Trump Crumbles in Terror as Scandal Tortures Him

21 Jul 2025 · 18 min · 6 chapters

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In short

The episode argues that Donald Trump is spiraling amid scandals and failing polling, pointing to his social-media behavior (AI-generated arrest videos of Barack Obama, mugshot-style AI images, and memes), alleged links to the Epstein scandal, and claims about economic and international fallout (e.g., empty Las Vegas tourism, sanctions/violence in Syria). It also cites a Clemson University–linked discovery of a MAGA X bot farm and includes a Brazil President Lula quote about how Trump would be treated if he were Brazilian.

Guests

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Key claims/examples

Trump’s approval down (YouGov/Atlas Intel); voters say Epstein matters; Lula says coup attempt would mean trial/arrest; Epstein victim Maria Farmer describes Trump’s presence in Epstein’s office; examples of Trump’s past “hot guy” and Epstein-photo rage clips.

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Trump's Panic Amid Scandal

0:30 to 2:26

Analyzing Donald Trump's recent behavior as scandals surface.

“Donald Trump is in an absolute panic as he is being buried in bad news, in catastrophic news.”

Polls Show Trump's Decline

2:26 to 5:05

Discussing the decline in Trump's approval ratings and public trust.

“We participated in five elections and never before in this country.”

Economic Impact of Trump Policies

5:05 to 7:38

Exploring how Trump's actions are affecting the economy, particularly in Las Vegas.

“You know, and just some of these creepy videos of Donald Trump from the past are resurfacing, like when he gave a speech at the rally in 2024 where he referred to himself as a hot guy.”

Middle Eastern Instability

7:38 to 9:59

Highlighting recent violence in Syria and its ties to Trump's policies.

“as a result of the tourism drop and as a result of the Trump economy.”

Epstein Scandal Victim's Account

9:59 to 14:03

A victim shares her unsettling experience involving Epstein and Trump.

“Also, this bot farm was just discovered.”

Discussion on Market Impact and Political Figures

14:03 to 14:43

Explore the speaker's views on market performance and political behavior.

“I know better than anybody what's good for the market and what's good for the U.S.”
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0:30Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is in an absolute panic as he is being buried in bad news, in catastrophic news. But Donald, it is your past resurfacing. And you think you can change the topic by post after post on social media. Donald Trump posted a photo of former President Barack Obama sitting next to him in the Oval Office. Then Donald Trump did an AI regeneration of the video so that it looked like Obama was getting arrested by FBI agents and thrown on the ground. This is the behavior of Donald Trump. He's posting weird right wing MAGA memes like the Pepe the Frog thing. No one is above the law as he's showing these images of Obama.

1:18Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is also posting photos of a woman grabbing a snake. I'm not sure that this is the best way to distract from your dark past with Epstein, but you're posting random photos and videos of a woman holding a snake. Very strange behavior right there. Also, Donald Trump is posting mugshots of people like Samantha Power, Susan Rice, James Comey, Obama, and others AI generated images. It was like post after post after post. He also posted this from Anna Paulina Luna, or I agree with Anna Paulina Luna. Until this happens, nothing will change. And it's a photo of, it looks like, politicians getting handcuffed and let out of Washington, D.C.

2:11Ben Meiselas:Donald, we all know that you are the swamp. And I want to show you this from the interview that CNN did with President Lula of Brazil, where Lula says if Trump did what he did in the U.S., we would have arrested this guy right away. Here, play this clip. We participated in five elections and never before in this country. Someone would raise this issue to try to say or try to coup d 'etat attempt like Bolsonaro did. He's not judged personally. He is being judged by the acts. He tried to organize a coup d 'etat. He threatened secretly the death. He planned the death of my vice president, myself and the chief justice.

2:53He could be on 12 just for that. And the general attorney general denounced yesterday he will be convicted. And I believe in that. But Christian, I'd like to say something to the American people. If Trump was Brazilian and if he did what was happening at the Capitol Hill, he'd also be on trial in Brazil and possibly. And he would have violated the Constitution according to the justice. He could also be arrested if he had done that here in Brazil. So I want to ask you finally.

