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23:58The MeidasTouch Brothers:They worked hand in hand here. I mean, what else could you possibly call sending 40, this is just the ones that are known about the ones who are going to file complaints against Mar-a-Lago and Epstein. What else can you call sending girls from the Mar-a-Lago spa, dozens and dozens and dozens to Jeffrey Epstein's mansion a couple miles away in order for him to procure sexual favors from them, for him to sexually assault them. That is the definition of trafficking. That's what it is. And Mar-a-Lago was clearly the hub of this entire operation, at least this part of it. And I think that's a freaking big deal that the guy who runs this private club that was the center of Jeffrey Epstein's operation is now the president of the United States.

24:44The MeidasTouch Brothers:And when you look at the documents and you look at the constant efforts by people like Attorney General Pam Bondi and others in the Department of Justice to delay and obstruct and prevent the release of so many of these documents, I think it starts making a lot more sense when you have this context about how central Mar-a-Lago was to this entire scheme. There's a reason that we have only seen fewer than 5 % of all the documents that have to do with the Epstein case at this point. That is not by accident. As Ben said, there was a law. These documents were supposed to be released weeks ago on the date that the law required.

25:27The MeidasTouch Brothers:They did not do that. And now they continue to come up with all these excuses about, oh, we're suddenly finding documents and it's going to take us weeks and we to make these redactions and it's going to take all this time. And we don't know when we're going to get to it. BS. You should have been working on this since the beginning of the term. You should remember when they gave those binders out to those MAGA influencers and said, here are all the Epstein files. And then they re-released things that were already made public during the Biden administration, but with additional redactions, you should have had all the documents back then when you said it was on your desk, Pam Bondi.

26:01The MeidasTouch Brothers:And so the scheme to me is very clear. And the more that is revealed about Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the central role that it appears that Donald Trump played in it, in my opinion, the worse and worse that this all looks. And I think it's just very revealing and really explains a lot. Like there are some things that, you know, you go like, I just don't understand why are they obstructing like this? It doesn't seem to make any sense. There are certain things in life that once you hear the information, things sort of snap into focus. And I think everything we've heard about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship and makes what's going on here very clear.

26:34Absolutely. This is one of those things. This should not be political. Trying to hold, holding child sex traffickers accountable should not be a political thing. It doesn't make me a lib that I want to see child sex traffickers held accountable, that I want every stone unturned. There should not be any information that is concealed so long as it doesn't harm the victims that the American people should not have visibility onto. Because at the end of the day, what is happening right now is truly pathetic. I mean, it is pathetic to see what the Trump regime is doing with the Epstein files, whether it's Pam Bondi trying to nail the football on this, saying that, Brett, to your point.

27:20I've reviewed all the documents. Okay, well, 5.2 million now. Were you referring to those? those were on your desk? Okay, I don't think so. The entire Trump regime, Mike Johnson, tried to delay the votes on releasing the Epstein files. It's like, what are y 'all doing? This isn't a political thing. Not in anybody's right mind is this a political thing, other than folks just want the damn truth. So stop gaslighting people, handing out white binders to your MAGA influencers so they could take these weirdo selfie ops. I mean, those folks, they're such putzes themselves. I mean, all of those people that were in that influencer shot holding those binders, they don't actually want accountability.

28:00That's all that's telling me. They want to just move as if. They want to move as if they know everything and move as if the only people that were part of the Epstein cabal was Bill Clinton and all these Democrats. Look, it's not a political thing. If there are Democrats associated with child sex traffickers, get them. Go and get them because I don't want to protect anyone like that. OK, but what we're seeing here is a constant cover up of the Epstein files and the documents. They are not being transparent with the American people. Look, one of the most potent tools that prosecutors use in sex trafficking cases is charging the broader conspiracy as a RICO criminal enterprise, right?

28:49Because there are all different people at different levels involved in the sex trafficking scheme, not just the underlying people who are procuring the underage sexual service, the rape itself, but everybody who's in that funnel, the money launderers, the people who help cover it up, the assistants, right? And oftentimes all those people get charged. What is horrifying is the idea that the Department of Justice could be charged, in my opinion, with a RICO criminal case that at all different levels, starting at the attorney general to the deputy attorney general, who, by the way, conspired with the convicted sex trafficker, Geenlay Maxwell in Tallahassee and transferred her to the minimum security facility in Bryan, Texas, where she gets like VIP services in order to stop her from telling the truth about everything that she knows.

