MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 9/9/2025

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29:13Ben Meiselas:Thank you to our sponsors right there. The show is not possible without them. The discount codes are in the description below. We appreciate them. Jordy spends a long time working on those discounts for everybody. So please check them out. As I mentioned before, we took the break. There was more documents that came to light from this subpoena that was issued by the House Oversight Committee at the urging of the House Democrats. I want to give a hat tip to Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia. He's the new House Oversight Committee ranking member, And he's made a world of difference in really being aggressive and making sure that these documents get produced and holding the feet of the Trump regime and MAGA Republicans to the fire.

30:03Ben Meiselas:So the House Oversight Dems published this as well. another page from the Epstein birthday book has surfaced. Epstein and a longtime Mar-a-Lago member joke about selling a fully depreciated woman to Donald Trump for$22 ,500. This is how it was described in the Wall Street Journal. The Epstein estate also turned over another letter from the book that references Trump. It came from a businessman and longtime Mar-a-Lago member, Joel Pascal, who made a crude joke about a woman that Trump and Epstein socialized with in the 1990s, according to people familiar with the matter. The Pascal letter included a photo of a poster board size check for$22 ,500, which had been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Trump to Epstein.

30:54Beneath it, a handwritten caption said, Jeffrey showing early talents with money, plus women's cells fully depreciated, redacted her name to Donald Trump for$22 ,500. The woman's name is redacted in the image. And it should be noted around that time that one of the secrets between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, according to Michael Wolff, is that they shared the same young person, unclear what the age of this woman or girl was at the time, but they were allegedly dating the same individual, was how they referred to it as, who and she would go back and forth from the houses, one house to another house right there.

31:45Michael Wolff, by the way, has been appearing a lot on the Midas Touch Network. He's Trump's most prominent biographer. Here's what he discusses about Trump and Epstein sharing

31:56Ben Meiselas:a girlfriend before Melania with the sexual mechanics of how they would do it being unknown. Here, play this clip. The birthday letter that Donald Trump apparently wrote for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday and this idea that they shared a wonderful secret. What do you think he's referring to? I think that he is referring to the to the girlfriend that they shared at that point in time, 92, 93. So there was a woman. And as far as I know, she's not underage. But who who they who they literally shared who literally went back and forth between between these two guys. and you have by the way that's why michael wolf's reporting right now is so important that's why we bring it to you here on the midas touch network as well and had to there to the daily beast for that one just to remind you when that wall street journal story was written back in july of this summer you had maga mike johnson saying how donald trump called him talked about how ridiculous the allegations were in the Wall Street Journal article.

33:10Ben Meiselas:This is Mag and Mike on CNBC covering up for Donald Trump. Let's play it. Sirens on drugs because someone drew a in 2003 might have drawn a picture of a I don't know, a body letter before the guy even, you know, all the real info hadn't even been out at that point. I don't think about this guy. The president and I talked about that ridiculous allegation this morning. He said it's patently absurd. He's never drawn such a picture. He's never thought of drawing such a picture. And he said, did you see the language of this bogus supposed communication or card or something I supposedly sent to Epstein?

33:49He said, I don't talk like that. I don't think like that. They're literally making things up. And he's so frustrated by it. And he's going to wind up, I think, suing some of the media outlets that had put all this out there because they informed them that it was totally contrived.

34:03Ben Meiselas:Now, that right there was on CNBC. That's supposed to be a financial news network. Then you have that guy Joe Cairn in there who's ultra MAGA with MAGA Mike Johnson. That right there looks worse than even what you see on Fox or Newsmax or OAN. that's on CNBC right there. And even the way the CNBC host was framing it before anybody knew what was going down. What are you talking about? People knew what Epstein was doing in the 90s, in the 2000s. Donald Trump said that Epstein liked him young. I'm sick of a disgusting thing to say knowing what we know now. Donald Trump and people close to Epstein.

34:51Ben Meiselas:I'll give you an example how Donald Trump knew. Donald Trump has admitted that he said Epstein stole underage girls from Mar-a-Lago, which we then know those girls were sex trafficked. Virginia Giuffre, underage girl working at the Mar-a-Lago spa, she was located for the pedo sex trafficking ring by Epstein and Elaine at Mar-a-Lago while she was working there. And when Trump was asked about that recently, he said that she was stolen, that Epstein almost stole his property, to which Virginia Giuffre's family said, Giuffre, that she's not property. She was a human being. She was a human being who was sex trapped.

