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Ben Meiselas
Donald Trump's Leaked War Plan Scandal Gets worse and Donald Trump's cover up blows up. We'll discuss Democrats win big in Pennsylvania's special election this week. They flipped a plus 15 Trump district in Lancaster county and captured a state Senate seat that did not Go Blue since 1889. Also, Democrats officially reclaimed the Pennsylvania State House. Now Democrats eye the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. That race has an election coming up on April 1st and they've got some special elections in Florida for the House of Representatives. Also, the Trump regime's Greenland trip just got canceled. The Greenlanders stood up to the Trump regime. They prepared a massive prot protest after it was announced that Usha Vance, J.D. vance's wife and J.D. and National Security Advisor and chief leaker Mike Waltz were going to be showing up in Greenland. Not a single Greenlander would invite them to their homes when they were trying to stage a PR stunt. And so the Trump regime had to cancel the trip because they knew that they would be brutally humiliated. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech today after Trump imposed 25% across the board tariffs on automobiles across the world. Prime Minister Carney said, essentially the United States is not a friend anymore. They're not a reliable partner. Canada has moved on. Canada is looking elsewhere. Consumer expectations are looking elsewhere as well. Here in the United States. As they plummet, Trump's support is plummeting. Americans expect there's going to be a recession, a great recession, or even something worse on the horizon based on Donald Trump's reckless and disastrous policies. Donald Trump also had to pull the nomination of Elise Stefanik as the ambassador to the United nations fearing that the GOP would lose her congressional seat a plus 21 or so Trump district no longer safe in the world of Trump and Doge and Elon Musk's wrecking ball to Social Security, Medicaid firing veterans. People are pissed. Elise Stefanik's appointment to be the ambassador pulled. She went ultra maga and it backfired. Some might call that karma. Also, we're learning more about the identities of a lot of these migrants who were kidnapped in the United States by the Trump regime. We're actually finding out that a lot of these people were here lawfully, lawful asylum seekers who are now in concentration camps in El Salvador as Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security and dog killer Kristi Noem stood in front of said El Salvador concentration camp prison wearing a $60,000 Rolex and threatening others in the United States here lawfully that this will happen to you as well. We've got a lot to discuss here on the Midas Touch podcast. I've been mysellis joined by Brett and Jordi. A lot there to unpack, a lot.
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Brett Meiselas
To unpack and we're going to unpack it all. Brett here with the Midas Touch podcast. Great to be here with the brothers. Great to be here with everybody listening, everybody watching. Thank you for subscribing on audio, on Spotify, on Apple, on all the things rating it five stars. We appreciate it. Fear and loathing in Mar? A Lago Fe loathing in the Trump White House. That is the theme of the day and that's what we are seeing and we noted on the last episode the seismic shift that we were seeing on the ground. We've of course we have seen the town halls over these past few weeks. But there was certainly an energy shift, a seismic event that occurred over the past weekend when we saw these Bernie Sanders rallies, these AOC rallies. There has been a major Donald Trump's administration has been put on the defense as a result of these war plan le where now the COVID up is getting worse than the crime as it often does. The Trump administration is trying to pull a full 1984 on the US citizens. Remember that quote from 1984, the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. Well, that is exactly what they are trying to do right now here with these war plan texts saying, oh, they weren't warp leaks, they weren't plans. We didn't have any times in it. It's like bro, we actually see, we have the texts, ok, we see what happened. So at least take responsibility. Say you're going to fix the problem and move on. But don't lie to my face and think and act like I am stupid. Your followers may want to believe that. Your followers may want to shovel in your lies and eat that all up as Fox shovels in their in people's faces. But not us. Not here at the Midas Touch network. A lot to unpack, folks. Oh my gosh. Let's get into it. First we got to check in with Jordy. Jordy, what's up?
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Jordy Meiselas
Thanks for thanks but yeah store mystitch.com let's go. Excited for today's show. And Brett, you're exactly right. That's why last show when we talked about hegseth like claiming that the text it was a hoax. What is he even talking about? We, we have screenshots like people have eyes. People are smart hexa. Whether you want to believe it or not, people see right through your lies, the administration's lies. Time and time again they back themselves into a corner. That to your point. Exactly, Brett. You know, the COVID up is seemingly becoming worse than with Signal. This is really, really wild stuff. And real quick, before we toss it to Ben. Ben Usha Vance right there, she put together such a nice little video for the folks over at Greenland with all the high quality production value, with all the time she took to make that video that they rejected her big bro. Why would they do such a thing?
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Ben Meiselas
Look, Jordy, the Trump regime is taking their ball of maga orange feces. They're throwing it against the wall. They're seeing what sticks right now and non it is sticking. The international community is grossed out. Americans are disgusted. And this Signal scandal, Signal Gate as it's being called, it highlights the kakistocracy, the idiocracy, the fact that the Trump regime doesn't give a crap about our troops. They don't focus on any details and it just highlights. Whoa, whoa, whoa. So you've all been focused on firing veterans and engaging in a hostile takeover of the federal government and falsely defaming people and saying you're firing all these hardworking Americans for cause, saying they're doing a bad job. You're attacking people's Medicaid and me and getting rid of Social Security administration offices. And meanwhile y'all are having chats about war plans on text message group chats called the Houthi PC small group. And then you invited a reporter named Jeffrey Goldberg who you also claim that you hate, which makes it even worse, in my opinion, that Then you invite the person that you hate onto the group chat. He's the editor.
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Brett Meiselas
They're like, he's the most untrustworthy guy on the planet.
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Ben Meiselas
He's the scum of the earth.
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Brett Meiselas
No one should ever talk to him, ever. And we added him into our group chat while we were planning war plans. I mean, just.
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Jordy Meiselas
Can I just say this real quick, too? The who's the PC Small Group. That insinuates also that there's a larger group text chain that. You know what I'm saying here?
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Brett Meiselas
This was supposed to be just principles, Jordy. So this was supposed to be the top brass discussing this. And these are not things top brass are supposed to be discussing over Signal Chat.
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Ben Meiselas
I'll tell you what insinuates that they do this all the time. That it's not unique to the Houthi PC Small group. That they probably conduct all classified business using signal chat like this. And just think about it. You're Jeffrey Goldberg. Like, you're just hanging out one day, and you're like, huh? What? What am I invited to? And then as you're just, like, looking at these messages, you're like, this is odd. And then someone. And then it's like, just so we all can see it, pull up Houthi PC Small Group so everybody can see what Jeffrey Goldberg saw when it says Houthi PC Small Group. Right? Then it says Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor. Mike Waltz added you to the group. So this isn't exactly a massive Scooby Doo mystery here of how was he added. Mike Waltz added you to the group. That's how we got added everybody. And then on Fox, Mike Walls goes.
