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This episode is brought to you by LifeLock. Between two factor authentication, strong passwords and a VPN, you try to be in control of how your info is protected. But many other places also have it and they might not be as careful. That's why Lifelock monitors hundreds of millions of data points a second for threats. If your identity is stolen, they'll fix it, guaranteed or your money back. Save up to 40% your first year make visit lifelock.com podcast for 40% off. Terms apply. Introducing Family Freedom from T Mobile we'll pay off four phones up to $3200 and give you four free phones, all on America's largest 5G network. Visit your local T Mobile location or learn more@t mobile.com familyfreedom up to $800 per line via virtual prepaid card typically takes 15 days. Free phones via 24 monthly bill credits with finance agreement eg Apple iPhone 16128 gigabyte 82999 eligible trade in eg iPhone 11 Pro for well qualified credits end and balance due if you pay off earlier. Contact T Mobile Donald Trump continues to get booed in Windsor on his trip to the United Kingdom. He is making King Charles at the UK taxpayer expense, roll out the red carpet for him and do all the pomp and circumstance to make Donald Trump feel good. Now we see what this trip to the UK is really about. It's Don Trump and Melania going there on the UK taxpayer dime and the United States taxpayer dime as Trump is destroying the United States economy and destroying our alliances just to try to make himself feel good as he threatens our allies to make King Charles do this at Windsor Castle and then they kind of hide Donald Trump away from where the people are by moving him more into the countryside where the castle is. So Donald Trump has the UK Royal Air Force Red Hours performing a flyover pass them. I mean, this whole thing is just completely humiliating both for UK citizens, United States citizens. Here, watch this clip. Now, while all of that was going on, there were hearings taking place in the House of Representatives where Donald Trump's FBI director refused to give a direct answer whether he told the Attorney General that Trump's name is all over the Epstein files. Here, play this clip remembering your oath.
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To tell the truth. Did you ever tell Donald Trump his name is in the files?
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I have never spoken to President Trump about the Epstein files.
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Did you ever tell the Attorney General that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files?
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The Attorney General and I have had numerous discussions about the entirety of the Epstein files and the reviews conducted by our team.
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Did you tell the Attorney General that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files?
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And we have released where President Trump.
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Did you tell the Attorney General that the President's name is in the Epstein files?
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During many conversations that the Attorney General and I have had on the matter of Epstein, we have reviewed.
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The question is simple.
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Who?
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You tell the Attorney General that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files. Yes or no?
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Why don't you try spelling it out?
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Yes.
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No.
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Use the Alphabet.
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Yes or no?
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No. ABC Director, it sounds like you don't.
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Want to tell us. Did you tell the Attorney General that Donald Trump's name was in the Epstein files?
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Why don't you try serving your constituency by focusing on reducing violent crime in this country and the number of pedophiles that are legally harbored in your sanctuary cities in California? I work with you on that regular order, Mr. Chairman.
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Belongs to gentlemen from California.
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Did you tell the Attorney General that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files?
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Question has been asked and answered.
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You've not answered it. And we will take your evasiveness as a consciousness of guilt.
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Director. Going back to Windsor Castle, you can see what Donald Trump really wanted to do here. And again, what this UK trip was all about. Donald Trump inspecting the guard of honor with King Charles the the third during an arrival ceremony at Windsor Castle. I don't know, Donald. How about you make good on the promises you made to Americans? Like that you were going to solve inflation on day one, that you were going to stop the war in Ukraine and stop the atrocities being committed on Gaza on day one. Nope. Actually, you just want to do this. You think this is like Disneyland for you. Here, play this clip. Meanwhile, let's take a look at what the people in the United Kingdom are thinking. Shout out to our friends over at LBC who just do an incredible job covering all this. Here, play this clip.
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I don't want to be here. I feel like I have to be here because Keir Starmer's made a massive mistake in letting a convicted felon. They actually convicted him in his country and we're letting him come on British soil and it's a total disgrace. It's disgusting.
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I think it's an absolute waste of taxpayer money already. Millions of pounds were spent to keep him safe last time and it's really just for show. I mean, this is just because he's a royals watcher and they're just going to, you know, his wife's going to Go see the doll museum and the Scouts. I mean, there's a lot of emphasis, of course, that the state visit is going to bring about a trade deal. I think it's really unclear exactly what our politicians and our monarchy intend to do with this visit, if there's some diplomatic ideas behind it. But I don't think it's sending a great message.
