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It was absolutely disgusting and we'll talk about that and more. I also want to talk about Donald Trump demolishing the east wing of the White House today with bulldozers after Donald Trump saying that the 90,000 square foot golden Ballroom would have no impact on the existing structure of the White House. As we were saying on the Midas Touch Network, that was a lie. We were calling it up. We're still saying, nope, he can't do that without demolishing the east wing and people. He's not going to demolish the east wing and it's okay. He's just having private companies pay for it. I said, well, first of all, Donald Trump originally said that he was going to be the sole person to pay for it. Number two, we have something called like the Constitution and Appropriations. You can't just have private companies pay for things that are the province of Congress. This is the people's house. It belongs to we the people. And Donald Trump just goes and sends bulldozers and cranes and starts destroying the east wing. It's patently unlawful. For months now I've been saying lawsuits need to be filed to stop this. No lawsuit as far as I know was filed to stop this because of Donald Trump's fraud in saying that he was going to pay for it and that it wasn't going to in any way touch upon the existing structure. I still think there's a hook for someone to file a lawsuit I on this now, but somebody needs to take action because this is the People's House and this is symbolic of Donald Trump's destruction of Our democracy and to see the White House be destroyed like that is absolutely horrible. I want to also talk about Donald Trump being called out by the President of Colombia, President Gustavo Petro, for Donald Trump engaging in war crimes. Donald Trump had killed innocent fishermen, career fishermen, according to Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in Donald Trump's military strikes in the Caribbean. You will also recall that the four star admiral, Admiral Halsey, who was in charge of Southern Command, which is Latin America, Caribbean region, he quit last week suddenly, one year into his tenure, which is unheard of for someone who leads Southern Command. And it's almost certainly because Donald Trump has been committing these war crimes. We also have learned about potentially innocent victims of Trinidad and Tobago who were killed as well. There were two survivors recently from a strike who were then repatriated into other countries, which doesn't really square itself with Donald Trump saying that these individuals are war criminals who need to die immediately. And even if these individuals were drug dealers, who, which, again, I don't think they are, what was the Department of Homeland Security Rapid Response Team or one of those people, they were posting images of, like, drugs caught in 2024, like in Spain, like, having nothing to do with it. Like, look what we captured. It's like, that's not even the right incident at all that they were posting. But even if it were to be drug dealers, you don't just, you have to, like, have trials. You can't just go and kill people. Like, do y' all remember when George W. Bush was in office, one of the biggest scandals when was Abu Ghraib and torturing people by waterboarding them. And what a massive big deal that was, and rightfully so, that we would torture individuals who we believe to be, you know, war criminals and treat them that way. Remember how that was the scandal? Trump's just straight up killing people, like, like posting the death videos online. So I want to talk about that in the proper context. I also want to talk about the more we're learning about this Oval Office private meeting, not the one that took place in public between Zelensky and don Trump, where 24 hours after Donald Trump spoke with Putin, exactly what we predicted here on the Midas Touch Network happened, which was Trump laundered the Putin talking points, told Zelensky, you need to give up all of Donbas. You need to just do what Putin tells you to do. Give up now. These. Apparently, Trump was like, showing Zelensky the maps that Putin always shows about why he thinks this land belongs to Putin. Zelensky was standing his ground. But Then Trump said, no long range weapons for you. We're not imposing sanctions on Russia. And Donald Trump's like fully siding with Putin right now, which was something easy to predict. The ceasefire in the Middle east continues to fall apart. Dozens of dead Palestinians are being reported as a result of Israeli strikes in southern Gaza. Hamas has reasserted control and they're engaged in mass executions as well as of rivals and other individuals in Gaza. You have Benjamin Netanyahu and his finance minister Smutrich. They're out there saying that they do not support a two state solution. Smutrich is saying we need to build more settlements in Gaza right now. There were additional strikes that took place by the Israeli IDF in Lebanon. And so basically we're not in a ceasefire right now. I don't know what else to describe what's going on there. We also some major court updates as well. A bad update from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals where there were two Trump judges and one Clinton judge which reviewed that district court case, where a Trump appointed district court judge in Portland, Oregon said this is not a war zone. You can't invent your own facts and say this is a war zone. Donald Trump to put the troops into Portland, Oregon, the National Guard. Well, these two Trump appointed judges on the court above the ninth Circuit Court of Appeal said no, Donald Trump, you can make up your facts. You can, you can. Whatever you say goes, even if it's not a war zone. And those two Trump judges said, we agree it's not a war zone. But they said if Trump says it's a war zone, then it becomes a war zone. That was basically their ruling. And what a scathing dissent. The dissent said, we hope that the full panel of 9th Circuit Court of Appeal judges steps in immediately while they're still some belief that courts may exist in the United States. What, what a dissent to read. We'll talk about that and more. A very long intro. Sorry about that, brothers. Great to see you, but I had to get all of that out of my.
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Save it for the pod, man. Save it for the pod. We got, we got a lot of time. We could break it all down. It's all good. It's good to be here. Midas. Mighty great to be here, everybody. Great to be here. Ben Jordy, what a weekend. What an inspiring weekend. First, I just want to give a huge shout out to everybody who attended the no Kings protests. Everybody who is out there with their signs, who is protesting peacefully. You really made a statement. And if you weren't able to make it like don't feel bad about yourself at all. I appreciate everybody who is uplifting content, who is spreading the word online. I met so many incredible people out there at the no Kings protest by me. I was so inspiring. I want to thank everybody who came up to me, everybody who said hello. And now we're, you know, I think the Trump administration honestly was really rattled by what happened yesterday and you could see that in their reaction, their really desperate reaction to the protests. And like, call me old fashioned when I'm watching all of this happen, but I don't think the, and the Vice president and the speaker of the House and an entire political party should be making more than half the country into their enemies who are supposed to be mocked and derided and, and terrorized with military and everything that they're doing right now. It shows that they just don't care about actually being leaders for the country. They care about being leaders for their small little cult and they want to inflict pain on the rest of the country. And in fact, I think their reactions to the protests show exactly why we all showed up for those protest protests and made history and set records. I'm excited to get into all the news here on today's episode, but, you know, I first got to toss it over to Jordy. Jordy, what's the latest?
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What's up? What's up? Hey, let me just start there, Brett, because, because I, I, I want to say this. There is nothing more American and nothing more patriotic than what we witnessed this weekend. The millions of Americans, millions who took to the streets over the weekend to have their voices heard at their respective no Kings protests. I mean, we all saw the videos online, the photos online. These were peaceful protests all across the country over the weekend. It was epic. And then you have Speaker Johnson today, Tiny Johnson, up on that podium calling it, calling it the Hate America rally. What are we even doing here? Like corporate media, y' all are always so quick to take the MAGA framing for everything and go on your evening programs and say, oh, we just have to tone down the temperature in this country. We need to tone down the rhetoric when y' all are trying to pin things on the Democratic Party. But the leaders of the Republican Party, the leaders are calling peaceful protests the Hate America rally and crickets. I mean, can you even begin to understand just the target that that puts on the people's backs that take to the streets to peacefully protest? Or do you just not care? The hypocrisy, Brothers Midas mighty of corporate media and how they treat the Republican leadership. It's just astonishing. And then, Ben, something you mentioned earlier. Donald Trump, apparently, he's just allowed to post a video of himself literally taking a shit on America, taking a shit on Harry Sisson, a private citizen. And, oh, that's just Donnie being Donnie. Look how much he loves America. He's shitting on the citizens and corporate media. Do you all understand the target that Trump just put on that kid's back? And do you all understand how completely beneath the office posts like that are? And if any other president in the history of this country were to do that, that there would be immediate outcry from all of the legacy medias out there for the 25th amendment, and rightfully so. I know you do here listening to this podcast. And I'm here just to say don't be gaslit by corporate media who continues to try and sandwash this behavior. You are, in fact, witnessing exactly what you think you are. And this utterly insane behavior from the Republican leadership and our corporate news entities to normalize any of this behavior. It's disgusting and it needs to be called out every day. But again, congrats to everyone who was peacefully protesting over the weekend and making your voices heard. That was just. That was incredible.
