MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 4/10/26

Summary

MeidasTouch Podcast – April 10, 2026

Episode Overview

In this high-stakes episode, Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas unpack the ongoing fallout from President Donald Trump’s fraught Iran ceasefire agreement, the global ramifications for the United States, and a bizarre and unexpected press conference from Melania Trump addressing her alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The brothers bring their signature blend of biting critique, informed analysis, and irreverent banter to a week dominated by war headlines, diplomatic embarrassments, and political distractions.

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1. The Iran Ceasefire Debacle: Trump’s Surrender and Fallout

Main Theme: Analysis of President Trump’s agreement to Iran’s 10-point framework, his subsequent backpedaling, and global reaction.

Key Discussion Points

• Trump’s Capitulation to Iran:

  • Trump publicly agreed to Iran’s 10-point negotiating framework using the Prime Minister of Pakistan as mediator, including “full reparations” and withdrawal from the region.
  • Within 24 hours, Trump tried to disavow the terms, claiming miscommunication due to “Iran not knowing English.”
  • Iran responded by asserting control of the Strait of Hormuz—blocking tankers, charging $2 million per ship, increasing oil prices ($100+/barrel), and signaling expectations of regional dominance and major concessions.

• Global Reactions and Humiliation:

  • European and NATO allies ignored Trump’s calls to intervene militarily and began their own negotiations with Iran.
  • Trump appeared isolated—reduced to posting threats and complaints on social media.
  • “Iran mapped through all of the permutations of the things that he was going to do... they anticipated all of these moves. Here we are, they kept control of the Strait of Hormuz.” (Ben, 07:01)

• Ceasefire Includes Lebanon:

  • The publicly-announced deal clearly included Lebanon—as confirmed by Pakistan’s Prime Minister—to preempt Israeli strikes, but Israel and Trump denied it after consulting Netanyahu.
  • Massive civilian casualties in Lebanon followed, violating the ceasefire immediately.

Notable Quote

“I guess Donald Trump’s plan is to do what he did his whole life: enter into agreements then break them and say, you know, I’m not going to follow them. But the reality is you don’t have the cards right now... They [Iran] have the cards—they control the Strait of Hormuz.”
—Ben (03:15)

Timestamps

• [02:02] Breakdown of Iran’s control and expectations
• [08:50] Meme lampooning Trump’s negotiation style (“My wife charges me a fee to use the bathroom now... Pretty sure I won that exchange”)
• [13:44] Breakdown of the ten-point framework and confirmation via public documentation

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2. Economic Fallout & Trump’s Contradictions

• GDP Revision & Economic Worries:

  • Economists revised US Q4 GDP numbers down to 0.5%, with forecasts worsening due to war.
  • “A very, very sluggish slow economy and wait till we see the economic data from March, which is when this war has been taking place.” (Ben, 06:28)

• Trump’s Contradictory Statements:

  • One day, Trump celebrated joint ventures with Iran; the next, he threatened Iran for charging passage fees.
  • Repeatedly blamed “legacy media” for publishing the text of the agreement he signed himself.

Notable Quote

“Yesterday Trump said he was happy that Iran would be charging tolls... Today he said they better not be, and if they are, they better stop now.”
—Ben (13:44)

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3. As the World Watches: Loss of Credibility

• NATO, Europe, and US Weakness:

  • Other world leaders—from the UK’s Keir Starmer to France’s Macron—are openly condemning Trump for emboldening authoritarians.
  • NATO is described as “existing in name only.”
  • “If there’s any lesson... you can’t appease a fascist, you can’t appease a strongman.” (Brett, 43:11)

• Trump’s ‘Madman’ Theory Backfires:

  • Erratic threats, contradictory demands, and social media outbursts project “overwhelming weakness, not strength.”

Notable Quote

“The only logical conclusion I can come to is Trump has surrounded himself with yes-people... They told him: this is a great deal, you’re gonna look like a hero. Then he had so much egg on his face, humiliated the country, humiliated himself.”
—Jordy (12:08)

Timestamps

• [21:00] Fallout among MAGA influencers (“the whole MAGA movement... is on life support, if not dead” – Brett)
• [29:35] Winners: Russia, China, Iran; losers: US and NATO

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4. Domestic Chaos: Melania Trump’s Epstein Press Conference

Main Theme: Melania Trump’s impromptu White House press conference on her alleged Epstein ties raises more questions than answers.

Key Discussion Points

• Melania’s Claims

  • Denied ever being friends with Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, called images and emails “fake,” and demanded Congressional hearings on Epstein.
  • Cited no ties, but the brothers read verbatim from recovered emails showing friendly correspondence and detailed knowledge of each other’s lives.
  • “I did not have relations with that man, Jeffrey Epstein...” (Brett, 66:43, parodying the Bill Clinton denial)

• Bizarre Press Conference Motivation

  • Speculation Melania was trying to get ahead of Paolo Zampolli’s impending House testimony (the model agent who introduced Trump and Melania, known to be linked to Epstein circles).
  • Melania used the event to plug her new book.
  • Trump claimed he was unaware of Melania’s plan to speak.

Notable Quotes

“We have your emails! How are you? Nice story [about Epstein in New York Magazine], let’s hang out again... That’s not just ‘overlapping social circles’...”
—Ben (69:04)

“That’s like the kind of speech you get at a courthouse after you're indicted as a co-conspirator with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”
—Brett (66:43)

Timestamps

• [60:58] Melania teases announcement, brothers react in disbelief
• [65:29] Melania’s official statement denying Epstein connection
• [70:49] Melania calls for Congressional hearings (“which we all want, OK, sounds good, let’s do Congressional hearings then” – Ben)
• [74:54] Melania plugs her book during the press conference

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5. The Broader Picture: America’s Crisis of Trust and Leadership

• The Erosion of Trust:

  • US negotiating credibility destroyed; Trump’s habit of reneging on deals has now damaged US standing globally and discouraged future diplomatic cooperation.
  • Criticism of Trump’s lifelong fraud and dodgy business style now magnified in his role as President.
  • “How is anyone supposed to negotiate with this guy? He pretends agreements aren’t real, calls them hoaxes, threatens to sue for reporting the facts.” —Brett (37:50)

• Casualty and Scandal Tally:

  • Over a dozen US troops reportedly killed, hundreds more injured—leading to calls for Republican condemnation.
  • Ongoing chaos in other regions (Venezuela cited as another example of Trump’s regime-change failures).
  • “What did we get out of this? Endless chaos, dead servicemen, wounded servicemen, we’re bombing civilians, we’re losing credibility on the world stage.” —Jordy (27:20)

Timestamps

• [50:41] Discussion on racism, xenophobia, and the administration’s underestimation of Iran’s capability
• [54:57] Stark reminder: US operation bombed a girls’ elementary school as first strike

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6. Memorable & Notable Moments

• Trump “Taco” Reference:

  • Running joke about Trump “taco-ing” (chickening out) on tough decisions.
  • “If Trump was going to agree to the ten-point plan, what was the point of this—just endless chaos?” (Jordy, 27:20)

• Mockery of Trump’s Method

  • JD Vance’s analogy likening uranium enrichment to telling his wife not to skydive, mocked ruthlessly by the brothers as “combining misogynism with war crimes.”
  • “Cardboard has a better personality than JD Vance...” (Brett, 51:14)

• Melania’s “Sweet Pea” Emails

  • Detailed breakdown of chummy exchanges with Maxwell, despite public denials.

