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Bombshell after bombshell today as Donald Trump's birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein for Epstein's 50th birthday was made public after the Democrats in the House Oversight Committee were able to get to it via a subpoena. It has Donald Trump's signature on it. It's exactly as it was described by the Wall Street Journal. Now, the Trump sycophants are claiming that the signature, now that the actual letter has been released, is one gigantic forgery. It was apparently some plot by the Epstein estate. I don't know. Plant this in Epstein's birthday book over 20 years ago so that when you went back to the future, Donald Trump could be framed for talking about secrets and enigmas. And anyway, we'll go over what's in that birthday letter. But also, there was more damaging news that was released from this first batch of documents that were released from the Epstein estate. You see, unlike the doj, which is just turning over a bunch of old documents that are irrelevant that were already previously produced, this, this batch of documents by the Epstein estate based on this subpoena actually has some information that's very insightful. So from this Wall Street Journal article that talks about the new batch of information that was released from Epstein's birthday book, there's a photo of Jeffrey Epstein with a giant novelty check implying something about Trump selling him a woman for $22,500. It was one of Epstein's friends and a mar a la Joel Pascal who made a crude joke about women that Trump and Epstein socialized with in the 1990s. And that's memorialized on another document. We'll see what Donald Trump has to say about that. Also, over the weekend, Donald Trump was booed at the US Open. Donald Trump had ordered the United States Tennis association to prohibit broadcasters for showing the the booze. But there's something called cell phone cameras, Donnie. And we've got the footage of you getting booed over and over again. You know, Donald Trump left Washington, D.C. where there were major protests taking place against the military occupation there. Then he went to The United States U.S. open in New York, where he got booed. And then he came back to D.C. where he held a press conference at the Bible Museum, where he then started talking about today how domestic violence should not be counted as crimes. He was like, you know, when a man does something to a woman and that's counted As a crime. I'm like, why would you ever count that as a crime? On the same day that the Epstein birthday card is being released, Donald. And on the same day also where a federal court in New York, the court of appeals ruled against you in the E. Jean Carroll appeal, where a jury awarded e. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for your defamation of her character after sexually assaulting her. After that finding was made by another jury, I'm going to cover what the Court of appeals found as well. You have more information surfacing about Donald Trump's ICE raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia. After Hyundai's invested a lot of money in the United States. Trump's ICE Gestapo rounded up hundreds of workers, mostly all of them here with valid permits. The ICE brigade rolled in as though they were like invading the plant and started rounding up and shackling the workers. This has caused massive consternation in South Korea. We'll talk about that. And also ICE's other tactics. And you know, the Supreme Court made a horrible ruling today, essentially allowing Donald Trump to racially profile Latinos. In a decision that was reached, a, I believe it's a 6 to 3 decision. The three liberal justices dissented. The majority, the right wing extremist majority, said basically, you know, as it relates to Donald Trump's ICE racially profiling people in Los Angeles, their skin is a certain color and they're hanging out around certain places where migrants are known to be, which there's lots of migrants in Los Angeles. There's no issue about rounding people up first and asking questions later. Trump's roving. This is the language that was used. Trump's roving roundups of migrants and the shackling of them and putting them into detention centers and then asking questions later. The supreme court says in 2025, we're cool with that. The three liberal justices dissented and said, you know, there's something called the Constitution, there's something called the Fourth Amendment, there's something called unreasonable searches and seizures. And this would seem to fit the category and be the definition of that category. But that's what happens when you have a right wing extremist Supreme Court. While all of this is going on as well, Donald Trump is posting memes about Chicago that he's calling Chipocalypse like Apocalypse Now. So the five time draft dodging Donald Trump, who didn't serve in Vietnam despite being drafted to do so, claiming that he had bone spurs, is now posting memes that referenced the movie what Apocalypse now, which by the way was an anti Vietnam War movie. And didn't Donald Trump recently say every war and all of the things our military did after World War II were wokey or too wokey? Well, in any event, Donald Trump is posting Vietnam War imagery of helicopters dropping napalm and Agent Orange. But instead of on Vietnam, now it's in Chicago. And Donald Trump says, you'll find out soon why we've changed the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. That is a direct threat to one of America's largest cities in Chicago. But this is what this deranged maniac does each and every single day. And meanwhile, you have Donald Trump, as you know, destroying the Rose Garden at the White House. He's put concrete all over it, and now he's calling the concrete area. That's where the Rose Garden once was. He's calling it Club Rose Garden. It is now an exclusive club. It is a cabal, a club for the cabal of elite Republicans, oligarchs, rich people who get to dine on the most expensive meals with lavish forms of entertainment that we, the people, that taxpayers have to foot the bill for. While Americans are suffering, one of the worst jobs reports in generations was released at the end of last week. We know that America is not growing in jobs. In June, we saw a job loss of about 13,000. Unemployment among young people is already in Great Recession depression territory. Over 10.5% unemployment for young people. 7.5% unemployment amongst African Americans. Farmers are suffering and pleading across the country that they're about to go bankrupt, even though this is what they voted for. No one wants to buy our soybeans anymore. No one wants to buy our produce anymore. USAID is destroyed, so we can't sell, sell to them. The Department of Agriculture is gutted. We, we, we don't have any lifeline. You're hearing the farmers say across the country right now. So, in other words, we've got a lot to discuss here on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm going solo today. Jordy's on papa duty and Brett, newfound papa. So Brett just had a baby boy. Baby boy's name is Milo. Brett and his wife are with Milo right now. I had the opportunity to see Brett's young, his new child. Wow. Such an incredible, incredible weekend that we had at the Mycellus family. I don't want to share too much information because I know Brett wants to be the first person who will be able to share it with you, but a new member of the Mycellus family, and I want to say shout out to Brett, shout out to Brett's wife, shout out to Brett's growing family, to the grandparents now and our parents who have three grandkids right now. And so it was an incredible thing to be with Brett at the hospital. Brett's now back at his house after a very important weekend for, of course, Brett and for the Mycellus family and for the Midas Mighty. So let's get into it. We've got a lot to discuss, folks. And so why don't we start by talking about the birthday book. The letter that Donald Trump said to Jeffrey