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Make him feel big and powerful. And so one of the things that we saw in the past 24 hours, and I want to highlight this, is the Trump regime is renaming the Institute of Peace to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. That's right. The State Department put out a statement saying that they've made an important initiative. You see Secretary Marco Rubio right here saying President Trump will be remembered by history as the president of peace. It's time our State Department display that. And then the Department of State like this is, this is what they're focused on right now. While Donald Trump has not brought peace to Ukraine in 24 hours like he's plan. Well, if you look at what's taking place in Gaza as well, there are still innocent Palestinians being killed. You still have Hamas right now remaining in control. You still have Netanyahu and Smoothich and his crew not recognizing a two state solution. So, you know, wherever you look, the world is far more destabilized. In a little bit in the show, we'll talk about how China's just brutally outmaneuvering Donald Trump, how the United States has really given the middle finger to Taiwan, to Japan, to Ukraine, to our NATO allies. But China has asserted itself. Yes, again. And they keep on owning Donald Trump. And it's just so unfortunate to see. But what's the Department of State doing? They go. This morning, the State Department renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history. Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. The the best is yet to come. Now I want to give you the statement from Greg Foote, who's counsel for the former United States Institute of Peace leadership and staff. A federal court previously ruled that the termination of the board members and staff members at the United States Institute of Peace was unlawful. A federal court said Trump firing all these people from the Institute of Peace unlawful. What does Donald Trump do? He rushes to the supreme court and says, Mr. John Roberts, Mr. Justice Alito, Mr. Clarence Thomas and my right wing extremists, this is going to cause me irreparable harm. I'm going to be irreparably harmed by this. That's what Donald Trump says, that it would cause him irreparable harm. And the Supreme Court pauses the district court ruling declaring what Trump did illegal. So Trump's allowed to continue on because the Supreme Court uses its shadow docket to pause what the district court ultimately ruled. And how does Trump utilize that pause? Right here, he just changes the name of the thing to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. That's what he's focused on. Golden ballrooms, arches, triumphal arches, changing the name of the Institute of Peace. And this is what George Foote again, the lead counsel for the prior United States Institute of Peace, the group that was unlawfully fired. Here's what they say. Renaming the United States Institute of Peace Building adds insult to injury. A federal judge has already ruled that the government's armed takeover was illegal. That judgment is stayed paused while the government appeals, which is the only reason the government continues to control the building. The rightful owners will ultimately prevail and will restore the US Institute of Peace and the building to their statutory purpose. Cuz I could tell you the statutory purpose of the Institute of Peace is not aiding and abetting freaking war crimes that are taking place in the name of the United States right now. It is despicable. And that's what's going on. Shame on Admiral Mitch Bradley. Shame on Navy SEAL Team 6 that was involved. Shame on anybody in the chain of command, obviously. Shame on Pete Exif. Shame on Donald, anybody. Donald Trump, anybody who was involved in the chain of command on these war crimes in Venezuela. Just think about it. Trump's doing these war crimes literally killing people at sea who are defenseless against every law of international order, every law in the United States. Just clear and obvious murder. But he wants to be called the peace president. He goes, this is what I do. I'm doing peace right here. No, you're not. So Admiral Mitch Bradley, the Admiral who was involved in that operation. He met with Democrats, Republicans from the House and Senate and showed them the full video footage of that Sept. 2 strike, which was the first strike off the coast of Venezuela, killing the people on the fishing boats right there. Now, I will tell you what Democratic Congress member Jim Himes told me, that Congressmember Himes is the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee. That means he's the top person of the Democrats on the Intelligence Committee. I sat down with him and here is what he said today to me. Here, play this clip. What can you share with us about what you saw when the Admiral provided that video during the meeting? It was exceedingly hard to watch. You know, from a legal standpoint, you can say that this is a war. I don't agree with that. It's not a war. If it were a war, it would be authorized by Congress. But even if you stipulate that it's a war, there is an extremely specific prohibition against killing individuals who've been removed from the fight. The French term they use is or de combat. And there is no question that these individuals were removed from the fight. They were in the last hours of their life. Even if we had left them alone because they were floating on a piece of flotsam in the middle of an ocean, maybe they might have been recovered by some of their colleagues, but they posed zero threat to anyone in the region, and we killed them. And of course, now we're learning why Alvin Holsey, the four star admiral who's retiring soon, who's basically retired, the official retirement date doesn't come until come until pretty soon. Um, but he was the one responsible over all of southcom Southern Command, that region in Venezuela, the Caribbean, where these war crimes were taking place. He stood up and said, I'm not going to follow unlawful orders, Pete Hegseth. To which Pete Hegseth said, if you don't follow my orders, you need to go, you need to resign. Everything that I do, Hegseth said, is lawful because I, Pete Hegset, say so. That's what makes it lawful a little bit. In the show, we'll talk about signal gate and the report by the Inspector General there. But Pete Hegset said, if I say it, therefore it is lawful, you do it. And Alvin Holy said, I ain't doing it. No. And then he left. That's what you're supposed to do. Alvin Holseley is someone who deserves praise and I think will go down in history very favorably, I believe. On the other hand, I think somebody like Admiral Mitch Bradley is gonna go down in history for shame for being involved in a war crime. Tell me what you think now. I also want to talk about Signal Gate, and we will talk about that in a moment. I want to remind everybody to subscribe though. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. We're on our way to 6 million right now. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed. So please, if you can hit subscribe, also become a member. If you can click join, you can gift memberships to as many people as you want. Ooh, we've got so much to talk about. When we come back, we're gonna talk about the grand jury rejecting the indictment in Norfolk of New York Attorney General Letitia James. Don't they say you can indict a ham sandwich? The Trump regime can. Utterly embarrassing parade. Utterly embarrassing, humiliating regime. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about Signal Gate. We'll talk about, oh, the big Republican hearings. Shower heads. They're, they're infatuated with shower heads. But AOC used the hearing to expose how the MAGA Republicans are the ones creating an affordability crisis, which, by the way, Donald Trump reinforces by saying affordability, it's the biggest con job ever. So let's take our first quick break of the show.