35:43By the way, she since died by suicide in Australia, after all of the pain and suffering that she's been through in her life. You go through that Ghislaine Maxwell interview that Donald Trump's former defense lawyer, and now the number two at the DOJ, Todd Blanche did, and it's Ghislaine Maxwell mocking and trying to discredit the

36:09Ben Meiselas:victims and basically saying she didn't see anything regarding Epstein or Trump or anything. But she said that she wasn't involved in anything. And she basically says the victims are making it up. In other words, she says hoax. That's what Donald Trump's basically saying right now. Donald Trump says it's a it's a Democratic hoax. And then the Republicans say Ghislaine has vindicated Donald, the convicted sex trafficker who was sentenced to 20 years and should be rotting in a Tallahassee prison, has vindicated Donald Trump. What the hell is wrong with these people? And frankly, what the hell is wrong with this country?

36:46And one of the things that's wrong with it is now that you're presented the clear, convincing evidence. People are like, why wouldn't they release the letters? Why? We have the letters now. We see it's Donald Trump's signature. It's 100 % its signature. It's not the Epstein estate going back into the past to plant Donald Trump's letter when he and Epstein were close friends. And what do they do? They go forgery. They go forgery. This is what they do on every freaking single issue that is out there is a lie. And it's not just on the Epstein issues. It is on foreign policy, right? You look at foreign policy.

37:23What did they say with Russia? Very productive meetings. Putin's going to agree to a ceasefire, bilateral and trilateral conversations, security guarantees. He didn't agree to any of that. That was all a lie. You just bring in Putin so that Putin acts like he's some like conquering emperor into Alaska. You let him into the motorcade while he's laughing at the United States. And Sergei Lavrov, his foreign minister, is wearing USSR gear to mock the United States. This is their historical moment to mock America. America looks so weak and pathetic based on what Trump's doing in Alaska. And the same people out there who were saying, oh, this is a forgery of Donald Trump's signature.

38:06It's like, look how strong he looks. And I'm like, no, he doesn't look strong. America doesn't look strong. What are you talking about? These are the same people who are getting rid of the scientific experts and the vaccination panels and saying, oh, vaccines are like slavery. And we're going to bring back polio and mumps and rubella and measles and the bubonic plague. I mean, what the hell are you doing? These are the people who were telling us windmills and solar energy are all frauds and we need to go back to coal. What are you talking about? It's the same people. And then they're normalized by the media as though this is a legitimate perspective.

38:45You need the media to say Donald Trump is a fraud. Donald Trump is a sexual abuser. Donald Trump is a criminal. and anybody else who's lying is aiding and abetting. We don't need a both sides of this story. Trump is lying. This was his letters that he sent to Epstein. He's terrified of this, despite the cryptic nature of this letter, arguably compared to the stuff that's out there that we hear Donald Trump saying about Epstein before and that we knew about before. This letter seems to be not as bad as the other stuff out there, except for the fact that he clearly must be hiding some real sick and disgusting things when talking about our enigmas, our secrets will remain secrets.

39:27They never age or whatever the hell he's talking about at the time when the pedo sex trafficking ring was taking place. I mean, what is going on there? So then you have that happening today. And at the same time, Donald Trump then goes and gives a speech at a Bible museum as he's gutting the Smithsonian and getting rid of American history. He's at the Bible Museum. And what do you think he talks about at the Bible Museum? What would your guess be? Praising the January 6th insurrectionists and attacking former President Joe Biden and saying Biden was mean to the insurrectionists. Yeah, that's one of the things that he did.

40:05Here, play this clip.

40:06Ben Meiselas:In the Oval Office, they were stone cold mean. But Joe Biden and Biden, they were mean people. what they did to people, what they did to J6, what they did to so many people, they were mean people. These were really radical, horrible people. Mean people. They were being mean to what the insurrectionists tried to overthrow the election. He was being mean to them who were trying to kill cops. He was being mean to them. Then at the same Bible museum press event, Donald Trump said, you know, people are telling me that like we're adding to the crime statistics, like men attacking women, huh? Like, like what, why, why would we add that to the stats right here?

