Chapter 1: What triggered Donald Trump's investigation into Jerome Powell?
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We have a lot to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. All hell continues to break loose in Minnesota, and specifically Minneapolis and St. Paul, where the Trump regime has surged an additional 1,000 ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo to invade those cities. The cities are fighting back right now.
They have filed a federal lawsuit, and they are calling what is taking place by its correct characterization. an invasion. I mean, pretty powerful to have the state of Minnesota joined by the Twin Cities saying we are being invaded right now by the Trump regime. They're claiming it's for law enforcement or fraud.
but it is to literally take over by force the cities and bring it to its knees that people there are peacefully protesting and we've been working with our partners over at status quo to get you on the ground reporting exclusive footage documenting what look like war crimes which is an invasion, because they are. Crimes against humanity taking place on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
We'll cover that here on this episode. Donald Trump continues to threaten to invade Greenland. Apparently, according to multiple sources that spoke to the Daily Mail and other outlets, the Trump regime has ordered special forces to come up with an invasion plan.
And now in response, you have the UK, Germany, France, and others in Europe coming up with war plans to counter a United States invasion of Greenland, which would just rip apart NATO.
should also talk about what's going on in venezuela and the chaos taking place there no there aren't opposition parties celebrating on the streets there's a vicious and brutal crackdown taking place by the authoritarian leader there delce rodriguez who's just an extension of the maduro regime along with diodatos cabello the enforcer of maduro and they're out there
with their roving gangs which in venezuela is referred to as the collectivos stopping people searching their phones and if there's any pro-america or pro-opposition content these people are getting tortured or killed and disappeared and it's just fascinating is not the right word but that you know this gestapo paramilitary force in venezuela
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Chapter 2: How is ICE violence affecting communities in Minneapolis?
as an arm of the authoritarian regime the way the paramilitary ICE and Border Patrol are similar paramilitary of the authoritarian regime we have here. So we'll talk about Greenland, we'll talk about Venezuela, we'll talk about Donald Trump ordering the Department of Justice
to engage in a criminal investigation of the chairman of the federal reserve jerome powell we've actually seen a number of republican senators like tom tillis murkowski and others issue statements they're very upset they're very upset about this but to be fair the statement by tom tillis the republican senator from north carolina he states that he's going to be putting a hold
and blocking any of trump's picks for the federal reserve board of governors or trump's pick of fed chair unless this is resolved trump's weaponized attack on jerome powell and powell issued an unprecedented video response saying that he's being targeted because he is
going by the data about whether or not to reduce interest rates or not and that trump has stated his intention to retaliate against him and that trump wants there to be a fed that's not independent and the words from powell as well as a statement that came from most of the other chairs of the federal reserve top board of governors and former treasury secretaries from both parties republican and democrats
They compared what's taking place in the United States to what you see in corrupt developing authoritarian nations, where there is no independence over their central bank. So we're going to talk about all of this and more in this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. We've got a lot to discuss and, you know, Brett and Jordy, one observation though stands out to me amongst many though also,
I think as we reflect on this time, whether it's the markets, whether it's other leaders, thinking that you can appease this guy and that, you know, his words don't matter and that he's not serious and this is how he trolls or, you know, this is, yeah, we'll get through it and what am I supposed to do? You know, kind of either outright support, complicity, or just not taking it seriously.
Ah, he threatened Jerome Powell, but... he'll taco again you know trump chickens out and so we just have to wait for it to pull back and it's really just an opportunity to manipulate the markets and so it'll go down but then it'll go back up and you know we are directionally moving in the wrong direction and our institutions have so brutally failed
fortunately the people are standing up as we see in minneapolis st poland across this country but just an observation i wanted to make at the outset Yeah, well, good to see you, brothers. Good to see you, Midas Mighty. I want to thank everybody for tuning in, whether you're watching live on YouTube or whether you're listening on the Midas Touch podcast on the various audio feeds.
