Brett (Brett MidasTouch)

yeah and as you said you know part of the whole you know scam with this one in particular i do want to go back to it but i don't want to just gloss over it is the fact that once again donald trump is finding ways to line his pocket using the government like this whole announcement is also kind of funneling money into the hands of his advisors and into people like donald trump jr and i pulled up before i'll i just want to focus on it one more time uh it is this wall street journal article uh that don jr and howard lutnik stand to benefit from what uh

what Trump is doing here.

You can see it here.

Trump wants to overhaul drug sales.

A company tied to his son stands to benefit.

Family members of Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are poised to benefit from efforts to remake the industry.

And so as part of what this whole kind of healthcare scheme that Donald Trump is doing right now that he calls Trump Rx is he is basically funneling people to this other private company called Blink Rx.

That's like the partner they're using for all of this.

And who is the investment firm that funded BlinkRx?

It's Donald Trump's investment firm.

I think it's called like 1789 Capital or something like that.

Donald Trump Jr.

is a partner on the board of that investment firm.

Who sits as a board member of BlinkRx, which is what TrumpRx is using for all this stuff.

If you guess Donald Trump Jr.

sits as the board member on BlinkRx, you'd be right.

And you could go now with Howard Lutnick.

After Lutnick became commerce secretary, his children took control of his firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, which is now profiting from a $500 million SPAC, which is tied to Donald Trump's push to bring drug manufacturing to the US.

And this whole push that Donald Trump is doing with BlinkRx stands to boost the financial interests of his entire family, directly tied into it.

And so you just see how this works in everything Donald Trump is doing.

You realize, oh, he's not doing this to benefit people.

He's doing this to benefit his own family or his own cronies.

It's the stuff you see in Soviet dictatorships.

And I think that's something we're probably going to be going back to a lot in this episode and other episodes as we see what the Trump administration is doing.

I didn't even understand what he was saying the other day, which you brought up earlier, but when he was like, oh yeah, no, Hamas, they do what they want.

I trust them.

They're going to do great.

They patrol the areas.

They're going to get rid of all those bad gangs.

Why are you hyping Hamas?

Like he does this oftentimes for these groups and it's just like a totally bizarre thing to see a president of the United States do.

And it's like, of course they're not.

And some of the things that we've seen Hamas doing in recent days, like they've immediately filled the power vacuum and they are doing all of these executions of people like in the street, some of the most horrific footage I have ever seen.

And Trump's response is just to say, well, I hope they behave.

Like it's just absurd, but that's what happens when you're more concerned

about trying to win a Nobel Peace Prize than actually trying to bring peace to the region.

You do a whole kind of rush job.

You force people to just move ahead when you actually don't have any plan.

Like Ben said, I'm thrilled and I've said how ecstatic I am to see the hostages back and all that, but to see still people dying, fighting happening, Hamas killing innocent people, it's just absolutely just grotesque to be watching.

Same pattern we always see right to Ben.

The last person he speaks to determines like all of his beliefs.

And so he had like a, I think Caroline Leavitt today said that he spoke with Vladimir Putin for over two hours today.

And then he got off that call and all of a sudden he was back to be

like mr pro-russia not doing sanctions not giving tomahawks to ukraine because putin knew that trump was starting to shift his stance a little bit and he was starting to speak about giving tomahawks to ukraine he was starting to speak about sanctioning russia so putin just calls up flatters him a little bit says hey we could probably meet me and you you know

part two go on another date donald and he like falls for it hook line and sinker every time it's this it's the same pattern we see and i bet like if he spoke to zielinski tomorrow actually it's too fresh to the putin conversation you might have another like you know oval office kind of uh confrontation but there's a world where you know he speaks to him and then he changes his mind once again because that's kind of how he that's how he views the world he's like he's like a dog who has like you know memory that only lasts for like 30 seconds

um of course our farmers continue to suffer here while argentina is now not just getting a 20 billion dollar bailout but a 40 billion dollar uh bailout as well so we've got a lot to cover in other words brett and jordy good to see you good to see you too ben get to see you jordy a whole lot of major breaking news one might say and it's like every single day it feels the same way right just an overwhelming onslaught of just crazy stuff coming at you like the the the

I feel like each of those stories that you said in the beginning of this episode in that intro right there, Ben, each of them could be a months-long, if not a years-long story in any other particular time.

