MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 6/5/26

30:02I would say the three stooges, but you got like the eight stooges behind them, you know, and you've got like the lieutenants. I mean, just look at the people behind him. You know why he's got a very good reputation. I hear, I hear the Ayatollah. I know some things about the Ayatollah. Now I'm not saying I want to meet the Ayatollah, but if I was to meet the Ayatollah, I would tell the Ayatollah, look, I respect you, my man. Okay. I mean, it is the dumbest version of Sopranos meets, I can't even think of the fictitious meets Veep meets Game of Thrones meets the dumbest thing imaginable. You know, while Donald Trump's falling, he's got the crew.

30:40Just imagine this crew. Right here, this one. Just imagine them wearing Adidas jumpsuits right there, basically. Right? And then Donald Trump's like, I don't want to meet the Ayatollah. But if I didn't want to meet him, I'd be honored to meet him. I would tell you Ayatollah. It's an honor. It's an honor, okay? Here, play this clip. And do you really want to meet with the new Ayatollah, the new Supreme Leader? I don't want to meet, but if I did meet, I'd be honored to meet him. I'd like to see if we make a deal. But if we make a deal, it's possible that I would meet him. I'd be okay with it. But that happened here in the U.S.?

31:13I haven't really heard too much about it. I didn't suggest it, but some people have suggested it. If it happened to a bee, I'd be respectful. The only thing that may be effective about this is just how psychotic it is. And it's not like the crazy Ivan intentionally psychotic. But the only way you can construe it, though, like if you're the CIA, you're like, okay, well, we have a guy who's so psychotic. and when these messages are delivered back to the ayatollah through the chain of command there like i just i just truly have to wonder like what they like what the reaction it's like when somebody like isn't guilty isn't ruled guilty by a jury for a murder due to like the insanity defense the ayatollah's like all right well you've he's this guy's killed my whole family he's killed a lot of people I know, I don't want to really f'd up things.

32:11But he's like, clearly, seriously, mentally ill, right? Like this guy is not well. He's falling asleep in these meetings. And if you watch those videos, he has a death grip over his right hand that he's desperately trying to cover up. And like corporate media is in there just pretending that like, this is the face and body of good health. This is the oldest president we've ever had in this country. He is actively falling asleep during these meetings. The images are there. Sorry, GOP Twitter account. He's not blinking no matter how much you want to gaslight us. And again, he has a death grip over this right hand because he is so embarrassed that he is literally decaying in front of our eyes.

32:54I mean, it's awful. And I'm not saying this to make light of it or make jokes about it, but it's just where we are as a society where this corporate institutionalized media refuses this to cover this portion of someone's clearly ailing and failing health not to be used as an excuse downline like there he is falling asleep during this meeting like literally lights out for the audio listeners eyes shut laying like laying down look at the guy behind me so you got the corporate media was just like i need to always talk about biden's health biden's health biden's health right and i hate even bringing it back there but just here we are in 2026 donald trump Trump is literally falling asleep in the Oval Office as he has a death grip over his right hand because it's rotting in front of our eyes.

33:38And no one in corporate media is going to raise their hand and be like, you're okay. You good, bro? What are we doing? I'll tell you what they're doing. They're too busy on the Rothschilds yacht, leaving off the coast of Montenegro and sailing to Carfu and then seeing an island in Albania and saying, Papa, could that one be mine, Papa? All right. I got to. Mike Tappers, he's busy writing the book. It's going to be out at the end of the term and it's going to be on the president's health. It's going to be a sequel to the Biden book. Sequel, sequel. He got to wait for you. All right. We got to really take our first break of the show.

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38:10Use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, where to next? Why don't we go back to the Oval Office though just for one more moment over here. And I know Brett, you showed the video. Do we have, you showed the photo. Do we have video of Donald Trump actually sleeping there? Yeah, you could see it there. And then each thing he said was kind of more deranged than the next at this press conference. Why don't we show you where, when he was actually saying things, he didn't realize that, he's like, where's Chris? Like, Chris Wright was like right behind him. Do we have that video where he's like, where's Chris?

38:51And it's like right there, man. He's right behind you. He's the energy secretary. Better man than me for that one. Not in all ways you feel that, but in one way in energy you do. And that was Chris, right? Where's Chris? Right behind you. He's a hard one to find. What do you mean he's a hard one to find? He's right behind you. Then he starts saying things like nobody's allowed to fix their car anymore. or like I saved people who couldn't fix their cars and now you can fix cars again. I truly don't even know what's going on in this guy's mind. Here, let's play it. And the job he's done is great.

