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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Trump Panics as Nation Finally Wakes Up…

26 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: Why is Donald Trump panicking over recent events?

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Donald Trump is absolutely losing it as his propaganda campaign to defame Alex Jeffrey Preti has utterly failed. Donald Trump kicked his disinformation machine into high gear to destroy

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the legacy of Preti after he was murdered in cold blood by Trump's Border Patrol Gestapo in Minneapolis, when all Preti was doing was trying to help a female protester who was being pepper sprayed and brutalized by Donald Trump's Border Patrol Gestapo. You've seen the video, the Border Patrol gang tackle Preti. They pepper spray him, they pistol whip him, they shoot him multiple times.

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And then the Trump regime tried to claim that Preti was brandishing his gun at the Border Patrol Gestapo, that Preti arrived in order to do a mass massacre of the Border Patrol Gestapo, which was utterly false.

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Donald Trump's lies were exposed, and Donald Trump sent his sycophants from his cabinet, MAGA Republicans in the House and Senate, who went on TV and said, if you have a concealed carry permit and you bring a gun to a protest lawfully, you will get killed by the Border Patrol and you will get killed by ICE. Now, Donald Trump has been powerfully rebuked by the top corporate CEOs in Minnesota.

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The Chamber of Commerce representing the 60 CEOs or more than 60 CEOs have put out a statement powerfully rebuking Trump and his regime for their despicable behavior, for their immorality, for the murder of Alex Jeffrey Preti. The NBA Players Association, a numerous superstar, NBA players and athletes have come out with powerful statements rebuking Donald Trump and his dastardly regime.

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Former President Obama, former President Clinton have come out with powerful statements rebuking the Trump regime. And there is massive panic within the White House right now as they realize that Donald Trump is in big, big trouble. Trump's approval is plummeting even lower, if you can imagine that.

Chapter 2: What happened to Alex Jeffrey Preti and why is it significant?

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as Donald Trump has tried to defame Governor Walz and other leaders in Minnesota. Governor Walz called out Donald Trump and said, this is about basic morality and while we are at it, release the damn Epstein files. Let's not forget this regime is covering up a child sex trafficking ring as well by not releasing the Epstein files. You even had Fox hosts like Maria Bartiromo

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pissed at the trump regime and pissed at these trump sycophants like james comer who were showing up on the morning shows and she's like we've all seen the video what the hell is even going on here you had second amendment groups powerfully rebuking donald trump saying you can't tell us that we don't have a lawful right to carry weapons there's something called a second amendment and preti was lawfully permitted he had a permit to carry his uh gun

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and he was not brandishing it. He had a concealed carry permit. That's what he was doing. He was disarmed by one of the Border Patrol Gestapos who ripped the gun from the holster, which was not being brandished at all. And when he was defenseless, he was brutally murdered. We all saw what happened on that video. Let's go through this step by step.

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so we can show what's going on with the Trump regime. First, let's take a look right here at the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce statement on behalf of more than 60 CEOs in Minnesota. Open letter from CEOs of large Minnesota-based companies and associations. By the way, folks, this is why general strikes work.

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If these corporations want to try to use and abuse workers, if workers can stand in solidarity together and stand up and say, you're not going to use and abuse our labor in the name of a regime that is killing us. So we're going on a general strike. Here's the letter from the CEOs.

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The business community in Minnesota prides itself in providing leadership and solving problems to ensure a strong and vibrant state. The recent challenges facing our state have created widespread disruption and tragic loss of life. For the past several weeks, representatives in Minnesota's business community

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have been working every day behind the scenes with federal, state, and local officials to advance real solutions. These efforts have included close communications with the governor, the White House, the vice president, and local mayors. There are ways for us to come together to foster progress. With yesterday's tragic news, we are calling for an immediate de-escalation of tensions

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and for state, local, and federal officials to work together to find real solutions. We have been working for generations to build a strong and vibrant state here in Minnesota, and will do so in the months and years ahead with equal and even greater commitment.

