MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 4/24/26

23:34And they all posted the same message. And then you had Iranian media saying it's ironic that the U.S. is claiming that we're in chaos and panic and having all of these leadership struggles when the U.S. and Donald Trump and Hegseth have basically fired 20 of its top generals, admirals, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, cabinet members. The Trump regime is the one that's in utter chaos right now. And this is what the FARS news agency writes, the IRGC intelligence organization's reaction to the chaotic political situation in America. The president of the United States speaks of division in Iran while over the course of the 50 days of the war, I think we're at 54 now, his popularity has dropped to 35 percent.

24:15Six political and security officials and 20 military generals have resigned, including while we have a naval blockade, the secretary of the Navy. While our army is at war, the chief of staff at the army, a four-star general, Randy George, General George and his wife, you know, these are beloved military figures fired by Pete Hegseth, you know, and previously you had the head of Southcom resign or was pushed out because he didn't support the war crimes blowing up the fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela. You had the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs get fired by the Trump regime. So that's actually where the chaos is happening right now.

24:56And then you had Donald Trump hold a press conference and we'll talk a little bit about him, you know, what, what down in this press conference today and the purpose of the press conference, I guess, was supposed to talk about lowering prescription drug prices where Donald Trump makes up numbers. Like he reduces prescription drug prices by 600%. In essence, if you're buying a product for a buck, that means the pharmaceutical companies are paying you$600 to buy their$1 product. So it's just, you know, utterly ridiculous. And the feed cut out. And then Donald Trump said the following. Let's just play the video of what Donald Trump did.

25:27Let's play.

25:33He said, I could use a shit. He said, I could use a shit. He goes around talking in the Oval Office about taking a shit. And I mean, look, we could say, you know, why is that important? I mean, first off, it's just like, why are you publicly articulating that you have to take a shit in the Oval Office? And then it's also the context of where of like what's going on here as well. Like he was having this disastrous press conference where he's making up that he saved the lives of eight young women in Iran, beautiful young women, little girls, these very young, very young girls, very young women. He saved up again.

26:06He makes up this whole story about how he saved that there are these eight young women, very young, very young, very pretty. He wants to make that very clear. They were about to be executed by Iran. And then Donald Trump calls up Iran. He says, even though he claims that he's not talking to them. But in this fan fiction, he called them up and released the women now. And Iran's like, we're not going to do that, Donald. We're at war. And Donald's like, if you don't do it, I'm going to make a very mean social media post. How mean is it going to be, Donald, says Iran. And Donald Trump says, there will be many capital.

26:37There may, many capital letters. There may even be a curse in it. And then Iran says, we're going to release those beautiful young girls to you. We're going to release them. thank you you don't want to mess with this anymore right i mean that's donald trump's fan fiction of what went down he's not speaking to he's said in the same press conference that he's not talking that they're not talking right now and that he is all the time in the world yet apparently he's negotiating with them of eight young beautiful girls here play this clip or the

27:03Brett Meiselas:military operation whatever you want to call it and they're coming to us the problem they have is they are very disorganized right now. Well, now yesterday, and I was very pleased with this, eight young women were going to be executed yesterday afternoon at six o 'clock. And I asked them, call it a favor or call it just a moral request that they not be executed. And they came back with an answer that they won't be executed. They're going to release. It was protesting eight beautiful young women, very young women. And they were the pictures in the paper. And it's been a story for a little while, and I saw that, and I said, let's see if we can save them.

27:45Brett Meiselas:And it was very nice what happened. So they're not going to be, what they're doing is, as you know, they're releasing four of them very shortly, and they're going to keep four of them in jail for a period of one month and release them, so they won't be executed. Yeah, that's an entirely made up story that that didn't happen. Like again, that's just part of Donald Trump's perverted, weird fan fiction of saving young pretty girls or whatever the hell goes on in his mind. But if you also remember what he said back in January, he said that he stopped the executions back in January from happening. And he made a, he called them up and got a favor and stopped the executions in January.

28:24Remember he said he saved 700 executions from taking place and he's the reason why those executions stopped. It's like the guy lies about everything. Literally everything he has is a lie. And I think part of his, if I could point out any maybe strategy, and I put that in big quotes for this, of his lies, is he kind of forces people to then deny it and waste a bunch of time saying, I didn't do that. I didn't say that. I never talked to you. And so today, you know, as part one of the reasons that Iran released that those unified statements amongst their top leadership was what Donald Trump was pushing and Israeli media was pushing today was that that MB Galiboff, who is the speaker of parliament in Iran, they were saying he was ousted.

29:13He's no longer involved in this at all. He has no say in anything that's going on. He's been pushed out. And there were other reports quickly came in that that was like another lie. That was just total bullshit. you know, from other reporting in the United States, like actual reporters. I think the Atlantic, you know, reported, for example, that that was just totally made up. But meanwhile, you know, Trump was running with it, that Israeli channel was running with it. And so the Iranian officials, you know, ended up releasing that statement. Donald Trump the other day, I'm reminded of when he, when the ceasefire, the so-called ceasefire first happened, what did Donald Trump say?

29:52Oh, immediately the countries of NATO started calling me and they were saying, sir, sir, could you please let me through the straight now, sir? We really need to get through the straight now that you solve the problem. Can you please let me through? And I was like, I don't think so, NATO. I don't think so. You weren't there for us. And he told the story in front of people at whatever rally he did and stuff. Like, obviously, I don't know what conversations happened, but I could say with pretty good confidence that that never happened, that no countries immediately called him and started begging him for help after the fact.

