Panicked WH Has Disaster Presser as Trump Cracks

0:00Ben Meiselas:The White House just wrapped up two disastrous press conferences and the press asked after just this nonsense being spewed, can we speak to Donald Trump's doctor, please? Can we speak to a medical professional here? Are we going to get access? Because what the heck is going on? To which Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, during her press conference was like, yeah, I'm not sure we're going to be able to do that. So there was a Caroline Levitt press conference, and then there was a Jeanine Pirro. She's now Donald Trump's top attorney, federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. There was that press conference.

0:36Ben Meiselas:Let me just show you what went down. So first, you have Caroline Levitt being asked. Donald Trump said he was going to Russia. He kept on calling Alaska Russia. What did he mean by that? Watch her try to cover up for Trump's cognitive impairment. Here, play this clip. Charlie. The president said at the podium yesterday twice that he was planning to go to Russia. Was that a verbal slip up or does he actually plan to go to Russia? Perhaps there are plans in the future to travel to Russia. And on Friday, the president will be meeting with the Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska, as you know.

1:11Ben Meiselas:So then the reporter says, are we going to be able to speak to his doctors? Here, play this clip. Back to something from last month. You guys announced the president was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency after his legs were seen swelling. How's he being treated for that? And while you were upfront about those health issues, curious if the White House would be willing to let us speak with his physician directly about those health issues. I know there were a lot of concerns about the last White House not making the physician available. Would the physician be available in this case? I don't want to make that commitment on behalf of the physician, but it's certainly something we can look into and explore out of the effort of transparency, because unlike the previous White House, there is nothing to hide.

1:55You guys see this president working around the clock, literally 24-7 all of the time. And I will be happy to look into that request. Can we at least get an update on how he's being treated for the swelling legs and for the hands and the other issues? Look, you see the president every day. He's moving, he's working, he's continuing. There have been no adjustments made to his lifestyle.

2:15Ben Meiselas:And then Caroline Levitt's like, look, our motto is trust in Trump. Don't be a panicking. Just trust whatever Donald Trump says. She literally says that here. Play this clip. Ignore the panikens and trust in President Trump. That is our motto here at the White House. The America First economic agenda is working. Now, the new person who Donald Trump wants to appoint as the Bureau and Labor Statistics Commissioner is out there saying that there shouldn't be jobs reports published on a monthly basis and that none of the information should be reliable because all of the economic indicators are pointing in a very bad direction.

2:54Ben Meiselas:So Caroline Levitz asked about that. Like, hey, so is nothing reliable? Is the White House position that job data inflation that we should throw it all out? Here, play this clip. Just on the BLS, they collect the inflation data, obviously. If the jobs data is not reliable, should Americans trust the inflation data? Well, look, the jobs data has had massive revisions. We want to ensure that all of the data, the inflation data, the jobs data, any data point that is coming out of the BLS is trustworthy and is accurate, which is why the president has restored new leadership at the BLS. Sure, go ahead.

3:28Ben Meiselas:So then Donald Trump fired his sixth IRS commissioner in six months, the former commissioner, Billy Long. So Caroline Levitz asked, why'd you fire that guy? I mean, didn't Trump like him? You're now going to have seven people who are the IRS commissioners. in as many months now. It was reported that one of the things that Billy Long was uncomfortable about doing was turning over certain IRS data of migrants and other people for Donald Trump to attack. But watch what Caroline Levitt says. Watch what the propaganda artist says. Play this clip. Thanks, Caroline. What was the reason that President Trump chose to move on from Billy Long as IRS commissioner?

4:09Look, I think the president wants to see Billy Long as the ambassador to Iceland. As you know, that is where he will be headed. And the president loves Billy Long and he thinks that he can serve the administration well in this position. For now, Secretary Scott Besson will be the acting IRS commissioner.