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Welcome back to the Midas Touch podcast. I miss Brett and Jordi today, but I told them, I said let me just do this one today. We'll have next week. Maybe you give me a break. But so glad to be spending all of this time with all of you, make sure you hit subscribe right now. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. We're on our way. And you saw that earlier this week, Donald Trump attacked us on his social media platform. He played the interview that I did with former Attorney General Eric Holder. You may have seen that. And then Trump's like, look at what these radicals are doing. They wanna reform the Supreme Court. We need to kill the filibuster. And then you had state regime media, which calls itself Fox, attacking the segment I did with Vin Gupta, who runs Midas Health. And doesn't Gupta do. Dr. Gupta do such an incredible job? He's been on the forefront calling Donald Trump's physical and mental decline out, calling out the fact that there's no such thing as a abdominal preventative mri. He spoke to all the individuals in the field of radiology, MRI technicians, you name it, and they said, yeah, that's just not a thing that we do. Preventative abdominal MRIs. And that's what Donald Trump was saying when he was exposed for getting advanced imaging, which turns out it was an MRI. And usually you don't get MRIs of the abdomen in general. Not to say it never takes place, but usually MRIs, you're talking about spine, usually there, of the brain, the head area, they're for a specific purpose. So if you were to do a preventative mri, well, you would probably then do all aspects of it. So then you're omitting the fact that you did it of the brain. Okay. Or the spine. That's odd. And then Donald Trump said, I got an A. I got an A on a cognitive exam. And it seems like every three months, he keeps on taking cognitive exams over and over again. I'll just give you my opinion. We're all entitled to our own opinions, right? Under the First Amendment. So my view, as I've studied his late father, Fred Trump, who had Alzheimer's in the early 1990s, which then rapidly deteriorated until the time of Fred Trump's death. They were covering up, or they were not covering, they were not being forthcoming about the fact that he had Alzheimer's and this really awful and progressively worse dementia. And so, you know, I did a whole video on this where I studied the court file of Fred Trump in connection with the estate, and my own opinion, given that this is genetic Alzheimer's, 30%, sometimes even higher. We know Alzheimer's runs in the Trump family. Dementia runs in the Trump family. I don't wanna give Trump an out based on his cruel and unusual behavior to say, oh, Everything he's doing is because of hypothetical dementia or because of hypothetical other mental types of situations. But I think we can all observe that this entire week, whether it was that disastrous cabinet meeting, whether it was this fake peace deal thing they announced between Congo and Rwanda, whether it was yesterday where everybody was in the Oval Office, and Trump just went on that tirade against Somalians and said, all Somalians are garbage people. What a horrific, racist, disgusting thing to say. But he was, like, sleeping during a lot of that as well. Like, Ted Cruz was behind him. He's like, ah, Ted. He's like, ted, where do you come from, Ted? So we know a lot's going on there. I'll get into that. We'll tie all of that together as well. But why don't we talk about, you know, they're calling it signal gate, but it basically means that Pete Hegseth, who unfortunately is the Secretary of Defense, who unlawfully refers to himself as the Secretary of War, was sending war plans regarding military strikes in Yemen on a signal chat, which is supposed to be an encrypted app, but let's draw a distinction. Encrypted versus secured number one are different things. But he was talking about war plans on his personal phone. Now, Pete Hegseth, like the liar and scumbag that he is, excuse my language, I don't know. I was refer to him sometimes. Pete Hegseth goes, no classified information. Total exoneration. Case closed. Houthis bombed into submission. Thank you for your attention to this IG report. IG refers to Inspector General. That's the watchdog group that works inside the various departments. And the Trump regime worked to get rid of all of these IGs. So there's, like, an acting IG now in these various departments. Um, but even this IG currently at the Defense Department, said that the conduct by Hegseth placed the military in jeopardy, that this was a breach of protocol. And the only claim that Pete Hegseth made is that he has what he refers to as original declassification authority. Original declassification authority. Basically, it's what Trump's claim was when Trump brought the documents, the classified documents and potential nuclear secrets to Mar a Lago that telepathically. Hegseth says that he could basically retroactively declassify anything he wants because he's the Secretary of Defense. So, for example, he didn't say this, but this would be the argument if he were to send the nuclear code to Xi Jinping, the leader of China. Hegseth can say, well, even though I Sent it. I hereby declare it retroactively as declassified. So therefore, it's not classified information because I have original declassification authority. Right. It's total crap. But that's the argument that he makes right here. And you see, he takes zero accountability for sending these messages about the war plans while the war plans were being effectuated hours before the strike took place, which placed our military in jeopardy. That's what the report said. There's other aspects that I think are not getting enough attention that we should dig into here. Specifically, Pete Hegseth refused to show up for an interview with the inspector general. The inspector general, normal courses, if you're under investigation, you show up. Hegseth gave him the middle finger, said, I ain't showing up. The inspector general says, can we look at your personal phone to see if this involved more people? Were there more chats that existed than just the ones that we know about, which were published in the Atlantic? And the only reason it was published in the Atlantic is because Hegseth and others in the regime accidentally allowed let into the chat room a reporter from the Atlantic who was in the chat. And that's how this even got discovered in the first place. Hegseth refused to turn over his phone, refused to cooperate, really, with the investigation. He gave a written statement, basically, about original declassification and otherwise refused to participate at all. So the only reason that we know about the conversation that took place, and that's all the inspector general's report was based on, is because the United States government, under this Trump regime, the regime, accidentally invited in the Atlantic reporter who they then attacked for inviting him into the chat room, and they inadvertently brought him into the chat room. So it begs the question, how many other chats like this were taking place involving war plans? Is Hegset talking about military capabilities, airplane procurement, top secrets about our military, other strikes, other highly classified information? Like, I thought it was notable that there was a classified brief about Heg Sith's conduct, which Hegseth has to claim is not classified in the first place. But it was so highly classified that the members of Congress who looked at one of the versions of the reports about Hegseth's conduct had to do it in a skiff, a sensitive compartmented information facility, because it was so highly classified. Now, I think we should also reflect on the fact that we know that foreign intelligence services are looking at the signal chats and phones of American officials. For better or for worse. Often for worse, sometimes for better. I mean, just think about this example in the Past week, Steve Witkoff. Steve Witkoff, Trump's envoy to Russia who's basically been acting as Putin's puppet, laundering Putin's plan of surrender to try to get Ukraine to surrender. Some intelligence service got the signal chat between Whitcoff, between Dimitri of Kyrell, Dimitri of. And Yuri Yushkov about the 28 point plan of surrender, and intelligence service got that from the signal chat that they were having. So clearly they were able to access that. I think Wit cough is worried. Who was it? Was it a European intelligence service? Was it Ukrainian intelligence service? Someone got it and leaked the chat to show that the US Was compromised and doing Putin's bidding to help Ukraine. That was a good example. Right? And you know, Witkoff with that. With that sweaty face of his, right? You know, he's terrified to go, oh, crap. What else do these intelligence services have in mind? They've got. They've got it all. It's these intelligence services know how to get into these phones, so you could be sure that they have it. You're telling me that you don't think Putin Xi Jinping.

