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Chapter 1: What warning did Iran issue to Donald Trump and what are the implications?
No escape for Donald Trump. He can rant and rave like a lunatic on social media and claim that he's utterly defeated Iran, but no one's buying it. Donald Trump has no way out right now. He's too scared to escalate. He's too incapable of negotiating. And so right now, the Trump regime has no plan at all other than to post weird images
ai memes of himself with ar-15 style rifles and just behaving like an utter maniac and no more mr nice guy he says while iran is continuing to mock him also we heard from the new ayatollah munjab earlier who stated that iran will never surrender and that the only place that the us will end up if they continue its blockade is on the bottom of the water.
I don't think that they are backing down to Donald Trump's naval blockade. But Donald Trump told us they were going to be blown up and destroyed anyway by Wednesday. That didn't happen. So I guess we'll just see what lies Donald Trump feeds to his stenographers over at Axios tomorrow, which is always market manipulation Friday.
Also, we saw Donald Trump's just completely bizarre behavior with King Charles during that visit. King Charles gave that, I thought, a pretty powerful speech to a joint session of the House and the Senate where he talked about certain things in code where he was obviously calling out Donald Trump. He was saying, when America speaks, its words still matters.
He talked about the importance of supporting Ukraine and NATO and other topics that Donald Trump seemed really to only care that King Charles was there And if you know Donald Trump's history, it was basically spending the 80s and 90s lying that the royal family loved him. And the royal family would always have to say, yeah, this guy's a con artist and he's a fraud.
We had Pete Hegseth's testimony in both the House and the Senate. In my opinion, dude perjured himself. multiple times but just looked even more pathetic and petty if that's even possible then you have pam bondi former attorney general uh after she avoided a subpoena not to appear before her deposition last month before the house oversight committee democrats stayed on top of this issue and uh
After filing contempt charges, she finally agreed that she'll be sitting for a deposition at the end of May. It's why you got to keep on fighting, right? I mean, think about it. California Governor Newsom fought back against the MAGA Republican gerrymandering scheme, then used Prop 50 to counteract Texas, and that inspired Virginia and other places across the country.
Not only that, you may have forgot this. Remember when Newsom sued Fox? for manipulating audio and video regarding Newsom's conversations with Trump. Remember when Fox was working with Trump to claim that Newsom was not saying things that he actually was doing and just completely manipulated and actually altered conversations and chopped it up?
remember newsome then sued uh fox uh for 787 million dollars where a federal court said the case can proceed to discovery so now newsom gets discovery into fox and their messages and their emails and what they're saying with trump and how their hosts are coordinating with them i
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Chapter 2: How are rising oil prices affecting the American economy?
I just want you to think about what a powerful device is. And that's why you fight. You gotta fight. You gotta pull it all out there. When you fight, you win. I remember a lot of people saying, oh, it's a stupid lawsuit. Why would you even file it? Prop 50, it's never gonna pass. You just gotta do it sometimes. You gotta fight. You gotta stand up for what's right. So hat tip to Newsom.
We'll talk about that. Meanwhile, the American people are still feeling the pain in a very big, big way. We're seeing the price of crude hitting record highs, over $120 per barrel, actually reaching the highest prices throughout the war. We saw a GDP Q1 numbers came in, growth at 2%. That was under the estimates of 2.3%.
Inflation, PCE, continues to rise at an elevated level at 3.5%, with the core PCE inflation at 3.2%. But the Federal Reserve is saying, look, we can't lower interest rates anytime soon right now. And inflation right now is elevated in both sides of the Fed's dual mandate, which involves trying to increase jobs, decrease inflation.
Both are being interrupted by Donald Trump's behavior and Donald Trump's terrible policies. We're in a jobs recession, stagnant jobs, if not job losses, and rising inflation. And so we'll cover that. And also the Midas Touch Network, Washington, D.C. Bureau was out and about.
And they were able to get, I think, some incredible, incredible interviews with Congress members and senators from both sides of the aisle and asking the questions that you wanted answered. This and more on the Midas Touch podcast. Great to be with everybody. Brett and Jordy, great to see you both. Great to see you too, Ben.
