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27:13Brett Meiselas:When I get a little sheriff badge, it says his name on it. So you can be stoked on that when I come home. Benji, where to next, big bro?

27:20Ben Meiselas:I got that footage of Harriet Hageman walking around with a lasso. We'll just put it up here. We'll show the B-roll of her with a lasso just so everybody can see like that I'm not making this up. There she is. She walks around with a lasso. Like, why are you walking around with a lasso for real? Like what the, what the heck are you doing? People were like, oh, what, why here she is again with the lasso, So, you know, and these people like they just want attention. I mean, you had what Nancy Mace, she walked around with like an actual scarlet letter that she like posted on her like on her shirt.

27:52Ben Meiselas:And she's like, I have this letter because I'm being treated so unfairly. And it's just like just stop with this nonsense. Like we just we need these people just to behave like normal human beings. And why have we normalized, you know, all of this behavior? I want to go back to that radio show that Donald Trump did earlier as well, where Donald Trump claims that he actually solved end wars. He said it was 10 wars, not just seven. He's been saying seven, but he found out three more recently. Here, play this clip. A lot of things going. We ended seven wars, probably more than that. You know, they wrote an article and they gave me three additional ones that I ended without even knowing it.

28:31But, you know, I saw things were going bad and it looked like it was going to go bad. and it could have been 10.

28:37Ben Meiselas:But I mean, that's just very bizarre and dangerous behavior. I mean, taking credit for stopping seven wars already, which he did not do, and now saying the number is actually 10 because he's so thirsty for a Nobel Peace Prize. Arguably, no one has caused more death in the world right now than what Donald Trump has enabled to take place right now. So Donald, if there was an opposite of the Nobel Prize, Donald Trump should get should get that price, which isn't a prize at all. What he did with USAID alone and Doge like that alone, not only disqualifying, but absolutely criminal. Just think just think about it.

29:19Ben Meiselas:He killed a million. Donald Trump and Elon Musk as a result of USAID likely killed millions of people out there. like millions of people's lives killed because Donald Trump prevented them from getting food and medicine that was promised to them. Donald Trump could have done this in a way, if you wanted to be cruel, but still be like, okay, I'm not going to kill him. You could have said six month warning. We need others to fill in the gap. We're going to keep the food and medicine coming for about six months. But no, what Donald Trump said was, gone, we're going to incinerate, we're going to burn the food and medicine to let people die.

30:09Ben Meiselas:And that story really hasn't been told. The amount of people who died, the amount of people who are still going to die, the amount of people who now have HIV because Donald Trump deprived them of the medication that was supposed to be given to their mothers. I mean, just think about the blood that's on this guy's hand, not to mention enabling Putin, encouraging and enabling Netanyahu. Just think about what this guy's done. But here's what he wants to do. This is what Donald Trump said he was doing today on this right wing podcast, going out on patrol in D.C. with the National Guard and police.

30:46Ben Meiselas:This is what he said on the show here. Let's play this. And I'm going to be going out tonight. I'm going to keep it a secret, but I'm going to go. You're the only one that knows you and you're lots of listeners. You have a great show. You have a very successful show, by the way, in case you haven't heard that. But I'm going to be going out tonight, I think, with the with the police, with the and with the military, of course. So we're going to do a job. The National Guard is great. They've done a fantastic. And then that host who's previously has said, if you vote Democrat, you hate Jesus. If you vote Democrat, you love criminal.

31:19Ben Meiselas:Like this guy is the worst, this host. But here's what he says to Donald Trump as well, that he hopes that Donald Trump goes out and tases and shoots people. Here, play this clip. Does the president have a gun? Are they going to let him tase somebody? I want to see my president tase somebody tonight. That's what I want to see. But if you want to know who are those 35 percent of Americans who still support that guy, it's people who listen to him. That's actually what they want. They wake up and they're OK if they don't have health care, if they don't anyway, if they're treated like crap, because they believe that that's life anyway.