Man, I just got to say, especially after this weekend, I should say, I am just so disgusted by the state of our country. And obviously, I think we've all felt that way now for the past year or so.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's threats against political rivals?
And guess what? Orban's regime in Budapest at their prison for children
turned it into a child sex trafficking ring there and there were lots of protests saying the regime is the one covering up the child sex trafficking going on within its prison system for children but they came out or bond with the same rhetoric the same playbook anti-immigration and they're going to be the ones to save the country from the child sex traffickers
And the playbook worked for the authoritarian because they're such sociopaths that there's no low to what their lies will be about. And it's often covering up what they themselves are engaged in. And they know to most human beings, those words resonate and are convincing. Because it's like, oh my God, you're here to save that. And people are against you stopping sex trafficking. Oh my gosh.
And then you on the other side. Have to argue against their sociopathic demented argument, which is something that they're not doing. And it's hard to argue against a negative and they take it on such an extreme level that you're left stuttering in a debate. And so when you set up these debates, whether it's the
debates that these right-wing podcasters want to do on the fight shows that they do on cnn the construct of the debate always lends itself to the sociopathic authoritarian because they're spewing lies versus you on the other side having to show the truth and then the viewers left going i don't know one side wants to stop the sex trafficking and the other side's arguing that they're not doing it
do you see why they and all the while they cover up the largest child sex trafficking ring in world history with the epstein files which is what's going on right now so i want you to take a look at what happened this weekend and i look we've analyzed what's going on in minneapolis uh in st paul and throughout the country i wanted to focus though on this aspect of it because it's
underreported and understated the regime's psychological warfare backed by billions, tens of billions to brainwash with this stuff. So here's Kristi Noem, a propagandist. She was on the weekend show. She goes on regime media to roll this out. And she's like, why would anybody be against us stopping the sex trafficking? Watch Noem play the clip.
Maria, we've surged HSI officers there specific to focus on sex trafficking and child trafficking. It's so prevalent in Minnesota. It's horrific. And we brought dozens and dozens of those individuals to justice already. We're going to keep hundreds of HSI officers there to continue to protect those children every day.
We get another individual that was sexual assault against a child, sodomy against a child. I can't believe that the mayor and the governor can defend allowing those people to go out there and victimize more of our children and grandchildren. Sick.
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Chapter 4: How does Trump's economic agenda impact red states?
You can't do that with law enforcement, whether it's police or ICE or Border Patrol or anybody else.
For those listening, you have Caroline Leavitt standing behind Trump. looking all weird and creepy herself. And then at one point, I'm not gonna play this clip, Trump's like, I'm here, I may need to grab something, but I can't grab Caroline, right? You'll be mad at me if I grab her.
So Brett and Jordi, there's obviously so much more we can be saying on this episode about the cold-blooded murder, because that's what it is, of Renee Nicole Goode. But I think it's important that I open up that window to the psychological manipulation that's used and has been used in order to justify the atrocities. No, I think it's an important connection to make.
And I'd go as far as to say that, of course, not only is this not about sex trafficking, I don't even believe this is about immigration or illegal immigration at all. I think this is about putting an illegal secret police force, masked police, And I don't even want to call them police.
They're just these thugs, these paramilitary forces, these enforcers of the Trump regime, putting these masked secret forces on the streets in order to terrorize the population and build a fascist state. That's what I think it is. And I think everything else is just a pretense for doing just that. And like I said earlier in this episode, I am just so incredibly appalled watching all of this. And
know i'm just trying to think of like what other kind of comparisons to make but i just keep coming back to the fact that i really think these people right now are just behaving as nazis they are following the nazi playbook i am very much aware that comparing an individual or group to nazis should not be something you do lightly but in situations like this you have to be able to sound the alarm when you see people following along this path like
What's the point of studying history if not to call out moments like this? I'm not sure if you guys saw, but there's this GoFundMe for the ICE officer that's going around that people are donating to, which is disgusting enough in and of itself. But within that GoFundMe,
For whatever reason, it makes a point to note that the mayor of Minneapolis, it says in parentheses after his name, who is Jewish? It says that in the GoFundMe for the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good, in one of the GoFundMes. Then if you look at the other GoFundMe, because there are two currently set up right now that are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for this killer.
