, if you're the Democrats, if you're in ABC mode, always be campaigning mode, then what better symbolism of out of touch, rich oligarchs?
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Doesn't it just make you gross watching what's going on there and then showing and saying to a factory worker or showing that to an assembly line worker or a school teacher or a union worker or whatever profession? Seriously? You like this? This is you? This is representative of what you've wanted? I don't know, Brett and Jordy. It may just be just me, but what do you think?
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is what energizes you to do a lot of this hard work knowing that you're doing it for future generations as well and i've got the love of my family the love of brett and jordy we can do this show together as brothers that we you know have such a close family and that we've brought the midas mighty and the midas mighty have brought us into this bigger community and family as well so that's where i was going with that brett as well but look
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You know how Elon Musk is making his money? I mean, how he made it? A lot of it was through federal bailouts and the federal government giving him a ton of money for a lot of his ventures. And now the billionaires are out there. keeping you down and not hiring you in the first place, right?
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I mean like Donald Trump's promise to you was – one of his promises and we – I'm not going to show the Trump clips because I promised on our YouTube videos I don't show Trump clips or audio. I'm at least – I've temporarily banned that from happening. You got a really good run so far. on the videos that I'm on.
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But on other social media, we posted what Trump said in 2016, 2020, and 2024 about H-1B visas. And he previously said that he had concepts of a plan or that he was about to provide a plan or do something that would basically stop the H-1B visa program and make sure that American jobs, he said, would never be replaced by foreign jobs. It was very clear if you watch these.
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He's not like, we also need this. No, he said, I have a plan to stop H-1B, basically, with words almost like that, word for word. And then in 2024, at the New Year's event, he said, I've always been in favor of H-1B. And let's be clear, I think that there is a role for there to be H-1B visas. I personally believe there's a lot of reform that's needed in the program.
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And it's often used by tech companies as end run around labor laws and bringing in cheaper labor versus hiring American labor. But I do recognize that America should have the best and brightest talent for American companies. But I also want to be clear that I know there are many people with STEM degrees here in the United States who can do those jobs.
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who it would be more expensive to actually pay them than bringing in someone on an H-1B. But there are people who can do those jobs here and you need to do what you said you were going to do too.
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Rather than abolish the Department of Education, we should be investing more in education because now Trump and MAGA say, well, since our education system is a failure, we don't have educated people, which by the way, isn't true right now. now, but our education system does need to be invested in, but it's MAGAs who are destroying the education system.
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Just making this episode go kind of full circle, you have people like this MAGA Oklahoma school chief, Ryan Walters, out there saying that public school teachers are the ones who are responsible for all these acts of domestic terrorism. He says teachers have turned classrooms into terrorist training camps by indoctrinating students to hate America.
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In all seriousness, I remember times in my life – so granted, I'm about to turn 40 this year. But I remember in my life there were times where there would be – whether it would be terrorist attacks or natural disasters, where as a country, we wouldn't view it as a political hot potato.
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So it's this type of rhetoric from MAGA people who wants you, the MAGA base, to hate education because it's too woke.
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thereby you stay poorly educated mr accordion accordion hands donald trump says he loves the poorly educated but he keeps you not getting these jobs that you could potentially get the education and train for bring in foreign labor as it benefits his oligarchs and his friends and they get root rich they loot they pillage they make their money and they further this process i call it the authoritarian loop
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of screwing over the country, then a Democrat has to come in, fix it like they've usually done, like Clinton and Obama and Biden, and then they get blamed as the firefighter who puts out the fire. You then reelect the arsonist because they're out there blaming the firefighter because the house burned down. They make you forget that they're the arsonist.
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They burned down the house and they blame the firefighter for the house being burned down. And meanwhile, you know who also gets screwed to take this analogy step forward? Like the firefighters. And so the unions then don't. I mean, this is incredible.
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You have all with Donald Trump and Elon Musk out there saying that they hate unions, basically laughing at unions, the workers getting fired for striking. I mean, Elon Musk says the existence of unions should not even be a thing. They shouldn't exist, he says, because unions create a lord versus peasant dynamic. Think about that. It's all projection. You want to know the lord v. peasant dynamic?
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The people at Mar-a-Lago, they're the lords, the billionaire oligarchs. The peasants are the people who they're keeping poor, uneducated, and with their hands out begging and angry at woke this and transgender that and all of these things that don't impact their lives. So those people at Mar-a-Lago can keep laughing in your faces, which is what they're doing. You know, Brett,
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Donald Trump goes, he takes this trip, he meets with the Longshoremen Union. He shakes their hand, meets with them, goes, I'm against automation. I'm going to make sure that we keep these jobs here. And then...