39:27We had the auto industry in yesterday. They don't want people to fix their car. I said, that's strange. I've never heard of that. They have a thing to, nobody's allowed to fix their car. They gave a man seven years in jail actually because he fixed his own car. So I thought we'd do something about that. but we'll get it all straight going. Can you believe it? They want a bill that prohibits people from fixing. So if you're mechanically inclined, you know, I grew up, I went to school with some guys they will. Okay, then he talks about the Giants quarterback again, Jackson Dart, who introduced him at that weird MAGA event.

40:04And he got a lot of backlash from other NFL players for doing it. And here's what Trump has to say about Jackson Dart. Let's play it. We had the quarterback, Jackson, Jackson is the quarterback for the Giants. He's a big, strong guy. And I said, how do you think you do in women's sports, Jackson? He said, pretty good, sir. He didn't know I was joking. He was not worried. So let me put it that way. He would have been the greatest athlete in the history of women's sports. You got to see the size of this guy. Like a male model, and he's going to be a great quarterback. Is he reading that? Is he reading that off the page?

40:40It looks like he's legitimately reading a script. for the folks who are watching did you see like he was looking at the paper and also real quick when he was looking for for chris it reminded me of that indiana moment when he had the indiana college football team the hoosiers over there that he couldn't find kurt signagi he's like where's kurt where's kurt and kurt's like right over to his right shoulder all the time that keeps happening it keeps happening he does it every day and then also i mean i talked about this in some of the hot takes like who are these just ghouls behind him who are he's like gremlin and humans like they're creatures that and they're like they laugh at these things like there's quite literally nothing funny about like honestly if you were five years old you know and you were like like boys have peepees and girls have like i i'm just what do you like you're grown men and it's all it's all mostly all men behind like what are you what's the humor in that it's legit like dr evil and austin powers where they all like look at each other and they're like Oh, so you got that.

41:45And then, and then, and then perhaps even weirder, you know, you had MAGA Mike did a press conference and he was being asked a lot of questions like, are you okay? You could have just stopped that even weirder MAGA Mike. Yeah, MAGA Mike, even weirder. You know, do you, you know, you're the Speaker of the House somehow. Bill Pulte, who's the head of Fannie and Freddie, for which he shouldn't be, and he runs some obscure housing agency that he's used to like anyone who Trump hates, he claims engages in mortgage fraud, and then these people get criminally prosecuted by the Trump regime. Now he's going to be running ODNI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and get access to all of this classified information.

42:28He's going to be the acting head of ODNI when the statute literally says that you passed the law. Congress passed the law saying you have to have extensive national security and intelligence background to be nominated for this. So even the nomination is a violation of the law. So, Maga Mike, what do you think? When you watch this and you listen, I want you to watch these ghouls behind him because it's even worse than Maga Mike. Like, Maggie Mike, you'll hear it. It'll be like, if the Democrats nominated Jesus, oh, if we nominated Jesus, the Democrats wouldn't want Jesus. When you know you're nominating Jesus, what are you nominating?

43:07You're nominating some shitheads. You're nominating some real crappy humans. It's not you're not nominating Jesus. And then you'll see that Congresswoman McClain, like she's a ghoul. She's a weird freaking human. And she's like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. And I'm watching, I'm like, who are these? I'm like, who are these humans? I'm like, I'm like, have I, I mean, I go, have I lost my damn mind that these people have positions of power? These are like the most bizarre and dangerous humans. Here, watch this clip. Let's play it. Could you pass FISA without Democrats? The answer is - The Democrats wouldn't trust Jesus.

43:46He hasn't been nominated. There's not a single person that he hasn't been nominated. But do you, I mean, how do you handle this if you can't get, if you can't have Democratic votes? Look, they're playing political games, Jake. The Democrats are not willing to do anything, even the most simple, basic, important responsibility to keep the American people safe because they want to make life hard for the president. This is another version of what we said in the first half of the show about Montenegro and Krafu or Kafu and Albania and the Rothschilds. Like, yes, he's speaking the language that I speak, you know, English, but they're laughing.

44:29I don't know what they're laughing at. I truly feel utterly detached from whatever that existence is. If you're like me and you're listening to this and you're watching this, I hope you feel like, whoa, I hope you don't think that that's normal. I don't know what they're like. Can I also tell you what would actually happen here? And under Maga Mike's Jesus scenario, if Republicans nominated Jesus, they would deport him. Republicans would deport him, calling him a Middle Eastern radical. They would call him a socialist for feeding the poor. Jesus is the most woke. They would call him a snowflake for loving my neighbor.

