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Ron Filipkowski
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Benji Backer
Thousand plus emails from Jeffrey Epstein's estate were released. Donald Trump's name is all over them and in devastating fashion. Great work by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee that got their hands on these emails from the Epstein estate. And they're not just bad, they're bad, bad, bad for Donald Trump. No matter what distractions Trump and MAGA try to pull, this is horrible for him. And we will dig deep into those emails and probably go over emails you haven't seen yet, which are even much worse than what's been publicly reported. Also, the Trump regime today said that we will likely not have and never have credible job or inflation data, perhaps ever again. The stock market, guess what, doesn't like that. Businesses, guess what, don't like that. The regime is saying that they're not going to be able to publish accurate data when it comes to jobs or inflation, which we know are both very, very bad. At this point, the Dow was down almost 2% at S&P down almost 2%. Nasdaq down almost 3%. Not a good day on the market and looks like rough days ahead as well. Also, we've learned that Republican senators snuck into the continuing resolution a provision to pay themselves each or at least eight of the Republican senators who claim that they were injured, $500,000, perhaps even more, over a million dollars, according to Lindsey Graham. They claim that they were injured by Special Counsel Jack Smith issuing subpoenas that turned up the digits of their phone number. Not wiretaps, not eavesdropping, not their conversation. The digits they say ended up in the subpoena because of their connection to the January 6 insurrection and in a continuing resolution that will take away potentially 20 million Americans. Health care as the Affordable Care act subsidies will not be extended. They're paying themselves to 500,000, a million dollars more from the taxpayers we're paying them. What the heck is going on there? Also, next week, after the discharge petition was finally executed and will ripen thanks to Adelita Gralva, the Democratic Congresswoman, now officially Congresswoman from Arizona, 7th congressional district being sworn in, discharge petition signed. There will be a vote to release the Epstein files. We expect as many as a hundred Republican defections. Could be less. I think somewhere between 50 and 100 Republican defections who will vote to release the Epstein files. And let's talk about this disastrous Trump interview with Laura Ingraham on fox. No matter how she tries to spin it, it was a disaster. And has MAGA running away from Donald Trump. He says that American workers are not capable of doing the jobs that that foreign workers do here, specifically high skill jobs. Also that Chinese college students are far better than Americans to fill those seats at American universities. And that's why we need to bring Chinese students here and not let American students go to universities here in the United States. Oh, and by the way, while all that was going on, Donald Trump had the leader of Syria in the Oval Office where he started spritzing the leader of Syria, the former al Qaeda leader, with like perfume and cologne and say, let me smell you. Let me smell you. You smell so good. Anyway, that's what's going on. Let's talk about it all. Brett. Jordy, how are, how are you doing? That's what's going on in this country. The United States, everybody.
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Ron Filipkowski
Never a dull day, unfortunately. I'm doing good. It's great to be here, Ben. It's great to be here, Jordy. It's, it's great to be here. Midas Mighty. You know, this whole administration, this whole regime is just so incredibly Orwellian. I remember, you know, you know, back in the beginning a few months ago when we floated the idea that they would be hiding the economic data or trying to concoct new data to replace the bad data. There were a lot of people who looked at us and were like, oh, stop with the conspiracy theories. They're never going to do that. Stop it. Be realistic. Here and now. We're at a time where they are literally hiding the economic data. They're not releasing the inflation report for the month of October as of now. And they're saying literally in their own words that they need to concoct the economic data, concoct the data, jobs data. One of the reasons why the markets are so fearful right now of what is going on, because when you actually look out there in the world and see what's going on, you are seeing mass layoffs across basically every sector except like AI or something. Like it is bad out there. And they could try to hide it all they want. They could try to gaslight the American people. All they want. But that only goes so far when people go to the store and they see that things are much more expensive than they were the week before, the month before, when they try to apply for jobs and they're not having any luck. Luck when they get fired from their jobs. I mean, these are real things that impact people's daily lives. Donald Trump and the Republican Party think they could lie their way out of it, but they cannot. They also think they can lie their way out of this Epstein file situation. Well, the more they try to bury the Epstein files, the worse it gets for them. And it came back to haunt them in a massive way this week. I'm excited to dive into that, into the emails, into what they're saying, all the chaos. But it's great to be here. Jordyn, what's the latest?
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Jordy
What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas? Mighty. So stoked to be here tonight. I'm excited for today's show. Benji, with that, let's just dive into it because we've got a lot of ground to cover. As you laid out so perfectly in the intro. Where are we starting off today, big bro?
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Benji Backer
Want to do a deep dive into those Epstein estate emails because I think there are a lot of emails that you haven't seen. You might have watched the deep dive that I did earlier in the day, but I'll go over those. But I think first I just want to discuss what in normal times would be and should be one of the biggest scandals imaginable that the Trump regime is not going to publish. The cpi, the Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation. It should also be noted that they fired a huge portion of their data gathering staff. They also fired the former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Remember when they fired the commissioner for accurately reporting the data data. So one thing that's been very much underreported is that the data inputs that go into the cpi, well, those have been based on concocting. That's the word that the Trump regime uses. They're just making up 40 to 50% of the inputs going in. That's not supposed to happen there. What's supposed to happen is you go and you survey and actually find what the prices of products are. And if they're going to up or down or whatever. So right now, the Trump regime, people who go and lie about everything, they just make up what the numbers are to begin with. But setting that aside, they're now saying Caroline Levitt said this and it was reinforced by Kevin Hassett, the top national economic advisor. In this regime, they're going to concoct or they're just not going to give information. Levitt says there's no more credible jobs reports or inflation reports that may ever be release, not just for the month of October, but ever, is what she's saying. Just think about that. Here's what she said. Let's play her clip first.
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Ron Filipkowski
Economists, investors and policymakers at the Federal Reserve to receive critical government data.
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Benji Backer
The Democrats may have permanently damaged the federal statistical system with October CPI and jobs reports likely never being released.
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Ron Filipkowski
And all of that economic data released.
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Benji Backer
Will be permanently impaired, leaving our policymakers at the Fed flying blind at a critical period. Here's the thing. No one believes this. The Democrats did it, okay? Everybody knows that Trump and the Republicans control all branches of government. They've asserted their authority as Authoritarians now for 10 months. Ice on the street, disappearing people, throwing them into concentration camps. A whistleblower showed some video of what one of those concentration camps looks like. I believe in Houston, with the children lying on the ground suffering, torturing. I think we have some of that footage that I'll show a little bit later. I mean, horrific sites there. We've seen the Trump regime do tariffs against the world. Me, me, me. Trumpets. I'm doing everything. Look at me. I'm the only one who can fix it. Well, okay, you've asserted that. And now you want to blame Biden, you blaming the Democrats. You said you controlled everything. You're the guy who said on day one, you know Putin and Zelensky so well, you'll end the war in Ukraine. You know, this person and that person. And now all we get from Trump and them is just lies. I solved eight wars. I brought in $23 trillion. America's never been hotter. We've never been. We've never been this hot. I mean, it's just, it's lie after lie after lie. Just take a look at this survey, this poll from Navigator. Who do you blame for costs going up for health care premiums? 47% of Americans blame Republicans. Only 21% blame Democrats. Cost generally 46% Republicans. 19% Democrats. Electricity, 38% Republicans, 19% Democrats. You can go poll after poll after poll, and the numbers are either like this or even more people blaming Republicans than Democrats. Now, let me show you Kevin Hasset, national economic adviser. He talks about concocting the data, the cpi. He goes, oh, we'll never know what October's CPI is. Many people believe it's at least 3.1% year over year inflation. But it could Be more. We, we don't know. I'll tell you my personal experience. When I go food shopping or go to buy clothes or do anything that requires purchasing is it feels a lot more than 3.1% than last year. That's what year over year means, 3.1% more than under former President Biden. Basically, to me, it feels a lot more. But Trump said he was going to make the prices less than Biden. So here's what Hassett says. Let's play it.
