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Media, known as Fox, was having the biggest meltdown on live TV I've seen yet. As the disastrous budget bill was failing, the Fox hosts were on live TV saying, hey Donald, call in so we can do coercion together and we can threaten the MAGA Republicans who don't want to vote for this. Let's do coercion together. Let's literally. That's what they said. Here, play this clip.
Political Analyst
Just now, Trump on Truth Social said the following For Republicans, this should be an easy yes vote. Ridiculous. Just now, the President is still up. If he's watching Mr. President call in, we will do some coercion together. And that's the whole thing.
Political Commentator
And then they started doing coercion together. I mean, for example, you had former MAGA Republican Congressmember Chaffetz go on Fox. He was on Hannity, he was on Jesse Water and he was saying to all those MAGA Republicans who want to vote against this, shame on you. We're coming for you. We're coming after you. Here, watch this.
Congressmember
And so you can either vote with the AOC or you can vote with Donald Trump. So don't tell me that you're a conservative. If you're not with Donald Trump, that's not going to fly. You're never coming back. And shame on you. And you get on that plane and try to go home and try to tell everybody I stood tough. Yeah, I got these big Instagram muscles. Look how tough I am on Twitter. Well, you don't support the President. That's, that's not going to clicks, Jason.
MAGA Republican
Everyone's looking for a click.
Political Commentator
And he continued here. Shaffet said, one more time, if you're one of those last three nay votes if you vote no again, we are coming after you. Here, watch for yourself.
Congressmember
That's why you better get in line. This is a, this is a game right now, Sean of musical chairs. If you're one of those Republicans that are in the last three, because that's what it'll be if there are three nay votes, you will never be involved in engaged in politics because you can't say that you're a Republican and support Donald Trump. That's the game they're playing. That's the dangerous game they're playing and why they're messing around with President Trump at this hour, at this time. Get over it. Vote yay, get on with the rule and then vote on final pass.
Political Commentator
I tend to agree.
Political Analyst
I think it's extraordinarily well said.
Political Commentator
Then they had Congressmember Smith go on. They started showing the graphics of the MAGA Republicans who were voting against the disastrous budget bill. And they basically said, we're coming after you. We know who you are. The Kyron. Look at what the Kyron's reading. It's basically Trump pressures the holdouts. And Fox went on this full court press here. Watch it. Let's play it.
Congressmember
Trace. Failure is not an option. This, this bill will go through. It will be sent to the president's desk so that he can sign it into law on July 4th. The members that are holding out right now from not voting, they will vote for this and we will have the votes to pass it and send it to the president's desk. The last thing those members want to do is to align themselves with the Democrats and allow the largest tax increase in the history of America to show up on every one of their consecutive constituents.
Political Commentator
Okay, more from this shape. It's Guy. He goes, I dare you to vote against our dear leader. He goes, president, I dare you to vote against it.
Congressmember
Here, watch for yourself. Let's play it big, big picture.
Political Analyst
Does he have what happens in the House with that bill?
Congressmember
They'll pass it in the middle of the night. They're going to cut some sort of deal. Oh, we'll bring up your piece of legislation. They don't have earmarks anymore, which is a good thing. But the president, he's going to get there. And you know what? I dare you, dare you to vote against the president on this because your political career will just be bye bye. Yeah, Thom Tillis, bye bye.
Political Commentator
Seriously, he keeps on going. He goes, how dare these people. These are all different clips. And Fox was airing stuff like this the entire day here, watching.
Congressmember
And how dare these people Sit back. And every one of those members of Congress who can't get over the hump and actually vote for his signature piece of legislation. Give me a break. You wrote Donald Trump's coattails all the way to the finish line. You bragged about your proximity. You probably posted up pictures with the president. Vote for that darn bill and pass it out tonight.
Political Commentator
And then. So they attacked maga. Republican Congressmember Thomas Massie, live on fire. They were attacking him the whole day. But this Fox guest then says, who voted for Tom? I didn't vote for Thomas Massie. Thomas Massie's a congressmember. I mean, his constituents voted for him. And then she talks about Democrats supporting Abrego Garcia. And she goes, and Abrego Garcia killed Americans? Did he kill Americans? What the hell is wrong with this regime media, this propaganda network. Here, play it.