45:12They'd call him woke. All the names. That's what the Republicans would do if Jesus so happened to be a candidate here. It wouldn't be the Democrats who would be upset ironically throughout all what are you what are you trans jesus man you you six genders man you six you got six genders jesus six six genders you guys six genders jesus do people know what's going on with that by the way and i i saw this theory and it's 100 right you know how so trump and the republicans in texas like they have nothing to say about tala rico so they just and and their candidates awful so they just go talafrico he's got a six genders and what somebody put together online, which is 100 % true, is that Donald Trump heard somebody say the word cisgender and say that Tallarico is cisgender or something to that effect.

45:57And Donald Trump heard six genders. And so now anytime Donald Trump speaks about Tallarico, he goes, he's cisgender, he's cisgender, because he's done this before. Was there another example? Asylum, Brett. Asylum. Oh, asylums. Oh, yeah. He heard somebody say immigrants getting asylum, And then he thought that meant that they were being lit out of insane asylums. A lot of the stuff Trump says is because like, when it comes to things like that, very stupid, very, very dumb guy. But he repeats it with confidence. Like he's this brilliant guy. And then he has all those people behind him that Ben keeps pointing out who go, oh, yes, sir.

46:32Asylum. Oh, yes. Six, six genders. Oh, yes, they are. They're transing the mice. Let's print out the signs. They're transing. What do you got, Talarico? You got, you got some soy coming out of your nipples, Talarico. I'm like, ew. What are you talking? Have you heard what these guys say? He produces some soy out of those nipples. I'm like, okay, you guys are some... I don't know what goes on in your MAGA weirdo minds, but let me explain to you what's happening in America right now, okay? Americans can't afford rent. Americans can't afford gas. Americans can't afford groceries. Americans can't afford anything.

47:08Americans have lost their healthcare. You're ripping away Medicaid from people. Americans are psychologically tortured by all the crap you continue to overwhelm them with every day. Americans see the genocide that this regime is complicit in. They see these never-ending wars taking place. They see all of this happening, and Americans are fed up. You're out there like, again, I don't even want to compare you to a bunch of bully toddlers because they behave far more mature than this. I'm trying to think like when I went to elementary school and the biggest bullies and the weirdest things that they said weren't this weird.

47:50And now we have grownups who don't behave as grownups and it gets normalized through, oh, well, this is the Republican party and this is the Democrat and here's the polls. I'm like, we need to start with a kind of threshold understanding that this Trump MAGA thing is not normal. Like none of this is normal or should be acceptable discourse for grownups. Like that's to me the biggest thing when I watch clip after clip after clip of this. Anyway, that may just be me. You know, I'll just show you one more. And Trump's main thing that he wants to talk about is the promenade at the Lincoln Memorial.

48:32Like we're now we're doing Lincoln Memorial promenades after reflecting for pools, arches, ballrooms. Oh, let me add this quickly. Guess who? While Russia's bragging about a$28 billion nuclear deal with Iran, pretty big deal, huh? Like it's kind of like giving Trump the middle finger. You have Kirill Dimitri of Russia's envoy to the United States announcing private public partnerships between the U.S. and Russia to build tunnels from Alaska to Russia. and you have the head of Donald Trump's stooge from his arts commission or whoever approves the ballroom and all of these things going to the St.

49:19Petersburg economic conference, which is like Putin's version to compete with Davos. It's like Putin's thing of all the BRICS nations show up. So we had the ballroom guy show off Donald Trump's ballroom to Putin and everybody there. That's what was going on in the past 24 hours. You had Trump's lackey in Russia showing off the ballroom at the Russian Economic Forum. But here's Donald Trump. While Iran is cutting a nuclear deal. Iran is cutting a$28 billion nuclear deal with Russia, while Russia is using hypersonic missiles to kill dozens of civilians in Kiev. That's the priority is Trump had to show off his ballroom.

50:07But let me show you what he says about this Lincoln Memorial Promenade. Again, this is the language. I get it. He is speaking the language of English. I understand it, but it's like, what we need is a promenade and a Lincoln, Promenade, Curfu, Rothschild, like call me completely disconnected from all of this crap. I go, what's he saying? What did he just say? Does it have anything to do with anything that any American is experiencing? No, no. Okay. Got it. Got it. Your plan is good. We're doing something that just came up. We'll have a little breaking news here because nobody's heard of it. But at the Lincoln Memorial, the front was supposed to be the back.