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Iran allied with Yemen. You're telling me that you don't think that some of these other intelligence services have access to Hegseth's signal the same way that some intelligence service had access to Witkoff's? So what else was Hegseth chatting about? And you could be sure, it's my opinion, and I think it's a good one, that there are probably dozens of other chats that are taking place like. Like that involve highly sensitive stuff, and who knows what the hell just got into the hands of our enemies. Knowledge is power, especially when it comes to classified information. And because Hegseth didn't turn over his phone to the inspector general, we just don't know, because this is the least transparent regime that exists. There was one other point that I think deserves more attention. As you talk about this situation with maybe people that you know, which is at Hexip's home, the Defense Department actually set up a scif, a Sensitive Compartmented information Facility. They gave him a special phone to conduct business inside the skiff. And they created all of the necessary circumstances for Hegseth to engage in appropriate classified communications about warplanes from his own home. What we learned, and this part, I think, deserves more attention. Hegseth took that information from the scif, which was deemed to be top secret. No foreign N o F o r n took that, walked outside the scif, put the phone that was supposed to be used for classified communications down left, picked up his personal phone, went on the signal chat, and started bragging about the military operation outside the skiff. He could have talked about it inside the skiff using the appropriate equipment. And that should just you the hell off, no matter whether you're a Republican, no matter where you're a Democrat. But it's just corruption, corruption, corruption. This regime reeks of corruption in everything they do. And I can talk to you about another example of corruption right now that we've seen on full display this week. And it is those Trump corrupt pardons. And I just want to give you this data right now. So far, Trump has pardoned over 1500 criminals thus far in under a year. Over 1500 people, by contrast. Really? No other president in their entire term ever did more than 250, ever. And it's usually 198, 212, 150. Even in Trump's first administration, it was, you know, 200 or something. It wasn't this huge number. But it's also the type of people that Trump is pardoning, right? He pardoned some of the biggest fraudsters, some of the biggest human traffickers, some of the worst of the worst people. I mean, you take a look, just, just look at this week. So while Donald Trump is out there saying, the Somalians, the Somalis, they're garbage people, Trump says they're all fraud, Trump says, which is such a racist and despicable thing to say. And screw any media company that goes, oh, that's just Trump's position. No, you don't say the Somalis as a people, as a culture, as an ethnicity, are criminals and garbage humans. Okay? That's the language of Hitler. That's the language of despicable, vile racists who have committed genocide. You don't use that language at all, period. Full stop. So cut it out and let's grow up and act like we're adults. But Trump says all the Somalis are fraud. And meanwhile, who's Donald Trump pardoning this week? The actual biggest fraudsters, the actual biggest drug dealers, some of the biggest scumbags imaginable. Like this didn't get enough attention. But I'm bringing attention to it here on the Midas Touch podcast. How about this? A guy by the name of David Jatiel who ran a fraudulent private equity firm. He was their CEO. He was convicted for his role in a $1.6 billion fraud screen fraud scheme. In his conviction, the prosecutors showed evidence that he defrauded 10,000 investors. We're not talking about Just ripping off other companies or rich people, which still you shouldn't do. We're talking about retail investors, people who are doing a thousand bucks, five thousand bucks, ten thousand bucks, some people putting in their whole life savings. And he was pardoned or technically commuted seven year sentence. He served a few days. They Trump commuted this guy's sentence. One, he's like a Bernie Madoff, an actual massive, massive fraud. I mean, by the way, like when you look at Senator Rick Scott, who's the MAGA healthcare guy, although, you know, of course that's all fraud. They never actually put out a healthcare plan, even though they promised in the first Trump administration two more weeks. Two more weeks. And then after the government shutdown, we're going to give you health care plan, we're going to give you health care plan, which they don't do. That guy wasn't in the biggest Medicare and Medicaid criminal fraud in history as well. That's how he made his money. He invoked the fifth like 75 times when he was sued. And then his company entered into a criminal settlement and SEC settlements and he left with a golden parachute right there. So you want to talk about fraud, waste and abuse, it is the Magas and they're out here using this terminology to try to brainwash their own base when they're the ones who are engaged in this behavior. So you want to talk about the fraud, you go the Somalis. No, you just pardon David Gentile, a Ponzi schemer who stole $1.6 billion and was convicted. You want to talk about narco, terrorist and drug trafficking. As you all know by now, Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez who said, get that cocaine up the gringo's nose. Get it up the gringo's nose, let's kill him. 400, 500 tons of cocaine that this guy, the former president of Honduras, shipped into the United States, killing thousands, tens of thousands of Americans. Trump's former personal lawyer, Emil Beauvais, who became one of the Trump's top prosecutors at the DOJ, who's now a Trump appointed 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals judge, was one of the lead prosecutors against Juan Orlando Hernandez, a Trump. I was like, ah, it was a deep state thing. No, it was. You initiated it during your first administration. During the first Trump administration or regime. In August of 2019 against Juan Orlando Hernandez, there was ample evidence that this guy, the former leader of Honduras, worked with El Chapo to bring so much drugs into the United States, he used his position to do that along with his brother. So Donald Trump pardons that guy. So what, what, what? Who else did Donald Trump pardon? Oh, Donald Trump pardoned a guy who his own regime prosecuted. Trump pardons former top entertainment executive who was charged by his own Justice Department this week. This week. This guy by the name of Tim Lewicki, the co founder of Oak View Group, who Trump's own Justice Department earlier this year prosecuted for crimes. He pled not guilty, but the crimes would carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Trump pardoned this guy. A full and complete pardon. Trump's own regime found the evidence, and then Trump said, nah. And then there was the guy who runs that company, Binance, the crypto exchange or whatever it was. You. You have so much data points here, over and over again of just complete and utter corruption in plain view. And I think it's important that we take a step back. We talk about all of that and we show, look, as the American people suffer, as Donald Trump says, you know, affordability, it's just one big scam. It's not really a real thing. It's a democratic hoax. Trump's out there helping the drug traffickers, the sex traffickers, the fraudsters. That's what he's doing each and every day. And here was Donald Trump saying, affordability is the greatest con job. Here, play this clip. It's a con job. I think affordability is the greatest con job. They look at you and they say, affordability. They don't say anything else. Everyone says, oh, their prices were so low. No, they had the worst inflation. All right, we're going to take our last quick break of the show. When we come back, I want to chat about this ridiculous.

