Brett Meiselas (3:54)

Well, great to be here with you, Ben. Great to be with you, Jordy. Great to be here with you, Midas Mighty. Thank you for tuning in. If you're watching live on YouTube, if you're listening on Apple podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get podcasts, make sure that you're listening to us on those podcast platforms. By the way, brothers, Midas Mighty, remember, like, just a few years ago how different the news cycle was. Like, we'd learn about Donald Trump doing something really corrupt and it would be like in a leaked document or it'd be like a whistleblower has said that Donald Trump was trying a quid pro quo with the president of Ukraine, was trying to pressure X, Y and Z, was trying to do this corrupt act. Now, like, they just does it on TV and everybody pretends like it's normal. Like you have Tim Cook strolling into the White House with like literal, a literal gold bar being like, Here you go, Mr. President. Can I please have favorable treatment, sir? You're like, how is this happening right now? And how is nobody acting like this isn't the, the five alarm fire that it so clearly is? We got a lot to discuss on this episode and so I am going to toss it over to Jordy. Jordy, how's it going?

Ben Meiselas (4:52)

It's going, I guess, as well as it could be going under the circumstances. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. Thanks, y' all for tuning in and thank you guys so much for leaving those five star reviews. I saw our reviews on Apple and Spotify. Keep climbing. So please, if you let me just remind y', all, hit that five star review if you haven't on audio. It really helps us if you can comment as well and obviously make sure you're subscribed to the Midas Touch podcast on audio or wherever you get your podc. Benji, where are we starting off today?

Jordy Meiselas (5:18)

You know, I think Ontario's premier Doug Ford put it best. I mean, this guy, he's a conservative from the Conservative Party, used to actually be kind of a Trump supporter, but he's out there. Asked a very simple question earlier today. What's the general feeling right now in Canada about Donald Trump? Watch what he says here. Play this clip.

Donald Trump (5:41)

What's the general impression of Trump in Canada?

Jordy Meiselas (5:47)

He's probably the most disliked politician in.

Brett Meiselas (5:49)

The world in Canada because he's attacked his closest family member. And that's the way we look upon it.

Jordy Meiselas (5:54)

And when I talk to the governors.

Brett Meiselas (5:56)

And senators and congress people, even Republicans totally disagree, but they're too scared to come out and say anything because the President will go after them outside of a few senators.

Jordy Meiselas (6:07)

And I want to thank them for.

Brett Meiselas (6:09)

Coming out and standing with not just American people, but their closest friends and allies, which is Canada. And again, we love the Americans.

Jordy Meiselas (6:19)

It's unfortunate President Trump decided to go down this road. That's the entire world. Elbows up, Canada. That's the entire world, though, right now, right? I mean, you could do the same interview with the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese. You can do the same with Japan. You can do the same in Europe. I mean, you can do the same across the globe right now. And we are really seeing a global realignment. While Donald Trump talks about these fake deals and goes, japan's given me a signing bonus. The European Union's given me a signing bonus. 550 billion 600 or 750 billion. South Korea, 24% of their GDP, they've given it to me, a signing bonus. All these countries, if you read their local media the way I do, they're all saying there's no deal. Okay? There's no binding agreement. We have the discretion to, to do high interest loans if we want to, but there is no actual binding agreement here at all. It's Donald Trump picking numbers and posting them on social media. But you look at this week, Prime Minister Modi makes an announcement that he's likely going to be meeting with Xi Jinping of China, right? Strengthening China's hand. You have Australia buying warships from Japan, even if they're pricier than the United States. You have Canada buying warplanes from France. You've got France and others in Europe saying we're not buying weapons from the United States. You've got Japan and Brazil working on deals together over beef. You have a whole world order that is reshuffling behind the scenes while Donald Trump, Brett and Geordi's in the Oval Office, you know, you know, ranting and raving like a lunatic. The world is adapting, you know, and changing and forging alliances that are weakening the United States. You know, when we talk about, we'll talk about this in the show too, you know, Donald Trump's attack on the climate and all of the lies they're saying about climate change and they're, the Department of Energy is shifting and changing reports to say that climate change is a good thing that benefits the environment and we need to lean more into the root causes of climate change. Because even though in the past the rest of the world in America says climate change is harmful, actually it's made things better, says the Trump regime. And of course the Trump regime is tacking MRNA vaccines, which was an initiative of Trump's first administration, defunding vaccines. And so while the US Is doing that, you have China and the rest of the world focusing on areas of growth while the US Gets weaker.

Brett Meiselas (9:13)

Brett and Jordan and Trump just always try like the entire way that Trump runs his presidency and the way he's kind of run everything is he tries to be like an injector of serotonin into his followers veins. He says things just over and over again that are complete and total lies to make people feel like they are somehow winning when the total opposite is happening. Because we talked about on the show many a times that you've heard me call it the reality deficit, that reality that exists or that people are suffering right now, they're going to the store. They're paying higher prices. They are getting absolutely destroyed in so many ways. Just the cost of living is crazy, and it's not slowing down anytime soon. And that's just one of a billion issues right now that have gotten so much worse under Donald Trump. And so Trump just says the opposite. He has to always say first. There's always the own lib sort of element where he has to put down other people in order to make his people feel good. And then he just says the opposite of what's going on. We got these great deals. We got $600 billion coming into the country. We got trillions, trillions and trillions of dollars coming in from this country, from that country. Look how amazing it is. Look at the gold that I'm putting in the White House. Look at how tacky I've made the Rose Garden. He throws out all of these things nonstop to try to distract people and to try to make them think that things are actually going really well. And if you turn on Fox News, they're also a part of that entire machine. Of course, Fox News, it's always been like this. But, like, as every day passes and as things get worse with the Trump administration, it looks more and more like North Korean tv. The way that they speak about the things happen in the Trump administration, the way they go. Great news happening right now, even when it's like, the worst news imaginable. The global order is shifting. America is coming in last place right now and everything. We are throwing away our jobs. We are throwing away our status as a leader in the climate movement. We are throwing away our status as a global leader of humanitarian efforts. We are just totally throwing out everything that actually made the United States great, all for this con man who's taken over our government and just lies about everything.

