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25:31He'd probably be like treasury secretary. I forgot about this article right here. Epstein Butler claims boss boasted about Trump job offer. And this isn't some like guy who was just in and out of Epstein's orbit. This was a guy who was with Epstein for more than a decade. I could get the exact, I think he was with Epstein for like 15 years or something at his Paris 18 years. So he ran Epstein's Paris home and worked for the disgraced financier for 18 years, and he gave a wide-ranging on-the-record interview with The Telegraph, where he said the following, Trump asked me to work for him in the new government, the butler claimed, Epstein said.

26:07I said, congratulations, I'm happy for you in my bad English, and Epstein said, no, I didn't accept. Now, that on its own is just one data point. When you put that with all these other data points of showing in the emails that Epstein is saying essentially that he's very close with Trump, that he's with Trump, send this message to Trump, try to get set up with Don Jr., whatever it is. I personally, in my opinion, in my First Amendment protected free speech opinion, I completely believe that that is the case. Absolutely. I mean, like when you look behind the curtain at all of this, I feel like it's just so much even more evil and coordinated than anyone I maybe even could have thought, pulling these pieces together.

26:49It is wild. It is wild. And I just want to comment on a few things here. On Inauguration Day, January 20th, 2025, Bitcoin was over$109 ,000. As of right now, it is$64 ,000. So just absolutely bonkers for someone, Donald Trump, who campaigned as the pro-crypto guy. I also don't want to lose this sight, Ben. when Ghislaine called Melania sweet pea. I don't know if that's like a regional term or whatever, but like the only times I've heard sweet pea is like the ultimate term of endearment. So I just want to put that into the world. Like my wife's grandmother refers to her as sweet pea. Like it is someone that you know, you're not just calling any Joe Schmo off the street sweet pea, just to show you just another data point for how close these two likely were.

27:41And I know you're giving it up, Ben, for the press, you know, finally pushing Melania a bit more. And I agree with you. I think the questioning was better. But I just can't happen, you know, to think to myself sitting here right now watching those clips, if that was Dr. Jill Biden being asked those questions by those same reporting class, how much more sort of with vigor would those reporters be coming with? And there wouldn't just be one question sort of, you know, just peppered in here and there. It would be every single question. And by the way, they would have every legitimate right to do it if President Biden was in the Epstein files at all.

28:22And so when you see these reporters, I think to your point, Ben, there are some asking good questions. But I just have to be like to myself, I wish they were asking her more. I wish they were being stronger and more forceful about it. Because there is clearly a much more deeper relationship here between Ghislaine and Melania than we all know. And we should, we, the collective we, should all know what that relationship entails.

28:46MeidasTouch:If Dr. Jill Biden was friends with a child sex trafficker and in the files and was promoting her own movie that a right-wing oligarch paid her$75 million for and then had a state regime media promote it. I agree, Jordy. Dr. Joe Biden would be asked a lot more difficult questions. But that's where I want to pull back and just say, we are in these unprecedented times where Donald Trump is having his IRS, where the acting director is Besant, who runs the Treasury Department. Give Donald Trump from the general fund of Treasury paid into by taxpayers$10 billion because Donald Trump said that he was the victim of a data breach that 404 ,000 other Americans also were back in 2021.

29:41MeidasTouch:So now Trump wants$10 billion for himself, which he claims he's going to give to charity. I'll address that. I'll explain though what I think the scheme is there as well, which seems pretty obvious to me. But then you have Donald Trump posting things like this. This So the White House posted this, then even they had to delete it. For the first time in five years, a majority of Americans say their personal finances are improving. This is just the beginning of the Trump economic boom. 62 % say their personal finances are getting better. I mean, quite literally, the poll is the opposite. Like 72 % or 75 % of Americans say that the economy is poor or just fair.

30:22MeidasTouch:But like no one's saying it's doing good or better right now. By the way, I think that's so indicative of where we are right now, right? Because even on a right-wing friendly platform like X, formerly Twitter, the White House posts that propaganda image. And they were so ruthlessly mocked and derided by people of all sides that they actually deleted it. I mean, that to me alone speaks volumes. Or Trump during an interview yesterday with NBC, and we'll show you more of the cognitive of stuff that he was saying. But he says that he really likes Bill Clinton. He's upset that Bill Clinton has been subpoenaed to testify, along with Hillary Clinton, regarding the Epstein files.

31:06MeidasTouch:And that Bill Clinton is being treated unfairly. Watch this, and then we'll talk to you about what's really going on. Let's play it. NBC News broke the story today. I don't know if you saw it, that the Democrats are already saying, if you bring President Bill Clinton and he has to testify, we're bringing President Trump. What do you say to that? Well, I think they might say that, you know, but they've already brought me. See, I've been brought. They had me indicted many, many times, many, many times. And the president had some surprising thoughts about former President Bill Clinton. It bothers me that somebody's going after Bill Clinton.