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In this difficult moment for our community, we call for peace and focused cooperation among local, state, and federal leaders to achieve swift and durable solutions and enable families, businesses, our employees, and communities across Minnesota to resume our work and to build bright and prosperous futures.

Chapter 3: How are corporate CEOs responding to Trump's actions?

470.191 - 497.863 Steve Kerr

So it was very sad. It was a sad night. Obviously we got the win and we're happy about that, but very difficult to see so many people struggling and sad and, you know, they came to the game to try to forget about stuff, I guess, but I don't think anything went away for the city and for their team. I think they were suffering from the effects of everything.

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Now, what is Donald Trump doing? Donald Trump gave a bizarre interview to the Wall Street Journal. In an interview, the president says that immigration enforcement officers may leave at some point. But what he says is, I don't like any shooting, but I don't like it when somebody goes into a protest and he's got a very powerful voice.

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fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn't play good either. That doesn't play good either. Someone who had a concealed carry lawful permit and was concealed carrying and did not point the gun at any of the Border Patrol Gestapo. So in other words, Donald Trump and your entire regime, you don't believe in the Second Amendment.

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Instead, I suppose what you care about is allowing people to carry semi-automatic weapons around schools. That's when you defend the Second Amendment, but when someone has a lawful permit for a concealed carry weapon the way Alex Preti did, then you say you deserve to die at protests? That's what you're saying? And then Donald Trump cowered, and he and Melania and his regime

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They held a screening for the Melania movie. And so while people were reeling over the weekend based on the murder of Alex Preti following the murder of Renee Good, this is what Melania Trump posts. Melania, the film, a historic moment.

Chapter 4: Why are NBA players speaking out against Trump?

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I am deeply humbled to have been surrounded by an inspiring room of friends, family, and cultural iconoclasts at the White House last night. countdown five days away for the Melania movie. This is what Donald Trump was doing yesterday.

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Also, Donald Trump was ranting and raving like a lunatic this morning about the golden ballroom yesterday morning, today, all day, golden ballroom, this golden ballroom, that. He was upset that the Historic Preservation Society filed a lawsuit to try to block the construction of the ballroom, which does not have congressional authorization.

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And as I've been saying here on the Midas Touch Network is patently unlawful. So he's been whining about that. What else was he posting about? He was making a raving and ranting like a lunatic about I can't watch the NFL kickoff. Like many others, I just turned my head. Who has the right to make such a change?

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Chapter 5: What statements have former presidents made regarding Trump's regime?

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It's disparaging the game. And then he posts the following. Minnesota is a criminal coverup of the massive financial fraud that has gone on! How utterly pathetic. The American people are not buying the propaganda that the Trump regime is selling. Was the shooting of the man in Minneapolis on Saturday justified? Only 20% of Americans say it was justified, according to the latest polling data.

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How about Trump's approval on immigration? According to Rasmussen, Donald Trump's favorite pollster, Donald Trump there has a net negative 14 approval on immigration from Rasmussen. Donald Trump's right far right wing extremist polling company has a net negative 14. Fifty nine percent of Americans disapprove of the way Donald Trump has handled immigration.

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A powerful statement by former President Barack Obama, who writes the killing of Alex Preti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Former President Bill Clinton writes, over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. At the Target Center, where the Minnesota Timberwolves play, The dunkers, the kind of the group that pumps up the crowd, they were wearing shirts that say ice out.

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And now finally, finally, basic morality seems to start penetrating our culture where people who were on the sidelines are talking out against this despicable Trump regime. Yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump sent out Greg Bovino. the Border Patrol Gestapo leader who made things even worse for the Trump regime.

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When he was asked by reporters in Minnesota, well, now we've seen two separate people shot and killed by your officers within 17 days. Do you plan on taking accountability? And Bovino then attacked Rene Good and he attacks Alex Preti. Watch what happens here.

Chapter 6: What is the reaction from Governor Walz to Trump's remarks?