Ben Meiselas (11:14)

And quite frankly, Brett, it's not even just Fox News. It's all corporate media at this point. That's totally complicit. When Trump was on CNBC the other day, I mean, he was ranting and rambling like a madman, and they platformed the dude for, like, an hour. So, hey, you're the President of the United States. Don't you. Don't you have to get to work? He dove into election denialism. He dove into all the great conspiracies, Brett, and they barely pushed, like, maybe the tiniest pushback I've seen.

Jordy Meiselas (11:40)

But.

Ben Meiselas (11:41)

But pretty much they were agreeable because why? They were going to get scared. They were getting scared of being called a name or they were Scared that he'd take the truth social after and then call them out. And what'd you say, Brett?

Brett Meiselas (11:54)

Well, I was going to say, because here's the issue and here's, I think, why it lands that way. These networks view the prototypical MAGA commentator. Like, in that case, I believe it was a Joe Kernan who's like a MAGA guy. They, they, the Overton window has shifted so much in this country and especially with the media, as you're saying, Jordy, that they view him as like, that's a centrist. That's the moderate. That's the middle right there. And so they have hosts like that who they think are like the middle of the road when they are anything but it. These are people who have very extreme views who are pushing some of the most horrible stuff, but they, in their mind and these networks, that's, that legitimizes them. Right? Well, look, we're not biased. Trump don't call us fake news, right? They're so afraid of that nomenclature. Don't call us that. Look, we have moderate hosts who, and we're like, no, these are extremist MAGA crazy hosts. But you see all of these networks doing it. It's why you see, you know, so many of these voices on these networks kind of resemble that. A lot of these people kind of fall down, you know, these rabbit holes. You look at like, like, what the hell happened to like a Chris Cuomo or something, right? Like, that guy was out like a cnn. You watch him now, the guy's like a clown. But if you asked him, I'm sure he would view himself as well. I'm just telling it how it is. I'm just in the center. I'm just the moderate. Everyone else is.

Jordy Meiselas (13:11)

Right.

Brett Meiselas (13:11)

No, just it shifted so much right now that these people, like, you know, there's this, these central voices who represent the country when they are anything but it. And I've seen somebody break this down as well on social media. I thought it was brilliant. I wish I could give them credit right now, but essentially what they were saying was how all the incentive structures across everything lines up to just kind of put down the pro democracy movement, right? If you're in the press, that shows that you're, that you're bipartisan, that you tell it how it is in order to, you know, talk shit about Democrats all day. If you're a politician, it shows that you're, you know, you're, you're a maverick. You're somebody who's going to buck the trend Buck the establishment. Do that if you're a video content creator. Right. It shows I'm not part of the machine. You know, I'm, I'm different. I'm outside the machine. Republicans have a benefit, obviously, of, you know, hating on Democrats and hating on anybody in a pro democracy movement as well, but it's really all sides that are kind of incentivized to behave this certain way, you know, which is why I think it's very important what we do here, which is like, why. Why would you just try to throw people under the bus or put people down? We should be viewing everything through the lens of what is actually going on. Is this normal? And not let that shift of the Overton window consume us and make us believe that this is somehow normal behavior. Me waking up in the morning and seeing Donald looking at my phone and seeing Donald Trump's on the roof of the White House. What he's shouting, what is going on?

Ben Meiselas (14:44)

Did they're on the roof? Be. Did they're on the roof? I mean, what are we even looking at? And Ben, I just wanted one real quick more second. Donald Trump has caused irreparable, irreparable damage to the United States, period. Full stop. You know, it's not a, it's not some crazy statement.

Jordy Meiselas (14:57)

It's just.

Ben Meiselas (14:57)

It's just fact. And when I say that I'm genuinely worried for my children and my children's children down the line of how they're going to grow up in America, I'm, I'm scared when I see all of these other nations that have not worked together in many years, all of a sudden forming these coalitions and literally boxing out America because America decided, hey, you know what? It's time for us to play isolationists. When in the history of the world has isolationism ever been the answer? I'll tell you, never. And to see Donald Trump just literally causing irreparable harm to our allies and countries and nations that we have worked with in the past for countless years, and now these people don't want any part of us. I don't know how we get back in their favor as far as, hey, no, we are actually normal. Because the fact of the matter is we're not like, this country's insane under Donald Trump's leadership.

Jordy Meiselas (15:50)

Well, because even if you put a normal administration in power, I don't know how a country ignores the taste that's always going to linger that this country is capable of putting somebody like a Donald Trump back in power. So how could you, even if you had the most normal administration ever, fully trust the full faith and credit of the United States again. I mean, you look at this data right here. The estimated drop in new international enrollment to American universities this fall, it's down 30 to 40%, which is very similar to the drop in tourism from around the world as well. You look at Las Vegas and other places that depend on tourism dollars. Remember Donald Trump saying no tax on tips. Well, you need tips in order for that to actually matter. And the people in Vegas and other service workers are talking about how their paycheck checks. By the way, a lot of them didn't declare their tips in general on their taxes. But that's a whole nother conversation. It's a deduction that's actually cap, but they're saying that their payments, that the amount of money that they made, their income is down in many cases by half. So they're struggling as well. You know, if Donald Trump wants to brag that he's virtually closed the border. You know whose borders basically closed? North Korea. Right. Not a lot of people going into North Korea. Why? Because one, they don't allow it. And two, you go there and you end up in a lot of trouble in the United States. People see the images just this past week, I mean, just yesterday, right. Operation Trojan Horse is the new Trump regime mission where they have ICE agents go and invade areas of Los Angeles despite there being a federal injunction blocking this behavior, as affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They pack in 30 to 40 ICE agents in the back of a penske truck so it looks like a moving truck. And then they all jump out at the same time. I mean, the scene is out of like a war movie made in Hollywood. And then they run out in an area where migrants are known to be at or work at. And then they run and they chase them and then they hunt them and then they grab them by their necks, almost like a hunter finding a duck that they shot down. And they grab them and then they film them grabbing them by their necks and just stripping them of their dignity. Now they then film this propaganda to post on the websites of the Department of Homeland Security for this fascist ISIS style propaganda under the words, I'm not making this up. This is on Department of Homeland Security's website and on their posts. Defend your culture is what they say. And they're having 18 year olds now apply and get these jobs where they get these weapons of war right away. And in a very short period of time, without a lot of training or almost no training, they get Put on the streets to do this against, while a federal court order is blocking this. And this is what's happening in our towns, in our communities, in our cities. And we're hearing the stories about people from Canada, Europe, elsewhere showing up and then being detained indefinitely and being disappeared. Brad Jordan.