31:41See, I like Bill Clinton. I still like Bill Clinton. What do you like about him? I liked, well, I liked his behavior toward me. I thought he got me. He understood me. You know, he was the one that said very famously that you don't want to run against Trump when there were 18 people. It was 18 people, including me total. And he kept telling them, you don't want to run against Trump, run against anyone. Don't run against Trump. And Hillary sort of left at him.

32:08MeidasTouch:He goes, I mean, he's a deranged, demented human being. I don't even have to show you the other clips, but we know Donald Trump's been the one saying, go after Bill Clinton, go after Hillary Clinton, focus on them with the Epstein files, not me. So what changed? Oh, I know what changed. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton posted that she and former President Bill Clinton have agreed that not only do they want to testify before the House Oversight Committee, they want to do it in public. And here's what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton writes. For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith.

32:48MeidasTouch:We told them what we know under oath. They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction. So let's stop the games. If you You want this fight, James Comer, the MAGA Republican who leads the House Oversight Committee. Let's have it in public. You love to talk about transparency. There's nothing more transparent than a public hearing. Cameras on, we will be there. So in response to that, that's why Donald Trump has changed his tune on Clinton and the Clintons called Trump's bluff. You want to do a whole hearing in Congress on Epstein? Let's do it.

33:29MeidasTouch:Hillary Clinton says, I'll go first. Let's do it in public. Let's go. We'll talk about everybody's connections with Epstein. And that's Donald Trump. That's the Jabala post by her. Like that is really like. No, it is. Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. And it needs to get more, by the way, what she's doing there needs to get more attention. And like, it's weird though, to your point, Jody, about corporate media, like no one's connecting the dots that obviously that's why Donald Trump is now saying that. And you know, the MAGA Republicans are going to say, oh, actually, we want to do a deposition in private first.

34:04MeidasTouch:And they're not going to want to do it in public. And then they're going to try to hold them in contempt when they don't want to do it in private. Exactly. And then they're going to try to take little snippets of it and say, oh, look what we got of Bill Clinton, because they're clowns. They're fascist clowns, all of them, not political republican they're just bad humans these maggots who engage in this types of behavior so ben it's what i said last episode they don't have an honest bone in their body they don't care these republicans do not care to get to the truth at all that's the last thing they want that's that's actually the last thing they want they want to use their positions of power to enrich themselves so take a quick break we'll be right back a reminder hit subscribe you may think you're subscribed.

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38:40MeidasTouch:Welcome back. Thank you to our sponsors. Discount codes in the description below. Jordy had to go on Papa job and be an apparent. And so he's dealing with that. Let's get into some of the other news right now. So during that bizarre interview that Donald Trump had with NBC, Donald Trump was asked about settling with his own government, settling with the – it should be our government, but he's basically – his regime has taken over all layers. Remember, so he just sued the IRS, the Treasury Department, so his own United States, he sued for$10 billion, saying that he was part of a data breach on tax returns back in 2021.

39:32MeidasTouch:And there was that guy, Little John there, that was the guy's name, not the rapper, who kind of had access to all of these things. I think it impacted over 400 ,000 Americans who were subject to that data breach during the Senate hearing with Besant. It sounded like they were saying 44 ,000, but I think maybe they were saying 404 ,000. I'll show you that in a moment, but I'll make the point I want to make then. But anyway, on that basis, Donald Trump has sued basically himself with Besant as the defendant,$10 billion. And Trump says he's already won the lawsuit against the United States government.

40:16MeidasTouch:He just sued as the president. He goes, but I did it in my private capacity. So now he's going to pay himself$10 billion of our taxpayer dollars. And he's asked about it. And with a straight face, he's like, yeah, that's what I'm going to do. Absolutely. Here, play this clip. Essentially, the lawsuit's been won. I guess I want a lot of money. Scott Bestin's the head of the IRS. Pam Bonney's the head of the Justice Department. They're going to defend the IRS against you. You're their boss. Well, there's never been anything like it, in all fairness. So are you going to tell them to pay you? Don't forget, I sued as a private citizen because I sued between terms.

40:51I won three times. I won three times, but I didn't assume, unfortunately for this country, I didn't assume office the second time. But here's the story. I sued because they broke into Mar-a-Lago. That was before I became president. Now it goes along, and it turned out that the suit is a very strong suit. You're going to tell them to pay you, though? You're the boss. Well, what I would do, tell them to pay me, but I'll give 100 % of the money to charity. I don't want any of that money. You take it out of the system. A couple more questions here. No, no, I'm putting it back into the system. Yeah.

41:19If I give money to American Cancer Society, I will give 100 % of the money away to charity. I don't want any of it. $30 trillion debt, and we're going to take$10 billion out of the system? Well, I mean, you give it away anyway. They give away a lot of money. Okay.

41:35MeidasTouch:First off, I think we all agree that's crazy. Like, that's criminal, in my opinion. First Amendment right, I'm giving you my opinion. You're going to steal our taxpayer money and force the government to settle with yourself? Like, this stuff is unfathomable. Like, it's unfathomable, criminal, and crazy, in my opinion, that this is a serious thing that they're actually doing right now. I also think we all agree that he's probably not going to give this money to charity. Oh, sure he is. The Donald J. Trump Foundation. Just assume he gives it to charity, though. You know what the plan would be, right?