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Ron Filipkowski
And the household survey wasn't conducted in October. So we're going to get half the employment report. We'll get the jobs part, but we won't get the unemployment rate. And that'll just be for one month. But, yeah, it is true that we probably will. We'll never will maybe be able to concoct something that we'll never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October.
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Benji Backer
Brett Jordi, you never want to hear the national economic adviser use the word concoct, nor do you want to hear the press secretary say something different than what he said. She said we may never get credible data ever again.
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Ron Filipkowski
Let me somehow tie this into the Epstein files for a second, because I think this is actually very indicative of, of everything that's going on and very revealing of the moves going on behind the scenes in this Trump regime. If there was good economic data, if the economic data showed inflation coming down, jobs going up, if it showed a thriving economy, they would be the first ones to release it. They would love to tout those statistics. Look how great everything is. We said there was a golden age, and guess what? We delivered. There are more people going to work than ever. Inflation is down. Look, it's amazing out there. They would love to tout that data, but the reason they're hiding it is because they know it's bad. Now, to me, same thing. What's going on with the Epstein files? If they knew that these Epstein files, if the Epstein files, in fact, you know, had all this evidence that showed that Trump actually was not involved at all, that he was a completely innocent guy, but that it actually incriminated all of these Democrats and, oh, Bill Clinton and this Democrat and Obama and all the various names that they like to throw out, Donald Trump would be the first person to say, let's release those Epstein files. I'm going to go to the doj. We're going to release that right now. But there is a reason that they are keeping all of this information hidden from the American public, and that's because it's likely all devastating for Donald Trump, the Trump regime, and all of the people who continue to prop up this house of cards.
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Jordy
Such an excellent point. B. And look, I'm not, I'm not doing a bit right now, but Ben, can you explain to me what Caroline Levitt was even saying? Like, I genuinely don't fully understand what she was speaking words, but I don't know what she was saying. Can you explain to me?
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Benji Backer
Well, she was saying that in terms of the data that the government publishes on a monthly basis, sometimes once a month. There are other reports that are every few weeks, but this has been done regularly, basically forever. She goes, we can't do it anymore. She says because of the, the government shutdown. She's blaming it on Democrats. They won't be able to print or publish any of their inflation data or job data in a way that is credible anymore. And the fact that after she said that, she didn't immediately clarify what that even means. The White House is saying our data is all fake, it's fraudulent, and we may not ever produce data. And the reason, Jordan, why she's saying that is because, shocker, they know the data. They know what's going on, right? They have access to it and they know it's bad. It's bad out there. And I think it's worse out there than 3.1% year over year inflation. I think it's worse than what these job reports have been showing. I mean, you can say anecdotally, but we at some point have shared lived experiences of existing right now. And whether it's the housing market, bad credit cards, top defaults ever, right? Jobless claims, worse since the Great Recession or at the peak of COVID You know, look at any metric that you want to, you know, look at industry sectors, construction, manufacturing, which was having a boom under Biden. They're in recessionary territories right now. Tourism, great recessionary territories. As people don't want to come to the United States anymore. You look at hospitality, restaurants, I mean, struggling, you look at freight, you look at shipping, you look at farming. I mean, you, you look, you know this, remember Trump's like, oh, I did this great deal with China soybeans. In addition to the fact that if you actually had a deal that required signatures and it was binding, which nobody signed any deals, there's no terms, it's a made up thing. But even under the terms Donald Trump claims exists, U.S. soybean exporters export 2 million metric tons less of soybeans annually to China and 15 million metric tons less this year than under former President Biden. Less is not as good as more when it comes to farmers wanting to export. But now what we're learning is China's not abiding by Trump's understanding of what it was. Why they got all their soybeans already cheaper from Argentina and from Brazil. They've got it. So, like, they don't need the soybeans. Right? Duh. From our farmers at this point. So our farmers, like, don't you want this? They're like, sorry, we got it from. Remember when your country bailed out Argentina for $40 billion? Well, they turned around and gave us the soybeans, so we don't need your soybeans anymore. And remember, Trump's like, well, I also got the rare earth elements being sent. Well, you're the reason why they were stopped being sent in the first place, because under former President Biden, China was sending rare earth elements and they didn't put these export controls. But now China's also saying, well, we never said that we were going to release these rare earth elements. We only said that we would be open to the idea of perhaps doing it. But any American company that has a relationship with the United States military, we're going to have to keep the export control licenses in place. And guess how many of these companies that need rare earth elements have a connection to the United States military? Mostly all of them have some form of a government contract. Right. So Trump just got played there. So my point is, you look at every sector of the economy and it's all really, really bad right now. And Trump's gimmick is the classic Ponzi scheme Bernie Madoff gimmick to say, guess what? Wealth is right around the corner. Doge dividend checks. Oh, those didn't arrive. Tariff rebate checks. Oh, wait, those didn't arrive. How about tariff dividend checks? Those are coming. And guess what? We're going to replace health care with giving you a $2,000 check and we're going to not pay insurance companies anymore, put them out of business. And now you get to buy your health care with $2,000. Setting aside the fact that Trump's not going to give this $2,000 and it's just more made up, Ponzi scheme type stuff. If you were handed a check for $2,000, how is that going to pay for the health care that you need? What happens when you need a procedure? What happens if there's a surgery that costs more than $2,000? Okay, the whole point of health insurance is to insure with vast risk pools when people actually need it in certain circumstances. So you need some form of insurance, whether it's single payer, whether government is the insurer, whether it's universal health care, whether it's private insurance, whether it's the Affordable Care act, which takes the existing private insurance but tries to subsidize it and keep the price low, but then have the government step in in certain areas, you have to have some sort of system. But Trump across the board, Brett and Jordi is tear it down. Jordi, good answer to what she was.
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Jordy
That was you must be a lawyer or something and build by the hour because that was quite the explanation to what the hell did Levitt say? No, I, I actually feel bad that you speak such fluent Caroline Levitt. Thank you for breaking that down. That was really informative. B. For me, what it just comes down to is the pull yourself up by your bootstrap party, right? That's what the gop, that's their. That's their motto. That's their thing. They always make excuses. They always have someone else to blame, and they just never take accountability. It's like y' all control every branch of government. What are you doing? Blaming the Democrats, blaming Biden? It sounds insane, but that's just their reflex. Their reflex is to lie. And that's why I say all the time, what we do here at the Myestouch network is easy, right? We bring the facts, the data, the receipts. When you're dealing with the truth and the data and the facts and all of that, that's an easy thing to. What these Republicans are doing, just bending over backwards every single day to make up the next lie is banana land to me. And the thing is, the lies are so stupid, like they could cherry pick any economic data that they want to try and show, oh, look, the economy, it's doing great.
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Benji Backer
We're getting right there.
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Jordy
But at the end of the day, the people go into the gas pumps, the people go into the grocery stores. They're feeling it, they're seeing it. It is physically coming out of their accounts so they can be gaslit by this. This regime all they want. But at the end of the day, people are seeing the true numbers out there because it's hitting home, literally.
