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Welcome to Windsor Donald. Now get the hell out. People in the United Kingdom do not want Donald Trump there. There have been protests in and around Windsor where Donald Trump will apparently be meeting with King Charles. Today. Donald Trump was greeted by protests. There will be more protests. We'll be covering here at the Midas Touch network and you're all seeing there what was projected onto Windsor Castle you see the photos of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell. And Donald Trump's dark, disgusting past. You know, four individuals in the UK have been arrested by the local police department for projecting those images. I think that they probably deserve a freaking gold medal. The ones that Donald Trump steal from the Olympic Committee. But that's how Donald Trump is being greeted by the people in the United Kingdom. And good. Donald Trump is a sexual abuser. He's been found civilly liable for sexual assault. Donald Trump is a felony. Shouldn't even be able to go to the United Kingdom based on his felon status. 34 felonies he was convicted of in the United States. He's a fraud. He is a bankrupter. And he continues to threaten NATO. He threatens Canada, he threatens other Commonwealth nations. And the people need to stand up to this bully. I'm frankly off that Keir Starmer is even inviting this fricking traitor, this Putin bootlicker to Windsor in the first place. Just look at what an immature piece of crap he is. These are the kind of things that he's posting yesterday. Photographs of Fawney Willis wearing bathing suits. The type of stuff that he's posting. Seriously. While there's actually real serious things happening in the United States right now, the US Housing market has never been unaffordable in American history. Right now we're seeing people's FICO scores drop significantly. US Consumers are feeling the stress of. Of inflation. Right now we're seeing inflation surge as Donald Trump's trade war against the world has been a disaster. The housing market has never been more inaccessible and unaffordable for the average American Right now. Unless you're ultra, ultra decimillionaire or billionaire, people can't afford homes. People are living paycheck to paycheck. But Donald Trump is out there making social media posts like this. I'm getting amazing feedback on my lawsuit against the New York Times. The predominant feeling and sentiment is it's about time the case was filed in the great state of Florida. The radical left media is working hard to destroy the usa. We're going to stop them at each and every level. President D. J.T. and I showed the clip yesterday. Before Donald Trump took off and went to the United Kingdom, he yelled at John Carl, the ABC reporter, for asking Donald Trump questions about what does it mean when your Attorney General Pam Bondi says that she will be prosecuting what the regime considers to be hate speech? And Donald Trump looked at John Carl, the reporter for ABC and says like you, I'm going to go after fake news people like you. Just a reminder of what a vile piece of authoritarian trash Donald Trump is. Play the clip of Donald Trump attacking John Carl. Play this clip.
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And what do you think Pam Bondi thinks she's going to go after hate speech? Is that.
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I mean, a lot of people, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech.
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We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly and say you have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe you'll come after ABC. Well, ABC paid me $16 million recently for a form of hate speech. Right. Your company paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech. So maybe they'll have to go after you.
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Frankly, shame on Disney and ABC for settling with Donald Trump over, in my opinion, what's the most frivolous allegation? Donald Trump said his reputation was injured because George Stephanopoulos used the R word instead of calling it sexual assault. Regarding Donald Trump being found civilly liable by a federal jury, Donald Trump said, you damaged my reputation. I was only found liable by a jury for sexually assaulting a woman with my fingers. I was not found liable for using my genitals to sexually assault. So my reputation has been harmed. That's what Donald Trump's lawsuit was about, that Stephanopoulos said. R word and not sexual assault. How utterly ridiculous. What are you doing, Disney? Put Donald Trump in front of you, take his deposition, grill him, and ask him about all the times he bragged about sexually assaulting women and saying, when you're rich, you get to do it. Or when he says, I've gone into the beauty pageants, and when I go to the beauty pageants, I inspect them naked. Because when you're the inspector, you get to inspect them. And when you're rich, they let you. They let you do it when you're rich. What the hell are you talking about here? Oh, and Donald Trump's lawsuit against the New York Times, his articles they put out in September and October of 2024. Donald Trump's like, you hurt my reputation. If Donald Trump ever sued me, let me tell you what I would do. I would never settle. I would answer the complaint right away. I'd. I'd send out deposition notices right away. I would put him in front of me, and I would take the deposition myself with freaking glee. That's what I would do. What does Donald Trump also post? Just had a wonderful phone call with my friend, Prime Minister Modi. I wished him a happy birthday. He's doing a tremendous job. Thank you for your support ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. President DJT oh, what, Donald, because Modi would not answer your call five separate times after you offended India over and over again. And Modi shows if you stand up to the bully, if you give him him the silent treatment, if you ignore him, he comes running back to you his whole life. He's pathetic. He's not a winner. He's bankrupted casinos, he's bankrupted companies, he screws over contractors. The only thing he's good at is being a fraud. So you stand up to the bully. You fight back with moral clarity and authorities what you need to do. What else was he posting as he arrived in Windsor? As the Windsor Castle projected all of the images of Donald Trump's