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He changes his mind as often as he changes his diaper as far as I can see. He could say what a wonderful visit he's had and then two minutes later he's going to say something else. Neville Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler. Unless, you know, history showed how that worked out. Appeasement is not the answer. There will not be peace in that time while Trump is the president of America.
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Now, here's how they were reporting it on cnn. Donald Trump in his little gold carriage, driving around in a little gold carriage. I mean, just think about just over the past, what week alone, they destroyed the Rose Garden in the United States and they call it now Club Rose Garden, where the elite Republican cabal that's involved in covering up a child sex trafficking pedo ring get to eat lavish meals with top of the line entertainment being paid for by the taxpayers. Where our Rose Garden used to be. Donald Trump was posting images of flying over Club Chiprian in Manhattan where it costs $9,000 to spend three days there. And it's like a member only club where it's thousands of dollars a month. And now he's in a gold carriage. I'm sure the farmers in America who voted for him who are about to go bankrupt unless they get bailed out soon. I'm sure the people who are late on their mortgage and can't afford to pay their rent right now and can't afford groceries are loving. Donald Trump's in a golden carriage. Everybody here, play this clip.
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In any event, the main objective is pageantry. Apparently the president told the pool press who are flying with him overnight yesterday, enjoy yourselves, okay? He said he was really, really, really looking forward to this. He said it's going to be a beautiful event. Now you can hear the British national anthem playing as the carriages continue to move towards eventually Windsor Castle. And then they're going to have a lunch and then there's going to be more pageantry. The president and the first lady will lay a wreath on the tomb of Queen Elizabeth ii, who the president really, really appreciated. He was met her twice here, won an official state visit which was at Buckingham palace and then a later visit here to Windsor Castle. This is the first time there's been this kind of major state visit for an American president at Windsor Castle. Usually they're in London, at Buckingham palace and, you know, they go up the Mall. But certainly Windsor Village has been decked out with the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack. And so as much pageantry as they can muster without the usual people involved is happening right now.
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Then he has one of his top economic advisors, Peter Navarro, go on TV and he's asked, so can you walk us through what happens if the Supreme Court rules against you on the tariffs? And he goes, they're not going to rule against us. We basically, we've got the Supreme Court in our pocket. Here, play this clip. Then Peter Navarro says, there's no inflation. That's done. We solved it. Trump should be in his golden carriage because we're in a golden age. We resolved inflation and all Americans are experiencing a golden age right now. Here, play this clip. What's your take on this IEPA case in terms of the courts trying to stop President Trump? Can you walk us through what could be a backup plan? Peter, in terms of whether or not these court cases go against the president, what is the backup?
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The backup plan is the minority dissent in that whole decision, Maria. It was a very political decision. As you well know. Courts around America are needlessly politicized, making partisan decisions. The seven judges who ruled against the Trump administration, six of them were Democrats. One of them was a H.W. bush rhino who was a free trader. The four people who dissented, that was a beautiful dissent led by a judge named Toronto. And it's a roadmap, as I've written about, for the Supreme Court to deal with the key issues, whether we have a national emergency, whether tariffs can be used for the regulation of imports, whether we're in a permanent situation with the terrorists, which we clearly are not. So the backup plan is the Supreme Court basically ruling in our favor.
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I said it wasn't.
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So you're saying that none of this happened?
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No, I'm saying it was inaccurate.
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Okay. How many times did President Nunce appear in the Epstein files? More than 100? More than a thousand?
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No. And what we've been able to release is what we've been legally able to release. And that is.
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No, that's not the question I asked you. How many times did the President's name appear?
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I don't know.
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It's your testimony. You do not know that.
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A number of times.
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No, no. Even Donald Trump's own former CDC director Monz. Former CDC director Dr. Monrez, who Trump fired, had some words about the Trump regime and RFK Jr. About how they did not have any data or science to point to in trying to get rid of vaccines for children and they admitted as such. And she goes, I was just trying to get him the science and data. I'm not going to sign off on ripping away vaccines from children and killing children just cause what EVs. I'm not just going to do it for whatevs. I'm going to. I'm a scientist here. Play this clip. Secretary Kennedy told the Finance Committee that he did not ask you to pre approve but that you are biased against the new ACIP and he just asked you to keep an open mind. Did he cite any data or science as relates to the potential ACIP recommendations to persuade you to support them?