42:11MeidasTouch:Everybody gets what he's going to try to do then. Here's what I think he's going to do. I'll give you my opinion. First, he's going to claim that he suffered physical, emotional distress, such that he's going to claim that the$10 billion is tax-free and not income when he settles with himself. Is the IRS going to enforce that? Yeah. Besant is going to make an opinion that Trump isn't a personal physical injury. You think they're going to audit Donald Trump and say that that's how he's taking it. So he's going to take it as a personal physical injury under the IRS code that I used to advise clients in personal injury cases that you should see a tax advisor who will give you the real, but you can get it tax free if it's a personal physical injury.

42:57MeidasTouch:Obviously, this isn't a personal physical injury, but I bet you Trump will claim it that way. So he won't even pay taxes on the amount. Then if he gives 10 billion to charity, what he'll do is he'll use it as a complete offset on his income or he'll use it as a deduction. And then what he'll also do, because who's going to audit him? Then he'll carry the extra money. let's just say he donates 10 billion that he paid himself from the government to them. Then in his own mind, he'll never pay taxes for the rest of his life because he will carry, he'll get a tax person to tell him that he can then carry the deduction over to every tax year for the remainder of his life.

43:39MeidasTouch:And then he'll never pay taxes again. So then when he does the shady deals with United Arab Emirates or whoever, and makes the billions of dollars, he'll pay zero income tax because he entered into a tax-free settlement and he then donates the money and it's a complete offset on all of his taxes. I just want to let you know with that, assume he gave it to charity, that's what his plan, you know, it's not, you're not tricking people like who are in the, who are professionals. You're like, I know what he's trying to do there as well. Assuming he does that. If he doesn't just take it for himself, then we never hear from it again and we never see the donation.

44:16MeidasTouch:Oh, I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about what I'm going to, I'm thinking about what I'm going to do. And think about how much money Trump has already made from the presidency. He's profited from the presidency like nobody ever in history. The New York Times did that report recently where they estimated that he has already made at least 1.4 or 1.5 billion dollars at the floor at the absolute lowest. Obviously, you know, wealth and stakes in things are not necessarily liquid cash and income in that capacity. But you can see if that's where we're starting at, at the lowest end right now, and I think it's personally significantly higher than that.

44:52If that's where we're starting, think about the buffer he just gave himself to Ben's point with the taxes to continue to earn billions and billions and billions of dollars completely tax-free by scamming the United States taxpayer. I mean, It is a devious plot to enrich himself and not have to pay a penny.

45:11MeidasTouch:What do you think he's setting up the offshore Qatari bank accounts for? He's diverting government money for unlawful invasions of countries and other activity like that to then keep the money not within the treasury, but then to segregate money in a Qatari account that he has access to that there's no oversight over at all. And again, this shouldn't be a Democrat, Republican, independent thing. We should all be infuriated by this behavior, especially as Americans are psychologically tortured living paycheck to paycheck right now. If they're lucky enough to have a paycheck, Americans can't afford rent.

45:49MeidasTouch:They can't afford homes. Highest student loan delinquency since Great Recession type of thing. Highest car loan deficiency. All of these things. I'll just show you this other clip with Donald Trump. I want to show you what happened at the Senate hearing where Senator Gallegos was cross-examining Bessette. But first, let me just show you Donald Trump talking about cognitive stuff and that he takes cognitive exams, just so you can see, like, the level of insanity we're dealing with here. Here play this clip. I feel great. I mean, physically and mentally, I feel like I did 50 years ago. It's crazy.

46:25Now, there'll be a time when I won't be able to give you that answer. But that time hasn't come, you know? I do. I think it's very important. I've done more physicals. I take physicals just to give the report out. I take cognitive physicals. So I do a cognitive mind test. And a lot of people wouldn't be able to do very well. Not easy. You get to those last questions. I've aced. I've done three of them. No other president has agreed to do them. I do them because I have no problem with it because I'm 100 percent.

46:55MeidasTouch:And again, as we watch him there and our audio listeners, you can't see him. I I mean, you hear how crazy he sounds, but he looks like a mad person. And then you have the interviewer looking at him like he's watching somebody who is deeply unwell, and that shouldn't be acceptable for our country. There was that one moment that was particularly bizarre. Speaking of cognitive issues, we don't have to play the clip, but there was the moment where he was asked about people getting killed by ICE. And Donald Trump said, I hate even talking about ICE. two people. He downplayed people's deaths and said fewer deaths than there's actually been from ICE.

47:32But he says, two people out of tens of thousands, and you get bad publicity. And Yamas was like, there were two Americans who died. And then Trump, just his brain, who the hell knows what the hell was happening here. But he's talking about the deaths at the hands of ICE, the murders by the ICE people. And Donald Trump says, responds, we have the smallest trucks. We have been very tough on the waters. And Tom Yamas, the NBC host, was like, what? The waters? Did you just say the waters? And then he started talking about, oh yeah, we knocked out a lot of boats on the waters, just completely veering off topic into something that was so utterly nonsensical, talking about bombing drug boats when he's in the middle of a completely other thought.