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By the way, I think our researchers look through all the Sunday shows. You know, the Sunday shows, they're supposed to be able to, like, recount the day's news. And they had. They always end up bringing on all these Republican figures and stuff. All those various shows on the, on the networks. And not one of those shows asked about that post by Trump, like, not, not. Not a single one of the shows asked about it. And just one of the crazy things is when you see, like, the way they kind of rationalize it, too, in the media. I saw, like, not to name names, but Jake Tapper did, did like an Instagram video, you know, where he was like. And Donald Trump posted those video of, you know, pooping on people. And like, he, the way he framed it was like, that's just Donald being Donald, you know, that's just his personality, you know, just as per. He's got personality flaws. What are you going to do? I mean, this is the guy who relentlessly went after Biden in like, the most heinous of ways. Just writing this off as, like a personality flaw and not a much deeper, more troubling thing that we are witnessing. And we just went through weeks and weeks and weeks of this Republican Party saying that because Democrats and anybody who's pro democracy in this world, independence, because people call Donald Trump, rightfully an authoritarian, that they were to blame for Charlie Kirk's murder, that they are to blame for any incident of political violence that happens. And then this past week, all of these Republicans, one after the next, start saying all the people who are trying to stand up to this regime, all of them, they are part of the Hate America rally. They are antifa domestic terrorists. Like the language that they used was so inflammatory and so irresponsible coming from not just like fringe figures or like followers of the Republican Party or MAGA people, but the leadership in the party. And I think it deserves a lot more scorn, I think it deserves a lot more introspection as a country as to who these people really are, what this leadership is a very Soviet, Russian, kind of North Korean style spin that they are putting on everything. It is so incredibly disturbing.
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It's why the phrase I talk about so frequently on this podcast is moral clarity. We have to act as with moral clarity and we have to establish that there needs to be some sort of floor when it comes to who should be leaders. And not just that we shouldn't normalize this behavior, but the level of condemnation, the level of outrage that we should show to this behavior needs to be congruous with the behavior. And the conduct like this would not be okay if this was in a small business, a medium sized business, a large corporation, a nonprofit, a social group. If people behave this way, I mean, you would hopefully say that someone would call this out. How could someone be a leader who's posting videos of themselves defecating on the faces of little babies and mothers and people who are out there doing something peacefully and then say, ha, ha ha, I owned you. How funny is that? You'd be like, yo, this person's a maniac. This. But ultimately, this is the person who's leading the United States of America and in a very bad direction. And it's pervading so much as well in this corrosive and destruction that we're seeing of, of our country and its leadership in the world is absolutely fading away. When you see the war crimes taking place in the Caribbean, when you see just the way the world order is being restructured with America becoming weaker and weaker by the day.
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And I just think we need to.
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Call this behavior out. And Brett, it's a great point that they don't even talk about that once on the weekend shows. And even when they asked Maga Mike about earlier today and Maga Mike responded, well, you know, that's just how he is. And I think he Uses social media, you know, good. Like, at that point, the media should just walk out on the guy or stand up and, like, yell at him and be like, seriously, like, you actually think that's okay? Like, are you a pathetic human being? Like, how do you live with yourself? Like, show the actual outrage. Because I'm raising a one year old little girl right now in the United States of America and the freaking President of the United States is posting videos of himself on people's faces. Like, how am I supposed to explain that to my little girl? I mean, Jordy's raising a boy, Brett's raising a boy. People watching here. You have kids, grandkids. How are we supposed to explain to generations that the freaking President of the United States posts videos of himself taking shits on human beings while actually engaging in war crimes in the Caribbean while behaving in this way? I mean, think about this. We mentioned, you know, the target that Donald Trump puts on people's heads doing that. How about the target that Donald Trump put on the heads of these young black men who posted a video. Back in June when America struck Iran and they posted a patriotic video on TikTok, there was a trend where people were basically saying that they and their friends were going to stand with the United States against Iran. When America was striking Iran with B2 bombers, which, by the way, was a total failure. It didn't actually get rid of Iran's nuclear material. Iran's been able to rebuild and they're actually stronger than ever was. Another performative theater, another fugazi by Donald Trump. But the trend was people would respond and they would say things like, you've seen what we can do. Don't say something that you can't finish. Iran, we already. We united. United we stand. We want all the smoke. So a group of young black men, they made this video and they posted it on TikTok. And then they wore a mask to actually stand up for the United States of America. Then the Department of Homeland Security manipulates the video. They change the caption that was on it so that the caption reads, ice, we're on the way. Word in the streets, cartels put a $50,000 bounty on y'. All. That's not what these young men posted. The Department of Homeland Security just fabricated it. To put a target on these young black men's head is what's really going on. And then in their caption, the Homeland Security Department goes fuck around and find out. If you threaten or lay hands on our law enforcement officers, we will hunt you down. And you will find out real quick. We'll see you, coward soon. Hunting down young black men. But isn't that basically Donald Trump's life isn't Donald Trump's story. It's why moral character matters. It's why when we pointed out before, as many others did, that Donald Trump's past was being a racist and he would call for the death penalty against black men who were innocent of their crimes, he would discriminate against people in his apartments, that this is who he was. And now they're bringing it here in our government in such a vile and disgusting way. And then throughout the weekend, Trump just kept on posting images of himself and J.D. vance wearing crowns over and over again. And then the stupid sombrero thing that they post with Hakeem Jeffries and Leader Schumer in the Senate. And it's like the government is shut down right now. And by the way, there is no path really to even have it opened because the Republicans in the House refuse to even speak with the Democrats yet alone negotiate with them. Donald Trump likes that health care is being ripped away from 20 million Americans. When you look at the stats, the letters that people are getting, that their monthly premiums are going from 100 bucks, few hundred bucks, to $2,000 a month for their health care plans, they're going to go bankrupt. They can't afford the plan. And so millions and millions of Americans will lose their health care and likely die as a result of what Trump and the Republicans are doing. And meanwhile, they're building this ballroom, gutting the freaking White House with bulldozers. And by the way, Trump said that he was going to pay for it, but he ain't paying for it yet. Another fraud and a lie. We're giving $40 billion to Argentina. And Trump's like, yeah, they're in a crisis. We need, we need to save Argentina. Like, they're, they really need it. Our farmers are screwed here are going bankrupt. Construction, manufacturing. We're in a massive manufacturing and construction recession. Americans across the country right now, unless you're a billionaire, are suffering. And this is what they're doing. This is their behavior. They're posting images of Schumer and Jeffries and princess outfits. And look, I like to think that I have a sense of humor, brothers. I just, I don't find it funny when my countrymen have, are going to be dying. My countrymen and women and country women are dying as a result of this behavior. It's sickening behavior. Let me just show you, just to remind you when we talk about this ballroom, we what Donald Trump said, when Donald Trump said that he was going to pay for it, this was back in August when he started talking about it. Here he is on FOX when he's asked how many donors to get to 200 million, 250 million. Watch what Trump says. Let's play it.