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longshoremen you know and the union leader and everyone they're like oh he's one of us he likes us he likes us it's like dude do you realize he spent his whole life screwing you he shows up you get a little bit of media attention that you get the camera on you you get a photo maybe once at mar-a-lago And then you think you're one of them? Like, are you kidding me?
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Then Elon Musk shortly thereafter posts like a seven minute video attacking automation that says not a single American port ranks in the top 50 worldwide. How is that possible? One reason is that while other countries welcome automation, American labor unions ban it.
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i mean it would more than not i'm not going to say that's never been used as political hot potatoes but more frequently a natural disaster a horrible hurricane or a terrorist attack we'd unite we would say we're all americans and we all need to stick together and very frequently you would see the leadership of who was ever in charge actually getting a bump in the polls because America was united.
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Exactly. And then meanwhile, you have President Biden's record on this issue, like President Biden helped give longshoremen a 66% raise. This was from October. 62% wage increase. Go back to that last one. 62% wage increase over six years. And that's kind of a big deal. that Biden oversaw a 62% wage increase.
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He's constantly delivered for unions, but because Trump showed up and brought a little bit of media attention your way, you're gonna just ignore the person who did the thing? You go back, President Biden's posted the pensions that he saved, 52,000 in Pennsylvania, 71,000 in Illinois, 62,000 in Ohio, 61,000 in Michigan. 39,000 Missourians, 33,000 Wisconsinites.
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I bet you if you go and look at these people whose pensions Biden saved, I bet you based on the stats that we know about who voted for Trump, I bet you most of those people voted for Trump. whose literal pensions were saved by Biden. ABC always be campaigning.
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Want to remind everybody about the first Zoom meeting of the new year with Brett, Jordy, and I. It's at patreon.com slash MidasTouch. We're going to be doing it right after next week's show. So next week's show is live on Monday, 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific, as soon as the show ends. So figure probably around 6.15 Pacific, 9.15 Eastern. We will go and have that meeting with all of you.
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this community is nothing without you this network is nothing without you so we're so incredibly grateful blessed lucky fortunate to have you by our side every step of the way in 2025 and beyond thank you all so much and have a happy and healthy new year jordy take it away shout out to the mightiest mighty
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Now, that bump may or may not last based on their subsequent conduct, but Trump and MAGA were set out to turn everything into a political wedge issue. No matter what it was, it seems that over the past four years, they wanted to blame on migrants. Migrants, migrants, migrants, Biden, Biden, Biden, you're responsible for all of this. Everything is your fault.
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No matter what it was, it was somehow Biden's fault or the fault of migrants and usually both. You just think about the hurricanes that recently hit the East Coast that were devastating to places in North Carolina and elsewhere on the East Coast. What did Donald Trump do?
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He lied and said that FEMA was prioritizing migrants over American citizens and FEMA didn't have the resources because all of their money went to migrants. That was just 100 percent false. There's literally zero true about it, but that's what was pumped out day after day.
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And the way the corporate media would say things, they would go, well, Donald Trump and Republicans are saying that FEMA does not have the money. And then on the other hand, Democrats are saying this versus saying Donald Trump is lying, that's false, and holding him accountable and holding MAGA accountable for lying. So when this horrific terrorist attack took place this week in New Orleans,
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what went down in las vegas where a cyber truck uh exploded in front of the trump tower uh or the trump building there and we learned that it was actually someone who appears to be a trump supporter who was in that vehicle we'll break it all down mega mike johnson in or out
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It was an important time where there should have been responsible media coverage and in a pre-Fox world, there would have been. People would have got their facts together. The opposition political party would not come out with lies.
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You would hear from the president of the United States who would usually give a thoughtful statement that respected the lives of the victims, that expressed remorse and sympathy to the families and offered heartfelt condolences.
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and then talked about information is being gathered and we shouldn't rush to conclusions so as to avoid civil unrest and problems domestically that are unnecessary and could be avoided, and then talk about a plan of how accurate data and information is gonna be obtained, communicated, and conveyed. We're not living in that world anymore. We're living in the world where everything is a wedge issue.
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So Fox and other right-wing propaganda media started reporting that this horrific attack that we now know took the lives of at least 14 people. Over 30 people were injured in New Orleans. We know that the individual's name is Shamsa Din Jabbar, 42-year-old from Texas, someone who was in the United States military, somebody who was an American citizen, someone who lived in Texas all of his life.
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This was, we learned, a terrorist attack. This was not an attack, though, from a migrant or from a foreigner. It was from someone who was previously in the United States military and discharged. By the way, similarly, when we talk about the cyber truck that blew up in front of the Trump building in Las Vegas.
