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24:40MeidasTouch:And he talked to me, he said, he's like, Ben, you know, go through the timeline with me of what went down in the Kerr County area. He's like, at 1 a.m., the National Weather Service, you know, issued, you know, a warning that there could be flash floods. Then a few hours later, they said, go to higher ground. And then evacuations look like they started sometime around 7. He's like, what was happening after 1 a.m.? What was happening at 2 a.m. What was happening at 3 a.m.? He goes, if I was in Florida and this was functioning the right way, the FEMA regional manager would be calling me right away.

25:13MeidasTouch:If I couldn't wake up, they'd be reaching out to a deputy of mine. We would all get together. We would kind of establish a war room together, the feds and the state side by side. We would then figure out, do we need to federalize some of the equipment to start preparing for disaster relief? Where do we pre-position everything? What are we doing? That's not just left. Hey, state, good luck. Call us when you need us. That's just not the way it works. And even what Kristi Noem was saying during her press conference, I mean, she made a number of admissions. One, she blamed Biden for things. I'm not even going to play you that.

25:47But here she talks about the role of the state is to run and manage the emergency. That's not true. There is a role for the state to play, but they're not the lead. They work side by side with the feds together in a joint operation. Here, watch what she said. Through such a time as this, and this tragic situation is something that is unprecedented. We recognize that at the federal level. We also recognize that when something like this happens to a community, happens to a state, that the best responders are those locally because it's your family members, it's your community members that are being impacted, and you can respond quickly.

26:27And the role of the state is to run and manage that emergency. But the federal government needs to be here for the support and extra resources on the ground as well. And that is what we are doing and what President Trump has dedicated to continue to do. Well, you called for, we just played the clips. You called for eliminating, eliminating those resources.

26:48MeidasTouch:And yes, the local first responders are necessary, especially with fast moving storms and very deadly situations that develop quickly. But the plan should be established at all levels. The local police, they don't have the choppers. The local police don't have the swift rescue boat. They don't have those resources. So you have to coordinate them all together and marshal resources outside. So Donald Trump was then asked over the weekend, are you going to do an investigation to find out if the cuts to the federal government left key vacancies and that that contributed to this? Are you even going to do an investigation?

27:31And Trump says, I already got the answer. No, that didn't happen. That's not what happened. You're unprecedented. Once in 100 years, there's nothing we could have done. You're playing this. Are you investigating whether some of the cuts to the federal government left key vacancies at the National Weather Service or in the emergency coordination? They did not. They did. I'll tell you, if you look at that, what a situation that all is. And that was really the Biden setup. That was not our setup. But I wouldn't blame Biden for it either. I would just say this is a hundred-year catastrophe, and it's just so horrible to watch.

28:10MeidasTouch:The first instinct is to blame Biden, but then he realizes, wait, didn't we tell everybody that we had the equipment that we needed? And then the fact that he just it should tell you everything that he's basically ruling out the idea of an investigation. Brett, to your point, the testing, right, just to find out what happened. We know there were key vacancies. That's an established fact. The question is, were the vacancies and were some of the other cuts to FEMA and the other cuts that have taken place to NOAA and NWS a contributing factor to the local and state government not being able to respond with the way they needed with the federal support?

28:59We know from listening to the local state police and the local officers and the local officials, they blame the feds. And they said we did not get the right resource. We did not get the right. The forecasting we got said flash floods, but we never expected it to be of this magnitude. Now, they may be just trying to throw the feds under the bus. I don't I don't know. But I know that they're saying that. And while all of this is taking place, what is Kristi Noem posting? She's posting a poll on her Instagram asking what should be her governor portrait. Should it be the Miss Blondie version of herself or the Iceman version of herself?

29:42And Donald Trump was golfing this weekend and enjoying ice cream and like licking the ice cream in a very weird way as well. Now, you go back and you look at storms, you look at tragic events like this. what would former President Biden or Obama or frankly anybody, what would they be doing? They would be in a situation room like setting. They'd be surrounded with all of their top people in like a war room, it would look like. And there are photos of Biden doing this directly engaged and involved in every step of the way, not spending the, could you imagine if Biden was golfing and licking ice cream cones and someone like Mayorkas was out there posting photos of himself saying, which one do I look the best?

30:30Did you like me as Miss Blondie or Iceman? That's what they were doing. We've got a lot more to discuss on this episode. I want to talk about the Epstein files, which the Trump regime claims do not exist, never existed, even though they invited right-wing influencers a few months back to the White House to hold the binder that said, Epstein files, phase one.

30:52MeidasTouch:I guess that was it. You've got Trump congratulating as well, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. I want to talk about that. I want to talk about Trump's failed trade war and more. I want to remind everybody, our memberships here on YouTube are soaring right now, and it's a major help in our growth. You can gift people memberships if you're already a YouTube member. Since we don't have outside investors, this is the way that we've grown. And so become a member today, gift people memberships. There's no limit to the amount of memberships you can gift. YouTube sends those memberships out to people who maybe can't afford a membership and would love to be a member.