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Meeting that Donald Trump had with the leaders of Congo and Rwanda, where Trump was declaring, ah, look, I made. I brought peace. While there's a war going on right now, there's a war. I did eight wars. I did nine wars, saved nine wars. I brought in $23 trillion. Everyone's gonna be so rich. They're just a bunch of losers, fraudsters, like the people they are pardoning. Reminder, make sure you hit subscribe. You may think you're subscribed, but you might not actually be subscribed to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. Lots of people are like, I thought I was subscribed, but I'm not subscribed yet. Hit subscribe right now. Let's get to 6 million subscribers right now. And also join. Become a member of our YouTube channel if you can. We'd appreciate that. And you can gift memberships to Others. All right, let's take our last quick break of the show.

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Welcome back to the Midas Touch Podcast. Thank you to all of our sponsors. We are so grateful for each and every One of them. This would not be possible without those sponsors. So please support them if you can. The discount codes are in the description below. And of course, none of this is possible without you. Let me just let you know. Midas Mighty, we are so damn grateful for you. What you have been able to accomplish this year when all hope seemed to be lost to where we are right now. And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to paint some rosy picture of the state and condition of our country or, or our economy. But I will, I will mention that I think we're beginning to talk about and think about what a world looks like in a post Trump era where we can try to move beyond this Trump loser, corrosive, dangerous, traitorous, treasonous, felonious behavior. And that's a testament to you. So I'm grateful for you. I'm thankful for you. You. Let's also just get into it as well. Speaking about Donald Trump's fraudulent and just despicable behavior. This was what I wanted to share with you before, which is that Donald Trump had this press conference today where he was announcing that he did this incredible deal, he said, between Rwanda and Congo. But I want you to listen carefully to this reporter from Africa. It's hard to hear her. So I'll let you know what she says, but you may be able to hear it. She goes, look, it's great that you're saying historical peace deal is made. But she says, but you know, there's still troops that are there in the Congo right now. And you know, this M23 group is not, you know, is not here. The signatories that really need to be in this deal aren't in the room. So what do you say is gonna happen, Donald? And he's like, we'll get it done. We'll see. In a few months you're announcing a peace deal. What do you mean you're gonna see in a few months? You either do a deal or you don't do a deal. But this is another one of this is what he's done his whole life, fraud. These are the Trump fake deals. Here, play this clip. Because this needs to be real. The troop needs to be drawn. I think you're going to see very quick and very quickly. I think you're going to see things happen. This is something that was not doable according to, to a lot of people. And not only is it doable, I think it's going to be a great miracle. These two gentlemen are leaders. They're great leaders and they're going to prove that in the coming months and years. And I think you're going to see very immediate results. I have confidence that that's what's going to happen. Thank you very much, everybody.

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And by the way, through a lot of it, he was just sleeping. So here, as Jim Acosta goes, more like the Institute of Z, because he just falls asleep Here, play this clip. Ruru Kenyatta, who I can see here in the room, these two great Africans who are at the beginning, who started the Luanda and the Nairobi processes and beyond them, I wish to thank also all of the African leaders who contributed, you know, and throughout the last 48 hours, I mean, his behavior has just been so abhorrent. And, you know, sometimes I know the media is like Democrats, Republicans, independent, da, da, da. It's like Trump's behavior is that of like a very poorly behaving second grader. And no offense to poorly behaving sec to second graders because they behave much more. They're much better than this. But I just want you to watch this. So you have Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at this Oval Office presser that took place on Wednesday. And Duffy does what this regime always does, which is attack Biden and former Transportation Secretary Buddha Judge. And then as Transportation Secretary Duffy is doing that, you've got Donald Trump's like, boo, Boo. Ja. Judge Buddha. You mean boo, judge. Judge. It's like. And then everybody laughs. Like this is like supposed to be funny. It's like, there's