4:26Ben Meiselas:And speaking of the horrendous propaganda from this press conference, this disastrous press conference, Caroline Levitt, we told you this was going to happen, blamed the federal judge in New York for not releasing the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts. When y 'all have 300 gigabytes at the FBI and DOJ, you have the files, the grand jury transcript from one day of grand jury testimony from one FBI officer, which is not allowed to be released because grand jury testimony can't be released. That isn't shedding light on anything new. All that would do is give Ghislaine Maxwell a guaranteed new trial if you released it.

5:06Ben Meiselas:And the federal judge said as much in the order, how disingenuous the regime was being, but the regime always wanted to blame the judges for not turning over the Epstein files. Y 'all have the files, not the judge. You have it right now. Release it. Play this clip. Another question on something that happened yesterday, but I wanted to get the White House response. A judge ruled that the grand jury transcripts in Ghislaine Maxwell's case should not be released. What's the White House response to that? And do you plan to appeal? And what do you tell President Trump supporters who want that information released?

5:40We think that decision is unfortunate. Of course, we move to unseal that information because the president has said he wants to see credible evidence released. As for the appeal process, I would defer you to the Department of Justice for that.

5:51Ben Meiselas:So then Caroline Levitt has asked more about Donald Trump's new Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, saying that the Bureau of Labor Statistics should suspend all monthly reports on economic data like job reports. And Caroline Levitt was like, damn, he was just floating it. It was just it was just a float. Here, play this clip. Yeah, thanks, Caroline. I know you said earlier the hope is to maintain monthly job reports, but the president's new nominee for BLS commissioner E.J. Antony recently told Fox Business that the BLS should suspend issuing monthly job reports and only issue quarterly reports until the jobs data methodology is corrected.

6:33So does the president disagree with that assessment that his nominee is severe or suspending these monthly job reports a real option? I think he floated the idea of possibly suspending until they can get the data and the methodology in order. And this president wants to ensure that the BLS, again, is putting out accurate and honest data that the American people can trust. Since you brought up the new commissioner, he holds a master's in doctor's degree in economics from Northern Illinois University. He's the chief economist in the Heritage Foundation's Center for the federal budget. And in addition to his work at Heritage, he has multiple other roles.

7:12He's been widely renowned for his work on economic issues. He's been called before Congress to testify as an economic expert. So he's a qualified individual and the president trusts him to lead this important department. Sure, go ahead.

7:27Ben Meiselas:And then interestingly, Caroline Levitt, I mean, she lies. She says she reads the Los Angeles Times every single day. I just find it odd. I mean, nothing against the L.A. Times, but she reads the L.A. Times every day. I highly doubt that, number one. And she goes, I read them every day, but they're notorious for misleading the public. Here, play this clip. A lot of reports that ICE agents detained a 15-year-old student with disabilities outside an L.A. high school, even leaving bullets on the sidewalk. How does the Trump administration plan to ensure parents, if their children, can return to school without fear of being wrongfully detained or endangered by federal agents?

8:06Where did you see that report? LA Times. OK, well, I'll have to look into the veracity of that report. I read the LA Times almost every single day and they are notorious for misleading the public. I'm sure there's more to that story than the way that you just characterized it. This administration wants to ensure that all school children across the country and every city from Los Angeles to D.C. can go to school safely. And that's part of this administration's effort to federalize the National Guard in Washington to ensure that ICE is removing child predators. I just read you a list of a handful, just a handful of the hundreds of thousands of child predators that this administration is removing off of the streets of Los Angeles and every other community across this country.

8:47because we want to ensure this is a country where American school children can be safe, where they can prosper and where they are not threatened by violent criminals, whether they are illegal or whether they are American citizen homegrown criminals, as this president calls them. So I will gladly go check on that report and I'll get you the facts. Thank you.

9:07Ben Meiselas:Then she's asked, well, what do you say to all of these small businesses who say they tried to eat the tariffs for as long as they can, but they can't survive anymore. So they're going to have to pass on the prices to consumers. What do you say to them? And she's like, just know the trust in Trump. He loves you. He loves businesses. It's not answering the question. And then of course, like with everything she says, she just blames Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden. Let me be clear under the wall street journal articles and the economist articles. They said that America's economy under Biden was the envy of the world and a Goldilocks economy.