Epstein back in 2003. This was the subject of that July expose by the Wall Street Journal where they described the letter how Donald Trump doodled a photo of a naked, the outline of a, of a naked woman, although the outline, many people have said, looks more of the outline of like an, like a, like a naked girl, is what I'm seeing a lot of people saying the way it was doodled that has been released and it says everything that the Wall Street Journal said it was. We see Donald Trump's signature there. I will just read for you. This is Julia Davis says, just look at it. Was he drawing a girl or a woman? And this was again part of Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday. Ghislaine Maxwell collected birthday letters from all of Epstein's friends. It wasn't just Donald Trump who sent it. It was lots of people who sent it over. So there's a lot of other corroborating letters in this book. And I mean, Donald Trump's is one of dozens and dozens of other letters. But during the height of Jeffrey Epstein running a pedo sex trafficking ring in 2003, 2004, when he and Donald Trump were the closest of friends. Here is what Donald Trump sent to Epstein. It was written in the form of like a movie script. And so it has like voiceover what Donald says, what Jeffrey says, and it's a hypothetical conversation between the two. And it says voiceover. There must be more to life than having everything. DONALD yes, there is. But I won't tell you what it is. JEFFREY Nor will I, since I also know what it is. DONALD we have certain things in common, Jeffrey. JEFFREY yes, we do. Come to think of it. DONALD enigmas never age. Have you noticed that? JEFFREY As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. DONALD A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret. Donald J. Trump. And you see Donald Trump's signature right there on the bottom. So after that, it seems pretty obvious. Now we have the receipts. Donald Trump sent it. That's Donald Trump's signature. I mean, what would the implication be that this is not Donald Trump's signature? That what The Epstein estate, which is the source of this die, not the Wall Street Journal, isn't the source of this document. It's the Epstein Estate, which has this document. Right now the question is, who leaked it to the Wall Street Journal? Was it someone in the Epstein estate? Was it Ghislaine Maxwell, since she likely had copies as well, or her family may have copies, and she was the one who put it together. We don't know if she leaked it or who leaked it, But. But the source of this, who has it, it's the Epstein estate. They maintain custody and control over this for all of the litigation, for the criminal cases, for the civil cases, and their job is to have a trustee to protect this information. So the implication that what, the Epstein estate planted this to attack Donald Trump, when you have all these other letters that are corroborating as well, at a time when Donald Trump was close friends with Epstein. Trump said right around that time period, a year before, Trump's on record with New York Magazine saying Epstein is a great guy who likes beautiful women. Some say on the younger side, around the time that Donald Trump and Epstein would invite the girls of indeterminate age. Women, girls, women. Not clear their ages, but the people from Trump's beauty pageants who ranged in ages from 14 to 28. Unclear. The ages of the people who would show up at Trump's Mar a Lago home, but it would be Trump and Epstein. And then they would tell these girls that there would be VIP modeling scouts there, but it would just be Donald and Epstein. According to people who helped bring the girls there. They thought they were going to, like, model agency interviews, and it was not. It was just Donald and Epstein there. So you have. You have that going on in the background. So what during all of this, that the Epstein estate created this thing as a fake? I mean, what are we talking about here? But that's what they're. That's actually what they're going with. The MAGA influencers like Eric Doherty go holy. The Wall Street Journal just published that letter that President Trump sent to Epstein, and it's not even his signature. Defamation. Pay up. This is what the MAGA influencers are saying. Taylor Buttowich goes. Time for News Corp. To open up that checkbook. It's not his signature. Defamation. You have Matt Gaetz, who of course has his own situation involving an underage girl goes, they continue to lie about Donald Trump defamation. In response to some of those other posts, then you have Donald Trump's press secretary, chief propagandist Caroline Levitt, published the latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal. This is what she posted on her social media. The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal proves this entire birthday story is false. As I've said all along, it's very clear Trump did not draw this picture and he did not sign it. So just pause there for a second in response to clear, convincing, overwhelming evidence of his signature. Like, remember when Donald Trump says, I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and I can get away with it? That's what they're doing. They're basically saying, look, this is his signature. But where do we think you all are so freaking stupid? We think the MAGA base is so dumb and the Fox viewers and everyone is so freaking dumb that we're going to say, this vindicates us. This is our total and utter vindication. And then she goes on to say Trump's legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation. Furthermore, the reporter Joe Palazzo, who wrote the hatchet job, reached out for comment at the exact minute he published his story, giving us no time to respond. This is fake news to perpetuate the Democrat Epstein hoax. And that's what they're going with, the Democrat Epstein hoax. For all of the victims out there, for all of the future victims out there as a result of rich men, billionaires who are involved in this sex trafficking ring, having it covered up for far too long. It should never have been covered up at all. They call it a Democrat hoax. The thing that the Republicans were saying all along that they won't. This was their issue. They weaponize those Epstein files. They weaponize the pain and suffering of the victims to attack their political enemies, saying, oh, you're on the list. You're on the list. And when we were saying, what are you talking about? If anyone's going to be on there, Trump's going to be on there. He was like best friends with Epstein. They lived a few blocks away from each other in Palm Beach. Trump was all over the flight logs and the call logs and the call memos and Epstein's black book. And he's hung out with Epstein a lot. They're in a ton of photographs together. We've seen the videos of them together, all of the things that he said. Not to mention, Donald Trump's been found liable for sexual assault. Donald Trump is on tape saying, because he's rich. He'll grab women by their genitals and you get away with it because you're rich. And then when he was asked about in a deposition, he said, fortunately or unfortunately, when you're rich, they just let you do it when you're rich, fortunately or unfortunately. He's also on tape telling young children that it's locker room talk at the Young Republicans Club, that it's locker room talk to say those types of things about grabbing women by their genitals. I mean, he is on tape talking about going to beauty pageants and expecting the girls or the women of depending on the their a naked and looking at them naked. He goes, because when you're, when you run the beauty pageants, that's what you can do. There's so much data out there. But Trump was like, oh, it's, it's the, the Democrats are going to be all of that. And everyone else was like, dude, just release the files. We don't care who's on the file. Ultimately, no one's trying to protect anybody. Who's ever in the files is in the files. Let's get the information. And now you have