31:56Ben Meiselas:They believe that's OK. As long as Donald Trump is out there killing people in Africa, killing people across the world, torturing migrants, building a thousand concentration camps across America, talking about feeding migrants, brown people, citizens do, to alligators and alligator Alcatraz. Traz, they live out those fantasies through him. And that like turns them on. Like they get horny over it. Like, like these are sick people who, who get, who get excited over the torture of human beings. And that's the point. They, they want more of the torture.

32:39Brett Meiselas:You hear it in that guy's voice. And Brett, can you play that clip one more time? I mean, you literally like, like the guy's like kind of getting off on the idea of Trump.

32:47Ben Meiselas:You guys got like a, like, like a fascist,

32:49Brett Meiselas:like i want him yes just play it one more time you're gonna say he's got a fascist boner weren't you yeah yeah yeah yeah i know what you're going yeah does the president have a gun are they gonna let him tase somebody i want to see my president tase somebody tonight that's what i want to see the whole that is the creepiest clip of all time too for our audio listeners like the guy's face enough of that listen enough of enough of fascist peter griffin okay yeah exactly so but here's Real quick, real quick, though. Can we just play everyone's favorite game? Imagine if Biden did it. Imagine if President Biden said that he didn't end seven wars, that he ended 10 wars.

33:25Brett Meiselas:Could you imagine corporate media at every press conference? What are the 10 wars? Can he name all the 10 wars? Does he know? Why are we giving cognitively addled Donald Trump? And I don't say this to be like cutesy or anything like that. I certainly don't say to give him, you know, get him off any future prosecutions here. But the dude is not with it. And that's the scariest thing is that he has aligned himself with all of these yes people that will just say and do whatever he wants. And then in addition to that, as Brett so astutely pointed out in the beginning of the show, corporate media does him every favor in the books, trying to frame the guy as if at any of this is normal.

34:03Brett Meiselas:And just imagine, imagine if President Biden said that he didn't end seven wars, he ended 10 wars, what the corporate media landscape would be like, Brett. What Ben hit on before, though, is true. Like these are bad people. Like I – and I don't say that lightly because I don't like looking down on my fellow Americans in that sort of fashion. But when you look at the glee or the fascist – you know what Ben was talking about before from evil Peter Griffin over there. These are sick people. They're really sick people in many ways just totally irredeemable. And so when there are folks out there who go, oh, you just got to work together with these people, you know, just got to link arms and try to move ahead and forward with what's best for America.

34:46They don't want what's best for America. That's like the thing you need to realize. They don't want to work with you. They want to kill you. And I think there are some people out there who understand this. And there are some people out there who still think we're in this like old political system. We're not. I'm sorry. and all those politicians who go, oh, you know, you just got to find some ways to, you know, find some bipartisanship. I get it. If you're able to find something that helps your state or whatever, pass a bill, great, more power to you. But don't act like these people are acting in good faith with any of these things.

35:17And I think that's something, and we'll talk about him in a bit, but I think that's something that Gavin Newsom has tapped into correctly. It's that these people are not people you deal with in a normal fashion. They're using a blunt object to attack you every single day. so you need to fight back harder. You need to fight back more direct and you need to also mock them. You need to humiliate them. And by the way, that's what Tim Walls was doing during the campaign. And he was doing it so great till the consultants told him that he was being mean and he needed to tone it down a little bit. These people need to be called out for the freaks that they are.

35:48You look at that person, you go, that's a weird, that's a weird person. And you got to remember that's a minority of the population, but they try to act like they have all of this power because people normalize it and we cannot normalize it.