nothing funny about this behavior. Here, play this clip. You have to look at combustion engines. Biden and Buttigieg actually did an analysis using edge. Edge, edge. I'm sorry. While we're on the topic of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, you know, he's been out there, you know, basically over and over again, you know, pushing things like, you know what we really need to get rid of? You know what Americans are really thinking about right now? What, Sean? What are Americans thinking about right now? He's like, we need 1970s station wagons. Why don't we have 1970s station wagons again? I don't know. We've progressed. We're beyond 1970s station wagons. Sean Duffy. But this is what you guys are thinking about anyway. Here, play this clip. And also, I think if you're building a car, developing a car that Joe Biden or Pete Buddha Judge wanted you to build, that's different than market demand. I want the market to decide what kind of ev I should offer. What kind of, what kind of vehicles do the American consumers want to buy. This rule will Actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. Phil, we can bring back toys to consumers. So, yeah, the minivan is awesome, but maybe this. The station wagon is cool, too. And that's one of the things about this regime. Like, just think about some of the ideas that they have. Like, we know the pain that they've inflicted. We talk about the ICE Gestapo.

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The deportations, throwing people into concentration camps, the covering up of the Epstein files, all the tariffs against the world. But I just want you to think about it. In the past few weeks, they've been like, you know, somebody's. They're sitting around in a room, and someone's like, I've got a great idea. Like, well, what's your idea? Here's my idea. Coast Guard. Hear me out. What's missing in the Coast Guard? And someone in the meeting's like, what? What's missing with the Coast Guard? Swastikas. Huh? We're missing swastikas in the Coast Guard. What are you talking about? Nooses. We're missing nooses. Swastikas. What? What? What? And maybe Confederate flags. And then the room goes, oh, great idea. Let's bring that back to the Coast Guard. And everyone's like, yay. And then they actually announced that as a plan, and they pushed that plan forward. And then someone has to call me and go, what'd you do? And they go, oh, we didn't do that. We didn't do that. It's like, who the hell's doing that? Who the hell's sitting in a room like these. Magazar. And someone goes, you know what the American people really want right now? Affordability. No. Be able to afford homes. No, no, it's not what they want. Health care. No, no, I don't want that. I give up. What is it? Nurses. Okay? Nurses. We like. Nurses aren't professionals. Wait, what are you saying? Take away their professional degrees. Wait, what do you mean, take away their professional degrees? Let's say that nurses aren't professionals anymore and take away their professional degrees so the Department of Education doesn't have to be involved in supporting people becoming nurses. We need less nurses. Oh, less nurses. Not more nurses. Yeah, less nurses. High five. Let's take it. I mean, that's one of their ideas. To destroy the nursing profession. So just think about some of their ideas, and then you have Sean Duffy. You know what people are really thinking about right now? What is it? People are showing up in the airplanes wearing their pajamas, and we gotta make sure. That people are nicer and stop wearing pajamas. Okay, well, nicer is fine, but pajamas, let's get rid of the pajamas. Okay, but maybe the airlines can actually, I don't know, provide services where they don't over bill and they don't treat people like crap and herd people in like cattle and treat people like absolute trash. And maybe, maybe they create a better experience that we could actually deal with it. No, take off those. Stop your pajamas. What are you even talking about? And then his idea here, we need to bring back 1970s station wagon. I showed you that clip. It's absolutely, absolutely ridiculous. And while Donald Trump holds these press conferences, right now state regime media can't criticize him. When Trump says affordability is a con job, it's one big con job. So. Because they're scared of him. And so now even state regime media is like, we're gonna continue to wait for Donald Trump announcing his latest move. Um, but we, we can call it affordability. So what should we call it right now? He made Donald Trump may text us angry if we call it affordability. I mean, didn't his whole fraud campaign run on affordability? They're gonna make things more affordable. Now they can't even say the word cuz Donald Trump says it's a con job. Watch Fox say that affordability is a con job. Here, play this clip. Sandra. We continue to wait for President Trump to speak from the White House announcing the latest move in.