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7. Closing Thoughts

• The MeidasTouch brothers express outrage and sadness at the scale of American diplomatic collapse and the repetitive cycles of chaos under Trump’s leadership.
• They call for an end to denialism, more robust accountability for both foreign and domestic misconduct, and encourage continued scrutiny and activism by their listeners.

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Important Timestamps

• [02:02] Iran’s demands, Strait of Hormuz control
• [13:44] Ten-point plan explained; Trump's contradictions
• [29:35] Winners and losers, global implications
• [45:51] UK PM Starmer’s condemnation of Trump
• [66:43] Melania’s Epstein denial press conference
• [72:07] Melania calls for Congressional hearings

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Final Words

The episode exemplifies the MeidasTouch Podcast’s blend of biting critique, humor, and earnest concern for democracy—exposing the U.S. government's current dysfunction on the world stage and the surreal spectacle of Trump-world scandal management. For those seeking an unvarnished, passionate, and often darkly entertaining account of the latest political debacles, this episode delivers both context and catharsis.

Transcript

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as he tries to break the ceasefire that he purported to enter into when he agreed to all of iran's terms of surrender donald trump agreed to iran's ten point negotiating framework and now donald trump says there must have been a miscommunication because maybe iran doesn't know english that well maybe their negotiators didn't realize what we were saying because even though donald trump posted that i've agreed to iran's ten point framework as a suitable place to have these negotiations i actually don't agree with any of those terms and i'm gonna now claim that iran agreed to our framework now iran was clearly prepared for this and they still control these strait of hormuz so they're like all okay well you posted donald trump that you agreed to our framework we've made it public and very clear what our negotiating framework is but if ultimately you don't want to abide by the terms that's fine i mean we control the strait of hormuz and we're not gonna let any tankers through and that's exactly what's happening right now iran's not letting any tankers through they've let some cargo ships through but by and large no tankers have been able to get through this trade of hormuz we're seeing the price of oil surge once again over dollar one hundred one per barrel and that's gonn on rising but iran's made it very clear the new normal as iran sees it is they control the strait of hormuz they get two million dollars per ship they become a massive regional power in the area if not a global power they're expecting full reparations from the united states and israel for the invasion of iran they're also expecting long term security guarantees for themselves for hezbollah for the houthis and for shiite groups in iraq because that's part of the stipulation that was in the ten point negotiating framework also they expect to enrich uranium because that was in the framework and also they expect for all sanctions to be lifted against them both united nations resolutions against them sanctions against them anything because that's what trump agreed to and so i guess donald trump's plan is to do what he did his whole life enter into agreements then break them and say you know i'm not going to follow them but the reality is is you don't have the cards right now as someone once said they have the cards in the sense of they control the strait of hormuz and so now donald trump's tactics are just putting on social media there are reports that iran is charging fees to tankers going through the hermu strait they better not be and if they are they better stop now oh you're gonna post it on social media and that's that's gonna do the trick and when that doesn't work donald trump then threatens nato and europe that they better go right now nato in europe and they better go to the strait of hormuz immediately and if they don't go to the strait of hormuz they're going to be in big trouble and i don't just want commitments they better send their ships and you know nato members and european countries are like yeah we're not doing that we're going to do negotiations with iran like ourselves so like european countries nato countries calling iran and negotiating with prime minister with foreign minister iraqi and with the president possesski and others and mb golubov and basically just saying hey we're gonna this is this is how we're gonna you're gonna do it we're gonna do bilateral relations so you have that going on you had donald trump posting like weird photos of himself and dana white in front of the white house while this is taking place and then out of nowhere like literally out of nowhere melania trump holds a press conference today to talk about epstein and that i'm not involved in epstein and images of me that are out there between me and epstein and ghislaine she says those are fake images and she says there needs to be a congressional investigation we need to hold congressional hearings on epstein and people need to stop defaming me and and saying bad things about me and epstein and ghislaine i don't even know who they are really may i attended a parties with them but the documents and photos out there are basically fake is what she's saying and then an ms now reporter of all people reach out to donald trump and he picks up the phone because apparently that's just what he does he picks up the phone to anybody who calls him which is just weird in and of itself and then he's like yeah i didn't know she was going to do that that's what he tells an ms now but i didn't know that milani was going to go out and hold this press conference you got that going on then we got the latest gdp numbers that revised down the fourth quarter gdp numbers to zero point five percent that's when remember donald trump's regime whether it was howard lutnick or besant or others said that fourth quarter they own it gdp's gonna be humming twenty twenty five things are gonna be excellent well it was revised down from like one point four percent to zero point seven percent now zero point five percent a very very sluggish slow economy and wait till we see the economic data from march which is you know when the war has been taking place and so you know we'll be covering that as well i want to bring in brett and jordy and it seems like you know donald trump not even playing checkers it seems like you know donald trump is like i don't i don't even know how to describe what the hell he's doing but iran mapped through all of the kind of permutations of the things that he was going to do like they made him post that he agreed to the ten point plan they kept control of the straight of her moves trump you know they were they they were ready with the next moves to go so that when trump agreed to that ten point framework and all of those points when he would break it iran was read like like literally they they anticipated all of these moves and here we are right now where you had that's why also let me mention this iran made sure that the negotiator and mediator selected by trump for whatever reason the prime minister of pakistan prime minister sharif posted this ceasefire hereby includes lebanon and it was very much in the agreement because iran realized that as soon as this was announced israel netanyahu would attack in lebanon and hezbollah and yesterday was the deadliest day almost ever where two hundred fifty plus people were killed mostly civilians in lebanon by netanyahu in israel and over a thousand people were injured across beirut and lebanon and you know that's obviously a ceasefire violation and you know you have iran right now saying basically like mb golubov the parliament leader they're like tiktok time is running out donald they're like they're like toying with us they're toying with trump i don't know how as an american this isn't anything other than just utter humiliation

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ben you said you don't have the words but i want to show you a meme i saw online going around because i think this sums up the entire situation let me pull it up right now the meme says told my wife to have dinner ready by six or i'll obliterate her entire civilization so anyway she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free and i didn't get any dinner but i'm pretty sure i won that exchange i mean that i think is a good comparison where'd you find

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this boomer boomer somebody posted the boomer it's good it's really good by the way that's not me throwing shade at the boomer that that is a good

