Chapter 1: What led to Donald Trump's attack on the MeidasTouch network?
Donald Trump is attacking the Midas touch network over our coverage of his disastrous war in Iran. He's also attacking the Midas touch network. Then 24 hours of the Midas touch network winning podcast of the year, uh, for the news category in the I heart awards that just took place and shout out to I heart. We're grateful for that award.
Donald Trump and his regime kept on referring to us as dumbasses yesterday on social media. Not every day where you're called a dumbass by the White House. Something I will tell my daughter when she's older. The White House called me a dumbass because I called out their unlawful war that has destroyed the United States of America. Let me show you what went down.
So we were exposing the hypocrisy of the White House. What else is new?
Chapter 2: How did the MeidasTouch network respond to Trump's accusations?
They lie about everything where they were trying to say, of course, Iran poses a threat to the United States, an imminent threat. That's why we had to invade.
So then we just showed a post of Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, when she previously wrote, to be clear, no such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did, to which we were called a dumbass by the official White House rapid response account. No such threat to our homeland of Iran launching a drone offensive on our West Coast,
dumbasses so let's just rewind and let me show you what happened and what we then said to the white house and trump in response that has since gone mega viral but first this ultra maga right-wing extremist by the name of joe kent who has been serving as the director of the national counter-terrorism center He resigned from his position, objecting to Donald Trump's unlawful war in Iran.
He said that this war is a war of choice, that Iran did not pose any imminent threat to the United States, essentially that it is a betrayal to the MAGA movement. And while this guy, Joe Kent, is certainly a right wing extremist who has said and done some of the most heinous things that we've called out. He did previously serve like in 11 combat tours. He is a
husband of his wife died in Syria in 2019, a gold star husband.
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Chapter 3: What was the significance of the I Heart Awards for MeidasTouch?
And amongst the kind of far-right MAGAs, they like this guy, even though we call him out. So him saying that Donald Trump betrayed the MAGA movement and him resigning his position, and he did it in a very kind of dramatic fashion. He's
tulsi gabbard's number two he told tulsi he was going to resign and told like wait wait wait just speak to jd vance you got to go to the white house so he went to the white house he told jd vance that he was going to resign handed the resignation letter now he's i think going to be going on tucker carlson and so he posted his resignation that it's a betrayal of maga
That post went mega viral, like over 75 million views on ex formerly Twitter in a period of 24 hours. So in response, Caroline Levitt got all nervous. And so she responded to Joseph Kent saying that Iran did not pose an imminent threat.
that we were dragged into this war by netanyahu and israel and that this will be a catastrophe for the united states of america so caroline levitt says in response to joseph kent she goes there are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically that Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.
This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over. As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first. The evidence was compiled from many sources and many factors. We're not going to tell you, but many sources and many factors.
So we just responded to Caroline Leavitt with her own post. So, Caroline Leavitt, a week or so ago, posted the following with respect to a story by ABC that Iran was potentially going to attack the United States and potentially looking to attack the West Coast, California and LA, by the way, where I live. Caroline Leavitt previously wrote,
This post and story should be immediately retracted by ABC News for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people. They wrote this based on one email that was sent to local law enforcement in California about a single unverified tip. The email even states the tip was based on unverified intelligence. Yet ABC News left out this critical fact in their story. Why?
To be clear, no such threat from Iran to our homeland exists. And it never did. So we just posted Caroline's message. So then Trump's rapid response White House team referred to us as dumbasses. And they go, no such threat to our homeland of Iran launching a drone offensive on our West Coast, dumbasses. The nuclear threat of the psychotic, murderous Iranian regime is very real, however.
Thank God we finally have a president who's doing something about it. So then we responded to Trump and his White House by saying, what nuclear threat, dumbasses. And all we simply did with a mic drop moment was we posted a press release from the White House dated June 25th.
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Chapter 4: Who is Joe Kent and why is he relevant to the discussion?
whenever that was, last October or before then, on this to, you got it right. And now it's a 666-page report, odd number, by the way, saying this was a one-in-a-million situation when we were calling it out from the outset. By the way, we were calling out what was going to happen in this trade if it moves. We were calling out what's going to happen when you tariff against the world. Why?