the Trump regime standard line is this was one massive hoax. You know, when I think too, about this letter, the easiest thing for Trump to have said is look of especially if you believe what MAGA Mike Johnson's been saying recently, that Trump was actually the hero in this and Trump was trying to stop Epstein, which of course, nobody believes other than Trump's sycophants. On the one hand, it's a massive hoax. On the other hand, you have. On the other hand, you have Donald Trump as the hero. Apparently, he's the hero in the hoax. I mean, what the hell is even going on there? But at the end of the day, why does Donald Trump just say, hey, you know, we lived close to each other, we knew each other. There's a lot of famous people who send these letters. So of course I'm in there. But he goes, no, absolutely not. I never sign this. I would never doodle. I would never do drawings like that. And now we have his signature. And they say not his signature at all. Fortunately, we have a lot of people, too, who have gotten letters from Donald Trump, so we can compare the signatures. Also, I mean, you had Keith Olbermann, who Donald Trump once sent a letter to on March 28, 2024. I mean, the signature is literally a direct match. You could put one of the signatures directly over the others. Right there you have a letter that Donald Trump sent Apollo Zampoli, who was who introduced Melania to Donald Trump, looks identical. Adam Parkamenko had in his possession and custody a letter that Donald Trump once sent Hillary Clinton in November 2000. The honorable Hillary Clinton, congratulations on your well deserved victory is what Donald Trump wrote to Hillary Clinton. I know you will do a great job in Washington and I'm looking forward to having you represent us there for years to come. It's a direct. Looks exactly like the signature during that time period. There was a letter that Donald trump sent to Mr. And Mrs. Larry King. I mean, you just go back and forth. It's clearly his signature right there. And at the end of the day, this is what MAGA is going with. That, to me, over and over again shows you some of the dangers of MAGA in general. Like, why not just say, hey, yes, that's his signature. That's it. We're going to release the files. But they go, nope, this vindicates us. But that's what they do on every issue. The economy can be struggling the way it is now. What does Donald Trump say? We've brought in $17 trillion. 7. I'm about to invest the 17 trillion. You haven't brought in $1 trillion. You're making up these numbers. The entire GDP of the United States is $29 trillion. Who are you bringing in these $17 trillion from? From the tariffs you've taxed. You've taxed Americans and that's where you've raised 17 trillion. No, you went to the Middle east and what do you say? Collected 5 trillion from Middle east countries whose entire GDP is nowhere near that range. What United Arab Emirates whose entire annual GDP is $440 billion, somehow gave you trillions of dollars. Did everybody see that video also? Because to me, it's so telling where you now have these oligarchs who are invited frequently into the White House, like Mark Zuckerberg. And he was caught on a hot Mike Zuckerberg just admitting that he was making up the numbers about what Meta or Facebook will be investing in the United States. Because when he was there sitting at this table, he was like, like, what are you going to Invest? He's like, $600 billion. We're going to invest 600 billion. Then he's caught on the hot mic, he's like, I don't know what, I didn't know what number to give. I don't know what number to give. I mean, 600 billion. I know Meta does. Well, they don't have $600 billion in cash to invest in. The US and that's what all of these foreign countries are doing, too. You give Trump a made up number, he announces the fake numbers. There's no sign, binding deals. But we the people suffer. And then even when you have a signed letter from Donald Trump to Epstein, not his signature, not everything they do, quite literally everything they do is bad faith. I think we have that Zuckerberg clip. So let me show you that Zuckerberg clip now. Let's play it.
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How much are you spending, would you say, over the next few years?
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It'S probably going to be something like, I don't know, at least $600 billion through 28 in the U.S. yeah, it's a lot.
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MAGA Mike Johnson
No, it's significant.
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That's a lot. Thank you, Mark. It's great to have you.
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On a hot mic. He said, I wasn't ready for that question. I wasn't sure what number to go with. And then Donald Trump is laughing. They're making up number while they screw over. We the people. When we come back, I want to tell you about what else was in that Epstein, that first tranche of documents that were produced by the Epstein estate. Another photo and letter to Epstein from a friend that references Donald Trump. I want to talk about that. I want to talk about Trump's appearance at the Bible museum. I want to talk about the Supreme Court ruling today allowing the Trump regime to racially profile Latinos. At the same time, Trump had a big loss before the Court of Appeals in the aging Carroll matter, where he's going to have to pay up that $83.3 million. And let's talk about the threats that Donald Trump's making to Chicago and more. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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Thank you to our sponsors right there. The show is not possible without them. The discount codes are in the description below. We appreciate them. Jordi spends a long time working on those discounts for everybody, so please check them out. As I mentioned before we took the break, there was more documents that came to light from this subpoena that was issued by the House Oversight Committee at the urging of the House Democrats. I want to give a hat tip to Democratic Congressmember Robert Garcia. He's the new House Oversight Committee Ranking member and he's made a world of difference in really being aggressive and making sure that these documents get produced and holding the feet of the Trump regime and MAGA Republicans to the fire. So the House Oversight Dems published this as well. Another page from the Epstein birthday book has surfaced. Epstein and a longtime Mar? A Lago member joke about selling a fully depreciated woman to Donald Trump for $22,500. This is how it was described in the Wall Street Journal. The Epstein estate also turned over another letter from the book that references Trump. It came from a businessman and longtime Mar? A Lago member Joel Pascal, who made a crude joke about a woman that Trump and Epstein socialized with in the 1990s, according to People familiar with the matter. The Pascal letter included a photo of a poster board size check for $22,500, which had been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Trump to Epstein. Beneath it, a handwritten caption said Jeffrey showing early talents with money plus woman sells fully depreciated, redacted her name to Donald Trump for 22,500. The woman's name is redacted in the image and it should be noted around that time that one of the secrets between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, according to Michael Wolf, is that they shared the same young person. Unclear what the age of this woman or girl was at the time, but they were allegedly dating the same individual was how they refer to it as who? And she would go back and forth from the houses, one house to another house right there. Michael Wolf, by the way, has been appearing a lot on the Midas Touch Network. He's Trump's most prominent biographer. Here's what he discusses about Trump and Epstein sharing a girlfriend before Melania, with the sexual mechanics of how they would do it being unknown here.