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Between your agency, Border Patrol, and Mr. Charles, your agency, ICE, we've now seen two separate people shot and killed by your officers within 17 days. Do either of you plan on taking any accountability for those actions? Two suspects, sorry, you're correct. Two suspects have been shot and suspects that assault, delay obstruct or threaten a law enforcement officer's life.

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It goes back to the choices that we just talked about. When individuals make poor choices, poor decisions, come into a law enforcement situation, an active law enforcement situation conspire to come into that situation. Whether that's based on ideology, we don't know. That'll be in the investigation that we just talked about. That's what we base the split-second decisions on.

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And our law enforcement officers are saying they managed to come home at the end of shift. And again, I would implore upon any individuals, whether they're anarchists, rioters, or anyone else that thinks it wise to go into a law enforcement scene to disrupt, to delay, is to don't do that.

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Now contrast that to Governor Walz's press conference where Governor Walz said, we now have children in Minnesota who are hiding in their houses afraid to go out. Play this clip.

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Places to live. Allow our children to go back to school. We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody's gonna write that children's story about Minnesota. And there's one person who can end this now. And I'll go back to it again. Please show some decency. Pull these folks out.

906.368 - 920.751 Governor Walz

Reset this situation and allow us to do the job that the attorney general, myself, were elected to do. Protect the people of Minnesota and carry out the laws of Minnesota. We'll be back with you when we get more information.

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So contrast Governor Walz, empathetic, actually fighting for the people of his state. Compare that to Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol Gestapo leader, when he was asked, so are you blaming the victims here? Are you blaming Rene Good and Alex Preti? Bovino said, the real victims here are the Border Patrol agents, the shooters, the killers, the murderers.

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They're the real victims here, play this clip.

948.777 - 952.486 Greg Bovino

With respect, it feels as though in some ways you're blaming the victim here.

Chapter 7: How is the Second Amendment being debated in this context?

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And there are always actions that result from our choices. When you choose to use your five-year-old child as a shield to evade law enforcement, that is a choice that someone makes. And there are actions and consequences that result from that choice. Or when you're a politician or a community leader, you make a lot of choices there, some very important, wide-ranging and in-depth choices.

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When as a politician, if you choose collusion and corruption as a choice, then there are consequences and actions that take place because of that.

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Just a reminder, by the way, this is what the MAGA base was always telling us were the way they protested, where they would bring their semi-automatics, their AR-15s, you know, and other weapons of war to protest. Remember when they stood outside the state capitol building in Michigan with their semi-automatic weapons? And they said, that's what we do. That's fine. That's how you roll.

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But then now they're saying, or now the Trump regime is saying, having a lawful concealed carry permit and having a gun in a concealed carry posture now constitutes grounds to be killed and to be murdered by Donald Trump's ICE Gestapo. Let me just share with you some of the statements coming in from Alex Preti's friends. A friend of Alex Preti says, rest in peace, Alex Preti.

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You are courageous, kind soul, unjustly murdered. You will be deeply missed. Here's another statement. Alex and I were friends freshman year of college and lived in the same dorm. We drifted apart because life happens, but I had always sort of wondered how we ended up. As it turns out, he was a helper up until the very end. He was the best of us.

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It's shattering thinking of his family and those closest to him or this post. I'm incredibly sad that one of the sweetest people. This is a former coworker I knew was killed by ICE agents. He worked in a neighboring lab years ago. I have fond memories of him, and they will live on. F-ICE is what this person said. Here's Maria Bartiroma, absolutely livid.

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And when you've lost Maria Bartiroma from state regime media, here she is speaking with James Comer. Let's play this clip right here.

1161.014 - 1191.51 Maria Bartiromo

another individual is dead at the hands of border patrol. Let's be clear, we do not know if there was any pushback from this individual who was armed. We do not have evidence that he was waving a gun, doing anything to threaten border patrol. He had his phone and he was shooting, he was viewing and recording the incident. That's what he was doing, recording the incident. What is your reaction?

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And you are an elected official. What can you do about it?

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