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Brett Meiselas
I don't know how it happened, but you know this technology, sometimes people just get sucked in.
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Ben Meiselas
That's what that was.
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Brett Meiselas
They just get sucked on in. Right? Like, maybe. And then you had Trump in the Oval Office being like, yeah, we need to investigate these platforms. We need to investigate Signal to see how this could have happened. No, actually, no, we don't need to investigate anything. The. The evidence of the crime is right here.
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Ben Meiselas
Sorry. Mike Waltz goes team establishing a principles group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. My deputy, Alex Wong, is pulling together a Tiger team at Deputy's agency Chief of Staff level, following up from the meeting principals. Imagine you're Jeffrey Goldberg. You're the editor in chief of the Atlantic. You're like, huh, this is interesting. And then you get this message from Pete Hegseth. Team Update time now, 11:44 Eastern Time. Weather is favorable. Just confirm with Centcom. We are a go for mission launch. 12:15 Eastern Time F18s launch. First strike package 13:45 trigger based F18 first strike window starts. Target terrorist at his known location so should be on time. Also strike drones launch MQ9s 1410 more F18s launch second strike package 1415 strike drones on target. This is when the first bombs will definitely drop. Pending earlier trigger based targets 1536 F18 second strike starts. Also first sea based Tomahawks launch. So you're Jeffrey Goldberg. You get put onto this chat, then you report about it. And the instinct first from the Trump regime is to say that you're a hoaxer and a liar. And then like petulant third graders, and no offense to petulant third graders, the Trump regime then goes, he's a sleaze. He's a sleaze bag. This is a scum. This is a scumbag sleaze bag. First off, who uses that type of language other than like, again, petrol and third graders know if it's sleaze bag, scumbag. What was sleazy and scummy about the fact that y'all added this guy to your war plans chat and he's the editor in chief from the Atlantic who you most likely have been a source for, which is why he's in your number to begin 150%.
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Brett Meiselas
And by the way, I think this is the real reason why Mike Walz is actually scared about this story and why he feels like, should I resign? Maybe I should. He's decided not to for now at least. But I think it's very clear especially and we'll get into this Venmo story, but basically, Mike Walls Venmo was public as well. All these people just have public accounts.
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Ben Meiselas
Their passwords, their Venmo, their passwords were.
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Brett Meiselas
All over the Internet. And Mike Walls Venmo account had all of his friends, which experts say like this could ease. This is information that is easily exploited by foreign governments like Russia. They had all of it laid out. All of his contacts and many of his contacts, dozens if not hundreds, were journalists in his phone. Journalists who Donald Trump trashes and calls fake news all the time. And there was a quote in the Jeffrey Goldberg Atlantic story that I found very revealing where he said when he received a message from Mike Waltz, it didn't seem like it was anything out of the ordinary. I'm paraphrasing. But he said something along those lines to me that says, yes, Mike Walz is a source and he is leaking like a sieve, Mikey, the mole baby in the White House. And Donald Trump does not like people who leak to the press. He's the only person who's allowed to leak to the press, whether it's, you know, whoever is the reporter is. But the fact that Waltz clearly seems like a leaker in the White House, I think that's going to make Donald Trump very uneasy. It's going to make this relationship very tense, whether Waltz stays or not.
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Ben Meiselas
Donald Trump held a disastrous presser yesterday in the Oval Office, where he was announcing the 25% tariffs on automobiles from everywhere in the world, which will tank the automobile industry, make automobiles basically unaffordable. Automobiles will at least cost 5, 10, $15,000 more, which basically means people are not going to be buying automobiles. But at that press conference, Donald Trump was asked a bunch of other questions. And so one of the tragic things we learned in the past 48 hours was that four American soldier passengers died tragically in Lithuania. They died overseas. This is something that you would expect the Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, Director of National Intelligence, to brief the President on. And you would expect a statement to be made by the President immediately letting the people of the United States know about what happened, sending a heartfelt message to the family and to our troops, who are certainly going to be struggling as a result of this horrific event. Trump is asked about the four soldiers who died in Lithuania. And he didn't know anything about it, had no clue what the reporter was even talking about. Let's watch this clip.
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Brett Meiselas
But it could be a defective platform and we're gonna have to find that answer. Have you been briefed about the soldiers.
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Ben Meiselas
In Lithuania who are missing?
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Brett Meiselas
No, I haven't.
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Ben Meiselas
So by the time he said that, the public knew about it, Trump didn't know about it. Trump never put out a statement about it. As of this video, he still, as of this live, he did not put out a statement on it. He didn't put out a statement. Wouldn't you, let's just assume you found out right there. Right. Wouldn't you go and say what happened? And then as the President of the United States put out a statement, four American soldiers died. You're not going to say anything about it. And one of the reasons he doesn't want to say anything about it is because he doesn't give a crap about it and he wants to cover it up, he wants to ignore it. He sees it as, oh, that's going to just be somehow used against me. So I'm going to Cover it up like a miracle, it will all go away. If you don't test, you don't find out what the outcome is. If I don't address it it, I'll pretend it didn't really happen and people will just move on to the next story. And that's what he's trying to do. Four American soldiers died and the commander in chief one isn't briefed on it. Meanwhile, what has he been posting over the past 24 to 48 hours? He's been attacking District Court Judge Boasberg in Washington D.C. who issued the injunction blocking him from further kidnapping migrants and sending them to concentration camps. He's made post threatening Europe and Canada, saying if Europe and Canada joins together, I'm going to hit you hard. So he's talking about that Brett and Jordan might as mighty not mentioning once anything about these soldiers who died. He's also posting 4-2-all caps like a maniac at 2am Liberation Day is coming. Liberation Day, April 2nd. And he calls it Liberation Day because that's when he's going to impose more tariffs. So he's doing all of that and not acknowledging the death of American soldiers. Horrific.