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Chapter 3: What updates are there in the Epstein investigation?
Great to see you, Jordi. Great to see you, Midas Mighty. Excited to break down all of today's stories. And Ben, you were talking about Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. I think one of the single biggest developments that probably hasn't even gotten enough attention
is the fact that Donald Trump's attacks on Fed Chair Jerome Powell have completely backfired because Powell decided that, yes, he is not going to be the Federal Reserve Chair anymore because his term is up shortly. However, he is going to stay on the Federal Reserve Board until the end of his term, which ends, I believe, in like January 2021. if I'm not mistaken.
And he specifically said, when he was asked why he was doing that, he said it was because of the politicization of the Fed. You know, it's not supposed to have this sort of outside influence. It's supposed to be an independent body. Donald Trump has destroyed that with these BS prosecutions into Powell, these threats against Powell. And so he said, you know what? I got to stay.
I got to protect the independence of the Fed. And what a power move. And I think, you know, as we speak about that, as we speak about Newsom, all these other stories, you start to get this theme that Donald Trump is a paper tiger. Remember how we called the NATO a paper tiger? Donald Trump is a paper tiger. Donald Trump is somebody where if you stand up to the guy, he backs down.
He may try to bluster. He may try to angrily tweet or truth or whatever the hell he calls it. But at the end of the day, he is incredibly, incredibly weak. So good on Governor Newsom for actually taking the fight. I'm excited to speak about that and all of the things that Ben spoke about.
i think the one thing that has really just blown my mind in the trump era has been how many people have refused to actually take up the mantle and fight donald trump when history has shown that the people who do often have incredible success and this is my opinion but you know as you look through all of these uh networks like fox oan newsmax as you look through a lot of these mag influencers they lie so shamelessly and in my opinion
so maliciously that I am surprised that more people haven't. I understand there's a high threshold to defamation lawsuits, but it baffles me that people have not fought fire with fire more and gone after the people who are poisoning our information ecosystem with lie after lie after lie. We're going to get into it all.
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Chapter 4: What was the Supreme Court's decision on the Voting Rights Act?
You know, I got to check in with Jordy first. Jordy, what's the latest?
what's up brothers what's up mightest mighty a lot to get into tonight uh before we start i just want to remind everyone here right now and watching the youtube show please subscribe to the youtube channel we are on our way to 6.4 million subscribers we're getting there we're getting there we could use your help hit the subscribe button
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Serious times call for very serious leaders. And Donald Trump is the ultimate jester. He's not a serious individual. He's another clown. And his behavior is as such. And the world sees it and looks at him and goes, that's a pathetic individual. That's a pathetic individual. I mean, here's someone who at 1230 a.m. in the morning was posting QAnon memes earlier in the morning. The storm is coming.
Nothing can stop what is coming. That's a QAnon term. And then if you look to the left, you can actually see a Q. And it's a QAnon account that Donald Trump likes to repost called Spiritual Street Fighter 17. QAnon is a literal death cult that says that Donald Trump will destroy the deep state and conduct beheadings on Capitol Hill when the storm comes. And that's what the storm is coming means.
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Chapter 5: How are congressional hearings addressing the costs of the Iran war?
And this is what he's posting. I mean, you have the president of the United States posting QAnon memes and not a single paper, not a single, you know, corporate news, anything. We'll even like cover this as like a
it's just yeah that's that's donald trump right like over the weekend when donald trump says iran has three days left and in three days all of the oil pipelines blow up because the naval blockade is going to work the pressure is such that all of the oil builds up because we're blockading them they can't get any of this oil to actually leave so the oil just builds up builds up in the pipes that causes an explosion we win the war on wednesday it's over
I mean, he said that on interviews, there's all of these like Trump sycophants and people who, you know, just do whatever he says. Like when I did my last rant on Wednesday, when I said, hey, that didn't happen to everybody, right? And Brett, you posted it on the Midas Touch. There were all these Trump supporters like, he didn't say that. Like he literally said that.
