Mike Johnson Faces House Revolt as Pressure Mounts

0:00Ben Meiselas:MAGA Mike Johnson, the MAGA Republican Speaker of the House, is losing all control over the House of Representatives, and he is panicking, fearing that he may even lose his job before the midterms. And let's face it, any semblance of any MAGA agenda has now been totally derailed. And Donald Trump called Axios, which is basically his personal stenographer at this point, and he's basically leaked to them that he hopes the MAGA Republicans lose the midterms. He doesn't care if they lose the midterms. More on that in a moment. But MAGA Mike Johnson is losing MAGA Republican members left and right.

0:42Ben Meiselas:MAGA Republican Congresswoman from Texas, Kay Granger, pronounced dead over the weekend at the age of 83. Apparently, for the past several months, she's been in an assisted living facility. No one's really known where she is, but she has been pronounced dead in Fort Worth, Texas, at the age of 83. Also, you have a MAGA Republican Congress member from Ohio, Max Miller. Well, he's being called on to resign immediately based on very serious and disturbing allegations of abuse by his ex-wife, who happens to also be the daughter of a MAGA Republican senator from the same state where Miller is a Congress member, Ohio.

1:29Ben Meiselas:Senator Moreno's daughter is the ex-wife of Max Miller, and MAGA Republican Senator Moreno is calling out his former son-in-law for being a deranged, abusive psychopath. And Senator Moreno posted this publicly. And then Max Miller attacked his former father-in-law, the MAGA Republican senator of the same state. And then Miller earlier in the morning on Sunday released a deranged video saying, do you think that I could be abusive if my ex-wife invited me back in the house a few days later? How could I be abusive if she invited me back in? Yeah, that's what happens in domestic abuse situations. Then he proceeded to release all of these like surreptitious audio recordings he made of his wife, and they are not helpful to him, to say the least.

2:22Ben Meiselas:Let's just go through all of the things that are happening one by one here, so you can see Magamite Johnson panicking. Well, on Sunday, Magamike announced the death of Kay Granger. He said she devoted her life to serving her Fort Worth, Texas community as a teacher and businesswoman. He says throughout her career, she broke barriers and he sends prayers to her family. You see photos of her. She has not been seen in the House of Representatives for quite some time. You have Donald Trump then calling a regime media, his stenographer Axios. And so, you know, Donald Trump leaks all the stuff to Axios about his like fake conversations with Iran and I'm going to blow the effing S out of them and they want to make a deal, right?

3:12Ben Meiselas:That's Barack Ravine over in Axios. But Trump leaked the following to Axios on Sunday. This is what Axios wrote that Trump told them. President Trump doesn't really care if Republicans lose the House. and or the Senate in the midterms this fall. Yeah, he'd prefer a big win, but he seems indifferent to the election and the possibility of endless Democratic investigations of his family wealth and policies, his close advisors. Tell us a big reason Trump thinks he'll emerge just as strong or even stronger heading into his final two years, at least among the Republicans who are left. Trump, this is what they're saying on Axios.

3:52Ben Meiselas:You talk about regime propaganda. Trump will enjoy a more pro-Trump Republican Congress, win or lose, gleefully play 2028 kingmaker in the Republican Party, and further test the boundaries of presidential power beyond legislating. His preferred method, anyway, you're talking about what, dictatorship? A protestant beyond the bounds of presidential powers, you know, that pesky little thing called the Constitution. He'll use pardons to protect his people. His advisors are telling Axios. Trump is not a share the stage, pass the torch, groom your successor kind of guy. Instead, he'll exploit the leverage with MAGA losing in the midterms.

4:35Ben Meiselas:He wants them to lose so he can exploit the leverage. He believes that's strength. That's what he's telling Axios. And then cashing in, of course. This is a real article from Axios. Cashing in over the weekend. Trump will use the levers of power to keep raising money to expand his clout beyond the presidency. He likes the fact that when he tells someone, give me money, they give him money, an advisor told us. Another chimed in to Axios. Trump will relish in perpetuity having Republicans beg for his endorsement. You're as powerful as your bank account says you are. He's referring to extortion right there, in my opinion.

