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Chapter 1: What are the recent legal setbacks for Donald Trump in the Abrego Garcia case?
Another disastrous day in the Trump regime, more disastrous press conferences in the Oval Office, the first press conference with the prime minister of Italy by his side, Donald Trump attacking the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Then Donald Trump was signing some executive orders and then Donald Trump continued to claim that.
xi jinping was trying to reach out to him which is just a total lie more economic turmoil we are seeing as donald trump's trade war against the world is backfiring everywhere countries throughout the world are out maneuvering him donald trump was smacked down by the fourth circuit court of appeals in the abrigo garcia case they're saying follow what the supreme court's order is
Donald, you lost nine to zero. Stop pretending like you won. Also, Donald Trump's regime was held in contempt, a probable cause finding by another judge. This one in Washington, D.C., federal Judge Boasberg found that the Trump DOJ was in contempt by not following the court orders when the court said return
The plane returned the migrants who you are kidnapping before you send them to an extermination camp in El Salvador. Give me a list of the lawyers who were involved in that. If you don't plan on fixing what you did, I will hold them in criminal contempt. And if I need to appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute those people in the DOJ because your DOJ refuses to prosecute them, I will do that.
Trump was asked about that. Trump threw the lawyers under the bus. I don't know anything about contempt. You're going to have to ask the lawyers. That's for Pam Bondi and the DOJ lawyers to figure out. Great work, lawyers. You got played and you're heading to contempt right now. You don't have absolute immunity the way the Supreme Court gave it to Donald Trump. Let's talk about that and more.
on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Myselish, joined by Brett and Jordy. Guys, how are you doing?
Doing great, Ben. It's good to be here. Good to be here, Jordy. Good to be here, Midas, Mighty, all the people watching here on YouTube, all the people listening on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. You know, what we're seeing right now is exactly what I said we were going to see months and months ago.
It's something we've discussed on this show, and that's this idea of a reality deficit in the Trump administration.
this happened in his last administration so it wasn't like it was something that we had to like make up from scratch but trump lives obviously on his house of cards of lies that's what his entire administration that's what everything he does is propped up by by his bluster his propaganda this cult-like refusal to acknowledge objective reality it's the same things that autocratic governments do every single day they have to live in this bubble where facts don't matter only perception matters because that's how they exert their strength
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Chapter 2: How is Donald Trump's trade war affecting the global economy?
And ultimately, who is the scapegoat? Who is the scapegoat for COVID? Dr. Fauci, right? So who does Donald Trump want to make the scapegoat now? Jerome Powell, right? The chairman of the Federal Reserve. He's Fauci-ing Jerome Powell. And what they're all trying to do now in MAGA is blame the economic cataclysm that's here right now, but will be really picking up soon.
It's kind of like the way a tsunami, the shore starts pulling back before the tsunami actually hits. They want to blame it all on Jerome Powell for talking about the data, right? So Jerome Powell was in Chicago at an economic forum. He was simply speaking about the data. That's his job as the chairman of the Federal Reserve should be noted. You know who appointed him in 2017?
Donald Trump appointed him. I've never been a fan of him. I've never been a big fan of him. Well, you were the guy who appointed him first in 2017. Jerome Powell's term ends in 2026 right now. So about 18 more months to go. And clearly Trump wants to get rid of this guy or wants to blame everything on Jerome Powell. So that's what we're seeing now.
All of MAGA saying, oh, the markets are crashing because Powell's talking about it.
what was it can i just say such a brilliant comparison i wanted to interrupt him and say that too i like i i never even like made that comparison i never put the two and two together but it truly is the exact same formula it's just absolutely brilliant that's all i wanted to say one thousand i appreciate the delays live in front of tens of thousands of people jordan you want to say more great things yeah let me let me continue to gas you up big bro that was
Because you know what else? It's their continuation on the attack of experts, right? We talked about this before. The MAGA cult, they've decided to make an expert, the term expert, a dirty word in their eyes. But when experts are presenting them data that conflicts with their own internal feelings, no, Trump's president, this can't be happening under Trump. The expert must be wrong.
They lose their shit. They go crazy. Powell is this version, this term's Fauci. Brilliant point, though.
And it all plays into that reality deficit that I was speaking of, because Trump in all these positions just wants a sycophant who's going to lie to the American people and prop up his fragile ego every single day. He wants loyalty, not competence, like every single time.
And that was one of the things that he learned from his first term, which is a horrific thing that that's what he learned from his first term. But he learned, I need all of these loyalists. I need all of these sycophants. I mean, it's the same thing he did with Chris Wray. who he nominated to be the FBI director. Trump personally picked him.
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Chapter 4: What does the term 'reality deficit' mean in relation to the Trump administration?
Because remember, the Supreme Court 9-0 said Donald with Abrego, return Abrego. Facilitate the return. Okay? So after that order is issued, it goes back to the trial court, the federal court. That judge, not Boesberg, different judge in Maryland. Judge Zinnis. Boasberg's a judge in D.C. Judge Zinnis is the Maryland judge.
She has jurisdiction over the case because it's a federal issue, and Abrego's from Maryland. That's why it's in that specific case. So she says, I want expedited, aggressive discovery to understand what the Trump regime is doing to facilitate the return. Depositions, document requests, interrogatories. That's all she said. I need to implement the Supreme Court's order.
So tell me what you're doing every day to facilitate the return. Right. Donald Trump worked to facilitate the return of the Tate brothers, you know, from Romania. He had people work, you know, you were helping out there. Apparently, you've got Trump. And our government has facilitated on an extradition basis like El Chapo, right? We've tried to even the worst people are extradited here.
And there's a process about going about that. Abrego is not them. We've brought to the United States the top MS, the actual top MS-13 leaders to prosecute here, to extradite because of their crimes in the U.S., because our system of justice was supposed to be the toughest in the world, not a way to send people to El Salvador extermination camps. El Salvador has sent back people.
to the United States already. Women who shouldn't go there, other people that they decided not to take. So it's not some new thing that El Salvador can send people back. Facilitate the return, nine to zero. By the Supreme Court, the federal judge says, tell me what you're doing. Trump appeals that. You are encroaching on the executive branch. Trump appeals it to the Fourth Circuit.
Let me read for you. I don't want there to be ambiguity in the language. It's a three to zero decision. Three judge panel, unanimous. Judge Wilkinson, who wrote this, was appointed by Ronald Reagan. This is a Reagan conservative writing for a unanimous panel right here of federal judges.
Upon review of the government's motion, the court denies the motion for an emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature.
While we fully respect the executive's robust assertions of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision. It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all.
The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims, in essence, that because it has rid itself of custody, that there is nothing that can be done.
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