Like that's literally the words that he said. quote i don't understand why these people try to come at me like don't listen don't don't try to come at us and it's like the to watch the journey they go on too it's always just so so cute to watch right i mean they come at you they say you're lying you made that up he would never say something so ridiculous so stupid stop putting words in his mouth
And I say, in the words of Ben, well, play the clip or let me show you the receipts. Let me show you the interview on the Fox News website. OK, not exactly a beacon of a pro-democracy or liberalism or whatever you want to call it. Let me show you what it says. Let me show you what Fox wrote, what the New York Post wrote.
And then all of a sudden they go silent or they try to change the conversation or explain why Donald Trump is correct. You just said that I was making it up and that I made up something to make him sound stupid. But then I showed you that he actually said the thing.
and so it's like these people they just think they could get away with lying and lying and lying sometimes you got to check them sometimes you have to check them for sure then donald trump posted this no more mr nice guy do we have that post over there iran can't get their act together they don't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal they better get smart soon dj cheat djt and it's him uh holding an a15 style rifle and some weird ai image with apparently
something that i guess purports to be iran in the background um being blown up and then like all the iranian embassy counts are just mocking him you have the iranian embassy in south africa saying when you post at 4 a.m in the middle of sleep it doesn't get any better than this and then they say other narratives arrive when you eat too much at dinner drift into restless sleep suddenly wake up and start writing imagining the continuation of your
dream, you know, just again, just utterly weird behavior. He's making posts attacking Jimmy Kimmel. When is ABC fake news going to fire? Seriously, unfunny Jimmy Kimmel. He's had his Federal Communications Commission launch a formal investigation now into Disney regarding Jimmy Kimmel and saying, oh, it's actually about their
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Chapter 6: What bizarre behavior did Donald Trump exhibit during his visit with King Charles?
and we celebrate persian gulf day that's today in iran in honor of this victory today as well iran by exercising control over the strait of hormuz will ensure that it and its neighbors enjoy the precious blessings of a future free from the presence and interference of america and so you have statements like that i mean we've heard all these conflicting reports but you know at the end of the day i always look at what's actually going on in the straight of her moves i try to you know look at the facts
donald trump has leaked multiple things in the past 24 hours to his stenographer barack ravine over at axios and some of these other media propagandists and first he's like no we're going to keep an indefinite blockade it's like actually we're going to do strategic strikes and centcom is going to be briefing donald trump in the situation room today
And then it was like, oh, the oil executives joined Donald Trump in the Situation Room earlier this week to talk about strategy. And apparently Donald Trump thinks that because oil prices are higher and because America produces a lot of oil, that that is a massive gain to America generally. I mean, it may be...
helping, I guess, the stock prices of oil and gas companies based on how high the price of gas is. But in terms of the price at the pump, it's not like that reduces the cost if we export more crude from the United States. It's not even how crude is exported. It literally makes zero sense at all. But we are based on international oil markets.
And the price relates to things that are happening, not just in the United States, but across the board. Also, we've been talking about the futures price, $120 a barrel, $122 a barrel. That's the futures price. The spot price, like the current price is like in the mid 200s per barrel. And we're seeing record breaking prices now or very high prices across the entire country.
So you have Donald Trump doing meetings with the oil executives, Trump, you know, apparently meeting with CENTCOM. And now they're saying, oh, actually, we're going to do some additional strike. And then you have like Israel been parroting that. And amid reports that the U.S.
is renewing new military action, Israel's defense minister says it's possible that soon we will need to act again in Iran to ensure the regime cannot threaten Israel for years to come. And then we learned on Tuesday that Donald Trump and Putin had a call for like 90 minutes. We didn't learn about it from Iran. US media or Trump or the White House.