Brett Meiselas (19:21)

Yeah. And, you know, I think we could tie a lot of this stuff together as well. We were speaking about the economy and how things are a lot of really horrible economic signs, how people in Vegas are really suffering, how people who have federal jobs are really suffering, how a lot of companies out there have done employment freezes or freezes on bonuses, are conducting layoffs. And I think that actually ties into what's going on with ice. And especially if you look at the incentives that the federal government is trying to create right now, which is, as Ben said, they lowered the requirement to get into ICE in terms of age. So now, like, teenagers could. Could become ICE agents. But that's not all. They also, like, got rid of, like, the college requirement and like, the requirement that you actually need experience to do this job. And now they're just posting online statements, like Ben said, about protect your culture, which shows that this isn't about protecting, preventing, you know, illegal activity or crimes. That is a very loud. I don't even know if it's a dog whistle. It's so overt, but it's. I'll just call it a very loud dog whistle. Basically, two dangerous groups like the Proud Boys, like the Three Percenters, you name it, to come join ICE and legally terrorize people using the United States government, the full force and backing of the United States government, government with weapons. They're also incentivizing people to become ICE agents by, you know, all this. You know, they're making people suffer with their student loan debt. They're making, you know, everything unaffordable. But if you're an ICE, guess what. You get a retention bonus for, like $50,000 or something if you remain there after a month or whatever the policy is. So you get bonuses, you get. I think they're doing student loan forgiveness for ICE agents. Like, they're adding all of these things to incentivize people to become ICE agents. And they're making people suffer in their own lives, almost making that the job that they have to take. So they are building an army through our suffering. And I think that tactic, as you see, as they make the people suffer and then offer, oh, so you want to survive. And the south park episode last night actually, like, hit on this, like, exactly. But if you want to survive, you want to be able to pay for your lifestyle. You want to be able to keep up with the cost of living. Well, maybe you start terrorizing immigrant communities for, for the United States government, it's totally 6,000.

Ben Meiselas (21:43)

No, absolutely. They are preying on people's anger that they in fact manifested. And I also just want to clarify, Brett, they didn't just lower the age requirement, they removed the age requirement. So it used to be, if you were 37 years old, that was the cap, but now it's any age at all can go and join. And it's to that point. Exactly, Brett. They have rallied up their base in such a way and have basically given them one lane that they could occupy. Take out your anger, become an ICE agent and chase down migrants. That, that, that's what they're telling their base right now and just preying on these people's hate. That's why, for me too, this isn't even a Democrat or Republican thing. Like, how many times do we say that on the show? It's just a basic humanity thing. The way Ben described those raids is exactly how it's going down, chasing people and grabbing them by their necks like they're ducks. It's absolutely appalling. And it should hit everyone at their core that this is what they're doing to people, to people.

Jordy Meiselas (22:43)

You know, and the thing is, they are doing it to film it for their White House, Instagram and for social media. That would never actually be the way you would do an army formation to stack all of your soldiers in a truck like that, because one drone can take it out right away. They're doing it because it is intimidating to see all of these people run out and sprint and start chasing people down and beating them on the street streets. They want people to be terrified. They're trying to create, and they are creating terror in the streets of the United States. One other point I want to make very quickly right here as well, to the point, Jordy, this isn't a red, blue, Democrat, Republican. This is just a fact issue. When anyone you may know talks to you about deals, you need to ask them a basic question. Where's the deal? Like, it's the most fundamental question. Where is the it not Donald Trump social media post? Can you actually show me the contract? Can you show me a binding deal between Trump and any country at all? I mean, no, not the social media post. A written document that requires obligations. The moment you ask that question and your MAGA buddy, you just got to trust Trump. Just trust Trump. Then you basically take it to the final conclusion of okay, got it. At the end of the day, you really don't care about having an honest discussion because there's no paperwork. At the end of the day, there's really no deal. There's no terms. It's just a bunch of made up propaganda. While the rest of the world is existing with real deals and terms and bilateral and trilateral free trade agreements, Donald Trump's out here collecting golden statues and gold bricks from the CEO of America's companies and gold medals and bragging about that he should get the Purple Heart like he did at a Purple Heart event earlier today. It's ridiculous. It's weak. And the fundamentals of the American economy are weak, weak, weak. And you could go, oh, but the stock market, the stock market, it's a Ponzi scheme market right now. The fundamentals of the country, if you look at them, America exporting down. If you look at the job losses, 75% more job losses now this time than it was last year under Biden. Way more job losses right now. The economy's fundamentals, home prices. If you look at mortgage rate, you take any aspect of the economy right now and it is struggling right now. And the end, when Donald Trump's like, oh, well, the costs are going down. I've eliminated inflation. Just people know that's not true. It's not true. And we have to have accurate, objective conversations about all this. We'll talk about that and more. We got to take our first quick break of the show. A reminder to everybody, please, if you can become a member of our YouTube channel. The memberships have been so key, we've grown with zero outside investors thanks to you. Please help grow this network and you can gift memberships to as many people as you want. People can't afford memberships. And if you are able and so fortunate to gift the memberships. And it unlocks emojis and special podcast episodes like the one I do with Ron Philipkowski. So check it out, become a member, click join, and gift as many memberships as you can. All right, let's take our first quick break of the show, everyone. We'll be right back with a lot more on the Midas Touch Podcast.

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Jordy Meiselas (30:04)