But we know the Trump administration, now going back to both administrations, has a concerted strategy of just flooding the zone with shit.

And that's what we're seeing here.

That's what we see every day.

And so the thing one thing I want to make sure like and I want to just say this kind of at the top, we'll get into it a little deeper as we speak about some of our reporting and whatnot.

But I think a real problem that we're seeing is that some of these stories that are coming out of this regime are so insane.

They are so crazy that they sound so unbelievable to the average person when they hear them.

Yeah.

And it's crazy when you look at just the state of the Pentagon, as you noted.

And I do got to actually, I got to give a huge shout out and actually send a lot of respect to all the corporate media channels who banded together and decided, no, we're not going to play this game.

And kind of the last one that I was really curious about, and the two, I would say the two that really surprised me in a good way was Newsmax and Fox News.

But I think we have to come to terms that we are dealing with crazy.

I was stunned.

I was stunned at Newsmax because I don't view Newsmax as like a real channel.

I view it as like a mega propaganda channel, just like OAN.

um but newsmax and fox they joined all the other mainstream networks you know pbs cnn nbc you know reuters you name it go down the whole list um of saying we're not signing this kind of loyalty pledge that pete hegseth wants us to sign pete hegseth essentially was saying that you're not allowed to report on unauthorized things that we don't want you to report on

and you have to run all of that by the pentagon first essentially criminalizing reporting of anything of any leaks or anything like that i mean it's just so against the first amendment so against what the fourth estate is about so thankfully all of those corporations came together and they said absolutely not we're not signing that the only people who ended up signing this and now have pentagon access when you look through this list it's kind of horrifying

We are not dealing with normal.

These are not normal times.

The Federalist, the Epic Epoch Times, however you say it, OAN, a Turkish newspaper, another Turkish state-run news agency, two Turkish freelancers, a reporter for the Australian and Afghan freelancer, and then three lesser-known operations, including India Globe, USA Journal Korea, AWPS News.

And I feel like on some level, people know that.

So now, like only these foreign...

entities, including for whatever reason, like a ton of Turkish stations have access to the Pentagon to report on the Pentagon, on Pentagon approved stories.

The people watching the show, the people listening to the show realize that.

Like the whole thing is just so bizarre.

And when we see, you know, we can look at what the Trump regime is doing all over the world, and it's clear that they are very interventionalist.

even though they try to act like they are isolationist and that they are America first.

That's the whole thing they do.

We learned in a story that Trump has given the green light for covert CIA operations in Venezuela, including the authorization for lethal force against the Maduro regime.

So we're trying to do regime change now.

Now, I want to be clear.

I ain't no Maduro fan.

I don't view him as a legitimate guy, but I don't think Trump sold

regime change as part of this America First agenda that he was putting on the American people.

But still, because things are just so insane coming at people, like when we were doing our reporting on this missile story, for example,

As Ben mentioned, we're flying military helicopters and planes over Venezuela in a show of force.

That's a, by the way, a phrase that you're going to hear a lot with Donald Trump.

I mean, hey, Donald Trump did a show of force on top of the Epstein survivors.

If you remember, when the Epstein survivors were doing a rally in Washington, D.C., he flew

jets right over them.

And then he used the excuse that he was doing that because they were foreign dignitaries in the White House.

This is Donald Trump's M.O.

He does the same moves every single time we see him.

Like, I don't know why this is a shock.

And I do want to talk about our exclusive reporting as well about California.

But we should get a little more into this, I think, because Donald Trump was asked, in fact, about –

all these plans for the CIA and whatnot.

