MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 11/18/25

24:31Everyone's great. Everyone's living it up. Everyone's doing fantastic. And they just want to use Epstein to deflect from how great everything is. Like, dude, you realize that like the country is in dire straits right now. I don't think anyone's deflecting from that. The weird thing about going back to Jordi, what you were saying and Donald Trump calling it the Epstein hoax and all of that, is this was never even specifically about Donald Trump, the Epstein files. To your point, Jordy, this was about the victims. This is about their stories. This is about the things that they have gone through, them trying to get out the truth, them trying to help other survivors.

25:07There are more than a thousand people who have spoken out, who have been connected to Jeffrey Epstein in this way, the survivors who have said, who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of these horrific crimes. Well, imagine how many more there are. And this isn't even centered around Donald Trump, but in a bizarre way, Donald Trump has made himself the center of the Epstein story by trying to hide his participation in whatever was going on. And in doing so, he's made himself look as guilty as you could possibly imagine him fighting this every step of the way, him trying to create all of these deflections and these diversion tactics and having Pam Bondi, she's going to investigate.

25:45She's going to find, she's going to find the real co-conspirators of Epstein. And I mean, it reminds me of like, you know, OJ going to find the real killer, right? You got, you got Donald Trump and, and Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi. They're going to find the real pedos out there. I mean, give me a freaking break here. Everybody sees exactly what they're doing. I think everybody even except maybe the most ardent Trump cultists see exactly what is going on here. And Donald Trump to what Ben said earlier, as he continues to lie and lie and lie, he's just digging himself further and further into this.

26:17He's backing himself more into a corner, and he is in an all-out death spiral at the moment as a result.

26:23MeidasTouch:Yeah, and Donald Trump's manipulative tactics, they run the gambit. He is a master manipulator. He is a master con artist. If there's one skill he has, perhaps the historically greatest scammer and Ponzi schemer, perhaps ever, like in human history. And so he goes through different stages, you know, from anger to begging to compassion, you know, like he'll just go, I've always been with you. You know, I'm with you. I love you. You know, I love you. You know, oh, I hate you. I hate you. You're a traitor. You're a traitor. You know, it's it'll go all over the place. You know, and that's what we were seeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene, where he now calls her Marjorie Trader Brown.

27:10MeidasTouch:and he posts over and over again. She's Marjorie Trader this, Marjorie Trader that. Do we have the clip when he was flying back from Florida last night and Marjorie Taylor Greene's been posting basically that Donald - Let me just say for one second, his nickname game has fallen off a cliff. Marjorie Trader Brown, give me a break. And then he's got to explain it after the fact. He does a parenthesis. If you need a parenthesis after your nickname to explain what the nickname means, He literally wrote, parentheses, remember, Green turns to brown when there is rot involved. I mean, I think you lost your fastball a little bit if you got to go down that road.

27:47Sorry, Ben. What's the clip we're talking about?

27:49MeidasTouch:Here's what he said as he was heading back to D.C. He said, Marjorie Trader Green, I don't think anybody cares about her when he was asked about the fact that she now says she's getting death threats because Trump is calling her a traitor which she says you're basically commanding your cult to go after me by saying i'm a traitor traitors are people who are treasonous you know who get harmed and so here's what he said when asked about uh the death threats that she received let's play i talk to you right i talk to anybody we'll see what happens her life could be a danger because of the rhetoric her life is in danger who's that marjorie trader green uh i don't think her life is in danger i don't think frankly i don't think anybody cares about her okay what about and just think about it she devoted her life to that guy she called other people treason she used those tactics against other people and that's how he throws her under the bus and i think lots of maga cult members are seeing that themselves and go, basically any of us are trash to Donald Trump at the end of the day, if he's willing to do that to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

29:08It's something we've always said that this MAGA cult, it's a circular firing squad. And Donald Trump is the one that's there to oust you from the cult, no matter what. It's why to me, it's always so crazy when these folks come in, whether it's the new regime or the old regime, and it's like, oh, I'm going to be the person that he doesn't do this to. No, you're not special. None of y 'all are special. He's a maniac and you're not on the same team because Donald Trump only cares about one person and that's himself. And just the craziest thing about it is like Ben said, she devoted her entire life to Donald Trump.

29:40And it's not like she even said anything bad about Donald Trump. She didn't say one thing bad about Donald Trump, nor did she even say Donald Trump is involved with Jeffrey Epstein. All she said was the people deserve the Epstein files. We should release the Epstein files. And Donald Trump lost his mind. I mean, that's the definition of a hit dog will holler. If you ask me, Trump made another post the other day on a social media app saying that this means that Marjorie Taylor Greene turned left. And by calling for the release of the Epstein files, Marjorie Taylor Greene has betrayed him, betrayed Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party.