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Brett Meiselas
It's atrocious. This is one of those things too where you know, if something like this were to happen under a President Biden, this would have been non stop maga, Twitter, Fox News, they would have made this into like Benghazi x1000. Right. This would have been their biggest story. They would have never stopped talking about it. And by the way, President Biden in this hypothetical scenario would have had a very thoughtful response. He would have acknowledged the missing soldiers who are presumed to be dead at this point. He would have known about it. He would have been briefed on it. But this is one of the problems, problems when you have a narcissist in chief as well and pathetic people around him or just sycophants because none of them actually want to break the news to him. None of them even want to tell him bad news because like I started off with the 1984 quote on this episode. They need to live in this 1984 world where truth is in truth. And so they cannot let the truth go out to Donald Trump. They cannot let them know of a US Military failure. They cannot let them know any bad news that hurts Donald Trump. And that's, that would be sad. So now there's more news that this is, is anger, this is causing more tension in the relationship between Donald Trump and Mike Walls because Donald Trump did not know about this. So on Top of the war leaks, where Donald, where Mike Waltz had a reporter in the chat where it appears that Mike Walls may be one of the biggest leakers of the Trump White House. On top of that, Donald Trump also discovers that there is this news story out there that he has not heard about until now. And even now after hearing about it, no statement, no comment about the families, no comment about the soldiers, no comment about what they were doing, if they were doing training, if they were on a mission, what the heck is going on, Nobody knows. Because right now we have a commander in chief who is just a liar, who does not want to acknowledge anything bad and just wants to wreak havoc on the American public and torture the American public. And that's what we are seeing.
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Jordy Meiselas
And this is becoming an ongoing theme. Brett, so he, Trump seems to not know a lot when the war plan leaks. When he was first asked about that, he said he didn't know, he wasn't briefed on it, he had no idea. And the missing American troops, same thing. This seems to be a crutch of his. Whether done intentionally or not, he seems to not know a lot for the leader of the free world. And it's a scary thing when you think about it because people aren't holding his feet to the fire enough around this. Had this been Biden and back to back days, you don't know. You aren't briefed on these incredibly high level situations. You know, the conspiracies that would be flying around right wing Twitter or even quote unquote, mainstream Twitter would be, oh well, he's not really the president in charge. Someone else is leading everything. It's a scary thing when the leader of the free world cannot even lead, whether he doesn't care to or his people are too scared to give him the information.
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Brett Meiselas
And beyond policy, Jordy, you know, this is the thing that's always bothered me the most about maga, that in order to support Donald Trump, you need to be willing to put all facts and reality aside and to just accept whatever Donald Trump says. You have to be all in on the cult. And I don't know how, if you view yourself ironically, these people go, I'm an independent thinker. I think for myself. I don't listen to the mainstream media, I don't listen to them. I just, I'm an independent thinker. You're all saying the same shit all the time. So I think you're actually just parroting whatever Donald Trump says. But okay, but in order to support this movement, you have to just accept Bullshit. And it's almost like. Like I feel embarrassed for you. Like I have secondhand embarrassment that you are trying to pretend. Like the war plans that we are seeing, that were very detailed when you read them, Ben. That those war plans are not war plans. Like you.
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Ben Meiselas
You're.
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Brett Meiselas
You're. That's going to really. That's what you're going to tell me? You're going to just tell me all these blatant lies? By the way, you're the one who are falling for it. You are the mark. You're being lied to. Like, you should be embarrassed that they think you are so stupid. Honestly.
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Ben Meiselas
Like, it's.
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Brett Meiselas
You should be offended. You should watch. Watch Fox News and we'll play, you know, probably in a little bit. Jesse Waters on Fox talking about this stuff. You should be embarrassed that this guy thinks so low of you that he thinks you are such an idiot that he thinks that he could get away with lying to your face.
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Ben Meiselas
Going back to that disastrous press conference in the Oval Office. Jordy, to your point of Donald Trump saying, I don't know, I don't know. A reporter asked Donald Trump, do you still believe nothing classified was shared? Let's watch what he says.
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Brett Meiselas
But I don't think they're quite shared. Say it. Do you still believe nothing classified was shared? Well, that's what I've heard.
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Ben Meiselas
I don't know.
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Brett Meiselas
I'm not sure. You have to ask the various people involved. I really don't know.
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Ben Meiselas
You have to ask the various people. I really don't know. You're the freaking commander in chief. And Brett, to your point, that's unfortunate. That's an unforgivable answer. You're literally the Commander in chief. You're supposed to answer that question. I know for Donald Trump, it's about hosting pink Birkin bag alligator skin parties at Mar a Lago and golfing and attacking judges. But quite literally, this is your freaking job job. And if you're not capable of doing it, step aside, you idiot. Then Donald Trump is asked about signal gate again. And he goes, hegseth doing a great job. Why would you say he's doing a bad job?
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Brett Meiselas
Should Secretary Hegseth consider his position over the signal? Hegseth is doing a great job. He had nothing to do with this. How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do. Look, look, it's all a witch hunt. Here. We are talking about some of the greatest business deals ever made. The greatest companies in the world are moving into the United States and you want to Ask about whether or not signal works. I don't know that signal works. I think signal could be defective, to be honest with you. And I think that's what we have to. Because you use signal and we use signal and everybody uses signal. But it could be a defective platform, and we're going to have to find.
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Ben Meiselas
That could be a defective platform. Why are you asking about Hegseth? Pull up the text thread where Hegseth does the war plans on it, just so people can see. Houthi PC small group. Hegseth text messaging classified war plans. And then you've got Hegseth giving these bizarre press conferences in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he, like, does this, like, weird thing with, like, his tongue and your side of his mouth and. And, like, licking everywhere. And he's, like, angry and he's, like, making. What are you talking about? I'm watching this. I'm like, this is exactly the type of person who my dad told me to avoid if I ever saw out at like, a bar or at a restaurant, like, walk. Walk away from that individual. That's what it visually looks like. I mean, he. He's like, like rabid. I'm like. It's like. Like rabie. Like, it's like looking at, like, it's.
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Brett Meiselas
Like belligerent drunk at a dive bar. They're a little too late, and you're like, I guess that's like.
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Ben Meiselas
Like a rabid animal that just. That you find out, like. I mean, watch this guy ask the most basic questions here. No one's texting war plans. We don't know what we're talking about. This is what we're here to do.
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Brett Meiselas
Nobody's texting war plans. Well, I noticed this morning, out came something that doesn't look like war plans. And as a matter of fact, they.
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Ben Meiselas
Even changed the title to attack plans.
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Brett Meiselas
Because they know not war plans. There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources, no methods, no classified information. You know who sees war plans?
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Ben Meiselas
I see them every single day.
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Brett Meiselas
I looked at him this morning.
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Ben Meiselas
I looked at attack plans this morning. Like, terrifying to see this guy. I have a lot more to discuss about him. I think my impression was pretty spot.