I just wanna hear, I want you to hear how Donald Trump answered this question about covert CIA.

There's supposed to be secret covert CIA operations that were reported that no one's supposed to know about, but drip, drip, drip.

The New York Times certainly found out about them.

I believe they were the ones who were to report on this and Trump was asked about it and he said this.

People go, there's no way you must be making this up.

Absolutely not.

I assure you, yes, we will never, ever, ever publish anything that isn't 100% verified, sourced incredibly well.

And this is just the nature of the Trump regime.

We have a president who is sending the military into cities.

We have a president who is indicting his political enemies.

We have a president who is making enemies lists of people who are against him or anti-Christian or anti-

fascist or anti whatever it is that they need to do in order to target the average american people you have a regime that is out there calling americans protesting at the no kings rally this weekend calling them terrorists calling them all these names we just need to remain on guard is my message at the front and realize that we're not dealing in normal times and we're going to get into this in more detail first i gotta toss it over to jordy jordy what's the latest on your end

This was big because Hakeem threw down the gauntlet on the Midas Touch podcast saying, come on, Maga Mike, you want to do this thing?

Let's open the government.

Let's debate this.

Let's hash it out.

Hakeem made the challenge.

And so when I woke up and I saw the news that Maga Mike had agreed to the debate, I was like, really?

I'm stunned.

Okay, let's see this happen.

I want to see this.

Get the cameras in there.

And then Mike Johnson was asked about it just a

The debate is to keep the government open.

You're going to keep the government open and then debate?

How does that make it?

The debate's about the shutdown.

What the hell are you talking about?

It gets heated, too, in those parliament.

It gets pretty nuts.

I'd honestly like to see more of that sort of debate here, if I'm being honest.

Yeah, no, we did this exclusive report yesterday and the reaction was certainly interesting because people saw that the Trump administration was planning on firing live munitions into Camp Pendleton.

Yes, from warships into Camp Pendleton, but that's what they are considering doing this weekend and are shutting down the I-5 freeway, which is one of the biggest,

transportation pathways through the state of California in order to do so because they are shooting the missiles over the highway into Camp Pendleton.

And to Ben's point, people were like, oh, this is rage bait.

This is hyperbolic.

How dare you say that?

And then the LA Times confirms it.

The San Francisco Chronicle confirms it.

Washington Post confirms it.

ABC, CBS, everybody under the sun confirms it.

The governor confirms that he is working on, Governor Newsom working on trying to

mitigate these issues and trying to understand exactly what is going on because he's received reports about this although the federal government is not uh they have no like line of communication with the state anymore they're like refusing to talk to them because they just want to dominate because they view blue states and they view their political opposition as the enemy so as i said in the beginning to bring this all full circle right now

You got to understand that anything is possible in this era of the Trump regime and nothing is beyond the bounds of reality.

So when you see a story and it does seem outrageous, I like that your first instinct is to second guess it because we should all be trying to look for the facts.

But when it's confirmed and double confirmed and triple confirmed and you have the governor talking about it, at a certain point, you got to realize this stuff is real and we're trying to warn you about issues the same way we tried to warn you about

military on the streets the same way years ago we made a video that they were trying to overturn roe v wade and people wrote all these nasty things about us and asked the articles saying that we were fear-mongering and all this stuff sometimes we're simply trying to sound the alarm and we're never going to go to print with a story metaphorically print with a story uh unless it is

extremely, extremely well vetted, well sourced, and it has the accurate information because we are dealing with a regime that views you like this.

Here's Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary.

Listen, what a horrible human being Caroline Leavitt is.

What a despicable human being.

And I think any government official who speaks like that should be as far away from government as possible in any normal time period.

That comment alone would get you fired.

It would get you blacklisted from the entire world of politics.

You would be persona non grata.

But today, that is just another day in this regime.

That's what they think of you.

That's how they treat you.

That's how they talk about you.