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Mayra Amit
Play this clip the birthday letter that Donald Trump apparently wrote for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday and this idea that they.
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Podcast Host
Shared a wonderful secret what do you.
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Mayra Amit
Think he's referring to?
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Podcast Host
I think that he is referring to the, to the girlfriend that they shared at that point in time. 92, 93. So there was a woman, and as far as I know, she's not underage, but who, who they, who they literally shared, who literally went back and forth between, between these two guys. And you have, by the way, that's why Michael Wolf's reporting right now is so important. That's why we bring it to you here on the Midas Touch network as well. And hat tip there to the Daily Beast for that one. Just to remind you, when that Wall Street Journal story was written back in July of this summer, you had MAGA Mike Johnson saying how Donald Trump called him, talked about how ridiculous the allegations were in the Wall Street Journal article. This is MAGA Mike on CNBC covering up for Donald Trump. Let's play it Sirens on drugs.
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MAGA Mike Johnson
Because it's. Someone drew it in 2003, might have.
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Podcast Host
Drawn a picture of a, I don't.
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MAGA Mike Johnson
Know, a body letter before the guy.
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Podcast Host
Even, you know, all the real info hadn't even been out at that point. I don't think about this guy.
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MAGA Mike Johnson
The president and I talked about that ridiculous allegation this morning. He said it's patently absurd. He's never drawn such a picture. He's never thought of drawing such a picture. And he said, did you see the language of this bogus supposed communication or card or something I supposedly sent to Epstein? He said, I don't talk like that. I don't think like that. They're literally making things up. He's so frustrated by it and he's going to wind up, I think, suing some of the media outlets that, that, that have put all this out there because they informed them that it was total contrives.
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Podcast Host
Now, that right there was on cnbc, okay, that's supposed to be a financial news network. Then you have that guy Joe Karen in there who's ultra MAGA with MAGA Mike Johnson. That right there looks worse than even what you see on Fox or Newsmax or oan that's on CNBC right there. And even the way the CNBC host was framing it before anybody knew what was going down. Are you talking about people knew what Epstein was doing in the 90s, in the 2000s, Donald Trump said that Epstein liked him young. I'm sick of a disgusting thing to say, knowing what we know now. Donald Trump and people close to Epstein knew. I'll, I'll give you an example how, how Donald Trump knew Donald Trump has admitted that he said Epstein stole underage girls from Mar a Lago, which we then know those girls were sex trafficked. Virginia Giuffre, underage girl working at the Mar A Lago spa. She was located for the Pedo sex trafficking ring by Epstein and Ghislaine at Mar a Lago while she was working there. And when Trump was asked about that recently, he said that she was stolen, that Epstein, like, almost stole his property, to which. To which Virginia Giuffre's family said, Giuffre, that she's not property. She's not. She was a human being. She was a human being who was sex trafficked, by the way. She since died by suicide in Australia after all of the pain and suffering that she's been through in her life. You go through that Ghislaine Maxwell interview, that Donald Trump's interview, former defense lawyer and now the number two at the doj. Todd blanched it. And it's Ghislaine Maxwell mocking and trying to discredit the victims and basically saying she didn't see anything regarding Epstein or Trump or anything. But she said that she wasn't involved in anything. And she basically says the victims are making it up. In other words, she says hoax. That's what Donald Trump's basically saying right now. Donald Trump says it's a. It's a Democratic hoax. And then the Republicans say Ghislaine has vindicated Donald, the convicted sex trafficker, who was sentenced to 20 years and shouldn't be rotting in a Tallahassee prison, has vindicated Donald Trump. What the hell is wrong with these people? And frankly, what the hell is wrong with this country? And one of the things that's wrong with it is now that you're presented the clear, convincing evidence, people like, why wouldn't they release the letters? Why? We have the letters now. We see it's Donald Trump's signature. It's 100% its signature. It's not the Epstein estate going back into the past to plant Donald Trump's letter when he and Epstein were close friends. And what do they do? They go forgery. They go forgery. This is what they do on every freaking single issue that is out there is a lie. And it's not just on the Epstein issues. It is on foreign policy. Right? You look at foreign policy. What did they say with Russia? Very productive meetings. Putin's going to agree to a ceasefire, bilateral and trilateral conversations, security guarantees. He didn't agree to any of that. That was all a lie. You just bring in Putin so that Putin acts like he's some, like, conquering emperor into Alaska. You let him into the motorcade while he's laughing at the States. And Sergei Lavrov, his foreign minister, is wearing USSR gear to mock the United States. This is their historical moment to mock America. America looks so weak and pathetic based on what Trump's doing in Alaska. And the same people out there who are saying, oh, this is a forgery of Donald Trump's signature, or saying, look how strong he looks. And I'm like, no, he doesn't look strong. America doesn't look strong. What are you talking about? These are the same people who are getting rid of the scientific experts and the vaccination panels and saying, oh, vaccines are like slavery. We're going to bring back polio and mumps and rubella and measles and the bubonic plague. I mean, what the hell are you doing? These are the people who were telling us windmills and solar energy are all frauds and we need to go back to coal. What are you talking about? It's the same people, and then they're normalized by the media as though this is a legitimate perspective. You need the media to say, Donald Trump is a fraud, Donald Trump is a sexual abuser, Donald Trump is a criminal, and anybody else who's lying is aiding and abetting. We don't need a both sides of this story. Trump is lying. This was his letters that he sent to Epstein. He's terrified of this letter. Despite the cryptic nature of this letter, arguably, compared to the stuff that's out there that we hear Donald Trump saying about Epstein before and that we knew about before, this letter seems to be not as bad as the other stuff out there, except for the fact that he clearly must be hiding some real sick and disgusting things when talking about our enigmas. Our secrets will remain secrets. They never age, or whatever the hell he's talking about at the time when the Pedo sex trafficking ring was taking place. I mean, what is going on there? So then you have that happening today. And at the same time, Donald Trump then goes and gives a speech at a Bible museum as he's gutting the Smithsonian and getting rid of American history. He's at the Bible museum. And what do you think he talks about at the Bible museum? What would your guess be? Praising the January 6 insurrectionist and attacking former President Joe Biden and saying Biden was mean to the insurrectionist. Yeah, that's one of the things that he did. Here, play this clip in the Oval Office.