50:54The back was supposed to be the front. It never got built because they built two roadways behind it after it was built. And it shut off the gateway to the water. That was really going to be the main entry. And we're going to be doing that. We're going to call it the promenade. to be the promenade. They want to call it the Trump promenade, but I don't know if I want to do that. But it's going to be beautiful. It's a beautiful project, and it's going to take the Lincoln Memorial right down to the Potomac. I can't get these Sopranos, and now I know people like it out of my mind, but you've got his little gangsters behind him.

51:29I'm going to build the promenade, okay? They're going to call it, I'm not sure I want to call it the Soprano promenade. I'm going to call it the Trump. Maybe I will, maybe I won't. I don't know. I don't know. what should what should i do everyone's lives would be so vastly improved if his parents just encouraged his love for decorating for decorating uh when he was a kid rather than this man like i wish he pursued a career in decoration i wish he pursued design something you could even literally anything else anything else i would i would honestly if if you said he would step down as president and we're going to make him the lead decorator of washington dc the city let's do it sounds great decorate away the more i watch those clips i didn't pick this up on the first watch but now that we're playing them here on the pot it really does look like he's reading from the papers like even as he's trying to like remember these stories i i'm not trying to dabble in conspiracies here but like when you watch him look down like it looks like he's like literally reading off these papers i see people in the comments agreeing here and it's just it's pretty striking when you actually watch this one you know i think his eyes are also heavy in addition to that so like it's hard to tell is he looking down or his eyes shut is he let's say that's also another symptom of like dementia yeah yeah like not sleeping yeah bath sleep like you should sleep and you're up at weird hours at night i mean it fits all it fits all of that yeah yeah bragging about uh dr oz the other day he takes dementia tests every day he aces it all the time he aces it every day he loves taking the tests he loves taking it it's like it'd be like it's like saying uh yeah jordy oh he's a great guy he passes his sobriety test every day every day he passes another sobriety test i'm out there bragging i passed it with fly i walked a straight line for stretch they said it was the most straight line ever hey at least his name's coming off the kennedy center and they confirmed that uh there's a leaked memo today that says it's uh it's coming down it's got to come off of all of the various merchandise that they have it's it's going to come off the building they have a deadline of june 12th i believe to get it off the building um and all the letterheads and and all of that and so uh i'm curious to see do they wait to the last day to do it or do they do it before either way i want to see if we can get some cameras out there and do a little live stream of it coming down if we can we will we will we will see i'll let you know if we if we're able to pull that off yeah well you know court of appeals judge ludig who appears frequently on the midas touch network and on legal af um he gave us an exclusive comment about how the federal judiciary is finally uh asserting itself and how you know the federal judiciary it took a while but is actually doing its job for the first time.

54:04And I think we've seen, and we've been covering on Legal AF and hear some of these major orders that here's what he said to us. The tectonic plates is from Judge Ludig, who's like, he was like the, this guy was a Federalist Society guy. This guy was the judge in the court of appeals who like everybody worked for before the kind of Trump MAGA movement. If you were going to become kind of like a right wing, I don't want to say like normal, but like this was, but this was like the path. There was like liberal versions of him and he was like the conservative guy, but he's a conservative guy who cares about the country.

54:39And he was, he was like, he's like George H. W. Bush kind of conservative guy. And his statement was the tectonic plates of American politics have at last shifted seemingly suddenly and overnight, but these plates of America's politics have actually been shifting inexorably and indedectable every single day for the past 18 months. There is no mistaking that the federal judiciary, the federal courts of the United States have brought about this inevitable end to this president's war on the federal judiciary, the constitution and the rule of law in America, and with it, the effective end to his presidency.

55:14It's powerful words by Judge Lutig right there. But when I come back, when we come back, I want to share with you some of these congressional hearings and what went down, calling out Donald Trump's cognitive and physical decline. We'll share that with you. I will show you just, you know, how these Trump sycophants are reacting to all of this. And then we'll talk briefly about this Trump canceling this concert that was going to take place in late June. Also, Donald Trump wants to go to the Knicks game. He says he's going to go to Madison Square Garden game three. What do you think the chants are going to be?

55:51Is it going to be Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein? You think they're going to do a Jeffrey Epstein chant at the Masur Garden? I tell you, like the Knicks series right now is like the one thing in my life that's not politics related that Trump has not infested. And this asshole has to get a stink all over it. Like I thought I could cruise through the series, just root on the Knicks and watch some basketball and forget about all this stuff. but of course of course you think we get a lock him up chant or a jeffrey epstein lock him up like what do you what do you think they do in the garden i think they may go lock him up it's going to be pretty vicious i think it's going to be lock him up maybe we do a poll brett on our youtube and we ask people if he goes to game three will the chance be jeffrey epstein lock him up or then they could fill in miscellaneous anyway let's take our last quick break of the show everybody subscribe, help us get to 7 million subscribers.