It is absolutely grotesque.

And so it's no surprise that they are targeting these No Kings protests.

and that they were trying to shut down the freeways in order to create these traffic jams and make it more difficult for people in the nation's largest state here in California.

And it's got, like I said, going back to like what Trump did when the Epstein survivors were rallying in Washington, DC, he flew a plane over them.

He does these stunts in order to try to intimidate people.

But guess what?

This weekend, Saturday, October 18th, there are massive protests across the country.

Go online, look it up, you will find a No Kings protest near you.

If you can participate, go ahead and participate.

We are going to be streaming some of these protests live on the Midas Touch YouTube channel.

I'm so excited to see all of your signs.

Remember to protest peacefully, protest patriotically, do not give them

any reason at all to try to start trouble.

And you know that they want to try to start trouble.

They will probably try to have agitators.

They'll probably try to do everything they can.

But this weekend, we are going to see one of the biggest, if not the biggest, mass mobilizations of Americans who love this country and hate what Donald Trump is doing to it.

And they're going to be in the streets fighting for their freedoms, fighting for the actual core values of this country of which Donald Trump does not represent.

So you should go into this weekend energized.

You should go into it fired up.

I'm so psyched to see all you out here.

I'm so psyched to see all the photos.

Remember to tag us in those photos, by the way.

One of my favorite things that we do with all the protests is Ron Filipkowski on MidasPlus.com.

He likes to compile his favorite signs, the funniest signs, the most powerful signs on our sub stack.

So maybe your sign will be featured on MidasPlus.com.

So make sure you tag us.

Midas sent me signs, always welcome.

And I hear they are a big conversation starter too, when you have Midas on the sign or MTN on the sign, a lot of people go, it's like a club, like an inside club.

Oh, you listen to them?

Me too, me too.

And so check it out.

This has been a great episode.

We covered a whole lot.

I feel like there's a whole lot we want to get to also still.

We can do this for another couple hours, but at some point we got to call it.

But don't you worry, because right here on this YouTube channel and on the Midas Touch podcast feed, you'll have updates coming at you every single day from Ben, and it will keep you up to date on all the other news that happens.

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itching to do his sign off.

So, Jordy, I'll let you have it.

Jordy, what do you got to say for yourself?

I didn't even know Ben was going to say that they maybe had a connection to his sons or something and boom, I found it right there.

Ben, let me just call out the con really quickly also because you say, how could people be falling for this stuff?

Have you guys noticed that Trump always brings up this IVF stuff and always starts speaking about health whenever there are clear issues with the Republican Party in regards to this issue and his administration?

Like the clips of him from the campaign trail, and we could play one.

We could go back and show you what Donald Trump was saying on the campaign trail.

Why was Donald Trump starting to say, I'm the – remember he was saying that weird crap?

I'm the father of IVF.

Free IVF for everybody.

And like, we had an elector.

Yeah, sharks.

And we did our best to let everybody know about this craziness.

But, you know, it got sane washed a whole bunch.

But we continue on.

But, you know, it all happens.

Why would Donald Trump say it then?

Because that was when the Alabama Supreme Court made a ruling that essentially had

forced the hospitals to stop allowing IVF procedures to happen.

And so it was this big chaos and it really exposed the cruelty of the Republican Party for just how vicious they were being to people who wanted to start a family, for people who were desperate to have IVF.

And so that was Donald Trump's damage control.

Why is Donald Trump all of a sudden rolling out this right now again?

Because once again, Republicans are being exposed for trying to hike up premiums on the American people by insane amounts by refusing to extend these Affordable Care Act tax credits.

So you see the sleight of hand there.

He dangles this fake stuff out at you while the real thing that is staring people in the face that could increase their premiums

4X, 5X, that is right around the corner.

It's like seeing the light in the tunnel, but the light is a train coming at you.

And you have Donald Trump trying to distract you while it's all happening.

It happens over and over again.

Ben, I'll let you break down what's been going on.