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How many donors do you think it's.
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Going to take to get to 200 million?
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Maybe one.
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Me.
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But you would cut that check yourself. I would, yeah.
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No, you wouldn't. You're a fraud. You're a liar. When we called him such at that time, we said that's a fraud, that's a lie. He's not going to pay for it. So then he went, remember he was walking that day on top of the White House and he popped out on the roof of the White House that day and he talked about building nuclear weapons on top of the White House. But then he talked about, you know, that I'm going to buy all of this. I'm spending my money. This is my money that I'm spending for you. And he was ostensibly talking about the ballroom here. Just remember this.
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Here, play this clip.
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Make it a little walk.
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What does that mean?
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What do you, Four ways to spend my money.
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Can you give us another thing?
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We'll, we'll show you. It's just another way to spend my money for the country. Anything I do was financed by me. So, you know, it's contributed just like my salary is contributed. Nobody ever mentioned that.
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Then when he held an event regarding the ballroom in the last week or so, he had all of his right wing oligarchs there and he said $25 million from each of you, 25 mil. Here, play this clip.
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And we'll be able to have state dinners, the kind where we would literally not even have state dinners because it's not set up. But for all those years they wanted it and now they're going to get it. And because of you, they're going to get it. And me too. We're all in this together. And I mean, I have so many friends and so many of you have been really, really generous. I mean, a couple of you, I'm sitting here saying, sir, would $25 million be appropriate? I said I'll take it. You know, it doesn't take too many 20 fives to get it done. But a lot of, I mean a lot of you were, have been really fantastic. Ike, thank you very much. You were great.
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Zero transparency here. We don't know what quid pro quos are taking place. This is very illegal. You can't just have private companies replace Congress and the Congress appropriations functions. The law is very clear. If you're making any type of structural. It's not even like a dispute. If you're making any type of structural change or alteration, it has to be done through Congress. There's a government shutdown now. He just sent bulldozers to destroy the White House right now before our eyes. Desecrated the East Wing. Desecrated today. And I don't know, I just. I don't even have the words to capture, like, how shameful of a day this is in American history.
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It's insane. And when you look at that image, you know, it's like what I said online, you know, tearing down the White House. This picture right here, I think is going to become one of the defining pictures of the Trump regime. It's. It's like just the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump regime completely destroying this country. We get to see it in this way. And this has to be completely illegal. I mean, it's blatantly illegal. As you said, the White House is a federal property. It's a National Historic Landmark. There are strict regulations on this. There's the National Historic Preservation act of 1966. Think about it like an apartment, right? If you all move into an apartment, if you live in an apartment, you could put things on the walls, you could move things around, you could put your own furniture in. You know, you could do all that stuff. You can't take a bulldoz and start knocking the place down, decide to build your own thing. And I think it kind of shows that Donald Trump really has no intention of leaving this place. It's really the perfect encapsulation of his corruption, of the quid pro quo deals that he cuts with these various corporations. It shows just how much of a corporatocracy our nation has become, which it's, I would say it's honestly been for a while, but especially under Donald Trump. You see how these corporations bend the knee and how when they want, they say in policy, they make these agreements with Donald Trump for some of the most corrupt dealings that we've ever seen in a our nation's history. I mean, it's just an absolute disgrace. And that's why, you know, when we do this reporting here every single day, the stories all sound more outrageous than the next. Right. When we were reporting that they were going to be firing over the i5 in California, that sounded outrageous. When we are posting pictures of the White House being demolished and we say they're demolishing the east wing of the White House. That sounds outrageous. And a lot of people's reaction to that is to go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You guys are. You guys are exaggerating. What's the major breaking news here? You said you had major breaking news. What's the. I mean, what. What else. What could be bigger than all these stories that we are saying right now? I think people get far too comfortable in this news environment when chaotic stuff is happening that they start to think that all this is just normal. What's the big news? What's the. And we can't be numb to everything that is going on in this administration, because to me, that's the problem that we're seeing with much of the corporate media out there is they treat this all like it is fricking normal. And none of this is normal at all. To Ben's point, we gotta be calling them out on their shit. They're l. Every day, they're treating this country like it's the Soviet Union. They are quite literally shitting on the American people in these memes. And in reality. And we. We can't stand for it. We can't just sit here and go, oh, everything's normal. This is just America as usual, because it's absolutely not so well said.
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B, I just want to reiterate in plain English here. Donald Trump demolished the east wing of the White House today. Now, let's play everybody's favorite game here. Imagine if Biden did it. I can't even begin to fathom the outrage by Fox News and all those entities, those right wing entities, they freaked out over Obama's tan suit. Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to the east wing of the White House today. A bulldozer. Just boof gone for a ballroom. And Brett, you bring up such an excellent point as well. You know, I have never known anyone to do a bathroom renovation in their house or a kitchen remodeling if they have the intention on moving out, let alone put in an entire ballroom. New wing of the White House. It's really striking stuff. And again, B, to your point, the normalization of all of this erratic, insane behavior and just washing it off as the honeybee. And Donnie, there's nothing that pisses me off more than that. I mean, we all should be collectively outraged by. By. By that image that Brett just put on the screen right there. Unbelievable.
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Yeah.
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And then he held a press conference with the LSU baseball team that won the championship. And while the government's in A shutdown right now, right while people are being laid off, while so many Americans are suffering. And as people are afraid, rightfully so, they're going to lose their health care. He's talking about drinks and cocktails. Ooh, that's going to be so great. The caviar, the steaks, the drinks, the cocktails. Everybody like the freaking Great Gats. I mean, what are we watching? I mean, this is what he said today. Here, play this clip.
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You know, we're building. Right behind us, we're building a ballroom. They've wanted a ballroom for 150 years. And I'm giving that honor to this wonderful place. I think we should do it. This was the ballroom, and this room holds 88 people. And the. And the new one will hold 999 people, which is a difference. I say 99 because I didn't want to crack a thousand. I didn't want people. People to get concerned because that's getting big. But we're going to have. We'll have the most beautiful ballroom in the country. It's going. And if, for those that are interested, we got to get back to baseball. But you see the gold grapes? That's a knockout panel. We knock it in, you go. That comes out, and then you have essentially glass and. Exactly. In the decor of the White House. I didn't know I'd be standing here right now, because right on the other side, you have a lot of construction going on, which you might hear periodically. But that's a knockout panel, and that goes right into the ballroom. And the ballroom is going to be beautiful. So you'll have drinks, cocktails, everything on this floor, and then they'll say, welcome to dinner. You walk into the ballroom, Mr. Senators, and you're going to see a ballroom the likes of which I don't think. Well, I don't think it'll be topped. It'll be. It'll be the finest. So it's going to be a lot of fun. It just started, and it just started today. So that's good luck. We want the same luck that they had and the same talent.