40:50Here he goes. So much progress has been made in a lot. I'm going to find the other clip, but here he goes. So he goes, crime is down to virtually nothing in DC and adds that the crimes that are happening are a much, are a much lesser things.

41:03Ben Meiselas:He says, he's like, if a man has a little fight with a, it goes, if a man has a little fight with a woman they call that crime they're calling that crime now when a when a man beats a woman they call that crime here play this clip no it's more than 87 virtually nothing and uh and much lesser things things that take place in the home they call crime you know they'll do anything they can to find something if a man has a little fight with the wife they say this was a crime see so So now I can't claim 100 percent. But we are we are a safe city. You can walk to a restaurant. You can walk to the White House.

41:40If you work there, you can walk to the Capitol. And even the Democrats, I can't believe it, but they don't want to admit it. But I can't believe it. We could do the same thing in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. We did it. We saved we saved Los Angeles.

41:53Ben Meiselas:We saved Los Angeles. What are you talking about? You had National Guards people sleeping inside of buildings. They caused more problems than they helped. And then they go around the same way they'll say, oh, that's not Donald Trump's signature. That's a forgery. They go around and Trump claims that he put out the wildfires in Los Angeles. He goes, I turned on a faucet and then the faucet let the water out and I saved LA. That's how he said the first time. Then he goes, I saved him by sending the National Guard in when it was about to erupt into another fire. I said, and he kind of conflates the two stories also because his mind is just complete mush at this point.

42:39Ben Meiselas:It was like, what do you mean you turned on a faucet? What are you talking about? After the fires were contained, you empty 2 billion gallons of water from reservoirs in Northern California onto areas nowhere connected with Southern California and screwed over farmers who are already suffering because of your horrible economic policies that didn't reach Southern California. And the fires were 100 % contained. I saved Los Angeles with the National Guard. National Guard were just sleeping on the floor. You remove them from their drug interdiction, doing it the right way, where the National Guard in California is often used to stop drugs from coming in, and it's used very productively and successfully.

43:26Ben Meiselas:You remove them from the mission to sleep on a floor in Los Angeles. And then for him to say that he's solved crime, which he hasn't, and then say that we shouldn't count domestic violence as a crime. We could play the game. Imagine if Biden said that. Imagine if Obama, imagine if George W. Bush said domestic violence should not be counted as a crime. And Donald, if people are so happy with what you're doing in D.C., why were there mass protests over the weekend? Why did tens of thousands of people show up in some of the biggest protests yet in Washington, D.C., saying end the military occupation now?

44:08Because no, you're not making the city safer.

44:11Ben Meiselas:We do not want military to occupy states and cities in states. That is anti-American. It is frankly unlawful. And that's what Donald Trump is doing. And then And the latest threats, of course, are Chypocalypse or whatever he's calling it right now, where he posted memes this weekend saying, I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of War, to which Governor Newsom writes, the president of the United States is deploying the military onto U.S. streets and using our troops like political pawns. Do not allow yourself to become numb to this.

44:53Ben Meiselas:For those listening on audio, you probably have seen the image before, but it's of helicopters like invading the city of Chicago and blowing it up. The apocalypse now referenced to either napalm or Agent Orange being put all over Chicago is a direct threat to our country. You know, and as I've had, we launched Midas Canada recently. And as Charlie Angus said, how could you do a deal with this guy when this is how he treats his own country? When this is how he treats his own cities and states? The third biggest and most productive city, Chicago, is where you're going to attack, attack D.C., attack Los Angeles.

45:39How do you deal with a guy who is intent on invading American cities to appear and try to be this wannabe fascist or this wannabe dictator? Hypocalypse now. Could you ever imagine in the United States of America? And then Donald Trump was asked about it. A female reporter asked him a question and said, so what are you going to invade Chicago? Why are you going to war? and he goes, darling, be quiet. He calls her darling.

46:11Ben Meiselas:He goes, darling, be quiet. You're second rate, darling. Here, watch this clip. You say that, darling, that's fake news. I don't go to war. Listen, be quiet. Listen, you don't listen. You never listen. That's why you're second rate. We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our city. We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's not war. That's common sense. That's not war. You're posting an image that says war. You're going to find out why we're calling it the Department of War. And then you get asked a legitimate question. Darling, be quiet, darling.