48:13It was bizarre. And I think you saw more evidence of that cognitive decline in this interview that was on MSNBC. I mean, that was just like one of many very strange moments.

48:24MeidasTouch:That brings us to the Senate hearing from earlier in the day. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is the witness. And let me show you a part of the cross-examination that transpired. Democratic Senator Gallegos of Arizona starts cross-examining him. Let's just play the first clip of Gallegos. But if the president prevails in this lawsuit, he's going to be able to pocket that money. My question is, is the president, has anyone in the president's office talked to you about this lawsuit in any regard? They have not. And the president has said he will donate the proceeds to charity. You may have missed that.

49:00So no one at all has discussed this to you whatsoever. No, sir. And the president said he will. Have you received, I didn't ask any more questions. Have you received any advice from Treasury's legal division about how to handle this potential conflict? This is a Justice Department matter. They represent Treasury in it. Have someone from the Department of Justice actually come and talk to you saying that this is their purview and you need to stay out of it? Or who has discussed to you what is your role in this? Our general counsel, who's sitting behind me, has told me that it is a Justice Department matter.

49:30The Justice Department defends Treasury in matters like this. Okay, so it has been discussed with you. Do you have any final say at all in the process of this? Or is the DOJ just going to instruct you to cut a check and or settle and you have no independence to actually make a decision whether or not the president deserves$10 billion? Again, that is a DOJ matter. And so the DOJ will entirely make that decision if whether or not the president should receive$10 billion. You have no say at all. Correct. So you would just have to write the check if you were told to write the check. Correct. And you would write the check willingly if you're told by a DOJ to the president.

50:07I will follow the law, Senator. Okay. I mean, I think for many of us, this is very simple. And I think if this had been happening in any other countries, it would look like an absolute, like a total shakedown of the American taxpayer.

50:20MeidasTouch:Yeah, because you watch that, you're like, how is this even real? How is this even a thing? And I think when I show you in the next segment what was happening in the UK Parliament and how they're addressing it versus how things are being addressed here in the United, or not addressed based on the Trump regime. And Donald Trump's like, I'm not in the files. I'm vindicated. There's no issue. Nothing. I'm, I'm perfect. You know, and then our corporate news is like, on the one hand, it's denied on the other. It's just like, we have, we are living in this really warped and demented timeline here in the United States that is lacking normalcy, setting aside politics, like basic morality.

51:02MeidasTouch:But I want to show that. Let's just sum up the Trump administration's philosophy here. They don't have money to help you, the average American, but they will happily give$10 billion of your money to Donald Trump while telling you that you should enjoy your one pencil, your one doll, your one piece of broccoli, your one tortilla, and your one piece of chicken, and you will be happy about it. I mean, it's such a slap in the face to people. It is so offensive. It is so grotesque. It is just the height of kleptocracy and oligarchy. It is just detestable. I want to talk more about that hearing. Producers are saying we got to take our last break of the show.

51:42MeidasTouch:So let's go to our last quick break. A reminder, we're close to 6 million subscribers. So if you want to have me stop saying, let's get to 6 million and have me start saying, get to 7 million, make sure you're subscribed. Pretty good offer right there, Ben. You really know how to incentivize people. I've got a great offer for everybody when we come back. How about I give you a plan each to make$10 billion? And how about this? All of our audience can make somewhere in the range of 10 to 20 quadrillion dollars more than trillion. We're in the quadrillion. It's getting real, folks. I've got a plan.

52:26MeidasTouch:I'm going to lay it out there. And actually, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant gave me the idea, and I'll show you why after this last quick break.

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55:45MeidasTouch:Thank you, everybody, for watching the Midas Touch Network, watching this podcast. It's great to be here with you all as always, and just keep on growing this network together one day at a time. All right, going back to Senator Gallego, his cross-exam of Treasury Secretary Besant. I loved how Gallego here makes it clear that this money, leaves no doubt, that this money is being stolen from the taxpayers. Like that this is coming from the IRS general fund, which is where when you pay your taxes, it goes into a general fund account at the IRS. And that's what Trump is rating in his lawsuits, taking$10 billion out for himself at a time where, as you heard in the other interview, our national debt is heading to$39 trillion.

56:38MeidasTouch:And Trump is increasing our debt dramatically, and federal spending is up. And all the stuff that Doge promised it was going to do was a complete and utter failure. It actually added to our national debt. Let's play the second clip. You know, we kind of talked to this earlier. In addition to being Treasury Secretary, you are serving as acting director of the IRS. So following up on Senator Kim's questioning. So you are fully aware that the president is suing your agency for$10 billion. We would agree. Would you agree that$10 billion is a good sum of money? Yes, sir. Where would that be cut from?