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So let me just send this message to anybody who has the standing to sue, to the law firms that are out there, to the state attorney generals, go and seek an injunction to block this construction. The argument that you should make is that Donald Trump engaged in fraud and saying that he alone was going to pay for it and that it wasn't going to impact in any way the existing structure. The emergency basis for your instruction, for your injunction is the photograph that we showed that they just damaged the actual White House and they're destroying the East Wing, which is a violation. Get a court to enjoin or block further construction until such time as there's discovery in a transparent way. Who is funding this thing, make the order, demand discovery and then address the issues of the illegality that it is a violation of Article 1 of the Constitution. That's the argument you need to make. Go and make it. I'm a someone who leads a media network, okay? I'm not a practicing lawyer anymore. I don't do these things anymore. But please, somebody who's watching this, okay, do what I just said and do it because it's the patriotic thing to do and it's the right thing to do because laws are being violated right now by Trump as a result of this destruction of the White House.
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Got it.
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I want to give a special shout out to that end, Jordi, to our editorial team here as well. Their impeccably sourced stories have been some of the most impactful during this Trump regime. And just this past week, Aaron Parnas, I think, wrote an incredible story about the, the artillery, the live munitions that were going to be shot over the i5 by the Trump regime, by the Navy as part of this Marine event that was just announced in the past two weeks that these live munitions were going to be shot over the i5. It was going to post it pose a very big safety risk. So the i5 would likely have to be shut down and it would be these munitions would be shot onto Camp pendleton over the I5 highway, which never happens before. That's not a normal thing. Let's be very clear. And I know Aaron Parnas and Midas Touch got a lot of grief for the story that we posted last Wednesday. When we broke the story about what was going to happen then Snopes did a big fact check and basically called us liars because they adopted Trump's framing. This was a pre planned event. This happens all the time.
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Let me talk about that for a second because I do want to talk about this Snopes thing that's going on. And because their whole thing was that, you know, Midas Touch says that they had, you know, unnamed sources who were able to, you know, verify that this is what was going on over the weekend here. And yeah, like that's how things work. Anonymous sources are an essential part of journalism. We had multiple corroborating anonymous sources. This bizarre push by people to say, okay, name them. Name your sources out your sources. Like in what world of journalism is that something that's required or is demanded of any publication ever. But for some reason, and Snopes wants to hold us to a higher standard, they did this story. Their story was inconclusive, but they gave the Trump administration the benefit of the doubt. They said, we see this statement from the U.S. marines that they released saying that they would never be shooting anything over the freeway and that there's going to be no need for any shutdowns of the freeway. The Trump administration has said this is fake news, therefore, we just don't know. You know, Midas touch says it, but they don't like Trump. And so take that, that with a grain of salt, but then you have Trump saying he's not going to do it. So we're inclined to believe that story. Okay, that's it.
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Okay, all.
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And to me, it's just, it's just so offensive. It goes against what journalism actually is. And if you yourself can't do the legwork and actually follow leads and, and follow sources, develop sources, get corroborating sources, just because you're unable to do that part does not make the factual story that you are trying to quote, unquote, fact check, true or untrue. Like, like, at a certain point, you need to understand. And so as everything developed, it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. As we saw what was happening here in the state of California. Gavin Newsom ultimately had to consult with public safety experts. He had to shut down 17 miles of the Interstate 5, the I5 freeway, out here in Southern California, because he said, this is dangerous. This is a dangerous thing for them to be shooting live munitions over the freeway. Then all the Trump people, the same people who places like Snopes were citing in their reports, were going fake news. There's no need. Look, look at Gavin Newsom. He's overreacting. He wants to shut down the freeway to blame Trump, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so, so luckily, Newsom did, in fact listen to the public safety experts. He shuts down the freeway. They end up doing this ridiculous stunt that was apparently all designed so that JD Vance could get a cool video for his TikTok like that. Like, that's where this ended up on his little TikTok feed. And when they did it, of course, a live round prematurely exploded in the air as it was going over the I5 freeway. The shrapnel hit a police car that was actually in J.D. vance's, like, motorcade, like, like bringing him around, damaged the vehicle. The, like, the entire freeway was rained down with artillery, with, with, like these Shells and shrapnel and stuff. And had Governor Newsom not taken the action that he took. People killed, like, injured or far, far, far worse. And so, honestly, like, one of the reasons why I get extra annoyed when it's something like Snopes, you know, not to keep picking on them, view them as kind of sacrosanct. People view them as, like, they are the arbiters of what is true and what is false. So when they wrote that article, even though they did not make a definitive determination, the implication was that the story was false in the way they wrote the piece. And so we had to field dozens and dozens of emails from people who would say, I can't believe you made up that story. I can't believe you lied. Snope said, you're liars. I used to trust you. Now I want to cancel my subscription. I'm not listening to, to the podcast anymore. I'm blocking you. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Snopes doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. And so they actually did real damage in the situation. Thankfully, the authorities did not listen to them because people could have gotten killed due to their fact check. But the fact is, this happened. It was even worse than we anticipated, actually. I'm damn proud of our editorial team. I'm proud of Aaron for following those leads, for getting his sourcing, for getting the story right. And once again, shame on the Trump administration for these stunts and shame on the legacy media and anybody who tries to normalize this crap and tries to pretend like we live in normal times when we do not live in normal times.
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If you can't tell, we're very passionate about this. We are, very. Because we know what goes on behind the scenes here at the network and the incredible amount of well researched and well sourced material that goes into every single story that we put out. So it's not us, like, bullying anybody when we, when we try and correct it for the record record, but it's just us making sure that everyone understands. Like, hey, we have the sources. We're doing the work.
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They use it to try to discredit you in other means. That's why it's so nefarious. So they'll take that story, someone will, like, throw it on your Wikipedia page. They'll say, look, when they spread this fake news, somebody else writes an article. Like, it becomes a part of your identity when they do that. And so it's actually quite damaging to our reporters who are honestly sticking their necks out in front of a Very vindictive administration that's trying to indict people, that's trying to, trying to prosecute their enemies, that's threatening their political enemies. And so when we are doing a story that directly refutes the line of this Trump regime, honestly, it's dangerous for the staff here. And so when they are coming at us in that way and are trying to say you're lying, it's just so, it's, it's honestly just so incredibly damaging to what we are all doing here.
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Well, and here's the thing. I don't believe what we do here, even at the Midas Touch Network is like a job. Like, I don't wake up and go, I'm going to work today. Like, I view what we have as a mission. Mission, okay. And I view this mission as life or death, because this is how people are being impacted. Whether you have health care is life or death. Whether you can afford food is life or death. Whether you will be rained down on by shrapnel from munitions while you're driving is life or death. Whether you can be disappeared to a concentration camp is life or death.
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Death.
