In short
The episode discusses a Politico-reported leak of a 2,300-page text/chat chain involving Young Republicans leadership (ages 21–40) containing repeated racist and anti-Semitic remarks, including praise for Hitler and references to gas chambers, plus the response from J.D. Vance and the Young Republicans organizations.
Guest backgrounds
The host is Michael Popak (Legal AF / Midas Touch Network). He cites individuals named in the leaked material: Joe Molino (general counsel of the New York State Young Republicans Club), William Hendricks (communications director for Chris Kobach, Kansas AG).
Key claims
Vance’s “boys will be boys” defense is portrayed as an attempt to minimize adult leadership’s extremist rhetoric; the Republican Party is said to tolerate depravity “from the top.”
Notable examples
“gas chamber”/Hitler praise; “watermelon” slur; repeated N-word; “retarded” slur; “zoo”/monkey comparisons; Trump stage photos with implicated young Republicans.
Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.
Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOYoung Republicans' Disturbing Revelations
0:00 to 0:28
Discuss the leaked chat among young Republicans and its implications on the party.
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Young Republicans' Disturbing Revelations
1:08 to 2:21
Discuss the leaked chat among young Republicans and its implications on the party.
J.D. Vance's Controversial Defense
2:21 to 3:22
Analyze J.D. Vance's response to the scandal and his remarks on youth behavior.
“Apparently, there is a war going on between the young, the official Young Republicans National Association and the New York Young Republicans group run by a guy named Waxman.”
The Digital Age and Youth Accountability
3:22 to 4:59
Examine the impact of digital footprints on youth and the consequences of shared group chats.
“Vance talking about 40-year-old young Republicans caught being racist, saying things out loud they shouldn't, but really how they think on a podcast.”
Photos and Proof of Complicity
4:59 to 6:18
Explore the evidence linking Trump to the youth Republicans involved in the scandal.
“who carries that message forward, I'm fine with.”
The Culture of the Republican Party
7:43 to 12:39
Discuss the broader implications of the scandal on the Republican Party's culture and leadership.
“Thanks for all the hard work you're putting in.”
Transcript
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1:07Michael Popok:It's just boys being boys, everybody. If those boys are 21 to 40-year-old young Republicans and they're using the N-word praising Hitler, talking about gas chambers in a now-leaked secret chat, of 2 ,300 pages among the senior leadership of the young Republicans, including many of them on the stage with Donald Trump posing for photos, some of them in government, some of them attorneys. If you're J.D. Vance and you're trying to tamp down this scandal, you just say boys are boys and young boys especially say edgy things like we should use gas chambers on Jews and using the n-word and saying the black people are watermelon people or people who belong in a zoo like monkeys that's this that is the republican party that is the young republican party and those young republicans guess what when they're when they're 21 to 40 they grow up to be and are already adult fully formed republicans i got the receipts you're here on the might of touch network and on legal af Let's get to it.
2:23Michael Popok:Politico broke the story. Apparently, there is a war going on between the young, the official Young Republicans National Association and the New York Young Republicans group run by a guy named Waxman. and Waxman got pissed. So he released the text chain of all of this disgusting, depraved, racist, anti-Semitic things. And then J.D. Vance wants us to believe that a 40-year-old is just a boy being a boy. You know what I mean? His quote, and I'll show you the clip now, kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes like Like, that's what kids do. He's still smarting, I'm sure, from the scandal around whether he actually had sex with a couch when he was a poor young boy.
3:20Michael Popok:Boys will be boys, I guess. They'll do all of those things. Here's J.D. Vance talking about 40-year-old young Republicans caught being racist, saying things out loud they shouldn't, but really how they think on a podcast. Let's play the clip. By focusing on what kids are saying in a group chat, grow up. I'm sorry. Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats. But there's another angle to this that I just have to be honest about. I'm like an old guy at this point. I'm 41 years old. I have three kids. You know, I grew up in a different world, right, where most of the stupid things that I did when I was a teenager and a young adult, they're not on the Internet.
4:02Like, I'm going to tell my kids, especially my boys, don't put things on the Internet. Like, be careful with what you post. If you put something in a group chat, assume that some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm or cause your family harm. But the reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. they tell edgy offensive jokes like that's what kids do and I really don't want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke telling a very offensive stupid joke is caused to ruin their lives and at some point we're all gonna have to say enough of this BS we're not going to allow the worst moment and a 21 year olds group chat to ruin a kid's life for the rest of time that's just not okay like we live in a digital world this stuff is now etch and stone online, we're all going to have to say, you know what?