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35:23MeidasTouch:The Epstein files, Jordy, that's where to next, which Donald Trump says don't exist, never existed. You're kidding. There is no such thing as the Epstein files anymore, according to the Trump DOJ, despite the fact that one of their main issues is that they were going to release the Epstein files, right? that there was these Epstein files and they accused everybody of it, despite the fact that being on the list, despite that we all knew that Donald Trump is all over the files. And I can say without even being fearful for a moment that I will be sued for defamation that Donald Trump is all over the Epstein file.

36:03Donald is on the Epstein files. Donald is on the Epstein. Let me lawsuit against me. You hate me, Donald. Do it. You could do a$20 billion lawsuit. Go for it, tough guy. Do a$20 billion. Trump is on the Epstein files. Should I keep repeating it? Because if I keep repeating it, you could just add them up if you think I'm lying, right? $20 billion. Why not go a trillion? Sue me for a trillion dollars. Why? Because you are on the files. And why can I say that? Because I've seen them. There's been a lot of files that have been released. And guess where Trump's name is? On them. He's in deposition transcripts of women who had been trafficked by Epstein, who said, yeah, Epstein was on the plane.

36:52He said he was going to Trump's Atlantic City Hotel. Virginia Giuffre recently died by suicide in Australia. Where was she found to be trafficked by Epstein? And Epstein's trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was also close friends with Donald Trump, and Trump wished her well at her sex trafficking trial. Mar-a-Lago, she was an underage girl, Virginia Giuffre, who somehow found a job at Mar-a-Lago when she was like 17. And she was picked for Mar-a-Lago by Ghislaine Maxwell to be sex trafficked by Epstein. You know why I can say that and not worry that Donald Trump's going to sue me? Because it's true.

37:25That actually happened. Trump has said that Epstein is a great guy who likes women on the younger side. Donald Trump's on party with Epstein. Trump's on the flight logs with Epstein. Epstein's been on Donald Trump's plane. Trump's brought his kids around Epstein. I could go on and on and on about these connections over and over again. Oh, Donald Trump, what was it, Brett? Doe 172 or 17, Doe 174 or 174. Donald Trump was a doe in the simple cases involving Epstein. At Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case, a woman who was 14 years old at the time, who now was a Jane Doe as a woman, but was a little girl, said that she was introduced to Trump when she was 14 by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.

38:13So it'd be pretty easy if I wanted to find the Trump Epstein stuff and I wanted to make them public, right? I know exactly where to look. I told you where it is. I would know the grand jury testimony. I would know the depositions. I would say release the dough one 74 stuff. All of that stuff is, is, is out there. And then it was the Trump and the people who were saying that there's an Epstein list. And I'm like, okay, with this list, of course, Trump's name has got to be as God, if, if there is a list, of course, Trump's names, we know he's all, he's on all of the other stuff that I just listed for you.

38:47So it would seem to follow. Wouldn't it? I mean, wouldn't that be the case? So now, And also, Kash Patel, Donald Trump's head of the FBI, and Dan Bongino, this number two at the FBI, these guys were like right-wing podcasters before getting these jobs at the FBI that they're not qualified for. And they were the ones who were talking all about Epstein this, Epstein that. Here's what the Epstein stuff. If I was that, I'm going to release the Epstein files right away. Well, he picked literally the Epstein investigation. He picked the people who were talking about it more than anybody. But you don't have to just take my word for it, right?

39:25Take Pam Bondi's word for it. Back in February, right around the time where they did that stunt at the White House, where they had all the right-wing influencers hold up binders that said, the Epstein files. They held up a binder that said, the Epstein files. And they weren't the files. They were, as I mentioned, all it was was the phone log of Epstein that had Epstein's phone numbers in it and was heavily redacted. But when you saw what was produced in the civil case, guess whose name was on it? Trump. Epstein had like all of Trump's numbers, all of Trump's key contact people. So that's all they released.

40:04But we had that information many, many years ago. So Pam Bondi took heat because she said you were going to release this. And so she was going on the news and she said, look, the Epstein client list is sitting on my desk. She said, OK, well, here it is. Here's what she said.

40:22MeidasTouch:The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. that's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies. So have you seen anything there? You said, oh my gosh. Not yet. Okay. Well, we'll check back with you. And Ben, let's just be clear about the language that the Fox hosts use when he asked that question, what she was responding to there. He specifically asked, not even broadly about the Epstein files, which I guess could give her a little bit of cover.

41:04He said, do you have the Epstein client list? And she says, yes, I have the Epstein client list and it's on my desk right now. You don't get much clearer than that. And when I think about the situation, it truly is like the dog that caught the car, right? The dog that caught the truck because they've been chasing this thing the whole time. And I guess this was a great way to get their followers to, you know, they know their followers are, many of them like kind of chasing conspiracies. And there is a lot of lore behind this story over here. And so they knew that they could dangle these Epstein files out to these people.