36:03Ben Meiselas:I mean, look, you look at, we talk about these, the vice president, J.D. Vance, perfect example, right? He's had three different names in his life. He's had three or four different identities, like totally different human beings, right? He grew up with one identity. He thought he was gay. And then he convinced himself that he wasn't gay, but he thought he was gay. Then he changes his name to something else. Then he changes his name to J.D. Vance. And then he goes from a gay guy to like a soft-spoken straight guy who goes to law school. And then he claims he's this guy from Appalachia who like was fighting for, you know, the downtrodden when he's from, Jordy, you know the area he's from in Ohio.

36:45Ben Meiselas:The guy's from like the suburbs, but he appropriates this. I'm from Appalachia. I'm helping all of the people. And I'm an anti-Trump. Trump's really a fraud. He's taking away your Medicaid. He's taking away your Medicare. he's going to screw you, but he's pretending I'm the anti-Trumper. And then he goes in this modern manifestation of J.D. Vance, which is like a Putin bootlicker, whatever Donald Trump says, I woke this, I'm a bro, watch me bro it out on the podcast. And nobody calls it out that this guy's like the least normal dude in the world. And no one like, because they're afraid to like call out, you know, call out this behavior.

37:23Ben Meiselas:I mean, here's the headlines. I mean, just I want to remind people, J.D. Vance once wrote that he convinced himself that he was gay when he was a kid. And then the advocate wrote another piece about him as well. But then J.D. Vance is out there now attacking the LGBTQ community. What was Donald Trump talking about all day today? We're going after the transgender community. We're going after the transgenders. And it's just like, you wouldn't do that. Go after weak people. Go after marginalized communities. That's what you're going to do? You roll out the red carpet for Putin. You have our military bend the knee to Putin, literally roll out a red carpet.

37:59Ben Meiselas:Images that are so freaking disgraceful and treasonous and traitorous that deserve far more attention than it is. But you pick on the trans community. Really? Tough guy. Tough guy. Who else do you pick on? Poor children who need lunch and you take away their lunch. Tough guy going after poor kids and taking away their lunch. Who else? Who else are you going to go after, Donald? I mean, that's the thing. It's weakness masquerading as strength. And we need to just call out this from the advocate, how J.D. Vance went from thinking he was gay and changing his name twice to being an anti-LGBTQ extremist.

38:38Ben Meiselas:And this guy is now the freaking vice president of the United States. And he was asked about Putin during this interview he did on Fox. He acts like RT, Russian TV, their state regime media, just basically posts his comments verbatim. They don't even need to do edits or mischaracterize it. They just post what J.D. Vann says. I never actually met Putin, but he's a very soft-spoken guy. He's very deliberate. He cares about Russia first. Donald Trump cares about America first. How about you stand up for Zelensky? Has this regime ever said who they want to win the war? No, because they want Russia to win the war.

39:16Ben Meiselas:Have they ever praised Ukraine's courage? Have they ever said that we need to? No, they never did any of that. This is what he says about Putin. Here, play this clip. What's it like meeting Putin? What was he like just one-on-one? So I've actually never met Putin. The president did that meeting. I've talked to him on the phone a number of times. You know, it's interesting. He's more soft-spoken than you would necessarily expect. You know, the American media has a particular image of him. He's soft-spoken in a certain way. He's very deliberate. He's very careful. And I think fundamentally, he's a person who looks out for the interests as he sees it of Russia.

39:53And I think one of the reasons he respects the president of the United States is because he knows the president looks out for the interests of the American people. And while they often disagree about issues, and obviously the president has been very critical of Vladimir Putin, the president's also willing to work with anybody if he thinks it's going to accomplish an important goal for America. and we all agree an important goal is to stop the killing.

40:13Ben Meiselas:He's never been critical of Vladimir Putin. I've never heard Donald Trump say anything. The most Donald Trump has ever said critical is, you know, I'm not too happy. You know, I thought that there was going to be an end to the killing. I'm not too happy. That was the most critical I've ever heard Donald Trump say anything critical or criticizing Putin. He's soft-spoken. He's deliberate. He's whatever. What the hell is that right there?