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He did not have any data or science to point to. As a matter of fact, we got into an exchange where I had suggested that I would be open to changing childhood vaccine schedules if the evidence or science were supportive. And he responded that there was no science or evidence associated with the childhood vaccine schedule. He elaborated that CDC had never collected the science or the data to make it available related to the safety and efforts.
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To be clear, he said there was not science or data but that you still expected you to change the schedule.
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Correct.
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Okay, Dr. Our Dr. Manara, then you had the former chief medical officer of the CDC, Dr. Deborah Oury. She testifies that she did not know about the decision by the Health Department to change the vaccine recommendations until she read about it on a tweet. On a tweet. On a social media post. Play this clip.
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It's unthinkable to me that the chief medical officer at CDC was left in.
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The dark about such a consequential public.
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Health decision that affected real people.
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Dr. Howery, how was this change in.
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Guidance supported by scientific evidence? We have not seen the data yet. In fact, after the tweet came out, we asked for a written memo from HHS because I couldn't implement guidance off of a tweet. The written memo didn't say the same as the video. There was a difference between healthy versus all.
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You can't provide guidance off of a tweet.
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I didn't think that was prudent. And then we did ask for the data to back it up and we have not received the data to date.
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And then of course you have more deranged posts by Donald Trump here. Why was the Wonderful Turning Point under investigation by deranged Jack Smith and the corrupt, incompetent Biden administration, they tried to force Charlie and many other people and movements out of business. They weaponized the Justice Department against Sleepy Joe Biden's political opponents. So now Trump and Pam Bondi and Cash Patel as part of their sex trafficking pedo cover up ring. The other thing they do is say if we don't like your speech, it's hate speech and we don't care about the First Amendment, we're going after you. That's literally what Attorney General Pam Bondi said, that if they don't like what you say, they deem it hate speech and it's a crime. And the DOJ will go after thoughts and speech that it's critical of the Trump regime. One of the things that should be noted though is that Turning Points was involved in the January 6th insurrection. They were helping bring buses there. So in addition to Charlie Kirk and Turning Points making anti black, anti gay, anti LGBTQ comments calling for Biden to be executed, just among, you know, other things they were also involved in, I think helping transport people. So to the extent their name came up in anything, it may have been in, in that context or what, we have to gloss over the insurrection now. What private businesses have to print out pro Charlie Kirk memorandum. You have to print out regime photos of Donald Trump while he drapes his face over buildings in Washington D.C. as long as the Midas Touch network exists, as long as I have this microphone in my hand, they could try to rip it from me. We are going to make sure we speak the truth always. Let me just remind you right here finally of what else is going on in that Epstein hearing. Here is what Congressmember Lou had to say. That FBI Director Cash Patel refuses to give a direct answer whether Trump is on the Epstein list. Play the clip.
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It's literally not how it works.
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I'm going to move on now and talk about Epstein's client list. You confirmed that exists. Attorney General Pam Body confirmed earlier this year that exists. I just want to ask you a simple question. Is Prince Andrew on Epstein's client list?
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The material related to Prince Andrew has been made public.
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Is Prince Andrew on the client list?
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We have released the index of names that were in Jeffrey Epstein.
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Is Donald Trump on Epstein's client list?
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The index has been released and the index will speak for itself.
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Podcast: The MeidasTouch Podcast
Episode: Trump Has Disaster Morning as He Makes Fool of Himself in UK
Date: September 17, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This lively episode centers on Donald Trump’s controversial trip to the United Kingdom, highlighting both the public and political backlash he faced overseas. The Meiselas brothers delve into broader issues of Trump’s leadership, U.S.-U.K. relations, the economic realities facing Americans, and the renewed Epstein files controversy in the U.S. House of Representatives. The show blends news, critique, and signature family banter to underscore the consequences of Trump-era politics for democracy and everyday people.
(00:00–07:17)
Trump makes a high-profile, taxpayer-funded visit to the UK, complete with all the “pomp and circumstance.”