30:22It's all part of this just facade that he puts on, this show that he puts on, where he makes people then come out and say, no, I didn't. I didn't do that. I didn't do that. And all the right-wing media is in on this. I think it's interesting when people try to say, like, well, is Midas touch? That's not just a left-wing version of the Fox or the Democrat version of the Fox. I mean, first off, I don't think what we're doing at all is the left-wing a right wing like if you're going to tell me that you're cutting drug prices by 600 % and me fact checking that is a liberal thing. That's just an objective fact.

30:58Okay. That's just math. Okay. It's this isn't a partisan thing, but we've come, we become so political as a country and Donald Trump has politicized everything that people begin putting you in those boxes and Fox is literally pumping out lies all day. They lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. They're flooding the zone with lies. And what we try to do here is flood the zone with what's actually going on. And so to equate the two as being two sides of the same coin to me is just like the total wrong way to look at it. Although I am happy when people realize that we are crushing Fox when it comes to the YouTube rankings and getting far more views than them.

31:38So I will take that. But the reason why I think it's important that we are doing that is because that's what we are up against. Okay. I said that we weren't going to play this Jesse Waters clip. Let me play this Jesse Waters clip because you just need to hear how, how insane this is. And then I'll toss it back to bed. No one knows who's calling the shots. Vance, Witkoff and Kushner were supposed to leave for Islamabad, but they never took off because the Iranian delegation never took off, which is suspicious because this morning Trump said the gay Ayatollah authorized the deal. Come on. Come on.

32:11Was it as advertised? And then it gets worse than that, but I won't bother you with the rest. Let's take our first quick break of the show. A reminder, please hit subscribe here. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. Also, make sure you subscribe to the audio podcast. We're number one in audio, beating Rogue in there as well. Let's keep it that way. Subscribe to the Midas Touch audio right now and hit subscribe on our YouTube channel. We've got a lot more show. Let's take our first quick break.

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35:59Brett Meiselas:Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors. Links in description of both the YouTube and the audio. Use the links, use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. That Jesse Waters clip. I mean, just come on. It's, look, on a more serious note, there's nobody steering the ship here from a leadership level. in the United States. What we have here with Donald Trump is a walking contradiction. The straits open, the straits closed. I'm talking with the Iranians. I'm not talking with them. We're negotiating. We're not negotiating. No one knows what to do in this moment because Donald Trump doesn't know what to do.

36:29Brett Meiselas:He's not a good negotiator, as we've spoken about on this network many times. He's not a good businessman. And now he's put in a situation where he actually has to lead. The issue with him is he's filled his cabinet with a bunch of yes people that are either too scared to give their opinions on how to get us out of this situation or too dumb to actually come up with a real solution in this moment. All you have is Donald Trump running around the Oval Office screaming, I need to take a shit. So what are we doing here as a society? When we look at Donald Trump and we're like, that's the guy that's supposed to lead us out of this, this is going to turn into a forever war.

37:05Brett Meiselas:Like this war, I'm not in the prediction game here and I don't like doing things like that, especially when it comes to something as serious as this, but like, I don't see this ending anytime soon, Ben. Well, because I think if you look at the dynamic that we all discussed in the first segment about what a negotiation would have to look like and what escalation looks like, Donald Trump is in this middle ground area where he's just going to delay, delay, delay and do what he does, you know, with his healthcare plans. I need two weeks, two weeks, two weeks. I'll get this in two weeks. I'll do that in two weeks i'll do that you know it's all a lie i mean we saw howard lutnik testified today about the gold cards remember the trump gold cards and they said they were going to sell hundreds of thousands of these gold cards remember they talked about that they're going to fix all of our problems it's going to fix the debt because they're going to fix it do we have the clip of howard lutnik brett on the podcast that he one of those right-wing podcast bro stuff where he talked about five a billion dollars or$5 trillion was going to be made because they were good.

38:08Trump says we're going to be able to do a million. Do we have that clip? Yeah, I was with the Silicon Valley dudes, the all in podcast. And he said, five trillion here. I'll play right now. Like, just listen to this blatant lie. And I think it's very telling what they say when they're on a podcast or if they're on Fox and what they say when they're under oath. But watch this. By the way, yesterday I sold a thousand. Oh, you did? I got a poly market I created on how many of you guys are going to sell this year. And how many people do you think there are that could qualify in the world?

38:37Brett Meiselas:There are 37 million people in the world who are capable of buying the card. In case you were wondering. 37 million. That's a lot more than ChatGPT told me. Who are capable of buying it. Who are capable of buying it. Now, I'm not saying they will, but they're capable of buying it. How many do you think you'll sell? The president thinks we can sell a million. So$5 trillion. By the way, that's his Jeffrey Epstein voice. Do you remember when he was with the New York Post person? It's that same voice. Like when he lies, it's also this like, I never met him. I never met him again. And I would never meet that.

39:09Five trillion. Five trillion. So then he testifies today and he's asked by, I believe it's Congresswoman Meng, can you, how many, how many of these have you sold? Because you said by now you'd be sell close to a million of these. And so far, I mean, just curious how much we're sold. And I'm not sure if we have the clip read or not, but then he basically says, we have one. We have one. Do we have that clip?

39:36Brett Meiselas:The gold card visa program. President Trump directed you in coordination with the Secretary of State and Homeland to establish a gold card visa program. As you know, people who are able to pay at least$1 million into Commerce's gift account are eligible for permanent legal residence and potentially citizenship. I wanted to ask how many of these applications have been approved and how many gifts have been received by Commerce?