29:48And we know that she lied through her teeth during that interview that was given. But everybody who's involved at some level, if you are aiding and abetting this at the DOJ, like you're now complicit in a RICO criminal enterprise cover-up of Epstein and Ghislaine sex trafficking. I just don't know how else to kind of describe what it is and the violations of the Epstein transparency. I think almost everybody at the DOJ can be charged. And I think people who are there, I mean, just think about the person in a criminal enterprise who kind of knows it's happening and doesn't speak up or doesn't say anything like in a sex trafficking ring, like they can be like they can be charged.

30:37Right. They can't go. Oh, you know, I was focused on my work and I didn't know. No. So to me, even if you're a United States attorney in another district or a deputy United States attorney or an AUSA somewhere, you're part of this criminal enterprise now that is the DOJ. And I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. I just think that's what the DOJ is. It is a criminal enterprise, not an enterprise that goes after the criminal enterprises. So when we come back, I want to show you, though, what it used to be like when you had career prosecutors like special counsel Jack Smith actually do the work, what a prosecutor is supposed to look like, because it's very different from what you see Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche do on state regime media, Fox, versus what Jack Smith did at a deposition where, by the way, Republicans conspiring with the DOJ blocked a lot of what Jack Smith could say because they were afraid of what he could say.

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36:36Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors. Links in description of both the YouTube and the audio. Use the links. Use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, where to next? You know, the Republicans in the House of Representatives knew they were going to have to release this Jack Smith video deposition at some point, right? At some point, it's a public record. So they had to figure out how can they try to bury it? Because they really wanted, and by the way, had tip to Jamie Raskin, had tip to a Democratic Congress member, Robert Garcia and others, right, who have really been pushing for the utmost transparency and pushing to get these things released, to have aggressive, transparent, oriented Democrats as ranking members of the House oversight and the House judiciary.

37:25So key right now. We're seeing a big difference, right, in a short period of time about what that leadership looks like. So Republicans thought as let's just dump it during New Year's and maybe people won't pay attention to it. I don't think they accounted for independent media, independent news, because we were able to get it on YouTube right away, then get the clips to Asin right away, who's our clipper, or he leads our clipping department at Midas. And then we were able to get these clips out there and deploy them immediately, as though there was like a live hearing taking place on New Year's.

38:02Like we were able to make it backfire in the Republicans face, which is a testament to new media. By the way, make sure you're subscribed to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed. You may search us and get us on your algorithm a lot. Just make sure you're subscribed and turn your notifications on as well to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. But I think this shows a big difference of what independent media was able to accomplish because we're able to make the full deposition, eight hours of it. It was an eight-hour deposition. We made the whole thing available to the public, and lots of people wanted to watch the full eight hours.

38:39Then two hours after, we then – I did a highlight. I did a best of reel of all of the kind of the top moments. So I'm not going to show you all of them again because you may have seen them already. You may have watched the full eight hours, but I think it's a good contrast to all of the crap I've just showed you with Pam Bondi and Trump. And just think about it. The White House right now controls the DOJ social media accounts. So the DOJ's communications is being run out of the White House. Donald Trump makes social media posts, ordering Pam Bondi to go after his political opponents. And then she tries to get indictments by putting in people who have never been prosecutors in their life, didn't even intern for a prosecutor's office.

39:30People like Lindsey Halligan, a beauty pageant contestant who finished like fourth turned insurance lawyer. They make her a top because she was one of Trump's personal lawyers. They make her the top prosecutor of the Eastern District of Virginia, which is one of the main prosecutorial offices that prosecute counterterrorism and espionage and public integrity. So it's just a big middle finger in the face to our justice system and all these federal judges across the country other than Judge Cannon. are like livid at the DOJ. I'm sure you've seen a lot of these exposés. We cover it here frequently on the takes I do with Harry Littman.

40:10So many cases are just getting dismissed because the government's not turning over the discovery the right way, and they're covering up things, and they don't have competent lawyers showing up who even know what the law is. It's a field day for criminal defense lawyers right now who are getting all these dismissals for their clients against a under-resourced and under-qualified DOJ, incompetent and corrupt. So Jack Smith testifies before the House under oath. Let me just share with you some of the key moments. This is Jack Smith talking about how in his opening statement that for nearly three decades, he was a career prosecutor.

40:51He served under Democrats. He served under Republicans. Let's listen to what he said. For nearly three decades, I've been a career prosecutor. I've served during both Republican and Democratic administrations, and I've been guided by those principles in every role I've held. I continued to honor those principles when I was appointed to serve as special counsel in November of 2022. The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine. But the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts.