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Ron Filipkowski
Well, they could. They could say these lies at their own peril. Honestly, it's. It's the worst thing that you could do. And even, you know, former President Biden would get criticized for trying to paint a rosy economy. And by the way, the economy was far stronger and more rugged under President Biden than it's been under Donald Trump. By far. Not even close. Not even like the same thing whatsoever. But people were still very critical of Joe Biden when he would out actual good economic data at the time. And they would say, I wish he would show more empathy with the people. You know, like the people are still struggling out there. There still is a wide gap right now between the rich and the poor. And he should acknowledge that. And he should acknowledge that the stock market isn't necessarily the economy, all that sort of things. Trump just says f you. Trump just says f you, the economy's good. And if you think otherwise than F you, you know, it's really as a big fu to his entire base. And that's why I think you see people even like Marjorie Taylor Greene and a lot of these MAGA voices going like, we can't gaslight our way out of this economy. We can't gaslight our way out of the facts. And the more they try to go with that messaging, the more likely it is that they are going to get blown out of the midterms. And the lower and lower Donald Trump's approval rating is going to get, the more unpopular these people are going to get. But it comes down to something that we discuss on the show often, and that's that Donald Trump is a fraud. He's been a fraud his entire life. He was held criminally liable for being a fraud. He had his company, his, his organization, they had to pay a lot of money. They were ordered to pay at least a lot of money for the fraud that they did. By inflating numbers, Donald Trump inflated the numbers of the square footage of his apartments there. He has a track record of always being a fraud. And all these people who are around him right now, the Caroline Levitts, the Hassets, the. You name it, rename the person. If this were Donald Trump's business, they would all be criminal or civil defendants in the many lawsuits that would be brought in the fraud cases against these businesses. Because it is the same exact pattern of deception that Donald Trump is engaging in. But this time it's on a national scale and it's affecting all of us.
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Benji Backer
This regime is slightly different than regime number one of Donald Trump, right? Where he still in the regime, one brought in some bad people, but he still had people who were like effective operators, you know, and I'm not trying to make excuses for their behavior, but they were more right wing establishment people. And then they would get into fights and then he would cycle through them. And this time it's basically the Trump Org running the United States, the same people who bankrupted Trump casinos and all of those Trump products. He's basically assembled the team that looks like them to handle the very complex economy of the United States. Or he's forced people to behave like that and lower their capacity, like a Besant or a Rubio, who I'm not suggesting are good people, but I'm saying at least have an intellectual capacity to think that they've squashed and are just as bad, if not worse than, than the Hegseths and the rest of these lunatics at this point. And this is why, setting aside politics, often what we talk about on this podcast is moral character qualifications being effective, like operationally sound behavior. And to me, that shouldn't be. Are you a Democrat or a Republican? But I understand politics is everywhere around us. But for me, it's like, we'll talk about this later. Let's give you an example. Lindsay Halligan, the top federal prosecutor in Virginia, now Eastern District of Virginia, who had this hearing today about whether she'll be disqualified or not based on being an unlawfully appointed federal prosecutor. She was a beauty pageant contestant turned insurance lawyer who has never been a federal prosecutor before, who's never been a trial lawyer before, who went into a grand jury room to secure an indictment of James Comey. I'll just address this now while I'm on this rant. James Comey, the former FBI director who himself was a top prosecutor, top lawyer, and then she also went after New York Attorney General Letitia James, top lawyer, climbed the ladder. She went after them. She was in the grand jury room securing an indictment of James Comey. And guess what? The critical portions of the transcript where she secures the indictment after like 4:50pm Eastern time to when the grand jury signed off on her purported charges against Comey. Guess what? It's missing. It's missing Judge Curry, the federal judge who had these incredible instincts many weeks ago, you'll remember we covered. She said, send me the grand jury transcript. I want to read it. And then she responded after getting portions of it and said, wait a minute, the key section is missing where you sought the indictment. Send it to me with the full portion. Halligan and the doj. Send it. And guess what? It's missing. So today at the hearing on the disqualification of Halligan, because you're not allowed to have two interim United States attorneys, you're only allowed to get one shot at the prior United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Was fired or forced out Republican, by the way, because he said that the charges against Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were frivolous and would not bring the charges. So that's why they brought Halligan in. But Halligan's in this grand jury room and the court reporter is either not there or not transcribing what's happening. So what did Halligan tell this grand jury to secure this indictment? How do we know that she didn't say, hey, grand jury, I just need you to sign there, please, and that's your job. Just sign it. We don't. Did she give accurate description on what the law is as required by her duty as a federal prosecutor? What did she do? Why is it missing? That's unheard of. That's not supposed to happen. Well, would any of you want to go on an airplane where your pilot has started their flight school on day one? Would you want them to be your 747 pilot when you're traveling across the country? Of course you would not. Right? That would be a horrifying. So why is Donald Trump doing the equivalent of hiring the day one flight school student to fly the airplane right away? That shouldn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican. The outcome is going to be crash. And that's what we're seeing here over and over again. Brett and Jordan, we want to talk about that. We've got to take our first quick break of the show.
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Ron Filipkowski
Let me just say this before we get a break quickly, and I'll just say exactly what you just described again, ties into exactly what I was saying in the beginning of this episode. It's that absence of information, I think is telling us more than the information itself. The fact that they are not providing those missing grand jury transcripts that they suddenly went missing, they don't have. That part, to me is highly incriminating. And it shows that Lindsay Halligan either did something incredibly unethical in that grand jury room to secure these indictments or illegal in that room. If they had the transcripts that would exonerate her, they would surely release them. And by the way, Pam Bondi is also embroiled in all this because she retroactively decided to sign off on everything Lindsey Halligan did in the Comey case, which is also could come back to screw her as well. So you got all of these people right now signing on to these moves that are, at minimum, unethical, at worst, you know, highly illegal. And we are seeing this play out just in every sector of the government. It is so corrupt and it is because they are just failing in every single aspect of everything and they are failing the American people. Worst of all.
- [28:47]
Benji Backer
Deep dive into the Epstein emails when we return. I'll go through them methodically. I went through all 23,000 of those emails. I'm going to show you.
- [28:58]
Ron Filipkowski
We were up late last night going, going back and forth. We were sending each other like all the screenshots we found. I was going next, next, next. Okay, what's this? What's right? I'd be holy crap, did you see this? Like it was bananas. Yeah, it was totally crazy.
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Benji Backer
First quick break of the show. A reminder. If you can join our YouTube channel and become a member and gift memberships to others. It's very helpful to the growth of this independent platform, especially gifting memberships to people who can't afford the memberships right now. If you can also make sure you subscribe to our audio podcast, just search Midas Touch. It helps as well if you're just watch on YouTube. Subscribe on Audio Audio listeners subscribe on YouTube. First quick break of the show. We'll be right back.