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1:00:52Trump better not show up to MSG Brothers. I didn't get to speak right before break. He better not show up. He better not ruin this. We've waited our whole lives for this moment. plus it's really not as crowd so I'm like New York hates it like New York does not F would Trump the way you know I he could he could waltz his way into maybe some of these other you know stadiums or whatever and do the propaganda thing it's not going to be that type of reaction I'm telling you right now so it's like there's nowhere to really hide too because like the boxes at MSG aren't like really like boxes from what I understand because it's like an arena that does like heavy music and all of that so from like a gameplay perspective like if you were there to actually see the game, like you're out there with the people if you want a good view.

1:01:34And he's a coward. That's not his problem. His only hope, and I shouldn't even suggest this, but like he'd have to wear like a Knicks hat, a Knicks jersey, Knicks shorts, which he'd never always wear a stupid suit. So I'm not giving, but you'd have to like drape yourself. You'd have to be holding two Knicks things. You'd have to maybe put a sticker on you, like big Knicks fan. As he comes out, they take out like a world war ii veteran yeah you'd have to be holding yeah veterans wearing nick outfits you know 93 he'd have to be interlocked yeah he'd have to he'd have to be wearing it the only way he doesn't get booed is he'd have to be wearing an entire nick jersey nick hat nick fan uh it'd have the sticker would have to say boo if you want the nicks to lose right then he'd have to then he'd have to be holding hands with two 92 year old world war ii veterans also dressed in Knick outfits with stickers that say, only boo if you want the Knicks to look.

1:02:33Strategically, he'd have to create that type of blockade against the booing if he was hoping to negotiate a way out of the booing right here. Anyway, let's just get right to it. The reality is, I think if he goes, it's going to be a disaster. I don't want him there at all. I don't want him anywhere at all. You know, just get that, they stay the hell out of sports. They stay the hell out of everything. And that is what, I just want grownups. I just want adults. In any event, let's just talk briefly about this open letter that Zelensky just published. I'll do a whole other hot take on the letter itself.

1:03:06But I thought this line to Putin, it's an open letter. And here's what Zelensky says to Putin. We have heard that you were promised in Alaska the resolution of certain issues concerning Ukraine and Europe. But you can see for yourself that Ukrainian and European issues are not decided in Anchorage. It's powerful stuff right there. And he's saying, we now know through our intelligence network that Donald Trump promised you that he was going to hand you Europe, the end of NATO, Ukraine on a platter. Remember what we were saying back then when Trump told Putin, we get the West, you get Europe, China gets Asia, and then we can kind of fight over, you know, we can share Africa, we can share some of these other.

1:03:59But that was basically the deal. And Trump doesn't care about Africa. Trump just wants Western Hemisphere and control the entire hemisphere and Greenland. Trump, we get Western Hemisphere, Greenland, you get Europe and China, you get Asia and Africa and Russia, you can have a little bit of Africa. That was the deal. That's what they discussed. There are other countries, though, who have a say in this. And that's what Zelensky is saying right there. I want to go, though to these congressional hearings so you can see for yourself what was going down. These are some powerful hearings right here. So first, let me show you from earlier today, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.

1:04:40He appeared before a House committee. And I want you to watch as Democratic Congress member Larson asked him a very simple question. Are we currently at war? Let's watch it. Are we at war currently? Every year under the Biden administration. Are we at war currently? that the conflict has been halted. The conflict has been halted. So we're not at war. So our military is not involved. We're not at war. Again, if you would like for me to call the Secretary of War, I can ask. I'm the Secretary of Treasury. So as part of the administration, and as part of this, we're not at war. How in God's name, if we can't answer any questions at all, and I don't know, maybe there is some special orders where we're not allowed to these questions.

1:05:30We ought to make that clear. Are we at war or not? I'm asking as relation to the cost of going up for oil and gas. That hasn't risen. Has it risen because of the war? It did rise because of the conflict. Okay. And we all know by now that there was the United States strikes on Hormuz. Iran responded by striking in Kuwait. The military air base and the commercial airport are right next to each other in Kuwait, if you were wondering. They're literally located in the same area. We saw the international terminal destroyed by Iran, and we saw the air base significantly damaged by Iran when CENTCOM claimed that didn't happen.