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meme it's a quality boomer me no no no shade intended and and yeah you know it was interesting because well first off let me say hey to everybody what's up brothers what's up midas mighty it's it's good to be with you you know right when the statement came out from donald trump that day where he said all civilization was going to be blown up and that that crazy message once he posted that ceasefire message i know the first thing that ben said right after it went live was did he say they agreed to the ten point plan was like am i reading this correctly and i was like yeah and ben was like the ten point plan is the iran plan like the united states plan was the fifteen point plan so he just admitted to agreeing to iran's framework of the deal like what the hell is he doing and immediately as ben said you know we saw the mediator the independent mediator from pakistan you know acknowledged that that was the plan that was released iran acknowledged it this has been very public knowledge but like trump does with all of his deal he tried i guess he makes the deal and then he pretends that he didn't or they agreed to something else and he just tries to kind of bs his way through it and lie and say ah that actually wasn't what we spoke about when everybody is saying that is exactly what they spoke about there's even new reporting today from cbs news that says that donald trump knew very well that lebanon was a part of the ceasefire deal acknowledged it in these in these conversations and his interpretation of the deal only changed following a phone call he had with benjamin netanyahu where netanyahu said nah i don't think that was part of the deal and then trump decided to say it was not part of the deal so you just see like trump has been crashing out all day with all these posts just post after post after post like watching this like psychotic meltdown happen on social media and he keeps accusing the press of making up the points in the agreement and saying they're posting fake agreements they're literally posting exactly what was agreed to exactly what came from iran the exact framework that donald trump decided to put his arms around so this whole thing right now is on donald trump what we saw yesterday in lebanon was appalling absolutely appalling those israeli strikes on lebanon i cannot say it enough how grotesque it is to see that level of attacks on innocent civilians and it's just like a common thread right now that we continue to see with israel unfortunately and then we had the melania presser which was just like man the weirdest moment we're going to get into all of that i got a lot to say but i got to toss it to jordy jordy what's the latest what's up

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brothers what's up midas mighty pumped to get into tonight's show benji i'm starting off right here big bro i'm giving you your flowers you have done such incredible reporting on this whole saga ben keeping me the midas mighty everyone up to date on everything to brett's point exactly there when we heard that trump agreed to the ten point like we knew exactly what and we knew that was a gigantic l for donald trump for the united states and it just it really shows the danger of having so many yes people exclusively and nothing but yes people around donald trump because the only logical conclusion that i can kind of come to in my mind is when donald trump started to hear you know legacy media us independent media and everyone talking about just how bad he got played on this thing did it maybe finally hit him that oh maybe i didn't do a good job on this deal maybe we didn't get everything that i thought we were going to and i could only come to the conclusion that trump has surrounded himself by all of these yes people that had told him that they wanted to end this thing and so they told this is a great deal mister president you're gonna look like a hero and then he had so much egg on his face humiliated us the country humiliated himself and now he's trying to back himself out of this corner i mean it's proven time and time again he's the world's worst businessman he is the world worst negotiator now he's not dealing with a business entity i mean in some respects he is but he's dealing with a country and he's dealing with soldiers and citizens and civilians and he's got no idea what he's doing ben where do you want us to start

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off today big bro well look if you don't want to say here's what trump said here's what iran's been saying just look at here's what trump said yesterday here's what trump said today right yesterday donald trump said that he was happy that iran would be charging tolls on the strait of hormuz he said i know it we're doing a joint venture together that's why they're charging the money we're going to split the money and make a lot of money together this is going to be great this is what we've talked about right that's what he was saying yesterday so now today he said there are reports that iran is charging fees to tankers going through the hormuz strait they better not be and if they are they better stop now so just compare what he said yesterday to what he is saying today you know then when it comes to the ten point plan you know what donald trump's been saying over the past you know twenty four forty eight hours is to brett your point he blames the media for putting out the lists that he goes aren't really the lists and that there is a super secret ten point plan that nobody knows about i mean this list that we're showing right now it comes from iran's national security council and they've been using the same list for three four weeks now of these ten points sure maybe sometimes the order of these things were changed from number one was number three or number two was number seven but the ten points were always the ten points and one of the difficulties i always was telling all of you watching and listening about reaching an agreement is you know iran fully rejected donald trump's fifteen point plan which was basically complete surrender and the ten point plan was the exact opposite of the fifteen points like the exact opposite and so as we were heading to donald trump's eight pm eastern time deadline i was saying the only way this resolves basically if iran holds its ground is that donald trump is going to agree to the ten point framework and that's when donald trump posted i agree to the ten point framework that iran has been circulating as the basis you know to start the negotiations here and so we all knew this ten point framework because we've been talking about it for weeks and weeks and weeks about what those ten points were and then at the same time the mediator who donald trump picked prime minister sharif he posted we've reached a ceasefire it begins immediately and it includes lebanon and i believe that iran as part of the guarantees that they wanted that there would at least that they would agree to a ceasefire they wanted him to they wanted trump to make a social media post saying he agreed to the ten point plan and they wanted the mediator in pakistan to say lebanon is included which was in the ten point plan but they wanted to leave no ambiguity because they wanted to have him post it and then the prime minister of pakistan sharif say yes it included lebanon i think iran's negotiators realize trump's going to violate in israel probably will almost instantly violate the ceasefire agreement and that's what happened i don't even call it a ceasefire agreement call it a market manipulation agreement by trump call it just a surrender agreement by trump call it what it is but you have to understand from iran's perspective as they were weighing this and they were thinking to themselves just so everybody sees our audio listeners this was what the neutral the mediator picked by the us wrote okay right when the ceasefire was announced with the greatest humility i am pleased to announce that the islamic republic of iran and the united states of america along with their allies have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including lebanon and elsewhere effective immediately there's no ambiguity in what that says lebanon was written in the initial document by the mediator of what it was and i think iran said okay look trump's obviously going to violate this we know but to get the united states of america defeated the nazis in world war two who's led the world in a post world war two global order to have the president of the united states post that they agreed to iran's ten point negotiating framework that is just utter humiliation so let them violate the ceasefire we still control the strait of hormuz if they violate what are they going to do we control the strait of hormuz it'll look even worse for them but iran was probably telling the mediator the prime minister of pakistan sharif that donald trump had to post this message because donald trump's message said the following based on the conversations with prime minister sharif and field marshal manure pakistan wherein they requested i hold off on destructive force being sent tonight to iran and subject to the islamic republic of iran agreeing to the complete immediate and safe opening of the strait of hormuz i agreed to suspend the bombing and attack of iran for a period of two weeks this will be a double sided ceasefire then here's what it goes on to say we received a ten point proposal from iran and believe it as a workable basis on which to negotiate almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the united states and iran but a two week period will allow the agreement to be finalized in consummated we received a ten point proposal from iran and now donald trump says in the past twenty four hours numerous agreements and lists and letters are being sent out by people that have absolutely nothing to do with the usa iran negotiation in many cases they are total fraudsters charlatans and worse they will be rapidly exposed after our federal investigation is completed there is only one group of meaningful points that are acceptable to the united states and we will be discussing them behind closed doors during these negotiations these are the points that are in the basis on which we agreed to a cease fire it is something that is reasonable and can easily be dispensed with it is very much like fake news cnn last night headlining a source that had no power or authority to write a letter claiming great authority over it now donald trump said they received the ten point plan from iran and right now what iran is basically saying and calling trump out for is violations of the ten point plan that we've always been discussing just to be clear what the ten point plan was was cessation of war on all fronts including against hezbollah withdrawal of us forces from the region payment of compensation to iran termination of all board of governor resolutions un security resolutions lift all primary sanctions all secondary sanctions accept iran's uranium enrichment program continue iran's control over the strait of hormuz where they charge two million dollars for any ships passing by and a commitment to non aggression indefinitely into the future and so in iran you now have their parliament leader mb golubov you know and he's basically citing the ten point plan it's not like a random cnn posting it's it's iran posting the plan that they previously posted before and mb golubov their parliament leader goes number one lebanon and the entire resistance access as iran's allies form an inseparable part of the ceasefire point one of the ten point proposal he cites the ten points number two prime minister sharif of pakistan publicly and clearly stressed the lebanon issue there is no room for denial and backtracking three ceasefire violations carry explicit costs and strong responses extinguish the fire immediately and then galoba writes after about an eight hour time period today time is running out with an hourglass emoji and so bretton geordi i'll pass it to you brett even the way they're toying with the united states time is running out like they're mocking him and the message this is sending to the region to the middle east to the rest of the world is not that just donald trump can be played but that this guy surrendered to iran them and trump can have state regime media call himself fox and everybody say all the things they want to say trump surrendered the world power players know that trump surrendered heck even trump's base knows that he surrendered i mean people like alex jones and megyn kelly tucker carlson and all these people have been criticizing donald trump's handling of this war this catastrophic unlawful invasion working with netanyahu to engage in these war crimes and one of trump's posts i'm not going to read it because it goes on and on and on was this bizarre post marjorie trader nasty this rosie o' donnell you know goes on to all this stuff but it attacks the top kind of former maga influencers every one of them it attacks brett and jordan yeah i mean