5:12Ben Meiselas:But OK, Axios, Trump is rooting for Republicans to lose the midterms so he can exert more power over whatever is left in the rubbish that is the MAGA Republican Party. Okay, Bernie Moreno, the MAGA Republican senator from Ohio, posted this publicly about his former son-in-law, Max Miller, who is alleged to have abused Moreno's daughter. As a father and husband, I can tell you the last two years have been pure hell for my wife, Bridget, our daughter, Emily, me, and our entire family in the aftermath of Emily's divorce. It has been horrific to watch this play out in full public view, all while knowing an innocent two-year-old girl, his granddaughter, is caught in the middle.

6:02Ben Meiselas:Our priority has always been protecting our daughter and our granddaughter. Out of concern for the safety of my family, I hope to keep this matter private. But Max Miller's, that's the MAGA Republican Congress member from Ohio who used to be married to Marino's daughter, just want to make sure you're following, increasingly erratic and dangerous behavior has made it impossible. As he has admitted privately, Max Miller needs serious psychological help. He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter. If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them.

6:42Ben Meiselas:He should not serve in the House of Representatives. I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake. I believe he should not be free to continuing endangering others until he does. I ran for office because I wanted to make a difference for the country. That gave me every opportunity to succeed and to leave this nation better for my children and grandchildren. That sacrifice has been especially hard on my wife, Bridget, whose big heart and steady support have never wavered. I owe it to her, to Emily. Emily's his daughter, the ex-wife of Max Miller.

7:21Ben Meiselas:and to my granddaughter to speak the truth now. Then MAGA Republican Congress member Max Miller responds, Bernie Moreno, Senator from Ohio, my former father-in-law. If my daughter said the same thing to me, I personally wouldn't wait two years before holding him accountable. You know this isn't true. And the only reason you are speaking out now is to hide from your own media circus. This is all political. And you know, folks, when I read you this stuff, like this doesn't have to be our politics. Like we know that, right? Like our politics doesn't have to be this like dark, disgusting dystopia of these MAGA Republican abusers and people who are alleged to commit abuse and MAGA Republicans covering up child sex trafficking rings and Donald Trump bragging about shaking down people for money and doing 21 ,000 stock trades and doing quid pro quos with the Middle East and getting us involved in never ending wars and manipulating the markets and covering up child sex trafficking rings and focusing on stealing our taxpayer money for his right wing oligarchs and building golden ballrooms and things that we don't want and whining about reflecting pools and prosecuting people based on fabricated evidence and constantly whining about how unfairly, like, like, oh, fairly, like we know that like we could actually have normal human beings who fight for us and don't rip away our healthcare, who actually make things more affordable, who create the conditions for affordable housing, give us free healthcare and free education.

9:14Ben Meiselas:And we don't have to live like we know we don't have to live in this hell right by the way that's why the book i wrote with my brothers is called wtf america and we talk about the way out of this hell how do we get in here how do we get out of this hell and i want to take a step back in the book and talk about these broader important overarching principles by the way pre-order wtf america right now it comes out october but our publisher has told us it's really important We focus on those pre-orders. So if you were thinking about waiting till October, pre-order it right now and you can hit the QR code or a link in the description below.

9:50Ben Meiselas:But WTF, we need to get out of this mess. So MAGA Republican Congress member Max Miller then recorded this video and he was like, my wife claims that I abused her and poured scalding hot water on her and abused our child and did all of this horrific stuff. By the way, Stephanie Grisham, former Trump advisor, also made accusations in the first Trump regime that when she was dating Max Miller, he was abusive, she alleged. So this guy's got a history and pattern and practice of this. But he made this video. I'm not going to play you the full thing. I'm going to play you a small portion where Max Miller's like, would my wife actually invite me back into the home to be with our daughter after she says that I did these horrible things?

10:38Ben Meiselas:That's what the, yes, that's what happens in domestic violence situations. Here, play this clip. So ask yourself, if I had assaulted her, would she had offered to cook me dinner six days later? Would she have invited me to spend an afternoon at the playground with her and our daughter? Would she have written that we were in a friendlier place? No, she wouldn't have, ladies and gentlemen. And then he released what he claimed was helpful evidence to himself. He did a Dropbox and released all of these audio recordings and I think they just make it worse for him. He released this audio that in my view admits that he sprayed his wife with hot water her play this clip.