30:16Just pause for a second. Why would Marjorie Taylor Greene calling to release the Epstein files be a betrayal to Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party unless they are afraid of what is in said files?

30:31MeidasTouch:And now Donald Trump saying, I've always said that I support releasing the files. What? Like, what is it? The level of lies, their contradictory nature. it's why I always say, you know, stop thinking about this even as like Democrat, Republican, independent. Like he's just a bad guy. He's just an evil person who lies and is filled with hate and is just grotesque. Like that's what this is. He's a con artist. He's a criminal. He's a scammer. He's a sexual abuser. It's a bad, bad, bad person. He's been a bad, bad, bad person his entire life. He will always be a bad person and he makes America bad.

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31:48When we come back, I want to break down what went down in the James Comey case today.

31:54MeidasTouch:Explosive ruling by Judge Fitzpatrick there. Then I want to talk about what's going on with MAGA Mike, MAGA Republicans spiraling out of control. A lot, a lot to break down. We'll be right back after. Hold on, Ben. I just, I can't let you go without giving you a huge shout out as well, because you did an amazing interview with Senator Bernie Sanders that I just want to shout out. and I hope everybody has a chance to listen to it. It's on the Midas Touch podcast feed right now, anywhere you get your audio podcasts and on our YouTube. A deep dive conversation, really nuanced, excellent conversation about AI and its implications.

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37:47You look great and sound great. Thank you, Jordy.

37:50MeidasTouch:Let's dig into why this is such a big deal, what the federal judge ruled in the James Comey criminal case today. And so just to kind of situate you, because there's a lot of different judge names out there. The James Comey criminal case is pending in the Eastern District of Virginia Federal Court before a federal judge named Judge Nachmanoff. Judge Nachmanoff, like on these federal criminal cases, works alongside another federal judge called a federal magistrate judge. A federal magistrate judge is not an Article III judge, meaning he's not appointed and confirmed by the Senate and appointed by the president.

38:32MeidasTouch:But they're basically picked by the federal judges and they play important roles when it comes to signing off on search warrants. They play important roles during the grand jury process and during discovery in criminal and civil cases. That magistrate judge is a judge by the name of Fitzgerald. Separately, you may have heard a judge's name that was in a related proceeding involving James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James' criminal case. That judge is named Judge Curry. Judge Curry is a different judge who got assigned one specific motion from Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

39:18MeidasTouch:That's a motion to disqualify Lindsay Halligan saying that she was never properly appointed to be the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia because there was previously another interim United States Attorney who happened to be a Republican who was forced out by Donald Trump because they believed at the time that there was not sufficient evidence. This former Republican U.S. attorney, there was not enough evidence to indict Comey and James. So they got rid of this guy. And you're only allowed, based on a statute, to have one interim United States attorney. That was this Republican guy who they pushed out.

39:58MeidasTouch:So by picking Lindsay Halligan, you now had two interims, which violates the law. You'd have to get her appointed by Trump and then confirmed by the Senate, you can't have another person get that interim status. So that's before Judge Curry. Now, Judge Curry in the past few weeks flagged this issue of a missing portion of a grand jury transcript that you may recall that there was an initial indictment presented to the grand jury by Lindsay Halligan, and then the grand jury did not agree to sign off on that indictment. They rejected it. So then there was a second indictment, which is unheard of.

40:40This is not normal proceeding. Apparently, if you believe Halligan, she went back to her office or she went back in the hall and someone printed her out another version of it to remove the charges that were rejected by the grand jury the first time. And then she claims that the grand jury signed off on that second indictment. And that became the one that indicted James Comey based on the claims that basically he lied to Congress. The thing is that after 4.20 or so PM Eastern time, there's no longer any transcripts or audio from the grand jury. And there's a court reporter in there who's taking notes and doing an audio recording of everything that's going on.

41:24So they just captured what went down basically up until the first indictment that was rejected. But after that, there's basically missing grand jury transcripts. Lindsey Halligan responded to Judge Curry, we gave you everything. We presented it to the grand jury and that's what they signed off on. But that doesn't make any sense because they did a second grand jury and they did another indictment before the grand jury. So what happened then? How did the grand jury know to look at the second indictment that you showed them? What did you explain to them? What was that? And so Judge Curry flagged this issue of missing transcript portions.

42:07But then today, Judge Fitzpatrick was ruling on the issue of whether or not to allow James Comey and his legal team to get the grand jury materials. Now, normally a criminal defendant never gets the grand jury materials unless and until a witness who testifies before a grand jury testifies at a criminal trial. Then you can basically make a motion because you get to cross-examine that witness on inconsistent statements that they may have made during the grand jury versus what they're saying at trial. But it's usually only then when you get the grand jury testimony if that same witness testifies at trial.