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Brett Meiselas
I think it's pretty spot on. There was, I'll say this one thing. In a world where there are so many stories, there's so much news, right? That we try to break down every single week, right? A lot go comes and goes, right? There are a lot of crazy stories that come. And next two days pass, and all of a sudden you're like that feels like weeks ago. Then there are certain stories that I think I would refer to as like sticky stories. The stories that don't go away, the stories that really do some damage. Those are the stories that exist in all administrations. Right? The Biden debate, that was a Biden sticky story. That was something that not go away. Right now we have one of the first, if not the first sticky stories of the Trump administration. And it is this controversy not only of the war plan leaks, but of the COVID up which is still ongoing and is just so obvious and so atrocious that a lot of people, even people who are inclined to support Trump and MAGA are going, don't bullshit a bullshitter, man. This is not normal. Like this is weird behavior. So let's, you know, let's just keep an eye on this and everything that's going on. It's an interesting situation.
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Ben Meiselas
It ties everything together. As I mentioned before, that's also why it's sticking. It's beyond the leaking of the war plans. It's clear that this is what they do all the time. And it's this cavalier and just dumb way of running things that have destroyed the lives of so many people. And again, it's just such on display here. But it highlights all those other aspects that we've seen. And that to me is one of the reason that it's sticking. It summarizes is what we've experienced in these past, you know, two months, you know, or, or more. At this point, I want to Remind everybody about patreon.com Midas Touch P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com Midas Touch we don't have outside investors, so it's one of the ways you can help grow our platform. Also Midas+.com M E I-A S P L U S.com that's where our editor in chief, Ron Philipkowski cooks. He gives the best daily summary that there is in case, case we miss anything. Ron Philipkowski's got it all covered. And then I want to remind everybody to subscribe on our audio podcast. If you are just watching on YouTube, our audio listeners, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel. And everybody please, please, please, if you can give a five star review, of course, if you think we've earned it. Only if you think we've earned it on the audio podcast because some of those Joe Rogan fans are a bit pissed off that we now get double the monthly downloads as Rogan and they want to leave some negative reviews. So if you can help us with positive reviews. Again, only if you have a positive review. Five stars are welcome. Let's take our first quick break of the show. We've got a lot to discuss. Like Democrats winning big in Pennsylvania. Special elections coming up. Canada, standing up. Greenland standing up. Elise Stefanik. Not a good day for her. Not a good day for MAGA world. We'll be right back.
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Jordy Meiselas
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Ben Meiselas
The Trump regime is the only government in the entire world where something like this would happen and nobody would get fired right away or perhaps ever. Right. Obviously, if it came to our allies, they would fire whoever was involved right away. Right. I mean, this is the biggest breach ever. I mean, in my opinion, this is a clear cut criminal violation of the Espionage act, which should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I mean, essentially everybody on that chat in normal times would be looking at about 20 years in prison. Those who created the chat, that is the Department of Defense officials, Mike Walls and others. And in my opinion, there would at least be an investigation into that. Well, now we know that the Department of Justice, who's not releasing the Epstein files, apparently ever, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was the Attorney General, by the way, when Epstein was in Florida, there may be a reason why she's releasing those Epstein files. And by the way, and I'm not, I'm not going to let go of that one. I'm just going to bring it up every time I bring up Pam Bondi. But she and Cash Patel said no investigations will be taking place. They've said they're not even going to look into it. They think that actually everything that happened was perfect. It was the Perfect text message. They say they will not be looking into it now this happened to our allies, there'd be criminal investigations right away and obviously terminations of whoever was involved right away way regarding our enemies. How do you think Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin would have dealt with someone who leaked war secrets on signal chats, by the way, the Trump regime, the castocracy combines idiocracy and dangerousness in one. And then the COVID up makes it even worse, makes the situation horrible as they double and triple down. As you saw before, Donald Trump was like what? Hexa do hex? It's great. Why, why are you dragging this guy in to it? I don't know, maybe because he was the guy who like wrote a lot of the messages like with the war plans, which is in my opinion very problematic. And lots of legal people would say that that could be criminal by doing that in that format because that information, war plans, attack plans, it's probably even more classified than war plans because it was operational and in the moment. But look, the Trump regime has its idiotic state regime media file. People like Jesse Waters and Laura Ingraham and others and they basically say, ah, no one cares about this story. It doesn't involve sex, it doesn't involve fraud. This is a DC story, none of you should care about it. Viewers, here's Jesse Waters saying no one outside of D.C. cares about it. Let's play that.
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Brett Meiselas
Well, this is like Trump throws 20 touchdowns in a row and he finally throws a pick six. And that's what everybody wants to talk about about. And the only way you get people to stop talking about it is you throw another touchdown. Now I don't know what that's going to look like, but he's got to throw another touchdown and he's got to throw it fast. No one outside of D.C. and in the news business really cares about this story. There's no video, there's no sex, there's no fraud, no one even knows what a Houthi is. People know who bin Laden is, people know what ISIS is. No one knows what a Houthi is.
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Ben Meiselas
By the way, the Cairo on for our audio listeners is White House goes from defense to offense on group texts and then he goes, oh, Trump just has to throw another touchdown. What were the touchdowns that were thrown so far that people have lost a lot of their life savings. Their 401ks are in the gutter that were headed towards a great recession. Was that the touchdown or were the touchdowns when the veterans were fired when there was a hostile takeover over of our federal government. When Medicaid was gutted, when Social Security administration offices were shut down, when Trump did an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education. Were those the touchdowns? Was, was that the celebratory super bowl moment for Donald Trump or was it when he went to the super bowl or when he drove around the racetrack at a NASCAR race while there were devastating weather events that were killing dozens of Americans? Because I seem to not be understanding what the touchdowns And Jesse, yes, we the people, the American people care about these things. We care that our war plans and classified information is being leaked. We care that Vladimir Putin and our enemies want to take over Europe and they want to destroy the United States of America while Donald Trump in this stupid Trump regime is out there saying, oh, I don't know, I don't know what's going on. Then you have Laura Ingraham him. She goes on her show and notice what they try to do here. What they try to do is let their audience know based on their fake experience as longtime news reporters that this is actually normal behavior. So what they try to do is one, they lie and say they're a news organization, but number two, they say we've been on the Hill for a long time. This is one of those BS stories that none of you should care about. And why are they doing this? They're trying to continue to brainwash their audience who trusts them, who actually believes this shit is news. And they want to keep their people angry and at leftists and trans issues and all of these things while Donald Trump is engaged in this horror show here. Watch what Laura Ingraham says.
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Brett Meiselas
You know, I was thinking about this. I've been in Washington a long time. Time. This is all a sad repeat of what Republicans have been dealing with since around 1987. Yeah, I worked in the Reagan administration in 1987. From the Bork hearings to Iran Contra to the Russian collusion to the myriad anti Trump hoaxes. Charlottesville, January 6th. It's one long slash and burn campaign. Democrats didn't really care about any of the underlying issues involving any of those stories. They cared about gaining a political advantage.
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Ben Meiselas
I've been around since those were all major scandals.