11:24It never was done to hurt you. And you know that you were weaponizing this because of my previous allegations. And you knew it was because you went into my, you went into my when I was crying. So Emily, so I didn't mean to hurt you. I didn't mean to hurt you. Why are you scared of me? Why are you? Yeah, I didn't mean to hurt you. It wasn't done with intent. You just said it yourself. You literally just said it yourself. It wasn't done to hurt you. And I told you before that not to come over to me and start screwing around with me. I wasn't trying to grab him. I was trying to give you a heart. You are taking a playful incident and making something nefarious.

12:00It's not playful, Matt. It's not playful. You need a pot water. Emily, going out of the faucet, it does not get to a temperature of boiling water. It does not. Put it on when you get home, Matt, so you can get it on. I did it and I tested it and I had our attorneys tested because I figured that this is what you're going to come at me with. It's not coming at you. What? No, no. Literally, it's like standing under a hot shower and we already have someone to go ahead and combat this if this is what you're going to do.

12:25Ben Meiselas:And then there's this audio of him where he appears to where it's his ex-wife accusing him of using drugs, saying she found needles by his bed and he released this. He thinks this is helpful to him. Here, play this clip. All of our conversations. No, I don't. And I don't. You've never recorded one of our conversations. And by the way, and I've never gone into your cell phone and I've never gone into your computer and I've never sneaked into your backpack and I've never banged on the bathroom door thinking that you're masturbating when you were just using the bathroom at 5.30 a.m. I have gone into your backpack because I truly do believe you have a drug problem.

13:07Okay. What drugs? Well, at first it was weed and then I found needles next to your bed. You found needles? Yes, I did, and I took a picture of it. You can try to deny it to me. Okay. I don't know why that's funny. That's actually really fucking scary. Okay, you found a... And there's a huge impetus with why I left. Okay.

13:36Go for it. Test me for whatever you would like. No, Max, that's even scary that that's a thing. honestly that actually freaks me the fuck out it's not a thing and you didn't find it next to a bed yes i did max yes the fuck i did then it's not mine if it's next to the bed then who else's needle is in the bedroom bedroom drawer max no idea but i can tell you a thousand percent i've never had a needle in my bedroom drawer a thousand percent you've never had a no jewish word of nope jewish word of honor not not not my bedroom drawer not my bedroom drawer i have never had a needle in my bedroom drawer and that is not a lie.

14:15Where are they, Max? Because that's where I found it. Nope. I don't have needles in the house. You can come check. I've never put a needle in the drawer. I will send you a picture of it then. Please do. I would love to see what this looks like.

14:25Ben Meiselas:And so now you have these MAGA Republicans out there defending Max Miller. By the way, you had Trump on Air Force One. He was asked, should Max Miller resign? He's like, so far it's just accusations. Here, play this clip right here. A lot of people like it. A lot of big supporters of Trump like it. Mr. President, you're supposed to be the best of the New South Nation against Congressman Max Miller. Do you think he should resign? Well, I'm going to look at it. I've been so far. It's accusations. I'll be looking at it. Sir, are you a stupid? Hat tip to Democratic strategist Mike Nellis, because weeks ago, he was on State Regime Media Fox.

15:07Ben Meiselas:And here's what he said on, you know, when this wasn't getting enough attention, let's play it. A lot of bad individuals who are rising up in politics right now. It includes Graham Plattner. He's got to go. But the fact that you just sit here and said that nobody cares that Max Miller beat his wife is highly alerted. We're not here to talk about Max Miller. We're here to talk about Graham Plattner. I think we've got to be talking about all of it because if we're not policing this conduct from people, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, it's not right. Nobody has the moral hydrant. But the topic today is Graham Plattner.

15:30That's why we're here. We're talking about Graham Plattner. If we want to do another segment on the congressman you're bringing up for the candidate. You let me know when we're going to book a segment on Max Miller because I haven't heard a lot about it from the public. I'm not a booker at Fox.