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this entire maga movement is falling apart honestly i could even say like the maga movement as we've known at the past i don't know few years past decade or whatever to me it's it's on dead or on life support whatever you want to call it it'll reconstitute as as something you know probably more deranged let's not get it twisted but this thing is fr beyond repair at this point and it seems as you hear donald trump speak about all these various things maybe he like doesn't understand the structure of the iranian government and the various facets of the iranian government like you had trump the other day when he was trying to refute the story he posted a statement by the foreign minister of the islamic republic of iran and was saying how this was like the official story this was what everyone needs to focus on this statement and that statement by the way also mentioned the ten points but but what donald trump was so angry about was the fact that cnn and us and the new york times and all these organizations were reporting on an additional statement and you know like in addition to that statement a statement from the islamic republic's supreme national security council which that statement that they released was much more like the united states surrendered this is a massive victory over the united states you know it was much more of a spike the football sort of statement and if anything the islamic republic supreme national council has more authority than the foreign minister has and donald trump tried to pretend like all these news organizations were putting forward a fake statement when they were not they were just putting forward a statement from a different facet of the iranian government and so right now there is zero trust between any of the parties here and frankly why should there be when i look at the situation of course i'm happy that there is a ceasefire i hope the ceasefire lasts forever i hope this war ends i hope our brave men and women who are overseas right now get home that doesn't look like what's happening however and donald trump has made the united states weaker in this process and he's made like iran and he's turned iran into like a global superpower at this point they control the region right now they control they control the strait of hormuz as we are currently reporting this we still see a massive buildup of us fighter jets in the middle east who seem prepared to start back up this war any moment iran continues to say that they're ready to start this war up at any moment israel keeps saying that they're ready to start this war up at any moment even though they never stopped they've been bombing lebanon relentlessly ever since this so called ceasefire even occurred and we have iranian state media as of this moment also saying that they're not even sending any iranian negotiators to pakistan like the united states ascending saying quote iran has no plans to attend peace talks in islamabad with the american side until a ceasefire is established in lebanon so we're getting so many mixed signals from everybody but i think the clear through line is that there really is no ceasefire right now the tensions are exploding and full scale war could break out at any second and it's really unclear how this leads if the whole time the negotiations have been such a difficult process because what did donald trump do during the first negotiation well first he ripped up the obama deal which is a total f you right after you work on this deal with iran and regional partners and that obama deal i thought it was always a good deal but that looks like the greatest deal of all time compared to what donald trump just got for iran and with the united states but first trump rips up that deal which shows that you're not a reliable partner then in the middle of negotiations for this he starts a war and bombs their leaders and and and their families also not a not showing exactly a sign of trust there and now we get to this point where they make another kind of temporary deal and then donald trump denies the actual terms in the deal that he agreed to maybe he should be reading the stuff maybe somebody should tell him what's in it he's either lying or his brain is totally gone and he has no idea what the hell is going on maybe both i think maybe all of the above is probably the most accurate thing that we are seeing right now but this behavior is just unhinged it's weak it makes the united states look ridiculous on the in the global scale and the whole thing is just beyond beyond absurd and he's just playing with fire right now also what was

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the point of any of this if trump was just going to taco trump always taco he always chickens out by the way way for the members of the myse that youtube channel we have a trump taco emoji specifically for the members so everyone drop your trump taco emojis right now as i as i talk over here i see them in the chat if trump was going to agree to the ten point plan like literally my genuine question is what was the point of any of this right if we're going off the numbers that that we have been reporting like the united states has been reporting about casualties and losses of american servicemen during this time period we got thirteen us troops troops killed over this another three hundred injured and again that's the reports that we have here from our own intel it could be different than that what was the point of this so he could bomb an elementary school in iran like what was the point so he could give iran complete control over the strait of hormuz what was the plan for me it's as simple as putting it in that framework and that statement what did we get out of this just endless chaos dead servicemen wounded servicemen we're bombing civilians we're losing our credibility on the world stage donald trump further goes down this dementia riddled behavior that the republican party as we know it right now just has to completely align itself with like he's some great leader like this is getting out it's already out of control it's getting so much worse than i could have ever imagined the republican party is okay with american troops dying and getting over three hundred of them injured are you kidding me like i just try to contextualize it too is if this was any other president the outrage collectively on both sides would be gigantic and rightfully so so for me the question is just so simple is why can't republicans condemn this behavior by donald trump he literally got at least as we know it thirteen american servicemen killed to me that is absolutely disqualifying and what did we what do we get out of this i couldn't tell you and i'm genuinely asking you brothers and the viewers here and the listeners what did we get from this like this two and a half three week stretch over here aside from endless chaos and ruining our reputation even

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further yeah it was a little longer than that it was over end of february but with points well taken but i'll tell you who benefited a lot russia china they benefited iran they benefited north korea you know that access benefited i'll tell you who didn't benefit donald trump the united states i'll tell you who else didn't benefit i mean you have nato is suffering massively basically nato exists in name only i mean there's this charade going on pretending that nato's still around and strong but i mean watching the secretary general of nato mark rutty go around and saying you know what i don't know anything anymore i don't know yes but donald it's like the worst guy for the moment right now i mean so you know this is a massive moment it's really a disgrace i mean putin couldn't be doing any better right now i mean putin's gotten way more money sanctions have been removed and so that access has strengthened itself dramatically and you know i think if you look at it through that prism there's frankly i don't know how you could damage the united states worse than what donald trump has already did and what he's going to continue to do and we're going to monitor this ceasefire this fake ceasefire because as brett pointed out you have the iranians saying we're not showing up to pakistan stop reporting fake news we're not going there right now until it's very clear that the united states and israel include lebanon in the ceasefire we're not even going to show up and you have netanyahu and trump saying lebanon is not included in the ceasefire so okay well then to me it's just a matter of time is it going to be tonight is it going to be tomorrow morning you know when do the rockets start again and when do we go through this covid cycle again where this continues on and on and on and on and on for another month and two months and three months and you know does it last till twenty twenty seven twenty twenty eight you know and then when a democratic president comes in and fixes it now all the republicans are like now we need to restrain the power of the executive branch we're fiscal hawks cool we're hawks now how dare you do this how dare you do that right like you know that's where this goes that's what they're going to do meanwhile melania trump said today would be the best day to talk epstein and nobody in the white house seems to understand what she did she just