3:21Ben Meiselas:Now, Donald Trump can try to repost that some the real blockbuster scandal is something about former President Obama. talking about Russia. I don't even know what Donald Trump's talking about here, but the American people aren't buying that at all. They're not buying when Donald Trump's like, we really need to focus on the auto pen scandal. You can't just make up fake scandals. But that's Donald Trump for you. You take a look at Donald Trump's approval. It is plummeting among the American people. Somehow on February 9th, it was at 53%. Now, based on this YouGov poll, it is at 42%. When you look at Atlas Intel, which was the most accurate pollster in 2024, right now, only 36 % of Americans say that they think Trump is doing a good or excellent job, whereas 54 % have a negative view about Donald Trump there.

4:18Ben Meiselas:And you look at this polling as well, Who do you trust more? 52 % Democrats over 44 % Republicans. Who do you trust more in immigration? 49 % Democrats over 45 % Republicans. In a generic poll, Democrats lead Republicans 51 % to 42 % for the midterms. Literally every issue, Donald Trump is underwater. Lots of voters, the majority of voters say that the Epstein scandal involving Donald Trump will be a factor in how they vote. This is what Trump, and when Trump posts some of these weird memes and videos on his own social media platform, he's getting responses like, really wish we had a president that didn't post on social media like a drunk uncle.

5:03Ben Meiselas:Like, what are you doing, Donald? You know, and just some of these creepy videos of Donald Trump from the past are resurfacing, like when he gave a speech at the rally in 2024 where he referred to himself as a hot guy. Here, play this clip. Sort of like a hot guy. I was hot as a pistol. I think I was hotter than I am now when I became president. Okay. I don't know. I said to somebody, was I hotter before or hotter now? I don't know. Who the hell knows? Who the hell knows? Who the hell cares? Right? Or this video from sometime on or around 2019, when Donald Trump was speaking to an audience and someone held up an Epstein photo and then Donald Trump like lost his mind.

5:48Ben Meiselas:Here, just watch this from the past here, play this clip. NAFTA, because you have to mark up thousands of miles coming through Mexico. You come up thousands of miles coming through Mexico and we're gonna stop it. Get them out of here. Get them out of here.

6:12Go home to your mom, darling. Go home.

6:21Get them out of here. Out.

6:41We're going to fight! Was that a man or a woman? Because he needs a haircut more than I do. Couldn't tell. Couldn't tell.

7:22I couldn't tell. Needs a haircut. But the media never talks about the American victims.

7:31Ben Meiselas:While all of this is going on, I mean, we're seeing states basically facing recessions right now as a result of the tourism drop and as a result of the Trump economy. For example, in Las Vegas, you know how Donald Trump destroyed Atlantic City in the 1990s when he was best friends with Epstein. Donald Trump is like destroying Vegas right now. I've been seeing lots of videos like this circulate on TikTok, but just take a look right now at what Vegas looks like and you'll see it's like pretty empty at this point here play this clip i ain't never seen vegas look like this on a saturday at one in the morning where's the people holy shit dude what the fuck like i can't make this shit up holy shit bro this is a saturday i wanted where are the fucking people Look, even on the Venetian bridge over there, nobody.

8:32Holy shit.

8:34Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump was spending this weekend also vacationing and golfing again on the taxpayer dime as he destroys the economy, destroys our standing internationally. I do want to point out as well, you know how Donald Trump said that he removed sanctions against Syria, and he said that he He thought that the interim president of Syria, who used to be in a branch of Al-Qaeda, he goes, I like this guy. He's handsome. He's doing a great job. Well, there's just been horrific violence in Syria recently. I showed you the video last week where Israel struck the presidential palace in Syria, saying they were doing that to help the Druze group, which is a minority in Syria.

9:24Ben Meiselas:The Druze are Shia in Syria. The leadership party is overwhelmingly Sunni. And this Druze group had pretty much lived autonomously. There was a dispute recently between them and this Al-Qaeda branch that the leader of Syria was a part of. And you've just seen some of these horrible atrocities directed at the Druze in Syria from this Al-Qaeda branch that the interim president was part of. But you have such a massive amount of instability there. I just want to flag this issue because I think it's not getting enough attention here. And then the Druze were kind of upset that Israel struck the presidential palace because they don't want to seem like, hey, we're being supported by Netanyahu because that gives additional grounds for the Sunnis to go after them or the Sunni group that leads Syria.