40:10Brett Meiselas:The process was recently resolved with DHS, who runs the program and they do a$15 ,000, the most serious vetting and analysis of any potential applicant in the history of government. Usually it was$600. These pay$15 ,000 for an extraordinary vet. So they have approved recently one person and there are hundreds in the queue that they are going through the process. But this is a new program and they've just set it up and and they wanted to make sure they did it perfectly. And so we've worked through that, but it's a DHS program done with a rigorous, rigorous vetting. It was your program that you and Trump rolled out where you said you were gonna sell a million of them.

40:58You've sold one of them, which by the way, I don't even believe they sold one of them. I'm curious to see who that one is right there. Jordy, what were you saying?

41:06Brett Meiselas:And I just wanna add this, I think this got overlooked in that whole thing. He was trying to brag about how rigorous this program is. DHS program usually cost$600. Now we're doing$15 ,000 reviews because it's such a rigorous process. And we have all of these applicants and the only ones gotten through. Sounds a lot like government waste to me. Sounds a lot like no one's really doing their job if they're reviewing all of these applications over here. We're spending$15 ,000 a pop over here to figure this out. I don't know. Maybe there should be some sort of committee that goes through government waste and plucks that stuff out.

41:37If only. I wonder if anyone would act on that. You notice how different Lutnick is too when he's under oath and he's forced to admit something like that compared to being on the podcast. Ben, to your point, on the podcast, he was doing that Jeffrey Epstein voice that he did on the New York Post. Every time he lies or embellishes, he uses that. He was disgusting and I didn't like him. He was gross. And then like the people listening, you know, I don't have to pick up on it as much, but when you watch him, he's like crawling in his skin when he's asked about this because he knows that he needs to now admit that this has been a complete failure.

42:15He knows that he has to admit that they've only allegedly sold one of these things. When in the past, he said a thousand and said they would sell at least 200 ,000 or a million and they were going to make$5 trillion, all these numbers that he threw out. As you watch him, you could hear it in his voice. You could see it in his body language, the way he just wants to crawl inside his skin. and the guy's just, he's a liar. He's a pathological liar. All these people are liars. All the things about the tariff shelf and the$18 trillion coming in. Everything they've said has been a lie. It's all a con.

42:48It's all a fraud. Well, and there's a lot of liars. There's a lot of liars. Where they talk about the betting odds. It's my opinion. I'm willing to bet that, and I actually know at least one of the people on that All In podcast are investors in Polymarket or partners with Polymarket. And so they got Lutnick to come on the show. He's talking about how many of these things he has theoretically sold. They are then encouraging people to bet on how many of these things have been sold. Lutnick coming on that show spikes the odds of that bet right there. So they're manipulating this other market that these other people are investing in, the owners of this podcast, the host of this podcast.

43:31I mean, everywhere you look, there's like a scheme going on. Once again, my opinion, but I believe there are so many schemes going on like this every day.

43:39Brett Meiselas:I hate liars and I don't respect anybody who lies, but I also don't respect to like the nth degree, bad liars. Like what did Lutnick think he was going to do? He was going to go in on that all in podcast, just lie and think no one five, six, seven months down the line was going to be like, hey, remember that five trillion that you promised to put into the US economy? Where is that? Or you just no like they lie about the dumbest things and they're so arrogant because you know i think for all their lives they got away with lying because of who they are because of who their their families were how much money they had but now when people are holding their feet to the fire like hey that five trillion like that could help us that could where is that great idea where is that man what and then just crickets and then that's why you see when he's in that hearing he's shrinking because he knows the jig is up.

44:31Brett Meiselas:It's up. Everyone knows you're a fraud. They've known before, but now this shtick, this lie that I guess you just never knew that anyone would figure out that, hey, where's the money? There is no money. You haven't sold these damn things. What are you doing, Ludnick? Here's the thing. They don't care. They want a headline. They want the corporate media to repeat it. They want their MAGA influencers to repeat it and to amplify it uncritically. Then they move on to the next thing. Well, that's what you heard in that interview. too. When that interview, going back to the all-in interview, they were just repeating what Lutnig was saying.

45:03Brett Meiselas:They were going, oh, 37 million people could apply for it. Oh, a million dollars a pop. Oh, you could give$5 trillion to the economy. We've been talking about people cannot even, the average person cannot even fathom that someone would lie to your face like that. Just lie to your face without any shame, but they do it every day, every hour, the biggest lies imaginable, big numbers, global geopolitical situations. This is what they do. This is part of their whole shtick. The reason I brought up Lutnik in the context of the war, though, also is the same way we're now caught in this Hormuz death trap with lie after lie, gimmick after gimmick, made up thing after made up thing.

45:48Oh, look, I saved the eight women. Look, we have a naval blockade. Look, look, we did this, we did that, how great is it? And that just goes on and on and on and really drags on in perpetuity. So if you think about what Lutnick is doing though, remember Donald Trump added over 30 % of our national debt during his first term. And we all recognize that national debt is a major problem right now and for future generations. It basically steals and robs the future of future generations and current who need, we need to pay off the debt. So every year, you know, basically we're contributing to pay mat trillions of dollars in interest off of, off of our existing debt.