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held the bridge things have gotten so bad with the iran war that they're using epstein to distract from the iran war which was a distraction that the war was a distraction from epstein and it was wiped off it did to their credit right we were still talking about it but the major headlines of the corporate newspapers and everything epstein was not on the front page anymore was not really being talked about but but i guess melania determined we need to distract from this war thing time to talk about epstein and this melania's speech today where she decided to make an

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going to melania though i mean you can almost see to brett's point before the break that she's now distracting from the war which was distracting from the epstein files because she's doing that trump's spiraling out of control here you've got these two paths you've got trump making post like like iran is doing a very poor job dishonorable some would say of allowing oil to go through the strait of hormuz that is not the agreement that we have i mean again that's the agreement that you made it's just a lunatic i don't know how else to describe it a demented lunatic this is not like a political attack or like it's just an objective reality that there is this lunatic madman who is ripping the united states apart behaving like such a such a maniac i don't even know how to describe it

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genuinely like i'm genuinely asking and i'm not like it's a rhetorical question so i don't need an answer from you ben or minus mighty but how does somebody supposed to negotiate ever in the future with this guy like say they actually get to the point where they're going to be in negotiations again right they somehow figure a way to put all this behind them again how do you trust trump when he pretends the agreements aren't even real when he calls him hoaxes when he threatens to sue cnn and the new york times for reporting on just the facts that we all know the undisputed facts how are you supposed to enter an agreement with that kind of guy and this is the lesson that all throughout donald trump's life people have learned every single contractor who's dealt with him every single vendor every single business who has worked with him it's why he was held liable for fraud why the trump organization was found to committing massive amounts of fraud it's why people like this quite frankly are supposed to be in jail before they get to a point like this they're supposed to be in prison because he is a serial fraudster now doing it on a global scale in the midst of one of the most dangerous situations in history and the hard part

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about you know the hard pillow swallow is when you have so much of daddy's money and his lawyers and he's bankrolled by all this engine you're viewed not well he's not but as this great businessman that's that's the con of it all he should be in jail there's no doubt about it he's the world's biggest fraudster he he everyone knows

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your point exactly but he gets away with and he skates away with it because of the country's foundational you know just issue here is like when you have endless money and all of these connections you just continue to get away with this stuff but at least we're here to call it out and hold his feet to the fire yeah i

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mean as you would say jordy in his previous fraud life as a disgraced fake business person who bankrupted all of the things he would lean on the fact that he inherited huge amounts of wealth and he would use that and wield that to harass and torture and lie and then things would go bankrupt and then he would do a new scheme and that was his whole life scheme after scheme after scheme you know and now having the keys to two hundred and fifty years of american history and broadly speaking the power that the us developed you know and what a post world war two world looked like with nato and the united nations is headquartered in new york for a reason right i mean us deemed the leader of the world basically you know as the main global superpower with other powers rising and trump trading on all of that goodwill from history that the us were the ones who rallied the world to stop hitler and the nazis right that's the lore of the united states and constructed this in very sophisticatedly a post world war two structure and don't get me wrong i'm not trying to act like this post world war two structure was great for everybody far from it but the power itself is an undeniable aspect of it and trump is using that and abusing that as an abuser and destroying that you know when you see posts like that iran's doing a very poor job i mean who even talks like this you know what's fascinating is you know i saw earlier today prime minister keir starmer of the united kingdom like finally kind of giving public speeches where he really calls out donald trump in kind of clear and unequivocal terms terms saying i'm fed up with donald trump and people like that because it's people like him and putin are making the world suffer people suffer because of that behavior and it's finally call him out by name and say it the same way prime minister carney previously called him out by name right there's a reason why prime minister carney is about to get a majority government in canada because he stood up to donald trump and by and large hasn't backed down they had somebody cross over from the conservative party in canada leaving pierre poliev the maple maga opposition leader who lost his writing in last year's election but still weaseled his way to steal somebody else's seat in the conservative steal somebody else's seat in the conservative party and now people are looking at this maple maga canadian conservative party and like someone who's basically like their marjorie taylor greene or like like a lauren boebert or a nancy mace crossed over and switched parties and joined the liberal party and she announced i'm going to be joining the liberal party so with elections that are scheduled next week in canada it looks like without a doubt prime minister carney is about to get the majority there i mean prime minister sanchez in spain standing up to donald trump and his regime french president emmanuel macron anthony albanist you stand you have to stand up to donald trump this is what's so pathetic about mark ruti of nato is that that level of appeasement emboldens donald trump we have to say to donald trump when he threatens to leave nato is that go we don't want you in fact get the hell out of here you little you know that's how you have to speak to him there's no dude you win

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nato like if there's any lesson that nato should have from its forming is that you can't appease a fascist that you can't appease a strong man or a wannabe strong man or whatever you want to describe it as but this mark rut mark ruddy guy whoever he says he keeps going out there and he keeps just being oh donald trump he just wants what's best he's amazing this guy he's like stop it stop it stand up for yourself will you we've seen what it's like when leaders throughout the world stand up for themselves and we've seen what it's like when they show what weakness and as we've said on the show you give trump an inch he'll take your life that's exactly what he's doing the second mark rut left that meeting with donald trump yesterday what did trump do and i bet he just you know he threw so much praise on donald trump but what was trump's response to attack nato just to continuously attack nato to continue to threaten that he was going to leave nato to say that nato was weak that they're not helping out and it's also a part of this like these mixed messages i don't need help i don't need nato's help it's too late for your help please help me nato please i need you we need the strait of hormuz ah we don't even use it it's a europe problem they'll have to deal with it it'll all open up by itself oh why won't anyone help europe nato please send your warships right now we really need it all the messaging is all over the place the guy is flailing and i i know some people throw out like this madman theory like oh he's just so unhinged that the the the enemy they don't even know what he's going to do next no it doesn't project strangers in the slightest bit it projects overwhelming weakness that is what the united states of america is projecting right now under donald trump yeah one of

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the things we're learning about one of the things we're learning about too and we'll talk about this when we come back from a quick break ambassador paolo zompoli the guy who introduced donald trump to melania he ran a modeling agency and he would have these girls and women from eastern europe come in they need work with them on coming into the united states they need to hold these parties at the kit kat club and he's gonna be deposed by the house oversight committee and so when we talk about melania in a little bit i just wanted to get that point out that a lot of that can be it's possible that she and paolo zampoli were talking about that that that news was gonna be breaking and that may be one of the reasons that melania went public don't worry we're gonna talk about melania in a moment but i gotta show you some comments clips right now though that i think frame these issues first i want to show prime minister kier starmer let's show you starmer and what he had to say about donald trump let's play it i'm