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Brett Meiselas
She's saying Iran Contra wasn't a big deal.
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Ben Meiselas
January 6th.
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Brett Meiselas
I mean, come on, what are you going to do?
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Ben Meiselas
You know, but the thing is this is a billion dollar brainwash operation. And just. Jay, you've said it before that to some extent you don't feel bad, but to some extent you feel a little bad sometimes for people Whose mind is polluted with this stuff because this is surgical, what she's doing. This is not arbitrary. She's not just throwing out random words or they're deciding, no, no, no. They huddle in a room, room. And they go, how do we brainwash people?
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Brett Meiselas
I know. I think we lost Ben for a second. See, we got to improve Ben's. Ben's Internet over here. I think.
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Jordy Meiselas
What a, what a. What a screenshot.
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Brett Meiselas
It's a good screenshot, though, for all the listeners. We got Ben in a. In a great screenshot. But what Ben is saying is that they huddle in a room and they plan this stuff out. They're not just shooting from the hip. They are actually trying to say, how can we manipulate our viewers? And we see it as we look in the past, as we look to the court filings were submitted during all the various lawsuits against Fox for the election interference scheme by Donald Trump. And they're them lying about Dominion and smartmatic and all those companies. We've seen their text, we've seen how they operate, and they do go into these rooms and they try to plan. How are we going to fool our own viewers? That's why, to me, it is just so atrocious. It's just, just abhorrent behavior for a network work. But that's why I do agree with Ben that I do feel bad almost for these people to an extent, that they are so fooled by all of this crap. It's like, that's why I was saying earlier, like, like, I'm embarrassed for you, right? Like, like, if people were lying to my face like this, and your whole thing was, I'm owning the libs, so I'm happy. Like, I would feel horrible about. Like, how do you not feel bad about yourself? How do you not understand that you were the mark when you're on Twitter and you have Elon Musk or X or whatever, when he's just shoving propaganda down your throat and he's like, trust me, I'm a billionaire. I know what's best for your life and for your Social Security and your grandmother and your savings. How are you not just like, oh, I'm being manipulated here? I am the mark? That is exactly what is happening. Ben, it's nice to have you back. I'll let you pick up from where you left off.
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Ben Meiselas
You know, let me show you what Tulsi Gabbard was saying at some of these hearings that were taking place this past week. Here she tries to argue with Senator Warner at the Senate hearing that the Information was actually not classified. It's not classified information. Here's what she said.
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Brett Meiselas
Contact the Defense Secretary or others after this specific military planning was put out and, and say, hey, we should be doing this in a skiff. There was no classified material that was shared in that. So then if there was no classified material, share it with the committee. You can't have it both ways. These are important jobs. This is our national security bobbing and weaving and trying to, you know, filibuster your answer. So please answer.
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Ben Meiselas
All right, so Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, who everybody warned about could be a Russian asset who spreads Russ propaganda, you're saying this is not classified information? Okay, well, then we have a simple question for you. Are you tg? Are you Tulsi Gabbard listed on the chat? Was that you who was on there? If it's not classified, you'll. You'll share it with us, right?
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Brett Meiselas
Director Gabbard, did you participate in the group chat with Secretary of Defense and other Trump senior officials discussing the Yemen war plans? Senator, I don't want to get into this. Ma'am. Did you. Were you on. You're not going to be willing to address. So you're not. Are you denying. Matt, will you answer my question? Ma'am, you are not TG on this group chat. I'm not going to get into the specifics to acknowledge whether you are on this group chat. Senator. I'm not going to get into this. Why are you. Why are you going to get into the specifics? Is this. Is it because it's all classified? Because this is currently under review by the National Security. Because it's all classified. If it's not classified. Share the text now, as the White House previously is it classified or non classified information on this text I can confirm. Radcliffe, were you on the group chat?
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Ben Meiselas
Then a hearing was held in the House Intelligence Committee where the ranking member who I had a great interview with earlier today, Jim Himes. Democratic Congress Member Jim Himes. Well, I hope when Democrats take control of the House, which I think they will, going to be great to see Democratic Congressmember Himes lead the intelligence community. Someone so needed right now. So he asks her, you know, we've been watching you repost a lot of Russian propaganda lately, a lot of RT Russian TV stuff. Can you stop doing that? Like, why are you doing that? I want you to watch what she.
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Brett Meiselas
Said you on March 15 as DNI retweeted a post from Ian Miles Chong, who is listed on rt. That's Russia Today's website as, quote, a political and cultural commentator who has contributed content to RT since at least 2022, Director Gabbard, do you think that it's responsible for you, as head of the intelligence community and the principal's presidential intelligence advisor, to retweet posts from individuals affiliated with Russian state. State media? That retweet came from my personal account, and I would have to go back to look at the substance of the tweet. Can I just to lack. Just so that we don't have a lack of confusion amongst our allies and enemies and us, Can I act, perhaps, that you not think that you should be saying one thing on your personal account than you say officially? I maintain my First Amendment rights to be able to express my own personal views on different issues.
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Ben Meiselas
I maintain my First Amendment rights to be able to express my views by reposting Russian propaganda that is the Director of National Intelligence. And again, I say if you have intelligence, she should not be labeled anything that has the word intelligence next to it. And if you have intelligence, I don't care what political party you're from or if you're not political at all. Did you just hear what I just played for. For you?
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Brett Meiselas
Like, are you.
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Ben Meiselas
Are you listening to these things? Are you hearing these things? I don't know how you can walk away and be like, you know, she's got a good point there. I see what she's trying to say. You should be pissed. And here she is being asked by Democratic Congress member Crow. Hey, weren't you traveling as well when you were on this text thread? And we already know from other intelligence reports that foreign countries. Countries have hacked into Signal, so we want to expl. Where were you? Right. Which country were you in? Let's see what she says. The time.
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Brett Meiselas
Mr. Witkoff was actually in Russia during.
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Ben Meiselas
This chat discussion, was he not?
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Brett Meiselas
I was not aware of that.
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Ben Meiselas
Was he on his personal phone at the time?
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Brett Meiselas
I don't know.
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Ben Meiselas
Well, it's my understanding that he was indeed in Russia.
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Brett Meiselas
Director Gabbard, you were also traveling during this discussion, correct? Yes.
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Ben Meiselas
And where were you?
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Brett Meiselas
I was traveling through the Asia Pacific region. I don't recall which country I was in at that time.
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Ben Meiselas
You don't remember the country?
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Brett Meiselas
I'd have to go back and look at the schedule.