10:17Ben Meiselas:So we have that. Also, this bot farm was just discovered. The MAGA network of at least 400 bot accounts on X has been discovered by social media analytics company and researchers at Clemson University. And they were discovered because the bot farm didn't know how to respond to the Epstein scandal right here. And then more people are coming forward. So let me just share with you this clip right here of one of the victims of Epstein. Here, play this clip. The time that is most memorable to me is the time when he hit on me. because I was in the office. It was one of the first times I started working for Donald Trump's a sleazebag.

10:58Yes. It was when I started working for Epstein, and it was 9 o 'clock at night. And Jeffrey Epstein's office was totally empty. I told the New York Times this, but of course, they don't do the whole thing, right? Even though Mike Baker is amazing, they would not allow him to tell the truth. So basically, I go into this office. It's 9 o 'clock at night, and I sit down. And a few minutes later, and I'm wearing running clothes. Okay. So it was really weird. It's nine o 'clock at night and I'm wearing running clothes because I didn't have money. So I did jog up there. And so I just struggled for so long.

11:34So I'm like up there in the office seated and I've got my running clothes on. So my legs are showing. And in walks this man that when I called, when I reported him to the FBI, said that game show host Donald Trump because I play with the game show host he's so cheesy you know but anyway so I said um I mean I said hello to you know he walks in and I just kind of acknowledged him like a head nod or something and he immediately starts he's seated across I mean standing across the room from me and I'm seating seated and he's like oh Maria um I mean no he didn't sorry I was just looking at something.

12:17He, uh, he's standing across the room and he's looking at me and I'm like, Oh gross. You know, this guy's so gross. Anyway, he's just looking, glaring at my legs. Like, um, I felt, I told my sister, I felt like I was his dinner or his lunch, you know, the way he was looking at me. So Epstein comes in and, and by the way, I did not look good. I was like, I'm not a pretty, I'm not exceptionally beautiful or anything like that. These are just gross people. You know what I mean? So I'm just like a normal person who went on a run and I'm seated there. So he assumed I was there for him. And this is how I know Epstein walks up to him and he goes, no, no, she's not here for you.

12:54And they were smirking and Epstein whispered something. He goes, go in there. And so Trump at nine o 'clock at night goes in the other room. There's someone in there for him.

13:04Ben Meiselas:Right. Right. I don't know who, but Epstein said, no, no, no, she's not here for you. Also, you have Donald Trump making bizarre posts yesterday. He goes, my statement on the Washington Redskins has totally blown up, but only in a very positive way. And he says that he will prevent the approval of the Washington Commanders having a stadium and playing in Washington, D.C. unless they call themselves the slur, unless they refer to themselves as the Redskins. And he says the same thing, that the Cleveland Indians need to make sure they use the name Indians. Like, what are you doing here? Like, seriously, what is going on here?

13:46Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump posts, the Wall Street Journal ran a typically untruthful story today by saying that Secretary of Treasury Scott Besson explained to me that firing Jerome Tulate Powell, the worst Federal Reserve Chairman in history, would be bad for the market. Nobody had to explain that to me. I know better than anybody what's good for the market and what's good for the U.S. If it weren't for me, the market wouldn't be at record highs right now. It probably would have crashed. So get your information correct. People don't explain to me. I explain to them. I mean, how deranged is this individual?

14:22Ben Meiselas:And I always like to show you this photo. I think this is such an accurate meme right here where it shows Biden with an orange face. And it was like, imagine if Joe Biden walked around and looked like this or behaved the way Trump does. there's nothing normal about it folks it's why we have to cover it every day here on the Midas Touch Network thank you so much hit subscribe and let's get to 6 million subscribers new Midas merch drop check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs t-shirts hats sweatshirts and more all at store.midastouch.com hey I'm running out to drop off a stack of letters and packages need anything shipped while I'm gone save the gas stamps.com lets you print postage and schedule pickups right from your desk.

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