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I don't want to say the affordability agenda because he might text me the latest move in his efforts, I guess, to make things more affordable. Can you say it any other way to improve the economy, to grow the economy. Right, John? Plus and then I'm not sure you caught this, but you probably caught this. We talked about it on the, on the Midas Touch YouTube channel. So one of the things that this disgusting regime always does too, is they steal the music of artists. So they've stolen, they steal songs like all that. They steal people's ip. So they recently stole Sabrina Carpenter's the pop star, they stole her song, and they made a commercial where they show the regime Ice Gestapo, border patrol torturing and terrorizing migrants. And they use Sabrina Carpenter song. And Sabrina Carpenter says, you know, please, please don't use my music. I don't want to be associated with this disgusting behavior. So please, let's not use my music. It's disgusting. I don't want to be associated with this. So then the Trump regime attacked Sabrina Carpenter. Now Sabrina Carpenter's post saying, I don't want to be associated with this disgusting and inhumane behavior. Has gotten close to 200 million views on X. Formerly Twitter, now alone, but now in the most misogynistic, gross way, Fox and its state regime media hosts continue to attack her. So they've got Greg Gutfeld say, you know, look at her, opposed to representatives of women her age. This is what Greg Gutfeld has to say about her on state regime media known as Fox. Here, play this clip. Talk about her. Every time we talk about affordability, we're not talking about Sabrina Carpenter. You wanna talk about her? Well, here's the thing is I'm not into the celebrity aspect. I'm into the phase of life. Think about, okay, like, look at her as opposed to a representative of women her age, single, no kids, no responsibilities. They have yet to experience any transform event that would inform their beliefs. So the things that she detests today, she will learn and understand a value later. Like we all have. Again, like such a. Such horrific language. You're attacking Sabrina Carpenter like a beloved pop star right now. Again, this behavior shouldn't even be viewed as, oh, Democrat or Republican. It should just be viewed as, like, this is not acceptable human behavior at all. And so, you know, finally, one of the things that Congress is doing right now, what they're trying to do in the House of Representatives is they know that if they talk about any topics that are actually salient and relevant to what the American people want, that they're just gonna get clobbered by Democrats and they're gonna get exposed because their whole agenda is rip away healthcare, rip away snap, rip away, make things less affordable, help the billionaires take away rural hospitals, screw people.

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That's their whole shtick, right? And so the plan by the magas is to basically run out the clock. And so, you know how, like in a sports match, like basketball or soccer, football, if you're international or soccer here in the States, you know, like, you just try to delay and run out the remainder of your time. So that's what they're trying to do for the rest of the year. And so the big hearing, right, there's so many issues that we need big hearings about right now. But the big hearing that Republicans have held this week was about the shower heads. And they blame the shower heads for pressure. And the whole point is that Biden wanted you to take bad showers. Like Biden's overregulation is the reason why your showers are bad, because of the way shower heads are being installed or something like that, you know, not addressing some of the systemic issues about water pressure, but whatever. So this is what they talk about. So you've got maga, Republican Congressmember Fry. He's like, let it flow, let it flow. Like they think this is funny. Here, play this clip. At the subcommittee level. I think some of my colleagues on the other side were a little bit bothered by some of the punny jokes that we had in my remarks, so I made sure to add more.

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There's nothing quite like a shower act in December. Let it flow. Let it, it flow. Let it flow. Some of our colleagues may want to freeze debate on this bill, but today we're actually going to talk about common sense. And here he is again saying, your hair and shampoo shouldn't require a four year evacuation plan. Here, play this clip. Your hair and your shampoo shouldn't require a four year evacuation plan. I urge my colleagues to support this straightforward bill. And with that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Thank you. We appreciate.

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We applaud you showering us with your wisdom. We appreciate very much. Does that remind you of, like, Billy Madison, right? Ooh, conditioner is better. Shampoo is better. Conditioner is like, what are you doing? But I want you to watch how AOC deals with this. Here's what AOC says here, play this clip. As a person who has installed their own shower heads, who has, you know, encountered this.

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If you are having a dribbly shower, is this not a water pressure issue in your home? I mean, generally, mechanically, I'm trying to engage this in good faith, genuinely.