41:39Now, the thing that always baffled me about it is exactly what Penn's been saying. Why do you do that when your guy was literally Jeffrey Epstein's best friend? When the recruiting for Epstein took place at Mar-a-Lago, when Mar-a-Lago was roughly one mile away from Jeffrey Epstein's mansion in Palm Beach. These aren't just coincidences, people. So the fact that they kept floating this over and over again, it was only a matter of time before this all backfired in their face. I mean, how do you say that it's on my desk and I have it and I've seen it? How do you go from that to saying, oh, actually it does not exist?

42:16And I'm of the belief that there are, of course, the Epstein files, thousands and thousands and thousands of pages detailing the various behavior of Epstein and clients and people like Donald Trump and other folks, that for certain is a thing. The thing that I've always kind of been doubtful of personally, that there's just a one-page list, which I think a lot of people are envisioning that says Epstein's pedophile clients and has a list of names. And you see the mag of people constantly spreading that that's the case. And they'll make up, like they'll write on Microsoft Word. They'll just write people they don't like, right?

42:48The Epstein list.doc, Oprah, Jimmy Kimmel, Tom Hanks, Barack Obama, Miley Cyrus. Okay, Miley Cyrus was there when she was two years old. I don't know. What are you talking about here? But that's what they do. They use it to smear people. They use it to smear their political enemies. Yet when there's actual close ties between Donald Trump and the guy, they go, oh, that's fake news. No, actually, my favorite of the lies is, oh no, Donald Trump was actually so close to Epstein because he was monitoring him and he wanted to make sure that he wasn't doing anything bad. Okay. So Trump was a secret agent actually trying to root out Epstein from the Palm Beach scene.

43:26Got it. That makes a whole lot of sense. And so now we're in the situation where they, you know, here's the issue, whether there's a list like that or no list, Pam Bondi stated unequivocally that she did have the list and that the list was on her desk. So now just a few months later to say no list and the investigations closed, nothing else to see here. Please do not ask me any more questions about this. That to me is a massive red flag that even the most MAGA blinded sheep should be able to go, hmm, that's weird. I was kind of promised, that's kind of promised all this stuff. Now it doesn't exist.

44:09You're starting to see a little bit of questioning, at least from a few of the MAGA faithful going, this is weird. And of course, they never blame Trump for it. They go, Pam Bondi needs to be fired. It's all Pam Bondi's fault. You understand what's going on here. You understand the protection scheme that you are playing a role in right now. You are the ones who are actually protecting these high profile people. And don't give me, oh, but they just don't want because they're the Democrats. I don't give a shit who else is on this supposed list. Okay. Released the list, released the names. You won't, you won't let anybody know because you made up these lies and now they are coming back to haunt you.

44:48Well said, B. And I just want to add this, and I make no apologies for viewing these things under this light, and I implore our audience to as well. I feel like it should actually be a separate segment of the show, right? Imagine if Biden did it. Imagine if Biden did this. Imagine if the DOJ and FBI under Biden just said randomly one day, over the weekend, over the holiday weekend, they're just like, hey, you know that Epstein thing that everyone's been talking about for the last couple years here? that there, by the way, there was no list. And also the guy died by suicide. All right. Happy Monday, everybody.

45:21Happy Monday. And they just kneel the football on this. This is insane. And this should actually really anger everyone. I don't, again, just like what Brett said, I don't care if you're a Democrat. I don't care if you're a Republican. Like you should want to, if there is a list out there that exists that have these high profile people's names on it, we should be able to know who was on that damn list because those people are a danger to society. They have no place in this society. Absolutely not. Disgusting. And we need to know, especially if the president of the United States had a close relationship with this person, especially if there's countless videos and photos and interactions of flight logs where the president in this current situation was around this disgusting human being.

46:08It just speaks to the moral or the lack of morals that we're seeing from this Trump regime. they don't have any morals right they don't take any ownership for if anything goes that wasn't me i don't know you have to ask them i haven't heard about it oh just you know that's a bad thing let's move on from this this because the goal is always to weaponize this against their political enemies it's not to actually find the truth they like to position themselves as where these great truth seekers right so we need this information well the information is all kind of pointing in one direction but so what do they do they create the fake list and they go oh it's actually oprah and It's actually Miley Cyrus.

46:44And it's actually, you know, they smear these people with these lies when the truth all points in one direction. And by the way, I will certainly say just because somebody is on Epstein flight list seven times, just because a dozen plus of Donald Trump's numbers are in Epstein's little black book, and I could go on and on and on because Mar-a-Lago was used as a place to recruit young girls. I'm not even saying that Donald Trump is implicated in this by any means. I'm not saying that that makes him guilty by any means, but I will say the guy has far more connections to this man who himself said that he was Donald Trump's best friend on recording and Michael Wolf's recordings said that he was Donald Trump's best friend and Trump would see it that way as well.