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Interviewer/Reporter
They were stone cold mean. But Joe Biden and the Biden, they were mean people. What they did to people, what they did to J6 what they did to so many people. They were mean people. These were really radical, horrible people.
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Podcast Host
Mean people. They were being mean to what the insurrectionists tried to overthrow the election. He was being mean, mean to them who were trying to kill cops. He was being mean to them. Then at the same Bible museum press event, Donald Trump said, you know, people are telling me that, like, we're adding to the crime statistics, like men attacking women. Huh? Like, like, why. Why would we add that to the stats right here. Here he goes. So much progress has been made in the last. I'm gonna find the other clip. But here he goes. So he goes, crime is down to virtually nothing in D.C. and adds that the crimes that are happening are a much. Are a much lesser things. He says, he's like, if a man has a little fight with a. If a man has a little fight with a woman, they call that crime. They're calling that crime. Now, when a. When a man beats a woman, they call that crime. Here, play this clip.
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Interviewer/Reporter
No, it's more than 87%, virtually nothing. And, and much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to fight, find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say, this was a crime. See? So now I can't claim 100%, but we are, we are a safe city. You can walk to a restaurant, you can walk to the White House. If you work there, you can walk to the Capitol. And even the Democrats say, I can't believe it, but they don't want to admit it, but I can't believe it. We could do the same thing in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. We did it. We saved. We saved Los Angeles.
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Podcast Host
We saved Los Angeles. What are you talking about? You had National Guards, people sleeping inside of buildings. They caused more problems than they helped. And then they go around the same way. They'll say, oh, that's not Donald Trump's signature. That's a forgery. They go around, and Trump claims that he put out the wildfires in Los Angeles. He goes, I turned on a faucet, and then the faucet let the water out. And I saved la. That's how he said the first time. Then he goes, I saved him by sending the National Guard in when it was about to erupt into another fire. I said. And he kind of conflates the two stories also, because his Mind is just complete mush at this point. It was like, what do you mean? You turned on a faucet? What are you talking about? After the fires were contained, you emptied 2 billion gallons of water from reservoirs in Northern California onto areas nowhere connected with Southern California. And so screwed over farmers who are already suffering because of your horrible economic policies that didn't reach Southern California. And the fires were 100% contained. I saved Los Angeles with the National Guard. National Guard were just sleeping on the floor. You remove them from their drug interdiction. Doing it the right way, where the National Guard in California is often used to stop drugs from coming in. And it's used very productively and successfully. You remove them from the mission to sleep on a floor in Los Angeles. And then. And then for him to say that he's solved crime and then he got which. Which he hasn't, and then say that we shouldn't count domestic violence as a crime. We could play the game. Imagine if Biden said that. Imagine if Obama. Imagine if George W. Bush said domestic violence should not be counted as a crime. And Donald, if people are so happy with what you're doing in D.C. why were there mass protests over the weekend? Why did tens of thousands of people show up in some of the biggest protests yet in Washington, D.C. saying, End the military occupation now. Because, no, you're not making the city safer. We do not want military to occupy states and cities in states that is anti American, it is frankly unlawful. And that's what Donald Trump is doing. And then the latest threats, of course, are Chipocalypse or whatever he's calling it right now, where he posted memes this weekend saying, I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago. About to find out why it's called the Department of War. To which Governor Newsom writes, the president of the United States is deploying the military onto US Streets and using our troops like political pawns. Do not allow yourself to become numb to this. For those listening on audio, you probably have seen the image before, but it's of helicopters, like, invading the city of Chicago and blowing it up. The Apocalypse now reference to either napalm or Agent Orange being put all over Chicago is a direct threat to our country. You know, and as I've had a. We launched Midas Canada recently. And as Charlie Angus said, how could you do a deal with this guy when this is how he treats his own country, when this is how he treats his own cities and states? The third biggest and and most productive city Chicago is is where you're going to attack, attack D.C. attack Los Angeles. How do you deal with a guy who is intent on invading American cities to appear and try to be this wannabe fascist and this wannabe dictator hypocalypse. Now, could you ever imagine in the United States of America? And then Donald Trump was asked about it, female reporter asked him a question and said, so what, are you going to invade Chicago? You want? Why? Why are you going to war? And he goes, darling, be quiet. Dias are darling. He goes, darling, be quiet. You're second rate, darling. Here, watch this clip.