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Ron Filipkowski
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Benji Backer
All right, buckle up. We're going doing, we're doing a deep dive into the Epstein estate emails. Let me say the following before we do this deep dive. How did we get these emails? How did you get these emails? How did the public get these emails? The Democrats in the House Oversight Committee, not the Republicans. They reached out directly to the Epstein Estate. The Epstein Estate is administered by a third party. It's almost like, like in a bankruptcy where you have someone who's appointed by a court to basically take over and be an administrator, right? So somebody's appointed here, there's to distribute money to address settlements, to handle the litigation. They get paid for their work. They get paid out of money that's in the estate and that's who you're kind of dealing with if you want to know, like, well, who's the, who's the estate? So the estate generally is cooperative to working in conjunction with its stated purpose from a court to administer claims, to respond to things. So when people are saying, well, you know, where did these documents come from? Or Todd Blanche didn't have access to these documents when he was meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, of course he did. He could have reached out as well. He could have subpoenaed them or just asked for him. And the estate would have, and the estate would have turned these over. So the Democrats asked for it because they want transparency. Took a little time because there had to be redactions of the victims names. But these are emails and documents from the estate. This is not the Epstein files. If you told me this was the Epstein files, I would say, well, it's pretty damaging stuff. No wonder Donald Trump, I can't even emphasize enough how damaging and devastating these documents are. But these are not the Epstein files. These are the emails that the estate has. And Trump's name is like the most prominent name in these 20. You know, there's other names that appear, Larry Sumner's others, but Trump's name is perhaps the most prominent name. And then towards the end of Epstein's life, right? He dies, allegedly by suicide. Allegedly. Although these emails make that seem even way more far fetched than many people before, because did not seem, based on those emails, like he was someone who didn't seem that he had, he had information and he had plans and ways to get out. He hadn't even gone through his criminal trial, right. But he dies August the 29th, he's arrested July of 2019. These emails go through pretty much all of that period. And towards the end, Epstein, like gets obsessed with Trump. I mean, he's saying, I have information. Like he literally says in an email, I have information that. Isn't it interesting that I'm the only guy who's got the information that can bring him down? I mean, literally months before his death, Epstein an email says he's the only one who could take Trump down. That's a wild thing to say. And he gets obsessive with Trump too, towards the end, right? Like he's monitoring Trump's tail numbers, like Trump's flight. He's speaking with Trump insiders kind of pretty frequently leading up to. Right before Epstein gets arrested, the frequency increases. So these again are the Epstein estate emails. And what was kind of surprising to me, Brett and Jordi and might as mighty is that the initial emails that the Democrats posted about Epstein emailing Elaine in 2011, saying that he's the dog that hasn't barked yet, referring to Trump and that, you know, Trump was at Epstein's house with one of the victims for a long period of time. And isn't it interesting that Trump hasn't responded yet? The, the more that came out throughout the day in our analysis, I thought the, I thought the emails got more damaging than the ones that they even posted. The email from Michael Wolf to Donald Trump was one of the ones that they post. I mean, from Michael Wolf to Epstein was one of the ones that they posted, you know, talking about, well, why don't you come out with the information that you have? You've got, you've got all of this dirt on him and you can end him right now. Why don't you do this? The 2011 email though, to Ghislaine is pretty devastating because the timing of these emails before Trump was political to me, you know, or was a national figure for president. That's why a lot of these are interesting, because they go back to periods of time where if you want to say, well, look, he was saying this in 2018 and 2019 because he was being opportunistic and Donald Trump was in office then so, okay, but like in 2011, then, remember there was that last document dump of far less documents from the estate. But like 2007, where it's an email from Epstein and Ghislaine where they talk about the WPB documents, West Palm beach documents. They, as they say, is Trump probably speaking with the feds and Trump, Gossman, Pascal, WPB documents. And you'll recall Trump bought a property from this previously wealthy guy, he's no longer alive, named abe Gossman in 2004 for $40 million. Then Trump sold it for $95 million to a Russian oligarch named Rybolev. Rybolev then demolished the property. A few years later, Trump made basically a $45 million profit on the sale. Epstein introduced Trump to that Gossman property because Epstein wanted advice about where to move the pool. Epstein was going to buy it for 30 million. Trump bought it from underneath Epstein for 40 million and then sold it to Ribel of the Russian oligarch. And Epstein always thought there was some shady thing going on, perhaps between Gossman, Trump and Rybalov. So that was an August 23, 2007 email. But Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty. Let's just go through some of these together. Right. Jeffrey Epstein in 2015. He goes, have them ask my houseman about Donald almost walking through the door, leaving his nose print on the glass as young women were swimming in the pool. And he was so focused, he walked straight into the door. Or how about this email between Epstein and Thorburn Yaglund, the former Prime Minister of Norway, where Epstein says in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump. Specifically, he said he was advising somebody named Vitaly Cherkin, but Cherkin died. And there was going to be a meeting, apparently, between Sergey Lavrov, Putin and Donald Trump. And Epstein was telling the former prime minister and a guy who had a top position at the United Nations, Thorgin Yaglin, the former Prime Minister of Norway. And he responds to Epstein. I'll meet with Lavrov's assistant on Monday, and we'll suggest basically that you consult with the Russians leading to something, you know. It was one month later, Trump's meeting in Helsinki. This was June 24, 2018. So Epstein is saying here, whether we don't know if it's true or not, but what he's saying, again, not just to a rando, to the former Prime Minister of Norway who's meeting with Lavrov's people. I've been consulting with The Russians about Donald Trump's past. Lavrov should speak to me. And then the Helsinki meeting happens a year later. Like, just think about that for those you like. Lavrov sounds familiar. He was the guy wearing the USSR shirt in Alaska who was with Putin. He's Putin's number two right now. Today. He's the foreign Minister. He's like the top guy in Russia. Lavrov, Epstein, Trump. And we know, and we know from these suspicious activity reports that JP Morgan Chase had to admit to after the New York Times and Wall Street Journal made Recent public records requests 4600s A R suspicious activity reports that Epstein was using lots of Russian accounts and that he was running a billion dollar money laundering scheme adjacent to his sex trafficking ring. I know mind blowing Jeffrey Epstein says this. I've met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body. And Epstein is writing that to Larry Sumner's both bad people. And they're saying that Trump is the worst person that Epstein's ever met. Also, Epstein and his brother were sending memes about Donald Trump to each other with a photo of Trump saying, would you trust this man with your daughter? Epstein and Epstein's brother. Epstein, who ran the biggest child sex trafficking ring ever, is saying, would you trust this man with your daughter? And it's a photo of Trump. And that's what's being sent from Epstein's brother to Epstein. Messages from Epstein advising Steve Bannon that lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blassie Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss. Epstein to Larry Sumner's about Trump's level of guilt. Your world does not understand how dumb he really is. He will blame everyone around him for bad results. Emails from the New York Times journalist or former journalist Landon Thomas tipping Epstein off about following up investigations by journalists and former NYPD. NYPD detective John Connolly responding to a 2017 message that Trump was so gross, Epstein said Trump was worse in real life. And up close, there were messages where Epstein writes to his lawyer, have one of your cronies asked to see the mortgage at Mar a Lago? Cash from electricians, unions. His driver Matt was the bag man. Later made an exec at the public co. And the $30 million loan from the casino to Donald Trump backdated backdated loans. And this email was sent on October 24, 2012 between Epstein and his lawyer. There are messages in 2014 about Trump stealing a piece of Atlantic City casinos and a guy who was Beaten up by Trump or beaten by Trump? There is an email from November 13, 2016, Linda Stone saying, you still in Paris. Epstein says Trump Tower. Is he saying he's in Trump Tower? And there's more. Okay, you, you, you. Oh, how about this one? The Lewd Epstein birthday book that included a joke about Epstein selling a fully depreciated woman to Trump. Now these new emails show Epstein telling someone that he gave Trump his 20 year old girlfriend in the mid-1990s. I mean, think about this stuff that was, that was going down there.