U.K. taxpayers, and many citizens, are clearly dissatisfied with the royal treatment of a convicted U.S. felon; British public opinion is captured through LBC radio.
The brothers critique Trump’s continuous self-aggrandizement at the expense of U.S.-U.K. alliances and taxpayer money.
"Donald Trump continues to get booed in Windsor on his trip to the United Kingdom... It’s Don Trump and Melania going there on the UK taxpayer dime and the United States taxpayer dime as Trump is destroying the United States economy and destroying our alliances just to try to make himself feel good."
(Ben, 00:01)
“They actually convicted him in his country and we're letting him come on British soil—it's a total disgrace.”
(UK Citizen via LBC, 05:09)
(02:48–04:03, 13:09–14:32, 16:17–18:39)
Testimony from the FBI Director and officials regarding whether Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files is evasive and opaque.
The MeidasTouch hosts draw attention to repeated refusals to answer straightforward questions, stirring concerns of a cover-up.
“Did you tell the Attorney General that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files? Yes or no?”
(Rep. B, 03:25)
“Why don’t you try spelling it out? Use the alphabet.”
(FBI Director C, 03:31)
Ben highlights the implications of this strategy:
“We will take your evasiveness as a consciousness of guilt.”
(Rep. B, 04:03)
Similar stonewalling occurs when asked about Prince Andrew and Trump’s names on Epstein’s client list.
(07:17–11:09)
Coverage moves to Trump world’s “golden age” rhetoric, juxtaposed against Americans' real financial struggles.
Trump’s economic advisor, Peter Navarro, openly claims Supreme Court allegiance and asserts no inflation exists, sparking ridicule from the hosts.
“The Supreme Court basically ruling in our favor... We solved it. Trump should be in his golden carriage because we’re in a golden age.”
(Peter Navarro, 09:21–10:17)
Ben calls out the hypocrisy:
“Yeah, they are enriching themselves off of the American people by using the Oval Office and the power of the United States to reduce the power of the United States and increase the wealth of the Trump family.”
(Ben, 11:09)
(14:32–16:17)
Former Trump CDC officials testify about the lack of data and disregard for scientific principles in vaccine policy decisions.
Shocking moments include CDC officials only learning of policy changes via tweets, with no supporting scientific evidence provided.
“It's unthinkable to me that the chief medical officer at CDC was left in the dark about such a consequential public health decision that affected real people.”
(Dr. Oury, 15:33)
(16:17–18:10)
The hosts discuss “Turning Points USA” and the dangerous rhetoric post-January 6th regarding free speech and political opposition.
Emphasis on the weaponization of the Department of Justice and governmental enforcement against dissent.
“If they don’t like what you say, they deem it hate speech and it’s a crime. And the DOJ will go after thoughts and speech that it’s critical of the Trump regime.”
(Ben, 17:04)
(18:10–18:39)
More obfuscation as officials dodge direct questions on Trump’s ties to Epstein.
Ben concludes with concern for transparency and accountability.
"The FBI director could not answer... whether Donald Trump was on episode [Epstein list]. America, that’s a huge red flag."
(Ben, 18:39)
British Public Outrage:
"He changes his mind as often as he changes his diaper as far as I can see... Neville Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler; history showed how that worked out."
(LBC caller, 05:55)
On Gold-Plated Optics:
"I'm sure the people who are late on their mortgage and can't afford to pay their rent... are loving Donald Trump's golden carriage."
(Ben, 07:17)
On Vaccine Policy By Tweet:
“I couldn’t implement guidance off of a tweet... The written memo didn’t say the same as the video.”
(Dr. Oury, 15:39)
On Enriching the Trump Family:
“Donald Trump and his family are making billions of dollars... using the Oval Office... while American people can’t afford rent.”
(Ben, 11:09)
On Accountability and the Meidas Mission:
“As long as the Midas Touch network exists, as long as I have this microphone in my hand... we are going to make sure we speak the truth always.”
(Ben, 17:59)
The episode underscores the disconnect between Trump’s gilded self-image and the grim economic and political realities facing everyday Americans—exacerbated by an administration marked by stonewalling, self-enrichment, and disregard for democracy. The MeidasTouch brothers deploy sharp wit and legal insight to distill the threats to democracy and the importance of transparency and accountability, making this a must-listen for those concerned with the future of American governance and values.