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That individual's name is Matthew Leibelsberger, 37-year-old American in the Special Forces. He's from Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was an individual who took his own life and committed suicide and seems to be by all accounts a MAGA guy. or someone who's at least has expressed views that are consistent with the MAGA views out there.
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And our team, by the way, at the Midas Touch Network was right there going through the individual's Facebook account and showing that it was a person who was saying things about like deep state and Clinton cabals and things like that. But MAGA tried to weaponize these horrific events against Democrats, against Biden. And who started it? Donald Trump.
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Early in the morning on January 1st, he posted the following, which is pure lies. When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the fake news media. But it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before.
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Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump administration will fully support the city of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil.
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Now, this statement should have just simply said, if you wanted to make a statement at all, our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones.
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a vote to determine whether maga mike johnson will be the speaker of the house once again is set for january 3rd on friday and if you listen to the maga base they hate this guy they're making posts calling him a traitor calling him compromised calling him democrats little b word We'll break it all down. We'll talk about the dynamic there.
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including the brave officers of the new orleans police department we fully support the city period full stop that's all it had to be but donald trump lies and acts like this is a migrant from outside of the country and saying that there are record levels of crime right now which is also false and by the way trump has access to this information for people like oh well fox
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initially reported that the individual came through Eagle Pass two days ago. So Trump was getting his information from Fox and those around him. No, Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. And as a president-elect, Donald Trump can ask the Secret Service. He can get access to highly classified briefings. He could gather this information and actually find out the truth.
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But he made it an attack on migrants, and so did all the other MAGA Republicans. Marjorie Taylor Greene, posting, New Orleans terrorist attacker is said to have come across the border in Eagle Pass two days ago. She makes that in caps. Shut the border down. And as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, made it clear right away in the morning that All the usual suspects are rolling out the lies.
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And notice the language that they use to Marjorie Taylor Greene. She's like, is said to have come across the border. What do you mean is said to have come? Do you know the answer or do you not know the answer? Because the answer was this was not an individual who came through the border. This was an individual who lived here in the United States in Texas, Brett.
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Also, Donald Trump had an awful New Year's event that looked like a D-list celebrity party with Lara Trump singing out of tune and other D-listers there, even when surrounded with the trappings of Trump. the most powerful position in the world. Donald Trump managed to surround himself with losers and to make himself further look like a loser.
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Let's talk about some letters F. Donald Trump gets an F for the first 100 days. F on the economy. F on foreign affairs. F on national security. F on basic professionalism and confidence. F on everything. We'll talk about that. Let's talk about some C's today, like cognitive decline. C for cognitive decline. It's on full display today. with Donald Trump. It's accelerating.
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Look, Terry Moran, the interviewer for ABC, did a really good job. And he also just did interesting things with his body also to kind of... And this is, I think, what was getting under Trump's skin also, to kind of assert dominance over Donald Trump. And look, I've been critical of ABC for a lot, but this guy was the right interviewer to pick, right?
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There's another C I should talk about as well, which is central planning. As you look at what the Trump regime is doing, it looks like Soviet-style central planning with the exemptions where oligarchs show up, try to pass loyalty and purity tests to the party to get their exemptions while we, the people, suffer. It's just odd. You have the U.S.
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He's got the head of hair that Donald Trump wished that he had. And as I'm looking at Trump... It's just so true. As I'm looking at Trump and I'm looking at Moran, Moran is the way Donald Trump thinks that he looks and wish that he looked like that. And I know that's kind of weird and superficial, but Donald Trump, he's weird and superficial. And that is an accurate analysis of what's going on.
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And Moran would do things, hover over him, stand up, just watch this. Even when Moran was looking at the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office, which is not a real copy. So Trump has like a fake version of the Declaration of Independence that Trump tells everybody it's the real version. And he even puts like these like drapes over him to act like he's blocking him from the sunlight.
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It's not the real Declaration of Independence. But again, it's just like the most unnecessary thing to lie about. But then Moran looks at it and just says, he says to Trump, he goes, what is the Declaration of Independence? Really quick. What does the Declaration of Independence mean to you? Here, just watch this moment.
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For our audio listeners, Terry Moran looks at Donald Trump as though Moran just puked in his mouth and was thinking, how could you be so stupid? Out of all of your answers, you're saying the Declaration of Independence was about respect and bringing people together? It's literally declaring independence. It's literally not about unity. It's about independence.
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What does Trump think that this document, independence from what? What does he think this is? Does he think the Declaration of Independence is the Constitution? What does he think the Declaration of Independence is?
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The Declaration of Independence. How do you even answer the question that way? But by the way, what we'll show you in a little bit, Donald Trump goes on NewsNation, Stephen A. Smith, who for some reason is on NewsNation and talks about politics now, he's the sportscaster. He asked Donald Trump, hey, what is your administration doing with Harvard? Are you attacking Harvard?