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Ron Filipkowski
What about this one where we got to read this one? I mean, it's just Jeffrey Epstein in 2018 saying, I know how dirty Donald is. I mean, when you have Jeffrey freaking Epstein of all people, saying how repulsed he was by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's brother sharing memes with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted pedophile, a convicted child sex trafficker, saying, would you trust this man with your daughter? I mean, just how depraved does that make Donald Trump? If this is coming from Jeffrey frickin Epstein and it shows, like, you know, I think it's kind of clear you see almost a change in their relationship as you look through these emails, kind of from close buds to like a falling out in the later years. And it's clear that Epstein knew where all the bodies were buried, so to speak, and that people were constantly making illusions to Epstein knowing everything. And Epstein constantly telling people, you should look here at Trump. You should look here. I mean, the whole thing is actually, it's incredibly like kind of fascinating too to see the psychology and the pathology of Epstein and what was happening during these, you know, kind of big moments throughout our history and politics and stuff. And one of the things that really also blew me away was how at least Epstein, you know, because remember, to me you got to assume someone's, at a certain point, he's an unreliable narrator who wants to make himself seem super important. But you have Epstein constantly speaking with world leaders, speaking about the work he did with Russia, speaking about the work he did with Norway, speaking about work he did with the Saudis and Israel and all these various people, obviously like a well connected guy almost acting like a, I don't know, some sort of like foreign agent or consultant like in the Trump world. Like, the whole thing to me is just completely weird. And I gotta say though, you know, to be fair, Bill Clinton was mentioned in these, right? I mean, we should, we should mention what they, what they said about Bill Clinton, right? Because the, the Trump people surely want to know and The American people want to know, right? People should know, you know, about everything. Well, unfortunately for the mag crew, the one thing about Bill Clinton that was in these emails was Jeffrey Epstein saying, I can't believe people keep saying Clinton was on the island. Clinton was never on the island. This is the one thing that, that came out. And obviously I know a lot of people are going to say, you know, but we all saw the flight logs. His name was on the flight logs, so that must be a lie. But remember, those flight logs weren't flights to the island. And that's why those flight logs were flights in general on Epstein's plane. So it could be going to New York. You know, we know that Bill Clinton would use the that plane to go to like charity events in Africa and things like that. So those were just people on the plane, not necessarily people who went to the island. And then you have Epstein in these private emails saying that Bill Clinton actually never even went to the island, despite that being kind of something that people commonly believe to be true and something that Trump frequently says. And so, you know, when you add all the various elements of this up, like it could not be worse for Donald Trump and MAGA and his refusal to come clean about any of this and his refusal to speak on it, I mean, we've seen now he basically went silent for like a 24 hour period on his social media, refused to like say anything, which if you follow Trump, that's highly unusual. You know, after these dropped, he did a couple messages where he said, ah, this is the latest in the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. It's all a lie, it's all a hoax. Jeffrey Epstein didn't do anything with it, I'm not involved, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That only makes it seem guiltier. And then he was asked by the press yesterday, refused to answer the question, told the press to leave. Today, again, during another event, he ran out when he was asked the question, refused to answer it, refused to say anything about this. I mean, the more, once again, I think we have the theme right, the more that he refuses to give the information, the guiltier he looks. Because if the information actually exonerated him, he'd be the first one to say, okay, let's do this. In fact, if I were Donald Trump and I were in this situation, I think this has become such a huge problem for him. I would hold like a primetime event to speak about Epstein. Now, I don't think he would ever do this in the world because I think the information is actually highly incriminating. But I Think it's at a point where he has to, like, you ever see the movie 8 Mile, 8 Mile with Eminem, where, like, I hate to ruin the movie for you, it's been out for a while. But he's got this great rap where, like, you know, they're gonna unleash all this dirt on him. And then he does a freestyle where he goes through all the various things that they could possibly unleash on him. You know, he outs himself for all the various things that they could possibly make fun of him for. I think Trump, you know, if he were smart, he would hold an Epstein press conference and he would just come clean on every. Everything. You know, I, I think now he can't because I think what's actually there is incriminating. But if it's not incriminating, then come out, speak to the American people and say, listen, you know, I used to party with this guy. We were both wealthy people in the Palm beach area. Yes, we attended parties. Yes, there were young women there. You know, no, I didn't do anything. You know, a lot of people knew the guy, as you see from the email. You know, just go, if, if you didn't do anything, just come clean with the American people. This should be a way to clear things up. And I think he'd actually gained respect for people for doing that. But just like with the economic data, just like he tried to do with COVID instead he goes, I'm not going to give you the information. In fact, it's a whole, the whole thing's a hoax. Nothing to see here, folks. And that makes him look a billion times guiltier. And it's perhaps why he's not coming clean with the information. Because if the reality was out there and if this is what we're just seeing in these emails that were given, handed over by the Epstein attack state and not what's actually in the files, not what's actually in the various FBI investigations and everything that we've seen over the past decade or so, it's, it's got, it's gotta be pretty bad. And I, I understand why he is. He's freaking out the way that he is and this whole Republican Party who is shielding him after making this their, like, main issue. And by the way, I want to address something else because I always see, you know, there's always people who are like, but why didn't Biden release the files? Why didn't Biden? And people love to use that line. First of all, these files were sealed, but the Biden DOJ was prosecuting. They were prosecuting the case. Okay? They were prosecuting. This case was still an active case. And I want to remember that Trump set the standard for releasing information like this in investigations. You don't actually normally release files to the public because there's an appeals process like Elaine Maxwell's appealing her sentence. Right. Like there are things that you're actually not supposed to do as prosecutors, as law enforcement agencies. And Trump has also made it the norm where he is the guy who's now directing his Department of Justice to come out and to. He's weaponizing the Department of Justice. I know the Trump people will say, oh, but Biden weaponized the Department of Justice against Donald Trump. And it was all weaponized bullshit. The Biden DOJ was as careful as could be. The Biden DOJ was prosecuting people who committed crimes. And those people who committed crimes happened to be Donald Trump, happened to be a lot of these Republicans who got caught up in January 6th. That's why they were investigating that. It didn't come from a political angle. I know the MAGA people would go, oh, f. You shut up. But that's just the reality of it. So you got to accept that the Biden DOJ was not a weaponized doj. Biden was somebody who left everything, for better or worse, to Merrick Garland. It wasn't something like, okay, here's my election strategy. You drop the files, we destroy this guy. That's not normal. That's not what American presidents are do. But Donald Trump made this his cause du jour. He swept his way into office in a big part by saying that he would release these files. Him and his team and the various MAGA people have consistently released fake versions of files and fake lists of names that happen to list all the celebrities they hate and all the politicians they hate completely made up. But when it came actual time to actually release the files and do the job, the files that they now have all the access to to, it's pretty damn clear that they looked at those files, they saw Trump's name all over it, and it wasn't too flattering. And they decided, oh, we can't do anything with this. We gotta just get the hell away from this and try to hide it and everything. I mean, it's, it's, it's very obvious what's happening here, folks.
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Jordy
Such a brilliant breakdown there, P. Well done. And you know what? I'm most impressed. I can't believe you were able to work in 8 mile into the Trump Epstein segment. So kudos to you for being able to do that.
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Ron Filipkowski
You know, my palms are sweaty, knees, weak, arms are heavy, vomit on my sweater already.
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Jordy
But really good point. Spaghetti I haven't even really thought about until you brought it up. And that's the pathology of Epstein when he's sending these emails. I mean, it's almost obsessive that he got with Donald Trump. And I think a lot of people could sort of relate to this. You don't get that sort of obsessive about something or somebody in this way if you weren't close to them, like, if you weren't very close to them and you felt like they crossed you or wronged you in some way, that now this is the only thing that is going to consume your mind at all times, that this, that he's going to make his sole focus here now on Trump and the behavior that he witnessed and now can sort of help bring him down, because Epstein was a part of it, obviously. And so it's just that. That's such an interesting point for that you bring up here is, is the mindset of Epstein during these emails.
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Ron Filipkowski
You know, he's, he's nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready to drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting, you know, what he wrote down. The whole crowd go, sucker.
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Benji Backer
Let me, let me say this because you never truly know what's going through someone's mind. And I want to be very clear and very sensitive. When you hear stories of people dying by suicide, and so one can say, oh, well, that person looked very happy, or how did that happen? They look, I was just hanging out with him, you know, so you hear that all the time. My only observation is that seeing Epstein through these emails, he's a very narcissistic kind of sociopathic person. And leading up to his purported death by suicide, he's speaking to people at the highest levels in various governments, right? Like he's talking to prime ministers, defense ministers, other billionaires, presidents of universities, right? Like he's speaking with the elite of the elite on all of these things, then he gets arrested in July, and then he's dead a month later, purportedly dying by suicide. And my only observation is that somebody who believes they have all this dirt on Donald Trump, somebody who's speaking with all of these people, My, my only thought would be that they, that before getting to the level of there's no hope in the future and I'm done, it just seems the personality type would be. Let me exhaust every one of these contacts and aspects of what I have.
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Ron Filipkowski
He's not giving like oh, I'm fucked. And it's all over for me. He's given like, like, oh, I, I got this. Like it's, you know, whatever.