57:13Let's say for some reason he actually wins that lawsuit. Where would that$10 billion come from? Again, it would come from. Process. I'm not asking like your opinion, whether it's right or wrong. It would come from Treasury. It comes from Treasury, which comes from the general fund. The Treasury general account. So taxpayers. Yes. Thank you. Part of the 440 ,000 taxpayers whose returns were leaked. Now, if the president, they're not suing, but.

57:42MeidasTouch:They're not suing. But this is where I told you I'd give you advice. I just want you to think about why Donald Trump has bankrupted so many things. He doesn't think ahead. And he's a criminal. And he's also a sexual abuser. And he's also an utter fraud. But let's use that example right there. I originally thought I heard Besson say 44 ,000, but listening to it again, he said 404 ,000, I believe. hundreds of thousands of people were impacted by the same data breach that Trump is claiming injured him personally, he says, to the tune of$10 billion. And mind you, Trump sued the Wall Street Journal for$20 billion and the Nobel Peace, the Pulitzer Prize Committee, rather, for billions of dollars.

58:29MeidasTouch:And this one for billions of dollars, that one for billions. You add up all of Trump's lawsuits, it's like$100 billion, 200. He's got$200 billion in claims out there, which are all bogus and BS and frivolous, in my opinion. Those numbers are just utterly, utterly pathetic. It just made up numbers. But assume he's saying that the damage for the data breach in 2021 is$10 billion, right? So what would stop somebody right now who was also impacted by that data breach to say, I want to be part of a class action of people impacted by the same data breach? What would stop a lawyer from finding a victim of the data breach?

59:12MeidasTouch:And by the way, in these data breach cases, they usually settle for like 500 bucks and you get like data security. I used to handle data breach cases as a lawyer as well. You know, when Equifax and all those types of companies, remember like those companies had their data breach, people would get like a thousand bucks or 2000 bucks and you'd get like data security for like five years free or something. That's usually how those cases, you don't get$10 billion. But okay, what if you have a good data breach, plaintiff's class action lawyer says, oh, wow,$10 billion per victim, per person. Okay, well, let's have a class action.

59:48I'll represent all 404 ,000 or 40, let's just say 44 ,000, because that's what I did the math on.

59:56MeidasTouch:Then everybody's damages, 10 billion. We'll file the class action. The Department of Justice is going to have to defend it, right? And they're conceding on the Trump lawsuit that they owe him 10 billion. Besant said that there's 404 ,000 other people impacted by this. Okay. So the class action demand, if it was 44 ,000 people impacted, would be about 470, whatever it is. I'm horrible on that. But around 450 to$470 trillion, right? So if Trump sets a precedent that he gets 10 billion, then shouldn't the other 400 ,000 people all get$10 billion? So now our national debt just went from$38 trillion, which Trump is responsible for about 30 to 35 % of that, and that's going up, by the way, to now in the quadrillions, because now the government's going to have to pay out a class action settlement of a quadrillion dollars or at the low end, $470 trillion based on that logic, right?

1:01:01MeidasTouch:Oh, then you're going to go, well, actually, we're going to fight the class action, but Donald Trump's, we're going to settle with Donald Trump. Okay, well, that'll be an interesting argument for the DOJ to have to make before a federal judge. Hey, judge, they conceded that this is a claim. But do you see how just even doing this has repercussions on everything? You see how Donald Trump's tariffs against the world ends up leading to all the other countries entering to agreements with each other and cutting the United States out, right? I mean, do you see how Donald Trump trying to enrich himself and his Bitcoin company, World Liberty Financial, by giving away our semiconductor technology to the UAE ends up resulting both in the destruction of our national security secrets and Bitcoin collapsing as well as Trump enters the Bitcoin space in such a kind of phony and, in my opinion, fabricated way.

1:01:57MeidasTouch:And now Bitcoin is crashing, in my view, as a result of Donald. Do you see how all of his things have the same reaction? And now you have a stock market here in the United States and GDP, which is basically propped up by deal churn of AI companies just doing deals with each other. They are concealing, in my opinion, the debt on their balance sheet by saying it's CapEx expenditures on paying loans or paying leases rather on data centers. And so they're actually hiding debt by creating these structures that act like their debt is CapEx expenditures. it's all bogus in my view. It's all a fugazi. And the SEC, which is supposed to step in and regulate, they're nowhere to be found.

1:02:47MeidasTouch:The criminals are getting pardoned by Donald Trump. And this doesn't actually help anybody because everybody gets screwed by it in the long run. Which brings me to, I know American media does not usually cover what goes on in the parliament of UK. But I think it is telling and important for us to talk about. Brett, before I show the UK parliament, did you want to comment on any of that? I think you basically covered it all. But I just want to say, if you're a Trump voter out there, what are you getting out of this at this point? You're losing your jobs. If you were a big crypto person, you've lost all your crypto.