So Donald Trump made his real estate buddy, the special envoy to Russia, a guy by the name of Steve Witkoff. He's the guy who puts his hand on his heart whenever he sees Putin. And he's the guy who shows up without anybody from the United States Embassy and allows Putin to put Putin's own KGB operatives as the translator for Witkoff. Okay, I'll just use you as my translator. I'll hang out with you all day whenever Witkoff rolls into town in Russia also, it's covered the way they cover like car chases in Los Angeles because they make a spectacle of it that America's here basically begging. Like that's how it's framed on Russian propaganda. And whenever he's there, the leaders in Europe and Zelensky always know Donald Trump is about to taco. Trump always chickens out when it comes to sanctions against Russia. And Witkoff will say, I had a major breakthrough in the conversations with Putin. There's never actually a breakthrough at all. It's just Putin saying, I want to meet with Donald. We should have a meeting. And then Donald, oh, you want to meet with me? And then Russia will just continue killing innocent Ukrainians. Let's just all not forget. Let's just pull it back for a second, right? Donald Trump promised there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours from taking office. Now, Donald Trump's line is that was a joke, that he was being sarcastic, the same way he was joking and being sarcastic about bringing peace to Gaza in 24 hours. These are all jokes, according to him. Never actually meant it meant it. It's actually pretty challenging stuff. Stuff. And of course he was being Sarcastic. We played multiple clips of Donald Trump saying that. Well, here Donald Trump yesterday says my special envoy, Steve Witkoff just had a highly productive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Great progress was made, Great progress. Like Borat. Afterwards I updated some of our European allies success. Everyone agrees this war must come to a close and we will work towards that in days and weeks to come. Thank you for your attention to this matter as Jay and Keev and others who cover this stuff. Right. Trump getting conned by Putin yet again. So Donald Trump's asked at a press conference yesterday, how do you know Putin's not playing you? Because he's done this now to you since you've taken office, as everybody predicted he would. You know, Putin will dangle things in front of you while Putin starts bringing in North Korean troops and other onto the front lines to try to advance in this summer offensive. And Putin's just trying to buy time, build the differences between the United States and NATO allies and continue to attack cities in Ukraine. So Donald Trump's asked, so what's the difference right now? And then Donald Trump's response, as always is a few weeks. A few weeks. I just need a few weeks. Here, let's play this quickest present. In the past you said you would know if washing you along.

Brett Meiselas (33:00)

What gives you any confidence that he is originally doing that this time around?

Donald Trump (33:04)

Can't answer the question yet. I'll tell you in a matter of weeks, maybe less.

Jordy Meiselas (33:08)

You know, a good follow up would be didn't you promise though there would be peace in 24 hours? So Donald Trump then calls our European allies, or frankly former European allies based on the way Trump's treating him and says, I'm going to meet with Putin, you can't be there. And maybe Zelensky and Putin meets. But if there's a meeting between Zelinsky and Putin and me, Europe, you can't be there. That's one of the conditions. So he holds a conference call with Europe and says you're out. This is exactly what Putin wants. Why? Because Putin wants a two on one. He wants Putin and Trump to bully Zelensky the way you saw J.D. vance and Trump do it in the Oval Office. That's the scene that they want to set up. Why wouldn't you want Europe to be there? So Donald Trump is asked, you know, even today. So with your meeting with Putin, does Zelensky have to be involved in this at all? Just listen to what Donald Trump says here, play this clip.

Brett Meiselas (34:11)

So you're willing to. That's actually important because the president, President Putin said this morning he was pretty dismissive of this idea of meeting with.

Donald Trump (34:17)

Who was taking.

Brett Meiselas (34:18)

President Putin was, I don't know.

Donald Trump (34:19)

I didn't hear him.

Brett Meiselas (34:20)

To meet with him. He doesn't have to agree to meet with Zelensky, is that what you're saying?

Donald Trump (34:24)

No, he doesn't. No, no.

Brett Meiselas (34:25)

So who do you think that means?

Donald Trump (34:26)

They would like to meet with me and I'll do whatever I can to stop the killing. So last month they lost 14,000 people killed last month. Every week is four or five thousand people. So I don't like long waits. I think it's a shame.

Jordy Meiselas (34:45)

So Putin says he doesn't want to meet with Zelensky. One more clip, Brett, then I'll throw it over to you. So Trump is asked, so is tomorrow a deadline to impose secondary sanctions on Russia? What's going on with that? And Donald Trump says, actually, I'm just going to leave it for Putin to decide, because Putin will be the one who decides if there'll be sanctions against them or not. Here, play this clip. Is your deadline for Vladimir Putin agreeing to a ceasefire still stand tomorrow? Is that fluid now?

Donald Trump (35:14)

That talk.

Jordy Meiselas (35:15)

Is your deadline still standing for Vladimir.

Ben Meiselas (35:18)

Putin to agree to a ceasefire tomorrow.

Jordy Meiselas (35:19)

Or is that fluid now?

Donald Trump (35:20)

It's going to be up to him and we're going to, we're going to see what he has to say. It's going to be up to him. Very disappointed.

Brett Meiselas (35:26)

Yeah, the guy's just such a coward. You know, he's, he talked such a tough game. He lied to the American people over and over and over again, saying that this was all going to be solved within 24 hours. Not even from his election. He said it was going to be 24 hours since he said, well, since the election, not even for his inauguration. And you could give him the benefit of the doubt and say, okay, once he's in office, maybe he'll take care of this. Well, what's happened? People like Vladimir Putin know how to play Donald Trump. They know Donald Trump's weak points. They know that Donald Trump just likes people sucking up to him. They know that Donald Trump is easily manipulated. I mean, Putin was a KGB agent. He knows exactly how to manipulate somebody as simple minded as Donald Trump. And we see him doing just that. And every time he gets this extension, that's more Ukrainians who are dying, that's more destruction. That's a win for Putin. And so he knows that he could just continue to string Donald Trump along here. And Trump has also obviously alienated us from so many of our allies and continues to do so. The way that he's handling this entire crisis right now, this Russian invasion, that it makes America weaker and makes us less able to deal with this. I know we're going to talk soon also, but the same thing's happening in Gaza, obviously, as well, where Donald Trump talked. A big game led a lot of people on in these communities across the United States saying that he was going to solve this issue, he was going to put an end to the death, the destruction at the hands of Netanyahu. And that. And all we're seeing right now is him also giving Netanyahu the green light to completely take over and occupy Gaza. We'll show what he's saying about that also. But it just, this shouldn't be shocking to anybody who's followed Donald Trump, to anybody who knows who Donald Trump is, but the fact that he's been able to fool so many people into thinking that he's someone he's not, to me, always just absolutely blows my mind. When the evidence is just staring you.

Ben Meiselas (37:14)

In the face, Jordy, what infuriates me and I hate, I hate the constantly beating on. Corporate media is bad at their jobs, but corporate media is bad at their jobs, flat out. Let's play everyone's favorite segment. Imagine if Biden did it. Imagine if President Biden said that he was going to end a war, any war, in 24 hours. And he didn't. You bet your ass that he'd be asked every single time that he was in front of cameras. Mr. Biden, Mr. President, you said you were going to end the war in 24 hours. Why is it still going on? For me, it stops and ends with that. Yes, I know. Donald Trump's on record now saying, oh, I was being sarcastic when I said that.

