Ben Mycelis

I mean, look, I'll say this, you know, my entire life, I've never been a Republican.

There are some people who I guess don't know the art, the origin of the Midas Dutch network.

And they'll be like, were these the former Republicans and the former right wing?

I was never, I was never that.

If you looked at all of my views going back and what I did as a civil litigator, I was a civil rights lawyer, right?

And I practiced a lot in Bakersfield and in Fresno representing families who lost loved ones to excessive force and police brutality cases.

We were leading some of the biggest cases there when Bakersfield and Kern County was referred to as Killing County had the highest police shooting deaths per capita in the nation.

And one of the things that we exposed when I was doing these civil rights cases with the courageous families of Bakersfield, that they had police officers there.

in the Bakersfield Police Department who were taking the drugs that they confiscated and working with the drug dealers to sell the drugs on the streets.

And they would keep confidential informants off the books in order to help them basically deal drugs and to build a basically drug cartel.

And there were a number of officers who we found

through the cases that I was litigating who were involved as drug dealers.

They were put in jail.

They were put behind prison.

So I was handling cases like that.

Then I met Colin Kaepernick, and I was Colin Kaepernick's lead lawyer in his various cases.

Then I was Colin Kaepernick's transactional lawyer, and I built Colin Kaepernick's media businesses with him.

him.

And then I created the Midas Touch Network.

So my entire life, if you wanted to throw labels on it, my views and values would be viewed as like progressive if you were going to give it like a label.