1:06:23They said all of the drones and ballistic missiles were intercepted by Kuwait, the United States and Bahrain and nothing hit anything. And then CENTCOM had to admit it. And so it's like, you just, because the video surfaced and then it's like, okay, I've been saying this for a while now. I think I was early money on this. Um, that CENTCOM, I remember three or four weeks ago, I was like, I'll tell you what's really upsetting me. The fact that CENTCOM has fallen, you know, and that Brad Cooper guy, Admiral Cooper, I'm like, oh, when I saw that guy start to do the whole MAGA shtick, I'm like, damn, that's really bad because I at least was hoping that CENTCOM can give us accurate data.

1:07:13And just think even right now, they're still covering up the slaughter of the little elementary school girls in Manab. Like they know the answer. Just think that if they're covering that up and they're covering up Epstein files, just think of what the lanes to which they'll go. Anyway, back to Besant over here. Some cross-examination by Congresswoman Sanchez. We could play this clip. Mr. Secretary, do you believe that all Americans should follow our tax laws? Yes, Congress. Yes, good. So do I. And do you believe that for those Americans who break our tax laws, they should be audited or held accountable?

1:07:51Well, I think there are two things there. An audit is not a result of breaking the law. Yes or no? Simple question. Well, no, it's not a simple question. Okay, then let me break it into two. If you're asking me, should every tax payer be audited? Please answer that. I came here for answers. If you came here to waste time, I'm going to try to make sure you don't do that. Do you believe that people who lie on their tax returns should be audited? Yes. Okay. Do you think that people who break our laws should be held accountable, our tax laws? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Very simple. Not a hard question.

1:08:28I'm glad we agree. So why is it that you are allowing President Trump to have complete immunity from being audited? Again, I'm going to have to refer you to my previous statement. What was your previous statement, sir? I am unable to comment on any of the ongoing litigation. Okay, can you name the ongoing case concerning President Trump's immunity from audit? Sorry? Can you name? There are three cases. Can you name them, please? That are out there now, and I will be happy to get them back to you on those, because, again, I am not a lawyer. Wait, we are represented by the DOJ. Great, you said that you can't because there's ongoing litigation.

1:09:08You'll get me the name of the ongoing litigation because the only ongoing litigation that I know of is surrounding the$1.8 million slush fund, which has already been suspended. The fact is that the judge's ruling in the litigation. I know Besant probably is much more comfortable on the Rothschild yacht going to Curfu, spotting islands in Albania, than answering very basic questions like that. I'll break and give the commentary there. What did you say? There's two pictures of Scott Besant. Yeah, there it goes. I see Besant and Besant. And then he's asked by Chu, not who, he's asked by Chu, do you agree with Trump that you also do not care about America's financial situation?

1:10:02Let's play. Do you agree with President Trump that you also do not care about America's financial situations? Congresswoman, who was the president during World War I?

1:10:16Can you, are you refusing to answer my question? No, I'm asking, who was the president during World War I? I don't know, but clearly you are not answering my question. So you don't know who the president of World War I was. But let me tell you. So I'm clearly getting the idea that you do not want to answer whether you agree with President Trump that you do not care about Americans' financial situations. President Trump does care about Americans' financial situations. Well, he actually said that he doesn't. No, that is a truncated thing, like everything is, that he is future-proofing because I can I can tell you, Americans' financial situations would be devastated if Iran got a nuclear weapon and there was a permanent, permanent shutdown of the flow of energy.

1:10:59Americans' financial situation would be devastated by this fictional scenario that I just created here that we have saved you from. And so... Just ask me a question and I'll be like, uh... Hold on. What are these Epstein class of, like, words? These future-proofing? Like, what is he even saying? What is he up there saying, then? future-proofing. Jody, pretend you're a congress member and just like ask me. Ben, President Trump says he doesn't care about Americans' financial problems right now. Do you agree? Who was the president during the Spanish-American War? No, sir, that's not the question I'm asking.

1:11:33I'm asking you to answer the question whether you believe that Trump is right in his assertion that you should not care about the American people's financial status right now. Name me the governor during the California gold rush. It's like a different... I'm struggling. What are we talking about? Are we doing Jeopardy? Are you Ken Jennings? Seriously, you're there to answer a question. It's truncated. It's a truncated response. What are you talking about? You're using words, but Trump said the whole thing with his chest. He said it. It was clear as day. Why are you providing cover? I mean, I know why you are, but isn't it just so pathetic that we see our leaders acting like this?