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You know, these things have impacts on our lives. And so what this story was about and men and much of our reporting was giving a public safety warning as well. And I think because of that public safety warning that we gave, we got ahead of what the Trump regime was trying to do, which they wanted this to be like a sneak attack, right? They just wanted to do it during the no Kings. You could imagine what they were planning behind the scenes, right? Hahaha. Well, everybody's driving to no Kings. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You start to have these missiles going over your head and then that's their view of like intimidating the people of California. That's how they wanted to do it. So the story provided this public service, I think, of warning and I think that's just an important part. And this stuff is life or death. I mean, look at when Donald Trump, I mean, just so our audio listeners know, we're showing you what the, what it looked like, the munitions, what it looked like that exploded where the shrapnel came. I mean, these are big, big munitions that come from these howitzers and, and other major weaponry that's used on the battlefield being shot over the highway. Okay? And as I say, this is life or death. Let me just give you some data points. As Donald Trump was returning from Mar a Lago, where he was golfing yet again on the taxpayer dime this weekend, he started, he took A little press brief in, in the Air Force One. And let me show you some of the things that he was actually asked. So he was asked about the Hudson River Tunnel in New York City and other infrastructure projects in New York. Donald Trump has stolen, he's taken away about $20 billion that was promised to Manhattan for the tunnel and for other infrastructure projects that were critical to everything that, to. To the. One of the biggest cities, if not the biggest city in the entire world. World. So let me show you what Donald Trump said when he was asked about this. Here, play this clip.
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Mr. President, sticking with New York City, you've talked about the Hudson River Tunnel, the protection project.
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You said that the funding has been.
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Terminated, but, you know, folks in New York have said that it's not terminated. So where does that.
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Well, as of now, it's terminated and that's up to me. And as of now, it's terminated and it's terminated because the Democrats are so full of foolish what they've done to the country. I mean, we have the hottest country in the world. There's no country even close. And they just want to do this. You know, there's nothing for them to do. All they have to do is just say, let everything continue. And I will say a lot of Democrats want this to get over.
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So the administration right now is not sending funding.
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Right now there is no funding because it's up to me.
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Right now there is no funding because it's up to me. I'm going to damage Minh Manhattan. I'm going to damage Boston and Chicago. And just think about it. These are the states and cities within the states that literally fund the red states. The red states are failures, by and large, utter failures, just like the regimes that Donald Trump worships. Javier Milei in Argentina who needs a $40 billion bailout, Viktor Orban in Hungary. Red states are run like that, failures because they focus on their weirdo culture wars and their racism and their hate over logic and education and intelligence and running things smoothly. Yet they go, oh, we're the fiscal hawks, we're the smart ones. Absolutely not. You are the taker states. You're the leeches, okay? The blue states literally subsidize the red states that wouldn't be able to even exist. They'd be bankrupt without California and Los Angeles county, right? Without Boston, without Chicago, without these blue states and blue cities cities, they would be done. Yet they do this attack on blue states. Yet they do this attack on blue cities. It is despicable conduct. So you have that, then you have Donald Trump being asked. Well, you know, it looks like that ceasefire is falling apart in the Middle East. It seems that there have been missile strikes by Israel into South Gaza. Donald, what do you make of it? Donald, what do you think? Here, play this clip. Do you feel that Israel was justified with striking when it did?
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Striking where?
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In Gaza.
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Gaza today and overnight.
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I'd have to get back to you on that. I'd have to get back.
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What is the next step is?
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We're going to be determined. You know, all of that is under consideration right now. It's under review.
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What you don't know, no one, no one told you what's happened? Based on different reporting. You can go by the Guardians reporting which talks about multiple violations of the ceasefire. You can go by Al Jazeera's reporting which says that Israel has killed 97 Palestinians and wounded 230, committing 80 ceasefire violations since October 10, according to the Gaza media office. The Guardian reports a slightly less amount than that, but still a significant amount of ceasefire violations taking place. Hamas has said they're not disarming, they've retaken control. As I mentioned at the outset of this episode, Netanyahu certainly not supporting a two state solution. Hamas and Israel didn't even sign the agreement. Agreement. Donald Trump doesn't even know the strikes are taking place right now. I just want you to. That was news to him while he was out golfing or focusing on the ballroom. He didn't even know that that was taking place. Okay, well what about your meeting with Zelensky? What about your meeting that took place end of last week? All of the reporting from the Financial Times and other reporters was that Donald Trump, after the cameras left, started screaming and cursing at Zelensky. Zelensky showing Zelensky maps that were basically handed to Trump by Putin, which, where Putin views the borders to be yelling at Zelensky, cursing at Zelensky, saying, listen, you mother effer, basically you're going to give Putin back Donbas, you're going to give Putin back all of the land. And you know, and you have no choice in this matter. Basically, we're not going to give you weapons, we're not going to sanction Russia, you're going to give Russia all of Donbas. Do you understand? Zelensky's like, ah, I'm not doing that. What are you talking about? That's unacceptable. So then Donald Trump was asked about that on the plane and Donald Trump, then he lies about it, but he's like, even with his lie, he goes, no, Russia should keep all of the land that it has right now. And Ukraine just needs to accept that. And of course, Trump's not imposing sanctions on Russia, not giving long range missiles. It was all bs and it was part of Trump tormenting and torturing Ukraine in order to drag them along long to try to hope that he could buy time for Putin so that Putin can make advances on the battlefield, which Putin hasn't. Oh, and then Donald Trump was spewing the Putin talking points to Zelensky. Putin's winning this war, you're losing. The Russia economy's thriving, which it's not. I think Putin was able to take an additional 1% of land at the cost of over 1 million Russian soldiers. But watch as Donald Trump's asked about Zelinsky on the Air Force One trip back to deal with. Here, play this clip.
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Yeah.
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Friday you said you had a cordial.
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Meeting with President Zelensky. During that, during that meeting, did you.
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Tell him he needed to cede all.
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Of the Donbass region to Russia?
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No, we never discussed it. We think that what they should do is just stop at the lines where they are, the battle lines. You have a battle line right now. The rest is very tough to negotiate. If you're going to say you take this, we take that. You know, there's so many different permutations. And so what I say is they should stop right now at the battle lines, go home, stop killing people and be done.
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What do you think should happen with the Donbas region?
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Let it be cut the way it is. It's cut up right now. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave it the way it is right now, they can, they can negotiate something later on down the line. But I said cut and stop at the battle. I go home, stop fighting, stop killing people.
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I would like to remind everybody, on October 16, 2025, during the Midas Touch podcast, we predicted exactly what was going to happen. I said, I know Trump's psychology. He spoke with Putin the day before the Zelensky meeting. I said, he's going to just push Putin's propaganda and it's going to be a disaster. I said, watch. I said, I could be wrong, but I know this guy's pathology. Here, play this clip of what I said on October 16. He's meeting with Zelensky tomorrow. In many ways, though, I actually think it's not great timing because it's right after the Putin talk and Trump's still going to be feasting off the Putin talking points. So I'll focus on what's going to happen there. But if I, if I was betting, knowing Trump's psychology, I think that in pathology, I think it's not going to be a good meeting. And I say that because Trump seems to be emboldened by believing that he actually just brought peace to the Middle east, which he did not do. And I think he's going to go there and try to intimidate Zelensky in a way that I don't think people are. I'll see if I'm right or wrong, but I think I'm right about that one. I think I have a good sense of his pathology. I think it's just so important that, how did I know that?
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Right?