I just think it's interesting that all of a sudden people voted for Thomas Massie. Like, I don't remember voting for Thomas Massie with this. I remember voting for Donald Trump to get this bill passed. And I feel like a lot of Americans who voted for Donald Trump feel the same way, especially not only with Thomas Massie, but a lot of the other Republicans who are kind of leaning towards no. They didn't vote for the fort. These Congress people, they voted for President Trump. They voted for this mandate. And if you're gonna vote no on this, then you're voting along with Democrats, especially Democrats like Maxine Dexter, who was on the Hill today dressed in a white robe, who also visited El Salvador to go see Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who killed Americans. This is something that a lot of people are passionate about passing. If you're not siding with Republicans, then unfortunately you're siding with Democrats.
Then you have Congressmember Smith saying, don't allow perfection to get in the way of greatness. Let's play it.
Political Analyst
If your colleagues who voted no on this are watching, what would you say to them?
Congressmember
I would say to them, do not allow perfection get in the way of greatness. This is a great bill. It's the largest tax cut in the history of America. It's the largest spending cuts in the history of America. The largest one time investment in the billion border and in national security. This is delivering on all of the President's priorities and what 77 million Americans voted for. Do the right thing. Do not allow perfection to get in the way of greatness and vote for this bill.
Political Commentator
These Fox hosts are ridiculous. Then one of the other propagandists on Fox says Why didn't the Democrats try to cut a deal with Donald? Maybe. Maybe we would have given you the dreamers if you just would have asked. Maybe Donald would have given you the dreamers. Give you the dreamers. What the hell are you talking about? You're talking about the people who opened up alligator Alcatraz to throw our migrants to alligators to get killed and eaten in the Everglades. Yeah, put the dreamers in the bill. Bunch of idiots. Here, play this clip.
Political Analyst
Democrats have replaced us, so they're wrong and corny now. And I just look at them. Look, I have my problems with some portions of the bill. I want more spending cuts there, but I don't live in this fantasy island. I understand what we're dealing with, but this is a party that lacks creativity. Take Murkowski. Can't stand the way that she votes, but she got something out of it. She went in and says, I want you to put a car back for me. Any Democrat could have went to the president and said, if you want my vote, put this in the bill. And I could have ran on it. I got this from my state. But they don't want to work with them. They don't want any wins. They just want to be the party of resistance.
Political Commentator
They could have got the dreamers in.
Political Analyst
So when the next. Exactly. So the next election, when it comes all down, they're going to run on the same things. No wins, and they're going to get the same result.
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Political Commentator
Then they bring on this guy who's running for governor in California who's like absolutely going to lose Hilton. And he goes, why is it that it is the people in the Democratic cities who suffer so much more than the Republican cities? What are you talking about? The crime rates, the poverty rates are far worse in red states and red cities. And by the way, it's the blue states and blue cities that subsidize are the donor states for the taker states, which are often the red states and red cities. Play this clip and this further point.
Congressmember
They go on about the poor. Where are people suffering the most from poverty? In places run by Democrats, the highest population poverty in America right here in California run by Democrats. Worst outcomes for people on low incomes, places like New York, Chicago. The Democrats are the party who crush people's hopes and aspirations and keep people stuck in poverty. This kind of legislation is what lifts people up and that's why we need it.
Political Commentator
And by the way, that tactic you see there is exactly what happens on state regime media in North Korea. What red states say about blue states is what North Korea says about South Korea. Oh, they're suffering there. They hate their lives. And meanwhile, it's these red states worst education, the worst health, the worst, the highest poverty rates, the most violent crimes. I can go on and on and on. Here you have a MAGA Republican on the more propaganda right here on FOX saying why can't Democrats celebrate or celebrate a win here? You know, we all know this is a bill that will lift all ships, that will lift all boats. As one person said, no, it's just gonna lift the people who have fancy yachts and screw over the rest of Americans. Here, play this clip.
And the other thing is this bill is being passed at a point when you see egg prices coming down, gas prices coming down, and people feeling a little bit more confident in the economy. There are some tricky spots indeed. But once you have this bill and people have the confidence that their taxes aren't going to go up, maybe that fuels some economic growth. Well, and this, this goes to show that why can't Democrats celebrate a win? Why can't they join together to celebrate and propel a vehicle that really would.
Lift all boats as My friend Brian Tyler Cohen says this bill will strip health care away from 17 million Americans, food assistance away from 3 million Americans, eliminate school meal access for 18 million kids and add 3.5 trillion to the deficit at least. But go on. Earlier in the day you had Maria Bartiromo, one of Fox's top propagandists. She was getting ready to announce those good job numbers. They thought 10000 jobs would be added which would be far less actually than former President Biden was adding month over month. But then they learned that that the job numbers, the ADP private payroll numbers showed a loss of 33,000 jobs when they thought there would be a gain of 100,000 jobs. And they know that this is a sign of a recession happening which we've been talking about the whole time here. Play this clip.