Jordy Meiselas (37:51)

Really?

Ben Meiselas (37:51)

I mean, we all played the clips. No, that was like a key focal point of his campaign when he was running, that he was going to end these wars in 24 hours. What are we, over a hundred plus days now? Well, over. And these wars are still raging, if not getting worse. And so I just don't understand why no one has the backbone or the spine to meet him there and say, hey, hey, President Trump, you said during the campaign trail these wars would be over by now. What is happening? Why are you letting President Putin, president, in quotes there. Why are you letting him dictate the timeline to your deadlines that you put? Why is it now up to Putin to decide what's going on? You said, and you promised the American people This would be over within 24 hours. And people are still dying.

Jordy Meiselas (38:32)

Why?

Ben Meiselas (38:32)

And you know what? Ultimately it comes down to? They're scared of losing their access. And that is just so cowardly to me. And that's why I love that we have this platform here in the Midas Mighty is to hold these folks accountable and especially hold Donald Trump accountable for once again, another failed promise.

Jordy Meiselas (38:46)

Ben. So then Donald Trump is asked if he would support Israel annexing Gaza and just fully reoccupying it. We know that a lot of our allies, or I should say former allies, right? Whether it's Canada, Australia, France, the UK and others are recognizing, clearly recognizing the Palestinian state, state and being very vocal and public about that. So the media is asking, well, what are you going to do, Donald? Because you said you would bring peace to Gaza in 24 hours. There were all of those events with Muslims for Trump, Palestinian for Trump event. At the time when I was covering it, I was like, palestinian for Trump. What are you doing? Muslims for Trump. Do you not remember the first administration and they would say at these events, Donald Trump has guaranteed us peace. Peace. I remember. I remember the one, Michigan. He guarantees us peace in Gaza. He's given us his word. Then there was the other one where they, I think Trump handed him like a peace stone. What'd you say?

Brett Meiselas (39:48)

I. I said, I actually have the.

Ben Meiselas (39:49)

Clip if you want to play it.

Jordy Meiselas (39:50)

Yeah, play it.

Brett Meiselas (39:51)

He promises peace, not war.

Jordy Meiselas (39:58)

We are supporting Donald Trump because he.

Brett Meiselas (40:03)

Promised to end war in the Middle east and Ukraine.

Jordy Meiselas (40:07)

All right, well, here's what Donald Trump said when he was asked if he would support Israel reoccupying Gaza.

Donald Trump (40:11)

Play it next to.

Jordy Meiselas (40:13)

Thank you, Mr. President.

Donald Trump (40:15)

Would you support Israel reoccupying all of.

Jordy Meiselas (40:18)

Gaza as has been suggested by some Israeli officials?

Donald Trump (40:23)

Well, I don't know what the suggestion is. I know that we are, we are there now trying to get people fed. As you know, $60 million was given by the United States fairly recently to supply food, and a lot of, a lot of food, frankly, for the people of Gaza that are obviously not doing too well with the food. And I know Israel is going to help us with that in terms of distribution and also money. We also have. The Arab states are going to help us with that in terms of the money and possibly distribution. So that's what I'm focused on. As far as the rest of it, I really, I really can say that's going to be pretty much up to Israel. Yeah, please.

Jordy Meiselas (41:00)

Okay, Israel, what do you have to say? Netanyahu? Here, play this quick you will go.

Ben Meiselas (41:04)

Immediately into a meeting with your security cabinet.

Jordy Meiselas (41:08)

Will Israel take control of all of Gaza?

Donald Trump (41:12)

We intend to, in order to assure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free. Free of Gaza and to pass it to civilian governance. That is not Hamas and not anyone advocating the destruction of Israel. That's what we want to do. We want to liberate ourselves and liberate the people of Gaza from the awful terror of Hamas.

Jordy Meiselas (41:36)

You know, people aren't buying when Netanyahu is selling. Right now, it's actually good to see some Jewish congress members. We're Jewish. And I just want to be very clear that criticizing Netanyahu and Netanyahu's regime. Regime does not make you anti Semitic. Okay. You should be able to criticize the atrocities that Netanyahu is committing for his own personal power grab while he's under criminal prosecution, doing the Trump tactics, firing the attorney general who's prosecuting him and engaging in the exact types of dictatorial tactics we see from Donald Trump. And to see people like Congressmember Dan Goldman, for example, came out with a statement that said that called out Netanyahu. I was glad to see statements like that. You know, and I think we, we can't be silent in the face of what's taking place in the atrocities in Gaza. But what Donald Trump is enabling are those atrocities. And in other clips, you know, Donald Trump's out there saying, but no one's thanking me. I've given them millions of dollars like you gave 3 million. I think maybe be. Which is not addressing systemically the issue. And again, he makes it about himself. No one's thanking me. Why aren't I being thanked?

Brett Meiselas (42:52)

Yeah, let me actually. I could elaborate on that. So, you know, he says 60 million, only 3 million has actually been dispersed. And remember, this is after the blocking of other aid groups and that were bringing aid into Gaza. And so there was a system that was already underway. And what happened now is like, it's like a US contract actor who now has the gig, who's getting money in order to do these a drop. So it's also once again done in like a very selfish way that's enriching somebody. You know, probably I gotta dive into it deeper, like I would. I'm going to assume this person is a person with a connection to Trump who got this contract to. To do this. But we're just seeing time and time again just the most heinous actions and then the defense of them, which is just total gaslighting, whether it's from people like Netanyahu or whether it's from people like Trump. And you see, see, you see the game they're playing. To me it's a pretty obvious game. And we've seen from the reporting about what top officials of both governments are saying that the United States has given Netanyahu and that government a total green light to completely decimate Gaza and take it over and turn it into a resort strip like that. That's they've given him the green light. So you'll have Trump say things like, oh yeah, we're just going to let them do whatever they want to do. Israel will do whatever Israel wants to do. And, and you know, what are we going to, what can we do about it? We can't do it. Whatever they want to do. And you see Netanyahu, you know, responded the way he does. I think their agreement is very clear even when they don't say it directly. But we know it from even what they are saying and from the reporting that we're seeing what their intent is. I, you know, wish I could go back in time and scream louder and louder the way we were screaming back then that this is not the guy who is going to solve this issue. But we're obviously, you know, know past that point and I'm not sure it would have, you know, done much anyway. But you know, it's an important issue that we have to talk about and we have to keep speaking about here and, and we have talked about it for a while here and, and we'll continue to talk about it, you know, just unapologetically.