1:12:20I'll just give you this in all contexts. I'm just going to show you this Brooke Rollins cross-examination by Democratic Congresswoman Angie Craig, who says, do you understand the difference between error rates and fraud in SNAP? Like, do you know what your own numbers say? Because the SNAP program has the least amount of fraud in it than any program. And if you come to think about it, like, doesn't that make sense? Because like, who's really out? Like, the fraud would be getting food stamps in order to buy kind of like the bare threshold of nutritious sustenance. So like who's really going out there and going, okay, here's my scam.

1:13:10I'm going to try to buy apple juice and I am going to scam the government out of some bread and a bologna and a piece of bologna. Like I understand why in a system like Medicaid, not from the recipients of Medicaid, from purported operators who are doing fraudulent billing of Medicaid with fake patients, why in something like that there would be fraud? Who was involved in that? I don't know. MAGA Republican Senator Rick Scott and people like who Donald Trump pardoned, who ran clinics and companies that purportedly provided services to low-income Americans who then sought reimbursement at either excessive rates, duplicative rates, or for phantom patients.

1:14:10That's where you have a lot of fraud, and there's a lot of criminal prosecution. That's why MAGA Republican Senator Scott had to invoke the fifth the way he did over and over again. And that's why so many people were convicted and Trump has pardoned a lot of Medicaid fraud people. It doesn't usually happen though, at the level of somebody getting the healthcare services, because you're not getting a blank check to do, to get it. It goes to the provider. Now, if the provider enters into a conspiracy with you and then kicks you back the money that they get, that's an elaborate scheme where that usually is not what's happening at the patient level, although arguably that, but most people who receive Medicaid or Medicare or other types of healthcare, they're getting a surgery that needs to be done.

1:15:05That's kind of verifiable if they got the surgery or they got the treatment to begin with. And so that's why the fraud amounts are less for a snap recipient. But when Trump's idea of waste, fraud, and abuse is actually let the people who engage in waste, fraud, and abuse off, that's why according to all accounts, there's been 18 % more waste, fraud, and abuse under Trump than the year before. Doge has had the opposite effect, but go after the people who really need the services and need the food assistance and say that they're the con artists, not the oligarch Epstein class who are going to Carrefour and taking Albanian islands while actually defrauding the government.

1:15:53Here, watch this clip as Congresswoman Angie Craig cross examines Rollins. But we are now, it did go up almost 90 % under the Biden years. So even though we're hitting record numbers. Reclaiming my time. You are in power. You own this entire town. This is, Madam Secretary, do you know what, reclaiming my time. Okay. I just ask you not to be so rude. I mean, I'd really like to have a legitimate conversation. Do you know what percentage of farmers now say they can't afford fertilizer for this year as a result of the president's war in Iran? Well, it depends on the geographic location. The Southeast.

1:16:3170 % is the answer. Those are not the numbers. That's that's not correct. Madam Secretary, do you know what the snap fraud rate actually is, according to the most recent estimates from USDA, the fraud rate? Well, that is based on data we're receiving from the states that we can't verify. That's the whole point of this is we have no ability to verify California, Minnesota, where the fraud is reclaiming my time. It was one point six percent according to USDA. Your state is saying we only have 1.6 % fraud rate, which we all know is an absolute joke. I'll say it again. The USDA's own data found 1.6%.

1:17:11I don't know. I don't think you understand the difference between error rates and fraud rates. I honestly don't. It is one of the lowest fraud rate in any program in America is the SNAP program. The lowest fraud rate of any program in America is the SNAP program? One. You can't be serious. You can't be serious. You can't be serious. What do you think? There are just so many people going around who are saying we need food stamps so desperately, so desperately that we're going to commit fraud on the government so that we can eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Let me put it in perspective for a second, all right?

1:17:52Trump has pardoned people. He's commuted people's sentences. Fraudsters who have stolen tons and tons of money from people. He's wiped out about$2 billion in victim repayment money, money that was going to go to the victims. Gone. Not going to the victims because Donald Trump pardoned these people or commuted these people. Now, I want you to think about the$2 billion number, and now I want you to think about how much SNAP costs, how much SNAP is per month for an individual. I looked it up. The average SNAP payment per person is about$188 per month. So for$2 billion of payments that Donald Trump has wiped out in fraud repayments, that right there alone could actually account for over 10 ,638 ,297 people's SNAP payments.