47:29When there are all those connections and you just don't give a shit about that, but you're using all this to try to smear other people. And then the truth comes out and you're just like, oh, okay, whatever. Then I realized that you actually don't care about the facts here.

47:42MeidasTouch:And the facts are Donald Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse. Donald Trump is on an audio recording bragging about sexually assaulting women. And he says, when you're a rich man, like he is, you can do it. They let you do it when you're rich and famous. That's what he said. And then he says, that's locker room talk. That's how guys speak. That's not how guys speak. That's of sexual abusers like you speak. And he was found liable for sexual abuse in a civil case. Now, Donald Trump, though, and the regime realized that they couldn't release even a small portion of the files because the moment they released a small portion, then you go, okay, well, why are you only releasing that small portion?

48:24As I told you, I, as the lawyer in this

48:27MeidasTouch:case, would know exactly where to go to get the Trump stuff. I would know the grand jury testimony based on what's public. I would go to the Doe 174 stuff in the civil cases. I can tell you based on I know where a lot of the stuff that hasn't been released would be. Again, I don't know what it's going to say, but I at least know where. So the moment you release the little, you would then open yourself up for the broader cover up. Why did you only release that? And also, if you release a little, the people who are probably implicated are probably also Trump's buddies, probably a lot of billionaire friends who support Donald Trump.

49:06So which portions do you release here? And then you would just have a never ending news cycle of it. So what the Trump regime hopes is that cable news will stop talking about this and that this will just go away and they'll have a few bad days of talking about it. And then Donald Trump will talk about invading Greenland or opening up crocodile Alcatraz after alligator Alcatraz, or he'll move on to the next one. And then people will forget. That's why at the Midas Dutch Network, I focus on this every other day. And you might be like, Ben, why for the past six months, frankly, I've been doing it for the past three years.

49:42I get it. Why do you keep running Epstein stories every two days? Because I need to keep it front and center for precisely the reason about what's happening now. And I think it's a civic duty that I am doing that. Also, one of the things the Trump regime released was a

49:58MeidasTouch:surveillance footage, which purports to be taken outside of the prison where Epstein died by suicide. And if you look at the timestamp below, it skips from 11.58, 58 to 12. It just literally skips a full minute. And there's really no explanation about why it skips a full minute. And remember, Epstein died during the first Trump administration. And remember, then there were like two surveillance. Remember all the stories? Two of the surveillance cameras were broken. And they said there was no footage. There was no footage at all. So that's where we're at there. Now, I want to move on to talk about Trump's disastrous trade war against the world where he's done no deals.

50:42And now he is issuing letters that look like they were written by no offense to fifth graders. You would do a much better job. But if you were told to cosplay an idiotic president as a fifth grader, you would write a better letter than this. So he's sending letters to all of these countries, seemingly at random and including countries that we have free trade agreements with, like South Korea. and he's imposing these tariffs on them, 25%, 30%, 45%. And he goes, I did a deal, everybody. I made a deal, mommy. Look what I did, mommy. I made a deal. What, you're sending a letter to countries? It's not a deal.

51:23What are you even talking about? And I just, when we get back, I want to read for you the letter. And I want to role play with you of thinking if you're the leader of Japan. Okay. And you get a letter like this, what you would do. If I got a letter like this from, I don't know. I'm just trying to think of, you know, who sends me letters today, who sends letters anyway. So if I got, if I got a letter from anybody and I read this, I would be like, I would go to my wife and I'd be like, yo, is this person's like unwell, right? This is like, I can't even imagine what like prime minister Ashiba's Did you guys see what he just said to us?

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52:59And then I'll be ready to go right from show into Patreon. I almost feel comfortable to do that. All right. Let's take our last quick break of the show. And then I'll show you Donald Trump's fifth grade letters. Mommy, I made a deal. Oh, boy.

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56:16MeidasTouch:Went from 90 deals in 90 days to zero deals and Trump sending bizarre letters to countries further humiliating our once great country. I can't believe that we're reduced to this. And don't go, oh, Ben, I'm going to fact check you. He did a deal with the UK. He did a deal with Vietnam. So he did a deal with China. No, he didn't. Okay. Those aren't deals. A deal is 500 pages, a thousand pages. Trade deals are very specific. So don't tell me that those are trade deals. Okay. All we basically did with the UK is give them preferential treatment for Rolls Royce, Jaguar, and Land Rover over American car manufacturers.

56:59MeidasTouch:Since American car manufacturers have manufacturing bases in Mexico and Canada and are tariffed at a higher price. Okay. Vietnam, all Donald Trump did was a social media post. Okay. That said the tariffs went from, I don't know, what were they? 40 %? They went to 20 % and then they're 40 % if you go from China to Vietnam. What that was about is Vietnam allowed Donald Trump to build a Trump resort over like graveyards there or something like, like in a, in your Ho Chi Minh city. And so Trump did a deal for his family to manage property, which they'll probably just collect a licensing fee and just make it, make a ton of money.