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Are you going after Harvard? And Donald Trump responds with Harlem and talking about black voters in Harlem when the questions about Harvard. I want to talk about that. And I'm glad that Democrats are bringing this up. Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries brought it up to me. Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman reacted to my interview with Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on Fox.
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The Fox hosts got all pissed about it that we brought this up. I want to talk about that and more. I want to take our first quick break of the show. I want to remind everybody to subscribe to this YouTube channel. We're on our way.
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behaving like the USSR or how China used to behave, and now you have China behaving the way the USA behaves. used to behave. And then you have Howard Lutnick and all of Donald Trump's advisors saying, we want to bring the low paying manufacturing jobs back to the US. And China's like, why would you want to do that? We're trying to get your economy and bring your jobs to China.
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Get that pro-democracy gear, including that maple Midas gear. Elbows up. Canada indeed went elbows up in that election, electing Prime Minister Mark Carney by selecting the Liberal Party, a Liberal minority. will be leading canada and pierre poliev the maple maga lost his riding in that election we got a lot more to discuss let's take our first quick break of the show
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We're still on C for cognitive. That's very jarring when you just flash that image. It's quite jarring. It's quite jarring. Maybe give me a warning on that one. Soon we'll be moving to C towards Donald Trump's disastrous cabinet, although I guess that's D.C. anyway.
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Well, as he was when Donald Trump was saying that on Abrego Garcia's knuckles, it has the letters MS and the numbers 13. And Terry Moran is like – I understand that there are some people who claim that the tattoos that he has can be interpreted that way, although that's disputed because I'm not sure how the skull is a three. He goes, but whatever. But it doesn't actually say MS-13. It does not.
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That was either Photoshopped or put on there using another app. You understand that, right, Donald? And then if you watch Donald's like the way his body is and just Donald Trump's behavior, he's like, Terry, Terry, I didn't even want to pick you for this interview, okay? What do you even mean? It says it. It says it. And, like, it looks like a serial killer. I don't know.
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Like, when I watch, when I've seen those interviews of serial killers, like, on Death Row, right, and you see, like, the way their eyes are, and they're like, Terry, Terry, you understand, Terry? I'm watching. I'm like, this is like, there's like real things going on here. And it's just one of those things that we comment on here and all the people see it.
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So when we say it on the Midas Touch Network, people's reaction is like this. Thank you. Was I the only person thinking? We all think it. We all think it because it's happening here.
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okay we'll take a look it's you do such a disservice we'll take a look why don't you just say yes he does and you know go on to something else it's contested why don't you just say yes he does then go on to something else i have one other point i want to bring up too well first let's show everybody our audio listeners we're showing of Rego Garcia's knuckles.
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And you can, it's so obviously either Photoshopped or someone typed MS13.
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Wait till I show you the Stephen A clip in a moment. The one thing I want to mention, I'm sorry. I keep harping on physical appearances. Why does Terry Moran look like six inches in there? Like the way they shot that? I looked up how tall Terry Moran is because, you know, Trump's like what Trump claims he's six three, but maybe a six one six two.
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Terry Moran, the way he's sitting on the chair looks like six, eight. But when I Google Terry Moran's height, I either get five, seven or five, ten. So however, that however, ABC, I don't someone needs to give me the real data about how tall Terry Moran is, because Terry Moran, the way that shot is like towering over the guy and Trump is like slumping.
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And so anyway, I'm trying I've still been trying to pull that data. But everywhere I look, it claims the guy's under six feet. I don't know.
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It's actually perfect. Pull it out. You want to pull it now or you want me to pull Stephen A. Smith first? What do you want me to grab? I'm pulling it.
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Okay. This is what I mean. Come on. This is what I mean. The way the videographer either shot this. That's what I mean. Terry Moran here would have to be 7'2". He's the tallest guy ever. And they did this, they did this. I mean, whoever, like ABCs, you don't understand because I bet you the videographer and the people who set this up are cracking up about this and no one's talking about this.
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Oh, man. I can't derail the show and talk about it. I don't know why I'm focusing on Terry Moran's hair versus Donald Trump.
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Okay. Okay. Moving on. Okay. Stephen A. Smith asked Donald Trump about the regime's attacks on Harvard. And then Donald Trump talks about a Harlem. And then you'll see, and by the way, Stephen, a Smith has tried to like suck up to Trump. He goes on Fox, you know, he attacks Democrats and he kind of plays it at both sides. I mean, not kind of, he plays at both sides, but Stephen, a Smith is there.