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Secondly, it seems as though we're blaming the showerhead on a water pressure issue. And in doing so, we are deregulating a piece of hardware that actually drives, drives people's water bills up. And if we want to talk about affordability and if we want to be in touch with working people's lives, my hope is that we've had that experience that we know the things that we're legislating and why would we make this affordability problem worse? I mean, I'm really trying to approach this earnestly. And if we can solve this problem by addressing a water pressure issue, there's no need to be changing regulations that increase people's water bills in the name of, quote, unquote, personal choice. This is how our healthcare system got deregulated too. People talking about, oh, Americans should have the personal choice of getting totally fleeced by their health insurance companies. Americans should have a personal choice of having industries deregulated to the point that they are unloading costs onto everyday working people. And so, you know, I appreciate the efforts put into the limericks and such here, but really, as someone who's trying to approach this matter in good faith, I genuinely trying not to approach legislation of just being reflexively anti.

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Republican. But as a person who does care about costs, I worry that these weakened standards are going to drive up people's water bills. I worry about the environmental impact of it. Drought is genuinely a problem.

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And I kind of don't. I mean it really may be a water pressure issue, genuinely. And so.

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I say this because I just kind of want to give credence to the concerns that are put around this. And I'm not sure that those underlying concerns have been addressed. And with that I yield back. The gentlelady yields back further discussion. And I of course want to give a hat tip to California Governor Gavin Newsom. He stopped by the New York Times Deal Book Summit. So his audience that he's speaking to in this clip are the billionaires. He's speaking to corporate oligarchs right now and he says enough with this corporate crony capitalism, by the way, in front of the corporate crony capitalists right now. Here, play this clip right here. I'm serious. If you were Tim Cook under the circumstances, and he's in your state under the circumstances he is in, which is he manufactures a lot of stuff in China. He was worried about the tariffs. He was able to make a phone call that no small business in my state could have made. I mean, how about my farmers and ranchers in California? How about all these small and medium sized businesses that can't pick up the phone and get an exemption on their tariffs? So yeah, it breaks my heart a little bit. That's a version of crony capitalism that is by definition crony capitalism. It is the definition of it. But what is he back to the generous analysis. That's called being a fiduciary. Doing what he needs to do on behalf of his shareholders. That's his job. So do I begrudge that? Yes. But do I begrudge him? Not as much. But what I do begrudge is the tone and tenor that this administration has set and the expectations they've set that if you don't do the bidding, you don't write the check, you don't get the contract, directing contracts, changing procurement. Sole source on this, sole source, that this is a different level than we've ever seen in the past. Some would argue, okay, it's just more transparent bs. It's at a different scale than we've seen in the past. And for those that are complicit and participatory in that, beyond their fiduciary responsibility, that's where I have a real problem. Yeah. Hat tip to California Governor Gavin Newsom for that right there. And I thought that was such a powerful moment. Indeed. I finally just want to show you this, to show you again these MAGA Republicans in action. I think this kind of ties it all together, just about how cowardly they are. And I'll give a hat tip here to Mika on Morning Joe for asking these questions. Republicans as well as the other host to here, and they said, look, this. Speaking to MAGA Republican Senator Roger Marshall, it's like, okay, you're using drug trafficking as a pretext to basically let Donald Trump do whatever the hell he wants. Right. You're saying this is why Trump should have unfettered powers because you're anti drug trafficking. That's. That's your position. Right, Right. Okay, well, then why Donald Trump just pardoned the biggest narco terrorist drug trafficker that there is, Juan Orlando Hernandez. Why did he do that? And then you have MAGA Republican Senator Roger Marshall say, you know what? I don't know the details. I don't. I just don't know. I don't know. Here, play this clip. But more so you just, you know, rightly outlined the dangers posed by drugs. So what explanation do you have for President Trump offering a pardon to the former president of Honduras who prosecutors said ran a massive drug cartel in crime, including sending tons and tons of it to the United States?

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Yeah, you know, I don't know the details of that particular part and happy to look into it, but I just can't really speak to it. All right, Republican. Okay. All right. So, like, no thought on the fact that he was pardoned?