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Ben Meiselas
Don't remember the country that she was in. And look, I think if there's hope to be taken from all of this, it's again, what we reported on before. The protests, the rallies, the results. Right. We saw what happened in the Lancaster Pennsylvania area, which had not gone blue in the state senate there since 1889. A Democratic state Senate candidate who was running against Elon Musk and Doge One big beat the MAGA Republican candidate in a plus 15 area there. Nobody expected this guy James Malone to beat John Parsons. John Parsons was a rising star in the Republican Party. Also, the Democrats in Pennsylvania took back the House. It was a 101 to 101 deadlock after a Democrat tragically passed away in the House. Democrats control the House again in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We're seeing that. We're seeing a very tight race in a plus 30 Trump district in Florida right now in Florida six congressional district. Those special elections are getting close. And that is why, and I'm going to talk more about this when we get back, Elise Stefanik, who was Donald Trump's pick to be the ambassador to the United nations and a plus 21 Trump district in New York, York. Her nomination was pulled and Donald Trump published a statement and he said it's because we're afraid we're going to lose this seat and that we need to keep the House. That seat likely would have flipped and turned blue. And if you added that with Florida, Democrats already could have possibly taken control of the House. That's how people are feeling right now. That's the central testament on the streets, not just here in America, but in Canada as well, in Greenland, in Europe. We're going to talk about all of that as well. Want to remind everybody. Patreon.com Midas Touch P-A T-R-E-O-N.com Midas Touch we don't have outside investors. So if you want to help us grow, join our patreon and also midasplus.com where our editor in chief, Ron Philip Cowsey gets to work. I want to talk about what's happening in Canada. I want to talk about what's happening in Greenland. I want to talk about what we're finding out about some of these migrants who were kidnapped and put in concentration camps. Let's talk about that. Let's take our last quick break of the show.
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Brett Meiselas
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Ben Meiselas
The Trump regime was going to try to do a show of force in Greenland to intimidate. To intimidate the Greenlanders, they were sending J.D. vance's wife, Usha Vance. Then J.D. vance said that he was going to be joining his wife, Usha. Then Mike Walsh, the leaker in chief, the leaker himself. Mr. Leaker. Leakey. Mike Walls was gonna go to Mr. Leakey. And they, they had their. They had their advanced team knock on doors of the Greenlanders because they were just trying to stage one of their propaganda stunts. Apparently they couldn't find a single family in Greenland that wanted them to be in their house. And then the Greenlanders were having this huge protest that they were gearing up for, and it was going to be absolutely historic. Historic. And as a result, the Trump regime got scared. And this is one of the things that we've seen with them before. If you stand up to these idiots, they get scared. And they pulled out and they withdrew their trip. So a big hat tip right there to the Greenlanders for doing that. By the way, I'll share with you this poll that Rasmus Jarlov, a conservative member of parliament for democracy, Denmark. Greenland's a territory in the kingdom of Denmark. He published a poll that says, do you want to leave Denmark to become part of the USA? 85% of Greenlanders, and this from a reputable polling group in Denmark and Greenland, 85% say no. Only 6% said that, yes, they want to be part of the US this is a wildly unpopular thing that the Trump regime is pushing. And we've seen the people of Greenland unite night against the Trump regime. I got to give a hat tip to the Maple Midas out there, all of our Canadian supporters. The Midas Touch podcast is the number one podcast in Canada. Elbows up to all of our Canadian supporters because I think they've really showed the way, right? Trump's first line of attack was Canada, annexing it, taking it over. And Canada did not bend. Canada did not break. Canada United did. They strongly and powerfully stood up their boycott of American tourism. Now I'm seeing numbers like what I predicted. 75 to 80% of tourism stopping from Canada to the United States. I mean, Those are massive numbers. We're talking about tens and tens of billions of dollars that that's going to cost the United States because this was the most prolific and important, important alliance and travel relationship, you know, ever. We're seeing some places that are saying cancellations from Canadians in the 90% range in Canada. Their boycott all thing American products is also surging right there. If you go into a convenience shop or a grocery place in Canada, you'll see the American stuff on the shelves not being sold at all and the Canadian stuff going off the shelves quickly as Canadians want to just buy Canada. So you're seeing all of that there as well. I'll share with you this as well. A powerful speech that was given by Prime Minister Carney and his Liberal Party is surging ahead in the polls in this snap election that he just called last weekend, scheduled for April 28. If you looked at this a month or a few months ago, the Conservative Party run by Pierre Polio was in the lead, but Pierre Poliev was maple MAGA sucked up to Donald Trump, actually sent special emissaries via the Alberta Premier, Danielle Smith, into the United States to try to interfere in the Canadian elections with Donald Trump. J.D. vance's roommate, is a member of Pierre Poliev's inner circle and a member of Parliament. So they had this whole scheme team. Also, Elon Musk was boosting Pierre Poiev and the Conservative Party there in Canada as part of the same plot that they did in the United States. And now Canadians are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, do not do Canada. We do not want the Doge wrecking ball. And Pierre Poiev is the Doge MAGA candidate. So he's sinking. And here's a data point as well. The Conservative premier from Ontario, Doug Ford, he's distancing himself from the Conservative Federal Party, the provincial party in Ontario, distancing itself from Poiev at the federal level. Poe wanted to link arms with Doug Ford. And Doug Ford's like, don't come here. But I don't want. You're toxic. You're doge. You're mad maga. Get the hell away. So I thought that was an excellent data point. Here's Prime Minister Mark Carney from earlier in the day as well, saying, the relationship we've had with the United States is basically done. We're done. The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperations, is over. But exactly the United States does next is unclear. But what is clear what is clear is that we as Canadians have agency. We have power. We are masters in our own home. Nousamet chez nous. We can control our destiny. We can give ourselves much more than anything any foreign government, including the United States, can ever take away. We can deal with this crisis best by building our strength right here at home. It will take hard work. It will take steady and focused determination from governments, from businesses, from labour, from Canadians. We will need to dramatically reduce our reliance on the United States. We will need to pivot our trade relationships elsewhere. And we will need to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven't seen in generations. By the way, when he gives that speech, he does it in English and then he does it in French while standing up there. And that's what a leader sounds like. Like that's a real leader. Right, right. That's he's a banker versus Donald Trump the bankrupter. And I mean, those are powerful words. I mean, could you ever even fathom in previous eras where that's being said? Just think about that, think about that. And meanwhile in Europe, you had this meeting earlier in the day in France called by President Emmanuel Macron of the coalition of the Will killing, standing up with Ukraine. President Zelensky of Ukraine was there as well. And they're uniting and saying we're not going to let the United States and Putin bully Ukraine. We've got your back. If they're going to come after you, they're coming after Europe. Zelensky, a powerful statement. And this as we learned that Donald Trump's new proposed mineral deal steal to Ukraine is basically, we want to steal all of your minerals. Give, give us all of your minerals. No security guarantees. Give us your minerals. So Brett Jordy, no peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Prices have not decreased on day one. As Donald Trump said, housing is not more affordable, it's less affordable. Consumer expectations are now at basically all time lows. All indicators of a great recession on the horizon. It's been an unmitigated disaster for Donald Trump. Yeah.