15:40Ben Meiselas:That's fine. By the way, even George Santos, when he was in the House of Representatives back on November of 2023, when he was in the House floor, he called out Max Miller in November 2023. And they all knew about it. MAGA was covering this up for this guy. Here play this clip. You, sir, are a crook. I know I should direct my comments to the chair. I yield back. My colleague wants to come up here, call me a crook. Same colleague who's accused of being a woman beater. Are we really going to ignore the facts that we all have passed and we all have the media coming out against us on a daily basis?

16:21I can go and read about all my colleagues. I'm not going to stand here to smear them. I'm not going to stand here and use the time I have to say ill things about my colleagues. I refuse to stoop to that level.

16:33Ben Meiselas:Jim Jordan said the following that Max Miller is a good man and we're all going to help him get reelected. Play this clip. I also want to ask you about something a little closer to home. There is a colleague of yours in the Ohio delegation, Max Miller, who is facing allegations of abuse from an ex-wife of the wife and his then toddler daughter. Do you think that Max Miller, who denies this abuse, should he resign from Congress in light of the accusations? Look, this is a family matter. I know Max is a good man. I was up campaigning for him. I hope he wins reelection. He's done a good job as a member of Congress, and we should all pray for his family.

17:18These are difficult times that they're going through. We understand that. These kind of situations always are. But Max is a good member and a colleague, and hopefully he's going to win re-election. But ultimately, in the end, that's up to the voters in his district. But, yeah, we were up helping Max just a few weeks ago at a campaign event up in his district in the northern part of our state. So, I mean, it's just worth noting, I mean, the allegations include that Miller scalded his ex-wife's chest and stomach when he threw hot water at her, that he held a gun to her head, that he pushed her against a wall and hit her in the head, that he fractured their daughter's collarbone and bruised her shoulder, that his two-year-old daughter reportedly told his ex-wife, quote, that he'd kill you.

17:57I want to play for you what you said when you were asked about Graham Plattner, who faced allegations of abuse. Let's watch what you told Newsmax. I've not heard all this stuff. Well, it was in the New York Times. It was in the New York Times. That's the list of allegations. It's been out there for a while. I just want to show you what you told Newsmax when you saw that Graham Plattner was facing these accusations. Watch. That's always been the case with Democrats. It's all about maintaining power. They will take any crazy position as long as it furthers their ability to win elections and get power and frankly to go against anyone who goes against President Trump.

18:36Why does that not apply here to Republicans who want to keep power in the seat? Well, I don't know the context of the question I was asked about Mr. Plattner, but My guess is it was about all the ridiculous positions he's taken. The banner there says, Flattner's ex-girlfriend accuses him of abuse. The Nazi tattoo and everything else. Yeah, well, I don't know. I didn't answer. I don't know that I answered that question. I think I was dealing with just who he was as a candidate and the crazy anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, pro-Nazi positions that he has taken, I think, is evidenced by the fact that he had a Nazi tattoo on his chest.

19:11All right. Congressman Jim Jordan, thanks for spending some time with us. It wasn't me that kicked him off the ballot. It was the Democrats. All right. Fair enough, sir. Thank you very much. We'll be right back.

19:22Ben Meiselas:Now, it should be noted that Max Miller is running against a Democrat, Brian Poindexter. And Poindexter is now leading in a lot of the recent polling for Ohio's 7th Congressional District. So even that seat, which was once viewed in Ohio as a potentially safe seat for MAGA, is now viewed as a seat that could flip to Democrats. And by the way, I've been doing lots of videos on Ohio and Texas too. But Ohio, you see a lot of shift towards the Democratic Party, a lot of shift towards blue. And, you know, really, I think there are good candidates who are running, diverse, different types of candidates.

20:04Ben Meiselas:That's good. Diversity in candidates is good. Not everyone has to be a certain prototype. Just fight. Listen for the people and fight for them. And also, I just think people want accountability to Trump. And so they want people who are going to conduct oversight and actually punch back against the Trump regime. So Poindexter is up. I got to get Poindexter on the show, huh? I got to interview Poindexter, huh? Well, anyway, Magamike. Magamike's hell, everybody. Let me know what you think. hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thank you all for watching. Get WTF America as well. Pre-order it now.

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21:04Thank you.