40:38Brett Meiselas:What is that though? Seriously, because what in the Putin glaze is that? And people are just going to let him skate off of that, Ben? To your point, what does he say? He characterizes Putin as he's a soft-spoken guy looking out for Russia, just the best interests of Russia. The American media, they've painted this portrait of him. They view him a certain way. It's like, bro, what do we - Exactly.

40:58Ben Meiselas:Peskov is Putin's Caroline Levitt. J.D. Vance is doing the work of Peskov. Donald Trump is doing the work of Peskov. The MAGA Republican Party is doing the work of Peskov. Ben, is it any surprise to you that the way J.D. Vance describes Vladimir Putin and the way he treats the Russian people is identical to the way that he describes Donald Trump and the way Trump views and treats the American people? To me, no surprise whatsoever that in his mind, same exact thing. Yeah. And then take a look at this clip right here. J.D. Vance in that same interview saying that actually housing costs are going down because we've kicked out migrants, because we've kicked out illegal immigrants.

41:45Ben Meiselas:Housing prices are going down here. Play this clip. They were actually defending the rights of illegal immigrants to come into our country, to vote in our elections, to collect Social Security and Medicaid that ought by right go to American citizens to say nothing of housing. This is actually the biggest driver of housing costs in some of these big blue cities is that they've flooded the zone with illegal immigrants. As we've kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off. So fundamentally, the difference between Republicans and Democrats is we care about American citizens.

42:16They actually don't like American citizens and want to replace them with low-wage foreigners. It's a very stark difference. And I think the American people are gonna continue to reward us because of it.

42:25Ben Meiselas:Again, it's just a made up world that he's talking about. Housing prices are up in another part. They don't need to play. He goes, inflation has basically been eliminated. Inflation is rising significantly right there. What are you talking about? Democrats don't like American citizens. What Democrats put forward a comprehensive bipartisan immigration bill that would address having a strong border, but also recognizing the need to have migrants work certain jobs. And so they don't also work it in the shadows, but that they're able to have a path towards citizenship while getting rid of criminals.

43:00Ben Meiselas:That's what we want. That's a common sense solution. But Donald Trump said, kill that bill. This is a winning issue for me. Chaos is a winning issue for me. So they could go and they can spew those things and divide us. At every point in time, it's to divide us. It's to affirmatively inject and cause problems and division and chaos and harm. Trump and J.D. Vance and these vile pieces of trash want to hurt this country so that they can pray. These are predators. These are freaking predators. They're bad people. Donald Trump's a predator, a lifelong horrible human being, someone who's bankrupted business after business, a convicted felon, someone who's been found liable for fraud.

43:48Ben Meiselas:And don't let those headlines mislead you. The Court of Appeals, I'll talk about this when we get back. The Court of Appeals affirmed the finding that Donald Trump committed fraud in the New York civil case. They disagreed on the damages. That now goes to the highest court in New York, which is called their Court of Appeal. But they've agreed that he committed the underlying fraud. So all these headlines too, oh, it was reversed. He was found not liable for fraud. That's just not freaking true. And why in every step and every turn do you have this ridiculous propagandized media that gives this vile piece of trash, these benefits of this doubt?

44:28Ben Meiselas:He's cognitively addled. He's an idiot. He lies about everything. He's committed fraud basically his entire life. He's a loser. He's freaking weird. And it's like, oh, okay, that's what we're going to do. That's why when we come back, I want to talk about Gavin Newsom bullying the crap out of this vile piece of trash because he deserves it. All of these MAGA people who behave this way deserve to be just called out for it strongly, firmly, like we believe. And that's what the people are saying out there. They're saying, yes, stand up to these MAGA idiots because that's what they are. They're festering idiots who need to be called out at every single turn strongly.