41:31Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power. Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents. I remain grateful for the counsel, judgment, and advice of my team as I executed my responsibilities.

42:20I am both saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff simply for doing their jobs and for having worked on those cases. These dedicated public servants are the best of us, and they have been wrongly vilified and improperly dismissed from their jobs. I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election. We took our actions based on the facts and the law, the very lessons I learned early in my career as a prosecutor.

43:05We follow Justice Department policies and observe legal requirements. The timing and speed of our work reflects the strength of the evidence and our confidence that we would have secured convictions at trial. Powerful stuff right there, Brett and Jordy. I want to show more, but I want to get your reaction to that.

43:22The MeidasTouch Brothers:Yeah, it's powerful, you know, and I think it says a lot that, like, first off, it's just nice to have, like, a person who's steady, who is answering questions honestly, who's not trying to stonewall, who's not deflecting, who's not attacking the people in the room, who's not filibustering. You have somebody there who's just being professional, and that's what you want out of somebody who is a prosecutor, somebody who's in the Department of Justice. And we just see the complete opposite of that right now. And it's, you know, he is just obviously telling the truth about everything. He clearly approached the case as an honest broker of the law.

43:58The MeidasTouch Brothers:And the fact that he's even in there is a testament to how Republicans want to attack the people who are actually trying to prosecute crime rather than actually go after the criminals. And remember, this was a closed door hearing. Jack Smith and his attorneys asked for it to be open to the public. The people on the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, like Jim Jordan, would not allow that to happen. They did not want the American people to see this. That's one of the reasons why when they had to release the video, they released it right before the ball dropped on New Year's because they did not want the American people to see this.

44:27The MeidasTouch Brothers:But guess what? The American people are seeing this right now. They're seeing a man of integrity. They're seeing a man who actually just followed the facts of the case. And when you watch the full eight hours, and I, by the way, if you want to watch the full eight hours, please go for it. It's on our YouTube channel, and you could also watch the highlights, and we'll show some additional clips right here. But you see, first off, when they're behind closed doors, these Republicans behave a whole lot differently than when they're on camera in those hearings. They're not yelling. They're not performing.

44:59The MeidasTouch Brothers:You see a very different presentation, I will say, from the Republicans in the room. But what these Republicans kept trying to do was take it back to the idea of these tolling records, these records that Jack Smith came across when he was in his investigation because he discovered that Donald Trump was making all of these phone calls to all these Republican lawmakers to try to get them to object to the certification of the 2020 election. And so that's a big deal, obviously. And they almost want to try to punish Jack Smith for him just doing his investigation of an attempted coup on our government because they got caught being co-conspirators in that attempted coup of the United States government.

45:48The MeidasTouch Brothers:So it's just very telling the things that they go after. But does Jack Smith go there and start yelling at the Republicans when they make these accusations that he was targeting these people? No, he answers everything calmly. He's cool. He's collected. He tells them exactly why he received these records. He says, wow, A lot of these Republicans were lying about that their records were taken when they weren't being taken. The Republicans who were saying that they were being spied on, that their phones were tapped, that was complete BS, not true at all. There were just records of the phone calls that had like timestamps and things like that, not the actual content of the conversations.

46:24The MeidasTouch Brothers:And so he was able to rebut all of these lies in this form. And that's why he wanted it to be open to the public. But that's also why I'm happy that we were able to get that full eight plus hours out to the public so that people could actually be the judge of what was going on here. I think, you know, and I know it sucks that we have to look back on it. But I think when we look back on this all, you know, history will not judge this Republican Party kindly. And it's very obvious that they were such a huge part of this criminal cover up and criminal conspiracy to try to subvert the United States of America and our democracy.

46:58Exactly. And we'll dive into some more clips, I imagine, Benji, here as well. But I just wanted to add to this is the Law and Order Party is anything but, right? The MAGA Party, the Republican Party, who claims to be Law and Order, right? They claim that they love Law and Order. No, they don't. No, they don't. They don't. They don't love transparency. They don't love Law and Order. In fact, in many areas, they seem to be complicit in the crimes. Jack Smith, when you hear him speak, when you see that footage, Brett, you said it perfectly. It's a person who is doing his job. He is not guided by politics or party or political leaning.