57:40But then I liked the way Trump's like, and now the markets in Vietnam will be open to all of our American products. We're going to flood Vietnam with all of these American products, you know, like all of these countries like Myanmar, you know, for example, which Donald Trump is like, we run a deficit with Myanmar. I don't even know what the trading relationship with Myanmar is, but I can pretty much guarantee you that Myanmar can't afford a lot of American products. That's why there are deficits with developing countries. They don't have, we can, we buy their cheaper products and that's a benefit.

58:14And then our manufacturers take those. There's complex assembly lines that develop, that develop products, but a deficit is not a tariff on the United States. Let's mention we're a pretty big country. Like we're much, we're much bigger than Myanmar. Like just naturally, there's going to be a deficit there most likely, right? We can all agree on that.

58:35MeidasTouch:Exactly. So, so, so Donald Trump starts sending these letters out and he's like, South Africa, you get a 30 % tariff. Kazakhstan, I don't know how he chose these countries. Kazakhstan, 25%. Myanmar, see, I wasn't making Myanmar up, 40%. And he writes a letter to the leader of Myanmar, Japan, 25%. By the way, Trump did a trade deal with Japan in 2019. There was a deal with them, a Trump deal with them that said the parties would always work in good faith not to undermine the agreement. South Korea, we have a free trade agreement with. Trump's tariffing them 25%. Malaysia, 25%. And then Donald Trump's like, you know, Japan puts all of these tariffs on US automobiles.

59:20Like, no, they don't. They just don't want to buy our automobiles. They don't put tariffs on US. It's based on all of these like lies and false premises is also. And so he did those countries. What other countries did he put? Tunisia, 25%. Bosnia, 30%. Doesn't it feel like he's just like, like, like putting his hand in like a hat and like pulling out names and numbers and like that. He basically is, right? Because he promised 90 deals in 90 days. We're past that already. And so now he's trying to kind of run up the score and claim that he's made 90 plus deals. But all he's doing is posting letters on social media, which by the way, look like they may have been generated with AI.

1:00:03AI would do a better job, honestly. These are horribly written letters. Let me read. Just let me, let me read to our, I have to, I'll be brief with it. Let me read you. Ben, you've got no choice.

1:00:15MeidasTouch:I'm no choice. I am, I am cornered. Like I'm cornered. Okay. Dear, this is to prime minister, a Shiba of Japan. Now I want you to think about it. If you were prime minister, a Shiba of Japan and you got a letter like this, what would your response be? Dear prime minister, It is a great honor for me to send you this letter in that it demonstrates the strength and commitment of our trading relationship and the fact that the United States of America has agreed to continue working with Japan. Pause there. What? What are you even talking about? It is a great honor. We've continued to work with Japan.

1:00:58What are we talking about? Now, Japan is the biggest investor in America of any country. They're the biggest employer of Americans from any country. They hold more United States treasury bonds than any country by far. The next closest is China. Japan holds like 400 billion more in treasuries than China does. We are continuing doing business. That's how this letter starts. Okay. Then it goes on to say the following. Despite having a significant trade deficit with your country, nevertheless, we have decided to move forward with you. We have decided to move forward with you. What does that even mean?

1:01:40We have decided to move forward with you, but only with more balanced and fair trade and trade is randomly capitalized. Therefore, we invite you to participate in the extraordinary economy of the United States, and that's all capitalized. I'm not sure why economy, the economy of the United States, the number one market in the world, that's all capitalized,

1:02:03MeidasTouch:or the first letters capitalized, by far. We have had years to discuss our trading relationship with Japan and have concluded that we must move away from these long-term and very persistent trade deficits engendered by Japan's tariff and non-tariff policies and trade barriers. Our relationship has been unfortunately far from reciprocal and reciprocals capital. The R is starting on August 1, 2025. We will charge Japan a tariff of only 25 % on any and all Japanese products sent into the United States separate from all sectoral tariffs. First off, what the hell does that even mean? And then number two, you move the deadline from July 9th to August 1st, and then you're not charging Japan.

1:02:52It is a tax on the American importer. Goods transship to evade a higher tariff will be subject to that higher tariff. And tariffs randomly capitalize the T. Please understand that the 25 % number is far less than what is needed to eliminate the trade deficit disparity we have with your country. As you are aware, there will be no tariff if Japan or companies within your country decide to build or manufacture product within the United States. And in fact, we will do everything possible to get approvals quickly, professionally, and routinely. In other words, in a matter of weeks, I can go on, but you get the point.

1:03:36What the hell did I even read right there? And this is why if you're Japan's trade negotiators or whoever, how do you do a deal with this when they view the essence of the fact that Americans are buying more from Japan than Japan is buying from America as a form of a tariff by Japan against the United States? And until Japan reshapes its economy and builds all of these factories in the United States. The US is going to impose a tariff on Japan and declare a trade war on Japan, which is basically just a tax on the American consumer. And then you go to countries like you say, like a Brazil or an Australia, where actually the deficits are in the opposite direction.