disgusting past. Donald Trump posted Shockingly, I've just learned that Gavin Newscomb, the governor of California is in final stages of approval to build low income housing in the Pacific Palisades. How unfair is that to people who have suffered so much? Newscom allowed their houses to burn by not accepting hundreds of millions of gallons of water for the Pacific Northwest. And now low income housing starts rising long before he gets permits for California citizens to rebuild, but long after the federal permits were issued. Just pause there. Let me just fact check this. There's no such thing as federal permits. Okay? Doesn't exist. Okay? Number one. Number two, everything Donald Trump saying here about low income housing in the Pacific Palisades, utterly false. But I do want to talk about that because me personally, I don't think low income housing is a bad idea at all. I think that we should figure out a crop. We shouldn't mock it, okay? We should figure out ways to encourage low income. You ran on housing, you freaking idiot, and now you want to mock low income housing? We have a housing affordability crisis in the United States. And maybe call me old fashioned, but I believe that Americans should be able to afford homes. I believe if you're working a job, you shouldn't worry about struggling to pay your rent. You should be able to afford a home. You should be a homeowner and you shouldn't have to worry about are you going to miss a mortgage payment if you're working a job. So, Donald Trump, I know you're mocking it and you're lying and you're spreading lies about the Pacific Palisades, but me personally, I think that we need to address housing in a very serious way. We could talk about where it's located, but don't ever freaking mock low income Housing and people of low income. I know, Donald, you get to hang out in Club Rose Garden and eat the top of the line steak that we, the taxpayers are now paying for as you bulldoze down the Rose Garden. I know you like to post your photographs of Club Cipriani in Manhattan or all your rich friend paid tens of thousands of dollars in annual memberships and they were able to stay in hotels that cost $9,000 for just three days. But regular folk, they just want to be able to afford a freaking home. Donald. Um, so then Donald Trump also talks about it would have all burned down if he didn't turn the water on from the Pacific Northwest. That doesn't exist. You're just making it up. There's no such thing. The reservoirs in California were sufficiently full. That is until after the fires were 100% contained in Los Angeles. You went to Central and Northern California. You empty 2 billion gallons of water in the reservoirs there. After the fire was out, after the fire was contained, you dumped reservoir water that the farmers need for droughts into their farmland and you got rid of their water with the water not being anywhere near connected to Southern California. California is a big state, Donald. Southern California, Northern California is like the difference between Virginia and New York in many cases. So you putting the water and dumping it in one area doesn't get to Southern California didn't put out the fires either. It's not even connected. Just the level of sheer stupidity here. No wonder Donald Trump's approval is the worst, basically in presidential history right now. You take a look at these approval. Trump approval hits a new low in today's YouGov economist. Pollution now worse than he was in YouGov's data at this point in 2017. And that doesn't shock me at all. Governor Pritzker has something to say. Let's play this clip. Governor Walz has something to say. Play this clip.
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We want to make sure that crime is down. It is, but we can always do better. They should be partners with us. Just this week they cut our counterterrorism funding money that we could use to protect schools. We could use it to help fund our police, making sure we could hire more. But I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe. A tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras. And it' syou know, you can get into the legal aspect of Posse Comatitis, but it's foundational. So I keep saying. Jenn, where are the don't tread on me people we were told for years that we needed to be prepared about an overbearing federal government that would step in over local control and actually put troops on the streets. I mean, where are those people? And I would just ask them to rise up and this isn't the way things should be done. And again, he doesn't really have any interest in stopping the crime. If he did, he would go with the professionals. He would listen to local law enforcement. He would coordinate with us. I will tell you, we do have a great example, and this is why some of our institutions are still. We got a US Attorney out here who's a great partner, doing good work for us on many fronts, and that's because he coordinates, coordinates with state agencies, coordinates with local officials. That's what we should be doing this for the camera. I'm a big, tough guy. I also said, Jen, on that, and I'm still going to hold to this. I still think at some points he puts on a military uniform because it's just cosplaying with his administration whether Kristi Noem is dressing up as one thing or another. But come out here and help us. We don't disagree with you that there's more that we can do, but what you're prescribing is nothing but vengeance and, and photo ops. That's not helping anybody.
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Governor Shapiro has something to say. Play this clip.
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Let me be clear. Violence is never okay. Regardless of the motivation. Violence is never the answer. And we cannot allow violence to be used as a pretext for more violence. We must reject the rhetoric of vengeance and instead focus, as you are today, on the work of healing. We need to create more opportunities for peaceful and respectful dialogue, respecting each other's fundamental rights as Americans. Censorship. Using the long arm of government to silence people, to silence businesses and nonprofits and restrict their right to free speech. Well, that will not solve this problem. Prosecuting constitutionally protected speech will only further erode our freedoms and deepen the mistrust that is un American. There is a better way. There is a better way.