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I mean, it's obvious when you, when you study what's actually happening, when you move away from the propaganda, the, and the narratives and you just focus on the facts, it's easy to see what's going to happen. How do we know that the ceasefire deal was going to fall apart in Gaza? Because it never existed to begin with. Like, I didn't think it was a difficult call for us to make that this was going to happen. Israel and Hamas didn't sign the agreement. Trump doesn't support a two state solution. Hamas never agreed to disarm. Right. Netanyahu doesn't support a two state solution. So what, what is going to happen? Like, duh, like, it's, it's, it's pretty obvious. I want to talk about that and more. I want to talk about what's going on with Colombia. I want to talk about what's going on India. I want to talk about what the court of appeals ruled in the ninth circuit here. So we've got a lot to discuss. Just a reminder, everybody, make sure if you're not subscribed to this YouTube channel, you subscribe now. We're on our way to 6 million subscribers. Subscribe to our audio podcast as well. Wherever you get audio podcasts and leave a five star review, you please join and become a member of our YouTube channel and gift memberships to as many people as you can. When you gift memberships, it's a big help to grow our independent media platform. And there's lots of people who can't afford memberships. So if you're fortunate enough to be able to afford memberships and you can gift memberships to others so they can access the exclusive content and the emojis, that would be a great gift, I think, to so many people right now. All right, let's take our last quick Break of the show. We'll be right back.
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Coffee.
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Foreign.
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Let'S go Shout out To our sponsors links in. Ooh, something happened my throat there in description of the YouTube and the audio, please use the links, use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, what's the face for? Something was in my throat, man. I can't, I can't always help that. I can't speak flawlessly like you do on these great long rants. That's not me.
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And savvy. You're human, Jordy.
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That's why I'm kind of.
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Sometimes I get stuck in my throat, Ben.
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Then I just make faces sometimes.
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That was like a face like Jordan ruined the episode. He got the thing stuck in his throat. I saw the face.
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Oh, it was a loving face. It was like a, you know. That's so cute.
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We'll do it live. We'll do it live.
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I, I, I just, I want, there's another aspect that I want to talk about. The Zelinsky meeting. So Zelensky did the morning rounds where he was on Meet the Press. I just want to show you this interaction he had with Kristen Welker where Zelensky, I think really powerfully stood up on behalf of Ukraine and said, yeah, Donald Trump's not being strong enough right now. I mean, just think about this as well, Lindsey Graham. You don't get more Trump sycophant than Lindsey Graham. Maga, Republican Senator Thune, the Senate majority leader, they were all promising and expecting there were going to be sanctions on Russia. They said that Trump was going to put Putin and Russia on the terrorist list. Remember, remember that when that was going down, that Ukraine was going to have deliver to them this week the tomahawks and long range weapons. Graham was saying that Thune, all those Republican senators, yes, Trump, so tough on Russia. They've been very, very silent. But just I want you all to watch the framing of how Kristen Welker asks this question to Zelensky and she frames it. You know, Donald Trump was so tough in the Middle east and he brought strength to bring Hamas and Israel together and he, he bullied them to make this deal. Is that the same is he's being strong enough? I'm thinking to myself the whole premise of this question is wrong. Trump didn't bring strength to Israel and Hamas. Israel and Hamas didn't sign the agreement. Both have very different interpretations of the fake agreement because they didn't sign it. Hamas believes it doesn't need to disarm, that it's still going to control Gaza, that all it had to do was return the hostages and that it would be able to maintain control in Gaz Gaza. It returned the hostages and so it said we're still, we're still in charge right now. Israel said that it believed that, that there's not going to be a two state solution, that it was going to continue to carry out strikes against Hamas, that it would strike the tunnels. It's starting to close humanitarian aid. There's a very different view here. So it's easy to make deals when you just make fake ones. But like the central issue right in the Middle east as it relates to Israel and the Palestinians is a two state solution.
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Right.
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The whole difficulty in getting a deal done. Biden was able to return 83% of the hostages. Let me be very clear. It's a great thing that we got the remaining hostages returned, that there was an exchange of individuals and that individuals were able to go back to their respective places and that the hostages were returned to Israel from October 7th. That's to going great. The idea of a ceasefire, if it works out, is, is a great thing. I'm not trying to be like a hater on ceasefires. Just the fundamental issue though is is there going to be a free Palestine next to an Israel, free Israel side by side. And they each have very different views of that. So if you don't address that fundamental question, how are you saying there's a peace deal? But yet this is the narrative that exists because Trump said the. So anyway, play this clip of welcome.
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Part of President Trump's success with Israel.
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And Hamas was that he applied pressure to all sides.
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Does President Trump need to get tougher with President Putin?
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Yes, and even more because Putin is.
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Something similar, but more strong than Hamas.
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It's more bigger war and he is the second army in the world. And that's why more pressure.
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And the issue is Trump told Israel what it wanted to hear. He told Hamas what it wanted to hear. Neither side had to sign anything. He wanted to go to Egypt to spike the football. All he praised Egypt as like a place that he was acting like was better than like Chicago or New York or Cal or places in California. And like, let's just be clear on the fact. I'll give you just another example and then we'll talk about some domestic developments as well. Like like India now says today Donald Trump never had a conversation with their Prime Minister Modi at all as it relates to Modi saying that he was not going to buy any more oil from Russia, that he would stop buying from oil from Russia immediately. So last week Trump held a press conference where he just made up a fake conversation that didn't exist. Goes I, Trump goes, I'm going to break news. I just spoke with Modi and Modi told me that he's not going to buy any more oil from Russia. Now it's also counterintuitive because Donald Trump at that same time time was saying that Hungary can buy its oil from Russia because he likes Victor Orban. So and he goes, that's because they're not by any port so of course they can take the oil from Russia. Makes no sense at all. But Trump made up a fake conversation and Modi and the foreign minister there had to say no.
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There was.
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They didn't even talk yet alone talk about this topic. I just want you to think he's making up fake conversations. He's making up fake deals. He's talking about $20 trillion dollars that we brought in that doesn't exist while he's bulldozing the White House. This is, it's a fake. It didn't happen. So let me just show you what he said. So you've seen just the article. Modi's people saying no conversation took place at all. And Modi never said he was going to do anything because they didn't talk. But here's what Trump said happened here. Play this clip.
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We have a great relationship. No, we were not happy with him buying oil from Russia because that lets Russia continue on with this ridiculous war where they've lost a million and a half people. By the way, Russia has lost a million and a half people, soldiers mostly. This is a war that should have never started, but it's a war that Russia should have won in the first week and they're going into the fourth year and I want to see it stop. So I was not happy that India was buying oil and he assured me today that they will not be buying oil from Russia. That's a big stop. And he's assured me there will be no oil purchased from Russia. I don't know, maybe that's a breaking story. Can I say that? Would you say there will be no oil? He's not buying his oil from Russia. It started, you know, he can't do it immediately. It's a little bit of a process, but the process is going to be over with soon.
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Guys, gals, everybody. Modi said there was not even a call that took place between them. Everything Donald Trump just said was a made up fake call, Paul. I mean, this is serious stuff. You know, it's why I go back to at the beginning of this episode, the guy's just making up things. We brought in $20 trillion, had conversations with Modi. Everything out of his mouth is a lie, and it has severely weakened the United States of America. Just give you another example. Danish intelligence services, they've announced, we're not providing any more intelligence to the United States. We're cutting the US Off. They said that publicly. The Dutch general intelligence and security services and military intelligence and security services said they ain't. They ain't doing it at all. Sorry. The Dutch, be clear. They said they ain't doing it. But. But others are doing it as well. And I guarantee you, even though others may not have made the announcement that you have, who would share intelligence with Donald Trump when he then speaks to Putin and probably tells them all the stuff, like, you, you can't. You can't share this intelligence with the United States right now. Sad.