45:08Ben Meiselas:Don't enable them. Stop with these corporations going to them. Oh no, it's, and stand up for other human beings, stand up for marginalized communities, stand up for LGBTQ, stand up for diversity. Because when you don't, when you equivocate, these maggots come in and try to erase your freaking history and they come for you. Don't think there's compromise with this people. There's none. Don't think you make deals with these people. They don't do deals in good faith. You stand up for yourself and you fight like your life depends on it because it does. Take our last quick break of the show. Hit subscribe right now.

45:45I just want to say this before we go to break. Chris, I want to just show you very clearly that even J.D. Vance knows that J.D. Vance is full of shit and he knows exactly what he's doing. Let me also make it very clear. It's not because of illegal immigrants. It's not because of undocumented people. It has nothing to do with this whatsoever. He is once again scapegoating a group in order to direct hatred at this group and blame them for the problems of the Trump economy. As we see, it's always somebody else's fault. It's never J.D. Vance's fault. It's never Donald Trump's fault. It's always the LGBT person's fault.

46:19It's always the immigrants' fault. They always find somebody to scapegoat and blame. And let me just show you this tweet from J.D. Vance from back in the day. Here's a tweet from J.D. Vance from years ago before he made this latest transformation to full MAGA where he said, Trump makes people I care about afraid, immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this, I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us. Well, God wants better of you, J.D. Vance. We'll be right back after this quick break on the Midas Touch podcast. Don't you go anywhere. Remember to become a member of our YouTube channel here.

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52:20Brett Meiselas:It is just something that can kick it. Sorry. I'm proud of it. I'm proud of it. Benji, where to next?

52:29Ben Meiselas:Here's what Sean Hannity has to say about California Governor Gavin Newsom. Let's play it.

52:35Brett Meiselas:I have a point. Results matter. A new, performative, confrontational style. Maybe it wins you points with the loony, radical base in your party, but America is not

52:47Ben Meiselas:going to vote for that record let me show you what kelly ann conway has to say on fox let's play it and look at gavin newsom he tried to do this was it a radio show podcast whatever he tried to do now he's busy trolling on social media and it's cringe it's falling flat i'm sure they'll come after me now who cares uh because there's donald trump is one of one only he can do what he's done with social media, with podcasts, in the way he's done it, 900 rallies and counting. The thing that he does that we all miss

53:19Brett Meiselas:and don't talk enough about is he just works harder than everyone else.

53:22Ben Meiselas:Only he can do it. Only Donald Trump can say, Taylor Swift, I hate you, and then post AI images of Taylor Swift and say, thank you for your endorsement. Or Donald Trump can post 15 to 20 utterly deranged posts calling for media people to be criminally prosecuted, calling for governors of the Federal Reserve Board, like Lisa Cook, who Donald Trump doesn't like. He has his head of the Fair Housing Administration, this guy Bill Pulte, who he puts in to just go through people's mortgages and then have criminal referrals to the DOJ. And then Donald Trump then posts, prosecutor, go after her, go after people I don't like, you know, or calling people whatever these stupid nicknames are for Adam Schiff.

54:10Ben Meiselas:Only Donald Trump can do that. He's a one of one. He just works harder. What California Governor Gavin Newsom has done by making posts like this is I think it's just been a wake up call to everybody that they have to address it. And when they see it from somebody else, they're just like, how could a governor of the biggest state behave like this? I mean, it's just it's just so unprofessional. I mean, he needs to be more responsible and much more deliberate in his words. F you. He's first off, he's doing it as a parody to mock Donald Trump. OK, that should be pretty obvious what he's doing. But number two, it's like, how is everybody even when like when corporate news asks him, do you think that's appropriate to be calling Stephen Miller a cuck?

54:57Ben Meiselas:Do you think that's the appropriate way? You don't hold Donald Trump to those standards. It's OK for Trump's communications director to go say, F you, you effing moron. And you're like, OK, we're just going to post that. That's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. Here's what Governor Newsom posted moments ago. Wow, my maps, the best maps ever made will soon pass in the greatest legislator anywhere in the world, legislature anywhere in the world. Not just America. American, thank me, Gavin C. Newsom and two very special people, Magic Mike and Rainmaker Robert, who led the legislature, total legends.