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across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of putin or trump across the world finally he said trump etc finally by name right just don't that's what you gotta do i bet you the people in the uk will reward him from going in that direction and rightfully so now is not a time to equipment you gotta stand up to this guy you gotta stand up and far from countries taking donald trump's social media posts and donald trump's message to mark ruti that europe and nato needs to send their ships immediately into the strait of hormuz or else else nobody's listening to that and then donald trump flails and he makes those posts i'm really disappointed in what iran is doing i mean you're disappointing you agree you said you were going to obliterate their civilization and then you agreed to their ten point plan but now let me show you what jd vance was saying so first you have jd vance saying that perhaps the iran parliament leader mb golubov just doesn't understand english well and that that's this is all one big confusion because golubov doesn't understand english that that's that's the level of patheticness that the trump regime was going is going with all right let's agree to the terms and then we'll be like oh they're from iran they don't speak english so so they don't they didn't know because they don't speak english well that's the level it just looks more pathetic by the day let's play a

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lot of agreement that's point number one point number two to respond to each of those issues and i read it very closely let me just say this i actually wonder how good he is at understanding english because there are things that he said that frankly didn't make sense in some of the in the context of the negotiations that we've had but to address the three points first of all he talked about an attack that had allegedly happened on iran and how that was a violation of the ceasefire ceasefires are always messy an hour after the president announced the ceasefire the iranians launch a bunch of missiles then

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this clip the second thing golly bob said which again i found fascinating is he said we refuse to give up the right to enrichment and i thought to myself you know what my wife has the right to skydive but she doesn't jump out of an airplane because she and i have an agreement that she's not going to do that because i don't want my wife jumping out of an airplane we don't really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do we concern ourselves with what they actually do and i think the president's been very clear on

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the enrichment question here's what i concern myself with and i'll toss it over to you brett obviously combining misogynism with war crimes in one is something uniquely within jd vance's purview so there's that you know what i care about the objective facts of what was the deal that was agreed to and objectively i look at it i look at trump's post adopting the ten point plan reposting the foreign minister of iran orangi talking about trump adopting the ten point plan i look at the independent mediator in this case prime minister of pakistan sharif and what he said that lebanon is included i think back to the last mediator that took place in late february before trump and netanyahu invaded iran where the mediator was oman another country that was chosen by the united states to mediate that time it wasn't the prime minister of pakistan it was the foreign minister of oman the foreign minister of oman said we reached a deal in principle and we were ready to have this all resolved and then that night donald trump and netanyahu invaded iran and i think about all of those factors right there and and more i look at who's been talking about the ten points for weeks and then i use just my objective you know i look at logic and i go okay you've adopted their plans and now i hear iran citing the plan or i see them citing the plan point one point three point seven here's what we said i see it on the other hand i have jd vance talking about his wife skydiving and that ceasefires are made to be broken and so to me i see actually a psychotic sociopath in jd vance and an utter liar and i see donald trump making conflicting posts each day and on the other hand i say this objectively just the reality i see iran being very consistent with the ten point plan and citing the exact clauses that are violated it's not a hard one for me to decipher

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for a year and ben and ben and brett brad i'll tell you one sec but before i lose my thought here when you hear jd vance speak right it's sort of that smugness of his that got us to where we are in the first place right the outright xenophobia and the racism treating the iranian people like they're some sort of savages this entire time i think is what's resulted in us getting into this mess just totally underestimating them from a communication standpoint from a war effort standpoint every step of the way and so when they're like oh well maybe he doesn't even speak english like that again that has been their playbook from day one of this thing they have learned

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a goddamn thing brett first off cardboard has a better personality than jd vance just the weirdest dude excuse me he's just the weirdest dude the weirdest dude on the planet what what a bizarre thing to say what a bizarre way to say it like i'm just like watching him like what are you what are you talking about man like we're we're talking about war here like you have an agreement with your wife not to jump out of planes does it happen that often that you need an agreement with her to not do that like what are we talking about about here to the trump administration has lost and never had any sort of moral authority to be projecting morality or like the united states is better than iran in this situation or any of that and to me that i hate that because i think you know the united states has done its share of horrific things do not get me wrong but i think our leaders at least try to put forward an image of moral authority and and you had caroline levitt yesterday you know saying things like speaking about the moral authority of the trump regime and saying listen well all these people you know in iran they just go death to america death to america death to america well you know how dare they say that we're here we're there for freedom and blah blah blah trump is saying we're going to exterminate your entire civilization so once you have a president of the united states saying that that all of a sudden any of your other kind of arguments that you're trying to make about moral authority and to say that the united states wants what's best for the people those are out the window you've just totally tossed that and to me that's that's a hard thing to grapple with i would say as an american and just think about think about what this is all based on in the beginning too right donald trump said this was about regime change he said this was about getting rid of of all the people who were oppressing the people in iran and that the iranians were going to be able to take to the streets and the us would have their back and this would be a great moment democracy is coming to iran right that was the messaging in the beginning now trump just goes oh we actually changed the regime everything's great regime change is done done best of luck everything is awesome good luck to the iranian people oh and we might blow up your entire country and all your infrastructure all your power all your water everything so good luck see you later and the only thing that's changed has been that they moved from the ayatollah to ayatollah junior and everyone else is still in their positions of power it's the same regime and it's what we've seen in venezuela right it's the same exact pattern that we've seen everywhere and i guess i could mention this quickly as well if you look at venezuela and what's going on in venezuela right now it's utter chaos because trump claimed to have taken out the maduro regimen when he did not he got rid of maduro at the top but left in the entire other power structure around maduro so even just today we were seeing hundreds of venezuelan public sector workers and pensioners marching in caracas demanding higher wages and pension increase increases amid the severe inflation there they're getting hunger level pay and we saw these security forces in the streets using tear gas and all these crowd control mechanisms beating protesters dispersing the demonstrators who were there near these government sites so you notice wherever trump goes whether it's minneapolis whether or los angeles or portland or whether it's iran or whether it's venezuela chaos follows him because he causes the chaos he causes the disruption at this point i don't think he even knows anything else other than chaos he like he like thinks he thrives in this chaos but all of us are the ones who are left

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to deal with it exactly and let's just be honest with ourselves here too like if there are any savages in this thing currently like the first operation that we did operation epic fury we bombed an elementary school a girls school civilian girls ages between seven and twelve you know like where are we when that's your frame when that is how you start this thing donald trump yeah negotiation it's going to become quite difficult dude and like i understand it from their perspective of like how can i deal with this guy in good faith with when their first thing they did was bomb an elementary school very tough very difficult situations here i think we could all outright condemn that type of behavior and it's just insane to me again that the republican party is just letting donald trump skirt away with this i am actually grateful i think there are more republicans that spoke out about how horrible this ten point framework was but more need to be continuing to speak up here because it's brutal it is brutal and it's just a national and global embarrassment all right i said