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Powerful words by all those governors. And finally, what I want to share with you right now is Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, Todd Blanch, who's now the number two at the doj, who interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell, gave her immunity, moved her from the prison, the maximum security prison in Tallahassee, to Camp Brian in Texas, a minimum security facility for which the convicted child sex trafficker had to get a waiver because you're not allowed to be there. Now, Todd Blanche was Asked by. By cnn. So when you met with Delaine, did you find her credible? To which Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer, turn number two at the doj, says, that's an impossible question to answer. I wasn't evaluating her credibility. She never got a chance to speak before, so I gave her a chance to speak. Well, Totty, she did have a chance to speak. You know, when she had a chance to speak during her criminal sex trafficking case, she could have cooperated. She could have showed where the bodies were buried. She could have testified. She invoked her fifth amendment right. The federal judge found that she had zero credibility, that she was a serial liar, and she was convicted of child sex trafficking. She decided not to speak. So oftentimes when people are convicted of child sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years and they have every incentive to lie to try to get out of their circumstance that they created, yeah, they're gonna lie. So maybe you should evaluate that, Totty. Here, play this clip.
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But when you met with her, did you find her to be credible?
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It's an impossible question to answer. I met with her for two days. To determine whether a witness is credible takes weeks and weeks and weeks. I asked her questions that I believe all of us wanted answered, and she answered them. She answered them. I didn't. The point of the interview was not for me to pressure test every single answer she gave. Of course not. The point of the interview was to give her an opportunity to speak, which nobody had done before. And so she had been in prison for many, many years, and she had offered to speak on many, many occasions, and she was never given that opportunity. And so what I did is I gave her that opportunity to speak. It was recorded. My questions were there, and whether her answers were credible or truthful. There's a lot of information out there about. About Mr. Epstein, about her, and whether what she said is completely wrong or completely right or a little of both is for. That's the reason why we released the transcript. That's why we were transparent about the questions I asked. And the answers she gave is because it's really up to the American people to determine whether they believe that her answers were credible or whether they found her not credible.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Welcome to Windsor, Donald. Now get the hell out. Thanks for watching. Be sure to add the Midas touch podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast for new updates every single day.
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Episode Title: Trump Has Disaster Landing in UK as Protests Erupt
Date: September 17, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This episode dives into the chaotic reception former President Donald Trump received in the United Kingdom, the explosive protests in Windsor, and the broader consequences of Trump’s ongoing rhetoric and legal troubles. The Meiselas brothers blend political analysis and pointed commentary, with segments featuring critical clips of Trump, insights into American issues like housing and inflation, and pointed responses from key Democratic governors. The episode’s tone is equal parts fiery, satirical, and unapologetically pro-democracy.
“I think that they probably deserve a freaking gold medal. The ones that Donald Trump steal from the Olympic Committee.”
(02:54 – Ben Meiselas)
“I'm frankly off that Keir Starmer is even inviting this fricking traitor, this Putin bootlicker, to Windsor in the first place.”
(03:38 – Ben Meiselas)
“The housing market has never been more inaccessible and unaffordable for the average American... people are living paycheck to paycheck.”
(04:43 – Ben Meiselas)
“I don't think low income housing is a bad idea at all... Americans should be able to afford homes... If you're working a job, you shouldn't worry about struggling to pay your rent.”
(09:45 – Ben Meiselas)
“We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly and say you have a lot of hate in your heart.”
(06:03 – Donald Trump)
“But I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe. A tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras.”
(14:26 – Gov. Walz clip) “Let me be clear. Violence is never okay... We must reject the rhetoric of vengeance and instead focus... on the work of healing.”
(14:58 – Gov. Shapiro clip)
“To determine whether a witness is credible takes weeks and weeks and weeks… The point of the interview was to give her an opportunity to speak…”
(17:46 – Todd Blanche)
“People in the United Kingdom do not want Donald Trump there. ... Welcome to Windsor Donald. Now get the hell out.”
(02:12 – Ben Meiselas)
“Donald Trump's like, you hurt my reputation. If Donald Trump ever sued me... I would put him in front of me, and I would take the deposition myself with freaking glee.”
(07:23 – Ben Meiselas)
“You ran on housing, you freaking idiot, and now you want to mock low income housing? ... Don’t ever freaking mock low income housing and people of low income.”
(09:38 – Ben Meiselas)
“She could have testified. She invoked her fifth amendment right. The federal judge found that she had zero credibility, that she was a serial liar, and she was convicted of child sex trafficking.”
(16:48 – Ben Meiselas)
| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------| | 02:12 | UK protests greet Trump with Windsor Castle projection| | 05:55 | Trump threatens ABC’s Jon Karl on hate speech | | 06:23 | Analysis of Trump’s lawsuit against NYT and ABC/Disney| | 09:38 | Fact check: Housing and water claims in California | | 13:16 | Gov. Pritzker/Walz respond to Trump-era tactics | | 14:58 | Gov. Shapiro denounces violence, censorship | | 16:06 | DOJ & Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview/transfer | | 17:46 | Todd Blanche on Maxwell’s credibility |
For listeners who missed the episode, this summary captures the episode’s energetic deconstruction of Trump’s UK visit, ongoing legal chaos, and the stakes for American democracy—serving both as a briefing and a call to action.