46:53Ben Meiselas:Who the hell likes this? What really upsets me a lot also is knowing that that position, the presidency, is supposed to be a role model to children. And I think about it as Brett just brought a baby boy into this world. My baby daughter, time flies already 11 months old, getting ready for her one year birthday party. Jordy obviously has a baby boy who's going to be turning two before you know it. And I think about all the future generations out there right now. And to think about, be quiet, darling. We're not going to war, darling. As you have him also covering up for a pedo sex trafficking ring.

47:39Ben Meiselas:And then you have our financial news, like CNBC has MAGA hosts who are out there fueling the conspiracy, who are aiding and abetting it on financial shows, while we the people are the ones who are suffering. It's Americans who are getting hit by this. We know that prices are going up. We know that things are less affordable. We know right now, wherever you go, that lots of people are living paycheck to paycheck, how bad the job market is right now. It's not a golden age at all. When we come back, I want to talk about that. Also, you have Trump's cabinet getting into more physical altercations with each other.

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52:24Ben Meiselas:That's a lot to discuss. I want to give a shout out again to those sponsors for making this show possible. The discount codes are in the description below. You know, it's pretty difficult if you wanted to kind of rip apart and destroy all aspects of America's economy in over slightly over 200 days. But, you know, Donald Trump has managed to do that. You take a look, for example, Even as, you know, former President Biden worked hard to try to attract foreign investment and lots of American presidents have. You know, Hyundai, a South Korean company, employs a lot of Americans. They've got a plant in Georgia that employs a lot of people in Georgia as well and brings a lot of money into Georgia.

53:11Ben Meiselas:um, Hyundai also employs people from South Korea. Um, and it's part of building factories and, uh, they go about it the lawful way. You know, they get permits and, uh, in the right types of visas and, you know, balancing a delicate relationship with a country like South Korea or Japan or Europe or Canada. I mean, these things are handled diplomatically and carefully, But the Trump regime did a military style raid and then posted the video of a Hyundai factory in Georgia where they shackled and treated like criminals of war. The Hyundai workers, the South Koreans who were working in this factory.

54:00Now, mostly all of them had all of their papers correct. There were a few that were on a temporary status. But if you were to do something like this, why wouldn't you just try to work even government to government?

54:15Ben Meiselas:You do a military raid and then you treat the people of South Korea like this? Like it's crazy. I'm going to show you a quick video of what it looked like. Let's play it.

54:39Yeah.

54:40Ben Meiselas:And for those on audio, I mean, they were lined up like prisoners of war, shackled together, thrown on a bus, handled aggressively. And then I showed it on one of the morning videos I did, like the raid, which was, you know, again, the ice produces it like a movie and they show the tanks going in. And it's like, you're invading a Hyundai factory. You think that makes you look strong, right? At the same time, you have Russia launching the biggest drone strike since the invasion began, right? Russia's biggest drone strike since the invasion began over this past weekend. That's what you got out of the Alaska meeting.

55:23Ben Meiselas:Russia killing more innocent Ukrainians. Trump's out there invading Hyundai factories, posting memes about invading Chicago? What were they talking about? A blue tent in Lafayette Park that they didn't like? And oh, I got this blue tent. I got this blue tent out. Okay, you got, bravo, you got the blue tent out? I mean, what the hell is going on? Behind the scenes too, we know that these Trump officials are fighting with each other. You know that guy, Bill Pulte, who runs the Fair Housing Administration, which is basically weaponized to find Trump's political opponents, if they've put anything that could be viewed as in error on their mortgage documents, and they only go after Trump's enemies.

56:13Ben Meiselas:And so if you claim a primary residence twice, they go mortgage fraud felony, we're going after you, you need to resign immediately. And meanwhile, you have like 20 % of the Trump cabinet having done the same thing. You have Bill Pulte's family doing the same. It's just checking the box on those forms that you do, but that's how Bill Pulte is using the Fair Housing Administration. Anyway, you had the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, saying to him, F you. I hear you're talking bad about me. I'm going to whoop your effing ass at a MAGA influencer birthday party that took place last week. And then Bill Pult is like, what are you going to do?

56:56Ben Meiselas:Come outside. I'm going to whoop your effing ass. I'm going to beat your effing ass. And this is apparently Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's MO. He did this with Elon Musk as well. There was many speculated that he actually physically hit Elon Musk when Elon Musk looked beat up and bruised. And Elon Musk responded in response to the story about Besson saying that he was going to beat Pulte, but this just shows you the utter dysfunction. This is not how people behave in civilized society, but this is how you behave in MAGA dystopia world where you would think, let me destroy the Rose Garden and call it Club Rose Garden for the elites.