55:34Ben Meiselas:These are perfect, beautiful maps. People are saying already, mama, mama. And I say, no, I'm your daddy. I'm your daddy. The golden era begins in the golden state because of me, GCN. Then he posts like these photos of himself putting his finger right into Donald Trump's chest. And he's just like to Donald Trump. This is a good one. He goes pro tip for Trump. If you want to master the deal, try walking in like you own the room. And again, I just love these posts because it's, he goes, wow, an honor. Thank you. Congratulations, California. California pays a lot of poor red state bills. California, the fourth largest economy in the world.

56:12Ben Meiselas:And look, you got to bully the bullies. Wow, look, I'm on Mount Rushmore. Thank you. Wow, I got the Nobel Peace Prize. He's showing how stupid, how dumb, how idiotic this MAGA world is right there. There he is riding an alligator.

56:29Ben Meiselas:Brett Geordi. I mean, hey, in order to break through right now, in order to get something done, in order to get noticed by anybody, you need to be able to capture the attention economy. It's a big thing right now, and it's something that really no Democrats have been able to get past because there are people who play by the rules on the Democratic side. And then there's Donald Trump who doesn't play by any roles that, like I said before, he just uses a blunt object. He just kind of like the Kool-Aid man just knocks down the wall, causes chaos, does whatever he wants. And the media is so used to it by now that they're like, oh, there's a giant hole in our wall.

57:01I guess that's just normal. I guess that's just Donald being Donald. The second that somebody like Gavin Newsom does it, people are like, whoa, this is weird. What is happening? What the hell is going on? And I think anytime I said this in the last show, anytime you have Fox reacting the way that they're reacting to him, that's exactly what Gavin Newsom wants. Gavin Newsom has been talked about on Fox like most of the time over the past few days, which is exactly what he's looking for. He wants that attention. He wants to hold a mirror up to them and show how silly they look and expose how stupid Donald Trump looks when he writes all of these things.

57:36And he's actually backing it up with real action, like his plan to counter what Texas is doing by passing their rigged maps. And you'll see Fox, they try to, you know, they live in their own alternate reality world. They try to go, oh, well, it's actually the blue states that started this rigged map battle, the gerrymandering battle. Shut the heck up. Stop with the lies. Stop with the lies. And in order to push back on those lies, you need somebody who's going to be able to match the energy of Trump. You need somebody who's going to be able to expose these people. And Gavin Newsom is doing just that.

58:10He's making Trump look smaller than ever. He makes Trump's tweets somehow look like even sillier now and almost like imitations of Gavin Newsom's, like in a weird way. You see Trump using the all caps even less. Trump has been very self-conscious about it, clearly. He didn't even want to respond to Newsom for a while. And then last night at one in the morning, Trump couldn't even handle it. And one in the morning, he's like, Gavin Newsom is being mean. Gavin Newsom, worst governor. All right. Target acquired, target locked. Exactly what we wanted to happen right there. Gavin Newsom is playing this whole situation brilliantly.

58:45And it's nice for a change to see this propaganda media on their heels, not knowing how the heck to handle it. And I think as we look forward to future elections, as we look forward to the midterms, as we look forward to the next presidential election, people need to understand that people are looking for fighters and not bullshit performative acts. There's a lot of people who think fighting means performance. Performance could be part of it, but it's not just about performance. People are looking for real fighters, authentic fighters. People are looking for somebody who could harness the anger that so many of us, us included, are feeling about these freaks who have taken over our government.

59:25And so many people are willing to treat them with kid gloves. And the person who could harness that anger, who could harness that energy, who could call these people out for what they are, that's going to be the person who's the next nominee in 2028 for the Democrats.