Jordy Meiselas (44:55)

Look, let's take our last quick break of the show. We've got a lot to discuss. When we return, I do want to address, we're, I'm going to do a deep dive into this in the morning as well. But I to want to talk about the expose I'm going to be working on for the morning. Ghislaine Maxwell, we all know she's been moved to this minimum security facility, but more needs to be talked about that the level of cooperation between the facility and Texas A and M. They work very close together. They have lots of prisoners working, you know, in programs with Texas A and M, a lot of clinics. So you've literally put a sex trafficker whose movie know was preying on young girls who are working in spas to be on a college campus right next to college students. The same way you had Donald Trump have Lawrence Taylor, a convicted sex offender who sexually assaulted a 16 year old girl, leading children initiatives, children fitness initiatives. Putting a guy who sexually assaulted a 16 year old girl to do those types of initiatives. Normalizing sexual predation. Normalizing this pedo behavior. Covering up a pedo sex trafficking ring. Let's take our last quick break. Oh reminder. Become a member. Become a member of our YouTube channel. Gift memberships to others. It is such a big help to the network. You click join and you can gift unlimited memberships to people who may not be able to afford them. And it helps the network so much. All right, last quick break of the show. Home stretch folks.

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Jordy Meiselas (50:41)

Let's talk about what Donald Trump said when he was asked about a meeting that took place last night at the White House. The meeting took place regarding a number of topics, but also how Donald Trump was going to further cover up the Epstein files, further cover up his dark past and deal with what his next steps are. With Ghislaine Maxwell, Trump refers to Everything Epstein related as a hoax. Just think about if you were one of the hundreds or thousands of victims of Epstein. And Donald Trump's there saying it's a hoax, this is all one hoax. And Donald Trump bringing Ghislaine Maxwell to this minimum security facility, facility in Bryan, Texas, rewarding Ghislaine Maxwell. We went from release the Epstein files to Trump releasing the convicted sex trafficker, co conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell. And nobody wanted that, obviously, other than Donald Trump. So first, here's Donald Trump at the press conference calling everything a hoax. Here, play this clip.

Brett Meiselas (51:42)

Mr. Bradley.

Donald Trump (51:43)

The two Kevin's very good.

Brett Meiselas (51:46)

Hosting a gathering this evening to talk about how to respond to the Epstein situation.

Donald Trump (51:51)

Is he working on what he posting?

Brett Meiselas (51:53)

Some kind of gathering of top advisors.

Jordy Meiselas (51:54)

This evening to talk about how to.

Brett Meiselas (51:56)

Respond to the Epstein situation.

Donald Trump (51:58)

I don't know. I could ask you that question. I don't know of it, but I think he is the man. Right.

Ben Meiselas (52:05)

I saw reporting today.

Brett Meiselas (52:06)

And it's completely fake news.

Jordy Meiselas (52:08)

We're not meeting to talk about the Epstein situation.

Brett Meiselas (52:11)

And I think the reporter who reported, reported it, needs to get better sources.

Donald Trump (52:16)

Look, the whole thing is a hoax. It's put out by the Democrats because we've had the most successful six months in the history of our country. And that's just a way of trying to divert attention to something that's total.

Jordy Meiselas (52:30)

And the cursing right there and then calling it a hoax, which by the way, even if he doesn't pardon or commute the sentence of Ghislaine, which I'm pretty confident he's going to do, he's already handed her the retrial and he's given her the facility where she's basically living in the most sought after federal prison that's out there where they had to give her a waiver because she is convicted of sex trafficking.

Brett Meiselas (52:55)

When people are, when people speak about like the Epstein case as a cover up in the past and they speak about the prison and everything that happened, even going back to, you know, what Acosta did, who ended up in the Trump administration, the sweetheart did deal like, I'm like, you don't even have to look at the past. Like the COVID up is happening right now. We are like the scandal, the biggest scan, the biggest part of the whole scandal honestly may be happening before our eyes right now. What Donald Trump is saying every day, what Trump and his team are doing every day. And by the way, they did in fact have a meeting last night. It wasn't at J.D. vance's residence. It ended up being at the White House. So J.D. vance acting all smarmy. Oh, you need to get better sources with that reporting. Well, they did have the Epstein meeting. It just so happened to be in the White House. They changed venues so that they could call it fake news. That was, that was what happened. So, you know, I guess it was a meeting that didn't exist about files that never existed. But they felt it was important to have that meeting. But this cover up that we're witnessing, what we're dealing with, with Ghislaine moving her to this cushy facility, Club Fed over in Bryan, Texas. Like, this is the scandal. This is probably the biggest part of the scandal. And I think, you know, I know we're all looking at it right now as like, holy shit, do we see what's going on? I think years from now we're all going to look at this moment. Moment and go, holy crap, that was like the most horrifying thing that's maybe ever happened like, like in a very long time.

Ben Meiselas (54:18)

Yes, 1,000%. I always think to myself, like during this time period too, again, I'm bringing on my child who's turning two pretty soon, which is crazy. Like he's going to be an adult one day and he's gonna be like, hey dad, you know, where'd you side on this whole thing? Like, and I'm just glad that it's all very well documented where we planted our flag during this insane point of history. When you look at that clip that we just played, my blood, blood boils looking at that one. He again, he calls it the Epstein hoax, which is just a slap in the face to every single victim, every single child that was raped by Jeffrey Epstein and that whole gang of lunatics and pedophiles, I mean really pathetic and gross stuff, calls it a hoax. And how about the chuckleheads in the back, Vance, the whole, the whole team behind them just laughing it up at that reporter's question. I mean the, the fact that they don't treat the, this with the level of severity that it, that it desperately needs and that the American people want, they people want answers to the Epstein files. We should be calling it the Epstein Trump files at this point because of the COVID up. And exactly to your point, Brett, we will and generations will be looking back at this moment of history being like the COVID up was right in front of everybody's faces and no one was able to hold his feet to the fire. And again, that's why I'm glad that we've planted the flag. The collective we, the Midas Mighty, the Midas Touch Network and are bringing data and receipts to the table every single day. That clip makes my blood boil.