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Interviewer/Reporter
Listen, be quiet, listen. You don't listen. You never listen. That's why you're second grade. We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our city. We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend.
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Podcast Host
That's not war.
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Interviewer/Reporter
That's common sense.
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Podcast Host
That's not war. You're posting an image that says war. You're going to find out why we're calling it the Department of war. And then you get asked a legitimate question. Darling, be quiet, darling. Who the hell likes this? What, What? What really upsets me a lot also is knowing that that position, the presidency is supposed to be a role model to children. And I think about it as Brett just brought a baby boy into this world. My baby daughter, time flies, already 11 months old, getting ready for her one year birthday party. Jordy obviously has, has a baby boy who's gonna be turning two before you know it. And I think about all the future generations out there right now and to think about, be quiet, darling. We're not going to war, darling. You know, as you have him also covering up for a pedo sex trafficking ring. And then you have our financial news like CNBC has MAGA hosts who are out there fueling the conspiracy, who are aiding and abetting it on financial shows, while we the people are the ones who are, who are suffering. It's Americans who are getting hit by this. We know that prices are going up. We know that things are less affordable. We know right now where, wherever you go, that lots of people are living paycheck to paycheck, how bad the job market is right now. It's not a golden age at all. When we come back, I want to talk about that. And also you have like Trump's cabinet getting into like more physical altercations with each other. The whole thing is a freaking mess. I don't know about you, but I want normalcy, I want compassion, I want empathy, I want democracy or Reminder. Subscribe to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can gift memberships to as many people as you can. It's one of the best ways we've grown here. Click the join button and gift as many people memberships. All right, we come back home stretch of the show. We've got a lot to discuss. We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show.
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Podcast Host
That'S a lot to discuss. Want to give a shout out again to those sponsors for making this show possible? The discount codes are in the description below. You know, it's pretty difficult if you wanted to kind of rip apart and destroy all aspects of America's economy and over slightly over 200 days. But you know, Donald Trump has managed to do that. You take a look for example, even as you know, former President Biden worked hard to try to attract foreign investment and lots of American presidents have. You know, Hyundai, a South Korean company, employs a lot of Americans. They've got a plant in Georgia that employs a lot of people in Georgia as well and, and brings a lot of money into, into Georgia. Hyundai also employs people from South Korea and it's part of building factories and they go about it the lawful way. You know, they get permits and in the right types of visas and, you know, balancing a delicate relationship with a country like South Korea or Japan or, or Europe or Canada. I mean, these things are handled diplomatically and carefully. But the Trump regime did a military style raid and then posted the video of a Hyundai factory in Georgia where they shackled and treated like criminals of war. The Hyundai workers, the South Koreans who were working in this factory now, mostly all of them had all of their papers correct. There were a few that were on a temporary status. But if you were to do something like this, why wouldn't you just try to work even government to government? You do a military raid and then you treat the people of South Korea like this, like it's, it's crazy here. I'll just show you a quick video of what it looked like. Let's play it. Yeah. And for those on audio, I mean, they were lined up like prisoners of war, shackled together, thrown on a bus. Handled aggressively. And then I showed it on one of the morning videos I did like, the raid, which was, you know, again, the ICE produces it like a movie. And they show the tanks going in, and it's like you're invading a Hyundai factory. Like, you think that makes you look strong, Right. At the same time, you have Russia launching the biggest drone strike since the invasion began. Right. Russia's biggest drone strike since the invasion began over this past weekend. That's what you got out of the Alaska meeting. Russia getting killing more innocent Ukrainians. Trump's out there invading Hyundai factories, posting memes about invading Chicago. Or were they talking about a blue tent in Lafayette park that they didn't like? And, oh, I got this blue tent. I got this blue tent out. Okay, you got Bravo. You got the blue tent out. I mean, what the hell is going on behind the scenes, too? We know that these Trump officials are fighting with each other. You know that guy, Bill Pulte, who runs the Fair Housing Administration, which is basically weaponized to find Trump's political opponents, if they've put anything that could be viewed as in error on their mortgage documents. And they only go after Trump's enemies. And so if you claim a primary residence twice, they go mortgage fraud felony. We're going after you. You need to resign immediately. And. And meanwhile, you have like, 20% of the Trump Cabinet having done the same thing. You have Bill Pulte's family doing the same. Like. Like, it's just checking the box on those forms that you do. But that's how Bill Pulte is using the Fair Housing. Fair Housing Administration. Anyway, you had the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, saying to him, f you. I hear you're talking bad about me. I'm gonna whoop your effing ass at a MAGA influencer birthday party that took place last week. And then Bill Polt is like, what are you gonna do? Come outside. I'm gonna whoop your effing ass. I'm gonna beat your effing ass. And this is apparently Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant's MO he did this with Elon Musk as well. There was many speculated that he actually physically hit Elon Musk when Elon Musk looked beat up and bruised. And Elon Musk responded in response to the story about Besant saying that he was going to beat a Pulte. But this just shows you the utter dysfunction. This is not how people behave in civilized society, but this is how you behave in MAGA Dystopia world, where you would think, let me destroy the Rose Garden and call it Club Rose Garden for the elites. So while they're dining on their caviar and their expensive steak and whatever the hell they're doing that we're paying for, that's coming from the taxpayers, what's going on with our economy? Well, we talked about the jobs report from last week. You know, it was one of the worst jobs reports in generations, and it's not getting better anytime soon. This looks like the beginning of worst job reports, not like the end of something. And you had with former President Biden creating massive job growth. Now we're going in the opposite direction. As Trump's trade war against the world has been disastrous, the uncertainty in the business community that Donald Trump has created was disastrous. But the Trump regime can't even get their lies straight, right? Like when it comes