47:37He is just strictly following where the evidence is taking him. And I think it's incredibly telling that there are tons of members in the Republican party at this time that don't want Jack Smith to be able to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They want to subvert what Jack Smith found. And so I am so happy that we do have this full, all of this, all of this footage is now on our YouTube channel. It's an eight hour. It's eight hours. Go check it out and just watch for yourself. And we're going to be playing more clips here as well. But I'm excited and happy that we have this footage and that we're able to show it to the audience tonight.

48:15They were also trying to set Jack Smith up because they, before he testifies, they tell him, you can't testify about anything that's not already part of the public record. So Jack Smith's like, well, you're subpoenaing me to testify, okay? You're going to be asking me questions. And so Jack Smith says, do you want to send a DO, Jack Smith, through his counsel? Do you want to send a DOJ lawyer who can be here, though, and also help monitor it? Because if you think that I'm saying things that you determine are not public record and you think that I'm asked a question and I'm doing my best to respond, you could have a DOJ lawyer say, hey, we're not comfortable with him answering that question.

49:07The DOJ just ignored him. The DOJ decided not to send any lawyer at all. They're happy to send a lawyer to Ghislaine Maxwell to get her to provide a lies about everything to help cover up a child sex trafficking ring. But then they order Jack Smith that he can testify about things that Judge Eileen Cannon has refused to make public. So I want you to see how this conspiracy is working. You have Judge Eileen Cannon is refusing to make public volume two of special counsel Jack Smith's report. Volume two is all of the evidence and grand jury statements and testimony and everything that existed regarding the Mar-a-Lago case where Donald Trump took these classified records, including potentially nuclear secrets, and he brought them to Mar-a-Lago.

50:05Eileen Cannon's refusing to make that public. She's set another extension date to like February because she was ordered by the 11th Circuit because she was just sitting on volume two, doing nothing for over a year. So the 11th Circuit said, you have to do something. So her doing something, she said, I'm going to set a deadline in February. So then the DOJ says, because Judge Cannon has not released volume two, you can't testify about it. And Jack Smith's like, you subpoenaed me here. Y 'all are asking me questions. So do you want to be here to like moderate that to make sure that you're not going to then criminally charge me for answering questions pursuant to a subpoena by the House Republicans?

50:49No. Good luck. We wish you the best. So when you go and you watch the eight hour deposition, the first seven minutes, 10 minutes, it's Jack Smith's lawyer setting out the complete timeline of what took place there and being very careful and making a very clear record of what's taking place. because this was also clearly a setup to try to prosecute Jack Smith for talking about things that canons refusing to make public, which should clearly be public in any other special counsel situation. As soon as the cases go away, the special counsel goes in an open session before the House and the Senate and testifies to the findings, right?

51:34Remember the special counsel with Biden, you know, who went very publicly and said, oh, Biden said this, Biden. Yeah, that's what's supposed to happen. But the Republicans want to keep this secret. So I'll just show you this portion right here where Jack Smith's lawyer says this morning, just over an hour ago, we get an email from the DOJ saying you can talk about anything that's not public as it relates to the Mar-a-Lago case. Here, play this clip. According to the Justice Department, discussion of Volume 2 of the special counsel's reports and any information or conclusions in Volume 2 or in draft thereof is specifically prohibited by Judge Cannon's January 21st, 2025 order.

52:20order. This morning, just over an hour ago, the Department of Justice sent us an email affirming its view that Judge Cannon's order applies to Mr. Smith and that it precludes him from disclosing any non-public information that may be contained in Volume 2, including but not limited to interview transcripts, search warrant materials, business records, toll records, video footage, records obtained by grand jury subpoenas, attorney-client communications, and potential Rule 404 evidence. This restriction significantly limits Mr. Smith's ability to discuss the classified documents case. nevertheless mr smith is committed to doing his best to answering questions consistent with the department's guidance and i asked that uh that email from the department of justice that was sent uh earlier this morning to be made part of the record i mean like isn't that crazy like isn't that an insane trap that they're trying to set for him like y 'all see it the republicans make him testify.

53:35He wants to do it publicly. They demand it happens in secret. Okay. Then they want to ask him questions, but then they tell him through the DOJ that he can't talk about volume two because judge cannon Trump's buddy is not allowing discussions to happen about that. And he gets an email an hour before he set to testify about it. And then you'll see, if you watch the full video deposition, the Jackson Smith's lawyer says, so we invited the DOJ to show up if they want to object or if they've got any issues. So there's no concern. They refuse to send somebody. That just tells you everything with this regime is a cover up.