Jordy Meiselas (55:38)

Well, Donald Trump was asked if he had anything to do with the transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell to the Camp Bryan prison facility. Watch his answer here. Play this clip.

Donald Trump (55:51)

I just a very highly thought of person respected by everybody and I didn't talk to him about it, but I will tell you that whatever he asked would be totally appropriate and it's not an uncommon thing to do that. And I think he probably wants to make sure that, you know, people that should not be involved or aren't involved are not hurt by something that would be very, very unfortunate, very unfair to a lot of people.

Brett Meiselas (56:16)

Two questions for you. One, did you, were you aware of and did you personally approve the prison transfer for Ghislaine Maxwell that your Justice Department?

Donald Trump (56:24)

I didn't know about it at all. No, I read about it just like you did.

Brett Meiselas (56:27)

And do you believe that she is.

Donald Trump (56:28)

Not a very uncommon thing.

Brett Meiselas (56:30)

Do you believe that she's credible to be listening to? Your deputy attorney general sat down with her recently. Recently.

Donald Trump (56:35)

Well, he's, let me tell you, he's a very talented man. His name is Todd Blanche.

Jordy Meiselas (56:40)

When he goes it's not a very uncommon thing. Which tells you he knows about. It was also a confession before that as well. We're trying to avoid things coming out about people like he's like clearly in my opinion referring to himself. This is the most unprecedented thing, this has never happened before where you move a convicted sex traffic to a minimum security facility and there's. I'm going to have a Texas official on in the morning so everybody make sure you check the videos that I have in the, in the morning. But this Camp Brian facility, it's right next to Texas A and M, it's a college town. So because it's a minimum security facility that the prisoners do programs with the college kids. That's part of it. So, so for our audio listeners, you can't see it, but this is an announcement. Texas A and M supports the prison puppy raising program where you have the females in the detention because it's supposed to be minimum risk, not sex traffickers. They go into the college and there's not police around them. They just walk there. They take a bus because there's no fencing or gates. You can just walk right out. There's no security guards at the prison. You could potentially, even potentially walk to the campus. You show up and you walk, work, you work with the students. Like Ghisain Maxwell is someone who walked to Mar A Lago, found underage girls and then sex trafficked them. So if you just think about in the last two weeks, Donald Trump brings in Lawrence Taylor, convicted sex offender. He's on the registration list of sex offenders for having. For having sexually assaulted an underage girl. He gets appointed to be the head of the fitness initiative for Children for Young Girls Girls. So he's going to be supervising potentially young girls in a fitness program. Think about that. I mean, just think about the things. Donald Trump getting handed gold bars by the Apple CEO. Trump on the roof talking about nuclear weapons that he's building on the roof and saying, I've bought everything here. Trump having a individual who's on the sex registration list for having. For sexually assaulting an underage girl, leading the children's program, Donald Trump putting Ghislaine Maxwell into a minimum security facility on a college town. Just think about the things that I just said. And I'm not like, hyperbolic. I'm just literally giving you the objective data of what's occurred. And that should be deeply along. Just think about those things. Those things should be 25th amendment, impeachable offenses, criminal. I'm sure whatever the hell's in these Epstein files is. Is cataclysmic for Trump. But just think about what I just said.

Brett Meiselas (59:30)

Yeah. The things that we've seen with our own eyes right now. And it brings me back to what I said in the beginning of the episode. Imagine if this stuff was just, like, revealed in reports or leaked emails or leaked audio recordings. It's happening right in front of our face. And so I guess that blunts the effect of it for some odd reason. I want to also just remind everybody, too. Donald Trump, best friends with Jeffrey Epstein, best friends with Ghislaine Maxwell. That was his crew. That was his crew for a very long time. And not only was his crew Epstein and Ghislaine, he was perhaps better friends with Ghislaine. They were for a longer period of time. And Trump was also friends with Ghislaine Maxwell's father. They go way, way, way back. So now think about all of this in the context that Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell have been best family friends for decades and decades and decades. Trump would hang out with his. With her father. You know, Ghislaine was a socialite. Her father was Robert Maxwell. You know, big, big, you know, big business guy. Robert Maxwell. And Robert Maxwell, he had a boat. The boat was called the Lady Ghislaine, named after Ghislaine Maxwell, his daughter. And who would go on parties on that, that boat, the Lady Ghislaine boat. Donald Trump would go on parties with Ghislaine Maxwell's father when Glenn Maxwell was a kid. They go way, way, way back. And once you kind of remember that also, not that you needed that to put two and two together, but it just shows you. It's so obvious what he's trying to do here. He's trying to help out his whole buddy. And as a political system, as a Republican Party, as the people in the administration, you have a fork in the road when you get to this point. This is something you've been talking about. This is something that you've said you've cared about. This has been one of your biggest issues. You go, o, do I actually go ahead and I, I move ahead with my values and I denounce child sex trafficking, and I say that this is despicable what Donald Trump is doing in his relationship to all of it, or do I protect the sex traffickers? We've seen what 99.9% of the people in the Republican Party have decided.

Ben Meiselas (61:20)

Yeah.

Jordy Meiselas (61:20)

And look, Jim Jordan, before he became Congressmember, covered up sex abuse. I mean, if you go back and look at these people's backgrounds, their backgrounds are also deeply, deeply problem as well. Brett, one thing about Robert Maxwell, he died mysteriously on the Lady Ghislaine, apparently naked, peeing off the side of the boat is what the story was at the time. Turns out he was a complete fraud. He was robbing the pension funds relating to his companies. That's where he was getting a lot of his money from. He then, like, bankrupted his children. Does the story sound familiar? And then lady and then Ghisang Lane reinvented herself basically with Epstein, and then brought kind of Trump along in the late 80s and 90s. And there are articles from, like, 1997 in the Sunday Mirror, which was owned by Robert Maxwell, about Ghislaine. They called her Madame Maxwell or Madame Ghislaine. Finding young women to give to Donald Trump. It literally says that in 1997, you know, and we cover all of this on the Midas Touch Network. One thing I want to point out, point out as well, I just want to show you. This, to me, is emblematic of all of the issues with this Trump regime. I talked earlier about the MRNA issue. Trump defunding MRNA vaccines, which Trump, you know, you know, pushed ahead in his first administration, but they're defunding vaccine research right now. And then separately, though, on the climate front, you have Donald Trump's Secretary of Energy, Energy making reports that say climate change is good for the climate and great for the environment. And it's a win for all of us. So let me just show you his Secretary of Energy promoting climate change as a way to help the climate. And they're doing reports on this. Here, play this.