9:45Ben Meiselas:And they said it was going to soar and Donald Trump destroyed it. But play this clip. Yeah, two questions on the economy. So first, we've had small businesses tell us that it's not foreign exporters who are eating the tariffs. It's them. And they've held off on raising prices, but soon they're going to have to raise prices. What is the White House's message to them? The White House's message to our small business owners across the country is you have never had a better ally or friend or supporter in this White House than President Donald Trump, who is a businessman himself, who understands your concerns and who wants to restore wealth back to our country through the powerful use of tariffs.

10:23And that's what he's focused on doing while simultaneously driving down costs. You have to remember that we are six months into this administration and we had a president who had no business experience, had no idea what he was doing and who funneled billions of wasteful spending dollars into our economy, which created the worst inflation crisis in a generation. Now this president is focused on tackling inflation, deregulating, cutting costs, cutting red tape to make it easier for small business owners to thrive. And again, the economic indicators show that we are moving in the right direction.

10:57Ben Meiselas:And then Caroline Levitt is asked about Donald Trump posting earlier this morning that he was considering filing a major lawsuit against his own chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. So Trump is going to sue his own administration. Here, play this clip. Thank you. The president is waiting on Jay Powell. He said that he's considering allowing a major lawsuit against Powell to proceed because of the horrible and gross, incompetent job he is doing. Can you tell us about that? What lawsuit is he talking about? He's considering a lawsuit and I I won't speak or on it any further. I will allow the president to do that himself.

11:34Is this fair to say the administration is suing the Fed chair over this renovation? That's what the president is saying. Has he had discussions with anyone about this? Or is this just like what the power bans is this right now? At this moment in time, the president is considering a lawsuit against the Fed, and I will leave it to him to comment further on it.

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13:23Ben Meiselas:You then had Jeanine Pirro over here saying that she doesn't care about the source of crime or like the reasons why crime is committed. She doesn't care about that. Here, play this clip. I honestly am not concerned about why they commit crimes. My concern is if they commit crimes. My concern is the victims of the crimes. that's my job as a u.s attorney go ahead just follow up on that quickly and here she is just yelling at reporters who ask her well if you say one of the big issues is gun violence aren't you encouraging more people to have dangerous weapons like and you're defunding gun prevention and then judge uh or janine piero now the top federal prosecutor in dc goes uh just stop it stop asking me here play this clip out of time damn we just had enough goodbye thank you i want you to report on but you said you said it's guns you said it's guns on the street that's causing this problem are you concerned that the doj's funding cuts to gun violence prevention programs undermine the effort we are putting all kinds of resources onto the street but what about the gun aspect of the gun violence thank you guys thanks and here janine pirro admits as I've previously reported, that the DOJ has lost 90, 9-0, 90 lawyers, or that they've lost all of their staff because people keep on quitting and getting fired.

14:54Ben Meiselas:They were down rather to only 90 lawyers, like hundreds of people quit and resign. And she goes, I don't really care about the facts off the record. I don't care about the facts. Here, watch what she says. I don't have any special powers. I wish I did. Can you talk about where you stand on hiring prosecutors and judges? I am, I am, you know, I'm not going to bore you with the facts. That's, don't quote me on that. That was off the record. I can only hire during certain periods once there's been an ad or some kind of posting. And then I can hire. Okay, I'm doing it. I'm doing the best I can. The president has given me the permission to hire.

15:40This is an office that has been neglected. And I'll say it publicly. It's been neglected with people signing contracts. They didn't know what they were signing. All right. It just kind of ran on its own. Not anymore. This is an office where nobody seemed to care that we were down 90 lawyers, 60 investigators and paralegals. I do. And so my effort is to get people who want to work in the nation's capital, want to work in the largest United States attorney's office in the country and the best office, because we're not just federal prosecutors. We're local prosecutors. We get down and dirty and street crime.

16:17And that is what really motivates a lot of my prosecutors.

16:22Ben Meiselas:There you have it, folks. Disastrous press conferences in the White House. We'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network and subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.