Normally, when you do phone calls with foreign leaders, you publish the readout, right? That's what happens. Putin published his readout with Donald Trump on TASS, T-A-S-S, which is the Russian media company, where he said, Donald and I talked about economic cooperation between the United States and Russia, and Putin warned Donald Trump of catastrophic consequences if there's a further invasion
or further attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel. Russia pushed that out and Trump confirmed it. Just think about it. You've got Putin calling Trump.
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Chapter 7: How did California Governor Newsom challenge MAGA gerrymandering?
They speak for 90 minutes. That's covered up by our government. We learn about it because Russia publishes the readout of the phone call. On it, it reads like a wish list of things that Russians would want. You have the Russian president scolding the United States not to do any further action or else. Just think about the posture, right, of weakness that the U.S.
has even put in, that that's even how it's like you would think the readout from U.S. would be like. And then we told Putin that our national sovereignty is non-negotiable and that we instructed him that that's not, you know, how we don't take orders from it. Trump's like, yeah, we did that. We did that call, you know, and talking about economic deals between Russia and the United States.
when in fact the country that would provide the most help to the United States right now is actually Ukraine, which is basically now the world leader in technological innovation and how you fight modern warfare with its drone technology, anti-drone technology, and all its wherewithal that was learned from the invasion of Russia. But you've got Russia making that phone call.
And you've got the situation, again, as I said at the outset of this episode, we're caught in this quagmire. Donald Trump goes back and forth. Oh, we're winning the war. We're doing a blockade. The war must continue. And nobody
here knows brett and jordy what the heck is going on you've got uh poseshkin the president of iran posting the following the world has witnessed iran's tolerance and conciliation what is being done under the guise of a naval blockade as an extension of military operations against the nation paying the price for its resistance and independence continuation of this oppressive approach is intolerable
And this whole situation at this point is just so typical Trumpian. We're going to do this blockade. I'm going to claim maybe we're going to do this. Maybe we're going to do that. And then the American people are really, really suffering right now. They're absolutely suffering. So what did Donald Trump say in the Oval Office today when he was asked, what's the latest status?
And again, Donald Trump goes, Iran is dying to make a deal. Now, how many times has he already said the deal is done? Remember, I mean, seriously, didn't he say, we did a deal, everything is great.
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Chapter 8: What are the consequences of the recent Supreme Court ruling on gerrymandering?
They're still dying to make a deal. But Trump says, I don't really wanna make the deal. They're dying to make the deal. I don't wanna make the deal. And everybody knows he's lying and it's just weird and it's pathetic and it's dangerous. Here's what he says, here, play this clip.
I mean, Iran is dying to make a deal. I can only tell you that. I don't wanna get into the, but they gotta, they cannot be nuclear other than that, but they are, The Navy's gone. The Air Force is gone. Every ounce of any form of equipment practically is gone. You know, their their drone factories are about 82 percent down and their missile factories are almost 90 percent down.
And many of their missiles have been knocked out. They used some, but we knocked out more than they used. And it's pretty amazing what's happened. They want to make a deal. But despite the fact that we are in what some people would call a war, we just hit a new high today on the stock market. We have S&P, it's through the roof. They're all, I mean, they're through the roof.
Could you think of anything more offensive, again, to the American people than that? And then tying it to the fact, well, the stock market's up when most people aren't sharing in that gain at all. And it's just Trump manipulating the markets all the time. And then a reporter says, yeah, yeah, but look, Donald, look. The reality is that people are suffering.
The average price of a gallon of gas is $4.30. So what do you say to that, what the people are experiencing?
The average price of a gallon of gas is now $4.30 in this country.
And you know what? We're not going to have a nuclear weapon. in the hands of Iran. The gas will go down. As soon as the war is over, it'll drop like a rock. There's so much of it. It's all over the place, sitting all over the oceans of the world. And it'll go down. But what won't happen is if Iran had a nuclear weapon and used it, then the whole world is a different place.
You're not going to have to pay a little bit more for gasoline. The gasoline, the oil will go down rapidly as soon as the war is over.
Yeah, but you said that you obliterated their nuclear capabilities last June and you had press releases. It's totally obliterated. It's gone. It doesn't exist anymore.
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