42:53So here, the request for grand jury testimony, it's an extraordinary request that's almost never given to a party who asks for it because grand jury's always shrouded in grand jury secrecy because there is a presumption of normalcy and regularity that federal prosecutors who go in a grand jury room are bound by their ethics, bound by the DOJ guidelines, that they're not going to go in there and just engage in grossness.

43:23MeidasTouch:misconduct and lie and put their legal licenses on the line, including put their entire life on the line because it could potentially be criminal if you're lying to grand juries about things. And so here, James Comey said, though, the situation is so irregular to indictments. And, you know, and there was just all the, you know, Donald Trump posting on social media, Pam Bondi tell Lindsey Halligan to do this indictment that like, judge, can you just take a look at this grand jury transcript and see if there's sufficient showing for us, for Comey, to get the grand jury testimony based on there being extraordinary circumstances.

44:08And the judge found, wow, there's extraordinary circumstances here about what went down in this grand jury room between Lindsey Halligan and the grand jury. One other point to mention, because you may go, well, wasn't the judge in the room with the grand jury and wasn't Comey's lawyers in the room with the grand jury when the indictment was being sought? No, the only people in the grand jury room are the prosecutors and the grand jury. And the law presumes that the prosecutor is going to accurately instruct the grand jury on what the law is, that there's not going to be deceit or misconduct. Although there is this remedy in extraordinary circumstances, but the showing is so high and hard to make that you can challenge the grand jury proceedings.

44:55And that's what Comey is doing here. And so this magistrate judge who was ordered by the federal judge, in this case, Nachmanoff, to conduct this review and to make particularized findings, made very particularized findings about what went down in the grand jury room. And what the judge said is that there was a number of issues that the judge finds very serious. First, that Lindsey Halligan may have lied to the jury about two critical legal issues. The grand jury was asking Lindsey Halligan questions about the Fifth Amendment right and about of James Comey against self-incrimination, to which the judge basically says that Lindsey Halligan instructed the jury that James Comey had a burden to basically rebut the evidence and that James Comey wasn't there.

45:52so he's not able to rebut the evidence so that there are presumptions that are almost made against James Colme. The fact that she says the Fifth Amendment right basically is not the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, that was misstating the law to the jury. And then the grand jury also was asking, is this all the evidence you have? And we don't think that there's a lot of evidence here. So how do we square this with the fact that you're asking us to sign off on this indictment, but we don't think there's enough evidence to which, according to this judge, he's like, well, Lindsay Halligan told them at trial, we're going to have better evidence.

46:33So you can just assume at trial, we're going to put on better evidence, which she was not allowed to say. And so the judge looked at that and said, Judge Fitzpatrick looked at that and said, you know, those are inaccurate legal instructions. Then there was only one person who testified before the grand jury, and that's a FBI agent. And the FBI agent who's identified just as agent number three, he came into contact with attorney client information between James Comey and one of James Comey's prior lawyers, a guy by the name of Daniel Richman. And Daniel Richman is the person who, I suppose this agent claims, that Comey instructed to go to the press about certain information, such when Comey was testifying before Congress like five years ago, and he said, I didn't instruct anybody.

47:31The claim, I guess, is that Comey's former personal lawyer and advisor, this guy Daniel Richman, was instructed by Comey to go to the press back in 2017. Daniel Richman in prior proceedings stated that he was never instructed to do so. But in any event, this agent apparently looked at attorney-client communications between Comey and Richman, which again is banned. You're not allowed to do that. Or if you come into contact with it, you can't then testify because you've now come into contact with attorney-client tainted information. What you should have done is disclose that to the court, been transparent about it, basically not have any interaction with the other agents, because now attorney-client privilege basically means that what you say to your attorney is always confidential unless you're engaged in criminal conduct.

48:25But once you come into contact with attorney-client information, you can't be on the case anymore because you violated the sacred relationship between, in this case, James Comey and his lawyer, Daniel Richmond. But they're also claiming that Richmond is their main witness against Comey. So you have that aspect to deal with. And then it comes to the issue of the missing portions of the transcript and the missing portions of the transcript. The judge says either the transcripts are just straight up missing here and you're lying to us and the transcripts actually exist. or the judge says, or we're in unchartered territory here, in which case, did you even secure the second indictment?

49:11I mean, because that second indictment you brought before the grand jury, we don't see any reference to it in this grand jury transcript. All we see is the first one, which was rejected. So is it possible that you just like went out in the hall, the judge doesn't use this exact language, but almost the implication is, did you doctor an indictment? Like, did you, after they rejected it the first time, did you just go and basically change the filing, but keep their signature on it and pretend that they agreed to it? Or are you not giving us the transcript? Because you would have had to have give the jury instructions on the second document that you gave them.