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we were going to talk about melania but we will don't you worry it's a deep tease right there so when we come back we'll talk about melania trump's press conference out of nowhere seemingly out of nowhere although it may be related to the fact that paolo zompoli is going to be deposed by the house of representatives in connection with the epstein files and he's someone who did know epstein and he had his own modeling agency and he brought in eastern european girls and women from into the united states and threw parties at the kit kat club which was this venue where he would have manhattan wealthy guys meet up with the european women or girls that's where melania met donald trump she described that event as oh such a beautiful highbrow event i mean it's not exactly what the kit kat club was but okay go and go and say that so was there a connection there i don't know but melania bringing back the epstein files we've been always talking about on the midas touch network but front and center right now and she said some just odd things and you know very trumpy and things we'll talk about that and more let's take our last quick break of the show a reminder become a member of our youtube channel and unlock that taco emoji right now and also just becoming a member helps continue to grow this independent media platform and also hit subscribe help us get to seven million subscribers and subscribe to the midas touch on audio as well alright let's take our last quick break

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next yeah so with everything going on in the world that we've been talking about so far in this show pretty serious stuff going on would be an understatement melania trump announces that she's going to be holding a press conference from the white house it's like okay well what do you do what press conference is melania trump holding from the white house right now and i guess she leaked it to fox also state regime media because they kind of tease she's going to be making a big announcement that's going to be making a lot of news and so you know brett i was thinking i was taking a walk outside after doing some reporting and then you sent me this and i like had to like think was this like i knew i knew it came from our reporters but i'm like is this like a like a parody account

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or like playing a late april fool's joke on you benji i don't know

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i'm just trying everyone's worried about this war right now the is the ceasefire have any teeth to it at all is are we about to go into nuclear war and then alani melania's like listen i've got an announcement to make folks stop saying i have ties to jeffrey please i'm demanding stop talking about me and jeffrey epstein yes there may have been a lot of photos of us and yes we may have been in a whole same social circles and yes we may have been i don't know may possibly introduced by mutual friends in the same part i i don't listen i don't know elaine might call sweet pea might call me sweet pee in emails i might call her g

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i might tell i might tell her that the new york magazine article that she was in was a great photo spread of her and jeffrey looked amazing

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in it as well barely know each

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other but please please i am begging you to stop thinking that i have

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any connections right that new york magazine article though too that she's here just pull up the email it's a two thousand two email where melania says to ghislaine maxwell dear g how are you nice story about jeffrey epstein in new york magazine you look great in the picture i know you're very busy flying all over the world how is palm beach i cannot wait to go down give me a call when you are back in new york have a great time love melania october twenty third two thousand two by the way just real

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quick i don't know about you guys but people i don't know or very very casually know i'm not up to date on their travel stuff schedule that's just but that's just me maybe i'm

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weird let me read you ghislaine's message to remind everybody this was in the epstein files and so ghislaine's response to melania trump was the following sweet pea and i'm not making she called her sweet pea is yeah i don't think you call anyone sweet pea sweet pea thanks for your message actually plans changed again and i'm now back on my way to new york i leave again on friday so i still do not think i have time to see you but i will try and call though keep well g by the way i

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i i don't i actually really don't want to lose sight of the sweet pea here because i think it might be regional like my wife's grandmother calls her sweet pea like it's a very endearing term that families use i don't

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think i don't think sweet pea needs like an introspective analysis but i'm just

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saying like i just i just want to further state for we have a

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lot of the world is actually a term of endearment that's gonna make fun

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of me on that one okay that's

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fine yeah and by the way the new york magazine article that's being referenced is the one with red flags about epstein like epstein did not look great in that article like it was a borderline expose right like they pulled back like it was a bad article they pulled back some of the reporting and that was one of the criticisms right that there was a lot of stuff that they were gathering and it became kind of a weird piece that was somewhat complimentary but also with like a lot of red flags and a lot of like mysteries like how did he get his money like all the question marks were there it was not all that subtle subtle and that's where donald trump was quoted in like a very gross way right trump's like epstein's a great guy he likes women on the younger side and everybody knows that about him basically right and so trump that was the article that melania said great article like you looked amazing in that that was not the amazing article it's not like they were profiled in like vogue you know for like being great people in any event melania holds this press conference and out of nowhere she starts to speaking she gets up to the microphone we're all thinking what's melania gonna say and she goes numerous fake images of

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the first time i crossed paths with epstein was in the year two thousand at an event donald and i attended together at the time i had never met epstein and had known obviously knowledge of his criminal undertakings numerous fake images and statements about epstein and me have been calculating on social media for years now be cautious about what you believe these images and stories are completely false i'm not a witness or a name witness in connection with any of epstein's crimes my name has never appeared in court documents depositions victim statements or fbi in interviews surrounding the epstein matter i have never had any knowledge of epstein abuse of his victims i

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did not have relations with that man jeffrey epstein that's like the kind of speech that you get like you could picture somebody giving a speech like that at a course at a courthouse after they're like indicted as a co conspirator with jeffrey epstein and ghislaine maxwell like that's how that's how it sounds in my opinion opinion the speech she is giving it's like you know this you know my i have no ties to jeffrey epstein t shirt is sure raising a lot of eyebrows in this room well everyone's starting to look at me funny because i'm wearing the shirt that says i have no ties to jeffrey epstein it's like it screams like this odd guilt and it's like the streisand effect in full effect everybody is talking about this right now she's brought epstein right back to the top of the headlines when it was kind of buried in the headlines in mainstream sour now this is like back in the news in a big big way and now i think everyone's wondering like what is the next shoe to drop like is she trying to get ahead of something here is there a big story coming is it the zampoli and possibly being deposed like what the hell was that

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also according to donald trump and brothers correct me if i if i misunderstood this he didn't know that she was going to make this speech today so you have melania up there unilaterally making decisions about when she's going to hold these press conferences without at least consulting donald trump the president of the united states or whomever it just like for me like that could you imagine it's my favorite game imagine if biden did imagine if doctor jill biden held a press conference to talk about xyz very specific personal issue i guess without consulting with the larger white house staff right it leads me to like ask the question like who's actually running this stuff over there

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and i'll show you what else she said as well as we as we go through some of these clips they get weirder and weirder here she goes i've never been friends with epstein we were invited to parties from time to time but i was never friends with them here let's play i

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never been friends with epstein donald and i were invited to the same parties as epstein from time to time since overlapping in social circles is common in new york city and palm beach we

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have your emails with us though

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what

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is this press this is the weirdest

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press conference we have your emails how are you nice story let's hang out again this is not overlapping social circles where where you are just in and it leads you to believe okay if you're lying about that if you're saying the photos of you and epstein that we know are the real photos when are fake photos if you're saying the emails are fake emails which are in the files if you're saying you're not in the files when where do you think we got the where do you think we got the emails from the files where do you think we got the photos from they're like on like they're like they're like new it's like out there there these are like real photos that have been used for a long time if you're saying all that stuff is fake then you know what what what's really going on right here right that's the issue with their line