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It's what I had heard when, you know, in the conversation with Zelensky, which, I mean, you couldn't have. You know, you hit the nail on the head with that one. I heard that he was telling. That he did actually tell Putin when he. He spoke to Putin before the call with Zelensky, all the things that Zelensky was requesting. Like, he wants X amount of Tomahawks. He wants this. He wants, should I do it? Should I do it, Vladimir? And so, like, he literally is quite literally sharing this important information of global affairs, of our allies, with our enemies, with our adversaries, and it's so incredibly dangerous. And the fact that this guy is graded on such a curve, like, I think that Kirsten Welker video really sums it up. Like, when you showed it to me earlier and I watched. Watched it for the first time because I. I hadn't seen it, I was like, what the f was that? Like, what the hell is that? Like, Donald was so powerful when he. That's how he solved it. And there's this, like, there's this bizarro, like, a narrative that's out there. And I've seen this, by the way, on both the right, and I've also seen this kind of in corners of the left as well, that go see Donald Trump. He just showed strength and he bullied them and he bullied them into action, and now there's peace in the Middle, Middle East. No, there isn't. No, there isn't. I think this lasted a shorter period of time than the Biden ceasefires that happened. And you were giving him this odd credit, like, for what reason he didn't solve anything. It's status quo right now. People are dying. There are attacks every day. Nothing's changed. Yes, very glad the hostages are home, obviously, as we said repeatedly, but the situation on the ground right now is still incredibly precarious. It's very dangerous there. Nothing has been solved yet. The media. Media continues to grade this guy on such a freaking curve. It is just absolutely batshit insane. Like this. This would normally maybe even be like an exaggeration for me to say, but I could say he could literally be shitting, pooping on the American people and they would still praise him for it. And I'd say that because literally he did that this weekend, and they've been basically ignoring that whole story. It's just absolutely crazy. This guy is lying about every. Everything. And the media people out there, anybody who's paying attention, need to wake up to the fact that you don't. With Donald Trump, it's not. There's that phrase that Reagan had trust but verify. There ain't no trust here. Okay? Whatever Donald Trump says, you have to assume it is complete and total bullshit until you hear otherwise. They hear otherwise. If you get corroborating information that he's telling the truth on whatever the issue is, great. But you have to assume that everything he is saying is a complete and total lie. He's making up conversations. He is l. Lying about the.
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The.
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That people love us in the world. He's lying about peace. He's lying about what's happening in Ukraine over and over and over again. He lied about that.
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The He.
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He promised, he swore. Oh, yes, this ballroom is being paid for by corporations or by me. And then it was being paid for by corporations, and then it was. And the. The White House structure itself will not be touched at all. Everything he says, it's a lie. And he's able to get away with it because there's, like, no scrutiny on this guy. Is everyone just fricking afraid of him? Like, what the. Like. Like, what are we doing here? He's a loser. Like, wake up to the fact this guy is a loser.
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Yeah, I think your hunch is right. I think a lot of these folks are scared of him and specifically scared that they're going to get called a mean name in a truth social. Like, that's how fragile a lot of their egos are. I'm not going to make this a Kristen Welker thing. I just. I didn't think Meet the Press could get any worse. You know, once Chuck Todd left, I thought. I thought, okay, It's. It's only up from here.
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You're making a. Check that thing.
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Well, maybe. But boy, was I wrong. I mean, that show was unwatched. I didn't see that clip either, Brett, until you just played it.
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Why?
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Because that show is unwatchable. And it's my same gripe I have with cnbc. And don't worry, not going to make this a Joe Kernan thing either.
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It is.
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So much of America watches this stuff because they're not as politically engaged. And so what? I'm going to catch up on the news. What did I miss this week? Oh, this seems harmless. A harmless program. Here, let me watch it. And then they get fed up. This spin, this needless desire to bend over backwards to both sides, every single issue to make yourself look like you're being so bipartisan with your coverage where, you know, no one could ever fault me. When the sky is blue and the MAGA Republicans say it's orange, you don't say it's an in between shade of blue and orange. You have to just call it what it is. You have to call balls and strikes. So the framing that we see so many times, times from the, the corporate media, the legacy media, the meet the presses of the world, is this weird reflex to just try and take MAGA framing and mush it in with maybe with what's going on over here and what's going on over here and make this weird hybrid to give to the American people versus just giving folks the news. And that's why, again, that's why I thank you, the listener, you, the viewer of the Midas Touch network, because you made this network the number one publisher. Because you love the facts, you love the data, you love the truth, you love the receipts that we all bring to this every single day.
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And here's the thing I want to add, Jordy. The American people are waking up, even if these legacy media channels don't want to acknowledge it. I also want to remind everybody that more people in this past election voted against Donald Trump than voted for him. He tries to claim this whole big mandate. Those Republicans try to show maps where they draw in a lot of red on all the land. Not the people, but the land and the country. And they say, look at this mandate. Dominant, dominate never was true to begin with. First off, total bullshit. But you could even look right now at the tides shifting. First off, I know all you were at the no Kings protest, you saw the energy at those protests, you saw how many people showed up. But we're seeing it reflected in the data as well. We're seeing it reflected in Donald Trump lowest approval rating, something at 37% in the aggregate. Just absolutely abysmal approval ratings. We're seeing it in these new Gallup polls that were just released showing a huge vibe shift. And this is a big deal because this was something before the that Republicans were hyping as a big shift in this country because the data in the third quarter of the United States showed party identification in the United States moved to Democrat plus seven. I want to remind you that last year, Republicans actually overtook Democrats in these pollings, meaning that they were saying that more people in the country were identifying as Republicans than Democrats. And this was a big talking point that was parroted over and over and over again saying, look at the rise of the Republicans. Republicans are gaining in popularity nationally. We have never really seen this before. Well, that has shifted in a big way by those who are able to see the graph. You could see how those lines intersect. You could see that massive shift. And you could go through the list, you know, down, you know, the last few quarters, the last few years, you see how dramatic of a shift this is. And we're all witnessing this together. I think people are fed up with this. They're fed up with the attacks on the American people, the attacks on free speech. This government that we have right here is a regime. They're acting like authoritarians. They don't want you to call them that. They don't want you to call them out. They want to try to silence your voice and intimidate you. They want to try to intimidate you from not protesting, from not showing up at these rallies. They want to try to call your call you names. They want to try to treat you like you are less than because that is part of the way they want to hold on to power. They know by the way, they are petrified of the protests that happened over the weekend. It was a show of force by the American people. And it was a show of force using a love. It was a show of force using actual patriotism and the actual values of the United States of America on display out there. And that's why they are so eager to try to shift the narrative. That's why you saw Mike Johnson go out there with his despicable speeches and call these protests against America. Like, how disgraceful. Let me just, I'll just show you this, this clip of Mike Johnson just so you get a sense of the kind of messaging they're doing.
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Post no Kings, Chuck Schumer's political survival. Now, I noted on Friday, the lead organizer of the rallies this weekend issued an open threat to Democrats. Quote, the cavalry is coming in on October 18th and they're going to be seller. They're either going to be celebrating with you or they're going to be calling for new leadership. Now that's a, that's a direct threat to Chuck Schumer. And he heard the message and so did Hakeem Jeffries in the House. And that's why neither of them were here doing their jobs. Instead, they were out in New York and California. They were catering to the same radical base that is just days away from electing an open Marxist as mayor of New York City. And now that Chuck Schumer has had his spectacle, he's had his big protest against America. This, this is our plea. We're asking, and I think everybody in this room and everybody watching, listening to our voices this morning should be hoping that he is finally, finally now ready to go to work and end this shutdown and stop inflicting pain on the American people.