to Epstein, on the one hand, you have Trump saying it's a massive hoax, but then you've got MAGA Mike Johnson saying that Trump was the informant who told on Epstein. Trump's the hero, but he doesn't want the documents to be released to show that he's the hero. How is he the hero in the hoax? That doesn't make sense. But it doesn't have to make sense. They just throw anything against the wall. They have no shame. All they want is power. And what they want to do is just discourage you and overwhelm you with a bunch of crap. I just can't deal with this anymore. Just do whatever you want. And that's the relentless nature of their fascism to try to bulldoze you over with their relentless nature of crap, because it's hard to process the conflicting lies that are so ridiculous that you just want to say, come on, nobody can believe this, but you have to fight back against these maniacs. Otherwise they just keep it coming. You know how Trump lies about turning on a faucet and releasing the water into Southern Los Angeles? He doesn't do that, but he releases the faucet of lies and then pushes it on us. And most human beings just want to go through their day, watch a sports game, hang with their family, have dinner, go for a walk, and you're like, ah, I don't know what to do. I don't want. Just stop it. I'll just. I'll just. I'll just deal with it. And. And Make. But no, the moment you let him do it, these relentless fascists try to bulldoze over you. So that's an example of like they say, Trump says it's a hoax MAGA Mike says he's the informant and he's the hero. So why wouldn't you want to release the documents if you're covering up something, doesn't make a lot of sense. Then when it comes to the economy, you know, the same thing. You put out the national economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, and he basically says the job numbers are a hoax. Can't believe them. They're politicized. We don't believe the job numbers. Then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Besant spinning another story and saying, nope, job numbers are, are terrible. It is the fault of Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve. So let me show you those two examples this weekend. Here was Kevin Hassett saying that the numbers of the bureau and Labor Statistics, even after they fired the nonpartisan former head because they didn't like the previous month's numbers, they're saying we can trust it right now. Here, play this clip out the forms and sending in the surveys.
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Mayra Amit
Last month, the president fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggesting there was political bias, not not just what you're talking about, which is a very technical issue on how data is collected and crunched. Did you fix the political bias or.
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Podcast Host
Well, there are patterns in the data that look like political bias, but they could be accidental. And that's why we need to get.
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MAGA Mike Johnson
A new set of eyes in there.
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Podcast Host
To make sure that things are more transparent. That got it. So they're saying, oh, it's a hoax, it's not real. We can't rely on the data. That's what he says. But then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen says Trump was right again about the Federal Reserve. They were too late and that's why the job numbers were really bad. So the numbers are accurate. That's why we are going to blame the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. Here, play this clip.
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Scott Bessant
If in fact these numbers are true, it shows that President Trump was right about the Federal Reserve. They are too late. And because of the bad numbers, they likely would have been been cutting the in June. And if we believe the numbers and four, I can tell you the one thing this administration is not going to do and we are not going to let the Democrat media surrogates do is the during President Biden, President Harris's campaign, they told the American people it's a vibe session. You don't understand how good you have it. President Trump was elected from for change.
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Podcast Host
I remember all the Nobel laureates predicting exactly what is happening now when it comes to inflation and job numbers. And I don't think the Nobel laureates who predicted what was going to happen if Trump implemented his plans, even recognized how haphazardly he would do it. Donald Trump is angry and gets mad at Brazil because of the criminal prosecution against their former insurrectionist president. 50% tariffs. Donald Trump gets mad at India because Prime Minister Modi doesn't nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize because Trump did not stop the Indian Pakistan war. And Modi was not going to agree to the lie that Donald Trump stopped the India and Pakistan war. India gets 50% tariffs. The way Donald Trump has treated Canada so viciously, the way Donald Trump has arbitrarily and capriciously attacked other countries, all of this was actually very predictable. And then, even when we saw the signs of inflation starting to rise in July, what was people. What were people like Treasury Secretary Besant and JD Vance and everyone saying, all these economists got it wrong. We're doing great. There is no inflation. We proved them wrong. We were like, what are you talking about? Inflation is rising. People know when you leave your house that you're paying more now than you were a year ago. And the whole promise was on day one. Things were going to get better. And now, what the Trump regime said at the end of last week, just to remind you, I covered this a lot on the Midas Touch, various shows that I did, is Trump says the first time that the numbers may start looking good. 2027, he says. And the number, not 2026, he goes, gonna take about two years. So why two years, though? Well, this is what con artists do. This is what Ponzi schemers do. They have to stretch out the fraud over and over again. That is what. You know, just think about a classic Ponzi scheme, like a Bernie Madoff. You go, I want my money back. Can you give. I gave you money. You said, I. I've got positive returns. Can I have it? What do you think they say, like the Bernie Madoffs and the con artists who engage in Ponzi's game, give me two more weeks. Give me four more weeks. Give me two more weeks. Give me one. One. Just give me six more months and I got you. That's what they say. Why do they say that? Because they're trying to utilize that time to rob more from Peter and to pay Paul to keep the scheme going over. That's the two weeks the two weeks is let me either find new people to blame in those two weeks or let me take from one side to bring to the other side and to try to deal with things in those two weeks period. Two weeks, three weeks. So now he extends the timeline to 2027. You have a midterm elections that's going to be happening. It seems that people are very energized against the regime right now. So what's the next hustle? What's in 20? You blame everything on Jerome Powell. And then when this presidency is viewed as the biggest failure in history, what do they do? They go in Dr. Fauci mode on steroids. We. We had it perfect. Remember when I said golden age? Things were trending in the right direction and then Democrats launched all of these investigations at Russia, Russia, Russ, Russia. And I would have had it. I was right there and now I got screwed. We were about to do it. That's