4:53No, no, no, we're not doing this. We're not canceling kids because they do something stupid in a group chat. And if I have to be the person who carries that message forward, I'm fine with.
5:02Michael Popok:Now we've got the photo proof because Donald Trump's been on the stage with these jackals, these cretins, and we've got plenty of photos to prove it. Here's Donald Trump with a series of people who were caught in this scandal. here's some of the things that they said that was revealed by politico everyone that votes remember this is leadership of the young republicans up to age 40 i'll give you names in a minute everyone that votes no uh no is going to the gas chamber great i love hitler you're giving nationals too much credit and expecting the jew to be honest also we are officially under consideration for a trump endorsement this is all mixed together i'm ready to watch people burn about an NBA game.
5:50Michael Popok:I'd go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkeys play ball. And everyone that endorses but then votes for us is going to the gas chamber. They love the watermelon people. It was rape. He also hates the Jews. This girl is fully retarded. and then the n-word over and over again like 251 times so it's not one-off jd vance unless you think 251 times over 2900 pages is one-off these are not young people and even young people you would admonish and you wouldn't honor and try to and try to um and try to exonerate hey everybody ben mysellis here from the midas touch network i wanted to let you know about my podcast partner Michael Popak's new law firm.
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7:48Michael Popok:Joe Molino calls himself the general counsel of the New York State Young Republicans Club. He's a boy lawyer. J.D. Vance. No, he's a lawyer lawyer. That's because he's pushing 40. He actually used phrases about people being retarded, about people using the N-word. And that was the general counsel of the New York State Young Republicans. William Hendricks, he had been the communications director for Chris Kobach, the Kansas Attorney General. and he said disgusting things about women and blacks that were caught in this chain. So are any of us buying the this is just boys being boys thing? I mean, what do you expect?
8:44You've got a Republican Party led by Donald Trump and his rapid response team
8:49Michael Popok:that just posted just the other day, while Donald Trump was busy being a misogynist and a predator, going after a reporter, a reporter, a reporter, saying disgusting things about his own press secretary, Carolyn LeVette. Look at those lips. They move like a machine gun, saying disgusting things about women in general. At the same time, he posted an AI-generated image of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer saying disgusting things about Democrats and Hakeem Jeffries, who's black, by the way, wearing a Mexican sombrero. Let's play that clip. There's no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore.
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10:01Michael Popok:Now, in any self-respecting organization, this would lead to a complete and total overhaul, a firing of everybody, training, retraining and the rest. But in the Trump administration, they just pass it off as boys being boys. I'm not sure anything's going to happen to the young Republicans. And again, that name is a misnomer. I don't know how you can call a 40-year-old lawyer a young Republican and let him off the hook. Now, of course, they're trying to use this to say, well, look at the left. Look at the candidate who's running for attorney general in Virginia. He said something stupid about bullets in one of his opponents and the Speaker of the House.
10:43Michael Popok:And I agree that was inappropriate. I'm not sure it's disqualifying, but it's certainly inappropriate. And he should have to deal with it and have to address it. But I don't know if this leaked out of the young Democrats. you know our Republican counterparts would be screaming bloody murder and would be accusing us of some radical left ideology that leads to shootings and death and look how they feel about other people. I mean, look, we've been in politics long enough to know that what used to be politically disqualifying is now celebrated, especially within the Republican Party. But we need to rip the mask off the Republican Party so that people understand the depravity that's allowed to tolerate, that's tolerated within there.
11:37Michael Popok:I mean, their tone is set from the top. When you have people like Donald Trump at the top of your ticket, of course, you're going to have text messages exchanged between leaders of the young Republican Party that are going to be idolizing Adolf Hitler and gas chambers and the and the the final solution and calling women and blacks racist and sexist names and talking about using the N word. in the R word when they don't think anybody's looking. These apparently are, a lot of them are just white, privileged children who have now grown up to be white, privileged, racist, young Republicans. We'll continue to follow it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF and the fallout, if any.
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With photos leaking out of Trump endorsing adult male and female Young Republicans who on newly leaked text message chains celebrated Hitler, Gas Chambers, killing jews, using the N word, using homophobic and sexist slurs, VP JD Vance came to the rescue, declaring that the 2900 pages of text messages and 251 slurs, were just “one off” “edgy comments” made by “young boys”, including the racist messaging of the mid 30’s “general course’ of the NY Young Republicans Club. Michael Popok brings the receipts in the wake of Politico’s exposé.
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