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And you're in, I just want you to also watch his face in audio listeners. You can't see it. But like Stephen A. Smith goes from asking this question in like Stephen A. Smith fashion where Stephen's like, all right, let me talk about this, Donald, the way he does like the sports. And he thinks Donald Trump's going to like hit the question out of the park.
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And I bet you Stephen A. Smith is thinking, I've never heard a dumber answer in anything I've done. You know, no matter what, whether I was covering sports or whatever, like what is this answer? Watch this go down. Let's play it.
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Harvard gets... The people in Harlem powerfully support what Donald Trump is doing
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in harvard that's how he tried that's how he tried to fix it and then he starts talking about black voters by the way trump's support amongst black voters now is like 14 percent donald trump's entire attack on harvard like its main premise is to get rid of diversity and to get rid of black history and to like literally go after black people who attend harvard
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and he brings up he brings up harlem like can you all imagine if former president biden was did did any of this any of it i guarantee you it would be front page on the new york times and then the next 20 pages thereafter how do i know this because i've seen what they did when when biden was in charge but whatever i won't that's a whole rabbit hole that you can go down donald trump's the one in charge right now we should be talking about what we are seeing but
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You have this kleptocracy, right? You have Donald Trump with all of these clips that we showed you. And then we have the cabinet. We got people like Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, Scott Besant, the treasury secretary. You have Susan Wiles, his chief of staff. You have Mike Walls, not in the cabinet, but national security advisor who was fired today.
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and then moved to become the ambassador to the United Nations because Donald Trump didn't want to hand a win to Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who was accidentally pulled into the signal chat of classified war plans by Mike Walls. So in order to not hand a win to the reporter.
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Trump waited until day 101 to fire Walls and then made Walls the ambassador to the United Nations. By the way, he still has to get confirmed for that. And I think these senators are going to have a question or two to ask about him about that and the 20 other signal chats that he set up and also his Venmo that was publicly listed, which included all these other reporters. Because I
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Bet you he was a source, a reporter. I bet you he was a leaker. But take a look at the cabinet. Here's what Howard Lutnick's been saying all day. You know, Donald Trump's the greatest dealmaker. They all like to use the hands right to act like they know it. He's the greatest dealmaker that there ever was. Let the dealmaker cook. Here, play this clip.
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Just let little Billy play soccer, okay? Can you just let him play his sport? He just wants to participate.
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Isn't that right there just a demonstration of like just the privilege? Just the way he even does his voice. Just let him do what he wants to do. Just let him do it. If he wants to do 100, just let him do it, okay? This guy, 145% of the tariffs, let him do it, okay? He wants to tariff the penguins. This guy's a genius. Just do not question it.
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And he does because Donald Trump literally said in the Oval Office in another meeting, he's like, why would kids need 30 toys? It'll be two toys and it'll be more expensive. Who cares if their toys are more? Give him the two toys. Even Rupert Murdoch's New York Post front page was Donald Trump saying, this is a direct quote.
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For our audio listeners, I'm showing the New York Post front page that quotes Donald Trump saying, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So when I talk about Soviet style central planning, like this is what they used to say there. You could have one doll per person and you have to live here and that
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And could you just imagine if former I mean, look, remember when Michelle Obama was just talking about voluntarily, let's do healthier lunches. They were like, how dare you attack our freedom? How dare you? I mean, I'm going into the fact that RFK Jr. is out there saying that he's going to uncover a. So he said just spreading lies about autism.
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We will uncover the cure to autism in exactly six months. We will report that. there are millions of particles in fetal tissue of fetal tissues that are in vaccines which is 100 false like you have maniacs all around and here you have susan wiles donald trump's chief of staff doing self-congratulations i just want to congratulate everybody for the greatest 100 days Here, play this clip.
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The best I can tell ever unparalleled in my memory. And then they went from one person to another person to another member of the cabinet, and they all echoed that. Donald, this has been the greatest ever. Donald, we've never had a home. It's been an honor. Honestly, every time you give me a call, I get shivers how lucky I am to be part of this administration.
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I mean, that's like literally what it is that they were saying. We'll talk more about C for cabinet and we'll talk a little bit more about.
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about uh what the democrats are doing for c change we got to take our last quick break of the show we want to remind everybody about midasplus.com check midasplus.com out that's where our editor-in-chief ron filipkowski goes to work and gives those incredible daily summaries each day also store.midastouch.com get that maple midas gear 100 made in canada there we got a
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Well, thanks for everybody to subscribing to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com. That's where we took a lot of those video questions from our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, does an incredible job there at MidasPlus.com. So just to plug at the beginning of the show, go to MidasPlus.com and hit subscribe. Brett, you talk about all of the lies. Let's just talk about a few.