The other GoFundMe, which I believe Bill Ackman, that billionaire guy, you know, Trump supporter, that he donated to, like $10,000 to, the profile photo of the person who made that GoFundMe is literally a sea kale. So, like, they're not exactly trying to hide it right now. Then you look at what's coming out of the government accounts, the government Twitter accounts and Facebook accounts.
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Chapter 5: What parallels are drawn between Venezuela and the U.S. political climate?
It's a white nationalist idea, a neo-Nazi idea. that you can take away the citizenship of any Americans who are not white and send people back to the countries that they originated from when they immigrated here back in the day. And the person who Elon Musk retweeted specified, and by re-migration, I specifically also mean the Jews. I want to be clear about that.
So, when you take all of this together, like, what other conclusion can you possibly come to other than that this is a regime right now that wants an autocracy in this country that is behaving as if they will never leave power and wants to take the lessons that they learned from the Nazis and apply them here in the United States and use the same scapegoating tactics, use all the same tactics that they used
in order to consolidate power. I think it is absolutely chilling. And that's why the use of our First Amendment, the use of our voices, getting those cameras on the ground, getting our cameras in the halls of Congress, actually videotaping what ICE is doing as they terrorize these communities, as they throw flashbangs at our reporters who are down there with status quo.
We need to be documenting all of this.
right now it's perhaps one of the most if not the most important thing that we could all be doing at this moment they are telling us exactly who they are at this moment in time if you don't believe it i don't know what to tell you but we're going to keep providing evidence of it here and i think we also need to continue to call out like we are on this show like you all are out there
Call out all of the collaborators. Call out all the corporate media who is bending the knee to this regime, like the CBS News and the Barry Weiss. Call out all the people around Donald Trump, like the Caroline Levitts and the Kristi Noem and all of these tech people who are who are getting behind this movement. Call them all out. Don't let them get away with this crap. They are a part of it.
They are responsible, and they should always be held responsible, and they should always have the stain of what they did to prop up this administration, and they should never be able to get rid of it long after this is gone.
so well said b and ben you did a great job too summarizing it i i don't have much to add other than i i just want to i just want to add this gnome levitt trump is the word i've been using recently to describe this regime they're they're creatures i don't see the human element in them in the sense that like where is the love where is the love for your fellow american when you see these folks speaking it it's never there if they can't condemn
The murder of a mother of three. Where are we as a society? Like, why do we have leaders if they don't want to lead? And let me rephrase that. Why do these leaders right now, rhetorical question, want to lead in this specific way? How can you not condemn at the highest and in the loudest way the murder of a mother of three? Everyone saw the footage.
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Chapter 6: How is the Department of Justice responding to Trump's actions?
I thought that was going to work out better. That didn't work out better. Let me surge my own paramilitary now. And he wants Minneapolis to be the starting point. of a conquest, of an invasion, which is why in the lawsuit filed by Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St.
Paul, they say this is a violation of our 10th Amendment right, which reserves all powers that are not expressly given to the federal government to the states. States have a local police power. States are the ones who are responsible for the education and for hospitals and public health and safety. And so by surging ICE and invading, now our police officers have to deal with ICE.
Our police officers can't focus on law and order on the streets. Our hospitals are not functioning properly because you're attacking our hospitals. People aren't showing up to school or work because you're terrorizing the communities. You're infringing on our 10th Amendment rights. So that was the lawsuit that was filed earlier today.
by minnesota minneapolis and st paul i did a video on it earlier but i wanted to make sure we fully covered what's happening there what the broader intentions are and that we use the right words when framing this trump is frustrated and he's desperate because the people haven't bent and also if you look in places even like texas
Trump has a net negative of like six and negative 12 when it comes to his handling of the economy and negative 22 when it comes to his handling of inflation. I did a recent interview with Amy Acton in Ohio. Trump's also net negative six, net negative seven over there in Ohio. People don't like this stuff. Remember the don't tread on me. Trump is Mr. I tread. He is, I am the treader.