1:04:26America doesn't have the deficit. The other countries do. And Trump doesn't really treat those countries any differently either. You look at South Korea, where there's a free trade agreement also. The Trump regime is speaking, one, incoherently, dangerously, and it's just embarrassing. Who wrote this thing? And this shouldn't be again. It shouldn't be like, oh, Ben, you're so lived out. What a liberal, man. I don't understand what the hell I'm even, what I just read to you. That shouldn't be a democratic position. And then they go on. What do we have? Do we have this clip right here of Peter Navarro?

1:05:12Do we have the clip of Peter Navarro, one attacking, I'll show you two Navarro clips, one attacking Federal Reserve Chairman Powell for a slumping economy, saying that the reason

1:05:24MeidasTouch:that our economy isn't doing good now is we told you this was going to happen. You know, he's going to they're going to blame Powell. First, let's play this clip if we got it. Powell is doing the same thing he did with the first term of Donald Trump. He doesn't understand Trumpnomics. He doesn't understand the supply side aspects of tax cuts and deregulation. He doesn't understand the importance of strategic energy dominance and the president's ability to dramatically lower oil prices. And he doesn't have a clue about terrorism. First off, he does. He's like the only, and Trump appointed him. That was Trump's appointee.

1:06:01And here's Navarro, our friend Carl Quintanilla asked Navarro, so 90 deals in 90 days didn't happen, huh? What happened? Was that a mistake? Was that more aspirational? And then Navarro, And here's why you can't have legitimate conversations with these sociopaths. They go, no, we did it. This is what we wanted. This was the plan the whole time. All right. I can't even talk to you people.

1:06:28MeidasTouch:Like, there's no having logical discussions with these people. Here's Navarro again. I've always wanted to ask you for the last 90 days about your comment on April 7th when you said 90 deals were possible in 90 days. We're almost up. And I just wonder, was your thinking at the time that it really was an aspirational number, or are you kind of disappointed in two for now? I'm happy with the progress we've had, because every country that we run a major deficit with is fully engaged. I think what we're learning from the negotiations is simply, Carl, how difficult it is for these countries to give up the advantage they have over us.

1:07:10And so therein lies the tale. I think the negotiations are proceeding well. And by the way, the tariff revenues are coming in and really helping this country.

1:07:22MeidasTouch:First off, the tariff revenues are taxes on American companies, and they're being passed on to consumers. Anybody had a barbecue or bought food for July 4th, you know that the prices are up. Despite the Trump regime saying there's no tariffs, that the tariffs are not causing price increase, or there's no inflation, there clearly is inflation. We know that inflation is rising. And then the one other thing, and then Brett and Jordy, I'll toss it to you. He goes, with all of these countries that are gaining this advantage over us. America was the richest country in the world by far. The other countries did not have an advantage over us.

1:08:04They envied America's economy. They didn't envy all aspects of America, let's be very clear. But there's a reason why the dollar was the reserve currency of the world. and now the dollar is at its worst start since 1973. Why tourists don't want to come into the United States anymore. There's a reason why foreign investors wanted to move their money into the United States and buy American real estate and that's not happening. America's economy was the envy of the world and there was a pretty simple pact that was made with the world after World War II. And it was, America was going to basically provide security in the world and preserve and protect the free world.

1:08:54That's why the leader of the United States was called the leader of the free world. And kind of in response, America would be able to become one of the richest countries or the richest country in the history of the world, which America became. And as we became the richest country in the history of the world, we saw with a lot of Republican policies as well. But, you know, you could say a lot of policies in general. We forgot about the working class. We forgot about the people. CEOs and billionaires got they hoarded all of their money. This disastrous budget bill makes it the largest redistribution of all.

1:09:30But the richest country in the world was the United States of America. And now Donald Trump has violated the security in the world and the fact that America was the richest in the world by viewing all these other countries, which were not richer than the United States, as being the rich ones, which they weren't. And he's destroying our country. That's where we're at, Brett Jordan. This is why I refuse to stop covering Donald Trump's lies and fact checking and to do what we do. Because I know a lot of people are like, we get it. He's a liar. So what? Well, as I say often on the show, the lies have consequences.

1:10:03And the way Donald Trump and this regime weaponize their lies is really no different than the way Vladimir Putin weaponizes his lies. And then he uses it to do really horrific stuff. And so, for example, what did Putin say before he went into Ukraine? We got to denazify Ukraine. That was the thing that he would say constantly. That was his Trump-esque lie that led him to actually invade Ukraine. That's what he did there. Well, Trump does that about literally everything, and then he uses those lies as predicate to do whatever he wants. And oftentimes, those lies kind of force the regime to take action that is just so awful and horrific because they now feel the need, well, we said there was this awful problem, so we now have to act to act like we are solving that problem that we completely fabricated and made up.