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Let's take a look at that cabinet meeting. Elon Musk is not in the cabinet, but he's basically been operating as a co-president who's been using the wrecking ball to destroy our federal government. Elon Musk shows up to the cabinet meeting wearing two hats, a hat over a hat that says Gulf of America, and Donald Trump compliments him wearing two hats at a cabinet meeting. Here, play this clip.
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Exactly. That's why I say it's like North Korea Kim Jong-un meets the worst episode or the worst season of The Apprentice that was so bad it can never be aired. Because could you just imagine, even if they did this in North Korea, someone just presenting themselves like that? Yeah. What if it was someone who just like literally dressed up like a clown?
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Because there's like no offense to clowns, because it's really not all that different. Or like someone who dressed up like a drunk Mickey Mouse. Or it's like a weird mascot.
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Corporate news doesn't want to talk about it. We'll talk about it here on the Midas Touch Network. Another C, Donald Trump's cabinet disaster. Have you seen this cabinet meeting? It was Kim Jong-un meets the worst season of The Apprentice. That was too bad. It could never even be released. Let's talk about the collaborators. The collaborators like state regime media Fox and this new group,
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Donald Trump saying that gas is now down to $1.89, that it's never been lower. That's just objectively false. It's in the mid threes and higher in many places in the country. Donald Trump says that egg prices are down 87%, the lowest it's ever been. That is false. Egg prices are up. Donald Trump says that he's already done 200 deals with countries, 200 of them,
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know i mean because there's really not all that much of a difference between that and whatever the hell i just showed you right there yeah boys and girls i wear two hats and this is the united states of america so like what do you think xi jinping thinks about like what do you think zielinski thinks about i mean what do you think
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our european allies who probably no longer even see themselves as allies think about or prime minister carney an actual central banker who's smart or like what do you think they think about us like president claudia scheinbaum in mexico when they see that like jordy your reaction i just like in other real cabinets across the country right across the world they're looking at this and going
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Like, yo, yo, they've totally lost it. Like, this is crazy. And I'll just show you, like, this is Treasury Secretary Scott Besant from that cabinet meeting. Let's play the clip.
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Like legitimately not happening. Pam Bondi, play this clip. Attorney General.
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And if you want to see how state regime media is covering this, like, how do you think Fox is covering it? Well, Jesse Waters, one of their top hosts, here's what he had to say. Play this clip.
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Cox is saying the VP is doing what he's supposed to be doing, trying to steal Greenland, trying to take over a sovereign nation. I mean, what do you think they're thinking about that in the rest of the world? And then they invited in what they call their White House new media, all these right-wing propagandists. And this looks right out of the worst SNL skit.
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Let me just show you what went down this week from these right-wing propagandists. Here was a question that was given to Caroline Levitt, where the person says, I just want to thank you for getting rid of people who don't speak English in my Ubers. I noticed that my Uber drivers are speaking English more now. Here, play this clip.
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Next question. Will we see Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton be investigated by a right wing propagandist who is there? Let's play it.
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Saying that's a refreshing question to hear.
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Not true, not even 200 countries that exist in the world. Donald Trump claims that he's spoken with Xi Jinping and that they were making progress. Totally false. And China has said, why would we ever deal with you all?
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Next up, I'm just going to play a short clip of this one where a MAGA influencer suggests that Joe Biden was responsible for rising suicide rates. And as I play this clip, just sorry, audio listeners, one more time. You got to go to the YouTube and just look at the room. It literally looks like one of those SNL sets and the SNL skit. Here, watch this.
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You get the point. I mean, that's what's going on in that room. And they want to replace the media like the Associated Press and Reuters
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with those people also i should show you this clip too of marco rubio secretary of state oh my god he's the worst right now he's always been but like particularly now at the cabinet meeting where he was asked about well what's the status of abrigo garcia and these other migrants who you've disappeared to concentration camps in el salvador marco rubio goes i'm not going to tell you and he goes and you know who else i'm not going to tell judges
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Judges, they have no right to know what we are doing with these people. We will not tell the judges. Here, play this clip.
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We don't even know who to even communicate with because it seems that the Treasury Secretary, the Commerce Secretary, whatever Peter Navarro is, and everybody else are fighting with each other and saying,
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I mean, could you believe what you are hearing there from my secretary? You know who else I won't ever tell? The Supreme Court. Judges. We don't listen. He's saying it out loud. And again, if the secretary of state under former President Biden went and made a comment like that, they would be impeached. Yes. And every Democrat would vote for it.
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And the fact that that line is kind of like a throwaway line in the cabinet, like not even getting attention. I just want you to think about what the second, I'm not going to, you know, the question wasn't even about judges. He just on his own wanted to show off because Trump was right there. You know who else will never hear about this?