1:03:25You're giving Donald Trump$10 billion of your money. It's like the guy is screwing you left and right? He's scamming you in emails with all these tricks. Is it just so you could like hate whoever you want to hate and feel good about it? Because right now there is really, truly no justification for anything. Even if like, well, I'm not even going to go, but it's just like, wake up, wake up. This guy is a scam artist and you are the mark and you are the ones who are enabling this to continue to happen. And I think that's why that we see Donald Trump's approval rating right now, even the latest Rasmussen poll falling off a cliff because he actually is starting to lose some of these base voters.

1:04:02Before we get into the clips from the UK parliament, I do want to give a shout out to people in the UK. I've always loved watching clips of UK parliament. Y 'all get rowdy. You get right up in each other's grill. I would love to be able to see in the United States, a president of the United States just get screamed at by everybody around there in Congress. It really is actually, to me, a very powerful thing to see leaders be held accountable like that in a setting like that. And so these clips, I think it's interesting to note right now that as we see the fallout from the Epstein files, a lot of what we're seeing in terms of the fallout is, politically speaking, is happening overseas.

1:04:43It's happening in the UK. You have Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the UK under fire. You have Peter Mandelson in the UK. He's resigned from his position. He's out and now appears to be under a criminal investigation due to giving Jeffrey Epstein some tips of information from the government before it was actually made public about major, major global affairs and economic policy shifts. And so you're seeing things in Norway. You're seeing things in investigations in Lithuania. You're seeing Poland speak out, Donald Tusk and Poland speaking out about this. But here, as I said earlier in the episode, you have the Department of Justice and these Republicans acting like Donald Trump's personal law firm.

1:05:25You are seeing some fallout in certain sects of corporations and whatnot. You're seeing like the chair of Paul Weiss, the law firm, I should note, one of the, maybe the first law firm to cave to Donald Trump. He is out because he was all over the Epstein files. And so we are seeing a fallout like that. But as of now, and I don't expect this to change anytime soon, all of these Republicans and the DOJ, our government structure right now is protecting Donald Trump throughout all of this. Now, Ben, let's go to the UK because these clips to me, I think they're powerful.

1:06:01MeidasTouch:You also have David Ross, department chair at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced resignation as well. Okay, let's take a look at what was going on in the UK. To be clear, so everybody knows the dynamic, this Mendelssohn guy, he was the UK ambassador to the United States. People knew that he had some, or the party that appointed him, the Labour Party, knew he had some connections to Epstein, but didn't know the extent of it. And he had some questionable ethical issues in the past as well. By the way, he's in the Epstein files in very grotesque ways, but in my view, not quite as, you know, not, I mean, it's hard to say, which is more grotesque than the other.

1:06:43MeidasTouch:But I mean, Trump was in it far more than Mandelson, you know, was in it. And Trump was closer for every Trump says Epstein's a great guy, even the stuff that are in the files that we knew about Trump before, you know, all over. So we know Trump's deep connections to Epstein undisputed. But now the opposition party, the Tories in the UK, the conservative party there, you know, they're out there. And by the way, the Tories have their own issues and their own, you know, it's not like they're, you know, free of any kind of corruption and issues. And also, I don't want to lose sight of the Reform Party, Nigel Farage, which is their far right wing party, kind of working with Russia and as part of a lot of this cabal as well in order to undermine and break down government.

1:07:25MeidasTouch:And so when I focus on the Labor Party, I think it's important, especially as an American talking about politics of another country, that I do so with the nuance it deserves, that I'm not in any way ignoring Nigel Farage, Reform Party, the right-wing extremist party there, and their links to Putin and their links to Brexit, which is what Epstein was also involved in Brexit, and talking about how that's going to create opportunities for this cabal of people. And obviously, Farage was a major player in Brexit, for example, as well. So I don't want to talk about it. So anyway, so you have the opposition party in the UK Parliament pressing Prime Minister Keir Starmer for answers and accountability.

1:08:07MeidasTouch:Hey, Starmer, when you won the election, and there's a big Labour Party majority right now in the Parliament from the election that they won, and a Starmer should be relatively, the Labour Party itself, based on the seats that they hold in Parliament, should be relatively safe through 2029, which is when the next elections would otherwise be. But Starmer right now personally is vulnerable because what did he know? When did he know it about Mandelson? And that became a big theme. Like this guy was hanging out with the pedo and he disgraced and shamed the UK. So first, I want you to watch as some of the opposition leaders and opposition figures start raising the issue of Mandelson's connections with Epstein.

1:08:51MeidasTouch:And what did Prime Minister of UK, Kierre Starr, know? And when did he know it? Let's play the first one. Absolutely. It absolutely beggars belief. And if we want to clean up politics, then this sort of thing should not be being allowed to happen. Politics is a difficult place, we know that. But this was down to judgment. It was down to the judgment of one person, or was it the judgment of others around that person? So I urge the Honourable and Right Honourable members on the Labour benches opposite. Do the right thing this evening. Stand up for democracy, stand up for Parliament and stand up for decency.