54:18They cover up a child sex trafficking ring. They cover up Donald Trump's theft of classified records. They cover up Donald Trump's health. They cover up the video footage of war crimes being committed by the United States and some of the most heinous forms of war crimes imaginable, all war crimes are heinous. It's one cover up after another over and over and over again. Right. And now you get you get leaks like like when Donald Trump says, you know, Putin called me and said that his home was under attack by Zelensky. There was a report today that says U.S. intelligence confirms that that never happened.

54:56It is all a lie. But we all knew we didn't need U.S. intelligence. We knew Putin was lying. It was obvious that Putin's lying. Trump is the purveyor of lies, disinformation. He is engaged in tons of crimes in plain view. And then they engage in these coverups. It's very obvious what's happening. And I wanted to break down the nuance, if you will, of what's going on there. We have a lot to discuss. I want to talk about Trump covering up his deteriorating health. I want to talk about Donald Trump vetoing a clean water bill for Colorado as part of his cover up of the Epstein files in support of a convicted felon.

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1:00:23Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors. Links in description of the YouTube and the audio. Use the links, use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, where to next, big bro? Let's talk about Donald Trump's deteriorating health, his cover-up of his deteriorating health. We've been focused on this a very long time at the Midas Touch Network. This is a Wall Street Journal article from earlier in the day. They actually interviewed Donald Trump about this. It's an exclusive. Here's the headline, As signs of aging emerge, Trump responds with defiance. In an interview, the president said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.

1:01:02I think one of the tricks that Wall Street Journal is doing is, which is kind of funny now, I guess, is they're giving like headlines that seem favorable to Donald Trump. But then when you read the articles, they're actually pretty fierce against him. And I guess they figure he only reads the headlines because they did the same thing with the Epstein article, right? Trump kicks him out of this Mar-a-Lago spa. But then when you read it, it was like, well, Donald Trump was sending all these girls and it seemed to be underage or very young to Epstein's house. But like the headline was kicked out of the spa in 2003.

1:01:33Yeah, but not Mar-a-Lago. And then also seems like Epstein and Trump were still pretty close. So this was the headline. Trump responds with defiance. So as you go through this article, here's what it talks about. Trump admits to taking more aspirin than his doctors recommend. He says it's a superstitious thing that he has. He says, they say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense? That's what he says. He goes, does that make sense? No, it doesn't make sense. regarding his hands and why his hands are discolored.

1:02:10Donald Trump is asked about that. And he says he applies makeup to his hands after he gets whacked again by someone. He adds, I have makeup that's easy to put on, takes about 10 seconds. And he puts it on after he gets whacked. I get whacked and I put it on. What does that mean? You get whacked in your hand and you put on makeup and like, what the hell are you talking about? Okay. He gets whacked in his head. The story keeps shifting too.

1:02:39The MeidasTouch Brothers:It was too much handshaking. Now he gets whacked. I mean, I just can't keep up. Imagine someone said that. What does that sentence even mean? He gets whacked and he puts on makeup and it takes intense. Don't worry. I don't think we're worried. The broader issue was not whether it took 5, 10, 15, or 20 seconds. It only takes 10 seconds. Yeah. Okay. You apply makeup. It takes you 10 seconds on your head. Yeah, it doesn't, the makeup job we see, it doesn't look like a lot of time was spent on that job that we see. I'm going to say our concern was not how long has the makeup taken to lather up. There was also something in the Wall Street Journal piece that said, like, Pam Bond, maybe this is part of the whacking.

1:03:18The MeidasTouch Brothers:It sounds so weird when you say it like that. Like, Pam Bondi, like, brushed up against Trump's hand with, like, her hand and, like, a piece of her jewelry, like, brushed up against Trump's hand. And Trump's hand started, like, profusely bleeding. and like the people around Trump got like very nervous and they were worried that he would freak out on Bondi because she made him just start like gushing blood out of his hands. Like this is like biblical shit. What does he think? Like he thinks the concern of the public with the makeup was, hey guys, is he wearing makeup all over his hands because they look discolored and like there are IVs?

1:03:54Does he think people are like, yo, 30 seconds or 35 seconds? No, no, no. 10 seconds. like how long it takes to put the makeup on. Dude, you're using Mad Libs. Donald Trump says that he doesn't fall asleep in the meetings where we see him falling asleep. He goes, it's just relaxing to me. Sometimes they'll just take a picture of me blinking. They'll catch me with the blink. The blink, he says, that that's what it is. It's the blink.