59:39Brett Meiselas:1 ,000%. And when we look at three years down the line, you're going to have to hold up your resumes and you're going to have to compare. Where were you these last three and a half, four years? Where were you? Where were you when the redistricting stuff was happening? Were you fighting? Were you on the front lines? Were you actively trying to stop it or trying to counteract it? or are you just sitting on your hands? And some folks are going to have to answer for where they've been during this fight. And you're going to have to hold up those resumes every step of the way. People want fighters. At the end of the day, if y 'all have ever been in a fight, like a real fight, there are no rules.

1:00:09Brett Meiselas:Uh-uh. There are no rules. It's not, you know, when they go low, you go high mentality. That's not what we do. Absolutely not. It's we're going to match their energy. We're going to do it better than them. And we're going to win by any means necessary. And so that's just where we are in the current playing field of 2025, America. And if you can't roll up your sleeve and say, bet, I'm game, let's play by those rules, then, well, I'm sorry, but you're not living in the country that we're all currently living in.

1:00:32Ben Meiselas:Let me give us a quick legal roundup right now of everything that's just happened. A lot of legal cases. So you had Judge Berman in the Southern District of New York say that Donald Trump's attempt to demand that the court release grand jury transcripts of the Epstein case and the Elaine case is a diversionary tactic. And that clearly that could not be released under federal rule 6E. But Judge Berman said, you have all the files. So you're in a better position to release it than me, a federal judge who's bound by federal rule of criminal procedure 6E not to release it. You say you have the files.

1:01:12Ben Meiselas:You have over 100 ,000 documents. Turn the files over. So the court says you release them, you have them, therefore it doesn't go against rule, federal rule 6E, you do it. It's a powerful ruling. I covered it this morning on this Midas Touch YouTube feed. Another major ruling from a federal judge in Pennsylvania who was designated to rule on this case involving Alina Habas unlawfully remaining as the United States attorney on an interim basis in New Jersey. She was kicked out. Her time expired. But then the Trump regime fired a lifelong Republican who was then appointed to be the interim United States attorney by the federal judges in New Jersey.

1:01:57Ben Meiselas:But the Trump regime said, nope, let's kick out the lifelong career prosecutor Republican so Alina Habba can stay on when Alina Habba's time expired. She was never confirmed by the Senate, and she was kicked out by the federal judges when her term expired. They could have extended it. They said absolutely not. So now criminal defendants throughout New Jersey who are being prosecuted are saying it's illegal to prosecute us because Alina Habba is an illegal United States attorney for New Jersey. So anything she does with us should be void. And this court basically said that's true. No, someone else can come and re-prosecute them.

1:02:39Ben Meiselas:It's not like they get a full dismissal because of the technicality. But if this continues, they can't be prosecuted basically by someone who's serving unlawfully. It's like, dude or dudette, your time's done. Leave. But that's like these sociopaths. They stay. They stay. It's like you're not wanted. You've been kicked out by bipartisan federal judges who don't want you there. You tried to prosecute the mayor of Newark, then dismissed your own frivolous case. You were not able to meet the challenges. You could have stepped into the role and behaved like a grownup, even though you didn't deserve the role.

1:03:15Ben Meiselas:You were a parking lot attorney. You lost most of Donald Trump's cases. You were sanctioned over a million dollars when you were Trump's lawyer in a case where he sued Hillary Clinton and others. But you got this big job. You could have behaved like an adult. Nope. Alina Habba incapable of it. She was kicked out. And then she just stays. I'm not leaving. I'm staying in my office. Again, that's why you have to stand strong against these people because who does that, right? When you get fired or someone tells you to leave your job, you leave. That's like what normal people do. You leave. You're done.

1:03:46Ben Meiselas:It's sad. You're upset about it, but you're done. Not NAGA. I'm not leaving. It's like with the elections. I'm not leaving. I'm rigging the system. Not fair. Me, not fair. That's who these people are. They're all like this. So you have to show them strength because that's the only thing they know. And you can't coddle them. And they're relentless with their whining and their playing victim and all of this crap. So you have to be strong there. That's what happened there. In the New York Attorney General's civil case against Donald Trump, all of the headlines were like, Donald Trump wins. He wins.