46:33So the Trump scam, you know, it's the oldest trick in the book. You say, how are we going to fix the national debt? You find what the total number is, right? And then you create all of these items that get you to that number. And so, you know, We brought in$21 trillion from foreign countries, all made up, all fake. Okay, so$21 trillion. You put that in a bin. $5 trillion we've now made from selling Trump gold cards. So you add 21, you've got five, you've got 26. Doge has now saved us so much money that we're giving rebate checks. Okay, so we add that to the bucket right there. And then you go to the tariff shelf, and then the tariff shelf adds to it.

47:15So you have all of the national debt eliminated based on this plan. The problem is it's all fraud. It makes Enron's accounting look sophisticated, right? Like this is done at a national level. This is Enron on nuclear steroids writ large globally, where they've, and by the way, it's literally the same thing. The issue with Enron, right? You hear the expression, they're cooking the books, they're cooking the books, right? You've heard that expression. Trump cooks the books. He was literally found civilly liable for doing it. Separately, he was found criminally liable for fraud. His whole life has been bankruptcies.

47:56He cooks the books. That's what he does. So now he's cooked the whole books of our nation. So he tells people, we fixed your national debt. We hear all the things. And then people start to wonder right now, well, why don't I feel it? Why don't I have it? And then he gives you a BS response. Well, actually, because we're doing such a rigorous national security review. And it's just like lie after lie after lie after lie after lie. So here's the thing though, right? Because the question is, do the people get it right now? Do the people understand what's happening? So Donald Trump right now has a lower approval amongst independents than Richard Nixon at the time Nixon resigned and as low of an approval generally as Nixon.

48:41Trump has the same approval as George W. Bush leading into the Great Recession and at the worst point of the Iraq war when George W. Bush was there. So Trump is either equal or worse than the worst approval, the highest disapproval that's ever existed. And it's not just one poll. You have the AP North poll, you have the Fox poll, you have other polls as well, and they all have Donald Trump in like the 33 % range, the 35 % range. And it's only getting worse and worse. And on issues like economy and inflation, I mean, it's like record setting low. So you remember all the pressure on Biden when Biden's approval was low?

49:28Well, Biden's approval at its lowest was still like 10 points higher than where Trump is now, which is fascinating to me because what really should be taking place internationally, well, nationally rather, what should be taking place, it is happening internationally, but nationally, is the conversation should be about this guy needs to resign. In normal functioning countries that aren't authoritarian, where someone has such a low approval and such a high disapproval, the number one story that should be front page on every paper and leading all of the news, frankly, is a countdown for resignation, right?

50:09I mean, the pressure should be so overwhelming amongst people with power and influence, not just from the people itself as well, but from people close to Trump, right? That's what happened with Nixon, right? It was Republicans. There was people who could whatever, they said, we're going to do it. But now you have this sycophantic MAGA Republican distorted, perverted GOP that's just very, very like weird and bizarre. And they go on all Trump's the greatest negotiator. It's five dimensional child. This is brilliant. This is you have to escalate to deescalate. This is how you do it. You don't understand the art of the deal.

50:46He did this. And now China's begging us. We're making China. Oh, we're making China beg by the U.S. removing its that and patriot systems from Asia and us getting rid of all of our munitions so that if China really wanted to at this time, it could easily take Taiwan. That's how we show China's economy is growing. China is sitting back and they've never been more powerful. I don't need to show the clip, but you had Besant being cross-examined on Russia. And they were like, so will you admit that when you remove sanctions on Russia, you gave them more money by removing the oil sanctions? I absolutely disagree with that.

51:24I absolutely disagree with that. Would you agree that by removing sanctions on Iran, their oil, that you ended up allowing them to sell their oil, hence making them more money? What's your thesis? What's your theory of the case? I don't agree with that. What's your theory? What are you talking about? You gave them more money already by removing the sanctions. And now, Russia, Russia, Russia, as Donald Trump, if you've been watching his social media posts, which we've been covering here, he keeps, now he's terrified of impeachment, right? After Virginia voted yes on the referendum, which would create a Virginia congressional delegation, 10 Democrats, one Republicans.

52:04Trump's like, that was like, he's terrified of being impeached. He knows as soon as Democrats take power, he's going to get impeached. People may be asking, hey, Bay Midas touch, what's going on with that Virginia court case though. Didn't a lower court block the referendum, which passed and didn't count the referendum? Yes, but this was a partisan judge who was specifically picked by the Republicans when they forum shopped to pick this judge. He's ruled against this before. It was known that this was a judge who was going to rule against it. The issue is what's the Virginia Supreme Court going to do.

52:40They've had cases involving this exact 10 to one map and this exact referendum, and they allowed it to proceed to the voters already. So it's unlikely if they allowed the vote to take place now that it took place and in democracy, it functioned and the people voted that the Virginia Supreme Court is going to block the map that they've already basically approved through prior litigation. So we just have to wait till the Virginia Supreme Court makes a ruling. So I wouldn't be all stressed and worried about that. It is true. The map has been blocked temporarily, but we think you never know what's going to happen.

53:13Let me be clear. But most people who follow courts believe that's what the Virginia Supreme Court's going to do. But Donald Trump is terrified of being impeached right now. Brett, what were you going to say about it? I'm sorry. I was just going to give a quick update on to that note for those wondering, the Virginia Supreme Court's going to hear oral arguments on this case, April 27th at 9 a.m. Eastern time. So mark your calendars. We should have more information on all of this then. But shout out to the voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia for showing up and doing this. You know, you see the momentum.