1:04:23The MeidasTouch Brothers:The blink. Believe, the blink. It's just the blink. And then RNC chair Joe Gruters says that he witnesses says Donald Trump eat French fries, a McDonald's quarter pounder hamburger, a Big Mac and a filet of fish in one sitting. Also, Donald Trump now is saying through the same doctor who said that he had an MRI. And we know that Caroline Levitt said that Trump had an MRI and Trump says he had an MRI. Now Trump says it was a CT scan, not an MRI, he tells the Wall Street journal that it's a CT scan. It's x-rays, not magnets. And he wants you to know all of that. Although CT scans are also used to test Alzheimer's.

1:05:06One of the ways CT scans can be used is by ruling out other forms of shrinkage and other issues. But regardless, he said it was an MRI. I mean, what am I even talking about here? Here's Donald Trump on November 14, 2025. Just listen to what he says. Here, play this clip. Because it's part of my physical. Getting an MRI is very standard way you think I shouldn't have it. I had an MRI. Here's what the story is. I had an MRI. The doctor said it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor. That's it. But I had an MRI as part of my standard yearly or every I think I do it every two years. But I have the physical every year.

1:05:49And the result was outstanding. Did you know? I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well. And they said that I had as good a result as they've ever seen. Caroline Levitt, here's what she had to say around that time. Let's play it. Danny from the MRI, because President Trump yesterday said that he would release the results of his MRI. Is that happening right now? It is happening right now. As part of and this is a summary from the president's physician and we will release it right now. I think my team has it teed up for all of you. I'll read it for you and then you'll get it physically as well.

1:06:29As part of President Trump's comprehensive executive physical, advanced imaging was performed because men in his age group benefit from a thorough evaluation of cardiovascular and abdominal health. Okay. I mean, so at best, the president of the United States does not know the difference between an MRI and a CT scan, which would still be alarming that he's making up that he's had a CT scan just of the abdominal region. Who goes in and gets a preventative CT scan of the abdomen only? Like, you know what? Here we are. It's your annual physical. We're going to have to CT scan that abdomen? Why? Just what we do to everybody.

1:07:11Any other body parts? No, no, no, no, no. Just we're going to CT scan just your abdomen. That's basically it. You sure people do this doc? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We just put people through x-rays all the time without any complaints about anything. Just, you know, part of the executive physical. Okay. These are the most ridiculous lies imaginable. And in many ways, in my view, it just makes it worse because not just in terms of physical, because in many ways, having a CT scan raises even deeper questions. But it's like constantly lie after lie after lie and the stupidest lies and just treating people like they're so freaking dumb and we're not dumb.

1:07:51I just want to have smart and sophisticated leadership, which brings me to Zoran Mamdani, a breath of fresh air in a toxic political climate with this MAGA mutation, whatever you want to call it. Don't you wish that the President of the United States talked like this? This is Zoran Mamdani saying that whether you voted for him or not, here is his promise. This is from the inauguration of New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani, which we streamed live on the Midas Touch Network. Here, play this clip. We will encourage you to demand more of yourselves as well. The movement we began over a year ago did not end with our election.

1:08:35It will not end this afternoon. It lives on with every battle we will fight together. Every blizzard and flood we withstand together. Every moment of fiscal challenge we overcome with ambition, not austerity, together. Every way we pursue change in working people's interests rather than at their expense, together. No longer will we treat victory as an invitation to turn off the news. From today onwards, we will understand victory very simply. Something with the power to transform lives and something that demands effort from each of us every single day. What we achieve together will reach across the five boroughs and it will resonate far beyond.

1:09:26There are many who will be watching. They want to know if the left can govern. They want to know if the struggles that afflict them can be solved. They want to know if it is right to hope again. So standing together with the wind of purpose at our backs, we will do something that New Yorkers do better than anyone else. we will set an example for the world.

1:09:58If what Sinatra said is true, let us prove that anyone can make it in New York and anywhere else too. Let us prove that when a city belongs to the people, there is no need too small to be met, no person too sick to be made healthy, no one too alone to feel like New York is their home. The work continues. The work endures. The work, my friends, has only just begun. Thank you. Here's what he had to say about child care, about health care, about just affordability in general. Let's play it. The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family. Because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few.