what Ponzi schemers do. Democrats better be effective messengers because they didn't do a great job last time on the messaging to show the American people that they were the firefighters and Trump and Maga was the arsonist who created the problems. You have to message now and have both the Governor Gavin Newsom and Pritzker in your face approach. And I think Newsom has really mastered that. And then you also have to be talking to people in those town hall settings the way we see Bernie Sanders doing in his Fight the Oligarchy tour. You have to kind of marry those two things as a messenger together in order to fight back against the regime and the oligarchy that turned on that faucet of constant lies over and over again. Now, I want to mention as well those court updates. First a good court update, then a bad court update. The good court update. The Court of Appeals has ruled against Donald Trump in the E. Jean Carroll additional case. Remember, they ruled against him in the first case, this was the defamation case, that he defamed his sexual assault victim by saying that basically she was engaging in a hoax and a jury found him liable. Alina Haba was the lawyer in that case. Trump was hit with an $83.3 million verdict that was upheld on appeal. Remember, Trump had to post the bond for that so that now I guess Trump can try to appeal that to the Supreme Court. See what they do there? That's kind of personal capacity stuff. So not sure they're going to get involved, but nothing would surprise me with this right wing fascist Supreme Court right now. As you know, the Supreme Court is Run six to three, six fascists, three liberals who support democracy. It's made up of nine people. You need to know the composition. So, you know, it's usually the three liberals who are in the dissent saying, what the hell are you doing? And it's usually the six fascists who are saying, donald, do whatever you want. The way the Supreme Court's been giving Donald Trump everything they want is they actually don't address the merits of cases. What they do is they use something called a shadow docket, meaning that they don't hold oral arguments. They don't have really any form of briefing that you regular briefing, which would be called a granting of searchi a Rory, where then you have full briefing on the issues. People submit what are called amicus briefs, and then the court, you know, rules in a very kind of. It's supposed to be a thoughtful way. That's not what's happening now. What's happening is on its emergency docket or shadow docket, the Supreme Court makes a ruling and doesn't even say why. And they're not even saying that we think Trump is right or wrong or we think the Constitution says this or that. That's not what the Supreme Court's doing. Instead, they issue these orders that are basically one paragraph long that don't even really mention, they don't mention at all the merits of the case, but all they do is say the issues having come before the Supreme Court, we hereby stay, which means pause the district court's order until such time as the case eventually works its way up to the Supreme Court. Now, usually what the Supreme Court would do is let the case work its way up to the Supreme Court and the district court and the court of appeals. Orders stand. The Supreme Court is not a trial court. They're not getting all of the facts in the first instance. They're not a trier of fact. They're not evaluating the merits. The district court does, but the Supreme Court can eventually hear once there's a full factual record. But the district court is the lower court that observes this. So in normal course, the district court holds a trial, then there, the trial gets appealed to the court of appeals, and then the court of appeals gets appealed to the Supreme Court. And that can take a few years, but the Supreme Court gets a full record. Not anymore. What the Supreme Court does is use its shadow docket and says, we're just going to pause what the district court does. And what the district court's doing in all of these cases is pausing or staying or stopping what the Trump regime is doing that the district court deems is unlawful. So by the Supreme Court pausing the district court, that means they're allowing the Trump Trump conduct to continue until such time as the case works its way back up to the Supreme Court, which for the Supreme Court, they know that's going to be after the Trump regime is over. So they want to try to game this to coast by after giving Trump absolute immunity to let him do what he wants, but then four years from now, make rulings that I think will then clamp down on the executive branch power if and when you have a Democratic president. You see, that's the hustle of what they're doing. That's why they don't rule on the merits. They pause the district court. They know it'll take about four years to get back up, and then they're going to make these rulings. You see, we were never for this dictator stuff. Meanwhile, they let it happen for four years. I just want to cue you into the. I'm a lot. You know, I'm a law professor when I'm not doing this. And this stuff frustrates the hell out of me. So I want to let you know deeper what the hustle actually is here that they're doing to help you understand. Now, in this specific case that the Supreme Court ruled on its shadow docket, they stayed or stopped a district court's order that blocked the Trump regime from engaging in racial profiling on the basis of four factors. Apparent race or ethnicity, whether they spoke Spanish or English, the type of location at which they were found, a car wash or a bus stop or something like that, the top of the type of job they worked. In other words, if you are a Latino working at a car shop, you will be presumed to be a migrant without paperwork, and you will be sent to a detention center. And then if you present your paperwork, you're okay, but they can profile you now on that basis. If you work at a restaurant where migrants may work, you can get profiled. And the Supreme Court saying, we're okay with that right now. We don't think that's an unreasonable search and seizure. Now, Justice Kavanaugh, he actually wrote a concurring opinion to this, which is rare because usually you just get one paragraph saying, basically, we hereby stay with the district courts. And just as Kavanaugh was like, no, no, no, of course I support racial profiling. He doesn't use that exact language. But, yeah, if you look, if your skin is brown and you're working in restaurants, duh, that's what Kavanaugh says, which is probably what the actual all six justices say. They just wouldn't sign their name to what Kavanaugh said. But then the three liberal justices, they're out there and they're like, we have something called the Fourth Amendment, which protects every individual's constitutional right to be free from arbitrary interference by law officers. After today, that may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little because this is unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees. I dissent that's right there from the, the, the, the three liberal justices. So I, I don't mean to leave you with that bad news, but it shows why we need to fight back more against this regime, against this fascist regime. And that's what we're going to do here at the Midas Touch Network each and every day. So, so please become a member of our YouTube channel. Hit subscribe now if you can and become a member. You can gift memberships to as many people as you want as well if they can't afford memberships. So try to do that. Support our sponsors discount codes in the description below. 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