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Brett Meiselas
And do the Democrats have a lot of work to do? Yes. But are the reports of the Democrats demise a little early? Yes, as well. And I think here's the biggest way to gauge the true feelings of the Trump regime and the true feelings of the right wing media ecosystem. So they could say all they want. Right. They could spout all the BS they want, but look to their actions, look what they are doing. And, and it will tell a big story when you see the pulling of Elise Stefanik in her district where they're. The fact that they're worried about her seat in a special election, which is what, what was it, Ben? Plus 20 something or to that effect, plus 21. Plus 21 Trump district. When you see them pulling back on her nomination and admitting it is because of that, when you see them sputtering and being unable to explain the war leaks and telling people that what you're seeing is not actually what you're seeing, and you see Fox going, you shouldn't really care about, no one really cares about this, right? I mean, Donald Trump, he'll hit another, he'll get another touchdown soon and we'll all just forget about it. When you see the actions that they are all taking, it tells a very clear story to me. And that's that they are much weaker than they are leading on that they are much weaker than the corporate media is leading on about them. And that just means we need to all double down our efforts and continue to make our voices heard. Because once they get trapped in these scenarios, it's like quick quicksand, right? They try to, and I think we're going to see this a lot with this administration, actually. Right. They're going to try to dig themselves out and, but the faster they go, the more they lie, the more they try to twist and confuse and, and, and try to throw all this crap out there that is so obvious, not maybe to the cultist cultists, but to a majority of the American people, the more they are going to sink into that quicksand. And we are already seeing it. And that is just going to accelerate as they continue with this failing strategy. Love to see the world stepping up. Elbows up, Canada. Shout out to all of our Canadian listeners, out to all the people over in Greenland. Hope we got some Greenland listeners as well. I love what, yeah, I love seeing, I love seeing everybody standing up for democracy, standing up for their sovereignty, and standing up against this Trump regime. It's, it's a great site, Brad.
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Jordy Meiselas
I want to show this is panicked right now. Let's not, let's not forget that word, too. They're simply panicked. The Stefanic move, it's, it's a panicky move, what they're doing right now. There's no if, ands or buts around it. And for better or for worse, the one, I hate to even say like this, the one bright spot of where we stand now is we know the Donald Trump and the Trump regime playbook. Unfortunately, everyone knows it from his first term and now we see it play out again. So I Just think folks are way more energized and readily available to call out the bs. They've seen it before, the playbook. There's only so many times you could run that pick and roll before you, you know, you adapt and change. And so what Donald Trump is doing is simply, it's exhausting, don't get me wrong. But what I love to see is this community, this pro democracy community coming together and just pushing back with truth, with facts, with data, with receipts, time and time again. And so I just wanted to say another, a special shout out to the.
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Brett Meiselas
Midas right here for think about what's coming up. Jordy, too big major protests on April 5th. Get ready for that. We'll be covering all the protests here at the Midas Touch Network. Get ready for these special elections in Florida. And I got to tell you, you know, because these are hard races, I'm not gonna lie, these are hard races. And many were saying even if Josh Wheel came within points, even with, even if he came within five in that race against Randy Fine in Florida, that that would be a major warning sign for the Republican Party and for Donald Trump. And the latest poll we are seeing from Donald Trump's own pollster, the own pollster is that Josh Wheel now is actually leading in that race. So we will see what happens. It was great having him on the show. We're to highlight pro democracy candidates like him on the show, like Judge Crawford on the show, making sure we use our platform to bring attention to the things and the people, the individuals, the ideas that matter most to you.
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Ben Meiselas
Ben. The Wisconsin Supreme Court race with the pro democracy candidate Judge Susan Crawford versus the MAGA Doji Boy candidate Brad Shiffle. That is April 1st. So make sure you tell everybody in Wisconsin so that they are aware of that race because there's a lot on the line there. And these special elections in Florida April 1st as well, you know, tying this whole episode together. As I said, the signal gate is symptomatic of the kakistocracy idiocracy dangerousness that pervades and prevails in this Trump regime. It also shows the emperor has no cloak, right? It shows how weak they are. All the bravado and bluster. These idiots are having war plan chats with stupid emojis on a text thread. They don't know what they're doing. They're dumb. As Donald Trump said, they're stupid people. Yeah, you're stupid people. That's who they are. And they do all of this propaganda. They have billion dollar propaganda Networks like FOX to pump this stuff up and we've got to call it out. And I'll just share this with you too, because it's important that when they try to say, look, we got rid of these Venezuelan terrorists, the trend, Aragua terrorists, we got rid of them. You should give us, you should be grateful for all of us about what we're doing. Let me share with you what went down. Here is Christy Gnome right here, the Secretary of Homeland Security. Here she is. Let me play this clip for you right here. Let's, let's, let's play.
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Brett Meiselas
I also want everybody to know, if you come to our country illegally, this is one of the constant consequences you could face. First of all, do not come to our country illegally. You will be removed and you will be prosecuted. But know that this facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will.
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Ben Meiselas
Were you able to hear me there at all? There was fighter jets that went over the house.
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Brett Meiselas
Oh, God. That's what that was.
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Jordy Meiselas
I was wondering what that was.
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Ben Meiselas
I'm like, literally.
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Brett Meiselas
Yeah, I was like, something's going on. I'm R.P.
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Ben Meiselas
Well, there was a, there was a, I think a Dodger game earlier and. But the planes since the game have been, been, you know, been, you know, right around. But did the clip play? Did people hear?