53:48And, you know, when we speak about, you know, Donald Trump's approval rating being lower than Biden post-debate, Donald Trump's approval rating being lower than Bush during Iraq, you know, Nixon, all the comparisons that you made. I think you have to ask yourself why. And ultimately, I think a lot of these people who are in Congress are scared of their voters in a way, but they're also in many cases like the worst people possible who could be elected to public office. And one of the reasons for that, well, I'll give a couple of reasons just off the top of my head thinking about this right now.

54:23But one, I'd say the Citizens United decision, which is, in my opinion, like one of the single worst decisions ever from the Supreme Court, which allowed unlimited money to go into our politics, which really gave an outsized voice to the wealthy in our system. I think that was incredibly damaging. And I think Republican gerrymandering over the years has been incredibly, incredibly damaging because instead of the voters picking their representatives, the representatives are picking their voters. It ultimately makes these safe districts for people where they don't actually have to worry about the polls because they know that they're safe in their seat.

54:59In fact, here's the incentive that I'll point out. The incentive is not what's best for the country. The incentive becomes, how do I best appease my base? And when it comes to the Republicans, it's how do I appease the most extremist of the people, those diehard MAGA people who I want to come to the polls and vote for me in these off years. So I need to go along with whatever Donald Trump says because those are the people who are going to decide. And if I don't do – and I'm not making excuses for them. I'm just showing you the incentives. If I don't do that, somebody is going to come in. And this is why you see all those like ultra crazy candidates who enter these races to try to primary the people once they start acting semi-normal.

55:45That is what they're afraid of. And so I hate that the Democrats have to do this in Virginia and in California and these states in order to fight back. But you can't unilaterally disarm during this process. You have to fight back. And the Republicans started this with Texas. They didn't think the Democrats were going to fight back and fight fire with fire. Governor Gavin Newsom led the way. He showed the rest of the country how this is done. Now Virginia is doing this. And I would say this is not just a win for the Democratic Party, but I think a win for the United States in restoring fairness to the system.

56:21And what my hope is, is that this has become such a tense situation between Republicans and Democrats in this gerrymandering war. And it has so backfired for the Republicans in this process. The Democrats are now projected to gain more seats out of this gerrymandering war than the Republicans. and the Republicans started this thinking that that was impossible. So one of my hopes is, and I am certainly not about to make that bet on this, but one of my hopes is what I would hope is that at a certain point in 2030, when these temporary maps are done, and we go back to the census and redistricting process, that there is some piece of legislation that passes that bans partisan gerrymandering, establishes independent commissions, and we actually make fair maps across the country, not where the politicians decide their voters, but where the voters get to decide their politicians.

57:12And I will just do one more reminder. I know I'm rambling a little bit that just a few years ago, I think about five years ago, the Democrats tried to put forward a bill that did just that. I believe it was called the For the People Act. And you know, it was in this bill also a lot of the things that Republicans pretend to care about voter ID. Yes, but actual voter ID. Like you could use your license or you could use your college ID. You could use actual IDs. The Republicans, anytime they do these voter ID bills, they try to make it very restrictive. Oh, you actually need your passport. A lot of people don't have passports.

57:45You have to show your birth certificate. Your driver's license isn't enough. Your, this ID is enough. Oh, but you can use an NRA card. They try to twist the system in order to make it. And then they try to pretend like Democrats just hate voter ID, which is just disproven by looking at the legislation. And so Democrats put that legislation forward, which banned partisan gerrymandering, which allowed voter ID. It was a very good compromise bill, to be honest, for this sort of situation. Every Republican voted against it. And so hopefully they will see their mistakes, and once again, not betting on it, but they will see that their attempts to gerrymander and try to game the system have backfired and screwed them over.

58:24and maybe they will actually come to the table and say, okay, let's do something. How we were talking about Virginia also is as Donald Trump is terrified about impeachment, and he viewed if he loses in Virginia, he's going to get impeached. And he talks about the 20 in his social media post. He talks about, I got impeached unfairly for Russia, Russia, Russia. And he keeps asking all of these MAGA Republicans to undo the impeachment. That's a lot of his social, late at night, early in the morning, revoke my impeachment, revoke my impeachment. You know, but it's fascinating because, well, you can't do that, number one.

58:57Number two, he deserved to be impeached. Number three, what we're learning right before we went live, Washington Post reports that Donald Trump intends to invite Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Miami, officials say. The Russian leader is not yet committed to attend the annual gathering of world leaders, which is scheduled for December at the President's Doral Golf Resort. But Donald Trump has indeed invited Putin to show up, which would likely mean all the other G20 countries are probably going to boycott it and not show up. And then it will just be a meeting, I guess, of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Miami.

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1:03:16Brett Meiselas:shout out to our sponsors links in description of the youtube and the audio use the links use the codes if there's an exit survey let them know we sent you really quick bent brett you know what came to mind when you were talking about just like GOP doing things and it backfiring in their faces. Remember what we used to call the Republican Party? This is a couple of years ago. I know. I'll let it sit here for the audience in the chat. Professional rake steppers. This is a total professional rake stepping moment for the GOP in this redistricting battle. So I hope I know you're not predicting, Brenton, on the predictions market over here.

1:03:47Brett Meiselas:But I think you're onto something that We'll see all of this kind of come back and really bite them in the butts in a professional rake-stepping moment for the GOP once again. So only time. No one wants this crap. I had an expression though. I got to bite them in the butt. Bite them in the butt, Ben. Never heard that one? I guess, yeah. Bite them in like the butts. Yeah. Like singular, like one butt. I got it. Sorry. Yeah. Brett? I think it's bite them in the ass, but Jordy's doing a PG. I censored myself. Yeah. All right. I'm not going to censor what's actually up. Did I interrupt you? Do you want me to go?