49:51So I know that may be a little bit of a wordy background, and I'm sorry if it was confusing at all, but I tried to kind of cut through and break it down as best as I could. But these are serious implications right now. So the Trump regime filed emergency briefs right now to the main federal judge, Nakmanov, saying, do not give Comey these grand jury transcripts. You have to stop it. And they're going to probably try to appeal this all the way up. I've never seen anything like this before in my legal career or even heard of anything like this. Who would have thought, Ben, that a beauty pageant contestant turned insurance lawyer with zero prosecutorial experience, who's never been in a grand jury room, has never done any of this, would screw something up so spectacularly.

50:36And it's why she was the only one who was willing to do this. And you could blame, she deserves a ton of blame. Pam Bondi, by the way, who signed her name onto all this and has vouched for Lindsey Halligan throughout this. Just continue to keep an eye on that as well. These people are all to blame. And obviously it all goes up to Donald Trump, who, as we said in the beginning of this episode, he will not try to course correct on an issue. He doubles down and he doubles down until it's just a total full on disaster. And that's what's happening right now. And this could really like take down his entire Department of Justice.

51:11Like this is actually devastating right now. And to sum up like the things that Ben was saying to the judge found 11 distinct findings, 11, each one providing grounds for Comey to challenge the indictment. And so to me, you're looking at the Comey indictment right now. You're looking at the Letitia James indictment right now. Like in my opinion, looking at where reading the tea leaves, those are going to go away. Like these, these are obvious vindictive prosecutions. Lindsay Halligan was the only one who was willing to touch it. She obviously screwed it up just by nature of there was no case there to begin with.

51:40And she tried to apparently fabricate one. And now she's being called out by the judge. And I think as we see this go on, Lindsay Halligan should go, she should take a look at the past, uh, lawyers who tried to do things like this for Donald Trump and see where they ended up. She should take a look at what happened to Rudy Giuliani. She should take a look at what happened to, uh, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, go through the list. You could go through the list of those names. Guess who's going, guess whose name will be at the end of that list. Probably not at the end. Cause there'll probably be more of these people, but the end for now, Lindsay Halligan, if you want to look into your future, Look at what happened to those people.

52:16You could kiss that bar license goodbye. I mean, everything you have done right now is so unethical, corrupt against everything that you are supposed to do as an attorney with people who have even the most basic knowledge of the law would know that the way you are conducting yourself in these rooms is completely illegal. And so as this thread continues to be pulled, we're going to see this continue to unravel and all of Donald Trump's sham indictments, in my opinion, are going to go away. And this is all going to continue to backfire on Halligan, on Bondi, on Trump. It's just the latest of a series of failures of this regime where people are, where this regime is just a laughingstock and a total incompetent place where just everything is falling apart, no matter where you look, no matter what division of the government you look.

53:02It's just one disaster, one collapse after the next. That's why it's important to have adults in the room and real serious people in the room. Ben, this is way more your domain than mine. So I'm not even going to attempt to really comment here. But one, can Halligan be disbarred? And two, what do you think happens next year?

53:19MeidasTouch:Yeah, I think that the disbarment won't be instantaneous. But this seems to be heading down a path where, I mean, just the mere fact that she went into a grand jury room and lied to the grand jury about what the Fifth Amendment is and lied to the grand jury about whose burden of evidence, who has to shoulder certain burdens of evidence. I mean, that's, again, that's unheard of. And look, I don't, we don't know, I want to be clear. We don't know what the issue is with this missing transcript, but the issue with the missing transcript involves the fact that the grand jury rejected the indictment when it had three counts and it was first presented to it.

54:03MeidasTouch:And according to Lindsay Halligan, she had to go back, print out another document because the grand jury was confused about what it looked like. And then she brought back a two count indictment. And she said the grand jury then agreed to this two count indictment. That's the part that's missing on the transcript. That's what Judge Curry and the disqualification hearing was referring to, right? That's what we've now learned. And so if she never presented the sec, we don't know this, but like, this is why the judge said, we're in unchartered territory is what the magistrate judge said today. The idea that she may have just presented a document as the grand jury indicting James Comey that they never even saw or they weren't aware of because that's not captured on the transcript.

54:49MeidasTouch:Jordy, that goes beyond disbarment. Again, this is why I want to be very careful with my language because we don't know. But if that's what took place, Jordy, that's criminal. Like that's as like, like that's literally a criminal act that in normal times would put somebody away for 20 or 30 years in prison. Like, like going to a grand jury, like forging a grand jury signature on a document. That's why the judge says, okay, it's either missing Lindsay or you're handing me something they never saw. It's one or the other. This is one of those sort of, you know, I don't know what's considered a main, a main story and a side story in this administration, but this is one of those stories in this administration that the second these indictments were signed off by the grand jury, we said something doesn't smell right.