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Benji Backer
Again, I want to be very sensitive to the beyond sensitive to this topic and approach it with the utmost care. And however that's what the emails in my review of it, that's just a personality type that I identify. Let's take our last quick break of the show. When we come back, we still have a lot to discuss, although we've covered a lot of ground already. A reminder hit join. Become a member. Maybe become a member. It's a paid membership of the YouTube, okay. But it helps grow this independent media platform and gift memberships. There's no limit to the gift of memberships that you can give and you can help people unlock emojis and get other bonus features like the exclusive podcast we do with Ron Philipkowski that's just available to members. Last quick break of the show, home stretch. Don't go anywhere. We'll see after the break. Look, starting a new business can be intimidating. I get it. Midas Touch Network was not built overnight. You need the tools to help you engage in the day to day tasks, the growth. And so it's why we use Shopify. It made things easy for us. And I think you should use Shopify too. So Shopify is a commerce platform. It is the commerce platform platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all E commerce in the United States. From household names like Mattel and Gymshark to brands like the Midas Touch Network. Get started with your own design studio. With hundreds of ready to use templates, Shopify helps you build a beautiful online store to match your brand style, accelerate your content creation. Shopify is packed with helpful AI tools that write product descriptions, page headlines and even enhance your product photography. Get the word out like you have a marketing team behind you. Even if you don't easily create email and social media campaigns. Wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling to the Midas Touch Network. And best yet, Shopify is your commerce expert. And with its world class expertise and everything from managing inventory to international shipping to processing return turns and beyond, you can count on Shopify. If you're ready to sell, you're ready for Shopify. So turn your big business idea into Boom Boom Boom. With Shopify on your side, sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com Midas go to shopify.com Midas one more time. That's shopify.com Midas long work weeks and.
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Benji Backer
Where to? I'll just start here just to show you that none of this behavior is normal by the Trump regime. And then I want to pivot to other topics that are perhaps more serious. Although I think this is serious as well because you have Donald Trump in the Oval Office having like a bizarre experience. So strange for me to watch this with the leader of Syria, Al Shara, who used to be the leader of the Al Qaeda. He had like a 10 million or $20 million bounty on his head from the United States because he was directing people to kill Americans, you know, throughout the Middle East. He's now the leader of Syria. And Donald Trump rolls out the red carpet for this guy, treats him better than Prime Minister Carney or Anthony Albanese, the prime Minister of Australia, you name it. Like, Trump loves this guy and he may actually love, like love, love the guy. It's like a really weird, like a really weird scene in the Oval Office in the White House where Donald Trump like, like he said before that he says he thinks this guy is attractive, which I'm saying I think this guy's really good looking. I think you're really attractive. Very strong man. You're very attractive. And then when Trump gets to see him, like Trump's kind of like giddy around him. Almost like when you see Trump's face, like you've never seen him this happy before around like anybody. And it's almost looks like someone who met there, like who they have a crush on. And I'm not trying to be weird here, just you could assess it for yourself. And Trump's immediate thing to, to do with this guy is to like start saying, you want me to spray you with my Trump perfume or my Trump cologne. You want it? You want to. You want me to do that to you and see if you smell really good? And I just watch this. It's just a very weird interaction. How many wives do you have? How many wives do you have? I mean, it's a really weird interaction. It's weird that the leader of Syria, given that background, is there in the Oval Office. And I understand, you know, the importance of diplomacy and that Syria has an important role. And just the idea of geostrategic.
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Donald Trump
Yeah.
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Benji Backer
For its position is helpful. It should be noted that Alshara also visited Russia, though, and. But, like, it's kind of diminishing to the White House visit, which used to be an honorific of the highest honorific degree when you have this taking place. Like, like, like what. Why is the White House meeting from afar and leader meaningful? In fact, I would argue that it's something to be avoided at this point at all. It. It is a scarlet letter or a stain if you have to show up there. It's. It's shameful, right, to be in this. Just watch this. Your playlist clip.
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Donald Trump
Yeah, this is. It's the best fragrance. Come here. I have one here, sir. Okay, so what we'll do is just.
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Ron Filipkowski
Take that, Joe, put it in, and.
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Donald Trump
Then the other one is for your wife. How many wives? I never know.
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Benji Backer
Right. Have you ever seen him that happy? And did he spray himself in the face?
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Ron Filipkowski
Like, he looks like.
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Benji Backer
He, like, looks like Trump, like, got it in his eye, too. If you saw, like, what he did with his fingers, like, ah. And why would you, like, why would an interaction ever occur like that, that. I've never thought of any interaction where another woman or man or whoever came in. Just say another man came into my, like, house or place of business, and I'm like, you know, like. Like, you want me to spray you with this cologne? Like, it looks like Trump's actually attracted to the guy.
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Ron Filipkowski
It's quite the analysis, for sure. And the craziest thing is that what.
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Benji Backer
I'm trying to say here is I think that Donald Trump is attracted. I totally get it.
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Ron Filipkowski
Let me show you this, too, because, like, one of the craziest things, like I said, this guy, like, ran a sect of Al Qaeda. Like, and if you look at photos of the guy, you know, and I really don't recommend you do this, but you look the guy up. You can't do this. Ben.
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Benji Backer
Don't.
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Ron Filipkowski
Don't smile at me like that. If you look at photos of him, you see him holding heads like a people he beheaded. Like, I've seen these pictures. They're horrific. It's like, as bad as it gets. And if you look at even, like, currently, this is still up. Like, they haven't deleted this. They still have. This is the US Embassy. Syria still has this post up on Twitter, for example, on their social media that says, stop this terrorist up to $10 million reward. We remain committed to bringing him to justice. Like this. This remains up right now. And this is the guy who Donald Trump had in the White House. And one of the things Trump said when he was in the White House, he was like, oh, yeah, he said. He said. He said a bit of a rough past. You know, you got to forgive him. He's had a rough past. Don't we all have rough pasts? I mean, we all have rough past, right? Like, to me, when you're saying somebody had a rough past, like, to me, I don't know, it's like, yeah, you had it. You got a couple DUIs. Maybe you got in bar fights back in the day. I don't think that you actually, like, ran a sect of Al Qaeda. I don't think that's what people mean when you had a rough past. We've all had rough past. But Donald Trump just normalizes this the same way he's normalized all these sort of dictators and autocrats and just horrific people, these terrorist groups. And they have the nerve then to, like, try to put that on Democrats and say the most horrible things about Mamdani and things like that. While you have Donald Trump in the White House with the former leader of Al Qaeda, you have him palling around with the Saudis. You have him going into business with the Saudis. There's just no shame from this administration. And they try to whitewash this history of people who have committed the most heinous acts against the American people. It's just. It's unfathomable to me that this is just normalized right now.
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Jordy
The video that we played for the audio listeners is so bizarre of Donald Trump speaking. Spritzing these people with cologne really is strange. It could best be described as, like, you guys remember going to malls. I don't go to that many malls lately, but you guys remember kids going to malls.
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Ron Filipkowski
Malls used to be. The malls used to be where you.
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Jordy
Like, go through Macy's and then they'd have, like, people there who would spray you when you walk past them with the perfume to like, give you a taste of what the perfume smelled like. Hopes that you.
- [68:32]
Ron Filipkowski
I don't think you're supposed to eat it, Jordy. I think you're supposed to smell it.
- [68:35]
Jordy
You know, you smell it, you eat it. It's the same thing.
- [68:37]
Ron Filipkowski
And that.
- [68:38]
Jordy
That's the best it can be described as. So if you.
- [68:40]
Benji Backer
You're an audience, go to the mall.
- [68:42]
Ron Filipkowski
And they'd be like, would you like to sample. They. Would you like to sample this cologne? Jordy would go, yes, I know.
- [68:48]
Benji Backer
I. There's no way to even say, could you imagine if Obama or Biden had the former leader of Al Qaeda and started spraying perfume on them? Like, I mean, could you just even, like, could you even imagine it would.
- [69:00]
Ron Filipkowski
Be in the front of the New York Post. They'd have some sort of witty headline about. About Biden spraying perfume on the former leader.