1:10:50And some things are just kind of red herrings. Some things are just outright lies. But you could go through the list here, like this whole trade deficit concept in which these tariffs are based on, to me, is just idiotic in the first place. You're going to have trade deficits with some countries. You're going to have trade surpluses with other countries. Not everybody is going to want to buy American goods, and Americans like buying goods from a lot of other countries. Of course, countries that don't have as much money from us are not going to be buying from the United States as much as we're going to be buying their cheap products.

1:11:21That's just how things are going to be. So Donald Trump hatches this entire tariff scheme to try to even the playing field, even though that's something that's never going to happen. In fact, if Donald Trump just sat there, rode out Biden's economy, guess what? We would be seeing interest rates come down right now. We would be seeing the housing market continuing to boom. We would be seeing the dollar continuing to be strong. All those economic indicators that were increasing would still be going in that direction. But the reason they're not right now is because Donald Trump reversed them all.

1:11:51When Donald Trump spread the lie about they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, he used that to weaponize it to denaturalize U.S. citizens. He stepped in. That's why we're seeing these Haitian citizens being denaturalized by the administration. That's why we're seeing Trump go into these communities in Florida, Cuban communities. That's why we're Venezuelan communities. So we're seeing all across the country this denaturalization effort. It's based once again on Donald Trump's lies, which are no different than Vladimir Putin saying we need to denatify Ukraine. He did it just here in Los Angeles.

1:12:21I live in Los Angeles. Ben's here in Los Angeles. Donald Trump said that the city was burning down because there are all these riots and the city is going to fall. The city is going to collapse unless I send in the military. I better send in the Marines. I better federalize the National Guard. All of that was based off of lies. But Donald Trump feels the need to both be the arsonist and the individual who puts out the fire. By the way, I could go to foreign policy too and talk about Iran and, you know, this Iran is threatening us and there's about to be a nuclear war and they're about to attack us.

1:12:51So we now need to do an attack. He uses false information constantly. It's like that whole concept of the tail wagging the dog. That's what Donald Trump does all the time. I mean, I could go back to the LA fires, but you get the point. Trump lies and then he needs to take drastic action in order to say that he solved these fake problems that he's come up with. And 99.9 % of the time, I might even put it at a hundred percent of the time, He ends up making an issue worse. He does not solve the actual problems that a normal government official would actually be solving. And he terrorizes the people as he does it.

1:13:25And his base may eat it up, but I know people right now are feeling the chaos of this administration. I think when there's a through line through all the things that Trump has done, people just see chaos over and over and over again. Chaos, rudderlessness. When you see these tariff letters. That's just like an incompetent administration. And how humiliating to be writing these letters. And one of the letters, Ben and Jordy, it was a female prime minister, I believe, that he was sending a letter to. And he wrote, or a president, he wrote Mr. President on the letter. These were not proofread. These were not edited.

1:14:02They were ridiculous. If I were a world leader and I saw this, I would just look at it and laugh and rip it up. It's just an embarrassing display of weakness on the global stage. weakness that we've never shown as a country. Usually our strength was to be able to build alliances with other countries. Our strength was being a free trade partner with other countries. Our strength was being a global presence in the world and being respected with both soft power and hard power. Donald Trump has thrown it all away in just a matter of months. Well said. For me too, it just boils down to this. There are just absolutely zero redeeming qualities to this Trump regime, to this administration.

1:14:39I mean, they're the least competent, just least patriotic administration that I've truly seen ever on full display. They're only in it for themselves. And yet they use the military or they use these communities as shields and weapons to only protect them. And for me, it's so upsetting to see, but that's why I love the Midas Mighty. That's why I love what we do here. And that's why I'm so thankful for this pro-democracy community. And he said, thank you guys for tuning in every single day because we're going to hold truth to power here. And we're going to show you all of these lies. And we're going to take you step by step.

1:15:16And not one thing is going to get past us. And I know not one thing is going to get past y 'all. Like, it's too important. It goes back to what I said earlier in the show. We could walk and chew gum at the same time. We could talk about his disastrous handling of the flooding or just no handling at all. No competency over there. We could also talk about Pam Bondi kneeling on the Epstein files in this. And then we could also go through these ridiculous letters that he's sending to these world leaders, just further embarrassing us as a country, as a people. It's ridiculous. And it goes to what Steve Bannon used to say, Brett, to your point, just flood the zone with shit.

1:15:52Just flood it. You know, they'll be too tired. People will be too tired to pay attention to anything. Maybe that was the case in 2016. Maybe, maybe. be, but that's why I'm so grateful for all of our listeners and viewers here because y 'all aren't too tired. In fact, you guys love taking these receipts and sharing them with your communities, your families, your friends, your coworkers, whomever you have in your circle. So please take the receipts that we brought in this episode back to whomever you think needs to see them. I'm really grateful for y 'all. And by the way, let me just show you quickly some of these comments that somebody just sent me.