55:35Something doesn't smell right here. Like they clearly did not give this grand jury all the information here. They clearly did not introduce exculpatory information. Like there's something at play here. And that's why from the beginning, we said, watch the story, like follow along here. This is not going to end well for Lindsay Halligan. And we could still say that right now. There is much more to come. Watch what continues to come out here. Watch what Lindsey Halligan tries to do as she feels cornered. You know damn well right now that she is terrified of what's going on. And like Donald Trump, instead of just fessing up, instead of trying to correct the record, she and Pam Bondi and Trump just continue to spin out more, which only makes the problem worse for them at the end of the day.

56:14But they just can't control themselves because they are so in deep on this corrupt scheme. They feel so invincible. but it is all falling apart. The house of cards is coming undone before our eyes. Yeah.

56:27MeidasTouch:The rule of holes is stop digging. Okay. Or the law of holes is stop digging and they continue to dig. And to the extent there's any poetic justice or justice coming out of this as well, it's that Pam Bondi, not once, but twice in declarations ratified what Lindsay Halligan has done in order to basically prevent Halligan from being disqualified in that separate proceeding, which is just dealing with disqualification. This is dealing with grand jury misconduct, which is a separate grounds for dismissal. So to try to, and this is just shows you too, like they're not even smart with the moves that they're making, right?

57:06MeidasTouch:In order to try to prevent her from being disqualified, the plan from Pam Bondi and the DOJ was to retroactively ratify the conduct as though Bondi was in the room with Lindsey Halligan by just filing a document after the statute of limitations expired and the claim against Comey was time barred. So not only is that argument not going to work because you can't retroactively reactivate the statute of limitations as the DOJ by saying I was in a room where I was not. But now you've ratified and said that you support that conduct, which the judge gives 11 separate reasons about why this was gross misconduct.

57:50MeidasTouch:So just think about Pam Bondi's future as well, because folks, there will be a future beyond Donald Trump. Increasingly, I think that's being made very, very clear to people in the Republican Party, to people in Trump's cabinet, and their decisions, their complicity, their war crimes, they'll be remembered. Trust me, people are remembering them, okay? Let's take our last quick break of the show. A reminder, hit join. Become a member of our YouTube channel right now and gift memberships to others if you can. When we come back, we'll be on our homestretch of this episode. We've got a lot to discuss still.

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1:03:29MeidasTouch:One of the things that Trump and his regime was bragging about today is that they say they're taking steps to try to make things more affordable, like coffee and different types of produce. And they said they're doing an executive order to try to remove some of the reciprocal tariffs. And they're saying this is a big deal and they're showing that they care about affordability. This is the craziest. This is the craziest thing ever. I just, you have all of these MAGA people on Twitter right now who are like, you know, like the paid shills. Like it's easy to to see who are the paid shills right now because they're, they're like brilliant move.

1:04:07Donald Trump executive order removes tariffs on coffee to make things more affordable way to focus on affordability, Donald you're crushing it. And you're like, all right, what idiot put the tariffs on the coffee in the first place? Uh, and why don't you answer that question? And also isn't Donald Trump, the guy who over the past, what, 10, 11 months or so has been saying that tariffs don't raise prices. So isn't this a tacit admission that tariffs do in fact raise prices if due to quote affordability concerns, you are now removing the tariffs in order to lower the prices. It blows up everything they have said about these tariffs.

1:04:45It blows up everything they've tried to set about, oh, these are genius moves by Donald Trump. Oh, wow. He's playing 4D chess. No, he's not. He's a freaking idiot. And now he's reversing course because he knows that people are suffering despite the fact that he continues to tout that we are in a golden age. It's literally the arsonist putting out the fire and then looking around to be like, hey, you guys gonna compliment me for putting out the fire I started? And then these MAGA shills, they do, I mean, he's getting what he wants from them, but the American people, like I said earlier, are smart, they're seeing through this, Benji.

1:05:17MeidasTouch:Yeah, and a little bit, Jordy, you're gonna like what I'm gonna show you. I mean, maybe you would. It's your boy, Joe Kernan. Oh, that's just Jordy rage bait. on CNBC, except Kernan speaking to Trump's top national economic advisor. And it's like, you think this is a really like, he's basically like, dude, I'm your MAGA guy on CNBC. I've been trying to help you for all of these months. Like I've been doing everything and you're really making my job very difficult right now. Like you realize you've made me look totally stupid. It's basically what he's saying, Jordy, but I'll show you that. I've been turning clean for about three weeks now.

1:05:52So, so I'm going to, that's going to be over with this episode.

1:05:56MeidasTouch:Oh, wow. I can't believe that. No curtain in November. No curtain in November. Let me show you first, though, what Donald Trump said when he was giving this speech before at the McDonald's American Golden Age Forum or whatever the hell. He's been doing like post today of like the White House with the McDonald's arch on it. And he's like, we're in a golden age. But then he's talking about the minimum wage. and this was his message to workers about the minimum wage. I think we've got it. Let's play it. And wages for hourly workers are rising at the fastest pace in 60 years and sometimes you might say, was that good or bad?