1:11:00Those in rent-stabilized homes will no longer dread the latest rent hike, because we will freeze the rent. getting on a bus without worrying about a fair hike or whether you'll be able to get to your destination on time will no longer be deemed a small miracle because we will make those buses fast and free let me show you here bernie sanders spoke and he talked about how zoran's opponents have called the agenda that he campaigned on radical but he goes in the richest country in the world, the fact that most people can't afford things and fighting for affordability, that's not radical. That's what we should all be fighting for.

1:11:43Here, play this quote. Need your help to govern. Grassroots democracy and people participating in the day-to-day struggles of this city will lead to good governance. Please remain involved. You know, all of us have heard how Zaran's opponents have called the agenda that he campaigned on radical,

1:12:21communistic, oh, and absolutely unachievable. Really? That's not what we believe. In the richest country in the history of the world, making sure that people can live in affordable housing is not radical.

1:12:52It is the right and decent thing to do. And in the midst of a massive housing crisis, it is exactly what the people of this city and this country want and need. Providing free and high quality child care is not radical. countries all over the world have done it for years it is what our kids require if they're going to be well prepared for school and what working parents desperately need now contrast that with the messaging on state regime media trump's propaganda platform fox where you have Caroline Sunshine, who's, I guess, auditioning for the job of Caroline Levitt, saying the following about Trump is daddy.

1:13:56Here, play this clip. Oh, you and I both, Jason. I'm also born and raised in this state. Let me try to put this in terms that Gavin Newsom will understand. Donald Trump is daddy, and daddy cut you off. And daddy said you can't use his credit card anymore. Because why should California and Gavin Newsom be getting federal funds when they don't even follow federal law. Nobody is obstructing federal immigration law more than the state of California and Gavin Newsom. You don't get a penny if you're not going to enforce federal law. By the way, California is the fourth largest GDP in the world. If it were to be a country, it literally subsidizes the existence of all of the failed red states.

1:14:35It gives$85 billion more than it takes in contrast to Texas, which takes$75 billion more than it gives. And I could go on that ran for a while. But, you know, the state that's basically funding the entire country is the one that MAGA chooses to go after. And then they call Trump daddy. And here, Tommy Lahren, this is, again, the messaging from state regime media, Trump's propaganda outlet, their version of TASS that's in Russia or their version of Sputnik Media or their version of RT. Here's what Tommy Lahren says about, look, we need to be focused on where's Joe Biden right now? Oh, here, play this clip.

1:15:13And you'll never believe where Joe Biden was spotted. Spoiler alert, he's on vacation. Yeah, a guy who's retired and who has cancer is probably on a vacation during vacation periods of time. Brett and Jordy. I wanted to show the contrast there, though, between what governance should look like, not radical. Like, to me, Zoran talking about child care, education, health care, rent stabilization, making housing affordable. Isn't that what governance is? What I believe is radical is to have these individuals who are MAGA radicals. The real radicals are people, Donald Trump is daddy. He's daddy, everybody.

1:15:59And we're not going to give you money. We're going to invade your state because he's daddy and daddy's math. Okay. That right right there is radical and crazy and demented, and it needs to be called out for what it is. And one of the things that we do here on Independent News, and that I think the Democrats are doing a better job at, and California Governor Newsom is doing an excellent job at, is just calling this out and being strong with the terms and being clear who the real radicals are, who are the real enemies against the United States, who are the real people who are causing harm? And what's their ultimate agenda, these MAGAs who hate America, who hate our country, who hate our freedoms, right?

1:16:44And what we saw there in Zoran's speech, the least radical. That's what America should be about, helping the American people, helping the people in this country with empathy, with compassion, with intelligence. Brett Muriel, turn it over. Right, real quick. Let me just jump ahead of you this time. Just while it's fresh in my head, when you look at the Caroline Sunshine on Fox, when you look at Tommy Lauren, And why are they so why are they so weird? Right. Like, just like, why? Where do they find these absolute creatures on Fox News and in the Republican Party? Like, what are y 'all doing? You are deeply unserious people that during a time that needs to be met with seriousness and adults in the room, just continue to clown yourselves time and time again.

1:17:28Trump is his daddy. By the way, she's not the first person to use that lingo to describe Donald Trump. It's weird. It's creepy. It's just beneath you as an individual. It's so weird, Ben and Brett.

1:17:42The MeidasTouch Brothers:It's so bizarre. And when you think about what's radical, I mean, I think radical is freeing the January 6th convicts, the people who attacked the Capitol. I think radical is kicking tens of millions of people off their healthcare plans. I think radical is refusing to even put a vote on the floor to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which are now causing premiums for millions of Americans to rise to a point where they're going to be millions and millions of Americans going bankrupt or being forced to choose between going bankrupt and having health care and being able to afford the other basic necessities in their life.