1:04:26I'm just going to say no one wants this crap. No one wants to be doing this. We don't want to have to go to the polls to vote to make the maps fair because Texas Republicans are being jerks and are forcing it through without even the old people. Nobody wants to do this crap. Okay. There's reasons that the Democrats keep pushing these bills to end this shit, but the Republicans keep locking it. So enough of the games. Like, this is a ridiculous system, and it's bringing out the worst in everybody, and it's ensuring that the worst people out there are the people who go to the US Congress. When you think, why doesn't Congress work?

1:04:59Part of it is because of this. This is how you get these horrific members of Congress that are locked in these seats for decades and decades and decades, and it needs to end. Now, let's just talk about undisputed facts, right? When I was a litigator and you would draft a summary judgment motion, you dealt in undisputed facts, right? So it is an undisputed fact that Democrats introduced legislation that would prohibit partisan gerrymandering. Undisputed fact one. I'm not being partisan. It doesn't mean being pro-Democrat. That's an undisputed fact, right? So then you would have another column, disputed or undisputed, right?

1:05:38That would be an undisputed fact. What did the Republicans do? Undisputed. Republicans vote to block that bill. Undisputed. Regardless of the fact that you don't have any ban on partisan gerrymandering, Democrats agree that you basically wait every 10 years, you do a new census, and then you have to play the gerrymandering game because Republicans have voted against the prohibition on partisan gerrymandering. That's an undisputed fact. Donald Trump and Republicans say, we have a plan where we're going to do mid-decade redistricting. We're not going to wait for the census, and we're going to pick up seats in Texas.

1:06:21So they do it. They don't do a constitutional referendum. They basically just push it through their Republican legislature, and then they don't bring it to the people, and then it passes. That's an undisputed fact. Then in response, Democrats say, well, you did that, so we're going to have to respond. So Governor Newsom led Prop 50, which instead of having the legislature make the ultimate decision, the legislature put forward a constitutional amendment, a referendum, if you will, to the people so that people could vote. California, it passed. Virginia, it passed. And now that's undisputed, right?

1:07:00And now the Republicans are whining about it and saying, oh, that's so unfair in Virginia. That's so unfair in California. It's like, what a bunch of losers you are. What do you mean it's unfair? This was your game. Again, it's just really pathetic stuff. And I'm not saying this supporting Democrats or independents or as a political person. This was the game that you started, Republicans, and Democrats outmaneuvered you. They beat you. And now you're like, oh, this is so unfair. And that's what they've done. And when they talk about, oh, Democrats are rigging this or rigging that. No, it's Republicans who see how Democrats can prevail.

1:07:39And then the Republicans are out there trying to rig the system and come up with schemes so that you basically have not majority rule where most Americans actually agree on a lot of the same issues. But you have a rule by, you know, these right wing extremists because they've not been playing by the rules and they've been able to get away with it because people just wanted to live their lives and didn't want to, too busy, too annoying to stop them. They were so relentless with their lives. Fine, just do it, do it, do it. And that's also one of the reasons that we got here in this hellscape. And in this hellscape, I mean, think about the headlines this week.

1:08:19I mean, you had a labor secretary who was under investigation for using taxpayer money for strip clubs and booze bashes and like lavish vacations and Vegas parties. And her husband was accused of sexual misconduct and like not allowed in the labor department building while the labor department building had Trump's gigantic photo on it. Like she resigns or she was fired rather. And she, whatever said she was fired. So that's one of the headlines that, that she was involved. You have the Secretary of the Navy fired while we have a naval blockade. You have this Daily Mail headline, former Deputy ICE Director.

1:09:04We're going to get to this next one. Not the sugar daddy one yet, Brett. Hard to keep track. Hard to keep track. This one. Former Deputy ICE Director Madison Sheehan invited a 19-year-old female junior staffer into her bed after a Trump campaign party in 2020 and engaged in a secret sexual relationship for two years, Daily Mail reports. Sheehan is seeking the Republican nomination for Ohio's ninth congressional district that is currently held by a Democrat. And the headline is Lesbian Sex Secrets of Kristi Noem's ICE Leader. So that's a headline. And I guess the allegations are denied by Madison Sheehan, but that's a headline there.

1:09:46And then you have, show the other headline, Brett, now. You have this headline over here. I'm no sugar daddy. Divorcee who spent 40K bankrolling glam Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism official is unmasked as software CEO and breaks silence on their fling. So this 40-year-old guy was on sugar daddy websites and he was the sugar daddy. And he started a relationship with a 29 year old, Julia, Julia Vervaro. And she's the deputy like counter and counter terrorism position in the Homeland Department of Homeland Security. It's like the number two position. Like it's like a random person.

1:10:31Like she's a 29 year old with very little to no experience in this area. While she's holding this position, she's taking photos with her sugar daddies holding up signs saying she's horny. And by the way, as I've said before, and I'll make it clear, whether you're Kristi Noem's husband who has a fetish for bimboification where he puts triple E boobs in his shirt and then has women with triple E boobs humiliate him and he pays thousands of dollars to do that. And that apparently is something he likes to do and it's called bimboification. While he dresses up, he gets humiliated and he likes that.