1:06:35It's great for you. The minimum wage thing you'll have to be talking about. You're going to have to fight. We were talking about California, Gavin Newsom from California and I knew he's laying siege on the minimum wage And you people probably know, because that's a very complex subject, and you people probably know better than anybody the impact one way or the other, good or bad. And you're going to let your local congressmen, your senators know about it.

1:07:02MeidasTouch:The hell is that, dude? You're supposed to be the president of the United States. And you're saying that Governor Newsom is laying siege on the minimum wage. By that, do you mean he's requiring corporations pay a living wage or a wage with decency? and that we're actually seeing corporations doing just fine. I mean, to me, I have a problem personally seeing CEOs making like a thousand times the amount of money that the workers are making who are the backbone of the company. I'm all for people being entrepreneurial. I'm all for, you know, the idea that if you, you know, create a business, you know, you should be able to make money.

1:07:46MeidasTouch:I'm good with that. But we have to realize that so much of the problems that our country faces, it's so interconnected and that we can't have a great country or a good country if we're not just helping each other out. What's the point of a country if it's basically just a forum for a class warfare where billionaires and right-wing oligarchs are destroying people's lives and making people miserable. That creates misery throughout the entire country, in my view, at every level. And so that was Trump's view there. But just think about Trump's view, though. Just think about the psychology of Trump here and what it says about his entire belief of the country.

1:08:32And Trump obviously has, ever since the election, the Republicans have been reeling because Democrats won by running on issues of affordability. And Trump is trying to pretend that prices are down, that everything's great, that everyone's living extravagant lives, everyone's doing fantastic, everything's affordable, which everyone knows is BS. And so Donald Trump then decides to hold this event on affordability. I want to go back to what this event is supposed to be about. This event is about affordability. And then he goes and he tells the franchise owners, the owners, that they need to be prepared to fight minimum wage increases and attacks Governor Gavin Newsom for raising the minimum wage, which helps uplift people out of poverty, which helps uplift people's quality of life.

1:09:18How do you go to an affordability event and then rant against affordability? He's talking about affordability for owners, I guess. He wants to make the owners richer. I mean, it's the most absurd thing on the planet. I can't believe the guy that hosted the Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party doesn't want the american people to actually earn a living paycheck it's just crazy to me you got to be prepared to fight that's what he said that's what he said to the owners you got to be prepared to fight this

1:09:44MeidasTouch:minimum wage thing gotta be get ready to fight get ready to fight all right let's take a look jordy at your boy joe kiernan and his interview with trump's national economic advisor um first you had trump's national economic advisor kevin has said now this guy has made a career about being wrong about everything. Right when the dot-com boom went bust, he was the guy saying, it's going to be incredible. Bye, bye, bye. Literally the next day after the guy's book came out, everything crashed. His whole life, he's been the most wrong guy, literally the worst person for this position. He does it in such a weaselly way to, well, you know.

1:10:21MeidasTouch:What he's referring to, the fact that jobless claims right now have reached basically the same highs we saw during the Great Recession or during COVID. And we don't even have accurate data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So who knows? It may even be worse. But the way that he refers to Americans losing their jobs and also losing their jobs because of AI as quiet time in the labor market. No, they're not losing their jobs. It's just quiet time in the labor market. That's what the Trump regime is referring to, the surge in jobless claims. Let's play it. Last CPI report we got surprised 48 Bloomberg economists on the downside.

1:11:03It even had some sort of temporary bad news because there was a refinery that was shut down. If you're looking at the top line number, I think that there have been mixed signals in the job market and really, really positive signals in the output markets. As you know, we've got GDP now running close to 4%. We've got productivity running up around 3%. And so I think that there could be a little bit of almost quiet time in the labor market because firms are finding that ai is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of

1:11:34MeidasTouch:college and so on but because they don't have to hire the new kids out of college i'm sure that's great for the 18 to 29 year olds they feel great about their uh quiet time but also i should note that everything he said there before he went into quiet time was also false he was like in all the Nobel laureates, all the economists were shocked about inflation going down. Inflation's going up. Objectively, it's going up. It's 3 % year over year, 3 % more now than under former President Biden. That's not going down. I mean, these people lie about everything. And then Jordy, Joe Kernan is like, just Kernan.