Economic Analyst
President Trump is talking about this bill leading to growth in the economy. We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs numbers for the month of May. The expectations call for the ADP numbers to be up 95,000 for the month of June. Rather it's the June jobs data. And we'll of course right now seeing, seeing the number actually show a decline in jobs down 33,000 on, on ADP. The bill includes $25 billion for the golden Dome, the missile defense system. Senator, you introduced a bill supporting the construction of that system.
Political Commentator
Then this other Fox host had to admit, one of the guests had to admit, whoa, these job numbers are awful. Play this clip.
Economic Analyst
Trump would like to sign this right before the July 4th holiday to celebrate freedom and independence. John, we are 30 minutes away from the opening bell for Wednesday in a holiday shortened week. Your your thoughts?
Political Analyst
Well our big surprise today had to be that ADP report on private sector employment that was down by 33,000 jobs. The labor market is softening. It's flattening out. And that tells me that companies can go ahead and increase prices in response to higher tariffs. But I don't think that consumers are going to respond positively. They'll pull back on spending. So any increase by inflation because of tariffs will be quite limited. Ultimately, tariffs may do more to increase federal revenues, reduce the federal deficit than to add to price inflation. And of course all this adds up to lower than expected interest rates by the end of this year.
Economic Analyst
Yeah, great point. Markets have turned negative. Now 30 minutes before the open on the heels of that weaker than expected June ADP report this. That's why President Trump keeps talking about growth. Ashley. John, you just mentioned people will have to raise prices. Not in Mamdani's New York, Ashley. No, no, no, no. Not if the government is running the grocery stores.
Political Commentator
And then here, some more of Shaffetz right Here goes. Has Trump been wrong about anything? Trump is always right. I mean, how pathetic can you get there? Play it.
Congressmember
That's the best the Senate could do and you're going to hold up the president's agenda. President Trump, you rode every single coattail he had. You rode President Trump's wave to get into office. You took pictures with him. You bragged about him, you've touted him. Now the president is saying, this is my signature piece of legislation. He's been there less than six months in this term, Sean. Has he been wrong on anything? He hasn't been wrong on anything. What he's done in terms of tariffs, tackling inflation, all the safety and security, going after, trying to lock down and secure the border.
Political Commentator
And here is maga, Republican Congressmember Randy Fine one more time and he goes. If you are giving Donald Trump any problems at all, remember that Donald Trump delivers for you. He delivers for me. Cult much? I mean, what kind of freaking cult is this here? Play this clip.
MAGA Republican
Well, I say this to my colleagues. When I won my special election primary, I got 83% of the vote. I beat two other people by 70%. And as much as I'd like to think it had to do with me, it had to do with the fact that my voters love Donald Trump. And everyone who's causing him these problems tonight needs to keep that in mind. Ours is the party of Donald Trump. We have to deliver on his agenda. And I'm going to do everything I can to make that happen.
Political Commentator
And then he lies that this bill has no tax on Social Security, which it doesn't. I mean, there's nothing about no tax on Social Security in this bill. Play the clip.
MAGA Republican
Well, I think some of them just didn't want to work at one o' clock in the morning, which I personally understand. I wish I was in bed right now. But what we have to understand, that the American people are counting on us and people are losing sight of what this bill does. Imagine you're a waitress working right now who's depending on tips to pay your bills. Or you're an older person who's dependent on Social Security and you don't want to pay taxes on what you earned for your whole life or you're one of the people who's going to lose all of the tax breaks they've had all of this time. We need to give certain to the American people But the most important thing is we all committed to support President Trump. He is counting on us to deliver his on his signature legislative achievement and we just have to get the job done. And I'll stay here all night. I'll stay here for the next week all night. I'll sleep in that cloakroom if that's what we have to do to get the job done for President Trump.
Congressmember
Trump.
Political Commentator
A bunch of freaking liars right there. Well, tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Do you hear it? Let's do coercion. By the way, I'll do a I'll do another video of Trump's posts where Trump then starts threatening the members. So they held this thing open, right? To coerce and threaten and extort the members to change their votes. Well, what the hell are we watching here? How the hell is this America here to take away healthcare from 17 million Americans to put us in more debt? These MAGA Republicans are vile and despicable human beings. There's no other way around it. Hit subscribe let's get to 6 million subscribers.
