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Donald Trump's attorney general Pam Bon Bundy promised to release the Epstein files and now, surprise, surprise, she's covering it up. And Democrats are going into reddish and purplish districts where MAGA Republican Congress members are too afraid to hold town halls. And Democrats are speaking with off constituents and voters who are enraged at what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Doge and all of these MAGAs are doing. So what is the Fox propaganda machine doing? They are propaganda ing it. Let me show you what they're doing. They have Kellyanne Conway, the queen of alternative facts. She goes on the Hannity show and she talks about consumer is up, way up. Everybody here play this clip. Go down. Consumer confidence going up. Everything is turning up Trump and no Kellyanne Conaway. Consumer confidence is way down. It's the worst University of Michigan inflation expectations since 1993. It's the WOR University of Michigan consumer sentiment. They're the university that takes these consumer survey datas. They're the gold standard. It's the worst University of Michigan consumer sentiment since 2022. And the big news in this University of Michigan data was not simply the inflation expectations and consumer sentiment. Look at what people are saying about the jobs market. Expected change in unemployment is the worst right now since the 2008 recession. So let me fact check Kellyanne Conway right there with actual then Sean Hannity is terrified of Democrats going into these red and purple districts. So Hannity says, look, if, if you're in one of these conservative areas, be, be careful, the Democrats may be talking about like transgender people playing sports. Ooh, here play this clip. Probably in all likelihood and according to reports, they are now planning to take this show on the road and they want to have town halls in Republican districts across the country. You may want to go. Might be entertaining. You might have a few questions for them. I would ask that you not be like them and be polite. But beware, if you are in a conservative area of the country, which is most of the country, a radical Democrat might be coming to a venue near you to spread their message in support of men and their right to play women's sports for open. That's all they have at this point. All they have is to Try to bully marginalized communities as Donald Trump and Elon Musk take. Take a wrecking ball to Medicaid, Social Security cruelly fire our heroic veterans. Gut the va, gut the nih, cdc, Department of Education, attack the most vulnerable, attack poor kids. And what are the MAGA Republicans talking about? Ooh, the Democrats are coming in. Talk about transgender volleyball players. What the hell are they even talking about? Then you have Alan Dershowitz, Donald Trump's lawyer. He goes on Fox and he praises how great Donald Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi is doing is. I think she's doing great. So Dershowitz, Trump's lawyer, also has some connections with Jeffrey Epstein, I might add. So maybe this is why he's praising Pam Bondi. Maybe Fox's platform. I don't know, but you can judge for yourself. Here, play this clip. Well, look, I think we're on the right track. I think Pam Bondi has extraordinary experience. She's tough. She has the right priorities. And remember, Pam Bondi said she was releasing the Epstein files, but it turned out she just brought in a few weeks ago those MAGA influencers who were handed binders that says the Epstein files. Here it is. And it wasn't the Epstein files. Remember what it was? It was like Epstein's phone list, which was released many years ago, by the way, which had Donald Trump's phone number on it and lots of Donald Trump contact information on it. But let me just give you this data point on Alan Dershowitz, Trump's lawyer, former lawyer, who was on Fox, who was saying, Pam Bondi's doing a great job. Take a look at this case, could you, please? I never saw a young underage woman. Yet Epstein's former butler swore under oath that Dershowitz was at Epstein's residences at the same time underage girls were there. Were there young women in another part of the house giving massages when I wasn't around? I have no idea of that. Dershowitz did say he once received a massage at Epstein's mansion, but from an adult woman. I kept my underwear on during the massage. I don't like massages, particularly. Told you we got to come with receipts here on the Midas Touch Network. That's what we're going to do. So then, as Donald Trump is crashing our economy, as people's 401ks and pensions are in the gutter, but according to Kellyanne Conway, things are great. Who does the Trump regime bring onto the Fox show? Maria Bartiromo, who also sits on the Kennedy board at Donald Trump selection. She's one of Trump's chief propagandists. They bring on Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, and he's like, whoa, there's no way there's going to be a contraction. The Atlanta Federal Reserve, no way. They're wrong. Watch what he has to say. Play this clip. We've seen worries about growth. I know you said you're not expecting a recession, but investors are on edge over the possibility of a recession this year after the Atlanta Federal Reserve said that it's predicting a 2.4% contraction in the first quarter. And of course, President Trump would not. Wait, wait, wait. Say it again. A what? A what? The Atlanta contraction. Correct, correct. First. Okay, right here, right here, right now. Right here, right now. That is ridiculous. Then on the Laura Ingraham show, they hosted JD Vance and he just said a bunch of word salad about how he's deferential to Donald Trump. Try to even make sense of what he's saying here. Let's play it. But I just wanted to answer the question. And then, of course, something I said in my answer caused the blow up. You know, Zelinsky got frustrated with it and then everything went from there. You know, the president, what I try to do is obviously, he's the president, I'm the vice president. I try to be respectful. But I also recognize that sometimes the president wants me to say stuff. And of course, if the president, if I think there's something useful I can say, and I think that it's going to be deferential to the president, I'll jump in and offer my thoughts. All right, coming up, did you know Fast Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in the US with thousands of different plants and over 2 million happy customers. They have all the plants your yard needs, like fruit trees, privacy trees, flowering trees, shrubs, and so much more. Whatever plants you're interested in, Fast Growing Trees has you covered. Find the perfect fit for your climate and space. 