- [69:07]
Benji Backer
You'd be done. 25th amendment.
- [69:09]
Jordy
Just a little bit of a rough pass.
- [69:10]
Benji Backer
Just a couple crazy, crazy human. But I'll tell you what, I would have. Game. Would have respected game if Donald Trump. And I would have let Donald TRUMP Keep the $10 million, right. If he was like, hold the perfume, right? And then he's like, you're. You're under arrest, mother effer.
- [69:28]
Ron Filipkowski
We got him.
- [69:32]
Benji Backer
Yeah.
- [69:32]
Jordy
No, I would have.
- [69:34]
Benji Backer
I want the 10. I would have said, you can grift and you can take that 10 million. That's honestly brilliant.
- [69:40]
Ron Filipkowski
I never.
- [69:41]
Benji Backer
We thought about this idea. I would have. I would have gone a whole day without doing Trump disaster videos. I would have been. Trump pulls up, Trump all caps, pulls off. Perfect stunt, perfect stunt. Arrest the leader of Al Qaeda. The old cologne trick would go down like, you know, like the World War II movies.
- [70:04]
Ron Filipkowski
Yeah, screw. Screw these tariffs.
- [70:06]
Jordy
Let's just.
- [70:07]
Ron Filipkowski
Let's have him keep inviting former terrorists in the White House. And then he just collects the money and he could give that and rebates.
- [70:12]
Benji Backer
To the American people. He said, the ultimate trap, you know, like the World War II movies with the narration. And then there was a pivotal moment. He invited him into the Oval Office and he pulled out the cologne. He said, do you like this scent? And then when Elshara was not looking, Donald Trump pulled out the cuffs and said, we've got you, mother Effa. I goes, and that.
- [70:33]
Ron Filipkowski
No, he's gotta. He's gotta have a cool tagline, man. He's got to be like, do you like the scent? Because it smells like prison or so, you know, it's got to be like some like, you know, smells like justice. That smells like justice.
- [70:44]
Benji Backer
All right, anyway, let's cuffs on Whiske him away.
- [70:48]
Ron Filipkowski
Approval rating from 33% to 73%.
- [70:51]
Benji Backer
You know what? They would if they asked me if I was polled, do you approve of that move? I would have been like, yeah, that's gangster. I approve of that move. I would have given. Not approve of him. That little move, the arrest. I would have said that was a good move right there.
- [71:07]
Jordy
Yeah.
- [71:07]
Benji Backer
But no, but no. He embarrassed us and shamed us by saying by, by sniffing the leader of our former leader of Al Qaeda turned leader of Syria.
- [71:16]
Ron Filipkowski
Oh, you smell nice.
- [71:18]
Jordy
And then genuinely asking how many wives had and try to play it off like you didn't know.
- [71:22]
Benji Backer
Well, I just. Could we just talk about his day, Brett, and just get how many lives he has. Could he use one more? Get the clip ready where Donald Trump and Laura Ingram talk about the brass versus, you know, like whatever the materials. I just want you to think about his day. Like he's like the morning he gets hit with all the Epstein files, right? Like getting released or like the emails, then you know, it's a different day. But I'll just conflate the days, just giving you a day. But then he brings in the leader, former leader of Al Qaeda turned leader of Syria, starts spritzing him. Then he goes, ooh, you want to see the ball? Laura Ingraham does an interview with him and he's like, I love designing ballrooms. Maybe I should just be a ballroom designer. Like he actually says, he says that he's like, do you see this? Do you see that? He gives her a tour and then he like talks about, do you see this? It's brass. No, no, I mean it's just watch this clip where he just even lies about the material that it's made out of. Here, play this clip.
- [72:15]
Ron Filipkowski
A lot of people are wondering who.
- [72:16]
Donald Trump
Which child would be the best certain way. They all could take a look at this, fellas. You want to see detail. So like this sign. Most people just do a sign, they paint it on the wall. So that's half inch thick bronze carved by a very talented person. And it's brass. It's pure brass. It's half inch thick brass. And you can't just do that. That's, you know, you look at that. That's quality, right? And then we start with Jo, George Washington and we go down to Trump. Pretty cool, right?
- [72:49]
Benji Backer
This is like, folks, let's be fair.
- [72:52]
Ron Filipkowski
He's just repeating something that Melania said to him. Listen, it's half inch thick, thick brass.
- [72:57]
Jordy
Is that like humanize him too? Like, like, is that like, is that supposed to be, like a relatable thing that people do is, you know, they just go to their bajillion dollar ballrooms and they point and they talk about the crafts and the brass and the craftsmanship of that dude.
- [73:10]
Ron Filipkowski
It's all so freaking bizarre. But honestly, like, like, Fox tried to set this whole interview up with Laura Ingram as this, like, puff piece for Donald Trump, as they normally do, but Trump was so horrible in this interview that he. It ended up backfiring, like, the biggest way. And I think ultimately they knew that they were sitting on this footage that they decided to stretch out over two nights. You know, it could have just been one and done. The first night was devastating enough for Trump, but they stretched this out over two nights and had brutal questions, not even brutal questions for Donald Trump, brutal answers by Donald Trump. And they knew at that point that they couldn't even, like, edit it out because it would have ruined the whole flow. So they add in these other moments, right, like the. The brass verse, bronze, you know, BS and all that sort of stuff to try to, I guess, humanize them and try to take the. The damage off, but the damage has been done. I mean, I haven't seen MAGA this and the 1, 2 punch of the responses that Donald Trump gave during this Fox interview leading into more Epstein obstruction. I mean, it's one of the reasons why you're also seeing Donald Trump's approval rating right now be at like, 33% and dropping because even his own base, even amongst Republicans in general, you are seeing him start to fall off a fricking cliff. Like, I'm looking at what the MAGA people are saying. They feel betrayed by the guy. Like, you'll still have the MAGA propagandists and whatnot, try to say, everything's great, everything's amazing. But some of the things that Trump said during this interview have really irreparably harmed his reputation with the MAGA crowd. And Trump tries to write it off, off by saying things like, I'm maga. Everything I say is maga. Well, you. You don't know mago. Anything I say is. Is the MAGA movement. And they're like, actually, that's not what we signed up for. And so, like, one of these things, for example, is when Donald Trump was asked about H1B visas, which is something that the MAGA people hate, like, they want to get rid of H1B visas. Donald Trump used to say emphatically that he thought H1B visas were a scam, but Trump changed his tune here, H1B visas are, you know, like, skilled, you know, employment. It's a lot of Tech uses H1B visas. Trump's companies, a lot of them use H1B visas. And, and here's what Donald Trump said about it and really offended people in the mag movement because he essentially said that Americans aren't smart enough to fill these jobs. And therefore, we need to go to other countries and have the H1B visas to bring in the real talent because the Americans not talented. Like, just watch this clip.
- [75:28]
Donald Trump
There's never going to be a country like what we have right now. And does that mean Republicans have to talk about it?
- [75:33]
Ron Filipkowski
And does that mean the H1B visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration? Because if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can't flood the country with, with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.
- [75:45]
Donald Trump
Also do have to bring in talent.
- [75:47]
Ron Filipkowski
When we have plenty of talented people. No, you don't.
- [75:49]
Donald Trump
No, you don't.
- [75:50]
Ron Filipkowski
We don't have talented people.
- [75:51]
Donald Trump
No, you don't have. You don't have certain talents. And you have to. People have to learn.
- [75:55]
Ron Filipkowski
Like, that was as bad as it gets. Like, you know, I think screw up.
- [76:00]
Benji Backer
By the way, general, it's, it's so interesting, though, right? Because yes, it's helpful to have a mix of foreign students, which, by the way, he's actually harmed. That process hasn't helped. But. But then she asks the question, don't like the, the biggest soft bell, but don't we, like, both can be true, right?
- [76:17]
Ron Filipkowski
Yeah.