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The MeidasTouch Podcast Summary
Episode: "Fox Has Major Meltdown on Air as Trump Suffers"
Release Date: July 3, 2025
In this episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, hosts Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas delve into the dramatic on-air meltdown occurring within Fox News amidst President Donald Trump's political challenges. The discussion highlights Fox's aggressive tactics to secure Republican votes for the failing budget bill, the repercussions of these actions on democracy, and the broader implications for American politics.
Timing: [01:01] – [05:22]
The episode opens with the hosts dissecting Fox News' intense efforts to coerce MAGA Republicans into supporting the contentious budget bill. The commentators express concern over the network's strategy of pressuring elected officials publicly, portraying it as a dangerous manipulation of political discourse.
Congressional Pressure
Former MAGA Republican Congressmember Jason Chaffetz is highlighted for his harsh rhetoric against colleagues dissenting from the bill.
The hosts emphasize the severity of such statements, noting the threatening nature aimed at undermining dissent within the Republican ranks.
Further Escalation and Threats
Chaffetz continues his confrontation, warning that Republicans opposing the bill will be politically ostracized.
The hosts agree with the commentator's assessment of Fox's tactics.
Attacking Democrats and Red States
The podcast explores how Fox News not only pressures Republicans but also engages in divisive rhetoric against Democrats and red states, painting them as sources of poverty and crime.
Comparison to Authoritarian Regimes
The hosts draw parallels between Fox's portrayal of political adversaries and state-controlled media in authoritarian countries.
Impact of the Budget Bill on the Economy
The episode also touches upon the economic implications of the budget bill, particularly addressing conflicting job reports and economic forecasts.
ADP Job Reports and Recession Concerns
There is a critical analysis of the recent ADP job numbers, which reported a loss of 33,000 jobs contrary to expectations of a gain.
Political Analyst:
"Our big surprise today had to be that ADP report on private sector employment that was down by 33,000 jobs. The labor market is softening."
(14:13 – 14:32)
Economic Analyst:
"Markets have turned negative. Now 30 minutes before the open on the heels of that weaker than expected June ADP report."
(14:57 – 15:18)
Unwavering Support Amid Criticism
The podcast highlights the steadfast support some GOP members have for President Trump, despite criticism and opposition.
Congressmember Chaffetz:
"What he's done in terms of tariffs, tackling inflation, all the safety and security, going after, trying to lock down and secure the border."
(15:28 – 16:06)
MAGA Republican:
"Ours is the party of Donald Trump. We have to deliver on his agenda."
(16:23 – 16:48)
Misrepresentation of the Budget Bill
There is mention of misleading statements regarding the budget bill, specifically about taxation on Social Security.
The episode concludes with the hosts expressing deep concern over Fox News' tactics, labeling the behavior of certain GOP members as deceitful and harmful to democratic principles.
Political Commentator:
"These MAGA Republicans are vile and despicable human beings. There's no other way around it."
(17:45 – 18:24)
Political Analyst:
The overarching sentiment emphasizes the perilous direction of political discourse, where coercion and threats undermine democratic integrity.
Fox News' On-Air Pressure: Fox News is actively pressuring MAGA Republicans to support the budget bill through public threats and coercion, undermining internal party dissent.
Threats to Republican Unity: GOP members like Jason Chaffetz are issuing stern warnings to dissenters, risking political isolation for opposing the bill.
Divisive Rhetoric Against Democrats: Fox News is engaging in divisive tactics, portraying Democrats and red states negatively, exacerbating political polarization.
Economic Concerns Amid Legislative Efforts: Conflicting job reports and economic forecasts raise questions about the efficacy and impact of the budget bill on the economy.
Unwavering Trump Support vs. Democratic Values: While some Republicans maintain steadfast support for Trump, the methods employed by Fox News and certain GOP members threaten the foundational democratic values.
Overall Impact on Democracy: The aggressive media tactics and political coercion discussed pose significant challenges to the health and functionality of American democracy.
"Let's do coercion together. Let's literally."
Political Commentator (01:01 – 01:26)
"Do not allow perfection to get in the way of greatness."
Congressmember (06:54 – 07:27)
"If you're not with Donald Trump, that's not going to fly."
Congressmember Chaffetz (02:04 – 02:32)
"Trump would like to sign this right before the July 4th holiday to celebrate freedom and independence."
Economic Analyst (14:01 – 14:13)
This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast provides a critical examination of the current state of media influence, political coercion, and the integrity of democratic processes in the United States. Through detailed analysis and sharp commentary, the Meiselas brothers underscore the urgent need to safeguard democratic values against manipulative tactics.