1:11:09I'm not going to judge it. I'm not mocking it. If you do things privately and consensually and safely, I'm not the morality police, but I hope you're not breaking up families and I hope it's done in a way that's consistent with whatever marriage thing, whatever you have. I don't want to encourage bad behavior. But if you're a private person and you're involved, I'm not going to shame you. If there's a community of sugar daddies and it's consensual and people are involved, I'm not going to mock the divorcee or even her unless she's the Department of Homeland Security number two. And the guy's alleging basically that she's begging him for more money,$40 ,000, and he's already paid her.

1:11:53And while she's holding up signs and it's very compromising. And this is the person out there spending all this time on sugar daddy websites when you're supposed to be the counterintelligent, you know, counterintelligent person, like counterintelligent person, like what, what, what in the world is, is, is going on there? You know, and the same thing with the, with Christine Ohms, you know, person, it's like, at the end of the day, shouldn't we be focused on the job? You're public servants. You're supposed to be servants for the public and for the, and for the public good. You know, I mean, what do you have?

1:12:24The head of the Department of Homeland Security counterintelligence, a counterintelligence unit is Thomas Fugate III. You know, it's this guy who's a 22-year-old intern who's never had FBI experience at all, never has Homeland Security experience at all, no law enforcement. He like was like, he's like worked for the Trump campaign, like interned, 22-year-old. This guy is running a big counterterrorism unit. She's a big counterterrorism top deputy. I mean, what is going on here as you just go through each of these things and then you go and actually make sense? Because when you think about it, I mean, think about Donald Trump's background.

1:13:07I mean, Trump's background is someone who's publicly said he grabs women by their genital. He sexually assaults women and you get away with it because you're rich. He says he goes into locker rooms and inspects girls in beauty pageants because when you own it, he says they let you do it. When you own it, you get to inspect them naked, which is, again, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, in my opinion. He was found civilly liable for sexual assault. He's an adjudicated sexual predator in that he was found civilly liable for sexual assault. We have him on audio saying these horrific things. He's Epstein's bud.

1:13:42While all of this is going on as well. They keep covering up the Epstein files. We're not going to be distracted from that here at the Midas Touch Network. First, let me just show you, going back to Lutnick for a second, when he was cross-examined by Congresswoman Madeline Dean about his Epstein connections, he refused to answer. He goes, I'm not going to answer. You're at Congress. What do you mean you're not going to answer? Just watch this first clip as she cross-examines him. And then I want to talk about what James Comer has said that Republicans are doing with Ghislaine Maxwell and then how they're trying to shut down Epstein investigation as well.

1:14:18But first, here's Lutnick. Let's play it.

1:14:19Brett Meiselas:If President Trump has even a shred of concern about accountability for Jeffrey Epstein's enablers, he would fire you too. Beyond Adfin, what other financial ties do you have to Jeffrey Epstein?

1:14:36Brett Meiselas:As I said, I'm going to answer all these. Beyond ADFIN, what other financial ties? You're the Commerce Secretary. We have a right to ask this question and get it answered. Again, I'm not going to spend the budget day discussing something I've set aside time to spend on this topic. I'm going to switch topics. And Trump's DOJ will allow that to happen because Trump's DOJ - He'd say no. I mean, if the answer was no, he would just say no. I have no other financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Easy question to answer, but I'll let you draw your own conclusions. Sorry. Well, do you remember, we don't have this clip right now, but I shared in a video earlier this week, Donald Trump's pick to be the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Marsh.

1:15:23He was asked about his, are you going to dive? What relationships did you have with Epstein financially? Can you share it basically? Because he was in the Epstein files and apparently he was part of a fund. He's got like a hundred million dollars in assets and it's unclear really what the division - It's interesting that all the people who Trump picks to be in his cabinet and for all these key positions just happen to have all these very close Epstein connections are in the Epstein It was very, very curious. I will say. So the future chairman of the Federal Reserve basically gave an answer like Ludnik's answer right there.

1:15:57You know, basically said, ah, you know, the ethics, Trump's ethics committee cleared me of it. So that's all I'm going to, that's all I'm at liberty to say that the ethics committee said that it was. I just, I just cannot even fathom it. Right, right, right. So then that brings us to what else is going on in the House of Representatives, where you have James Comer on the record to Politico. It was what he said to Politico on the record, that there are lots of members in the Republican Party who are now working with the White House to get a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. He goes, not me, not me, not me.

1:16:30But I'm aware, he says, of lots of Republican members who are now working with Trump to see if they can secure a pardon for Ghislaine and the way they're framing it is so that then she can testify. She's a known liar. She's a perjurer. And she's already spoken to Todd Blanch and perjured herself there. You're not going to tell the truth. How could you even conceive, fathom pardoning the most despicable sex trafficker in like the world history? It would be like pardoning like Jeffrey Dahmer, like one of the most disgusting serial killers who was a cannibal. It's like literally thinking like, we're going to party Dom?

1:17:13We're covering up the cannibal murderer ring and you're going to pardon Jeffrey Dom? But what are we even talking? How could that even be a thought? Is that how far through the depths of depravity that so cavalierly they talk about pardoning Ghislaine, that he goes on the record and then Politico writes that? And then Comer has the audacity to say, don't you dare cite me for clickbait. I never said that I supported it. I said that there were others. I don't speak for the committee. You do speak for the committee. You're the chair of the House Oversight Committee. At least until Democrats take control, you literally speak for the committee.

1:17:54That's your job right now. So when you say your members want her to be pardoned, that raises eyebrows. And all of the Democrats said, we don't. So who on your committee, which Republicans are encouraging that to happen right now? So you've got that. And then one of the things that we learned this week is that Comer, who again, supposed to lead the House Oversight Committee, he's been working with the White House to come up with a plan basically to shut down all future hearings on Epstein. And so what they're saying they want to do now is do Epstein round tables where they bring people in not under oath and informally.