- [76:18]
Benji Backer
That we have the talent starts off.
- [76:19]
Ron Filipkowski
With a position that's actually a position, I would say.
- [76:21]
Benji Backer
Oh, wow.
- [76:22]
Ron Filipkowski
I agree with that. Yeah, of course.
- [76:24]
Benji Backer
We need, you know, and I also believe that we have talented people here and we should emphasize and support Americans going to universities and getting the best education. And that's where he disagrees. Like, no, no, no. He's like, Americans clearly, you know, are not people anywhere near a smart.
- [76:44]
Ron Filipkowski
If you remember, Vivek Ramaswamy said basically the same thing verbatim a few months back. And then he turned into Persona non grata in the Maga movement. Like, didn't even tweet for, like, days, if not longer. And Trump said the same thing that he got basically tossed out of the movement for back then. I mean, there's nothing more harmful that Trump could say than that, other than, I guess, saying that in the same interview. We don't have to play the clip, but Donald Trump said that we need to bring in 600,000 Chinese students into the American universities that it's essential for America to succeed. That also really set off the, the MAGA people. And so you combine that with the economic failures, with Donald Trump telling people that everything is rosy and everything's great.
- [77:25]
Benji Backer
That in the factories, Americans are not capable of high skilled factory jobs. Yeah.
- [77:31]
Ron Filipkowski
So it just hit after hit after hit with Donald Trump and then obviously the Epstein stuff. But this is why, if you're wondering why, why is Trump support seem softer than ever right now? Why is he losing support with Republicans? Don't they love all the cast? Yeah, they actually like all the bad crap. Right. They like all that good stuff. You know, they like all the bad stuff. But the fact that Donald Trump now has changed his position or has been more vocal on these issues like H1BS and, and Chinese influence, immigration and America and, and on American workers and ingenuity and obstructing the Epstein files. I mean, like, you add all of this up and especially now that you have a bit of an opposition on the right, actually coming in many cases further to the right, you're starting to see a lot of these. And it's a very scary thing that's happening right now in the Republican Party. The most virulently anti Semitic, horrific voices coming out from the right. People like Nick Fuentes and the Tucker, Tucker Carlson said, and they're almost co opting this movement. They don't view Trump as extreme enough anymore. They're angry at Trump. And meanwhile, you also have this opposition like Marjorie Taylor Greene and other people who are saying out loud, you know, this Epstein stuff is bullshit. Like, this is upsetting. Like you release the files like, what are we doing? And saying, no, the economy's not good. The people in my district don't think the economy's good. They're struggling. And when Donald Trump says that everything's amazing and we're living in the golden age, it actually does the opposite of helping. It's actually hurting. It's a big fu in the faces of the people in my district. And when you add all that up, that's part of the reason right now why you're seeing the bottom fall out of this Trump administration. And as I wrote about a week ago, I said, I think right now we are in Donald Trump's Afghanistan moment. And for those who remember the Biden administration after the Afghanistan withdrawal, which I think was 100% the right move in the long term, I'm so glad that we brought our troops out of Afghanistan. But obviously he was going By Trump's plan, Trump had pulled all the forces out of there. Trump had screwed over the Afghan government, and it was a rough withdrawal. And President Biden at the time, his approval rating took a hit, and his approval rating never recovered. It just kept going down, maybe, you know, a little up some days a little. It kept going down and kept going down. His presidency was never the same from an approval rating point of view. Well, that's why I said just about a week ago, I think we've hit that Afghanistan moment for the Trump administration. I'm not sure that he will ever recover from this. He'll have maybe some okay days, you know, but this, he's in bad shape right now unless things turn around fast. He just seems to be digging his hole deeper and deeper and deeper. And the reason why I don't think he's going to dig himself out of this hole is because of other answers that he gave to Laura Ingram. Like when he said the issue with the gop, the issue with things right now, it's not that things are bad. It's not that people are suffering. It's not that prices are high. It's that Republican politicians aren't telling their voters that everything's amazing and that everything's cheap. As I said in the beginning, the worst possible thing you could do is lie to people about their lived experience. They know you're a bullshitter. You can't bullshit them on the issue of prices. I'll just play this clip quickly.
- [80:37]
Donald Trump
The Republicans don't talk about it, so.
- [80:39]
Ron Filipkowski
They need to do a better job on Capitol Hill.
- [80:41]
Donald Trump
The Democrats give false talk, and the Republicans. And I say it all the time. Republicans have to talk about the fact that prices are down. My thing is very important. When Wal Mart says a Thanksgiving meal costs 25% less.
- [80:56]
Ron Filipkowski
All right, and that's, of course, he's going on another lie. He's doubling down a lie with another lie. But that's the kind of reason why I'm like, oh, he's never going to take himself out of this. He's just going to keep trying to lie his way out of this. But as we know, when Donald Trump starts lying about things like this, and we've seen it in his first presidency, we've seen it in his legal cases. Once he starts digging, he keeps digging, and he. He brings on this, there's nothing more I could call it than this death spiral. The issue right now is the whole country is going to have to go through this death spiral with him as he destroys everything and collapses Everything. But right now we're watching a panicked man in a death spiral making one bad decision after the next to try to cover for the previous bad decision. And it only makes things worse and worse and worse. And right now we are in the middle of that storm.
- [81:41]
Benji Backer
If you remember, early on in this regime, we gave an analysis. Brett, that was just that I said the reason why Trump's companies have gone bankrupt so many times. Why if there was probably a Guinness Book of records of bankruptcies, I don't know if he would be number one, but he would certainly be someone who bankrupted a lot of things. I mean, multiple casinos, multiple times, then all of those products and all of the lawsuits and you go, but how is that possible? Like, how could someone just keep on having that happen? It's a pathology and it's like a decision making tree where most people see the problem and then try to fix it. Take responsibility, admit fault, and then try to fix it. Be humble, bring in new people, right ways to address it. Trump takes the bad decision and turns it into a worse decision and then turns it into a catastrophic decision and turns it into absolute obliteration and bankruptcy. And then in the chaos of the bankruptcy or the catastrophe, right, and the mass confusion and people suffering, then he goes, oh, they did it, they did.
- [82:56]
Ron Filipkowski
It, they did it, they did it, they did it.
- [82:57]
Benji Backer
Their fault, their fault, their fault, their fault. And then he moves on and bounces to the next one. That's been his whole life. And that was the warning that we've been trying to raise, that it's not a policy, Democrat, Republican thing, although that exists, certainly. I said, and it's critical. I don't want to understate these issues, but I said he's a bad human being and he is a terrible business person who has run things into the ground. Just take that undisputed fact and you can set aside all of the other things. Look at the decision making based on a warped pathology. And it is the worst in the world, quite literally. If you picked any other human being to be in this position, they would do a better job than him. Seriously, he's quite literally the worst of all seven plus eight plus billion human beings. I literally believe he's the worst human being for this position because he has a sick warped pathology. And I think he's the biggest loser that exists. And that's the problem. And so I'll leave you with that high note. Or you can think about him spritzing the former leader of Al Qaeda who used to be beheading people who's in the Oval Office. And Trump said, oh, you smell good. You want my cologne, you want my fragrance? We'll leave you with, we'll leave you with that. Keep fighting, Keep fighting. Stay in there. Because the release of these files didn't just happen, right? It was the pressure that you forced, you caused you. We've changed the rules of how this is reported, how we hold people accountable, and that's been one of the biggest stories as well. This is a different game when it comes to reporting and media now that independent media is leading the way. So on that note, subscribe to our YouTube channel. Subscribe to Midas Touch podcast on audio. Subscribe to become a member of the YouTube channel and gift memberships to as many people as you can. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Ron Filipkowski
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- [85:46]
Jordy
Shout out to the Midas mar.
- [85:51]
Ron Filipkowski
Standing strong against the fascist we sing our song.
- [86:06]
Jordy
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