57:41Ben Meiselas:So while they're dining on their caviar and their expensive steak and whatever the hell they're doing, that we're paying for, that's coming from the taxpayers. What's going on with our economy? Well, we talked about the jobs report from last week. You know, it was one of the worst jobs reports in generations, and it's not getting better anytime soon. This looks like the beginning of worst job reports, not like the end of something. And you had with former President and Biden creating massive job growth. Now we're going in the opposite direction as Trump's trade war against the world has been disastrous.

58:23Ben Meiselas:The uncertainty in the business community that Donald Trump has created was disastrous. But the Trump regime can't even get their lies straight, right? Like when it comes to Epstein, on the one hand, you have Trump saying it's a massive hoax, But then you've got Maga Mike Johnson saying that Trump was the informant who told on Epstein, Trump's the hero, but he doesn't want the documents to be released to show that he's the hero. How is he the hero in the hoax? That doesn't make sense, but it doesn't have to make sense. They just throw anything against the wall. They have no shame. all they want is power and what they want to do is just discourage you and overwhelm you with a bunch of crap saying I just can't deal with this anymore just do whatever you want and that's the relentless nature of their fascism to try to bulldoze you over with their relentless nature of crap because it's hard to process the conflicting lies that are so ridiculous that you just want to say, come on, nobody can believe this, but you have to fight back against these maniacs.

59:34Otherwise they just keep it coming. You know how Trump lies about turning on a faucet and releasing the water into Southern Los Angeles. And he doesn't do that, but he releases the faucet of lies and then pushes it on us. And most human beings just want to go through their day, watch a sports game, hang with their family, have dinner, go for a walk. And you're like, I don't know what to do. I don't want to just stop it. I'll just deal with it and make.

1:00:01Ben Meiselas:But no, the moment you let him do it, these relentless fascists try to bulldoze over you. So that's an example of like they say Trump says it's a hoax. Magamite says he's the informant and he's the hero. So why wouldn't you want to release the documents if you're covering up something? Doesn't make a lot of sense. Then when it comes to the economy, the same thing. You put out the National Economic Advisor, Kevin Hassett, and he basically says the job numbers are a hoax. Can't believe them. They're politicized. We don't believe the job numbers. Then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Besant spinning another story and saying, nope, job numbers are terrible.

1:00:43It is the fault of Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve. So let me show you those two examples. This weekend, here was Kevin Hassett saying that the numbers of the Bureau

1:00:54Ben Meiselas:and Labor Statistics, even after they fired the nonpartisan former head, because they didn't like the previous month's numbers, they're saying, we can trust it right now. Here, play this clip. Not the forums and sending in the surveys. Last month, the president fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, suggesting there was political bias, not just what you're talking about, which is a very technical issue on how data is collected and crunched. Did you fix the political bias? Well, there are patterns in the data that look like political bias, but they could be accidental. And that's why we need to get a new set of eyes in there to make sure that things are more transparent.

1:01:33Ben Meiselas:Got it. So they're saying, oh, it's a hoax. It's not real. We can't rely on the data. That's what he says. But then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says Trump was right again about the Federal Reserve. They were too late. And that's why the job numbers were really bad. So the numbers are accurate. That's why we are going to blame the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Here, play this clip. If in fact these numbers are true, it shows that President Trump was right about the Federal Reserve. They are too late. And because of the bad numbers, they likely would have been cutting in June.

1:02:11And if we believe the numbers, and for I can tell you the one thing this administration is not going to do, and we are not going to let the Democrat media surrogates do, is during President Biden, President Harris's campaign, they told the American people, it's a vibe session. You don't understand how good you have it.

1:02:33Ben Meiselas:President Trump was elected for change. I remember all the Nobel laureates predicting exactly what is happening now when it comes to inflation and job numbers. And I don't think the Nobel laureates who predicted what was going to happen if Trump implemented his plans even recognized how haphazardly he would do it. Donald Trump is angry and gets mad at Brazil because of the criminal prosecution against their former insurrectionist president, 50 % tariffs. Donald Trump gets mad at India because Prime Minister Modi doesn't nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize because Trump did not stop the India and Pakistan war and Modi was not going to agree to the lie that Donald Trump stopped the India and Pakistan war, India gets 50 % tariffs.