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and in a weird way let me just quickly tie it to iran right if you're lying about the undisputed facts that you agreed to use this ten point plan as the framework if if you're going to lie about something that is in the public knowledge right now then what else are you lying about probably everything if you're if you're willing

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to lie about about that and then she bizarrely i mean i i agree that there should be congressional hearings but i guess in her own mind she's like all right and now i'm gonna i'm gonna show solidarity with the victims and survivors and i'm gonna say that epstein was he was indeed involved with lots of other bad people but i'm not one of them and donald isn't one of them but i want there to be congressional hearings which we all want there okay sounds good let's do congressional hearings then okay here i play

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this clip now is the time for congress to act epstein was not alone several prominent mill executives resigned from their powerful positions after this matter became widely politicized of course this doesn't amount to guilt but we still must work openly and transparently to uncover the truth i call on congress to provide the women who have been victimized by epstein with a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors give these victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front of congress with the power of sworn testimony each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public if she wishes and then her testimony should be permanently entered into the congressional record then and only then we will have the truth thank you

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doesn't answer any questions like walks out like yeah i did it i did it well we all want congressional hearings we all would like that okay but wouldn't the first witnesses be like i don't know like trump and you like wouldn't you be at the top of the list is that her way of trying to like counter the fact that that the house may be wanting to subpoena her i mean if hillary clinton had to have her deposition taken and she's not in the files and doesn't like no connection at all don't you think melania should be who's in the emails but also you have melania saying that but do you remember when donald trump or i'm sure you remember although a lot of a lot more of this was happening before his catastrophic and unlawful war in iran his invasion took place place here was donald trump calling it all one big hoax it was all a hoax here's what he said let's play it

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and it's just a russia russia russia hoax as it pertains to the republicans now no no it's i call it the epstein hoax takes a lot of time and effort instead of talking about the great achievements we've had a great gentleman yesterday as you know went on cnbc and he made the statement that trump may go down as the greatest president of all in the united states and instead of talking about the things we've achieved we've had tremendous achievement they're wasting their time with a guy who obviously had some very serious problems who died three four years ago i'd rather talk about the success we have with the economy the best we've ever had and all of the things we've done including the middle east that's no way

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to talk about your best friend friend

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brett and jordy i'm just saying there's

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no way to talk about your best friend i mean you know it's it's it's it's demeaning donald trump you and jeff you know you guys hung out after epstein said you guys were the best friends they bragged about each other it's it the whole thing's so nuts i and i i truly don't understand what the hell melania was thinking with that what was she trying to achieve if it was was getting rid of photos of her and epstein and ghislaine maxwell she knows is going to do the opposite everyone right now just keeps posting every picture of glenn maxwell and melania trump everyone right now is reposting all the emails between ghislaine maxwell and melania trump and now everybody is just wondering what's the next shoe to drop what's coming why is she doing this and that wasn't in the conversation before today and honestly i'm i'm scratching my head now like wondering

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the only thing i could think of and like i'm i'm not being funny we didn't play this portion of the clip or at least maybe i didn't hear it she plugs her book during this press conference like she she literally we played it

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no no but she at the end she goes she's like i actually met my husband you know by pure chance by coincidence and you could read about our encounter in my book melania in stores now like that's how she ends

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it's how she said it and and so like this whole thing was so weird to me and like i i just genuinely don't understand why she held this today and again made the unilateral decision apparently to hold this press conference today other than the fact that i think she's just trying to plug her book and like that's just so trumpy and and gross and and just disgusting but like that's the most on brand thing i could think of for the this because for the life of me like not i i i don't actually know a reason why she would hold this today ben what what what are your thoughts you think i'm on to

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something there or what i'm you know setting aside the politics and the weirdness and all of like setting aside like to me i just think things need to be done with like intentionality and thought and planning and reasoning and logic and i like to try to understand what any of this is i mean to to watch donald trump you know spiral today from posting weird ai photos of himself and dana white talking about ufc fights at the white house to saying iran you're not being good you're not supposed to be charging tolls in the strait of hormuz you're being naughty you know to saying you know i don't like the wall street journal it's it's it's a crook the wall street journal and they're lying about this and then you know it's just the whole day of all of this and it's like what's the this is this is not normal behavior what's the end game here what objectives are trying to be reached and you know i mean i just think it is he's a chaos agent he's a horrible human and the best way to explain all of this is is that you know lots of people are on earth to do different things and his is to destroy and to cause pain and psychological torture just that he's the bad the one of the worst if not the one of the worst human beings to ever live frankly just a horrible horrific piece of trash human whose goal is to just spread hate every day in chaos every single day and you know going back to what prime minister starmer says you know it's it's it's really screwed up that people like trump and putin and i'll add netanyahu and others though are are here you know who cause mass disorder and pain and chaos and and other people have to suffer for it you know by and large people just want to get by and live and go through their lives and have families and not deal with this stuff you know and so you know when i watch you know when i watch the coverage of this whether it's on a cnn or an ms now even or egregiously on a state regime media or a news nation and they try to like talk about this like this is you know analogous to this situation or that situation this is normal behavior i'm like this is there's none of this is normal we have to take a step back and say all of this this is conscious shocking behavior that's unprecedented in american history and world history that is a humiliation ritual like our country has never experienced before and if you believe that this is strength then then you're pathetic because this is not strength this is not just weakness this is is this is just deranged deranged behavior and we're going to keep calling it out all the time here on the midas touch networks that that that's all i got with all this i'll keep giving the updates every ninety minutes of what's happening in this war like we learned that what eight as of as of this recording on thursday it was eight ships in total crossed through the strait of hormuz none of them are tankers they were all dry bones bulk and container ships moving cargo to iran moving cargo to iran right probably if you looked into it more weapons from russia and china if you actually look in what's in those i don't know that for a fact but if you probably want to know what's in those ships it's probably things to hell it's probably it's probably shahi drones fpv drones you know stuff like that you know unmanned unmanned vessels to strike that's probably what it is but not a single not one oil tanker and mind you when the war was happening pre ceasefire there was at least eight to ten oil tankers that were going now no tankers and what iran's doing is they know going into these negotiations that if these negotiations fail what happens boom our markets crash again right that's what happens happens they know exactly what's going to happen so they're not going to open it up at all until donald trump agrees to their terms iran knows where they got him they know exactly where they got him so anyway that's what

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i've got the markets are ridiculous the fact that they still believe anything donald trump says is absolutely crazy but who knows maybe maybe they're starting again you

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see it when you watch these like the cnbc show i'm not going to we don't have the clip but there was a clip of that clip can you explain it brad i feel like i won't do it justice i forget

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i for you know i'm paraphrasing but the way was where the woman on cnbc was like she was like so so donald trump today threatened to wipe out an entire civilization do you think that's good for the markets or bad for the markets i'm trying to think like what's what's your take on how it's going to be for i need

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to strengthen stress brett is not exaggerating

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if anything i'm underdoing it if anything

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he exactly he is underdoing it we don't have the clip go look up the clip it is crazy stuff man that show that but that's how that's how it happens that's how it happens these people are insane insane it's it's

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