I am the destroyer. That's who he is. He is the snake. You know how there's the snake on the don't tread on me. Trump is the snake that doesn't defend. Trump is the snake that you let in who then destroys like that story he told was the first Midas touch video we did. All right, let's take our first break of the show. We covered a lot on that segment. A reminder, go to MidasPlus.com.
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Chapter 7: What are the consequences of Trump's tariffs on international trade?
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Links in the description of both YouTube and the audio. Use the links. Use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. A couple things really quick. Just on a lighter note. No, that was a heavy first segment there. The Shopify ad that you heard there, I spoke to them.
They said, hey, as much as I loved Ben doing the boom, boom, boom, can we actually add in the correct SFX, the correct sound cues there? You see the pause for sound effects? Yeah, that works. Really? They're going to be really impressed. Second, Benji, you look pretty sharp, dude. Take a straight razor to your face. You look really good, really cleaned up, nice haircut. What happened?
Cleaned up fresh. Yeah, why so fresh? First day back teaching. Hey, Professor Ben.
to back to the professorship and so i was just thinking so much growth in the past year and you haven't taught since last year because you had a baby i feel like a lot of our audience doesn't even realize that you are a law professor and uh so welcome back to teaching ben how does it feel you uh don't have enough going on in your life and you're also are you you're also somehow a professor congratulations
Well, I really enjoy teaching. Now that I no longer practice law on a day-to-day basis, I still want to, in addition to YouTube, give back to the legal community in Southern Los Angeles and Southern California in general.
it's a way to do that and um i think also interacting with the kind of next generation you get a lot of ideas too and it's and it's inspirational and so it's it's an important part of my life and i take it very seriously and i really um i really enjoy being a teacher both on youtube and in an academic
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Chapter 8: How can citizens effectively respond to authoritarian tactics?
Like, that's what we were trying to say. One of the interesting things I've seen also in the past, especially this escalation with ICE and these secret police forces and things, I've seen a lot of these kind of big
kind of MAGA right-wing accounts who, I'll just say, do not think very kindly towards anybody in the center or on the left of the political spectrum coming out and basically admitting fault here, which I think at least says something. Like, I'll pull up this tweet that went viral. I'm not going to put the individual on blast, but I'll read you the tweet.
It says here, and this has a million views, 32,000 likes, I grew up conditioned to mock the loony libs, a habit formed in the early Rush Limbaugh years. I no longer feel the urge. Those libs are now fighting for America's core principles, while the people who taught me to sneer at them have abandoned principles altogether. I think that's a
lot coming from a, which traditionally been a pro MAGA account. And I've seen dozens and dozens and dozens of posts just like that, because like Ben said, this isn't an issue of right verse left of, do you think this economic policy is better than this economic policy?
This is going back to the founding of this country and the ideals set forth by the United States constitution and the bill of rights. Very basic ideas, very basic ideas about how.
police are used, about how military forces are used, about search and seizures by law enforcement, about the right to free speech, about the bullying that somebody like Trump does against people and corporations who don't take his exact point of view. What we're seeing right now goes far beyond any particular policy. It is fundamentally un-American at every level.
And so I think everybody out there who agrees, at least that 70% of people who agree with the principles of the United States, maybe not that 25, 30% that are just die-hard, die-hard MAGA and will do whatever Donald Trump says, but that 70%,
needs to come together, kind of put policy aside right now, and understand that we are fighting for the life of democracy of the United States of America, or at least what the United States of America stands for. There's also an article in the Wall Street Journal that came out today that
talked about how much these MAGA influencers are being paid to push certain positions, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per tweet. If you ever think, how is this person tweeting something so horrific? How could they possibly? And the tweet they did two weeks ago is the complete opposite of the tweet they're doing now. How do their ideas just shift? They just do whatever Trump says?
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