1:03:26Ben Meiselas:The way Donald Trump has treated Canada so viciously, the way Donald Trump has arbitrarily and capriciously attacked other countries, all of this was actually very predictable. And then even when we saw the signs of inflation starting to rise in July, what were people like Treasury Secretary Besant and J.D. Vance and And everyone's saying, all these economists got it wrong. We're doing great. There is no inflation. We proved them wrong. We were like, what are you talking about? Inflation is rising. People know when you leave your house that you're paying more now than you were a year ago. And the whole promise was on day one, things were going to get better.

1:04:12Ben Meiselas:And now what the Trump regime said at the end of last week, just to remind you, I covered this a lot on the Midas Touch various shows that I did, is Trump says the first time that the numbers may start looking good, 2027, he says. Yeah, the number, not 2026. He goes, it's going to take about two years. So why two years though? Well, this is what con artists do. This is what Ponzi schemers do. They have to stretch out the fraud over and over again. That is what, you know, just think about a classic Ponzi scheme, like a Bernie Madoff. You go, I want my money back. Can you give, I gave you money.

1:04:56Ben Meiselas:You said I've got positive returns. Can I have it? What do you think they say? Like the Bernie Madoffs and the con artists who engage in Ponzi schemes. Give me two more weeks. Give me four more weeks. Give me two more weeks. Give me one more. Just give me six more months and I got you. That's what they say. Why do they say that? because they're trying to utilize that time to rob more from Peter, to pay Paul, to keep the scheme going over. That's the two weeks. The two weeks is let me either find new people to blame in those two weeks, or let me take from one side to bring to the other side and to try to deal with things in those two weeks period, two weeks, three weeks.

1:05:38Ben Meiselas:So now he extends the timeline to 2027. You have a midterm elections that's going to be happening. It seems that people are very energized against the regime right now. So what's the next hustle? What's in 20? You blame everything on Jerome Powell. And then when this presidency is viewed as the biggest failure in history, what do they do? They go in Dr. Fauci mode on steroids. We had it perfect. Remember when I said golden age, things were trending in the right direction. And then Democrats launched all of these investigations at Russia, Russia, Russia. And I would have had it. I was right there.

1:06:21And now I got screwed. We were about to do it. That's what Ponzi schemers do. Democrats better be effective messengers because they didn't do a great job last time on the messaging to show the American people that they were the firefighters and Trump and MAGA was the arsonist who created the problems. You have to message now and have both the Governor Gavin Newsom and Pritzker in your face approach. And I think Newsom has really mastered that. And then you also have to be talking to people in those town hall settings, the way we see Bernie Sanders doing in his fight the oligarchy tour. You have to kind of marry those two things as a messenger together in order to fight back against the regime and the oligarchy that turned on that faucet of constant lies over and over again.

1:07:20Ben Meiselas:Now, I want to mention as well those court updates. First, a good court update, then a bad court update. The good court update, the Court of appeals has ruled against Donald Trump in the E. Jean Carroll additional case. Remember, they ruled against him in the first case. This was the defamation case that he defamed his sexual assault victim by saying that basically she was engaging in a hoax and a jury found him liable. Alina Hoppe was the lawyer in that case. Trump was hit with an$83.3 million verdict. That was upheld on appeal. Remember, Trump had to post the bond for that. So that now, I guess Trump can try to appeal that to the Supreme Court, see what they do there.

1:08:05That's kind of personal capacity stuff. So not sure they're going to get involved, but nothing would surprise me with this right-wing fascist Supreme Court right now. As you know, the Supreme Court is run six to three, six fascists,

1:08:19Ben Meiselas:three liberals who support democracy. It's made up of nine people. You need to know the composition. So, you know, it's usually the three liberals who are in the dissent saying, what the hell are you doing? And it's usually the six fascists who are saying, Donald, do whatever you want. The way the Supreme Court's been giving Donald Trump everything they want is they actually don't address the merits of cases, what they do is they use something called a shadow docket, meaning that they don't hold oral arguments. They don't have really any form of briefing that you regular briefing, which would be called a granting of certiorari, where then you have full briefing on the issues.