1:18:15The MeidasTouch Brothers:And what they do when you see a network like Fox, you know, I think radicals also covering up a child sex trafficking ring because because the leader of the country happens to be involved with the world's most notorious sex trafficker who everyone wants to know more about right now. And so, you know, what Fox is good at is, you know, they understand the potency of hate and they have weaponized hate in order to get people to vote against their own interests. And I mean, Bernie Sanders is 100 % right that when you list through those other things, all the things that Zoran Mamdani was calling for in his speech and the things that Bernie's fighting for and AOC is fighting for and that you see, you know, a lot of these politicians fighting for on the Democratic side, they're things that are just standard fair in other countries.

1:19:04The MeidasTouch Brothers:They're not controversial things. They're not viewed as, oh, that's impossible. That's so lefty. That's commie. That's communist, whatever. Like that's not even a consideration in so many of these other countries. It's just like, yes, of course, First, we need to provide these basic necessities for people so that they could live, so that they could not that we're going to give them all this money and we're going to make them, you know, we're do everything for them as the government, but we're going to make sure that they don't slip through the cracks. We're going to make sure that that people aren't suffering due to things that the government is able to help with.

1:19:32The MeidasTouch Brothers:And I think, you know, that's a potent message in and of itself. And it's a message that I think if you polled people on the individual issues and this polling has been done, most of these issues are like 70 percent plus Americans agreeing with like all of these issues. So Fox has to figure out a way to villainize it. And the way they villainize it is by otherizing it, by stoking this hate, by saying the weird things like daddy trying to make this like this weird, you know, kind of political game when at the end of the day, they are the ones that are just trying to kind of support the status quo that helps the billionaires in this country while they screw over the working people.

1:20:11The MeidasTouch Brothers:And Fox represents the billionaire class. Fox represents the Epstein class. That's who they are fighting for. And they pretend they cloak themselves in the flag. They cloak themselves in religion, and they do everything they can to try to make working people vote against their own interests. And they're really damn good at that, I might add. But I think even as we see, I've seen some interesting things as of late with national polling related to Zoran Mamdani. And it's actually quite striking when you look at it, when you see that Mamdani now, before people knew him, when they only heard the caricatured version of him that was out there on Fox and these other right-wing networks, people had a slightly negative view of him like a year ago, like before everything was in full swing.

1:20:59The MeidasTouch Brothers:Now, when you look at not just the New York City, but when you look statewide in New York, incredible, like super high favorables. Zoran Mamdani now is like one of the most popular politicians, if not the most popular politician in the state. If you look at the country, you widen it out, right? The entire country of the United States of America that we see through the media, that we see through our interactions online as being so incredibly divided. Who is right now like the single most popular national candidate? The most popular national figures are people like Zoran Mamdani. They're people like Bernie Sanders, people like AOC.

1:21:34The MeidasTouch Brothers:So that propaganda can be vanquished with the truth. And that's why Mamdani speaking and just being himself and touting his policies and using his creativity and getting his message out there and resonating with the people and building these movements, that's the biggest threat to Fox and the Epstein class and the billionaire class. And I think in 2026, as we kind of begin this year, we need to continue to fight against the potency of hate. And so with this network, I want to combat that and I want to be uplifting people. And I want to make sure that our work is always focused on people who need uplifting and people who need help in this country.

1:22:16The MeidasTouch Brothers:And so whether that's the Epstein survivors, when it comes to our Epstein coverage, I want to make sure that we're focusing our coverage on the survivors. That to me is the most important thing. When we're speaking about the economy, I don't want to, you know, highlight things that are great for billionaires. I want to talk about what are the things that are affecting the working people and how could we get this country to move in a direction that actually helps the working people and doesn't screw them over and leave them without health coverage and leave them broken, penniless because they had to go to the hospital.

1:22:45The MeidasTouch Brothers:And so I think that's kind of the thread that connects this network right now. And as we dive in headfirst into 2026, I think that could be all of our mission. I'm looking forward to it. And I think we could use this network for a lot of good. And I consider everyone watching, of course, part of this network, this community, and then we're all in this together. Absolutely. Reminder, the Midas Touch State of the Union address, January 5th on Patreon, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. After we conclude our State of the Union address, we will be opening the forum for questions. If you want to ask us about really anything, join us, ask us questions.

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