1:09:36Melissa Kearns, I hear you rather than the speaker. Liberation Day. That is how Mandelson described the day of Epstein's release for prison, for procuring children to be trafficked and raped. Mandelson's next message was, how is freedom feeling? Epstein replied, she feels fresh, firm and creamy. Mandelson's next reply, naughty boy. Now we hadn't seen this email, I'll admit, when the ambassador was appointed. But let's look at what we did know when he was appointed ambassador. We knew at that point that he had consoled this paedophile, consult him on his being found guilty and convicted for just one of the many, many crimes he committed.

1:10:27We also knew that while he was deputy prime minister of this country and business and trade secretary, carrying the flag of our great nation on an official visit to New York, he stayed in a convicted pedophile's flat.

1:10:46MeidasTouch:And let me show you this next clip of another person. By the way, I guess the Epstein people really like using the phrase Liberation Day. That was the phrase that he used. Oh, absolutely. Liberation Day is what we hear from Trump. All of Liberation Day. Liberation Day. Take a listen to this next member of parliament there. Now, the prime minister was asked today directly, could he tell us, did the official security vetting that he received mention Mandelson's ongoing relationship with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein? And he replied, yes, it did. Now, the point is that when the minister says he lied to the prime minister, but the prime minister knew that the relationship was ongoing.

1:11:33So even if he lied about some other aspects of the relationship, cannot the minister see that the fact there was any ongoing relationship at all with a man who'd been imprisoned for pedophilia and prostitution, can he not see that that was an impossible position to defend?

1:11:56MeidasTouch:And finally, let me show you when Prime Minister Kiara Starmer was directly confronted, and he had to stand there and answer for it. And while to me, his answer was not acceptable, and I think that's how most people in the UK feel, and again, I want to be very clear, that it's very hypocritical for the Tories to act holier than thou. I know that's coming in the comments. And certainly by my focus here, I'm not ignoring the Reform Party's role in Brexit and being part of this whole desire of right-wing authoritarians to topple the world order, create disruption that we talked about. So I just, again, I need to be very sensitive when reporting on foreign air, especially as an American that I listen to you loud and clear.

1:12:42MeidasTouch:But I want you to watch as Starmer admits to a mistake and says, yes, I was told. I was lied to. But he doesn't deny. No, I don't know what you're talking about. But he takes a level of responsibility for it and confesses and says, yes, I knew. And then there's an audible gasp of, oh, watch this. Can the Prime Minister tell us, did the official security vetting he received mention Mandelson's ongoing relationship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein? Prime Minister. Yes, it did. As a result, various questions were put to him. I intend to disclose to this House all of the national security prejudice to international relations on one side.

1:13:34I want to make sure that I want to make sure this House sees the full documentation so it will see for itself the extent to which the extent to which time and time again, Mandelson completely misrepresented the extent of his relationship with Epstein and lied throughout the process.

1:13:54MeidasTouch:I thought that was important to show you and to share that with you. And of course, here you have MAGA Mike Johnson. Let's contrast that to what MAGA Mike Johnson said when he was asked by Manu Raju in the halls of the Capitol about Trump appearing over and over again on these files. Just take a look at the difference. Play this clip. Shouldn't Trump have to answer some questions too? He's been named more than a thousand times in these documents. The president submits to press inquiries every day. Not under oath, not under oath. Not under oath, but he's asked the questions all the time and he answers them.

1:14:29We'll see where it goes.

1:14:31MeidasTouch:Brent, isn't that just night and day? Like I said, this is Republicans, the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice. Everybody here just acts as if they are Donald Trump's own personal defense attorneys. And this is a really serious subject and a really dark subject and not something to joke about. It's horrifying. It is something that demands accountability from those figures who are deemed to be guilty of heinous acts via the files. And while it's heartening to see other countries step up and demand accountability for their leaders, it's very disheartening here in the United States to see this protection racket that exists around Donald Trump right now.

1:15:20because this is, like I said, really serious, really heinous stuff we are dealing with. And it certainly appears that Donald Trump was right in the center of all of it.

1:15:31MeidasTouch:Absolutely. And what's Donald Trump focused on today? He will agree to remove, you know, blocking important critical funds for New York if you put his name on everything. Trump wants his name on Dulles and Penn Station. And he is, as Schumer, support renaming Washington Dulles and Penn Station after Trump. And then Trump will release the funding for the Gateway Project. I mean, you just see this behavior over and over again. And you're like, the hell is even happening here? I'll leave us with some good news. Virginia in their both houses, their chambers controlled by a Democrat, Democrats in both houses now, they put forward a 10 to one map.

1:16:21MeidasTouch:And not only have Democrats now completely neutralized MAGA's effort to rig the midterms, Democrats are actually going to net more seats, it seems, in the mid-decade redistricting. And not only that, what Trump has done in Texas, based on what we saw over the weekend in Texas state Senate district number nine, where a plus 17 Trump district turned plus 14 to Democrat, a 31 plus shift is by creating five additional Republican seats that they believed would go Republican in their mid-decade redistricting. They've now diluted other seats that may have been even safer Republican seats. So now there's so many more seats that have been put down below plus 15 in Texas.