1:16:22These are from Truth Social, and these are comments about the Epstein stuff. Like I said, this was something that the Trumpers were fed constantly, that we're going to release these files. We promise the government's hiding something from you and we're going to be the ones to release it. And now we're looking at truth social comments to Donald Trump, Donald Trump's own social media app, and they are not very positive. We're seeing comments like this. We're not buying into the whole Epstein issue right now, boss. If there was no list evidence guilty parties, why then is the G lady, Ghislaine, in prison for trafficking?

1:16:53Why is your – another comment. Why is your DOJ and FBI protecting pedophiles? Another person. Where is all of the evidence? Another comment from Patriot for Life. We were lied to again. And so you see this going on and on and on. So this is actually one of those stories in the Epstein situation that actually does appear to be breaking through on the MAG side of things. I haven't seen comments like these, Brett, since the Elon rift. Yeah, no. That's doing waves. No doubt about it. Yeah, there are certain things that they can't kind of propagandize their way out of because they've propagandized their way into them a little bit too much.

1:17:32There are a few issues like that. This is one of them. Because you could argue in many ways that Trump got in a weird, sick way that he was able to weaponize this issue to get into power. And it's just a bizarre thing to me because if there's anybody who is more tied to this thing, it's him. And so the fact that he could kind of try to flip this and act like he is like the protector of the situation is crazy to me. But when you see all this sort of evidence back to back to back to back, it should at least raise some eyebrows and have people saying, hmm, that's kind of weird. I know it's kind of weird also.

1:18:08Why did Trump randomly send out a post praising Dan Bongino and Cash Patel today after the Epstein case was deemed to be done? That's kind of a weird timing to all of a sudden write how great Dan Bongino and Cash Patel is. Here was a Trump tweet today. The FBI, under the direction of Director Cash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is back to basics, locking up criminals and cleaning up American streets. We have the greatest law enforcement professionals in the world, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's all to say, you know, don't worry, MAGA. They're focused on the real – don't worry about the Zeppstein stuff.

1:18:41They're going to be focused on the real things. They're going to be getting the criminals. I think some MAGA people are even seeing that right now or going, that's not what I was promised, that's for sure.

1:18:49MeidasTouch:One last thing I want to talk about is the Trump regime sending a militarized ICE and federal agents looking like they were going to war through MacArthur Park, which is a park in Los Angeles that's frequented by a lot of immigrants, people who are here lawfully and potentially people who are undocumented. meant it. But it's a vibrant area in the community, regardless. I don't question who's here, whatever. I mean, it's where people play sports, play Frisbee, soccer games, summer camps. There are vendors that set up around the area, people bicycle around. I go there. It's a nice park, you know, and it's an area where people hang out, especially in the summer.

1:19:37MeidasTouch:and there's a lot of immigrants who work nearby and in the surrounding shops and stores. And so the Trump regime sent these ICE agents dressed up like they were military, right out of a horror movie, right out of a scene you would expect to see in Iraq or Afghanistan with American troops being there and just did this military walkthrough and parade to try to harass and intimidate and threaten the community and to terrorize Los Angeles. I mean, that's what Donald Trump's doing today, and terrorize LA. It's going to your point, Jordy, this regime is fascist, authoritarian, idiotic, all wrapped into one, and the world is looking at it.

1:20:32Could you imagine if that was a scene from another country, what we would say about that other country if that was happening in Canada. Can you imagine the MAGA reaction, going back to what Jordy said, can you imagine the MAGA reaction if President Joe Biden was sending in the military into Texas like this and kicking kids out of parks while they're playing in parks, wearing full military garb, saying that we're in charge now. You think those states' rights people would be okay with that? You think they'd be cheering them on the way they're cheering them on right now? Donald Trump has got the quote unquote states' rights people, and I know he's knew this was bullshit.

1:21:05So don't be like, oh, they're whatever states rights. I know that. But Donald Trump has gotten all these people to now root for a police state, to root for a militarized police state, to root for a government that is putting Palantir in charge in order to go through your data and assemble this AI data on you. They're rooting for Elon Musk to put chips in your brain. These people need to be laughing their asses off that they were able to convince the stay off me government people to have chips implanted in their brains and have military on their streets and have their services cut, they must be laughing their asses off about how easy these people were to dupe.

1:21:44And so if you don't realize it yet, MAGA, and you happen to catch this broadcast, let me tell you something. You are the mark. You are the mark in the Jeffrey Epstein situation. You are the mark with that big, beautiful bill that Donald Trump calls it. You could say, oh, the bill was passed. Guess who's getting hurt? people who need healthcare. I'm sure a lot of that is you, okay? So keep laughing all you want. Keep celebrating. You're not really winning, okay? You know who's taking this all the way to the bank? The billionaires who are manipulating you. You are doing their bidding. And quite frankly, it's embarrassing and you got to snap out of it.

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