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Donald Trump is jumping into bed again, this time with Vladimir Putin. He's about to sell out Ukraine as right wing social media, led by Carrie Lake and Jack Posobiek and Tucker Carlson celebrate an American president cutting a deal to deal directly with Putin against our democratic ally in Ukraine. The world has turned upside down, but we'll make sense of it all right here on the Midas Touch network@unlegal af. I never thought in my lifetime I would ever have to do commentary about a US President selling out American values and interests to our Russian adversaries. We're supposed to be trying to contain and undermine the superpower named Russia. We're not supposed to reward it for having breached the sovereignty of Ukraine, for having led to terrorism all around the country, to having undermined our own democratic values and election system through disinformation and misinformation campaign. But to people like Carrie Lake, who says, I wake up every day, it's like Christmas morning. We love the fact that Donald Trump is having direct phone calls with Putin. It's the art of the deal of peacemaking, says Jack Posobiak. And by the way, while I'm on Jack Posobiak, the guy that invented Pizzagate, the guy who argued to the American people an acuanon conspiracy that Democrats were running, including Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, were running a child pedophile ring out of a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C. i am not making this up. That guy. You think that guy should be in a mental hospital? You know where he is? He's standing next to Pete Hegseth, invited by the Pentagon to go along and do running social right wing commentary about the accomplishments. He's like embedded with the Trump administration. He goes with Pete Hegseth to Pentagon meetings abroad. He goes with Scott Bessant, the treasury secretary stands next to him while they're meeting with Ukraine as they're selling out Ukraine. Jack Posobiak, the pizza gate guy is in the government embedded with the Trump administration. So then you've got Tucker Carlson, right? Tucker Carlson is celebrating the fact that Donald Trump we're not just making it's not about making peace with Russia. It's about getting into bed with Russia and throwing Ukraine under the bus as a result. I mean he's negotiating directly Marco Rubio and Trump himself in phone calls with Putin negotiating directly with the Russians before they even met with the Ukrainians or understand what Zelensky wants in this. And they've already cut the legs out from under Zelensky because they've said out loud, including the Defense Secretary Hegseth and Marco Rubio that that Ukraine will never be allowed into NATO, will never be in the NATO alliance and that they'll have to give back, sorry, they'll have to give up all the territory that Russia took by force in the two and a half year, almost three year war. That's the reward Russia got for being the aggressor and going after a democratic country. And now you've got the talking points and you see how Donald Trump is using right wing media. I'm going to play a couple of clips here in a minute. But you got the talking points that Tucker Carlson is using and you think you're watching Russian tv. I mean he calls Tucker Carlson frequently calls Zelensky the dictator and that Putin had every right to protect himself from the dictator in Ukraine, all Ukraine. Listen, I know people in the region. I'm married to people from the region. I have a pretty good handle on what's going on on the day to day life over there. All Zelenskyy in Ukraine wanted was for their cousins in Russia to leave them alone after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Let them be an independent country that turns towards the west and democracy. That's what we're supposed to be supporting. We're not supposed to be supporting Putin. Oh well, we understand his position because you know, there's a border and Zelensky is popular. So bomb Kiev. So bomb Ukraine out of existence. Go back to maps from 17 and 1800 and say, oh, these territories were ours. Should Mexico show up with Claudia Sheinbaum tomorrow with military troops and take back large swaths of America because on maps from the 1700s or before it was all part of Mexico Are we going to lose California and Texas? Well, definitely Texas to a Mexican land grab? And why is it okay for an American president? I keep emphasizing the American part, who is supposed to be the leader of the free world, who's supposed to be holding our torch of democracy to which all other countries are supposed to be attracted as a counterbalance against communist and fascist regimes. Why is it okay for an American president to cut a deal to throw our democratic ally Ukraine under the bus? Why is that okay? And why is it okay for them to amplify this message as if it were written by Russian television? Couldn't have been written any better by Russian television for people like Tucker Carlson to say, well, Putin had every right, you know, but Zelensky, Zelensky, what? He was going to take over Russian territory. He just wanted the Donbas back. He just wanted Crimea back. The port, which was part of Ukraine before Putin's last land grab under the Obama administration. Left unchecked, Putin will continue to do it. I have friends in Poland who are crapping in their pants, understandably, because they're like, if the United States is not standing up for Ukraine, we have no hope when the tanks roll into Poland and they. And instead the right wingers like Carrie Lake and Pasopiac and Tucker Carlson and others who are celebrating. Hooray. Hooray. What? Where is your American values? The MAGA party running around with their red hats. By the way, they're very quiet lately. I'll tell you. I live in an area now that's sort of. I mean, the state is sort of maga, but it's purpley and I live in a blue spot. But they're very quiet because they didn't vote for this. They left fascist regime regimes and dictators. Right when they read a new executive order that says all federal agencies are. Are going to be put out of business and all have to answer to me, the almighty president. They freak out like, we didn't vote for this. We didn't vote for an economic tariff war that's going to spend the economy into an abyss. Did you know I have a secret weapon?