Because when you follow, it's not because we're like prescient and we predict the future. We're just listening to what the experts are saying, what the scientists are saying, what the facts are saying right in front of us. And look, folks, I'm just going to say this. This Trump regime has all of MAGA livid right now. about this unlawful war, about the cover-up of the Epstein files.
Trump's popularity, which was already at historic lows, continues to plummet. Did you see this right here? Pennsylvania voters who voted three times for Trump, here's what they had to say. Play this clip. If you could say something to President Trump and he was going to hear you right now, what would it be? You are a worthless pile of shit. And you voted for him how many times? Three times.
That was my bad. Apparently, I'm an idiot. What about these right wing conservative influencers who are like, I've been loyal to Trump for so long, not anymore. Here, play this clip. I've been a loyal supporter of the president for almost 20 years. This goes back to when I was 21 years old and I was Miss California at the Miss USA pageant. And I've known him. I consider him a dear friend.
And I will tell you right now, I do not recognize our president. And MAGA, let me tell you right now, MAGA is dead. It is deader than dead, and Americans are furious. We do not recognize President Donald J. Trump anymore. People just livid about the rising gas prices. Listen to what this trucker had to say. Play this clip. At least once every day, if I'm on E, it's about 2.07 every day right now.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I went from 140 a day to 207 a day. Or the rise in grocery prices here at Play This Clip. We bought stuff for your stew and some snacks and a plant. $150. It keeps going up and up and up. People on lower end pay, they're hurting. This is the new normal. I think everything is more expensive now and it sucks. I don't really know what else there is.
I think one thing I want to share with you as well, though, is that Donald Trump, I just want to show you the sentiment out there. And it's very difficult for me to, people who vote for Trump three times, for me to fully understand how you could do that when there's so many glaring warning signs, but
i do recognize that it is important that you know you provide at least some off-ramp i guess for people who uh whatever um but what we're gonna do here at the midas touch network is not chase those people at all we're just gonna report on the facts each and every day and if the trump regime wants to threaten harass us cause dumbasses or whatever So be it, okay?
We're gonna report the facts and we're gonna report on them relentlessly and fearlessly. By the way, that's what the speech was that we gave when we won the I Heart Award for the best news podcast of the year. And I don't think it's coincidental that after winning that award that the Trump regime has been attacking us.
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Chapter 5: What claims did Caroline Leavitt make about Iran's threat?
But the fact is that the US economy is fundamentally sound and that if it were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers and we'd have to think about if that continued, what we would have to do about that. But that's really the last of our concerns right now because we're very confident that this thing is going ahead of schedule.
Nobody cares about consumers. What in the world are you talking about? And finally, I just want to share this with you as well because I think one of the things that are being missed when we talk about the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as well is that it's not just the oil, it's not just the crude that's stuck, right? And it's not just creating this oil shock.
These ships carry things like helium, aluminum food, fertilizer, and that supply chain just destroyed right now. Destroyed right now. Watch as they describe what's going down on CNN. Let's play. I mean, the Strait of Hormuz, as we've been talking about, is locked down. About 20% of the world's oil comes through there. But that's not the only thing.
Other ships that don't carry oil but carry other products are also stuck in the Persian Gulf. And they carry things like helium, aluminum. They carry... Food, they carry fertilizer, which is a key ingredient for food. Food prices could start to surge as well. And one of the other things is natural gas. And remember, our electricity runs on natural gas.
One of the big power sucks is AI right now, and natural gas powers that. So all of that could compound and make prices a lot more expensive. All right, Trump regime, you want to attack us, attack us. We'll just pop. Fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. Just hit you with the facts every day. That's what we're going to do here. Really an honor to win that I Heart Award.
I guess really an honor for Donald Trump to call us dumbasses. Another day. Keep reporting. Keep fighting back for democracy. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching, y'all. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com.
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