1:09:04Ben Meiselas:People submit what are called amicus briefs. And then the court rules in a very kind of, it's supposed to be a thoughtful way. That's not what's happening now. What's happening is on its emergency docket or shadow docket, the Supreme Court makes a ruling and doesn't even say why. And they're not even saying that we think Trump is right or wrong, or we think the constitution says this or that. That's not what the Supreme Court's doing. Instead, they issue these orders that are basically one paragraph long that don't even really mention, they don't mention at all the merits of the case. But all they do is say, the issues having come before the Supreme Court, we hereby stay, which means pause, the district court's order until such time as the case eventually works its way up to the Supreme Court.

1:10:00Ben Meiselas:Now, usually what the Supreme Court would do is let the case work its way up to the Supreme Court and the district court and the court of appeals orders stand. The Supreme Court is not a trial court. They're not getting all of the facts in the first instance. They're not a trial or a fact. They're not evaluating the merits. The district court does. but the Supreme Court can eventually hear once there's a full factual record. But the district court is the lower court that observes this. So in normal courts, the district court holds a trial. Then the trial gets appealed to the Court of Appeals. And then the Court of Appeals gets appealed to the Supreme Court.

1:10:41Ben Meiselas:And that can take a few years. But the Supreme Court gets a full record. Not anymore. What the Supreme Court does is use its shadow docket and says, we're just going to pause what the district court does. And what the district court's doing in all of these cases is pausing or staying or stopping what the Trump regime is doing that the district court deems is unlawful. So by the Supreme Court pausing the district court, that means they're allowing the Trump conduct to continue until such time as the case works its way back up to the Supreme Court, which for the Supreme Court, they know that's going to be after the Trump regime is over.

1:11:25So they want to try to game this to coast by after giving Trump absolute immunity to let

1:11:32Ben Meiselas:him do what he wants, but then four years from now make rulings that I think will then clamp down on the executive branch power if and when you have a democratic president. That's the hustle of what they're doing. That's why they don't rule on the merits. They pause the district court. They know it'll take about four years to get back up, and then they're going to make these rulings. You see, we were never for this dictator stuff. Meanwhile, they let it happen for four years. I just want to cue you into the, I'm a law professor when I'm not doing this, and this stuff frustrates the hell out of me.

1:12:10Ben Meiselas:So I want to let you know deeper what the hustle actually is here that they're doing to help you understand. Now, in this specific case that the Supreme Court ruled on its shadow docket, they stayed or stopped the district court's order that blocked the Trump regime from engaging in racial profiling on the basis of four factors, apparent race or ethnicity, whether they spoke Spanish or English, the type of location at which they were found, a car wash or a bus stop or something like that, the type of job they work. In other words, if you are a Latino working at a car shop, you will be presumed to be a migrant without paperwork and you will be sent to a detention center.

1:13:00Ben Meiselas:And then if you present your paperwork, you're okay. But they can profile you now on that basis. If you work at a restaurant where migrants may work, You can get profiled and the Supreme Court saying, we're okay with that right now. We don't think that's an unreasonable search and seizure. Now, Justice Kavanaugh, he actually wrote a concurring opinion to this, which is rare because usually you just get one paragraph saying, basically, we hereby stay with the district court suit. And Justice Kavanaugh was like, no, no, no, of course I support racial profile. And he doesn't use that exact language.

1:13:37Ben Meiselas:But yeah, if you look, if your skin is brown and you're working in restaurants, duh, that's what Kavanaugh says, which is probably what the actual all six justices say. They just wouldn't sign their name to what Kavanaugh said. But then the three liberal justices, they're out there and they're like, we have something called the Fourth Amendment, which protects every individual's constitutional right to be free from arbitrary interference by law officers. after today, that may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little because this is unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees.

1:14:27Ben Meiselas:I dissent. That's right there from the three liberal justices. So I don't mean to leave you with that bad news, but it shows why we need to fight back more against this regime, against this fascist regime. And that's what we're going to do here at the Midas Touch Network each and every day. So please become a member of our YouTube channel. Hit subscribe now if you can, and become a member. You can gift memberships to as many people as you want as well if they can't afford memberships. So try to do that. Support our sponsors, discount codes in the description below. Check out MidasPlus.com. And while you're at it, leave a five-star review for the Midas Touch podcast on audio.

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