1:12:12MeidasTouch:He's like, if we're reversing tariffs to try to help affordability, aren't we acknowledging that tariffs were causing things to be less affordable? Play this clip. The whole issue of tariffs, if we're reversing some tariffs to try to help affordability, isn't that acknowledging that the tariffs were responsible for some of the higher prices and for some of the inflation that is still a problem? Well, first, this is nothing new. If you go through all of the trade deals that we've been doing all the way through, then there have been things that we decided it was prudent based on the economics of supply and demand to exempt and one of those things that we've been exempting all along is something that we don't make in the US will never make in the US or almost ever I know that in Hawaii they make some coffee and so on-shoring that production really doesn't make sense it's not part of our strategy and what the president just did with food is decide to make like a blanket movement so that we weren't going through each deal and picking this than that.

1:13:14MeidasTouch:Okay. Literally your tariffs against the world did not exempt those things. That's why you're exempting them now, correct? If they were exempted before, then why are you exempting them now? Like, do you think we're that stupid? You're exempting them now because they weren't exempted and that everybody said the tariffs were going to make things rise. And that's why inflation is rising as well when inflation was heading down before you've caused it to rise. And then finally, Jordi, I'll show you this one right here. You've ruined my no current November. Just over now. And what Kernan says though is, you know, when Trump says prices are falling, we know that's not true.

1:13:57MeidasTouch:So don't you think it's like harmful to the administration regime when you say that and people know it's not true? Like, why do you think that's a good thing to say? here play this clip when you keep saying prices are falling that's not true uh because inflation is still it's the three percent is on top of all the inflation we had uh during the biden years so we got all that inflation plus an additional three percent and we should i think you should admit that a more a more precise way to say it though joe is that purchasing power has gone up so real wages that's w divided by p for our technical people in the audience have gone up by about$1 ,200 this year.

1:14:35So the way to think about it is that we've dug a$3 ,000 hole because of Biden policies and we've, you know, gained$1 ,200 on the way out.

1:14:43MeidasTouch:No, we didn't. No, purchasing power is not every P for your technical audience. P minus, I'm just going to start saying other things. Dude, what are you talking about? Things are less affordable, objectively are less affordable. If you live in the real world, you know that they're less affordable. I want to get your perspective on that, Jordi. But one other thing I just want to show everybody as well is I just found it interesting watching Treasury Secretary Scott Besant squirm over the weekend on Maria Bartiroma when she was saying, so we're hearing basically that in China right now, they're really not taking the soybeans like you promised.

1:15:20So our soybean farmers are still struggling. And also we hear that they're not releasing their rare earth elements,

1:15:29MeidasTouch:which was another part of what you claim the deal was that they were going to release their export controls, which by the way, they didn't put export controls under former president Biden. And they were buying 27 million metric tons of soybeans under former president Biden. This year, they bought zero soybeans. Although Trump said they promised they would do 12 million metric tons. Okay. So 15 million metric tons left. And I got them to release the rare earth elements. they put the controls on because of you in the first place. And we've been flagging this issue the whole time that there's no deals.

1:16:03These are fake deals. China didn't agree to anything that Donald Trump and this regime claims. Watch what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says here. Let's play. Is China holding back rare earth magnets from companies tied to the U.S. military right now? Yeah, Maria, I think that Wall Street Journal reporting is not very accurate. We haven't even finish the agreement, which we hope to have done by Thanksgiving. And I am confident that post our meeting in Korea between the two leaders.

1:16:32MeidasTouch:So there's no deal. Did you notice Maria Bartiromo looking at him like we made this video at the Midas Touch Network? We could have probably pulled in 20 more statements of Donald Trump from May to June, July. Yeah, there were a lot. There's a lot of them where he says, we did a deal. We did a deal. Deal. And the market threw him yesterday, me and their research team and like there was a lot there was like let's just take three moments and what is it i think we got june october and then uh besson's comments that he just made just to show you the never-ending scam and as ben calls like the ponzi scheme and the the way that they're always like oh yeah we got a deal it's just around the corner there's a deal it's coming it's their deal it's coming you're getting two thousand dollars it's coming it's always in the future there's something that's about to be happening that never happens or he says it happens and It hasn't happened, but it will happen soon.

1:17:21And it's just this constant game that they play. Just watch this clip. We've made a deal with China. We've made a deal with probably four or five different countries. We were, we have a deal. Now every year we'll renegotiate the deal. I'll be going to China in April. And he'll be coming here sometime after that. Is China holding back rare earth magnets from companies tied to the U.S. military right now? Yeah, Maria, I think that Wall Street Journal reporting is not very accurate. We haven't even finished the agreement, which we hope to have done by Thanksgiving. We had a deal in June. Okay. Okay.