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So he's just giving like the layup to, to spell it out to his audience. Play this clip. If I were to imagine how this deal unfolds, it's going to be the rare earth mineral deal, a component that keeps US Involvement and a presence in Ukraine. Maybe European troops can be in Ukraine as well. I would imagine that Ukraine being a part of NATO is not going to happen. And I would imagine parts, maybe the Donbas region in particular or areas that are heavily populated by people from Russia that would go to Putin in any negotiated settlement. Am I wrong in my conjecture here, Sean? No surprise. You're not wrong in any of that. And what's important is that we are discussing all of those things with both sides. We are having those discussions with our counterparts with the Russians. We are having those discussions with our counterparts with the Ukrainians. And we are pushing both sides together with President Trump, the dealmaker in chief. I think this comment sums this up nicely, though. What this is almost certainly about is the Trumpers in their vast ignorance. Ignorance. Buying into the Russian claim that the Ukrainians in the Donbas region are Russians because they speak Russian. That's like claiming The Irish are English because they speak English. And that's why Hannity was serving it up kind of as a layup to literally launder the Russian Putin talking points. Talking about laundering the Russian Putin talking points. Donald Trump earlier in the morning yesterday literally posted Putin's talking points. Trump says, we had a very good and productive discussion with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday. Pause there. Have you ever seen Donald Trump post We had a very good and productive conversation with Ukrainian President Zelinsky. Have you ever heard him say something? Anyway, but about Putin was very productive. And there is a very good chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to an end. But at this very moment, thousands of Ukrainian troops are completely surrounded by the Russian military and in a very bad and vulnerable position. That's all in caps. For dramatic impact. Trump goes. I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared. This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II. God bless them all. Literally everything Donald Trump said there is absolutely false. It's some fantasy Russian propaganda fiction that Putin spews to his people. There's nothing true about that. So Ukraine's general staff had to issue a statement directly refuting the report that Ukrainian forces are encircled. Here's what the Ukrainian general staff wrote. Reports of the alleged encirclement of Ukrainian units by the enemy in the Kursk region are false and fabricated by the Russians for political manipulation and to exert pressure on Ukraine and its partners. The situation has remained largely unchanged over the past day. Combat operations within the operational zone of the cursed group of forces is ongoing. Units of the defense forces of Ukraine have successfully regrouped, withdrawn to more advantageous defensive positions and are executing their assigned tasks within the cursed region. Our soldiers are effectively repelling enemy offensive actions and inflicting significant fire damage using all available weapon systems. Since the beginning of the current day, 13 combat clashes have taken place in the cursed direction. There is no threat of encirclement of our units. In other words, everything that Trump is saying is absolutely false. Right there. Surprise, surprise. Howard Lutnick then goes on Fox Trump's commerce secretary to attack the eu. Here, play this clip. The world just let us rebuild. America needs to be in charge. Let us rebuild our steel and aluminum domestic production. And when we do that, tariffing our American whiskey, I mean, why is that credible? It seems illogical. So Donald Trump is just reminding the European Union who's in charge. Who do they run their big budget deficits with? You know, their trade deficits? They trade with us huge amounts. We buy their stuff all day, every day. And they need to respect Donald Trump and he's going to teach him how to do that. You know one of the things about that attack on the EU that I find interesting? Did you see this story from Reuters? How many eggs can you send us? Is now asking countries that it's attacking to help lower the soaring prices of US Eggs. Peep this. The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic Countries Egg association said on Friday. The request from the US Department of Agriculture coincides with a raft of new US Tariffs on countries, including in Europe, and a threat of more Donald Trump has also threatened economic sanctions unless Denmark hands over control of Greenland to the United States, while the Trump administration or regime, I should say, is out there begging, begging Denmark to help the US Lower egg prices. How utterly despicable can you get? Well, yeah, probably more with the Trump regime. There you have it. You see the propaganda. I know you want me to fact check it, which is why I come with the receipts. When I show you anything Fox related, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas plus substack for ad Free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now at Midas+dot.