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Just the lying, the bloviating, the propaganda that comes out of this regime, that comes out of the Speaker's office, we've never seen. We've seen lying in politics. Obviously, that's a, that's a staple in politics that I think we're all used to. I don't think we're used to our government being turned into North Korea or Russia. And that is exactly what Mike Johnson is doing. And he is honestly a disgrace to this country century. The things he is saying about all of you should enrage you, should make you mad. But the fact is, you showing up at these protests, being peaceful, standing up for the actual values of this country, I mean, there's, there's no more American notion that you could possibly think of than no kings. Our country was founded on no kings. And for them to act like the idea of no kings is anti American shows that they don't understand the first damn thing about what this country is all, all about.
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Look, MAGA Mike Johnson ordered all of the MAGA Republicans to go home and not show up to work. And Democrats have consistently been showing up to Washington D.C. to try to negotiate with Republicans. And negotiate what? To protect people's health care from people losing their health care. Right? I mean, the Affordable Care act subsidies are about to expire higher and that's going to result in a massive spike in people's health care costs and people are going to go medically bankrupt, not going to be able to afford their health care. That's what this is about. It's about protecting people's health care that MAGA Republicans refuse to do. They're not talking to Democrats. Forget negotiating. They're not even like speaking with them. They're not even showing up to work. So for him saying, oh, they need to be here, you literally show shut down. You shut this down. MAGA Mike, like it's, it's, it's crazy stuff. Before going though, we have to address a serious story as well. And it's not great news, bad news. Although we'll see what the full en banc as it's called panel of the ninth Circuit does, which means all of the ninth Circuit Court of Appeal judges are going to weigh in on this. So the interesting the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits over Illinois, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Donald Trump's invasion of Chicago was unlawful under the statute section 12, 4063. And the 7th Circuit said Donald Trump can't just make up fake facts to justify military invasions of cities. That courts have a role to address what Donald Trump is saying if it's true or false. Right. The ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, which is generally viewed to be like, if you're using, using generalities, the ninth Circuit is usually viewed as actually more liberal. But that's not necessarily the case because Trump in his first regime, the first administration appointed a lot of Trump appointed judge who are on the 9th Circuit. They ruled the opposite. So you have a circuit split. 7th Circuit said Trump can't make up his own facts. National Guard can't invade Chicago. Seven Circuit sits above the district court judge there. They've all agree in Portland, Oregon, you had a Trump appointed judge who ruled against Donald Trump saying Trump can invade in Portland, Oregon. And the judge said I have a role as a federal judge even though I'm a Trump appointed judge to see that the facts are what the facts are and Trump can't make up facts and say this is a war zone to justify invoking section 124063. The Trump appointed judge says said nope, I'm ruling that Trump can't send the National Guard into Portland, Oregon. It's not a war zone. Trump's line. So then that gets appealed to the next level, which is the ninth Circuit and the panel that was assigned. And it's usually random. It's random. Two Trump judges, one Clinton judge and the two Trump judges said Trump can do whatever he wants. That's actually their ruling. And the Clinton judge says no, he can't do whatever he wants just so you see, I'm not making it up. What the Trump appointed judges say is that the statute that Trump used to, to invoke or invoke to bring the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, it says section 12406 contains no limitations. Instead, by its plain text, it just requires a determination that the President is unable with regular force to execute the laws of the United States. And then it says the statute delegates the authority to make that determination to the President. To the President, and does not limit the facts and circumstances that the President may consider enduring doing so. Indeed, the inherently subjective nature of this evaluation demonstrates that the President has the, has the authority to identify and weigh the relevant facts under section 124 063. So they say, even though we don't actually think it's war rabbit, this is a direct line from the ruling. They go, we don't think it's war ravage. But they go, it doesn't matter if Trump says it's war ravaged, we have to defer to whatever it is that he says. That's literally, literally in the ruling. So then the dissent from the Clinton appointed judge says we have come to expect a dose of political theater in the political branches. Drama designed to rally the base or to rile or intimidate political opponents. We also may expect there is a measure of bending, sometimes breaking the truth. By design of the founders, the judicial branch stands up apart. We rule on the facts, not on supposition or conjecture, and certainly not on fabrication or propaganda. I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly, to vacate the majority's order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretense can occur. Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfolding to retain full faith in our judicial system system for just a little longer. So what this Clinton appointed judge is saying is this is going to go to the full 9th Circuit now, not just a three judge panel, to the Anbang panel, basically all the judges. And this judge is saying, please 9th Circuit, you can't just do what the majority did here. I'm dissenting powerfully and saying it can't be that the President can make up whatever they claim claim. The reality is even if we know it's false as the, as the majority did, I just want you to think about that. That means we have no laws, we have no constitution, we have no anything. If what the judges are going to say is the President gets to make up the reality because that's what the majority said here, literally is what they said. Even though we don't think it's war ravage. Trump says it's war ra average. It's subjective. We defer to you. That's what Trump has argued to the Supreme Court as well, Based on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against him on that issue. And just if the Supreme Court eventually rules that, yeah, you get to make up your facts, you can do anything, you can make up anything. And there's no point of laws, there's no point of the Constitution. And I think I'll conclude with, with this. That's what the American people think. That shouldn't be a democratic view or a Republican view or an independent view. No kings. No, I mean the very aspect of our country why we have a declaration of independence listing the grievances against the crown, against the king is no kings. We declare our independence from that. What our Constitution is premised on is no kings. So to me, you know, you talk about all of this. I remember when I was in law school, you know, originalist theory and what did the founders think? And what could be more fundamental to what the founders thought than no kings? And so imbued in the Constitution, in the amendments and articles, in the various articles, is this true truth, right? That no kings. That's what we're based on. So I leave you with that. And I think that's what the American people feel. Most importantly, I think that should be what the Democrats message is going into the midterms. No kings. Simple, it boils it down. No kings, no crowns, no kings since 1776. That's it. You know, I leave you with that message. So we covered a lot today.
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Boy, did we cover a lot today.
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Very comprehensive episode. We'll be doing hot takes throughout. I want to cover this breaking news story with Gonzalez out of Uvalde. The maga Republican who allegedly had this affair with his staffer who burned herself to death, self immolated herself. And then there seemed to be like a cover up of the circumstances of her death. In September, he was married. She, you know, she was married at the time. And when this was reported, they said it was no foul play. And then Gonzalez's staff came out with a statement, or Gonzalez himself came out a statement. How tragic this is. We don't know anything about it. It seems that the Uvalde police may be covering it up. So I'm going to be doing a lot more stories on that. But I wanted to at least address it at the end of the episode. Developing story. I want to make sure we have all the facts it's important that we're diligent, especially on a story like that. But we'll keep you posted here on the Midas Touch Network with every everything. Thanks everybody who showed up or got the word out about no Kings. Make sure you join Become a member. Let other people become members as well. Gift Membership subscribe on Audio Check out our substack@midasplus.com we appreciate you as always. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Jordy Take it away Shout out to.
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