1:18:03A couple things here. Why do they speak so weird? Like Scott Besson and both Kevin Hassett. Like, what is he doing? Like doing this with his eyes and his hands? Hassett's always like... Yeah, and then you got Hassett. No, Hassett just always smiling. like he's got this shit eating grin on his face at all times and it's just it's really bizarre and bet i see what you're doing here you're playing like these like slightly positive like kernan clips here you're trying to you're trying to make me compliment the guy that's the least he could do after what i seen him do during the shutdown that is the absolute bare minimum kernan could do with uh with has it on there and look i i know i'm done commenting on people's appearances i'm not allowed to the brothers don't let me do it after i commented to marco rubio in his ears but kevin Hassett, when he's speaking, it could just best be described like he's pooped his pants.

1:18:51Like that's what he looks like when he's looking into the camera with that smirk of his, oh, I can't stand him. That clip, I'm going to lose sleep. That was like, Kernan and Hassett, like, oh, I'm losing sleep over that clip. I think it's interesting watching these people though. Like they realize how stupid that they are starting to look, you know, because they've been pulling their own viewers along the same scheme, along the same scam that look how great everything is. and, you know, greatness is just around the corner. You're about to get rich just around the corner. And the more they say it, the worse things get for people.

1:19:23And people, even the MAGA people right now, are realizing that. So you see Joe Kern being, dude, I've been going to bat for you now for all this time. Like, you realize that this isn't working, right? Like, just give me something here. And you see that kind of across the board, I guess, except for Jesse Waters, who's just committed to the pit. But it's just, it's sad. It's like, enough, guys. It's a failed experiment. You tried MAGA it's over. Okay. You failed Donald Trump. You have a failed presidency. You're a lame duck. You got Ted fricking Cruz already leaking to the press that he wants to run for president in 2028.

1:19:58That's how, you know, you are a lame duck loser, Donald. That's how pathetic this presidency is right now. That Ted fricking Cruz is like, yo, I'm going to run. Like how bad do things have to get for that to happen? This is a disastrous administration. the people are feeling it. But I think the good news is the silver lining is that for the first time, I think we're starting to see the clouds dissipate. Now, is it a guaranteed thing from here on out? Absolutely not. But I just want to acknowledge that the momentum is in the right direction, which is why right now more than ever, we all need to remain in this fight and we all need to be pushing in the same direction and continue to expose this administration because we see what happens when we flood the zone with the truth.

1:20:39They cannot escape it. And that's exactly what's happening at this moment.

1:20:42MeidasTouch:Two last things I want to point out before going. One, Nancy Mace's ex-fiance announced he's filing a temporary restraining order against her, quote, in hopes of shutting her up. Okay. But more seriously, I want to let everybody know in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in North Carolina that we stand in solidarity with them. The Trump regime launched an invasion of Charlotte with its border patrol and ICE Gestapo there led by Greg Bovino, where they're going shopping center to shopping center and something they call Operation Charlotte's Web, another just stupid name, but they call it Operation Charlotte's Web, where they're basically targeting any person with brown skin, saying, where are you from?

1:21:25MeidasTouch:Show us your papers. They're harassing people at work sites, harassing people in construction sites at their place of work, terrorizing the community, walking around with their weapons, pointing their weapons at people, exactly what we saw in Chicago and Los Angeles and in Portland. They go into these cities and counties and they terrorize the people and try to create a pretext for military invasions of more forces. And they go and literally create terror using chemical agents, again, pointing weapons at people, shooting at people, separating families, you know, marching through just like peaceful communities, you know, and the people in Charlotte and the broader Mecklenburg County area are just kind of absolutely livid.

1:22:15MeidasTouch:We've been doing a lot of videos on the Midas Touch Network YouTube channel. I call it the All Hell Breaks Loose series, where I focus on a lot of the videos captured by citizen journalists who have been recording what's going on in Charlotte. And it's just so reprehensible and these like fake tough guys like Greg Bovino who are out there, you know, in their little outfits. I mean, they couldn't look like more parodies of a bad guy in their parodies of a parody of a bad guy in a movie. And it's just so disgusting to watch their real life ramifications of these, of these terrorists, of these war criminals.

1:22:52MeidasTouch:And that's, that's who they are. They're terrorists and war criminals. And I hope and look forward one day to accountability against these terrorists and war criminals for their behavior. And again, you shouldn't matter what political party you're from. You should not want militarized federal officials going through your communities and terrorizing hardworking people. They're not going after criminals. They're going, I mean, all the videos show they're going after people who are hardworking people who are citizens and just hardworking people who are here to cause chaos and confusion and disorder.

1:23:32MeidasTouch:Sick, sick, sick, sick. But I want to make sure I brought that up at the end of the show. Thank you everybody so much for watching this episode. We covered a lot, a lot of topics as always. A reminder, please make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel and subscribe to the Midas Touch podcast on audio as well, wherever audio podcasts are available. Search Midas Touch and leave a five-star review. It helps us so much when you leave a five-star review of the Midas Touch podcast on audio. Audio listeners, subscribe to YouTube. You want to check out Midas Touch gear, go to store.midastouch.com.

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