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Yeah, and look, his family fled Cuba. Yeah. And he sounds like a dictator. Like that language that he just used is what they fled. We don't listen to the judges. We do whatever we want. We throw you in constant. That's what they did in Castro. You know, that's what they did.
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By the way, a Trump-appointed judge, Judge Rodriguez, in the Southern District of Texas, someone who Trump appointed 2018, 2019, ruled today that Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was unlawful because there's no evidence Trend de Aragua, as harmful as a gang it is, is literally invading the United States.
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as the law requires kind of kyle cheney was one of the first to report on that and the judge says the invocation of the alien enemies act invalid a trump appointed judge another trump appointed judge in louisiana said that the trump regime inappropriately and unlawfully sent a united states citizen two-year-old United States citizen to Honduras, deported a U.S. citizen.
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a ton of different things and then you have the economy contracting our economy is shrinking the first quarter gdp results are in uh they were uh negative point three percent and uh we'll see what happens next quarter but donald trump was already blaming former president biden at that debacle of a cabinet meeting and in the oval office for next quarter's results should be noted that donald trump took credit
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Another Trump-appointed judge in Maryland ordered Trump to facilitate the return of another Venezuelan migrant.
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Another Trump-appointed judge in Washington, D.C., Judge McFadden issued an injunction against Donald Trump a month ago regarding Donald Trump's assault on the Associated Press, and Trump's response was that, okay, we'll just ban all of the wire services so we're not just discriminating against one. right there. I wanted to call all of that out right there. I thought it was very, very important.
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But I do want to end on showing you all the hope, the change, what's going on there. And I think we should talk about that town hall that we held here on the Midas Touch Network. And we had four governors here. We had Governor Hochul from New York, Governor Healey from Massachusetts, Governor Walz from Minnesota, Governor Pritzker from Illinois. It was great. It lasted an hour.
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You should all go and watch it. It's on our live feed if you want to check it out from a few days ago. But here's what Governor Pritzker said. Let's play this clip from that town hall.
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then in the house of representatives you have democrats fighting back as well like democratic congress member dan goldman and so what the mega republicans are doing in the house right now too is they're refusing to eat it's not making this up they're refusing to even speak to the democrats like no conversations no debates
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They just rubber stamp what Donald Trump's saying, and they know if they debate, they're gonna get caught on an ASIN clip, one of our editors, ASIN. And so now what their entire move is, is don't discuss anything, don't debate, have no conversations at all, and then we won't get caught on a clip.
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So what the Democrats are doing is they're saying things like, look, raise your hand here if you do not think that children with cancer who are American citizens should be deported. Seems like a simple proposition. Shouldn't we all not want American citizens at all to be deported? Then with cancer, kids, seriously? Let me show you what went down on the House floor. Let's play it.
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When Donald Trump was not in office for former President Biden's economy, he said this was the Trump economy back in 2024 and that the markets were doing great because of Donald Trump, not because of the person actually in charge. And now on April 30th, Donald Trump said this is the Biden market. This is the Biden economy. This has nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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That's where we are. Not a single Republican raised their hand. Like that's where we are. And I think it was good that Congress member Dan Goldman just showed that because you could give any example like that and it's no longer absurd. He could have said,
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raise your hand if you do not think that americans should be rounded up and killed by the trump government if trump doesn't like the way you look he could have done any of those things with the same result because that's what the house of representative has become under the republicans under the trump regime under MAGA. And it's up for us to fight back against it. It's up for us to call it out.
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I'm not going to show this clip, but I'll do a whole other video about it. Like the MAGA Republicans in Texas, in the Texas House and State Senate, they put forward a bill to ban, to do something that isn't even happening, that they know is a lie, to ban litter boxes from schools. That was their big initiative in Texas.
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So one of the Democratic legislators asked the sponsor of that bill, do you have any example at all, anyone, where a student has used a litter box, that you're now banning litter boxes? Name one. Just name any – name me one time this has ever happened in the state of Texas. And the MAGA Republican goes, it didn't, but other things happened. Other things happened? What are you –
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How has this become our politics? And as we went through the machinations of Donald Trump's behavior, that's why. Look, let me be clear. Trump is a fraud. He is a lifelong fraud. He is a felon. He's a criminal. He is a criminal 34 times over. He's a sexual predator. He's a sexual abuser. He's been found liable for sexual abuse in a civil case.
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We've heard him on audio bragging about sexually assaulting women, and he said because he's rich, they let you get away with it when you're rich like him. We heard him do it. He threw beauty pageants for teenagers. We've seen him do that.
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He's bragged about going into the dressing rooms of people at beauty pageants and inspecting them naked because as the host, he says, they let you get away with it because you become an inspector. You've seen him. He is a vile, despicable piece of trash of a human being. That's who he is. and he's created this disgusting ilk around him.