1:04:20Ben Meiselas:The case is over. The court overturns what the lower court did. No, that's not what happened. The court actually said that Donald Trump is found liable for fraud, that Attorney General Letitia James did have the ability to get an injunction to stop Trump from doing future business. Where they had disagreements was the$500 million fine. They all found various degrees of being excessive, that the money penalty was too high. Not that Trump should be penalized, not doing business, Trump organization having a receiver, all of those equitable remedies allowed. The issue is the financial penalty and what that entails.

1:05:01Ben Meiselas:Now, that just goes now to the highest court in New York, which is confusingly called the Court of Appeals there. And they ultimately will be the ones who decide. Now, finally, the Supreme Court made a terrible ruling regarding Trump gutting$783 million in funding to the NIH that has to do with anything about Trump's definition of diversity or equity. And the Supreme Court basically granted Trump's emergency appeal to freeze$783 million from NIH grants if Donald Trump views them as diversity. Roberts actually joined in the dissent here was a five to four ruling but this is how the Supreme Court has been making these rulings they don't rule on the merits they basically give Donald Trump the freeze or the stay of the lower court ruling which blocks what Donald Trump does which enables Trump to then engage in the conduct that the district court said was unlawful by reversing the district court stay and finding that this would cause some irreparable harm to Donald Trump and to Trump's regime if they're not able to enact their policy versus what they could do is just say, let the district court go on and have their trial so that they can ultimately have witnesses be called.

1:06:25Ben Meiselas:And then we can determine it how the Supreme Court normally handles things after a case is decided on trial and it works its way up through the court of appeals. The Supreme Court's now doing all of these procedural things to try to help Donald Trump, but it's a right-wing Supreme Court. That's what happens when you have a major political party, the Republican Party, that's full fascism right now. They're no different than Kim Jong-un's political parties or the parties that exist in China or in Russia. That's what the Republican Party is today. You have a far right-wing Supreme Court that's no different than the types of courts you see in Iran or in China or in Russia that will rubber stamp what Trump does.

1:07:06Ben Meiselas:You have corporations in the United States that bend the knee and that does what Donald Trump wants because they think that they could be the oligarchs if they just do what Donald Trump wants. But then you have we, the people who are showing strength and courage during this time. And it is so important for us to be the ones who fight back. So that's what we're going to do at the Midas Touch Network. It's why we're launching Midas Canada with Charlie Angus, a big announcement there today that I'm proud about. You can go to MidasPlus.com to find out more about the launch of Midas Canada. Then we're going to go to Australia and Europe, and we're going to go across the world building out Midas networks in countries across the world.

1:07:48Ben Meiselas:So thank you, everybody, for watching this. That's all for me. Brett, anything else before we all go? That was a great legal breakdown. I appreciate you bringing us up to speed on everything. A lot of misinformation out there today. So I'm happy we're able to set the record straight, bring everyone up to date. You know, we have a whole channel actually dedicated to specifically legal news also that everybody should check out. It's the Legal AF channel at youtube.com slash at symbol Legal AF MTN. You could check it out. It's run by Michael Popak and us. You get some of the best experts. They are some of the best lawyers in the world giving legal analysis and reporting.

1:08:23So definitely check that out. and of course the Legal AF podcast that Ben does with Michael Popak and with Karen Friedman Agnifolo. You definitely want to check that out anywhere you find podcasts as well. Oh yeah, check out our Substack, as Ben said. If you want to learn more about the launch of Midas Canada, which is coming very soon, folks, right around the corner. So look that up on our Substack, MidasPlus.com. Another great episode, brothers. Jordy, take it away. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. The Midas Mighty is standing and strong.

1:08:59Against the fascists, we sing our song. We will get it right whenever we're in.

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