1:18:32And then the people pretend they're voluntarily showing up like, why would we need a subpoena you? These people are showing up in general. So people like Paolo Zampoli, who was the guy who introduced Donald Trump to Melania. And remember, Paolo Zampoli's girlfriend, Amanda Angaro is the one who's been out there saying that she knows a lot of dirt and that she wants to share the information with the public because she alleges that Zampoli helped get her deported by going to ICE to expedite her deportation during a custody dispute that they had with their children. She, Angaro, was brought here by one of Epstein's sex traffickers, Jean-Luc Brunel, when she was like 17 years old or 15 years old even.

1:19:19That's how she was brought from Brazil to the United States. And then she got into this world. And Zampoli is all over the Epstein files because him and Epstein were going to buy modeling agencies together. So whenever Melania is like, it wasn't Epstein that made the introduction to me and Donald. That's defamatory. It was Zampoli. Okay, it was Zampoli. Sure. The guy who wanted to buy the modeling agencies with Epstein. Yes. the guy who brought you here from Eastern Europe, right? What Zampoli would do is he would bring young Eastern European girls and women into the United States for his modeling agency.

1:19:52Then he would throw parties at the Kit Kat club where he would be a matchmaker between the young models, as he would call them, and the wealthy Manhattan businessmen. And they would meet at these gatherings. That's how Zampoli made a name for himself. He parlayed that into a real estate career. Now he's an ambassador within the United States. And he's out there now trying to ban the Iranian football team or soccer team from participating in the World Cup. And he's working with the head of FIFA, the guy who gave Trump the FIFA Peace Prize, to do a trade to allow Italy to join the World Cup, even though Italy didn't qualify, in place of Iran when Iran qualified.

1:20:33And also Donald Trump's been posting death threats against the Iranian football team. a few weeks back, but that's the Zampoli, all of these. Why I'm bringing up Zampoli is because Zampoli said that he would testify right away when Melania did that weird press conference. And now we're hearing, oh, there's no more testimony. We're just doing informal round tables. Anyway, I'm just giving you facts right now. Okay. I'm just sharing you with these things. You could find implications or don't find implications with what I said. You could form your own opinions. I share my opinions on this episode all the time as protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

1:21:08This whole episode is protected by the First Amendment. It's a lot of opinion speech, but I go into the facts as well. And I form my opinions, but I root them in the facts. So you tell me how you think about it. But that's where we're at right now in this whole mess. I guess the final point I'll make is this before turning over to Brett. This is not normal. We should elect people who are public servants. public servant. They serve us. I'm not trying to cast a weirdo reality show of kings and queens and princesses and princesses who go around in their hellscape and behave awful and then go, oh, did you know what this person did?

1:21:49Could you believe that person? No, we're well beyond that. I don't care about the palace entry. I care about the people in this country. and every media company should be focused on that. The people, because the people here are suffering. They can't afford things right now. Can't afford rent, can't afford groceries, can't afford gas, can't afford anything right now. People are living paycheck to paycheck. People are psychologically tortured by what this regime is doing. And they're out there behaving like a bunch of unhinged, just loony, lunatic, just depraved, sicko behavior, strange stuff. I'll leave it on that note.

1:22:34Brett.

1:22:34Brett Meiselas:And then Brett, I'll give it to you real quick, but I just want to say, Ben, to your point right there, somewhere along the way, and I think it's when all this money came into politics, the public servant became reality star. And I think if you could draw the sort of concentric circles over there, you'd see that overlap, that all of this reality star behavior from our elective representatives that nobody quite frankly wants. You wouldn't hire these people to babysit your kids, to do anything in your own business, let alone lead your territory, your area, your state, your city. And what we see time after time right now is all of these reality stars that just want to make it about me, me, me nonstop and not for the people, by the people.

1:23:11Brett Meiselas:And we just have to get back to there as a society. Brett, sorry. And I don't care if you're a Democrat. I don't care if you're a Republican, independent. I don't care what you call yourself. If you want to engage in that reality star behavior, then be a reality star. Okay. Like go, go, go fine. Okay. As long as it's within the confines of the law, let your freak flag fly. I'm not certainly not going to kink shame you. I'm not going to do it. Do whatever you want to do. Okay. Party, go crazy. I don't care as long as you are not harming other people and you are abiding by the law. But when you enter the halls, the hallowed halls of Congress, you are representing the United States of America.

1:23:49You're representing the people of this country. You are in the White House. You are in a prestigious position. I'm not saying you can't have fun at all or be a normal person because we certainly want normal social people. But if you want to take it to that next level, then just don't be a politician, okay? Like understand that if you're going to get in this job, you're going to get in there. You're going to take it seriously. And all like most of your time should be other than when you're with your family or, you know, or behaving appropriately should be, what am I doing today to help the American people?

1:24:24What am I doing today to fix this problem or that problem? That's what I want to see. And I think that's what Americans want to see, you know, regardless of how they classify themselves, what they're registered as, what they call themselves, where they are in the political spectrum. And to Jordi's point, let's get back to that. This was a great episode, guys. We covered so much. We always cover so much. And I know the show's over an hour, but still, we pack in a whole lot of stuff. I want to thank everybody for joining us here today. I want to thank everybody for welcoming also all of our new incredible hosts and the new channels in the Midas Touch Network, the Scott McFarlane channel continues to explode thanks to you.

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