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That corporate news, normal, oh, they're the Republicans, they're conservative. They're conservative, everybody. I mean, no, what are you talking about? They're none of that, okay? And it's for us to clearly point out what this is, because I'll tell you, the rest of the world,
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is looking at this clear-eyed, while the United States has these fascist goggle blinders on that are pretending that this is something else. But the rest of the world is like, what? What is happening there? Brett, George.
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Dude, you've been in there now for 100 days. This is clearly your economy. This was your disastrous trade war against the world, which somehow also included penguins with a made-up formula for these tariffs using the deficit as a metric. I don't even know what you're doing. And now we are living the pain of Donald Trump's policies.
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Also, Donald, if tariffs are working so well and we're getting so rich, then why are you trying to do trade deals to get rid of them if they're working so well? Also, if they're working so well, why are you extorting and threatening businesses and saying it's a political hostile act for them to list the additional cost of goods and products to the consumer on their websites caused by tariffs?
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I thought you said this was all great and this would not be the case. So that doesn't really seem consistent and logical to me, but none of it does. I want to be clear when we go through this next topic. and talk about Donald Trump's accelerating cognitive decline.
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It's important that we address it, but also acknowledge that Donald Trump should never, ever be able to use it as a way to avoid accountability, because in his mind, he's going to go there eventually. Maybe in a year, two years, three years, four years, the information will be, well, the reason why it all went down is because Donald Trump had all of these cognitive issues.
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And the press focused all of this attention on former President Biden. And for years, that's what they always wanted to try. Right now, more than ever, that's what they want to talk about over and over and over again. but it's staring us in the face what's going on with Donald Trump. I just wanna take what's happened just over the past few days. Can we just take a look at some of these examples?
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Like earlier, when Donald Trump held a press conference at a national prayer breakfast, and he said that the Philadelphia Eagles were here yesterday when they were here on Monday, not yesterday.
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so they took up a little more room than gary i got very good at this then donald trump is talking about how he got palestinians to vote for him and muslims to vote for him and he tells this bizarre story about imams talking about do you want to die and i talked about virgins and just listen to what he's saying here play this clip imams who i got to know in michigan i loved them they were great by the way
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that the Trump regime is cultivating. They call them the new media and they have a whole room from them in the White House. It looks like a bad SNL skit. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about another. See the courts, what's going on there standing up against Donald Trump. A federal judge in the Southern District of Texas ruled that Donald Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is unlawful.
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goes, imam, da-da-dum. And do you see the people behind him? It's basically like, all right, what am I saying? Okay, keep talking. And then Donald Trump at this national prayer breakfast kept on talking about how every election is rigged and everything is rigged. Here, watch this.
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Like that. And here, Don, and look, I'm not trying to, I really am not, I'm just trying to say, are we all watching this? Like, that's what I, I'll show you a clip when I asked Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, like, and he said, I get asked this all the time, Ben. I'll show you the clip in a little bit now. He goes, it's a fair question. We're all observing it.
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It's almost like what Senator Bernie Sanders told me, that sometimes the significant issues that everybody's talking about is what the news is like never talking about. Here, Donald Trump is talking to his audience about how he talks with kings and queens and prime ministers who show up in the Oval Office. Here, play this clip. You are this unbelievable...
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That's OK. And look, it gets serious, though, because here in that disastrous interview that Donald Trump gave with ABC. And shout out to the interview. He did a really good job here, I thought. Donald Trump was asked about the tariffs on China.
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And Donald Trump just seems to have not even the most basic understanding of like even what a tariff is, how it works, why it increases the cost to the consumer. And Trump says, oh, these tariffs are great. They deserve it. China deserves it. Here, watch this.
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Hey, Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, America was leading the world. We had the best GDP. We had record job growth, 16.2 million jobs created under former President Biden, record low unemployment, 40,000 infrastructure projects, the most energy production in the world. We were leading. We were the envy of the world. That was the headline from the Wall Street Journal.
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United States economy under former President Biden is the envy of the world. If Donald Trump just did nothing in the first quarter, our GDP would have grown 3% to 4%. And the world viewed the United States as the safest place to put their money and the safest place to buy bonds, the safest place to invest in. And that's not because they were taking advantage of us.
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If they were taking advantages of they would be pulling their money out like they're doing now under Donald Trump.
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And I think we got to talk about change. C for change. What are Democrats doing to bring about change and fighting back? We hosted on the Midas Touch Network a town hall with four governors. It was an incredible event that we held earlier this week. Many of you attended. We'll show some clips of that and more. And Brett and Jordi, welcome to the Midas Touch Podcast.