1:18:45So yes, there is a whole lot of fraud going on. The fraudsters are the people in the White House, and they are going after the people who are living off the crumbs right now. And then they have the nerve to attack them and not the people who, and then give these rewards, actually, to the people who are committing this mass scale fraud to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. And then if I'll leave you with this, I mean, I've shown this clip before, but we have to include it on a Midas Touch episode. It's Congress member Ted Lieu's cross-examination of Rubio, where he literally shows the video of Donald Trump sleeping.

1:19:24and he asks rubio is he sleeping and rubio goes no that video doesn't show him sleeping and we all see him sleeping in the video and you you remember bro jordy what was that thing where it was like where you'd like look at the dress and some people would see like gold and then blue dress the blue dress black dress was it the yeah was it the golden white or was it never was. Some people saw this, some people saw that. Like for me, I was at a Knicks game when that came, when that dropped, when that heater dropped, whenever that was, I was at a Knicks game. So just bring it a full circle. Sorry. Bring it a full circle.

1:20:05But to me, and it's not though that, it's not that have to be, it's that you are denying the reality. The reality is, as we showed you earlier, Donald Trump slept today in the Oval Office. He slept yesterday in the Oval Office. every single appearance, he falls asleep. Every single one now, he falls asleep. Not closes his eyes and just to rest him. That's also called sleeping. He is in borderline REM sleep. I'm not just saying this to be hyperbolic. No, he's literally really sleeping. And that's dangerous. And the world is looking at it. The world is saying, man, you have an ill. You have like a real psychologically, cognitively, physically ill human being in the Oval Office who is delusional, who lives in an imaginary world.

1:21:15and he has this cult that goes around and pretends like this is normal and they want to bend our collective reality into accepting this and then they have a trillion dollar media apparatus that beams this stuff and like norm and filters it through a lens of like like abnormalcy. And I'm like, what the hell is, what do we do? What the hell? So let's just watch this clip together. You've seen it before. I have to show it in this episode. So let's just play. If Donald Trump cannot stay awake at these important meetings where the cameras are rolling, imagine what he's like when the cameras are not there.

1:22:03So I'm going to ask you, have you been at classified meetings where Donald Trump has fallen asleep or had trouble staying awake. I've never been at any meeting where you're falling. And the things you're showing me now, he was not falling asleep. And I think you're lying again, you're lying consistently to Congress. You're lying to Congress, Secretary Rubio. So I'm going to show you another video in a moment. Okay. And he shows the video of Donald Trump sleeping that we all see. And then Rubio's like, hold the Ben. He said, play the clip. He's not, he's not, he's not, he's not. Do we have the other one of Lou Brett?

1:22:35There's the other one of him where he just shows the, where he shows the clip. I mean, there was that one. And then there's another clip of Lou. Secretary Rubio, have you been at more than one meeting where President Trump has fallen asleep? That's false. That's false. I've never seen him fall asleep. On the contrary, the guy doesn't sleep, which is a big problem because he calls me at two in the morning. He calls me at five in the morning. And, you know, I like to sleep a little bit, maybe not 12 hours, but at least six. So he works. The other day he was at the Oval Office until 1230 p.m. 1230 a.m.

1:23:05I don't know what you're talking about. So, Rubio, I'm going to show you in a moment a video that shows you just lied to Congress. Oh, OK. So this is a video of a cabinet meeting literally from last month where Donald Trump is sleeping while you are talking. Please show this video. Coalition of countries that line up behind the peace deal, behind the board of peace. And it's still every day is a challenge, but it's been driven personally by the president. It's the reason why we're involved in this whole Ukraine-Russia conflict. That's not our war. It's not the president's war. This war started.

1:23:39It never would have happened if you'd been president. But this war is going on and the president is trying to end it. You are literally talking about issues of war and peace and Donald Trump is sleeping right next to you. No, he's not. If Donald Trump cannot stay awake at these important meetings where the cameras are rolling, imagine what he's like when the cameras are not there. So I'm going to ask you, have you been at classified meetings where Donald Trump has fallen asleep or had trouble staying awake? I've never been at any meeting. And the things you're showing me now, he was not falling asleep.

1:24:12And I think you're lying again. I'll leave it at that. There doesn't even be as I'm going to show you that you were lying on the earth. Oh, OK. Oh, OK. Oh, OK. Also, dude, it's not the flex you think it is when you say that Trump is calling you at 2 a.m., 5 a.m. I mean, these are symptoms of dementia when you can't have normal wake periods. All right, everybody. I want to say thanks to everybody for watching the Midas Touch podcast. Thanks for being here. We covered a whole lot today. And we'll, you know, we'll be a lot more content on the way. We got, Ben's got Legal AF this weekend. As always, check it out Saturday live.

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