Brett Meiselas (63:12)

The Department of Energy, meanwhile, released its climate report assessing the impact of greenhouse gas emissions. It includes carbon dioxide. Induced warming may be less damaging than previously believed, which many people expected. The DOE is receiving pushback, however, from.

Donald Trump (63:28)

The New York Times.

Brett Meiselas (63:29)

The Times writes the Energy Department is attacking climate science in contentious report.

Donald Trump (63:34)

Secretary, your reaction?

Ben Meiselas (63:37)

Oh, what a, what a crazy headline. But I guess that's par for the course for the New York Times. In fact, we're doing the exact opposite. We're experimenting, exposing the American people and the broader scientific community to what actually.

Jordy Meiselas (63:50)

Is in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate.

Ben Meiselas (63:52)

Change reports, not the hyperbolic summaries for.

Brett Meiselas (63:56)

Policymakers or media headlines that claim all.

Jordy Meiselas (63:59)

Sorts of crazy stuff.

Ben Meiselas (64:00)

This is what we actually know.

Jordy Meiselas (64:03)

How often do you hear that the.

Ben Meiselas (64:04)

Planet'S getting greener because there's more carbon.

Jordy Meiselas (64:07)

Dioxide in the air that contributes to increased crop productivity and greater wilderness.

Ben Meiselas (64:13)

Greener wilderness.

Brett Meiselas (64:14)

How often do you hear that deaths.

Jordy Meiselas (64:16)

From extreme weather have been falling like.

Ben Meiselas (64:18)

A stone for a century and that ensured losses from extreme weather events have.

Jordy Meiselas (64:24)

Been on a multi decadal decline?

Brett Meiselas (64:27)

Those are just facts.

Ben Meiselas (64:29)

Instead, we're scaring kids in school.

Jordy Meiselas (64:32)

We're promoting an alarmist view of climate.

Ben Meiselas (64:35)

Change that simply contrary to the facts.

Jordy Meiselas (64:38)

It'S a real physical phenomenon that we want to talk about honestly and openly. But we got to get past the scaremonger campaign that you can't do this.

Ben Meiselas (64:47)

Because of climate change or the government's going to stop your plans here for to fight climate change. Just nonsense.

Brett Meiselas (64:54)

Well, that is just incredible.

Donald Trump (64:55)

You are so right.

Brett Meiselas (64:57)

You are so right. That is just incredible. You know, it reminds me, you know, thinking back back before our time when they ran cigarette ads saying that cigarettes were healthy for people, right? And you had the, the slogans, isn't there like a Camel slogan? More doctors smoke Camels. And it's great for your, it's great for your relaxation doctors. I mean, they would have ads like that back in the day, like that. But that's exactly what this guy. This is exactly like the stuff that this guy is saying. And we see just the stripping away of these environmental protections just every single day. These Assaults on the climate using shoddy data and l. And not only are they ruining the climate, they're also taking away good paying American jobs and they're setting us way back also in the fight against climate compared to other countries. Like whenever we do something like that or when China sees that, they laugh at us because they are right now in a position to be the world leaders in this industry. When the United States actually had a jump start on it because of all these projects. And we see like if you look at the Project 2025 tracker that's online, they've already accomplished something like 47% to Project 2025. And this is all tied into exactly that. And you see just constantly like everywhere you look like. The Environmental Protection Agency announced the termination of the $7 billion Solar for All grant program which aimed to facilitate solar panel installation for low and moderate income households and expand community solar initiatives. That by the way, those, a lot of those projects were already underway. Now they have to stop them midway, which is going to screw so many things up as well. And that was going to be so many jobs also for like red states and pretty particular like that's where a lot of these projects were going to be. They also just shut down like a satellite, a NASA missions that were monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and plant health. It's like a massive, it's like one of the top sources of data for scientists, for farmers, for policymakers relating to the climate. You have retired NASA scientists. Now they're sounding the alarm like this is not okay. This guy, David Crisp, is a retired NASA scientist. He led the development of this program. He said that these satellites help scientists discover that the Amazon rainforest emit more carbon dioxide than it absorbs. That other forests in Canada, Russia and places where permafrost is melting, observe melting, absorb more than they admit. They detect the glow of photosynthesis in plants with helps monitor drought and predict food shortages that can lift a civil unrest and famine. So tracking the climate, being on top of these issues, investing in this space, it's important for humanity. It's important for jobs, for cost of living. It's important for obviously just the environment in general. And they are throwing this all away using these lies that resemble these cigarette campaigns that they ran in the 50s. Trying to act like the destruction is good for you.

Jordy Meiselas (67:49)

Absolutely there, Brett. And I want to, I want to give people some good news about our friends at the AFL cio. We've been embedded, embedded in their tours, promoting unions. They're in Chicago right now and they've been traveling the country, meeting with union workers, talking about organizing, talking about wages, talking about ensuring that people get fair pay. So a shout out to all of our friends at the AFL cio. I want to remind everybody, become a member of our YouTube channel. Memberships go a long way to help us build. There it is right there. Brett Liz Schuler, the president of AFL CIO and the better in a union bus tour building worker power nationwide In Chicago, America's unions came together to train for peaceful mass mobilization so they have the tools to fight for working people and secure the strong new contract they've earned and deserve. And Liz Schuler's always been a fighter for workers. She's never wavered at all in her career. And shout out to the great folks at AFLCAO for doing that great tour. Everybody become members of YouTube channel hit subscribe Please if you can click click Join. You can gift memberships to other people as well. Since we've grown with zero outside investors, you being able to become a member helps a lot. Subscribe to our audio podcast. Make sure you subscribe there. Leave 5 star reviews. Comment if you like the podcast. Share the network with as many people as you can. Keep checking in about every 90 minutes we have new updates on the the Midas Touch YouTube channel. Check out Midas Plus.com that's our substack and thank you everyone for watching. We'll see you next time on the Midas Touch podcast. Thank you everyone. Jordy, take it away.

Ben Meiselas (69:34)

Shout out to the Midas.

Jordy Meiselas (69:36)

My day.

Donald Trump (69:39)

Standing strong.

Brett Meiselas (69:44)

Against the fascist we sing our song.

Ben Meiselas (69:55)

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