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Brett Meiselas
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Ben Meiselas
I didn't even see the. I didn't even see the clip. Yeah, no. All of a sudden, worry on your face. I got concerned, started shaking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, those are fighter jets over, over the house. But what I want to share with people, though, is that what we're learning about and you know, hat tip to a lot of great journalists for breaking these stories as well, and the lawyers who are representing these migrants is that a lot of these people who were taken to concentration camps in El Salvador were lawful asylum seekers who were put in concentration camps in El Salvador. So this was an article from Mother Jones. And as Mehdi Hassan writes, I for one will never forgive or forget the people who ordered this, nor the people who voted for this. And the Mother Jones story is the men disappear to El Salvador because of their tattoo. Tattoos. And it highlights people like this. Neri Alvarado working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his 15 year old brother with autism. An ICE agent told Neri Alvarado, we're finding and questioning everyone who has tattoos. And that's why you're being arrested. Stunningly, after neary explained, explained his autism tattoos, meaning the ICE agent said he was clean. He's also a lawful asylum seeker, and yet he stayed detained and he was shipped to El Salvador, where he was sent to a concentration camp. Another man man sent to the El Salvador concentration camp is Arturo Suarez, a Venezuelan musician who first entered the US At a port of entry, not illegally, lawful asylum seeker, no criminal record at all, here or in any country. He had tattoos. He went by the stage name Suarez Vizla, and he's been performing since 2019. Like many others, he left Venezuela when their country's economy collapsed, seeking better opportunities. He has a wife and a baby back home. His family recognized him in a picture of the detainees, and again, he was here lawfully. A third man identified by mother John Jones, is Fitzgerald Cornho, who also entered the country at a port of entry lawfully, not illegally. He owns a street wear clothing line with his brother. Like the others, he has no criminal record here or elsewhere. And also like them, he has tattoos. We also highlighted the story of Andres. He's a gay hair stylist who fled Venezuela where he was being persecuted. A Time magazine photojournalist actually saw what went down with this individual, and it talked about how he was basically being beaten and he was calling for his mother. He said, I'm a gay hairstylist. I have nothing to do. I'm not part of a gang. Why are you doing this to me? He goes, I'm not a gang member. I'm gay. I'm a barber. The photojournalist that I believed him, but then they basically threw him to the ground as he was sobbing and then threw him in a concentration camp. No phone calls, no visitors, never to be heard from again. And we also know about women who were sent to the concentration camp, where the concentration camp doesn't take women, so they had to be sent back or sent to other locations. And then the story of the professional football player, soccer player from Venezuela who had the Real Madrid tattoo. And he was again, lawfully not a gang member. He was called Trend day around. The D.C. circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Boasberg's ruling in a 2 to 1 decision, keeping in place the injunction blocking the Trump regime from sending more people to concentration camps. But the Trump regime violated the initial order and had sent people to the concentration camps. And you're seeing, you know, these stories. There's many more stories left like it. And literally taking migrants here lawfully and sending them to concentration camps. It's something that we have to highlight, put a spotlight on Here using our platform and just call it out for just being absolutely wrong. And especially just to see the United States government making ISIS style videos in El Salvador. And then you have Kristi Gnome with her Rolex watch. Watch. I think we did some research and it looks like the $60,000 Rolex watch that she was wearing, I think that sums up the Trump regime right here, folks. Keep up the moment, Keep the hope though. And I think that the tide is turning. I feel it in the streets, I feel it internationally. I, I, I wish that this pain was not being inflicted on our country, but we are banding together in the pro democracy community here and abroad. Brett, anything else you like this like?
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Brett Meiselas
Well, this is why it's so important that all of us collectively as a community here, all the listeners, all the viewers, us here doing the shows, everybody at the Midas Touch network, it's why it's so important that we are never afraid to call out the lies. Always call out the lies because the lies are, it's more than just a white lie about something. It's much bigger than that. It's much more pernicious than that. When you see them using these lies as predicate to whisk people out of this country, to abduct them, to send them out of this country to El Salvadoran prison camps based on nothing, by just saying you're a gang member, you're a gang member.
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Ben Meiselas
No, I'm not.
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Brett Meiselas
I don't care. I said you're a gang member, so you're going to this prison camp. You see these sick dehumanizing videos with Christine Omal. She has her what appears to be a $60,000 Rolex standing in front of people who are in these cages, who, by the way, they, they throw on the ground, they shave their heads, they take off their shirts, they treat like animals. And I'm sure there are a lot of bad people in that group. I'm sure there are a lot of gang members in that group. Sure there are. But you know, else in that group, a lot, a whole lot of innocent people. Because no one in that group was entitled to the due process that we are supposed to have. And if you are, if you consider yourself an American, I don't care if you're a Republican, I don't care if you're Democrat, I don't care if you're independent, I don't care if you're not political. This is not the way that America is supposed to work. Executives in this country are not supposed to have this sort of unilateral power for good reason, because this is the kind of stuff that happened in Nazi Germany. This is the kind of stuff that happens in Russia. They always find a predicate, they always find a lie in order to carry out their agenda, no matter how heinous and dehumanizing it is. I mean, we see, even when you look at the Mahmoud Khalil situation Colombia, when you see the Turkish student, the video of that student, the tough student, university student who was whisked off the street in the. One of the most horrifying videos that I have seen, simply because this person who was here on a legal visa, attended a pro Palestine protest. So they took her off the street. You see this video, it looks like the Gestapo pulling somebody off the street, throwing them in a car. I mean, this is like the sickest stuff that we are seeing. And the Trump administration has decided that they could make up any lie, say whatever they want. They could just be like, yeah, you were anti American. Yeah, you hate this country. Yeah, you, you do it. Whatever they want to say you're a gang member, they just make up whatever they want. And then they use that as enough reason to just chuck somebody in a van, arrest them, send them to a prison camp overseas. No, it's not okay. I will never accept it as okay. I will never both sides this either and say, oh well, they got this.
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Ben Meiselas
Point over here and then this people.
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Brett Meiselas
Are saying this thing. So the truth is probably somewhere in the middle of those two things. No, this is wrong. We're going to continue to call it out, say it's wrong. Shout out to all the journalists, shout out to Mother Jones. Shout out to all the people who are uplifting these various stories and uncovering what is happening in these prisons and the true identities of these people who have been abducted by the United States government. We're going to continue to report on it all here, but I think everybody here should also be proud of the momentum shift of the fact that this information is getting out there despite what this regime is doing. So shout out to you all, this has been a fun show. We covered a whole lot of stuff. Remember to add the Midas touch podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Leave us a five star review if you can. I gotta say, I told the story earlier on social media, but the the Rogan folks and the MAGA folks, they got really upset by all the press that the Midas such podcast got. They tried to review bomb us with all these one star reviews, but this community went in and gave a bunch of five star reviews and our review actually our rating actually increased on all the podcast apps after they tried this coordinated attack. And that's thanks to you. So let's keep the energy going. Apple Podcast Spotify thanks to everyone listening. Thanks for sharing this with a friend. Just thanks for all your support. Like, it really means a lot that these messages are getting out there in the world and that this momentum continues to build.
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Jordy Meiselas
Jordy Shout out to the Midas mighty.
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Brett Meiselas
Standing strong against the fascists we sing our song.
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Ben Meiselas
We will get it right.
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Jordy Meiselas
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