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Well, again, I think it's unfair to, without me, me researching the details of that pardon to give you any type of an answer. You know, I'm a doctor. If you ask me a question, I don't have a good answer or a factual answer, I'm going to say, I don't know. I'm happy to go research it. I'm really locked in on health care right now, trying to bring down the cost of health care for Americans that make and make our lives more affordable. Republican Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas. Thank you very much, Doctor, for coming in this morning. We appreciate your insights. That right there shows you. What was the expression, the banality of evil sometimes? Right. That was a description given to Nazis. The banality of evil is the Terminology, banality of evil. It's just so ingrained that they could go along with these atrocities and then ultimately when they're confronted with the facts and the data, all of a sudden it's like, I don't know, I didn't hear him say it. I didn't see the post. I don't know. I'm just getting familiar with the issue. I don't know about it. Or they refuse to even engage with the topics. Right. Like we know that there is no fentanyl coming from Venezuela. They don't, they don't do fentanyl there. The fentanyl is coming from China and it's coming through Mexico. That's where the fentanyl is coming from. Okay. We also know that these fishing boats that are being killed in war crimes or being shot at in war crimes by the United States, they're small fishing boats. Look at a map of where Venezuela is versus the United States. Those fishing boats can't make it to the United States unless they refuel like eight to nine times. So most likely the fishing boats, if they're going anywhere, they may be going to another country in South America or Central America, but they don't have the gas to make it to the United States. So what the hell are we even doing here? And why are we not just addressing the facts? Because ultimately, Donald Trump uses drug trafficking as a pretext the way that Putin uses denazification to invade Ukraine. Notice that Donald Trump first tried to use drug trafficking as a pretext to conquer Canada. Remember all the 51st state talk which was Trump threatening the sovereignty. What do you say? Fentanyl, drug trafficking. And people are like, what? What are you talking about? Right. It sounds so crazy and outlandish, but that's exactly the way denazification sounds with Ukraine. Like, what do you mean? I mean, Zelenskyy is Jewish. Like, what do you mean denazification? What the hell are we, what are we even talking about here? That's the situation though. Trump uses those Putin esque tactics. So you would think, is Donald Trump gonna be strong to China where the fentanyl is actually coming in from? No, that's where he's gonna be the weakest. Why? Because at his heart, at his, that he doesn't have a heart. At his core, emptiness. He is a weak loser. And so what he actually ordered as it relates to China is a pullback of any moves that could potentially get Xi Jinping upset. And it's so gross that that's what Donald Trump's doing. So there Were potential sanctions against China related to espionage against the United States? And Donald Trump said, nope, we gotta pull back any sanctions relating to espionage involving China. Because Xi Jinping said, look, Donald Trump, here's the deal. You want us to send you rare earth elements. You want us to buy soybeans from farmers. You want to meet with Xi Jinping coming up. Because I know Trump wants that photo op. He's thirsty for that photo op. Would g. Right. You want to do all that? Well, here's what you're going to do, Donald. You can't even let the president of Taiwan use American airspace. Donald Trump goes, yes, sir, I won't let him use the airspace. We didn't allow the president of Taiwan to land in the United States on his way to Central America on his way to another trip. You got to take away any sanctions related to espionage. Donald Trump's like, yeah, okay, Xi Jinping. Whatever you want me to do, we won't do that. Xi Jinping to Donald Trump. Hey, you gotta tell Japan and their new Prime Minister, Takahashi not to in any way say that they'll support Taiwan if China invades Taiwan. And Donald Trump calls up Takashi and says, you gotta tone it down. You gotta tone it down. The only reason why Japan has to assert itself that way at all is because of the United States weakness in not protecting our traditional allies. Japan's like, we're supposed to be the ally. What are you doing here? But go back to the very beginning with what Marco Rubio said about his perspective of the world. This is awfully telling. And to me, this describes a lot of the new world order that we're seeing. But the United States is executing this quite poorly because we've alienated and destroyed all of our alliances. And Trump's completely incompetent in doing everything. But Rubio very early on said, we now live in a multipolar world. America should no longer be the leader. It's a pretty significant statement to be made when people are used to thinking of America as the leader in the world. Okay, well. Well, how do you see the dynamic? And Rubio goes, america, China, Russia. What about Europe? What about Australia? What about Africa? What about Canada?

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What about economies that are doing well in Mexico or South America? How do you see this world developing? You know, Russia's economy struggling right now. I'm not sure why you're exalting Russia when our allies have. Have far more thriving economies than Russia, but that's how you see it. So to me, in Trump's authoritarian mind, his view is He, Putin and Xi Jinping carve up the world. Carve up the world. And that's how Donald Trump sees everything Trump did the way Putin did denazification. Trump tried it with Canada and Greenland, and Trump settled on Venezuela. They look weak. You know, I'm losing Latino voters anyway. Maybe I do an invasion there, help with oil, help the oil companies. Maybe we do that. That'll satiate the bloodlust that Donald Trump has. And let's kill, let's do war crimes, because that's what these war criminals, these war criminal authoritarians do. But what about Europe? What about, what about all these other countries? What about Australia? What about, what about Africa? You're doing fake peace deals with Rwanda and Congo, but are you focusing on the fact that in many other nations within Africa, that's where data centers are being built. That's where a lot of infrastructure and technology. That's why China's going in there. While you're out there attacking South America, Colombia, and while you, Donald, are making relationships with Bukele of El Salvador, which is a very weak economy, I might add, and Argentina, a very weak economy there with, with, with, with your authoritarian puppet there. Javier Malay, guess what China's doing. China's out there making deals with Brazil. China's out there asserting itself in areas that used to be allies of the United States. They're moving into Africa, they're moving into South America, Central America, Mexico. They're expanding the bricks. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. What do you, what do you do? Like you're, you're not even, you're not executing any of this. Even though your plan is dastardly and disgusting, you're doing a horrible job with it as well. But anyway, that's what's going on with the Trump regime. I know we covered a lot there. I want to make sure everybody hit subscribe. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. I'm gonna do a whole other hot take on New York Attorney General Letitia James having the indictment getting rejected by the grand jury in Norfolk. We'll talk about that with the next steps there. I'll do a hot take on that and so much more. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. We're grateful for all of our sponsors. Thank you so much to all of them. We appreciate them. Subscribe. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not be subscribed. Subscribe on audio as well. You can leave a five star review on audio. That helps us a ton too. Spread the word. We appreciate you Midasplus.com is our substack. Thank you all so much. We'll see you next time on the Midas Touch podcast. Shout out to the Midas Mighty the Midas mightest Standing strong.

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