1:17:07MeidasTouch:So now what Trump inadvertently did is made all these other seats more vulnerable in Texas right now based on the results that we're seeing in Democratic overperformance. And so not only may the Democrats win those five seats that Trump thought would turn Republican, but now some of those other Texas seats that maybe say went from plus 17 or plus 20 to plus 12 or plus 13 in order to then give some of those voters to the blue districts to turn those districts red because you have to pull from someplace in order to create a redder district. They may have now created a situation where they just handed even more seats to Democrats as a result.

1:17:47MeidasTouch:Let me leave you with the Senate pro tempi, temporary, the leader of the Senate, along with the leader of their equivalent of their house chamber there. Watch this press conference that they held. Let's play it. Give me more seats. Then that's not enough. So he calls North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio. I need more. I need more. Today we are leveling the playing field. These are not ordinary times. And Virginia will not sit on the sidelines while it happens. We made a promise to level the playing field. And today we're keeping our promise. Our maps are ready. Virginia is ready. We said 10-1, and we meant it.

1:18:27And we are proud to deliver a map that stands up for democracy, to stand up Virginians, to stand up and give us a force. He started this mess, and Virginia's going to finish it. Virginia to the rescue. Senator Lucas said it best. We've been working really hard to make sure that we got this delivered. This is about leveling the playing field. Across the country, Republicans are gerrymandering maps to override the will of the voters. We just saw it in Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri. at Donald Trump's direction. They're manipulating election maps because they know they can't win on their agenda in 2026.

1:18:59So instead of changing their ideas, they're trying to rig the system. A 10-1 map levels the playing field and we're ready to move forward. Then we're making good on our promise by releasing the maps publicly. We're going to get them released either by the end of the day or early tomorrow. We'll get those maps released and putting them out in the open and allowing them to be debated the way they should be in a democracy. We're going to leave it up to Virginia voters. The maps are ready. Virginia is ready. And that's the by Senator said it many times. 10-1. 10-1. Thank y 'all.

1:19:29MeidasTouch:They did say 10-1 the entire time. So hat tip right there to the Senate pro temporee, State Senator Lucas and Speaker Scott right there. He's been on the show. He's been in the show a lot before, but also give a hat tip to Governor Newsom with Prop 50 really starting the pushback. And you see when you fight back, you win. To me, that's the lesson, and that's a good lesson to end on. When you fight back, you win. We're seeing that when you fight, Trump wanted to hide the Epstein files. By the way, there's still 3 million files that have not been produced that I believe are far more devastating than what's actually been turned over.

1:20:07MeidasTouch:You fight for them. You get leaders who say, we're not giving up. You've got Garcia and the House Oversight Committee, Kana, Massey, and others, boom, you get a release. And what a difference. That's been one of the biggest game changers. Prop 50, biggest game changers. He's got to keep on fighting back with moral, formal authority, with people power. Brett, I'll give you the final word of the episode. But just think about Governor Newsom's move. Governor Newsom decided that he was not going to take what the Republicans were doing laying down. And he got up there and he took a risk. There was no guarantee that Prop 50 was going to work.

1:20:40He took a big swing here. I remember all those various pundits on Capitol Hill were mocking him. This is never going to work. Oof, look at the polling. The polling doesn't look so good. If it's like this right now, these usually get less popular as it goes on. But Gavin Newsom hit the ground. He made the case. He brought this directly to the voters, unlike what Texas did. He sold the crap out of it, and people were all on board, and people now see Governor Newsom as a fighter. He set the stage for these other Democrats to follow in his lead and do the same thing. And he also sent a warning shot out there to these Republicans that you want to keep playing this game.

1:21:16We could keep doing this every single time. And now we're seeing how this whole process of the gerrymandering by the Republicans has backfired. The Democrats are likely to end up with a net gain of seats since the Republicans started this, whatever you want to call it, this game, this competition, this gerrymandering battle. And Democrats are actually going to win because the Democrats in the states are actually fighting back to Ben's point. And now even the Supreme Court within the past 24 hours or so, they said that we're going to reject the Republican petition to try to overturn Prop 50. We're not even going to take it up.

1:21:52It was a unanimous decision in the Supreme Court. So you could officially mark it up on the board that Governor Gavin Newsom has defeated the Republicans in this battle. And it should be a model for all Democrats and all people going against this MAGA co-opted Republican party that is trying to destroy everything we have, that we have to be fighting fire with fighter. We got to be able to punch back. And when we fight, we win, as they say.

1:22:20MeidasTouch:Right. And so, you know, if Trump's saying that he can fire everybody without any oversight, Democrats can do it too. And we take control of the White House, right? And they can do it too. You know, all of these things Democrats could do, you know, okay, hey, these are the new rules that you are all creating? Okay, you sure? And they don't think through those things. And it's time to fight back with moral, formal authority, not because of any political party, but because we're in a fascist situation. We're not in a constitutional crisis. We're well beyond that. And it's time that we take back our country.

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